Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ Backtrack ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter 16

The Last Floor

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

 

~GxJxR

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“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.

 

“Damnit!” Robin screams, falling to his knees, he pounds on the ground in fury, “CYBORG!” He screams in anger.

 

“He's gone…” Crow says, “It's only us…”

 

“Only you…” Robin says, turning. “You two, go on ahead. Go to the main room, and I'll hold him off. He will have to kill me to get to you, and I will not go without a fight!” Robin says, clenching his fist. “If you live, I'll be back.”

 

“ROBIN!” Raven screams, as Robin jumps back down, and runs back to the destroyed hall.

 

“Let him go…” Crow says, and he and Raven turn, and run down the hall.

 

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“SHADE!” Robin screams, running into the middle of the wreckage. The whole floor has almost collapsed.

 

“You rang?” Shade says, standing behind him. He kicks Cyborg's head at him, and his hand is still stained with the blood from his heart.

 

“We're ending this right now…” Robin says, making a sword out of two bird-a-rangs.

 

“If you say so…” Shade says, and he calls off his dark matter. He draws his sword as Darke, and he smiles. “If you want to kill me so bad, I won't use my immortality, or any moves but this sword. That way, I'll be fighting on you level.”

 

“Whatever.”

 

“All right, Robin, gentleman's good luck?”

 

“Fuck you…”

 

“Very well…” Darke says, charging at Robin, holding his sword by the blade. His hand drips blood, as he clashes blades with Robin, and seems to be doing as well as Robin is, despite his only using one hand, and Robin's using two.

 

It's here that Robin gets his first real glance at the Shade Blade. The sword's handle is made of spines and spikes. He has seen this when he was looking for Starfire when she ran away. Beast boy go stung by one, and became very ill on the return trip, and Cyborg had to make an antidote using remains of it that he found lodged in his foot.

 

He misses them. All of his friend, are either dead, or out of his reach. `My communicator!' He thinks, he reaches for it, but it falls, and Darke smashes it.

 

“RAH!” Robin screams, slashing at Darke. `He took them all away! He just stood there laughing when the love of my life was killed!' He starts to bring the Shade blade down. He takes another look at the sword. The Blade is longer than anything Robin had ever seen before. It is just grazing the ceiling above them, and it is as sharp as a razor blade. Just looking at it makes Robin feel like he was being cut.

 

Robin kicks Darke, and slashes his shoulder. Darke lets out a scream, and he lunges at Robin, and Robin blocks every shot.

 

Darke slashes at Robin, and is about to graze his neck as Robin keeps his sword up, while inching his hand closer to his belt, and closer…

 

He feels a sharp pain as the razor sharp blade slices through his cheek like a hot knife through butter. He feels his mouth fill with the scarlet salty liquid which pumps through his body, as he grabs his ice disc.

 

He throws one at Darke and he freezes in a barrage of ice. Robin pulls the sword out of his cheek, and kicks him over. Darke smashes out of the ice, and looks pissed. He stands up, and Robin stabs him through the chest. He gasps, and stands up, moving closer to Robin on the blade.

“I don't die!” He screams, and he kicks Robin over, and becomes Shade once again. He absorbs the sword.

 

“WHAT?!” Robin screams in frustration, “You said…”

 

“I LIED!” He says, blasting Robin with a beam of darkness through the heart. He steps over Robin, and continues after Crow and Robin.

 

“I'm coming… Cyborg… Beast Boy… Star…” Robin cries, and he closes his eyes.

 

Robin stares at the open part of the tower as he silently dies.