Yes, so here is chapter 8, chapter 9 is coming soon (so I've been told). Author response time:
The Wild Ambition: I have no idea what your talking about but I'm sure it's flippin' awesome! I don't really play video games, save for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game for Xbox! I am the master of that game!
Red Rose Yuki: Well, funny you should mention that, this story is heavily influenced by Inu-Yasha, like the whole biggest fears being played out in their minds, think back to what Inu-Yasha episode thats from...actually there's 2 episodes with that theme, that forest and the moth demon that trapped them in his web.
The Illustrated Man: I have a good editor.
The Spanish Flyer: bows Thank you, thank you. It was hard to think of what his biggest fear was and I really wasn't in the mood to involve Terra into the mess 'cause well, all of his fears kinda already came true for him, ya know her becoming evil and dying and all.
The Spawn of Slade
Chapter 8
Illusions
Beast Boy, in his Tiger form, attempted to dodge Project Apprentice's attack, but he was far to fast for him. Project Apprentice's staff came down upon Beast Boy's spinal column with crushing force. Beast Boy heard his spine cracking and snapping as he came crashing to the cold concrete floor. He attempted to transform back into his human form, but was unable to.
He couldn't move.
"Not even worth my time," Project Apprentice sneered hovering over Beast Boy's paralyzed body.
"NO!" Beast Boy thought in a panic. "I can't move! I can't even transform!" Beast Boy gasped mentally when he realized what had just happened, "I'm paralyzed!"
"Now question is, do I kill you, or leave you here to die a slow death. Decisions, decisions," Project Apprenticed mused, mockingly stroking his chin with his thumb and forefinger, "I think I will leave you here, your friends won't save you anyhow."
"NO! Please someone help me!" Beast Boy thought in despair.
"Don't worry, I'll come back for your rotting corpse in a few weeks, I like to have keepsakes from my victories."
"No, please, help! Anyone! Please," Beast Boy thought feebly as he lay on the cold concrete floor at the mercy of this monster.
If his face were visible, rather if he even had a complete face, a malicious smile would have shown as he swaggered away from the helpless Titan.
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Starfire turned over the body that was lying in the pool of blood in the middle of the dark damp room.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Starfire let out an earth shattering scream and burst into tears at the sight that lay in her arms.
Robin's uniform was torn in numerous places exposing deep gashes. Blood was dried and caked in and around the deep wounds. The most severe wound extended from his right shoulder down across his chest ending at his left hip. The wounds cut deep into his flesh exposing bone. Deep scarlet blood still wet and moist in this wound and a feeble trickle of blood was still exiting this gash. His face was surprisingly unharmed but was ghastly white. He had all but stopped breathing, and blood was dried in a long stream that had once been trickling out of his mouth. Miraculously, Robin's eyes opened slightly when Starfire screamed.
"Robin! You're alive!" Starfire gasped, tears still pouring down her face falling into Robin's wounds. He winced as Starfire's tears met his exposed flesh.
"Who has done this to you? We must leave this place and seek medical aide for you!" Starfire said in a fluster and attempted to lift Robin from where he lay. Robin let out a cry of excruciating pain as his body was moved. Starfire set him down again, and his cries ceased.
"Robin, I am so sorry," Starfire said tears still pouring down her face.
"Plea….please do…don't mo…move me," Robin struggled to say.
"Your strength must be saved, speak not! I have to get you out of here," Starfire tried to plead with Robin to allow her to move him to safety.
"It…it's too late for me….plea….please leave me….get out of…here," he winced in agony as he said this.
"No! Leave you I will not," Starfire replied.
"You…must"
Tears streamed even harder down her face, as she replied, "No Please, you will die if you stay here!"
Robin's breathing became even more haggard, "I know…Star….but… there's nothing….any…one….can…do."
"No, Accept that I will not!" Starfire rebelled against Robin's dying words.
Robin slowly turned his head and their eyes met, "I lo…."
"Robin!" Starfire gasped as he suddenly stopped speaking and his eyes glazed over.
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Cyborg stared into the mirror below him, reflecting his fully robotic image. His screamed in mental agony, and again he failed to see the humor in the sound of a completely monotone robotic scream.
"How could this have happened?" Cyborg thought desperately trying to make sense of what had just happened to him. "Calm down Cy. Now, just think of what happened just before this occurred," He thought trying to calm himself down.
He closed his eyes and thought.
"We had just been hunting down Project Apprentice; we had just been walking down a corridor when we ran into this hall of mirrors than all of a sudden I was alone. We were separated. And then my biggest fear came true…MY FEAR! There is no way this could really have happened! It makes no sense, in order for this to really happen it would take hours of surgery….then this all must be…"
"AN ILLUSION!"
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"No, please no! This can't be happening!" Raven said aloud as she stared up at her demon father.
"Oh, yes daughter, it can be and it is!" He bellowed as extended his enormous talons out toward the city in ruins, "You released me, fulfilling your destiny to destroy the world!"
"No, how can this be! It isn't even my birthday!" Raven thought in a panic.
"Your friends never even stood a chance against my might," Trigon laughed and pointed out the rest of the Titans as petrified statues in various stages of struggle and agony.
"But no! This really can't be happening! The only time this would ever happen is on my birthday," She thought as she stared at her petrified friends.
"Look at my little gem, staring into space, just accept it! You killed your friends and destroyed this little planet you call home," Trigon said as he gazed upon his portal.
"NO!" Raven said boldly standing up facing her father, "this really isn't happening, if the prophecy is true than this can't be real."
"HA! What do you mean by that! Of course the prophecy is true! Don't you see the destruction before you?" Trigon replied.
"That's just it, the prophecy states that I will release you on the day of my birth! And it isn't my birthday!"
"It matters not what day it is! The world is under my command!" Trigon bellowed standing up from the Titans tower that he was using as his throne.
"Yes it does," Raven replied flying up to be at eye level with her demon father, "it means that this is all just an ILLUSION!"
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"You're friends are as good as dead and so are you!" Project Apprentice yelled over the cracking and exploding sounds of his lightening bolts meeting the ground and anything else in their path.
Robin dodged the blasts to the best of his ability and was forced to abandon his staff, for it was attracting the bolts right to him. He threw his staff in Project Apprentice's direction, dodging a rather large lightening bolt and landed on a rock jutting out from the wall. From there he could watch the spectacle before him.
For when he threw the staff all of the stray bolts struck it sending it fully electrified and sailing with intense speed and force directly into Project Apprentice's exposed chest. The blast blew him clear across the room, slamming his electrified body into the wall. The wall gave in around him and Project Apprentice was buried under rock and rubble. A pipe burst as well making that half of the room flooded in sewer water. Project Apprentice's staff was where he had dropped it when he had been struck, assuring that, if he was alive, he was unarmed.
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Cyborg opened his eyes and was relieved to find that his was no longer fully robotic. He tried to move but was inhibited by a sticky web that almost covered his entire body. He struggled to break free, but the bondage was incredibly strong.
"What is this? What's going on?" Cyborg said aloud.
"It's the demon spider of illusions; Project Apprentice is using it to trap us in our own worst fears," Raven explained, walking over to where Cyborg remained entangled.
"How did we get free?" Cyborg asked as Raven as she used her powers to remove the web surrounding Cyborg.
"We realized that it was an illusion, or we conquered our fears," Raven replied knowing that the last part of what she said was a lie.
Cyborg walked over to where Starfire and Beast Boy still remained entangled in their own fears. Starfire was struggling against the bondage moaning in mental agony, but Beast Boy had gone limp.
"Beast Boy's giving into the illusion," Raven said as she attempted to remove the web from his body with no luck.
"We gotta get BB and Star out of their webs," Cyborg replied attempting to remove the web surrounding Starfire.
"We can't remove the web ourselves," Raven said defeated, giving up on freeing her teammate.
"Why not? We can just stop trying!" Cyborg yelled and blasted the web.
Nothing happened. The web remained unharmed as if Raven and Cyborg had never touched it.
"Don't you see, Starfire and Beast Boy must conquer their fears on their own," Raven stated.
"There must be another way!"
"Well yes there is, it's to kill the demon spider," Raven said looking around the cavern in which they were.
"Well, where is it?" Cyborg demanded standing back to back with Raven.
"I'm right here," A sinister voice said and an enormous spider, 6 feet tall and 12 feet wide crawled out from a tunnel to their left, "and you will not be spoiling my dinner!"
And that's the end of the chapter. For all of you following the "Elementals" storyline, I (MuggleBuddy) have begun work on the sequel! I have a prologue done that will be posted soon after the completion of this story! As always, REVIEW!
