Okay, this is the big fight between Byrnes and the dream creatures and Slade. Hope you like it!
Murder the Murderers
Byrnes saw Slade, he saw the dream creatures, and he saw the ruin. This was it; this is where he had to confront them. He would have to do it by himself. Many of the dream creatures flew in the air, picking off the few people trying to escape on the ground. They didn't control him anymore. He had beaten them mentally. Now he just had to kill them.
Byrnes dove down at the creature closest to him, and drilled his knee into its spine. He grabbed a hold of its neck and snapped it, and it plummeted to the ground. Byrnes shot into the next one, and climbed onto its back. He started prying his fingers into its eyes. He then beat it in the head mercilessly as it soon fell to the ground. The other dream creatures soon caught on, and they charged towards him. Byrnes charged towards the closest one, and punched it as hard as he could, breaking its beak. He jumped onto its back and kicked it, sending it plummeting towards the ground. As the other dream creatures surrounded him, he pushed them back with a strong gust of wind, sending them spiraling in all different directions.
Before the creatures could regroup and attack Byrnes again, he swooped downward, towards Slade whose back was turned to him. Byrnes dove down towards Slade, and swung a fist at his head. Before Byrnes's fist could make contact, Slade turned around and grabbed his hand, and flung him into the ground. Slade attempted to crush Byrnes's head by stomping on it, but Byrnes quickly rolled out of the way and sprung to his feet. Byrnes lifted a hunk of metal with the wind and launched it at Slade, but he easily smacked it away with his hand. But Byrnes anticipated this, and jumped at Slade. He sent a kick into Slade's shoulder, spinning him around and bringing him to his knees.
Byrnes then turned around and swung a fist at the back of Slade's head. Slade ducked, and elbowed Byrnes in his still injured ribs. Byrnes fell to the ground, and Slade lifted him, with unearthly power, and launched him into a nearby building, sending it crumbling to the ground.
The debris from the building shot into the air, as Byrnes rose from the rubble. He shot a tremendous gust of wind at Slade, and he was hammered into the ground. Byrnes leapt into the air and tackled the rising Slade. Byrnes landed one punch into the face of Slade, but it stung his hand. Slade then grabbed Byrnes by the face, and sent him crashing into the ground next to him. Slade pulled out a pole, and drove it into Byrnes's ribs. He rolled over in pain, coughing up blood again.
He crawled on hands and knees away from Slade, until he took flight and regained his composure. A dream creature dove at the airborne Byrnes, but he grabbed it by the head from behind him, and drove it into the concrete ground, breaking its back. Another dove at him, but this time he wind encircled it and shot it into a building, sending it crumbling onto the dream creature, killing it.
The dream creatures were becoming too many for Byrnes, so he had to destroy them all now. He shielded them off with a wind barrier, and then soared up high into the sky. Rain poured onto his face, but it didn't faze him. He crossed his arms across his chest and closed his eyes, concentrating all the power he could from within him. Wind started slowly circling around him. It started growing, taking the shape of a funnel, and picking up debris as it greatened in power. The wind took control of a massive tornado around him, velocities reaching the upper 500 mph. The tornado was black from all the surrounding ruin, as the storm was greatening.
All the dream creatures were sucked into the massive tornado, and they were pelted by debris as they were flung around inside the massive funnel. The force of the wind leveled all surrounding buildings and trees. The ground was torn up underneath it, as power lines crumbled and concrete was lifted, being flung in all directions. Blood started spilling into the tornado, crushing the bodies of the dream creatures under its intense pressure and relentless velocities. Slade stood still on the ground below with his arms crossed, watching the carnage of Byrnes's black tornado. The dying screeches of the dream creatures rung out over the howling of the tornado, and Byrnes's mind seemed to be a little more at ease now. The tornado expanded, and then died down, dropping the lifeless dream creatures to the ground. Byrnes floated in the air, looking down at the damage he had caused. But the dream creatures were all dead now. He had finally defeated them. He spotted Slade standing firm on the ground, looking up at him. Byrnes slowly floated down to face Slade. He landed a few yards away from Slade and brushed himself off.
"You're not so strong now Slade, the dream creatures are dead! Their power is gone, and so is yours!" Byrnes said
"I wouldn't be so confident if I was you Byrnes. There's more to me than you think!" Slade said as he leapt at Byrnes.
Slade jumped over Byrnes, and turned around and struck him in the back of his knee with his pole. Byrnes crumbled to the ground. Slade then struck Byrnes in the side with the pole, and Byrnes tried his hardest to roll away from Slade. He got to his feet, and lifted a pole to his hands, so he could fight Slade equally. Byrnes charged Slade, swinging many times with the pole, but Slade blocked it every time. Slade swung back, knocking Byrnes backwards, and now Slade charged forward. He swung his pole at Byrnes and landed three hits on him. One on his left arm, one on his shoulder, and one his head, which sent him to the ground. Slade swung at his head, but Byrnes blocked it. He kicked Slade in the stomach, sending him reeling backwards. Byrnes dropped his pole and ran at Slade, grabbing him, knocking the pole from his hands, and drilled him into a side of a building. Slade kicked him back, but Byrnes ran right back at him. He punched at Slade's head, but Slade moved out of the way, and Byrnes struck the side of the building, leaving the area of the building he hammered to crumble to the ground.
Slade grabbed Byrnes head from behind and slammed it into the wall. Byrnes fell to his knees, leaving a streak of blood running down the wall. He quickly got to his feet, and dodged a running kick from Slade into the building. He then summoned the wind and drove Slade into the side of the building, not letting him go. He kept pushing and pushing, until the side of the building collapsed. Slade shot through the building and out the other side, into another building side, where the wind pushed relentlessly, sending him through, and out the other side, until he was finally just slammed into a wall, and crumbled onto the ground. Byrnes flew cautiously towards Slade, who was lying on the ground, showing no signs of life. Byrnes landed, and crept towards him. He finally got close enough to Slade where he could tell Slade was unconscious. Byrnes put his hand on Slade's mask, and attempted to remove it. Before he could lift the mask from his face, Slade drilled him in the face with a fist, and sent him to his back on the ground.
"Never touch my mask you fool!" Slade yelled at Byrnes as he backed away on the ground.
Slade then jumped at Byrnes, and drilled a kick into the ground, leaving a hole in the ground, just missing Byrnes by inches. He jumped again, trying to land a kick right into Byrnes's face while he was backing away on the ground, but kept missing. Byrnes's hands slipped out from under him as he was trying to crawl backwards away from the attacking Slade, and fell flat on his back. Slade landed a kick right on Byrnes's chest. He knocked the air out of Byrnes, but then a mighty gust of wind lifted Slade into the air, and dropped him a few blocks away. Byrnes rolled over on his side, clutching his chest and ribs.
He coughed up even more blood now, and he was starting to become dizzy. He saw a puddle of blood on the ground. Everything then went black, and he fell face first into the puddle of blood. He kept bleeding into it, making the puddle bigger, and slowly drowning him.
Slade slowly got up. He was injured from the battle with Byrnes, but still strong enough to fight more if he had to. Much of his armor was tattered, and a small crack ran down his mask. But it didn't break. He had many broken ribs, and bruises and cuts all over. He might have dislocated his shoulder from when he landed. But he knew Byrnes was hurt much more than he was. He limped down the ruined sidewalk in Byrnes's direction. He spotted the boy laying face down in a pool of his own blood. He walked over to him. Underneath his mask, Slade smirked. Slade kicked Byrnes over, and Byrnes took in a gasp of air. His face was drenched with his own blood; his hair was bleached the sick red color. He stared up at Slade, as Slade stared down at him. Slade bent down and wrapped his hands around Byrnes's throat.
His grip tightened, and Byrnes fought for air once again. He was already greatly weakened from his injuries before, and he had almost suffocated already, in the pool of blood, so he didn't have much to fight with. He tried blowing Slade away with a burst of wind, but it was too weak to lift him. Slade instead lifted Byrnes into the air, his hands still gripped around his neck. Byrnes dangled there, looking into Slade's mask. He could feel the remaining life slipping out of him again. He had failed to defeat Slade, and now he would die again. There were no goodbyes this time, this was it. This was the end. Suddenly, out of nowhere a huge boulder came crashing into Slade, and he was knocked into a nearby building. Byrnes spun in the air as he left Slade's grip, and fell to the ground. He looked up into the face of his sister Terra, who was there for him once again.
"Terra leave now." Byrnes managed to choke out, in regard for his sister's safety.
"No Byrnes, I'm staying with you."
She helped him to his feet, but he couldn't stand on his own. He fell unconscious in his sister's arms. A boulder lifted them up and away from the wasteland that used to be a city, and back towards Titans Tower. Slade rose from the debris around him and stared at them flying out of his sight.
"And you Terra. You both will pay soon." Slade said as he turned in the opposite direction, and walked away.
Okay, there it was. But that's not the end. Since i had some requests for another beastboy/terra kiss, i decided to add on some more chapters, and make it a little more exciting. But that was not the "final" battle with Slade. That will come eventually. But i'm gonna keep going with this story, and get some more character development going. Maybe with Byrnes and Raven wink wink i dont know. But thanks anyway, to everyone whos'e read so far, and to everyone who will stick around and read in the future. R&R. Peace