DC Gothic – Red-X
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Part 21
Location Unknown.
Today was the last day of the regular matches and so this was the last regular match that I would fight in. So if I won this battle then I would be in the finals and that would mean I had a real shot at getting the grand prize. But before I could get to that point I had to win this fight.
This latest arena was very different than the ones I'd been fighting in until now. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, the ground seemed to be made of what I could only call obsidian and the walls were made out of jagged spikes of the same material that met at the roof like teeth in a massive jaw.
The only light came from burning torches, and they were barely enough to see by, and perhaps wouldn't have been if not for the fact that my mask allowed me to see so well in the dark.
My opponent in this battle was a young man called I had known that I was going to have to fight him I had found out everything I could about him, or to be more precise Raven had asked around and then had come back to me with a full report. Clearly she was still trying to show me what a good girlfriend she could be.
In appearances Seeker had short dark brown hair and he was about six feet tall. He wore a black t-shirt, some dark blue jeans, a brown belt, black shoes and a grey trench coat. He spoke in southern accent, but he didn't sound like a hick. He was cultured in mannerisms and polite to everyone.
As to what he wanted, well that was to learn as much about magic as he possibly could. He was called a hero by some, but according to Raven that was really only because villains kept getting in his way.
I'd never even heard of the guy. He'd never been in any comic or animated movie or series I'd seen yet people here had heard of him so he had been unique to this dimension, or maybe he was also from a different reality and how somehow ended up in the DC multi-verse.
According to rumour his speciality was forging mystical rings that had varying magical powers, some were offensive were as some enhanced him. Also according to rumour the rings on his hands give him enhanced reflexes, endurance and most worrying there was a ring that gave him a fire ball spell.
Raven had also told me that one of the rings he had collected during his quest for knowledge was the a ring of Azar. Even I had heard of that thanks to my magical studies and my pretend girlfriend had gone very quiet after mentioning it. Perhaps because the books said the ring of Azar was most potent it protecting a person against demonic magic and she, at least according to Blackfire, was part demon.
While all that was interesting what I cared about right now was that Seeker had defeated a few foes, including Speedy, who was the leader of the East Coast Teen Titans, and therefore he was not one to be taken lightly.
"FIGHT!" shouted a voice.
The loud noise snapped me out of my thoughts and I took out my new Nth metal staff. I twisted part of the staff so the spear tip popped out of the top and then thanks to another twist electricity began to dance across the blade. This was going to be very handy as while Nth metal had anti-magical properties the effect wasn't that helpful unless a stable electrical current was running through the material. When that happened even a spear became a deadly weapon against magic users .
This proved to be the case when Seeker sent a fire ball at me and I was able to shield myself with the staff. The magical attack fizzled out, as did the follow up assult as I span the staff/spear around in front of me.
Seeker was no fool, after two failed attempts he didn't keep trying to harm me with fire balls. Instead he made a hand gesture and I felt some unseen force try to pull the staff/spear out of my hands. It had to be some sort of spell of telekinesis only it hadn't worked very well as the staff was made form Nth metal and therefore the magic had failed.
I then saw Seeker's eyes narrow and I was sure that he now understood that my spear was magic resistant. So the southern gentlemen changed tactics and sent some fireballs not directly at me, but rather around me so that when they exploded I got knocked on my ass.
It was a clever tactic, he couldn't do anything to me directly, at least not at this distance, but he might just be able to knock me about so much that I broke a limb or banged my head hard enough that I would pass out.
However I didn't allow that to happen as I badly wanted to win this silly tournament, if only because the grand prize couldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of a villain, and with that in mind I changed my tactics. I collapsed my staff/spear, then I used all my super human speed and reflexes to try to make myself as hard to hit as possible.
After flipping about a little in order to throw off Seeker's aim I used one of the few spells I knew 'Glitterdust' as that was always good for a distraction and then I sent two throwable Xs at my foe. However Seeker brought a magical shield that deflected the attacks. I knew then that I would have to get in very close in order to win this fight.
Then I used a spell I'd never been able to get right until Raven had given a me a tip on magic usage. I made a fake version of myself appear. It was just an illusion like a hologram, only made from magic, and it would be rendered useless as soon as anyone figured out it was a lie. Seeker did that at once but it did confuse him for just a moment and that gave me a chance I'd been waiting for.
I didn't charge right at Seeker, as that would have been extremely foolish, so I came at him in a sort of zigzag pattern which made it hard for him to do anything other than throw spells at me. There were a few near misses, a couple of time I had to duck and roll, but before long as I was up close and personal with Seeker.
Then he surprised me again. I hadn't expected a scholar of all things mystical to know how to fight hand to hand, but he did and that made it hard for me to make the knock out blow.
Seeker dropped down to avoid a sweeping blow I made with my staff, and then he punched me in the stomach. The hit hurt far more than it should have so I knew he had to be using magic to enhance more than his reflexes.
Before I could recover from that my foe jabbed me in several places and then took a step back. He even visibly relaxed as if he had already won this fight. Thankfully for me my suit was very good at protecting me and I recovered very fast from the percise blows. So fast in fact that Seeker was now the one showing surprise as I punched him very hard in the stomach.
Seeker nearly doubled over in pain and he clutched his torso, and that gave me the chance to give him a karate chop to the back of the neck. Yet still that wasn't enough to put the guy on the ground. I was impressed by that as few humans could have taken those two blows and still managed to stay standing on their feet.
However as tough as Seeker was he wasn't a match for Red-X, at least not without his spells and I had a few tricks of my own.
I grabbed my opponent around the neck and used the Sleeper Hold. It took a while for the guy to pass out, but soon enough he did and then the match was over.
(Line Break)
Location Unknown.
I'd gotten two prizes for winning the latest match. Seeker had handed over the ring of Azar and had told me that I might just need it one day soon. What that meant I didn't have a clue, and I had wanted to ask him about it but he had left before I could. Also since the ring was suppose to protect against demonic magic I thought Raven would be offended about me wearing it so I had it tucked away in my suit.
He had also told me to seek out a certain symbol that he drawn on a piece of paper. I'd shown it to Raven and she'd reacted but then had gone on to pretend that it didn't mean anything to her. I didn't press her about the lie and I decided to research it by myself at a later time
My other reward had been a book, which I read as I laid back on my bed.
The book was about Enochian, the angelic language that had been recorded in the private journals of a man called John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. According to Kelley, who had been a spirit medium who worked with Dee in his magical investigations, the language was revealed to them by higher powers, which is to say angels, and that the language was integral to the practice of Enochian magic.
Dee's journals did not describe the language as "Enochian", instead it used words like "Angelical", or the "Celestial Speech", the "Language of Angels", the "First Language of God-Christ", the "Holy Language" or "Adamical" because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.
But as fascinating as all that was what really interested me was Enochian sigils. They could be used to bind demons, to protect entire buildings from angelic and demonic visitors, and even to conceal humans from higher powers.
A character in the TV show Angel had used Enochian protective runes to not only make himself invisible to higher powers but also from all forms of modern surveillance.
Those symbols were in this very book so if I could figure out how they worked then I would become the best thief ever as I wouldn't need to worry about being caught on camera ever again and other forms of detection would be useless around me. People only be able to see with their eyes and since I also had a cloaking device then I would become totally unseen.
Also being able to ward a building against supernatural beings of all sort (as it covered more than demons and angels) could be very handy. It would be a lot of work to get that effect, but well worth for the peace of mind the effort would bring.
"Could I borrow that some time?" Raven asked.
Currently she was stripped down to her bra and panties, and was lying over my lap which left her ass in a prime position for a spanking. This made it hard to refuse her anything as she had a mighty fine bottom.
"Later" I said "I want to try to some of these cool wards when I get...".
I had been about so say home, but then I'd realised that I didn't even have a home. I had been living with Slade. but he wasn't exactly family material to say the least and I'd never be relaxed around him. So really I had no place to call my own.
"What's the matter?" Raven then asked me.
I wasn't sure how much I wanted to tell Sunshine about my life. If she found that I had, and possibly still did, work for Slade then she'd have a major freak out. It was one thing to be a thief that the Teen Titans liked to chase around it was quiet another to be the apprentice of the world's most deadly assassin.
"Its just that I realised I don't have anywhere to go once this tournament is over" I told my pretend girlfriend.
Well that wasn't completely true. Deathstroke had a whole house I could use whenever I wanted to, and he'd been supplied with an apartment, but those places would never be a home as long as Slade was alive.
"You could always give up the suit, and join the Titans" Raven suggested with a sly smile.
I found that idea laughable as I could never give up the suit as then I wouldn't be Red-X. Without it I was no on. I was no hero I could never spend my time chasing bad guys across rooftops in a pair of tights.
"Robin would never let me join" I told Raven.
Besides it was way too much fun to drive him crazy as Red-X and while I could drive the guy totally round the twist as a Titan I knew that I wouldn't last a week on that job. I'd gotten addicted to the rush of committing crimes and outfoxing the local white hats.
"But what about coming back to Jump City?" Raven then inquired.
That was possible as Slade wanted me to come to that city, and to met his daughter for what were no doubt horrible reasons. Saying no was a bad idea so seeing her again was a possibility.
"I'll go back" I told her "Not right away, but I'll see you again".
I'd have to do something about Blackfire first. She was unstable and very dangerous so I wanted to keep her on a short leash, if not for my own then at for other people's sake.
Killing her was a potential way of dealing with the evil princess in the long term but murdering someone wasn't really something I had in me. I wasn't even interested in hurting Talia al Ghul any more, and she had killed me not long ago.
"Then let me give you a reason to come visit me sometime" Raven said as she moved in to kiss.
When our lips met I could not resist grabbing her butt and giving her cheeks a nice squeeze.
"Someone sure likes my ass" Raven commented.
Well I was a butt guy. I could not deny it.
"I sure do" I replied.
"What do you want to ..." she said before I gave that part of her body a good hard slap.
Surprisingly, this seemed to arouse her rather than put her off and she actually asked me to spank her some more.
"Spank me harder!" Raven moaned as I did just that.
I continued to smack her behind and while that was going on she was lying on top of me and wiggling around.
"SPANK ME HARDER I'VE BEEN A BAD GIRL!"
Since there was no reason not to I spanked her really hard and Raven screamed while shutting her eyes tight. She never requested that I stop, but soon I did as my hand was starting to hurt.
"Wow that was intense" my pretend girlfriend remarked "I won't be sitting down for a while".
I'd very much enjoyed getting to do that.
"I think it got you in the mood" Sunshine then added.
That fact was hard to miss as I was poking her right now, and since I was still in my suit that was saying something.
"Are we gonna do it?" I asked her.
Given that she was now undoing my belt it was very much a given.
"Yes, but that can wait till later" Raven said while getting my cock out "First I'm going to give a really, really good reason to come back to Jump City".
She leaned down and let her mouth engulf my member and she started to suck with great enthusiasm. I knew she was trying to ensnare me into a proper relationship, or at least as much of a one as we could have, using sex and I also knew it would never work but I was happy to let her try.
"You don't have to give me so many blowjobs" I commented while the purple haired girl bobbed her head up and down.
Raven then pulled away from my cock for a second and looked up at me in a way that made me want to be inside her even more than I already did.
"No I don't" she replied while looking up at me and giving me a soft seductive smirk "But I really want to".
There was only one thing I can say to that.
"Well you're lucky I can recover so fast" I said.
Being having the body of a teenager did have its upsides and also having super human stamina helped. I could get more than a few erections every day and Sunshine liked to take care of at least a few of them.
"I know I'm a very lucky girl." Raven said before completely engulfing my dick with her mouth once again
She then sucked on it for all she was worth.
"Oh" I heard myself moan while she got to work.
Raven then bobbed her head up and down as she let the tip of her tongue move up and down my manhood. She been a total virgin a few days ago and now she was sucking cock like a pro.
"Please, don't stop" I almost begged.
Raven continued to suck on me until finally I emptied his testicles into her mouth, and sucked it all down furiously.
Once she made sure she had swallowed all of it, she pulled away and smiled at me.
"Didn't even touch the sides" she boasted.
She had to be part demon as no human woman could be this talented in the bedroom department without more practice.
"Well you might have eaten, but I haven't" I reminded Sunshine "We should go have dinner".
Suddenly my stomach felt very empty. My fight today had been short but it had also been very intense and thus had left me feeling a little drained fuel wise.
"We have food here" said Raven.
That was true, the cupboards kept restocking themselves but I wasn't in the mood to cook and the food they served here was actually rather good. Besides I'd put the xenomorph skull in the kitchen and even when it had been reduced to nothing more than bone the thing still sent shivers down my spine when I saw it.
"Yeah but if we stay in here then I don't have to get dressed" Raven pointed out.
That was a very good argument, and the skull seemed a lost less scary when you had a nearly naked girl in the kitchen with you.