Before I begin the 3rd chapter, I'd like to take a moment to thank all my wonderful reviewers, to name a few: Amongst-Azarath, Wave Maker, Harei sky, Raven Sugara the Tenken, Koraandr, Hiei's Brother, SnowwhiteandtheSevenDragons and kaila. As I get more reviewers, more names will be posted. A lot of you want Raven to win, I noticed, but originally, I was going to have one of my OCs win (Nightmare). Now it's up to a coin-toss...HeadsRaven, TailsNightmare tosses, catches, smirks. Okay! You will know next chapter, I better get typing! Bye, and enjoy!
Winner Take What's Left
Round Two
"Good morning, champions. We will begin round two immediately. The matches are as follows: Raven vs. Terra and Nightmare vs. Starfire." The Master of Games said as the four girls entered the main hall. "Let the second round begin!"
Before the girls could even react, they were on different stages once again. Nightmare and Star were in a tree-filled park-like setting while Raven and Terra were in an abandoned construction site.
"Your sister older was a breeze to take down, so you shouldn't be too much trouble." Nightmare said with a prideful smirk across her lips, revealing the mildly pointed fangs she had for canine teeth.
"I have defeated my sister before, so perhaps you underestimate me, controller of fear." Starfire said, hands and eyes charging with green energy.
"We'll see." Was all Nightmare said before having to block the barrage of starbolts being fired at her. She did so by jumping back and disappearing into the brush of a nearby tree.
"Come out now please so we may resume our battle." Star said warily, poking her head behind random trees with her starbolts ready.
"Ha! You are clueless, alien, I don't intend on this being a 'friendly' competition..." Her voice echoed loudly, seeming to come from everywhere. She clenched her fists and lengthened her claws, unseen by Starfire.
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"So here we are, two friends locked in a battle for the win." Terra said with smirk, golden energy flowing to her eyes as she placed her goggles over them.
"Just some friendly competition, right?" Raven asked, smirking herself as she charged her fingertips with ebony auras of her power.
"Right." Terra said with a chuckle as she lifted her arms to levitate five large boulders, one of which she hopped on to. Raven reacted by encasing a large pile of metal and concrete in her power and bringing them up to surround her as she flew into the air.
"Azarath Metrion Zynthos!" She cried, forcing the objects to fly towards Terra, knocking two of the boulders out of the blonde's invisible grasp.
Terra took off, dodging the random objects that were flung at her by her fellow Titan. (A/N: Please note that Terra is already a Titan, but has not betrayed them yet. "Winner Take All", according to various episode guides, takes place after "Titan Rising" but before "Betrayal". This confused me, because she was not featured in the card game at the start of the episode.)
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"I ask you to come out from hiding and fight in a battle of powers, not play the earthly game, hide-and-go-seek-the-hider, please." Starfire said into the treetops, still not able to locate her opponent. "Where have you gone?"
"I'm right here!" Nightmare's voice shouted and before Star could react, a set of claws was slicing into her shoulder. The Tamaranian yelped in pain and clutched the wound as blood trickled slowly from it, staining her purple top.
"You have harmed me greatly." Starfire growled, charging at her now visible opponent with her starbolts ready. Ignoring the painful sting of the cuts, Star flung a barrage of the emerald energy at Nightmare, who deflected the blasts by whacking them away with her forearms. She missed one, however, and it blasted her square in the stomach, knocking her onto her back.
"Rrr...ow...you're going to regret that, alien." Nightmare growled, rolling onto her knees to clutch her slightly scorched abs as she glared daggers at Starfire. She gasped and backed away from the enraged girl, then realized she had to win and prepared her starbolts as the 1/3 vampire stood to her feet.
"You do not frighten me." Starfire said, though her voice was shaky and unsure.
"Then why do my fear senses tell me otherwise?" Nightmare snarled, forming her onyx orb within her palm as a ribbon of crimson flame danced around it.
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Raven had successfully knocked away the two large boulders that Terra attempted to ground her with.
"You're as sharp as ever, Raven, but my skills have improved more than you expect." Terra said, forcing a snake-like pillar of dirt and rock to speed towards her opponent, who just narrowly dodged.
"Maybe so, Terra, but I never underestimate an opponent." Raven replied as black energy poured from the jewel in her forehead, eyes and fingertips, encasing the long pillar within it. Terra attempted to catch her off-guard by beckoning some smaller stones to fly at her, but only smashed into a wall of the ebony energy. This allowed Raven to crush her biggest threat into tiny pieces.
"I see you've learned a few new tricks." Terra said, nervousness evident in her voice as she hovered in place on the only rock currently in her control.
"Oh, you don't know the half of it." Raven replied with a growl as she raised her arms slowly, causing a plethora of objects to come under her control. "And unfortunately for you, you never will. Azarath Metrion Zynthos!"
With the cry of her magic words, the female necromancer beckoned the objects to fly at her opponent, who took most of the hits. Though Terra tried to fly away, her only means of transportation was knocked out from under her feet, causing her to hit the ground with a thud.
"Oof..." Was all Terra managed to breathe before covering her head with her gloved hands as Raven forced a mountain of heavy matter to fall on top of her, all while wearing a sinister smile.
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Starfire backed away at her opponent's actions, but was forced to stop when she bumped into the trunk of a large tree.
"Let's take you up on that comment, shall we?" Nightmare hissed in a sarcastically sweet tone, raising her hands high into the air. As if summoned by invisible puppet strings, a horde of skeleton zombies came forth from the dirt.
With a yelp of both surprise and fear, Starfire flew a few feet above the ground and blasted the creatures with her jade starbolts. Though she managed to destroy a few, more and more sauntered slowly towards her, moaning as their bones creaked and popped.
"Your minions are numerous." Starfire commended nervously, backing away before noticing that a circle of flames had surrounded her.
"There is no escape from my circle of hell, child. Be lucky I have spared your life." Nightmare's voice came from behind her, and the last thing the Tamaranian remembered was a boot colliding with her back and being slammed into a tree before blacking out.
"Winner, Nightmare!" The Master of Games claimed and Star's unconscious form disappeared in a flash of light.
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"Sorry to have to do this, Terra." Raven sighed as she continued to pile cinderblocks, metal poles, rocks, gravel and other loose articles on top of the fallen Titan. The heavy mountain shifted every once in a while, but when the movement ceased, Raven assumed Terra had been knocked out. Turning on a heel to walk away, she had just enough time to raise a transparent onyx wall to catch the foreign objects her opponent forced off of herself to scatter across the stage.
"I'm not out, not just yet." Terra said with a triumphant smirk, rubbing her dirt-covered face with the back of her sleeve and spitting soil from her mouth.
"You should have stayed down." Raven growled, turning to glare daggers at the blonde. Growing impatient, she encircled Terra within her gloomy energy and using all her telepathic might, flung her as far out of the area as she possibly could, at which Terra screamed her head off.
"Winner, Raven!" The Master of Games concluded as Terra was zapped from the sky by harmless lightning.
Both Nightmare and Raven were transferred back to the main hall.
"Where is Starfire?!" Raven growled, gritting her teeth at Nightmare.
"She's alive, I didn't scare her too bad." Nightmare laughed, then replied dangerously, "You're next."
"The winners of Round 2, Nightmare and Raven, will face off tomorrow in the final battle!" The monkey-like man bellowed, looking at the girls with an approving smile.
"Okay, see you tomorrow, when I will be victorious. Sweet dreams." Nightmare mocked, heading to the room which she had claimed to be hers the night before. Raven did the same, for they both knew the next battle would be a difficult one...
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N/S: Ha! Round Two is done! Onto the finals! Now you will see what Nightmare can really do! Sorry it took so long to update. 1) Writer's block and 2) Trojan Horse Virus. Not a happy combo. Anyway, hope you enjoyed! I promise that the final battle will be super-long! Find out who wins and my surprise ending! Later!