The New Acolytes

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belongs to DC Comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I like to write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment. But I do own Liz Barry/Predator/Lifightre, Beth, Monix, Missy, Shiyva, Diablos, Kane, Lizix, MortiSin, Chris Bryant/Valgarth, and Drake.

Disclaimer #2: Also the Joker belongs to DC Comics. I own nothing from them. I'm just borrowing him for the sequel of The Predator.

A/n: This will be a short chapter

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After the dealio with Kane back at the clock tower, The Birds and the two ancients who are Ben and Liz, finally figured out who killed Liz and also is the leader of the New Acolytes who have been recently been murdered by Lt. Valgarth. Following after the chat, the two shimmered out of the clock tower and return to the realm where the Acolytes once stood. There goal is to uncover secrets and destroy the cult once and for all.

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Within seconds the two shimmered inside of a dark closet. Liz rolled her eyes as he landed inside of a closet. 'God, why did he have to shimmer in here?' as she thought to herself. 'Whatever, at least we are in' she slowly went over to the door and peeled throught the holes, she sees people in brown cloaks walking past the door and going wherever they are suppose to go.

She backs up and looks at Ben, "We have to sneak in and try to be careful." He nods his head in agreement and she quietly opens the door and very quietly they walked slowly out of the closet and into the halls. She stops walking and she face to face with him and hand signals to him that they have to hand talk to each other, because this will be a covert operation and try not to get caught, because since things have passed, their security system have been upgraded.

Ben hand signaled to her that they should check out the office area if they have one. She nodded in agreement and she walks down the halls, trying to avoid any nearby enemies. She kneels besides the doorknob to the door. She waves her hands to tell him that its coast to clear to come over and she points to him at the doorknob and he slightly nods and she slowly goes back on her feet and she went to the other side of the wall and she hands counts when to open the door.

1...2...3...

Ben opens the door and finds the room empty, she sneaks in and takes out a can of black spray paint that she took before she and him shimmered out of the clock tower. She sees the secureity camera and as he steps a bit further in the room, she grabs him by the collar, before going anymore further and she points to him and then at the camera and he nods like, ahhhh.

She sleath over to the camera without it detecting her and she takes the cap off and sprays it in the camera, so cult members in the control room can't see what is happening. She signals him to close the door and he successfully did.

"Let's try to find what we came for." She went over to the desk and she started to look throught a papers.

Ben went over to the file cabinet and he opens the filing cabinet and began to search the files on Liz. After searching throughout the files he throws the files back in its place, "There is nothing, everything says 'Cease to End'" Sctratching his head and notices that she is still searching. "Found anything?"

She drops the papers on the table looking up at him, "Nothing too, it says also 'Cease to Denied'" she looks at the papers once more but it all says 'Cease to End'. "Buggery!"

"You said it," he turns his head and sees Valgarth, "Uhhhh, hi?" He grins evilly at him and then at Lifightre.

"Ben who are you talking to?" She turns to him and he isn't paying attention to her, turning her head to what he was looking at. "...Valgarth..."

"You shouldn't come here, then again it spoiled my fun, because today the New Acolytes were scheduled to find followers who wished to be one of us, that can wait, tell me why are you here? Oh its because of your lover Mike was the leader before I stole his life? Is that it?"

"Oh shut up!" She flash-like speed over to him and he snapped his fingers and guards appears in the room and they grabbed and used low power tazors to knock her out. She back kicks them, but it was too late. They continued to tazor her then the lights when out.

Ben tries to pull them off of them as they were jumping onto him from different directions. He began to lower onto the ground since there are too many on him and he rises his fists then slammed it onto the ground to create shockwave, the powerful force ripped through their skins and suddenly his vision and hearing went blank off all a sudden.

'....Ben?' said a woman's voice. 'You can hear me...but you cannot see me...to uncover the secrets...you and her will slaughter them all to unravel the secrets that you two were trying to find....'

'...Mmmmm....does this has do with the crap saying 'Cease to End'?'

'Affirmative...' the woman voice fades away...

Then everything blacks out as soon Ben received the answer from the unknown woman.

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"Ben?" said Liz.

'Huh?' as he thought to himself in his sleep.

"Ben!"

Ben opens his eyes and sees Liz kneeling down beside him and he lifts his head up and finds himself in a cage and it is being guarded by an Acolyte dude. "Oh great..." as he sits up and felt his rib cage hurt. "Ow!"

"How are you feeling?"

"Alright, why are you asking?" Unsure why she wanted to know, they are not the greatest friends, but since they are in a cage, they probably have no choice.

"Well, you been out for a couple of hours and I thought you wouldn't wake up."

"Wow, I musta have one heck of a dream. This unknown woman spoke to me is to slaughter them and you get your answer. This has to do with 'Cease to End' which means, 'Come to an end to conclusion'"

"Oh god, this makes sense!" As she keeps her tone down a bit, "But first we need to get out of the cell, before killing the wacky people."

"How do we get out?"

"Play dead and I will do the dirty work." She gets back onto her feet and she turns her head back and watches Ben playing dead. She looks at the guard. "Guard!" He turns around staring at the enemy. "Something is wrong! He isn't moving!" She wailed in front of him.

"So what? What am I suppose to do about it?"

"Well, does Valgarth want him dead? If he finds out that he isn't kept alive he will have your head." He nods his head in agreement and he went over to the cell door and opens it widely and he went to check on him and Ben opens his eyes and kicks him hard in the gut.

The two escaped till they heard a gun cocking behind them. "Do not move! Futgitives!" Said the guard getting back onto his feet and walking over to them. "Turn around, now!" Both of them turned around and looks at the guard aiming the gun at them.

"Since when you guys got into guns?" said Ben.

"Shut up!! You think you can get away, but you can't!"

"Oh really?" smiled Liz, "Even I can do this?" She almost flash at him, but only got to the belly part, at the point the guard stared in shock and she flash-like speed over to the guard and snaps his neck. "Next time think again..." she turned her head and Ben is at the giant sized cabinet. "Ben what are you doing?"

Ben pulls out two M16 guns out and throws one to Liz, "Its shoot them up time.." he grabs as many ammo as needed for the both of them.

Liz grabs the gun and looks at him, "Okay, let's kill them once and for all!"

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