OK, so to top it all of I'll explain the situation to those who aren't able to clarify for themselves;
One: Slade shows up, but it's him in the body of a child him about 12 years old or over, haven't a clue . Roko was an evil side to the prince Richard/ Roku, his mother called him Richard and his counterpart evil dad's been calling him either. He was supposed to be one; a bad influence on the kids.
And lastly: Becoming a helper of Lord Roku as an evil catalyst, he was a light catalyst to help his friends he met on his journey. That was how he met the guardians and was turned. Easier said than done right? Uh uh.
Arianna, Ravenna and the guardians, Alice and her old counterpart Arisu were all once allied or against the king or his son and family. Ok, so enjoy the story some more!
Oh! And...we will discover who Alice's boy's mom is, she is...-
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Chapter 12: Face-off in the dark
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Beast boy could not avoid the itch to scratch his arm. ~ Young youth? Did that mean that this guy-
"UGH!" He was pummeled to the floor by a transporting here and there figure. It was the evil dude? Did that mean that he was...
"ACH!" Bb was thrown into a wall to the opposite side of his positioned spot. He was weak, with the wound penetrated by a blade he was no match for a shifting, hiding, creepy-
The last blow was while he was still on hands and knees, though it would have sliced his neck apart; the dragon lord awakened to scare the child with the shattering blow to the head and through the twist of fate...did not heed his cries. He needed the brat alive, lest he awaken a sleeping demon. Beast boy was trapped. It was if he were pressured into driving his palms into the floor, holding them there while a cold boot hit his back with an-
"Agh!"
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"Believe you me," frowned the god. "I'd hate to see you go, after all the fun and...Don't-
Even the presence of the boot made beast boy's sweat tear out even in his thoughts, which caused him to collapse,to a sheer fear of his losses. "THINK, that I won't rip out your throat, I'll have little to think about! And you? Well, let's just sit back and enjoy the show..."
Beast boy would have shot some heavy banter at this guy-
~But, why's...he going after me?~ "What...d-d-do you waaant!" He gasped with a great fear welling up soon after these words were uttered...heavily, angrily the god only laughed. "Is all this funny to you freak!" Beast boy growled in a rage that would not be permitted by the god!
The boot would not give. It was agony thanks to Slade getting back together with a monster...
"Who...are you...?"Grumbled the worn out Beast boy.
The kid was let free, for the knife to pierce him in the back of his shoulder! ~Backstabber!~
"I..."Smirked the god.
"I Am, Rokuro Noburo...And you, little youth...will bow before your king..."
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"Hold it right there!" Beast boy could not rest, the pain left him awake to watch the two reincarnated- young and oldest, battle.
"Dude...glad you...got...in...time..." Faint and possibly hurt bodily...this maniac would pay! Robin could not rest, not while his friend was in the hands of this...His fist were up, the wolf pretending to play hero at his side, would he find out...?
"Who are you...why are you-
"Who am I? Hmm? You know, this wasn't the very first time you and I have met... face to face..."
Robin forgot his promise to meditate on anger, this was a war now...No one hurts a titan!
"Wait!" He froze looking to his companion."Then you're? The..." He walked away slowly. Where was there to go? The wolf was...!
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~Actually, I'm not THE...~ He, the hero was better off running, with only few weapons from Mal and his warriors- oh!
The wolf smiled it's ugly wide toothed grin, he would have lunch and make the lord dragon glad he'd been born!
Robin could not win, no bo staff, no ammo, nothing. "Time to get Rae-
Aah!" The wolf at last had come to find the boy's weakness. Holding the jaws of the beast from on top of him shut, Richard only fought to find a way to speak to Raven through the bond...
"Get, off me! Don't let this thing-
"First call me by name and acquaintance, Richard...if that is your real name, He will kill your friend's spirit-
"Ah!-
BUT, if you agree to come home to the castle and ready yourself for thee...hm, beginning or rebirth...i might pull a few strings... .You." with that the hourglass of time appeared. Time to get things really fired up...
"Tsani...Oh dear, I left her all alone...you'll vouch won't you...Dick?"
"No...you did...she's-
"Important? Goodness no! I was using her power to shift the time between your worlds is all.."
"You...Hurt my friends!" His bruised ego was all good for nothing against Rokuro-
~You're a dragon... right?~
Rob's adversary shook his skull with a chuckle escaping between breathes. "Mind games will not help you now, for right now I need your help." He could read minds, great...What else could the cold sadist do to him? Nothing was new, except...-
With a snap of his fingers the world went dark, was he being over powered right then?
Robin felt a rush of feverish chills bypass every nerve he might never get to see but now. The feeling was a powerful wave of sadness, but by whom? Within the core crystalline heart of Richard Grayson being cradled was a fire. So pure and so soft as he felt it's flame curl into the form of a red dragon, the same one from a dream...waters, paradise then...fire regaining its energy to bring destruction through the darkest range of fear...
"No...nonononono! GET OFF!" Dragon fire scorched a fleeing wolf from the place, an applauding Roku was left. Along with his whole team, all except for Verra...
/B/S/R/C/A/M/CY/R/Roku...
Malchior would have let out all of his magical power before the almighty dragon himself fought to hold and seal that energy away. He wasn't as happy to see- in fact no one was! Roku, the thing causing mayhem for the gods. Seth, Death itself, all for that power source that Robin now possessed...he was it!
"Put. The weapon down wizard child-
"I'm your bloody spawn, devil!" Malchior was helpless to see the wave of nose blood drip by, which forced him to throw off his scarf. ~That's not a nosebleed....~ He gasped with his eyes going dark and blurring the vision of a life with Ravenna- not with a monster though...she deserved better than he, and Roku had proven that...many eons ago...
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"Mal- Malchior? Malchio-
Agh!" Raven felt the pain of convergence with another, someone or something was trying to take over her mind...
"Get...out of my head!"
Her command left her staggering away yet not knowing exactly where she should go.
An amber light lit up the room leaving two teens to allow their senses to take hold. The others avoided the glow with ease, the rest were intimidated and wanted to understand it all...
Robin was speechless, and very soon forgot all of his troubles even existed on this plane. Roku on the other hand was filled with spitefulness, deceit and contempt for Richard's... bride to be...ugh. He'd never cared for Arianna; princess and future queen of the Star Kingdom in his world, by the name of a master sorcerer and lord.
Orion of the seventh valley of the spirit world was her friend, teacher and enlightened one that would guide her to-
To...NO. She should fall with her crown to the bowels of the underworld court. He hated that brightness, the aura that touched her every being. Damned he'd be if she wed his... good luck charm, Richard Grayson, would forget EVERYTHING. Earth was his last resort now, yet...they would cast him aside. As the fellow spirit and guardians had done many times before.
~You, Rokuro are an enemy to the gods and spirit guardians of all planes! My magic will find your weakness and terminate it...~ Arianna as Starfire, and Star as Arianna said such a great lust for power to slay the godless one. Then Mal had the strength to fight, he spun to get a clear shot to one side and let his arrow fly. It also almost pierced the god. His foot was the target yet the aim had missed . Leaving just enough awe in him to cause the god some type of brief shock. Sure he could have healed- Roku was only the most immortal thing out there!
"Does the word 'dragon' ring any bells inside that thick skull of yours...sonny?" Roku looked up to see an angry snarl come from the wizard boy's lips. He was losing control of himself and his power...he would only act against his 'friends' wishes.' Maybe not, yet...she's in quite a jam!" He chuckled, with all eyes on Rae. No one, ever felt more threatened or disgusted than he- Prince of Knoll- outcast of the kingdom itself...
Raven tried to fight and break the connection, so...the intent was to leave her as an empty shell, She had to...
"Agh!" As the pain made her gasp for air her footing grew to be weakened and she tripped over unhurt.
"Leave Ravenna...Out of this!" He roared wildly as his scales began to appear all over his cheeks and face. His claws were long and pointed like blades at the tips of his fingers. Clawed toes popped from his tearing boots, leaving the tail behind him to curve uncomfortably into a 'C' shape. ~Why was he...Raven's heart raced along with the times.
"Rorek!" She cried to him as he towered over her. Now he crashed through the tower walls. He could not escape if the world they were in was not whole! He was clawed at as tiny impish creatures dug with fingers of fire into his wings. They were pulling him into a portal! The nightmarish intensity did not settle there. The psychedelic mirage of waves and dark color only became just that- a new dimension of demons...
This was similar to the rat invasion in the real tower. The walls did not ooze, instead they seemed to float. Raven had classified many worlds before, this was opposite to her mirror world of emotion in her own room- There had to be a way home! The jerk was just trying to feed off of fear, their fears...
"Stop this! This is mad-
"And I say..there must be more! You're not within a familiar setting. Here you try to plead for the end...well, I'm not ready for one just yet..." The god licked his lips while the fire was still flickering and burning hot.
He'd have fun here, call in backup then split the scene for good! Roku's eyes became slits like a snake's. His pupils were dark and gleaming. His victim. Would not be his first.
"Haven't you all been wondering?" He began as he turned away smiling as he fed that night.
"Why you kidnapped the princess of time and space? Umm, you're evil!" Calumon screeched with all his efforts combined.
"Tsk, tsk little ones..I'm not alive just to do as I please...i have, much bigger things in mind..."
"Who, are you? Why are you so important to so many villains? Slade's not here..Red X is on your side...what's your plan?" Robin didn't get to hear the answer as he was tossed into a wall then lifted into the air by some telekinetic psychic control. He was indeed up to something-
"Release him now!" Arianna had not release Starfire as well. She strung a spell into the air weaving a magical bind to bring Roku to his knees. He sprung up to attack her but failed as Malchior in the form of the dragon Rorek fired a shot catching everyone by surprise.
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Raven held up herself, magic within her fists. He was...
"You- you're defending, this...monster?"
Raven wanted to let her power make him realize his faults here. She was left to stumble, for the dragon still controlled her, she was completely paralyzed.
I...cannot-
"why?" She was hopeless as her emotions were set into starry teardrops. "Why?!" She banged her fist in to the floor. "Don't let him contro-
"I'm sacrificing myself!" Mal spoke through to her battered mind. Calumon faced him directly, the pain made him whimper. The dragon's snout puffed fire in small embers of finally realizing that they were too late. "This is for you...Raven..." Her tears vanished into the vast portal of dark energy. "What? You...called me by my name for once...idiot...sniffing with a few dry moments in her throat...she was sure this was not good bye-
Robin was able to wince away discomfort as her squinted at the scene, the words playing over in his mind...~he'll lie...~ Robin agreed to his own surprise to fight the god with his own words.
"He's not the last you shall have..." Arianna spoke with much distraction in her's, he- Roku would come to claim the worst power of all. Infinity!
"I see your point then..." Frowned the god. This wasn't the en-
"If you need him so badly my dear I shall call off my probing OR, will return you're prince at once to you." Donning the stance of a kingly soldier the team was shocked to hear of the sacrifice and the god's biggest mistake.
Raven was too weak to recall the attacks from before. The wolf was grasping the teen leader while he lay still by the god's doing. Roku could read them all, almost as well as a supercomputer, but even better...
"There's a catch, isn't there?" Robin asked while pulling the truth from the creature.
Raven- was clumsy and brought her self to her knees, she was blinded by mischievous spirit. Cocking up her head to the others her smokey eyes and mind were unsure of the question, "with...ex-
"To true, You may have one or the other, my son Malchior would be glad to see you set free,-
Or your choice in exchange for the curse I've placed on you, would be your...Brother, Arisu..."
"What about Beast boy? He was here to fight you first, am I right?" Mal said to his old man curiously.
Sighing, Roku could not stop the kid from voicing his opinion. It was only natural to answer as calm as he might to his people of spirit back home..
"I'm through playing games with him, you can take him back, I will not oppose you." Kinetically
he was lifted by the demon lord, Beast boy's eyes were placed shut and his mouth slack jawed open. Starfire was released by Arianna, since the calm had entered a storm thanks to this new foe.
She had to say something... she had to respond, but quickly.
"Beast boy! You are un-
"Now...Who- what, will you chose? I leave this all up to you...Titans!"
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Cy wasn't happy as the halls turned into jello. He could even see his breath! And past that fog he saw another fighter...
"Hsari, Red X, and you?" he exclaimed almost surprised to see someone other than his own shadow or himself.
And another was with the two. He was in shadow, Slade was here to watch, he'd find a way later to-
"Metal man?" X rasped as if already weak and beaten, he was after all lowest of the low now... "Oh man! You gotta get this lug-
"What he means to say is that we shall fight, you and I, as warriors of time..."
Of...time, how...He did not mean with good girl fighter queen Sarasim of the past, or the gods of the spirit's world like Isis and...others...then time? "What time-
Ex villain X was thrown into a corner as the night came in from all around them. This was time's unexpected decision...to fight...
"Bring it then! Come on! You aren't just gonna stand there like a-
Hsari wielded a weapon alright, one meant to be used as a mechanism of fate to seal Roku's enemies into a vast majority of unknown worlds. If Cyborg lost all on his own, he'd never see the light of day, play game station two, or eat...gasp...pizza with his friends ever again!
The shadow gulped down the panther lord into its depths until he was completely invisible. Cy used his light-one once used to cloak and destroy the presence of he and his friends, to try and locate the energy signature of the magician's enormous power. Well the panther was magic, a child or adult action figure brought to life; all because of some human creating evil as evil as it got from-
WAM! Cyborg's hit was accurate.
With real accuracy and precision Hsari slunk by as the powerful blow had knocked him back into a daze.
He...wasn't able to fight like a true spirit guardian before! Hsari the big cat reminisced to himself. X was getting up as the battle continued and the cat was sure he was without a doubt, but a nuisance.
Cy threw a cannon sized 'boom' to the cat which caught him off guard,
"." Little possessed Piper was with two blades as she prodded Cy in the back threateningly. She wanted him gone...Yet a part of her had never done this kind of thing before. She was a child almost thousands of years old next to..to...
"DESTINY!" She carried her broken cry up to the sky as she was lifted from bondage to an ornery ugly halfhearted and soul disturbed god and demon. Excluding all but one, her creator Destiny!
Eternal was Destiny a great spirit with dreams to rid the world of harmful things. But...why Roku...?
Slumped up into a ball on the floor she was saved until Slade intervened. So harsh would she be...attacked merciless for her failure-
PIPER!
Another follower had entered the realm like no other. He float down surrounded by impish children of darkness. She knew that call, the curse was only allowed to break if-
(We won't tell you just yet!)
Piper hid between the fighters, Hsari tried to escape after X whom fled just as the fight had become more interesting.
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"I'm waiting...so? What shall it be? I will not take no as an answer, as of now-
The hourglass appeared to be working in unison to his words. This was a trap.
"He's lying! We do not have a choice, we cannot leave here!" Starfire pointed to the mystical device in the air as it was also growing close to time's end...
"Not until we give him what he wants..."Robin growled under his breath. He did not want to become a...voice for all these lives! The Titans, guardians, human race and the unknown could think for themselves. He wouldn't be the keeper of any such thing that could mean...-
"Time's ticking away children...you have exactly...hmm,"
Roku closely examined a clock illusion created to tell the hours of their world. His hand held it floating up off the cold floor, if- there was only a room to have a floor in this vortex!
"About...Ten, seconds?" Robin glanced up to the hourglass, a trick! Robin clenched his fists, they were goners...
Think, stupid! The lives of the human and universal race are at stake! .he, want?
"Time's up! And their answer is...-
"I'll go, in their place, so...you'd better let us go!"
"Hm... tempting offer, Richard. Yet - they may go in your place you say?"
Robin's patience was wearing thin. "Just Let my friends and Malchior go, you said-
"Who, again? BOTH? Why I only said those two or I'd lift Arisu's brother's curse dear boy! Who is, you-
~What? ~Rorek was standing still as he began to transform back into a powerless wizard. Forcing the kid to turn to the ally that had once been a foe to he and his friends,
"Don't just stand there! Fight hi-
Huffing with a sigh Robin was powerless to. So, he'd already made up his mind...to make a long story short, this had all been a test...he'd been duped by a brain game of the god's. It was all over.
Du dun dun! Who is the mysterious man after the titans, robin and allies? Are the evil of both the spirit and earth coexisting with one another? And who are these twins of the elemental yin/ yang. Dark, light. What do they know about the titans and with a wolf goddess? Also Piper is in the fire now! She was supposed to be with- shhh! Whatever this was they'll escape I promise, though I won't say...how...! Reviews!