Read series through to the beginning to the bitter end, the story that never ends!
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/A/ Chapter: 8: Trip and Fall, The Dragon's Hunt, Unlucky Bonds
With a grunt he left for his mission.
The boy turned back to the king with a frown. "I don't need any of your luck." He spat out to the guy and left.
Stomping down the hall and looking at the floor he huffed without any real hesitation between the mere sight of him self, reflected by the tiles that covered the floor.
He won't free me..." mumbled Slade in comparison to his cool yet annoyed self. IN an adult body? Why a kid? OK...stop and think, why but a kid and not an evil creature like his lackeys. Good guys always get thrown in to the fire first. He was defending his ally and nemesis. Traitor. Apprentice - when this happened to the two...heroes. Yuck, he was even thinking like the enemy now! "No no no!"
He stood now gazing up at the ceiling as if it were a galaxy of stars. Laughing without consent was all he could do then the laugh began to grow. He'd show them...! He'd show them all! Roku, would be the first to go. Or his actions could make him lose his hollow mind first.
"Ha ha!" The reflection was agreeing with the boy for once. He'd turn blue before getting back control as he choked on his breath. For a second the floor turned to goop as he fell through the monstrous portal to his destination, Roku was watching...
The dead stare that Robin gave to those he encountered on the way out of the palace was still and hollow gray. That and his eyes were no longer blue or red and black. Another blocked his path to a fearsome victory. A wolf. The white wolf to be exact. Now, no one knew this but Roku's spirit was a big part of the wolf and it's form. Without the lord dragon the wolf would never seem to be real or it might have never come to live by his lord's side.
"Move..." the wolf did not move at the command of an outsider. He simply sat his rump down; planting it to the tiles firmly without question. He would not leave.
The wolf through mind speak and heart worded together a dynamic threat as it waited for the young master to strike. He supposed the fear in the child better to never have known their world than to have known it at all was in some serious massive mess. Who would have disturbed the son to be dragon lord Roku's redeemed? It had to mean a presence of bad intent. That and a rebel uprising inside the kid's mind.
~Why don't you realize the mistakes you will make have yet to be set to seed? Do you want to stay forever imprisoned in this haunted world?~
This plane could sense fear on its own. But why invade his space. Roku must intervene or there will be trouble. This kid had been annoyed by something unnoticed by the chamber maidens and servants.
~Please, tell us what ails your heart-
Never..." Was Robin back as he slumped with his arms limp, eyes staring up with a hint of heartless feeling to them? Was...He going to attack?
Swish
Skidding by at lightning speed the dog did not see the leader of the Titans pass undetected by winds that touched the tip of his furry white coat. "You..."
The dog swung around blindly as he searched by way of telepathy. Nothing, but the bit of clothing torn from gods knows what from the boy was enough to use, to hunt him down. The wolf growled back. "I don't play watchdog." He set after the scent of fresh fear.
"And I'm not a royal pain like him!" The kid was hiding with the use of his brains to aid him, in the shadows he'd stayed well and quiet. Hushing his own fire inside of his mind. But one thing still upset even Roku that he carried as a shadow. Good and the bad, that's how it went down. And the doggie, went down.
Robin climbed up from the growling animal demon spirit half. He was mad! And he was standing now. With the form of the one Tara had described from the real world at her school! A foot soldier to the baddies of spi-
Power...And goodness he was strong as he crushed a pillar to the side with his gloved hand. No longer with paws of any kind he had the spirit of the wolf, he had the wolf's pelt covering his worldly shoulders. He was pure hate. Rage, evil...
"How? You...You change by power without corruption? How!"
'!" Robin spat screaming at the wolf, his head spinning. "Too bad though,"
"Wolf!" Robin was surprised so that he jumped at the echo in his skull. The form of a new even greater foe appeared above the teen. It was the son of Roku, His prized assassin and heir to the world of spirit.
And you'd guess that son fit the description too. He was ghostly floating above the teen. Robin was out of breath enough to explain, he didn't know why this was happening! He wasn't going to be the prince, no one demon believed his words...He did not have a voice here. He had to get home, this place was shredding his moral half to pieces; Batman was powerless, even the Titans? If he could only...That was it! What the lady said saddened him deeply. But the figure above him soon spoke over his thought.
I have a vessel, wolf." sneered the boy god above them. "Don't! He'll find Roku-
"My father is of no concern. Mortal." He visualized in front of Robin. Robin gaped as the god boy smirked at him. "Well? I've had worse containment, ever try being thrown to the pit?" he wondered if this mortal half could be his ticket to the lady Dark and Light, in the Cloud Kingdom of Light. In the east they reined all powerful. If he could only persuade the guy to listen up...
"Wanna go home kid?"
His voice turned to mischief. "Don't encourage him!" the wolf helped no one outsider, even so he was one. This was bad. The boy son was free because of the child of earth and spirit. "No! You're finished Prince Rokuro!" The wolf guy got out a staff as it fell to power. The two were entangled in power by the staff. It was trapping them...here! "Roku would try again and again, just to get on my good side, just call me Roko! Kay?"
He was smiling holding a hand out to the teen. "Trust me, please...?" Taken aback, the teen didn't want to listen, yet...he wanted out of this place!
Nodding they shook hands, it was a price to pay as the two boys disappeared outside the king's fortress. Free to go separate way-
"Follow me!" The king was sending hunters. They would track down the real prince and...
Robin cleared his throat, when the marks had vanished from his skin they got moving. Farther into the night. This would be a long trip.
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Alice walked off on her own, this wasn't a crime for a teenager of the academy she would soon be attending. They put her down as niece to Shoji Takahara and his wife deceased or missing? What did this man have to hide? None of the publicity worked for the two, she'd be sent back to the Titans if it had not been...so...
The last thing she could recall was a voice. A child hard at work to become a man. Her real brother, Roku's son. She wasn't really a relative to his royal highness...she peered up at the sky and soon felt her thought pattern suspend itself over the clouds. "OH!"
"I'm not going to be tardy yet!" She flashed a smile to the sky above her head. The bright sun dripped serenity down to the world. She dashed off at the speed of light. No, she would just-
Looking with wide eyes she bumped back into the first one person she'd encounter for the rest of the day.
"Oops. Sorry 'bout the mess."
Alice scooped up the last paper notebook that had fallen from her pack. No big problem here!" she smiled brightly. He, was sure she was someone new so he'd have to ask the teen her school address. Not to address it, but to guess that they'd be classmates!
"You- you're not from around town are you? Miss,uh..."
The child switched to swirling around to give him notice that she was attentive. Her toes aligned like a soldier's. "My name? Oh!"
It wasn't easy to let go of a lingering liveliness that was her heart, fluttering in her chest, cheeks turning red. "I'm um...T-T-Takahara!" Her belief that you learned to be as the one caring for you made perfect sense barely. She was still quite nervous. Yet she used words and phrases like Verra and this, Bb.
Huh?" the boy cocked his head to the side, angled and staring her down as if to find suspicion here. "What? You sure don't look Japanese-
"My- my father is...!"
"Oh, OK. Can you tell me your name? Then I'll say mine?" The littler tween was shocked to see the girl coming to her senses so quickly with an- eek!
It made them both jump. She dashed off by his shoulder whipping away down the neighborhood. She turned to his face and called back as soon as she was on the move, waving back. "It's Alice!"
She would begin without them, without any constant evil following her movements. To begin a new life on a new plain. A new academics teacher, the works.
"Mine's Aaron!" She was in England, so ever person fit into this puzzle. He called back and waved happily, he would see her. In his school at his expense of being so far for hours he'd see her again...soon, so very soon.
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Beast boy waited outside of the Murakami school for his pained old friend and his heart ached of regret.
Regret for not saving her in her world and regret for making her remember his wrong teachings, Slade wasn't coming back yet, but when he did-
"Actually We come out around 4:20, so" Sadly Beast boy brought matters up once more with a sigh. "If this is about coming back to fighting monsters or whatever, I'm not going!"
She tapped her foot once serious eyes above kneeling B. Then swept her hair back and turned to leave.
"I wanna get through to you, I can't...So I was thinking of finding the guy, you know?" She froze with the word; guy.
"Beast boy...I'm still me. Aren't I? So you don't have to help me anymore-
Screaming echoed in their ears. "The city, now what!" One person cried aloud as he ran and watched as the buildings died in the distance. The attacker was large and in charge as a slowly walking Johnny Rancid Came into view. He had a rock monster on a leash and it was enough to bring an animal lover to tears. When the grip loosened the thing sent off it's bold power over the concrete and dirt. Terra gasped then turned to Bb.
"You're the hero! Find your team, do something! He'll eat the city!" Beast boy became a rhino off the school grounds. He'd show her that he could handle Rancid without complaints this time.
Launching himself high up and into the sky he came down as and angry pterodactyl. Lifting up the beast mightily. "Hey! You can't handle that thing like I know how!"
"Sure, your metal eater doggie wasn't even close to my standards, take a good lo-
Wah!" The thing clobbered him with stone that it had drawn, Tara felt something in her chest pull her back to her dark consciousness. "Have to help, need to do something...must save him!" Her eyes lit up as the earth was plucked from the monster's boulder paws. He began to kick, scream and then wail.
"You loser! I'm not-
Wha?" Terra had the stone over Rancid now, Beast boy flew to stop her. Calling out and shouting to her.
"Tara, Stop!" That's right, said her inner part. "I AM TARA-
No...Terra!" He covered his mouth, "I didn't mean-
Still she dropped the boulder, it did not hurt a soul. "Terra is a traitor...I'm Tara! How dare you say I'm anything but normal! I hate you!" she sneered at his sad sad form. "Forget it...forget her...I...I..." She cried over him, she hated the traitor returning to this city. She didn't really have a home to go back to, and now...she'd wished she'd turn back into stone.
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The city wasn't quite that lively, not as it normally seemed. Regret for thinking that they; the teen heroes of that city could break a magic spell, and Raven suddenly losing her bound control over her power wasn't any good either!
Cyborg, Robin, Beastboy, Raven, Starfire.
The guardians of the spirit dimension, Alice,of that world now remaining with a new fam-
Wait! No, they were Titans that could fight bitter but true and brave. Alice had seen a vision before leaving them. Then reporting to Starfire who, next to Raven at the time was bound by fire and judgment of her own enemy...A shadow of youthful skill and agile perception, someone was going to find them...he.
"But Roku is- if that is whom we are up against...has far better ways to fight fire that isn't his own..."
Kayu slouched into the sofa, he wasn't a threat. Malchior had been sent to aid rebel forces in the west, where a head battalion was awaiting their arrival.
Wiz left to find fellow druids, magicians, mates, etc. He needed to be able to blend in, seeing as he was a walking scarecrow! The bodily form's didn't seem promising, he would hide at Takahara Industries until the war was fought fare and square. He especially did not like to fight, it was against Greg's nature to. In England he would help medical advances skyrocket, though that was against the rules. With Isis and her fellow deities watching from high up or below the core of the earth. Far into time and space there was a problem they were not allowed to settle without chosen guidance.
"What do you mean, chosen?" Malchior was already there where the gods would have made him leave by then on. "I was once, chosen to fight against the traitor myself! He threw himself to the ground beseeching me of my true power. Sure, I lived in a dark realm with mum but-
"The boy is alive and well."
A goddess with the weirdest name possible stepped up to the seat by Isis. "Aleia?" the murmuring girls of the kingdom only answered by bowing before her in their presence.
"You...ehem, have awoken yet my queen." Thor swore all he could just as his children had protected baby Alicia/Alice from the evil mountain monsters. "So very long ago," The goddess, with her blue sea and sky compilation of one gown spoke. She freed her tresses from the ribbons that were tangled together by them. The light blue hair and the tanned skin tone did her favors from the sun and planets as well as the stars. She was a universal baby over millions of years old. She even looked like she would carry one, compared to how short she was though, many thought that she should never bear the child.
Then to their amazement she brought a pillow from her stomach! It was a false babe!
"The true child I did so bare by the universal order, was none other than the late Princess Tsani!" Half gasps and cries came from many old and young deities. Thor slammed his fist to the platform. Malchior was breathing with a wide face and a hand to his temple. "No..."
Then she began to show visions of that world the Titans visited, then their own. "We must bring harmony to all of the worlds of each and every plain! Roku shall be captured and brought forth. For trial as to why he uses his children against us!" every god or goddess was taken by her appalling words of Roku's betrayal.
Isis reclaimed her energy to speak. "He may be a brother of the creators, yet he is a destroyer at darkest of heart!"
"Yes." Said Bridget. A Norse goddess of spring and love as well as family. "He will bring about destruction to no end."
"Ye, we in fact shall try for your crimes,"Thor pointed his hammer to Malchior. "Only after he is brought to trials against the great ones."
Malchior hung his head, so they knew he would allow it to be told. But he was still after all the son of a traitor...many other children the god had to keep hidden from the passing humans and spirit. How many though? What if the child warrior from his sister's vision, was one of the few? How could they fight if they were to be broken...
They were celebrating more so now...but what about those that could not!
Seth, Shadow clan leader, Hsari the god like cat guardian. And Veronica- a daughter trained and corrupted by the dark misunderstood underworlders. This would never stop- "There just has to be a way." he whispered as he waited for his leave to come.
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Robin didn't really become a very noisy sleeper, when he'd known of the bashes to the nose he'd had... He smirked. The dream world was a weird place full of voices that could not be heard by others. Yet these, people or beings could read your mind in the blink of an eye. As terrifying and dreadful as it claimed to have become, it only consumed your hopes and dreams to use them against those wanted targets.
"You've a sin dear child..." he'd worried about his past more and more since getting mixed up with those who claimed to realize all else. They didn't care he was a hero here, normal stuff. Planetary business yet, they feared more than anyone of losing total control...
"If I could get that control-
If we, you mean. You sound like this apprentice all the guards talk so eager of. Why not? You've earned the spot, you defended HIS priestess!" Robin frowned with his hands to his knees against a hollow oak. He looked up, he knew who this was...The freak in the mirror from the broken days in Slade's power-
"In being not in control really bruised his ego, he'll manage, sure..." The demon son perplexed as the matter of nightfall progressed smirking as the moon rose higher.
"BUT..." swiveling round and round to place himself in front of the other teen his smile widened.
"Daemon. No, they called him greatly recognized outsider since he sided with dark power, that's me!"
"Were you...telling me something back there?" Robin started to wake up; Richard was confused, that was him without a mask or attire to prove anything. Especially to...
"Sure was." The demon boy climbed up onto a boulder, standing with the wind to his back. Roko is an outsider name of a clan once abandoned by it's gods and elders. The people were only able to live with hardships for many years.
Tough times..." Richard said, upset as he turned to stand he almost thought about the name and it's origin. He figured that they were outside groups. Then what- who?
"My father was powerful as soon as he'd found young goody two shoes me..." he seemed alone to thought and alone to wonder. "He made me from the kid, out of spirit and soul, good and the bad, no!"
He almost fell had it not been for Richard being so easily dependable. He caught him before he fell and sat up on the boulder soon afterwords. "So...why did he make you soo..."
The poor darkly clad kid was mortified by the question. He turned his head away now. "I'm nothing... just as they say..." Jumping down from the boulder he skid over the dirt as he wobbled over a bit, catching himself.
"I'm as you humans call them; a servant, not son. I as always spy on many, take em down after. I'm like bad chi in good chi's arms..." robin stiffened, he the son of a monster should feel regretful, not lifeless!
"Well, when reincarnate means of one and many forms...Incarnate means a part of something made by that something. That is what I am."
Robin shook his head. "You are alive, you may be an evil that can be brought to justice. So far you've done nothing to be ashamed of...it was all me."
"Liar! You know nothing of what it is I've done to you and your world, or will-
But you haven't", Robin stared Roko down. Briskly he fell back to the forest floor. "Roku's to blame here, he made you that way. But ive seen people change...here everywhere!" was the child of birth power really going to help when he, the spawn of a demon and dragon could go insane? So quickly it would breach the spirit in time to tell his friends...friends...
The demon boy rustled his cloak around him. "Can, can...you promise me something?" He was acting very coy. Very different from before.
Robin knelt over to watch the kid from above. The younger demon boy, sighed. "Only if I can find a way to make things right...but...the evil I carry, might confess itself in the presence of a real dragon. So,
I'd like you to protect your name, no matter what. It is crucial that you present it to the great western dragon; Earth-
Robin pretended to blink. "Did you read my mind just now? The dream I had..." The littler demon was smiling kindly and cautiously. He would be free soon, first...
"Remember? I'm a part of Roku's son that you carry?" He put his hands to his hips, with his toes tapping. "Sure! I may look short and very weird to you- but people fear me." he huffed a sigh with eyes looking up now.
"That's why", Richard got off onto his feet. "We are going to clear this eh-em, prince's name. So are you in?" Now his hand was the one with a promise. These spirit were nice when you got down to their core objective in life. Heck, they were kinda like humans! Today maybe he was reborn, as the new negotiator. A greater ally to the world...
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"The kid Sladie wasn't, oh um, I don't know...short? Was he!" Veronica and her pals were probably up to no good...Red was in for a heck of beat-down from the king of snakes. The bound magical weapon that held him X, got tighter. "And now the living marionette...ugh! How can I fight for you if I'm crippled bud-
ONE."
"Hey gramps, tell the puppeteer to quite staring at me like-
TWO."
"ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?" It got cold around the puppet and his prisoner.
Three." He was turning into an icicle! Ex villain was gonna be- um scratch that, would be villain was with a frozen heart far from thawing. The king pressed on from the shadows in his throne. "I was going to be quite lenient, yet... Must you allow that mouth to run in my presence? It is a bore to us all, perhaps you would rather be a demon's-
X wished he'd gone back in time he was so cold. "t-t-too c-cold...!" he shuddered with his body and teeth chattering. He felt as though he didn't own a body or a-
"I can take the spell away and plainly banish your pain. First I want something from you-
"n-no, n-n-n-no w-w-way!" he shivered like hypothermia was his only way out. As the crystallized ice formed into a glacier he went down into the icy pit of despair. What should he do! This guy was crazy, one. He could make you shiver to the bone, two. And his old teacher was close to this guy big time! Oh no oh no...!
"I have seen much in your enemy's heart." Roku fell to his feet as he walked over to the glacier down from the platform he called his, sanctuary.
Did he mean, bird boy chuckles? Or Sladie?
"It should not matter to an outsider of the earthen plane."
Earth...what?Whoa- wait! He knew what I was thinking'?
"To the ones whom have you condemned as a thieving delinquent- a scavenger of the rich; never returning your due to any person but yourself, and discovering that your foe, RI- uh...hum...Robin is now here in this world, what should you do?" The king smiled as he thought of the hopelessly crushed brats yet to become warriors by his hand. He as the guy did believe had melted the glacier, now ex was bound around his waist with his hands criss- crossed like he'd been in a straightjacket.
"You talk a lot for a king, you know that lizard man? Also. To answer your question, I do know the kid from back when we,we..." Ex villain froze up as the king waited by the puppet man for a simple answer. That's all he wanted or was it...X was suddenly toasty warm as if he'd never been touched or frozen stiff.
ACTUALLY...what if he wanted X back? "What is his deal?"
"I doubt he'll forget, yet I can assure you, he will not listen..."
"To, you? No! Really?-
X's guess missed and flew off course, he was back to being tormented! Chains with dark auras around them snatched X's wrists and flew by at 90 miles per, or more...he was catapulted to the air as the latched on clamps threw him side ways to the side wall. He cried as the blow nearly destroyed his back bone. A large shadow float up to X, "Oh great! More freaky judges from-
The scyth was from another demon; it was Alice, Slade and Rob's worst fear with only the most disturbing face on record. Death, had arrived to the party. "Hell..."
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"Your job my dear boy is to aid someone close to my daughter, she goes by the call; Arisu. Which in Japanese is sometimes Alice-
Ex villain had slept on that wall as if it were his bed and had always been there. "Go get your prize to find her you cheap-
Ugh!...Wha-What did you do?" X was flapping his arms. Not only was his suit gone, but the mask! Now that he'd been able to move with the binds still there, it was key intelligence to finding their key or lock combination or whatever! He sat cross-legged on the floor of tile and stone. Looking up at the head leader of filth was all up to that leader and his crew! "C'Mon," The villain controlling Red nudged his prisoner with a calm look to him. Looking down on X he wasn't so persuasive before.
"What?"
The villain Roku sighed, he'd not bother the kid any longer, let his friends handle a rebellion.
Speaking of which...Malchior as anyone could clearly tell was still, ugh...free. Well dad was watching his moves from a parent's perspective, and rebelling and fighting? "Looks like a no- no, Mal..." After leaving poor Red to fend off sleep and boredom on his own, the crafty fool decided it. He'd find a way to get out seeing as he wasn't the last escapee here.
Robin, the kid glory in the eyes of this guy was different in description to the kid HE knew. Soo...why did that bother X? Rob was key to finding Earth again, he could remember pieces of the past with Ronnie. She wasn't a good gal as he'd been shown when checking the pages of a book. It had been delivered t his door with study guides as well. Someone wasn't coming back from the wrath of Roku, he was evil. He just was clever and insane, that book...told him a lot more than truth figured. Crafts that the dragon knew, his kingdoms in the past, but who? Who...who would risk their life for a low level thief?
Someone X might never get to see that's who.
What X didn't know was that Slade's tech meant nothing to the sorcery and scientifically minded doctor Regis. That was also a bit off the scale. Ex villain met his match when he'd found of his acrobatic flight and stunning battle skill when Regis had tried to prick his arm for blood work. "Yuck..." Eventually he'd get the key, he'd just have to be patient...
A smile spread over the teen's face. Cross- legged on the ground he'd just have to wait...
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"So...can I over-take you now-
No.
How about now-
NO!" Robin swung back around. The innocent eyes of little young Roko stared him down desperately. Roko, was not Roku's real son. He was taken from the soul- spirit of the real son to fight against those that would oppose that evil king. They were called incarnates since Roku and youth Rokuro were both part god semi-demon thing...Roko had also said that his creator had a wife, of course. The lady in the well introduced by Roku and Slade on the kingdom of the sand's plane. Back when Roku knew that he could wait longest no more...
The dragon had tried to take them all down by encasing the teen leader in a dragon sized trap. The last chapter? Robin didn't agree, sure you can fear at will, your own power tricks you to do it, to blindly follow something irrelevant,as Robin had years ago. Slade didn't do this blindly, but...the dragon could twist that fear, to mask it and force you to fall down over and over. Slade did that as the apprenticeship started. Why? The demon was the king dragon, Robin played no part and if; for example- if...if all that Richard cherished was suddenly squashed underneath a boot or heel thanks to that misguided belief that the fear did not truly exist-gasp...huffing it off your shoulder was blindness at work. Even if it's not there, you can still see it shine.
"Why walk to the past references and try to explain? They were plain and simple..." Robin's eye's grew.
His gaze fell back to the path they'd chose to take. Moving forward not to look back. You know to much, he's bound to-
Robin shushed the littler teenager. Someone was watching, a tree limb broke as it fell distracting the teen hero. Roko ducked but almost lost his cool when he'd been pounced on. A boy? But he wasn't just any kid. He was under contract. It was, Slade.
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Finally! Guilt caught up for ditching huh? Well I'm not through till the cu cu clock strikes- um, what number was it again...oh well. I'd love some reviews of the continuation and previous pieces. Your words really are the voices of the people here!