It's me again! I finally got this chapter finished today & I couldn't wait to post it! Huh? Oh! You guys are wondering how I survived Inuyasha's wrath! Well I simply explained to him that it was my sister who thought up the joke & got myself off the hook. I don't feel bad about putting the blame on my sister because Kagome made him sit before he could do anything to her. But my sister sure wasn't happy. "You can't go around getting half-demos mad at people!" she said. But like I listen to what she says!Anyway, I have good news for Scorpio Serpent: The battle between Kagura & the Titans will begin now!
p.s. To jonakhensu: Draco will not only have wings in this chapter, but claws, fangs, & glowing green eyes as well!
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Scene 6: When Worlds collide
Cyborg & Robin were driving as fast as they could to the spot where Cyborg's instruments said the power was being generated. Starfire, Raven, Draco, & Beastboy were traveling through the air, keeping their eyes peeled for any sign of their objective.
"Has anyone found anything?" Robin asked through his communicator.
"Nope, nothing." Draco replied.
"Me either." Said Beastboy.
"All clear from what I see." Raven added.
"I cannot locate anything- AHHH!" Starfire's communicator suddenly went silent.
"Starfire!" Robin shouted. "We have to find her! Cyborg-"
"I'm way ahead of you." Said Cyborg, as he turned on his tracker & tuned in to the frequency on Starfire's communicator.
Cyborg soon found her location & the Titans went after her.
They found her lying on the ground in the woods, unconscious but otherwise fine.
Robin ran to her side & tried to wake her. "Starfire?" he said. "Are you alright? Starfire?"
Her eyes slowly opened & she groaned softly. "I am unhurt." She said, rubbing her head. "But I believe I have found something."
"What did you find Star?"
"You mean, who did she find?" An unfamiliar female voice answered for Starfire.
Robin looked up & saw a strange woman holding a fan standing about ten feet away from where they were.
"Who are you?" Robin asked, still very angry about what happened to Starfire.
"Her name is Kagura." An all too familiar voice reached Robin's ears.
"Slade!" Robin was really mad now.
"Good to see you again Robin." Said Slade, as he stepped out of the shadows & stood next to Kagura. "I see by your expression however, that the feeling is not mutual."
"What are you up to now Slade?"
"Now Robin, do you really think I would tell you that? I will however tell you what I have done so far. You see, I have recently created a device capable of brining whoever I choose from any period in history. I have recently brought a demon named Naraku from feudal Japan & have made a partnership with him."
"A demon? What do you mean 'partnership'?"
"I have something he wants. I have agreed to give it to him & he, in turn, will give me something I want. Namely, control of the earth & the destruction of my enemies! Kagura here is one of Naraku's 'servants'," Kagura ground her teeth at being called by such a vulgar term. "& she is here to destroy you."
"Yeah right!" Beastboy shouted. "What could she do?"
"Why not ask the alien girl? She has already tasted some of Kagura's power."
They all turned to Starfire. "All I remember…" she said. "Is flying through the air & being thrown to the ground by a strong wind."
"Indeed," Said Kagura, in a smug tone. "A wind created by me. & I assure you, that is not all I can do!"
"Why don't you show them what you can do my dear?"
My dear? Kagura thought. How dare this foolish mortal call me that!?
"I hate to leave Titans," Slade continued. "But I'm afraid I must. But Kagura will be sure to keep you occupied while I'm gone."
Slade said nothing more. He simply disappeared into the shadows once more.
"Now that he's gone," Kagura hummed. "Why don't we have some fun?" She opened her fan. "Come 'Titans', show me what kind of power you possess!"
"Titans," Robin shouted. "Go!"
Robin threw a birdarang at Kagura, but she just stepped out of its way. She then launched an attack of her own. "Wind Blades!" She waved her fan thru the air & several blades seemingly made out of wind came flying at Robin.
Raven shielded Robin just in time, giving Draco the opportunity to attack Kagura with a fireball.
This took Kagura by surprise, but she still managed to generate a gust of wind strong enough to change its course, incinerating a tree next to her. She then unleashed more wind blades in Draco's direction.
Draco's powers kept him from being hurt, but he was still thrown back by the assault.
Beastboy turned into a buffalo & tried to charge at Kagura, but Kagura merely created a tornado that blew Beastboy about a mile away.
Starfire unleashed an assault of green energy on Kagura, which seemed to hurt her, but wasn't quite enough to stop her.
Cyborg decided to give it a try & used his sonic cannon. It fired at full power & would have hit Kagura head on, but she merely stepped out of the way, revealing a little white haired girl with a mirror.
"Oh no!" Cyborg was afraid he was going to hurt an innocent girl, but the blast was absorbed by the mirror. The mirror then shook & the blast came back out & hit him instead. "Ow." Was all Cyborg could say after being hit by his own sonic cannon.
"Allow me to introduce Kanna." Said Kagura. "You could say she's like my little sister, though we are both very different."
"Sister?" Raven asked. "Then she must be a demon too."
"Then let's give her everything we've got!" Draco shouted, as he prepared to hit the new demon with a fire attack.
"Draco, wait!" Shouted Robin. "That mirror she's holding sent Cyborg's attack right back at him. If you use your dragon powers on her you could end up killing yourself."
Draco understood, not even he could withstand the power of dragon fire. He put his arms down with a growl.
"Very wise," Kagura taunted. "But it still won't save you."
But just then, a gorilla jumped out of the trees & grabbed Kagura. The green gorilla held tightly to Kagura's arms so she couldn't move her fan & generate wind.
"Great job Beastboy!" Said Robin. "Now get that fan away from her!"
Raven used her powers to take the fan out of Kagura's hand & crush it. She then turned to Kanna. "Now," she said. "Let's take that mirror away from you."
She used her powers to create two dark hands which gripped the mirror on either side, but no matter how hard Raven pulled it would not budge from the girl's grasp. Kanna's mirror began to glow & Raven felt as though something was pulling the life right out of her.
Draco tried to run to help her, but Kagura generated a wind which blew Beastboy off of her. She then summoned the skeletons of bears, mountain lions, & people who had died in the woods long ago to keep a hold on all the Titans.
"You fools!" She shouted triumphantly. "You thought that little fan was the key to my power? It was merely a tool! As are these old skeletons which hold you all."
"What is this?" Robin asked, struggling to get free."
"Oh, did I neglect to mention that I could control lifeless bodies as well as wind? Sorry about that."
They struggled to get free, but even Cyborg couldn't release himself from these undead puppets.
Draco looked over at where Raven & Kanna stood, & saw that Raven had fallen to her knees, as the mirror pulled something glowing out of Raven's body.
"What is she doing to her?!" he demanded.
"Kanna?" Kagura casually asked. "She is simply sucking out your friend's soul. I'm afraid she doesn't have long before she's just an empty shell."
Draco turned back to Raven, worry written all over his face. "Raven!" He called to her, hoping she would wake up & use her powers to break away from Kanna's spell. But she just sat motionless, her eyes growing dimmer by the second. She really didn't have long. "Raven!!" Draco struggled against his skeleton captor with new energy, until his dragon strength finally won out & the skeleton bear which held on to him broke apart. Kagura merely looked on in interest. Draco summoned up all the power he could, & two emerald wings appeared on his back. Draco usually kept to his human form in order to control his primal dragon instincts, but when he wanted to unleash his truest power Draco's eyes would glow bright green & he would grow dragon wings, claws, & fangs. He flew faster than a jet & got close to Kanna. He then unleashed a stream of bright green dragon fire directly at the white haired demon girl.
Kanna released Raven & turned the mirror to face Draco's attack. The green fire was absorbed by the mirror, & before Draco realized what had happened, his own attack was launched back at him.
The Titans looked on in horror as their friend was engulfed in green flame. & when the flames subsided, Draco fell to the ground. No one could tell if he was alive or dead, but he was in bad shape, they were sure.
Raven slowly awoke. Her soul had returned to her body, but she still felt a little strange. She looked over & saw a smoking body lying on the ground. She was horrified to realize that it was Draco that was lying motionless.
"Draco!!" She shouted in fear, as she ran to his side. "Draco! Wake up!" She held his head in her lap & checked his pulse. It was there, but faint. She thanked God for that much.
"Well," Said Kagura. "I think we've done enough. Let's go Kanna." She pulled a feather out of her hair, which grew to an enormous size & carried her & Kanna thru the air. "Until we meet again Titans!" she called, as they floated out of sight.
Now that Kagura was gone, Robin & the others were able to break out of the now lifeless skeletons' grasp & ran to Draco's side.
"He's still alive," Said Raven. "But he's hurt really bad. I'll have to use a lot of my power if he's going to survive." She was already working on his injuries. "What do we do now?"
"You stay here & take care of Draco." Robin replied. "We'll follow Kagura. She'll lead us to Slade, & this 'Naraku' that Slade mentioned."
"Follow her!?" Beastboy shouted. "Dude, do you realize how badly we got our buts kicked? & those skeletons were nasty! I'm gonna have to shower twice tonight to get that nasty mountain lion zombie's smell off me!"
"We don't have a choice Beastboy. Whatever Slade's planning, we have to put a stop to it!"
"Then you'd better get going." Said Raven, still trying to concentrate on Draco's wounds. "I'll be alright here."
The others agreed & left to follow Kagura.
Raven turned back to Draco & tried to concentrate her mind on healing his injuries, but when she looked at his face & saw him in such pain she couldn't help but wonder why he'd done such a foolish thing… for her. But she had to snap out of it. She couldn't heal him if she let her emotions run wild like this. She closed her eyes & chanted so that she wouldn't get distracted anymore. "Azarath Metrion Zynthos. Azarath Metrion Zynthos. Azar-"
She was interrupted by a low moan. She opened her eyes & saw Draco slowly wake up. "Ra… Raven?" his voice was still very weak & his breaths were shallow.
Raven had to restrain herself from crying out how glad she was that Draco was still alive. "Don't talk." she said, in her usual unemotional tone. "I'm trying to heal your major injuries so that your dragon powers can heal the rest without trouble. So don't waste your energy."
"Raven… I'm… glad that you're okay…"
"Of course I'm okay. But you aren't! What were you thinking? You knew that Kanna could reflect your powers right back at you, so what did you do? You used the full force of your powers in one attack! You're lucky you didn't kill yourself!"
"You… know what happened?"
"I guessed. It isn't that hard to see what happened."
Draco chuckled softly, though it hurt. "I've… always liked that about you Raven… You never miss a thing… I wish I was as observant as you… or… maybe even as smart… then maybe I wouldn't suck at math the way I do… & I wouldn't do things… to make you mad…"
Raven was surprised to hear him say things like that. "What are you talking about?" She was still working diligently on healing Draco, but now she couldn't take her eyes off his face.
"I make you mad sometimes… & I wish I didn't."
"You do make me a little angry sometimes… but you're no worse than Beastboy or Cyborg."
"Yeah… but… I still feel guilty for it… I don't ever want to see you angry… all I ever wanted… was to see you happy… even just a little happy…" Raven couldn't help but smile. "Yeah… like that…" Draco closed his eyes, his breathing had returned to normal & Raven was relieved to see him asleep.
She healed him as much as her powers would allow & sat silently beside him, watching him sleep. Raven didn't realize it, but a tear rolled down her cheek.
Meanwhile, in the clearing where Kagura & Kanna appeared, Inuyasha & the others stepped through the portal.
"Where are we?" Asked Shippo, as he sat on Kagome's shoulder.
"I'm not sure." Miroku replied. "But wherever it is, I sense a great evil nearby."
Kagome noticed a newspaper on the ground & picked it up; she read the date & couldn't believe her eyes. "Can it be?" She asked herself.
"What is it Kagome?" Asked Sango.
"Look." She held up the paper. "This newspaper says that the year is 2005! We've somehow gone through time & we're back in my own time period!"
"Your time period?" Inuyasha looked about in disbelief. "But this doesn't look like your time."
"That's because we aren't in Japan anymore. It says here that we're in Jump City. We're in America!"
"America? Where the heck is 'America'?
"It wasn't discovered untill a little after your time, but in my time it's one of the most powerful countries in the world. But why would Naraku be here?"
"That is something you'll have to find out later on." They all turned to see a familiar form in a baboon skin step out of the shadows. "Welcome to the twenty-first century."
"Naraku!" Inuyasha shouted. "I thought I smelled something rotten!" he pulled out his sword & prepared for battle. "Now why don't we get this over with?"
"Have patience Inuyasha, I shall destroy you in time. But first, I would like to introduce you to my new friends." They suddenly became surrounded by hundreds of Slade's robots. "What do you think of my new army? My new partner Slade was quite generous when he gave them to me."
"I don't know what kinda demons these are," Inuyasha growled. "& I don't know who Slade is, but I do know that any friend of yours is a future dead enemy of mine! So give me your best shot!"
In answer to Inuyasha's boast, a robot charged at him full force, & the battle began.
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I hope the ending wasn't too sudden for you. I wanted to end it here because I felt that the chapter was running too long, & I'm sorry I didn't have Inuyasha & the gang meet the Titans in this chapter as I said they would last time. I would also like to apologise for the mushy little scene about Raven & Draco, I'm probably rushing the pairing a bit but I needed something to give the romance a boost. I would like to know what you thought about this chapter, especially the fight scene between Kagura & the Titans. I am not the best at writing fight scenes, but I sorta liked this one. Please review!
Next time: the Teen Titans meet Inuyasha & friends! (this time fer sure!)
