"This won't be like the last time you took something that belonged to me."
Something was off. His cover didn't seem to be working anymore. 'If Carter suspects something, he's bound to have brought back up. For an hour he paced. Finally he heard sounds coming from outside. Going to the locked closet, he reached in and grabbed his axe. He knew who it would be. Lighting his mace, he held it up. "Prepare to die Lantern.'
First thing he had to do was find Shayera. Find Shayera, and take her far, far away while Batman found Carter. After Shayera was safe, he'd come back if needed, to get this 'Alec'. His face darkened as he thought of what he'd do to the kidnapper of his love. Finding the same window Batman had gone through, John slipped into the house. Inside, he looked around. This room was bear. So he stepped out into the hall. With his back pressed to the wall, John inched his way down. After passing a few closed doors, John found the living room, which was empty. Just as John stepped in the room, he was punched. John flew into a table. Putting a hand on his lip, John Stewart looked towards his attacker.
With an evil grin, Alec looked down at John. "The Green Lantern. What a please surprise."
John leapt up and slammed into Alec knocking him off his feet. "Where is she?" John screamed as the two wrestled. Alec grunted and yelled, "You'll never take her. Not again."
'Again?' John thought. Alec felt John's grip loosen and took a chance to throw him off. Alec took this chance to throw John across the room as hard as he can. Once John hit the wall, Alec took this as his opportunity to grab his axe and charge for John. "Shayera is mine! I won't let you take her away from me again!" Alex screamed as he swung his axe towards John's chest. John lifted his ring and produced a green shield. As Alec hit it over and over again, John looked around for anything that could help him. Suddenly the shield broke and John felt a blinding pain, and an odd sense of déjà vu, across his chest. Seeing nothing that could help him, John shot a beam of green power at Alec.
With the beam of light, Alec was thrown against the wall. Quickly thinking, Alec grabbed a chair and threw it at John. Naturally, being a Green Lantern, he used the ring to protect himself. With this opportunity, Alec threw his axe at John and jumped in the air at the same time. Of course again, John protected himself from the axe but not before Alec was able to jump and attack him, getting pushed to the ground, with Alex staring at him from above. Alec grabbed his axe and put his foot on John's chest, keeping him down and swung his axe high above his head, ready to strike at John's heart.
Shayera hurried after Batman. As they got closer and closer to the living room, voices rang throughout the house.
"Shayera is mine! I won't let you take her away from me again!"
With her hawk like vision, Shayera saw that Hro had John pinned down. With a look of malice, Hro turned on his axe. A cruel smile appeared as Hro prepared to make the final blow that would end John's life.
Pushing herself, Shayera ran faster. "JOHN!" She screamed. Tears made their ways to the eyes. For one moment, time stood still and John caught her gaze. Then, he shook his head. "NO!"
Breathing was hard. Soon it would be over. He could feel the life pouring out of him. 'My blood.' He corrected himself. Time seemed to slow down. It was as if Life was crawling by slowly just tease him. John could hardly keep his breathing steady and his eyes open. Finally, Alec raised his axe, and John closed his eyes, praying that death would be quick. "JOHN!"
Hearing his name, his eyes popped open and he saw the love of his life running towards him. Knowing that she could die trying to save him, he shook his head. 'Don't die for me.' He shut his eyes and heard her bloodcurdling scream. "NO!"
Batman hardly winced as his body collided with the now discovered Hro. The impact sent the two men reeling. Batman remained on top of Hro and slammed his elbow to Hro's jaw. The hit connected and jerked Hro's head to the left. Bringing his head towards Batman, he pushed him off and grabbed his axe. The two men stared at each other and suddenly ran. Hro raised his axe, it crackling with electricity, and Batman merely crouched in his fighting position.
Hro shouted out his fighting roar and swung his mace, hoping to hit the bat. Batman ducked under the swing and kicked Hro's back. Pissing him off, Hro became even more determined to kill the bat. Using the force that pushed him forward, Hro used the momentum to add to the final swing.
Stepping forward with his right foot, Hro swung his mace to his left, while turning. Batman was good, but even he did not see the crackling axe coming. Hro smiled triumphantly as the side of his axe hit Batman's temple, knocking out the Dark Knight. Kicking the bat for extra effect and pleasure at defeating him, Hro turned to make his way to Shayera. She had to pay for bringing this disarray into his house. No, their house. And finally, he'd kill the lantern.
She cradled his head in her lap. She felt tears coming, but didn't let them fall. He seemed to be at peace. His breathing was slow and his eyes were closed. As soon as Hro was off of him, Shayera kept running towards him. She had watched the fight intently, but most of her attention was to John. His hand gripped hers tightly.
Turning back to the fight, Shayera felt all the hopes of an escape leave her. Batman was down and Hro was making his way towards them. Shayera braced herself and stood up, leaving John on the floor. "Hro-" she started to say, but he hit her.
"How could you?" he asked. Shayera was on her back and she scooted back quickly to avoid his steps.
"I give you this life, this house, and a second chance with me. And you do this. You bring chaos into my house and all this violence." His voice softened. "I only wanted you to be happy."
He brought his axe back up and it crackled to life. He looked at her menacingly.
"Now, you pay."
The end is closer and closer! Ha ha! Hopefully this chapter wasn't too confusing. And hopefully the fight was exciting enough, there's more to come! Maybe a death? Maybe not?
