Ch.14: Death of Memories
Logan felt his heart begin to die like it had 10 years ago. He knew that this anti-Terra was not going to back down, not until he could break through her clouded mind of lies' and find the truth that she sacrificed herself and that at one time they were the best friends anyone had ever seen. He saw Raven move and twitch, she was trying to get up but Logan hoped she wouldn't.
"Now Logan will you stop this stupid charade and fight me before I die of boredom!" yelled the blonde woman.
"No I will not fight you…I will fight the evil inside of you."
Terra literally pulled her hair in anger; she grew tired of his annoying words and phrases. She charged Logan with a sharpened rock around her fist. She lunged the weapon at Logan's heart but he flipped out of the way. He hit the ground with a small tap and jumped off the ground a second later, he fell right behind the confused blonde and pulled his arm under hers and put his left arm around her neck holding her in a sleeper hold. Terra pushed off the ground and did a half spin in the air so when she brought her wait down, she would come crashing down on Logan's face in DDT form. Logan quickly got to his feet and whipped the blood trickling from his nose off. As soon as it was gone he had to dodge another attack, this time it was flying rock needles. Terra kept up her barrage of needles making sure Logan didn't get a second to sit down. He had moments to attack but he didn't do so.
"Come on Logan! Attack me, fight me do something!" Terra yelled in anger.
Logan pulled out the Massacre but only used it to block off the on coming needles, he didn't want to hurt Terra, or lose her like he did all those years ago. Terra stopped her barraged of needles and slammed her hands into the ground, the rock formed around her fists and created long stone blades on each hand. Terra charged Logan and swung her massive weapons at him, he blocked but every time he blocked he felt his power become weaker, every attack was one that sent him closer to the floor, it was like the Massacre became weaker with his emotions; like it had a mind of its own. Terra slammed her fist down onto the blade and used the other to stab Logan in the stomach, the power of it shot him up and brought him back t his knees in pain. He felt the blood start to pour from his wound and onto the floor. It was nothing deadly just a small hole in his stomach like Terra wanted to lengthen this battle, to make him suffer.
"Look at the powerful Garfield Logan now, the once destructive force, with enough balls to challenge Johnny Price, but now he doesn't even have enough to hit a little girl. I smell a pussy inside of him. How does it feel Logan? To be weak, to be defenseless, now you know how I felt that time ago. Don't you hate the envy, the irony of it all? I hope you don't want this to be fast, because I am going to make you suffer; make you feel the pain, the agony of life. I hope you enjoyed your life because it is about to end very, very soon."
Up above the battle on top of an unknown rooftop, stood Riku, his long blood red cape flowing in the mid afternoon wind. His mask was gone showing his pale flesh and his small smile across his cold lips. On Riku's right shoulder was a long wooden stick and at the top was a crescent blade; like an axe, the wood was panted black and had red inscriptions panted along the handle. Riku seemed to enjoy having it by his side. The dark boy looked at the battle with a sigh. He hated seeing long speeches when there should be blood shed; as he watched the battle in front of him a pool of black liquid appeared by his side. Out of it came Malice with a small grin on his face as well.
"What do you wish Malice?" Riku said in a low voice.
"I wish nothing Mr. Riku, all I want to know is how is the plan coming along?"
"It is all coming along nicely, soon my father will be eliminated and I shall rule over this city and do what my father never dreamed of; a pure cleansing of our world, it will not be a Price Passion but a Price Extermination. Soon only the strong will survive and we will not have to worry of the weak and worthless. The remaining 4 have also agreed that if my father does not act his plans fast they will join me and help me become the true and worthy emperor over this land. All we need to do is wait; for Terra to fail."
"Are you sure she will fail?"
"Of course she will; Terra is fuelled by anger, and any person living with anger and vengeance is surly to fail. Terra is still weak and powerless when it comes to the strength of Logan's determination and pure hearted vengeance. My father made the mistake of ever crossing his path and now it is time he paid. And if by some miracle Terra does succeed and kill Logan, then I will use the Apocalypse to kill her and my father, I hate to become violent and brutal but that is the truth. So what do you think of the plan Malice?"
Malice looked at him with a confused look but he still nodded.
"Yes, if you are true to what you say then I will as well join your side and bring down your idiotic father."
Riku nodded and went back to watching the battle below, this time Malice sat down and dangled his feet over the edge of the railing; he as well was interested in seeing what happened in this battle. As he continued to watch a question popped into his head.
"Hey Riku…I was wondering this entire time I don't even know what you are, like are you a vampire, a demon, or a human?"
Riku looked at him with a small smile; he chuckled some what and then raised his finger and pointed at a small silver purple diamond in his forehead.
"I am from Azerath, a pure blood unlike Raven my powers are far superior to hers. But none of my enemies know it, that's why I use my apocalypse staff instead of my powers."
"I thought Raven had the powers because she was a demon."
"No, she was given most of those powers by her father yes but Azerathians have a different power that she has not aquired."
"Weird then again I don't know much about you azerathians I myself am a demon, well half demon, then there's my other half which is of a vampire, I am one of the first that have survived this long, so that's why it is so hard to find my talent."
Riku nodded without looking at him, he kept his eyes to his most important matter at hand.
"Why don't you fight down there?"
"I am letting Terra work it out, let's just say it's a security ability to my reward, when Terra fails I will finish off Logan myself and earn my 2 million."
"Tricky, very tricky, you interest me Malice, I think as soon as this battle is over with, you and I should become partners."
"Yes I do believe we shall, oh and by the way, what is this apocalypse you are talking about?"
Riku pulled the wooden blade down to his side and waved it left and right.
"It is something like Logan's Massacre weapon, it has different functions but I always keep them to myself. Anyone that has learned its functions have already died so if you wish to learn about it I hope you have bought your tombstone."
Malice laughed and sighed at the end, he was actually starting to like this character, and underneath his dark, pale skin was a funny little boy that had never been unleashed. Malice quite trying to learn about Riku and went back to watching the battle at hand. Down below Logan was holding his bleeding stomach trying to get to his feet, every time he could get to one knee, Terra would kick him over.
"Come on Beast Boy get up. I am tired of your games." Terra said coldly as she picked up the earth he was laying on.
Logan was flipped off the pavement with a lot of force, sending him rolling to the floor. Terra moved two spikes of stone and stabbed them on his hands. She kicked them deeper into his flesh, he felt his hand start to slit in two the deeper it came, he cried in pain and put his head down to the spike and started to remove it with his teeth. He finally got it out and spat out the blood and dirt he had on his tongue, he then removed the other spike with his free hand and stood on his feet finally. Terra smiled and used a floating piece of stone to punch him in the stomach and take him flying into the sky, as Logan began to fall the stone came on top of him and slammed into his spinal column sending him into a crater. Logan began to crawl to his feet, but he did not even try to fight back, he kept staring into Terra's dim blue eyes looking for the sparkle he once loved so long ago. But none it showed when he was sandwiched between two stones and then slammed with another. Logan felt stones grab onto his ankles. Then the stones slammed him into a building head first. The stones lifted him up again but this time they pressed him up against a large red hummer. His hands was cuffed with stone as well and then his throat. Logan saw the blonde walk up to him with an angry look on her face.
"I was hoping you would fight back! Why wont you! I am going to kill you know, I would let you free to fight me if you agree to at least cut my arm."
Logan looked into her eyes and shook his head.
"Never, you were my best friend, and you said so yourself, if you can't remember that then I don't want to live anymore."
Terra yelled in anger and punched the hummer making a large dent in it.
"Why do you try to make me remember this lies! Why don't you give it up and fight!"
"Because there not lies, there the truth, you worked for Slade, you betrayed us, you broke my heart, you attacked us, and then you betrayed Slade and saved the city, that's the truth Terra and you need to know that."
Terra chuckled under her breath and then lifted up a large cone like spike out of the ground and placed it on his chest.
"Do you remember that Terra! Do you remember when you almost killed me with that?"
Terra felt flashes in her mind, images of her holding the same looking weapon above Beast Boy's body. That's when she betrayed her master. Terra yelled and brought the spike up above Logan's head like a pendulum.
"Do you have any last words?" Terra yelled.
Inside the diner Nicky saw Terra closing in for the kill, he knew how much Raven loved him; he didn't want her to suffer. Nicky threw the pistols to the floor and charged out the door. From the moment it all went into slow motion, Nicky didn't say a word he ran with all his might to get to Terra and Logan.
"It's your life Terra, your choice, not mine, not Price's, no ones but your own. I hope you make the right one."
Terra had one last image before he powers gave out and let the pillar drop right onto Logan's open chest. It was of all the good memories with Beast Boy, at the park, fighting crime, the canon, the river. All of it was flashing so fast inside of her head but one phrase was repeating itself over and over.
"I will always be your friend, Terra, no matter what."
As all of her memories came flooding back she finally remember it so clearly. She saw something she would never forget. Red blood sprayed onto her face and on Logan's a mist of dust crowded the scene from the rock. There was a moan of pain and then Terra heard someone fall to the knees. When the dust cleared, Terra saw Nicky on his knees, with the large pillar in his chest extending out of his upper back and lower throat. The rock crumbled out of his open body and he fell to the floor motionless. The rocks around Logan fell off and he went to Nicky's side. Terra on the other hand was on her knees holding her head crying.
"What have…I done?"
Logan picked up Nicky's limp body; he put his head on top of his knee. Nicky was breathing but barely. There was large amounts of blood poring every where. Logan spoke soft to Nicky.
"Come on kid, stay awake, your gona make it through this."
Nicky coughed up blood and spatit on the floor.
"Logan…no…I'm not."
"Why'd you do it kid, you had your hole life ahead of you, you were gona clean it all up."
"I owed you a lot, all I wanted to do was be a hero like you."
Logan felt the tears welling up inside of his eyes.
"You were a hero Nicky, you were going to beat the toughest criminal of all, you were going to beat yourself."
"Logan, I just wanted to be happy when it was all over with, and I am now, you made me a good man, and I saved a better man. Take care of Raven when I'm gone, and tell her that…I…loved…her."
And with that Nicky's eyes glazed over and his hand fell limp, his heart stopped beating, his lungs stopped moving, everything about him gave the biggest hint that Nicky was dead. When Logan let his tears flow from his eyes he heard Terra yell into the skies.
"What have I done!"