Fan Fiction ❯ TeenTitans; Road To Ruin ❯ Rage and Magic fuel foolish choices ( Chapter 13 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Deep below the city streets, in a cavern that lay empty but for the thick humid air and a few stone pieces that lay randomly throughout the area. While nothing breathed within these walls of earth, something did live. Far along the rocky hallway, down deeper then most people would ever dream of going, lie a platform extended into mid air, barely held by the narrow pathway that led to the enterance and back. Seated at the bottom of the platform, was a plaque describing what lay above. The specific words were unimportant, and after being unkept over the three years since it had been placed in it's current possition, they were unreadable.
Long ago the Teen Titans had stopped coming here, unable to keep the promise of freedom they had once offered. The statue, however, could not move and remained where it had always been. Kept in the darkness, even deeper then physical, but unable to even sense what was around the conscience mind, the being was struggling hard with the fleeting sanity which threatened to leave in an instant. Silent echoes met the silent screams that escaped Terra's thoughts, making the little bit of grip she was maintaining stip even more.
With no warning that there was anyone present, a soft, yet powerful voice, spoke within her mind. "Do not worry child, just hold on a little longer and all will be put right."
If she could have been, she would have been afraid, but that was something that had left her shortly after her imprisonment within herself. Nothing was worse than being unable to communicate in any way. Shouting mentaly, she begged. "Please don't go, I...I can't hold on any more....it's just too hard." A teer formed in a stone eye, dropping to the ground even as the voice spoke one last time.
"Just a little longer, and a ghost of a chance will release you, once and for all."
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Jinx sat on the throne that was once Slade's, her legs and tail hanging lazily over one arm while she leaned against the other. This was begining to bore her to no end. Hex stood where he had for almost six hours, rewinding the video of what had happned earlier. Where the camera had been hidden she still didn't know, but had stopped carring a long time ago. A savage growl escaped from between his fangs, as it always did when he saw the blond man interupt his taunting. Rolling her eyes, the demoness turned her attention to cleaning the wounds given to her by the lizard woman. She was afraid some kind of poison had been injected with those claws, though she had felt no ill effects as of yet.
Finally a roar escaped the crimson man's chest, "WHO IN THE HELL IS HE?" This stranger infurriated him, first interfering with what he had been planning was bad enough, but he actually hurt Hex. He watched as the green titan beat the attacker for a moment after he had left and then dissappearing himself. It didn't occur to the demon that if Wren could hurt him, and BB could hurt the Raven's brother, than the changeling could definately hurt him. This, however, was beyond his concentration, his mind too focused ont one detail to notice another.
A viscious laugh came from the corner, the masked man still burried neck deep in the concrete finding great amusement that his traitorous apprentice might not have planeed for everything. "So, I suppose that getting knocked on your ass was part of the plot?" His voice was dripping with venom and mirth at the same time. This recieved a glare from the silver eyed being, anger welling deep inside of him. "Or was this one of those random events that was my undoing so very often?" Again he laughed, this time getting a glance from Jinx as well while Hex walked toward him, a fanged smile on his face.
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Wren walked down the narrow alley, his beloved using her tallongs to crawl along the wall beside him, using every chance to be as close to him as possible. A few tendrils had sprouted from where she had been injured on her head, making her appear to have locks of scaley hair hanging down to her shoulders that could move on command, striking with poisonous spurs. Every once and a while, their eyes would meet, and they would turn back to thier travles.
At the moment, the duo was not searching out thier prey, but instead taking in the surroundings of the planet Raven called home. A person would walk past the enterance of the passage way between buildings from time to time and upon seeing them, ran away. Wiether the image of the reptilian woman moving along the brick walls or the shadowy figure that moved without seeing or hearing any living being beyond the woman at his side.
Suddenly, Wren stopped and sat in the center of a culdisac made of blank walls, the only enterance the one they were using, and no other being in sight. Chandra sat beside him, holding her head to his shoulder, waiting for him to do whatever his twisted little heart desired.
""Why is my father here?" It was a simple question, with no answer forthcoming. The crazed man had no idea that Hex was in no way related to him, his sister, or his father. With no reply, they both sat, and waited for something to happen, anything. Then an idea came upon the lavender eyed male, turning to Chandra, he whispered softly. "We need a place to stay, one with a room with no windows."
She turned toward the exit, then stopped. "What about you my love?"
"I have something to do, I will find you."
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Beast Boy stormed into the tower in a fury, his hair flying wildly as he moved. A savage growl escaped his throat as he turned to look at the gothic woman behind him, "Why did you stop me from pummeling that bastard brother of your's?" He glared at her while awaiting her response.
"He saved me, that's why. I couldn't just let you fight him, not after he tossed the demon away from me like that." Her look was just as menacing as his, thier eyes never turning from one another. "If you had a brain in your head you would realize that." The comment had been a reflex on her part, and once it would have had no effect on him. Now however, his emotions for her caused the words to cut through him like a knife.
"You know, I don't think I want to be near someone who thinks so little of me." Beast Boy charged past Raven before she could reply and walked out the door. Even as she stepped out behind him, he was barely a flying speck in the distance.
He never heard her voice, or the shattering of several windows. "Beast Boy, I'm sorry.......Come back."
Soaring high above the city, he watched the ant sized people moving slowly below him, oblivious that one of thier teen heroes was moving above them. Slowly, he went lower, coming to sail just out of the reach of those below. The form of a hawk usually let him release steam, but this time it didn't seem to be working. He was still angry with what Raven had said to him, he couldn't believe that she had actually called him brainless. A few months ago he wouldn't have cared, because he didn't know about her feelings for him, but now seemed so much different. They had expressed love, both physically and verbally, now it just seemed that saying such a thing should be beyond her.
apparently he didn't know her as well as he had thought.
His thoughts destracted him so much he hadn't realized that he was almost skidding along the ground, nor did he see the now familiar man step fromt he shadows. The only thing he noticed was a sudden darkness as he was covered with a bag and before he could shift back to his human form, slammed head first into the cement ground.
Wren through the sack with his now unconscience Beast Boy trapped inside over his shoulder and began walking back the way he had come. Every once and a while, he slammed the bag against some hard surface to ensure the contents didn't wake up.
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BB opened his eyes, staring down at the dirty floor below him. Filth covered his face and grease and dirt covered his long hair, he looked over his body and saw that his outfit was covered in tears and dried blood from semi healed cuts. He didn't know how long he had been out, but his whole body ached as he forced himself to rise. His head throbbed, causing him to pause in mid motion.
A sudden constriction against his wrists brought his attention to the thick chain which held him firmly to the wall. A second set, also held his legs in place. Moving slowly, carefully, he looked up to stare into lavender eyes.
Across the room, Wren lay possitioned in the exact same way as the titan, his head partially turned, his legs and arms held down by invisible restraints. As BB turned to look at him, he realized quickly that the man was mimicking his every move. An angery shout echoed from the other figure as he yelled wordlessly. He tried to charge at the blond man, but only fell short by inches as his motins were matched.
"You really are out of your mind." The changeling snickered.
"You really are out of your mind." Wren simply snickered back.
Several minutes passed in this manner, Beast Boy moving or speaking, and Wren imitating him. Finally he laughed lightly, "Guess this means your mad because Raven had forgotten about you. I heard why you got pissed, because I had replaced you in her heart. So sad for a little boy to be in so much pain, because he can't be the most important thing in his sister's life."
He didn't know it, but he had hit a cord in the twisted web of the mad man's mind. "Hold him."
The green titan looked around the room, missing the woman who slipped in behind him and used the chains to wrap it around his throat to keep him still. A second hand moved around to force him to watch the man standing over him come closer.
Pulling a knife from what seemed like nowhere, he stalked closer to his captive. "Open his mouth." Chandra quickly obliged, forcing the green lips opened after having to punch them several times to break his jaw. When his inner mouth was exposed, Wren grabbed his tongue and pulled it until it wouldn't come any farther. Then, in a swift motion of the blade, he held the severed tongue before Beast Boy's eyes. Staring at it intently, he spoke after several moments of silence. "Damn, I was hoping it would wag as much after it was detached." Tossing it to the woman who now released BB, he turned to the door.
As they left, Chandra looked at the chained man one final time, then took a bite out of the tongue in her hands before departing.
Beast Boy sat, bleeding badly from his mouth, and cried in the darkness that consumed his vision.
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In a hidden chamber, with in a place no one but Slade knew about, lay a labratory of the more depraved kind. Though it had once been filled with hundreds of items when it was in use, it was now vacant except for two tables, each holding a precious item.
Upon one, lay a book that was several hundred years old. It;s pages worn from constant scanning. It had taken the mastermind several decades to find this particular tome, and though it held no actual magic within it's pages, it described a feat of power that Slade could only dream of. Inside the leather binding, were the journal pages written by the hand of one Victor Frankenstien.
On the opposite table, lay an abandoned experiment. A woman, forged of the flesh and organs of several corpses. One eye was green, the other almost whitish blue. Her hair was streaked with brown, blond, red and gray, still it flowed together as if it were all from the same head. One breast was a size larger then the other, and scars covered over her face and body. Even with her disfigurements, she would still have been a lovely girl had she ever achieved life.
Slade had never masted actually bringing the creature to this world however. So, she lay dorment, awaiting either decay or "birth". Until now.
The magic of the book in Hex's possession was slowly seeping down into the recesses of the building, making it's way to the body. And, after several months with no sign of life, an arm twitched and an eye opened and closed once. Then it was still for a time.
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Raven cried into her pillow, things all around the tower shattering and breaking. She hadn't seen Beast Boy for three days, ever since thier arguemnt. She had tried searching for him, both with her eyes and her mind, but he seemed to be no where in the city. Could he have left her for good. She didn't even want to think about that possibility.
Every once and a while she could swear she heard him call, but it never panned out.
For some odd reason she kept thinking about thier first time together, but never got to the sex. Just the conversation kept repeating in her mind.
+++++++Suddenly he looked from her to the book, and back again. He still looked confused. "Felatio? You want to experiment with a foreign car? I don't get it." She stopped moving, staring at him for a moment in disbelief. Then she suddenly began searching the floor. "What are you looking for?" He was hoping it was something to help explain why the name of a car was in a sex book.
She turned to meet his eyes, she was frowning in irritation. "That Do not open sticker, I liked you better when you couldn't talk."
Though the statement was cold, BB couldn't help but laugh. It took him a moment to realize she wasn't joking, Raven didn't joke. "Hey. And what would you think if I lost my tongue or something and could never talk to you again? Huh? What then?"
"Shut up and look pretty before you give me some ideas. I might want to use that tongue later, and I would need it to still be attached to you. Now go get on the bed, like a good little sex sla.....Just go get on the bed." Her voice was monotone, but her mind was fighting not to break anything. She was getting excited.+++++++++++
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Beast Boy pulled on his shackles for the hundreth time, blood loss making him light headed. He heard a destinct groan as they gave an inch for the first time.
Earlier he had heard Wren and the lizard woman talking, they were planning on going after Raven soon. Directly after his death to be exact. For eaves dropping he had lost his left ear, and was in tremendous pain as his hair fell intot he wound and left grease, sweat and dirt behind. Ever since then he had worked savagely at the restraints to no avail, until this very second.
He pulled again and hear nothing, but that first sound had been enough to geth his adrenaline pumping. He didn't want to strain his body by using his powers, no telling the effect considering his injuries. So he kept pulling.
He would get out, he told himself. And he would find Wren before the bastard got to his mate. From deep in his mind, he heard a voice and silently agreed with it. 'And I will kill him with my bare fangs,' Beast Boy thought picturing it.
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Ok, done with another one. A request to all those artists that are reading this. I have several characters I would like a drawing of, some of which have been seen and many of which haven't quite yet. If anyone is interested, please say so in a review or an email.
BTW +++++++++++(text)++++++++++++ means flashback
Latta
Long ago the Teen Titans had stopped coming here, unable to keep the promise of freedom they had once offered. The statue, however, could not move and remained where it had always been. Kept in the darkness, even deeper then physical, but unable to even sense what was around the conscience mind, the being was struggling hard with the fleeting sanity which threatened to leave in an instant. Silent echoes met the silent screams that escaped Terra's thoughts, making the little bit of grip she was maintaining stip even more.
With no warning that there was anyone present, a soft, yet powerful voice, spoke within her mind. "Do not worry child, just hold on a little longer and all will be put right."
If she could have been, she would have been afraid, but that was something that had left her shortly after her imprisonment within herself. Nothing was worse than being unable to communicate in any way. Shouting mentaly, she begged. "Please don't go, I...I can't hold on any more....it's just too hard." A teer formed in a stone eye, dropping to the ground even as the voice spoke one last time.
"Just a little longer, and a ghost of a chance will release you, once and for all."
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Jinx sat on the throne that was once Slade's, her legs and tail hanging lazily over one arm while she leaned against the other. This was begining to bore her to no end. Hex stood where he had for almost six hours, rewinding the video of what had happned earlier. Where the camera had been hidden she still didn't know, but had stopped carring a long time ago. A savage growl escaped from between his fangs, as it always did when he saw the blond man interupt his taunting. Rolling her eyes, the demoness turned her attention to cleaning the wounds given to her by the lizard woman. She was afraid some kind of poison had been injected with those claws, though she had felt no ill effects as of yet.
Finally a roar escaped the crimson man's chest, "WHO IN THE HELL IS HE?" This stranger infurriated him, first interfering with what he had been planning was bad enough, but he actually hurt Hex. He watched as the green titan beat the attacker for a moment after he had left and then dissappearing himself. It didn't occur to the demon that if Wren could hurt him, and BB could hurt the Raven's brother, than the changeling could definately hurt him. This, however, was beyond his concentration, his mind too focused ont one detail to notice another.
A viscious laugh came from the corner, the masked man still burried neck deep in the concrete finding great amusement that his traitorous apprentice might not have planeed for everything. "So, I suppose that getting knocked on your ass was part of the plot?" His voice was dripping with venom and mirth at the same time. This recieved a glare from the silver eyed being, anger welling deep inside of him. "Or was this one of those random events that was my undoing so very often?" Again he laughed, this time getting a glance from Jinx as well while Hex walked toward him, a fanged smile on his face.
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Wren walked down the narrow alley, his beloved using her tallongs to crawl along the wall beside him, using every chance to be as close to him as possible. A few tendrils had sprouted from where she had been injured on her head, making her appear to have locks of scaley hair hanging down to her shoulders that could move on command, striking with poisonous spurs. Every once and a while, their eyes would meet, and they would turn back to thier travles.
At the moment, the duo was not searching out thier prey, but instead taking in the surroundings of the planet Raven called home. A person would walk past the enterance of the passage way between buildings from time to time and upon seeing them, ran away. Wiether the image of the reptilian woman moving along the brick walls or the shadowy figure that moved without seeing or hearing any living being beyond the woman at his side.
Suddenly, Wren stopped and sat in the center of a culdisac made of blank walls, the only enterance the one they were using, and no other being in sight. Chandra sat beside him, holding her head to his shoulder, waiting for him to do whatever his twisted little heart desired.
""Why is my father here?" It was a simple question, with no answer forthcoming. The crazed man had no idea that Hex was in no way related to him, his sister, or his father. With no reply, they both sat, and waited for something to happen, anything. Then an idea came upon the lavender eyed male, turning to Chandra, he whispered softly. "We need a place to stay, one with a room with no windows."
She turned toward the exit, then stopped. "What about you my love?"
"I have something to do, I will find you."
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Beast Boy stormed into the tower in a fury, his hair flying wildly as he moved. A savage growl escaped his throat as he turned to look at the gothic woman behind him, "Why did you stop me from pummeling that bastard brother of your's?" He glared at her while awaiting her response.
"He saved me, that's why. I couldn't just let you fight him, not after he tossed the demon away from me like that." Her look was just as menacing as his, thier eyes never turning from one another. "If you had a brain in your head you would realize that." The comment had been a reflex on her part, and once it would have had no effect on him. Now however, his emotions for her caused the words to cut through him like a knife.
"You know, I don't think I want to be near someone who thinks so little of me." Beast Boy charged past Raven before she could reply and walked out the door. Even as she stepped out behind him, he was barely a flying speck in the distance.
He never heard her voice, or the shattering of several windows. "Beast Boy, I'm sorry.......Come back."
Soaring high above the city, he watched the ant sized people moving slowly below him, oblivious that one of thier teen heroes was moving above them. Slowly, he went lower, coming to sail just out of the reach of those below. The form of a hawk usually let him release steam, but this time it didn't seem to be working. He was still angry with what Raven had said to him, he couldn't believe that she had actually called him brainless. A few months ago he wouldn't have cared, because he didn't know about her feelings for him, but now seemed so much different. They had expressed love, both physically and verbally, now it just seemed that saying such a thing should be beyond her.
apparently he didn't know her as well as he had thought.
His thoughts destracted him so much he hadn't realized that he was almost skidding along the ground, nor did he see the now familiar man step fromt he shadows. The only thing he noticed was a sudden darkness as he was covered with a bag and before he could shift back to his human form, slammed head first into the cement ground.
Wren through the sack with his now unconscience Beast Boy trapped inside over his shoulder and began walking back the way he had come. Every once and a while, he slammed the bag against some hard surface to ensure the contents didn't wake up.
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BB opened his eyes, staring down at the dirty floor below him. Filth covered his face and grease and dirt covered his long hair, he looked over his body and saw that his outfit was covered in tears and dried blood from semi healed cuts. He didn't know how long he had been out, but his whole body ached as he forced himself to rise. His head throbbed, causing him to pause in mid motion.
A sudden constriction against his wrists brought his attention to the thick chain which held him firmly to the wall. A second set, also held his legs in place. Moving slowly, carefully, he looked up to stare into lavender eyes.
Across the room, Wren lay possitioned in the exact same way as the titan, his head partially turned, his legs and arms held down by invisible restraints. As BB turned to look at him, he realized quickly that the man was mimicking his every move. An angery shout echoed from the other figure as he yelled wordlessly. He tried to charge at the blond man, but only fell short by inches as his motins were matched.
"You really are out of your mind." The changeling snickered.
"You really are out of your mind." Wren simply snickered back.
Several minutes passed in this manner, Beast Boy moving or speaking, and Wren imitating him. Finally he laughed lightly, "Guess this means your mad because Raven had forgotten about you. I heard why you got pissed, because I had replaced you in her heart. So sad for a little boy to be in so much pain, because he can't be the most important thing in his sister's life."
He didn't know it, but he had hit a cord in the twisted web of the mad man's mind. "Hold him."
The green titan looked around the room, missing the woman who slipped in behind him and used the chains to wrap it around his throat to keep him still. A second hand moved around to force him to watch the man standing over him come closer.
Pulling a knife from what seemed like nowhere, he stalked closer to his captive. "Open his mouth." Chandra quickly obliged, forcing the green lips opened after having to punch them several times to break his jaw. When his inner mouth was exposed, Wren grabbed his tongue and pulled it until it wouldn't come any farther. Then, in a swift motion of the blade, he held the severed tongue before Beast Boy's eyes. Staring at it intently, he spoke after several moments of silence. "Damn, I was hoping it would wag as much after it was detached." Tossing it to the woman who now released BB, he turned to the door.
As they left, Chandra looked at the chained man one final time, then took a bite out of the tongue in her hands before departing.
Beast Boy sat, bleeding badly from his mouth, and cried in the darkness that consumed his vision.
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In a hidden chamber, with in a place no one but Slade knew about, lay a labratory of the more depraved kind. Though it had once been filled with hundreds of items when it was in use, it was now vacant except for two tables, each holding a precious item.
Upon one, lay a book that was several hundred years old. It;s pages worn from constant scanning. It had taken the mastermind several decades to find this particular tome, and though it held no actual magic within it's pages, it described a feat of power that Slade could only dream of. Inside the leather binding, were the journal pages written by the hand of one Victor Frankenstien.
On the opposite table, lay an abandoned experiment. A woman, forged of the flesh and organs of several corpses. One eye was green, the other almost whitish blue. Her hair was streaked with brown, blond, red and gray, still it flowed together as if it were all from the same head. One breast was a size larger then the other, and scars covered over her face and body. Even with her disfigurements, she would still have been a lovely girl had she ever achieved life.
Slade had never masted actually bringing the creature to this world however. So, she lay dorment, awaiting either decay or "birth". Until now.
The magic of the book in Hex's possession was slowly seeping down into the recesses of the building, making it's way to the body. And, after several months with no sign of life, an arm twitched and an eye opened and closed once. Then it was still for a time.
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Raven cried into her pillow, things all around the tower shattering and breaking. She hadn't seen Beast Boy for three days, ever since thier arguemnt. She had tried searching for him, both with her eyes and her mind, but he seemed to be no where in the city. Could he have left her for good. She didn't even want to think about that possibility.
Every once and a while she could swear she heard him call, but it never panned out.
For some odd reason she kept thinking about thier first time together, but never got to the sex. Just the conversation kept repeating in her mind.
+++++++Suddenly he looked from her to the book, and back again. He still looked confused. "Felatio? You want to experiment with a foreign car? I don't get it." She stopped moving, staring at him for a moment in disbelief. Then she suddenly began searching the floor. "What are you looking for?" He was hoping it was something to help explain why the name of a car was in a sex book.
She turned to meet his eyes, she was frowning in irritation. "That Do not open sticker, I liked you better when you couldn't talk."
Though the statement was cold, BB couldn't help but laugh. It took him a moment to realize she wasn't joking, Raven didn't joke. "Hey. And what would you think if I lost my tongue or something and could never talk to you again? Huh? What then?"
"Shut up and look pretty before you give me some ideas. I might want to use that tongue later, and I would need it to still be attached to you. Now go get on the bed, like a good little sex sla.....Just go get on the bed." Her voice was monotone, but her mind was fighting not to break anything. She was getting excited.+++++++++++
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Beast Boy pulled on his shackles for the hundreth time, blood loss making him light headed. He heard a destinct groan as they gave an inch for the first time.
Earlier he had heard Wren and the lizard woman talking, they were planning on going after Raven soon. Directly after his death to be exact. For eaves dropping he had lost his left ear, and was in tremendous pain as his hair fell intot he wound and left grease, sweat and dirt behind. Ever since then he had worked savagely at the restraints to no avail, until this very second.
He pulled again and hear nothing, but that first sound had been enough to geth his adrenaline pumping. He didn't want to strain his body by using his powers, no telling the effect considering his injuries. So he kept pulling.
He would get out, he told himself. And he would find Wren before the bastard got to his mate. From deep in his mind, he heard a voice and silently agreed with it. 'And I will kill him with my bare fangs,' Beast Boy thought picturing it.
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Ok, done with another one. A request to all those artists that are reading this. I have several characters I would like a drawing of, some of which have been seen and many of which haven't quite yet. If anyone is interested, please say so in a review or an email.
BTW +++++++++++(text)++++++++++++ means flashback
Latta