ok, i'm posting the three latest storylines, with the people who stared colour coded for easy reading.
Yeah, this is mostly self praise i guess seeing as I star in all three, but as Shinigami does too i guess my ego won't be all that bad :D

Basically it explains some of the things in road trip, one of the things being why we went to hell.....which is always good to know.

The Unknown

Starring (By order of post)

Atlantis DuBois as Wonder Girl
Kye as Shinigami
Jake Fox as Batman

Damn this guy was tough.

She'd been on her way back from the Kent farm, an impromptu visit to a certain farm boy named Conner when she's spotted Ian Lewis. A mountain of a thug, responsible for the deaths of a few shady characters in Gateway city.
Although she knew this was the Bats territory she figured that insiders knowledge gave her a ticket in.
As she was slammed against the wall for the third time she really wished she'd taken SB's offer to 'walk' her home.

"Well this is amusing" was the sinister chuckle of a darkened figure upon the cliff top of Gotham city.
<That idiot girl...what was she thinking, taking on a man that size...I'm here to protect the innocent not save the mentally impaired!>
She rose stealthily from her crouched position...her waist length braid swirled about her, her opaque eyes flashed with malicious intent, her back arching in painful retort as wings of whitened pearl pulled her into the sky's embrace.
She swooped down low upon the fighting duo as the girl with golden locks was slammed for a third time into a decimated wall consumed with graffiti...
"You're soul is mine!> She shrieked.

It couldn't get any worse
Lewis had her pinned to the wall, her breath being crushed out of her, through her teared up eyes she saw an angel fly towards her.
"You're soul is mine!> the winged being shreeked.
"NO!!" Wondy pushed the thug away "Stay.......STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!"
It got worse.

She saw nothing but the victim...nothing but the blacken mass that was his soul thriving about his being...festering as he pressed in on the golden girl, crushing the life from her.
"MINE!!!" She shreeked again, she swooped low, grasping the man by his greasy locks, her elongated fingers scraping his skull as she ripped him backwards, only for him to be released as his hair was ripped from his scalp.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! My...my head!" He cried, his face contorted with pain.
She looked down at her right hand, marked with his blood, her pale flesh stained a wretched rouge.
She lifted her hands to her eyes, a sad smile playing on her lips..."Beautiful" she whispered, licking the bitter liquid from her fingers, ignoring the pained whimpers of her victim and the horrified gasp of the golden haired girl.
"To bleed is to know you are alive...I...want to...".
She shook her head, surged foreword and grabbed the thug by his throat, clasping him tightly.
Her gaze turned to the Golden girl, her eyes still a portrayal of grief.
"This won't be pretty...I suggest you leave, no-one should have to witness what it is I do." She whispered, her small smile directed at the girl.
She didn't wait for a response as she thrust her hands into the shivering man's chest and began to drink...

Cassie looked into the eyes of the man and saw his fear.
The blood that trickled down his face from his wound acted like his unshedable tears.
As the demonic angel drank her.....whatever.... Wonder Girl was paralysed with unspeakable fear.
Finally she turned away, grasping at the wall for support, eventually emptying her stomach twice before falling to her knees.

Batman, perched atop a rooftop, leapt off and soared down on a d-cell line, aiming his foot directly at the demon angel's head.
He connected with a crack and flipped off, landing in a crouch a few yards away.
"Wonder girl." He said without looking away from this new attacker. "Get out of here, I'll take this one from here. Get help."

Yes...the darkness...intoxicating...drink...drink...DRINK!!!
The sound of wretching brought her out of her drinking fest, her eyes came into focus and she turned to see the golden girl slumped upon the floor...throwing up.

That hurt...she couldn't explain why...seeing the girl crumpled by her actions...it brought home how different she was.

The man slumped out of her grasp, little more than a dried out corpse...void of life.

She stood for a long time...staring as the girl regained her composure, her trembling shoulders grew still and slowly she turned around...

They stared at each other for a long time...

A crack to the head...darkness span once more...she saw a figure with...horns...ears...the world swam...

"What.....What the hell did you do to him!!!"
Cassie was over the fear, she still loathed every thing she had been forced to see.
She ignored The Bat, proving she wasn't in the right frame of mind.
"WHAT ARE YOU!!"

Batman's hand slid into a pocket in his utility belt and unclipped two batarangs, unfolding them as the hand came up again.
"I don't know who you are, but you're in my city and in my city we play by my rules."
He looked at Wondy for a moment, then decided to ignore her for now.

Her head swam...the jumbled words of the two figures confused her.
She shook her head, attempting to clear her head!
<Damn fool!> She berated herself angrily...<You got struck down!>
<They know nothing...nothing! I'll stop them! I'll hurt them!> She smiled sickly. <The man...I sense the dark in him...the dark!> She licked her lips in anticipation, and with endless grace she sprung up and lunged at the caped figure!

Batman dodged to the side and slashed out, using the batarangs as a knife, with his other hand in one fluid movement, coming to a standing position behind her.
"Who are you?"

The creatures’ sudden movement jerked Cassie back into reality a little. She stood a little to Batman’s left, flanking him.

Not that he needed help or anything.....
He had the bat-a-rangs!!

"WONDERGIRL! Stay back! Get out of here and call for help, I can hold this thing off for a while."

She ignore the question...this man would not be alive long enough for it to matter.
She turned...her hand grasping hold of her extendable scythe, with one swift movement the green blaze of the thermal blade lit the entire area, momentarily blinding her latest victim...
She didn't hesitate, with the momentum of her wing she burst forward, her scythe coming down in an arch towards the masked man's head!

Batman ducked to the side, trying to parry the scythe with a batarang which shattered instead.
"WONDERGIRL! HELP! NOW!"
He charged forwards, under the scythe and hitting his attacker straight on with his shoulder, hoping it would do more damage than he expected.
His other batarang came up and slashed forwards.

Help?? He wanted her help??
Hell, she was so there. Wait till Robin heard about this!!.....If she was still alive of course.
"Get away from him!!" Wonder Girl flew forward, causing the scythe to miss her head by millimetres.
"Why are you doing this? What do you want!?"

Batman rolled his eyes beneath their opaque coverings.
He asked for help and got a teenage super heroine-wannabe...
Of course she had saved his life, but how long she could do that was questionable in this state.
He pulled back, praying the Kevlar padding in his gloves was still in tact, and punched the death angel as hard as he could, followed immediately by a second punch, his knuckles already ringing in pain.

Pain lanced through her chest...enough to startle, not immobilise!
They were good, better than expected as her scythe missed the girl's head by millimetres.
The second of the man's "toys" ripped into her flesh causing her to hiss in annoyance.
"Nice shot" she laughed pushing him back roughly, his back slammed into the wall, skimming passed the girl.
The angel followed, rising from the ground to come baring down on the girl, pinning her to the ground with bruising strength.
She looked upwards to the caped figure as he rose from his sunken position, his eyes gleaming menacingly.
She smiled, licking her lips. "We will continue this at a later date" Their eyes met. "Shinigami will come for you."
With that she jumped from the roof to fall into the all-consuming night with nothing but her laughs.

Cassie fell to her knees a second time, coughing as she felt her already bruising neck.
She looked over to the shadows, where Batman had last been.
"I'm . . . Sorry" She looked down. "I should have gone for help when you said"

"You should have, but you helped anyway."
Batman turned and glanced at Wonder girl, making sure she was all right.
He should say thanks, but that was a word Bruce Wayne said. Batman, even after having his life saved, didn't do thanks.
"Get back to the tower or follow."
He said, offering her the option at all was his version of thanks. It would normally be "Go."
Either way, he had already fired his grapnel and swung after Shinigami before he could hear Wondy's reply.
The girl was getting better, but she still wasn't acceptable in his eyes... But then, who was?

Hunger

Staring (by order of post)

Kye as Shinigami
Atlantis DuBois as Wonder Girl
Mark Cooper as Harm
Alan as Robin

White light...so bright...calling....
She woke up to the blazing glare of the florescent lights hung above her head, shining with uncontained brilliance of the white walls.
"What the..."she whispered her voice hoarse, her head felt fuzzy...confused and her throat parched, these discomforts were little compared to the raging hunger that consumed her.
Her hands flew to her chest as her breathing grew rapid, trying to still the pain...
<I can feel them...the doctors...outside...need to feed>
She shook her head frantically trying to still the thoughts.
Her heart leapt in fear at the sound of the door opening...

"Is this the room?..........Thank you doctor, and again, thanks for calling us." Cassandra Sandsmark walked into the room.
It was a typical patients room, plain, white, basic.......no soul to it.
She walked to the bed and looked at its inhabitant.
Did the Bat catch up with you?? or is there something more to this than our previous encounter?? She wondered.
She sat by the bed, flipping through the medical charts.

A flash of golden hair warned her of her unwanted visitor, in no fit condition to fight she feigned sleep, the bandages about her torso uncomfortable against her already healing wounds, the dead heal quickly...ironic that.
The girl spoke softly to the doctor out side and headed for the bed, sitting on the end flicking through the charts.
She sensed no evil attentions of the golden girl, this did little to elevate the hunger in her that grew with the golden girl's presence, for everyone is graced with a hint of darkness.
Her mouth began to salivate and her whole body tensed causing the sheets beneath the golden girl to move.

Looking at the girl she couldn't help wonder the background....that’s when she noticed the lack of pure white wings. Had the doctors cut them off!! No, that would be stupid, even for the DEO. maybe they only came out when needed?
Who knew. She added it to her list of questions.
The sudden movement caused Cassie to stand....... had the thing really moved?
She knew she should be careful around the thing that had ..... ripped the life outta someone and nearly killed her.... but still.
She foolishly moved in closer, checking for signs of consciousness.

The foolish child only stepped closer...why didn't she leave?!
The hunger...growing in intensity was now almost all consuming, feeding her frenzied thoughts, her fists curled closed as she fort for control.
<Feed...feed...FEED!>
The demonic creature's hand shot up, securing it's bony...elongated fingers about the girls neck, squeezing tightly as she dragged the golden girl onto the bed, flipping the two of them over so that she had the golden child pinned beneath her...

"HOLY HERA!!!" Cassie yelled even though she had been tensed for an attack.
She used the angelic creatures momentum to flip her attacker over her and off the bed.
Knowing she had seconds for her second move she used it to slam the demon against the wall, using both her strength and flight to her advantage.
"Now....Who are you? What do you want? What for the love of Gaia did you do to that guy?? AND WHY DO YOU KEEP ATTACKING ME!?!"

<The girl can yell> was one of the few thoughts that were clear amongst the kaleidoscope of pent up emotion raging within the girl.
She was pinned...truly and utterly pinned...this being beaten was becoming an annoying habit!
She didn't even have enough room to bring out her wings in the hope that it wound create a diversion.
Her ribs caused pain to lance up and down her sides and she couldn't keep the wince from her features.
<Okay...think of something...you need to get this girl away from you...having her soooo close. Gods I'm hungry...soo hungry...away...away...>

"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!" She screeched, thrashing in the girl's unbreakable grip.

"Get away from me and I'll tell you...just don't TOUCH me!!!!!!!"

Damn, Damn, Damn, If she kept hold of this psycho any longer her arms would get ripped off!
"Ok, calm down......CALM DOWN!!" Cassie shouted fo attention
"I'll let you go if you just talk to me"
Cassie let go and backed up a few paces.
"But you know i can have you sedated in mear seconds, so don't try anything.......got it."

<Damn! Sedated...that would not be good...not good at all!> She had to get out of there, but in her current condition this girl could take her out in an instant!
<DAMN!>
"Fine" was the barely audible whisper that escaped the parched lips of the wingless angel.
"My name...is Shinigami" She paused taking a deep breath to still her racing heart, a heart that had stopped beating many a year ago only to beat once more within her.
"As you may have guessed I am an angel...a fallen angel..." She stopped in mid sentence her black, dead eyes focussing on the girl, she smiled, "may I ask you your name?"

"Oh, um.......Ca......You can call me Wonder Girl, I guess" She replied unsure of the question. Another trick??
"So, Shinigami, Why are you here? In the hospital I mean? and what . . . . . . are you?"

"Wonder girl? Quite a big name for a little girl!" There was no sarcasm in her voice, just an eternal calm. "Gomen...for my rudeness..."
She sighed heavily then, watching the gold...Wonder girl’s reaction she headed for the bed, lying back to take some of the pressure off of her ribs.
"A fallen angel...yes...I believe that is what I have become...but how can you have fallen if you are the one who jumped?"
She smiled that sad, small smile once more, the only one ever to grace her features asides from her sinister smirk.
"Let me ask you something Wonder girl...what do you think happens when you did?"

"If you jumped.......from heaven??" Cassie took a step back.
What kind of person who’d do something like that? Why?
"I guess you'd fall.....into .......down" She pointed to the floor, meaning the 'other' place, where the bad guys go.

"I take it you mean hell?"
She didn't wait for a response..."yes hell, the devil's territory...only stayed for a short visit...just long enough to make a deal of sorts" She couldn't stop herself, laughter ruptured her sentence. "You could never understand...what it is to die! What it is to beg for your life...to be beaten down!"
Tears had long since alluded her so she merely thrashed her head in annoyance.
"Beaten...it lasted little more than an hour...pain like that...I had to make sure no-one else...suffered!"

Despite herself she moved forward, a curiosity had come over her.
"You've been to hell?" Cassie knew a few who already had, plus pacts with the devil always had some catch.
"What are the rules? Why are you allowed back? Why did you.....Jump?"

"Would you believe me if I told you I had heaven offered to me on a platter? Don't answer that...I wouldn't expect you to acknowledge a rhetorical question when it's presented to you!" She sighed heavily. "Yes heaven...how could I go to heaven...how could I rest after all that had happened? There were people who had to be protected...people who needed to be stopped...I stepped backwards...I fell...jumped into the darkness." she shivered at the memory.
"The light, gifted my before I rejected it...it granted me my wings, I was an angel who could do nothing but fall!" She laughed bitterly at the sweet irony of it all.
"The devil caught me, we made a compromise, he would let me return to earth, to protect the vulnerable, but in return I was to condemn the wicked...suck from them their blackened life essence...drink them dry until death claimed them and they were pulled screaming into the Devil's embrace."
She took a shuddering breath as her fists clasped the bed sheets tightly in a white knuckled grip.
"I yearn for their essence...I feed off it...you've already seen me do so...so...so hungry!"
She could resist no more...she lashed out grabbing hold of Wonder girl’s forearms and thrust her hand into her chest and began to feed!

She didn't even blink.
There wasn't time.
Time for thought, for defence, for a cry to escape her lips.
All there was a single second......of light, of peace, of warmth.
Then the icy bitterness of reality snuck in.
She was gonna die.
Painfully.
Alone.
........
"Wai........!"
........
It was over.
She was gone.

<Yes!> was all she could think as she cradled the girl her essence falling into her, alleviating the dry, course hunger that had consumed her.
But the beautiful darkness, the black oblivion of darkened soul gave way all to soon, before her hunger was eased, to a dazzling light, a beacon of good intentions fuelled by a loving heart.
<It burns!!!> She cried in pitiful anguish inside the crevices of her mind and still she could not stop the feeding, for it had already began...and soo she drank...drank ever deeper, crying all the time the wretched light coursed through her veins, filling her completely, as did wonder girl’s life...her memories...
"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" She screamed viciously jerking away, flinging herself back from wonder girl.
"No, no no no no nononononononononononnono" she chanted in a senseless manner, clasping her head as she sank to her knees, her mind a distorted jumble of fragment thoughts and half-formed memories.
Memories of the golden girl soaring boundlessly through the sky, breeching gravity's grasp...
Memories of the golden girl fighting against evil...making a difference...just as she had wanted to...
Memories of the golden girl surrounded by friends...by people she loved...they would grieve for her...they would be in pain...
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
The whitened essence still sparked within her, she had to return it to it's rightful host before it diminished into hell's pits...but she'd never returned essence before...she'd never given anything back...could she...could it be done...?
"Please...I'm begging you God...if you wanna do something right...if you wanna help me do something right...make...this...WORK!!!>
And as her voice rang throughout the hospital's vicinity, alerting the medical staff, as their hurried footsteps resounded in her ears she rest her forehead against the golden girls and concentrated...picturing the light, channelling it, forming it.
<Go back...go back...GO BACK!>
Blinding light flooded the room, dazzling the running medical staff, making them stop in their track...at first she feared that the light had been dispersed into the air...but...
No...she could see it, that whitened blaze fluttering about the girl's being...it had returned...returned home...
...still she did not breath...and the demonic angel could offer no breath...that was their job now...the doctors...
"Please...help her...she's not breathing!"
...she could do no more and with one last look she whispered "forgive me..." and she jumped from the hospital's 6th story window, her wings burst from her back and she fell once more.

The light had done what a small EMP blast would do, all medical equipment went off the chart.
The medical staff rushed past the door, if they'd only looked in they would have seen her.
Discarded on the cold floor, sprawled where she had fallen.
As Cassie lay there, alone.
Her wide blue eyes open yet seeing nothing.
No one came to help.
She was cold.

Harm appears out of the shadows, he sensed that one of the team was passing. He glared out the window seeing Shinigami flying away. "I'll get to you later" Harm said coldly. He then picked Wonder girl up as he started chanting, a black mist surrounding both of them.

Even as she fell she saw him, heard his chilling words and threatening promise.
She was happy that the golden girl was to be saved...that one of her "team" had come to save her, she was happy for them...and envious of them...
She fell with her wings spread wide hoping that she would never encounter the golden girl's sinister friend again for she feared the outcome of such an encounter...

A heartbeat.
Not strange in itself but the hearing of it, an awareness.
*GASP*
Cassandra Helen Sandsmark jerked into conscienceness, her eyes blinking and darting around, taking everything in.
So she was alive.
She was back.
Why? Why hadn't she fallen forever?
She looked up, into the face of near evil, his black eyes.
Will, Harm, had caught her.

Harm breathed a sigh of relief, as the mist disappeared. "Are you alright?" Harm said trying not to sound too concerned.

She was still breathless from the huge gulps of air she'd taken in her panic.
"Yeah, I'm....I think......It's just that she...." Cassie placed her hand on her stomach. "It hurt.....and I was afraid."

Harm looked at Cassie, he wasn't quite sure what to do so he hugged her. " Don't worry, it's gonna be ok. She won't get away for long. You should rest." His voice softened slightly.

Cassie smiled at him as he laid her on the bed.
"mmm, sleep is good" She mumbled
Reaching out she grabbed his hand.
"Will? Thank you so much.
You know, you’re not as evil as you try to be."
By the end of the sentence she was sleeping softly

Harm looked at her as she slept. "You're not as evil as you try to be" That's what she said, those words echoed in his head while he disappeared into the shadows, but was really still in the room. "These people are making me go soft, that might not be such a bad thing though." He thought as he continued to watch over Cassie and the window in case Shinigami came back.

<Okay...what is wrong with me?!>
The girls pulsating memories, emotions, filtering into the crevices of her already blemished mind.
The golden girl was all she could see...all she could feel...
She had to know...she had to know if she had made it...for the sake of her own sanity...
She spread her wings wide and soared into the sky, heading back to the Golden girl whom she had earlier fleed from.
She reached the window in record time and landed with an endless grace...peering in stealthily, she saw wonder girl asleep on the bed and her strange friend guarding over her.
<Damn! I can't get close enough to check on her...I can't just ask HIM...can I?>
She shook her head roughly, <the girl trust him...sees something in him...could he be trusted? Hell...if he try’s anything I can always suck his soul>
She smiled and licked her lips at the thought...she still hungered after returning the essence she had stolen, and this one...he has darkness in him...she could feel it...
...the hunger had grown once more and her mouth salivated...
...she entered through the window silently...
"Is she alive?"

Harm glares at Shinigami. "She's fine. I don't know who you are, or why you did what you did. But I can say that without a very good explanation, one of us is going to be in a lot of pain very soon." Harm says, his eyes turning black.

She smiled at his bravado act...a slight pull of her lips.
"I'm glad she is unharmed...tell her I apologise for any..." she paused as though to find an appropriate word, her hand gesturing carelessly as she did..."stress I may have placed her under...I'm sure she'll will understand."
She turned her back on the pair..."her condition was all I wanted to know...you will not encounter me again...I will keep my distance from her..."
She headed for the window...

An eyebeam from Harm hits one of Shinigami's wings. "If I see you again. Regardless of my rule, I'll kill you." He glances at Cassie. "I'm tempted to anyway."

Robin had arrived in the JLA teleporter, when he had heard the alarms in the Tower go off. Five seconds there and already something big was going to down. "All I wanted was to upgrade the computer mainframe, but no..."
"Computer: Location of Source!" Robin shouted.
"Med-Lab," replied the computer's electronic voice.
Racing down towards the Med-lab, Robin heard Harm talking to someone else. The doors to the med-lab open.
"What's going on?" he demanded.

She ignored the newcomer as pain lanced down the nerves of her wing as crimson blood mared the white feathers, staining her gift from heaven...tarnishing the goodness...
"You sooooooooooo should not have done that!" She hissed turning sharply her voice laced with bitter rage.
She grabbed her extenderable scythe and with a flick of her wrist the green thermal blade came to lime, it illuminate essence swamping the room.
"Prepare yourself...you're taking on Shinigami...your very own personal angel of death!"
She sprung at him then, scythe first...

"Can't talk now bird boy. Get Wonder girl out!" Harm dashes forward, sidestepping the scythe. "Forgive me for not being impressed with a murderer." Harm ignores the irony of this statement coming from him, and resumes to sidekick Shinigami.

Robin reached up and holding his grapple gun, fired a line that tied around the mystery woman and her wings. This would keep her from getting away or in his path of escape. He knew not to get in-between Harm and his prey, but that never stopped him in the past.
"Don't kill her," he told Harm. "I'm going to want some answers..."
He scooped up Wonder Girl in his arm, concerned as to what happened to her. "Come on Cassie," Robin said to her lifting her out of the room.

"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" she screamed in frustration as she tugged against her bounds.
<No...had to get away...had to get away...can't remain caught...can't be helpless...not again.>
She let out a strangled cry as she continued to fight but to no avail

Robin lay Wonder Girl on a bench in the hallway and knelt besides her. "Cassie, can you hear me?" he asked softly, touching her cheek gently.

Harm glared at Shinigami bound up. He totally ignored Robin's orders, but there was no point in fighting her tied up. He shot the ropes breaking them. He wanted to make her pay. As soon as she was free, he charged at her again kneeing her in the stomach.

The sickening thud of harm's knee striking her mid section was all to audible accompanied by her hollow wretching
<Next time I am sooooooo not trusting Wonder girl’s memories!>
She shook her head refusing to just lay and be beaten...
<I've been beaten too many time...people like him...people who don't care...beaten! NO!>
"NO!" She screamed her wings pulling her from the ground. "Never again! Never again!" She chanted, grabbing her discarded scythe and swinging for Harm's head...

Harm ducked, barely getting out of the way in time. Some of his hair hit the floor, symbolizing how close he was to getting decapitated. Even in Harm's fury, he was getting a weird sense that she was actually fighting in self-defence, but he discarded this thought. He went for another a punch.

<Damn! So close!>
He was good, better then she had expected, his technique was smooth yet brutal.
<No more pain...stop the pain...> her thoughts were jumbled and she shook her head...
...she span to the side, barely avoiding the punch the Harm had almost nailed her with.
A sinister chuckle enveloped her features...
<That's it...keep fighting...keep coming...show me your blacked heart...let me feast...>
"Your soul is mine!" She hissed as she lunged forward thrusting her spread palm into his chest...

Harm's eyes go wide as he realizes this move is probably what she was waiting for. He reaches down to summon as much demonic energy as he as time for as he barely dodges her hand and jumps back to regroup. "Not quite sure you could take my soul, anyway, it's not really mine to give. Deals with demons after death sorta thing." He then summons his sword, pointing it towards her.

"Great...fan bloody tastic! I get stuck fighting the only guy who seems to be resilient against the whole soul-sucking thing! What are the odds?" Yet she found no humour in her words as she stared down the sword at the demon that wielded it.
<Great! I think he seriously want's to kill me...>
"Well it won't have been the first time..." she cast her gaze upon him with growing interest, "isn't this fun, you make pacts with demons, me with the Devil, what a pair we make...
<Keep talking...try and put him off...>
"So what's a little demon like you protecting lowly humans like them? You are no different from me...murderer!" She cackled, still ever weary of Harm's sword. "At least those that I murder rise again...like Wonder girl, what about you Harm...what of your victims?"
She span a roundhouse kick aimed at Harm's wrist with the intent of dislodging his sword!

Harms sword goes flying across the room, but along with the blow, his eyes turn red. He brings up his other hand to Shinigami's neck, glowing with energy, primed for a blast. "My victims....stay dead....with the exception of one." He pulled his hand away, keeping his eye on her.
He willingly chose to have the demons sponsor his powers while he was still alive and forced to keep it after dead, but it was his fault in the first place. He wasn't sure what her situation was, but he felt almost sympathetic. But he still didn't trust her. "So tell me, is there any reason I shouldn't kill you right here?"

She stood there panting, her hand unconsciously going to her neck which had been clasped in a death grip but seconds before.
She cast her gaze over him, confusion clear on her face...
<His victims stay dead...he want's me dead, but he's giving me a way out...>
"There is no real reason..." she whispered, casting her eyes downwards and away from his face. "You wouldn't believe what I had to go through to end up here!" Her eyes snapped upwards and focused on his face, rage fuelling her words...
"I rejected heaven! I refused the light of the divine and retreated to the shadows so I could come back." She turned from him then, <what is it with me? This is the second time today I've told this story...>
"A long time ago I was human..." she shivered at the memory, the memory of being alive, of living, Harm faded into the background as the memories came back all too vividly, her imagination recalling the scene all to well.
"You wouldn't have thought it could happen, not during the day, not on that majestic day, I'd never seen the sky look so warm, it was red with the sunset, almost like blood..."
She was shaking now, her wings wrapped round herself tightly, ignoring the blood that still seeped from her wounded wing.
"Blood ran that day..." she tried to laugh but it was a hollow sound that did little to rupture the room's silence. "My blood...they beat me until I begged for my own death, believe me I begged, then they killed me."
She turned to him then, staring him in the eye, "I couldn't rest...not after that! I rejected heaven so I could comeback, to make sure no-one else suffered, to suck the souls of the condemned..."
She rushed foreword then, grabbing hold of one of Harm's hands, her eyes pleading, all of a sudden she needed someone to understand.
"I didn't mean to hurt her...I was just soo hungry, I'm still..."
She lowered her head in shame.

Harm sighs. "I understand...you just need to be more careful...I might not be able to let you go next time. Not everyone accepts killing as a solution either, even if it is for your survival. I've had to make some sacrifices as well."
His confession confused her, but she wasn't about to pry any further, he was giving her the opportunity to run...and perhaps running was the solution...
It made her sad to an extent...she'd found some people who seemed capable of understanding, even if they didn't wish to.
She turned and walked to the open window and without turning around, "thank you...please...take care of yourselves."
She jumped from the window and fell into the night.
<Perhaps our paths will cross again.>

Harm looked out the window after her. "If you ever need any help you know where to find me." He then turns and goes to find Robin and Wonder girl.

Robin looked up from the sleeping Wonder Girl and towards Harm. Cassie was still out like a light, but she was breathing. It was something at least.
"She's gone, isn't she." It wasn't so much a question as a statement.

"Yeah, believe it or not, I honestly don't think that she meant to hurt her. I don't think we'll have any problems with her from now on." He said looking down at Cassie. He purposely left out that he let her go.

Robin eyed Harm suspiciously. He knew that William was holding something back, but didn't press it. He still wasn't fond of the former villain, but he did trust him. To an extent.
Besides, everyone had their secrets...
Lifting Wonder Girl into his arms again, he returned to the Med-lab. Looking around the room, Robin gave a slight sigh as room looked slight trashed. "You two really did a number on this place," he said off-handedly.
"So, do you want to tell me exactly what happened here?"

"Well, to make a long story short. Shinigami's a fallen angel, almost a vampire of sorts. She...attacked Wonder girl previously because, well, she got really hungry, I got to her just in time." He would gain nothing by telling Robin that she actually killed Wonder girl. He wanted to give Shinigami time to sort things out.

Redemption

Staring (by order of post)

Atlantis DuBois as Wonder Girl
Kye as Shinigami / The Devil
Rachael Simms as Falcon
Alan as Robin
Mark Cooper as Harm
The Chris as Superboy


Cassie was taking a small time out from the chaos of the tower.
She sat by the fountain, remembering how close she'd come to death.
She'd felt awkward after the incident. Stupid and foolish that she'd let her guard down.
Least it was all over now, except for the feelings that couldn't be explained...........
Like the one now.....
Coldness crept upon her.
Cassie screamed and leapt to her feet as the ground before her cracked and splintered.
Fire and the smell of sulphur flared up and the heat drove her back.

The sound of a surprised scream was the first thing to greet Shinigami as she returned to earth dowsed in blackened flames.
She rose out of the ground, it cracked and splintered before her outstretched hand to allow her through.
The sickening smell of charcoaled flesh roasted in hell's flames slowly faded, as the blooming buds of a rich garden enlighten her senses.
Wing a final flap of her wings she broke through the earth's crust and embraced the sky. Her heart singing to be released.
Turning in the sky she made a swift movement with her hands, causing the earth to shake as it slowly sealed the horrendous wound she had created.
She landed graceful, her knees bending slightly to absorb the shock of the landing. Her gaze scanned the ruffled complexion of the ground, forever now scarred. She place a shameful hand on its rough service, wishing she could smooth it out.
She stood abruptly and turned, her chestnut braid swirling around her with the movement, her eyes came to rest on the wonder girl.

"Hello Cassandra".

"No!! You stay back!!" Cassie wailed, she no longer trusted the fallen angel, Even after what her 'Hero' had told her.
"What do you want? To steal my life again!!?"

Shinigami smiled at Wonder girl’s words.
"You have a right to feel...anxious...and you should be...you are partially right!"
<Damn you Satan...damn you for making me do this!>
"You have a choice to make...or rather I do...but I felt that you should at least be enlightened on the situation!"
She held her breath, trying to read Cassie's emotions...
"I...Satan is unhappy about the little...incident that we were involved in...unhappy that he was..."cheated" out of a soul"...he wants to be compensated. He wants that soul back...your soul or a very dark soul in exchange!"
She walked forward, her onyx eyes flashing dangerously.

"There is a choice to be made...your soul or Harm's!"

"And who gets to make this choice!! Huh?" Cassie faced up to Shinigami. "Why does it have to be either of us?"
Wonder Girl thought of her team mate, her friend as far as he'd allowed.
"No!! You stay the hell away from him!! From all of us!!


"I don't think so." Falcon, who had been relaxing in the garden, had overheard the entire thing.
"Leave her alone." She said as she catapulted in front of Wondy.
As much as intimidated she was by the dark angel, she knew that it couldn't harm her. She was....protected.
The silver cross choker on her neck shone out against the flames

Shinigami smiled tightly at the newcomer. "This is of no concern of yours...I suggest you leave!"
Black flames sprang to life about her, a depiction of her wearing emotions.
"You are all so foolish...a soul is required...I made a mistake in letting her" she pointed a spiny finger at wonder girl " live! In returning your soul!" She stalked forward stopping but a foot away from them both.
"You golden child have cost me dearly!!! Satan does not like to be defied, "HE" has threatened to take from me my powers, take me from earth...I have forfeited too much to be here to allow that to happen! I wish to fight with no-one, merely to claim what is needed!"
She stared at them both, her teeth gritted and her body tense..."I will have a soul! Either yours or his...choose!"

Cassie looked beyond falcon, into the black eyed angels face.
She was still though her mind was racing.
In the end she smiled and said simply.
"What choice is there to make? I won't let you take Will's life"

"My soul is yours."

Falcon narrowed her eyes. She stared straight into the eyes of this....demon. "Sounds like lucifer is a sore loser. Go back. Tell him that Wondergirl AND Harm are protected....by a child of God. Washed clean by the blood of his son." She stared into those wicked eyes defiantly with sureness. "And he has no rule here because of that."
Plus, she knew that if push came to shove. A phone call to Oracle would have Supergirl and all the other earth-born and fallen angels and ,if needed, Spectra(The wrath of God) there in a heart beat.

"Cass!" Rachael made the mistake of turning to her friend. "NO! If you think I'm going to stand here and let that happen, you got another thing coming. You OR Will ain't going nowhere."

"OOOOOOkkkkkkkayyyyyyy" Shinigami couldn't help but smirk at the child's words.
"you truly expect me to turn around, delve back into hell and tell Lucifer, my so called "boss" to naff off!? I am here for a soul and I shall have one regardless of you so called protection!"
She ran forward with the intent of removing this interfering individual. "I will not forsake my powers!!!"

A sudden, sharp headache came over Rachael and she fell to her knees on the ground in pain as a light enveloped her and Wondy both. "ARGH!"

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF HOLY HERA IS GOING ON!!!"
Cassie yelled

A blaze of white light...
"What in the world?" Shinigami gasped.
<HOLY HERA!!!> Those words, the amazons...what was going on?

"I--I don't know! I thought this body would be a good host but--its unstable, almost as if its not from THIS dimension." Said someone through Rachael as the pupils were gone from her eyes and she slowly, and painfully, stood back up.
It looked like, whatever it was, had gained control for the time being and she help out her right hand in a stopping motion at Shinigami. "I command you to leave minion of Satan. Depart from this sanctity." Said the glowing individual.

"Falcon??" Cassie stood her ground, facing the devine and the demonic.
"Whats going on?"

Shingami flew backwards, away from the blinding light, from the voice.
She was shaking from head to toe, her black aura diminishing as much as her composure.
She shook her head and gritted her teeth, she would not be shaken from her goal, Cassandra has consented...it must be done.
"Who are you to command me?!" She screamed in anger. "And I am not such a lowly servant!" She added.

"Do you truely think that Satan will keep you around after he gets what he wants? You should know he has no conscience."" Falcon said, only, not in Falcons voice. "And I am one who was sent here to drive you back where you come from. I am an Amonlee(From one of the Supergirl graphic novels...can't remember which one.) I am apart of the Light. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend it." She took a step forward towards Shinigami. " Now away with you. I command you in the name of the Father to LEAVE!!" Another strong blast of white light bursted out

"No.
Amunlee.
Your wrong, you have no jurisdiction here, I am governed by my Gods and my Goddess' alone and only by them.
You cannot save me, and i'm sure Harm will be repelled by your light as Shinigami is.
If you manage to drive her away she will take Harm from us......"Cassie turned away. "And i couldn't live with that."

Shinigami screamed and flew away from the light, seeking shelter in the sky.
<Damn...another complication, as though her own conscience hadn't been enough to deal with.>
If she didn’t claim a soul then she would loose her powers and be condemned herself...she had to do this.
Wonder girl’s words rang true...and with them a possibility.
"WAIT" Shinigami cried.
She landed on the ground and faced the two of them, Wonder Girl and the being locked within Falcon.

"What is it Shinigami?" the amenlee looked crossly at the Fallen angel and she lowered her hand, still covered in light.

"Wait!" Shingami asked again, her voice calm. She paced forward, cautiously approaching Falcon and wondergirl.
"I warn you now!" She hissed, her voice venom induced. "Wondergirl's soul shall fall into Hell's pits, but as to whether or not it stays there is yet to be seen...is you will allow me" she eyed the being, "I will explain to you what I mean..."
She waited with baited breath for Falcon's reply, her body tensed and her aura festering wildly...

"Go on." The amenlee said, eyeing the creature with suspiscion.

Shinigami hid her relief and began to explain...
"You may or maynot realise but I have made a pct with Lucifer, I will devour blackened souls for him in return for a place on earth to defend the innocent...I crave black essence and during a period of hunger I accidently claim wondergirl's soul...."
She hung her head in shame.
"I returned her soul and as you can see she lives...but Satan disliked being deprived of a soul, especially one so pure...he demands that it be returned...I must comply or forfeit my powers and life...Wondergirl knows what I went through to be here, that will not happen."
She gazes at Wondergirl.
"You are protected by the Amazons, this may be what will save us both!" Her voice rose with excitment. "If I take you with me...I will have fulfilled my end and be saved, but Lucifer will have a very hard time keeping your soul, the amazon gods will rage war on him...he will most probably have to release you!"
She waited for their replies.

Cassie thought about the circumstances.
"I'll do it. "
She looked at Falcon.
"You don't have to come with me thought. Trust me, if the Gods are gonna be mad by this you'd want to be well clear."
Cassie wondered why she wasn't more afraid.
Possibly because she'd had her soul ripped out of her breathing body once before.
Or because she held a part of Shinigamis' soul in hers and knew the trust could be kept.

Robin hadn't seen Wonder Girl since the incident in the Med-lab. He had given her the time she need to recuperate while he went to finish the up-dates in the Titan's central computer. Now that he was finished, he decided to check up on Cassandra.
He walked out to Kory's alien garden where he could hear voices. Once sounded like Cassandra's the other sounded like Rachel's. But the third voice... it was familar but he couldn't place it.
He passed from behind a hedge and froze. It was the psycho who had attacked Wonder Girl and Harm earlier!
"Falcon Wonder Girl! Get away from her!" he shouted, snapping a batarang ready.

The amenlee held out a hand to motion Robin to stop and looked at Shinigami for a long period. Trying to decide whether or not to trust the other fallen angel, sending a prayer up to Him for wisdom.
She could almost feel for the fallen angel. But, sadly, the angels that had not yet fallen were not allowed the privlage of feelings. So her judgement was completely unbiased.
"Very well. But if the amazonians pure soul is in anyway damaged, BOTH of us will be in big trouble." She said, allowing the light to subside. And if she, Kironius, were to in anyway fail, she would fall from grace. And she didn't know what sort of consequences that would have for her current host, espicial considering how unstable she was.
Her eyes were still glowing and pupiless as she stepped aside, allowing the young girl to go with Shinigami if she pleased.

"You will regret that child!!!" She scream intended on lunging for him.
She stopped herself though, <I'm meant to be working with these...people, best not to harm one of them, and as much as Ihate to admit it, he may be of use.>
"Would one of you care to enlighten this kisama that I am not here to fight!!"

Cassandra held up a hand to Robin and smiled.
"Its ok, i know what i have to do. This will make everything alright again.
Trust me."
She walked beyond Kironius and faced her death, as before.
"Take me to hell" She said as the tears rolled down her face.

An eye beam shot past Shinigami, barely missing her, and there stood Harm silently saying nothing but just glaring angrily.

"Okay halt!!!! Will you people stop attacking me!!! You want answers!!!!!!!!! BE PATIENT!!!!"
She waited for their patience

"Calm. Down." Robin growled at the girl. "Now what are you people talking about?" demanded Robin. He gave the winged girl the full use of 'THE LOOK.' Falcon had yet to say anything and Wonder Girl had yet to explain things to him.

"You know what happens when I attack, I was simply...getting your attention." Harm said darkly.

Kironius watched on solemnly and, for a brief moment. Wished she was human, just so she could know what it was like to feel.
She knew it was going to hurt for the Amazon, she would go through unbearable pain, but hopefully it wouldn’t be for an eternity. "You are a noble Child. Do not worry, for it will not be forever. Keep that in mind."
She then turned to the rest. They could then see her glowing whitish light eyes and her aura once again glowed as well. "It is her choice to make. Let the girl go. Cassandra of the Amazons WILL be returned. That I promise. My God, as well as the gods of the Amazonians will see to that."

Wiping the tears from her eyes Cassie turned.
"I have to do this. If not she'll........" A brief look towards Will.
"And i can't live with that. I wont!"

Hello Harm...you seem intent on damaging my wings...attempt it again and you will regret it reguardless of our previous encounter." She smiled a sad smile at him.
"I need a soul, either yours or Wonder girl’s...she has made a choice...hers." She laughed harshly.
"There is but one chance to save me and her both, for if I don't return with a soul I will loose my powers and life...that will not happen!"
She sighed heavily.
"Wonder girl is protected by the amazons, if she comes with me then i will be saved and Lucifer will have a hard time holding on to her soul for the Amazon gods will be displease...wonder girl has consented...Deal with it!" She finished harshly.

Harm's face seemed expressionless. "If I was aiming for you, you would have been hit. Personally I would have preferred if you took my soul, but I guess I have no choice but to go with Wonder girls decision. And I know this isn't your fault, but it still doesn't sit well with me. She better return." Harm said as he backs off.

"That is ENOUGH Shingami. Take the girl and go. Before I change my mind and you get neither. If I had my way, the girl wouldn't be going in the first place." Independent thought. She shot Shinigami 'the look.'

"I'm sorry" Cassie looked at her friends "I thought this was the right thing to do."

"Hold on!!!!" Robin growled loudly. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but how can we even trust you?" He glared at Shingami. "How can we be sure that what you're telling us is the truth? I'm not going to let Wonder Girl go to hell, on your word alone."

"Because you have too, I'm taking wonder girl if you like it or not but...I know it is not my place...but...all of you...your help could be valuable!"
She looked at them imploringly..."It may be difficult returning, ..all of yours...the more people there are to help wonder girl...the more likely she is to return!"
She shook her head..."it is your choice of course but you are...welcome...to come! If you wish to keep an eye on me!"

"You have my word." The amonlee said. "And if you doubt it, call in the one called Supergirl and she will vouch for me."

"Fine," Robin growled. "But if anything happens to her, (AND I MEAN ANYTHING) I will hold you personally responsible." Tim got an inch from Shingami face with full use of the 'LOOK'.
"Got it?"

That was all Harm needed to hear. "I'm coming."

Cassie smiled, they would help her save her soul.
But would it be enough?

"I can't." The young amonlee said,with no sense of emotion. "As an angel, I can't go to hell unless I were to fall.

My.....host, could. But...." She closed her eyes for a minute. "I can't unbond with her for some reason. It's almost as if she's no longer here......" The Amonlee said, indicating Falcon. "She might die if I go, so I will stay here." She took a step back from everyone else.

Wonder Girl took the outreached hand and turned to face to other two, holding out her own hand.
"Amonlee? Falcon? whats wrong?"

Harm takes Shinigami's hand. "Here we go again."

"No....her body is unstable for some reason. As if there are two of her here. I'm....trapped." She looked over to wondergirl. "Is you friend from another realm or demension or something?"

She held tightly onto Wondergirl's hand, sparks flying up her arm as she felt the little bit of her aura implanted in Wondergirl.
Harm's hand was cold to the touch but she clasped it tightly too, her heart thumping loudly and the blood pounded in her ears. <Please...let me be strong enough...let us make it through!> She prayed silently, beeseaching all good entities for their support.
Her eyes fell of Falcon with concern, she sincerely hoped that the angel was okay...it would be an injustice for harm to fall upon her.

"Er, yes. yes she is" She replied
Reaching out she grabbed Robins hand in hers.
As she felt Shinigamis hand hold hers tighter she whispered to herself the plea Donna had told her
Enim absit voveo custodio immo acatque recidivus immo salvus
*'May the Gods watch over us and return us safely' if you can't be bothered to look that one up *
She still hated latin though.

Harm was quiet, and was slightly afraid, not because of his welfare, but for Cassie's. But at least he'd be there, but with his connection to evil, he wondered if he'd be more of a trouble than a help.


"I see....then I send you with my prayers for your protection." She turned to Shinigami and nodded solmenly. It was time for them to take their leave. She would be fine until she could find a way to unbond.
She might have been an amature-- this was her first case-- but she could be very resourceful.

Although she was trying to be brave Cassie still shook, looking across at Harm and Robin she was reassured by their resolve.

Harm takes Robin's hand, completing the circle. He nodded to Falcon, as he began to concentrate on the trip.

Shingami acknowledged to angel's acceptance.
Closing her eyes tightly she began to chant...her voice a blurred hymonic song, her black aura festered and encircled the four, engulfing them fully.
She felt the black electricity flowing through her veins, out of her and into the other three, feeding into them...filling them...
<Please...by whatever means...let them survive!>
She grasped their hands more tightly...her knuckles growing white with the effort.
She attempted to shield them from the pain...but even she wasn't that strong...

The black electricity shot through her like a knife cutting deeply into every part of her. She would have screamed out if she thought she could.

She felt wondergirl's and robin's discomfort all too clearly, She sent out more of her power to shield them.
<Just a little longer, just a little longer> she chanted in her mind.
The putrid stench rose to meet her senses and she opened her eyes...
...they had arrived...

Harm stood quietly. The pain was nothing new, he felt it before, countless times, and yet it didn't take away from it. All it did was let him know what to expect. He felt himself getting darker as he felt surrounded by so many evil souls. He had a sudden urge to become completely evil again, but he fought it, he couldn't give in to it. He opened his eyes looking at Robin and Cassie, he couldn't let them down.

Robin clenched his teeth and tried to brace himself through the discomfort.
He didn't like this one bit. Wonder Girl's soul was in the balance and he was having to put his trust into someone who had tried to kill Wonder Girl and Harm. And something was very wrong with Falcon. She hadn't even met his eyes since he arrived. As far as he could tell something was inhabiting and controlling her body. He worried over the fact she hadn’t come with them.
"I'm going to live to regret this..." he thought darkly.

<I have returned once again...> she breathed in deeply and relished the blackened essence that consumed the vicinity...the essence that she longed for and she drank deeply for a few seconds...ignoring those who she still hung onto...
<Delicious> she thought...and it both sickened and delighted her.
<Harm...I can sense you SO clearly here...I hope it wasn't a mistake you coming.> Her eyes wondered over him...

Robin glared about. He felt a perverted feeling run through his body. This felt exactly like the Abyss that was inside his former teammate Secret.
He looked at the others. "What now?"

"We talk to the guy in charge." Harm said coldly. He'd always been dark, but to look at him, you'd never know he was a good guy.

"I guess we get this thing started, and let Shinigami introduce us to her boss" Cassie felt more than ill. She loathed every inch of this place, the sights, the sounds, even the smell. Especially the smell.
Plus Harm seemed more....distant. Like he was home.

Shinigami turned to look at Robin and couldn't help but laugh at the simplicity of his statement! At all of their comments.
"Now...we meet our host...prepare yourselves...he will take any chance he gets to devour your souls!"
Her eyes ran over Robin and watched his dancing aura, a plae blue hue encircled him and shone in contrast to the stark surroundings.
<Yes he shall have to be careful>
"Follow me, and stay close!" She headed to the right...not waiting to see if they complied...

Harm walked right next to Shinigami, as if he also knew the way.

Robin glared at Shinigami and Harm. In this place neither of them could be trusted. If it came down to it, he might be the only one to fight for Wonder Girl's soul. And even he could feel the evil of this place clawing at his own soul and being.
"Fine." His cape fell completely over his body, masking him deeper into the shadows. He turned on his star-light lenses in his mask allowing him to see everything about the area properly.
He had been to hell before. At least several of the thousand hell dimensions in the universe. And it never got easier. It was like when he had been on Apokolipse during the War. Evil radiated this place and he felt as if he could drown in it.
His movements were silent and if not for the glowing green lenses in his mask, he's be practically invisible in the deep shadows.
His hand fingered his bo-staff ready for anything, but not sure if he'd be able to fight what ever lived down here.

BACK AT THE TOWER
"Rachael, I'm going to try and allow you back in control of your body and I'll rest.... but I need you to concentrate." She told the girl who was deep in the void of unconcsiouness. "This will hurt us both."
Kironeus grabbed onto a nearby tree for suport and then closed her eyes and knitted her brow together. Trying her best this time to unbond them.

And a sharp jagged pain like a knife through her heart hit her and both she and Falcon screamed out in pain as a glow of light surrounded them.
The light demenished and she huanched over as she heaved for breath. "It....it didn't work." Kironius stated....just before she blacked out and fell to the ground.

She smiled at harm's willingness, although he seemed a little too eager.
She concentrated hard, conjurgating her thoughts to contact the devil.
<Lucifer?> She question timidly, unable to keep the fear from leeching into her mind. <I have bought what you asked for...I have a soul...>

<It seems you have bought more then one!> Lucifer commented off handedly in her mind, his dark tndrils eveloping her mind. <Wonderful...you have truly out done yourself...> his delight rang throughout the crevices of her mind. <Well...it would be impolite not to address them...>
Lucifer's sisnister cackeling materialised about them and his voice rang true...
"...Welcome...to hell..."

Cassie fell in line with the other three. As she followed them she could feel things moving in the shadows, whispered voices and watchful eyes.
She wasn't sure if she was the first to see the throne,
Or to see the tall human upon the pile of bones.
But she was the first to throw up.

Robin stopped in his tracks, trying to control the fear that suddenly ran though his body. This was evil. In the truest sense of the word. Even the God Darksied wasn't like this..
It was the Devil himself.
Or at least another demon claiming to be him. God knows there were enough of those out there...
He took a mental breath and remember Batman's words. "You may be afraid, but you can't let that fear hinder you. Use it to your advantage. Draw strength from your fear."
"Thanks for the welcome," he said, trying to keep his voice strong and even. He could honestly admit he never thought he'd one day face Lucifer. "but we aren't going to be staying long."

Harm resisted the urge to bow. "Hello again" He said not making eye contact with the Devil.

Lucifer observed the wretching human with open amusement, his beautifully carfted features twitched with a smirk.
His yellow eyes fell upon Robin, and his face blossomed into a full sneer..."You dare address me in such a fashion in my own kingdom!" He couldn't contain his laughter and it ruptured the air.
He took in the beautiful blue hue encasing Robin's form and licked his lips...
Harm's words caused him to divert his gaze..."well hello...shinigami, you have brought them both...you have truly outdone yourself!"

Suddenly she just wanted to run.
Be as far from this place as possible.
She looked into the devils cruel cold eyes and saw nothing there, no redeeming quality at all.
He was pure evil.
And he liked it.

"Robin, just a word of advice, he's the real deal. Not a good idea to tick off the mast-....him." He said almost not correcting himself

"Well, I do have a gesture for you..." Robin thought with a smirk of his own.
He didn't like the way Satan was looking at him. Like he was a piece of cake at an 'all you can eat buffet.' His glowing green eyes glared at the master of Hell, and again he did his best to hide the almost over-powering fear that gripped his heart.
He heard Harm's words, but he wasn't going to back down. He was here for something more important than himself. He was here for his friends. And if Satan had a problem with that, he could stick it where the sun don't shine.

Cassie shot a look at Harm.
This place was changing him, she knew it.
He was always fighting against the evil inside but what if here it was too strong? or that he willingly embraced it once more?
What would that feel like? Knowing she'd lead him back to evil.

Satan did not miss Harm's little slip up, neither did Shinigami.
"Harm!" She whispered harshly. "Don't loose your resolve..."

"Silence!!!!" Lucifer bellowed and Shinigami could do nothing but comply.
"Hello Harm...I would say it was a pleasure, but you seem to have been having a crisis in character of late!" He smiled at him and moved forward, his face but an inch from Harm's, his ice cold breath filtering onto Harm's face.
"Nice to see you back where you belong, are you here to stay or will it be one of the others whose company I shall enjoy for eternity?" He asked his eyes trailing over Wonder girl and Robin.

"It.........Its my soul you asked for!!" Cassie spoke up, remembering why they were there.
"Leave him alone!"

BACK AT THE TOWER

"W-where am I?" Rachael looked around the Dark place, lit only what looked to be like....stars.
"The conscience plane. It's the only place I could take us." Rachael whipped around to see a girl, just her own age, with long raven black hair and clear blue eyes, in a long tattered and ragged white robe and greyish white wings and she seemed to just gleam with pure light. Keronius.
"Am I....Am I dead? What happened? I remember a scream back in the garden and then I remember light and...and a feeling like someone was....was speaking through me to some kinda dark angel and....and...Oh dear Lord I'm dead." She sat down on the ground.
She wasn't scared of death....but that was it?
Kironius gave a small smile. "No....You're not dead...not yet." She continued on. "Your friend Wonder girl was in danger, so I took control of your body so I could make my presence known..."
"Is she alright?" achael looked up in concern.
"Yes....and no." The amenlee went on to explain. " Her....and some of your friends are in Hell pleading her case to live."
"WHAT!?!" Rachael stood up suddenly, wild-eyed and stared at the angel. "I have to help them. How do we get out of here."
"We cannot. If I were to travel into Hell.......it's the only place I am not allowed to go. Not when I have a host. Especially when it's body is partially unstable for the conditions."
"What are you saying?" She gave the angel 'the look' to know effect.
"It's the only place that can cause an amonlee pain....to go there would probably kill you."
"Will they be alright?"
"I'm not sure. I'm not omniscient you know."
"Then I don't care if it kills me. Im not about to just stand here and let THEM die." Rachael said stubbornly. "Take us there. Now. There has to be some way."
"There is but....."
"But what?"
"I can't take the body of your there since it would destroy us both. I could take your spirit and soul as long as I'M there ot guard it, but that would leave your body for the taking and leave you in a coma and make me fall and kill me as well if something goes wrong, meaning I wouldn't be able to get you back to your body. I can't do it."
"You HAVE to. I'll sacrifice my body if I have to, I'm not about to let Wondy or ANY of my friends fight alone." She yelled at the angel.
The amonlee sighed. "Very well. You might want to take hold of my hand then" she held a hand out to Rachael and she cautiously took it.
A pure white aura surrounded them both....and Rachael felt as the floor of the astral plane gave out and they fell. All the way to hell.
And Rachael began to know what REAL pain felt like.

Harm eyes went wide as Satan got close to him. For once he was actually speachless.

Lucifer loved Harm's uneasiness, loved the feel of his black soul, just as he felt Shingami's...if he could have it they would both remain in hell with him...
<I won't let them go...since when did the Devil play by the rules?>
The girl's voice broke through his thoughts and he whirled to meet her gaze...
"You..." he took her in, her sparkling green aura that shook with her fear, "yes" he hissed luciously...he stepped forward and grasped her chin hin his hand tilting her head upwards to meet his gaze.
"You will do very nicely..." his voice dripped with hunger..."very nicely"

Robin placed a hand on Cassie's shoulder. "We're in this together. Remeber that," he told her in a whisper. He stood in between her and the evil one and looked at the Devil and with the strongest scowl he could muster.
"What makes you think we're here for a permenant visit?"

Watching Satan look at Cassie snapped him out of it. "Hey! We actually came here to make a deal! You're not taking her!" Immediately he felt the fear. He just yelled at Satan. He slightly backed up.

Cassie tried to pull out of his grasp, his hand was too close to her neck, her supply of oxygen, for comfort. But he was too strong.
"You don't get to keep me! No matter what!"

Lucifer was upon him instantly, backhanding him full force, his hand encased in opaque aura.
..."I am disappointed Harm...you are becoming weak...these" he gestured to the rest of the group. "Are having an affect on you...just as they have done on to Shinigami, but she has not fully altered and neither will you...you both crave the darkness!"
His gaze was once again on Harm. "Don't you...why don't you tell them? Tell them how you yearn?"

"Why don't we skip this Darth Vader crap," Robin interrupted. "We've come to make a deal, and I KNOW how the devil loves a bit of gambling..."
He met with Satan's glare and for an instant it appeared that his shadow changed to that of a bat's. "Are you afraid to hear what we have to say?"

~As all of the titans stood in front of the devil himself a bright light exploded in front of them dumping a body.
"All right!!! What the nuck is happening here!?" Shouted Kon angrily.
"I walked up to Rach, and she shoots me with Light, now am here in this stick hole!!!!"
He looks around.
"My god, someone open a window please." looking at Satan.
"Hey man, get some air fresheners, coz your crib is funcky and stuff! Where the hell are we anyway?"

Robin looked at Superboy with a death glare. Sometimes that kid just didn't have a sense of tact or timing...
"You just answered you own question there, kid," he growled in a low and dangerous voice.

Harm slowly turns back to Satan. His face turned angrily. "Sorry master." Harm said sarcastically. "You want to know what I yearn, right now, you have no idea."

Rachael screamed as she fell and then hit the ground with a thud.
She no longer looked like flesh and blood. She was purely spirit. She looked normal, with the exception that she was wearing a white robe and she herself was glowing yellowish white.
She looked around scared at the vast torture. People screamed out for help, one even reached out to touch her and she scrambled back in fear. She had no body to protect her soul. Meaning it would be easier to take.
The smell of sulfur and brimstone hit her nose and, if she had a body, she would have been sick.
She let out a whimper, but then a milk hand touched her shoulder. "Shhhhh. It's alright. " Kironius said as Rachael looked up to see the angel with wings spread out to Guard them and a gleaming sword held high to alluminate the darkness with some light.
"Come." She said and helped Rachael up, and they follwed a long, winding path to the Devils throne room.

Another arrival...Lucifer was ecstatic...
...even if this newcomer lacked tact...

"A gamble huh? I like the sound of that...what do you propose? He asked, his voice was steel wrapped in silk and her let a bony finger trace a path down Robin's face feeding dark intentions into the boy...

"Speak to me Tim..."

"Well, you know me, always want to make an entrance. So, who am I hitting?"
He asked staring around.

Robin's hand shot up and slapped Satan's hand away. "First: No touching," he growled. "I don't swing that way."
He had felt a sickening feeling fill his body and he wanted to throw up. And yet... at that same time he felt... longing? There was something that filled him. A desire and lust. It was intoxication. He shook his head and pushed the thought away.

It was starting to get out of hand. The devil was slowly corrupting them all but still she was glad her teammates, her friends, had followed her.
They just had to escape with their lives now.

"Remeber. No matter what he promises you, what sins and lust Satan plagues your mind with, you can't give in. He was once an angel of light so he is a great deciever. You can't give in. Likability is he already senses we're here." Kironi informed Rachael as they continued to walk down the path as Rachaels eyes shifted nervously and she nodded.
"and you can have no doubts" Kironius added firmly.
Rachael gulped and nodded, and her expression changed rto a one of bravado.
"Do I......need any kind of weapons or anything?" Rachael asked, trying to keep the fear out of her voice.
"Here." Kironius handed her a sword that looked much like a bigger and sleeker version of Frodos from LOTR. "This will offer you a little protection, if any at all. But its better than nothing."
"Thanks" Rachael mumbled and stuck it in the hault that was on her robe.
Kironi begin to....worry?....about the girl. She was, after all, one of the ones called the 'children of God', with the pure soul the devil lusted. The ones that devout their life, sooner or later, to the missions and to save others bodies and souls. That would make her invaluable to satan. If he were to corrupt her now, it would ruin all of the plans God had for her.....and all the people she would help save would be lost as well.

Lucifer laughed silently as he felt the boy's reaction...
<You will not be leaving here!> he thought as he watched the blue light of robin's aura carress his hand.
"I will have you all...but tell me little Tim...my little Robin...what do u propose?"

"A war game," Robin said.
"A handful of your best demons against the Titans. With Harm and the wing-girl on our side. If we win we walk free and you agree to stay away from all of us. If you win, you get my soul and Wonder Girl's." His eyes glared at Satan. "But YOU do not interfere with the battle. No manipulation of our team or corruption of our souls. Just your people against ours."

"Yo Cass!"
Kon shouted as he walked over to Cassie. He put his hand on her shoulder.
"You okay? Like, what's going on?"

"Oh holy Gods Kon, How did you get here?" Cassie was happy they had more power on the team.
"This is a fight for our souls, its getting worse by the second"

<Idiot fool...he had no idea what he had just let them in for!>
"I accept..." He laughed whole heartedly as he raised his arms up high and as the black fires of hell rose high the ground opened before them and there stood his chosen...
"Prepare to loose!" He whispered
…… their red-blistered flesh hung in clumps off their skeletons and their eyes flashed ice blue.
He walked past Harm, touching his hand discreetly, away from the other titans’ eyes, "come back to me!" he whispered filling Harm with dark energy,
He laughed and returned to his throne

"Souls? Wow, how'd we get ourselves into this? I'm not so sure, Rach kinda hit me with this light, and then I was here."

Harm's eyes suddenly turned white and black. He slowly walks to Satan's throne.

"Wow, what's up with Harm?"

Shinigami regarded the chosen...
<they have no idea!>
"Prepare yourselves!!!" She cried, directing their attention towards the enemy.
Her eyes caught a hold of Harm following Lucifer.
"HARM!!! What are you doing?" She cried.
Her eyes flew open wide as realisation hit her.
"No!"

"Did you already forget our agreement!" Robin growled at Satan. "Harm works for our side in this! What's wrong? Afraid that you can't win other than cheating?"
He looked back at the Titans, and scowled. "Stay ready team. We don't know what to expect, and we know their boss will probably cheat." He snapped his bo-staff ready and nodded to the other.
"TITANS GO!"

"No." Cassie whispered, backing away from harm, her eyes wide.
"Its too late! He's returned to the side of evil!!"
Hearing the call of "Titans Go" from Robin she leapt into action.
She flew at the flesh exposed corpses', knocking them to the floor and literally pulled them to pieces.

"The contest is still on, I'm simply...Satan's choice as his demon." Harm said darkly. "He is...one of my sponsor's after all."

"Can I pound something now? Coz seriously, I can do stuff like that."

"Since you're so eager, how about you take my place Superboy?" Harm says glaring at Kon.

"Place in what dude? I just got here. Seriously, I was about to order us some belly burgers. Anyone want one?"

Lucifer reguarded Harm with sickened affection.
"It appears that Harm has chosen to side with me...I can't help it if he was unable to resist the dark, to resist me!" He diverted his attention to the battle.
"Go Harm...fight for me...secure me their souls!"

They were almost there. Kironius could sense it.
She stopped and Rachael, looking out at the vastness and not watching where she was going, nearly ran into K. "Hey! Why'd we stop?!"
"We're almost there? Can't you feel it?" The teenaged looking angel said edgily.
And then Rachael DID feel it. A darkness so deep, so terrible and evil, that it made her shiver from it's cold.
"Comeon." The Young Angel said and broke into a sprint. Rachael not to far behind, following hesitatingly.
She was about to look the devil in the face.

"Yes master." Harm summons his sword and charges at Superboy.

"Coward!" Robin spat at Satan. "You really are a spineless wuss! Manipulating a weak mind because you don't have the ball for an fair fight!"
He fired a D-Cell line up, taking him out of the attack of a demon, before dropping a gas pellet to blind them. He landed on the other side of a demon and knocked it's legs out from under him with his bo-staff. He then three a small flash grenade into the open mouth of another.
"Watch your backs and don't hold back!" he shouted to the others.

"HEELLOOO!"
Kon shouted as he dived up into the air.
"Or maybe a pizza?"

Lucifer summoned more demond to replace those that were being cut down in Robin's onslaught.
"It is not that I do not wish to fight but you have forbade my to my little robin." He smiled luciously at the youth.
"Say the word and I shall fight you..."

Shingami turned to Robin whilst striking down another of the blistered feinds.
"Don't Robin, ignore him and fight!"

From high in the air Wondy watched as Harm ran at Superboy, wielding his sword.
She turned and faced another of hells creatures, the black harpies of hell, scrawny feathered bodies, covered in black tar and grease, wings of taught flesh, sharp, deadly talons and faces of young women screaming at her.

Shingami saw Wonder girl being outnumbered and she flew to aid her.
"Wonder girl!!!" She cried and took out one of the creatures that had lunged at wonder girl.

A sword came down and slayed the creature that lurched for Wondergirl
"Miss us?" Kironius said as she and Rachael, with her pale yellow soul and wide eyes anbd from the way she looked thay could tell she was just her spirit, were back to back. If it wasn't for the fact that Kironi had different eye and hair color and was two feet taller, they could have been twins.
Both held their swords up ready and Rachael made the mistake of taking a fearful side-glance at Lucifer.

Robin spun his bo-staff above his head smacking down the demon close him and then back fisted another demon. There was only one problem here, Satan had the home field advantage and ten second into their fight he was already cheating.
"Wonder Girl, Don't worry about Kon!" He shouted, before pulling an exploding bat-a-rang and throwing it at another group of demons. There was a blinding explosion.
They were going to need some sort of trump card of their own in this fight...

"These things are disgusting!! That stuff on them just covers anything they touch!" Cassie yelled, narrowly avoiding talons sent to gouge her heart out. Her red costume was slicked with black and she had a cut on her upper arm where she hadn’t got far away enough.
Who was worrying about the Boy?? He was only fighting someone who had taken them all down when they were Young Justice.
Someone who had become a friend, and knew how they fought and defended.
Someone who she had trusted with her life, who’d SAVED that life.
Someone who was now prepared to kill everyone in that room.
So who was worried?

Lucifer's eyes grew wide as he took in the faded formations of the two new arrivals!
<What the...nooooooo!>
He rose from his seat, fear evident on his features.
Black wings erupted from his spine and he rose into the air, swooping low he grabbed Robin by the throat.
"You have broken the rules...you have newcomers, one of which is an angel! All bets are off!"" He hissed...

"HARM!" Lucifer cried never loosening his grip on Robin.
"Fight...destroy them, take their souls my slave!!!"

">URCK!<" Robin grunted as he felt Satan's hand grab his through.
"Y-You're one to talk, bub" Robin chocked before raising a fist and blasting very potentate pepper spray from a nozzle in his glove into the Devil's eyes.
"You already broke the rules by stealing Harm from our side and bringing in new replacements for your weakling minions. Don't blame me for playing by your example!"

Harm swings his sword at Wonder girl, barely missing her. "My master still wants your soul, and he will get it."

"No! What are you doing!!" Wonder Girl flew back, away from Harm. "This isn't you anymore!!"

"You will regret that!!!!" Lucifer cursed, thrusting his hand deep into Robin's chest and he began to drink, sucking on the blue hue, relishing it.
"Your soul is mine!"

Harm back flips off the wall, hitting Wonder girl with the handle of the sword. "Yes it is. I'll kill you, and take your soul to my master."

"NO!!!!" Rachael lunged herself at the devil, knowing full well this was a battle she couldn't win.
If anything, maybe she could take Tims place.

"AUGH!!" Robin screamed in agony, just barely pressing the button on his utility belt.
Suddenly a blast of electricity ran through the Devil, as he drank from Robin' soul. Robin's costume was built with a tazer to keep others from messing with it. He just hoped that it wasn't the last thing he ever did...

Robin's move was enough to stop the devil but not enough to save the essence already stolen!
Shinigami saw red...she saw pain and hate all of it aimed at Lucifer.
She wouldn't let it happen...these people...they had trusted her...they had helped her...she wouldn't let this happen
She screamed a war cry and dived for Lucifer...thrusting her hands into him and pulling the blue essence from him! With her other hand she grabbed Robin and fed his essence back into him then kicked the devil away!

Cassie tasted blood where she'd been hit, she used her momentom to twist and kick him. If she was going to get thorough to him and keep away from serious damage, she would have to kick his ass.
"Listen to me Will. Trust me. You don't want to do this"

Tim could not remember a more painful experience in his life. It felt as if he were being torn apart from all side and turned inside out.

In his mind he could see everyone dear to him. His Rachel, Dad, Dana, Bruce, Alfred, Dick, Babs, Cass, Helen, Dinah, the Titans... All of them were dying and they blamed him.
He had failed.
His mind kept repeating that as he fell into darkness...

"Oh, but I do." Harm goes for a deathblow with his sword. "And don't call me Will." Harm says menacingly.

A shot of blinding white light shone and Kironius shoved her way between Wonder Girl and Harm. "I don't think so." She couldn't help but think--her mission had been useless. Her host was nearing death and the fight looked finished....but she refused to give up hope.
Rachael ran towards the spot where Tim was falling and barely managed to catch him, falling flat on her butt from the impact.
"Tim? Come on Tim, wake up." She cradled him in her arms.

Harm glares at Kironius, "Get...out of...my way!"

Using the few seconds that Kironius had bought her she swept Harms feet out from under him, kicking away his sword and pinning him to the ground.
"Will! You are going to listen to me, if you like it or not!!

Robin's eyes were open but he wasn't moving or responding to Rachel's words. He still had a pulse and was breathing, but he just... lay there. Unmoving. Near lifeless.

"Is that so." Harm said his eyes glowing, preparing for a blast.
"Don't you dare Die on me." she said, tears coming to her eyes as she held him. "Please....c'mon....say something."

Shingami continued to try and throw Lucifer off guard.

Lucifer threw her aside..."You are all going to fail! All of you!" His voice...it was weaker...less cocky!
Extracting the essence from him...had weaken him!

Perhaps that was it...perhaps that was how he could be defeated.
There was no way she could take enough dark essence by herself to stop him!
She needed help...she needed Harm
"Wonder girl! You have to turn Harm good!!!!"

"Yes!" Cassie flipped him onto his front, holding his arms behind his back. He now couldn't see her, but it also meant he couldn't use his eye beams.
"Now listen," She leaned in close "You and i are friends. You have a sister named Greta who loves you"

Shingami observed Rachel...her tears, pure, loving.
She could help, her compassion, it was slowly forcing back the darkness about her!
<All of us...all of them were needed...their good souls...they could force back the darkness as I and Harm steal it!!!>
"Falcon!" She cried whilst dodging Lucifer's blows.
"I have an idea...all of you!"

"AAAAAARG!" Harm yells as he throw Wonder girl off of him. He begins having flashes of Greta and Wonder girl. Of how his original mission here was to protect Cassie. About what Greta would think if she knew he was evil again. He fell to his knees. He slowly turned back towards Satan, with a familiar dark smirk on his face. "It's over...master." Harm said stressing the sarcasm in his voice. Harm then pulls Wonder girl back up. "Please forgive me."

Robin's body lay in Rachel's arms lifelessly, but the essence of Timothy Alvin Drake was still awake and well. He watched the others battle, wanting to help them. Wanting to ease Rachel's pain, but he couldn't he was stuck in a form a limbo. He could some how see them, but he couldn't act.
"Don't worry about me Rachel..." Tim's spirit urged. "Protect the others... Keep fighting."

Rachael blinked back her tears and looked up at Shinigami, still holding onto the lifeless Robin.
Kironius, slaying and pushing back the ruminants of Lucifer’s demons looked up as well.
<It.....That could work!>

Cassie hugged Harm closely for a second. The thought of losing him just wasn't right, but to have him back......was enough.
"There’s nothing to forgive. You ....... just weren't yourself." Cassie smiled, even though she would have a bruise for weeks where he'd hit her.

Relief flooded through Shingami as Wondergirl succeeded in returning Harm to them.
"Harm...I need your help!" She flew to both harm and wondergirl!
"We need to take the devil's essence!!!" She cried grabbing his arm
"Wondergirl, get Falcon, we need you both...your good hearts...we need you to counter the black essence we extract...the angel too if she is willing..."
She looked at them both imporingly.
"I know it's difficult to trust me but please...this is all I can think of!"

Harm looks at Cassie. "I promise I'll make you as many clothes as you want after this is over."
He then holds onto Shinigami. "Let's do it."

Rachael, being in a oddily different spirit form herself, could sense him and sniffed back her tears as she stood up, still holding him,placed his body in a close by, safe corner, stood back up and picked her own sword back up. Ready to do what ever she had to do.

With a backwards smile and glance to Will, Cassie flew in search of Falcon.
What she found was Falcon ready for action, looking really really mad.

Keronius nodded and spreadied out her wings slightly. "I think you've more than earned my trust Shinigami."

Robin's essence watched the other titans with a smile. He wanted to help them, but all he could do was watch and pray. But these were the best kids in the business he knew. They'd been to hell before and won. They'll do it again.
"Titans Go..." he whispered.

Shinigami couldn't help the smile that graced her features as Wonder girl complied to her wishes and Harm agreed to aid her.
"Glad to have you back!" She whispered and she turned her gaze to Koronius, "that means a lot to my angel...thank you" and with that she charged at the devil

"Come on Rach, they need our help" Cassie pulled at Falcon
"We have to do this.........What happened to Robin??"

As Harm prepares to take in the essence he whispers to Shinigami. "You do know how much this is going to seriously suck right?"

She smiled at him...he truly was Harm again...
<no..not Harm...but Will...>
"Yes...it will seriously suck...but I trust the others to equal out the dark energy! I promise I won't let the dark get you again...It would make the others sad..."
She continued to charge. "I will cause no more GRIEF!!!!" She screamed as she grasped one of Lucifer's arms...

"Robins...." She felt as angry tears spelt down her cheeks and she gripped her sword, waiting for the right moment to lounge herself at the Devil. "He's dead." She said bitterly. Brain dead at the least. She had seen plenty of people in her time as Falcon in that state......but she never thought it would happen to Robin. They almost always seemed to escape death.
She wiped the tears from her eyes and stepped forward. "Are we going to do this thing or what?"
Kironius, as well, lurched at Lucifer, following the older, fallen angels lead.

Harm grabs Lucifer's other arm and begins to take in his essense. His only thought was sponsor or not, he wasn't going to let himself go back to the dark side. He had to protect them.

Cassie could think of nothing to say back to Falcon.
Tim was dead.
He wad dead because of her, She'd brought him to this place.
And killed him.
She reached out and took Wills' hand, her good soul cancelling out the darkness of Lucifer that would flow into him.

"ALL OF YOU!!! BE WITH ME NOW!!!" Shingami screamed grasping a hold of Lucifer...
...and she began to drown...
...drown in the flurries of black hate, murderous glee, sickenly sinister intentions, all of it poored into her...
<Please...let us...let them survive...>

Falcon grabbed onto the devils throat, clutching it angrily as the darkness flowed into her and caused more tears.....and depression
Kironius, knowing full well what the darkness would do to her, causing her to fall, reached over and grabbed onto both Rachael’s and shinigamis shoulders, allowing her light to cancel out the darkness and absorb some herself.

A strange sound graced Hell's domain...the sound of the Dark Lord sreaming in pain resounded, and there had never been a sweeter sound.
He was falling...falling as his essence was stolen from him...as it fed into his servants.
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" He screamed and still they did not stop...

Harm feels the evil go through him, he has the urge to go evil again. But he puts it away. He could feel Cassie cancelling out the evil flowing through him. He knew he could handle it, he didn't know how, but he knew.

Shinigami felt them, those around here, Harm, Falcon, Wonder girl, all of them. Surrounding, comforting, together as one in their war, and she was amongst them...
The devil thrashed beneath them and still they held on...
...They we're going to win, as long as they were together...they were going to win...
...The devil's pleading voice only verified it...

Robin felt himself on some level adding his own strength to the others. The Teen Titans were not going to fail!!

They were linked together, Cassie didn't know how, or why, but she could feel them, not deeply but as a presence.
A careful balance of good over evil.
She clutched at Harm, feeling the terrifiying dark, knowing she was taking it away from him.

"Your getting a taste or your own medicine, Luicefur." Rachael said as the anger began to take her over with the darkness, but Kironius quickly released more light to cancel out the darkness.

"Fight the darkness Rachel," Robin's spirit coaxed, though he knew no one could hear his words. "You're stronger than it is. You ALL are stronger than it is."

Lucifer was now little more than a shaking pile upon the floor, his essence flowing from him...
<it can't end like this..it can't>
"Please..." his voice cracked as more life flowed out of him.

Shingami could sense it...he was nearing the end...this had to stop...it had to stop now!
<If we drink him dry...we will have lost anyway...we will have forsaken the good...we can't kill him...!>
<WE CAN'T KILL HIM!> she fed her thoughts to the others praying they would hear, that they would understand.

Harm began to stop, he knew exactly what Shinigami meant, there had to be balance.

Cassie pulled away, drawing Will back with her.
Killing wasn't part of the job discription for either of them.
She couldn't leave him to take the dark alone.
Kironiues removed her hand from Satan....but Rachael didn't.

She just wanted him dead....the world would be utopia if he did..She would make him pay for killing Robin.....and for the billions of other deaths and hurts he caused.
"Rachael..."
"NO!" She shrugged Kironius's hand off her shoulder.
"Rachael."Kironi fed more light of repemdtion and guilt and conscience into Rachael and she hesitantly withdrew her hand, falling to her kness. Crying.
Whether it was from the death of her loved one, or the darkness, was unsure. But she cried.

<If we kill him...we will have become monsters ourselves!>
She felt a wave of relief as Wonder girl broke contact, and then the rest slowly began to follow and as one by one they disconnected, her contact to Satan became stronger as the dark essence was still flowing...
...her link to him became stronger and she spoke to him.
<Do you yield?> She screamed at him in her mind.
He whimpered.
<Do you yield> She drew one last time on his essence and felt him crumbling.

<Yes> was his whispered sigh

Shinigami withdrew her hands shakily...she turned to them all, to those she had fort beside...to her...friends...
"He has yielded...we are victorious" she announced.
It was all she could say before she collapsed from exhaustion...

Cassandra felt the weight she hadn't realised lifted from her soul. It was no longer held in debt. She was free.
They were all free......except for the Fallen Angel, Shinigami was still bound.

Harm picked up Shinigami. "Anyone else getting the urge that we should leave? Now?"

Kironius leaned down and helped the girl, the one who had been so difiant and stubborn earlier, now looking like a lost little girl, up and nodded to Harm. "Me and Rachael came a different way...we'll meet you back at the top." she then turned to Cassandra.
"Could you possibly bring Robins body with you? She'd not ready to see it now.....but you'll probably want a proper service later." She said....as a first tear of her own fell down her cheeks.
]She was free to feel now......and she didn't know if she was greatful or forever cursed because of it.

Lucifer laughed deeply..."she is not welcome in heaven or hell!" He laughed at the irony, she will never be welcomed anywhere! She has no home!!" His cackles rose deeply in his chest.

"Ok guys, thats our invite out of here. Lets get going." Cassie pointed towards the portal that Lucifer had summoned with his waneing strength.
She flew towards Robins body, landing beside it.
"Oh Tim.....don't leave us. We need you. Whos going to yell at us when we do stupid things? Who's going to listen to us without you?
Who's going to tell Batman!"
She stroked his hair from his mask.

Shinigami regarded Wonder girl, they we're all safe, all of them, but what of Robin?
"Is there nothing that can be done for Robin? I fed his essence back into him, just as I did for you wonder girl...there must be a way to get him back!"

">GASP!<"
The others turned to see Robin's eyes open and close and his chest raise and lower trying to draw breath. His eyes stared about wildly, and he couldn't seem to focus his vision. He could only see shadows and light hues of colour.
Satan still had control over Robin's soul even when it had been returned to his body. But when Lucifer had yielded to them... he was free to return to his friends. His family.
To Rachel.

Shinigami turned to Robin, a look of utter shock and joy mixed into her features.
She turned to satan...still crumpled upon the floor.
Yes they would all be leaving...all of them...

Harm led everyone through the portal, which led right outside of Titans Tower, where it all started. He smiled at Robin's rebirth, although he tried his best to make sure no one saw it.

"I saw that" Cassie whispered to Will as she flew close, carrying Robin

Robin did his best to smile, despite his immense weariness.
"H-How did we do?" he asked in a horsed and weak voice, causing many of the others to lean in to hear him. He could feel a soft breeze against his face and the soft grass beneath him. His still couldn't focus his eyes, but he could smell the tangent odor of Kory's garden.
They were home.

Harm smirks as he watches Cassie fly by. It's good to be back, he couldn't believe that he let evil take over him, even if it was for a brief moment.

Lucifer watched them go, closing the porthole sharply after them...
He had lost...lost it all...Harm and Shinigami we're beyond him for now...
...He felt hollow inside after most of his essence being stolen...
...Anger, pure and cold grew...he would get revenge...

Rachael and Keroni, leaving before Tim awakened, passed through to the Astrail plane.
"I think we'll be able to separate now. You should no longer be a host once we get back since I am now fallen." Keroni said softly to the girl.
"I'm not going back." Rachael said as she looked off into the distance at all the lights that represented a different mind....different souls.....none of them Tims.

Shinigami watched them all, watched their faces...they were home...watched as they celebrated...
...she suddenly didn't want to be there...she was free...free to do as she wished...but she didn't know what she wanted to do...or where she wanted to be...
She smiled at them, <I'm happy for them...they are truly noble...they are...>
She turned from them then, and began to walk away

Cassie stood away from the others, thinking the last few hours through. She was happy that her friends had gone to hell with her to save her soul, and that they had returned safely.
But she also hated herself, because of her Tim had nearly died and Will had returned to the darkside, she'd even fought with him!

"You know Shin, you don't have to go. I don't think anyone will mind." Harm said looking at Shinigami.

"Wha...what do you mean?" She stuttered, refusing to hope, refusing to dream...

"Where... Where's Falcon?" Tim asked, his voice still barely above a whisper. He looked around blindly for her, but he still couldn't focus his vision. " Did she make it?"

Falcon's body still lay in a heap in the garden...in a coma.

Harm smirks at Shinigami. "We couldn't have done it without you. You're one of us, you should stay."

"Please don't leave" Cassie showed up at their side "You did the right thing, in your own way"

"Rachel...?" Tim asked weakly. He didn't have the strenght to sit up or do anything more than lay on his back and stare up blindly, searching for some sign...

Where was she? She had been there before hadn't she? He remembered her fighting against Lucifier while he had been struck down. Did she survive the battle?

"I...I...thank you," she whispered, lowering her head as the crystal tears filled her eyes...
"You have no idea what this means to me!" She took both of theie hands in hers...
<Perhaps life can start anew...pehaps these people, these friends can help me through...I can only hope..."
She cast her gaze to the sky...taking it in and she laughed...

"Hey don't cry" Cassie was genuinely worried.
Maybe she really did have a part of Shinigamis’ soul in her
Cassie then noticed Falcon.
She flew over and scooped up her fallen friend.
Someone else I’ve hurt today
"We have to take her and Robin to get medical attention"

"Yeah, everything's gonna be alright now." Harm said with an extremely rare, genuine smile towards Shinigami as he went to help Robin and Falcon.

Shinigami watched them all, watched their compassion, she felt truly honoured to be among them...

"What???" Kironi said as she turned to the girl.
"I....Im going to miss him. Can't I just die and be with him?" She said, a tear falling
"NO." Kironius said firmly, taking the girl, that was now the same height as she was since she had fallen, by the shoulders and looking her straight in the eye. "If Robin really did die, it's because it was his time. I will not allow you to go before your supposed to either."
Rachael looked down at her feet and a tear fell. "I...I miss him. I don't know what to do if he....if he really is gone."
"I know." Kironius said quietly. "If he is dead....he's in a better place. But there's a small miniscule chance he's alive.....so you can't give up now."
It was quiet for a long moment as Rachael decided.
Rachael wiped her tears away with the back of her arm. "Lets go." She said and Kironi gave her a sympathetic smile and put an arm on her shoulder and they left the Astrial Plane. 'Lord? What is this purpose of free will and emotion? It......it looks like it only hurts them.....What am I supposed to do with these new feelings and free thinking?; Kironieus thought to herself sadly, feeling for the first time in her creation that she was far away from her connection.
_-_-_-_-_
Rachael coughed as she awoke and tried to open her eyes with a groan. She felt....dizzy. "Please....tell me it was all a dream" she said in a sad, somewhat depressed, whisper as she blinked as her eyes adjusted to the warm sunlight.


The End!
And that was all in one night!!

[Sigh] Do you have any idea how long it took to colour code all that.
:lol: It was worth it i guess!

Note: We went over the 60000 word count by a few thousand. ~ NIIIICE :D