Teen Titans, Shadows And Creatures Of The Day
Chapter 22: His Debut
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"How do you expect me to trust you?" he grunted as she allowed the boy to get up.
"We all make a pact with some wishing stone." She said with her hands to her hips.. "You just happen to be choosing the difficult path to finding it."
Robin was wide awake on this one. Far away though and thinking of when he'd have Bruce to himself as soon as she..was put away behind bars? Where could they keep a demon from another world. What other worlds were there? Thousands probably. Ronnie could know more...
"The gem. You haven't captured it yet, or collected the shards. How do you know that it's close?"
She waved for someone to follow. Being Dick Grayson, He was that person to wander up and down halls.
He had to get away from her. Find some way to get to Bruce and warn him. Ronnie wasn't as she seemed. All warm and fuzzy centered. She was deadly. Treating the Titans, Alice and himself once poorly-
Dick shook his head. Roku's own English was getting old. And as soon as he found that shard...
A flash of light beamed down. He remembered! Al..he had found that piece of red...glass when Dick had been spying on Ronnie and Bruce...! That was the shard!
"Vero-
He turned to find that she was no longer there as a very unfriendly tour guide. They had been seperated?
He was lost now and she wasn't anywhere he'd not already been. This wasn't right. She was supposed to be by his side, but his wish was granted- he only had to look at the task at hand. A piercing dark figure went to leap across the floor, as a shadow creature .Guessing from the gelatinous form it had cloaked itself, and no one else but he and possibly Ronnie could see it. Where the heck was she!
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Raven had no intention to use the spells in this spell book...Starfire exclaimed as she sat to read through its contents. Cross Indian style on the rug she began to chant a mantra from the pages.
She wondered why in the world the pages only explained so very little until it was turned , flipped around and dusted. That's when she knew that this book was not like any other. It was powerful.
~TAKE ME TO, TAKE ME TO ROBIN~
Spinning and swirling of the book broke her concentration. Causing her to eek, out of shock. The glow ceased to light up the room she had darkened with Tameranean lighting fixtures. Dimly lit as soon as she set them they became whole again. A knock sounded from the door on the other side of the room. Starfire gasped grabbed the perfect mechanism to finding her man and stuffed it under her bed. She sat up in between air and the floor before standing.
"Please enter!" She called.
"Star? Are you in there? It's dark! I can't see a thing."
~Azarath Metrion Zinthos!~
TWO? There were two visitors?
"I...have been resting! It is almost Tameranean bedtime as we call it on Tameran, sooo goodnight!" She pushed them out to the hall and slid the door closed with a thud.
"Well, that went as well as I thought it would." Raven half snorted as she head for the other doorway leading to the next hall.
"Sorry Cyborg, I'll do what I can for Nina but there is no such thing as instant magic.." her face fell trying to look up towards the frown on Cy's.
"I hear ya Rae, we'll do everything we can to help...all of em..." The both let out a sigh. Leaving Starfire to get some of her beauty rest and to settle in.
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Starfire fell to her knees and trudged off to bed as if carried by some unseen force of the sandman's power. She was about to close her eyes, "Knock knock." an echo made her sit up with a jolt sizzling through her and making her dead aware. Someone was in her room!
"Remember me princess?" A figure came from out of the shadow of an open window. The moonlight was bright and shone over his masked form. Red x without the mask stepped so that she could lay eyes on the dark Roku's demon son. His hair wasn't really tied back like last time, and he looked stronger than ever. His raven locks reminded her of her lost love. This was not him.
"Huh! Thought you'd remember me a little more carefully. But princess, why do you have my story/spell book?" he asked with caution. She was after all a Star Kingdom princess from the past life of Arianna. She could burst through a chil's figure to turn into a very precious jem-
You...he rasped to himself. Somehow she heard. Right now she was under the influence drain by the book.
"Yes?..." Her eyelids fell closed but not as long as he was there.
"Foolish little girl, you've opened my book? But look. I want what you stole from me. So i'm just going to take it."
Starfire was dazed but answered slurring her words though she'd never ever had problems like this before!.
"I...wont let you...have it..." The clear picture was here! He wanted her piece of the shard she and Raven only knew about. Raven barely knew about!
He came closer to her and was about to set off another shameful exploding blast of energy."What are you going to do? Attack? But I am still-
"No...my memory, you will not take it...you will not...take iiitt!"Arianna had her back. But she had a god demon son's shirt collar.
"You! I will not take this!" He swept her from under and she fell hard. He stare undeniably furious for he having ever come into her life. But he blasted, she dodged and she skid from the floor and rushed to her closest item in the room, something to toss.
"Go away! You do not need that crystal-
Eep!" All out of items that were ready to be used, now she found them turning to goop in her hands. His doing.
She growled. Her gloved fingers felt like ice. The window! He'd have a way to escape! She rushed from on top of her furniture but the furniture turned on her!
The goop turned into heavy cords that tangled around her legs. He was heading for the hall!
Tugging, or blasting?
She exploded and set off after the perpetrator. Her room in shambles. Her skirt rustling as she set her sights on the garden she'd planted after having come to know more of the trees and seeds that resided on this planet. Her planet...was in danger!
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Rini's heart and ears knew that sound...a platform she'd not known ever about was appearing up out of the water in the bay!The platform was large enough to fit even Cyborg's vehicle and Robin's cycle! Wow.
"Wait!" Coughed the young Slade next to her, holding his weight up carefully. "Who's crossing?"
He was oddly too right! Who would be crossing near bedtime on a workday? Were the city's villains out and running a muck...Who was that?
"Red X, so you're behind this!" Rini thought that voice felt familiar with a low growl, and a sassy comment? Was it-
"You heard me! Give back what you stole, and leave them alone. No one wants...to..."
The young Slade, was young! So that would make him seem weak to this villain as if he'd run the joint before! And X, wasn't humanly possible to keep his mouth shut, he was the-
"Who sent you!" Called Rini as the smoky fog became noticeable over the water. He was trying to high tail it out of the area!
No!" Slade, mini man...sent out his last defense. A piece of glass broken from his cell window in the sky castle prison! His last shot...his only helping hand as he shot the thing-flung it and successfully pierced the cape X wore. The thing rripped in a cinch as the rest was brought over to protect from any more blows.
They were far too late to get help, as he strength in the body of Wilson was definitely fading away. He needed a sorceress! Or he wouldn't have any body to return to.
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Nina's vision blurred as she opened then widened her senses. Lifting herself up, she saw big bro Cy. "He's been trying to help you, we all have."
"Maya! She...no way!" The embraced in a sad way and she the mentor and creator sighed with relief. The wood spirit let me go after I told her just who you are to me. It was difficult when Verra entered the picture, I know."She smoothed the child's hair back.
"He means well...he's like a great cre-father to me..." Nina said quietly to herself though Maya smiled at the thought herself. "Where did you go? All of us," chuckling she said with pride for her daughter; even Big Brother Cy had no idea where you were in that mind of yours! You had us worried and you've been on shut-down for less than a few days!
Nina gaped at her mom's words. DAYS! She'd been shut up in the tower for days! No sunshine of any kind. No food, water...like she was ready for future stuff like that, she ran off of programming and data that was Takahara's focal point of the whole android soldier project! She was a peace maker, and a weapon when need be. Food wasn't needed!Not yet! She'd tasted desert training food, but that stuff was gross! "When can I go back..."
~I don't want to hurt anyone...~ She knew no one but Raven could read her emotions. She'd seen darkness on the other side. That wolf never made her so scared as he did in her dreams! She tried to stand, but wobbled and bumped a waking cyborg the grump.
"Huh?" he yawned. "What...did we win...?-
He, as soon as Nina had responded to her appearing in front of the table in the med lab.
"You're ok!...what happened to you? You're all beat up!" Cy didn't point. Instead he clutched his shoulder from the night before.
"I'm ok! Just a bit reset thanks to Maya-
"But-
Cy frowned ~Maya's with Verra's buddies!~ "Who in the world are you talking about, there's no one-
She huffed and brought her hands to her hips. That much made her fall over. "Don't push yourself! You-
"But...she's right here!" Sniffled poor Nina. "You can't see? What's wrong with me!" She tried to be strong but that force of the wolf's made a mark appear over her arm, very ancient spell-casting could only mean...
"I-I..." She frantically began to cross her vision, blurring her senses once more. She screamed at the feeling of terror that she might have to under go transport to a lab once more...
~Don't...don't hurt them...i love them all!~
She fell, blind from the sound of a sharp chime in her ears. Into nothing.
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"She...she was OK! We had her fixed to get reprogrammed...what...what...?"
"Cyborg!" Raven tried to sooth his emotions, With X getting away and something being present...the wolf over all...in the tower, Nina made his mind spin like never before.
He was crying...Cyborg the robot man was, shedding a tear for someone who needed him the most...
"I failed," he groaned to her. She was seeing Maya and said that she was better...then that mark..." he sniffed.
"I'm sorry Rae, I just...I've never had a little sister! She was too fragile to take this! She wasn't better at all-
She was...someone warped her. She's back to phase one again. Wiz stepped over from the doorway. "I heard the poor girl scream-
"WE, all heard it." Cy looked at Raven, the whole team that had come to see what was happening to ...them!
"And did we not say that the dragon was feeding off or making things worse!" Kay only added more wood to the flame already sky rocketing to oblivion.
"F-f..feeding? Starfire knew the realm of glorgas fed on those that belonged...
"You feed when you need to replenish...nothing more than a parasite." grimaced a disgusted Kayu.
"Eep!"
Star covered her face, the picture of...it was too much!
"Feeding off already fiery emotions? He is after all a soul stealer..." Raven thought aloud. Bb knew there was a scent too...but he was busy with an old contact...yet that didn't match to why he didn't bother to call in!
"Raven? There will be time to build walls will there not?" Starfire uncovered her eyes and asked.
"I can try to break the spell," she answered to the star bolt wielder. "But I'll need energy just like the end of earth, how you were helped by my powers.
"A barrier!" put in wiz. As he stepped to the door and the lock he examined the handiwork. "We could encrypt it into the technology your friend uses. That would give Roku less of an advantage to use-
"QUIET! DO, you want him hearing every little word!-
Raven glared at Kayu who glared back with almond shaped cat eyes.
Bolts would fly...
"Kayu points this out with error!" Starfire gasped out. "He cannot see everything!-
A growling sorcerer huffed at the red head.. "You are already under his power-
Wiz only scoffed as the flame in her eyes began to take shape and bopped the half guardian on the skull.
"Bite your tongue, we fight!-
"AND WE, as well as the gods or who ever gets 'involved' gets watched from the skies!" they were deathly silenced by the reprimand of the guardian, silver headed one...
"We can lie...-
"How? Is he stupid? NO. He's a scholar with a mightily powerful occult past."
Raven snorted when her friend was half through. "You probably know that when you worked for Slade!" Her energy or aura danced brimming with self doubt. Could she or they pull off a big plan that would blow that GOD away for good?
A rring came up to strike them all out of their debate. The shock was terrible! Like a rooster on your windowsill when there was a war ahead!-
"It..is it him?" they all crowded around Raven and Wiz. Cyborg joined them shortly after the first words came through.
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Robin's head buzzed with questions. That shadow, could it be him?
"Come to battle inside Wayne's office building? My English human speech is excellent, no?"
"No, it's still heartless, just like your-
"Silly boy," grinned the Shadow rider clan leader. "You really think I would care? He sees me as friend, you...you are just vessel to him!"
Hmph, robin's smirk made the demon twinge with worry. ~His aura~Shadow thought by speak...
"You have gotten yourself drained by that demon lady. Not very smart of you, no?" He tutted to the hero who's face turned pepper red. "Now you're gonna get it!"
Laughter entered the hall from Shadow's deep vocal cords. Dick almost thought he was the dragon!
"Oh! You make me laugh youngster! Oh ho ho!"
he sniffed from happy tears. ~Soon your world will be no more...~"That was-
"Wait! You don't care if I attack! But-
The demon only tried to hold in his chuckle. "Like, I say prince. You will hold the power to serve dragon god-
The god laughed over the young man's voice which made him feel like he was choking on air.
"NO! I have to save the world! Not destroy-
"STOP IIT! Stop laughing!" He brought his hands over his ears. The sound of echoing laughs everywhere! It was heart-wrenching madness!
"Wh-why am I here...who am I..."
A new voice appeared, this one being a bit less noisy. More or less like a hum.
"It...is that you Vee..." He was so heavy and sleepy...needed to find, help...felt like he had gone into another stupor...wheels turning...gears...
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Slade's head snapped up. Who was speaking to him? Rini was the only one and she was busy treating his injuries. A thought occurred.
"Where-
Rini?"
"She's in the other room, but what are you doing here?" Grumbling that he was lucky to find someone she finally came from behind the medical bed curtain. Raven Roth of the The Titans, teen was far from it. She was second oldest next to Cyborg.
Robin wasn't the one to tell so he had to do his own digging during the pact with Trigon. Then the dragon showed up-
"Ahem!" Raven tapped her foot to the tile floor. Idiot cousin to Vera was there as well.
"How did you get inside the tower? What exactly did she do to bring you here?" He was silent as if some force kept him dumb enough to be questioned by such high and mighty heroes. He would -
"And...who are you..?"