Teen Titans; Sun and Moon Rhapsody – Illuminate My Earth –

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Chapter 3: Continental Shift

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Anna didn't get very far as a shock burst through her skin, tossing her onto the walk as through another vortex, Slade in full regalia looked.

Pissed. She gasped, gritting her fists as he came after. Anna used a fire – blast wall, yet he just evaded her sloppy barrier. "You thought I'd let you go, my dear. We had a deal –

"You'd kill me off the first chance…" Anna grunted. "You'd get that fat bonus…a, god?? Autur was right to come to her –

"Ang!" The man let his wrist up to present what looked to be a control device, to what? That was only a tas –

"What did you do, meat – head?? Huh??" She spat with a growl as the merc stomped while Ann crawled, the streets right now cleared as she just kept trying to bring her staff –

"No magic, fire bird." Slade chided before dragging her up by the collar to look his in the eye. She spat cinders, yet his mask was reiinforced as a precaution. "I told your parents that no harm would come to you, Ann. You have t-

"Shut it!!" She let her body blaze as she was released, her skin burning once more as he shocked her, frantically as she felt for a bit of skin out of place. Implanted neurons…. pure evil territory.

"You didn't like the treatments, then again I've never used them once until now. When you finally calm down, I'll explain everything."

"Shut. Up." Ann manifested her staff, the shock burrowed down into her body as she dropped it, screaming while he dragged her away from her tool – it was prone to vanishing, so he didn't care if she left it behind like a worn dolly.

"You don't understand, my dear. This is to protect us; not just you and I, not just the heroes or this planet. You are the key to its destruction." He uffed as a new portal was opened with a wave.

"You….you aren't him…" She figured this was what the deal was with Hades popping in to talk "business."

"Too much was said." Hades said in Slade's voice. Ann struggled by his grip as a hand had come to her forehead, the vision of the devastation clearly where he was aiming as she saw…

"We…"

"Yes, you and your siblings are out of bounds, child. If you don't restore the balance by erasing THIS time, they'll allow this world to end up destroyed. But don't fret, as long as you don't want everything as it was before Raku's involvement brought your father's world to change for the worse, then maybe you wanted to have powers that made you nothing but…."

"Stop it…...no…. I'm …..I'm –

"A freak."

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Wait.

Anna paused, a shudder of breath coming out as she chuckled, her eyes shut from a memory of already being quite odd even before the news had arrived to Earth's plane.

"Death…. I was ALREADY a freak before you found out!!" She twisted and got her legs to swing over, to kick him so that his focus was in two places before she stabbed a set of two fingers at him, red hot as she dashed back, her staff now a damned set of sai like those pointer and index.

"I'm only here to get stronger for my own sake! You can get out of that body and tell me what I want to here, Lord of Darkness, or else I knock him out and show you how much being a damn vampire frickin hurts! -

"Stop!"

She was close to putting him in a headlock, only because this wasn't Slade she was fighting.

"I will, but put down the blade or I'll cull my host. You dared to allow that fire to overtake you, half – blood."

"I did, and I's cozy as a winter hearth in yer' girl, so talk." She set her blade to his throat. "Why can't we fix this like before. What did you mean my family "broke" the balance?"

"Mainly, as I said." Hades shoved her partly of and cleared his host's throat. "You being given this curse, the spirit realm and Earth are now TOO in sync; our home was sacred and now, the guides of old are trying to reclaim it, their ability to make sure that your petty plane forgets all about its present with us to watch over it. You'll be the one, Anna. You and your siblings will rebuild the wall before vanishing as the great void decides it!! There will be no more of the "forbidden myth" and its happy ending."

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Aiden's body rumbled. Deep down, he could feel something of a shout in his head. Yet, did it sound so far off?

"Aiden!"

Dick shook his son's shoulder. Right, they were driving to the T – Tower to check up on the mysterious cracks shattering their world in many tenths.

"Aiden, are you still asleep?"

"I'm up, Lis." He answered as soon as she'd gotten his full attention. "There is a reason, you know."

"Huh?" Aiden heard a new scream as the city was in a trigger pull of emotions.

~All across the globe, strange cracks have popped up in numerous cities and urban settings – the organization I.R.I.S has conducted a new study of the waves and fluctuations in this phenomenon. Here, we have chief of –

"I think I know who that is!" Lisa gasped. "That's Aria's patrol team. They must be trying to help us."

"Shoji probably prompted it." Dick muttered over the steering wheel. Kori went ahead to see if Cy has an similar notice. We can't be too careful. This is an interdimensional projection or a threat, which means we have to be on our guard." He looked into his back mirror at the two, friends forever if this was in passing soon.

"Time to go to work. Once a Titan, always I hero here to save the day." He grinned, speeding up as they came to the T – Tower in view, the shore crashing with Cy and Bb facing not only that –

But one of their own had lost control of her powers.

"Djinn!" (Actual name of Titan recruit in later series. No yoke!)

Damian shouted from one of Zatanna's hover disc talismans. It held him up but it was obvious that the young leader was screaming for her to come back down to earth. Djinn wasn't human, yet something had forced her to lose control in the time right before Nightwing had geared up, this being the least of his worries.

"Lisa? You know what to do, is Alicia is still there?"

"She is." Lisa nodded to Dick as he turned to Aiden. "Lisa is an official agent and operative of Aria's Intel group known as I.R.I.S, son. Follow her lead." He told the blonde young man. "We'll see things through to the finish. I'm hoping in time…anyway."

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By with the Titans, Kori had gone north to check up on Shoji's team. NYC'S T -Tower and Cybele, the vassal of the earth Goddess of Greek lore from a last few battles ago.

She was with a new kid, Static and a few other heroes to join in as evened Hood rushed in to see if Jersey was feeling the heat.

"How's the retirement, girl?" He called to Starfire as she grinned back, besides a giant crack in the ground; Gear not getting any idea yet on how to help Black Lightening or, Artemis being able to track the rocky path's next move.

"If it is magic, then why are we able to keep it back so long?" She wondered as Static shrugged while Gear shook his head and kept pushing buttons to trace it to an unknown source. "Not a big-time wormhole, but it's like it's sucking up anything by an algorithm."

"Huh? Like a program from some whacked out video game simulation, Gear – head? Where are Conner and Beetle in this –

"They are…" he pinpointed that they were back in Star for now.

"Cali, but don't look too shocked. This is way bigger now that the thing is off the scales. I can't even tell if it has a face or whatever!" The blonde techie scratched his skull and grumbled to himself as he tried to redirect their approach scientifically, while back in London, The Authority had other matters to shove into deep space and below.

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Raku was used to dangerous creatures with ill intent and faces attacking him.

Not alien space tentacles as he shouted and his dopple younger self was powerless to tug the vines of while it was barely strong enough to summon its magic of a Djinn semi – deity.

"JOHN!!" Raku felt powerless as his eyes batted back tears of green snakes eating him alive…

The way she had (sexually abused by Lilith in past to this would be a victim's PTSD.)

"I'm on my way, lad! Hold tight! Eli! Get this…. bloody……vermin….gah!"

"Hay!!" Jenny Sparks of the same band came over, her spiky up do not one to fret as she fried the creature and caught Raku in mid -landing.

"You alright little –

Raku's eyes were wet as he wiped them clear. "S- s – sorry….my bad…"

The girl frowned as John knocked out the last in a magi – techno blast. "Is he by you, lot?"

Jenny snuffed at John who put his arms out to take Raku to him, his protégé was remembering bad times…shite…

"It's alright, lad…. shush. I'm sorry, you're still getting well, right? Dick'll have my head if you'd gotten slobbered on by those animals. Sorry, mates." He turned to the team, Eli crossing his arms and seeing a difference between the two teammates greatly.

"You're harboring one of the enemies. Or, what might be willing to help us stop this calamity."

John quirked a lip, Eli being older than since he'd last seen the pair.

"I am not sacrificing anybody; he's fine, almost as human as we –

"He's a magical being, John." Eli corrected. "He had a familiar, an incarnate AND a history with whatever the sky coughed up for us to fight."

"He's a victim like me, Snow."

"Frosty, and the reception is down." Jenny snarked from the control room of the ship. "We'll have to get it up an –

"I…can get us home." Raku shakily told the few, all of them looking desperately to know what those words even meant.

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Stopping since this got too messy. Hope you get the rest! Find out what happens to the heroes in next chapter! Won't wanna miss.