good evening Ladies and gentlemen.
welcome to this.... fateful chapter. i won't say anything else but enjoy the show.
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Tension had bee thick in Titans Tower for five days by now. Raven, Jinx and Raziel had show open hostility towards Robin and the Boy Wonder had not been thin on his dislike for Raziel. It was only a matter of time till the three demidemons and their familiars would say good riddance to Jump. But all three had agreed that they would leave with a Bang, and were only waiting for the right moment. And they did not have to wait much longer.
The alarm of Titans Tower was blaring loudly as Robin, Starfire, Blackfire and Cyborg rushed into OPS, getting the coordinates for the problem. No one needed long to notice that neither demidemon was present and Robin was seething. He so wanted to tear and rip into Raziel, no doubt in his mind that HE was the source of all the problems. "Titans GO!" 'I will get you for this bastard.' And soon the three Titans plus one extra Tamaranian were on their way downtown.
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Cries and shouts of terror were filling the streets as people ran for their lives. Behind them was a horde of Ghouls, groaning and moaning while they reached for every warm blood in reach. In the middle was someone laughing manically, arms held high into the sky. "RUN MY MINDLESS SHEEP BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE! You will join me in your death!" The person was male, dressed in the clothes of a priest. Long canine teeth and blood red eyes flashed in his face, his gray hair combed backwards.
The Ghouls moaned loudly, suddenly becoming faster and closing in on the fleeing crowd. Humans screamed as the tried to escape, pushing those ahead out of the way in their mindless attempt to escape. That was the scenery that Robin and his group were faced with as they came to a stop with screeching tired. Cyborg's face fell as he saw this.... mass of undead flesh walk towards them. "Oh man.... I really wish Raziel and Raven were here....." "FORGET THEM," roared Robin as he threw off his helmet and pulled out one of his staffs.
"Dear Friend Robin, how shall we fight them?" "HOW SHOULD I KNOW," growled Robin loudly, still unwilling to do what needed to be done. "You know exactly what we have to do," muttered Cyborg as he shifted his right arm into Cannon Mode. "CYBORG! You will NOT shoot them!" "Then what should I do?! Those things are gunning for every living flesh!" "AND I SHOULD CARE WHY? We will NOT murder those things!" "Are you sure they are even alive? Look at them: they don't have minds on their own; they are mindless zombies!"
Citizens watched the heated banter between the two male Titans while the two Tamaranians were uncertain what to do. They suddenly were no longer so confident in their protectors.
Suddenly people became aware of the threat again as one of the crowd was pulled away by the Ghouls, several of them tearing into the woman's flesh and her screams of terror and pain filled the air. The crowd once more started to run away while the four Teens simply stared as the woman was ripped limp form limp.
Out of nowhere it was suddenly as if the temperature had dropped by at least 50°F and a voice sounded from one of the side lanes. "Pathetic. Arguing while the people you swore to protect are getting eaten alive." From the lane emerged Raziel, dressed in black pants and red shirt, sword resting on his right shoulder while his left hand flexed.
"You have certainly fallen from grace Robin," came a new, dry voice from the opposite direction and Raven rose from the ground, hood pulled up and darkness flowing around her while her scythe stuck out from under her cloak and her wings were spread wide as she floated a few feet off the ground.
"At least one of you had the common sense to act," came a hissing voice from on of the vendor carts. Jinx was crouched low, her ears standing straight up, tail swishing angrily and eyes and hands glowing bright pink.
Suddenly a bright white glow appeared in mid-air between the crowd and the Ghouls and soon to the shape of a white raven, surrounded by a still strong white glow. With growls and snarls a panther and a flaming canine breed appeared on the left respectively right of the raven, taking a protective stances between humanity and death.
"Let's get them girls," growled Raziel as he hefted the sword form his shoulder. "Gladly," answered the two demonesses in one voice and all three sprung into action.
Raziel rushed forward, grinning madly as his left hand was engulfed in Hellfire, launching a thick stream at the horde of Ghouls before he tore into them with his sword, slashing and hacking away at the undead threat. His sword severed off limps, heads and torsos in two like a hot knife went through butter. Dust was spraying everywhere as he laughed madly.
Raven was floating above the issuing chaos, raining black death down on the Ghouls with her free right hand. The unholy magic tore through anything it came in contact with, the moans of the Ghouls making her grin and her eyes shine under her hood. She suddenly raised her left arm, scythe high and glowing in green, "Fear for thy souls because the Reaper has come for thou." And in an wide arc she brought her scythe down, foul energy of Death bursting forth in a wave of green energy. Every matter that came in contact with the energy was eaten away by acid, flesh and nonliving material alike as the wave left a large tear through the ground.
Jinx was flipping and weaving through the horde of slobbering Undead, her nails growing to claws as she tore into them with bare hands. She ripped off arms, legs and heads, tearing out hearts from chests and blasting heads to mush with her hexes. Her eyes were glowing brighter as a wave of her Bad Luck exploded from within her, taking the form of large spikes that pierced through anything in their path. Dropping on all fours she pounced the closest Ghoul and tore her claws into the creature with glee written all over her face.
The FREAK priest could only watch in shock how his army was shred to dust within a few minutes, maniac laughter coming from the male demon as he decimated the unread.
The crowd watched in morbid fascination how those three did what the rest of their heroes were unwilling to do. Even the know villainess Jinx was working to protect the city. Slowly the crowd started to cheer on them like this was all a huge spectacle.
Robin and his group were staring at the issuing slaughter. The Boy Wonder's face was one of horror and disgust, snarling into the direction of the male demon. Starfire's face was surprisingly calm, watching impassively at what her friends did. Her sister was smiling slightly, licking her lips as her eyes started to spark; it was obvious she wanted to join but would not act against her mistress. Cyborg was watching with a grim satisfaction, glad that at least someone still had common sense and the balls to act.
It was only a few minutes before every Ghoul was simply dust, blown away by a small gust moving through the street. All three demidemons turned their gaze onto the FREAK priest who was slowly trying to back away. "Your army has been dealt with," said Raven dryly. "You are all alone," smirked Jinx with her patented Cheshire grin. "Any last words," asked Raziel grinning like a madman.
Suddenly the priest turned around and tried to run away, stumbling a few times. Slowly Raziel pulled out his gun, pointing it steadily at the retreating back. "In the name of Hellsing," muttered Raziel before he pulled the trigger, "Amen." With a loud bang the single bullet burst from the barrel, speeding through the air and piercing straight through the FREAK's chest, creating a huge hole before the priest exploded into dust with a last loud screech.
Silence filled the street as the three fighters gave each other short nods. Slowly the turned around and walked towards the crowd. Slowly the humans started to cheer, clap and shout. But the happy mood wasn't lasting for long.
"YOU! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE DONE HERE?!" Robin was fuming, screaming and letting all his pent up anger go. "THOSE WERE HUMAN BEINGS! THEY COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED!" "Robin.... we told you before that this state CAN'T be cured," said Raven in a dry voice. "SHUT UP! YOUR JUST A MONSTER LIKE HIM," screamed Robin while pointing at Raziel who's eyes started to glow dangerously.
But he was not the first to react. With speed faster than anyone could track Raven stood before Robin, her right hand lashing out and gripping his throat tightly as she lifted him off the ground. Her hood was knocked back and her eyes glowed in an infernal red. "Watch your words human scum." Raven's claws dug into Robin's throat, drawing blood as the Boy Blunder tried to suppress his cries of pain as the unholy magic of Raven flowed into his body.
"What right do you have to call us monsters, sitting back and watching while true monsters hunt the people you swore to protect?" Slowly Raven rose into the air, taking Robin with her as he grabbed onto her wrist, trying to break her grip but in vain. Black magic seeped out of Raven and surrounded Robin as she slowly let go of his throat, claws dripping with ruby red blood. "It is time that you pay for your words."
With a flick of her wrist the Boy Blunder was flung into the side of a building, howling in pain as bones cracked and broke. Then he was slammed downwards to the ground, his left shoulder impacting with the pavement and more bones snapped. Without a second's pause Raven lifted him back up into the air before slamming him down once more, this time on his other side and crushing his arm and shoulder.
Robin howled in pain, screaming for Raven to stop but the demoness answered with her magic gripping him tighter, starting to crush more and more bones. His ribs snapped loudly and his screams grew louder.
Starfire suddenly let out a war cry as she lunged for Raven, eyes and fists blazing orange. But suddenly she stop in her movements, her head jerking backwards. Raziel had appeared behind her and grabbed her hair, using it to easily hurl her down to the street again, leaving a deep imprint in the asphalt. Before the alien princess could regain her bearings she was lifted up once more and slammed with her back into a wall, red demonic magic holding her in place while a crackling sword tip pointed at her throat. "Stay out of this," growled Raziel, his eyes burning sulfur.
Raven by now was floating over the moaning and groaning body of Robin, eyes blazing as her magic moved away from the boy. "For years I have taken your insults, snide remarks and down talking. For days and weeks I have let insults of my mate slide but this is over now. This was the last straw. Keep in mind that it was YOU who brought this over the team." Raven slowly raised her scythe, the energy blade glowing before bringing it down.
Robin howled and turned to look at his right shoulder, seeing his severed arm lying next to him, fingers still twitching with left over electricity. Blood flowed freely from the huge wound as Raven turned her back on him. "Let this be a memento to us; we are through with you." Black magic lifted Raven's T-Com into the air before crushing it to dust.
Raziel grinned deviously as he looked towards the screaming Robin, his whole body covered in black flames. "You are not off the hook yet Birdy Boy." With a small wave of his arm he sent a stream of black flames at Robin and the boy started to scream even louder, all his nerves sending utter pain into his brain. A dark smirk lay over Raziel's lips as his hand turned into a half-fist. "I think I too will leave you a memento.... or should I say, take something from you?"
Robin's screams filled the city as slowly his right eyeball was pulled out of its socket, black flames seeping into the empty space and scorching nerves. The boy was closer to insanity than ever before as the black hellfire slowly was removed form his body. Bloody was flowing from where his eye once had been and his mind was close to shutting down, the pain too much for him. But it was not over just yet.
Jinx now stood over the heavily wounded and crushed Boy Wonder, grinning as her whole body glowed pink. "The others all have taken something from you so let me give you something." The neko demon leaned down, placing her right palm firm against the boy's chest before the pink glow flowed from her into the him. Nothing happened while she did this but after a couple of moments Jinx pulled away, her grin now pure evil. "That should be enough Bad Luck for a couple of months. Be careful, breaking mirrors and walking under ladders now REALLY has a meaning for you."
The three demidemons walked away from the together, their Familiars falling into step. Raziel released Starfire who instantly rushed towards her downed lover boy. Cyborg was standing rooted to the spot. He would have liked to help his friend but... Him alone against three highly pissed off demons? No thank you, he liked his life as it was.
Suddenly the metal man saw how Blackfire moved after the three demons. "SISTER! Where do you think you are going?!" Blackfire turned to Star, her smirk speaking volumes, "To where I know I belong." WHAT?!" "Have you not figured it out yet? Naive fool," chuckled Raziel as he threw a look over his shoulder. "Did you really think I would put YOU in charge of such a force of nature as your sister? She was never obedient to you."
Suddenly everything clicked in place in Cy's mind. "She was following your orders all the time.... Even back then you knew that the team would break." "I knew you were the brains of this team together with Raven. Yes, I felt that a break would come; why leave someone like Blackfire behind?" "You..... mon...sters......," hissed Robin through his pain and the three demidemons and one alien laughed loudly. "I will never understand what Slade saw in your," mused Raven aloud. "So much stupidity in one person. Even Star or BB would have been a better choice for this."
Black magic started to seep from Raven and envelope the seven of them as Raziel reached into his pants and pulled out his own T-Com. "I think I will keep this baby. But don't hope you can track me through it; I removed the tracking chip the first night I got it." Jinx gave the remaining three Titans a supper sweet grin, "Maybe you should call in some help; seems like Stone will do solo work for some time." and then all seven vanished in the darkness that soon soared into the sky in the form of an enormous raven.
The citizens of Jump were perplexed, shock heavy in their minds and fear in their hearts. The Titans were pretty much out of commission; if the villains heard of this..... In the next few weeks Jump's crime rate should top even that of Gotham City.
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Amanda Kirs was sitting in her office watching TV when the whole room went suddenly black. With a small smile the woman waited and soon enough the darkness vanished and in her office stood seven people. "Quite a show you put on there." "You have seen nothing," smirked Raziel, placing his sword on his back where it magically stuck between his wings. Amanda turned to Blackfire, "So, she is one of those others?" "Indeed she is," said Raven with a small smile on her lips.
"I don't think she needs a test; we all know what she is capable off." The woman turned to her computer, typing away for a few minutes before looking back. "All four of you will attend to the same institute. Given your past and what you can do now... only the best would do you justice. I think you will be the top students soon enough." Amanda stood up and walked around her desk, looking at them with sharp eyes. "We will leave for your new school at once. Each of you will get a room and-"
"No such thing lady," interrupted Raziel. "Raven, Jinx and me will share a room with Blackfire's right next to it." "This is not acceptable. The rules are clear about joined rooms and mixed sex rooms." "Then I guess we have to break the rules," said Raven with a small smirk, her scythe appearing from the depths of her cloak. "After all, I am sure you DON'T want to get on Death's bad side."
Silence filled the room while Amanda stared at Raven. "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means that little Raven here is Death, the Grim Reaper," said Jinx with a large grin. "So it would be best to give her what she wants."
Amanda seemed unshaken but on the inside she was trembling like a leaf in the wind. 'This.... will be a problem....' "I... guess we can make an exception here..." "Clever move lady," smirked Raziel, rolling his shoulders. "Then we better leave now," stated Raven dryly though her smirk was visible. "As you wish," said Amanda stiffly and lead them out of the room.
For a few minutes they walked through the seemingly endless steel corridors before they stepped into a room with a teleportation device of sorts. Typing a few commands into a console the eight of them stepped onto the slightly raised platform. "Where we going anyway," asked Jinx. "Washington DC," answered Amanda and shivered as she saw the four smirks. "This party's getting crazy," said Raziel while rubbing his hands together. "Let's rock," finished the two demonesses in one voice before the device hummed loudly and bathed the room in light.
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It was a busy morning in the halls of DC's Hive Academy. Students were sitting in the mess hall, eating the questionable breakfast. All in all only 40 students were there. They were the best of the best, the Elite. Someone entering was rare so when the doors slid open and four people walked inside with a HQ representative it was the cause of many big eyes and whispers. Everyone soon noticed that one of them was THE Raven, someone they had been told to avoid at all costs recently.
The representative stood in front of the long tables and looked around, clearing her throat. Silence fell over the room instantly. "Students, these four will join you. A good word of advice: DON'T piss them off." Chuckles moved through the rows as people dismissed the warning instantly. The representative frowned but decided to let the new students do the intimidation, "State your names, some of your skills and a few things you think they should know."
The first to step forth was the pinkette most students had read about: the Witch Jinx from Jump's Hive. "Hey ya all. Guess most of you heard of me via the intern spy network. For those who don't: I am Jinx, Bad Luck incarnate and neko demoness so if you got tuna around keep it from me. Also boys: don't even try; I am taken." groans from the male students filled the hall and glares from the females pierced into Jinx.
Next was Blackfire, seizing up the room with her eyes. "Blackfire, Starfire's EVIL big sister, stay clear of me you thralls. I find anyone having dreams of the wet over me and I will make you have mares of the night for the rest of you worthless lives." Many needed a few moments to decipher the alien's strange way of talking but soon enough it sunk in.
Following the Tamaranian was the only male and many did a double take on the leather wings sprouting from his back. "I'm Raziel, demon, elementalist, weapon of mass destruction, wielder of Hellfire and Necromancer. I am so taken you wouldn't believe it so stay clear if you like your brain inside your head." Many females had hearts in their eyes and one even fainted. This cued the pissed introduction of Raven.
Her eyes started to blaze red, black tendrils lifting her into the air while her scythe appeared from inside her cloak. "I am Raven, daughter of Trigon, who I intend to kill, demoness and Death incarnate. I destroyed the Reaper and took it's place and THOSE TWO are mine!" Black tendrils grabbed Raziel and Jinx, pulling them towards Raven.
The whole hall was dead silent, the temperature close to freezing as EVERY plan to get either of them was nuked, burned and buried at an instant.
"Right...... they will join you in class today so..... stay alive and good luck with that." The representative left the mess hall with the four new students and soon the room was buzzing with talk about the four noobies.
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Reaching the local Headmaster's office the four new students soon got their timetables and were shown towards their rooms after Raven made a stand on getting a joined room for three of them. Needless to say that the rumor mill was working overtime as soon as THAT got out.
Soon the four were on their way to the first 'lesson': combat class. They entered the gym, Raven glaring all the while, and walked up to who seemed to be their instructor, a massively build man that could give Atlas a run for his armored butt and dressed like fresh from an army movie; the rest of the students was there as well. "So, you four are the newbies," roared the man in a drill sergeant voice as he glared them down but neither flinched or looked away. "You think you are tough shit? We will see about that. Follow!"
The man walked away and the four followed him slowly. Against on of the walls was what seemed to be a large cushion and above it a digital counter. "This baby will gauge your physical strength with a punch. You are allowed ONE try so pay attention." The man took up a boxing stance and threw a punch, roaring out while doing so. He hit the cushion hard and the counter started blinking before stopping at 1824. The man smirked and shot them a proud look, "Top that!"
Blackfire stepped forth, cracking her knuckles loudly. "2000 that she beats his result by ages," stated Raziel loudly and a kid next to him, dressed in some black full body armor suit laughed. "I take you up on that and say she will stay below 1000." "Hope you got the money at hand kid," smirked Jinx as she leaned against the wall. Blackfire stood relaxed in front of the machine before pulling her fist back and slamming it HARD into the device. The counter blinked and..... "14356. Pay up kiddo."
People were openly staring as Blackfire walked back, a proud smirk on her lips. Jinx stepped in next, flexing her wrist. "I am not really the physical type but here goes." She threw her punch and the counter blinked. "Well, that's not bad," smirked Jinx as she saw the counter stop at 12438. The males were slowly backing away, staring at the slim girl that packed such a punch.
Raziel stepped up next, like Blackfire cracking his knuckles. "Guess we leave the best for the end, huh Raven? What you say, no holding back for this?" Raven glared at him but the smile tugging at her lips broke the effect, "Fine with me." The other kids backed away, eying the male carefully. His grin grew and suddenly he threw his punch, the whole wall shaking upon the impact. Numbers blinked like crazy before coming to a halt. "I think I can live with that," he grinned as he saw the counter stop: 76549.
Jaws hit the ground at this and people seemed frozen in place as Raziel walked towards Raven, "Ready to loose?" "In your dreams," said Raven dryly as she glided towards the device, hood pulled up and cloak closed. Everyone took some steps backwards, even Raziel was getting a bit worried as he felt how Raven let go of all her limiters she had build up over the years. 'Aw shit man..... I hope the building keeps standing.....'
Suddenly Raven moved, her speed too fast for every to see. The whole building was shaking and people were sure they could hear the material scream in protest. The counter blinked, beeping loudly and then.... it exploded with a small boom. People stared at Raven, even her lovers were jaw slacked and wide eyed. "DAMNED HEAVEN," shouted Raziel as he realized what he had been toying with. "Questions," asked Raven dryly and everyone backed off, shaking their heads no. Raven gave a smirk, "Then I think we should move on." Without waiting she grabbed Raziel by the collar and dragged him aside. "You. Me. Close Combat. Now." Raziel was not looking happy, 'I will be SO black and blue after this.'
Raven saw his face and she gave him a grin that would make the Devil himself hide, "Payback's a bitch." Now Raziel KNEW that she would return every teasing he made tenfold. "Jinx.... order my coffin.....," muttered the male weakly and Jinx was close to believing that Raven would kill him; the look in the demoness's eyes spoke volumes of the pain she had in store for her lover.
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well, that is the end of the first arc so to speak.
people will probably question me but please be patient and see where i am headed with this. let me know your thoughts.
- Nelo Akuma