Oh my god I'm so so sorry about this. I have had a very busy two months.
First I start a new job that literally take all me time, from the moment I wake up till I go to bed at night even then I still get calls in the middle of the night. That combine the fact that I've got instant inspiration to write a High School of the Dead crossover with Resident Evil and a little of Left 4 Dead elements. In one week I have already written about four to five chapters. This has cause a little writers block for all of my stories. Thankfully I recovered my old hard drive that had most of this chapter and the next mostly written out, but even then it took me forever to write out this chapter.
With that in mind I want to let you guys know that chapters will be coming out very slowly. As I mention before my life is a little chaotic and doesn't look like it will slow down for a while. I know what you are thinking.
"But DR why?"
Well let me tell you, as some of you know it has been my lifelong dream to live in Japan, but the only problem with that is what I would do for work while I'm over there. Which in order to get a visa you have to show proof that you have some way to make an income. Now thanks to a dear friend of mine I now have that and I'm being trained to do so. That is why my time is now taken up.
Don't worry your pretty little heads. I will not give up on my stories especially this one. I have so many chapter ideas I can still be working on this story for years to come. In fact I've recently have another story idea about this universe. It's not going to be like my Shadow Fox though; instead everything will sort of remain the same. But with a huge difference: Our main character will be a villain instead.
I think that this has a lot of promise. I mean with the background Blitz has most people would break. I just don't know if I will make the Titans the good guys or the bad guys or I'll just do both ideas.
Now my Rosario+Vampire story is in the works.
My Vocaloid story is in the same stage.
I'm still hammering out the details for the DC, Star Wars, and Mass Effect self-inserts.
And my Star Fox story is in the writing stage along with the High School of the Dead.
Please tell me what you guys think alright. After all you are the one who will be reading them.
Okay that out of the way.
I still need theme songs: If it has a (?) by it that means it a possible theme song. If you guys agree with that choice send me a PM or review, and the one that has the most votes will become the theme. If a character already has a theme song chosen and you have a song that might be better. Go ahead and send it to me, if I think it's better than the current one I'll change it.
And I have started removing songs that have the lowest votes for the ones that have been up for a while.
Blitzkrieg/Sean: Guardian Angel by Abandon All Ships (?)-[1 Vote]
New Divide by Linkin Park(?)-[2 vote]
Light: Phenomenon by Thousand Foot Krutch (?)-[1 Vote]
Drake: Monster by Skillet (?)-[2 Vote]
Robin: Let it Roll-Divide the Day (?)-[1 Vote]
You're Going Down By Sick Puppies (?)-[1 Vote]
Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional (?)-[2 Vote]
Starfire: Strangers like Me by Phil Collins (?)-[1 Vote]
Raven: Abracadavre by Elena Siegman (?)-[2 votes]
Beast Boy: Animal I have become by Three Days Grace (?)- [3 votes]
Cyborg: Stronger by Kanye West (?)- [1 Vote]
Terra: It's Never Too Late by Three Days Grace (?)- [1 Vote]
Slade: Super Villain by Powerman 5000 (?)- [3 votes]
Insanity by Disturbed (?)- [2 votes]
Out of my Way by Seether(?)- [1 Vote]
Zero: Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus(?)- [1 vote]
Avenged Sevenfold-Nightmare(?)- [1 Vote]
Ravager: Fear by Disturbed(?)- [1 vote]
Trigon: Swinging the Dead by Devildriver(?)- [1 vote]
The Sons of Trigon: Burn it to the Ground by Nickleback(?)- [2 vote]
Red X: Good-bye by SR-71 (?) –[1 Vote]
I Stand Alone by Godsmack-(?) [2 Vote]
Jinx: Die for You by Megan McCauley- [1 vote]
I'm accepting songs for any characters that have yet to make an appearance or have made an appearance. Like Jinx, Red X, Ravager est. est.
Also if there is a particular character that you want to see in this fic. Please let me know and I'll see what I can do. Keep in mind it has to be from the DC universe and if that particular hero or heroine has multiple versions of themselves let me know as well so I can know how to write them up (For an example- Robin I=Dick Grayson, Robin II=Jason Todd, Robin III=Timothy Drake).
I am also wondering if anybody wants to draw my character since I have no talent in that department. This picture could be solo or with somebody like Raven or the rest of the Titans, and before you ask no I won't pay mainly because I don't have the funds (I can't send Rupees out of India) and I don't have a way to pay right now.
Sorry of any mistakes as I'm pressed for time right now.
A Book Man and a Pissed Off Kitsune
Wisps of cloud hovered in a gloomy green sky, obscuring a dim moon. Below, a battle torn castle is standing in the middle of a small island in the middle of a sea. Inside, a great battle was taken place, in the mist of flames. The combatants were a man with long white hair, dressed in black and outfitted in light silvery gray armor the letter M adorn on the front. A black cape fluttered behind him, while a scarf hid everything below his piercing blue eyes. His hands covered in white light. The other fighter was a black dragon, with a dark purple underbelly and gleaming red eyes.
At least, that was the mental image that Raven made up as she was reading a thick white book in her room.
It was the book that Raven had been trying to read for the past two days, but couldn't because of the ruckus that is cause by being a teenage superhero. The book in question spoke of a wizard named Malchior, who at the point where Raven had reached, was standing against the terrible dragon Rorek.
As she continued reading, the dragon hurls a stream of flames at its foe, who conjured a shield of white energy to defend himself, after struggling against the torrent of flames. When the flames stopped the wizard retaliated with a ball of power that struck the dragon head on. The dragon spat out more fire, which Malchior dodged and then hit him with a blast of energy, at which Rorek folded one wing over himself to protect him, and lashed out with his tail and crushed the pillar that Malchior was standing on making the wizard fall to the ground.
Getting to his feet, he cast a spell, "Necronom Hezbarek Mortyx!" which collapsed the ground around the dragon except for the risen path where he stood, causing the dragon to fall below. "And so it came to pass that I, Malchior of Nol, did lay siege to the dread dragon Rorek," Raven read. The book then went on to say that as Malchior began to walk away the dragon returned once again and ensnaring Malchior with its tail. "But it did seem the power of Rorek was greater than my magic's could defeat. And as the fell beast struck-" The Titan's sorceress was interrupted from her reading by the sound of the alarm going off.
"Hey, Raven!" Beast Boy's voice called out. "Put the pedal to the metal! We gotta go!" Though annoyed at being disturbed, she still closed her book, set it down on her bed and went to join the other Titans.
Away from Titan's Tower, in a park complete with a playground, a bunch of children were having fun. Kids were on the monkey bars, swings, at a sandbox, on other play sets, or just running around. A small red and white box with a heart and a crank on the side came out from the bushes, prompting some of the youngsters closest to come look at it. The crank turned around by itself for a moment, until a pink stuffed rabbit sprung out. "Hey, look at that bunny," a small black haired boy said.
But, to their surprise, the whole thing then disappeared, and something that looked like a giant heart with long, metal tentacles rose from the bushes. Seeing it, the kids ran away in panic, but it simply extended one of its tentacles and a young brunette girl found herself being pulled towards it by a vacuum. She fell to the ground and tried to dig with her hands, yet was still being pulled. Fortunately for her, a trio of bird-a-rangs sliced the offending limb, the girl was picked up, and in a quick jump by Blitz, she was taken away to safety. "Sandy," Blitz said putting the girl down, "You and the others get out of here."
"Blitz?!" Sandy said with a smile, "Thank you so much."
"Don't worry about it, go lead the kids out of the park," the girl nodded and sprinted away.
Cyborg hit the monstrosity with a blast from his sonic cannon.
"Cardiac," Robin said to the heart shaped thing. "You're under arrest." The monster, apparently named Cardiac, got up from the ground and sucked up the pieces of its limb, which then reattached themselves making them whole again. Cardiac flew upward and extended its tentacles towards the Titans. "Titans, GO!" Robin said as they dispersed to avoid the attack. "Starfire, launch!" The alien girl grabbed Robin's foot and swung him around aiming towards the large heart. Robin slammed his bo-staff against Cardiac's top, the added momentum from the throw made the heart crash into the ground.
Robin's eyes widened in surprise as the monster catapulted him into Starfire, launching them into the air. "T-Rex take down!" Cyborg called out as he landed on top of Beast Boy, who had turned into that specific dinosaur, the cybernetic teenager aimed his sonic cannon at Cardiac. As they charged forward, the heart ensnared them in its tentacles and hurled them into the ground a distance away.
Cardiac was then crushed by two boulders, "Ha, take that," Terra yelled out standing on top a floating chuck of earth. The next moment Cardiac 'arms' wrapped around the boulders that had crushed him and flung them back at the geo-kinetic, "Oh, boy." She flipped the boulder she was standing on and used it as a shield. Terra was thrown back by the force of the impact.
Hovering in the air, Raven used her powers to pick up a half dozen lamp posts and threw them at the monster, who smashed through these with its limbs. The young sorceress changed into a raven of black energy which flew away to avoid getting struck. "Raven," Blitz called out. The Titan appeared beside Blitz, "I got a plan."
When the two Titans were ready to put the plan in motion they turn around to see that Beast Boy was trapped in the mouth of one of the tentacles, struggling to avoid being pulled in. Cardiac flung the changeling out sending him into a tree.
(A/N: Play Devil May Cry 4 OST Lucifer or whatever Lucifer's entrance song is called.)
"Show time," Blitz said as he ran and jump kicks the heart. He then pushed himself off before Cardiac could retaliate. Blitz reached into his belt and pulled out a bunch of kunai and throwing knifes. With a smirk he augmented them with fire and lightening, while he threw them he spoke:
"First I wipe it out!" he started holding six kunai in between his fingers. Each of them crackled with lightening.
"Then I thrust it!" he threw them imbedding them in Cardiac's tentacles holding them down and shocking it.
"With great force!" Blitz pulled out a staff and set it on fire and slammed it in the center of the heart while it was stunned. "Every angle!" he threw a few more knifes this time they landed around the staff. "It penetrates," a few throwing stars landed on a few more tentacles that were about to lash out, "Until," Blitz began dancing in the air throwing flamed kunai. "With great strength!"
"I ram it in!" he threw is last staff into Cardiac.
The other Titans, sans Starfire, were hiding their faces at the massive innuendo that was coming out of Blitz's mouth. Luckily there was nobody around to hear this, if the press heard this it would be a PR nightmare.
"In the end…." He landed a rose made out of lightening in his mouth. He clapped his hands, "We are all satisfied," all of the kunais and throwing knifes exploded causing Cardiac to screech, "…and I set you free," and tossed the lightening rose at the staffs shocking Cardiac causing a few cracks to show up.
"NOW RAVEN," Blitz called out as he caught his staffs that were blasted back to him. Raven then flew towards the villain, "Time to end this!" she declared, at which her eyes glowed white. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Two beams of black telekinetic energy shot out from her hands and enveloped Cardiac. The young sorceress split her hands apart, resulting in the monster to exploded and fall apart.
"Wow," Terra said, "Nice teamwork."
"Dudes!" Beast Boy said as the other Titans observed the wreckage. "Way to take him apart."
"Can we go now?" Raven asked, already sitting in the T-Car with her seat belt buckled.
"Uh, sure," Robin said, finding her behavior to be a bit strange.
As the Titans made their way back to the Tower they didn't notice the inactive pieces of Cardiac slithering into the sewers, and began regenerating.
That night, Raven was in her room reading from her new book. "But it did seem the power of Rorek was greater than my magic's could defeat." The mage began seeing the dragon rear its head back and spit out flames. "And as the fell beast struck-" Once again, Raven's reading was interrupted, this time by the sound of someone knocking at her door.
Annoyed, she set down the book, walked to the door and opened it, seeing Blitz who stood in front of her room she calmed down. "Hey," he greeted her. "When we got home, you kind of ran to your room and locked the door. Anything you wanna talk about?"
"No," she answered simply.
"You sure?" Blitz asked etching a bit closer to her, "You know you can talk to me about anything right." His tone was soft and caring which made the mage feel warm inside.
Raven just sighed, "I just have this book that I've been trying to read for the past week." Blitz nodded his head sagely, "I know the feeling. I'll let you get back to it then, tell me how it is okay," he turned and left not before saying, "Be careful Cy and BB are planning something earlier."
"Got it," she said with a nod before closed the door and went back to the book, opening it to the same page.
"-greater than my magic's could defeat. And as the fell beast struck, I-" Again, Raven's mental image was ruined, like a film going off its reel during a movie, by someone knocking at the door. She walked over and opened it enough to see Starfire, with a….new ungodly hairstyle.
"I have journeyed to the mall of shopping, I have discovered the joy of earthly hair ornaments. Do you wish to-?"
"No," Raven said curtly, then turned back into her room again, leaving a disappointed Starfire behind. And once again, with a sigh, she turned to the same scene and attempted to continue reading.
"And as the fell beast struck, I summoned the forces of my enchanted book. 'Aldruon, Enlenthra nalthos, Sola narisnor!' And with a curse more ancient than foul Rorek himself, I-"
"Yo Raven!" Cyborg's voice came into her room at the same time as he was knocking at her door.
"Dude, open up!" Beast Boy added.
Brimming with anger that literally made her hair stand up, Raven stomped over to her door and opened it wide, surprising the two male titans and Terra. "What?"
"We're here tonight with an exclusive offer," Beast Boy spoke up as the two boys were surrounded what look like paid program commercial. You know like the one that you see when you stay up all night because you got nothing else to do and there nothing good on. But you thought 'Hey why not its not like I could go to bed or do something constructive and I want to kill a few brain cells'.
"A once-in-a-lifetime chance to get in on America's fastest growing sport sensation…" Beast Boy said.
"The hot new game we just made up…" Terra announced.
"Stankball!" the trio said, as Cyborg held out a ball of what appeared to mostly be dirty, smelly old socks, held together by an unknown means, and Raven didn't want to know. He then took a whiff, "WOO!" and passed out.
"Wanna be referee?" Beast Boy asked, holding out a cloak with black and white stripes.
Raven, who's hair was surrounded dark purple energy, answered with barely controlled anger said, "Go… away."
She glided back into her room, the door closing behind her, but Beast Boy put himself in its way, "But pleeeease?" he begged.
"Everybody loves a good game of stankball," Cyborg said.
"And we need a referee to play it a lightning round," Terra added waving her finger around.
"No!" Raven then zapped the three of them with her powers, forcing them out of her doorway allowing it to close fully.
"Raven, come on!" the green Titan continued, trying to his teammate to come out, "Why can't you just have fun like normal people? Why are you always locked in your dark room, reading your nasty old books? Why do you have to be so creepy?"
"Forget it B. Leave her alone." Cyborg said ushering Beast Boy away.
The mage leaned against her door a small frown in her lips, "I'm not creepy, I'm just different," Raven muttered to herself, her cloak taken on a slight grey tinged to it. She trudged back her bed. She sat down on the edge of her bed and hugged her book. In her depressed state she didn't notice the book glowed a slight shade of white, "And I wish there were someone who understood that. Someone I could talk to. Someone more… like me."
"There is," a voice spoke up, seemingly coming from the book, surprising Raven making her drop it on the floor. "Oww."
"Uhh, did you just…" she trailed off pointing at the book.
"Speak?" the said book spoke.
Utterly confused the mage nodded her head, "Uh huh," she said contemplating whether she should destroy the book or not. Raven knew how dangerous magical objects can be, and this book was defiantly magical.
"I did. And then you dropped me on my spine," the book said with a small drone a little miffed at the slightly pained experience.
"Oh, sorry. Books aren't supposed to talk," Raven shot back.
"True, fair maiden," the book conceded, "But I am no book." It opened up by itself and started flipping through the pages until it came upon a half torn page where it showed the upper half of a man's face. "I am a man, Malchior of Nol, at your service."
"The wizard who faced the dread dragon Rorek?" Raven asked in surprised.
"The wizard who defeated Rorek," he clarified. "And who was trapped within these pages by the dragon's final curse."
"Trapped? But that battle was almost…" Raven said looking down in confusion.
"One thousand years ago," Malchior filled in, "And I've been waiting for someone to find me ever since. Raven, I've been waiting for you." The pages turned until arriving at one that showed Raven with her eyes closed and a serene expression on her face giving her angelic look.
The sorceress in question blushed a little upon seeing this. She then tried using her powers on the book, making the book flash in response. "The curse is strong. I'm sorry," she said with a disappointed expression on her face. "I don't think my power can break it."
The book flipped back to Malchior's face. "I know. But perhaps we could just… talk?" his tone said that he didn't expect anything to happen.
At the moment, Blitz in the Ops room, sipping on some tea while he went over some notes on a project of his. Robin and Starfire were sitting two seats down from him, "What are you reading Blitz?" the Boy Wonder asked.
"Notes on a project that I have been working on," Blitz answered as Robin came over to look at the notes. "What language is that, and what kind of project if it alright for me to ask."
"I don't mind you asking, as for your first question. It's an ancient language that my clan used, which evolved into the language used by the Japanese now."
"So it's like an ancient form of Japanese?
"Yes," Blitz said with a nodded his ears flicked when the doors open revealing Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Terra, "As for the project, I won't say too much right now but I will say this." He paused making everybody lean forward, "You'll enjoy the results." He got up and went to his room to finished his project before retiring for the night.
Later on in the evening Blitz was in his room working on a project of his. Red and blue lights flashed and orange sparks flew around the area. The kitsune host was working on an object using his clan's version of magic.
"Almost done," he muttered as he grabbed a small hammer that had a few runes on it, "Just one last…." Blitz brought the hammer down surrounding the area in bright white light.
-BOOM-
Blitz was sent flying out of his room by the power of the impact, taking the door with him as smoke leaked from within.
The blonde Titan rushed out of her room and headed towards Blitz's down form, "Blitz are you alright," Terra asked with a cough, as she helped up the Kitsune Clan member.
"Yea," he answered with his own cough. Blitz went back into his room and picked up the object and examined it. A large smile graced his soot covered face. "I've done it!" he yelled out in glee.
"What is it?" Terra said peaking over Blitz's shoulder. She let out a small gasp, "It's so beautiful. Is it for Raven?"
"Yes," the host said moving towards his desk where a small black box with red velvet silk laid, "and I know she is going to love it." Blitz then placed the object inside of the box and closed it.
Back in Raven's room, the mage fixed the talking book on a pedestal, after the giant explosion from Blitz's room shook it off.
"NOBODY PANIC EVERYTHINGS UNDER CONTROL," Blitz yelled through the intercom.
Raven open at the page showing Malchior's face. "Anyway where was I? Oh yes Stankball?" he asked referring to the game that Raven was explaining to him. "You're joking."
"They wanted me to referee," the mage droned.
"Smashing," he said with obvious sarcasm. "You must be the luckiest girl in the world. And this Beast Boy sounds like an absolute genius."
Raven laughed a little at this. "That's funny. You're funny," she said.
"And you're the best thing that's happened to me in a thousand years," the book said in a sincere tone.
"Then… you don't think I'm… creepy?" the mage asked cautiously not wanting to hear the answer, but at the same time she did.
"Certainly not!" Malchior exclaimed as if the mere thought was foolish, "You may be dark, and darkness is often misunderstood, but I feel like I understand you."
"I feel that way too," Raven said with a yawn.
"It's late. You should get some rest," the book man pointed out.
"Do you promise you'll still be here when I wake up?" she asked.
In response, a page split into a bunch of strands which wove themselves into a paper rose. "I promise." Raven then picked up the book closed it around the rose and lay back down on her bed, smiling as she fell asleep.
In Nevermore Raven's emotion clones had found themselves trapped in some kind of clear dome. Their ability to influence Raven was cut, and all they could do is watched as darkness began to tighten its hold on the mage's mind.
"Damn it," Bravery shouted punching dome with all her might not even making a mark. "This thing is tough," the green cloaked girl said to the other emotion clones.
"What should we do?" Logic asked.
"What can we do?" Knowledge said, "I'll try and think of something but for now we should wait and save our energy."
"I wish Sean was here," Timid sniffled.
The clones looked through their prison watching as their Alpha was dreaming about a certain man trapped in a book.
In the room next to her Blitz had just removed his shirt and was about to lay down when Light contacted him, 'I'm detecting a magical spike in Raven's room.'
'Well considering that Raven is a sorceress that is to be expected correct,' Blitz said twisting his body around loosening his muscles.
'Yes but this is not coming from Raven though.'
That made Blitz paused, 'How big is it?' he asked moving to grab his equipment but stop when Light answered, 'Not very, I barely detected it. Its small but it's there.'
After a moment of thinking he spoke, 'Alright then keep an eye on it if it gets worse let me know. I'm getting a bad feeling about all of this,' Blitz began rubbing his head, 'Cardiac only made one appearance in the show I think, and I don't think that it was a good episode. Although I'm not 100% sure.'
'Don't worry I'll keep you updated,' Light said as Blitz laid down on his bed.
'Night Light.'
'Good night my soul-partner.'
The following day, as the sun was shining high and brightly in the sky the Titans, minus Raven, were sitting around the Ops room.
"Does anybody know where Raven's at?" Blitzkrieg asked looking up from his book that was about half-demon's physiology, "I haven't seen her all day. I didn't even see her during our morning meditations. She never misses a morning."
Cyborg turned and looked at Beast Boy, Blitz followed his gazed, "Do you know something Beast Boy?" he inquired.
Said Titan began shifting nervously, "I… uh…. kinda might have uh…. said that she was…. uh…. creepy…."
-Slam-
Blitzkrieg closed his book sending a glare at BB, "Beast Boy." He said with a deadly calm. The temperature in the room seemed to have climbed making everyone sweat, "Fix your mistake. NOW!" he growled making the Titian yelp and ran out of his room.
"Don't you think that was a bit much?" Robin wiping his brow as the temperature cooled down. Blitz just shrugged his shoulders and went back to his book.
Beast Boy made his way towards Raven's room and knocked on the door. "Raven," he called out. "Umm, it's almost noon and you haven't come out of your room. So, just in case you're mad, I'm gonna go ahead and say… sorry I called you creepy last night."
Silence greeted his apology.
"Raven?" He then held his ear close to the door.
"Perhaps if we're quiet, he'll just go away," Malchior's voice whispered, at which Raven laughed a little.
"Umm, Raven? Is everything-?" Beast Boy began, but was interrupted by the door opening up and Raven standing on the other side, hood covering most of her face. Her cloak had turned a light blue, "Hi. Umm… you were… laughing. And I thought I heard… Is there someone in there?" Beast Boy asked as he tried to peek inside the room.
"Just me," she replied in a deadpan voice before her lips quirked upwards in a small smirk, "and a really good book."
"Oh. Well… I just wanted to make sure you were okay," the green Titan said.
"Better than okay, way better" Raven said, then closed the door and turned back into her room.
Beast Boy let out a sigh before walking down the hallway were he ran into Blitz. "I apologized I swear," he screeched. The Lightening King nodded, "Good, may you have a splendiferous day," he said leaving a confused Titan.
Blitz arrived at Raven's room and knocked and waited. The door to the room opened revealing the Titans sorceress, "Yo Raven," he greeted.
"What is it?" she said with a slight up beat tone.
Blitz took in Raven's positive mood with a raised brow. He shrugged his shoulders, "Just making sure you're alive," he smirked causing Raven giggle. Blitz eyebrow retreated into his hair, Raven never giggled.
"No I'm quite alive."
"I see," he said, though not without a touch of uncertainty. "So how's the book?"
Raven smiled making Blitz feel warm inside, "Perfect."
Blitz smiled a little at seeing Raven's expression. "I see, well remember if you need anything I'm next door."
"I know," Raven said as she closed the door. Blitz began to turn towards his room when his enhanced hearing picked up something from Raven's room, "Sorry about the interruptions, Malchior," her muffled voice said.
Blitz frowned, "Malchior? Why is that name familiar?" he asked himself rubbing a finger on his chin. "And why does it bring so much anger and hate?" he question himself as he walked into his room.
Shortly afterwards, Raven found herself sitting on the floor of her room, surrounded by a ring of candles and an assortment of jars full of different ingredients. Malchior's book opened on the pedestal in front of her. She dropped a handful of small, pink petals into a large goblet filled with a grayish powder, causing blue sparks to appear for a second. She added some blue sand causing a small explosion as the powder to shrink in size. She then grabbed a vial of white powder and after stirring it a bit, poured its contents into the goblet, she began adding a few more ingredients, "I've never even heard of this spell. Where did you learn it?" she asked Malchior.
"It's in the Galyan Scrolls," he answered.
"You've read the Galyan Scrolls?" Raven said in disbelief and wonder.
"And the Mornal Archives and the Stones of Sur, I've been trapped in a book. Not much to do but read." The book man chimed chuckling a bit.
"I think it's almost ready," Raven said as she added some kind of liquid and set it aside.
"Good," Malchior said, "There's just one more ingredient." A page from the book lashed out and cut off an inch from a few strands of Raven's hair not enough to be noticeable. The stands of hair fell into the goblet of ingredients. "A lock of hair, from a beautiful girl."
Raven's eyes widened a little in surprise upon hearing this. "Beautiful?" she said grabbing a few stands of her hair and rubbing it. 'No one has ever told me that I was beautiful,' she thought wistfully, 'not even Sean has told me.'
"I truly appreciate all that you're doing for me Raven," Malchior said with a smile if he had lips.
"I may not know how to break the curse, but at least I can get you out of that book," Raven said determinedly grabbing the goblet and poured some of its contents into the palm of her hand, and blew it towards the book. The magical sand began to swirl around the magical book, making the pages fly out and circle around Raven. The pages then began to closed the circle around the front of the book until joining together to form a figure of a man. His body was bare except for its face which was a pair of eyes.
"Thank you," Malchior spoke through his new form, a small circle illuminating ground around the pedestal.
"You're welcome," Raven said with a smile.
The paper wizard took a few steps away from the book and put his left hand out towards Raven, but stopped when his left hand came apart. "Silly me," he said moving towards the book, once inside the circle his hand reformed, "Of course… I remain bound to the book."
"Because the curse is still in effect," Raven guessed.
"Indeed. If I am ever to be truly free, well… it would require magic of much greater power," The book man guessed scratching his chin.
"Then teach me the spells," the mage said with clenched fist, "I want to help you. I want to learn."
Malchior looked at Raven before speaking again, "To break this curse," he said wrapping an arm around Ravens shoulder, "I must teach you more than a few simple spells. I must teach you everything I know." Raising his hand it glowed brightly with white energy, and in a flash of light summoned every single book in Malchior's library into Raven's room filling it to the brim. "The Book of Nord," Malchior spoke up as the books began flying around. "The Endrial Verses, The Romanomicon, the Bersian Chronicles. More than 6,000 pages of spells, charms and incantations."
"That's a lot of reading," the mage said before diving in.
As the week went on, Raven spent all of her time in the books hardly coming out except to grab a bit to eat. She dove into the large selection of magical books, drinking the knowledge that each tome had. Not once did she noticed that her uniform was slowly losing it's dark color. Blitz also felt the changes coming from Raven, although he was confused by it along with power fluctuations, but he chalked it up as Rachel doing some kind of work with her magic.
During that time Malchior would teach her magic that she had learned. There was an incident where Malchior's head had briefly caught fire, before Raven hurriedly put it out with her hands. She blushed by the contact. And there were times were the two would simply talk about things, mostly about the other members of the Teen Titans.
"I've heard of you talk about this, Blitzkrieg fellow quite a lot. What is he like?" Malchior inquired one day as they were taking a quick break from magic training.
"He's my first true friend that I have had. He's kind, intelligent, and he really has a talent for writing and drawing. His powers lightening based although recently they evolved into fire control as well." Raven said bring her knees up so that she could rest her head on them. "In many ways he just like me," she said with a small smile, "He is often misunderstood because of his choice of attire. I know you will like him."
The book man wasn't listening though his mind was elsewhere, "Control over fire and lightening?" Malchior muttered with a raised eyebrow. If had eyebrows to raise, "Tell me he wouldn't have a fox like appearance and a spirit living inside of him?"
Raven looks at him with mild shock, "Yes. Why?" she asked surprised that he could nail Blitz's appearance without even meeting him.
'Could he be…? No they died out long ago,' Malchior thought to himself, "Nothing just curious."
After some time of reading, listening to her teacher and practicing, Malchior thought to help speed things up by download the knowledge into her mind via her charka stone on her forehead. At the end of the week Raven finally managed to perfect her abilities with the spells from Malchior's books.
That night marked one week since the fight against Cardiac, and six of the Titans found themselves in the main room. Robin and Starfire were simply leaning on the counter in the kitchen area and chatting with each other; while Cyborg, Terra, and Beast Boy were playing a racing video game. Blitz was leaning near the refrigerator sipping on some tea.
The door to the room opened up making everybody look up. Even the gamers tore away from the screen stared. Everybody froze in surprise by the sight that greeted them.
Raven had entered into the main room, wearing her usual garb with the hood down. What surprised the others was the fact that her clothes were completely white, in addition to the fact that she was sporting an openly happy expression on her face. With a nod she floated from the door over to the refrigerator, humming cheerfully to herself as her friends watched. She open the door to the fridge and made an apple float towards her open hand. She began chewing on it as the others made their way close to her. "Umm… Hey, Raven," Robin spoke up. "Haven't seen you around much lately."
"Yeah," Beast Boy said, while sitting on the counter. "Cause she hasn't left her room for a week."
Cyborg put a hand on the back of the green boy's head and pushed down. "I like your new look Raven," Blitzkrieg said with a smile.
"Thanks," Raven said with a smile, "I thought maybe I should change things up a bit. Since it worked out for you so well," she winked at Blitz, causing said Titan's jaw to drop to the ground.
The Titans all shared a shock look, 'Is Raven flirting?!'
"So… when do we get to meet this friend of yours, Malchior?" Blitz asked fighting down a blush.
"Soon," Raven answered happily.
Starfire then jumped in front of Raven, excitement laced on her features. "I am unable to wait! Beast Boy has told us much about the Malchior, and how he remains trapped within a book. But-"
"Now how would Beast Boy know something like that?" Raven inquired, looking at the green Titan, who began sweating under her and Blitz's gaze.
Beast Boy gave a nervous laugh before answering. "I may have, kinda… been a… fly on the wall in your room." He then changed into a green fly and buzzed a little next to Cyborg.
"Funny," Raven said getting an evil smile on her lips, "You look more like a rat to me." She stared at the changeling, who promptly turned into a rat, and fell flat on the floor.
"You morphed me!" he said upon regaining his usual form. "How did you do that?"
The computer beeping and Robin turned around and rushed it. His fingers rapidly flickered across the keyboard's touches for a few seconds. "Titans, move," he said, at which the boys and Starfire made their way towards the door.
Blitz stopped in his tracks as he saw that Raven wasn't moving. "Um… Raven are you coming?" Snapping out of her muse Raven nodded before phasing out of the room.
Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Blitz, Terra and Beast Boy were now moving across a small street, empty at this time of night. Robin was on his R-Cycle, Starfire flew next to him while carrying Cyborg, Beast Boy was riding shotgun on Terra's flying stone and Blitz was flying on his disc alongside them. They stopped in front of a house that was in the middle of the suburbs. The Titans began making their way to a gaping hole in the wall that was on the side of a house, each of them armed for combat.
Cardiac then came out from the hole, along with a little girl in pajamas who was trapped inside him.
"Oh, man," Cyborg moaned upon seeing this.
"Hand to hand," Robin ordered as the Titans began putting away their range weapons. "We don't want to hurt her."
The reformed monster lashed out at the Titans with its tentacles, but only stuck pavement. Beast Boy in the form of a humming bird landed on Cardiac's body changing into his normal body so he could speak with the girl. "Don't worry," he reassured her. "We'll get you-" The girl suddenly screamed, making Beast Boy turned around to see one of Cardiac's tentacles behind him. It began to suck him in, but he quickly changed into a hippo. Since the monster could not pull Beast Boy in he decided to slam him onto the ground, causing him to skid across the road.
The Titans stood together, facing their opponent. Before they could come up with a game plan a black portal swirl in existence when it dissipated Raven floated between them. "This time when I break you, stay broken." Black telekinetic energy covered her hands as she chanted. "Necronom, Hezbarek, Mortyx!"
"Raven, careful!" Robin warned. "The girl!"
Despite this, Raven's spell was uninterrupted, as a stream of black energy poured from her mouth, tearing across the pavement and scaring the girl who began whimpering as she watched the darkness creep up and surround her. "Raven, stop!" Beast Boy called to her.
"I… can't!" she strained to say, as more energy came out from her.
Robin immediately jumped onto Cardiac's body, "Hang on," and with a bird-a-rang started hammering away at shell that stood between him and. While Cyborg and Starfire blasted loose strands of black energy. Blitzkrieg tackled Raven breaking the magic flow. With Cardiac out of commission Robin was able to break through and the girl jumped out into Robin's arms.
"What is wrong with you!" Beast Boy demanded. In response, Raven phased through the ground and teleported away, leaving her fellow Titans intrigued.
"Damn it Beast Boy," Blitz cursed spinning around and glared at the Titan.
"Why are you getting mad me for I'm not the one who nearly crushed a hostage," snapped Beast Boy.
"Well for one you don't start yelling at people," Blitz spat back, "granted she should have tested the spell first before she used on the field. But that doesn't-"
"ENOUGH!" Robin hollered, "Look we'll talk about this later, but let's deal with this mess." Beast Boy and Blitz glared at each other before turning away from each other and stormed away.
'SEAN!' Light yelled loudly her voice laced with fear and anger.
'Tone it down will you,' Blitz said rubbing his head, 'I got other things to worry about right now.'
'Shut up and listen, get back to the tower now!' Light said a little more quiet but still strong.
'Why?' Blitz asked as he stopped in his tracks picking up on Light's hurried tone.
'Malchior is the dragon that the wizard Rorek bound to the book,' she said causing Blitz to frown. 'But, wait a minute if that's true than that means,' Blitz's mind was assaulted by images of a man made of paper getting close to Raven saying "…simply misunderstood? Like you…Without these spells, we can never truly be together… I'm still trapped within this book. And you're still alone." He turned to look directly at her. "Is that what you want, Raven? To be alone...My sweet Raven… It's time." He then saw a black dragon attacking the tower and the final image was of Malchior having Raven in his scaly grasp "Oh dear…You're not going to cry now, are you…I know it hurts, but you'll just have to accept that it's over. I got what I wanted, and I don't need you anymore."
Once the image stopped Blitz was overcome by anger, "Titans we need to get to the tower NOW! I'm sensing magic there and it's not Raven's." He jump in the air and flew off as fast as his disk could carry him the Titans close behind him.
Back at Titan's Tower, the door to Raven's room opened, and the young sorceress in question flew in and stood in front of the paper wizard. "It's dark magic," she said angrily. "You've been teaching me dark magic."
"Is it dark?" he question pointing a finger at her, "Or is it simply misunderstood? Like you. True… the spells I've taught you are very powerful. There are those who fear power, so they call it dark. But for people like us, such distinctions do not exist. Without these spells, we can never truly be together. Enchanted pages or no, I'm still trapped within this book. And you're still alone." He turned to look directly at her. "Is that what you want, Raven? To be alone?"
"No," she answered, her eyes moist, a few tears falling to her cheeks.
"My sweet Raven…" Malchior brush her tears away, "… It's time."
Raven used her magic and picked up a dozen select books, opening them up to the correct page and set them on the floor in a circle with the paper wizard in the middle. With that done, she walked over to the pedestal with the enchanted book. "The incantation," Malchior spoke up, "Just as I taught you."
Raven took a deep breath and began to chant while making hand gestures. "Hezbarek, Etmorane, Gost wenthen verbis nex," the books surrounding Malchior began to glow, "In obrium, Bispendrule, paran sic cortus rex!" Raven finished the incantation as black light erupted from her making a bright pillar of light to surround the paper humanoid. The pages that made up his body began to disappear. Raven look at the book while it showed a human transforming into a dragon "Malchior?" Raven called out to him, before being thrown back by a pulse of light erupting from the book in front of her.
As she got up, she noticed a stray page on the floor and picked it up. It showed the battle between the wizard and the dragon. 'Malchior', was written underneath the wizard while 'Rorek' written above the dragon. But as she looked at it, the names switched places with each other. "You've changed it," Raven said. "Malchior wasn't the wizard, he was the… NO!" She tried to dive at the book, but was pushed back again.
The pillar of light from the circle of books expanded a little and began to swirl. Slowly parts of a dragon began to pop out starting one foot, followed by other. Next a pair of black wings with purple interiors came out from the side, stretching into the ceiling of Raven's room. Then the head snaked its way out. The dragon then opened up its great mouth and spat out a jet of fire hitting Raven dead in the chest.
Blitz then kicked the door down, followed by the other titans. "Raven!" he yelled out as the smoke cleared to reveal the tip a tail moving up into a wide hole that it had made in ceiling. As the smoke completely cleared a dome of black energy was seen, when it faded away it showed the young sorceress kneeling on the floor.
"He lied to me," she said in disbelief, "He lied. And I gave him what he wanted."
"Come on," Robin said. Starfire grabbed Robin and Cyborg by an arm each and flew upward through the hole, followed by Terra and Beast Boy who changed into a Pteranodon and grabbed her.
"Raven, are you-?" Blitz spoke up moving towards her to place a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Please, just get out of my room." Blitz paused and hand turned into a fist, his teeth mashed together in rage. 'Light, keep an eye on Drake,' he said his voiced fueled by his anger, 'I can't trust myself to keep my anger in check at the moment, but I will tell you this I'm going to FUCKING KILL THAT DAMN DRAGON.'
'You don't even have to asked,' Light growled ready for blood.
Blitz turns around and mutters, "Kyoshin," he flaps his wings to join the others. Raven didn't notice the black and white feathers fluttering around her.
On the outside of Titans Tower, an explosion of fire and smoke resounded on the rooftop, from which the dreadful dragon Malchior emerged. It stood tall, wings expanded and head held high as it spat flames into the air enjoying it new found freedom.
The dragon was hit in the head a sonic cannon blast as Starfire flew up out of the hole in the rooftop, holding Cyborg and Robin. The alien threw the half metal teenager who continued to shoot at the dragon with his cannon arm. Malchior smack Cyborg away while Starfire threw Boy Wonder at him. As he flew towards the dragon, Robin grabs bird-a-rangs from his belt and combined them to make a sword. He used his bird-sword to strike Malchior in the face with all of his strength he then threw three explosive disc at the dragon. But it wasn't enough for the beast shrugged off the blow and smacked him into the side and into a pair of air vent, leaving a dent in them.
Starfire began launching a volley of starbolts at Malchior, all the while avoiding the streams of fire. Beast Boy then flew in shifting to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. He clamped his mouth around Malchior's neck refusing to let go. Terra began throwing spiked rocks in hoping to pierce the dragons hide. Malchior reached out and pulled Beast Boy off of his back and slammed him onto the roof before tossing him aside, causing him to slide across the rooftop and collide with Cyborg and Terra, sending them crashing through the concrete guard, as they began their decent to the ground below.
"MALCHIOR!" a voiced roared causing everybody who was still on the roof to turn and faced the voice. Starfire and Robin gasp as they saw their teammate.
Blitz was floating in the air thanks to his angelic wings which had black and white feathers. He was also cladded in silver scale armor that covered all of his body with the exception of his head which was bare. His right arm looked more demonic with black scales and the finger tips long and clawed. Seven white tails protruding from his lower back. Blitz's right arm was covered in black flames while his left crackled with lightening, "YOU…YOU," he said with barely contained anger, "….YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT HAVE DONE," the power in his arms grew bigger and brighter, "YOU'RE GOING TO FUCKING DIE!"
Blitz flew towards the dragon at great speeds. He punched Malchior with a right hook, then a left, and with speed so great that if you blinked you would have missed it. Blitz began flying around the dragon's face punching and kicking with all of his power. He then flew back and began surrounding himself with lightening –LIGHTENING BULLET- he yelled as he shot forward. When he hit Malchior blood shot out of the dragon's mouth, but it wasn't over. Using the momentum Blitz pushed him and the liar to the open plains that lay in the outskirts of Jump City breaking the sound barrier.
"HOLY FUCKIN ASS KICKIN BATMAN," Robin cried out as the other Titans minus Raven watched the entire fight sequence.
"By X'Hal," Starfire said hands covering her mouth.
"Robin shouldn't we go and help," Cyborg said still in shock having manage to get to the roof top just in time to see Blitz push the dragon away.
"Y-Y-Yea," he stuttered out, "Titans Go!"
"Mental note," Beast Boy spoke up, "Don't piss off Blitz."
Meanwhile Malchior crashed into the desert floor. Blitz backflip and shut off his kyoshin ability, when he hit the ground he slid backwards leaving a dust trail. "Now that we are way out here…." Blitz said as he pulled out his quarterstaff fully extending it. He began twirling it around until it was spinning on its own. Blitz held the spinning staff behind him with his left hand, "…I can go all out."
Malchior stood up, "You should have finished me when you had the chance," he roared as he charged. Blitz smirked as his staff lit up with lightening that came from the sky, "Your right…" he threw his staff the charging dragon, "…..I should have finished you, in fact it would have been easier….." Malchior stopped his charged as the staff came at him. That was a mistake. When the staff crossed the half-way point of the throw it slowed its rotation to split into two separate staffs. The two halves resumed their speed and flew at Malchior and cut off his horns, "AAAAAHHHHH," he cried out in pain.
"…But this will be so much more satisfying." Blitz finished as he staff came back to him completed.
"You bastard," Malchior roared, "What are you."
Blitz removed his jacket to show his fox ears and tail. The dragon's eyes widen, "No that's not possible you kind died out thousands of years ago."
"Well they missed one," Blitzkrieg said.
"Then I'll correct it then," Malchior said as he launched a river of fire making Blitz dodged to the left. Malchior didn't let up because he was soon towered over the Titan. Blitz began a series dodges as the dragon used his claws and tail to smack, crush, or cut the titan, and every time he failed he growled in frustration. It didn't help that every time Blitz's hands hit the ground he shot lightening serpents at him. Malchior did managed to land a few hits causing the Titans to crash into the ground, and slashing him a few times ripping his uniform a bit causing blood to stain the ground.
Malchior brought both his claws down on Blitz leaving a giant crater. "Heh…I guess what I heard about the Kitsune Clan were just stories," Malchior said as he roared in triumph, "Now I think it's about time I gave my 'thanks' to a certain maiden," he chuckled.
"Who said were done," Blitz said a few yards from the crater his left hand resting on his hip, "Were just getting started." He brought his hand up and clapped them together and spoke an incantation, "Bare your teeth and douse my enemies with your fire. RYŪJIN: GOD OF THE DRAGONS." Blitz pulled his hands away from each other a small stream of black fire connected his two hands together. When his hands reached a certain distance the flames stop, and with his right hand Blitz grab on to one end of the flames. From his hands up the flames dispelled revealing a familiar katana. The Titan couldn't help but notice the irony; he was going to kill Malchior, a dragon, with a sword that was named the god of dragons.
The air around Malchior seemed humid, stale, and smelled of death, "Oh sorry," Blitz said with a sickly sweet smile, "I'm new at controlling my yōkai energy and in turn killing intent."
"Have you ever heard of the saying," Blitz said flurrying Ryūjin around until it was resting on his shoulders. He looked dead into the Malchior's eyes, "the more the merrier?" As the words left his mouth copies of Blitz began showing up all of them carrying their own Ryūjin in various positions, some of them even began taunting him. "Attack," the original Blitz said which the clones eagerly accepted.
They charged at the dragon eager to spill his blood. Some were destroyed by Malchior's claws, fire, and tail but some managed to get through and began slicing at what every they could get to before crushed or set asunder by his flames.
Quickly as they came the clones disappeared as well as the wounds that they had inflicted, 'Just an Illusion,' the dragon thought. Malchior heard a musical hum in the air he craned his neck to look for the source. The dragon found it in front of him in the form of Blitz. The electro-kinetic had Ryūjin in his right hand pointed sideways blood dripping from the tip, and in his left hand was mid-night black sheath. With a flick of a wrist Blitz cleaned the blood off the sword.
The fox Titan spun the katana in his hand while his other one summoned the sheath. Malchior watch in confusion as the Blitz began putting the sword away slowly, he did notice that his wings began itching. This feeling became more frequent as the humming became louder and more pronounce. Then it clicked for the dragon.
The sound came from the sword in Blitz's hands.
The hero opened his eyes and looked at the dragon just before he completely sealed the weapon away. With a smirk Blitz put the sword fully into its sheath, making an audible click sound before it disappeared, he thought it was over.
Malchior felt great pain from his wing and he let the whole world know. Collapsing to the ground the dragon looked at his wings to see what's was wrong, only to see that his wings were gone. Cut off by the titan's sword.
"YOU BASTARD!" Malchior roared spewing another stream of fire from his mouth as his black blood stained the battle ground.
Blitz jumped in the air to dodge but failed to notice the dragon's claws that swiped at him. With a pain filled yell the titan slammed against the ground. With a groan Blitz pushed himself up with his arms shaking his head to rid the fog in his head.
"It seems I've been going too easy on you," Malchior said walking towards the host. Blitz scowled pulling down his face mask to show his teeth, "Funny, I was thinking the same thing."
"I think it's about time I put you in your place worm," the dragon spat out his eye narrowing. "MORCAL MESUL FRESRL INCARCUM," Malchior spoke his body glowing bright red. Blitz watch in horror as the dragon's horns and wings began growing back and all of his wounds healing. "INSEL DRCONIS USU MALCIN," the liar looked at the stun titan before finishing the spell in a deadly tone, "FOLUK!"
Blitz was blown back by a powerful force causing him to tumble on dirt ground creating puff of dust as he landed. Moving quickly the Titan jumped to his feet and prepared himself for anything. Even he couldn't be prepared for what was in front him.
Malchior stood before him, but not in a form of a dragon in a way. No, the dragon had shrunk down to human sized, and he even took a humanoid appearance. Malchior's skin was black scales; his head looked more human except for the horns that protruded from his head. His eyes matched the pair that Raven had become familiar over the past week. The color of the eyes was that of black pools that made Blitz feel like he was falling into an abyss. Malchior's nose was slightly long and slit like his dragon. Malchior flicked his black tail to the side before he cracked his neck to the sides.
"It's been so long since I've last use this spell," the dragon said, flicking his snake like tongue the dragon tasted the air and in turn showed Blitz his sharp teeth. Both Light and Sean felt nervous at the liar's new transformation. "I think it was when I fought Rorek," Malchior said casually making titan and his partner even more put off.
'Something not right here,' Light said tensely, 'He's way to calm for someone who nearly had his ass handed to him.'
'No shit,' Blitz said, 'Not only that but he casted two spell very quickly though, one for healing and the other for this.' He pointed out in his mind.
The dragon took a deep breath and exhaled. "Now where were we?" he asked tapping a long clawed finger on his chin before his eyes widen with remembrance. "Ah that's right," he said disappearing surprising Blitz, "I was going to kill you." Blitz eyes widen as Malchior reappeared in front of him and punched him right in the chest. Spitting blood out of his mouth Sean flew across the barren land breaking the sound barrier. 'What is that power?' he thought as his the pain in his chest grew, 'Why is he so powerful all of a sudden and what was that disappearing act before?'
"You like my spell," Malchior voice spoke up next to him. Shocked Blitz snapped his head to the side and saw the humanoid dragon running beside him. "It increases my strength, speed, and power to god like levels," he said grabbing Blitzkrieg's face and slamming it to the ground causing a massive crater.
Malchior chuckled darkly as he picked the boy up by the head and released him. With a burst of speed the dragon began punching Blitz over and over while he was still in midair. He kept going and going never letting up, laughing the whole time. Blitz felt his ribs cracking and breaking, his face was getting cut and bruised. Malchior stopped for a moment before round house kicking the Foxy Titan in the stomach making him throw up a lot of blood.
Blitz flew down into the canyon where the Titan's first met Terra, and crashed into the side. With a groan Sean pushed himself out of the side and jumped out of the area. Landing on top, the host spotted Malchior approaching him at a slow pace, but he knew that it will change. So he jumped back to put as much distance between them long enough for Blitz to come with a plan. Quickly Blitz brought his sword Ryujin out and placed it in front of him just as the dragon closed the distance bringing a claw hand down.
Blitz winced as the sparks from the claw and sword scrapped together. Using his weight the struggling Titan pushed the liar away from. Drawing on the power of the Kitsune spirit that lived inside of him, the host sprouted three more tails and using all the speed he could muster ran back.
After he was a safe distance Blitz began planning, but was interrupted by a voice he didn't want to hear right now.
'What's the matter King is he too much for you?' a voice chuckled darkly in his mind. Blitz let out a growl.
'Go back to your cage Drake,' he demanded to the personification of the curse that Trigon placed on him.
Drake just laughed, 'Aw come on you know you can't beat him without my help,' he said trying to seduce Sean into letting him out. 'Come on just for a little while,' he cooed, 'I know you want to kill him. I can taste the killing intent you have.' Drake then began whispering, 'I'll even let you have the killing blow, just let me out.'
The Titan let out a defeated sigh, "Forgive me sensei," Blitz said holding out my cursed arm, "Forgive me everyone."
"Aw what's the matter," Malchior said popping in front scaring the host in to jumping back flicking the sword up trying to cut the liar. Malchior began chuckling as easily dodge the sword, "What's wrong? It didn't reach me," he mocked. "That blade of yours will never harm me. That is without any real resolve."
Blitz growled spitting some blood out of his mouth. 'I got plenty of resolve,' he thought flaring his yōkai energy. Malchior flared his magical essence in same manner as the Titan before him only his was a dark purple. With a bored sigh the dragon launched himself forward and slammed his foot on Sean. If said hero had stayed there.
"Why are you backing away?" Malchior asked watching Blitz backing away, "I thought you were going to kill me?" He continued to mock the boy, "If you're going to kill me, you should come closer." The humanoid ran forward and placed his hand on a surprised Blitz's chest who jumped away causing him to laugh. "It's meaningless," he said, "You cannot defeat me. Without giving into your hatred, you will never kill me."
Light spoke up, 'Don't let him get to you Sean. Don't use your hatred to fight him, but your desire to protect has always and will always be enough.'
Drake laughed, 'Oh yea his desire to protect is really kicking this guy's ass. Let me act on behalf of your anger,' he said.
Sean was about to give in. He was going to let Drake out.
Blitz look at his right arm his tattoos were glowing though his uniform, "I'm sorry Sakura-sensei," he said softly while raising his right hand slowly up to his face. "I know that this could lead to the death of the people important to me," The air seemed to crackle with power. "But this bastard needs to die," Blitz said resting his hand on top of his face, his tattoos blinking rapidly. "He needs to die for hurting my Rachel, my dark angel," Blitz finished a small sad smile closing his eyes.
In deepest part of the Titan's mind the curse personification let out a smirk as his victory was in hand. A slight sound alerted Drake of somebody's presence.
'That's enough out of you,' Light growled slugging Drake hard enough to crack his skull. 'Sean don't give in, you're stronger than this,' she said before grimacing, 'Rachel wouldn't want you to do this. You can beat him with your own power.' Blitz snapped his eyes open.
'She's right,' he thought before chiding himself for being so weak willed. Light then fed him a little reassurance through their bond making sure that Sean knew that she didn't blame him.
'Damn straight I am,' Light chimed dodging a wild haymaker from Drake. Jumping in the air and wrapped her legs around his head, Light punched the side of Drake's head with both of her fists. 'Sorry for being so foolish,' Sean said lowering his cursed arm, "I'll kill him without resorting to this curse."
The fox spirit chuckled, 'You go and do that,' she said turning towards Drake who was getting back up from a powerful kick. 'I'll take care of Drake,' Light said cracking her neck, 'Oh and give that bastard a good kick from me will you. Nobody hurts Raven.'
'I knew you liked her,' Blitz said with a smile. Light rolled her eyes, 'No I still hate her guts, if anybody going to hurt her it will be me.' This time Blitz rolled his eyes giving a little chuckle, 'She so starting to warm up to her.'
'AM NOT!'
The dragon looked at the Titan with annoyance. Getting a little pissed off that the insect still thought he had a chance, "Don't fuck with me," Malchior yelled out, "No mere mortal can kill me." Malchior unleashed torrent of white hot fire causing a mushroom cloud to appear where Blitz was standing.
"You forget, I'm not a mere mortal," Blitz said as he swept away the flames with his cursed arm. The air became even more thick and heavy as Blitz's tail count raised to eight. The Foxy Titan felt his wounds healing and his tiredness trickle away as he embraced his power that was passed from his ancestors.
Holding his sword up Blitz took a deep breath before charging at the dragon.
Malchior was shocked when the Titan disappeared and reappeared in front of him. Quickly stepping back the dragon brought his foot up to kick only for it to be blocked by Sean's sword causing sparks to dance in the air. With a growl Blitz flicked his arm and slashed horizontal but the liar ducked and he missed by a hairs breath. Deciding to try something else Blitzkrieg kicked a lightening enhanced foot to Malchior's direction only for him to jump back and launched fireballs like a mini-gun.
Using his enhanced speed and reflexes Blitz dodged, ducked, and dove out of the way.
Letting out a frustrated roar Malchior pulled all of his magical power into one last blast, but quickly cut it when Blitz came in front of him with a neutral glare. With a shocked looked the liar jumped back.
"Why are you backing away?" Blitz said walking towards the humanoid dragon his tone mocking, "If you want to kill your enemy." He appeared beside Malchior and touched his chest, "You should come closer."
"What!?" Malchior let out an angered growl as this human dare mock him.
The 'human' in question cocked his eyebrow, "Are you scared?" he asked resting Ryujin on his shoulders.
"Don't get so full of yourself you fucking human!" the liar roared in fury causing Blitz to laugh.
"HAHAHAHA, how many times do I have to tell you, I'm no human fool," he said looking at his sword examining the finer details, "but I can understand your fear. This fight is like an ant against a human."
"What?!"
"Or more like…" Blitz said getting a bloodlust smirk on his face, "…..a mortal versus a God."
Malchior let loose a dark chuckle, "I know my power is great but compare it with a God is a little much," he said good heartily.
"I know," Blitz said looking at the dragon with a side long glance, "mortal."
With a burst of speed Blitz slid underneath Malchior and tripped him. As he was falling Blitz sent another enhanced foot right into the dragon's spine making him yell out in pain. Malchior spun in the air and drove his foot into Blitz's chest.
Letting out a grunt of pain Blitz grabbed the foot and gave it a sharp twist. Giving the a dragon a kick pushing him away from him, Blitz flipped so that he was standing back on his feet.
Facing each other the two combatants began circle each other, slowly their animalistic side began taking over.
Meanwhile the rest of the Teen Titans were driving towards the battling duo in the T-car. The air was tense and quiet as nobody wanted to say anything to set someone off.
"How far are we?" Robin asked riding shotgun. The metal teen looked at the GPS which showed the position of Blitzkrieg. Growling in frustration Cyborg pushed the gas pedal harder, "About fifteen minutes," he said switching gears.
In the back Raven held her head down in shame. "This is all my fault," she murmured.
Terra leaned forward, "No it's not," she said, "You didn't know that this would happen."
The mage snapped her head to the earth mover, "I shouldn't have messed with that book," she spat. "I should have sealed that book away once it started talking," Raven let out a frustrated sigh. "How could I be so stupid." The mage began scolding herself as many things should have tipped her off, like the absence of her emotion clones, but Raven was so wrapped around Malchior's finger she didn't even notice. Once free the clones explained to Raven that they have been locked away unable to communicate or influence her in anyway.
"Friend Raven….." Starfire spoke before Raven's eyes became slits. With a growl the Duchess of Darkness threw her arm out and scratched the back of Robin's seat leaving four long gashes.
"YO!?" Cyborg yelled back as Raven's eyes went back to normal and she looked confused. Everybody looked at Raven with raised eyebrows, and the mage in question was looking at her fingernails to see that they had become long and claw like. Slowly Raven watched in amazement as the claws retracted and reverted back to normal.
Raven then concentrated on her mind sorting through the mixture of emotions that she was currently going through. That is when she found out that Sean's emotions were leaking through her, and the small trickle was quickly turning into a stream. If they didn't get their soon the Titans might not be able to calm their friend because ever so slowly the stream will turn into a roaring river.
"We have to hurry," Raven said looking back up, "Blitz is losing his control to his animal side."
"I hope we get their soon. I wanna piece of him," Cyborg said with grit teeth, "Nobody mess with our girl."
Blitz and Malchior clashed together sparks coming from sword and claws. With a grunt to duo pushed each other away both of them breathing heavily.
There was a flash of light where Malchior was standing and Blitz had to cover his eyes at the shear brightness. When the light died down Malchior stood once again in his original form. 'I can't keep this up,' they both though as they looked at their opponents, 'I'm going to have to finish this quickly.'
Blitz took a deep breath to pull as much oxygen as he could into his lungs. 'Looks like I'm going to have to go into that form,' he thought as the tattoo on his chest glowed with a quick pulse.
"Malchior," he said to the dragon, "When I send you to hell tell Trigon about me." White aura began oozing off the Titan. "Tell him of my power. Tell him that he even thinks about coming here," the aura grew so that it surrounded Blitz, "if he hurts Raven," it then began spinning around him, "or my family." Faster and faster the aura spun, "That I will kill him." Malchior thought that he saw a fox face growling at him before the aura covered Blitz just as he said, "Slowly. Painfully."
There was a large explosion of smoke that formed a dome around Blitz. Malchior watched the smoke through narrow eyes as the smoke slowly dissipated.
Suddenly a large white furred arm shot of the smoke, and with wide eyes the dragon watched as the smoked cleared to show a giant nine tail fox. The size of the creature easily matched Malchior, and the only blemish that the fox had was that his right front leg looked like it was burned.
With a growl Blitz pounced on Malchior and the two beasts began to tussle across the dessert like plains. Scratching, clawing, and biting each other.
That was when the Titans came into the area. Seeing the giant animals duking it out Cyborg slammed on the brakes causing the T-car to slide on the loose dirt. When the car came to a stop the Teen Titans jumped out just in time to see Blitz jump and land on the back of Malchior sinking his teeth into the dragon's neck.
With a roar of pain the black dragon gouged the fox with his claws pulling Blitz off when he let out a cry of pain. Malchior slammed the white fox into the ground and began tearing into him. "BLITZ!" Raven cried as large amount of blood began seeping into the ground from Blitzkrieg's wounds. The mage began flying towards the Foxy Titan but was pulled back down by Robin. "LET ME GO!" Raven demanded trying her best to break free of the Boy Wonder's grip, "I HAVE TO HELP HIM." Blitz let lashed out his arm and clawed the side of Malchior's face taking one of his eyes out. The dragon roared stepping back which the fox took advantage of as he pounced back on the liar and ripped one of his wings off.
"I'm not letting anybody get in that fight," Robin said as the others watched the animals fight. He knew that this fight was against gods, and there was no way that they could help. No matter how much they wanted to.
Blitz jumped back and fired a concentrated fireball from his mouth. Malchior saw the ball of flames come towards him and dodged to the side, but that ended up to be a distraction as he was struck from the sky by a powerful lightning-bolt. When the bolt stop coming Malchior shook his head and opened his remaining eye and flicked his head around to spot Blitz.
Blitz latched on to Malchior's back his jaw firmly wrapped around the lair's neck. "Burn in hell!" Blitz said with his mind before snapping the dragon's neck killing him instantly.
Not exactly wanting to give the bastard a quick and painless death, but beggars can't be choosers. Blitz turned his head to the heavens and announced his victory for them to hear. Once he was down Blitzkrieg began walking away from the corpse of Malchior of Nol as another lightning bolt struck it burning the body to ash. Halfway there he collapsed on the ground turning back into his human form.
Wasting no time Raven broke free of Robin's gripped and levitated towards the fallen Titan.
Later the Titans made their way back to the tower, Raven was cradling Blitz's head in her lap. No one said a word as they traveled back home.
No words were spoken when they returned and everyone went to their respective rooms.
It wasn't until later that day when Blitz found himself in his bed with his wounds cleaned, and wrapped. Placing a hand on his chest he felt the scratches from Malchior slowly healing, they would leave scars, but Blitz remembered his teacher saying that women love men with scars. With a sigh the hero got up and put on a new jacket. He had one stop to make, he wasn't the only one hurting right now, and Sean wasn't going to let the girl he loves be in pain.
Blitz made his way down the hallway towards a certain mage's room. Said mage had locked herself in her room once she had placed Blitz in his room after they dressed his wounds, and hasn't spoken a word since. Reaching the room Sean raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Raven it's me," Blitz said setting his hand down, "are you okay?"
"Just leave me alone," came the tired reply. The host could feel the sadness that Raven was drowning in. Letting out sigh he spoke up. "Look, I just want to say I'm sorry," he apologized leaning next to the door.
Inside the room Rachel was confused. He was sorry, he wasn't the one who released Malchior or broke her heart. "Why?" she asked, "you are not the one who…" Blitz cut her off.
"I'm sorry that he broke your heart," Sean said his eyes becoming wet as the sadness he felt from Raven combined with his own.
"It was just a lie," Raven said through gritted teeth as she too fought the tears, "but he was the only one who didn't make feel like I wasn't creepy. And don't tell I'm not," she snapped.
Sean pushed himself off the wall and turned towards the door, "Raven," he said sharply, "I'm not going to stand here and lie to you! If anybody in this tower is creepy it's me." Raven eyes snapped open and was silent not able to come up with a comeback.
"Look at me," Blitz continued listing things off with his fingers at everything that was wrong with him. "I've been cursed by a demon, which has manifested into a humanoid form in my mind along with a monster spirit living and my emotions have taken form there as well. Add the fact of who my father is." Blitz took a deep breath at the end of his long speech. "I'm sorry if I made you feel creepy Raven," he said with head hanging low, "You…you are very important to me more than anybody in my life. I know that underneath that ice queen front you have is a fake, and deep down you are compassionate and loving girl who cares deeply about her friends."
Raven walked towards her door quietly resting her hand on it, "But I'm darkness," she said as her hand slid down.
"Even something dark can be beautiful," Blitz said causing Rachel to cover her mouth to silence her gasp.
'He thinks I'm beautiful,' she thought in her mind unaware that she had just projected it.
'Yes,' Sean said in her mind.
Rachel opened the door and stared at Sean, who was only wearing his jacket and pants, but her mind was focused on something else at the moment. A moment later she threw her arms around his neck and buried her head in the crook. Wide eyed Sean slowly wrapped his arms around the mage's petite form, his tail flicked to the side before it too closed itself around Raven. The duo just stayed there enjoying each other's presence.
Blitz began stroking Raven's hair breathing in her scent.
Finally after a long time the two separated. Raven snaked her hands away from Blitz's neck and rested them on his chest. "Thank you," she said.
"You're welcome," Blitz replied with a slight smile looking directly into her eyes.
Raven felt an unknown force pushed her closer to Blitz who also leaned in towards the mage. Their lips parted, their eyes closed…..
….and the fox boy was nailed in the head by an odd ball of socks. "Woo hoo!" Cyborg cheered giving Beast Boy a high five. "Stankball!" the changeling cried out.
Blinking her eyes Raven looked at the metal teen. She looked down in front of her and saw the Stankball's ball. The mage picked it up in and turned towards the cybernetic teen, a grin on her face as she incased the ball with black fire. "Oh no, Raven. Don't-" Cyborg protested while backing up and Beast Boy running to the hills, only to have her throw it at him with her powers and knock him over.
In the deepest bowls of hell Malchior found himself surrounded by fire like demons. "You think you can defeat me," he growled letting smoke shoot from his nostrils, "Bring it."
"That won't be necessary," an evil voice said making the demons scatter back and bowed to the owner of that voice.
The dragon mage turned his head and saw a large red skin demon standing before him. This demon had long white hair with what looked like antler like horns coming out of. His four eyes studied the Malchior with interest as he easily stood over the dragon.
Trigon gave a toothy smile, "I have a proposition for you Malchior of Nol," he said crossing his arms in front of him. "One that will let you have the ultimate revenge on Blitzkrieg, or rather Sean Wilson Kirk," the Lord of Hell said.
"I'm listening."
"I'm going to kill those two," Sean said as he slammed his bathroom door shut, or least he would have it he could. The Titan had taken a long boiling hot shower to get the stench of the Stankball off him, luckily nothing got in his mouth. Blitz threw his towel at his chair just before he picked up a few homemade medical supplies and applied them on his healing wounds.
Once done Blitz dressed the wounds and laid down on his bed. "This close," he said holding up a few fingers to show his point, "from kissing Rachel." With a depressed sigh Sean looked at his night stand where a small red decorative box laid. Kind of like the ones that would hold small jewelry.
Reaching over and picking it up Sean opened the box and smile before closing it back up. "Tomorrow I'll tell her everything," he said closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep.
In the room next to him Raven was laying on her bed hugging her pillow while her mind went back to earlier when she almost kissed Sean.
"We-I can't go through with this," she said to herself, "I love him so much but I can't give him the happiness that he wants or needs." The mage's thought became darker and more depressing. "I'm destined to bring the end of the world; I don't deserve to be happy. I have to end it."
And with these thoughts the Princess of Darkness drifted off to slumber.
Geez I hated and loved writing this chapter. Most because of Malchior which I took pleasure in killing him, not so much the Trigon and Malchior deal part but it will be needed to advance the plot so it is a necessary evil.
Anyway like I said before I have the next chapter somewhat written and will try to get that done as soon as I can.
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