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A Fan Fiction

Chapter Three: Soran and Rage, Part 1

"You know," Soran interrupted, "You could really use an upgrade from that old nick you drag around," Soran said. Pyro thought it was starting togetting old, himself. "Why wouldn't you use Rage? That's a good strong name, is it not?" This made Pyro think for a moment. My last name is Rage... Everyone I have known who knew my dad says I look just like him, and heck, at times, act just like him. I am my father's son, so what's wrong with being Rage the Second? Not too bad, really. He thought.He made up his mind. He gave in, andfrom this point forward, Sam Severus Maximilian Rage was no longer 'Pyro,' He was 'Rage.'

"So, what are ya? Still gonna be Pyro? or are ya gonna follow in your father's footsteps and become the legendary Rage? He-who-had-no-equal? The man who once had a wife that was the Pride of the Order?" Soran asked.

"Yes... I've made my descion. I will become the next 'Rage'!"

"Good! So now the music is on, the stage is set, the lights are on, shall we?"

"Of course." Rage replied, bowing gracefully.

Soran was the first to make a move. Helaunched fireballs as fast as he could throw them, and with the same abilities as his twin brother, he could put a Gatling Gun to shame. Each and every fireball dissipated before they could touch Rage. He just hung there, like nothing was happening.

"You do realize," Rage started, "That I can absorb the stuff you're flinging at me? You'rejust wasting your time and energy."

"Yes, I do. I was just testing you. Now for something more dangerous." Soran said casually. He spread his arms out, and at his left hand, a ball of red fire formed, and at his right, a ball of yellow fire. He brought his hands together, faced his left shoulder to Rage, and combined the flames, held the now orange ball almost behind him, doubled it size, and shot it at Rage. He countered with his own attack.

Rage threw his arm out with his hand palm out, and many small fireballs came out in one burst, shredding what Soran threw at him.

"You know, I don't honestly think this fight will be decided by bursts of fire alone." Rage said.

"Fine then! Letschange things!" Soran said, then promptly disappeared, followed by Rage. For several minutes, time seemed to stand still as lightning crashed, but it was followed by two booms. Where they made contact was known by the explosive sparks of a beam saber meeting an unbreakable sword. Another few crashes, and they met once more on top of Titan Tower, becoming visible once more, Rage's Sword and Soran's beam saber straining each other, one wanting to cut the other.

"Me, me, me..." Soran started. noticing that their style was the exact same.

"Me too!" Rage finished, realizing the same.They both separated, and took ontheir usualstances.

They started swinging, each parrying the other, the crashed from the two blades loud in the heavy rain and thunder. This carried on for the next ten minutes or so when Rage suddenly disappeared.

"Wha..? Well, you're learning!" Soran noted, then held his saber by his left shoulder to guard his neck when Rage suddenly appeared, swinging for his neck. Soran knocked him away, twirling around with his saber, striking at Rage several times. Soran took to the air, heading for some of the low lying clouds. Lightning started flashing angrily at the disturbance, the two brother'sbodies casting different shadows of the clouds. At one point, Soran tried for a goring, but Rage parried it, something few could do in a situation like this. their blades crashed, an explosive ballad of thunder and explosions that was making the news around the city. If the weather was any better, there would be news helicopters around the fight, but due to how the brothers were fighting, a tornado could spawn at any moment. Soran and Rage disappeared again. Explosions and firey blasts appeared out of nowhere, the blasts either getting deflected, or just going into the water below. Soran somehow got a hit on Rage, and knocked him towards the Tower. He crashed through one of the windows into a room he did not recognize. Pink stuff was everywhere, and it was all flowery. He got up, and he felt something hanging on his Sword. He pulled it off and examined it. Pink furry handcuffs! Yuck... Rage thought, and tossed them away. He dusted himself off and flew out the window.

"Did you feel that?" Soran yelled out from on of the clouds.

"Yeah, and now I feel all nauseated!" Rage replied.

"Nauseated?" Soran yelled, baffled.

"Three words: Pink Furry Handcuffs!"

"Ick...!" Soran yelled, he was slightly disgusted.

"Exactly! I need to get my mind off that, so could you go all-out?" Rage asked.

"Sure! I need to myself!" Soran yelled back in response. Then, it was all he could do to hold Soran off. He could not get a shot in at all, crashes and explosions like machine gun fire. Rage finally saw and opening and immediately took advantage of it, blasting Soran right at Titan Tower, knocking him through one of the already broken windows, unfortunately for him, into Raven's room. He felt something on top of him, and he picked it up. It was a mirror, and it snarled at him.

"AAGGH!" Soran tossed it and suddenly disappeared. He reappeared right in the way of Rage's Sword. Soran made a mid-air backflip, just missing the swing. Rage took advantage of another opening, and tried something else.

"Starbolt Cannon!"

Rage fired a bright red blast at Soran at point blank range, sending him straight down into the water. Rage followed it by sending another blast at Soran.

"Buster Cannon!"

It exploded on contact, and Rage fired another shot at Soran.

"Daisy Cutter!"

Silly name, but a very powerful shot, as Soran soon learned, as a huge white ball of fire came shrieking towards him. This third one hit him, knocking him back into the water, and vaporizing a good bit of water. The first three shots were one handed, as he was gathering his strength for a fourth. Rage decided that it was ready, and sent it to Soran.

"Spirit Bomb!"

The giant orb of bluish white fire swallowed Soran before exploding. Rage was starting to breath harder than he was before those four blasts, and Soran noticed it, as he floated up to Rage's level. The cliche name didn't seem to affect either of them.

"I can tell, the name change has had some effect. You've used some attacks I've never seen before, and how you hold yourself is even different." Soran said. He was surprised, somewhat by the ferocity of the earlier attacks, as they had taken most of his clothing off. He had no shirt anymore, and his pants were very badly torn, several large pieces were missing, but he still somehow remained decent, aside from all the cuts and scratched on him, and the blood from some of his wounds still coming out slightly. Rage's clothes weren't new anymore,his clothing torn in several places, and he was a little scratched up. no major wounds yet.

"I must say, I'm impressed. But if you're going to use attacks from Japanese cartoons, then so will I!" Soran said, then disappeared. Several minutes later, still nothing had happened.

"I'm waiting, Soran." Rage impatiently said.

Kamehamay, squirt! Soran said to him in thought. Then appeared right in front of Rage, and point blank,

"HAAA!"

Launched and incredibly strong blast of fire at Rage, sending him into the water. Soran followed up with a few more shots of his own.

"Battleship Salvo"

An incredibly loud boom followed just from the launching of that particular blast.

"Blackfire Beam!"

A beam of black fire was pointed at Rage, pushing him farther into the water.

"Directed Hydrogen Bomb Blast!"

All the power behind a hydrogen bomb, plus all the power Soran was putting into it displaced a huge amount of water, sending tidal waves all around. Soran gathered his strength for one final shot.

"Alastor Shot CANNON!"

A powerful blast of electrical energy came down upon Rage, electrifying the water around him, scorching him and some of his clothing. After fifteen minutes or so, Soran assumed he was dead, and went down to see for himself. Little did either of them know there was someone else around...

Raven had sat watching the entire fight so far next to the huge blade he had stuck there. She had never seen anyone move so fast, or release massive amounts of fire energy in such a way or style. She knew of what Starfire could do, but she pretty much paled in comparison to this... The distance from the Tower they were fighting at made it impossible to see what was going on, but she could hear their shouts and attacks. Now, one of them seemed out of it, and she hoped it wasn't the one she only knew as Pyro, but something didn't seem quite right. She knew Pyro had long hair, but the only one she could see had short hair, slicked forward. they were close enough to the Tower for her to see some broad details, but she could barely tell any difference between them in the first place other than hair style, as they looked exactly alike, when the short haired one came crashing into her room, messing it up even more. Then she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. the water nearby the Tower was starting to bubble. I seriously hope it's not about to fall in... she thought.

"Hey! Rage! Where are you? You dead yet? Huh? Come on! I know you can't be out of it yet! Don't you realize the opening you've left for me? I could take her, and make her my queen after I take you out! I'll be King of the world, and she'll be my beautiful Queen! We could have all sorts of little kiddies running around, and-" Something cut Soran off.

Hands off, Soran. Don't you know forbidden fruit when you see it? So beautiful and tasty on the outside, but once you take a bite, it's all over. It was Rage.

"Well, How about that! You are alive! can we continue this now, or what?" Soran asked. He got no response, so he tried something else.

"Remember that redhead? The real pretty one that had those really cool green eyes? The one that shot all that green mess at us? She was pretty cute, wasn't she? It's too bad you killed her. She had such potential. Maybe you should have left her for me, instead of this goth chick."

I don't care about the red head. I don't care about any of them, except for Raven. Touch her and die. Rage snapped back in thought.

"Really? Is that so? You know, you sound oddly different now. Maybe you've accepted your impending death. Try and defend her all you want, you're still gonna die."

Opinions differ. That's why they are called opinions. Rage taunted.

"Okay, Fine. Show yourself, and we'll have it out. Whoever wins this round gets the girl." Soran offered.

Raven heard every word of this, and was starting to get worried. She wasn't sure what would happen if either of them won, but she knew she didn't want Soran to win, and she wasn't sure of the other one, who now seemed to be called Rage. Something changed in him all of a sudden, and that's what worried her. Rage most likely didn't realize that he was broadcasting, and she heard every word. It was an interesting comparison of her and Forbidden fruit, but she didn't know wether to feel insulted or complemented.

"Well, Nice to see you finally come up for air!" Soran said.

Raven saw someone float to the level of her window, sea spray fromthe man'sinvisible aura misting her wrecked room. Someone who resembled Rage, but his hair was completely black, and even seem to suck the light out of the room. He no longer had a shirt, and she could see all the scars on his back, except for what his hair covered. His pants weren't much more than longshorts, and the boots he was wearing wererather shredded. He had some nasty scars on his legs as well. The one thing that kept drawing her attention was his hair. It didn't even shine. It was wet, but no reflection of any kind what so ever.

"Pyr-er... Rage?"

Rage held his hand out, stopping anything else she would have asked or said. His hand turned into a fist, then there were two small pops. Rage brought his fist closer to his eyes, looked at what was there, then threw two bottles at Raven. She easily caught them using her power, then pulled them out of the air.

Raven. These will bring back your friends. Use one bottle for all of them, and apply it to their wounds I made frommyothersword. You should be able to tell. If any of them don't awake within 24 hours, use the second bottle. Rage thought to her. She didn't move at first. The sooner you do it, the sooner your friends come back! Go now!

She complied, and disappeared through the door.

"Now, It's just you and me, Soran. She's not watching anymore. Now fight!" Rage disappeared, and this caught Soran by surprise. This time, he was completely on the defensive. How did he get so fast! Soran thought.

My power is greater than yours. You may think you are the Dark form, and you may have the ability to back it up, but you aren't truly dark. I am. Notice my hair? That's the most obvious sign. No shine, none at all. Rage flipped some of his hair out of his face.

"But I'm dark! You can't be that, only I could be Dark! I am all of the darkness within you!" Soran shouted.

"But I have the True Darkness form, unattainable but for great distress. You almost killed me. " Rage said calmly. He then grabbed Soran's arm, kicked him hard in the back, then with the other leg, kicked him in the chest and let go, sending him into the water again.

Holding out one arm, palm facing Soran, he launched a pillar of black fire at him, seeming like he had better things he could do.

"All too easy." Rage said. He flew down, dragged Soran out of the water, and threw him at the Tower. He slammed through the roof, and went out another window. Rage appeared next to Soran, Kicked him hard into the air, appeared above Soran and brought his elbow down into his face, knocking him at the Tower. Soran bounced off the roof, putting a dent into it. Rage rushed at him, putting a shoulder into him, slamming him into the roof again, where he made a body shaped dent, but didn't bounce out. Rage gently floated down to the roof, and stood there, his back to Soran.

"You should never turn your back to your opponent, Rage."

"Unless you know your opponents capabilities, and know what he might do next, otherwise, never let your guard down, and don't turn your back on him, for he may attack you." Rage added. Soran stood up, and said, "You know, you have managed to turn True Black a few hundred years before our father ever did. Then, even he couldn't control it very well, otherwise, he could have torn his opponent limb from limb. Do you remember that fight?" He asked.

"The fight with Kei Maheara in his second fox form, yes, he told me all about it. Both of us know the longer I stay in this form, the more horrible my wounds will be when I drop out of it. So to keep this from killing me, I should finish you now, right?"

Soran wiped some blood from his lips, then brought up his beam saber. "Unless I take you first!"

"Soran, we have visitors." Rage just stood there, but Soran looked around then noticed the five Teen Titans, and they didn't look happy. Rage turned around and told Soran, "I'll give you a break from me for a while, you handle them."

"If you insist." Soran said evilly.

"Robin! This one, named Soran, is working for Slade. Deal with him as you will, but be careful, he is extremely fast, even in his worn-down state."

"Got it! Titans, GO!" Robin shouted. At his orders, they all charged at Soran. Starfire flew up into the air, launching Starbolts at Soran, Cyborg was running at him, and firing his Sonic Cannon. Once Robin got close enough, he threw three disks at Soran, they all hit him and exploded. All of the explosions from the Starbolts, the cannon shots, and the three exploding disks made quite a cloud around Soran. They all stopped for a moment, then heard laughter. Soran suddenly shot out of the cloud and slammed bodily into Starfire, sending her reeling.

"Starfire!" Robin shouted. She kept herself into the air, so Robin didn't have to catch her. He pulled out his bo-staff, extended it, and startedattacking Soran. He managed to block most of Robin's attacks, but a fewslashes got in, and it made him lower his guard enough for Robin to hit him really hard, knocking him over, and causing him to roll a few feet.

"Now's your chance! Hit him with everything you have!" Rage shouted. Star was awake from her milddaze now, and started flinging Starbolts at Soran again, Robin threw a few more disks at him Cyborg fired at him again, and Raven did her part by picking up a few huge pieces of twisted metal, and dropping them on Soran, and all of this happening within a few seconds. Soran didn't stir. A few minutes later, he pushed himself up out of the debris.

"I can't believe it. I'm getting beaten by a bunch of little kids!"

"We are not 'little kids,' we are at the age of teen!" Starfire said, annoyed at Soran's thick-headedness.

"She's right, we are all teenagers." Rage said, a little bit of his old self showing.

"What are you talking about, Rage? Have I caused that much damage to your head!" Soran said, exasperated.

"Quit trying to ruin the fun, Soran." Rage said. He held out his arm, and heat started gathering at his fist. it started to crackle and spark. "I think it's time we ended this, don't you think?"

Robin asked Starfire a question, "Star, is he related to you?"

"I do not think so, Robin." She replied, looking as confused as Robin.

"Good night, Soran" Rage said. Unknown to him, Soran had a plan. Rage brought his fist back to his other shoulder, then threw the charged wave at Soran. It hit, and exploded, and after the dust settled, he was gone.

"Maybe it was a bit too much for him... too bad." Rage said, almost regretting it. The Titans gaped at him.

"Did you just...?" Robin started.

"Actually, he didn't, and it wasn't too much at all! Soran said arrogantly, and appeared behind Raven, latching on to her and pulled out his beam saber and held it at her neck.

"Soran? Why the hell are you all ways picking on her? Why not anyone else?"

"Don't kid yourself, Rage! I know what was in our letter! I still think he had lost it when he wrote it, but everything seems to be playing out just like it! The sad thing is, this is the part where she dies. Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?" Soran said. Rage laughed, and that scared the Titans, and especially Raven, and she has every right to. After all, her neck is literally on the line.

"What's so funny? You don't care anymore? So True Darkness does bring about a personality change." Soran noted.

"So it does! So it does..."

"Well then, looks like I win. Shall I claim my prize?" Soran said anxiously.

"Go right ahead."

"WHAT?" Raven yelled, her eyes wide. How could he do this? She thought.

Don't worry, Raven. I have this under control... He reassured her, his normal self momentarily taking control.

"You call this under control?" She yelled at him. The Titans stared at her, as she was being dragged away by Soran.

This'll be quite a gift to Slade, don't you think? That is, after I'm done with her. Soran thought to Rage.

Actually, I don't think she'll make it that far... Rage responded, True Darkness regaining control.

What, you think she's too delicate? Soran asked. Rage didn't respond, but instead appeared right in Soran's path.

"No actually. What I meant was that she won't even make it to your place!" Rage growled, then grabbed Soran's beam saber by the end that one normally doesn't grab. His hand was visibly burning ans he forced the saber from Raven's neck.

"What the...? It should be going through your hand!" Soran said, looking at Rage like he was crazy.

"My hand is stronger than that." Rage said. He had forced it far enough away from her to run, but Soran still had another arm around her. He was looking at Rage from over one of her shoulders.

"Oh yes, one more thing." He put his hand against Soran's face, what part he could get to, anyway.

By a mental command, black firestarted spilling out around Soran's head rather fast, but none of it came in contact with Raven. He was knocked back several feet by the blast, and was almost knocked down. Soran covered part of his face with one hand.

"RRRAAAAAGGGHH! You dirty piece of... My EYE! What did you do to MY EYE! I CAN'T SEE FROM IT ANYMORE!" Soran screamed.

"Thanks... Rage, isn't it?" She said.

"Yes, it is now..." He replied. Soran ran off the building, and flew away, cursing Rage.

"I'm sorry, but I can't stay here any longer. I must go, I will see you all when I can, and I'm sorry about your Tower." He said, starting to fly away.

"Wait!" Robin said. Rage ignored him, and soon disappeared. Everyone looked at Raven now.

"What the heck happened here? It looks like a warzone!" Cyborg said. He took a good look over part of the tower.

"That's because it was." Raven said.

"Raven? What happened?" Robin asked. "I'm not mad at you, but I want to know what happened while we were unconscious." He said. It had finally stopped raining, and the clouds were beginning to break.

"I'll explain when we go back inside. I'm completely soaked." Raven said.

The Teen Titans went back inside the Tower to warm themselves up, and to hear Raven's story.

(Author's note: I know, Raven might seem a little OOC now. Keep in mind this was made a few years ago, to the newer readers of this story, of which I hopefully get. -RageTH)