Teen Titans New Gen Presents- Tokyo Knights

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Chapter 34: Fire Starters

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Three, just three. Iyori, Anna and Roko. Let's go!

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John dragged the daemon by the arm and felt terribly wrong for it. She'd dragged him into her puppet farm and the bodies weren't the aspects doing. In fact, any bodies she had power over, were immediately spared.

Outside, rot was the occurrence for those that hadn't stayed for an encore.

"Why did you cast a spell on this nightclub??"

"You told him, he couldn't save them." She turned to him with wet lids. "You told poor Raku that he wasn't able to save them all, well…we are the reason he can try to. Rokou and I were scouts, soldiers. We did the dirty work, and I heard him. I know. He wants them to live –

"You had a bloody ball in that room! You stole the mic and cracked it wide open!" John shot back. "I can't give you mortality like you're asking for if all you can do is touch what isn't yours. You need more self-control."

"ME??" Scoffed the teen. "I'm the reason they can go home without eggs laid in their brains from and damned demon witch! I'm not the enemy, I told you!"

"What are you then, go on." John crossed his arms, seeing Roko pout his way to do the same. "What is your presence over this plane. If you were to lose your control, just a tiny bit, would you bother to be who you claim? Good?"

"He'd be the one to save me –

"Raku is done being chained down to the past. You should move on, quickly. You and your double – copy, that bloody imp –

"He's like a brother!" Roko reared her side that John had never witnessed yet. They were twins, but only just.

"He's all that I have to remind me of what I was, what my purpose no longer is." Roko crouched back her skull, hair falling long over her back and shoulders like a scarf. "John, you know our history. What Rokou resembled is Tokyo the son, wgen he…he was turned. I was meant to be –

"His teacher, Raku's strix mentor. The banished one, I know it." John bit his lip. "You never had to become like her. You were forced at that bloody time. You have a choice, Raku –

"Raku, would be as a father. An abusive one, yes." She sniffled. "Yet one, nonetheless. My only reason to exist as Ignito told you I bet, was this boy."

"He manifests lands, creatures. Servants, without even knowing it."

"Me? He knew, at least…" Roko held her skull in her fingertips, pulling at her mane lightly. "Where will you take me, then?" She batted her eyes back at him. "Are you going to lock me away, use me as a secured tracking device, John?"

"I'm going to have you loosen your notions that you both can't be the same. As human as you once were." John frowned. "Roku is gone, love. You should let go too…"

She pursed her lips and turned, arms hugging herself tight. "I wanted to tell him, if ever there were a place, that I'd be…. his fam –

"You're no longer a victim, neither is he!" John spat. "This'll go in circles all day until we've lost the scent. Raku is my pupil. If you, wanted to get some way to recraft your mortality without him, that is what we're up against. As long as it can be permitted."

She cocked her head to the side, finding John'sake blue orbs with her red and black. "He'd never lose his magic, yet we might." Sge said in a harsh voice. "Is that it?? No worries? To follow the blond magi to gods can only say??" She grinned. "I'd go to the ends with that brat, if ever He'd tell me the truth. That he always wanted us to suffer while he thrived –

"It's not true. Roko…" John shook his head, she was pulling back. He had to regain her trust before –

A vortex of webs opened as John barreled into it. He was rejected as her tears were lost to the spinning portal to the demon's domain.

"I can still trace her."

~ All for naught.~

John tensed. Turning to his side, Ignito was there, radiating magic through his body and eyes. ~ Rise. You're covered in filth, magi.~

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Dick wasn't seen head or hide of as Slade walked back over to Anna, her lips befitting and her hands In her cargo pants pockets looking upset. "She's fine?"

"Woozy, but I'm ok, Annie. Where is –

"Your father went back to his hotel."

Ami frowned. "He's leaving? Why? That's not…" She turned to Anna. "What is going on with you t –

"NOTHING." Anna snapped, whipping around to go. "I'm fine. So, get better…."

Anna being gone, Slade was nudged by Kaede and Haru to do the same. "It seems my help wasn't wanted."

"You're for sure not being good, I can smell it "Haru growled.

"Who can say, little fox." Slade shrugged, tipping his eye as he left Ami to her rest. "Though, you're going to need an army if things become unnecessarily, turbulent. I'd gladly supply you with a proper platoon leader."

"Anna isn't yours." Ami narrowed her eyes just like Grayson. "You may say you have her best interests, but she was my family first. That, you can't ever replicate to a T."

"We'll see." Smirked the man as he left that miko to her ministrations.

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Iyori and Inari just stayed apart as Eiji returned to speak to him, coaxing from the hall with a beckoning wave.

He slipped out, Aya taking a stand and staying put, even if Ichiro was still this person to themselves.

"Why are you so close?" Ichiro shrugged off the sheets to refashion them as they got up, Aya hopping by to grip the young cross dresser's hand. "Let go! I'm using the toilet. You can't come in."

"Why do this to us?"

Aya never spoke in her tongue, yet a human one. "You are going far away, I know. I can see fir what you truly are and I don't mind it. You…. are my dearest –

"GO!" Ichiro pushed Aya back as they slammed the door to the adjoined bathroom right in their face.

Ichiro put a hand over their mouth, trying to gulp and stop shaking to death. They went to wash up, to just get a time for them. Had there been any time left. Her brand was coming in hot as Ichiro bit their arm, their own skin. Miraculously, the pain in their back stopped. For this time, Ichiro had to exist. They had to, Iyori prayed silently to her knees.

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Eiji decided to look for another scent as he squared found thd rooms, ignoring moaning patients- all life but lost while he was shoved away from seeping in a single whiff.

Grayson, Grayson had considered his aid. Maybe then, he could get back at the man's ancestor that wiped him off this earth. Iyori's Grandfather knew the answer, yet the aura of one other. Of that boy with short dark hair in the next room….

It wasn't that scent of a male, no.

He swiftly took ti the sidewalks as Grayson's stench permeated from before.

~We could gladly use each other. I want revenge on the Onmyodo that banished my soul. In return, I could save your daughter from that criminal. Granted, you form a contract. ~

He had said that. As if so desperate to make it happen that nothing else…besides the fact that no one was safe. Eiji groaned and ran a hand through his dark hair. "Grayson…" He sighed. "I need to get a life." He lifted his eyes, shining in the corner of this unfair void.

"Well, I could borrow a body. Maybe he'd agree to it?" The dog transformed out of plain sight while a man on the ground was feet from hearing this. Excellent ears better than any weapon of mass destruction's scope. Slade clicked his tongue, guilt there as it burned somehow very acrid. "Head to the pent house, Anna. Rose will be there to let you in."

"W- we just got, hey!"

He ran back after the spot of dark wisps. Even if he couldn't stand Grayson, he still respected the man. Not only according to Anna's wishes had he stepped back. Yet to see Grayson fall to vengeance, it didn't feel like his temperature to wade in.

Dick had to get a slap across the face for trying to contract a hound that twisted. If he thought selling his soul was too dated, so be it. Slade had to stop and think about how he chose his allies more carefully.

He's be eternally screwed either way. Grayson was…. was….

Easy to have clinging by a thread to your dignity, yet impossible to smear off after the final say came to part ways.

And now, he sighed under his mask as it went back on, so was his red headed daughter. As well as the younger, brimming with wit like her dear old man. He had to be careful of her. As her mother was as cautious of those like Slade around her family, so too might Ami decide to defend Anna from her dragon that was guarding the Phoenix- faced princess.

He would have to reflect on it. Anna had her down time, so did Rose as Slade singled in on Eiji, his foot catching out as the dog swirled round to catch with a growl the merc's punch.

"Bad plan, going after my quarry."

~ He's an ally, not yours. ~ Snarled Eiji. ~ I saw deep into his memories of what you've done. He deserves justice, while I wish for vengeance. ~

Slade wasn't too stricken by the remark. He was no sugar daddy, no papa bear to these kids. Anna treated him like Rose because they were stuck with him for work. For training. Nothing more, but…

Slade had made the threat clear. If Anna needed more if him, there was a way to have both of that too. That, and her father doing this, parting words of a demon contracted.

"Dog, whatever it takes you, he's an idiot. I'm not laying a hand in his brat –

~ I see differently, because you can. You control them both and it sickens even I. I was cast into a role as a servant, just as she. I killed for a lord, a lord that would betray me and have me as the reason for his ills. He was the contracted. You, could fix that. ~

"Grayson has got to listen up a bit better; I had news to tell him, before he pulled back." Slade straightened his back to say. "Like I said, reckless and dense, both destructive qualities I'm working out if his kid so she'll survive. The god Autur in another culture said every year, my life is extended. If the fire dies, I lose this gift."

~ So, she is a tool. A want only for immortal life? ~ Eiji barked back.

"She lives - even if she could burn to ashes. She hasn't."

~ I was still intent on killing you, yet…~

"Find him, get into his head and dig a bit to see why he hates me around her. Maybe. Because I'm a better teacher than he could be for Anna. She knows, just as next –

~ No! ~ Eiji snapped back, jaws foaming as he landed in a large cloud over Slade's head. ~ No. I will use your memories to unlock the reasons WHY I should kill you. It will be as I'm expected to do. ~

Slade's eye went wide. "When did Dick –

~ When you left. ~ The paw stepped and large jaws snapped, making little sound aside from a sky – cat fight in dim daylight.

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So, there are conflicts going on here and Roko gave into her demons. Slade actually cares about Dick and Anna? Iyori is sure she can't do this much longer yet to avoid her father, she has to try to be Ichiro. Hopefully, they won't find her since this spell over her is working. Inari is staying quiet about her state, yet Aya can see through this lie since they are still bonded. Later.

And Ami is becoming an incredible detective through her heightened intuitive side! Talk about like father like daughter!

Anna is finding that sge sees Slade as family, yet Slade would do so much more to keep her close in the future.

Dick already made a pact that Eiji would erase Slade, he'd help the dog get even with the Onmyouji and the lord's descendent- to kill them off and free him. Noted, this is why Kaede was a bit upset that Eiji was back as she recalled. He could go berserk should he make any more deals with a human or three. Dick could be cursed tenfold, and only an Onmyouji could ever break it. Being??

Find out!