Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ The Last of the Haze ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7

The Last of the Haze

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Note: I thank my friend Ashraf for the title he gave me.

 

~GxJxR

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Crow and Raven stand in the hall way, facing the man. No one moves.

 

Finally, Crow breaks the silence. “Raven, you need to use the Azarath Metreon Zinthar.”

 

“But it's the second weakest of the four `Azarath Metreon Zinth' spells!” Raven says, looking at him in anger.

 

“Well, you can't use Zinthos, because he can travel through it, and Zinthan is WAY too weak. And if I recall correctly, you can use Zinthi anymore.” He says, with a stern look on his face.

 

“Fine…” she says, looking back at the opponent, who is now yawning.

 

“You two done?” he asks, a bored sound in his voice.

 

“Yep…” Crow says, “AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!” he screams, and beams of light-gray thunder start pouring from his fingertips.

 

Raven sighs, and starts to levitate “Azarath Metreon Zinthar…” she says, and blue energy starts to fly from her fingers like Crow's did.

 

“SHIT!” the man says, tearing a part of the wall off, and using it as a shield.

 

The man holds it, and sits down, as if he were in a military bunker. He then flattens, and drifts across the ceiling.

 

Raven sees this, and stabs him with one of her bolts.

 

He falls from the wall, and onto his back. He looks up, and smiles.

 

“That hurt…” he says, and he sinks and rises behind Raven “But just like a bee sting…” he says, licking her neck. She feels paralyzed as he sent a spike into her spine.

 

She falls to her knees, and Crow lunges over her, kicking the man in the face.

 

“AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!” he screams, and he surrounds the man in a gray energy orb.

 

“WHAT?!” he screams, trying to phase out. Crow helps raven up, and she blasts into the orb. The orb fills with her blue energy, and the man inside screams.

 

It feels like he's covered in a billion angry bees, all stinging him.

 

He's always been afraid of bee stings…

 

“STOP! PLEASE!” he screams, in tears. The tears are light, and he is darkness.

 

“Stop Raven…” Crow says, and she calls off the blue energy.

 

The man falls in the orb crying, in a fetal position. He flashes memories of being covered in bees, and stung repeatedly.

 

“What's wrong with him?” Raven asks.

 

“He must be the weakest of the three…”

 

“HEY!” she screams, and the man comes back to reality.

 

“WHAT?!” he says, and black spikes come out of his body.

 

“We want to talk to you.”

 

“Oh…” the spikes sink back, and he sits down, calmly.

 

“Who are you?” Crow asks in a friendly voice.

 

“Oh, my name's Tim,” He says forgetting that he should be trying to kill them.

 

“Tim?” Raven asks in confusion, “He has a human name?”

 

“Tim, why are you like this?” Crow asks, “How did you get these powers?”

 

“Oh, Charley, Jack, and me were robbing that museum the other day, and went into this warehouse to hide. In the shadow, we heard you guys, and then Charley disappeared, and then I was pulled into the wall, and into a pitch-black world. I then saw Charley, and then Tim. We then saw a shilouette of a man… he had blowing blood-red eyes… He said we were `The Haze'…” Tim says, shaking, “And then I remember standing in this hall, yawning…”

 

“But…” Crow said, baffled.

 

“Wait, you don't know why you're fighting us?” Raven asks.

 

“Nope.”

 

They both sigh, and let Tim out of the orb. He smiles, and thanks them. He starts to walk away, when he stiffens up, and looks as if he was stabbed through the spine. He turns around, and his eyes are glowing blood-red.

 

Crow cannot forget these eyes. A few months ago, they had attempted to kill him… They are the same eyes that the beast that controlled Beast Boy had. Fear strikes Crow instantly, and he sends out a blast, screaming “AZARATH METREON ZINTHI! AZARATH METREON ZINTHI! AZARATH METREON ZINTHI! AZARATH METREON ZINTHI! AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!!!!”

 

The blasts hit Tim head on, and tear him apart.

 

Then, all the pieces combine again, and form his body once again.

 

“HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? THIS WORLD?!” Tim says, His fingers shooting out and impaling Crow's arms, nailing him to the wall. His Fingers are currently about 20 yards long.

 

“TIM! STOP!” Raven screams.

 

“Fuck off, bitch,” he says, looking at her with a terrifying look, “He is a con artist! He tried to kill you! He will again! HE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO HELL!” he screams, and he sends a large wave of darkness into her, knocking her through a wall, and out of the tower.

 

“BASTARD! WHO ARE YOU?!” Crow says, Sending out a gigantic blast, destroying the walls and ceiling of part of the T on the tower making it only floor.

 

Right when this is about to hit Tim head on, the eyes go back to normal, and Tim screams as his flesh, and darkness is torn from his skeleton.

 

Raven stands up, most of her clothes torn. She covers herself with her cloak, and runs to Crow.

 

“Who was that?”

 

“I don't know…” Crow says, looking at the moonlit sky. It is beautiful, stars are out, and a meteor shower is going on. The moon is large, and full. Yet, he doesn't smile at this beauty… he has a horrified expression on his face…

 

“Whoever it is… they have a grudge against me…” he says, as the other Titans run to the area, and stand in the ruins of the left half of the top of the tower, looking at the sky, as if it is the calm before the storm…