This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own Teen Titans or any DC comics alluded to in this story. Kenkaku and his swords are mine, however, as well as the basic 'Prophecies Universe' and characters.

Rolling the Dice:

The Second Prophecy

A 'Prophecies Universe' fanfiction.

"text": spoken English

"text": spoken Japanese (translated or flavor text)

"text": war cry, English

"text": war cry, Japanese.

text: thoughts

-text-: stressed word

text: printed or typed English

text: printed or typed Japanese

'text': sound effect

Japanese flavor text will be in a glossary at the end of the chapter.

"Alright dawgs! I present to you, the second-most badassed teenage villain ever conceived: Stone." Cyborg, wearing his holorings, slammed his fists together. With a bright flash of light, his old form masked his metal body.

Beast Boy and Starfire gasped. "Oooh," crooned the Tamaranian. "I have never seen such a fine holoprojection. That is what you have created, correct?"

"Yeah, but you've never -felt- one like this either. The projection feels like real skin and cloth."

"Cool, dude, but that's not a very imposing supervillian," remarked Beast Boy.

Cyborg slammed his fists together again. Another flash of light, and the golem-like form of Stone coated his body. "This do?"

"Yeah, that'll do," said Beast Boy in quite a bit of awe.

Robin smirked. "Second most badassed teenage villain, Cy?" He flinched as a blade slid under his chin.

"I'm first," hissed out Kenkaku in a voice that, while still possessed of his heavy Japanese accent, was more growling.

"I give you, Kenkaku, playing the part of Makil Ainu, Trigon's Bladeheir, otherwise known as Ittou," said Raven proudly as she held his blades.

Kenkaku pulled his blade back and sheathed it on his back. The Titans who had not already seen him gasped.

Kenkaku's normally brown hair was silver-white, and worn like Trigon's had been. His ears were pointier than they had been, though they were nowhere near Beast Boy's level. His skin was blood red, and was decorated with black tattoos in the style of a cross between blades, vines, and flames. His eyes glowed dull silver-white. He wore a pair of the black silk pants that Robin had picked up and a pair of supple but tough martial arts shoes. Beyond that he only had the tattoos and a pair of straps that supported the twin sheaths for Trigon's old demonblades, a style of blade that was a mix of dao and shamshir. Contrary to what one might believe, they were not black or red. The blades were gleaming enchanted steel. The handles were of about the length of a two-handed sword such as a katana, with a black silk wrap, and the pommels fit together to form a staff blade. He gave them a toothy smile that revealed that each of his teeth had gotten much sharper, and the canines were much longer. His teeth looked fully capable of ripping a throat out.

No doubt about it. Kenkaku looked -evil-. Cool, but evil. Kenkaku closed his eyes and reverted to his normal self and costume. "Like it? All Raven's doing. I'm playing a full Demon of the Wind that Trigon decided to pass his blades on to. The tattoos light up when my eyes flare too." He took Kanesada and Muramasa from Raven and put them in their normal places.

Robin smiled. "You won't need those here. Alright. Our first lesson will be the vertical punch of Wing Chun. We'll start with some stretching…"

The alarm cut Robin off.

Robin typed away at the main computer. "Looks like our old friends, Team Hydra, are robbing the bank. Let's go take them down."

"Sounds like fun. How about it, Kaku? One last heroic battle against a old nemesis or two before we descend into the depths of evil?"

"Maa na. We've got them beat, easy. Six Titans against three of them? Unzari."

Raven raised an eyebrow. "Boring?"

Robin smirked. "Well, Star and BB could use a break, and I could work on some research. A three-on-three sound good?"

"Sure dawg. Half-human Titans, GO!"

The half-humans charged out of the room to the elevator.

Robin smirked as he faintly heard the engines of the Shinobi and the T-car roar and the tires screech as the three sped away. "Well, that was easy."

"You do not think they will need assistance?"

"Star, you know they can handle it," said Beast Boy as he dragged himself off. "Me, I need a nap. You've got us working too hard, Robin."

"That's why they pay us the big bucks," smirked Robin.

"When was the last time you got paid Robin?" shot back the changeling tiredly.

Robin held up his Titans expense card. "This makes up for it."

"Oh. Right. Gotcha." The green elf shambled out of the room.

"Are you actually going to work on the HIVE case, Tim?"

"I should…but I think I can spare some time for you, if you want it." The stoplight colored hero was tackled and deeply kissed by a green streak.

Kenkaku slid the Shinobi in and out of traffic as Cyborg spoke in his ear. "Left up there. Have you fought them before?"

"Hai."The ronin took the turn at a fairly high speed, leaning the bike quite heavily. Raven emulated his position on the bike. She had gotten much better at riding during the visit to her boyfriend's sensei, and could actually probably ride solo, but she still rode with him. Kenkaku remembered something. "Gizmo-san has a new pack."

"Oh?"

"Hai.It's a battle exoskeleton. Two vibroblade arms, a chain gun, and a flamethrower. Transforms out of the spider pack."

"Thanks, Kaku."

The Shinobi came to a halt in front of the bank, outside of the police barriers. Cyborg pulled up in the T-car a second later. The drivers secured their vehicles and made ready to burst in. Cyborg transformed his right arm into a four-tube rocket launcher, checking to see that it was loaded. Kenkaku drew Kanesada, and held it out in front of him one-handed, spinning it a few times to limber up his wrists. Raven got a depleted-uranium sphere ready, keeping her other hand ready to draw Sukehiro.

One of the JCPDMCU officers walked over, helmet off and rifle slung. He was blonde haired and had blue eyes, with a rather strong chin. He also had a fairly strong German accent. "Where are the other Titans?" he asked Kenkaku.

Cyborg stepped in front of the swordsman. "They have other work to do. We'll be more than enough."

The officer looked the African-American Titan up and down. "I shall hope so," he said with a slight sneer.

Cyborg scowled and turned back to his fellow Titans. "Right, let's kick those scrawny little HIVE kids' butts!" He opened a compartment in his leg and pulled out a grenade, changing the rocket launcher over to a sonic cannon. "Smoke grenade," he explained. "I figure you two aren't big on the whole speech at the beginning, so we'll skip it. Ready?"

The two half-demons nodded. Cyborg pulled the grenade's pin and waited for smoke to start coming out the top, telling him that the chemicals had indeed started mixing enough to provide visual cover. The half-mechanical Titan grunted as he chucked the smoke grenade deep into the bank, all the way to the now-open vault door.

White smoke billowed out from the can, looking like cotton, and obscuring any view from inside the vault. "Kaku! Go!"

The ronin's eyes flamed silver-white and he dashed across the bank floor, bursting through the smoke cloud as the HIVE agents mustered their defense. His rising slash of Kanesada caught Jinx unprepared, sending her stumbling backwards, bent over with her arms folded over her gut. "AGH!"

"You're pretty cocky, fool!" roared Mammoth, as he swung one of his economy-size fists at the swordsman.

'SMASH!'

Concrete cracked and shattered as Mammoth's fist hit the ground where Kenkaku had been standing

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The swordsman landed on the genetically-enhanced teen's forearm and slashed him across the face with Kanesada. Mammoth's head snapped to the side, but unlike many others would have, he did not go down under the blow. He bellowed and snatched at Kenkaku, who jumped again, flipping through the air to land on top of a pallet of gold bullion. Gizmo's pack deployed a pair of energy cannons, which zeroed in on Kenakaku.

"Eat this, you crud-munching, pit-sniffing worm!" Gizmo was just about to push the button on his controller that would fire the cannons when…

'CRUNCH!'

Gizmo was thrown to the ground from the impact of a depleted uranium sphere to one of the cannons. Needless to say, the cannon that had taken the hit was totally trashed. The other one fired into the ground at point-blank range, flipping Gizmo over onto his back and blowing a crater into the floor of the vault.

Mammoth charged at Kenkaku, a super-powered punch knocking the pile of gold out from under the swordsman, who had flipped off to take Gizmo when he saw the long-haired HIVE member come at him. Besides, Kenkaku had back-up.

'SSSHOWWW!'

A sonic cannon blast came flying through the falling gold bricks and slammed into Mammoth, staggering him. "BOOYAH!" Cyborg charged forward and slugged Mammoth across the face.

Raven levitated out of the way of a pink hex blast and drew her swords, holding them in a backhanded grip. Jinx cartwheeled at her and flipped into the air, trying to deliver a kick. Raven was more than ready for that, and blocked with the crossed flats of her blades. Jinx jumped back, unleashing another hex blast. Raven's enchanted wakizashi vibrated as the blast deflected off them. Raven held up one arm and her hand glowed with her obsidian energy. A gold brick smashed into the small of the other girl's back.

"Crud-munching idiot!" Gizmo unleashed another burst of flame at Kenkaku, which the half-demon avoided lithely. "Hold still!" He swiped at Kenkaku with one of the vibroblade arms.

'SHING!'

A powerful two-handed slash of Kanesada took half a foot off the end of the arm. Kenkaku had come out of the whole prophecy more powerful than he had been going in, albeit not as powerful as during the final fight. "Dame da!" He blocked another swing and swept one of the exoskeleton's legs out from under it, dropping Gizmo and his pack to the ground. Four quick swings, and the exoskeleton's arms and legs were useless stubs, only to catch a laser blast to the chest as Gizmo quickly switched modes and blasted the ronin. Gizmo flew up on his jetpack to hover above the smoking ronin, training the laser cannon on him.

"You're not so tough, are you, you worthless kludgehead!?" crowed Gizmo.

"That hurt," growled out the swordsman. The laser had luckily hit his jacket, which incorporated a type of body armor, instead of hitting him on bare skin or somewhere protected by only a t-shirt, where it would've caused rather serious damage.

Kenkaku came off the ground in a rising slash that smashed into the side of Gizmo's bald head. He overdid it a bit, and Gizmo's jaw cracked a bit and a few bloody teeth flew out onto the floor. The pint-sized genius went flying across the room on his thruster flames, smacking into a wall hard enough to knock him out and for blood to run down the wall. The half-demon spat at his enemy and started checking on his own wound.

The jacket had taken most of the blast, but underneath it he had a pretty nasty first to second degree burn. He gritted his teeth and did his best to forget the pain, not using his kiaijutsu technique for getting rid of pain.

"GIZMO!" thundered Mammoth, throwing Cyborg across the room and charging Kenkaku. The swordsman drew Muramasa and prepared for the attack.

The long-haired giant's right fist flew at Kenkaku, who diverted the punch with Muramasa and stabbed Kanesada into Mammoth's gut.

'THOOM!'

"HOUGH!" Spittle flew from the big teenager's mouth as he folded over the katana, but he still had enough presence of mind to bash Kenkaku into the wall, incidentally hitting him on the burn.

"AUGH!" The ronin slumped against the wall and clutched his wound. Mammoth staggered to his feet to lumber over and crush the swordsman, but Cyborg caught his jaw with a vicious running headbutt that stunned the HIVE agent, then KOed the gen-enged human with a myomer-driven right cross. He pumped a stunning burst of sonic cannon into Mammoth to finish, just to be sure.

Raven, who had been distracted by Kenkaku's scream of pain, staggered back, clutching her face. Jinx had slipped a hex blast in through her guard, one composed only of force. The HIVE sorceress spun around into a kick that caught the lavender-haired girl in the stomach. Raven's breath burst out of her in a rush, but she slashed blindly in front of her with her blades, forcing Jinx back a few steps. Jinx popped back into range, and let off a triple punch that backed Raven against a pallet of gold bricks. Jinx smirked and raised her arm to hex the gold.

'THOOM!'

She never got the chance, as a pair of katana slammed into her side. Kenkaku had snap-risen from where he had lain against the wall, before dashing across the room, spinning on the last few steps to build up momentum for his strike. The pink-haired sorceress went flying through the air, only a reflexive hex saving her. The hex started crumbling the wall as she flew through it, saving her life. The force had been great enough that she would've gone through the wall anyway. Actually, it was a wonder that Kenkaku had been able to restrain himself to force, rather than cutting.

Kenkaku sheathed his swords and reached down to help Raven up. Before he could stop her, she healed his burn. "Chikushou. I was really hoping to get some non-kiaijutsu pain blocking practice in."

Raven 'thwaped' him on the forehead. "Nutcase. I'll put a leatherskin enchantment on you before you leave. No need to do anything so stupid as to run around with a burn on your chest."

"No, I've been getting too reliant on kiaijutsu. I've got to stay versatile. To become so reliant…"

Raven put her fingers over his mouth. "Quiet. You don't have to pull a Robin-san. You have enough skill with your blades to keep yourself alive and do your job. Perfection is not necessary."

The swordsman lowered his head a bit. "You're right, as always."

"So why don't you listen to me?"

Kenkaku just shook his head and grinned. "Just stupid, I guess."

Cyborg cleared his throat as he finished binding the HIVE agents. "Sorry to break up a moment or something, but let's just get out of here. That MCU commander is a bastard."

The half-demons nodded in agreement. The officer had gone straight to Kenkaku, the greenest Titan, bypassing the official second-in-command of the Titans, and the one that provided the common sense. And, to make it worse, the police had been informed that Kenkaku spoke only Japanese, and had never been told of the change in the situation.

"Well, well, well. Quite a mess you made in here," said the blonde officer, stepping into the vault. He had been looking at Cyborg as he said that. "But thanks for your help." That was said facing directly at Kenkaku. The officer turned back to Cyborg. "Quite a mess," he repeated. "I do hope nothing was stolen."

Cyborg glared at the man. Kenkaku had to forcibly stop his hand from twitching, and removed his other hand from Kanesada's saya. He probably would've at least popped the blade, a very direct threat, had Raven not put her hand on his shoulder. "Kutabare," he spat at the officer.

"Let's go. I'm sure the oh-so-competent MCU officers can take over here," said Cyborg as they brushed by the officer.

"Since when did the JCPD MCU start hiring KKK?" groused Cyborg as he stomped through the opening doors of the elevator.

"Huh?" Robin turned himself around from the computer. Internally, he gave a sigh of relief. He had just gotten to work when they came in. Had they seen him making out with Starfire… "Did you say KKK?"

"Yeah, Aryan-boy back there. Bias up the wazoo."

"You're kidding."

"No, dawg. When we arrive on the scene, this little neo-Nazi goes straight to Kenkaku. You know, the one he thinks speaks only JAP-A-FUCKING-NESE! The one he thinks is just a white boy."

Robin coughed. "Are you sure you aren't overreacting?"

"Iya." Kenkaku crossed his arms over his chest. "I was considering showing him Ittou. Especially Ittou's teeth."

"You didn't, did you?" Kenkaku just gave him a look. "Sorry, stupid question. Anyway, stupid, biased, and useless MCU officers aside, how did it go?"

Cyborg shrugged. "Took them down, and whatever damage was taken Raven already got rid of. Any good news here?"

"You could say that. H.A.E.Y.P.'s advanced program has just accepted two applicants, with some very nice letters. They're practically begging you two to join."

Kenkaku smirked as his features melted into Ittou's, his katana disappearing and on his back, Trigon's demonblades blossoming like twin, deadly metal wings. He gave another wolfish smile. "So, when do Stone and I learn the ways of your primitive, Terran evil?"

Robin gave a good natured shake of his head. "You leave tomorrow. Now change back. I'm pretty sure Raven prefers you in your normal state."

Ittou laughed and transformed back into Kenkaku, who redoubled his laughing as he saw Raven smack Robin with Kanemitu. "Eeee, Karasu-chan, isn't it the truth?"

"Well, of course," replied Raven as she walked over to him, snugging into the arm he draped over her shoulder as they walked off. "But such a comment could not go unpunished."

Japanese Flavor Text:

Ittou: "Blade." Kenkaku's fake villain name.

Maa na: "Whatever."

Unzari: "Boring."

Hai: "Yes."

Sensei: "Teacher."

Dame da: "Bad!"

Iya: "No." Strong.