Of Both Worlds: The Last Guardian
Chapter 16- Hell of Deception
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"So she's gone?" Robin asked bluntly. The titans sat in their main room, completely stunned by Nyx's disappearance. She had left so suddenly, with so much anger. But why was she angry? What had happened at Dimensions? "Just left?"
"Yes" Raven replied simply. She stared through the glass, praying to see the girl's charcoal wings soaring back to the tower; but the sky stood vacant, and rumbling with thunder. "I could sense she was hiding something, but she's gotten to the point where she can block me mentally; it scares me. With powers that great, who knows what could happen"
"What about the prophecy?" Cyborg asked.
"If she stays on the path she is on now; the prophecy will go horribly wrong" Raven continued, "If earth does become hell, she won't stop it" He looked down, "gives me a case of déjà vu" BB looked down from the window.
"Like Terra" he said quietly.
"Yes; our fallen friend" Starfire said without her usual expression, "will Nyx face Terra's fate?"
"I don't know" Robin replied, "no one deserves that", he laughed, "I remember when we first met her; she was so mysterious"
"She's always been mysterious" BB laughed, "It's like Raven times two" he thought of the horrible comment he had mentioned to Nyx. "I should've never said that" he mumbled quietly. Lightning continued to flash across the sky. "We thought we knew her, and she"
"Goes and leaves us!" Raven stood up angrily, "We told her everything, and she left us!" Robin cut in.
"We didn't know" he said gently.
"We were just too blind to see it" she retorted. "The scythe….it was right in front of us!" Lightning started to strike more violently.
"What do we do if she comes back?" Starfire asked.
"We show her what it means to be the opposite of a friend; a foe" at that moment lightning shot through the window, incineration the curtains. It caught to the couch and the titans found themselves in an inferno of flames.
"Did she do this?" Cyborg asked as the group huddled together. Raven nodded.
"Who else?" she said sadly. Robin cut in.
"No time now; we have to get to the roof" Raven put her hand up and a force field surrounded the titans.
"And so it begins" she said and with that they left the death trap.
Meanwhile
Nyx knelt praying, hoping the titans would understand. She could understand if they didn't; she had left in a rage none of them could understand. They had given her a home and trained her; she deserted them. She gave in to intimidating foes with naïve vulnerability. She had been a titan; a superhero. A hero; but what did that mean? She fought crime, and protected the city, but anyone could. So why were they revered so much? She looked at her appearance; battle clothes and her scythe. A mask that hid her strange orbs. Was she a hero? What did she do that was so honorable?
"How can I fight people who have put their life on the line, and lived in death's shadow?" she asked, hoping her alter ego would answer.
"You put your life on the line; don't think about what you'll do, react. Fight without thinking, and you'll see what it means to be a hero" she looked at her cockily.
"How is it if you're me, you're so wise?" the ego grinned.
"Well, I am your better half" she handed the scythe to Nyx, "there was a time, when you were worshipped; allies were great and foes were rare; bring back that world" Nyx nodded. "I will, "she said and walked out of the temple prepared to gain back her friends, or destroy herself.
At The Tower
The Titans stood on the roof; still in the flames. The sky roared furiously.
"So if she comes back…we" BB stopped short when Raven turned around.
"You will do nothing; I will destroy her. I created her and I will terminate her." She looked dead serious and the rest remained quiet.
On the Way to the Tower
Nyx soared between lightning strikes, through the whirling clouds back to titan's tower. She was prepared to take the blows she had been dealt. The titans could accept her apology or they wouldn't; but she wasn't going to let Flame get away with framing her. I'll die first, she thought to herself. As for the guardians; well that would be a different story. What she would do then was merely what popped into her head first. Flame was a clever illusionist; she pulled the wool over many sharp eyes and tightly wrapped them in deception. It would be unwrapping it that would be the hard part. She felt her self coming upon Titan's Tower, and readied herself for the fight. As it came into sight a lucid, but familiar image burned through her mind; titan's tower encased in smoldering heat. "No" she whispered. Flame had gotten to them too. A dark figure stood silhouetted against the furnace. It was her dream relived; it wasn't a dream, it was a vision. Now neither side would believe her; each had plausible evidence against her. They were about to fight a bloody battle, against the wrong guardian. She would have to trust destiny to reveal the truth; the heaven of truth, or the hell of deception.
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