"The Ring of Fire?" Miss Martian asked hesitantly.
"A chain of volcanos and fault lines that wrap around the Pacific Ocean," Nightwing explained darkly.
"She must be here," Aqualad said, pointing to the exploded volcano.
"I knew, don't ask me how, but when I hit her with that energy…"Moontail said.
"Well let's take her down then!" Superboy snarled.
"Right, like you can!" ShadowMist sneered, flying into him. She knocked him back into what little of the forest was left and griped Nightwing by the neck.
"My my you are cute, no wonder Moontail fell for you!" She slammed Nightwing into the ground and formed a rock solid case over him.
Only his head stuck out of the rock. He gasped, unable to breath.
"Leave him alone!" Miss Martian yelled, using her telekinesis to rip Nightwing from the earth while kicking ShadowMist away.
"My turn!" Flash thundered, whipping around her, delivering punches right and left.
"Get away from me!" ShadowMist roared, kicking Flash away.
She turned, catching an arrow and burning it. Her silver eyes narrowed on Tigress. She licked her lips and stalked forward, raising an earth wall.
"Stay away from my boyfriend!" Tigress shouted, flipping away to dodge the flying earth.
"Stay out of my way then!" ShadowMist growled, "You as well!" She turned, blowing an enormous fiery kiss at Aqualad.
Aqualad summoned the water to shield him as the heat attacked him relentlessly. Superboy leaped around the flames, Flash on his heels and rammed into ShadowMist. She bucked and threw the earth at them and spread a fire up and around the three boys. Nightwing and Tigress however had gotten close and now danced, hand to hand with her. She burned Tigress's bow and broke Nightwing's left ribs. She turned, punching Moontail hard in the stomach.
She slammed the heroine's head into the earth and set fire to her back. She grabbed the screaming girl, throwing her up against a mountain.
"It's so funny," She drawled as she fought, "I thought it was the speed boy I was after but it's not!"
She proceeded to casually break Miss Martian's right ankle and toss her at the rapidly approaching lava. She then turned around and encased Aqualad's discarded water bearers in stone while she slammed his back against a boulder.
"You, you are the one. The one that holds the Godslight!" She laughed maniacally, "With your blood, I'll rip open the barriers between worlds and bring my consort forward!"
ShadowMist continued to laugh as she ripped Superboy off of her and encased him in rock. Then threw the entire construct into the waves. She knocked down Flash, twisting his hip out of its socket. She dragged Moontail to the earth and beat her. Moontail, too exhausted from her efforts earlier, unable to fight back.
"Who the hell would love you?" Tigress asked incredulous.
Grabbing her ankle, ShadowMist slammed her against the ground and broke her arm behind her back. Amid her screams, ShadowMist gloated.
"Why the only sane being in all the worlds! Chaos himself!" She thundered, freezing Nightwing's legs in rock, "I used to be a hero like you! I used to be naïve! Then I learned the truth! No one loves heroes! Heroes are nothing!"
She flipped Aqualad and Miss Martian on their backs as they tackled her. She used a series of kicks and punches to bring down the two heroes and lock them in the earth.
"If we're nothing then why bother?" Superboy roared, swinging at her.
"Chaos wants a kingdom. I want vengeance!" She dived around Superboy's attacks and kicked him hard in the stomach, "To do that, I have to destroy you! Simply business."
"Vengeance for what?" Miss Martian asked, straining to break the earthen cuffs.
"She didn't tell you did she?" ShadowMist grinned evilly at Moontail, "I was graced with powers by a meteorite as she was. I was given the task to capture a runaway being called Chaos. When I did, the gods turned away from me!"
"Was it because you were a psychopath?" Moontail spat.
"Silence!" ShadowMist snarled, raking her hand across Moontail's cheek, "You know nothing!"
"Then tell us during your court hearing!" Flash yelled, after her.
"How about I just snap your neck?" ShadowMist threatened, whipping smoke and shadows around Flash.
He struggled along his teammates and ShadowMist grinned.
"I lost my family! I lost the love of my life! I had captured Chaos. In a blind servitude to gods who claimed to be protecting us! They did not! They did nothing! Of course they stripped me of my abilities when I called them on the truth! As criminals ravaged our world, the gods did not seek to grant us with their powers! They sat back, content to watch us slaughter each other!"
She slammed Flash against the earth and captured him and Aqualad in a ring of fire. She snarled at the heroes, slowly breaking Moontail as she did. She laughed as the others struggled to stop her.
"I was smart though, smarter than they were! Chaos told me what he saw, a world without them, a world of order and peace! Through his influence and my own searching, I gained back my abilities! This girl however and her friend were graced with the task to imprison me! Me! Without the gods giving me my powers, I had free reign! I could pave the road for Chaos. When you speed boy came through I knew that the barriers had weakened."
She laughed, forcing Moontail to bleed, regardless of the hero's weak attempts to fight. Moontail stood defiant against ShadowMist. She had to. Her team, her friends laid around the ground, broken and defeated. With the brutal beatings that ShadowMist delivered Moontail gasped, fading in and out of the scene. The night taking its toll on her.
"At first I thought he was the instrument to free Chaos from his prison! It was practically confirmed as I appeared here! Here in a world already on the brink of chaos! Haha! I was content to wait out the speed boy, to unleash hell and bring a new world in my name! However you dear child proved me wrong! You hold the power! You are the key! You are a literal living lock to in between the realms! With your blood spilt and your soul crushed the door will open!"
She fell, bleeding at the feet of ShadowMist. She crowed with victory and Moontail attempted to find her soul again. The energy she had used to wipe away her image in Coast City was nowhere. The energy that she used to teleport everyone was gone. She was finished. Moontail glanced up as ShadowMist sneered.
"You'll never win!" Moontail yelled, "If I don't stop you they will!"
"They? Your pathetic team?" ShadowMist grabbed Moontail by the chin, lifting her high as she flew above the defeated team.
She threw Moontail into the earth, creating a crater and set her on fire. As Moontail cried and screamed into the earth, losing conscious she heard the cruel laughter of ShadowMist.
"In your dreams!"
Ouch! I know! I'm so mean! But you'll understand! Thanks and review!