Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ The Safe Room ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter 15

The Safe Room

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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.

 

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

 

~GxJxR

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“You can't enter here, Shade!” Crow screams from the safe room, “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…”

 

“Phew!” Crow says, falling so he sits against the wall.

 

“Titans, take off your capes and or cloaks! He might be able to enter through their shadow…” Robin says, and they all lay their cloaks and capes out flat on the floor.

 

“So…” Cyborg says, bored, “Anyone want Ramen?” he asks, opening his chest cavity revealing four cups of Cup Noodles.

 

“Sweet!” Crow says, and Cyborg hands him a cup of hot water.

 

“No thanks…” Raven says, sitting in the corner. Her eyes are still closed, and she can't open them.

 

“Are you okay?” Crow asks her, and she turns her head to him.

 

“I just can't see… it's too bright…” She says, trying to open her eyes.

 

“Okay,” Cyborg says, sipping down some Ramen with Crow.

 

“So, Crow, is there anything about this guy you know?” Robin asks him between forks of Ramen.

 

“Well…” Crow says, sipping down some broth, “He did tell me one more thing…” Crow tittles his fingers, and an orb appears in the middle of the room. “I'll transmit my memories into this since - Can't say the letter after `H'” he says, and the orb begins to show a little flashback in Crow's mind. It has subtitled text, and it reads it aloud in a British voice…

 

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Upon Crow's arrival to limbo, Crow and Darke told each other of their pasts a little.

 

Darke, however, kept many things of his past a secret. He told how he gained his powers…

 

 

The voice turns to Darke's and the orb shows half of Darke's face on half of the screen and behind it, it shows a younger Darke…

 

“I was of the age of 18 when I gained my powers. I had drunken from a fountain of Black water in the center of the Earth, after calculating the exact amount that a single being would be able to drink. There was a riddle, which no one could get, but after taking everyone who had ever attempted it's notes, I discovered the amount, which is less than a shot glass. I wanted such a power because I was an outcast: the kid who no one liked, who no one regarded as human. I wanted to be able to make them pay, even if it meant making their statements of me being a monster true…

 

“If more than the amount I had drunken was consumed, everything would die, and cease to exist. I was careful because I didn't want a kamikaze, just revenge. I gained a power unimaginable… I couldn't help but be consumed by it…” he says on the screen. The image behind him shows this entire speech being reenacted, however Shade isn't shown.

 

It only shows him crawl into the middle of the lake, and show a silhouette, with the blood red eyes.

 

The Darke goes on:

 

“I continued, and drained the lake into a parallel dimension. I destroyed everything I had used to find the amount, and I left. I began by slaying everyone who had insulted me and made me feel the way I did, showing them they were right to call me a monster…” The Image behind Darke's face shows him as a silhouette. Had they not known better, they would have thought that it was a just silhouette, rather than Shade.

 

“ I continued this before I found someone…I'm not going to tell you anymore of that… then when that time had passed, I continued my slaying until I was done away with by a great wizard. He used a spell, which no one had ever used before to bind me to an object. My powers were gone, and I couldn't turn back to my original form so long as I was on it. He carried it away, and locked me into the room where the fountain once stood. He locked the door, and cast a spell to separate me into two. My mind, was sent here, but my body is watching humanity…I see everything that they do… I can see even that girl you know, Crow… She's young, and right now she's in the shower…”

 

All you see is a fist hit his face, and the orb disappears.

 

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Raven, having heard all of this shivers, and feels violated.

 

“Yeah… - forgot he said that…” Crow says, “… - really did punch him out though…”

 

“Thanks…” Raven says, opening one eye, but she still can't get the other open. She tries to open it, and Crow watches as he sees two red dots on her eye as she squints it open and instantly shuts it.

 

“Well, now we know how he got his powers…” Cyborg says, sighing, “Still no way to kill him. The best we could do is seal him away again, but we can all se that that failed eventually…”

 

“Uh… C-? Robin?” Crow says, looking terrified.

 

The two of them don't hear him. “RAVEN!” Crow screams, looking at her terrified.

 

“Crow?!” She asks, concerned, “What's wrong?” She still can't open her eye.

 

“He's… HE'S…” Crow says, “YOUR ---!”

 

“What?” Raven asks, confused, “My, what?”

 

“YOUR ---! HE'S IN YOUR ---!” Crow screams, pointing to her.

 

“Oh shit…” Cyborg says, looking at her, and stepping ahead of Robin.

 

“What!?” Robin and Raven ask.

 

“Raven… He's been hiding…” Cyborg begins slowly, “This whole time, Shade's been hiding…”

 

“OUT WITH IT!” Robin screams, now behind Raven.

“SHADE'S IN YOUR EYE!” Cyborg screams and Raven's eyes both shoot open in shock.

 

Shade's upper torso lunges from her eye, increasing size as it goes further out, and he lunges at Cyborg.

 

“NO!” Crow, Robin and Raven scream at once, as Shade stands in the middle of the room. He's smoking, and then it stops.

 

“Heh heh heh…” Shade chuckles. Cyborg's eyes are wide with shock, and he looks down to see Shade's arm impaling his chest, holding his most human part of his body, which is connected only by rubber tubes.

 

His heart.

 

“CYBORG!” Robin screams, as Cyborg's arm points toward Shade as a sonic cannon.

 

“Crow…” Cyborg says, gasping for air. “Guys…” he says, coughing up blood. “I'll take him to hell with me! RUN NOW!” Cyborg screams with all his being, and he charges all of his battery into his cannon. The room links to his body, and blackens due to his absorbing all of the tower's energy. His cannon is what lights the room, and it shines like the room did, and Shade begins to sizzle.

 

Crow pulls the others out of the room, and they close the door on them.

 

“GO TO HELL YOU MOTHER FUCKER!” Cyborg screams, about to blast.

 

Shade only smiles...

 

Cyborg's heart bursts as he clenches his hand.

 

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“CYBORG!” Raven screams, looking back.

 

“WE HAVE 27 MINUTES TO GET TO THE MAIN ROOM!” Robin says, holding back tears as he sees the exit to the next floor of the tower.

 

“Don't look back…” Crow says, to them all, closing his eyes and tears flowing down his cheeks.

 

They all go to the exit, and jump up, just as they hear the Sonic blast break through the safe room, and eliminate half of the hallway.

 

“Don't look back… Don't look back…” Raven repeats to herself as Crow carries her up to the next floor. She looks and sees Shade Carrying Cyborg's charred severed head, and screams.