Klarion braced himself, creeping up behind the turned back of Slade, a ball of sorcerer's fire forming in hand. Have to time this right, have to aim it perfectly or else… he fired. Were this any other person it probably would have hit point blank and killed the target, regrettably, this was Slade. Slade turned just slightly, ducking underneath the ball of flame and reaching over and grabbing Klarion by the wrists. These he then twisted about and used to propel Klarion to the floor in a wave of pain.
"Did you honestly think that you could sneak up on me?" Slade asked Klarion, pressing his foot into Klarion's back. Ugh! Useless body! If only he could just…
"Apparently so. Klarion, we have been working together for less than a day and already you have attempted to kill me no less than seven times. Even Robin and Terra never exhibited such blatant examples of aggression,"
"Yea well I'm the personification of chaos remember?" Klarion snapped back, trying to force himself out from under Slade's boot.
"Doing a pretty weak job of it I see," Slade replied coolly, relinquishing his grip on Klarion and stepping back.
"Doing a weak job of it? I'm probably the only thing that's keeping these two universes from collapsing in on each other! There's a reason the universe has 52 or so parts!" Klarion snapped back, turning on his belly to face Slade angrily.
"Holding it together are you? And here I thought you were after more chaos, not less" Slade laughed, kicking Klarion in the face. Klarion curled up into a ball, hoping to avoid any further injury.
"Come on now, you spoiled brat," Slade said, grabbing Klarion by the collar of his shirt and pulling him to his feet. "Now tell me, how do you think I'm doing? I am filling in for you as Lord of Chaos after all,"
"Terribly. If you keep those dimensional windows open for much longer than things are going to start to crack you idiot!" Klarion growled, moving to try and punch Slade in the face, but failing as Slade tossed him aside like a ragdoll.
"Really Klarion, you doth protest to much, I know exactly what I'm doing,"
"Really?" Klarion questioned, getting to his feet again, "Then how come you just slipped in to mess with the boy blunder's girlfriend hmm? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you're losing control of your toys! They're figuring things out on their own and not killing each other I might add!"
"Klarion, Klarion, for a Lord of Chaos you really do look at things too closely, you need to pull out- look at the larger picture, then, and only then, will you understand. By the time I'm done with all this, I will be king of the world"
"We'll see." Klarion retorted.
End chap 14.