New Character's, there will be two new character's in this chapter both made up by myself.
Red X wasn't really sure what had happened. He watched Raven double over in laughter as he himself tried to clean the splattered mess of what could have been simple spaghetti and mince. It was on the walls and on the ground and on him. A tea towel sat half in the sink, half of it brunt and there was a smoky smell to the kitchen. He looked around at all the mess and turned to Raven after one last glance at the brunt food.
"I haven't cooked since I last had company," he said, jumping back as the source rose in a little bubble.
"And when was the last time you had company," she asked.
"Truly?" he questioned and she nodded "Never, but I get a kiss for at least trying to cook dinner right?"
"I thought you were just decorating the kitchen," Raven said making him look at the ground in complete and utter embarrassment.
"I guess I should take you home to eat than?" he asked in a moping way.
"Don't you even think about becoming another brooding, gothic, romance cliché. I have one at home that took up stalking and poisoning magic's I don't even want to think about what you'd do," she stilled for a moment and then a smirk cracked over her skin "Actually come to think of it you'd probably torture them with you're cooking skills. They'll end up laughing themselves to death," Red X hung his head and the source exploded again. He rushed over turning it off and turned back to Raven who was still smiling.
"Let's go, maybe there'll be some food left for you," he said without any real joy.
"I ordered pizza after the tea towel caught fire," she said and he smiled under his mask.
"Great," he moved over to a draw and pulled out cleaning stuff that had sat there gathering dust. He'd never once touched it. A clearer came in with her own stuff through the week, did her job and left.
"Interesting facial hair," Raven said as she walked over to help clean. Red X looked into the stainless steel toaster and could see some of the paster on his face above were his lips should be and one just above his eye. He growled and pulled it away from before settling into clearing. Raven was better at cleaning and had it done hers in a few minutes while Red X was still trying to clean one fry pan. He deemed it unclean able and tossed it into a bin. He left some money with Raven and ducked into his bathroom to quickly shower.
Raven paid for the pizza and placed it on the table before sitting and waiting. She hadn't released how… different Red X was. He was always so confident and sure of himself and yet now he seemed so sad. He'd had such horrible things happen to him and yet for all the bad he still turned out alright.
"So tell me truthfully, who cooks better. Me or Cyborg?" Red X asked and Raven had half frozen because he wasn't wearing his usual costume. He was in faded jeans and wore a t-shirt that had been written on 'I'm not a bad guy' was written in a red mark. Her eyes travelled to his face that was clear apart from a mask that covered his eyes. He was quite cute in Raven's eyes. His dark coal hair was wet and stack to his scape framing it. He noticed her looking at him and instantly a smirk tugged on his pinkish red lips.
"Like what you see sunshine," he said as he leaned against the wall with his hands crossed over his chest and legs crossed slightly. Raven didn't say anything she just got up, walked over and stood in front of him. He titled his head to her and then grabbed her wrist that was covered by fabric and placed it on his chest. She didn't even argue and now she could feel his strong muscles. Red X leaned so close to her and placed his lips just away from her ear breath his hot breath onto her. "From the way you're breathing is hitching I can tell you want more. To kiss me or even touch skin. Burn with desire my sunshine it'll make that real kiss as a couple even more powerful," he blow hot breath onto her and lean back still smirk. He seemed nowhere near the point of desire as Raven had. But where was the fun in one of them going nuts.
Raven used her arm to force him against the wall and held it against his throat as she moved closer. She was careful not to touch his skin as she moved her face close to his, her lips a brush away from his and her hand gripping the shirt tightly and bunching it together to revel his abs. Red X stopped breath, his breath didn't hitch like hers and his mind wasn't anywhere as clears as hers had been when he taunted her.
"Just think X, the only thing stopping this," she said pushing herself right against him without touching skin "Is a small cruse," she slide his shirt up more and moved her head that tiny bit closer testing her limits. He still hadn't let out a breath and now she was crowding his space so much that if he did he'd take in her smell. His eyes were locked with hers but his body was screaming at him and commanding him to push forward just that tiny bit. Raven left and sat down like nothing had happened what-so-ever and Red X crumbled to the ground breathing heavily and trying to calm himself down. His muscles where throbbing and his head pounded but none of it compared to the rapid beat of his heart that he tried so hard to slow down. He turned slightly to Raven who sat there as if nothing had happened. As if she wasn't inflamed by him. It irked him to no end.
"I'm starting to realise what type of demon you are," Red X said as he walked forward and very clumsily took his seat. His breath still ragged.
"And what type of demon am I?" she asked.
"A mean one,"
Angel looked at Seemore. His helmet was coving his face once again and he was breathing. That was a good start. She moved over to Billy intent on waking him for a chat but Seemore shot upright. He looked around confusedly and then saw her. His eye widened and fear and sweat covered him.
"What the hell did you do?" he screamed and Angel pressed a button. His eye glowed red for a moment and he became very still. After a few minutes however he seemed fine.
"Yes," he answered as he walked away. Angel turned to Billy with a giant smile over her face.
Billy had been the first person she took control of. It had been too easy too. He'd harbourer a crush for her for so many years and when she asked for him to come over he did so without even questioning the fact that she had a boyfriend.
It was just before she'd joined and become leader to the hive five. Billy had spoken to Wykkyd and gotten him to agree that Angel should be there leader and she took the position so elegantly. The first night was the one that she'd thought Wykkyd was cheating on her but had no proof other then Seemore's words. Billy rocked up at her the night she'd been torturing Seemore and Angel couldn't have him telling the others. It wouldn't suit her plan. She knocked him out and when he woke he was in this cell suspended in the air by shackles around his wrist. He was in a coma that only she could wake him up from. At times it seemed like he was having a bad dream but it always went away.
Billy hadn't been there when Raven was captured or Wykkyd was violently controlled by both her and the Billy clones. Billy hadn't even known his body was function for her now.
"You know this is all because of you. If I didn't have an army at my figure tips no one would listen. I promise when I get Wykkyd back and I have everything settled I'll let you go," she promise as she walked out of the room. The lights flicking as she left leaving the room in total darkness. The door shut tightly with a load clank.
Wykkyd had been sitting outside the bathroom door the entire night and most of the new morning. He'd fallen asleep a few times and had dark rights under his eyes. His head had dropped down pointing at his chest. His neck had cramped up. He still had wasn't sure how to win Raven back but he knew it was all he wanted.
Seemore walked around the corner and stopped upon seeing Wykkyd. He sighed and sat against the wall with him. A towel was draped over his shoulder but showering didn't seem that important anymore.
"She's still not talking to you?" he asked and Wykkyd tried to lift his head but couldn't. It hurt too much.
'No,' he replied.
"You know maybe fixing what you've done will make her want you back," Seemore said as he fixed himself. The wall wasn't very comfortable.
Wykkyd looked at Seemore slightly and then throw his cape over himself. He landed on his bed and stayed there till his neck didn't hurt. Once he was rested he'd find a way to fix what he's done.
"Are you sure about this?" Speedy asked as Bee and Aqualad walked through the cemetery. They nodded and moved along quietly to the gravestone. Bee had made sure the twins would be fine at home before they'd left but now there was a new issues. Aqualad and Speedy seemed scared out of their minds. Speedy was looking around aimlessly with his bow out and ready with an arrow and Aqualad held onto her arm and was looking around. She shook her head.
"You guys ready," a voice said from behind them. Speedy released his arrow in the direction of the voice and Aqualad jumped. Bee turned around to see Flash catching the arrow and Jinx standing there with her head titled. "Sorry if I scared you," she said smirking.
"You didn't," Speedy quickly snapped in as he stanched the arrow from Flash. Both of them smirked and Bee hid the laughter behind her hand.
"Whatever, are we going down?" Jinx asked as she walked pass them and pushed the gravestone down. It sunk into the ground and disappeared and the ground itself shook as a passage was opened. Jinx started walking while the others looked around trying to work out what was safer, a passage into the ground or the creep graveyard. They bolted after her as an owl hooted.
"So this person you know is just willing to help? Just like that? No payment, no argument," Speedy asked looking at the cobweb filled cave. Their way was lit by touches that sat on the wall.
"I never said she'd help, nor did I say there wouldn't be payment. What I told Bumble Bee and Aqualad was I knew someone who was very good with magic and could possibly be able to fix what Kyd has done. Bumble Bee and Aqualad said they were willing to pay whatever price was necessary," Jinx stopped and looked at a man covered by a black hood. His face was nothing more than webs and broken skin that stretched and tear to hold it together and his eyes were hollow blackness.
"Umm, creepy," Flash whispered next to Jinx and she nodded. The man made no noise and only stared at them with shadow's falling around him.
"Jinx, what is it?" Aqualad asked and she shrugged and stepped forward.
"I'm here to see the spell caster," Jinx said. Jinx had never meet this person and didn't even know a name, all she knew was what Kyd Wykkyd had told her. The creature in front of them nodded and stepped back from a small path. They walked down the path with all but Jinx looking back at the thing.
"Spell caster? That's the person's name?" Aqualad asked and Jinx turned her head slightly to see how far back the creature was.
"I'm not sure what her real name is. Kyd Wykkyd mentioned her and said she could undo any spell," Jinx her someone stop and turned around to see Speedy standing there, arms folded over his chest and a sneer on his face.
"I'm not going anywhere near anyone Kyd knows. He's the reason I have to be here in the first place," Speedy said and Bee groaned and tried dragging him but it seemed more difficult then she'd thought.
"Speedy we don't have time for this. I know you hate Kyd Wykkyd but right now we need to worry about this spell," Bee grumbled and the others nodded.
"Pules if the spell is broken you'll be able to date Raven unlike Wykkyd," Flash added.
"And from what Wykkyd said this is the person that turned him into a mute in the first place. He hates her so really you're not seeing anyone that Wykkyd likes," Jinx said. Speedy walked again.
"Great I'll tell her where he is and she can finish what she started," he said walking past Jinx and down the path that stopped the lava from hitting them. They made it too large gates that Speedy, Aqualad and Flash pushed open. They headed inside to a room filled with books, potions, herbs, symbols covering the walls and lots of little objects on shelves. Jinx moved to a large pot in the middle of the room that was placed over a small fire.
"Well this is a whole lot of witchy looking stuff," Speedy mumbled as he moved next to Jinx who nodded.
"And so it should," a woman said from next to a stuck of books. A veil cover her face and a black dress covered her body. The dress looked as if it was clutching onto the bones of the sickly thin woman. Her long white hair dropped to her feet as she stood and walked over. No skin was showing.
"I've come-"was all Speedy got out.
"I already know why you're here. You want a curse lifted from you. One that stops you from touching the person you love. I can easily break a spell like this or at least tell you how to break it but I'm going to need payment," she said her voice was void of all emotions.
"That's why we came," Aqualad said causing the witch to laugh.
"My child trust me this is not a payment you or anyone else would want to pay," the woman laughed again.
"Why?" Bee asked moving forward.
"For Aqualad to pay he'd have to give up his powers, for Flash to pay his love, Jinx would lose her hold on the side of good and you'd lose your mind," she said.
"What!" Flash said looking confused.
"I take what a person values most. Aqualad values his claim to the sea, you value your love, Jinx values the new life she's made and Bumble Bee values her intelligence," the witch explain.
"So what would I be giving up?" Speedy asked.
"You are much more difficult. You value you're feelings for the demon but if you gave them up you'd no longer want what you've asked for. But it matters not. I can simple change to another value," she said turning to the pot and throwing something in.
"What do you want?" Speedy growled lowly.
"For me to fix this I'll need some of the demons blood and a copy of the ingredients Wykkyd used. Bring this to me and I'll tell you what you'll be giving up," before anyone could say anything she went poof in a cloud of black dust. Speedy sighed and looked to Bee.
"I need to go back to jump,"
Breathe in he told himself as he tried to calm himself down. Breathe out. His muscles where so cramped he couldn't move. Breathe in. Angel had done this Breathe out. His breath hissed out this time as her name became louder. Breathe in. Angel had reduced him to nothing more than a floating dummy that hung on her wall. Breathe out. He tried to move but every time he did he'd lose focus and forget to breath. Breathe in. He had to keep reminding himself, had to keep timing himself. Breathe out. What a sad thing he'd been reduced to. What a sad, sad, sad thing. Breathe in.
He screamed as his eyes managed to open and a clone slide from his body to Angel side. She stood there wearing her golden hair in loops down and a red dress that was tight against her. It went to the ground hanging over her black heels with one leg having a slit all the way up to her upper thigh. Billy could see her smiling with her thin and blood coloured lips.
"Let me down," he whisper in something lower than a whisper. Angel titled her head to him.
"Are you feeling okay Billy, you're looking a bit drained," she said smirking again. Billy did his best to glare at her or even lift his head but he couldn't. He was so weak right now. There was an IV cord in his arm that keep him sustained but he couldn't remember the last time he'd eaten or even the last drink he'd had. His mouth was dry and he knew his skin was just as dry.
"I thought you'd like to know that the chip I made worked perfectly on Seemore, you remember him don't you. He was in here screaming while you hung there doing nothing," Angel continued.
Billy did remember him. He remembered his clone bring him in and tie him down. Then he remembered Angel cutting into Seemore and the scared look on his face. Billy could remember everything his clones had been forced to do. Angel made them beat up Gizmo and threaten Private Hive, destroy everything Mammoth owned and take away Adonis armour. But what he remembered most was Wykkyd. He tried putting that thought out of his head. Tried to pretend it wasn't real or that Wykkyd wouldn't hate him but really he knew he was only kidding himself.
"Come now Billy we both know you can talk and I came in here just to see you," Angel said sweetly as she walked closer to the cage that held him daggling inside. He didn't even like her anymore. He wished she'd die or just disappear but knew that wasn't going to happen.
"Down," was the only word he could force past his tight and dry lips.
"Soon," she said leaning in and lifting his face to hers. He hated himself for still seeing her as a beautiful angel. "I've almost got some of the things I want. Once I have Wykkyd back here I'll put you through the same treatment as Seemore," she said and he knew she'd kissed him but he couldn't feel it.
Angel step out and locked the door again. Billy could see the clone of himself wearing a suit now and locking arms with Angel.
"Were off to see Wykkyd now," she yelled back as they walked. Billy was screaming and telling her to stay away from him but nothing was auditable. The door shut with a load clank.
Breathe out.
He felt the door to the room open and a person walk in loudly. He knew it wasn't Raven. She was posed and graceful and this person was loud and clumsy.
Draws opened and closed quickly, cupboards followed and then the chest had been opened. The book was lifted out by a demonic he'd never seen in this tower before. The demon throw the book over his shoulder and it hit a wall and landed open on the ground. Malchior resisted the urge to cry out and looked in an upside down angle at the boy who was still rampaging through the room.
He looked at something, a small black book and smiled before flipping a cape over him and teleporting from the room.
Malchior growled and hissed at the painful position he was in.
Okay so would love reviews, really, really, really would love them (not that I'll get them).
