Battle
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The wind and fire howled for over a minute, Element standing in the middle of it all with his head back and arms flexed at his side. When it all finally settled down nothing had changed, except for the fact that a few robots were destroyed from the wind. The robots were still completely still, waiting, Slade was still standing in the back, calm, Raven was still standing a few feet away from Element, nervous at what he might do. But worst of all Element was still standing where he was, rage filling his body. He held his hands out, a ball of white energy forming in each palm, he spun his hands about, suddenly slamming them together. Raven was more nervous than she had ever been in her life when she heard him shout out those words.
"LIGHT-FORCE STYLE, SPAWN!"
His whole body was suddenly enveloped in the skin hugging suit of Spawn, a huge cape was billowing behind his body, his head was completely covered, except for the two long diamond slits over his eyes that let him see. He had become Spawn, one of the most destructive and deadliest of all his light-force forms.
Element jumped forward in the direction of Slade, shouting a blood curdling cry. Chains whipped out of his chest, the famous devil skull head on the ends of each, there were small blades covering the chains, making them extremely dangerous no matter what part hit you. They spun about all around the room, taking down robots big and small like they were flies. He was halfway though the hall to Slade when a group of ten big robots blocked his path.
The chains disappeared inside his chest, the robots took some steps forward, more confident now that his weapons were gone. Element raised his arms, his right arm was suddenly covered in curved spikes, while in his left hand a short yet obviously powerful double-headed axe appeared. He rushed forward towards the big robots, arms at his side, screaming wildly.
The first robot in line took a swipe at him, he easily dodged and hit it back with his right hand, taking a huge chunk out of it and knocking it to the floor. Another one was coming to him at his left, he turned and slammed the axe down, carving it straight in half. While standing there he could sense some coming at his back. His cape suddenly whirled and slammed straight through three of the big robots. In seconds he had destroyed half of the group of ten that opposed him before, they stepped back a little to try and regroup, he never gave them the chance.
In under a minute even more of the robots were destroyed, and Element's bath was cleared to Slade. The chains appeared again and shot towards Slade at a blinding speed. Somehow Slade was able to get his staff up fast enough to block one chain, but not fast enough for the other. The head of the chain clamped down on Slade's leg, digging a little bit in, Slade grunted from the injury. "Is that the best you've got."
Element's face was still full of rage, but that comment drove him even further. The chain whipped around and threw Slade into a wall. Just like when Element was shocked out of meditation Slade got his feet under him before he hit and launched himself back at Element, staff spinning. Element swept the axe to intercept the staff, knocking it from Slade's grasp. The other chain grabbed Slade's arm and threw him again into a wall, but this time Slade wasn't able to catch himself.
As Slade slowly got up Element ran forward, screaming with his right hand held high, spikes even longer. Slade dodged as Element struck, knocking a chunk out of the wall. He kicked Element in the back of the head a few times, knocking him head on into the wall. As soon as he turned around, Element was hit with an onslaught of kicks and punches, he blocked some, and the ones that got through were slightly lessened by the suit. Slade backed up and ran forward, jumping to deliver a powerful kick, halfway between them Element jumped forward and grabbed Slade's leg, slamming him once more into the wall, but this time with more force because of the close proximity.
Element raised his axe to give the final blow while Slade was shakily trying to get up. He whipped it back to bring it down with tremendous force when his hand was suddenly covered in darkness.
He stared at it with shock. "What the..." Then he looked to where Raven was, both hands up. "Let me GO!" His voice was fierce and full of rage.
Raven looked at him, one word on her lips. "No."
"What!"
"No, I won't let you kill him."
His face was flooded with annoyance. "He killed my mother, he deserves to suffer!"
"Then let him suffer in jail, we came to bring him in, and I don't care what excuse you have, you are not killing him."
Element gave an exasperated shout. "I don't CARE!" His face was calculating yet still full of rage, in a low voice to himself he whispered. "I may not be able to kill him with my hands, but I can still use the chains."
The chains shot forward from his chest once more, entering the wall and encircling Slade's arms, so that he wouldn't be able to get away. The heads came out and rose in midair, spinning like drills, they were about to plunge into his chest when he raised his hand. Somehow one of his handheld curved laser guns appeared in his hands, very quickly he leveled it off and fired, being careful of the sharp chains.
Element didn't need to move as the shot didn't even hit him, at first he thought that it was just lousy aiming, until he looked in the direction at where it was headed. Time seemed to slow down as the laser traveled through the air towards the Raven, the person that Element loved. It seemed like it took forever for her to fall, hair floating around her beautiful face. When she finally hit the ground it seemed as if a shockwave went through the world to Element. All feelings vanished from his mind, rage, anger, joy, he even forgot about Slade, all that he could see was his love lying on the ground, possibly with a fatal wound.
"No," his voice was barely a whisper, he started to slowly walk over to her, then he broke out into a run. His suit of energy disappeared like a wisp of smoke, forgotten as there was only one thought in his mind.
"RAVEN!" He screamed with all the passion and all the worry in his body. He arrived at where her body was, he sat down, put her head in his lap, and frantically searched her body to look over his love. "No, no, no. Raven! Raven! Please don't leave me, please be okay, I don't want you to go." With both his arms he put his hands gently behind her head and lifted her to his shoulder, clutching her like an injured child. Tears came to his eyes, he didn't want this to be happening, it was all his fault, he couldn't lose her now without out telling her what he felt. After a few very short seconds he decided whether or not to tell her.
"I've already lost one person in my life that I loved, I don't want to lose another." His voice was choked up as his tears streamed down his face, finally professing his love. After seconds that seemed like hours to him, Element felt something break through into his head.
You love me?
Element's face was flooded in relief, and with both voice and mind he answered. "I love you more than I love life, I've loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you, although I didn't know it at the time. I love your hair, I love meditating with you, I love spending time with you, I love your rare smile, and I love your beautiful face." He set Raven down as he looked at her, he started to smooth the hair from her face.
I love you too.
Element's heart raced with joy. She loves me, she loves me, she LOVES ME! The tears that came down his face were no longer tears of sadness, but of happiness. "I am so sorry about this, I didn't mean for it to happen, can you forgive me?"
On one condition. Element looked a little nervous. Go and kick Slade's ass, and give me a kiss when your done.
Element gave a small joyous laugh. "Sure, sure, anything for you, and this time I promise not to kill him. But I'm still worried, will you be okay?"
I'm talking to you, aren't I? The wound isn't major, I should be perfect in a couple of hours.
"Okay." He bent his head down and gave her a kiss on the forehead and started to get up. He was stopped dead in his tracks as he felt a cool metal pressed up against his head. Slade was standing over him with his laser gun poised next to Element's head.
"How touching." Slade mockingly stated as he stood there. "Looks like you'll have to say goodbye soon." As Slade was talking Element was calm and collective, trying to think of what he could do. "And to think, you two just got together, it's almost like a fairy tale, almost. Of course, hey, maybe I'm just ending it soon, you two might not have lasted anyway, she is very difficult."
"You don't know anything about her." Element's voice was tinged with fury.
"Ah, watch that temper, Element, last time you got that mad the person you love died."
"She's not dead." His voice was tinged with even more fury, and had a very small bit of confusion.
"Oh, no, not now, but she will be." He let out a little laugh as he let out that last part.
A rage grew in Element, a rage beyond any he had before, beyond when he saw his mother dead, beyond back at the pizza parlor, beyond what he had experienced just minutes ago. Slade had just told Element he'd kill the person he loved the most, and that had pushed him beyond anything he'd been at before. His fists clenched as he shoved his hands out, a dome of light energy surrounded him and Raven, it extended out extremely fast, slamming into Slade, sending him flying back. Slade's hand raised to fire the gun, while at the same time Element quickly waved his hand, not knowing what he did, Slade pulled the trigger.
BOOM!
The gun in Slade's hand exploded at the point of exit, Slade wasn't really hurt from that but he was shocked, he threw the gun away. "What the hell just happened."
Element's voice was quiet and calm, yet more dangerous than it had ever been before. "Maybe next time you'll notice when I clog the opening of your little toy with stone."
Slade gave a little growl, he got back up and calmly headed over to where his staff lay. When he picked it up he started to twirl it with such ease it looked like an extension of his body. Element stood up slowly, when he was standing completely tall he jerked his head towards where Slade was standing. Slade stopped twirling his staff, because for once in his life he was actually nervous of the fight ahead. Element's poise was that of a regular calm, collective person, the only things that told of him different were his clenched fists, and his eyes. They were the scariest thing anyone had ever seen, if you looked at them almost completely indirectly they would look regular, but head on you could see a fire in there of pure, calculating hatred, it radiated the kind of aura that you know can't be stopped.
Element looked at the staff in with an unimpressed face. "So it's a weapons fight you want, eh, then let's get it started." Every thing he said was always with a calm, dangerous voice. He raised his right hand all the way over his head, his hand was gripped like it was holding something. Instead of shouting it out loud Element stated what he needed with a cold calm. "Elemental combination, earth and fire." Suddenly a whirlwind of sand burst from the ground and started to spin around like a small tornado in his raised hand. The sand started to turn red, it was growing hotter and hotter until with a blinding flash there was no more sand, but clenched in his hands was a sword made of glass.
The handle was rectangular and slightly curved at the bottom, it was about six inches long. There was no crosstree, it looked like the sword and handle were all one thing, just separated by a line. The actual blade was about two feet long, the overall shape and line in the middle made it look like two katanas pressed together, the blade of one against the back of the other. Except that it was more stretched out at the end, where it came to that right-triangular point. There was an engraving in the middle of the blade, and that was of a heart surrounded by a raven.
Slade bit out a taunting laugh. "That's what you're going to beat me with, I can break that thing with just one swipe of the staff."
Element's face looked interesting, like saying oh, really. "Let's just see about that." He shot forward, blade pulled back, when he got near Slade he started to whip it forward. "Heartbreaker SLASH!" Sword and staff collided, you could here a splintering sound as the blade cracked and broke into pieces. Element passed Slade, stumbling a little bit and getting on one knee from the blow Slade delivered, the hilt of the sword was all that's left.
Slade sneered. "What did I say, you made a very bad choice in weapons, boy."
Element's voice was somehow even more mocking than Slade's. "That may be, but there are a few things that I'm surprised you haven't found strange. First, the fact that none of the pieces that broke off are really small, like dust or even a splinter. Second, the fact that you hit the middle of the blade, yet it was all broken clean off at the hilt. And third, which I'm very surprised you haven't picked up on, the fact that all the pieces are still hanging in midair."
As he heard this Slade looked down to see that Element was right, the pieces were still there, each one of them you could also hold in your hand. All the pieces straightened up, yet not connecting, and continued the slash. Once cutting through Slade's body the shards returned to the hilt, reforming the blade, but you could still see the cracks.
Slade staggered a little, there were a lot of small slash marks on his body, like a many clawed beast took a small yet deep slash at him. With a voice that was a little higher than usual, Slade yelled out. "Attack my minions!" The robots suddenly appeared like before, this time surrounding the room.
Element raised the sword straight up, the blade suddenly turned black, the shards separated a little bit, empty space instead of cracks. Element called out. "Raven's flock!" Suddenly all of the pieces shot out in different directions, going around the room in blinding speed, taking out robots with just one swipe, some going right through them. After destroying all of the robots, the shards returned to take the form of a blade once again. As soon as he got the sword back, instead of using it some different way, Element slid it onto his back like there was a sheath there.
He rushed forward towards where Slade was, Slade raised his hands and started to attack Element. Element was able to dodge and parry most of them, and the ones that did go through didn't hurt at all because of the shape Slade was in. After a while of playing with him Element grabbed Slade's arm and flipped over Slade, stretching his arm and putting them back to back. He hooked his feet around Slade's so that he couldn't get out and bent down, stretching Slade and bringing his back almost parallel to the floor.
"Stone backbreaker!" Element let go and was suddenly replaced by a statue that looked exactly like him. It was in the same position, except that instead the feet was wrapped completely around Slade's ankle and his hand wrapped around his wrist. Also the back jutted out more to cause Slade even more pain. Slade cried out in pain, not even noticing, Element jumped on Slade's chest and pushed off it, launching himself into the air.
When he was at the top of his jump, which was almost to the ceiling, Element raised his leg almost straight up. The foot was suddenly surrounded in stone and that was surrounded by fire. His body fell, and he aimed the shot for Slade's chest. "Meteor kick!" Slade struggled below as Element came down, finally, he was able to get his staff up with his freed, left hand to block the blow. He might as well have used a rolled up piece of paper.
The kick slammed down right through the staff, breaking it in half, and continuing onto Slade's chest. There was a small shockwave, and the statue disappeared as Slade hit the floor. He crawled away from Element and very shakily got to his feet. He faced Element, barely able to keep himself up, he knew he was beat, and searched his belt for a something. Ignoring this, Element raised the sword up, and instead of turning black this time it turned pure white. Behind him, a giant raven appeared, made completely of the light energy, wings spread wide.
He lowered the sword so that it was level with Slade's chest. "You're finished, after all these years, you are finally defeated!" The sword split apart into the shards again as Element shouted out. "RAVEN'S LOVE!" The giant raven flung itself at Slade, the shards joined it at it's side, each one was covered in light energy shaped like a regular sized raven. A trail of light energy followed behind each shape. The small ravens/shards hit Slade first knocking him off his feet and into the air. While hanging the giant raven hit him full force, sending him slamming into the wall harder than all the time's before combined.
After the dust cleared Element walked to where Slade was laying propped up against the wall, slashed, beaten, and with the glass shards sticking in his chest. "You're finished, I'm going to take you to jail, and there you'll suffer almost as bad as you did here." Slade started laughing, low at first, then climbing higher and higher, until he hacked from the exertion. "What are you laughing about?"
Slade very shakily raised his hand, in it was a handle with a red trigger at the end. "I'm not going anywhere." He pushed the button. Red lights went off everywhere, a small siren was heard, and a mechanical voice sounded.
This ship will self-destruct in five minutes.
As soon as he heard this Element ran over to where Raven was lying, picked her up just like when he caught her before, and started to run out of the room. Behind him he could only hear the sirens and Slade's mad laughter.
After about two minutes he came to Robin and Cyborg. "Robin, we.."
"I heard, how do we get Cyborg out, though?"
Element put his hand out, careful with Raven, and underneath Cyborg a platform of stone rose, securing stone around his midsection, ankles, and wrists. Element quickly looked at Robin. "Get on, we need to get out as fast as we can." Without arguing Robin jumped up, grasping on to hand and foot holes. They sped along the halls, and in another minute came upon Starfire and the still unconscious Beast Boy.
Robin handed out orders before Element could. "Pick up Beast Boy and fly out of here, quick."
"But..."
"NOW!" Both Robin and Element said in unison. Starfire did what they told her to without asking. Finally they all flew out from the base and tried to get as far away as possible. One minute later after they escaped the shield they could hear an explosion, the shield collapsed, and they could see a smoking hull's debris crash into the water. The need to rush over, the Titans finally flew back slowly to the tower.
Inside the tower Element laid down Raven on the couch, he went over and got the blanket he used at night and covered her probably cold body. Robin walked over to him, looking exhausted by what he just went through. "Hey man, what happened."
"I'd rather not tell you right now, how bout tomorrow, when everybody's up okay? Besides, I'd like to stay with Raven right now."
"Okaaay." He said quizzically, not knowing that they were together. "I can deal with tomorrow. Why don't you just put her on her bed?"
"I'm not allowed into her room." He said this like it was obvious.
"I mean just but her on the bed and leave, she won't know."
"I want to be with her when she wakes up."
"Okay, okay." He said exasperatedly, walking off. Guess he'll have to explain this, too.
Element knelt down next to Raven and held her hand in his, staring at her beautiful face. He stayed like this for hours until after midnight, when Raven's eyes fluttered awake. She looked at Element and a smile came to her lips, which made a smile come to Element's. He ran a hand through her hair and whispered softly. "You okay?"
She put her hand onto his, and in the same soft voice, responded. "Better than I've ever felt before, but there is one thing that could make this better."
"Tea?" He said this with a grin on his face.
"No, moron," she jokingly said the last part. "You haven't fulfilled your promise to me." At this Element slowly joined Raven on the couch. She sat up slowly, leaning on his shoulder, her hand rested on his shoulder. Element's spine slightly shivered as he felt her touch, and he snaked his right arm around her back and his left behind her head, he drew her close. Their lips slowly met in a deep kiss, it was bliss as they held each other. Their love for each other flowed, the emotions that they were feeling clashed and molded into each other. Element was feeling a joy of finally finding someone that he could love, someone he could be with, share things with. Ever since the death of his mother he has actually felt very lonely deep inside, wondering if he would ever find a person. Raven was finally reveling in his touch as he held her, she felt safe, for once in her life, she felt safe. All of the different sides in her head were happy at finding love, except of course Rage, even her Depressed side felt it.
After a long time they both came up for air and looked deep into each other's eyes, Raven put her head on his chest, resting against his body. After a while she looked back up and they started to kiss again, this time they did it for even longer before coming up. Sadly and nervously Element spoke. "I, guess you'll want to go to your room now."
Raven placed her head on his chest once more. "No, I think that I want to sleep here with you tonight." Joyous relief flooded Element's face. He pulled the blanket over both of them, gently laid down, and put his arms around Raven's body.
He kissed her once on the back of her neck, making her shiver. "Good night."
"Good night."
And there they stayed all night, sleeping in each other's arms.
WOW that took a long time to write, and I'm talking in hours, not since last I updated. You guys have to agree with me, this is my best chapter EVER! It has the best fight scene, of course most of it was a fight scene. It definitely had good fluff, hope you liked it, Socialbutterfli. And it is definitely my longest chapter ever. I need to know what you guys think, and I don't mean read the next chapter, then review, review NOW. What did you guys think of the fight scene? What did you think about the Element/Raven thing in the story? In case you're wondering about Slade's "mad" laughter, he didn't go insane, his laugh was just very maniacal. That's all I have to say, except that my next chapter is my last for this story(sorry!). That's all I've got, so you know the drill, read and review.
