I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THE TEEN TITANS. The Teen Titans are owned and
copyrighted by DC Comics. Onikaze is an original character of my own
creation.
Sorry if it takes me a while to update chapters, I don't have much free
time lately but rest assured I will endeavor to update as often as
possible!
Author's note: I'm kind of new to the DC universe so please excuse any mistakes to character origins.
*** Chapter 3
Robin let fly his first pair of birdarangs, their aim straight and true.
"Please." Said the stranger.
Robin watched in astonishment as his birdarangs, mere feet from striking their target, suddenly veered off to opposite sides of the stranger. Robin had missed his target.
"No arrow shall find its mark." The stranger calmly said. Just then, in a flash of blinding light, Cyborg's sonic blaster struck the gaunt figure in the back sending him soaring into a pile of steel girders.
"It's no arrow," Cyborg began before blowing on the steaming barrel ."but it gets the job done."
Slowly, the stranger began to emerge from under the girders.
"What!?" Exclaimed Cyborg. "He's still movin'!"
Beast Boy saw an opportunity to strike while his opponent was still dazed. He hurled himself into the air, catching hold of an overhead street lamp and swinging around end over end before launching himself even higher into the air.
As he began his descent back to earth, Beast Boy thought to himself, "If this guy can take Cyborg's sonic blast and still get up, he should be tough enough to put on a few tons." Beast Boy's body began changing from a gorilla to an emerald elephant.
The masked man had just pushed the last girder out of his way and started saying, "You children are trying my pa-"
But he was cut short as an enormous elephant posterior landed on top of him.
Cyborg laughed aloud. "Way to go BB! That's really using your head!"
The elephant looked crossly at Cyborg for a moment before bellowing in pain and shooting off into the night sky.
Beast Boy returned to Cyborg's side in the form of an owl and morphed back to humanoid form.
"Ow!" Beast Boy screamed, rubbing his rear end. "I think he bit me!"
Starfire flew to Beast boy's side and pointing away from him said, "I do not believe he bit you, Beast Boy. I think our opponent made an incision using that instrument in his hand."
Cyborg and Beast boy looked up to see the stranger emerging from the crater that Beast Boy had made in the earth. Though his eyes were concealed behind his glasses, the Titans knew they were filled with murderous fire for the stranger now brandished a long gleaming blade.
"A daisho!" Robin exclaimed more to himself than to anyone else. He remembered seeing them in Bruce Wayne's collection of ancient weapons. Japanese swords designed to look like harmless walking sticks. An assassin's weapon.
"I see you know your history, Boy Wonder." The stranger said smugly. "But this is no ordinary sword, and I am no ordinary swordsman."
"Yeah, whatever." Cyborg readied his sonic blaster for another round. "Let's see you cut your way through this!"
But before he could fire, the stranger crossed the distance between them with blinding speed. He stopped directly in front of Cyborg, his sword held out in front of him as though he had already made a slash against his metallic enemy.
A moment passed.
Cyborg smiled. "Well, if you want to go out at point blank range."
The blaster powered up, about to release its wrath upon the black clad man when it's power guttered and died.
"Huh?" Cyborg examined his arm and noticed a deep gash in his robotic armor.
"You must be made of high grade titanium." The stranger said, leaping into the air and planting a powerful kick between Cyborg's eyes sending the Titan tumbling.
Just then an oil drum slammed into the back of the swordsman's head.
"Didn't your mother teach you not to run with sharp objects?" Raven asked as she hovered high above him.
"Why don't you come down here and teach me then?" He shouted at her.
"Let's consider this a correspondence course." Raven retorted as several oil drums became enveloped in black mystical energy before hurtling toward the swordsman.
The stranger nimbly flipped over the barrage of flying drums and turned to face them as they banked to make another attack.
"All right." He said. "Let's fight fire with fire." He sheathed his sword and extended his right hand in the direction of the oncoming barrels.
Raven suddenly felt the wind rise up around her and intensify in strength. She looked on as her oil drums began to slow down and eventually stop in midair.
"He's using the wind!" She thought to herself. "But how can he do that unless."
Her mind preoccupied with revelations, Raven lost control of the oil drums and they blew away into the night upon hurricane force winds.
The swordsman turned to face Raven, reaching for his blade when Starfire came flying in from above.
Green bolts of energy came at a machine gun fire pace from her hands. The stranger dodged the attack by mere inches, but Raven made note of how easily he had leapt out of the path of danger.
Starfire turned, and began to make another strafing run on the man.
"Oh no you don't." He said under his breath as he raised his hand towards the sky.
"Starfire!" Raven yelled, realizing what was about to happen. "He's using magic! You have to get of there!"
But her warnings came to late as the swordsman lowered his hand and the sky began to howl with fury.
Starfire looked up, hoping to see the freight train that she heard above her head, just before the wind shear hit her. She screamed as she hurtled to the ground in an uncontrollable spin.
"Starfire!" Cried Robin as the Tamaranian's body collided with the earth with a bone shattering crash.
He ran to her aid and held her head in his arms.
"Star! Are you all right? Speak to me!"
Starfire's eyelids fluttered and then opened. "Robin?" She began wearily. "why did the ground fly up and hit me so hard?" She passed out.
Robin turned his glaring eyes on the swordsman.
"You're going to pay for hurting her!" He cried.
Robin drew his other pair of birdarangs.
The stranger laughed.
"You know those won't hurt me. Why even bother?"
"Because," Robin began. "I just realized how to use your power to my advantage."
He threw the birdarangs at the swordsman and, as expected, within reaching a few in front of him veered off away from the intended target.
"Raven!" Robin yelled. "Now!"
Raven's eyes began to glow with mystical energy as she chanted.
"Azarath Metreon Zinthos!"
Suddenly a pair of propane tanks tore free of their moorings and flew in the direction of the birdarangs.
The stranger realized the trap too late.
The birdarangs and propane tanks collided in midair creating twin explosions that knocked the stranger on his back.
When the swordsman opened his eyes, he saw red figure falling from the heavens toward him. It was Robin, armed with his telescoping staff.
The swordsman rolled out of the way at the last second and leapt to his feet as Robin slammed his staff into the ground where the stranger's head was but a moment ago.
"It would appear," The swordsman began, unsheathing his blade. "that I have underestimated you. That was a clever ploy."
"You seem to be full of tricks as well." Robin replied as he struck an offensive stance.
The swordsman drew his blade again. "Come on, little hero. If you want to die so much I'll be more than happy to indulge you."
Robin gave a great battle cry as he lunged forward with all his might only to have his staff abruptly halt mid stroke.
His attack had been blocked by the gleaming samurai sword. What was more was that the stranger was holding the sword with one hand. Robin was amazed that this swordsman could so easily parry his attack.
"What is he," Robin thought. "A Kryptonian?"
The stranger chuckled. "Too slow and weak. Let me show you what it means to be a real warrior."
He reared back and then barraged Robin with a series of slashes that Robin could just barely block in time. The stranger raised his sword over his head and Robin brought up his staff in the nick of time to block the viscous downward stroke.
As the blade met Robin's staff, he watched in amazement as the Japanese steel sank into his staff by a quarter inch. He moved his head out of the way just as the sword passed through the staff, severing it into halves.
The Titan backflipped away from his enemy and took a moment to fathom what had just happened. "He just cut through my staff!" Robin thought in wonder. "It was made from Titanium. It was just short being indestructible."
"So now you won't face me at close range?" Asked the swordsman. "Fine. We'll fight at long range."
And with that he threw his sword at Robin. It spun around like a great black and steel gray buzzsaw as it hurtled towards him.
Robin smiled as he calmly stepped to the side and the sword passed by harmlessly.
"Please."
But as the sword flew out past him, it slowed and began to reverse its direction. Robin heard the air hissing behind him as though the blade was cutting through the very air itself. He turned to see the spinning sword rocketing at him.
Robin's mind calculated his options only to realize that there was no time to dodge the attack. Thinking quickly, he covered his arm with his cape made of nano-fibers and readied himself for the blow. The nano-fibers of his cape had ten times the density of titanium. Surely that would save him from the sword's razor edge.
Robin raised his cape-covered arm as the sword flew at him. He heard a resounding crunch as white-hot pain flashed behind his eyes and he fell, screaming in pain.
While the cape had prevented the sword's edge from cutting him, it had not protected him from the force of the blow. The blade had broken his arm.
The stranger reached out with his hand as the sword returned to owner.
"I must admit," He began. "You Titans are very resourceful. You actually managed to surprise me a few times this evening."
"Oh, but the night's still young." Came a voice over the stranger's shoulder. He turned to see a large metallic fist rushing up to meet him.
Cyborg's thunderous punch collided with the swordsman's face and sent him flying through the air.
Beast Boy, seeing an opportunity, yelled to Raven as leapt into the air after the stranger. "He can't hurt us if he doesn't have his sword!"
Beast Boy's body started to lengthen and thin out until he took on the shape of a giant python. As he met the swordsman in midair, he coiled himself around the black clad figure and began to squeeze.
They returned to earth with a resounding thud.
Slightly dazed from Cyborg's punch, the stranger found it impossible to exert his full strength and free himself from Beast Boy's grasp.
Raven knew what Beast Boy had planned. She would have to disarm the samurai while he was bound by the shape shifter.
"Azarath metreon zinthos!" She chanted as mystic energy surrounded the blade.
And then everything went wrong.
Raven screamed as she suddenly found herself assaulted by a bizarre array of images. Horse and buggy carts cantering down the dirt streets of what looked like Victorian London, a Tibetan monastery, a rosary.
Her mind reeled as the images continued. Now she saw a battlefield full of dead and dying armor clad samurai, a Shinto shrine, children crying and begging for help, and finally a pair of great red soulless eyes.
A terrible voice filled her ears.
"She knows what we know."
Cyborg looked on as Raven began to chant her spell and the sword became enshrouded in black light.
"Gotcha." He thought to himself.
Just then, an arc of dark magical energy lanced between Raven and the samurai with an explosive force that threw Beast Boy off the stranger.
The two hung in the air for a moment before the energy faded and they fell to the ground.
Slowly, the swordsman rose to his feet. He tried taking a few steps on his shaky legs and finding he could still move, began flee as quickly as he could.
"You ain't goin' nowhere, buddy!" Said Cyborg as he started running after the stranger.
"Cyborg! Wait!"
Cyborg stopped and turned. It was Robin. He was holding his broken arm at his side and grimacing through the pain.
"Whatever Raven did to him, it seems to have stopped him." He stated, and then looked over his shoulder. "And we're in no condition to continue the fight."
Cyborg surveyed the situation. Robin's arm was broken and both Starfire and Raven were knocked out cold.
Beast Boy stumbled up to Robin and Cyborg holding his side.
"Dude," He began. "If we wind up fighting that guy again, I want a pay raise."
"I'll put it into consideration." Said Robin, trying to crack a smile in vain. He couldn't stop thinking that this would definitely not be the last they saw of their new sword wielding nemesis.
Author's note: I'm kind of new to the DC universe so please excuse any mistakes to character origins.
*** Chapter 3
Robin let fly his first pair of birdarangs, their aim straight and true.
"Please." Said the stranger.
Robin watched in astonishment as his birdarangs, mere feet from striking their target, suddenly veered off to opposite sides of the stranger. Robin had missed his target.
"No arrow shall find its mark." The stranger calmly said. Just then, in a flash of blinding light, Cyborg's sonic blaster struck the gaunt figure in the back sending him soaring into a pile of steel girders.
"It's no arrow," Cyborg began before blowing on the steaming barrel ."but it gets the job done."
Slowly, the stranger began to emerge from under the girders.
"What!?" Exclaimed Cyborg. "He's still movin'!"
Beast Boy saw an opportunity to strike while his opponent was still dazed. He hurled himself into the air, catching hold of an overhead street lamp and swinging around end over end before launching himself even higher into the air.
As he began his descent back to earth, Beast Boy thought to himself, "If this guy can take Cyborg's sonic blast and still get up, he should be tough enough to put on a few tons." Beast Boy's body began changing from a gorilla to an emerald elephant.
The masked man had just pushed the last girder out of his way and started saying, "You children are trying my pa-"
But he was cut short as an enormous elephant posterior landed on top of him.
Cyborg laughed aloud. "Way to go BB! That's really using your head!"
The elephant looked crossly at Cyborg for a moment before bellowing in pain and shooting off into the night sky.
Beast Boy returned to Cyborg's side in the form of an owl and morphed back to humanoid form.
"Ow!" Beast Boy screamed, rubbing his rear end. "I think he bit me!"
Starfire flew to Beast boy's side and pointing away from him said, "I do not believe he bit you, Beast Boy. I think our opponent made an incision using that instrument in his hand."
Cyborg and Beast boy looked up to see the stranger emerging from the crater that Beast Boy had made in the earth. Though his eyes were concealed behind his glasses, the Titans knew they were filled with murderous fire for the stranger now brandished a long gleaming blade.
"A daisho!" Robin exclaimed more to himself than to anyone else. He remembered seeing them in Bruce Wayne's collection of ancient weapons. Japanese swords designed to look like harmless walking sticks. An assassin's weapon.
"I see you know your history, Boy Wonder." The stranger said smugly. "But this is no ordinary sword, and I am no ordinary swordsman."
"Yeah, whatever." Cyborg readied his sonic blaster for another round. "Let's see you cut your way through this!"
But before he could fire, the stranger crossed the distance between them with blinding speed. He stopped directly in front of Cyborg, his sword held out in front of him as though he had already made a slash against his metallic enemy.
A moment passed.
Cyborg smiled. "Well, if you want to go out at point blank range."
The blaster powered up, about to release its wrath upon the black clad man when it's power guttered and died.
"Huh?" Cyborg examined his arm and noticed a deep gash in his robotic armor.
"You must be made of high grade titanium." The stranger said, leaping into the air and planting a powerful kick between Cyborg's eyes sending the Titan tumbling.
Just then an oil drum slammed into the back of the swordsman's head.
"Didn't your mother teach you not to run with sharp objects?" Raven asked as she hovered high above him.
"Why don't you come down here and teach me then?" He shouted at her.
"Let's consider this a correspondence course." Raven retorted as several oil drums became enveloped in black mystical energy before hurtling toward the swordsman.
The stranger nimbly flipped over the barrage of flying drums and turned to face them as they banked to make another attack.
"All right." He said. "Let's fight fire with fire." He sheathed his sword and extended his right hand in the direction of the oncoming barrels.
Raven suddenly felt the wind rise up around her and intensify in strength. She looked on as her oil drums began to slow down and eventually stop in midair.
"He's using the wind!" She thought to herself. "But how can he do that unless."
Her mind preoccupied with revelations, Raven lost control of the oil drums and they blew away into the night upon hurricane force winds.
The swordsman turned to face Raven, reaching for his blade when Starfire came flying in from above.
Green bolts of energy came at a machine gun fire pace from her hands. The stranger dodged the attack by mere inches, but Raven made note of how easily he had leapt out of the path of danger.
Starfire turned, and began to make another strafing run on the man.
"Oh no you don't." He said under his breath as he raised his hand towards the sky.
"Starfire!" Raven yelled, realizing what was about to happen. "He's using magic! You have to get of there!"
But her warnings came to late as the swordsman lowered his hand and the sky began to howl with fury.
Starfire looked up, hoping to see the freight train that she heard above her head, just before the wind shear hit her. She screamed as she hurtled to the ground in an uncontrollable spin.
"Starfire!" Cried Robin as the Tamaranian's body collided with the earth with a bone shattering crash.
He ran to her aid and held her head in his arms.
"Star! Are you all right? Speak to me!"
Starfire's eyelids fluttered and then opened. "Robin?" She began wearily. "why did the ground fly up and hit me so hard?" She passed out.
Robin turned his glaring eyes on the swordsman.
"You're going to pay for hurting her!" He cried.
Robin drew his other pair of birdarangs.
The stranger laughed.
"You know those won't hurt me. Why even bother?"
"Because," Robin began. "I just realized how to use your power to my advantage."
He threw the birdarangs at the swordsman and, as expected, within reaching a few in front of him veered off away from the intended target.
"Raven!" Robin yelled. "Now!"
Raven's eyes began to glow with mystical energy as she chanted.
"Azarath Metreon Zinthos!"
Suddenly a pair of propane tanks tore free of their moorings and flew in the direction of the birdarangs.
The stranger realized the trap too late.
The birdarangs and propane tanks collided in midair creating twin explosions that knocked the stranger on his back.
When the swordsman opened his eyes, he saw red figure falling from the heavens toward him. It was Robin, armed with his telescoping staff.
The swordsman rolled out of the way at the last second and leapt to his feet as Robin slammed his staff into the ground where the stranger's head was but a moment ago.
"It would appear," The swordsman began, unsheathing his blade. "that I have underestimated you. That was a clever ploy."
"You seem to be full of tricks as well." Robin replied as he struck an offensive stance.
The swordsman drew his blade again. "Come on, little hero. If you want to die so much I'll be more than happy to indulge you."
Robin gave a great battle cry as he lunged forward with all his might only to have his staff abruptly halt mid stroke.
His attack had been blocked by the gleaming samurai sword. What was more was that the stranger was holding the sword with one hand. Robin was amazed that this swordsman could so easily parry his attack.
"What is he," Robin thought. "A Kryptonian?"
The stranger chuckled. "Too slow and weak. Let me show you what it means to be a real warrior."
He reared back and then barraged Robin with a series of slashes that Robin could just barely block in time. The stranger raised his sword over his head and Robin brought up his staff in the nick of time to block the viscous downward stroke.
As the blade met Robin's staff, he watched in amazement as the Japanese steel sank into his staff by a quarter inch. He moved his head out of the way just as the sword passed through the staff, severing it into halves.
The Titan backflipped away from his enemy and took a moment to fathom what had just happened. "He just cut through my staff!" Robin thought in wonder. "It was made from Titanium. It was just short being indestructible."
"So now you won't face me at close range?" Asked the swordsman. "Fine. We'll fight at long range."
And with that he threw his sword at Robin. It spun around like a great black and steel gray buzzsaw as it hurtled towards him.
Robin smiled as he calmly stepped to the side and the sword passed by harmlessly.
"Please."
But as the sword flew out past him, it slowed and began to reverse its direction. Robin heard the air hissing behind him as though the blade was cutting through the very air itself. He turned to see the spinning sword rocketing at him.
Robin's mind calculated his options only to realize that there was no time to dodge the attack. Thinking quickly, he covered his arm with his cape made of nano-fibers and readied himself for the blow. The nano-fibers of his cape had ten times the density of titanium. Surely that would save him from the sword's razor edge.
Robin raised his cape-covered arm as the sword flew at him. He heard a resounding crunch as white-hot pain flashed behind his eyes and he fell, screaming in pain.
While the cape had prevented the sword's edge from cutting him, it had not protected him from the force of the blow. The blade had broken his arm.
The stranger reached out with his hand as the sword returned to owner.
"I must admit," He began. "You Titans are very resourceful. You actually managed to surprise me a few times this evening."
"Oh, but the night's still young." Came a voice over the stranger's shoulder. He turned to see a large metallic fist rushing up to meet him.
Cyborg's thunderous punch collided with the swordsman's face and sent him flying through the air.
Beast Boy, seeing an opportunity, yelled to Raven as leapt into the air after the stranger. "He can't hurt us if he doesn't have his sword!"
Beast Boy's body started to lengthen and thin out until he took on the shape of a giant python. As he met the swordsman in midair, he coiled himself around the black clad figure and began to squeeze.
They returned to earth with a resounding thud.
Slightly dazed from Cyborg's punch, the stranger found it impossible to exert his full strength and free himself from Beast Boy's grasp.
Raven knew what Beast Boy had planned. She would have to disarm the samurai while he was bound by the shape shifter.
"Azarath metreon zinthos!" She chanted as mystic energy surrounded the blade.
And then everything went wrong.
Raven screamed as she suddenly found herself assaulted by a bizarre array of images. Horse and buggy carts cantering down the dirt streets of what looked like Victorian London, a Tibetan monastery, a rosary.
Her mind reeled as the images continued. Now she saw a battlefield full of dead and dying armor clad samurai, a Shinto shrine, children crying and begging for help, and finally a pair of great red soulless eyes.
A terrible voice filled her ears.
"She knows what we know."
Cyborg looked on as Raven began to chant her spell and the sword became enshrouded in black light.
"Gotcha." He thought to himself.
Just then, an arc of dark magical energy lanced between Raven and the samurai with an explosive force that threw Beast Boy off the stranger.
The two hung in the air for a moment before the energy faded and they fell to the ground.
Slowly, the swordsman rose to his feet. He tried taking a few steps on his shaky legs and finding he could still move, began flee as quickly as he could.
"You ain't goin' nowhere, buddy!" Said Cyborg as he started running after the stranger.
"Cyborg! Wait!"
Cyborg stopped and turned. It was Robin. He was holding his broken arm at his side and grimacing through the pain.
"Whatever Raven did to him, it seems to have stopped him." He stated, and then looked over his shoulder. "And we're in no condition to continue the fight."
Cyborg surveyed the situation. Robin's arm was broken and both Starfire and Raven were knocked out cold.
Beast Boy stumbled up to Robin and Cyborg holding his side.
"Dude," He began. "If we wind up fighting that guy again, I want a pay raise."
"I'll put it into consideration." Said Robin, trying to crack a smile in vain. He couldn't stop thinking that this would definitely not be the last they saw of their new sword wielding nemesis.