Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ Third Floor ( Chapter 14 )

Chapter 14

Third Floor

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

 

~GxJxR

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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…

 

“He's following us!” Raven screams, and Shade bursts up after them.

 

“I'm done playing!” Shade yells, slashing at them with a blade extending from his wrist. “DIE NOW!” Crow punches him in the chest and grabs the eye pulling it out.

 

Crow examines it, and notices it burns his hand. It feels like molten hot glass He hears it squeal, and look around frantically. Shade seems to calm down, and pulls it away from him.

 

“Never it…” he says, angrily, sinking down as he places it back in his chest.

 

“That got it.” Raven sighs. She looks around. “The safe room's here… somewhere…”

 

“I know where.” Cyborg looks at his arm, and it forms a map. He starts to walk around a corner, and the others follow.

 

“It's still an hour and a half until daylight…” Robin says, looking at his watch.

 

“Plenty of time,” Crow says, seriously,” for him to get us.

 

“We should stay in for about a quarter past an hour. It should take us about fifteen minutes to get up to the next floor anyway.” Cyborg says, not looking up from his arm.

 

“How do you know it'll hold?” Crow asks.

 

“The thing's so strong, my father can't even break it.” Raven answers, and he nods.

 

“How do we know Shade's as weak as him?” Crow says, stopping, and they all turn to him.

 

“Trigon was the strongest thing we've faced as a team…” Robin says, angrily, “There's got to be nothing that is stronger.”

 

“Yeah? Well - didn't tell you two things I've noticed during m- f-ghts!” Crow says, in his face, “How he killed Beast Boy: He fucking absorbed him! He opened up a portal into his core, and he dropped BB in, and said that he's merge with his being if he was in more than three minutes, and then he'd gain BB's powers. It's been a fucking hour and a half! He's probably got the ability to shape shift into animals now! The way he knocked me down: HE FUCKING ALTERED REALITY TO REVERSE MY ATTACK! He made it so that damn eye thing was falling from a h-gher spot, and that he punched me instead of me punching him! THIS IS NO NORMAL VILLAIN! HE IS ALMOST A FUCKING GOD!” They all look at Crow in horror. Crow notices that he's in tears, and on his knees.

 

“Whoa…” Cyborg says, looking at him wide-eyed.

 

“I dreamt…” Robin says, “That I was falling… that three men were around me, and they dropped me… beaten, bloody… One had his eyes…”

 

“What does that have to do with anything?!” Crow screams, and he grabs Robin by the collar “He's after me! Save yourselves!”

 

“NO!” Robin screams, kicking him over. “Raven, carry him along. He's getting hysterical.”

 

“Crow…” Raven says, caringly as she slings him over her shoulder.

 

The four of them continue, the whole time Crow crying.

 

“Yo, turn here…” Cyborg says, and they turn and see Darke standing in the middle of the hall. His head slings down, and he looks deep in thought.

 

“You…” Robin says, stepping forward. He turns to face Robin, and his eyes look red, as if he was rubbing them after crying. The pigment in his eyes are strangely green, rather than the usual red, or as he is as Shade, nonexistent but the rest of the eye glowing blood red. “What the-“

 

He phases through Robin, and goes up to Raven. “You… you… You're… her…” he says, gripping her around the neck he picks her up. “You should be DEAD!” he grips her, and she flashes the girl from his memory. “STAY WHERE YOU BELONG!” He says, screaming at her, and the eye in his chest glows blue.

 

“DAMN YOU! YOU MONSTER!” She manages to scream, and his eyes widen. He gets his grip on reality again, realizing that the person he is imagining would never call him such a thing. He smiles, and his eyes return to the normal red pigment. He smiles, and the pigment disappears, and his eyes glow red, then he becomes Shade.

 

“I'm sorry, Raven, but you remind me too much of my human days…” he squeezes her neck harder, and harder, until she thinks it will burst, before Crow cuts his arm off with a blade formed from an Azarath Metreon Zenthos. “Ah, how clumsy of me, I forgot about you…” he says, the severed arm disappearing, and returning as a shadow to his body.

 

“YO!” Cyborg screams to the others “The safe room!” he presses a button and the room opens, and the others run to him.

 

“The what?!” Shade asks in anger, and he attacks Crow as he runs toward it.

 

“CROW!” Raven screams, “AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!” She screams, and Shade smiles.

 

“TWO IN ONE DAY?!” He asks gloriously, “THAT'S AWE-“ he says, about to say how it is awesome, when he is hit by a large blast of Gray energy, and half of his body is obliterated.

 

“Oh, didn't I say I could do that?” Raven asks, hugging Crow.

 

“YOU BITCH!” he screams, lunging at her, as she runs toward the door.

 

“AH!” Raven screams, squinting her eyes as Crow enters, “BRIGHT!”

 

“You can't enter here, Shade!” Crow screams, “No shadow, and no metal or magic can break through!”

 

“Ow…” Raven screams, trying to open her eyes, but closing them instantly.

 

“Hmm…” Shade says thinking, and he runs toward them, and disappears.

 

“CLOSE IT!” Robin screams, and Crow shuts the door, with Robin, himself, Cyborg and Raven all securely inside.

 

“I can't open my eyes…” Raven says, “Too bright…”