Note: I want to first apologize for the long wait, I've been in Oregon for
some time now, so now I must continue the story that so few of you
enjoy....enjoy!
Ch. 8 And So It Begins
After nearly two days of pure meditation and the lack of sleep Dark had been getting from being the guard dog, things became a little unsettling with Robin. A large sphere consumed Starfire and Raven in a deep purple energy field. Both Starfire and Raven were floating above the ground and mumbling to themselves secret incantations.
Dark lay beside the Titan tower, his back against the wall, the katana in front of him resting on his left shoulder, knees bent so that Dark was in a semi curled up position. Through the rapidly nearing forty eight-hour marking, warmth and staying awake were fading quickly. Every few minutes Dark's head would fall forward, and then he'd retract it to its normal state. Finally, Dark lulled himself to sleep at least a small nap.
"Sleeping on the job?" Robin's voice awoke Dark leaving him quickly searching the area. Dark found Robin standing next to him, staring down at him.
Dark replied slowly, "only a small nap, I've gotten no sleep in the past two days. Even a human such as yourself cannot keep yourself in an 'awake' state for that long, and not begin to go insane."
Robin made a sound in his throat, "Ha, I've stayed up much later than this without anything to keep me awake. I've been awake for seventy four hours and not felt a thing."
"Up until the seventy four."
Robin glared down at Dark, whereas Dark just looked up at Robin neither glaring nor staring in the death glare he always wore. There was silence for the longest time, until at last Dark spoke up.
"Robin, I understand that my presence here is disturbing to you and Starfire's relationship. Know that since my watching of you all, I see that you feel a great deal for Starfire. I do not wish to steal her from you."
"You assume too much."
"You now I'm right." Dark stood, putting back the katana back into the sash that once held it. Robin narrowed his eyes, looking up now at Dark.
Robin then came to the realization that jealousy flowed through him all that time. He felt a slight amount of shame, but discarded the feeling and took the subject away and started an entire new one.
"What are Starfire and Raven doing?"
"They are meditating." Dark looked at the great sphere covering both girls, as did Robin.
"For what?"
"Blackfire's return."
"When will she return?"
Dark gave it some thought, then answered unsure, "I would think sometime tonight."
"Not much time then."
"No. But Starfire and Raven are doing wonderfully. At noon, I will ask them to generate their full power at rest."
"They're resting now?" Robin raised his voice, astonished.
"Nearly asleep, and they are generating that much power."
Robin's eyes widened, he knew that Starfire was strong, but perhaps she was much stronger than Robin had expected. Maybe even stronger than he was.
"This is amazing."
"Isn't it though."
Both of them stared in wonder at both of them, after each passing minute the power of both of them had grown an inch further than their last standing point. Soon it became more rapid.
Dark walked forward, and said to the great orb a few words. Robin looking dumbfounded took a step forward to bring him back to a safer distance. "Alright you two, your power is high, but I must ask that you move, you are nearing the tower with this and I must ask you to go to the middle of the water between the city and this point."
Robin cocked an eyebrow, what was Dark trying to do? Both girls nodded in understanding and floated quickly into the waters. Upon reaching the middle of the sea, Dark lifted off of the ground and flew with great speed to the sphere. The water below him rose up into large spikes until finally he stopped before them, and moved out of the way expelling water onto the orb.
"Test one." Dark whispered, as the wave washed over the sphere. It did not move or get wet by any means. Dark smirked, and soared closer to the sphere.
"Now, unleash your full power at rest, seek out the innermost strength and pull it forth. You have good five hundred or so feet until the city or the tower itself. Show me what you have."
Immediately after Dark had finished, both girls' facial expressions changed from resting, to aggravation. Eyes widened, Dark quickly soared back to the tower, and stood beside Robin. Robin asked suddenly.
"What did-" Robin was cut off by Dark.
"Watch!" Robin did as he was commanded and looked at the small sphere in the water.
Like a beacon the sphere lowered, as if it had ended. "What?" Robin asked himself, then was so suddenly answered that it was breathtaking. The sphere had exploded in size and grew to the size of the Titan tower itself and continued to grow by the second. There was a wave that blew past them, like a high wind. Dark's white cape blew behind him, as did Robin's. Neither cared for the power that was witnessed was beyond comprehension. The water below Starfire and Raven vanished and began to consume the water below.
Dark roared at Robin so that he could hear him. "And this...isn't even at full power...they are still resting...imagine them to be awake." With those words, comprehension was left behind and only the feeling remained. Starfire and Raven had grown beyond that which was known. No doubt as well that the daily press would take hundreds of photos and each person around town would know of this, with the paper or not.
Robin had gotten a thought, then called to Dark. "Why don't you- err- join them?"
"If I were to do that.... I would raise the entire city to the ground, and take everyone around me to the underworld. Even now I meditate, I do not need to hinder my power outward just yet."
Robin looked at Dark oddly, and until Dark stared back at Robin, he shrugged. "Alright, I will show you."
Dark flew high into the sky, the air was getting very thin, and breathing was getting less frequent. Dark lowered himself a few hundred feet, and crossed his legs and meditated as Starfire and Raven was. He called forth the inner powers and let it loose expelling the power outward. It was well known in the military, that you could expand you power outward but, with that, if you could keep in inside oneself, fighting that way. The great power would enhance your entire body, that is why Tamaranian soldiers rarely fall, the power is great within, and is kept inside. For now, Dark would show all of them what a Centari captain can do, can show this race.
The power within answered, and Dark expelled it out. A sphere of blue grew around him, and continued to expand by a thousand feet in each direction. It would be soon that his power would reach the city, he would retract it and shoot it out into space.
Robin watched below, the two spheres almost connected. Dark is not a person to be angered, Robin decided in his and possibly everyone's best interest to never do anything to set Dark into this sort of rage. Then Robin considered, Was it rage? Or could this power be that of something miniscule? The power was beyond him.
Beastboy and Cyborg emerged behind Robin, and asked, "What the heck is that?" They said in unison.
"Starfire and Raven," Robin pointed to the smaller sphere, "Dark." Then Robin pointed to the gigantic sphere that came within inches of the skyscrapers of the city. Until at last, the energy was shot upward, and Dark's energy went into the deepest parts of the universe. Dark aimed the energy so that the Hubbell telescope would get a clear image of it, the workers of NASA would be baffled.
Dark came back down to the ground, and fell to his knees. He panted hard, he had let loose most of his energy but keeping it restricting to the city was even more difficult.
All three of them stared at Dark open-eyed, mouths agape. "Dude." Beastboy said, taking a step back. None seemed to notice the array of his lax uniform, it was tattered up. The front was torn and hanging on by a few pieces of cloth, as well as his pants. His white cape was left seemingly untouched, but still had a few holes around the bottom, safe to say that walking was the culprit of the tattering cape.
"Your power does that? You must have a lot of clothes to go through, bud." Cyborg joked, Dark looked up, his panting ended.
"No. She is almost here. And so it begins."
Night began to fall, and dark gray clouds consumed the night sky. Thunder sounded around them, and a light sprinkle of rain fell around them. "The scene is set. Now let the curtain arise, let the final parts of this act be fullfiled."
Ch. 8 And So It Begins
After nearly two days of pure meditation and the lack of sleep Dark had been getting from being the guard dog, things became a little unsettling with Robin. A large sphere consumed Starfire and Raven in a deep purple energy field. Both Starfire and Raven were floating above the ground and mumbling to themselves secret incantations.
Dark lay beside the Titan tower, his back against the wall, the katana in front of him resting on his left shoulder, knees bent so that Dark was in a semi curled up position. Through the rapidly nearing forty eight-hour marking, warmth and staying awake were fading quickly. Every few minutes Dark's head would fall forward, and then he'd retract it to its normal state. Finally, Dark lulled himself to sleep at least a small nap.
"Sleeping on the job?" Robin's voice awoke Dark leaving him quickly searching the area. Dark found Robin standing next to him, staring down at him.
Dark replied slowly, "only a small nap, I've gotten no sleep in the past two days. Even a human such as yourself cannot keep yourself in an 'awake' state for that long, and not begin to go insane."
Robin made a sound in his throat, "Ha, I've stayed up much later than this without anything to keep me awake. I've been awake for seventy four hours and not felt a thing."
"Up until the seventy four."
Robin glared down at Dark, whereas Dark just looked up at Robin neither glaring nor staring in the death glare he always wore. There was silence for the longest time, until at last Dark spoke up.
"Robin, I understand that my presence here is disturbing to you and Starfire's relationship. Know that since my watching of you all, I see that you feel a great deal for Starfire. I do not wish to steal her from you."
"You assume too much."
"You now I'm right." Dark stood, putting back the katana back into the sash that once held it. Robin narrowed his eyes, looking up now at Dark.
Robin then came to the realization that jealousy flowed through him all that time. He felt a slight amount of shame, but discarded the feeling and took the subject away and started an entire new one.
"What are Starfire and Raven doing?"
"They are meditating." Dark looked at the great sphere covering both girls, as did Robin.
"For what?"
"Blackfire's return."
"When will she return?"
Dark gave it some thought, then answered unsure, "I would think sometime tonight."
"Not much time then."
"No. But Starfire and Raven are doing wonderfully. At noon, I will ask them to generate their full power at rest."
"They're resting now?" Robin raised his voice, astonished.
"Nearly asleep, and they are generating that much power."
Robin's eyes widened, he knew that Starfire was strong, but perhaps she was much stronger than Robin had expected. Maybe even stronger than he was.
"This is amazing."
"Isn't it though."
Both of them stared in wonder at both of them, after each passing minute the power of both of them had grown an inch further than their last standing point. Soon it became more rapid.
Dark walked forward, and said to the great orb a few words. Robin looking dumbfounded took a step forward to bring him back to a safer distance. "Alright you two, your power is high, but I must ask that you move, you are nearing the tower with this and I must ask you to go to the middle of the water between the city and this point."
Robin cocked an eyebrow, what was Dark trying to do? Both girls nodded in understanding and floated quickly into the waters. Upon reaching the middle of the sea, Dark lifted off of the ground and flew with great speed to the sphere. The water below him rose up into large spikes until finally he stopped before them, and moved out of the way expelling water onto the orb.
"Test one." Dark whispered, as the wave washed over the sphere. It did not move or get wet by any means. Dark smirked, and soared closer to the sphere.
"Now, unleash your full power at rest, seek out the innermost strength and pull it forth. You have good five hundred or so feet until the city or the tower itself. Show me what you have."
Immediately after Dark had finished, both girls' facial expressions changed from resting, to aggravation. Eyes widened, Dark quickly soared back to the tower, and stood beside Robin. Robin asked suddenly.
"What did-" Robin was cut off by Dark.
"Watch!" Robin did as he was commanded and looked at the small sphere in the water.
Like a beacon the sphere lowered, as if it had ended. "What?" Robin asked himself, then was so suddenly answered that it was breathtaking. The sphere had exploded in size and grew to the size of the Titan tower itself and continued to grow by the second. There was a wave that blew past them, like a high wind. Dark's white cape blew behind him, as did Robin's. Neither cared for the power that was witnessed was beyond comprehension. The water below Starfire and Raven vanished and began to consume the water below.
Dark roared at Robin so that he could hear him. "And this...isn't even at full power...they are still resting...imagine them to be awake." With those words, comprehension was left behind and only the feeling remained. Starfire and Raven had grown beyond that which was known. No doubt as well that the daily press would take hundreds of photos and each person around town would know of this, with the paper or not.
Robin had gotten a thought, then called to Dark. "Why don't you- err- join them?"
"If I were to do that.... I would raise the entire city to the ground, and take everyone around me to the underworld. Even now I meditate, I do not need to hinder my power outward just yet."
Robin looked at Dark oddly, and until Dark stared back at Robin, he shrugged. "Alright, I will show you."
Dark flew high into the sky, the air was getting very thin, and breathing was getting less frequent. Dark lowered himself a few hundred feet, and crossed his legs and meditated as Starfire and Raven was. He called forth the inner powers and let it loose expelling the power outward. It was well known in the military, that you could expand you power outward but, with that, if you could keep in inside oneself, fighting that way. The great power would enhance your entire body, that is why Tamaranian soldiers rarely fall, the power is great within, and is kept inside. For now, Dark would show all of them what a Centari captain can do, can show this race.
The power within answered, and Dark expelled it out. A sphere of blue grew around him, and continued to expand by a thousand feet in each direction. It would be soon that his power would reach the city, he would retract it and shoot it out into space.
Robin watched below, the two spheres almost connected. Dark is not a person to be angered, Robin decided in his and possibly everyone's best interest to never do anything to set Dark into this sort of rage. Then Robin considered, Was it rage? Or could this power be that of something miniscule? The power was beyond him.
Beastboy and Cyborg emerged behind Robin, and asked, "What the heck is that?" They said in unison.
"Starfire and Raven," Robin pointed to the smaller sphere, "Dark." Then Robin pointed to the gigantic sphere that came within inches of the skyscrapers of the city. Until at last, the energy was shot upward, and Dark's energy went into the deepest parts of the universe. Dark aimed the energy so that the Hubbell telescope would get a clear image of it, the workers of NASA would be baffled.
Dark came back down to the ground, and fell to his knees. He panted hard, he had let loose most of his energy but keeping it restricting to the city was even more difficult.
All three of them stared at Dark open-eyed, mouths agape. "Dude." Beastboy said, taking a step back. None seemed to notice the array of his lax uniform, it was tattered up. The front was torn and hanging on by a few pieces of cloth, as well as his pants. His white cape was left seemingly untouched, but still had a few holes around the bottom, safe to say that walking was the culprit of the tattering cape.
"Your power does that? You must have a lot of clothes to go through, bud." Cyborg joked, Dark looked up, his panting ended.
"No. She is almost here. And so it begins."
Night began to fall, and dark gray clouds consumed the night sky. Thunder sounded around them, and a light sprinkle of rain fell around them. "The scene is set. Now let the curtain arise, let the final parts of this act be fullfiled."