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Infinity Island, League of Shadows Compound: 18:32pm, November 5th

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Ra's Al Ghul escorts the Witch Boy, Klarion, deep into the mountain of Infinity Island. The secrets laid buried here are of the utmost secrecy. The ninjas that guard this secret are mindless drones, they do not think, do not feel, they have no loyalties beside Ra's and what's kept here. The entrance to the mountain is bound by deep magic, only accessible by those connected to Ra's Al Ghul's direct bloodline, seven doors line the tunnel, past the entrance, each door guarded by stone figures of the seven deadly sins. "So what do you have for me? I'm not in a particularly good mood tonight." Klarion says as his familiar cat, Teekl meows. "I promise you. What you are about to bare witness too, will bring the Light a powerful ally and a means to finally destroy the Justice League." Al Ghul says as they reach the last and final door. The door is a great stone monolith that oozes power, history...and promise. The images depicted tell of a great war. Between the winged beings of pure light and a great army of horrifying creatures of pure darkness. Demons. At the head of both armies are two figures locked in a great duel. The light of the winged being's wings, sore over the battlefield. The being has a very familiar skull but instead of his typical fire, he is depicted with a gentle, bright blue flame. While the dark horned entity, draws a sickly green energy, in the shape for a dark sword, ready to deal a deadly blow. Her horns draw up, almost like rams horns before cascading down her shoulders and chest, like hair.

Al Ghul cuts his hand and caresses it against the stone. The great door opens, revealing a pool of green liquid, the same colour as the energy that the horned entity was controlling. "This is the Lazarus Pit...the source of my youth." Al Ghul says to the Chaos Lord who gleams in awe at the pool. "I've only heard of Lazarus Pit's, never had the pleasure of seeing one...they are incredibly rare." The boy says in a clam and surprisingly...calm tone. He hovers his hand over the pool. The wispy green steam reaches out to me, reacting to his movements. "Do not play what doesn't belong to you." A calm but threatening woman's voice sounds as Teekl hisses at the shadowy corner. Klarion turns sharply to the new being. The tall dark figure glides, almost floating across the shadows. Her pale arm reaches into the light as her hand graces across a broken sarcophagus "Who are you?" Klarion warns in anger but he turns surprised when Ra's and the other ninjas kneel in reverence. The tall figure steps into the light, revealing herself as the horned figure from the stone door. Her green eyes stare, amused at Klarion's magic and the fear etched on his face. "My...my lady...Your wickedness." He says in shock as he prostates himself before her feet. The woman chuckles. "It's been so long Klarion...I have missed you." She says seductively as she graces her hand across his back. He shivers from her cold and...evil touch. Teekl tucks herself away from the woman who enters the pool, the energy filling her. "It's been too long and my path led only to eternal darkness...my time is now. Ra's tells me of his and his allies goal but what of you Klarion...what is it that you want?" She says as she steps out again.

"I want chaos...pure and simple." He says truthfully as he glances at Ra's side gaze. "Chaos...such a childish fantasy." She says as she approaches a massive stone throne at the end of the room. "Why have Chaos...when so much more can be done? You're mission, my most faithful...is admirable...I would let you see it completed." She says as she turns her attention to Al Ghul. "It will be done...my Goddess." He says as she smiles and sits. "But first...I want revenge...revenge on the one who... misplaced me...you will do this for me Klarion?" She says as Klarion looks up at her. "Me? Your wickedness...?" He questions as the woman chuckles. The sound unnerving to the Lord of Chaos. "Yes...I need to re-gather my strength and re-gather my servants...but I'll need insight into how my enemy has improved since my time away...to see how this... Spirit of Vengeance plays. You will see this done Klairon...or he....will punish you greatly." She says darkly as Klarion whimpers at the threat of him. "It will be done, your wickedness." The Witch Boy bows in respect before trying to make a quick getaway. "Klarion...aren't you forgetting something?" The woman says amusingly. Klarion swallows his fear and approaches her, she holds out her hand as he places a soft kiss against her knuckles. Green energy wisps from her fingertips as it enters Klairon. He sighs in pleasure as the power fills him. Her hand caresses his cheek in adoration. "This power is only temporary." Her hand clasps around his throat and lifts him easily off the ground. He gags under the pressure of her strength. "Should you fail...well...let's not find out, shall we?" She says calmly as he is dropped to the ground. Klarion picks up Teekl and makes his getaway from the room and the compound.

Once away, the ancient being of magic gets his breathing back and his fear under control. He starts fiddling his fingers. "She's back...the Great One had returned." He says fearfully as thinks about his mission. He has to draw the Spirit of Vengeance to him...how to do that...the Chaos Lord perks up as he pulls a gem from his back pocket. The Ambre Jeune Perdu. The boy smiles evilly. Yes...this will do the trick.

P.O.V Change: Matthew Spectre

Matthew Spectre's Apartment:

I sit at the table as I read over some disturbing news reports. Over the last few days, especially since Halloween, reports of strange horned creatures have been seen. Most reports come from forest and other woodland areas but the fact that they all came out form Halloween is getting to me, and even Zarathos. He is very edgy these last few days. He tried to figure it out but it seem to be something that he could place. He was getting very frustrated at his lack of progress. And his frustration, doesn't do me any favours. I feel Jade's presence on the roof. Her presence has become second nature to me, it's so familiar, I could pick it out of thousand people...while blindfolded...and deaf. She enters the window and smiles at me. "What's up, good looking?" She says as she wraps her arms around my neck and places a quick kiss on my cheek. I turn and smile at her. "The ceiling but other than that, not much else." I say cheekily as she smirks and kiss me. I return it with equal enthusiasm as she breaks form me. "So what are you working on?" She asks as she looks down at my work. "Just some things that have peaked my interest." I say as she smirks at me. "Not other women, I hope?" She says teasingly at me. I smirk back. "Like anyone could compare to you." I say back as she chuckles. "Flatterer." She says. I sense something hidden within her. Something she's trying to keep away. "What's wrong?" I ask her as her expression turns sad and sorrowful. "Jade...what happened?" I ask her as she turns from me. I approach her from behind as I lean in close. "Tell me...what's wrong?" I ask her. My voice is tinge with worry. Did something happen? Was she made by the Shadows or the organisation? What happened? "They want to capture you...they want you to fight for them." She says as she turns to me. "I'm in deep enough. I know all of them...Luthor, Bee, Brain, Ra's, Klairon, Ocean Master...their leader is someone named Vandal Savage...they call themselves the Light." She tells me as I stare wide eyed. I knew that she was in deep but this deep, to now know all of them...and who the hell is Vandal Savage? But they want me...to capture me? "How do they plan on doing so?" I ask her as she looks up at me, with tears in her eyes. "I don't know...they appear to be working on something. I've seen Ra's carry vials of a green liquid but other than that, I don't know how but they are planning to capture you. For what...I do not know." She says as I reach up and wipe her tears away. "Hey, look at me." I say softy as I gaze into her eyes. "No one is taking me away...they will die before they do." I say to her as I pull her into a hug. She wraps her arms around me, almost like she never wants to let me go. I hold her comfortingly. I feel a powerful energy surge course right through me. I back away from Jade as I get my bearings together. "Matt...what's wrong?" She asks worriedly. "Zarathos? What the hell was that?" I ask him. "Powerful magic. Laws of nature have been broken...the source is obscure...very powerful magic." He says in my head as I nod. "A powerful magical surge...I have to go." I say to her as I place a kiss on the crown of her head. She hugs me a so let go. "Be safe." She says to me as I squeeze her hand. "I promise."

I head out the window and see a car swerve into a pole. I wrap my chain around the fire escape and jump down to the ground. I run over to the car an spill the broken mangled door open. "Are you ok?" I ask the woman within who looks at me in hysteria. "My son! Where is my son?!" She screams a so look in the back seat and see an empty baby chair. I look up and see some adults looking around, names are being shouted. I pull the woman from the wreckage as I lean her against the building wall. I grab a man that was walking past. "Call an ambulance for this lady." I say to him as he nods. I make my way into alley and contact the cave. "Robin? Aqualad? Anyone on comms?" I ask and all I get back is static...until. "Rider, it's Batman. Report to the cave immediately."

I step out of the alley and see a car drive past. The driver looks at me, I recognise him immediately. He stares wide eyed as he drives by, even his passenger is wide eyed too. I throw a chain as I grip the axle and pull. The car skids and skids to a stop. I walk up and pull the door off, it to find the occupants gone. Sportsmaster and Eric Nashton...here...in Gotham? Why? Not important. Bigger things to worry about. I run to the nearest zeta booth and teleport to the Cave. "Recongize. Ghost Rider. B-07." I step out of the tube and step out to see Batman and Zatara. "Speak to me. What's going on?" I say as Batman enlarges the news screens. All around the world, parents are reporting that their kids are missing, just straight disappeared. "So where have the team gone? Where have any of them gone?" I ask but the zeta lady speaks before we do. "Recongize. Shazam. 1-5." We turn to see him fly into the hanger. "All right, guys, I'm here to-." He says as he looks at us in surprise. He rushed over and grabs all three of us in a hug. "Your back! Is it over? Where's the team?" He asks as Zatara stares bewildered at him. "Where have you been? Every child in the world has-." I stop him before he blows a fuse. "Let's hear him out first." I say as Batman follows up. "Shazam. Where have you been?" He asks. "On a world without grownups." He says in shock as our eyes widen. "Holey moley, there are two worlds." He says as Zarathos speaks in my head. "Spilt dimensions of the same reality...takes a powerful focus and powerful magic to create that." I nod in agreement, that's a level of energy that I can't comprehend. "Two dimensions...one for kids and one for adults." Batman says as Zatara turns to Shazam. "And you can travel between?" He asks as we look at Shazam. "I think I can. No. I know I can. Shazam!" He shouts his name as a magical lightning bolt hits him. He disappears in a flash as I catch a small glimpse of a small child. "Oh. That's rich...Shazam is a ten year old boy." Zarathos says as I widen my eyes. "Shazam is actually ten years old...what the hell?!" I shout in shock as Zatara and Batman widen their eyes in shock as well. "Well, now we know what's going on. How do we fix it?" I ask them. "I was able to track the magical surge to Roanoke Island. The powerful levels there are stronger than anything I've ever encountered. Multiple magic users must be at play." Zatara says as Shazam reappears. "I was able to convince them. I can act as a messenger between the two worlds." Shazam says as Batman nods and approaches him. Red Tornado enters the hanger and stands beside me.

"There will be threats in both dimensions, and we might not be familiar with our opponents." Batman said as Shazam teleports to the other world. We wait for a few moments before he comes back. "Aqualad said, 'but the key is this mission is a coordinated, simultaneous attack'." He says as I step forward. "Agreed. Our best chance to combat the sorcerers is to strike fast and hard, throw them off their game. With that we can disrupt their efforts." Shazam nods and teleports away. He returns after a few moments. "And hope the two dimensions merge naturally back into one." He says as we nod at the plan but I notice something. "Where's the rest of the League?" I ask as Red Tornado turns to me. "With the disorder and unrest amongst the adults, the League is spread thin to please the masses." He says as Batman follows up. "As of right now, we're on our own." He says as I nod in understanding. "Let's go fix this shit." I say as we head to Roanoke Island.

Shazam carries me as he drops me behind Wotan. Four sorcerers are here, within a pentagram but the fifth spot is vacant. "The Witch Boy is the fifth, his magic is oozing into this world...and another presence...one that is familiar but I can't place." I look amongst the sorcerers here, Wotan is a recognisable face. The other, I've read and seen on the news. Blackbriar Thorn, Felix Faust and Wizard. All four them gasp in fear as I let Zarathos take control.

P.O.V Change: Ghost Rider

"Stop the spell...or fell the burn." I threaten as I crack my knuckles and loosen my chains. Batman lands behind Wizard who dodges the thrown batarang. The dark knight is wrapped in roots and branches of a mystic tree. Wotan fires beams of magic at me which I dodge and cut with my chains. I get closer to him. He fires a stream of dark magic, I twirl my chains around in a fiery shield as it takes the beam. Red Tornado tries to incapacitate Faust but is blasted by fire. Wotan loses energy with the continuous stream of magic. I drop the shield just as all four of them are hit by lightning from Zatara. The lightning pulls into gem. Shazam lands behind me as we narrow our eyes. Thorn throws rocks at us, which I just catch and crush under my strength. Shazam does the same thing, he is crushed in between two rocks but he powers out of it. "Ghost Rider, Shazam wait. That mystic g, Ambre Jeune Perdu, it's the conduit of this sorcery. Without it, nothing may keep apart two worlds meant to be one." Zatara says as I light my hand with hellfire. "I'll tell the team, get that gem. Shazam!" He whispers before disappearing. Wotan fires magic at me which I return in kind with a stream of hellfire. He's magic is instantly destroyed by the fire. His eyes widen in shock as he ducks under. "You missed." He says to me with a cocky smile. "Wasn't aiming for you." I say as he turns and sees the ground around the gem has been incinerated. The pentagram has been damaged by the fire. I feel a mystic presence forming...one of great power. "Fate." I growl in anger as I dodge continuous barrage of rocks from Thorn. Shazam reappears, I feel Zatara's pain. He is angry, scared and desperate. Zatanna, what have you done? I growl in anger. "That's enough." I burst hellfire from my body as it covers the ground. The intensity of the heat, brings everyone to their knees. I walk into the middle of the pentagram, I pick up the gem, I pull all the fire back into me as Zatara gets to his feet. "Bring her home." I say to him as I throw him the gem. He speaks a chant as the gem glows bright.

A flash of golden light ensues as Klarion shows up in a magical arkh stock. The other four collapse under the weight of their magical exhaustion. Klarion turns wide eyed at me a so approach him with fiery rage. "How did you do this boy? Tell me. Now!" I say a I grab him and pull him close. "Ah. Wish I could tell you but I got to go." He says as green mist slowly extends out of him as it brushes against me. Klairon breaks from his bonds as I let him go. My entire focus is on the green mist. It caresses me gently, it forms in front of me of a incorporeal woman. "Darling...it's been too long... I've missed you." The figure whispers seductively as it's hand cups my cheek. My eyes widen at the voice. That's not possible. "How...how are you?" I say in shock before the most dissipates.

I see Klarion holding his car as he forms a portal. "See you later, armadillos. Unless I see you first." He says while laughing as he falls into the portal. "Shouldn't you stop him?" I hear Kid Flash say as I turn and see Nabu. "To what end? Klarion is chaos personified. He can not contained." Fate says with a mix of Nabu's voice and Zatanna's. The team gathers around as Zatara approaches Nabu. "Great Nabu...release my daughter." Zatara asks. "No." Nabu says as everyone looks in shock but I look in anger. "Witness what Fate's absence has wrought in these last few hours. Laws of nature have been tampered with, consequences are insured. Order needs to be balanced. This world need Doctor Fate. The girls affinity for the mystic arts makes her the perfect candidate." He says. "You can't do that!" "She's got her own life to live!" Artemis and Robin say respectfully as I approach Fate. "You know of her potential. It's the only reason you won't let her go...but you know that her destiny isn't bound to the helmet. I know that you feel it too." I say to him. "Perhaps. But my answer is still no. And not even you, Zarathos, can change my mind." He says as Zatara steps forward. "What about me? Take me instead. My skills are already at their peak. My body is physically stronger, able to hold the strain of your power." He says as Nabu stares down at him. "All true...but what guarantee do I have that you'll keep your word?" Nabu asks. Zatara chants a magical promise, sealing his word. "Happy now?" He asks sarcastically as Fate hovers down to Zatara's level. "You do this...there is no going back." I say to him as he hangs his head. "I'm a member of the Justice League...but I'm a father first. And a good father will always protect their child." Nabu removes the helmet, revealing Zatanna with tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-." She cries but Zatara hugs her. I walk up to them and take the helmet from her hands. Everyone looks at me as I hold the helmet to my eyes. "You are very cruel, Nabu. I will remember this moment. I promise you that." I say before I hand the helmet to Zatara. "Do not allow him to rule you." I say to him. He nods to me and turns to Batman and the rest of the team. "Take care of her." He says which Batman nods. "You have my word." Zatara dons the helmet as everyone par myself covers their eyes. The light dims and before us is Doctor Fate again. Only this time, he is masculine and has the green eyes of Zatara. Fate gazes at Zatanna who is crying her eyes out, the sorrow reaching within me. Fate turns his back on her as his eyes gazes at me. I narrow my own as he walks past me. "Leave these to Fate." Nabu speaks with a mix of Zatara and his own voice. Fate hovers as he levitates the four other sorcerers before disappearing in a yellow glow. I feel Zatanna's despair as I give Matthew back control.

P.O.V Change: Matthew Spectre

I turn to Zatanna and knell down to her level. I give her a sad gaze as I wrap my arms around her as she lets all of her emotions out. Robin and Artemis joined in, soon followed by Kaldur, Connor, Wally and M'gann. We won the day. Our enemies were defeated...but at what cost. We return to the cave, Artemis, Wally and Shazam, really Billy Batson, return to their own homes to reunite with their loved ones. I chose to stay behind to keep Zatanna company. The last thing she needs is be alone.

The next morning came and M'gann, Artemis, Robin,myself and Rachel were helping Zatanna move her belongings into her new room. With nowhere to go, the best place for her is here. Rachel had heard what happened and decided to permanently move into the cave, just so that Zatanna wouldn't be alone. "If you need anything, my room is right next door." M'gann says as she places the boxes down. "Thanks. I, uh, could use some little alone time. If that's ok?" She says as I step forward and place my hand on her shoulder. "We are here if you need anything. If you need time to yourself, we won't bother you." I say as she nods gratefully. Artemis and M'gann give her a hug each before leaving the room. "Come on, Rach." I say to Rachel who nods and leaves with me. I glance back and see Robin giving her a sad look. I feel his sympathy and his guilt. He follows us out as Zatanna's door closes. Myself and Rachel feel the emotions that have boiled over. The impact of Zatara's choice has finally caught up. The world lost a great hero...but a young girl, lost her father. Fate is cruel, both literally and figuratively.

Unknown Location: No P.O.V:

The cackle laugh of Klarion sounds over the screens. "Happy?" He asks to the Brain and Mallah as all members of the light are present. "Qui, mon amie. Your distraction, though a little extreme, proved fruitful. Amid your trademark chaos, no one will notice the absence of our prize." The Brain says as Sportsmaster and Riddler enter the room with a high tech security briefcase. "And in time, we will bring it into the light." The Brain continues as the suitcase is opened, revealing a severed tentacle of an unknown creature that was stolen from Altantis. "And with the assistance of our new ally. The Ghost Rider will become nothing more than a memory." Ra's Al Ghul states as the tall horned woman steps into the light. "My esteemed friends. This is Lilith...the Ruler of the Dark Realms, the Queen of the Damned...the Mother of All Demons." He says as Lilith smiles evilly. The men, brain and gorilla all feel intimidated by the dark and powerful entity, whose eyes glow in mirth and radiate power.

A.N: Imagine Lilith as how she is depicted in the Marvel's Midnight Suns video game.