Ch.27: The Truth Hurts
Logan stared at the small jewel in Price's hand. At first glance someone would have thought it was an emerald but for someone with enough experience in looking at such a jewel they would call it a chakra.
"How can you own one of those?"
"Because they are used to keep uncontrollable dark magic in check even for a human."
"But you're not an Azerathian or a demon you can't control dark magic."
"True but only my skin shows human the real form is demon through and through."
"I don't understand."
"It all started 12 years ago, I was young boy with a terminal illness un-curable in the world. So I gave my soul to a demon so that he would save my life. But in return I would help him with a project he had in mind. Hell is an empty place Mr. Logan and it was my job to fill it up with souls to torture. I let the demon enter my body and leave a peace of his power to keep me alive and his part of the deal would come soon along. But the demon also took a physical form so that he could be around me full time making sure I was filling in his part of the deal. The only way for my soul to leave me is by physical death done by a living person or people. I am almost immortal, but the demon left inside of me had traveled through my body and left a piece of dark magic in my blood stream making me demon myself. This skin I wear is just a costume holding my real self and I will soon let it free to destroy. That demon I was saved by took his physical form inside the body capable of holding and using his immense powers. I may disagree with his choice being so young and fragile but he knows what he's doing."
Logan nearly fell over backwards with what he had heard. There was a demon lurking within the works he had almost beaten but he was just at the beginning Price was just a slave to the real villain but who was it? The answer hit Logan with a ton of bricks and a burn on his shoulder from coming to close to the midnight fire.
"You're so called son, Riku, he's the demon in human form correct?"
"So smart all of a sudden aren't you, yes I have no real son nothing can replace the one I should have had. The demon took form in that body and I called it a son he has been keeping it a very good secret even from Malice a person capable of looking into his soul. You're the only one who knows but there's no worry you won't be here for long."
Price placed the chakra on his forehead and like a piece of his body already. It sank into his skull. The man held his head with such force his finger nails dug into his skin. His body bulged and cracked and his skin erupted like paper from his true body. The midnight fire started to rise higher and higher into the sky and fell sank like a drain into Price's new body.
"The midnight fire…it wasn't fire at all. Dark magic it was pure dark magic in physical form. The form was so powerful it felt like fire. I could have stopped this if I would have attacked the fire and not him. Damn it all to hell he's unstoppable now." Logan whispered to himself.
As the last of the midnight fire drained into Price's body his true form was visible. Now the once tall and bulky Price was now a giant enormous creature. His skin was like volcanic black rock with cracks spewing hot demonic lava to the floor burning the cement below it but not destroying it. The lava seemed to leave a mark of evil turning everything it touched into a hellish creation of gothic art.
His skin wasn't the only change though; he now stood 10 feet tall with 3 toed clawed feet with metallic talons. His body was bulky and powerful with spikes extending through various places. His hands were large and stone like his skin his palms seemed to be burnt metal along with his long claws from his fingers. His back had large bat like wings with burning fire whipping through the air every time they flapped. He also had a long volcanic scorpion tail that reached over his head and had a lava tipped stinger. Price's face was somehow unchanged. His skin seemed to be made of fire but his features were unchanged. He had elf like ears made of volcanic rock like he was wearing a suit of rock and his real body was pure fire. He had no hair but long volcanic spikes like a mow hawk with devil horns on each side.
In Price's right clawed hand was a steel hilt to a sword. The steel was connected to a large volcanic rock outline of a sword but inside of it was blazing fire. The sword was at least 12 feet long and was heavy enough so that when Prices let it hit the floor it cracked and almost destroyed the entire roof Price raised his weapon high above himself and it became outlined by black aura.
"Foolish mortal I will rule this world and nothing can stop me!" yelled Price with deep raspy voice some what like Trigon's but louder and deeper.
Logan nearly fell off the roof from backing away from the creature it was enormous and it looked like he couldn't even touch it. But with the courage of all the heroes he had meat in his life he held his sword at position and waited for the first move.
Down below the battle near the bottom of Price's building a rather familiar figure was walking down the hallway.
"If Price won't give me my money I will just have to steal it from him." said the voice of Malice.
Malice was on the floor near the bank or Price's 'piggy voice' Malice walked up to the large door and glanced over its area. He placed a hand on it and was not allowed to sink into it. He merely chuckled and entered the code and the door slid open revealing the large stacks and mountains of money.
"Then again I might just take a pay raise and a little bit of a fine for being late on my bill. No matter I will have no worries about Price he's to busy with Logan getting his ass kicked. I'm sure he won't mind me removing the large amounts from his pocket."
Malice walked up to a pile of 20's and large shadowy figures like replicas of him came out of the floor.
"Take it all, leave not one penny left send it to our base and no where else."
The shadow's nodded and began lifting large amounts of money and sinking back into the ground and reappearing a few minutes late. Malice sat on a stack of gold and laughed as the money slowly began to disappear. There was a loud rumbling sound above him and then the cries of agony and destruction above him.
"So Price did have a trick up his sleeve well I do owe Logan and I am a man of my word." Malice argued inside of himself.
Malice sighed and slowly walked out and began to walk up the staircases towards the roof.
Back down below during the oncoming battle it was all hell breaking loose. Raven's shield was beginning to fade and bullets came penetrating through it now and then. The dark queen was weakening and almost falling out of consciousness. Mas and Menos were beginning to tire out as well. Up above Aqua lad was running out of bullets and quick he was using them too frequently and he missed every once and a while.
Then there were the warriors of Starfire, Cyborg, Sarah, Gizmo (who seemed to have an unlimited amount of ammo), the tank itself Mammoth, and Bumble Bee, who were all heavy with gunfire and quick to kill at any chance. But as the battle seemed to escalade into heavier action there was a loud quake beneath them and an explosion from far away. The whole battle stopped like time had frozen and they could see the bright red monster arising from nowhere and the circling midnight fire draining into it.
"What is that thing?" asked Cyborg wide mouthed.
Aqua lad used his sniper scope to look at the battle and saw the large creature way to close. Then he could see the small outline of Logan near the warrior.
"It's Logan! And I think that's Price, but how that thing isn't human." Aqua lad said into his intercom.
Cyborg used his metallic eye to close up the action above but he kept his human eye on the Price warrior's. Soon there was the ruffling of feat and he could see that the battle was beginning again like nothing had happened the Price warrior's didn't have time for there master's battle only there own. He quickly blasted his sonic cannon on a group of people shooting at him. The metallic bullets bounced off of his metal plates easily but they were beginning to dent his plates.
"We have to finish them off Logan needs us!" yelled Cyborg into the intercom.
"Then I have an idea, metal mouth hook your power cord to the T-car with a little juice and a shit loud of luck we can have a finisher with a pack of power." yelled Gizmo in return.
'What is he, oh now I see?'
Cyborg ran over to the T-car and plugged his cord into the T-cars systems in the back and jumped onto of the machine. As a clue Starfire and Raven flew over. Raven was losing her energy but she knew what she had to do.
"O.k. bolt boy there's a main power machine over in the left corner we can hit it from here and cause a mass explosion if my calculations are correct, and I think they are, they that should destroy them all but we need all the juice we can get so everyone lets just hope." Gizmo said then turned his turret and blaster over to the large steel cylinder.
Gizmo pressed a button and the car went into park and with a large push on his pedal the T-car began to spin its rubber on the floor and power the metal man up. Cyborg pressed a red button on his arm and his systems started to charge and change. Long steel cylinders expanded from his arm and the triggers in hi hand. Large cannons extended from his shoulders. A locking system was attached to his arm and large fuel packs were pushed out of his back.
Cyborg charged up his ultimate weapon and all the cannons and blasters began to shine his white blue. Raven and Satrfire placed the hand on a cannon and added in there own green and black power blasters as well. With a push of all his force Cyborg shot out the four beam blast that connect into on large wall of sonic energy with a twirling double spiral of green and black aura.
The blast crashed through crowds of Price warriors destroying them all and hit the large power cylinder. There was a shock and a pop and then a large explosion filled the room. Fire and metal filled the area and began to destroy all of the Price followers. The large metal door in front slammed shut soon after and a large white light glowed from inside.
Then with an ear shattering sound the building imploded and sent a pillar of fire into the sky. The explosion blew most of the by standers away but the Titans and the T-car were swallowed dup in the flames. The remaining Titans looked on in horror as ash, flames and pieces of metal flickered into the night sky. There was a large amount of dust that blew from the collapsing building and all was silent.
"There…gone…the Titans are dead." gasped Bumble Bee as she held her mouth closed after wards.
"Senior Cyborg, don't be dead." sobbed the Mexican twins silently.
The people of Jump City and the remaining Titans began to hang there heads low but a rustling sound and shadows appeared from the depths of the dust.
"Oh no…those Price bastards are still alive." growled Aqua lad.
Then from the dust came Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, and Gizmo from the depths of darkness. There were all dusty and beat up but alive all the same.
"Where's the T-car?" asked Sarah as she kissed her husband on the cheek.
"Gone it was destroyed in the blast, we only had time to save the little genius."
Gizmo smiled and coughed out the dust and gravel in his mouth.
"So what do we do now? We beat them." asked Mammoth.
"We go to Price Corp. and help Logan stop that creature, he is going to need a lot of help and were going to give it to him, were all in this together to the bitter end right."
The Titans all came into a circle with smiles on there faces.
"Right!"