Teen Titans New Gen Presents- Tokyo Knights

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Chapter 30: I'm A Real Girl

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Roko let her not sniff the currents of the air while her peppered up feverish crowd, start to fall to their faces. John gawked as the unconscious souls and the dying music meant…Roko was onto a new reason to exploit tonight's gift from his hands.

"I smell trouble." She huffed as he followed, speaking a sutra as her neck brand made her choke once more. "You went off the deep end too soon." He reprimanded the daemon in a child's body. Just, a child…

"Change it back." He ordered. "Whatever went on here, I'll erase it from their memories. Might be a drug induced hallucination by a bunch of night club hours mended into one. Now, go." He pressed, "You've scented out a new target, right? Then, show me what that power you stole can really be used for, instead of forcing men to fall to their knees a bit to harsh."

She turned to the exit as he led them, the freedom from before was intoxicating. Electric, as Roko tried not to seemed hot and bothered by that energy, until the night was as ice in a pine forest.

"No! No! No!!"

Ami zipped through the crowd on Kaede's kyubi byack, while Aya took to hurting the …..

Roko's eyes widened, as did the grin on her face. "Let's? Pretty please??" She begged to John, her hands grasped tightly as she jumped up and down on the dress she'd come here in, her chest exposed as her shifting strap made the man shut his eyes and shout. "Go fetch, then!!"

He let go, and she…

She was hungry for some real action tonight.

"AH…AH…" She swiftly drifted up to block the bug as her hands danced a pattern across the the air, red chains binding it in diamond and swirls. She was so strong, that no incantation or spell by would of mouth was needed. ~ You are such a bore, little unkempt insect…want me to tie you up? Sure!" She let her eyes grow sharp and deadly, the red and black amplified as the mother tried to fly away. Roko had it pinned. Moving her hands in a ball as if to crush it, and by a mime like fixation, it screamed. And screeched in pain, yet Roko…oh, she just grinned as a true devil and crushed its false bones, drilled at the mind breaking money it made of all the souls it had devoured.

~ You…made a mistake…ever wanting to be hatched…. I'm ready, to finish you one handed!! ~

She lifted a clawed hand as the fire from the tips of her nails, cooked the screaming moth alive.

Ami looked on in horror, while away from her, John started to cast the month's send off. "Ami! Get down!!"

Roko Inhaled sharply as she absorbed the soul through her lips of the creature. A soul stealer…

John started to strengthen his contract, the daemon, gagging as he pulled her back to earth by that now visible leash.

"John! What's…that's not Roku??"

Roko gasped, curling into a ball as their power exited the world, the skies returning to normal. That, hurt.

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~ I want to test your abilities as my blessed son's protector. Anything but blessed…hum, you still have that look in your eyes. Let me seal it away. Rouko…. ~

Roko was crying when she woke, John nearby and seated on a park step while Ami looked distrustful a seat away at the two. "So…Constantine. That's not…. where is my brother then?"

"Amelia…" John spoke her real name as Aya stood up to speak. "I sensed it, yet why did you banish it?? We could have found reason to file away what we could of the enemy's plans. My Iyori – sama…" She slumped back down as the park fountain bothered her by how calm it was tonight. Even in Tokyo now, they felt more uncomfortable than in the past being here on a mission. "Raku was taken, and all that I could save, all that I could, was Roko. She's actually just a victim if circumstances. Like Hakuro, if you didn't already know –

"She has powers to…. steal. That moth was shouting, fearful." Kaede hugged her arms to her chest. "Such might, such a danger…why is she allowed to walk?? That lead as Aya said was vital –

"You didn't think to keep it away from civilian territory?" Snorted the magi. "Your father did the same. An ink dino or whatever right in the heart of this city when he was no older than you, he had it trapped and in the wake- turns out it did gar more damage with the city being a poor battleground in the first place. You must plan more carefully. I saw how frightening this was, and…"

"It is our duty, and Ami decided it. No one protested.

"Ah, really?" John quirked up a brow. "Your father was worried to death about you, abd your brother sought me out to find my pupil, and to find your friend. Iyori, what happened? Tell me the rest?"

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Ami told John about a possible curse that Iyori had passed down to her through Jorogumo, a spider demon that was actually related to her father in some strange way. Iyori's father, Sairenji Kohaku – dono was at the head of Takahara Corp and had pushed Shoji out by taking his empire down from the inside. He was trying to do something, yet that last part was unclear.

How Ageha did the bidding of her spider lady and the demon moth had been an invitation to undo the heroes for good. Ami. And …. the fact she had gone right into this trap, unguarded.

"Happened to me, plenty of times. You're not the only magician in existence to get pulled into a war you can't win on your own."

"He's lying, Ami." Roko leaned into her hands and sighed. "I know where that counterpart is holding your brother. The land of Yomi, left of that is a center for many dimensional rifts. He is trying to cheer you up, yet…"

"And here I thought you had nothing to add. Quiet till the very climax, dearie?"

Roko shoved his face away with a turn of her head. "I'm saying that the guardiajs and gods or high ranking spirits only can traverse as to open such a door. Only those with strong dark power would be welcomed into her domain. If…-

"Aha!" John put a hand to Roko's shoulder as she tensed up. "I'm contract enough for you, aren't I? Mind your manners."

"So, only stronger allies we have….but with dark magic? She really is super evil, Iyori was right to be that afraid….and…" Ami put her head in her hands as Aya looked on at the Aura of the mini miko.

She stared now at Roko, whose expression looked expectant. "You!" Kaede didn't have the chance as Aya let her blades out and attacked. Roko put up a barrier in red as John watched in horror as the daemon's eyes were trying to glow again. "HALT!"

The magi used the sound of his voice to freeze frame as Aya fell pitifully, once she was released. Roko growled back at John who used his hand to hit the girl in the back of the neck. "You tried to harvest her emotions?? No, I won't let you return to being forgotten! Roko…you'll become a demon full fledged again. You, just can't go along with those demands. Look." He pointed to Ami as her tears came, fat and…reminiscent of Richard Ainsley when he'd been kept away by his father. She looked in shock as her eyes creased and she remembered…

When she wasn't so back to deal with, for one single soul.

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Richard hated being trapped, yet this was a chance to change the dragon into a real savior for once, to see into the soul if the man whom had supposedly sired him all those years ago. He'd introduced the doubled – children. Faces like demons yet minds as young as todds on their first days roaming these halls as wandering spirits. Roko was a fox, while Rokou remained the steady bearing presence of a dark wolf.

She resembled some need for restraint, while Rokou killed endlessly to get another's attention.

Primarily, the prince's.

Their real goal was to coax along his dark side as hidden guides intent to slowly drive the boy to accept them into himself. He'd promised however to free the guardians Kayumon, Veravakumu and Wiz Gregory before the king did something irreversible to their immortal souls.

At times, he would. He placed them at his throne with the boy idly forced to stand witness as they were interrogated. The looks showed a promise back, yet the boy had tried to ln his first time being selected as a viewer, to fight back. Veronica had prevented the child from laying a finger on her lordship. Saying he was never to the level of dragon and never would be without tasting fresh blood.

Roko watched from a corner of the long corridor as the child was allowed to walk only when one of them were present. Selfish body guards, doubles should he decide to pull back from a direct order. The selves were divided; make and female, while Richard was of darkness, and of light, had yet to be found.

The people if the sect had whispered of a reason why four souls should be merged within such a weak-minded prince. Every day, was a waiting game to the teenager as he parried hits from Lord Hsari, the panther lord that was forced to serve the king by a curse. Or by Lizzette Ravenscroft, a witch from the black forest that had sworn vengeance on the many to destroy her husband's clan of were wolven. They had been wiped out by blood and fire, so she in turn was now a killer that could breathe the stuff from her lungs and never aged a day since.

Or Shifter Imp, a grotesque creature that was once royalty, yet fell to wickedness by an evil power within his home of the Good Wood.

Not to forget, the one to be visiting would be the most trouble. Lord Roku's praised teacher.

Lady Lilith.

Richard shuffled for the door as a hand encased his own shaking one. ~ We are needed very soon. Stay here, my prince.~ She instructed with a steady set of eyes. " I cannot…he'll have me …I cannot change for anyone. I was supposed to know the truth, yet this…I promised to return –

~ You were a fool to give in. ~

Richard set to his feet and pulled at the door as it fell open. Outside, was Veronica with a line for a smile. She did not look pleased to see his face at all.

~ You are being summoned. ~ She spoke unshakable, as if something else held her thoughts aloft. "I am not ready to leave here. Please, tell my lord –

~ He will not wait. This is of an utmost importance you cannot fathom, my prince. ~ They called him such things, yet he was a slave here. A prisoner. Wasn't he?

~ You cannot keep the public waiting fot long, not from her. ~

The boy searched Veronica's red eyes as her bat wings folded in. ~ Come, time is being wasted here. ~

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Into the great halls they went, lit dim and dark as the king's courtiers preferred. Richard however, was raised in a place of only solar gifts. His mother, his dear family. Catalina Daia Crescendo and he, the son of some outside marriage…he knew it could be so, yet Roku had him find that to be nearly a false tale.

His real mother had perished long ago, as an Ainsley of the clan to spirit world Scotland. That Roku's blood too was a lie he had yet to unmask.

To the king's right were his subjects, to his left, a seat for his son. One day.

The boy had really beloved this, until the doors opened from behind and miasma greedily filled every pore. His legs buckled as he touched his temple.

~ My , my…how you've grown to cherish this dark world below…~

Her voice, that voice. It made Richard's skin priceless in lapping pain as he bit down hard at his lip; she was in the guise of a demonic queen, his one true nightmare, realized.

Winged, a turned one with brown wings instead of black, and hair just the same. Her eyes were nearly violet and her skin a tinge darker than Veravakumu's when in his immortal form.

~ My children…and, oh. That is he?~

She spotted Richard as he shook. The king's cloak batted behind him as he rose to stand by his child, his blood. Not yet turned as he had been. ~ Mother Lady Lilith. This boy is my last sired, he is yet to fulfill that promise of awakening the night within this dark void. He in fact, may contact she." The king's fingers gripped tightly at the boy's shoulder, making him bit back a whimper even harder.

~ You spake of that void, the one you failed to conquer? Was his mother not the very lessened learned of this, my child? ~ Roku let his fingers settle as he released the child a bit from his grip. Tapping a pointer instead, waiting. Making the child fear for his life even more.

~ Her son will precede all of thine expectations. You have my word, for he may be the one to contact the Ethereal we hath been after all of this time. ~

~All your lady to gaze upon his worth. Come, boy.~ She crooked her hand as he was pulled by.magic, her hand round his jaw as she saw into.those fragile blue…

Blue…

~He carries light, you must preserve it, yet not allow him to access his power over it.~

"W….a…"

~ Hush. You know not of me; I shall tell it all. I taught your king all he knows, all of what he is…is because of I. Thine queen of lust and desire. For he desires to evolve what the gods could not. Stepping through time and space. And you, you and your mother. Now, ye…. ~ She let go as the boy was still shivering by her icy fingers to his throat. ~ Are that key unto such a plane. ~

Richard searched her, then the king before looking back. ~ I shall stay for two moons and nothing more. You are to prepare me of the finest life wine to sustain my entry to thine favor. For, I might grow hungry once more.~

Roku nodded, his eyes looking forced to be as he never had looked before. Unhappy. Was this woman the trie ring leader? The true soul taker that had turned Roku into a beast at such an early date?

This then, Richard bowed as he was instructed while Roko watched until the queen saw her, and let out a toothy, shall grin.

~ Come out when it is time, little vixen. I will join you in the hunt, very shortly…bird of thine feather, of thine will. Of damnation, such as I…~

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She'd been possessed by Lilu's magic before, turned into a blithering whore for her king. Roko didn't dare soften the past, yet Aki was fragile and what could she tell the poor child. That she had copulation with Roku to make him pleased with her? That xge did it so he'd never lay a finger on even the prince by the dragon's fire?

The dragon was no hero, she bot down and wanted to flee it all. John however, wanted the daemon for once to face the music. Music that was never written for her to play.

"I…am sorry…" Roko swallowed back, thinking only of her baby of a lord, finding no piece while she remained free. Ami sniffled, her eyes batting over to ….

Roko had not seen them up close, yet...

They resembled…. his….

The past and present-day Richard. His, child…

She stared, and could not stop. Then, she might well have snapped. "John!" She barked to the magi. "You told me he had a child, yet she holds so much light…I…I wish to help! I cannot explain this, feeling. I'm drawn in, as before with my young lord…please!" She begged, her voice no longer loud and God like.

"Allow me to protect this child and to assist her!"

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Raku was panting, out of breath as even lashed by whips of silk, he saw their fate and one to stand up to see him in a further likeness.

Through, Ami.

Through his last hope.

~ The double child is trying to redeem themselves…no doubt to be noticed. ~ Ageha bit her nails impatiently as Jorogumo collected her netting to allow Raku a break. ~ The original creator is with us. Rokou? Dear boy…~ She cooed as the male doppelganger grinned back with a mild bow. ~ As you wish. Should I completely ruin her chances of this? Like we used to? ~

Raku's face fell as a memory of Rokou beating his double in a female form, came floating in past his irises. ~No! She doesn't deserve to be hurt any longer! I'd do it, I'd grant her mortality if only you'd see this…. this is no one, just a piece of my past willing to rebel! ~

~Wrong, false tyrant. ~ Snickered the queen of spiders. ~ She uses this, as a way to become a familiar. To never HAVE to leave, even if she so much as becomes a burden to the descendent of A.~

Raku looked to the orb as the images left him longing to see John and explain every ounce of his poured-out emotions to his teacher. That he was afraid to be human, like this…

~ If you let us have her time here, your time, we can arrange fir Rouko to be brought to her wish. It will be granted, for what comes of our wish is far better.~

Raku didn't answer. Rokou went through a vortex on cue, and he wallowed, waiting for sleep to come once more.

~ You'll watch until you become weary, dear lordship. ~ Jorogumo told the boy magi. ~ Now, then…let us view this chapter…I sense…a floating gnat approaches. ~ Sneered the queen as her orb revealed two others. Three and four.

And, an old friend amidst them, begging for any assistance from former enemies.

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Dick hunted down the one person who would listen, maybe even back him up. In the suite looking over the space which was currently owned by Sairenji Kohaku, Takahara Corp didn't have the same allure as someone else had built upon it in their own image. As kings and rulers, to do so was to be stronger than those who came before. Bruce did this similarly when holding onto old mementos of previously stopped capers.

The Titans had an evidence room and they recruited more members each place they went.

Slade, worked differently as he'd lied about Shoji pulling the trigger on this caper. Inside the hotel suite, a black ball of fur slept while Rose, Anna and Slade all lounged about. Even though, one other foe was here to greet him.

Aiden?

And, Autur.

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~ The netherworld of Japan shows no breach, yet that does not mean sge is not of a plane very similar.~ Autur spoke with a swish of her tail.

"The Phoenix apparently comes with "visions." Anna put up in air quotes. "I thought I was exempt from being a magical girl."

"Apparently, fate had other plans." Slade deadpanned out, his tone morphing as he smiled confidently to Richard and offered a seat in their living quarters for a time.

"I wanna go back to the Swiss lodge, dad! Verra needs some cocoa to feel wike his wittle self, don't you? Yes, you do!" She scratched his ears and fir that time, Verra was plain Verra again. Dog and all, no ounce of a God in there.

"What happened to him??" Dick turned to Rose as sge sighed out, "He got drained out and regressed. Somehow, he won't talk to us so his other 'side' astrally I think is looking for his friends. We are just watching little Vee – Vee here until he gets back."

"Because he's still paying you for the job almost well done?"

"Because we owe it to the you and the mutt, and Anna didn't want her uncle finding someone else." Slade expressed, somewhat as annoyed by Verra's tail wagging as Anna was concerned about her father's attitude.

"Uncle Shoji knew about the project but kept it secret for a reason; there was a spy in his company, possibly that stowaway, Kokkuri." Anna explained. "Slade told me that, that Shun was possessed and even murdered, controlled like a walking corpse by whatever sge is in this dimension. The Kokkuri Ami told me about doesn't do things like that. Not….so disturbing."

"That version got inside and ransacked the program, yet Shoji fixed the details. Kept her out. I was actually hired as a double agent AGAINST Kohaku, you remember."

Dick nodded. "I do, somewhat. From what Shoji said, on the fly over."

"That was probably before he disappeared. For what we can guess, he was captured and this was what didn't lose its way back." Slade motioned to Rose, who was far too calm about playing with those baby paws of the fox hybrid's. "You sure in his universe he didn't carry as a mascot fir some card game?"

"Many universes can work like that. His true form is more deadly, like cuddling a wolf with command over the shadows." Slade chuckled as Rose froze up with a gulp. "Will…will he?"

"If he gets picked on, maybe." Anna sighed. "Not likely if he's too weak. Can't really say. My uncle Shoji has always been mysterious."

Wiping her brow, the fox - rabbit bounded up, not using a single claw as it sniffed the air, before going to meet Richard. It cocked its head, a side to Vee before it didn't seem the same.

His eyes started to glow, his tail bristling up and his markings glowing gold and red.

"Hey, hey!" pushing her way through with a bang at the door, Jackie Stone made sure the dog piped down. "Haru? You, ok?"

"I'M FINE!" The teeth of the younger kitsune chattered. She was certainly not, not while they'd had such secrecy until now.

"You used…. Erebus's magic?? Jaclyn!" Dick gawked. "Wh – how? Did he –

"We contracted back when Ava's emotions went nuts. I saved my dad with it, sort of." The teen pushed by and waved, evading Slade's one eye on her as if she were some stray fleck of dander for him to push out into the hall. His hair probably never had to deal with any, perfect as his image seemed in black tonight. Richard's however. Was floppy, distressed as Jackie seemed used to switching gears all her life. To the kids, Slade and Dick were like an requited couple. One twice divorced by how he didn't trust Anna at age 21 almost with a…. well, he had a point. Mercenary work was often taboo in the Grayson household, up to a point.

Ava could be beating the crap out of the enemy in wonderland, or Aiden had it up to here with magic and just sass everyone. Ami didn't always run, yet Anna didn't like what she was witnessing so far.

Chaos was back in their lives and had become a faulty breeding ground for more trouble. More nights like this one, always ending in a truce.

Anna looked at Dick, Slade look at Rose and Rose, tried to calm down Verra once it had reverted to its cuter less menacing form.

"So, if you won't make it official that we can lay down our past "animosities" for just a second, what can I then do for you, Mr. Grayson."

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Slade is being a formal dude since Dick doesn't want to be buddy buddy while they are negotiating terms to stop Jorogumo and save Shoji. Ami's own flesh and blood is questioning her competence. Jackie tells Richard that she's no longer staying on the sidelines.

Roko exposes and recovers a chunk of her past and the reason she existed fir so long. Because Richard Ainsley's on Richard Grayson's imprinted karmic record of a sort, Ami now is Roko's mistaken if not coincidental reason for wanting to redeem herself? Or is her reason more withdrawn than that?

Constantine promises Roko that she's going to be granted mortality and a human life to start over, yet not everyone is all for believing the aspect of grief and woe. While Rokou, the prince's make counterpart is for team Jorogumo. Who's the bad one here??

The Headmistress, director and Iyori's grandfather all are willing to do what it takes to stop the spider from getting what she is after. Iyori runs away, but what will she do all on her own? Noted, she will be in next chapter with ….amnesia! Find out! Also. What did happen to poor Shoji!?