Chapter 13: The Titans vs. the Jyunishinshou

"Titans, Go!" screamed Robin.

"Antera, take care of this," said Shatora calmly.

"Right!" squeaked a young girl, Antera, as she pulled out her two massive hammers and charged at the Titans. "Hammer Smash!" Starfire got in the way of the strike, blocking the hammer with her arms. The force, however, was so powerful that it knocked Starfire back.

"Starfire!" yelled Robin.

"That's one win for me!" squeaked Antera, jumping up and down happily in triumph. She didn't notice Starfire flying right at her at high speeds. Starfire rammed into Antera, sending the small girl flying across the room and right into the wall. She was knocked unconscious.

"I am sorry, little girl, but I won't let you hurt my friends," Starfire spoke firmly.

"You will pay for hurting little Antera!" said a large man with a feminine voice. This was Bikara. He charged at Starfire and sent her flying. "She won't be getting up from that one." Cyborg shot a sonic blast at Bikara, hitting him dead on in the chest. When the smoke cleared Bikara was revealed to be unharmed. "That almost tickled."

"There is just no way! Who are these guys!?" asked Cyborg, shocked.

"I already told you. We are the Jyunishinshou, the personal servants to the Crimson King, Lord Oda Nobunaga," stated Shatora. "Now, Bikara, finish them."

"Yes, sir." Bikara charged at the Titans with incredible speed.

"There's no way he can move that fast!" said Cyborg as Bikara appeared behind him.

"Cyborg, look out!" yelled Beast Boy.

Cyborg turned around and swung out his arm, connecting with Bikara's face, and creating a small cut. "A… a cut upon my… my beautiful, strong, face!" screeched Bikara.

"This guy is just plain weird!" stated Jinx.

"You'll pay for that!" screamed Bikara. "Beauty! Love! And Violence! Bikara-Style!" with incredible speed he jabbed at Cyborg's chest… punching right through it.

"Cyborg! No!" screamed the Titans as Cyborg fell to the ground.

"I must admit that he fought well. But…" he then appeared behind Jinx. "I hate pretty girls. It's no fair!!! Easy life, never have to do anything but be cute…" He swung his massive fist down toward Jinx's head. Leo appeared in front of Bikara, blocking the fist with his sheath.

"You stay away from her!" yelled Leo, clearly enraged. "Henshin!" The panel on his Advent Buckle flipped over to the reveal the symbol of Spades and generated a blue rectangular energy field. Bikara was surprised and was pushed back by the field before it rushed back and swept over Leo, donning him in his armor.

"CHANGE SEIRYU!"

"Okaasan said this; beauty is only skin deep. True beauty lies within the heart," he quoted as he gripped his sword. He turned to regard Jinx, "Are you alright, Jinx-san?"

"I'm fine," she said with a nod.

"Come on, let's teach this narcissist a lesson also…" he took hold of her hand, squeezed it firmly before saying, "Just stay close, ok?" and letting go.

Bikara roared and then charged at them but was met with a kick in the chest from Draco as Jinx leapt up to knee him in the face. Draco, at the same time his foot met his opponent's chest, and sent surge of electricity that electrocuted the vain brute.

"NOW!" Draco shouted out as he threw a punch at the same time Jinx did. She laced hers with her hex magic as he surrounded his in a tornado. The force of their attack was destructive as Bikara was sent flying by a tornado that crackled with pink energy and into a wall. Bikara stepped out of the wall with barely a scratch on him.

"Nice tricksies, boy. I love fashionable lads like you," said Bikara with a giggle. Draco's eyebrow quirked under his helmet. Just who was this guy? "However…" started Bikara as he pulled out razor sharp, golden rings, "you ruined my face, so now I have to ruin yours." He hurled the rings at Draco and Jinx.

"Jinx-san, look out!" yelled Draco as he pushed Jinx out of the way. The rings connected with Draco, leaving several deep gashes in his armor. Bikara then appeared in front of Draco and slammed his fist into Draco's faceplate, sending him flying.

"Draco no!" screamed Jinx.

Draco pulled himself out of the wall and drew two cards before sliding his Category Queen into his Advent Absorber, followed by slashing through his Category Jack. He activated his Royal Category cards. "ABSORB QUEEN! FUSION JACK!" with a bright flash of light Draco's normal armor was replaced by his Jack Form armor. "The blade of the sky has descended! Advent Knight of the Azure Dragon: Draco Jack Form, TENZAN!" His wings spread out behind him, making him look like an avenging warrior angel.

Bikara stared in awe as Draco transformed, gazing at his golden armor and wings. "How… manly! I think I'm in love! Too bad I have to kill you, but first…" Bikara appeared behind Jinx and grabbed her by the waist with one hand. "I have to kill this little girl." Bikara started to squeeze the life out of Jinx.

"Jinxy-chan!" Draco cried out. He quickly charged and drew 5 cards, activating them in quick succession.

"MACH! THUNDER! BEAT! KICK! SLASH! SONIC LIGHTNING COMBO!" Draco moved at such great speeds that Bikara couldn't even see the attacks coming. The attacks forced Bikara to let go of Jinx. Jinx landed in Draco's arms as he attacked the giant vain and narcissistic brute.

"Daijoubu desu ka, Jinxy-chan?" Draco asked the girl. She winced in pain as she gazed up at him.

"What did you just call me?" Jinx asked in wonder. She had learnt that 'chan' was a term of endearment from the conversations she has with Kat. It was a term that was associated with great affection.

"Ano…" Draco said, blushing as he put her down.

After being hit with several more electrified sword strikes, kicks and punches Bikara started to get annoyed. "Time to finish this. "Beauty! Love! And Violence! Bikara-Style!" He sent a powerful jab at Draco's chest.

Draco countered by slashing two cards through his sword. "METAL! TACKLE! METAL SMASH!" he smashed into Bikara while Bikara's attack connected with Draco. The two attacks knocked the two opponents out.

"I'm coming, otouto-chan!" yelled Kat as she ran towards Leo's unconscious form. An arrow shot past her hair, cutting a few strands loose.

"First you must deal with Maro" said Maro as he readied another arrow.

"Do you always speak in the third person?" asked Kat annoyed, she then charged at Maro.

"Bad decision," stated Maro. With a snap of his finger thousands of arrows rained down upon Kat. Kat's Advent belt appeared and as the arrows came she slashed through her Category Ace.

"Henshin!"

"CHANGE SUZAKU!"

In a flurry of flames she was donned in her armor and gripped her weapon, the Suzaku Arrow, before spinning it around to block and cut a few of Maro's arrows in half.

"Is that the best you can do?" Mimic taunted, her eyes narrowed under her red visor as her lips were curled into a confident smirk.

Maro looked at the armor clad Mimic and said, "Maro has heard you were almost able to match Hotaru. That is quite shocking to Maro since the only other people to do that are Demon Eyes Kyo and master Shinrei."

"I'm full of surprises," Mimic retorted, "Wanna see?"

"Yes, Maro would like that," Maro took aim and fired his arrows at Mimic. Mimic, at the same time, rolled away and aimed with her own bow, firing arrows of ice at the archer. The arrows collided and fell to the floor, except for one. One of Maro's arrows passed right by Mimic and hit… Craig.

"No, Craig!" screamed Mimic. She turned her attention to Maro and said, "I'm going to kill you!" She slashed a card through her buckle which then announced, "SPIRIT!" Mimic's armor disappeared and Kat stood in its place, the Suzaku Arrow still in her hands, "and I'll do it with my own power!" Flames began to cover Kat's fists and turn a bright green. Maro noticed this and decided to take action, pulling all his arrows out of his quiver and taking aim at Kat.

"Hail of Arrows!!" screamed Maro as he launched an entire quiver of arrows at Kat. Kat responded by charging up a powerful arrow, and shooting it at Maro's arrows. Kat's arrow connected with Maro's arrows and incinerated them all. Kat's arrow continued toward Maro and lodged itself in his shoulder.

"Maro is in pain!" cried out Maro as he tried to remove the arrow. He then noticed that his arm was becoming covered in ice. "What is happening?" asked Maro in shock.

"My arrow is freezing you from the inside out. I hope it's painful." She then turned her attention to the rest of the Jyunishinshou. She cast an eye towards Craig who had an arrow imbedded deep inside him. He was still alive, thankfully, but for how long?

"This is becoming annoying," said Shatora. "Makora, Shindara, destroy them. Indara, Kubira, help me gather up the rest of the Jyunishinshou."

"Yes, master," replied Indara.

Makora and Shindara stepped forward as the rest of the Jyunishinshou disappeared.

"Makora is mine. Henshin!" shouted Desmond as he summoned his Advent Buckle and slid in his Category Ace.

"CHANGE GENBU!"

"I remember you," Makora said mockingly. "You're no match for me even in that armor."

"We shall see," Shadow said as he removed he gripped his staff and charged at the shadow manipulator. Makora easily evaded the strikes of the Knight of Genbu.

"You can't manipulate shadows so I'm curious why you chose the name 'Shadow'," Makora inquired.

"I like the color black," Shadow retorted and then swung down only for Makora to disappear in a mass of black shadows.

"Pitiful," Makora said disdainfully as he struck out at the Knight of Genbu who then created a water shield between himself and the bandaged shadow manipulator. He then summoned vines to wrap around Makora.

"This won't hold me forever," Makora spoke.

"I know," Shadow commented as he slashed through a card. "BLIZZARD!"

Combining the power of his card and his water powers, Shadow launched a powerful blizzard of snow and ice at the immobilized Makora, freezing him solid. He then activated his next card. "BITE!" He leapt up and performed a crushing scissor kick that shattered Makora's prison to bits.

"Kageochi!" Makora cried. Apparently he had survived and attempted to drown Shadow but the Knight of Genbu expected this so he activated another card.

"SMOG!"

Makora was blinded by the smog before he heard another announcement.

"RUSH! STAB! POISON!"

"VENOM STRIKE!"

Makora felt something pierce through his body and when the smog cleared he found that the sharp tip of Shadow's staff was imbedded in his stomach.

"Payback's a bitch, isn't it?" Shadow commented.

"You tell me" said Makora as he pulled Shadow in close and rammed a kunai into his side.

"Desmond!" screamed Raven as the knife was sunk deeper and deeper into Shadow's side.

"Don't think I haven't forgotten about you," said Makora as he used his free hand to throw two more kunai at Raven. They connected with her shoulders, knocking her to the ground as blood poured from her wounds. Makora turned his attention back to Shadow. "We'll finish this next time, 'Shadow'," said Makora as he disappeared into the shadows. Shadow's armor vanished as he pushed himself up, struggling, coughing out blood.

"I'm coming, Raven!" shouted Desmond as he ran towards his fallen girlfriend. He staggered but he had to help her.

"Henshin!" Takada yelled out as he activated his transformation. "CHANGE BYAKKO!"

Shindara wasn't exactly fighting. He just kept coming at Pluto and no matter how many times he was shot, he still wouldn't go down.

"What's going on?" Pluto wondered out loud.

"I'm immortal," was the reply he received. "Nothing can kill me. Though I suppose that there is plenty that can kill you." Shindara got in close and put his hand on Pluto's head. An electrical current shot through Pluto's body. With all his strength, Pluto put his gun right to Shindara's face.

"Die, asshole," said Pluto as he fired into Shindara's face. Shindara fell to the ground followed by Pluto. But unlike Pluto, Shindara managed to get back up, though his face was still missing.

"That actually hurt," said Shindara as his face began to regenerate. "Now, which one of you wishes to fall before me next?"

'This isn't good. Only Beast Boy, Kat and I are left to take this guy on,' thought Robin.

Beast Boy was the first to attack. He changed into a fly then flew on top of Shindara. He then quickly turned into an elephant and dropped down on top of Shindara. He then turned back to normal. "That was easy," said Beast Boy as he walked away from Shindara's body.

"I wouldn't move if I were you," said Shindara, completely unharmed. When Beast Boy turned around multiple fire blasts surrounded Beast Boy. "I planted fireseeds around you. The more you move, the more you burn."

"Beast Boy!" shouted Kat and Robin as their friend fell to the ground.

Robin threw several exploding discs and bird-a-rangs and Kat shot several arrows at Shindara, who didn't even move. When the smoke cleared Shindara stood unharmed. "You two aren't worth my time," said Shindara, with no emotion in his voice. He pulled out a whistle and blew it. He then backed away and disappeared. A strange buzzing sound filled the air.

"What's that sound?" asked Robin, confused.

"Oh no," said Mimic in realization. She had used her Recover Camel card on Craig after transforming back.

Thousands of Dark Roaches burst into the arena and surrounded the two remaining Titans. Luckily, the spectators had all evacuated as soon as the Jyunishinshou came to cause havoc.

The two of them stood up, standing back to back. Robin gripped his Bo-staff as Mimic split her Suzaku Arrow into two matching curved swords. One sword was covered in fire while the other one was covered in frost.

"Let's take them down," Robin said.

"My words exactly, Tweety," Mimic nodded in agreement before the two of them charged into the fray. A few rock boulders smashed into the Dark Roaches and the two looked to see Tara, running towards them.

"Need help?" Tara offered.

"I thought you didn't want to play hero anymore," Mimic joked.

"Maybe, but when my friends are in danger I'm gonna help," Tara responded, eyes and hands glowing yellow.

"Don't forget about me," said Bontenmaru as he leapt into the battle, smashing several of the Dark Roaches with his bare hands. With the arrival of Tara and Bontenmaru the battle became pretty one sided. Tara was crushing the Roaches with giant boulders, Mimic and Robin were slashing through them with their weapons, and Bontenmaru was tearing the roaches in half. When the fight was over the four warriors remained standing, surrounded by the disintegrating corpses of Dark Roaches. "That was easy enough," said Bontenmaru, dusting off his hands.

"Bon-san! Tara! We need your help!" shouted Kat. Bontenmaru and Tara ran towards Kat.

"What's wrong, Kat?" asked Tara.

"We need to get everyone to the infirmary now!"