Teen Titans; Sun and Moon Rhapsody – Illuminate My Earth
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Chapter 8: Lady Death and Master of Time
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This will be Hades having control over Ava, next chapter may lead to a showdown.
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~ The world was created of waste and timeless energy, nothing that remained was ever kind. From toxic gas bogs to dying animals coated in tar and cuts from the predators after their blood and bone, nothing should remain, and you will cast upon this world an endless winter…. until their time, runs dry. ~
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She smelled frost and opened her eyes.
~ The humans have betrayed the immortals of today and tomorrow, my child. ~ Hades looked across the world as cracks in the faults and below shattered in white light. There was only this as Ava's outfit was also different. She was Reia in these clothes as she struggled. The binds of dark magic from the under realms tempted her to give in, yet she still had forgotten the faces of those she had fought. She, was a queen, yes. She had to return to her world.
Where, was that again?
~ You are not a god, are you? A powerful ruler as you have revealed of my inner strength? ~ Ava beckoned the shadow figure to speak to her now, now that she was awake; trying to remember the faces that the shadow kept from her sights in silence. The death – god if he were one, tried to move his neck, yet revered only the chaos below as they stayed encased within a giant bubble of magic. Unseen by all and of many, Ava felt that her presence was as ghost to this world. She existed, yet there were few that could spot her amid smoke and smog.
~ This world will revert to what it was long ago, empty and cold. I have brought you here, Child of life and the dying souls of Valhalla, to do for me what none could to the mortal plane since its creation. ~
~What might that be, and why are you hiding my memories from me? ~ Her eyes squinted to see into his, the two dark were hard to spot below his cloak of violet purple and mourning shades. ~ I wish only for you to freeze this world in the time it hath been dubbed to keep. This world is, uglier and it will never learn that to grow, one must be prepared. ~
~Prepared….for what? Destruction at the hands of…your kind? ~
~ Are you not one of us? ~ Hades asked the raven winged incarnation of a true relic. ~Reia did not wish upon her world any less than to save it, yet if the humans get too close again…again, our world will topple. The bridge needs to be severed, and for that to occur they must know our anger and pain. You must use the frost of winter in your body to coat this world into a new peace. Winter will save them, and the moon has your blessing. ~
~There will be so many…I…. Reia would not kill to make a statement. That isn't why –
Hades lifted a hand as Ava's skull fell back, her whole outfit and body slowly changing with a rush of dark magic. The hair she wore was longer, let to flow down her back as a silver river of needles. The dress was something slender and with more of a vertical striped look. She had not a desire to wear what he had chosen, yet they were legs, not a dress she wore as round her neck was a bow – bright red and tied until she choked.
~You are a servant to a god, and yet Reia was a Reaper in her own time. Did you not realize this? She buried the dead and took their souls to Hel to be tested. If they died walking through her wood, they were collected by the Raven Winged. The Death Gods of the Far North…. the TRUE Valkyries! ~
Ava screamed out as her eyes soon turned to red as a harvest moon, her limbs set free as she rose and then to one knee, her new eyes lowered while pale lips spoke of a curse on her mind.
~ Lord Hades…. I am Lady Death. Please allow me to subdue and drain the remaining sun – children for us….my lord… ~
He did not laugh, yet he could have grinned as any clown would smile by their own surprises come back to haunt them.
~ I have saved you, child of Reia. You will be good and truly let the mortal warriors KNOW that they have only hours until this realm is in pieces…. Welcome to the role you were destined to play, Queen Anya Wulfsmund. ~
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Raven gasped and almost fell over. "We're not safe here." She blurted out with a shiver. "Richard, Shoji, Aiden… Take Raku to safety. John, Starfire, Anna and Kayu?" Her eyes lit up a brilliant white. "Outside, now."
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They didn't protest as Ayane helped with Raku, while Aiden snuck away to see if Ami was well, done with her search in the spirit world. "Am…. are you in? Hey, -
"She's not going to contact us in time, Aide." Huffed Anna with a weapon slung over her back. A tall, powerful saber of sorts. "Wanna find out who's been knocking?"
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Dick turned around to see that Aiden had not followed. Shoji intervened and Dick was blocked from leaving the stairwell. "I'll go, you take Raku so he can find his way back."
"But –
"It's fine." Grinned the dog, nervously in his human guise. "I'm Uncle Shoj for a reason."
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Dick wondered why Kori was able to go, yet he knew his healing factor was still rusty. He could fight, why not do something?
"Penny for your thoughts?" Ayane blinked at the cop and smiled as Shoji had. Was it a normal thing to mask ones' misery in this job? "Dai – jou – bu!" She giggled. "Shoji and Hades once had a pact; he was even a hell – hound in order to find his way or so the tale he spun for me was." She pouted, thinking the dog just tugged her chain as much as she did his leash.
"I hope he knows how Anna is…. a bit of a foul mouth and we already have Kayu –
"Kayu is a sky god's vassal." Ayane reminded the hero. "Shoji can't easily be corrupted, since his power is darkness to begin with. He's already had his curse partly lifted so whomever is attacking will only get half of his fire – power!"
"Let's hope he has the power to fight a god." Dick shook his head. "What about him?" Dick's chin jutted at the sleeping body in his arms. At least he wasn't keeping his eyes opened like before…
"Shoji…He said, Raku was "finding" his way back."
Ayane looked back as they ran some more, the elevator not a safe place to travel even if these kitten heels had it out for the CEO's main assistant. "Exactly, since he's not here at the moment."
"Wait…." Dick stopped, his eyes gawking as the boy in his arms.
"Astral? Spirit? Underworld?? Where did he go??"
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The candles that flickered for one, did not do the same for the teen with light hair and eyes that could not see the world. He'd left Tsani to reunite with his alternate soul. He housed a white dragon at his side, while the Jinn boy was to a horned brown owl, a god's ally of wisdom. Pursing his lips, the light-haired ally passed through the walls of an in – between dimension. Books littered the walls and the realm stunk of ink and pages of dusty tomes.
Ignito's domain, he realized as Raku too, stood and waited. Ignito appeared from out of the world with a book clad in magic in his gnarled grasp. ~They have come! I did not even brew a drink for either guest…. yet the rarity is… ~ He began as Raku shook his head, speaking in the mind spoken way first.
~Ignito. Why have you summoned us to my inner realm of the scholar. Tell me. ~
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