Part 29: The Lieutenant.

The blow hit Shadow causing him to go soaring backwards until he caught himself with his telekinesis. Several Orcs came charging towards Shadow until the Knight of Invisibility became his namesake by becoming thus.

The Orcs stopped clearly confused by the sudden disappearance of the Snake Knight. But soon one of them was hit by an invisible blow making it stagger into one. The other got angered and shoved it to the side which caused it to crash into another.

Now arguing with each other, Shadow used the distraction to reappear. "What fools," he muttered before he jumped into the air. He took a card from his belt and yelled, "Sword Vent: Snake Coil Saber!" before sliding it into his scepter.

The group of Orcs looked up only to have one of their own cut in half from top to bottom. One Orc came forward and tried to stab him with a spear. However, Shadow parried the strike and stabbed the Orc in the chest. He took the sword out, causing blood to spurt out of the wound, just missing the Snake Knight. He turned around and ducked under a decapitating blow by an Orc who was wielding a broadsword. Shadow spun around in a three hundred and sixty degree angle as he brought his saber up in a right diagonal upwards slash cutting the Orc from his waist through his chest and stopped there as he pulled the blood coated blade out of his chest to jump over an arrow that had been aimed at his feet.

An Orc came at Shadow again while in the air thinking that he would be easy prey but the Snake Knight struck his foot out in a spinning kick. Another arrow was fired at the Snake Knight, but using his blade he deflected the arrow.

Several Orcs started to attack Raven but she was able to dodge from side to side using some acrobatics that she had developed during training. Because of it, it made her a very difficult target to hit.

She dodged a blow from an Orc that tried a jabbing strike with a poisoned tip blade. Raven threw herself backwards using her powers to gain some distance between herself and her opponents. Once she was far enough, her hands began to glow an obsidian black as she chanted, "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!"

All of their weapons began to glow black as they were wrenched from their hands. Raven turned their weapons around and impaled them with their own weapons.

She caught some movement from out of the corner of her eye and saw a rather large Orc burst through the door, carrying on its shoulders Pluto's Cadillac. It chucked the vehicle at Raven but she was able to catch it via her powers as the vehicle became engulfed in the obsidian aura and was tossed back at the Orc. The car came into a collision course with the creature. The vehicle was then slammed against a wall, crushing the Orc underneath. Raven commented, "I hope Pluto has that thing insured."

Ekelo had two broadswords in each hand that were melded from the shadows themselves and was fighting and blocking blow for blow from his multiple enemies.

It was strange that the majority of the Orcs seemed to be concentrating on Ekelo. But then again, Ekelo knew better and that he knew that he was not to be killed. However, he knew that most of them would like to cause him pain so he decided to do the same to them as he ducked and rolled away from a strike aimed at his abdomen.

Ekelo struck his foot out, tripping an Orc which caused it to fall and take another with it. Two Orcs came at Ekelo, both wielding a strange blade in each hand.

Ekelo just smirked as he called upon his power as two spiked shadows shot up off of the ground and impaled them.

Ekelo then ducked under a blow from behind that was going to take off his head. While crouched, Ekelo did a backwards jump flip over the Orc. His two broadswords shifted into a dagger-tail before he wrapped the chain around the Orc's neck. When the chain was secured, he pulled it back and causing the edges to cut off the creature's head.

Shadow took a card out of his belt and he inserted it into the head of his scepter, yelling out, "Trick Vent: Shadow Clones!"

Immediately, seven clones of Shadow appeared and they began attacking the Orcs mercilessly, each of them cutting the monsters down with ease and with little problem.

Raven floated upwards as her eyes glowed white. Three Orcs that were about to attack were surrounded by an obsidian aura and were lifted into the air as they were launched backwards and through the concrete wall.

Their weapons on the ground began to glow an obsidian color as they were lifted off of the ground. Raven turned her head to the side as she saw three more Orcs charging towards her. She jerked her head to the side as the weapons flew through the air and impaled all of them, making the Orcs fly backwards and landing in an odd angle.

Ekelo spun his dagger-tail around as the Orcs began to close in on him. He did a one handed sideways cartwheel spin as he used his arms to propel himself through the air.

Ekelo landed in a crouched position. The dagger-tail then flew apart as they jettisoned towards his enemies and began to rip through their flesh and bones.

Ekelo turned around into a spinning kick aimed at an Orc's head. The kick connected as it sent the creature to the floor but not before Ekelo's other foot flew upwards hitting him in the face causing him to fly backwards into a group of four Orcs.

Raven was forced into hand-to-hand combat with an Orc. She performed a round house kick to the head of her opponent. It made the Orc stagger backwards until it righted itself and struck with its club with a downwards strike. Raven rolled out of the way as the club hit the cement and as it did, several cracks formed from the impact.

Raven looked back and made a mental sigh as she was glad that she wasn't caught under that blow.


At the Smart Brain Corporation public garage where all of the cars and vehicles that the staff drove were parked; Blackfire, Draco and Jinx were standing while Pluto was pulling at his hair as he was standing before an empty parking space that once had his, now missing, Cadillac, "I can't believe Ichijyo took my car!"

"You did raid our clothes from our rooms without asking Takada. Did you really think he was going to let that go without some revenge?" said Draco as he shook his head at Pluto's attempt at pulling at his hair.

"Yeah, and you're acting as bad as Cy when it comes to his car," Jinx added.

Pluto slumped his shoulders; they had been given some time off and were going to take their girlfriends to a nice restaurant to get something to eat.

Blackfire ended up giving Pluto a small kiss as she said, "Ah, don't worry about it. Besides, I'm sure there's another way to get us there."

Pluto began to look up, that was until his cell phone rang. He reached into his pocket and pulled it out turning it on, "Takada here."

On the other line an older woman's voice came from the other line. It was Prof. Murata, "Takada, we've got some trouble."

"What kind? Mirror Monsters or our thief?" asked Pluto as he bore a serious expression on his face.

If the thief was emerging this was the chance to catch him, but if it were mirror monsters then they would have to stop the creatures.

"Neither. Apparently a group of strange looking creatures have been spotted attacking the Night and Die Club. Everyone ran out of there in a panic, but Ichijyo and his girlfriend, Rachel, are in there fighting them off and some kind of masked man is fighting with them."

Pluto had a shocked expression on his face as he tried to remember any masked vigilantes. None seemed to have come in mind but just then he remembered someone and he wondered…

"What does he look like?"

"Well we haven't exactly got a good ID of the person but from what we could get is that he seems to have pure white eyes."

Well that certainly confirmed it. It was Ekelo and he was helping Raven and Shadow with these creatures. However, they would probably need help because where Ekelo was always attacked, a Lieutenant was not too far behind. Then again, it would probably be best to not go, since Draco would most likely end up attacking Ekelo again and the half demon would have to beat him into the ground again.

"White eyes; that better not be who I think it is."

But, unfortunately for Pluto, Draco had already heard and by the tone of his voice he still remembered how much he was insulted. Also Draco probably wanted to pay Ekelo back for hurting his pride.


The ground was littered with the dead bodies of the Orcs as well as their blood. Ekelo was standing as his sickles that were formed out of the shadows began to slither down his arms and into the shadows from whence they came.

He looked over to Raven and Shadow before looking around the area. He spotted a table and a few chairs that were tipped over and strangely not damaged at all.

He motioned for the two to come towards him as he went over to the overturned table and set it right side up. He positioned three chairs at the table as Shadow and Raven walked up to him.

Ekelo looked down at his feet and saw a bottle of Vodka that was strangely untouched and unopened. He reached down and picked it up before unscrewing the cork and offered Raven a bit, "No thanks."

He moved to offer a bit to Shadow before he declined saying, "I'm under age."

Ekelo just shrugged as he took a swig of the alcoholic beverage. He then tossed it behind him as he looked unaffected by the drink. He pulled up a chair behind him and sat down before saying, "Haven't seen both of you in awhile."

He said it with an emotionless tone but there was hint of surprise, even though it was almost unnoticeable.

"Yeah, well I've joined the Titans a couple of years ago," said Raven as she too pulled up a chair and sat down. She was somewhat excited to see an old friend and this was very noticeable in her voice.

Ekelo raised an eyebrow at the sudden release of emotion and was expecting something to either melt or blow up, but nothing did.

He was about to voice his question until Shadow answered for him, "She's wearing a pendant that allows her to feel emotions without having her powers become unstable."

Ekelo just shrugged before asking a question that was directed at Shadow, "So, how do you two know each other?"

"We're on the same team. I also have a relationship with her."

"What kind?"

Ekelo did not express anything but curiosity in his voice and nothing could be sensed by Shadow of any emotions that would signify jealousy or envy so he decided to answer, "I'm her boyfriend. Now how do you know Raven?"

However, when Shadow asked his question, there was slight trace of jealousy in his voice that was still noticeable. Ekelo smirked under his mask as he said, "Is that jealousy I hear in your voice?"

There was a bit of amusement in his tone but not much else.

Shadow glared at him saying, or hissing, "Just answer the question."

Ekelo just shrugged before complying with an answer, "We traveled together for about half a year. We were somewhat forced to do so seeing as how Molock seemed to have the most incompetent help. His idiotic minions though that me and Raven were allies and attacked us both when we were seen together. It took some convincing on my part but I was able to get her to travel with me since at the time the most stupid demons in Hell thought we were allies. After that we parted ways and haven't seen each other since."

Shadow was about to ask another question until the doors swung open to reveal Jinx, Draco, Blackfire, and Pluto. Each of them had there battle outfits on and were poised, ready for a battle, only to be greeted with the sight of over two hundred dead bodies of the enemy sprawled all over the place.

The group got out of there battle stances as they saw Ekelo, Raven and Shadow at a table sitting on chairs like the whole fight never happened.

They were about to go over towards them until a giant section of the wall burst forward to reveal a huge creature that stood at twelve feet tall. It looked much

It looked much like the red Orcs that three were fighting except it had dark blue skin. It was carrying what looked like some kind of giant blade that was twice its size and had a variety of weapons strapped to his back, all of them deadly looking.

Ekelo got up in a bored fashion as he said, "Didn't I kill you three months ago Lt. Kerka?"

The giant creature, now identified as Kerka, growled in a deep voice as he spoke, "This time you will not escape me boy. You will serve my master and complete the prophecy."

"I would rather have to smell your breath than do my father's bidding. Speaking of your vulgar breath, when was the last time you brushed?"

Ekelo had said the word father as if it was the vilest word within the planet. He despised his father with every fiber of his being. It was because of him that he existed to bring about the will of the left hand of Lucifer.

No longer wanting to be insulted by this half demon child, Kerka picked up his blade and charged forward. He was ordered by Molock to bring Ekelo in alive, but he said nothing about causing some pain to him.

To Be Continued…

This chapter was written by Dr. Evans and edited by Chromedragozoid.

The characters Shadowcobra, Pluto and Draco belong to me while Ekelo and Liutenant Kerka belong to Dr. Evans.