Injustice 3: The Might of Magic (Book 3)

The Man:

I lower my head and inhale. I take in a very deep breath before raising my head again. I scream and out comes a blast of pure dragon fire. The dragon fire is so intense, so hot, as it runs, the street beneath it melts and turns into boiling tar.

Raven and Faust also scream when the dragon fire hits them. They both raise their hands and summon a shield to block it but the shield breaks and shatters after only a few seconds. Before the shield breaks, Raven flies back and out of the way.

Screaming as he falls to the ground, Faust moans and groans as he pushes himself up.

Raven looks at Faust as he painfully pushes himself up. She doesn't seem to concern about him. Instead, she turns around and faces me.

"Such power," she says as she slowly flies down toward me. "The Lords of Order are right. You must be destroyed. For the sake of this planet and the future."

Black smoke shoots out of my nose as I turn my head toward Cold who is standing almost 20 feet away from me.

"Cold," I say, little bits of fire coming out of my mouth. "I will hold off Raven. Get back to the base."

"I'm not leaving you here to deal with Bird Lady," Cold yells. He brings up his cold gun and aims it at Raven. About to shoot, Raven swings her glowing hand. As she does, I see dark-red portals appear all around Cold.

"What the heck," Cold says as a cloud of thick black and red smoke shoots up from each of the portals. The smoke disappears and in its places are three humanoids with red skin, horns, and four glowing red eyes. They attack and grab Cold before he can shoot.

"That can't be right," I say, watching as the three demonic minions pick up Cold and throw him to the ground. "That isn't Lord of Order's magic. That's Trigon's magic! Raven can summon demonic minions now!"

I rush to help Cold but stop immediately when the street in front of me launches up. I turn around and see Raven with her hands glowing and spread out.

"You are not leaving," Raven yells, her voice now echoing like thunder. Raven swings her hands and telepathically grabs the part of the streets that launched up. She starts to pull it down, the streets falling toward me.

Once more, I use dragon fire to burn a hole right through it and jump. Landing on the other side, I quickly turn around and unleash a fierce beam toward Raven. Raven uses her telepathic magic once more and picks up what's left of my car. She uses it as a shield, my dragon fire hitting and destroying my car.

As my car is destroyed, it erupts into a cloud of smoke that engulfs Raven.

"Raven is hiding in the smoke," I tell myself. "I can't see her but I can smell her."

With my sense of smell, I follow my nose and turn to the side. There, I see an assortment of bricks and even a whole street lamp flying out of the smoke toward me. I swing my head while breathing dragon fire. All the bricks and the lamp explode when the fire hits them. However, as I was destroying everything Raven was throwing at me, I feel someone grabs my feet.

"What," I yell, looking down to see a pair of red hands on my feet. It pulls and knocks me down. I fall onto the street, where all the reminder bricks bury me.

Raven:

Once the target is buried beneath the pile of bricks, I put my hands together and summon a displacer orb, one unlike Dr. Fate or Faust. Combined with my own father's power, I throw the orb at the pile of bricks. The displacer orb explodes once it hits the pile, the explosion forming a black sphere that destroys everything in it. By the time the sphere vanishes, there is a giant hole in the middle of the street.

"No one could have survived that," I say. I turn my head when I see one of my minions being frozen in ice by Captain Cold. My minion shoots out a bolt of lightning at Captain Cold but somehow, Cold's cold gun is somehow able to overpower it. He freezes one of my minions before ducking and dodging a swing from another one of my minions. With my minion's back to Cold, Cold freezes him right there.

"I don't know what you are," Cold says after freezing my final minion, "But I know this. You got nothing on me."

I use my power and grab Cold. He screams and struggles as I pull him from the street into the air and in front of me.

"Let me go," Cold demands, shaking non-stop.

"No," I reply as I slowly close my hand.

Captain Cold:

I scream as I feel my arms being squeezed into my body. The air is being forced out of me and I swear, I hear cracking and I see my arm bending a way it shouldn't.

"Ahh!"

"The Lords of Order told me to destroy the man in the sunglasses," Raven says. "And if anyone gets in my way, for them to meet the same fate."

My legs crush against each other as Raven tightens her hands. I start to see a bright light. Only, the bright light is heading for Raven. It hits and knocks her into the street. There, she bounces off the street and onto the wall of an abandoned building.

Screaming as I start to fall, I stop when I feel someone grabs my jacket. I look up and see The Man. His veins are still pulsing black, and the fire in his mouth seems to be stronger than before.

The Man flies to the street where he throws me down.

"Stay here," he yells, the whole sky shaking as he yells.

"Yeah," I say, stepping back. "Sure."

With that, The Man stomps toward Raven. As he walks, his shoes catch on fire, and he starts to leave a trail of burning footprints.

"No way," Raven says as she claws against the wall and drags herself up. "No way! That was a combination of my father's magic and the Lord of Order's. How could you have survived it?"

The Man's only answer is a puff of fire through his nose. Raven pushes herself off the wall, she waves her hands once more, and summons those red-horned guys. They charged toward The Man but he quickly grabs two of them and smashes their heads together before throwing them to the sides. With the third guy, he again quickly grabs the head and twists it. The snap is so loud it echoes.

When The Man finally reaches Raven, he grabs her by her neck and slams her into the wall. He then inhales, the light from the fire in him burning so bright, it lights up Raven's face. Her wide eyes, mouth hanging open face.

"Do it," I shout, "Burn that woman!"

The Man:

As I prepare to use dragon fire, only an exhale from unleashing it, I look up and see Raven's face. I see her wide, shaking eyes.

"Raven," I tell myself. As I look at her, I think back to my time as a Teen Titan. I think of all the fights we had. The adventures. The countless pizza party. As I think about these, I look down and see my arms. It's pulsing. My veins are pulsing, and they are almost completely pitch-black.

"No," I say, stepping back as I look at myself. I am pulsing all over. From my head to my feet, the pitch-black is covering me. I turn around and see my footprints on fire. "No! I have to calm down! Calm down! Calm down!"

I repeat to myself over and over to calm down. However, I stop when I hear Cold's voice.

"Behind you," he shouts.

I turn around and see Raven holding out her hand. Preparing to summons more minions or telepathically grabs me, I didn't give her the chance. Exhaling and breathing fire, I hit the building Raven is standing under. It starts to fall and before Raven realizes it, it falls right onto her, burying her.

"That's for before," I say, looking at a pile of bricks. I turn to leave but Cold stops me.

"Hey," he shouts, "What didn't you finish her off? You could have so. What didn't you?"

I don't answer Cold. Instead, I reach into my pocket and pull out a teleporter.

"We're leaving," I told Cold. "We're leaving right now!"

"Why?"

"Because I need to be contained," I answer. As I answer, I see dragon fire comes out. The dragon fire forces Cold to step back.

"I need to be contained," I repeated, "Before something bad happens. Before it happens again, and I destroy something."