Fan Fiction ❯ TeenTitans; Road To Ruin ❯ Visions come true ( Chapter 17 )
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By: Daggon_dora 
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai / Fantasy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.25.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 246 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Hentai / Fantasy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.25.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 246 | Status: Completed
The explanations Raven gave for having a teen age son far from covered the actual events. How could they, she only knew so much and the truth was not part of it. She also had no way of knowing of the creature that rose the same day her unborn child was altered without her knowledge.
A partly twisted shape shook in the corner of a perpetually empty room. It was cold, so very cold and nothing could warm it. Slowly, as the being ran it's fingers over it's torso feeling the stitches that would be visible had there been any light available. After feeling it's own body for some time, it realized it was female. Over several days, other things came to her. It was as if her mind retained the memories of the peices it was created from. What she was and how she had gotten here was still a mystery though.
After almost two weeks of sitting, alone, cold, and in the dark, she stood and walked to the door that led out. The knob was locked, and after several minutes of twisting, she actually pulled the handle from the door.
She wanted out so badly, needed out. It was begining to get frightening in this place and she didn't like to be frightened. Finally, out of ideas, she slammed her fist into the door in frustration. Her look was absolute shock when an enormous dent appeared where she had struck and the door fell forward.
Stepping into the hallway, she turned from one direction to the next in the hallway and began to run. She didn't know where she was going, or how to get out, but it didn't matter. She would find a way.
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Robin, Cyborg and Starfire had been sitting at the table listening intently to the story of thier absence. When the story was over, Robin stood to speak. "So, you get attacked by a demon, Slade is killed, Beast Boy is kidnapped, your brother comes after you and gets killed, and you have a teen age son, and you say nothing happened while we were gone?"
The boy in question barely looked up from his video game contest with his father, deciding to let them figure out the details among themselves. It was uninteresting in his oppinon, weither the other's liked or accepted it, he was here to stay. After a little more banter by the two males with his mother, he saw an upside down head move into his vision. Green eyes stared into his own. Instead of replying, he mearly raised his eyebrow.
"Why is it you wish to call yourself Ghost, instead of your Johnathan name?" The innocents of the question made him go wide eyed. It was an expression of curriousity, not the alarm he was expecting.
Placing the controler on the seat beside him, he rose. Turning to his father he grinned. "Don't give me that look, I already beat you." Pointing to the screen, he was just in time to witness his racer pass the finish line directly before Beast Boy's. This recieved a dirty look from the green titan.
Passing through a nearby wall, Ghost reimerged from the ground behind Star. His grin was gone, replaced by a scowl that would do his mother proud. "I can speak with the dead, and see some of them. I can do other things as well, but they are unimportant at the moment." Grabbing the alien's arm, he phased them both through the cieling and to the roof. Once there, he stared out at the ocean.
"That still doesn't answer my question, you simply explained reasons for other's to call you Ghost, not your friends." Her simple honesty was both refreshing and agrivating.
"I am just that, a ghost. Every one of you can pass for normal, even father and the metal man are welcomed where they go. I am not however. I spent the last week trying to find my place in this city. With no cerfew, and my abilities, it is easy to cover an entire city in days. Ihave no place." Sinking into the floor, he left her where she was. As she stared into the night, she was at the perfect vantage point to see the flames long before the alarm went off.
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Noah was sitting in the back of an alleyway, drinking as usual, and staring into the night. He hadn't noticed the doorway hidden by a dumpster until this very moment. Curriousity was not something that particularly drove the blond man, but just as suddenly as ever an image of that damned red headed woman flashed infront of his eyes. Struggling to his feet, he staggered for an instant from sleeping legs, then moved to the wooden door. Staring at the portal for an minute, he knocked.
A hidden slot opened, revealing blood shot brown eyes. A gruff voice responded to the knocking, "What's the password?"
Dull blue eyes stared through the opening, "I need a password?"
The slot shut again, instantly infuriating Noah. He wasn't a patient person by nature, especially of the ignorant. Knocking again, he moved immediately when the eye hole reopened, smashing his bottle into the face of the person on the other side. It broke, shattering and causing a viscious scream to rip through the alley. He then slammed his foot into the door sending both the wood and the man far into the revealed hallway. Smiling, he whispered. "Found my password, lost my booze. Doesn't sound like a good trade to me."
He didn't even bother too look at the guards coming, until one made the mistake of hitting him. That one became his weapon against the others. Grabbing the man's arm, the drunkard swung him around like a battering ram into the heads of the other men. They fell simply enough, considering the strength put behind the blow could have knocked out a small horse.
Continueing down the corridor, he passed several doors before he was forced to stop by something deep inside. He was going to ignore it, but the pain which had been dulled by the liquir soared up once more, demanding he go no further. Turning, he tried the nob on the simple steel door. Before he even reached for it he knew it was locked, but had to try anyway. Without thinking twice, he slammed his fist into the door. His hand now sticking through to the other side, he grabbed the door and pulled. The barrier went flying, landing on the pile of bodies down the hall. "That'll teach them."
Staring into the shadows, he saw a vision that had filled his mind for months now. The red head stared back at him, just as surprised as he was that the image from her dreams was standing before her. It was as she always imagined, he was here to save her.
Ember's eyes flared wildly, her hair acting as if it were alive. Her heart pounded a mile a minute, she had waited for this moment for so long and here it was. It terrified her. The walls burst into flames, the fires leaping with each beat of her heart, with each breath she took. The both felt the heat building around them, but they stood firm.
The red and yellow tongues licked at them both, each protected in thier own way. The fire master uneffected by what she commanded, even unconsciencely. Noah's body absorbed the flames even as they engulfed him Slowly, he crossed the room. The building around them had caught as well when they met in the center of the room. Blue eyes stared into green ones as he slapped her across the face. "That was for haunting me for so long." His smirk was just as she remembered it from her dreams. "Now let's go."
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The titans arrived just in time to see the building collapse to the ground, only two people made it out alive. The stink of burning flesh and molten metal filled the air as they circled around the man and woman. Though he was smirking, the pain he was in was evident in his eyes.
Robin stepped forward to keep him from leaving the area. "What happened here?"
Noah raised an eyebrow, his smile wiped away. "I don't answer to you kid, or anyone for that matter." He moved past the boy wonder, and was stopped by four other heroes. "What is it with you people? Can't a guy leave a burning building unscathed and go get liquired up in peace?"
Ghost watched from the sidelines, seemingly uninterested in what the descussion was about. Instead he was staring at the rubble.
The blond man almost fell to his knees, the image of flames devouring him again spilling over his eyes. Then it was gone. "I need something to drink...... and smoke...... and fight..... and fuck. Get out of my damn way."
No one noticed Ghost speaking to someone none of them could see. "What do you think Cassandra?"
Raven stepped infront of the man who was trying to leave, "Forget your vices, the only place your going is the police station and jail if we find out you are responsible for this."
Noah's eyes widened, his face a picture of rage. ''You are gonna tell me how to live my life girl? That's funny. You surround yourself in darkness, demanding no one get close to you and you never getting close to anyone else. But you don't know what darkness is, not really. Me, I know. Putting my entire existance on hold for four years, shifting through a hell personally made for me. The taste of piss and sand constantly flowing in my mouth, down my throat. The only smell that dared to come near, a combonation of vinagar, vomit, and the soured milk of a beast too hanious to ever be brought to the living realm. Not a sound escaped the void, unable to hear your own screams in a blackness so deep your very aura would shine like the sun. The only feeling that you have in all the shadows is an agonizing pain that sears worse by the second until you can either give in and scream, or face the fact that the pain only intesifies tenfold the longer you hold in the scream. Oh, and the laughing, so loud, so very loud. But not from your ears, no. It came from inside your head, and it's not even a pleasant laugh. It's the laugh of a madman, like some divious, evil creature living just beyond your eyes, a creature that plotted everything that has happened to you and finds it to be the most entertaining thing in the world. Then living there for so long you can actually feel it absorbing into your body. That little girl is darkness, pray you never know it. Now, it you will excuse me...Raven was it, I am going to drink enough to put down a ship full of sailors, smoke several different kinds of tabacco, steal anything I want, cuss my fucking ass off, kick the shit out of someone or several someones and fuck anyone that looks interested, no matter how clean or dirty they are. After that, I am going to go find out what in the hell is calling to me, because if these visions don't stop soon I will have to rip them out of my head physically.''
Raven was about to stop him again, when the other surviver spoke. "I started the fire.....It was an accident." She was wearing almost nothing, tattered shreds, and her voice was shaking with fear and exhaustion. "I was just so surprised when he came in and.....and..... I don't know."
Suddenly Ghost stepped forward, "This was no one's fault. She can summon and control fire, but doesn't know how to use her powers. When that man entered her room, her powers went berserk and took down the whole building. This place is best left to ash anyway."
"How do you know all this?" Ember watched with currious eyes, tears threatening to break though. The man at the end of the alley stopping in his tracks, trying to seem uninterested.
The newest member of the team looked over the destruction. "I can hear those who fell here tonight. Most of the women are thanking you for releasing them from thier existance."
Cyborg looked at his best friend's son and then to the girl. "What exactly was this place?"
Once again, Ghost had the answer. "It was a place men come to sleep with underaged boys and girls. Though this one is old enough they would have gotten rid of her soon and from the sounds of the screaming dead, it would not have been pleasant."
Star turned to the other red head, "Is there anything we can do, do you have a place to stay?"
Ember looked at all of them, but her eyes locked with someone who was only half turned to the conversation. His blue eyes looked cloudy but sharp at the same time from the end of the alley. "I want to go with him." Her honest answer surprised everyone, everyone except Noah.
"What ever Sparky, doesn't matter to me." He started to walk away, not waiting to see if shee was falling.
Immediately, her fear was replaced by anger. For some reason, the name infuriated her to no end. "My name isn't Sparky, it's..." She was cut off while she stormed after him.
"Thu Human Matchstick right? With both the power over fire and the amazing ability to be flatchested no matter the push up bra."
The titans stared after them, not knowing what to think. Ghost turned to his unseen companion and smirked.
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Deep below the city streets, a tall man stood in a chamber of earth. His narrow features looked over the cave calmly, searching for some unheard call that had summoned him here. Then his eyes fell upon a statue of a young woman. Stepping closer, he stared intently into stone eyes. Raising his hand to the side of her face, he cuppped it gently. "Your still alive aren't you? I am sorry, it must be so lonely. I will stay here for a time, perhaps something will come to me."
Alden stepped back to watch the statue for a moment longer, then colled upon his magic. From the cracks in the walls small droplets of water leaked forth, culminating just beside the sorcerer. After several minutes enough water was present, and he forged a chair of ice facing Terra. Sitting, he made himself comfortable. "Something will come to me."
A partly twisted shape shook in the corner of a perpetually empty room. It was cold, so very cold and nothing could warm it. Slowly, as the being ran it's fingers over it's torso feeling the stitches that would be visible had there been any light available. After feeling it's own body for some time, it realized it was female. Over several days, other things came to her. It was as if her mind retained the memories of the peices it was created from. What she was and how she had gotten here was still a mystery though.
After almost two weeks of sitting, alone, cold, and in the dark, she stood and walked to the door that led out. The knob was locked, and after several minutes of twisting, she actually pulled the handle from the door.
She wanted out so badly, needed out. It was begining to get frightening in this place and she didn't like to be frightened. Finally, out of ideas, she slammed her fist into the door in frustration. Her look was absolute shock when an enormous dent appeared where she had struck and the door fell forward.
Stepping into the hallway, she turned from one direction to the next in the hallway and began to run. She didn't know where she was going, or how to get out, but it didn't matter. She would find a way.
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Robin, Cyborg and Starfire had been sitting at the table listening intently to the story of thier absence. When the story was over, Robin stood to speak. "So, you get attacked by a demon, Slade is killed, Beast Boy is kidnapped, your brother comes after you and gets killed, and you have a teen age son, and you say nothing happened while we were gone?"
The boy in question barely looked up from his video game contest with his father, deciding to let them figure out the details among themselves. It was uninteresting in his oppinon, weither the other's liked or accepted it, he was here to stay. After a little more banter by the two males with his mother, he saw an upside down head move into his vision. Green eyes stared into his own. Instead of replying, he mearly raised his eyebrow.
"Why is it you wish to call yourself Ghost, instead of your Johnathan name?" The innocents of the question made him go wide eyed. It was an expression of curriousity, not the alarm he was expecting.
Placing the controler on the seat beside him, he rose. Turning to his father he grinned. "Don't give me that look, I already beat you." Pointing to the screen, he was just in time to witness his racer pass the finish line directly before Beast Boy's. This recieved a dirty look from the green titan.
Passing through a nearby wall, Ghost reimerged from the ground behind Star. His grin was gone, replaced by a scowl that would do his mother proud. "I can speak with the dead, and see some of them. I can do other things as well, but they are unimportant at the moment." Grabbing the alien's arm, he phased them both through the cieling and to the roof. Once there, he stared out at the ocean.
"That still doesn't answer my question, you simply explained reasons for other's to call you Ghost, not your friends." Her simple honesty was both refreshing and agrivating.
"I am just that, a ghost. Every one of you can pass for normal, even father and the metal man are welcomed where they go. I am not however. I spent the last week trying to find my place in this city. With no cerfew, and my abilities, it is easy to cover an entire city in days. Ihave no place." Sinking into the floor, he left her where she was. As she stared into the night, she was at the perfect vantage point to see the flames long before the alarm went off.
**************************************
Noah was sitting in the back of an alleyway, drinking as usual, and staring into the night. He hadn't noticed the doorway hidden by a dumpster until this very moment. Curriousity was not something that particularly drove the blond man, but just as suddenly as ever an image of that damned red headed woman flashed infront of his eyes. Struggling to his feet, he staggered for an instant from sleeping legs, then moved to the wooden door. Staring at the portal for an minute, he knocked.
A hidden slot opened, revealing blood shot brown eyes. A gruff voice responded to the knocking, "What's the password?"
Dull blue eyes stared through the opening, "I need a password?"
The slot shut again, instantly infuriating Noah. He wasn't a patient person by nature, especially of the ignorant. Knocking again, he moved immediately when the eye hole reopened, smashing his bottle into the face of the person on the other side. It broke, shattering and causing a viscious scream to rip through the alley. He then slammed his foot into the door sending both the wood and the man far into the revealed hallway. Smiling, he whispered. "Found my password, lost my booze. Doesn't sound like a good trade to me."
He didn't even bother too look at the guards coming, until one made the mistake of hitting him. That one became his weapon against the others. Grabbing the man's arm, the drunkard swung him around like a battering ram into the heads of the other men. They fell simply enough, considering the strength put behind the blow could have knocked out a small horse.
Continueing down the corridor, he passed several doors before he was forced to stop by something deep inside. He was going to ignore it, but the pain which had been dulled by the liquir soared up once more, demanding he go no further. Turning, he tried the nob on the simple steel door. Before he even reached for it he knew it was locked, but had to try anyway. Without thinking twice, he slammed his fist into the door. His hand now sticking through to the other side, he grabbed the door and pulled. The barrier went flying, landing on the pile of bodies down the hall. "That'll teach them."
Staring into the shadows, he saw a vision that had filled his mind for months now. The red head stared back at him, just as surprised as he was that the image from her dreams was standing before her. It was as she always imagined, he was here to save her.
Ember's eyes flared wildly, her hair acting as if it were alive. Her heart pounded a mile a minute, she had waited for this moment for so long and here it was. It terrified her. The walls burst into flames, the fires leaping with each beat of her heart, with each breath she took. The both felt the heat building around them, but they stood firm.
The red and yellow tongues licked at them both, each protected in thier own way. The fire master uneffected by what she commanded, even unconsciencely. Noah's body absorbed the flames even as they engulfed him Slowly, he crossed the room. The building around them had caught as well when they met in the center of the room. Blue eyes stared into green ones as he slapped her across the face. "That was for haunting me for so long." His smirk was just as she remembered it from her dreams. "Now let's go."
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The titans arrived just in time to see the building collapse to the ground, only two people made it out alive. The stink of burning flesh and molten metal filled the air as they circled around the man and woman. Though he was smirking, the pain he was in was evident in his eyes.
Robin stepped forward to keep him from leaving the area. "What happened here?"
Noah raised an eyebrow, his smile wiped away. "I don't answer to you kid, or anyone for that matter." He moved past the boy wonder, and was stopped by four other heroes. "What is it with you people? Can't a guy leave a burning building unscathed and go get liquired up in peace?"
Ghost watched from the sidelines, seemingly uninterested in what the descussion was about. Instead he was staring at the rubble.
The blond man almost fell to his knees, the image of flames devouring him again spilling over his eyes. Then it was gone. "I need something to drink...... and smoke...... and fight..... and fuck. Get out of my damn way."
No one noticed Ghost speaking to someone none of them could see. "What do you think Cassandra?"
Raven stepped infront of the man who was trying to leave, "Forget your vices, the only place your going is the police station and jail if we find out you are responsible for this."
Noah's eyes widened, his face a picture of rage. ''You are gonna tell me how to live my life girl? That's funny. You surround yourself in darkness, demanding no one get close to you and you never getting close to anyone else. But you don't know what darkness is, not really. Me, I know. Putting my entire existance on hold for four years, shifting through a hell personally made for me. The taste of piss and sand constantly flowing in my mouth, down my throat. The only smell that dared to come near, a combonation of vinagar, vomit, and the soured milk of a beast too hanious to ever be brought to the living realm. Not a sound escaped the void, unable to hear your own screams in a blackness so deep your very aura would shine like the sun. The only feeling that you have in all the shadows is an agonizing pain that sears worse by the second until you can either give in and scream, or face the fact that the pain only intesifies tenfold the longer you hold in the scream. Oh, and the laughing, so loud, so very loud. But not from your ears, no. It came from inside your head, and it's not even a pleasant laugh. It's the laugh of a madman, like some divious, evil creature living just beyond your eyes, a creature that plotted everything that has happened to you and finds it to be the most entertaining thing in the world. Then living there for so long you can actually feel it absorbing into your body. That little girl is darkness, pray you never know it. Now, it you will excuse me...Raven was it, I am going to drink enough to put down a ship full of sailors, smoke several different kinds of tabacco, steal anything I want, cuss my fucking ass off, kick the shit out of someone or several someones and fuck anyone that looks interested, no matter how clean or dirty they are. After that, I am going to go find out what in the hell is calling to me, because if these visions don't stop soon I will have to rip them out of my head physically.''
Raven was about to stop him again, when the other surviver spoke. "I started the fire.....It was an accident." She was wearing almost nothing, tattered shreds, and her voice was shaking with fear and exhaustion. "I was just so surprised when he came in and.....and..... I don't know."
Suddenly Ghost stepped forward, "This was no one's fault. She can summon and control fire, but doesn't know how to use her powers. When that man entered her room, her powers went berserk and took down the whole building. This place is best left to ash anyway."
"How do you know all this?" Ember watched with currious eyes, tears threatening to break though. The man at the end of the alley stopping in his tracks, trying to seem uninterested.
The newest member of the team looked over the destruction. "I can hear those who fell here tonight. Most of the women are thanking you for releasing them from thier existance."
Cyborg looked at his best friend's son and then to the girl. "What exactly was this place?"
Once again, Ghost had the answer. "It was a place men come to sleep with underaged boys and girls. Though this one is old enough they would have gotten rid of her soon and from the sounds of the screaming dead, it would not have been pleasant."
Star turned to the other red head, "Is there anything we can do, do you have a place to stay?"
Ember looked at all of them, but her eyes locked with someone who was only half turned to the conversation. His blue eyes looked cloudy but sharp at the same time from the end of the alley. "I want to go with him." Her honest answer surprised everyone, everyone except Noah.
"What ever Sparky, doesn't matter to me." He started to walk away, not waiting to see if shee was falling.
Immediately, her fear was replaced by anger. For some reason, the name infuriated her to no end. "My name isn't Sparky, it's..." She was cut off while she stormed after him.
"Thu Human Matchstick right? With both the power over fire and the amazing ability to be flatchested no matter the push up bra."
The titans stared after them, not knowing what to think. Ghost turned to his unseen companion and smirked.
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Deep below the city streets, a tall man stood in a chamber of earth. His narrow features looked over the cave calmly, searching for some unheard call that had summoned him here. Then his eyes fell upon a statue of a young woman. Stepping closer, he stared intently into stone eyes. Raising his hand to the side of her face, he cuppped it gently. "Your still alive aren't you? I am sorry, it must be so lonely. I will stay here for a time, perhaps something will come to me."
Alden stepped back to watch the statue for a moment longer, then colled upon his magic. From the cracks in the walls small droplets of water leaked forth, culminating just beside the sorcerer. After several minutes enough water was present, and he forged a chair of ice facing Terra. Sitting, he made himself comfortable. "Something will come to me."