The Dragon's Quest
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I'm REALLY sorry for taking so long, but my life is my first priority over the story. And been honest, life's not been too kind for me at this time. Just to make the topic short, one of my relatives is ill.
Because I know that I have very addicted followers, I'm not going to let you down this time. Because today, I've updated two chapters! Enjoy!
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Chapter 13: The Eclipsed Couple
It was almost seven o'clock in the morning. The Watchtower's agenda had barely started, and the satellite barely had a dozen of heroes available. Some were just waiting for a mission assignment and others were just walking around, no place to go at all.
The recently arrived Saiyan was one of them.
The blue cladded man-like alien was sitting in the Viewing Port's railing. He had nothing to do, at the time being. He could be training, but that was out of the question. The reason for that? Zatanna. She was still peacefully sleeping inside his bed. Very peacefully, in fact. If Vegito had to be realistic, the sorceress would surely not wake up for an entire day or more. Even holding back, a Saiyan's passion was something hard to withstand. Vegito remembered the old days when he had accidentally breaken Bulma's hips. He started laughing to himself. To Bulma, that day was the worst of her life. To Vegito, however, was the funniest!
Vegito's back was pointing to the sliding entrance, and, as it names implied, someone entered.
"You really think he would say that?" Stargirl asked to the two blonde kriptonians that were walking next to her. "I would just want to tell him to go right straight to..." Courtney's insulting comment was halted when the three girls caught glimpse of a blue outfit in front of them. They knew that blue color very well. When did he came?
"Vegito?" Supergirl asked incredulously. The Saiyan suddenly jumped up, making a backflip, lading peacefully as a leaf. He looked to the to the leaguers, smiling broadly.
"Hi girls. Nice to see you didn't die during the time I was gone." Vegito said joking, giving them a funny smile. The three women were just dumbfounded. They hadn't seen the Saiyan nearly for a week, and in just seconds everything had went north. Or south. It depended on who you were thinking.
"When did you return?" Power Girl asked. Not that she was angry to him, but rather confused.
"Yesterday, midnight." Vegito responded, folding his arms. The three women were not over yet, however. They had one important question to ask. One that the entire League wanted to ask.
"What...?" Courtney started asking, but Vegito stopped her with a hand move.
"If it's about Flash, don't worry. He's fine. You'll see him in no time." Vegito simply said. The girls nodded to their insides. Though they had more questions, they didn't want to test Vegito's patience. They knew that wasn't a good thing, if you still want to live.
"Well, if you excuse me, ladies." Vegito said gallantly, making a small bow with his head. "I have a very important mission to take care off."
"What kind of mission?" Courtney asked, not sounding so trusting. The sudden appearance from Batman made it clear to everyone.
"THAT mission." Vegito said, sighing, before following The Dark Knight, to the War Room. If Vegito needed to explain himself to the League, then he will. Saiyans have never, and will never, be crossed as cowards. Besides, Vegito knew that Supergirl, Stargirl and Power Girl, been the gossipers they were, would spread his word about Flash, so that would save him time in having to explain to everybody.
Hours later, a sleepy sorceress started to stir inside Vegito's bed. Opening her mouth in a big yawn, she opened her eyes. As soon as she did, the ache run through her body. She tried to move. But she couldn't. Her legs had gone numb. Yet, her subconscious mind was telling her that this wasn't a 'bad' pain. In fact, it was the best pain anyone could have.
Still lying on the bed, the dark-haired sorceress, looked to the marble jar with beans. An idea formed in her mind. If those magical beans helped her once, why not again?
"EMOC" she enchanted towards the jar. One of the beans disappeared, reappearing on Zatanna's hand. In seconds she ate it, feeling how her power increased, her energy reestablished.
She moved to the bathroom, now that her legs had finally awaken. She washed her head with cold water on the sink. Even with the Senzu Bean, she still had some aches.
"Crap, I felt like if a train had run over me... many times." Zatanna said, making a pause in the middle. She rub her eyes, wondering how much she had slept.
"EMIT" Zatanna enchanted, trying to know what time was it. A monochord voice said "Five p.m" That phrase made her opened her eyes in astonishment. She had arrived here at two a.m. So with the right calculation she had slept fifteen hours.
Fifteen hours!? How could she have slept so much!?
Suddenly, a flashback came to her mind. The sorceress closed her eyes, so the images would be more vivid. She saw herself feeling placer beyond measures. Something that had made her mind to go blank. Something big. Warmth was already running from her nether region, and something wet was running on her thigh.
She opened her eyes, coming back to reality. For what she remembered, and she remembered a lot, last night had been a really, 'productive' night.
With a flick of her fingers, her magical attire appeared on her naked body. With another flick of her fingers, she teleported to the Watchtower's kitchen. Zatanna was surprised. Normally spells had to be said backwards, yet now that she had some extra energy, that downside was negated. Maybe it was because of the Senzu Bean. Or maybe it was the fact she felt SO relaxed. She snapped back to reality.
She looked around the kitchen. It was mostly empty, meaning her fellow members were at missions. Yet, someone was inside. When she looked at the only filled table, the well-known Saiyan was there, with ten empty plates on a table. She walked to him, a bit uneasy. Maybe because she didn't know what to say.
"Hi Zatanna." Vegito said to her, once she came close enough. He was smiling. Zatanna had woken up sooner that what he had expected. Of course, there was more to Zatanna that what meets the eye.
"Amazing to see you walking again so fast" Vegito said, teasing. Zatanna rolled her eyes, by that joke. Of course, she didn't know if to consider it a joke or a truth.
"I eat one of your beans, just for you to know" Zatanna said, while sitting in an empty chair. Vegito wasn't surprised bt that answer, though.
"So, Can I assume you sleep well?" Vegito said with mirth, looking with his black eyes. She smiled to him, though hardly, as his eyes were burning through her inside.
"Yes, you perfectly know that I did." Zatanna said, trying not to fall for the Saiyan's attempt to flirt with her. Yet why deny it? If what she remembered from last night was right, then no other man could ever be with her.
"Did last night really happened?" Zatanna asked. Maybe what she remembered was just an illusion.
"It did." Vegito answered, looking to her, not eating. Zatanna's eyes snapped. So, if it was true...
"Then it means..." Zatanna started saying, before Vegito finished for her.
"That you can no longer be other men? Yes" Vegito confirmed her theory, smiling to his inside. On his Earth, Saiyans were not only famous for fighting, but for being also, adequate for woman. Very adequate for them.
Zatanna, however, wasn't disheartened by this revelation. Vegito was protective, loving, and, been honest to herself, far more beautiful than all the other 'simple' men she had dated before. Yet, even Vegito could have his flaw. Until been ready, she would not give herself hope, for a non future relationship.
"You want some?" Vegito offered her a plate with soup.
"Thanks" She responded in kind. "Why don't you tell me something about you?"
Day passed by, and now it was seven o'clock at the Watchtower, and in the city of Tijuana, in Mexico, a not common event was happening: a solar eclipse. Only every ten years can a solar eclipse take place in the same place. People didn't need to look up in the sky to see it though, as the Moon's shadow was covering the entire city and more.
A bit distant from the city, a five feet, seven inches tall hooded woman, was walking inside an abandoned warehouse. She was describing a perfect circle pattern, all around the small room she was in. With a white chalk, she was drawing some lines in the floor. After some minutes, she finished her job, revealing a pentagon on the floor. In the center of the devilish symbol, a big black diamond was standing, ready to start the process.
The woman took off her hood, revealing shoulder length blonde hair, and light blue eyes. They were looking right to the center of the symbol. She couldn't remember how she got it. She only remembered someone had given it to her, totally free. Yet, once she founded the magical properties of this weapon, she didn't care who or what gave it to her.
Now, nothing would get in her way. Limitless magical power, was at the stake here. If everything went as she planned, she would ascend in power, beyond Gods themselves.
Without flinching any muscle, she whispered "The Enchantress"
As she finished saying this words, her body shifted immediately, as magical powers were now running through her. She was now six feet tall, with long black hair that reached her middle back. Her face had a yellow crown, that covered her bone cheeks and forehead, exposing her now dark green eyes. A long green cape was going down her back, attached to her neck, by a red Rubi. Arm gloves covered from her middle biceps to her wrists, exposing her bare hands. A green corset was barely covering her well toned midriff and C breasts, tightening against them. Green skin-tight pants, along with a loose yellow sash, finished her outfit.
The Enchantress sat on the ground, initiating the summoning process. Enchanting incoherent words, magical runs started floating above the black diamond. Power was at her grasp, and she was not going to let it go!
"Wow." Zatanna said, finishing the soup plate she had eaten for the last hour.
"Well, that's been my life up to this point." Vegito said, finishing his life history, leaving another plate on the already crowded table. More than a hundred dirty plates were on it. "Well, you can't say you don't know me now."
"What about you then?" Vegito asked to her. He didn't read Zatanna's mind for a reason. What kind of couple invades each others privacy?
Zatanna couldn't answer however, as a sudden stinging sensation came to her brain. It suddenly increased by a thousand fold. Pain flare through her brain, as she grabbed her temple, rubbing them to easy the ache. Yet it wasn't leaving. Her face had a big frown as she hunched forward, before falling to her knees.
"Zatanna, are you okay?" Vegito said worried, kneeled next to her. She didn't answer. There was a disrupt in the magical field. A magical alteration was happening, and she knew it. And apparently, a very powerful one. One that involved dark magic.
As if he had felt it too, Vegito closed his eyes, feeling a great magical power coming from Earth. Whatever it was, it had a lot of power.
"Can you feel it too?" Zatanna asked to Vegito. He nodded. Standing back again to her feet, Zatanna grabbed Vegito's hand. They may have not know for too long, but he understood. Both disappeared out of thin air.
Inside the former empty dark warehouse, now blinding colors of dark red and black were coming out of The Black Heart. Tornado-like winds were making all the objects to fly around the room. Chaos magic was emanating from the black diamond, released in a powerful dark aura style. A serpent-like soul was trapped inside, ready to get out. That soul had magical power. Very powerful magic.
And the Enchantress could feel it. The darkness was going to come to this world. Fire would burn every city. Oceans would drown the landscapes, with wind peeling off the Earth's skin. Nothing would stand against her might, along with her new mate.
Nothing was going to stand against the power of Eclipso!
As if someone had heard her, two figures materialized in front of her. A tall dark-haired sorceress with a full magical attire, along with a widow peak hair tall man in a blue karate outfit. Both leaguers covered their eyes, by the continuous whirlwind that was happening inside the warehouse. Zatanna looked to the summoner, with half closed eyes. She recognized her almost immediately.
"Enchantress" Zatanna said, disgust running through her voice. Vegito could feel Zatanna's anger as if he was the angry one. Vegito looked to the dark-haired summoner. He silently created a mental bond between both Zatanna and himself.
"And old friend, I assume?" Vegito mentally said. Zatanna didn't seem bothered by the sudden mental call. Maybe because of the murderous look she was giving.
"Far from that" the backwards speller said. Even mentally, her voice had a lot of hatred.
The summoner rose to her feet, no longer charming. Her lips turned into a full evil smile to the black-haired sorceress.
"I recall meeting you somewhere," She started saying, even with all the chaotic magic around. "Do I know you?"
"You remember Giovanni Zatara?" Zatanna said, her tone becoming angrier with every word. The green cladded woman started rubbing her chin with her left hand, on a pensive look. Her eyes snapped open, realising.
"YOU ARE HIS DAUGHTER?" She said, screaming over the outside noise. Yet, her tone was not of a terrified one. It was full of mirth! Enchantress started laughing, non stopping. That was only making Zatanna angrier, as her blue eyes started shining blue. Even Vegito had to admit it, a normal human being would have already pee its pants by that look.
"And now you've come to extract your revenge?" She said, some minutes after laughing. "Please girl, you're nothing compared to me" She finished saying, and a red magical sphere came out of her hand, flying right to Zatanna. It created a great smoke cloud at impact.
But as the smoke cleared, a blue cladded man was standing in front of Zatanna. Vegito had received the impact head on, and remained unscathed. Zatanna was standing behind him, surprised he had actually received the blast for her. More points on his favor.
"And who would you be?" Enchantress said towards the Saiyan, with a little hint of fear. Nobody could simply withstand magical attacks so easily "Her bodyguard?"
"A very 'particular' bodyguard" Zatanna mentally said remarking. Inside, Vegito was smiling by that. His face, however, was showing a very serious expression.
"Let's just say I'm the one who's going to finish you off." Vegito said directly, threatening her. Enchantress wasn't surprised. So many times she had heard that.
"Please" She said bothered. With a flick of her fingers, two rock golems, ten feet tall, appeared behind Vegito. Grabbing the Saiyan by his widow peak, the left golem through Vegito outside through the concrete wall. Both golems followed the Saiyan.
Zatanna looked through the hole her, 'partner' for a lack of better word, had made.
"Now, it's just you and me." Enchantress said, making a full grin, revealing all her white teeth. Zatanna's hands shone blue, as she got into a fighting stance. She was alone, facing a magical user, that killed many magical users before her. A demoniacal entity was coming to this world, ready to engulf ut in flames and her partner was outside fighting only God knows what. She simply sighed. Things could be worse, though.
Vegito stood up, having crashed against a concrete wall of the building, that stood opposite to the warehouse. He saw the two rock giants running to him. He smiled. Just another day in his life.
Zatanna rolled right, dodging a red sphere aimed to her chest. Then Enchantress magically appeared flamed arrows that started to shot forward, forcing Zatanna to run to the other side of the room. All of them pass inches from her clothes, either almost turning them on fire or piercing her skin. Zatanna stopped, aiming her blue glowing to her enemy.
"ERIF SEPOR" the black-haired sorceress enchanted. Three fiery ropes came out of her blue hands, launching themselves forwards, trying to get around their enchanter's enemy. With a wave of her hand, Enchantress created a blasting wave, that reduced the three ropes to dust.
"You'll have to do better than that!" Enchantress mocked around. Zatanna frowned, showing her teeth in anger. She wasn't as powerful as the empowered witch, but there was always a way to win.
Zatanna's mind dilemma had allowed the green outfitted magical user to create vines, that entangled around Zatanna's limbs. Two vines were keeping her tied up to the floor, not bringing her down to her knees, but neither allowing her to escape. Two other vines were coming from the ceiling, keeping her arms up, pulling dangerously from them. The black-haired magical user tried to escape, but it was futile. The vines were harder than steel. Enchantress had a full smirk, as she walked up to where Zatanna was. A red glow appeared on her hands, and a sword appeared. It was fuming with dark red energy. Zatanna felt the energy on it. One touch with her skin, and she would be done for.
However, those who knew Zatanna, must already know she would not give up so easily. Those that had underestimated her, had paid the price.
"Any last words, before I sent you back with daddy?" Enchantress said, just a few inches away from Zatanna. Giovanni's daughter only looked back, with hatred.
"ERIF SMRA" Zatanna enchanted. Her four limbs were instantly engulfed in fire, burning the vines in a second. Enchantress brought her sword down, not having expected that. But Zatanna, now free, backflip out of her sword's path. Yet some black hair strands fall to the ground.
Zatanna went back to her fighting stance, smiling to herself. Her father was right when he had said that she couldn't always relay on her magical powers. Sometimes, going Physical was better. Vegito knew perfectly about that. She shook her head. This wasn't the time for those thoughts to come. She needed to extract her revenge on the green outfitted bastard.
Enchantress only smiled, before catching glimpse of the Dark Heart. The process had continued on its own. She only needed to keep Zatanna busy for some minutes, and the world would be consumed by chaos. With a flick of her fingers, two rock golems appeared behind her, holding her with superhuman strength. In fact, a breaking noise was heard. Zatanna didn't screamed when the two golems broke her biceps bones. Yet, pain still flared through her, clouding her thoughts. Blackening her mind.
"Hold her still," Enchantress ordered, before walking forward, the red fuming sword in her hands.
Zatanna saw her coming. But she would not be done, so easily.
"EVAW EVISOLPXE REPUS!" She enchanted. Gathering all her magical power, still contained within her body, Zatanna exploded up in energy. The powerful shockwave destroyed both golems, cracking them to stones, and those stones to dusts. Enchantress crahsed at sonic speeds, passing through a concrete wall.
Zatanna fall to her knees, panting heavily. It was amazing she hadn't blacked out. It was even more amazing she hadn't died, after using almost all the magical power she had.
Enchantress flew back inside the chaotic warehouse. Her eyes were fully red now. Enough playing around for her!
With a swift hand movement, a powerful force pinned Zatanna against a wall, hitting as hard as a train. The black-haired sorceress couldn't retaliate. She almost had no power left. Enchantress flew to her, ready to stabb her guts with the sword. Zatanna closed her eyes. She couldn't stand this. She would die, and she would never be able to avenge her father. Maybe her family was meant to die.
However, even with her eyes closed, Zatanna still saw a blue flashing light.
Vegito easily jumped back, dodging a sloppy descendant fist from one of the golems. The other golem attacked now, trying to tackle the Saiyan. Yet, Vegito wasn't moved an inch back, at all. With a simple yellow energy sphere, he reduced the golem to simple debris. The still standing rock giant cupped both hands up, launching a descendant blow to the Saiyan. Vegito, however, only rose his right arm up, guarding himself. At the impact, the golem's arms broke, falling to the ground as simple debris. Before the golem had realised what just happened, Vegito fired an air ki wave, that threw the golem, twenty feet up in the sky. Falling at almost the speed of sound, the golem exploded, little rocks exploding everywhere. Some impacted the Saiyan, yet he remained stoic, not affected at all.
Vegito just walked towards the summoning warehouse. Until something grabbed his leg, making him to fall to the concrete. Then, something heavy appeared on his back. In a swift move, Vegito flew up in the sky, to see that a mini golem was holding with all his strength to both of his legs. He also had another mini one on his back. The fused Saiyan looked down to the ground. Instead of finding the little rocky remains of both golems, he could now only see a mini golem, in every exact place a rock had landed.
Spinning around like a tornado, both golems were thrown away, impacting hard with whatever was on their ways. Vegito flew back to the now hundred mini golems, dispatching them with simple blows. Yet, as the remaining debris of them touch the ground, it only took seconds for a mini golem to reappear. In seconds, now two hundred new mini golems, even smaller than the others, appeared on the ground.
They all jumped, using their smaller size and speed that the original golems lacked. They all covered the Saiyan, trying to take him down. Yet, Saiyan weren't so easy to kill. An explosive wave shook the entire block, sending all the golems up in the sky. Vegito's hands went blue when he unleashed a barrage of energy beams to each mini golem. Just like Majin Buu and Cell, he needed to destroy them to dust, so they wouldn't come back.
After looking to his labor, Vegito teleported back to the warehouse. He was feeling Zatanna's energies running low. When he materialised, he saw Zatanna pinned against a wall, with Enchantress raising a red sword, ready to stab the sorceress.
He put his right hand forward, charging a blue energy ball. The Big Bang impacted Enchantress from her right side, pushing her away from Zatanna.
While both Saiyan and sorceress were fighting to avoid the entire destruction of the Planet, a Dark Knight was running in the shadows of Gotham City. Shadows were his home. His way of living.
He was running secretly, after the lead that would take him to the Joker. The mad clown had been his enemy for years. Though Batman could have taken his life anytime, The Dark Knight wasn't a murderer. He never allowed himself to be reduced to the same plateau as criminals. However, the death of Jason, which came by the Joker's hand, had put Batman against the edge of breaking his oath, each time he met the mad clown.
On this day, though, someone else was looking for the Joker. Someone inside Batman. Someone who had a plan. Someone who wanted revenge, but not against The Joker, but against the last living Saiyan.
Zatanna opened her eyes with difficulty. She felt her eyes weighted a ton. But in front of her, stood the blue cladded widow peak man who had saved her once. But maybe not this time. She fell forward, passing out. Vegito catched her easily. Taking one bean of his pocket, he put it in Zatanna's mouth, and in instinct, the sorceress ate it. Vegito always remembered to carry some on his pocket, ready for an emergency like this one. Her energy was immediately restored, and her injures healed, even the broken bones. She opened her light blue eyes, to see a pair of black ones, looking back at her.
"How many times do I have to save you?" Vegito said, while helping her to stand back to her feet. Before she could replay, the black diamond expelled its magical energy outwards. The entire warehouse exploded in seconds. Debris and concrete pieces flew up, before starting to fall back to the ground. Fire was now running where the storage building used to stand.
Vegito, however, saw the explosion in time. He created a yellow energy dome shield around himself and Zatanna. The sorceress opened her eyes to see that a yellow dome was covering her and Vegito.
"Comfortable?" The Saiyan said, as he took the shield down. Zatanna, on instinct had hugged Vegito, her top of her head, reaching to Vegito's mouth. She split the hug, a bit blush.
Both heroes looked to the Black Diamond. Its energies had increased, now black lightnings were coming of it, more powerful than those lightnings in an electrical storm. The snake figure inside the crystal was moving relentlessly. Just some minutes before he could be free.
Vegito rose his right hand. Another Big Bang would do the work. Zatanna, however, touched his hand.
"Don't do it!" She said to the Saiyan. As a magical user, and daughter of one of the greatest sorcerers ever, Zatanna was one of the most intelligent sorceress on Earth, with knowledge in almost any magical filed. The Black Heart was one of them. And also the story of Eclipso.
"The Diamond is totally unbreakable, even for you." Zatanna said, looking menacing to the diamond. "Only one thing can destroy it."
"What, exactly?" Vegito asked. This time, the Saiyan prefered the fast way, than the Saiyan's old hitting way. Both heroes heard a cracking noise. The black diamond had a crack running upside down it. The snaky figure inside was grinning.
"Tell me, NOW!" Vegito said, yelling the last time, looking to Zatanna. She looked back, almost paralyzed by what was happening in front of her.
"Sunlight." The black-haired magical user said. Vegito, suddenly looked up in the sky. If it was just seven o'clock, then shouldn't there be Sun? He saw the dark side of the moon, covering the sunlight, creating the perfect enviroment for Eclipso to come.
Vegito understood what he needed to do. Before that, however, he brought Zatanna close to him, landing a soft kiss on her lips.
"Don't wait up for me" He said, before flying up in the sky. Zatanna looked up, as her mate flew to the Moon. Maybe been with him couldn't be so bad.
It took Vegito ten seconds to reach the Moon's surface. Not affected by the temperature and lack of oxygen, Vegito used his super strength, and started pushing the Moon forward. To Vegito, this was the easiest thing ever. He pushed the Moon for some seconds, before looking back to Earth. He could no longer feel the chaotic energy from the Black Heart.
Zatanna was looking up in the sky, not realising what ws behind her. From the diamond's crack, a purple mist came out. Its shapeless figure started to slowly move to Zatanna. She, however, spun around to see the thing, moving to her. Her hands shone blue, ready to fight. Maybe she could halt the demon, if only for some seconds.
That was never needed though, as the sunlight reappeared. The misty figure started to shriek, as the sunlight destroyed him. With one last scream, the shapeless purple mist evaporated to nothing, as the Black Heart exploded in million pieces, which were no longer black. They just looked like diamonds.
The air shimmered in front of her, as Vegito teleported. She run to him, hugging him like a crazy woman. Vegito hugged her back, though not using all his strength. Both kissed with passion, as she grabbed herself to the Saiyan's muscled body. He kissed back, as heated as she was. Nothing was going to ruin this moment.
From beneath the warehouse's debris, the green cladded figure of the Enchantress came out. She had lost a lot of skin, revealing her muscle tissue. The other parts of her body were bruised or covered in cuts. She looked forward, and saw the little couple, kissing with passion. Worst of all, the Black Heart was gone. Power was gone!
"YOU!" She screamed, flying forward to the still kissing couple. Zatanna felt her coming, though.
"YAS SSERTNAHCNE!" Zatanna spelled backwards.
"Enchantress" the green outfitted woman said. Just like Captain Marvel, she transformed back to her human self. And all the damage she had received, was now running all over her, now human body.
Zatanna stopped hugging Vegito, to move towards the human enchantress. Zatanna's hands shone blue. Her eyes had cold determination. She didn't need to say the words. She only needed to want it, and her father would be avenged.
"Killing me, will not bring him back, child" June Moon said. Zatanna didn't hear her. Bringing his father back was never what she had wanted.
With a swift right to left move, Zatanna unleashed her power with cold fury. June's throat was immediately cut open, blood oozing from it, non stopping. Her larynx was flooding with her own blood. Her vocal chords had been cut wide open, not allowing her to change back to Enchantress. She died after a minute, after losing all the blood in her body.
Zatanna wasn't crying. She was just looking to the dead corpse of her old enemy, with no specific emotion. The Saiyan, though, knew perfectly how she was feeling. He put his hand on her right shoulder. On instinct, she threw herself to Vegito's arms, hugging him with no mercy.
Maybe she had lost many things in her life, but Vegito was not going to be one. Even if the Saiyan was millions of times stronger than her, she would not let him sacrifice his life. She needed him desperately.
But Vegito needed her too. Zatanna had experienced the same torturous things he had been through. Not losing a child, but losing the only family she once had. So much things in common weren't coincidental. It was fate, acting.
The death of his family, brought his chance of a new one.
It was now midnight, and the Arkham Asylum had stormy clouds surrounding it. The dark place was known for containing the most lunatic people who existed. Each one, was worse than the other. On one of the many cells, a clown dressed maniac was lying peacefully on his bed.
After been trapped here once and again and again because of Batman, it had become a routine for the Joker. In fact, he had already planned his way out. And while escaping, he would kill many innocent people. His best plans always involved killing people! He wouldn't be a maniac if he didn't, would he?
The mad clown was just humming one of many songs, he had created. The song was actually invented by his other personality Roger, but it means the same. On the cell next to him, was his red/black dressed assistant, lover and wife Harley Quinn. As always, she was trapped, following orders of 'Mister Jay'.
This night however, wasn't their night.
Still humming, Joker never heard the explosions. But he did heard the gun shoots. The Asylum's security acted immediately. Yet, they were all taken down by a four feet tall hooded figure. His body was receiving bullets without flinching at all. They merely impacted him, bending his malleable grey skin, before bouncing off. With swift speed, he took all the guards out, slaying them with great ability.
The Joker was standing against the reinforced door, that separated him from the corridor. Though crazy beyond measure, Joker wasn't a fool. He needed a way out. He didn't know what was happening, but neither he cared. He needed to save his butt!
His butt was the first that crashed against the wall, when the door exploded. He rubbed the back of his head, feeling dizzy. But once his sight returned the only thing he could see was a four feet tall hooded figure. The figure wasn't moving at all.
"The Joker, I assume?" The figure said in high pitch.
The Joker remained stoic for some seconds, before falling to the ground, laughing his heart out. The figure in front of him didn't move. Batman's old enemy rose to his feet.
"You assume correct, my lord" He said, making a very formal tone, making a full body bow. Joker really enjoyed to piss people. Yet the figure remained still by his joke. "Who, if I may ask, point you in the direction to find me?"
"Actually, she did" The figure said, smirking behind his hood. His cloak opened in the middle, revealing his grey body, and arms. His right arm was holding Harley's head. It still showed a terrified expression.
Joker's face remained unturned, not knowing how to act. He hadn't expected this 'guy' or whatever he was, to be a threat. Yet, he was. In anger never seen before, Joker launched himself forward, ready to kill the, apparent, short man. Many times the Joker had killed. Yet, this was personal.
The figure smiled, as Joker's fist was moving right to his chest. However, instead of impacting something, Joker's fist passed through it, as now a hold was standing. The still hooded figure smirked, before shifting his body, into a grey shapeless past. The grey 'thing' jumped with super speed up from Joker's arm, right to his mouth. The mad clown never saw it coming.
The grey mass entered the clown's body, taking control of both body and mind. The Joker fall to his knees, feeling a choking sensation in his neck. He started to cough, trying to easy the non breathing sensation!
In seconds, though, Joker stopped coughing. He stopped doing anything. He rose to his feet, his eyes now purple, and a full smirk on his smile. A smirk many times bigger than his normal one. Many had considered that Joker had lost his sanity, for many years. But if one could see him now, everyone would agree that he didn't lost his sanity. He was never born with it!
Joker rose his left hand, pointing to the concrete wall that lead to freedom. A purple energy ball appeared on his hand. Firing it, the sphere exploded like a grenade. The explosion started burning Harley's head. But, that didn't matter to this Joker.
Doing something the mad clown had never done, he flew out, at Match speeds. He started flying South, the next stage of his plan set in motion already. Not Joker's plan, not Batman's plan. His plan alone!
Notes from Chapter 12:
I choose Mexico randomly.
I don't know if what I put about how long takes an eclipse to happen in the same place, is right. I'm also too lazy to look for it on Internet.
I based this chapter on Justice League's episode 'Eclipsed'.
I know Vegito would have preferred to fight against Eclipso, but it would have been a real mess for the planet not to break in two.
In my story, Enchantress was the one who killed Giovanni many years ago.
The Black Heart's weakness to sunlight was something I invented.
Well, Zatanna had a rough night with Vegito, and I'm not implying anything awry. And so did Joker! Find out what's going to happen to this characters, on the next chapter!