am back!
Wally stood upon the block and tossed the orb from hand to hand; although he did not seem to pay attention to his surroundings, he was alert to the sounds and movements.
Ready? J'ohn asked Wally.
Suppose so. Wally said back, turning to look down upon the Groups as they set up the last of the spells. He glanced down at Anyanka and she raised her head at him.
I think we're almost ready. One last thing and it's done. She told him.
He nodded and continued passing the orb back and forth. Like a spark at his head he suddenly felt the approaching presence.
"Here they come." He said, staring off in the general direction.
"Ready!" Anyanka shouted up at him.
With his sharp eyesight he saw the aircrafts come swooping over the endless sea of sand with Asesino riding upon the front ship.
As they got closer the League began to split up into their groups. One lot to help and protect Anyanka, another to move the block and a last to stop any back up teams. Wally nodded to them all, put the orb down on the top of the block and crouched into a defensive stance, his eyes never leaving the creature approaching.
One thought kept running through his mind, a single convocation he had had with Superman. It had been just after the increase in power and he wanted to know where Wally learnt to fight with daggers from.
"I know you didn't know that before." Supes said, leaning casually against the wall as Wally played with the orb.
"Long story." He replied, his voice drawn out in exhaustion.
"I think we have time." Superman laughed, moving to sit beside the young vampire.
"I…eh…met some other people like me." He explained, refusing to look up. "And she taught me everything." He finally glanced up to see Superman nodding for him to continue.
"They are people who are…mutations." He shrugged. "Human, but not human." He sighed.
"Genetic experiments?" Superman asked.
"No." Wally frowned. "More natural selection. An off breed of the human race. Perhaps where the experiment came from."
"And they taught you how to control it?" Superman asked gently.
"Indeed. But Gabrielle especially." He smiled fondly. "I really must return to them one day. She taught me to control my hunger and anger. To look without eyes, hear without ears, know without knowledge." He looked deep into the strong mans soul. "To find innocents and feed from the guilty."
Did he really agree to feed off those who were evil? More so now than before, but he preferred restraint in killing them unless necessary. Of course he had killed a few evil people, but he would never admit it, but he suspected that J'ohn already knew this. Perhaps it was something in him that told the alien, but that didn't change the way he was treated by the League. By his friends. Friends? Did he still call them that?
Yes, because they accepted him. The same as the Team have. And the Vampire race, he had found the people who understood him. He had left two civilisations to form his own team, and still found good in himself. And to hell with anyone wanting to hurt his friends…his family.
Standing ready he launched himself off as Asesino leapt from the ship, now over head. The two clashed in midair, Asesino getting the upper hand with gravity and hurling Wally down upon the block. The block stayed whole, still protected by the aged magic, but Wally lay still, eyes shut, Asesino standing over him. He moved his gaze from the vampire to the orb a few feet away and made a move to step over the body, his hand outstretched in anticipation.
Wally's eyes snapped open, pure black and one hand shot up, grasping the moving foot by the ankle. In a move so fast it blurred, he swung the ancient being in a circle off the ground and into the air; letting go on the third or forth swing.
The body of Asesino was sent flying through one of the many air crafts that were hovering over to land. The machine blew apart and several robed men were sent tumbling into the waiting sands of the desert.
Wally turned to face the destruction and rotated his ankle as Asesino slowed himself and shot forward for another hit.
Anyanka stretched out her hands on a marked area of the block, banking out the sudden out break in fighting and began chanting an ancient language.
The block glowed and tingled beneath her hands. She gritted her teeth as a body flew over her head, accompanied by the mace of Shayera. Taking a deep breath she flowed her will into the block and felt it pulse with energy.
The League members broke apart as the opposition jumped from the air crafts. Luthor was met head on by Carlen who lashed out with sharp claws. The Team spanning out around her as they honed in on the cause of Wally's troubles. However before anyone else could take a shot, Luthor's team were gathered around him and the two sides met head on.
The League too split up, Superman running straight for the strongest injustice gang members, while Wonder Woman flanked him.
Wally and Asesino fought back and forth equally matched in power. Wally began throwing black fire balls at him, every time he took to the sky.
"You can't win vampire!" he taunted, avoiding another blast.
"Do you ever shut up?"
He laughed. "You are too preoccupied with me to pay attention to your troubles further a field." He told Wally, ducking into a defensive stance, egging him on to come closer.
Wally instantly became suspicious of this movement and risked a quick glance at the carnage around him, taking into sight the fights and anyone in trouble. Confused he saw no one in trouble, and then it clicked.
Turning back he came face to face with Asesino. The ancient grabbed him by the throat and a black stream crept out of his mouth and into the mouth of Wally. He choked on the invading gas and kicked wildly at the body, but already he could feel himself weakening to the invasion.
We are brethren. A voice told him. We are of the same power. Obey me and the huger shall be fed continuously on the sweetness of a soul.
Wally felt himself sink into his own darkness; the voice was all that he needed, all that he felt. But he could still make out the voices and sounds around him, muffled and distorted, like listening through water.
"My lord, what shall we do with the witch?"
"Kill her. Slit her throat, I shall set my slave upon her blood." Asesino answered.
Wally drifted from the sound, welcoming the hunger, the natural need inside himself.
He was vaguely aware that Asesino had released him and he was lying on cold stone on his side.
He could hear a scream of a child and sensed the heat of two bodies.
"Feed from her." Asesino told him as the robed figure pushed Anyanka closer to Wally.
He felt the weakened state of the girl and knew someone had drained her almost dry of power. The hunger took over and he opened red eyes to the throat held before his weakened body, right before his mouth.
His fangs grew in length and the desire grew in his chest, so much so that it hurt.
"Take her!"
He suddenly lunged forward, past Anyanka and straight for the throat of the robed figure, the hood falling away as he was flung back and up.
Wally held onto the robes around his throat and sank his teeth into the supple flesh, drawing forth a fountain of ecstasy as the liquid poured down his throat. He drank greedily, unaware that he was floating several feet above the block and that Anyanka had been taken to one side by John, or that the same magical League members who had helped the Team before were continuing the spell. In fact it wasn't until he felt that last heartbeat give way and pulled away that he realised he was floating, that he also realised that Superman, Shayera and Wonder Woman were collectively fighting Asesino with back up from the Sergeant.
Wally felt the blood release new energy and power; dropping the corpse he licked his lips, relishing the feeling and pleasure.
With a shake of his head he cleared the fog and suddenly dropped out of the sky and straight onto Asesino.
"Move it into place!" Wally barked out, grabbing the Ancient by the top of his scalp and dropped him off the end of the block. No one argued.
Superman, Supergirl and Wonder Woman led the first charge to push the huge structure towards the hole. Anyanka had joined the Magical Leaguers as they rotated around the block, the power building.
Wally calming stepped off the block and landed in the sand, aware that the orb was still on top of the structure.
"You can't keep me down there." Asesino muttered, standing up just as calmly and brushing off the sand from his cloak.
"I think I can manage." Wally said, suddenly appeared before the ancient and grabbed him by the throat.
"You're using my power." He reminded Wally, smirking at the irony.
"What power?" he asked, glancing up at the orb. "That power was already inside me, I simply needed a prod." He laughed, flinging him into the moving block, shifting it a few extra feet.
Asesino hit the sand again, blood bubbling from his mouth. He glanced up as he wiped at the blood, Wally stood before him once more, but this time he launched at his legs.
Wally fell forward with the movement and then found himself being flung up into the air. Asesino followed him up and kicked him into the block, knocking it back even further. But he didn't stop there, he flew into the body and pounded him into the unforgiving stone, his fists were fast and strong, grinding his bones.
"Furgo!" He whispered, sending the blast out, knocking him back. Wally fell to the floor, managing to stay on his knees, blood spurting from his mouth, the fresh meal from before spilled free. Bones ground on each other as he stood to his feet, ducking back down in time to see the fist fly over his head, but not fast enough to dodge the knee aimed for his face.
He fell back and lashed out at the stomach of his attacker, sending him stumbling back.
Taking the distraction in his stride he launched up from the floor and knocked Asesino into the sand, super sonic punches lashing on continuously until they were several feet through the sand.
He picked up the battered body and flung him skyward, flinging himself after the rising body his turn to kick a body back into the block. He ducked the approaching robed figures that came in defence of their master.
"No." he snarled, forming a black shield that knocked them all off their feet.
"Yes!" he turned again to see the same fist and met it with his open hand, catching it easily, skidding backwards a few feet, tracks in the sand. A second fist came at him and he caught that one, the two struggling for dominance.
With a roar he pushed Asesino back and then dropped down, causing the other to fall over his body. He latched onto Asesino's body and kicked off from the ground and onto the block. He sprinted across it and jumped off the other side, into the stone lined hole and deep into a cavern.
Landing forty feet at the bottom and threw the body at the nearest wall and smiled at the sickening impact.
"Do you plan on being trapped down here too?" Asesino asked, staggering back to his feet, hunched over, the same as his opponent.
"No I plan on getting out." Wally panted. Asesino roared, sliding into his path and the two fought on in the darkened cell.
Shayera dropped the robed figure she was beating up and gasped as she saw Wally jump into the hole. The block was so near to it that another minute and it would be covered.
"Wally!" she shrieked.
"He knows what he's doing" she turned to face J'ohn and then glanced over at the people behind him. Most of the injustice gang had fled during Wally's fight above ground. Only the robed loyalists were left to defend their leader.
"But we have to help him!" John shouted up, rounding up several of the followers and depositing them in a bind.
The Team had grouped together and were racing to the hole. They glanced down and held tight to each other.
"Close it!" they all heard Wally shout up.
Superman put all his strength into it and the block touched the edge of the hole. A blinding light shone up from the edges and suddenly the block moved of its own accord, being drawn like a magnet to the opposite rim of the hole.
"Wally!" Wonder Woman shouted.
Then everything thing sparked and the block glowed brighter, the sheer power blasted everyone back and the block slammed into place, the sands whipping around it, returning the hill to its rightful place over the seal. The orb securely buried with the seal.
Carlen was the first up, hobbling to the sandy hill in shock. The Sergeant appeared beside her and took her into his chest as the Professor held Anyanka tightly.
Wonder Woman blinked through the hazy sight of her tears to see Batman walking up to the hill.
"Thank you." Superman heard Bruce whisper.
"Don't turn soft on me." They all gasped as a hand scrambled from the edge of the hill, followed by a sandy covered head, red hair caught in the breeze. Batman reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him up with much effort.
Superman appeared beside him and grabbed Wally's other hand, Wonder Woman grabbed his waist and Shayera and John grabbed Batman, while J'ohn grabbed the two at the end, the lot of them pulling their friend free.
Wally was glad when he was set on his feet and smirked as Superman held him on his feet, knowing fine well he had exerted himself to his absolute limit.
"You did it hot shot!" John said, shaking his shoulder.
"Good to know." He answered tiredly. "Think we can head back?"
In an instant they were all stood in the transport room of the headquarters and different members were being rushed to the medical bay while others escorted the captives to the cells.
Wally and his Team were ushered into medical bay one where they were tended to by the nurses and doctors.
Wally just lay back on his appointed bed and felt the sleep claim him as his body locked itself down to rest. The Leaguers and the Team chattered happily as he drifted off and each shared a set of smiles, content that Wally was alive and happy.
Deep in his dreams he knew that more was to come and that he needed contact with his kind, to understand more about this power, but for now, he was with his family and he had his purpose and his goodness.
well how was that? sorry its taken so long, I'v been working long hours at the bar lol.
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