Episode 4: The Impostor Admirer
White Dragon sat on top of one of the pillars of the bridge watching the sunset behind Titans Tower. It was a peace full sunset, even with all the cars below. The wind blew through his auburn hair. He laid back down and tried to think of what to put in his next letter. Over the past couple of weeks, Raven had really fallen in love with her Special Secret Admirer, but she still didn't like White Dragon at all. No matter what he did or what he said Raven always gave him a look of hate with her red glowing eyes. At least she stopped attacking him. She finally accepted him as an ally, but that still didn't mean she liked or trusted him. He let out a long sigh. Just then he got a strange feeling, and it wasn't a good one. It was like something bad was coming. He sat back up.
"Man, what was that?" He said voicing his thoughts. Just then he noticed some thing in the water heading toward Titans Tower. "What the?" He activated his Dragon Vision to get a closer look, but his vision wouldn't zoom in. "Hey! What's going on?" He really concentrated and checked his power meter. It said his power was almost at max. "That's weird," he said confused. "My vision should be working. What's going on?" White Dragon tried again. This time it worked. It was a man standing on a transport barge, but it was no one he had ever seen before and he knew all of the Titans' allies and close friends. "Who's that?" He checked his vision again, but it came up blank. It didn't tell him a thing. Usually it would at least give him a name, but it was blank. "Okay. Some thing's wrong with this picture." Making a quick change, he took off towards Titans Tower. He landed on top off the tower just as the stranger reached the island. The stranger was dressed in a black tuxedo, dress shoes, and was cleaned shaved. His greasy, black hair was combed straight back. He strolled up to the door with a dozen red roses in his right hand. He rang the bell. The door slid opened and Cyborg stood in the doorway. At this time, White Dragon's Dragon Vision stopped working again, but his good hearing stilled allowed him to hear the conversation.
"Can I help you?" Cyborg asked the stranger.
"Yes, I'm here to see if Raven would like to go on date with me. I'm her Special Secret Admirer."
To Be Continued...
"Can I help you?" Cyborg asked the stranger.
"Yes, I'm here to see if Raven would like to go on a date with me. I'm her Special Secret Admirer." From atop the roof White Dragon whispered,
"What? That's impossible. I'm her Special Secret Admirer!"
"Her what?" Cyborg asked obviously not knowing what he was talking about.
"Her Special Secret Admirer," the stranger said again. "I've been writing her love letters for some time and I finally got the courage to try and ask her out." White Dragon was getting angrier by the minute.
"Okay, but I doubt she'll be ready to go anywhere," Cyborg told the stranger.
"That's okay. I can wait."
"All right then. Walk this way and don't touch anything."
"Fair enough." They walked inside and the doors closed behind them. As the doors shut, White Dragon's good hearing stopped as well. With his Dragon Vision down and his super hearing down as well, the only way to find anything about this impostor was to confront him face-to-face. With that in mind, he calmed himself down and orbed into the living room just as the impostor came in.
"Hey, anyone seen Raven?" Cyborg asked everyone.
"She's probably in her room," White Dragon answered. Everyone turned to see White Dragon standing in the corner.
"Um, when did you get here?" Beast Boy asked him.
"A second ago," he answered not taking his eyes off the impostor. Folding his arms across his chest, he walked toward the impostor and stood in front of him. Without taking his eyes off the impostor, he said, "Hey, Star. Could you go tell Raven her Special Secret Admirer is here and I think he wants a date?"
"Certainly," Starfire said eagerly leaving the room to go find Raven and give her the message.
"So you're Raven's Special Secret Admirer," White Dragon asked the impostor.
"You must be White Dragon. Funny, I'd figured you'd be taller." White Dragon was only a few inches shorter than the impostor at a good six foot. White Dragon didn't seem to think the joke was funny. "Yes, I am Raven's Special Secret Admirer, but how did you know? Her other friends seem to be confused as to what's going on."
"I have a very good source. But tell me this, how did you know I'm White Dragon?"
"Are you kidding? The whole city is a buzz with news of their mysterious new hero."
"True, but I don't recall speaking much while I was saving people let alone my name."
"Maybe one of the other Titans must have mentioned it or it may be that you're wearing mostly white and you have a dragon on your chest or that you have a dragon tail with white scales," he said pointing to White Dragon's tail that was twitching behind him.
While White Dragon interrogated the impostor; Starfire went to Raven's room to give Raven the message. She came to Raven's room and knocked on the door. Raven cracked the door open to see who it was.
"What?" She asked/
"Friend, a man is here to take you on a date. He says he is your Special Secret Admirer." Raven's eyes went wide.
"Ah, Kory, could you meet me in your room in a minute?"
"Sure, but..." Raven closed the door before Starfire could finish her sentence. Raven threw off cloak and belt, kicked off her boots and teleported to the bathroom. Once in the bathroom, Raven removed her leotard and undergarments and stepped into the shower. She took a quick shower, stepped out, quickly dried off her body and blow dried hair. Wrapping herself in a towel, she teleported to Starfire's room. Starfire was sitting on her bed waiting. Seeing Raven appear, Starfire asked,
"Friend, why did you want to meet me here?" Noticing Raven was just wearing a towel, she then added, "And why aren't you wearing any clothes?"
"He wants to go on a date and I don't have anything nice to wear."
"I have just the thing," she said gasping with excitement. Starfire rushed to her closet, threw open the door and pulled out a box. "Since you elected not go to the mall with us, Terra and I picked out an outfit for you for just such an occasion." The thought of Terra hurt Starfire, but she continued to smile as she opened the box. Inside the box was a black top with two inch straps on the side that would show three inches of her stomach, a blue skirt that would be an inch longer than her finger tips, two inch blue open toe high heel shoes, and a black purse with mascara, blush, and clear lip gloss in it.
"You picked out an outfit with everything for me?" She asked surprised.
"Ah Ha."
"I don't know what to say? Thank you."
White Dragon finally finished interrogating the impostor, but he did learn much. The guys were sitting on the couch when the doors opened and Raven and Starfire walked in. All five guys stared at Raven with wide eyes and jaws dropped. Beast Boy and White Dragon started to drool, and White Dragon's tail really started wagging. Starfire gave Robin a mean look. The Impostor got up and went over to Raven.
"You look beautiful," he said handing her the roses.
"Thanks," she replied taking the roses and smelling them.
"Shall we go?"
"I'd love to." Raven handed Starfire the flowers and took the impostor's arm. As they left the impostor turned his head around and smiled. Only White Dragon noticed that his eyes were glowing red. He knew something was wrong, and he was going to find out what one way or another.
To Be Continued...
Only White Dragon noticed his eyes were glowing red. He knew something was wrong, and he was going to find out what one way or another. After they left, White Dragon decided to follow them. His hearing kicked back in, but his vision was still not fully operational. While riding on the barge, Raven asked,
"So, what's your name anyway?"
"My name's Andrew, Andrew Dracen."
"Andrew huh? Nice name."
"Thanks." They reached the shore and sitting on the pier was a black Corvette. White Dragon was flying high up in the sky.
"Nice car," Raven complemented.
"Thanks. I just had it clean for this special occasion."
"So, where are we going?"
"A very special restaurant, the food is the best in town."
"You don't mean?"
"Ah Ha."
"But that place is so expensive and how did you get a reservation?"
"I have connections and nothing is too much for you." Raven blushed, and White Dragon was really getting mad now.
"Not only is this guy an impostor," he whispered from high up, "but he's flirting with her too." Andrew and Raven got in the car went to the restaurant. They got a table next to a window. White Dragon stood on a building watching. His tail was madly twitching behind him. Seeing Raven with that impostor just made him madder and madder. As they were finishing their meal, Raven noticed White Dragon sitting on the building watching them. Raven knocked him out. He was so focused on the impostor that Raven caught him off guard.
"Isn't there some place quiet we can go to be alone?" Raven asked.
"I have just the place." White Dragon came to as they left the restaurant. Raven knew he had been following them, but he couldn't turn back, not now. They stopped by a building that kind of looked like church, but White Dragon could tell there was nothing holy about this place. They went in and White Dragon orbed into the rafters.
"Where are we?" Raven asked. A voice from the shadows answered,
"You are home." Brother Blood stepped out of the shadows and said, "Welcome to the Church of Blood. We've been waiting for you, daughter of Trigon."
"The Church of Blood!" White Dragon whispered. "I've got to get Raven out of here." Andrew disappeared. "Hey! Where'd he..." White Dragon was knocked out, and he fell to the floor below.
"Ah, the famous White Dragon," said Brother Blood. "I was so hoping you'd show up. This will make holding Raven much easier. Excellent work, Shadow." Andrew appeared next to Brother Blood with eyes glowing red and said,
"Thank you, Master."
To Be Continued...
"Excellent work, Shadow." Andrew appeared next to Brother Blood with eyes glowing red and said,
"Thank you, Master."
White Dragon awoke to find himself restrained standing up right to some kind of metal board. His feet were together and his arms were bent at 90 degree angles so they pointed up. His whole tail was tightly restrained so he couldn't move or stretch it. He struggled to get free but he couldn't.
"It's a shame you woke up," said Brother Blood. "I wanted to see what you really look like." White Dragon looked down to see he was in his normal clothes, but his body hadn't changed yet. White Dragon screamed at him,
"Where's Raven, you son of a..."
"Calm yourself. She's right next you," he said motioning to his left, "such a pretty flower though." White Dragon looked to the right to see Raven bonded like him only in her undergarments. White Dragon blushed at the sight. Just then Raven woke up as well.
"Where am I," she asked groaning. Noticing she was only wearing her undergarments she then asked, "And what happened to my clothes?"
"Many of the followers and I wanted to see this," Brother Blood answered. White Dragon and Raven looked behind him to see hundreds of people wearing red robes, and Shadow standing in front without one. All eyes were glowing red. Raven yelled at him,
"Let Andrew go. It's me you want."
"My dear, he's not Andrew. I'm not sure what his name is, but he is known as Shadow." Raven started to cry.
"So you had him write all those letters just to get me here. You'll pay for that." She then chanted, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Nothing happened. "What's going on? What did you do?"
"Interesting how an angel's aura cancels out a demon's and vis versa."
"What are talking about?"
"I know you can't see it, but there is a machine behind you, and it's taking your aura and putting it into his restraints," he said pointing at White Dragon, "and vis versa. Shadow, could you come here?" Shadow walked toward Brother Blood. "I think we've absorbed enough of the dragon's aura. Kill him."
"What?" Shadow walked in front of White Dragon, so that he was standing between White Dragon and Brother Blood. A handle appeared at his right side, and he drew it. It was a dagger that looked like White Dragon's, but the hilt was red. Shadow flipped the blade up and it turned into a sword. The hilt of sword was red with dragon wings on the side that were different from White Dragon's. The blade was that of a broad sword with points coming out of side curving slightly up going up the blade and the last two curved so the end looked like a fork. He raised the sword to strike and smiled. White Dragon smiled back. Shadow turned around extending his right hand out, and a blast of red energy came out and hit Brother Blood hard sending him through the crowd into the back wall.
"You honestly thought you could control me," Shadow said changing into his own hero form, laying his sword on his left shoulder and looking back over the same one at White Dragon. "Were you worried?"
"Nah, I knew it was you when you shimmered into the rafters, but do you think you could ah..."
"Oh, sorry." Shimmering is where the body fades into another plane of existence to travel to a new location. The process is usually slow but Shadow does it fast. His hero form was just like White Dragon's, but their was red where there was blue, black where there was white, horns on the sides of the mask instead of wings, a different dragon symbol on his chest, and he did not have his tail out. Shadow turned his right arm toward Raven while still having his back to them and blasted Raven's restraints. Raven fell to her knees, and White Dragon broke his own restraints. White Dragon restored his hero form. He then took off, hit one of the followers, took his robe and was back next to Raven in a little more than a second.
"As much as we all want to see this," White Dragon said a little embarrassed, "I think you should put this on." Raven took the robe and then said in an ungrateful tone,
"Thanks. Would somebody like to explain what's going on?"
"That's what I want to know," Brother Blood shouted. "Shadow, how could you disobey me? How could betray Trigon? Who do you think you are?" He lunged at Shadow.
"There isn't a human or demon alive that can control me," said Shadow bring his sword ready to strike. "Besides, my name's not Shadow. It's..." Before he could finish, White Dragon attacked Brother Blood and hit him far back again.
"He's my counterpart, Black Dragon." White Dragon told him.
"Counterpart? But doesn't that make him evil?" Raven asked confused.
"Nah, my body just uses powers that make me seem evil," Black Dragon answered her. "Plus, I'm a badder boy than White Dragon."
"True, but why did my vision and hearing stop working?" White Dragon asked him.
"The boss wanted your actions to be authentic."
"Wait!" He exclaimed pointing up. "He turned it off?"
"Yep."
"Well that makes sense."
"Get them!" Brother Blood angrily shouted.
"If you want to leave here in one piece, I wouldn't do that," Black Dragon told the followers. The followers looked at each other then at the three and ran away.
"Come back you cowards." Looking at the three, Brother Blood shouted, "Trigon, help me." The ground opened up, and a huge monster rose up. It was one of Trigon's minions. White and Black Dragon both got a message. They smiled and looked at each other.
"You want ah," White Dragon asked.
"Sure. We haven't gotten to use that move in a long time." Black Dragon told him.
"Raven, could you move Brother Blood out of the way? We still need him alive."
"Okay." Raven teleported next to Brother Blood. She told Brother Blood, "Don't try anything funny." Raven teleported them way back behind the Dragons. She yelled to the Dragons, "Okay."
"Let's do it," Black Dragon said a little excited. White and Black Dragon put their own hands together, pulled them wide apart, and brought them close together. A ball of electrical energy appeared between White Dragon's hands, while there was a ball of shadows between Black Dragon's. They put the balls in their left hand and snapped their fingers. Raven and Brother Blood watched confused as to what the Dragons were doing. The minion knew, but he couldn't get away. The ground had already closed up, and he was too big to go anywhere. All he could do was stand and watch as they prepared the attack that would vanquish him and send him to his personal abyss. When a demon or minion is vanquished, they do not go back to hell or the underworld. They go to a specific part of the abyss. The abyss is filled with completely separate chasms for every demon and minion to go to when they are killed or vanquished. After the Dragons snapped their fingers, a ball of fire appeared in their right hands. White Dragon's fire was white, while Black Dragon's was black. They pulled their arms back slightly and jutted them back out. A ball of energy appeared in each hand. White Dragon's was blue, while Black Dragon's was red. The energy was a sort of spirit energy that only a few very special people like Raven who has a special awareness, unknown to her, and super natural beings like demons, angels, and the dead can normally see, but the Dragons decreased the wave-length so all could see. The balls in each hand began to spin. The Dragons yelled together,
"Ultimate Tri-Con Cannon." The Dragons thrust their arms out, the balls of energy combined, and the three elements twisted together. The two shots came together and became two big streams of black and white energy twisting around each other. The blast hit the demon and vaporized him. The demon absorbed most of the blast, but some of it got past and destroyed just the church above. The Dragons turned around and high fived each other. They looked over to Raven who was staring up in amazement at what they just did. Brother Blood was already gone.
"Hey, where's Brother Blood?" White Dragon asked.
"Huh?" Raven said coming out of her trance.
"Hope he didn't get trapped in the blast or the church."
"He didn't," Black Dragon answered.
"Cool."
The three walked out of the ruins that were the church. Raven was redressed in her hot outfit.
"So where ya been?" White Dragon asked.
"I'd been stationed with Inuyasha, before I was sent here a couple of weeks ago." Black Dragon answered.
"So how is the dog boy? I haven't seen him in a long time."
"Still ill-tempered as ever," Black Dragon told him. They both laughed. Raven interrupted their laughter.
"Okay, I have no idea what you two are talking about and you're probably not going to tell me, but I have to know one thing." She walked over and stood in front of Black Dragon. "Were you aware of what you where doing when you wrote those letters?"
"I didn't write those letters," Black Dragon told her. "I just used the signature name. My real name's not even Andrew Dracen."
"But if you didn't write them, then who did?"
"Beats me." Raven looked over at White Dragon.
"Hey, don't look at me." He turned to Black Dragon and asked, "So are you going to stick around long?"
"Nah, I've got to get back to Inuyasha and the other."
"So are you going to come back?"
"Don't know, but you know him," he said pointing up. "If you need back up, I'm the first one to be called." There was a flash of light and Black Dragon was gone. The car was gone as well.
"So since your date is obviously over," White Dragon started, "I can I give you a lift back to the tower?"
"No thanks." She teleported and left White Dragon standing there. Raven appeared back at the tower. The others were watching a movie when she arrived.
"So, Raven, how'd the date go?" Robin asked. Raven sighed and answered,
"He wasn't the guy I thought he was. Umm, Kory, can I keep the outfit?"
"You may indeed," Starfire answered cheerfully.
"Thanks."
"Hey, Raven. You want to watch the movie with us?" Beast Boy asked her.
"Yeah, it's a good adventure movie. You'll love it," Cyborg added.
"Maybe later," she told them. "I need to go change." She went her room to change out of her nice outfit. Raven sighed "Well it wasn't that Black Dragon, and it's not any of the others. The hand writing is different from any of the others'. So who is my Special Secret Admirer?" Atop the tower, White Dragon stood and watched with his tail slowly whipping behind him.
"I tell you...someday." He whispered. He orbed and was gone.
The End...or is it?