Fan Fiction ❯ Hell Hath No Fury ❯ Fear the Reaper ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: Fear the Reaper.

 

Outside the shopping mall in downtown Jump City, dozens of people fled in terror from the horror within the mall. None had seen it coming. Most of the time, it was like he was never really there. Yet, the damage that was inflicted was real. Eight stores within the confines of the mall were in shambles. Some were even in flames from the attack. However, no matter how far the people ran, there was no escape for them.

 

Outside the mall, a young mother ran as fast as she could in her heals while carrying her newborn child away from the danger. A feeling of relief swept through her body as she neared her SUV. Soon, she would be safe and far away from the madness within the mall. The young mother clutched her baby tightly and fumbled in her purse to find her keys. Soon, she would not have to worry about her child's safety. Finding her keys, she quickly managed to use them to unlock her door. Soon, she would be free. The young mother rushed to open the driver side door, and almost dropped her child in shock. However, it was not soon enough. Sitting in the driver's seat was the very person who had caused all of this chaos.

 

“Hello there, love,” the teenaged intruder spoke in a British accent. “You weren't planning on leaving just yet, were you? I'm having too much fun to let you get away from me now.”

 

The mother's eyes filled with fear, and she turned to run as far as she could get her child from the monster just mere feet from her. However, she did not get far. In a flash of light, the British teen appeared directly in front of the young mother.

 

The British teen wore black leather pants with several chains hanging off of them, a tight fitting white tee-shirt, and a black leather coat with a large white skull on the back and two smaller ones on his sleeves. His hair and eyes were a natural white color. Even his pupils had a white tint to them. In his left hand he held a sickle which extended beyond the length of his body. “Now, you wouldn't be trying to ruin my fun by escaping now, love. I'm just getting started here.” The teen suddenly caught sight of the woman's newborn child. “'Ello. What do we have here?'

 

The woman clutched her child tightly, unwilling to give up her baby. Yet, to her horror, she soon found that she was clutching nothing but air. Her child had suddenly appeared in the hands of the British teen. “Please,” she pleaded, “don't hurt my baby. We've done nothing to you. It's just an innocent child.”

 

“Listen, love. That excuse may work on honorable criminals, but I work for a merciless master. You have all been sentenced to death by him, and that includes the innocent. Sorry to do this, love… Actually, I'm not sorry at all. I think I might just enjoy this.” The carelessly tossed the child high into the air and swung his sickle at the helpless little human child. However, his attack never connected. The only thing that he sliced with his sickle was the air.

 

A black aura encircled the baby and pulled it to safety just before the blade came into contact with the innocent child. In desperation, the British teen looked where the mother had been to see if he at least could still get one victim out of his attack, but was aggravated to see her being flown to safety by a young red headed girl. Once the mother was to safety, the black aura around the child levitated it to its mother. Too scared to say thank you, the mother just took her baby and ran as fast as she could as far from the scene as she could. With the innocent lives saved, the Titans assembled in front of their teenaged foe.

 

“What kind of person are you?” Robin asked outraged at the despicable display of cruelty. “How could you attempt to take the life of an innocent child? How can you call yourself a human being after that? How can you live with yourself after that? Who are you?”

 

“They call me the Reaper, mate,” the teen stated as he spun his sickle around and took a bow. “Well, they would call me that if I ever left any survivors. Actually, that one was my first one. It isn't a pleasant feeling letting one slip away from my sickle. It's thirsty, mate, and the only thing that it wants is the blood of the innocent. Oh well. Plenty where that came from, eh mate?”

 

“You picked the wrong town to play your sick, twisted games in, Reaper,” Robin said while taking out his bo-staff and getting himself in his battle stance. “You won't be playing any more, and your blood lust ends now! You can rest assured about that.”

 

“First off, it's the Reaper, mate,” the Reaper stated eerily calm. “Secondly, this isn't a game. I am quite serious each time I move in for a kill, mate. Thirdly, I know that this is the right town. After all, the beautiful Raven is floating right behind you.” The Reaper winked to Raven, who just glared to him. “'Ello beautiful. I trust your Daddy spoke very highly of my skills when you spoke with him earlier today.”

 

All of the Titans glanced at Raven in confusion. “You knew he was coming?” Cyborg asked in disbelief.

 

“It was the vision I mentioned earlier, but this is really not the time,” Raven explained before retuning her glare to the Reaper. “Actually, my father didn't say much about you at all. Perhaps he is not as confident in your skills as you are? Maybe you're not as good as you think.”

 

“I find it more believable that he believed that the outcome would be inevitable either way, love,” the Reaper said cockily. “Speaking of inevitable outcomes, I suppose that we should get this party started then. My sickle will drink its fill today.”

 

“The only thing you'll be dong today is getting a one way trip to jail where people like you belong,” Robin yelled. “Titans, go!”

 

The Reaper smirked as he watched the Titans charge towards him, fully intent on defeating him. They had no idea who they were messing with. In his mind, the battle was already won, but that did not stop him from having a little fun.

 

Starfire flew over their enemy, rapidly firing Starbolts at him. Disk after disk of green energy raced towards the British teen, but the Reaper was too fast for them. Those that he could not dodge he split in two with his sickle just before they struck. Yet, even though her failures were frustrating, she never gave up. She continued to fire Starbolts at the Reaper, and she continued to miss. The pavement below the two was being completely obliterated, and a large dust cloud slowly formed around the Reaper. Eventually, the Reaper was completely encompassed by a dust cloud, making it impossible to see his position. When she lost sight of her target, Starfire stopped her barrage, struggled to see if she had succeeded. However, she soon learned that that was a mistake.

 

The sickle emerged from the dust clouds, spinning freely towards Starfire. It came too fast for her to react, and all that she could do was close her eyes bracing herself for the pain that was too come. Yet, it never did. Starfire hesitantly opened her eyes to see the sickle mere inches from her face surrounded by a black aura. Immediately, Starfire flew behind Raven who was a few feet away and cowered in fear. Raven her powers to float the sickle over to her and gripped it tightly, keeping it safely away from their foe.

 

The dust soon settled to reveal the Reaper glaring at Raven. “It's not proper to take what isn't yours, love. Perhaps Daddy did teach you a few things after al-”

 

Robin ran to the Reaper and put all of his force into his staff as he swung it at his adversary, hitting him in the jaw and knocking him to the ground. The boy wonder's eyes were filled with Rage. The Reaper had done the one thing that he hated the most. He endangered Starfire, and for that, he would pay.

 

The reaper pulled himself to his feet just as Robin came down with the end of his bo-staff in the location where he was laying. Robin swung his staff at the Reaper with all of his anger, but the Reaper swiftly ducked under his swing and followed up by punching Robin in his stomach, causing the boy wonder to limp backwards a few steps in pain.

 

“Good try, mate,” the Reaper mocked, “but you leave yourself wide open when you let anger take over. If this is all that you people have got for me, mates, then you should just give up n-”

 

Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at the Reaper before he could finish his sentence, causing him to fly backwards several feet and land roughly on the ground. The Reaper rolled to his feet and spat the blood that had accumulated in his mouth on the ground.

 

“That is really getting annoying,” the Reaper spat glaring at Cyborg.

 

“Then you really aren't going to like this,” Raven said as she brought a stop sign encumbered in her black aura forcefully into the Reaper's face.

 

The Reaper cradled his face in his hands, and yelled in pain. “You really shouldn't have done that, love,” he said calming down. “I had hoped that it wouldn't have had to come to this, but you all just don't seem to understand who I am. I am the Reaper, mates. I am the death of thousands of innocents.” The Reaper let his hands drop from his face and looked at the regrouping Titans with glowing red eyes. “And, I will be yours as well.” With that, he disappeared.

 

“What the...” Cyborg said confused before starting a scan of their surroundings. “I'm not picking up anything, Robin. He's gone.”

 

“He couldn't have gone far,” Robin growled in frustration. “Fan out. Do anything you can. Just fin hi-“

 

The reaper suddenly appeared in front of Robin and punched the boy wonder in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. “I owed you that one, mate.”

 

“He's a teleporter,” Raven stated dully, narrowing her eyes at the Reaper.

 

The Reaper looked up at the floating half demon. “I'm a little more advanced than your average teleporter, love.” The sickle in Raven's hands disappeared, but instantaneously reappeared in the Reaper's hands. “My powers aren't limited to just my perfect self.”

 

Cyborg charged the Reaper in anger, and aimed a punch at him, but the Reaper was not even there any more. Cyborg searched the parking lot for the British teen, but found nothing. However, the Reaper found him. He reappeared behind the mechanical Titan, and brought his sickle down upon Cyborg's left arm, slicing it clean off. The Reaper wasted no time in dismantling Cyborg limb by limb before Cyborg could even react. Before any of the other Titans knew what had happened, Cyborg was nothing more than a torso with a head. The Reaper knelt down beside Cyborg and tapped his Sickle on his chest.

 

“You're lucky that I've got a job to do, mate,” the Reaper laughed. “I only get to enjoy killing you after I take out my target.” He stood up to face the rest of the Titans and was tackled away from Cyborg by Robin. Before they hit the ground, however, the Reaper teleported on top of Robin, causing the boy wonder's landing to be less than pleasant.

 

Starfire flew towards the Reaper as fast as she could, intending to ram into him for what he had done to Robin, but her anger had blinded her to the obvious. The Reaper ran towards Starfire with his sickle drawn back to strike. However, to his surprise, his sickle flew out of his hands just as he was about to get his first kill and Starfire collided into him, sending him flying backwards and breaking one of his ribs. The Reaper skidded along the pavement, ripping at his cloths and tearing at his skin. He made it to his feet just in time to see a car come flying at him in black energy.

 

Raven watched as the SUV crashed into the ground and burst into flames upon impact. The empath floated down in front of the wreckage as Starfire went to check on the other Titans. “Looks like your servant failed, father,” Raven whispered while watching the dancing flames engulf the SUV. A rush of relief rushed through her veins as she thought that her father's threats were a thing of the past now. However, that feeling didn't last. To Raven's horror, she felt the cold metal of the Reaper's sickle around her neck.

 

“Now, you didn't think a simple trick like that would be enough to stop me, did you love?” The reaper asked. Raven did nothing in reply. She could not do anything. If she moved, the Reaper's sickle would pierce her skin and she would die. She was at his mercy.

 

Robin was being helped to his feet by Starfire when he saw the position Raven was in. “Raven!” He choked out while still recovering from his fall.

 

The Reaper swiftly spun Raven around to face her Titan friends. “Don't you dare move, mates, or you'll be one Titan short of a team.” He leaned closer to Raven and whispered. “Now, let's get down to business, shall we. Where's lover boy hiding?”

 

Raven did nothing, and said nothing. She just closed her eyes. She had to make sure that Beast Boy was safe, even if it meant her life.

 

“You know, I will find him,” the Reaper threatened. “I promise that it will be quick and painless if you just tell me where he is.” There was no response from Raven. “Very well then, love. I'd bet that there is some clue on you somewhere. I'll just have to find it.” With his free hand, the Reaper began searching Raven for anything that would lead him to his target. Eventually, he came across her communicator tucked away within her cloak.” Examining it closely, he grinned sinisterly. “So, I would assume that the T on this… thing means that that world be your T shaped tower off in the middle of the bay, eh love?”

 

Raven's eyes shot wide open, and that was all the conformation the Reaper needed.

 

“Hold this, would you love?” The Reaper asked as he let his sickle slide off of Raven's neck and into her hands.

 

Raven turned to swing it at her foe, but he was already gone. Her eyes went wide in horror, and she looked at Titan's Tower. “Beast Boy!” She yelled in panic.

 

Suddenly, Beast Boy appeared a few feet in front of Raven landing hard on his stomach. Beast Boy pushed himself off of the ground and to his feet, still reeling from the beating he had taken from the Reaper just moments before back at the tower. Mere seconds later, the Reaper reappeared in front of the Titans, smiling evilly.

 

“Thanks for holding on to that for me, love,” the reaper said before transporting his sickle back into his awaiting hands. “Now the fun really begins.”

 

Beast Boy narrowed his eyes at his mysterious foe. He had appeared out of nowhere back at the tower and taken him completely off guard. The young shape shifter suffered several blows to his stomach before he even had a chance to react. But as soon as he leaped for the intruder to fight back, he found himself here. Needless to say, he was confused, but the thought of revenge drove him now. He didn't need to understand. He just had to fight.

 

“I don't know who you are,” Beast Boy said coldly, “and I don't care. You picked the wrong town to mess with, and the wrong person to attack.”

 

“What is with you heroes, and epic speeches,” the Reaper asked annoyed. “Usually, when a villain goes out of their way to single out one person, it's for a good reason. I've got my orders, and they just happen to include you, mate.”

 

Robin pulled himself away from Starfire, who was holding him up. Inspiration struck while he listened to the banter between the Reaper and Beast Boy. The boy wonder was lucky that the Reaper had some sort of interest in Beast Boy alone, but whatever his plans were, he couldn't let them succeed. Gathering all of his energy, he pulled out one of his freeze disks and aimed at the Reaper. If the Reaper had a habit of moving around too much, he would just have to hold him still. As silently as he could, Robin threw his freeze disk at the preoccupied Reaper.

 

Beast Boy glanced at Raven worried, knowing that the Reaper was exactly what she knew was coming. But why? Why was he so special? “Why are you doing this? Why do you care about fighting me?”

 

The Reaper laughed. “I personally don't care who you are, mate, as long as sickle gets what it wants. However, you've been picked by Raven's father to be a sacrifice. Want to know why, mate? Raven knows, but I've got orders to make sure that she never gets the chance to enligh-“ Suddenly the Reaper was incased in a thick layer of ice created by Robin's freeze disk. His body was frozen in mid sentence, and he could not move.

 

“Gotcha,” Robin couched. Robin had landed pretty hard on his chest when the Reaper teleported on top of him in mid fall, and it had gotten hard to breathe. Yet, he could tell that he was recovering, but merely throwing his freeze disk had taken almost all of his energy. He collapsed back into Starfire's awaiting arms.

 

“Booya!” Cyborg cheered still lying flat on his back without any limbs. “Nice arm, Rob Er… I assume that that was you, Robin. I can't really see anything other than that Reaper guy from this angle. Speaking of which, CAN SOMEONE PROP ME UP OR SOMETHING? This sucks.”

 

Starfire giggled at her friend's predicament, and flew carrying a weak Robin over to a helpless Cyborg. Unable to use her arms, she propped Cyborg up against her leg. “Is that better, friend Cyborg.”

 

“Other than the fact that I am now half of friend Cyborg, this is much better, Star. Thanks.”

 

While Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg were in a rather humorous position, Raven and Beast Boy were watching over the frozen Reaper. Raven was looking hard through the ice at the British teen, trying to probe his thoughts, but she found that he could somehow block her even while frozen. Beast Boy, however, was gazing at Raven confused.

 

“What was he talking about, Rae?” Beast Boy asked confused. “I thought your father was only concerned with you. Why aim at me? I'm just the comic relief of the team. I've got nothing of value. Why send this ice cube to get me?”

 

Raven looked away from the Reaper and into Beast Boy's eyes. It was those eyes that made her want to reveal everything to him, but she couldn't. Not yet. It still didn't feel like the right time for her, and she wondered if it ever would. “Beast Boy, she began, “I don't know what my father is thinking.” It was a blatant lie. Anyone listening to her voice could tell that, but she continued quickly so she would not give Beast Boy a chance to comment. “You are a valuable member to the team, Beast Boy. Maybe Trigon thinks that if he gets rid of you, we will be that much easier to defeat. Maybe it's just because you are important to me… as a friend.” Raven turned away from Beast Boy. She couldn't stand lying to him like this. “Maybe Trigon is just trying to hurt me by hurting you.” It was her first statement that was true. That was exactly what her father was doing.

 

Beast Boy looked at Raven confused. “Why me, though? We're all your friends, Raven. The other's care about you Raven, …just like I do. But, why not someone else?”

 

“I could answer that, mate.” a sinister voice came out of nowhere.

 

Raven swiftly spun around in fear only to see the Reaper plunge his sickle completely through Beast Boy's chest.

 

A wicked smile appeared on the Reaper's face and his glowing red eyes seemed to laugh at what he had done. The Reaper leaned close to Beast Boy's left ear and whispered. “But, you won't be around for it. SHINIS HELK,” the British teen yelled, causing his sickle to glow red. He quickly shoved Beast Boy off of his sickle and into a stunned Raven, causing them to fall to the ground.

 

Raven rolled Beast Boy onto his back, and began to quickly call upon her healing powers. Yet, there was nothing to heal. Beast Boy's uniform was torn, but the only sign of an injury on Beast Boy's chest was the blood that had stained hi uniform. He was completely healed. Raven looked at Beast Boy's face. His eyes were opened, but she saw nothing, and felt no emotion from within him. Confused, she looked back at the Reaper, who was smirking evilly. However, what she saw spread fear throughout her body.

 

Hanging from the blade of the Reaper's sickle was a transparent version of Beast Bow, who seemed to have collapsed into unconsciousness. “B-Beast Boy?” She stuttered, not wanting to believe what her eyes were showing her.

 

“Not quite, love,” the Reaper mocked. To further taunt Raven, he slowly swung his sickle and the transparent version of Beast Boy back and forth. “It's just the part of him that makes him him.”

 

Raven narrowed her eyes in anger. There was only one thing on her mind, and that was the death of the Reaper. “Azera-“

 

“Stop right there, love,” the Reaper yelled clutching his sickle tightly. “You utter one more syllable, and I'll send lover boy's soul here to a dimension of the likes you have never seen. In other words, love, I'll send him straight to you father.”

 

Raven froze in fear.

 

The reaper grinned at Raven's reaction. However, it was not enough. “Even though you're a half demon, you're just like any other pitiful hero.” Suddenly, Beast Boy's soul vanished. “Oops.” The Reaper laughed. “Maybe you should have seen that one coming.”

 

“Beast Boy!” Raven screamed. She had lost the one person she really cared about, and dozens of emotions surfaced within her. Yet, only one as prevalent. Raven glared at the Reaper with four glowing red eyes. “Bring him back!”