Chapter #16: The Plan And A Man of Action; Pt 2:Tag
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Hey!" Jason's rolled up body- pig in a blanket style was tossed to the floor. "Don't touch me, tough guy!"
It was useless to struggle. As well as he was now, he wouldn't be for long soon anyway.
Robin traced the lines across the sides of the doorway. A finishing touch by Shadow as the staff creaked to a stop when the magic was lost. The game of tag would cross this entire plane, Robin described a way to win the game fair and square. When he'd finished talking a small gasp interrupted Shadow.
Shadow only grinned big and wide. Arms outreached as if to hold someone close.
"You, you shall also participate." A gazing Starfire only fizzled as she fell to her knees with a pain aching at her heart and throat. "How could she participate in anything!" Robin was flustered at how Shadow had called her into the game he'd set boundaries for. No way was he calling it quits now!
"Weak she may be, but we need more playing members in our tagging game, no?" Robin whizzed around to see Starfire regain her energy, she was call the powers within her soul to bind limits to the game. He would not cheat her so easily...
"Are we ready then...?
BEGIN!"
The demon shadow grew tentacles with sharp barbs at the tips of each. Starfire almost fainted at the transformer's energy as it turned to a darkened state.
"Run...!"
He and the lady Tameran princess followed a path as they barely escaped by the door. This line was also created to be the starting line!
Gasping for breath, this was possibly the scariest villain in all the-
EEEEP!"
The goop monsters, they weren't allowed to help! The monster had broken his promise!
Starfire was so frightened by their hideous composure that she blasted anything that moved, all but Robin and herself...
One monster rebounded and found its way up someone's arm.
"AGGHH!" She looked in amazement as her friend had quickly maneuvered to her and ripped off the creature. Slamming into a wall the thing was weakened at last.
Robin was able to grab hold of Star's arm as they flew down the hall to rid themselves of the site, for now...
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Raven was quiet, that was until she almost stopped everyone dead in their tracks.
The tripping group of heroes helped one another to not fall over.
"Why'd you stop?" Beast boy was gripping tight to Calumon in his cutest, bodily form. Wiz looked down as the fog thickened around them. When the fog had passed to the next person wiz clasped his staff as if it were time to fight.
Is it them Raven? Can you sense anyone?
"We're here."
The tower stood at a level that Starfire was probably unable to reach, due to the fog and the energy that surrounded the place. Raven bit her lip.
"Let's get inside, you're right. I can hear them running away...they're probably scared. And something...-
"You are talking to us, right?" Cy brought a hand to his shoulder, she looked up and gasped as if in shock. "This plane is corrupt." Mal told her as she turned back away. "You are hearing more than just running, this world has been placed inside some sort of vortex..." At that last sentence Raven fled to their tower.
She was crying tears, many lives were gone here...how could that aura not be theirs? That was Robin...
It had to be! Leaving her ears open and her heart as well she followed the power locked within that tower.
" Not you too! RAE!" The earth shook as a surging pulse of energy drowned out the shadowy fog.
A goop monster was growing and the group saw, it was time to leave the outside world of the city.
Go! We have to find the others! If we don't...
A scream emitted from one of the girls, it was neither Tara, Raven nor Alice.
It came from inside the tower. Walking into doors that had been crumbled into dust Cyborg almost wept on the inside. "My effort...all my systems, they're done!"
When I get my hands on whoever made this mess, I'll-
B, it's fine..." Cyborg stood boldly against the dark aura's power. "Like Malchior said, this isn't really our home."
"It's not that." Mal corrected as Wiz stepped aside. "It might just have been ripped from the very seams of reality!" Beast boy looked to see that Verra was on legs- two for a moment. Was he serious? Did their tower get torn from it's original foundation to be brought to this creepy place? "If so, why did the dragon not send stupid heads from his world?"
Calumon grumbled to the others loudly. "He is not gonna send more meanies, is...he?"
his tone became innocent and frightened by passing thoughts.
"Titans, move out!"
Cy called to them all as he ran inside as the dark followed behind them. The doors were closed up- well, not doors, but boulders. All of Raven's power that Terra failed to realize was her's too.
She stood back and watched. The clambering of footfalls made the demons rush to find a way in. Cracking the rubble as they soon saw that they had failed to capture or eliminate, the titans were going to find a way home!
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Muffled by a blanket and a palm, Jay kicked his way to freedom as the big thug behind his own almost made him surely trip and lose the fight.
~ I cannot lose to this guy, who knows what's up with him...or what he'll do to me? ~
"Jason?"
~ Uh oh, that...What? Wait! That's not old` Sladey, it's...~
A gasp for breath made him a target though...thought itself was certainly just as promising.
The voice of the new guy was definitely no good. ~ But where did Slade go? ~
The footsteps ended as they hushed altogether and Jason had a chance now. He'd just planned an escape...!
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Slade was still present within his own home. But he'd just been able to hear running, away from someone or something. Was it through the dragon? Time to get some answers. The lock set up for the wall hanging of the large beastly entity was unscathed, untouched by any signs of rebellion. He, Roku was up to something.
~What? Have you come down here to keep me company? I am not lonesome, I have voices to-
That's why I've come. You've been able to return thoughts to me. Why?" Slade slowly walked up to the dragon. If not for a set of barriers that held it back.
~You heard someone other than me. Is that all?~ The creature chuckled. ~ You and I, are so much alike. We were deprived of the one thing that all gods hunger for...~
This...this has to do with them,doesn't it?" He said the word in utmost disapproval and a bitter distaste in his mouth was left soon after.
~ Now that you mention it, how are the little ones-
"None of your business!" Slade had calmed down once he'd seen it all for himself. The dragon was not happy and was frowning. Unhappy and frowning at the criminal in hiding. ~ That's not all, you know...~
The glowing eyes gave away most of the king's displeasure.
"Then. What." The dragon was making his blood really boil...if only it hadn't started off in a-
~ I know that I promised something to you, and yet you deny what you crave. What your absolute wish should be. ~
"That person, may be the one I wish to destroy the most. Yet he can decide that for himself...You on the other hand..."
The dragon cocked it's head as he continued to be curious.
"I despise. Mind control, forced tactical maneuvers, that was all a lie. A little plot of your own while you were still free, while you were still in my way."
~ Oh? and do you know why I used you the way I had? If I had not, you would still continue to seek your own demise out. ~
"Then let it! Your ideal world will just have to wait another thousand years."
~ Nonsense! You shall continue to fight by my power, the worst is yet to come...and, I need a vessel. ~
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"Jay's listening you know." a calm eye turned away from the beast. It narrowed itself to meet Red X -
"Huh? Who me?" X pointed to his chest baffled at the two and their plans.
Hey...what are you saying anyway?" X's eyes scanned the target plastered to a wall. A wall of barriers and ten times stronger than steely metals.
~ And if I were to be refused...~ The shadow clad figures in front of the teen only made him more nervous than he already was. Why was Slade including a thief to their old games...
"You're obsolete. Your vessel isn't here-
I didn't mean him..."
Slade's masked eye grew in size. In comparison to a golf ball..-
~ Like I said. You and I Wilson, are one of a kind.~
the glow of red returned in place of a screaming Slade. He'd been lifted off of the ground. As if floating covered in that mysterious red glow.
"Uh...oh...um, I'm just go-
SILENCE URCHINE! Your leader is now within my power, and I shall make this form mine forever!~
X had to cover his eyes and face, but once the dust cleared he knew there was no way out. Slade was no longer alive, but someone or something was...
"Where'd he go? What did you do to him, you monster!" The thief roared into action although he did not have the power of the belt to use to his advantage.
A palm swept out to claim the fist out of self defense. Red X fought and dragged on to pull free. Then a terror of serpentine eyes shone from the darkness. Slits in their centers and a frown upon the face, the real portrayal of the dragon lord.
He was almost going to be crushed by that curled up band of claws no top of fingers. Jason was thrown with his arm, his right almost dislocated completely. The wall he'd slid into made him cry out just barely. Trying to lift himself from the ground a dark creeping snake appeared where he could not see it. It quickly tightened around his ankles and made it's way to his throat.
"Goodbye...cruel world..." the thing would surely strike at that moment, poison seeking out his heart aand..."
Nothing. He opened an eye as if waking from a nightmare. Nothing. Not one set of bite marks itched him, and he was being watched from above.
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They'd found a place to hide and to aide in further understanding of their current situation. She looked up with sweat dripping from her forehead to her cheeks. Her face bright red and her lungs on fire. Robin was her leader, she trusted that they were safe. "Is...i-s.. is he...pant*...gone yet?"
He'd never run this far since the alien from the foreign planet and there when she'd finally-
SHRASH!
Claws, big ones. He was back...
The swerved a corner down the stairwell, to the last flight, they would make it in time!
"Oh, little ones? Where have you gone from me?" the demon's had stopped chasing them yet the demon leader Shadow, was still in the game.
The last gate was indeed not as far as they thought.
"LOOK!" She was so happy to see what he saw- that she felt as though her heart had skipped a beat.
"Al...most...there...Alright. Now Star go!" She launched him farther then he'd wanted, someone was in the way of the finish line! And Robin was heading straight for them!
He could see a figure as it got closer.
"Raven?" Starfire gasped then screamed. Shadow had gotten past her.
Raven's eyes fell on the flying boy and Shadow himself. "NO!" Robin watched in horror as the demon was again going to-
Verra was the last guy to surprise Raven, who fell to her knees and toppled over as she and Robin both fell together. Then who?
The two- a guardian and demon clan leader exploded as the fireworks from verra's porcupine quill fur and the slam of Shadow into them made the night heat up. Starfire fell over and tried to duck the quill firestorm.
"Starfire!"
A glowing blue generated itself all around Richard, the quills fell feet from the Tamaran princess
She quivered as the poor dog demon Verra fell with Shadow. The were both unconscious where they lay.
"Ariana..." Raven caught Robin as the others arrived to find a shocking mess now in their hands. The teen's blue glow drowned them all. A lack of breath to follow the event as it happened. A new curse had been lifted.
Shadow had disappeared yet the team was safe. Verra and Rob were in beds and the whole world seemed to be at peace. Starfire was still in shock, she'd seen him tire at so many things, around the boy wonder though she was as coy as ever. If he continued to be a source of energy like this, he'd never remember...anyone...but his own fear.
"When he comes to, I just hope that he forgets this once. " She sat by her bed in the newly glorified morning and sighed.
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-Will the titans finally meet the great evil in search of a powerless will? Will that power stand against the evil inside them, thee titans? that was time enough for me, one extra sneak peek, coming up!-
/A/ Chapter: Sneaking Around In The Dark...
A girl sat on a hard oak chair in Slade's private study, She twisted a curl from her head of ringlets and sighed. Red X sat against a doorframe, nested by his side was the white wolf with blue eyes.
"What are you looking at? Is it my eyes?" Of course you must be relieved that the serpent incarnate did not aim to kill..."
"Ugh...wha- where am I?" his arm's painful clicking brought the young thief to life, as did a shadow on the opposing wall...A shadow that turned organic right before his very eyes. A man was standing there now, who? Red just didn't know. Why and how he's in slade's place? Uh-uh, improbable as it was to have a person turn from dark and to be brought into light...well, it wasn't in this day and age today.
"Greetings, and welcome to the dragon's keep."A bone chilling chuckle gripped them all with it's sweetly coated words to soon follow. I humbly suggest you-
"Sure...whatever you say..." Jay was nodding off to sleep again, Roku, the lord now controlling this compound did not seem amused by the show of- this...lethargic behavior coming from this young fool.
A table to his right- the demon king smashed through it as if it were his second nature to destroy whatever stood between him and the answers he sought out. Ex villain X yelped as the sound penetrated his dreams of safe rectitude from monsters. The very followers he called to came, and left X in the hands of one monster in particular...
"Seal off all of the exits, then if you would quietly close the door behind you...thanks for coming, good bye!
Slam! The demon lord had now a palm held device, almost like a cell phone sized computer. Taking out a set of fingers from his other black leather glove the god smirked. Jay looked up. His gaze madly perplexed as ever.
Red X:
A.k.a...Former 2nd sidekick to the Batman? "Well, well well!"
"No longer..." X shifted his weight as he tried to stand. With the wolf gone and his powerful arms belt, all he could do was bide time for an escape.
"Oh yes, I recall Ra's telling me through his foul concluding sacrifices that you were once...one of them?" but mask-less Jason would not be exposed primarily by such promise to no one, an outcast. That's what he was, they thought he was-
DEAD. Deceased. I can read your pain, it's etched everywhere..." Was that some sort of evil drawl that left the guy's mouth, what made him think...
UGH!" Ex villain Jason only coughed up what air that he could. The god had played him right into his hands. But this...was only the beginning...
End part 1 of chapter...