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Are you afraid of the Darksoul? [Part 2]

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For too long the firstborn son of Satan's demonic soul had been trapped, denied his rightful control over Daimon's body. Now, thanks to Mei-Xing, he was finally free. The next course of action was obvious- he would have to take control of one of the beings on this ship. He could start with the vulnerable and move on to the more powerful. He had to act fast before that fool recovered. Fortunately he needn't go very far. The city was full of potential victims.

Now, now. Who to possess first?

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She shrieked and dodged as best she could, feeling the sting a little harder now. If only she could contain him...

Attacking wasn't an option. Instead she flew here and there, pestering him, trying to wear him down. If she could just get a grip on him, maybe she could say something...or knock the trident away! That might work.

Her first test was to fire a starbolt at it, not knowing what that would do.

"I am your friend! We do not fight this way," she yelled as she tried to deflect and defend.

The Starbolt sent the spinning ball of flaming fire off coarse crashing into a nearby building, punching a hole in the wall and vanishing inside like a cannonball into a ship. The entire building shook from the shock.

Oops. She hadn't meant to hit that hard! She peered down, making sure no one was there to be hit by debris as she ventured inside.

Starfire kept a starbolt up in one hand to illuminate. Here, at least, others were unlikely to be hurt. "Beast Boy?"

Empty white eyes peered out from the darkness as only a momentary warning before the beast lunged again trying to pounce on Starfire and knock her out of the sky with another horrible laugh.

Sorry Star, the lights are on but Beastboy isn't home.

I am distant and this happens to him? she thought sadly in the second before the strike.

Reacting as her instincts dictated and against better judgment, Starfire reached her hands out and grabbed for him. No matter how painful this was, even if it started to burn, she had to contain it. Had to keep him safe.

"I will not leave you again," she promised quietly.

WHAM! Thousands of pounds of muscle slammed into her as the beast snarled and roared in her face.

"It's always about you isn't it princess?" He spat as they tumbled through the air and he pushed soulfire into her arms. "Always about you and Robin, the heart and soul of the team. The celebrity couple! Eat pavement!" The street was rushing up to greet them fast.

"No, Beast Boy, this is about you! He is not here---you are, and you are hurt!"

Her eyes watered and started to glow green, and she felt as if the agony would kill her at any moment, but she pushed upward with all her might. Maybe she had hoped to slow the fall.

The ground crunched as two powerful beings slammed into it, but not as hard as they had been falling. Rolling off her the beast pointed it's trident at you, "I don't have time to play with you anymore stupid girl. Just stay out of my way! The Darksoul knew his time was running short. As much fun as this body was if it wanted to accomplish anything useful he couldn't waste time fighting with this small fry.

So another blast of the soulfire for good measure.

"No!" The soulfire forced one of those horrible screams out of her as her body twisted, the kind that used to give Robin nightmares. She was burning alive, felt she was going to die. What could she do?

Desperate, she saw a heavy-looking pole looming above them. She needed to startle him and stop this pain so she could move. A squint of her eyes and a blast later, she'd targeted a heavy pole to the side. It came falling down over him.

Hopefully the dodging would give her a second of relief from the fire to stand.

"Beast Boy...please, can you hear me?"

The pole slammed into him wrapping around him and knocking him to the ground for all of a moment. Struggling to his feet he roared again shattering a few nearby windows with the force of his bellow.

Tucking his head down the monster rushed her attempting to bowl her over, trounce her, and go thundering down the street.

"I am sorry!" Starfire yelped. She was really hoping he would dodge that.

Bracing herself, she ducked low and attempted to hit under him, trying for a flip. All she needed was a moment to wake hm up, but doubt was starting to plague the back of her mind.

No, she can't think of that. There would be a way to fix this.

The slam was powerful in force, sending the Beast high up into the air only for him to turn about and blast downwards with the soulfire.

Gravity would do it's working bringing him back down at her hard and fast, trident forward blasting away attempting to impale the orange skinned beauty. "I'm not!" He snarled back.

Starfire was ready and dodged the impaling, at least, but there was no escaping another burn. All that agony had seriously impeded her reaction time.

"Release him!" she managed to yell as she leapt up, trying for a downward slam. Of course, she wasn't sure who she was addressing or even certain of what was in control of Beast Boy, but whatever it was needed to go.

The beast brought a hand up attempting to grab at Starfire's face with sizable force behind his shovellike paws. "You've failed princess. Just like you failed Earth, Tamaran, and everyone else."

Starfire brought her scorched arms up to force him back, tears in her eyes. "It is not over yet!"

And maybe she could make a play for jarring the hand with the trident while she was at it. She tried this with a swift attack to the wrist. Not enough to break, she wouldn't forgive herself, but maybe it would give her a better chance to free him.

The Darksoul simply laughed the horrible laugh of his through the gravely beast throat, "It was over before you even started. NOW BURN! He turned on the fire again while squeezing her head and savoring the pressure of her own powerful strength trying to break free. Beastboy's beasts wrist was struggling against her, shaking and trembling as she tried to force it to let go of the trident.

Not that it would help much. His entire body was a weapon at this point.

Starfire's screams were almost shrill enough to pierce even more windows. She felt as if she was being ripped apart, she could smell her hair burning away, but the thing that hurt most was that her Beast Boy was imprisoned in there.

Thinking fast, she twisted a finger in to touch her ring and cry out to people in the area.

{{Please help---something has happened to Beast Boy!}}

Even her inner voice sounded hoarse. But here, she had to do something---curling up into a ball where she stood, she slipped a foot on the trident hand and kicked down hard, trying to pull back all the while.

"No."

The beast and Starfire were thrown apart my her dramatic cry and slam. He rolled backwards and sprang to his feet.

"Hope for the worst princess, you've already lost everything else."

And now aware that his cover was blown, the Darksoul took off on all fours running, seeking out his next vessel.

Oh he ran all right. He ran straight into Daimon Hellstrom, who took the opportunity to press a bracelet of ankhs against Beastboy's skin.

"As have you. Leave him at once." It was a command in every sense of the word. One that the darksoul could not ignore.

It was like having a thousand pound weight suddenly lifted from his body. The muscles and fur melted away laving only a scrawny much more aerodynamic body that flopped to the ground. It's owner now thoroughly exhausted in every sense of the word.

Starfire had flown after him as fast as she could, but the exorcism had happened in a blink of an eye. One incantation and her Beast Boy was there, looking dazed.

At least, she hoped it was him. The girl dropped heavily to her knees beside him, fear still evident in her voice. "Beast Boy?"

What came out of his mouth was a groan, some incoherent noises, a mumbling sound that was something like "Mad Mod?" and then he promptly passed out cold.

That sounded like him again. She sighed, brushed some hair from his forehead, and promptly collapsed over him. To rest just a moment until she could carry them somewhere safe, she was sure. This was a dangerous place to sleep.

"It is all right," she whispered, hopeful that he'd hear her and not feel guilt later. With a heavy sigh and another surge of pain, she gently carried him so a safer spot beside a stable building.

She sat back and promptly fell asleep the moment he was safe on the ground. Medical treatment could wait.

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