Titans X Chapter Eighteen: Darkness

Before the beginning of this, and many Universes, there was one being who lived. Though lived is not an…accurate description of what he did, what he does, it suffices. This Being, for any other term would be mere slander, and anything higher, such as the title of God, would account for death upon those who called him such, was the Phantom Lord of many Universes, always searching for what he believed to be the Original Universe, where he would find the path way to the True Hell.

Roughly, in our terms of time, 4 million years ago another being came into existence. Unlike the Phantom Lord, this being was born as a pure mortal, and was in fact a part of an ancient species of Alien beings who had the form of what Humans would later call Angels. However, he was of impure blood. His father was banished from their home, and was known to all as the Being of Ultimate Destruction. He would have 7 Children with a great Medusa like demoness, who was an enemy to the Being of Ultimate Destruction's race. The first born would take his fathers name; Shadon Afiaga. He would later rename himself, simply, Afiag, and would, much later still, be given the title The Arch Angel of Darkness.

As he was part demon, and in fact his demon side showed itself more then his brothers and sisters, Afiag was unusual. Unlike all others of his kind, he was born without wings, and looked to be a demon child at first glance. However, holy weapons and symbols neither effected, nor was he even offended by such things, as most demons would be. Also, he had far more power, hidden deep within him, then any mere demon.

He would be cast unto Earth as a child, and there he would be found and raised by an Elfish creature. But these moments do not matter. He would go on, in his travels, to meet a demoness who went by the name Eliria, of the Wind. They would go on to become lovers.

The being whom was mentioned earlier would show up on Earth, which he had taken over eons before, and would offer Afiag a chance to fight for him, to be one of his soldiers. Afiag and Eliria accepted.

Afiag and Eliria would quickly rise among the ranks, becoming the two most powerful soldiers for the Being, whom identified himself as Burkion, to the point where they rose as Second and Third In Command, in that order. Over time Afiag's body transformed, and he developed black raven wings upon his back, and his eyes turned pure black as well.

With the transformations, came new and terrifying power. Soon Afiag was sent down to planets by himself to wipe out…and he would do so, either consuming the planet in flames, or killing everyone on the planet, one by one. As this happened, Afiag gained a new joy in his life: Eliria bore him a daughter. For reasons baffling to Afiag, she was born with wings, unlike him, and had more human qualities. Instead of claws she had hands, instead of fangs, she had teeth. But it did not matter. She knew the element of the wind, as her mother, and Afiag would train her every day…until he learned of his family.

Until this point, you see, Afiag had no clue what or who he was, or where he came from. His 6 brothers and sisters, however, were a different story. The second eldest brother, known as Sblade, the Demon of Light, appeared to Afiag one day, and after nearly killing the then only great warrior, he stole his daughter and disappeared. From that day onward, Afiag went on a quest to get his daughter back, and to kill his siblings, with Burkion's urging.

Soon, on his solo journeys, his heart became dead, as he tore through everything and anything in his path, his wings changed again, this time from raven's wings, to full blown black angel wings. His eyes lost all the light within them, and his power…his power and rage only grew.

He would go on to, not only kill all of his brothers and sisters, with the sole exception of Sblade, but also to do battle, and defeat, his own father. After that, he found Sblade…who had killed his daughter.

The battle between the Demon of Light and the Angel of Darkness is a legend in and on itself, but it ended with the Darkness prevailing…and learning that Burkion was behind everything. Afiag went to find and kill Burkion…only to find his lady and love turned against him, not of her own free will.

In fierce combat, he killed his Eliria, and continued.

As this happened, millions of years had passed, and never once did Afiag age a day. It was an ability of his species, to live for thousands of years…but due to his mothers blood, his life spand was infinite.

He would find Burkion, and would do battle with him…but the battle, which was more of a war, would end in a draw between the two, with Burkion's false body being scattered across the skies, and Afiag being sealed inside of a mountain.

And so legends would spread across all of time and space of the Arch Angel of Darkness, whom was named such by those he slaughtered. The Phantom Lord, though would appear in very little legends, despite being the one behind it all. Of the few legends he is but merely mentioned in, they are very far and very few.

This tale will come to be of importance in time, in a very short time at that. But, at the moment we have Titans to see to.

It had been a few days since Danny's reacounting of the events that took place in the future. Danny left some parts out, such as Future June's confession, How the heck was he supposed to tell them THAT? along with a few other details. Kim had been deeply disturbed by it all.

"Death Sheloth…corrupted me?!" Kim yelled at Danny.

"Yeah…but Dan said that the only reason you couldn't fight it was because you didn't have the chance to, or something like that…" Danny reminded her.

So, here she was. The Kim of that future…she refused to become her. She. REFUSED. Grabbing up a pair of scissors, she figured a way to change the future already. In the future, her hair would be long. Well…

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Not…

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Any…

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MORE.

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The last pecies of her once long hair fell to the ground. She know had a croped up look as she studied herself in the mirrior. It'd do. Yeah. It'd do.

Meanwhile…

June released just how close she was to losing Danny…her 14th birthday was coming up. She'd tell him then. …if she didn't chicken out…

That's when her braclet went off.

Which, considering it only went off in an emergency to the balance of both Magical and Human worlds, meant that this was bad. VERY bad.

At the same time…

Dr. Fate had been teaching Raven some advanced meditating techniques for the past few months, since she had joined the League. Then it hit them both. Hard.

"Oh no…" Dr. Fate muttered to himself. He quickly got up, as Raven was still reeling from the psychic blow, and headed to the main League, as Raven went to the former Titans. This was BEYOND bad. If what he had read about HIM was correct…and he was about to be unleashed…Fate quickened his flight, Raven not far behind.

"Green Lantern, where are the others?" Fate asked.

"On a mission. The Injustice League…" John Stewert began, before being cut off.

"No time! We have to get down to this area quickly. Tell the others we're going and that they should meet with us NOW."

"What's got you so worked up?" John asked, his eyebrow raised.

"A threat worse then Darkseid, possibly worse then AMAZO."

"…oh." John got to work. Quickly.

Over in Titans land…

The Titans X gathered on the mountain, seeing a drilling company drilling through the rock for whatever reason they had. Looked like they were trying to make way for a new road…

"Hey! You guys! STOP!" June yelled out, waving her hands. Then Dr. Fate, John Stewert the Green Lantern, and Raven teleported next to them.

With a wave of his hand, the equipment was torn apart, as Dr. Fate wielded them away from the area.

"If you damage this mountain some-" he didn't get to finish, due to a cackling laugh.

It was a woman. Only her body had a strange green glow…other then that, and the fact that she was floating and wearing a kimono, and had pink hair, she looked normal.

Then again…looks are deceiving. Usually 100 of the time. She punched the ground, right in the center of the mountain, and the force of an atomic blast followed, ripping open a hole in the mountain, revealing…something.

"John! Bring up your shields! NOW!" Fate ordered, as he rose his own magical shield, GL adding his energy to the mix, with Raven I just relised she has gotten ZERO lines from me… chanting "Azarath Metrion ZENTHOS" strengthening it with her own power. Danny added his ecto energy shield to it, as June added a shield rune. Needless to say, it was something so strong that not even SUPER MAN could punch through it.

Then Afiag opened his eyes, and the mountain was obliterated.