Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ And it Keeps Closing in… ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter 13

And it Keeps Closing In…

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Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, or anyone else who appears in the television show. Everyone else is mine, so don't steal them.

 

~GxJxR

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“What the…?” Raven asks, and she leaves the room.

 

Her communicator beeps, and she answers it.

 

“TITANS!” Robin says into the communicator. “Report to the intersection!”

 

Raven nods, and closes the communicator. She runs off, and phases through a wall.

 

Shade stands around the corner that was behind her. He looks at her, and sits down against the wall, his tentacles limp, and his chest glowing. He looks at his hands.

 

“What she said that day…” He closes his eyes to remember her… `So beautiful…' he says, looking up.

 

“My Tamuril…” he says, clenching his chest, “I promised… But you died…” he says to himself.

 

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“WITCH!” one man screams, pointing to a cottage that sits up top of the hill.

 

“DEMON BARER!” One woman screams, and holds a pitchfork.

 

“Darke…” She says, holding a child. The child has wings, horns, and clammy gray skin. “Why are our children hated so…” She asks, looking back. All her children look like this, and she has twenty of them.

 

“BURN THE DEMONS!” A man screams, and the mob he's in rushes toward the house.

 

“Satanist!” one person screams, throwing a rock through the window. It hits the beautiful woman inside, and she falls. She crawls over her children, crying.

 

“I won't let them kill you…” She screams, covering her children with her body. She loses consciousness.

“BURN THEM!” One of the men screams, and the mob toss all of their torches on the home.

 

The same young Darke returns, holding a bundle of fish in a net. He sees is home aflame, and runs up the hill.

 

`DAMN IT ALL!” he screams, trying to push through the mob. “TAMURIL!” He screams, as he gets shoved.

 

He gets knocked down, as one of the men yells “THAT'S HIM! THAT'S THE DEMON KING!” He points toward Darke, and Darke's eyes turn red.

 

From a distance, one can hear the gore, and Shade walks out of it, calling his power off, and covered in blood. He runs to his home, and jumps into the fire. He finds his beautiful wife, burned beyond recognition. He screams, as he pulls her corpse up, and reveals his children, still thriving, and unaffected. He Picks her body up, and walks away, abandoning the demon breed in the fire. They sit there, crying, and crawl out of the fire unharmed.

 

Shade carries his wife to a remote island, in a part of the world he has never seen before. He buries her there, and tosses his finger in, as to be able to track the body any time he wants to. He turns, and declares that, despite his Twenty-year absence, he will return to his old method.

 

Obliterating humanity for the torment humans have given him.

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Shade, his goal fresh in mind, stands up, and turns. “Where are they?” he says aloud, looking thorough the tower.

 

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“What do you mean you didn't find it either!” Robin asks Raven.

 

“I only found Shade, and he ran off ashamed, or something.”

 

“Great!” Cyborg says, pacing, “We have no exit!”

 

“Maybe…” Crow says, pointing to a part of the hall they hadn't looked in.

 

“Lets check…” Robin says, and they walk into the unknown.

 

They walk for a few minutes, and they encounter a hole in the ceiling.

 

“THERE!” Raven points, and they all look up, smiling.

 

“Aww, man! The Safe Room's in there!” Cyborg says, rubbing his hands together.

 

“No room is safe…” Shade says, sinking from above them.

 

“Shade…” Crow says, clenching a fist. “You'll PAY!” He screams, lunging, and he gets knocked out in a single punch.

 

“Not more talk.” Shade says, seriously for once. He lunges at Cyborg, and misses, as Cyborg his him with a Sonic Cannon. They all barrage him with attacks, hand he falls to his knees. He pushes off with his tentacles and kicks Cyborg out. He grabs Robin, and slams him into the wall. He gets ready to bite his head off, when he gets grabbed by Crow.

 

“NO WAY!” Crow screams, tossing him to the other side of the hall. Shade draws his sword, and Slashes Crow's arm off.

 

“GAH!” He screams. Raven tends his wounds, and replaces his arm like Crow did in his fight with Beast Boy. Crow clenches his fist. “HOW ARE YOU SO STRONG!?”

 

“Hmm…” Shade grunts, and Crow lunges at him. Crow punches him in the chest, knocking the eye out of his body. Shade's eyes widen, as the eye falls, and is about to shatter when he screams “REALITY BREAKER!”

 

The eye continues to fall, but this time is starts from the top of the room, and lands in his hand. However, Crow sees Shade's other hand is covered with blood.

 

“CROW!” Raven cries. He notices he's in a fetal position, clenching his gut, bleeding tremendously. Shade actually altered reality, making him the one who got hit!

 

“What…” Crow asks, standing up, “Was that?”

 

“A very special move…” Shade says, looking at him, “I have the ability to change the outcome of a minor event, but I can't use it frequently. An example was I would be bale to use my powers to change something about Hitler, but I would be unable to stop the Holocaust and World War Two.”

 

“Interesting…” He says, healing himself slightly with a muttered Azarath Metreon Zenthos. The technique is not nearly as good as The Zinthi, but it stopped the bleeding and pain.

 

“Yes… However, I cannot change my past… Well, I cannot use it to alter the course of my life. I must get these powers, and I must go through all the pain I did. I may be able to prolong it, but it still will happen.” He says this on Crow's level. It seems for a moment that they are still friends, but this ends, when Crow Draws the Sword of Light that he made. This baffles Raven and Robin, because they don't recall the technique.

 

Crow attacks him, and he avoids it. He Swipes his blade at him, and they get into a power struggle. The Sword of light snaps, and a part of it flies into Shade's stomach. He screams, and pulls it out, disappearing above.

 

Crow pants, and he helps Raven and Robin wake Cyborg up. They lug him up the hole, and arrive at the third floor—The one housing the Safe Room…