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Chapter 7- The First Door
Deltonic Mountain stood pretty tall, a nice 14,000 feet in the air. It stood between Steel City, Jump City, and Towerin. Rumor has it that somewhere on the mountain was the crypt where the demon was destroyed. Robin knew this for a fact, as within the mountain is where they destroyed him last. Robin looked at the mountain before them, as they traveled in the T-Car north, towards the monstrous peak that was a result of millions of years of earth plates moving.
"So, where exactly are we looking for this crypt?" asked Evline "is it on the mountain, around it, on top of it?"
"No, remember that we destroyed the demon within the crypt that was inside the mountain, but Slade and Blaze could be anywhere on the mountain. So, we'll let them look on the mountain, as we explore around it." Robin said, referring to "them" as the teens that could fly. Cyborg was driving with Thor in the back with Evline. It took a little while for the T-Car to make it through the forest to the base of the mountain. They were on the southern side of the base, totally away from where the battle had been earlier. Once they were there, the teens grounded and they all looked up at the mountain.
"How are we to scale such a high mountain in such quick time?" Starfire asked. She looked up to the top, having to squint, which was a ways up there.
"Do not worry friend Starfire," said Lelu, "with my powers we can scale it quickly!" Starfire seemed a little more reassured.
"And I could help light the way, as it is most likely cold and dark up on the mountain!" Starfire said, noting the moon above them.
"Okay, and while you do that, we're going to go take a look around the base." Robin said, referring to the non-flying teens. They had about twenty more minutes of preparations and talk before the newly formed Elemental Titans Team split up for the time being. Crüsh and Raven flew a little to the east, but up towards the top of the mountain. Starfire and Lelu flew straight up, wasting no time making distance. Beast Boy, Lexsis, and Allen flew a little west of the mountain, but as well, upwards. Robin and Thor took a path around the base east, while Cyborg and Evline took the path west. They were literally, covering the whole mountain.
It was about an hour later, each of the small groups had made such headway. Evline and Cyborg had climbed about twenty feet up the mountain to get some better looks to the west. They had, unfortunately, seen nothing. They decided to walk and climb further north, to the other side of the mountain from where they had started. It was about 11 o'clock at night. Thousands of feet above them were Beast Boy, Lexsis, and Allen. They were still scanning the freezing cold mountain trails. They, like Cy and Ev, and found nothing, but still had a few thousand feet to reach "climb" to reach the top. Beast Boy had, by this point, turned into an artic owl, helping him see things better in the night sky.
Starfire and Lelu had had more progress up the mountain and were pretty close to the top of the mountain. Lelu was using her earth powers to move boulders and rocks out of the way, to fully see every nook and cranny of the mountain's face. Starfire kept a star bolt handy at all times for light up on the dark mountain. They hadn't found anything either. The temperature kept dropping though, the higher they went up, making resting harder and harder.
The base on the east side of the mountain was Robin and Thor's area. They had walked for the hour, finding the earlier battle sight between Lasson's group and Slade and Blaze. But they had not known of this. Robin and Thor were in an area that all the trees and vegetation had burned up and died.
"That is so weird," Thor stated looking around the burned area, "it almost looks like this dead area is in a prefect circle… I'd estimate about a twenty foot radius. Only temperatures that are extremely hot can make it so vegetation can't grow back in an area. It kills all plant cells and everything!"
"Yeah, and I know two people that can make fire attacks that hot!" Robin said, looking around for a clue of something. All they had was a burned circle in the middle of the forest, with the cave entrance next to them.
"Well, what were they doing out here then?" Thor asked. He looked into the cave, unable to see anything in the dark.
"Well, looking for the crypt my guess. I'm thinking something was holding them back here, so they just attacked. I'm also guessing they went into this cave, looking for the crypt in there." Robin said.
"But the crypt is located in there right? Inside the mountain I mean." Thor asked. He looked into the cave again. A Boomslang slithered by, surprising Thor before it slithered up a tree.
"I guess watch out for snakes as well!" Robin said, stepping into the cave. Thor looked uneasy, he wasn't fond of snakes, but continued anyways. Above them, by a couple thousand feet, were Raven and Crüsh. Crüsh was moving some snow that has cumulated with his powers. Raven was pretty surprised.
"So, you control snow as well?" Raven asked, looking around. Her hood was on to keep warm.
"Yeah, snow is technically frozen water, and anything that has water particles I can control. So, I can also control ice and stem, as you've seen." Crüsh answered her.
"So, is that how you fly?" Raven asked. Crüsh thought about it.
"Well, kind of. I control the water particles that are in the air to pretty much lift me around. I'm not really flying, more like floating by another force." Crüsh told her. Raven was pretty surprised. She was really interested on how The Element's powers worked.
"So, you all have a reason on how you can fly?" she asked. Crüsh nodded, and answered.
"Yeah, you just can't fly for the heck of it. There is always a reason behind how you can fly. Like Lelu uses the Earth's energy waves in the air to help her fly. Allen uses his wind powers to help him fly. Lexsis has electric particles within her, which kind of makes a magnet with the sky, allowing her to fly. How do you do it?" Crüsh answered for her.
"Well, with meditation!" Raven answered, "without it, I couldn't fly, because I couldn't use my powers at all!"
"So it is your self-will that allows you to fly?" Crüsh asked. Raven chuckled.
"Yeah, I guess. You could call it that!" Raven said as she continued further up. Crüsh followed, looking around.
It wasn't to much longer before Raven and Crüsh made it to the top of the mountain. Starfire and Lelu were all ready up there. The top looked like a volcano, though it wasn't. It had an outer perimeter that led into some gravely ground about a foot down. Many strange plants had grown up here, and snow had cumulated as well.
"Have you found anything?" asked Starfire as Raven and Crüsh made their way over. They nodded "no."
"I'm guessing you haven't either?" Raven asked. They had the same answer. They stood about, thinking of what to do know. Raven got her communicator out, but before she could say anything, Beast Boy, Lexsis, and Allen made their way up.
"Well, we found nothing!" Allen said. Lexsis floated over to the others. Beast Boy resumed human form again. He looked around. Due to the fact it was a pretty cloudless night, he noticed something to the north of them.
"Dudes, look! It is Jump City!" Beast Boy said, pointing. The other looked. Pretty far north, they could see a city full of lights that was up against an ocean. They could even make out lights that made up a "T."
"That is where you live isn't it Beast Boy?" asked Lexsis floating over. She landed and enjoyed the view with BB.
"I bet we could see the other two cities as from up here as well!" Beast Boy said. He looked behind him, where we saw Towerin, south. It shinned a lot brighter, as it was a little closer to the mountain, but not much. Beast Boy then looked to his left, where we saw Steel City far to the east. It was hidden a little between two mountains, but the canyon between the two mountains aloud it to be seen.
"Isn't that interesting someone can see all three cities if the weather is clear?" Raven asked. "Those were the three cities Slade got the orbs from, and you can see them all from right here."
"It might just be a coincidence?" Lelu asked. Everyone thought about what Raven has said.
"I don't know Lelu," Allen said, "I mean, you can see the three cities, and this is where the crypt is laid, I mean it is possible it has some significance." The others didn't think too much about it, before Raven got her communicator back out. She opened it, and right before she was about to hit a button, she started shaking. As a matter of fact, the whole mountain was shaking.
"Lelu, did you sneeze or something?" Lexsis asked, falling to her knees by the shacking.
"It was not me, I am quite sure!" Lelu said, falling on her posterior. The whole mountain shook madly, as the massive earthquake passed through. Everyone feel due to the extreme shacking, as they held on. Down on the bottom of the mountain, Cyborg and Evline were rocking and rolling. They held onto a tree that was growing on the mountain. Within the cave, rocks and boulders were falling down towards Robin and Thor, who were unprotected. Thor immediately grabbed Robin by the arm, and his eyes started glowing a dark, black color. The ground around him and Robin turned a black, and it was smoking. Thor and Robin suddenly fell through the ground, as the rocks and boulders fell to the floor of the cave.
Minutes later, the earthquake had stopped, and the teens on the summit finally got up. They were getting their land legs back, after shacking so badly.
"Well, that was fun…" Beast Boy said with blunt sarcasm.
"Something tells me that was caused my something, that wasn't a natural earthquake! I could feel it," Lelu told the team. With what Lelu just said, they finally figured out where Slade and Blaze were.
"They're under the mountain, that is were they are hiding!" Raven said. Down on the trails, Cyborg and Evline let go of the tree. Suddenly, some boulders started rolling and falling towards them, as they had came loose during the quake. Cyborg transformed his left arm into a sonic cannon and shot his sonic blasts at the boulders. They connected, breaking the boulders apart. Evline was throwing her light disks at the boulders, breaking them apart just as powerful as Cyborg's blasts. The blocked the smaller rocks and dust that the boulders had caused when they broke them apart. Down in the cave, the rocks and boulders had stopped, causing the entrance to be blocked. A dark circle once again appeared on the ground within the cave, and Thor and Robin resurfaced in a blast of shadows.
"Wow that was weird…" Robin said, recovering and returning back to senses in the dismal cave.
"Yeah, it gets a little used to, but once you do it enough, it is actually pretty kewl going through walls and objects!" Thor said. He continued on, as Robin followed behind, still a little dizzy from the disappearing act. It was extremely dark within the cave, but Robin was surprised on how well Thor navigated through the cave. He knew where to go without running into anything. Robin was going to ask him, but suddenly his communicator rang. Thor stopped and looked back, as Robin pulled it out.
"Yeah?" Robin asked into the communicator. Raven was on the screen, and the light from the screen lit the cave up a little.
"Are you guys okay?" she asked, not sounding like she cared too much. Robin nodded, not like Raven could see it well anyways.
"Have you guys found anything?" Robin asked. Raven said "no", and continued on,
"No one has found anything on the mountain; I think Slade is under the mountain, which seems to be where the earthquake came from."
"Okay, we're down here right now, so we'll look around. Make your way down here if you can. Find a cave to the east of the mountain, which is where we are." Robin said, "me and Thor are continuing on through it, we'll meet you soon." Robin turned the communicator off, and attempted to adjust his eyes to the darkness again, after looking at the lit up screen.
"You're not good with the dark, are ya?" Thor asked, laughing. Robin ignored him as he continued his way through the dark cave. Back up on the summit, Raven, Crüsh, Starfire, Lelu, and Allen were about to make their way down the eastern part of the mountain towards the cave. Beast Boy and Lexsis were going down the western side, as they were going to pick up Cyborg and Evline first. They soon left, and both groups found flying down the mountain was a lot quicker then fighting their way up with the wind and weather. Allen soon turned around so he was looking up at the sky while still flying downwards. He put his hands into fists, as two rings of wind began encircling his fists. He then shoot his fists outwards, towards the sky, which caused two huge wind blasts to blasts out Allen's hands, propelling everyone a lot faster down, due to the wind blasting upwards. They made the ground within minutes, due to the extra boost of speed. They landed right next to the cave entrance, which was blocked off by rocks and boulders due to the earthquake. Lelu and Raven stepped up this time. Lelu's hands began glowing green, as did her eyes, as she put out her hands, palms towards the rocks. Some rocks were surrounded in a green aura. Lelu then shot her hands upwards into fists, and the rocks surrounded in the green aura shot up, landing up the mountain a little ways, but it was successfully clearing their path. Raven had enchanted her magic words and shot her hands towards the rocks, palms out as well. Two beams of black energy shot form her hands and into some rocks. Raven then threw her hands back towards her, and the rocks fell out of wall of boulders, also freeing the path up. The path was free in no time, and they continued in.
On the other side of the mountain, Beast Boy and Lexsis had flown down towards the base, where Cyborg and Evline were waiting for them. They had gotten word they were to be picked up, and soon, Beast Boy had turned into a pterodactyl and grabbed Cyborg by his metal shoulders, carrying him into the air. Lexsis had grabbed Evline by the wrists and was carrying her into the air as well. They flew around the mountain towards the east side. They found the cave without trouble, and Beast Boy dropped Cyborg down to the ground, only about a five foot drop, and flew to the ground, where he resumed human form. Lexsis and Evline then landed, where the saw the cave entrance. They continued in.
Thor and Robin had gone pretty far into the cave and finally saw a strange light coming from ahead of them. They walked over the last few rocks and boulders of the cave, which Robin could finally see due to the light. They quietly looked out of the cave exit where they saw something definitely awe-inspiring. They were looking into a gigantic room that was located inside the mountain. It was probably a good hundred feet from floor to roof. It was lit by fire light, giving the room an orange-ish tint. To the left of the room, they saw nine pedestals in a circle that was surrounding an orb with a dark blue tint, definitely see through. To their right were a few steps that led to what appeared to be a giant door, probably fifty feet tall itself. Up next to the door was Slade and Blaze, holding the three spheres. Robin and Thor ran out into the fire lit room.
"Slade, it ends here!" Robin yelled over. Slade turned around slowly, not surprised by who he saw. But he was surprised at who he didn't see.
"Where are your other friends?" he asked. Blaze just stood by Slade, holding the spheres.
"Don't worry Slade, they are coming!" Thor yelled back over. His hands started glowing with a black aura. Robin had taken out his bo-staff and extended it to full length and got into a position that was challenging Slade. Slade laughed.
"Fine, this'll be fun. Plus, I could use the energy rush!" Slade said, who then turned over to Blaze.
"Open the first door Blaze, we have what we need! Put them in the small holes within the door. Make sure you put them in correctly, the red sphere goes to the top." Slade said as he pointed to the door. At the bottom part of the door was the three holes that the spheres went in. They were in reach, regardless that colossal door. The holes were in a triangle. They represented the different cities.
"The red sphere goes on top of the triangle because I collected it in Steel City. The blue goes on the bottom left, as it was from Jump City," Slade said. Blaze cut in.
"And the black sphere goes in the bottom right, because we got it in Towerin," he said, "Got it!" Slade turned back around and faced Robin and Thor.
"We'll stop you Slade, you won't succeed!" Robin said as he charged towards Slade, and threw some birdarangs. Slade crushed them with his hands like last time they met.
"How many of those things do you have?" Slade asked just to throw out talk. He lit his hands on fire, and shot some fire blasts at Robin, who jumped up out of the way. Thor had used the darkness and transported back into the ground. Robin landed next to Slade and swung his bo-staff at Slade, who grabbed it and threw Robin across his shoulder. Robin landed on his feet easily and ricochet back towards Slade, with a punch ready. Slade caught the punch and punched Robin and in the chest, as it was unguarded. Robin backed away a bit, but recovered quickly and launched back towards Slade. Robin rolled out of the way of one of Slade's kicks, and popped back up suddenly and gave Slade an uppercut in the jaw. This time Slade backed off a little before narrowing his eyes and charging back at Robin, who was ready. Slade threw a punch with his hands aflame, but Robin jumped up and flipped over Slade, avoiding the attack. Robin then quickly got his bo-staff back out and swung hard behind him, hitting Slade. Slade was knocked over, but he rolled back up to a crouched position and got back up.
Up against the door, Blaze had put two of the three spheres in the proper holes. He was about to put the third in when a dark circle appeared next to him and Thor popped back out in a blaze of shadows. Thor wasted no time and delivered a hard punch to Blaze's jaw, sending him backwards. He dropped the sphere in surprise and Thor grabbed it. Blaze was leaning up on his back, but suddenly kicked his foot through the air. A fire blast came out of his foot, which blasted into Thor, who landed hard on the steps and slipped down. Blaze got back up and ran down to Thor, who still had the black sphere in his hands. Blaze ignited his hands and threw multiple fire blasts on his way down. Thor cart wheeled out of the way, landing safely away from the pyro's attacks. Thor returned the favor and ignited his hands in a dark substance, and shot it towards Blaze. Blaze shot a fire blast at the blast of darkness heading towards him, and a challenge of power was set as each kept there attacks going, hoping to break the others defenses. Thor's darkness and Blaze's fire blasts were still blasting at each other.
Suddenly Thor surrounded himself in his dark circle again and sank into the ground, which extinguished his attacks. The fire blasts then pointlessly crashed over into a stone wall. Thor came back up with shadows a few feet away and sent a dark blasts over to a surprised Blaze as he crashed over into another stone wall. Thor turned around to run back through the cave with the sphere in hand before something grabbed his clock from behind. Thor turned around and met a fist, which belonged to Slade. Thro slid against the ground, dropping the sphere. The sphere landed on the ground, unharmed, and Slade raced over to it, beating Robin there. Robin tried stopping him, but Slade delivered a hard punch to him, making him spiral on the ground. Slade raced up to the door where the last sphere was needed to open it. Slade put the sphere in its place, and suddenly the spheres began glowing the color they were. Robin and Thor could only watch as the door shook a little. The spheres were glowing brighter and brighter as the door slowly opened.
"Finally," Slade said as he witnessed the door opening, "the first door has been opened."
"First?" asked Thor, loud enough for Slade to hear him.
"Yes, first," Slade said, not turning around as he continued looking at the door opening rather slowly to say the least. "Two more lat at rest waiting to be opened by, so that means we'll have a few more meetings before the end of the world, won't we?" The door had opened about a fourth of the way, but enough to see what was behind it. Right behind the first door was the apparent second door, which was just as tall as the first. This door was strange, it had markings all over it, but Robin could see that they were encryptions of animals. A tiger, a dragon, a falcon, a bear, a wolf, and some animal Robin couldn't tell what it was. It looked like a weasel or something.
"Now, the fun really begins!" Slade said he turned around and the first door had opened fully. Robin and Thor stood facing Slade and Blaze, who recently walked back up the doors.
"What do you have to do to open he second door?" Thor asked. Robin was wondering the same thing.
"It won't be simple, but it would ruin the fun if I told you wouldn't it?" Slade asked looking down at them. Suddenly, Thor and Robin heard footsteps from the cave. Raven, Crüsh, Starfire, Lelu, and Allen ran in.
"Robin!" Starfire yelled as she floated over and joined him. The others noticed Slade and Blaze watching them, with the first door wide open.
"Looks like they opened the door huh?" Crüsh asked.
"Is there not supposed to be a demon unleashed though?" asked Lelu. She was confused.
"Yeah, when we trapped the demon in that crypt, there was only one door that separated him." Allen finished. Slade laughed.
"Demon? Why in the world would I be going after a demon for? No, I'm going after the tenth element itself! This is where it has been locked up for centuries." Slade told them.
"But… this is where we destroyed the demon…" said Thor quietly, confused. Thor was also thinking about Slade's words, "This is where it has been locked up for centuries." But, the element cycle made it so they all died at the same time and were each born within a period of three years, how was it supposed to have lived for centuries? It wasn't long until Beast Boy, Cyborg, Lexsis, and Evline made their way into the room.
"Perfect," Slade said pretty evilly, "I have everything I need to open the final two doors!" The Titans and Elements were shocked by such news. Slade shot a fire blast up to above the cave entrance. The rocky walls made rocks and boulders fall over the entrance, blocking their way out. They were locked in a room with Slade and Blaze, and had seemingly brought Slade what he needed. This didn't look like the Elemental Titan's finest hour at all.
All right, I'll get Chapter 8 up as soon as possible. Profile has sneek peek of Chapter 8. Also, review to your content (flames accepted, but you guessed it! Ignored.) Hope you enjoy, -Anters-