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Chapter 8- Revelation
The Elemental Titans and Slade and Blaze stood watching each other for what seemed like forever, but in reality, they were just standing there for seconds. The question of how to open and second door was sparking through the whole team's minds. They needed to stop this extreme plan, but how could they stop it if Slade won't tell them? Robin was the first to break the silence, just out of major curiosity.
"All right Slade, enough games, how are you planning to open those doors!" Robin yelled over to an unspoken Slade.
"Patience Robin, you will see soon enough…" Slade started. This didn't satisfied Robin's curiosity enough.
"I've had enough of that beating around the bush Slade! You tell us now, or we'll attack it out of you!" Robin raged furiously. The others were all as curious, and agreed in wondering why Slade was doing what he was doing.
"Do you really want to know Robin? You're known for not liking the answer you receive, I don't know if I should…" Slade mocked. This, once again, didn't satisfy the hunger of information these teens were waiting for. Robin took out his bo-staff, and as he twirled it around his fingers a few times, gripped it towards Slade as if challenging for a match. The others followed, as Star's eyes began to glow a green color, as star bolts formed in her hands. Raven had her demonic black powers engulfing her hands, as Cyborg transformed his hand into his sonic cannon. An echo of laughter was heard within the massive room.
"How many times have you tried to stop me, and were beaten so easily, what twice now? You think you can stop us again, well you are truly wrong. We'll beat you senseless again if we need to Robin!" Slade continued, as he still watched in his calm position, his hands folded behind his back, his eye glaring at them.
"I don't even think you have everything you need to open the doors, do you Slade?" asked Beast Boy, "You're not telling us, because you have to find out yourself what is needed! You've been to known to bluff, looks like you're doing it all over again!" Slade turned his observant eye towards the green being.
"You dare question me? You think I'm clueless of what opens the door to release my master? You're more stupid then I though, and I was convinced you couldn't get any stupider after falling for Terra!" Slade said, knowing it would hit a sore spot in Beast Boy. Beast Boy grew furious with the masked man, and transformed into a gorilla and started charging for Slade. Slade stood his ground well, as he watched the green gorilla charging up the few stairs to where he stood, still as stone. Suddenly, Beats Boy thrashed towards Slade, swinging his mighty arms with pure strength. Slade grabbed the furry arm, but Beast Boy used the other to attack. Slade simply grabbed that one as well, and threw them out of his way, and kicked Beast Boy right in the face, knocking him backwards of the stairs.
"Beast Boy!" Lexsis screamed, flying over to the reverted Beast Boy. Beast Boy just looked up at Slade, who watched him still.
"You think I don't know? I'll show you!" Slade said, charging down at the two. His steel foot smashed into the ground next to Beast Boy, who transformed into a cobra, and struck at Slade with his fangs. Slade knew exactly where to attack and grabbed Beast Boy by the neck in his long, slithery self.
"Let him go!" Lexsis said, as her eyes started glowing a light purple color, and her hands sparking with lightning sparks.
"Silly girl, you want him? Well, lucky you, I'm not interested in him, I'm…" Slade started, before a sudden surprise met his face. Beast Boy had reverted by to human form and, although his neck was encased in Slade's hand, Beast Boy managed to kick Slade right in the face. Slade fell to his side, releasing Beast Boy.
"Are you okay?" Lexsis asked running over to Beast Boy, who was on the ground, coughing for air. Slade got back up,
"You slimy little fuc…" Slade said, before he was smacked a few feet away with an iceberg. Slade looked over, only to notice Crüsh's hands glowing a blue aura. Blaze was ready to fight now, and ran down towards Beast Boy and Lexsis. Lexsis turned around with hers eyes purple and sparking, delivering a might lightning blast out of her hands, smashing Blaze up into the second door.
"Titans, GO!" Robin's voice was heard, as Lexsis and Beast Boy watched Robin, Raven, Starfire, Thor, Lelu, and Crüsh going after Slade. Allen, Cyborg, and Evline were running past them, up towards Blaze, who had his hands flaming, ready for a fight.
Robin flung his bo-staff straight down at Slade's head, but Slade had gotten his guard back up, and threw his wrist upwards, blocking himself from the rod. Starfire had the offence, and flung her hands multiple times downwards towards Slade, who had disregarded Robin's attack by now. Slade saw the attacks coming, and did a back flip out of the way of the burning attacks and blasted the ground. Behind Slade, a dark circle formed, which Raven, and Thor came through the ground together in a fury of dark energy.
"Azarath, Merinon, Zinthos!" came Raven's chant, as her hands were surrounded in dark substance, and Raven shot a blast of her demonic energy at Slade. Thor had the same idea, and from his hands to his elbows, was all surrounded in dark energy from the element of darkness. Both attacks connected together, and not even the master of stealth and evasion, could avoid such a powerful blast, as the one Thor and Raven had just created. The blast smashed into Slade rather hard, and Slade was send a nice twenty feet or so away.
"Damn you Titans, and Elements!" Slade said, getting up with a lousy gracefulness. Crüsh was up now, but this time surprised the others. His hands also burned a black darkness full of energy, like Thor's power. He then unleashed what seemed like a typical water blast, except it was a demonic black color. The attack had caught Slade off guard, and smashed him further away as well. Raven flew up to Crüsh's position a few feet in the air.
"I thought you were element of water!" Raven said, flabbergasted. Crüsh gave her a slight grin, before he answered.
"True, but doesn't mean I don't have a few tricks up my sleeve! Remember what my brother did to me? Well, I turned it into a positive thing!" Raven, returned the grin and was moderately overcome by Crüsh's veiled power.
"Raven, Crüsh! Come on!" came Robin's voice, as he ran towards Slade, with Starfire, Lelu, and Thor. Crüsh and Raven flew over to Slade, who was getting up again.
"I'm staggered; you've come back and actually hit me! It won't happen again though, I assure as much!" Slade commented as he recovered quickly. Robin has taken enough of his fabrication and swung his right hand upwards, towards Slade's chest. Slade caught it with ease, before he widened his eyes at Robin's grin.
"Wrong again Slade!" Robin said, using Slade's protection against him, a swing around and kicked Slade hard in the chest, which was totally exposed. Slade stepped back in pain, holding his chest, before igniting his hands aflame once more.
"I'll teach you pain!" Slade said, shooting a strong punch towards Robin, who ducked. Starfire had the rebound, sort of speak, and shot a star bolt right at Slade as his focus was on Robin, blasting him back again. Slade landed face first, before getting up on his hands and knees. The floor beneath him suddenly flashed a swift green color, before it turned into a sink-hole and swallowed Slade. Lelu flew down to the ground, her powers vanishing, as Slade was at the substructure of the fissure of sand, rock, and dirt.
"Check and mate Slade!" Robin said, with a smirk as he closed his bo-staff.
Across the hall, Cyborg, Evline, and Allen were fighting with Blaze, who was constantly going for Cyborg, seeing him as the biggest threat. Lexsis was in the base of the short staircase to the doors of destiny, consoling and semi-injured Beast Boy. Blaze shot an immediate fire blast at the floor, which the energy recoiled back to him, sending him into the air a few feet, and out of the mass conglomeration of Elements, and the Titan. Blaze quickly turned around though, knowing that in a fight to never turn your back. Blaze raised his left arm, blocking a kick from Evline. Allen shot out a wind twister from his cupper clams, which blew into Blaze and Evline's direction, sending them flying into the air. Blaze was pretty uncoordinated, unlike his counterpart, and landed on his back. Cyborg caught Evline in his involuntary arms, smiling. Evline smiled back,
"Thanks Cyborg! One those times I wish I could fly, eh?" Cyborg blushed, letting Evline down to the earth on her own two feet and backing off towards Blaze, who was dealing with Allen alone, and surprisingly equally-matched. Evline rolled her eyes playfully with a smile, "Boys!"
Blaze was smacked back a few more feet, skidding on his shoes, staying on his feet. Suddenly, a sonic cannon blast zipped right by Blaze's right ear, smashing into the stone wall yards behind him. Blaze looked towards the direction, not surprised to find Cyborg and Evline running towards him.
"Why are super heroes always so unrelenting?" Blaze asked himself, preparing for the next attack by crossing is arms and fully igniting them from his hands to his elbow. Evline, while still running, threw four light disks from her right hand, which smashed into Blaze's arms, stinging Blaze painfully. Suddenly, Blaze did something that surprised the three teens. Blaze ignited his whole arm, and smashed them into the ground. Cyborg guessed it was Blaze's famed attack of boiling the air around him, heating up the particles, which would cause a meltdown between the cells, ultimately causing an eruption through the air, or in other words, a pretty strong blast that had a nice circumference to it. But, to his surprised, three separate pillars of fire blasted from the ground, encircling the three teens and constricting them. Astonishingly, the flames did not harm Allen and Evline's bodies.
"Why don't the flames hurt us?" Evline asked in confusion. Blaze laughed, his arms still surrounded in fire, which connected into the ground.
"Because, I want to see your deaths slowly and painfully!" Blaze replied, but Evline only blew her bangs up with her breath.
"Why are villains always so brainless?" she asked herself, mimicking Blaze's earlier comment.
"You forgot one thing Blaze!" Cyborg said. Blaze looked at him with a smirk, before asking,
"And what would that be?" Blaze asked, as Cyborg gave a nasty grin back to the pyro.
"This!" Cyborg said, lifting his left leg, his sole opening up reveling up a small sonic cannon, which blasted Blaze in the face quickly. Blaze feel back, pretty staggered, but other wise, impervious. The fire had demolished due to Blaze's lack of control, and the three teens feel down, unharmed, except for the blood rush to their feet (well, not Cyborg's, but you get the point!) Blaze got back up, ready for another round, before a ryno had suddenly smashed into him, sending Blaze airborne and crashing into the ground, flabbergasted by that molest as well. The green ryno reverted to its human form again, which was none other then Beast Boy. Lexsis flew down next to BB, who had recovered pretty well. Lexsis suddenly held out her hands out, as if holding spheres, and unleashed a hefty lightning blast that surged through Blaze. Blaze tried to get back up, but it wasn't working well. He collapsed in anguish, and the Elemental Titans seemed to have won. Robin, Thor, Starfire, Lelu, Raven, and Crüsh joined the others, also victorious in their skirmish.
"We are triumphant!" came Starfire's innocent voice, which made the others just as happy.
"Yeah, not all that is left to shut the shut this door and get out of here!" Robin said, directing the team's attention up towards the door that revealed the second door.
"Yeah, but how do we shut it?" asked Cyborg, rubbing his chin. The others solemnly shrugged, as they knew nothing more then the Titans.
"Maybe it is just pushed shut…" Lexsis suggested, but Crüsh responded to this.
"What if we just took out the orbs, which unlocked it in the first place? That might work," The team agreed on this, and continued up to the doors. Cyborg went to one of the spheres, and tried to take it out, but it was lodged very well into the door. He failed in getting out.
"Dude, that thing is lodged in their extremely tight; I can't even get it out! Rae, try and get it out with your powers!" Cyborg suggested, walking back from behind the first door's side. Raven shrugged as if saying, 'why not' and summoned her powers, and shot her powers to each side of the door, taking control of the three orbs. But something strange happen, and the power in the orbs shot back at Raven, blasting her with a surprisingly strong blast of energy. Raven feel back to the base of the stairs, pretty knocked around, but okay other wise.
"Raven, you okay?" Beats Boy asked, running down to her, "What was that?" Raven shook her head, getting up with BB's help.
"I have… no idea!" Raven said, holding her head. Unexpectedly, a huge discharge of sweltering energy erupted from the sinkhole that Slade was incompletely incarcerated in. The discharge reached the roof, and broke through the roof with extreme ease. Outside, out of the blue, the discharge passed directly through the covering of Deltonic Mountain, and into the chasm of space. Back inside the chamber, the team looked in shock at the huge discharge of energy, as Slade walked out of it, uninjured with an iniquity look to his face.
"I told you I wouldn't fail!" Slade said, raising his hands. Then, he put out his palms towards the team. To the team's horror, the extremely powerful energy of the discharge turned with Slade's hands and blasted straight for the team. The extreme heat of the blast was dehydrating the team, just with its energy. There was no escape, and the team suffered dearly as the discharge took out all eleven members with extreme ease, and smashed them into the stony walls.
"What… was that…?" asked Beats Boy, as the discharge had passed, and with what ever strength he had left. Miraculously, Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg were all still conscious, and wondering what had happened. Slade walked up to them slowly.
"I promised I wouldn't lose so easily, didn't I? Perfect, now that that discharge superseded your strength, you can't stop me anymore!" Slade said, standing over the team. "But it looks like the attack wasn't so lucky for your friends…" Slade looked over at The Elements, who all lay unconscious on the floor next to them. "That attack was specifically meant to deprive them of their strength, not you Titans, but no matter. Now, I can open the second door!" The Titans watched in horror and disbelief as Slade walked over to them, Lelu first, and raised her head a little. Her pendant fell from her neck, but clung on. Slade grabbed the falcon pendant, which was now glowing a green aura, and ripped it right off from her neck, the chain breaking. Slade took his hand from behind her head, letting her fall to the ground again, before continuing onto Lexsis.
"Stay away from her!' Beast Boy said, standing up with wobbly legs due to no strength. Slade looked over, and sent a fire blast right at Beast, Boy smashing into him. Beast Boy landed in pain to the floor, coughing out blood. Slade then went back to business, and grabbed Lexsis's ermine pendant, which was glowing with a purple aura, and ripped it off her neck. Before the Titans had a chance to know what Slade was doing, we held all six pendants in his hands. Crüsh's tiger pendant which was glowing with a blue aura, Allen's dragon pendant which was glowing a white aura, Thor's bear pendant which was glowing a black aura, Evline's wolf pendant which was glowing the yellow aura, and Lelu and Lexsis's. The Titans had recovered their energy a little, as they tried to stop Slade from his diabolical plan.
"Titans, wonderful effort, I must say, but not well enough!" Slade said, turning around towards the second door. Raven wasn't giving up, even though her lack of energy, and shot a comparatively fragile flare of obscurity. Slade demolished the energy by igniting his hands, the one the pedants weren't in, and shot a fire last into the demonic blast. Slade continued on powerfully to the second door, where the encryptions of the tiger, dragon, falcon, bear, wolf, and ermine were glowing the same aura as the pendants. Slade, one by one, put the pendants in their designated slash. When Slade put the last pendant in, the second door lit up with such a bright white energy, which blinded the Titans. The encryptions of the animals were absorbed by the pendants and the pendants themselves were radiating a commanding luminosity. The Titans watched as the right light dimmed and the second door slowly opened by splitting into two arts and sinking into the walls, revealing the third door, which shocked the Titans by its appearance.
Resting in front of them was the third and final door to Slade's plans. Unlike the first two which were stone doors with slashes in them, this door was pure black, and made of demonic looking metal. On the outside of the black door were five encryptions, a grey serpent, a blue and yellow dragon, a red phoenix, and a white tiger. In the focus of the door was an additional encryption with a kaleidoscope of locks that led into the door. The encryption was indecipherable. Around that encryption with the kaleidoscope of locks were five circles, each a different size. There were absolutely no thought of the requirements to open this freighting door.
"Perfect!" Slade yelled out, as the Titans watched, the Elements still unconscious, including Blaze. "I have opened the second door, and I have everything needed to open the third and final door!" Slade turned to the Titans, who were clueless. Slade mocked them, "Any guesses Titans? Last chance before your defeat and my master unleashes its wrath upon Earth! I'll look forward to seeing you in the afterlife!"
"How do you open the final door?" Robin asked, simply out of curiosity. Slade laughed.
"I'm not saying, beside I have them already. But, let's see if you can figure it out for yourselves!" Slade said back. He pointed to the end of the room, where the orb with the dark blue tint was lit up with power. Inside of the orb were nine smaller lights, full on energy. Blue, white, green, black, yellow, purple, light purple, orange, and red. The Titans had completely forgotten about this orb with the nine pedestals around it.
"Figured it out yet? If not, look closer, the answer is right in front of you, idiots!" Slade said. Robin quickly looked at everything. He saw the giant orb, with the nine energy sparks inside it. In the center of the orb was a white mass of energy, which, when Robin looked, was in complete line with the kaleidoscope of locks on the third door.
"You don't do anything to that door, do you? The orb is the thing that unlocks the door, isn't it?" Robin yelled to Slade, standing up with some recovered energy. Slade laughed, but nodded 'yes.'
"Yes, the orb is what opens the door to my master, and to the end of the world. But, it isn't fully powered yet, I need the elements to power it up! Once I have them all on the pedestals, the orb will be at full power, which will transport its power straight into the lock on the third door, ultimately releasing my master, the tenth element!" Slade revealed to the awe struck Titans.
"But, there are nine pedestals, and only six elements on the team! Where are the others?" asked Starfire. Slade laughed at this to,
"Simple my dear, the six on the team, Blaze, and…" Slade said, suddenly blasted a section of wall near the door. It revealed Lasson and Cedric, also unconscious, "the last two elements rest in these two… which equals nine!" The Titans were in disbelief; Slade had actually pulled together everything needed to open the final door, and was actually filling out his plan.
"What will happen to them, once they open the third door?" asked Raven? Slade simply shrugged,
"Nothing will happen to them, they will still have their powers, but it thrills my master to kill and destroy." One thing was still bothering Robin, how did Slade know this was the crypt to the tenth element, and what was the tenth element. Slade kept referring to it as 'it.' Plus, wasn't this the crypt they locked the demon that threatened the lives of so many years previous? Robin asked everything he just asked at Slade.
"Because, simpleton, the demon and my master have merged into one! All those years of those stupid scientists searching for the crypt that was holding the tenth element, and it was the same crypt Robin and The Elements locked the demon in, years ago. To bad you didn't know, otherwise you would have known that every day, every minute, every second, my master grows stronger and stronger, thanks to the demon's powers that my master has been feeding on for years and years. Oh, and my master is not human, or any other creature known! It is simply a demonic force, not to be reckoned with! It is the Element of Chaos, or Destruction, what ever you prefer to call it." Slade said. The Titans were still in disbelief. Robin had, unknowably, made this creature stronger and stronger, and they were the ones that made it so easy for Slade to win. They brought all the elements to Slade.
"Dude, this sucks!" Cyborg said. The Titans couldn't agree more. Slade, on the other hand, was enjoying his victory that was yet to come.
"Years and years of humans thinking they were the superior species, and in one swell power, everything they would and have ever worked for is gone in the blink of an eye. The power of my master is unmatched, and not even you Titans, The Elements, or even those super duds up in space in their little watchtower, can stop such an unstoppable force." Slade said. Robin was sick and tired of Slade by now, and took out his bo-staff again, and ran towards Slade, still struggling to get his energy totally up. The others, including Beast Boy, followed.
"You can't stop me now Robin! You are far too late, as I have already won!" Slade said, from the third door, as the Titans made their way up.
"Well, guess again Slade! You haven't won yet, and I'm about to stop you once and for all!" Robin said. Slade nodded his head in disagreement.
"Fine Robin, have it your ways. You are only postponing your end!" Slade said. The Titans ignored him as they made their way up. Slade got ready for the final battalion, "I've warned you Robin, you can't stop me! Welcome to the beginning of the end!"
All right, review to your content (flames accepted, but ignored, including yours dragonofraven, though you are a friend, there is a certain reason why I write the way I do)� Also, ANY question you have, please feel free to review me, and I'll answer them in the next chapter!� Also, since you ended on a cliff-hanger, I know you want to know what happens next, don't ya?� Lol, well, it you are curious, my profile has a sneek peek of the next chapter, and other information about this story, as well as my other one, including bios about all the Elements!� I'm already working on Chapter 9!� -Anters-