Chapter 13
…Titans Tower…
Beast Boy and Cyborg are watching TV, mainly just bored out of their skulls. Beast Boy looks over to Cyborg, "Hey, Cy?" Cyborg looks over, "That was hot, wasn't it?"
"What was?"
"You know!" Beast Boy picks up his ears looking around, no one here so he moves over whispering, "Raven and that one girl, you know…"
Cyborg blushes, trying to act normal till Beast Boy starts smirking, "See, even you thought so."
Cyborg flips the channel, "Oh, grow up."
The noise of someone entering the room makes them jump, turning they find Starfire sitting at the table from the main door, "Oh, friends… I am in such a trouble for as many times as I try to cause friend Raven to teach me the hugging she showed that unknown woman, she continues to become very annoyed with me." The two boys blush as she sighs with a cup of mustard, "I only was hoping that friend Raven and I could share such a unifying…"
Beast Boy, with a nose bleed runs off as Cyborg steps up, "Listen Starfire, that kind of hugging is um… it's very difficult to explain." He motions her to sit down, "Okay, so… it's like this…" he has a small sweat before saying, "Well…" he coughs… "Um…" he shifts his eyes to the left, then the right, left again, and… "Uh…"
Raven walks in with a book, Cyborg launches forward and grabs her, "Raven! Just the one I wanted to see!" he tares her from the book and sits her in his spot, "Look, since you're the one causing all this hassle you explain it to her!"
Raven looks up, "What?" Cyborg was gone, she looks at the wide eyed Starfire, "… the hugging?"
Starfire nods, "Yes, please."
Raven glared a death glare to the fleeing metal man but with a groan Raven tried to explain to some clarity what happened. When it was over, Starfire is blushing, "So the hugging was not a form of hugging… but a ritual of mating?"
"Yes… well, not really… uh, yes actually that is the best bet."
Starfire shifts her feet, looking shyly like a small girl who was scolded for wearing her mother's makeup, "So… as I asked for you and others to hug me… I was in some fashion…" she looks up very shy as Raven shook her head yes, "…Oh dear…"
Raven stands up, slightly relieved that was over, "Glad to be of some service." Raven walks off but Starfire raises a hand, with a groan Raven asks, "What?"
"Did you enjoy that ritual?"
"…." Raven coughs, "Well, I didn't want to do it there or then… but, aside from that it wasn't… too horrible…" Raven rubs her forehead, "Listen, it's getting to be time for breakfast, how about we just move on okay?"
Starfire nods, standing up she raises her hand, "What Starfire?"
"Would you ever take it upon yourself to mate with me?"
Raven gags, "WHAT!"
"It is just, you have been with one outside of the teen titans, and so now I feel the green eyes of Galgrfek so, if in an abnormal circumstance, would I be acceptable for such mating?"
"… Uh, sure why not?" Raven says with a slight twitch, Starfire is delighted and giggles as she hugs Raven, "Thank you friend Raven!" Starfire floats off not even affected slightly from the request, Raven stands with a blank face saying in slight disbelief, "Aliens…"
Nightwing walks in now, he sees Raven, "Hey Ra… you okay? You look a little shaken up."
"No." Raven sits down, "Just a little confused, nothing too abnormal around here."
Nightwing sits down with her, asking, "Any weird dreams?"
Raven thinks, "No, I had nothing abnormal in dreams."
"Any demonic activity?"
Raven glares, "No Robin, there is no danger so please don't tempt fate." She sighs, "Besides, as the day goes on I'd expect something weird to happen. I wish it didn't, but it probably will."
Nightwing looks at her and nods, "Okay, I wanted to just…"
"I know!" she gives a mood swing of rage, "I know Mr. Leader, the team, I promised if anything bad happens I'd handle it, well nothing terrible has happened, so back off!" she sips a small cup of tea she had sitting at the table, "It's not like it's the end of the world." Raven sips her drink before sweating, "Er, let's hope not anyway."
…Jump City Park…
Morning dew was just starting to spread over the scenery in the park. Plants seem more alive than usual and soon it was obvious why. Gaea and Y'Garon were hidden in long coats walking through the park with detective like hats. They needed to keep their appearances from being noticed as they were in the mortal world. Unlike other demons they found their natural forms should never be covered so hiding in the coats was good enough. They chose the park as time was spent in that concrete and steel city they were not very pleased. Sure, it was good for humans but they needed the relaxing, kind touch of life.
Y'Garon looks to his sister as they continue a slight walk and glide over the grass, "Sister, when will we make our move?"
"Patience." Gaea stops and turns on the brother whom she shared so much in appearance to, "The nuisances of potentials and other demons make it too dangerous to directly tempt an assault. I feel great power gathered here, much demonic potential have become involved."
Gaea turns back to the tower, it was some distance but the scent was there with them. Gaea sighs, she wants the sister as well for the good of their family and people, but the truth was evident greater powers were at work here; some how they both felt great changes in the tides, things were very problematic.
As they were in the park life of vegetation grew nicer and fuller. Except the one tree at the side, where sitting in the branches was a slightly grinning man, with silver swirling eyes, one word escaped through his lips, "Yessssssssssssssssssss," a forked tongue licking his lips.
Y'Garon watches a small butterfly fluttering about, "The mortal insects are not as appealing as our native insects, but still they have a beauty."
Gaea looks over to her brother and smiles, "That they do, but do not become attached we must not affect the balance of this world or ours if we can."
Y'Garon nods, he watches the butterfly fluttering on to the tree at the side of them which was dead, as it laid onto the one limb a dagger strike it down into the wood, Y'Garon is snapped out of his daze by this and looks to the figure leisurely laying back in the limbs with his one hand motioning to the dagger plucking it and the insect off the tree. The butterfly falls slowly to the ground seeming to decay as it fell, soon gone as dust Y'Garon is looking wide eyed, "That was uncalled for."
The sitting figure is Shiva, his lips curve up with closed eyes, "I had lossst on of the other Potentialssss thissss day, and I regret that dearly, but to ssstumble upon two otherssss, kin at that, my missstake is alssso my fortune." Y'Garon looked at the man and notices right away he was not a man, it was a demon, "Sister, is he a potential?"
Gaea looks up, "No, he has no link to your beloved like that. I believe he is just a simple pest." She glares, "I mentioned power attracts even more power."
"Ah yesss," Shiva grinned his fangy grin, "That issss a true little sssstatement." Leaping off the tree Shiva takes a step forward pocketing his arms, "Ssssssso, which one of you will I bathe in the blood of first?" he looks at Y'Garon, "The male," then Gaea, "Or the female?"
Y'Garon was looking at the dead butterfly, a growl on his right cheek he rips off his coat and hat to be in his vegetated garments, "You killed an innocent!" Y'Garon puts his palms even to the ground, the earth rumbles and two stones rip up to Y'Garon's hands where he grabs their tips and the stones shatter to make two stone hammers that had elegant etching from his own powers, Shiva glares as Y'Garon swings the hammers of great size onto his shoulders, "I will make you pay!"
Y'Garon sprints forth now swinging both hammers up and then down, Shiva had backed away a step letting his coat whip open and closed again, Y'Garon raises up his hammers to see strange marks embedded at the hammers heads, like blades? He raises his head up and looks seeing the two free hands of Shiva, not a single time had he moved those hands and attacked. Y'Garon swings the right hammer horizontally but Shiva merely jumps over it letting his coat flutter open as he was passing above Y'Garon.
Y'Garon screams as he drops that hammer and falls forward, he feels his back right shoulder and notices the pain, looking at his hand his blood is there. He had been cut deep, and the hammer he dropped now breaks as it seems it had been cut more than him. Y'Garon swings the other hammer back around and Shiva latches his right hand onto the head as his coat flies open and Y'Garon seems to let go of his hammer, stomping his foot.
Shiva snarls, his two hands grab the hammer… as a third one was trying to stab out from the coat on Y'Garon but was grabbed by a vine.
Shiva gleams an eye on Y'Garon before another arm stretches out cutting the vines, then two more arms roll off the jacket tossing it to the side. Shiva show six arms, the four from under the jacket have scimitar like blades curved and sharp, and his ones formerly out of the jacket now unsheathe from the six pointed sheath on his back the last two swords. "I will not fail my massssster!"
Shiva begins flurries of the swords, Y'Garon uses the one hammer and makes a sort of shield trying to block the many slashes and stabs as he could, "Gaea! I need your help!"
Gaea glares around, Shiva glares at her, his eyes seem to realize he was in trouble but Y'Garon pushes off one of the swords running over to the tree and plowing the stone hammer into the ground. The ground breaks up and jagged peaks burst around Shiva trying to impale his flesh, Shiva screams before in fast reflexes he lops away the stone spikes and glares on Y'Garon. Shiva rushes in to plow all six blades when Y'Garon rolls away, Shiva accidentally plows his blades into the tree and gets them stuck, "Hissss!" Shiva strained to pull them out but his arms were now being grabbed, he looks up seeing the limbs of the tree now grabbing his wrists and pulling the six arms up and away from his swords.
Y'Garon sees his coat and hat, grabbing them he fastens them tightly and runs with Gaea, the two had their first real fight, and it was not something they expected so soon. Y'Garon looks over and smiles, "Thank you sister that was a remarkable trick with the tree."
Gaea nods, "I was not sure if it would work until he trapped his blades. That was indeed a lucky break for us both."
Shiva glares and tugs, the tree limbs snap soon enough as the tree's life soon fades away. Shiva lands and pulls out his swords, looking back he sees the demons were gone and already their scents are being masked, he looks all around, nothing, not enough to even tell Trigon. Shiva looks to one blade as it drips a slight dribble of blood, Shiva smiles before raising it and liking his tongue over the morsel. Shiva walks to his trench coat swinging it around himself and pushing out his two arms, hiding his swords again for later use and other tools he hid on himself. Shiva walks with a snort of his nostrils and kick of a stone rubble piece of the hammer. "Next time…"
…Another Park….
Gaea sits on a bench, she looks up at Y'Garon as he hides his ears inside the hat "You… had to fight?"
Y'Garon looks at the ground, "He killed that butterfly like it was nothing, and I felt I was obligated."
Gaea leans back into the seat just sighing, "Brother, do not get involved in such matters if you may. We are here to attain your beloved with the least amount of trouble."
Y'Garon looks away sheepishly before Gaea stands and hugs him, he returns the affection. Gaea pulls apart saying, "The demon will not follow our trail as I displaced my energy into several plants confusing the trail. We must go and hide for a little longer until the time is right."
Y'Garon nods before lowering his head, "I am truly sorry sister."
Gaea shakes her head no, "It is understood Y'Garon, we should still try and go before more trouble arrives."
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Niar watched as the two demons ran away and as the other lesser shadow minion demon walk away and disappear into a shadow. She knew an opportunity when she saw one and this shadow demon, which seems to be attacking all potentials, was her opportunity.
