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Chapter 24 Hail the King, Baby
Morgan felt his teeth gnash together as he glared down at Beast Boy and Cyborg, his grip continued to tighten around Danny's throat, choking the life out of him.
"You should have never come down here," Morgan explained. "Now, you will die a death more terrible than you could possibly imagine."
"I don't think so!" Cyborg screamed before firing off a blast from his sonic cannon.
To avoid being hit, Morgan went intangible and Danny slipped out of his grip. Air flooded his lungs and Danny coughed up what had to have been a bucket's worth of spit. But Morgan didn't give the teen long to recover, a second later his foot descended on Danny's torso and the hybrid felt the life being crushed out of him yet again. Alright, Danny thought, I've had it with this teenage ghost in distress bullshit.
Surging with anger Danny grabbed Morgan's foot with both hands and twisted, something snapped and Morgan let out a cry of pain before falling back. Danny leapt to his feet but Morgan was ready for him despite his injury and morphed into his ghost form. Danny felt the piercing effect of Morgan's eyes on him.
"You wish to fight me boy?" Morgan inquired.
Danny heard a loud gunshot and before he could make a move for Morgan his hybrid enemy was rocketed backward into one of the chamber's walls. Danny heard a faint "Booyeah" and realized that Cyborg had hit his intended target. Meanwhile on the sacrificial table, Raven moaned and rose. Where the hell am I? She asked herself, her eyes widened in horror as she realized she was naked and she held the covering cloth ever tighter around her body.
"What the hell is going on?" She called out shooting up.
Her response was a mighty roar, looking above her, Raven saw the enormous fist of the Ghost King about to crush her. Before she could react a green flash scooped her up and leapt out of harm's way just before Tyranus' fist slammed into the stone floor.
"Hey babe, did you miss me?" Beast Boy inquired smiling down at her.
Raven embraced him in a passionate kiss, "Does that answer your question?" She replied.
There was another powerful roar and both the titans and Danny turned to see the mighty king of ghosts growing…bigger. The already massive form of Tyranus was growing, filling up the room and crashing through the ceiling, sending tons of rubble raining down on the group of rescuers.
"I think it's time to go." Cyborg said.
"No need to tell me twice!" Beast Boy replied as he rushed past Cyborg, Raven still in his arms.
Danny took time to scoop the still unconscious Sam up in his arms before going intangible to avoid a falling stone column. While flying he caught a glimpse of Scourge and Morgan emerging from the pit below him. I'll worry about them later, Danny decided, right now I got bigger problems to worry about.
Somewhere in the caverns:
Robin ducked the clawed hand of Terror and countered with a strike with his combat staff. Terror caught the staff, wrenched it from Robin's grasp, and snapped it in two.
"Anymore useless toys?" Terror inquired.
Robin grinned. "A few." With that he reached into his belt and flung several bombs at the ghost.
Terror went intangible and when the bombs stopped falling, continued swiping at Robin. Robin grew more and more aware of a deep rumbling noise until the entire floor of the cavern seemed to split in two. A green light erupted in the room, blinding both Robin and Terror. That can't be good, Robin said to himself.
A massive claw caught Robin by the arm, ripping through flesh and drawing blood. Robin reacted to Terror's attack with a jump kick, while the creature was off balance Robin used his shuriken-like bird-o-rangs to tear through the ghost's horrid wings. In pain, Terror snarled and fired a blast of ectoplasmic energy at Robin. Robin ducked and flung another bird-o-rang, this time the blade cut through Terror's skull; slicing it in two.
Amazingly the ghost still stood and continued firing wildly in all directions. Robin spotted a massive, pointed piece of rock directly above Terror. Reaching into his belt he withdrew several more bombs and threw them high above him into the cavern ceiling. Because of the bright light and his missing eye, Terror could barely see Robin let alone the massive piece of Earth about to descend upon him. Terror had no time to react before he was impaled and his body materialized into nothing.
Because of the collapsing cave, Robin had no time to celebrate his victory and swiftly made for the exit. Outside, Starfire was fighting a losing battle, no matter how many enemies she crushed more would spring up to take their place. Imagine her relief when she saw her friends rush out of the ruined church. She could see that Raven was safe in Beast Boy's arms and she felt a sense of relief infuse her. Now the ground was shaking under her and the creatures ceased attacking, mysteriously her ghost-like foes got on their knees and knelt, as if they were in the presence of their king…
The Earth split, Tyranus, now dozens of stories high emerged from the dark abyss from which he had been imprisoned for so long. He saw his servants before him and grinned evilly, in the distance he saw the metal and concrete kingdom that man had built in his absence-Jump City. Man thought to imprison him, to contain him for the rest of eternity, now he was free again, free to smite the world as he did centuries before.
Below him Danny stared in unimaginable terror as he gazed up at the horror towering above him, the titanic monarch of evil was finally free. Danny caught a glimpse of two figures flying through the air near Tyranus, he knew they were Morgan and Scourge, he knew that they were grinning at him, mocking him, as the world around him seem to crumble Danny felt the weight of Sam in his arms, he felt the burning embers of fire within him begin to grow.