Chapter Sixty-Four: Capture
The sounds of battle echoed from the Kent Farmhouse. Harry stepped into the picture just in time to see Claire hovering above Kara. Kara gave a good enough fight to Claire. And she might have won this battle had it been Cliare in the driver's seat.
Damien Darhk stepped into Claire's body just as they figured. The two sent blasts of heat vision to each other. Darhk pushed back in Claire's body and then drove Kara down to her knees. Several pieces of glass flew into the air and then been turned into burning embers by the heat vision attacks.
No matter what one said about Darhk, would could not discount his ability to string together some attacks. Harry viewed Darhk high above the sky.
"At last, the Dragon approaches."
No need to linger lurk in the shadows given that the man in question knew Harry was here. He shifted a bit closer towards the floating woman above him. Darhk dropped down onto the ground.
"It's not what I wanted, but I'll take it," Darhk said. "Who knew that being in the body of a teenage girl could feel so good?"
Harry wisely did not say anything to this comment rather he focused on Darhk. The burns created by the red sun watch which Nyssa bombarded Claire with healed and allowed Darhk to access his powers. A large gust of wind almost as forceful as a tornado came down. Harry pushed through the gust of wind and flashed behind Claire's body.
One peak into the back of her mind showed that Darhk's mind was there and there was no link back to his body or to Claire's mind. Darhk turned around and viciously snapped off a punch towards her. The hand of the woman had been blocked. Claire's arm pulled away from her.
"It's time for me to crush you!" Darhk yelled.
Kara rose up to her feet to defend Harry. She flew as fast into her cousin as humanly possible and flipped Claire over onto the ground. Claire dropped down onto the ground. The insidious gaze burning deep inside of those eyes brought Kara's up to full alert. Both fighters snapped up into the air and circled each other. Their fists connected with each other. Kara's knuckles locked against Claire's when pushing back.
"Every single second I'm in this body, she's in mind. And without my magic holding it together, well it's only a matter of time before my body dies along with her mind along with it!"
Kara thought Darhk was right which was why she needed to outlast this monster as much as possible. She blasted back down to the ground. Kara slammed down onto the ground and dodged the heat vision. She needed to capture Claire's body to get it back.
A beam of energy shot at Claire. The manipulator piloting Claire's body dodged the attack. Darhk's vicious hands struck down onto the ground and forced Kara to move back a little bit. The Girl of Steel turned around and dodged out of the way. The beam of light cut through the air and nailed Claire as hard as possible.
It was not hard enough to switch their bodies. Claire sunk her fingers into the ground. The moment the Dragon and one of his generals came in, energy swirled around her hand.
"I'm glad I could keep this. It would come in handy."
Two energy bubbles popped out of Darhk's fingers and ensnared both Harry and Kara in them. Harry busted free of the energy bubble in about two seconds. Darhk stepped back with a slightly impressed look on his face when viewing the man approach him.
"I'd clap. If I didn't want to kill you so badly."
Harry freed Kara from the bubble. This time, Harry's energy blast cut through the air and caught Claire in the chest. Claire lifted up and the burns which had been put on her body manifested. She rose her hands up and channeled energy through her palms. The two bolts of light shot across the air. They connected in mid-air in some kind of intercrossing attack.
Harry pushed himself forward and knocked Claire back. Claire lifted herself up off of the ground. She pursed her lips and with all of the strength rocked the world. The screams of several people around the area could be heard from the creation of a super tornado with the combination of super breath and magic.
"Get the people out of here!" Harry yelled.
Darhk vanished, still inside of Claire, but they had far bigger problems to deal with. The hellacious tornado whipped about. Harry put his hands in the air and slowed down the funnel. Stopping a natural disaster with magic required a very skilled hand.
Harry summoned the power of the medallion to absorb everything he could from it. Kara returned after getting the civilians away from the eye of the storm. Harry's hand shook to manipulate the tornado back and forth over the ground. The sorcerer's eyes flashed for a second.
"She's gone," Harry said. "We have to find her."
He hoped Liv and Sara had better luck finding the stone than they did finding Claire. Harry managed to put a tracker on her which as a good news. The bad news also reared its ugly head. Claire flew in a very erratic manner in an attempt to shake Harry off.
Liv hoped against all potential hope someone did not pick the stone off of the ground. Sara stepped closer behind her. The two searched the grounds outside of the prison.
"I really hope none of the guards picked it up," Liv said. "It could be dangerous to mess with while the bodies are swapped."
Sara would have to agree. She thought about utilizing Isobel to hunt down the stone. The problem was, Sara did not want to temp that woman any more than necessary. She trusted Isobel to a certain degree. Unfortunately, trust was shaky when the stones are gone.
"Someone is coming," Sara said.
Liv noticed the person arriving as well. One of the prison guards stepped up and looked around. He said something to another guard. Sara grabbed Liv's hand tightly when they were talking.
"It shields us from detention," Sara said. "The medallion."
Okay, it made a lot of sense the medallion would do such a thing. Liv and Sara waited very anxiously to the guards past.
'We're running out of time,' Kara thought urgently. 'And we still got to grab Darhk or Claire or….'
Sara sympathized with Kara's confusion and also at her feeling of how urgent this situation would be. She would try to appease her with words. Unfortunately, those words never came as Sara looked across the way just in time to lock eyes with the stone laying on the ground.
They found it. Sara and Liv moved in only to see a flash of light in front of them. Three HIVE goons, teleporters by the looks of things, flashed in front of them. Sara and Liv locked eyes with each other with an unspoken agreement that no matter what they had to keep them away from the stone.
'It's the only way to switch them back.'
The goon reached for the stone. Sara unleashed a huge Canary cry at the goon to knock him down to one knee. He was pretty durable. Sara kicked him in the face. She bounced up and grabbed the man's neck before pushing him down onto the ground.
Sara hammered repeatedly against the back of the thug's neck and knocked the wind out of him. She stepped back an inch. Punch ducked and uppercut returned by Sara. She shifted herself back behind the enemy and plunged him down into the ground with an elbow smash.
Flaming embers smoldered in the air and launched at Liv. Liv repelled the attack the attack and shot the underside of the man's knee to double him over. She propelled up and crashed down. The molten ground underneath her forced Liv avoid as this Pyro-Maniac moved towards her. Flaming blasts fired from her hands. Liv threw to the right and shot upwards.
The arrow broke pen and released liquid nitrogen. The ice enveloped around the HIVE goon's body dropping him down. He thrashed his arms against the sheet of ice to break out. Liv jumped up high into the air and kicked her adversary directly across the face to knock him down onto the ground.
One of the hooded men charged Sara. Sara avoided the attack. The hooded man flashed over behind Sara in a blink of an eye. Sara dropped down behind the man to punch him again. The hooded figure disappeared again and again. She studied the attacker's patterns.
The hooded goon dropped behind Sara and tried to stab her. Sara caught him and hung on as tight as possible. The goon disappeared and reappeared at a frantic pace trying to shake Sara off. Sara held onto the attacker's arm as tightly as possible the more he appeared and disappeared.
Sara flipped down to the ground just in time for Liv to put an arrow down across the attacker's back. He tried to teleport only for the arrow to release a discharge of energy to prevent him from doing so. Pain filled the man's face in a very agonizing way.
"Lights out."
Sara smashed her hand repeatedly into the side of her adversary's head. She backed off to allow said adversary to slump down onto the ground.
"That's the stone?" Sara asked.
"That's what I saw Darhk stab Claire with."
Sara scooped up the stone in her hand and felt triumph go through her. They were one step closer to resolving this and she could not be happier at all.
'We're on our way.'
Damien Darhk gritted the teeth of the person who he took the body of. A body which was now his, but now his former body decayed on the ground, held by the League of Assassins.
'I've got to finish it off so they can't switch us.'
The body decayed in front of her. An exploding arrow knocked her down onto the ground. Claire crashed down onto the ground. She came up to her feet and watched as Talia al Ghul stood up against her.
"I don't have to pretend anymore."
The normally calm and collected voice grew very violent and very wicked. Claire's eyes flashed open to launch a beam of heat vision. Talia grabbed an orb and threw it into the air. Claire batted it against the ground and caused a flare of red sunlight to be released harmlessly next to her.
"Not going to work. You see, I've seen that trick before shot like I've seen this one before!
She grabbed Nyssa's arm and ripped the watch off of it. Nyssa slammed into the ground. She summoned strength from the medallion to barely break free. The feeling of her arm bones being crunched agonized Nyssa. She trained herself a long time ago to block out the pain. One dagger came out with the hand of her blocking.
"You won't get away with this!"
"I'll break you both," Darhk said.
An arrow flew through the air and one hand caught the arrow. The archer in green who haunted Starling City stood on the ground. Darhk curled his vessel's lips up into a spy.
"Let's see how much you burn," he said just seconds before a trigger released in the arrow and sent a sonic boom crashing the combined entity down to the ground.
"You first."
Liv shot multiple arrows at the other one. She was mindful this was a person's body who she did not want to hurt all that much.
Claire, in Damien Darhk's body, stepped out. She took the sheath which came off of Talia's arm to lift the Kryptonite dagger out from it. She watched her body size up from the Kryptonite. She rose back and tried to stab herself, but her hand blocked itself.
"That's amusing," Claire heard her voice say. "That's really cute to think my withering old body has the strength to kill this young fresh body. Even I would not be that ignorant."
Nyssa slashed Claire's arm with the Kryptonite blade. The green rock fragments implanted into her body.
"For the record, I'm sorry," Nyssa said looking in Darhk's eyes as she said this.
Claire felt the pain racking through her body when edging closer to Darhk. She grabbed her hand as Sara held the stone and passed it into Darhk's hand.
"Let it work."
She stabbed the stone into the side of her neck. The magic erupted from the stone and transferred their bodies together.
Claire's body collapsed down to the ground. Damien Darhk's body sized up in the shock of being mind swapped once again. He could barely keep out a breath. One word constantly rattled as he struggled to breath. A repeated chorus of a raspy yell of "no" grew in prominence.
Harry jumped down beside Claire and ensured her body was her own again. The right mind entered the right body and Harry kneeled before Claire healing the Kryptoniate radiation from her. Harry absorbed it into his body and felt the burning which would pass in an instant. He drew in a deep breath and ran over Claire's to make sure all particles had been removed from her blood stream.
"She'll be okay?" Kara asked. "You'll be okay?"
It wasn't pleasant drawing out insane amounts of radiation from a person. Harry's own healing properties purged the damage within a minute and allowed him to come back to state of being mostly recovered.
Darhk rose up to attack only for Nyssa to plunge a blade through his shoulders. She pulled it out and hacked the back of Darhk's neck to make sure. Maggots showered from Darhk's decapitated head and a puff of black smoke flowed from his mouth.
"It's done," Nyssa said.
It might have took her long and they had a couple of near misses but Damien Darhk finally expired at her feet. Nyssa could not be happier at all. Talia put her hand on Nyssa's shoulder.
"We should get him back to Nanda Parbat," Nyssa said. "It shouldn't be as long of a trip without the medallion and there will be less of a chance that HIVE will try and collect him."
They feared HIVE had their hands on a Lazarus Pit although it was not as strong as the one located at Nanda Parbat. The oldest and purest and most vital Lazarus Pit allowed their father to live on past the point of expiration.
"Thanks," Harry told Liv and Sara. "I should get back to the Farm and see if Kara and Claire is settled in."
"Rest," Sara said with a firm pat on his shoulder. "Liv and I can handle any HIVE goons which may be sneaking around the stone and speaking of which…."
The stone pressed into Harry's hand. It lit up the medallion and made Harry curious what potential connection there could be if they were. Harry supposed alien artifact would be a pretty good indicator of what the stone was.
The torches lit the pathway leading up to Nanda Parbat. Nyssa levitated the corpse of one of the enemies beside her. The two warriors teleported just in front of the cliffs. Talia pointed to the edge of the cliff and they climbed up on top of the jagged rocks. Both women made their way up closer and closer to the top of the cliff.
Nyssa held the dead weight above the top of her head. The sounds of battle echoed high above at the temple of Nanda Parbat. Three figures dressed in black rushed a woman dressed in green with dark hair. The woman in green blocked the attacks and snapped her attack up. She smacked the attacker up.
Some of them stopped at the look of the medallion Nyssa wore. Some of them, mostly women, fell into line dropping down to ther knees to bow. Nyssa held the Tengu Medallion and smiled at all of the women before motioning for them to get to their feet.
A loud grunt came from the side. Nyssa turned off to the side and came face to face with a large man dressed in black with broad shoulders. His bald head shined out brightly. All the hair shaved off of his face and head, including his eyebrows. It made him look very intent and extremely focused.
"The master will see you now."
"Good, because we brought him a present," Nyssa said. "You will stand aside and next time, Ubu….."
Nyssa grabbed Ubu by the arm and forced him down to the ground. She allowed Darhk's body to smash down onto the dirt. Nyssa's hand wrapped around the sword and pushed it into Ubu's neck.
"You will never refer to me as if I'm one of my father's minions. You will treat me with respect. Is that completely clear?"
Nyssa kicked Ubu down to the ground and stepped away from him. She reclaimed Darhk's body and stepped inside. Talia followed them.
Ra's rose up from his seat. He motioned for those followers to step from the side. The body of Damien Darhk came before him. Ra's frowned when looking across the way at Darhk.
"I would have preferred him alive."
Nyssa's frown increased when staring across the way at her father. There were so many words she could have said right now. She decided to go for the most honest and blunt approach.
"I worked hard to get him," Nyssa said. "And you should be thankful you got him at all. Given your lack of success in obtaining him in the first place."
Talia wondered if her sister gone one step too far in stating Ra's failures. The Demon looked at his daughter who stared back. The battle of wills pushed them back and forth. Ra's nodded with a smile indicated pride of some sort. Perhaps Nyssa would not be reprimanded for his words.
"He just perished," Ra's said. "At the hand of the Dragon I assumed."
"The Dragon was present," Nyssa said. "He attempted to steal someone else's body to prolong his life."
Ra's stepped into the picture above his old enemy. He considered Darhk to be little more than a cockroach who clung onto life desperately. He flipped the eyes of the man open and forced him to look up to face Ra's. The Demon stepped back and studied the man at his feet. The limp corpse laid at his feet.
"Is it him?" the priestess standing at the top of the stairs responded.
"If you think the Dragon can be fooled, then by all means check," Nyssa said.
Ra's spent the next minute in silence before responding to them all. "It is inconceivable both the Dragon and myself can be fooled. He lies before me."
The Demon turned to all of his followers. He looked much older than normal. Age should not have been and would not be a barrier for how formidable he ended up being.
"He has been stopped by his own hubris and most importantly his arrogance. This should serve as a ruin for all of you. His hubris was dangerous enough to get him killed. It took centuries for it to catch up to him, but all will fall before the League of Assassins."
Ra's held Darhk's head which only just had been fastened to his shoulders to keep his body together. He moved three hundred and sixty degrees to let everyone take a look at the head of the former member of the League and the man who wished to be where Ra's was.
"Nyssa, a word if you please."
The Demon's Head's eyes flashed while motioning for his daughter to go forward. Nyssa wondered what was going on. She never saw her father look so old and so warn down. It almost concerned her to be perfectly honest. Nyssa's fingers twisted around the dagger clung to her side.
"Yes, father," Nyssa said to him.
"Get this information to the Dragon as soon as you are able to," Ra's said. "Time runs short and…some understand it."
Ra's did not want everything he worked through. The Pit was no longer buying him as much time as it used to during his time.
Claire rolled over onto the bed. Her sleep was a little bit troubled and her body had been fatigued. Solar energy glowed from the ceiling and filtered solar energy back into her body. Kara looked from the door and watched as her cousin slept on.
She would say Darhk would pay for what happened. To be fair, Darhk was long dead and his afterlife would not be pleasant. Harry mentioned the afterlife rarely was on those who repeatedly found more extreme ways to cheat death. Kara listened to her cousin's heartbeat.
'Good, I'm glad she's still alive,' Kara thought. 'It could have been bad.'
Kara hated the fact she came within a few seconds away from failing her cousin. She moved down elsewhere down the hallways of the Potter House. Harry just returned.
"You should be resting," Kara said. "I don't mean to nag but you absorbed Kryptonite and…."
Harry put a hand on Kara's hand. He pulled Kara off into the next bedroom. The two of them sat down on the bed.
"Okay, I'm sitting down," Harry said. "Are you feeling better?"
"Yes," Kara said. "A little bit at least, and I'm glad you saved my cousin. And I'm more glad that she's on our side normally. Imagine if she wasn't."
Claire with no-hangs up with using her power was very terrifying again. Finding a balance between holding back too much and then going too extreme was something that was a high priority for Claire. Or really anyone with any abilities. Claire held back and it stunted her control.
"We're going to figure out how to work with her," Harry said. "Once the three stones are found, we could help her out more."
"Yes," Kara said.
Their final medallion also taunted them. The location of the Phoenix medallion could be locked in the collective knowledge of the twenty-eight galaxies. The sooner they got that medallion, the better they would all feel. Kara locked her eyes onto Harry.
"So?" Kara asked.
"How are you feeling?" Harry asked.
Kara shook her head for a second. "Sore, to be perfectly honest. I think we've figured out how much of a punch Claire packs when she doesn't hold back. Even if it technically isn't her."
A second spent checking Claire's heart beat down the hallway distracted Kara from the conversation. She sounded very much untroubled. She turned towards Harry and unbuttoned his shirt without really thinking about it. The Girl of Steel pressed her finger against his neck.
"I should be giving you a check-up to make sure nothing is damaged," Harry said.
"Maybe you should."
Kara slipped her shirt off revealing her breasts clasped in a red bra and her firm flat stomach. Her red skirt rose up a bit with Harry putting his hands on her lower back and rubbing against her. Kara's smiled and leaned back to enjoy Harry's hands brushing against every inch of her body.
"A few small injuries," Harry said. "Maybe I should heal them."
Harry leaned in and kissed Kara's stomach. The power of his lips healed her body and made her feel more energized. The soreness filling Kara's body tapered away the more Harry lavished his lips on her.
Each kiss allowed Harry to channel bursts of magic through her. He reached down and kissed her sides and then allowed Kara to turn where he kissed her back. More kisses made Kara moan as she lifted her legs for Harry to access. His fingers brushed against her.
"I think I might need some more deep healing," Kara said. "Right between my thighs."
A grin passed through Kara's face. Harry shifted her panties back and kissed between her thighs before getting closer and closer.
A swift push of his tongue between her thighs jolted Kara up completely off of the bed. Harry's fingers brushed against her smoldering hot thighs and made her come out with a sharp breath. Harry worked his tongue against Kara a few swipes and got her wet in no time.
"Let me…look at you as well."
Harry's clothes faded off of his body. He climbed up onto the bed. Kara's bare body stood very enticingly towards him. Harry reached up and cupped her breasts to prod a moan of lust out of her. Harry leaned in and kissed Kara on the lips. One of her legs wrapped around his hip. Harry trailed his finger up her leg.
Each kiss brought Kara closer to just losing herself in the moment. Harry pulled back and kissed her repeatedly on the side of the neck. She encouraged him to keep going on.
"I need you," Kara said. "I need you right now."
Harry pulled Kara closer towards him and rubbed between her thighs. Her pussy moistened underneath Harry's probing fingers.
"I know you do," Harry said.
A brief second passed where Harry made Kara taste her own arousal. Kara sucked and slurped at Harry's finger. Her fingers trailed up her arm and squeezed Harry's bicep. Her nails pushed against Harry's arm. Kara leaned in and moved up. Harry's cock came firmly into her hand. Kara gave Harry a hearty squeeze and pushed down to the base of his cock.
Kara made sure Harry's cock was nice and thigh between her thighs. The two eternal lovers joined together with each other. They met loin to loin scorching in pleasure with the heat between the two of them.
Soft legs wrapped around Harry's waist. Kara rose up high and dropped down onto Harry. Her wet vice clamped down onto Harry and released his swollen prick between her legs. Kara bit down on her lip the higher and further she fell onto him. Her wet pussy clamped down onto him and released him.
"Go for it."
Harry's fingers brushed against Kara's back. He leaned her neck back and kissed her. The sweet scent of Kara's hair came into full picture. He squeezed her breasts making Kara sink down onto him. Her arousal stained the base of his cock.
Several minutes cranked by with Kara getting closer to the edge. She rode Harry's cock until she could not take any more. And thanks to her stamina, Kara could go for a long time. She pushed down onto him. Loin to loin the two lovers connected with each other.
Switching the play, Kara wrapped tighter around Harry's waist and pulled him off of the bed. The Girl of Steel plunged down onto Harry's hard cock when they pushed into their ear.
"Cumming, darling?" Harry asked to her.
A frantic nod confirmed Harry's suspicions with the feeling trickling down her cunt and onto his cock. The wizard pushed deep inside of her. Kara tightened the squeeze around him. The tightening grip of her legs hoisted both lovers off of the ground. Kara slammed down onto him with her trickling pussy bringing juices down onto his cock.
Kara came hard and saw stars. She continued the ride until it was obvious it was time to cum again. Harry tightened his grip around Kara's waist and made her cum once again. Trickles of cum juiced over the engorged cock pushing into the alien vixen's quim. She came all over the cock of her fellow immortal lover.
"Get off and float on your front in mid-air."
Obediently, Kara complied with his words. She floated in midair, thighs spread, and ass stuck completely out. Harry ran his strong hands down Kara's back and worked deeper inside of her thighs. Immense heat pumped from Kara's thighs beckoning for his hard cock. Harry knew what he had to do.
Harry wrapped around Kara and climbed behind her. His thick rod brushed against Kara's entrance and slipped a few inches inside of her.
"Hard," Kara said.
One simple word told Harry exactly what his queen wanted. Deep and rough penetration made Kara scream. She elevated up to position Harry head first into the ceiling.
Harry tightened his grip around Kara's waist and plunged inside of her. He worked up a furious pace and drove his big cock into her from behind on a repeated basis. The sorcerer's grip around Kara's waist allowed him to pull almost out and push back into her. His thick balls slapped against her smoldering hot thighs the further he pulled out. Harry almost slipped out and went deeper inside of her.
"How do you like this?" Harry asked her. "Feeling good?"
"Yes!" Kara yelped in pleasure. "YES!"
Harry plunged his hard cock inside of her body. He filled her up and emptied Kara before slamming back inside of her. Those juicy walls hugged Harry's big cock. Eyes screwed shut allowed Harry to get in the smell of Kara's hair and the sounds of her moans. The feeling of her wet thighs lubricating his balls when Harry put his cock into her.
He only drove into her harder at the thought that someone peeping inside of this window would get a hell of an eyeful of a cock being plunged into Kara's wet pussy while she floated in mid-air. Harry brushed her nipples. These touches gave more gasps of fulfillment from his partner.
Every itch Kara wanted to have scratched Harry moved in to scratch it. Her nipples received a light brushing. The brushing turned into some rough tugging before Harry moved down her body. Massaging hands heightened Kara's arousal to unprecedented heights. Her pussy juiced while feeling Harry's cock inside of her.
"You can't help it," Harry said. "I'm pushing all of your buttons."
To demonstrate that fact, Harry touched her all over. Kara's eyes glazed over the deeper Harry shoved in.
"And you're getting off on it."
Kara's denial did not come because she could not deny it with a straight face. The Daughter of the Serpent Tribe almost crashed down into the bed. Harry's fingers brushed against Kara and tugged at her nipples. She breathed in with hunger dancing in those eyes. The Girl of Steel pushed down onto the bed before Harry pulled her hair and commanded her to flow back up.
Harry held tight on those thighs moving all the way down her. Kara kneeled in mid-air. Harry tilted down and slammed into her pussy with repeated thrusts. Energy sparked between their loins with Harry pushing his cock into her. Harry reached over to squeeze Kara's breasts.
Her body opened to a fresh wave of sexual pleasures. Harry pulled out of Kara and left her hanging just a minute. He rotated her in the air before slamming his huge cock into her. The two of them moved face to face almost hitting the ceiling of the bedroom.
Harry planted his cock into Kara and guided her down on the bed. Her legs spread for Harry and stretched with desirable flexibility. He brought the hardness of his prick into Kara's tight box and allowed her to release him.
She turned around after Harry pulled out.
"More."
Kara ground her soft and firm thighs against Harry's tool. His cock came between her thighs a couple of times. Harry grabbed her legs and rubbed down them. The sorcerer pushed his huge rod into Kara when she floated up in the air. Her ass rose in higher prominence with Harry's cock before dropping down onto him.
Burning lust came through Kara's body when driving herself on Harry. The reverse-cowgirl ride of his cock continued with Kara brushing her hair against the ceiling numerous times. The firm clenching of Kara's tight ass and the finger sliding up said body part only made her bounce even more. The jiggling of firm female flesh stretched against Harry's hard fuck rod the deeper he pushed inside.
"MORE!" Kara yelled at the top of her lungs. "Oh, Rao….MORE!"
Harry alternated between fingering her ass and spanking it all the while fucking her. Kara's heat vision almost did some remodeling on the ceiling of Lana's house. Thankfully, Kara just barely kept herself in line.
"Cum for me harder than you have ever done before."
No words were needed. Kara showed feverish devotion to the leader of the collective. Her moist thighs provided evidence of how much she had been aroused. The repeated rises and drops against Harry's thick tool allowed Kara's pussy to flow swiftly and drip down against his cock.
They had been brought up to a high peak and went through a few angles. Harry rammed into Kara and decided to bring it home.
"It's going to be my turn soon."
Kara threw her head back and allowed Harry to suck hard. Kara's eyes shifted back. Kara's intense actions took Harry deep inside and squeezed him. He was getting closer to the final rush. His balls ached and worked back against Kara's slit.
The two came together. Flashes of white emitted against Kara's eyes before spurts of white coated her insides. Kara grabbed onto Harry and pumped his cock until all of the cum pushed into her.
The perfect angel descending down upon Harry's cock made him swell.
"You're amazing," Harry said. "Simply amazing….just look at you!"
The beaming pride in Kara just made her take Harry in deeper until she finished milking his cock dry of all seed. She collapsed back with a pleasurable cry of content.
Harry pulled out and wrapped his arms around his queen. Kara took the opportunity to snuggle against Harry as the two drifted off for some well-deserved rest.
Chapter Sixty-Five: One Step Closer.
The fresh country air did do Thea Queen a world of good. She took the trip out in the private jet belonging to the Queen Family out to Smallville. She had been too young to remember the old Queen Family town house. Liv talked about how she was out there a lot.
"Okay, okay, I believe you," Thea said. "It's not a place I would really want to live, but hey, at least it's something, isn't it?"
Liv stretched down and picked up the quiver full of arrows. She picked up a pretty elegantly made bow. Thea's eyes widened and she could not help but be impressed by the workmanship of this particular item. Thea took the bow in her hand and admired the craftsmanship of it. Granted, she had not really picked up a bow in a long time. Ever since Liv was assumed dead, and then was not dead anymore, Thea lost the nerve to really pick up a bow and fire it at a target.
"Dad made it."
Thea raised an eyebrow in surprise, although she should have not been too entirely surprised by the statement coming from Liv.
"Why am I not surprised?" Thea asked Liv. "I guess he had a lot of secrets and crafting these bows were a pretty good one."
Thea put the arrow against the bow and chewed on the edge of her tongue. She could make the target, with a little effort. She was certain of it and even more confident. It had been a couple of years since she fired the arrow. Liv placed her hand on Thea's waist to steady her grip around the bow. Liv drew in a deep breath and fired the arrow at the edge of the target. The arrow connected with the target on the center.
"Not bad," Liv said.
Thea glared at her sister. "Why don't you try it them, Ms. Not Bad?"
Liv rose to the challenge. The older Queen Sister put the arrow at the edge of the target and drew back the bow. She drew in a deep breath just as much as she drew in the bow and fired at the edge of the target. The arrow came closer to the center than Thea did.
"Well, to be fair, you've had more practice," Thea said. "And it is much harder to hit a moving target than it is a stationary one. Especially if you're not trying to kill them."
Thea hesitated for a minute. There were some deaths of the Hood's victims. It could have been that they were trying to get away from her though. One of them for instance fell through a three story window and landed on pavement. The investigation pointed to the fact he could have just jumped out of that window in a desperate attempt to get away.
The thought exited Thea's head as she faced the target. She might have been out of practice. Liv put her hands on Thea's waist to adjust her.
"Normally, I'm the one giving you tips," Thea said. "Of course, most of the time when you used to fire this bow you were under something….."
"Times have changed," Liv said. "Nearly dying makes you appreciate life a little bit more."
Thea answered with a nod, boy did it ever. She situated the bow at the target one more time. Liv's perfectly centered arrow placed against the target. She pulled the bow back and fired the arrow right into the target. The arrow connected with the target a little bit more to the center. Thea just smiled.
"Okay, I think I'm working off some of the archer's rust?"
A raised eyebrow signified amusement from the older Queen sibling. "Is Archer rust really a thing?"
"It is now," Thea said. "And I'm working it off. I'd say I'm making a comeback, but I've been here the entire time."
Those words followed through with another arrow connecting to the target. Thea brushed her hair back with a very slight grin popping over her face. It was all in the wrist. She snapped off another arrow which struck the edge of the target. Thea broke out into another smile and fired an arrow.
"Before I forget."
Liv looked over her shoulder and noticed Sara lurking around the shadows. She had not made her presence known yet.
"I'm going to have a lunch date with Harry," Thea said. "As in, Harry Potter."
"Yes, I figured as much," Liv said watching Thea sink another arrow into the target this time much closer to the center. "How did that come about?"
Thea flashed a little smile towards her sister before pulling back the bow and sinking it into the target once again. She stepped over and pulled slipped the arrows away from the target. She left only the central target for her to put the arrow inside.
"Well, Harry asked me on a date, I said yes, and we're going on one," Thea said. "Or rather, I hinted around that I wanted to thank the guy who helped rescue my sister from hell."
"Oh, I'm sure you did more than hint," Liv said.
"Are you just jealous I beat you to the punch?"
Thea came closer to connecting with the edge of the target. She leaned back with a smile on her face once again. She watched as Sara stepped out of the gate.
"Thea, do you mind if I borrow Liv for a second?" Sara asked.
"As long as you don't end up taking her on a yacht which ends up getting sunk," Thea said cringing only second after she said that. "Yeah, I know too soon."
Sara just smiled and gave Thea an encouraging kiss on the lips before pulling back. The kiss caused Thea to get a bit more confidence, rear back the arrow and sink it into the target right where Liv's arrow still laid. She hoped this was a omen for things to come.
Claire's eyes flickered open when sitting up out of bed. It had been like waking up from a very bad and long nightmare. The back of Claire's head ached a little bit when rising up out of bed. Claire climbed up out and walked a little bit around to take in a deep breath.
The light had been on in the kitchen. Harry, Nyssa, and Kara sat around the table. The two women looked like they got straight out of the shower with the moisture in their hair. Claire stepped over and sat down on the table next to them drawing their attention.
Kara slid a bowl of cereal and some orange juice in front of Claire took it. She sat down at the table with a few deep breaths coming from her.
"How are you feeling?" Kara asked.
The girl responded with a shrug of her shoulders. "I'm feeling a little bit better. My head still feels like someone is beating a war drum on it but things could be worse."
It could have been much worse as Claire feared. She had been trapped in someone's body and almost killed. She looked at Nyssa who gave her a smile and checked her arm. The Kryptonite stab wounds on her had been completely removed.
"You did what you had to do," Claire said.
"So, you remember getting stabbed with a Kryptonite dagger?"
"Mmm, yeah, unfortunately," Claire said. "It was for a good cause and Darhk won't bother us much more. So, that's a good thing, isn't it?"
He was already dead when Claire entered his body. The thought of having someone else commandeering her body was terrifying. The thought of being in the body which was literally held together by nothing other than magic knotted Claire's stomach to the point where she wanted to vomit. It was very hard on her to be perfectly honest. Her hair whipped back and sighed.
"Kara look….."
"I'm not blaming you for anything that happened," Kara said with her. "As long as you're feeling good, then I'm feeling good."
Claire just smiled and was glad about it. She shifted her thoughts to another matter other than the weird possession. She did wonder how HIVE knew she would be at the prison. And wondered what ended up happening to Lex.
"If you must know, Luthor is fine," Harry said.
"Well, that's something," Claire said. "What about his father?"
"From what I heard, he doesn't have much time left," Harry said.
The feeling of the approaching death lingered around Lionel Luthor. It would take some pretty divine intervention to pull him out of his inevitable fate. Harry doubted very much it was going to happen any time soon.
"Two stones, and one more to go," Claire said. "Maybe we can get this done without any problems. Maybe we can."
"It's not over yet."
Isobel stepped into the room with a flash. Claire tensed up a little bit. While she knew the witch had been kept on a very tight leash by Harry and Sara, it was still a bit unsettling how she took Lana's body. And she looked just like Lana as well which caused another amount of unease from Claire's mind and body.
"I know it's not over," Harry informed her and invited Isobel to sit at the table.
She took a seat between Harry and Kara. Isobel looked across the table with a smile locked onto Claire. Those fingers just brushed against the table.
"You better have your wits about yourself," Isobel said. "You have two stones, but until they merge into their final form, you have nothing. There are still people who are hunting for the stone. And it includes her."
Claire nodded with her jaw set. "Thanks for the tip."
Thea Queen leaned against the edge of the wall and waited for her date to show up. She bit down on her lip. A nice slender black dress clung to every curve of her young and supple body. Thea made sure she looked as presentable as possible. She grew very impatient and walked down the sidewalk.
'He said he would meet me here.'
"Hello, Thea."
Thea came around with a bit smile. Harry Potter showed up in the flesh and he was good enough to eat. She threw her arms around him with hug before pulling back. Thea's hands brushed against Harry's arms while pulling back from her.
"Nice to see you can make it," Thea said. "Have you been working out?"
Thea's fingers brushed against Harry's bicep for another few seconds. Harry just smiled as the young brunette eyed him. She seized Harry by the hand and moved him over to the side table. They moved closer towards a padded booth which had a nice amount of heat.
"I'm paying for everything," Thea said. "It's the least I can do from bring Liv home."
"I feel like I'm taking advantage of you…."
"Hey, given some of the things that I've blown my money on in the past, this really isn't that bad," Thea said wincing at her past bad behavior. The incident with Pyg opened up her eyes a lot.
"How are you finding Smallville?" Harry asked.
Thea broke out into a smile. Her shoes kicked off underneath the table. Thea daringly edged her stocking clad foot closer to Harry's leg while underneath the table. Harry placed his hand on her leg which sent shivers going down Thea's body. Harry massaged the back of her stocking clad leg under the table.
"I'm finding it very fun," Thea said. "It's actually a nice change of pace to be out here and not out in Starling City. Some of the sights are quite something to see."
Her feet stroked down the edge of Harry's leg and moved up to him. Harry looked into Thea's beautiful brown eyes. Her lips moved out as her foot kept sliding down Harry's leg. One of them rested on top of Harry's crotch. Harry returned fire by rubbing her ankle. Thea's eyes shifted over.
"I'm sure you're not getting yourself into too much trouble."
Thea just gave him a smirk as if she was trying to play innocent and coil. Harry's hand rolled up her leg. He would have been underneath her dress and on top of her panties a moment later. He pulled away and placed both hands on the table for a second.
"What can I do for you, hon?" the waitress asked.
"Get us some of the house special and also a cup of coffee," Harry said. "Is coffee find with you?"
"Yes," Thea said. "Coffee would be great, and cream please. I like to have a lot of cream."
The suggestive gaze she fired in Harry's direction coupled with her stocking clad leg grinding against his thigh on the table made Harry rise up with a groan. Harry brushed against her toes very briefly.
"And I don't get in trouble that much," Thea said. "Okay, a little bit, but I'm going to need a strong man to keep me back into line."
Harry just smiled at her and moved closer to the apex of Thea's thighs. Her thighs were already spreading underneath the table. He brushed against Thea underneath the table and pulled back. He could feel what she was wearing underneath her dress or rather what she was wearing underneath.
'Oh, she's angling for some cock,' Sara thought. 'The question is, are you going to give it to her right away?'
The second time, Harry pulled away from Thea and stroked her thigh. A breath came from Thea as she tried to keep herself calm. Harry's finger brushed up and down the woman's thigh. Thea's eyes closed together for a minute before she turned back to the conversation.
"I'm sure you have plenty of experience with that sort of thing," Thea said. "And it's funny, I never thought Liv would…go for a man. But the way she talks about you, there's a part of me that wonders."
"How about you?"
Harry came close to slipping a finger inside of Thea and pulled back. Thea smiled and brought her finger down her own leg to feel the arousal. She slipped it onto the table and placed it on Harry's face right close to his lips. The arousal came just scant movements away from Harry's nose and mouth.
"Oh, I think you're something else," Thea said. "I would want to know you a little bit better. And I'm sure you really want to know me very well."
Thea's stocking clad foot now brushed against Harry's hardening prick on the other side of his pants. It was very hard to deny her at this moment. Yet, Harry resolved that if he held Thea back from getting what she wanted right away. He could tell that being a child born into privilege, she was accustomed to getting what she wanted. And by denying the heiress, she wanted it even more.
'Sara call me in about two minutes.'
Harry pushed his finger up underneath the table and touched Thea. Thea's eyes widened as Harry played with her in front of the table.
"I'm sure we can get acquainted, Ms. Queen," Harry told her. "I'm sure we can get acquainted very nicely."
Thea never thought this would escalate this far. Sex in a public place was a fantasy of hers and Harry was going to make it come completely true. A second finger teased joining the first. Thea entered a state of concentrated bliss. Her foot shakily tried to unzip Harry from his pants so they could take this even further.
Heavy breathing came from Thea the more Harry pushed into her. Harry smiled and saw her nipples stick out from the other side of the costume. The phone rang and Harry pulled away from her and answered it.
"Sara," Harry said. "Oh, you found something. I'm sure she won't mind me leaving."
Thea did mind just a little bit, but she was not going to make a scene about it out in public. Her pussy had been released from Harry's grip from underneath the table. He stood up and smiled at Thea.
"Another time?" Harry asked her.
"I'll hold you to it."
Thea decided to do a brave and daring thing. She leaned across the table and kissed Harry on the lips. She did not want to let go. The two pulled away from each other with Harry moving down and patting her on the ass before the two of them left.
"If you want to stop by the Queen Townhouse, I'll be there until Monday," Thea said. "It gets a bit lonely there. Liv comes and goes as she pleases."
She was pretty sure Liv looked into a few of the people on the list who had ties into Smallville. Harry walked Thea out to her car and made sure she got in okay before giving her another kiss and leaving on his own way.
'Damn you, Sara Lance.'
That prominent thought came through Thea's mind. She would get some sort of payback eventually, someway, somehow. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but some day she would get Sara alone.
A wicked fantasy made it very hard for Thea to drive without crashing. Thankfully the Smallville country roads had less potential distractions than the streets of Starling City. Thea thanked herself for this.
Hailey rolled over and put away her laptop. She just got off talking to Mia. What was she doing? Mia currently conducted research on something that her mother and the rest of the group was looking into. Exactly what Hailey did not know and Mia did not really say to be honest. She did smile, knowing that her mother and sister were in pretty good spirits.
"So, how are you?"
The laptop had been put around. Hailey almost flung a book at the person who sunk up on her. Rose Wilson leaned against the door and smiled.
"Kid, you're going to have to hurl a dagger at me if you want to threaten me. Or something sharp. You seem to have the coordination to hurl a shuriken."
"You know it's rude to sneak up on people?" Hailey asked.
Rose put a hand on the beg and sank down next to Hailey. She flashed a little grin at her. "And it's lazy not to be prepared for anyone to attack you."
The paranoia coming from Rose brought a smile to Hailey's face and a shake of her head. Rose sat on the bed next to her and took a drink.
"So, how are you feeling?" Rose asked.
"I was just talking to my sister," Hailey said. "She's doing fine if you want to know."
"Well, that's nice she's keeping out of trouble," Rose said. "I'm sure you can't tell me what she's up to because it's top secret."
"Yep, pretty much," Hailey answered with a swipe of her finger. She took a deep breath and settled at the edge of the laptop. "If I had to guess, they might be going with something with the White Bumblebee."
HIVE was in a state of shambles since Darhk's death. Rose would have liked to see that the problems with HIVE were over, but something about it made her doubt a lot. Rose shifted her legs against the bed and took a deep breath. There had been nothing else from them.
"They have only one more to grab," Hailey said. "Harry told me and Isobel…she's getting very anxious."
"I'm sure she is."
Rose kept her eyes on Isobel and tried not to let her get away from them. Another thought center Rose's mind. She leaned close and put a hand on Hailey's arm.
"You haven't had any more visions, have you?" Rose asked.
Hailey hoped she would not have any more visions. No one forced her to have any and none of them had come to her naturally. Her finger brushed against Hailey's scalp and caused a deep breath in response.
"No, nothing yet," Hailey said. "I don't know if I can deal with anything like that ever again."
The next thing Hailey knew, something triggered something. She stood in the middle of an underground tunnel. Hailey stood amongst members of HIVE who were making their way down the tunnel. She tried to open her mouth to scream for help. No screams came out. Hailey whipped her head back repeatedly to try and get any sound to come out.
Rose sat across the bed unable to say anything at first. She went from talking normally to complete psychotic mode and that much distracted Rose. She shook herself out of the jarring thoughts.
"HAILEY!"
The lights popped on with no one being home. Rose grabbed Hailey's shoulder and gave her a little shake. Her eyes widened and then shut completely.
'Harry, we have….'
Harry dropped down on the ground in front of Rose and Hailey no sooner than those first three words came out of her thoughts. Harry grabbed Rose's hand and pulled her way. He climbed up and gripped Hailey gently around the side of the face.
"Hailey?" Harry asked her.
Hailey's eyes snapped open. She moaned out in frustration at what just happened.
"They're after the third one," Hailey said. "HIVE is. They're on their way to Shanghai and…."
Hailey slumped back onto the bed. Rose rushed out and returned seconds later with a glass of water. She grabbed Hailey's head and poured the water into her.
"Drink."
Hailey drank and got her wits about herself. Her breathing grew deeper. Terrified and shaken really did not describe it. She was so far into the vision she could almost smell the disgusting smells coming down the tunnel. And she could very nearly reach out and touch the HIVE agents.
She did not dare and to do it, however.
"There's so much power in there," Hailey said. "Tell Claire to be careful if she goes…there's Kryptonite rocks…and I think Isobel might already have figured out their next play."
Harry took Hailey at her word. He pushed his hand against hers and gave it an encouraging squeeze to tell her whether or not everything was going to be okay.
"I'll take care of it."
Shado stepped out of the shadows with a hood pulled over the top of her head. She loaded up the crossbow and was ready to fire against it. Mei joined her off to the side. She was less of a fighter than Shado, but held a sword strapped to her back. She was not going to let this HIVE bully them into submission.
"One more medallion," Mei said. "I can't believe it. They could be together for the first time in over twelve centuries!"
Shado put up a hand to silence her sister. While she shared Mei's passion for finding the final stone and eventually the medallion, they needed to be calm with this. One wrong step could sent months of researching back. Shado leaned in to get the word from Harry.
'Hive is in the tunnels in this village,' Harry thought. 'I don't know who is ordering them around. We'll be around as soon as we can.'
'Actually, I'm here right now.'
Shado was glad about the person popping into help. Unfortunately, they could not wait, not when they had to move now. Shado joined with Mei as they moved to the front of the temple. A dark-haired woman stepped in front of them and viewed them."
"We come under the authority of the Dragon."
"And I can vouch for them."
Mera stepped into the picture. The woman started to speak very excitedly in her native tongue while pointing at the medallion. Mera reached in and put a hand to the woman's face to stop her speaking.
"Thank you, but we must move."
They had pretty much no time to waste. HIVE was here.
"It's downstairs, in the temple," she whispered. "But, you must pass the trials first."
Mera was determined to prove her worth as a Queen should. The doors opened and she sensed the rest of the collective heads moved closer by.
Chapter Sixty-Six: Shanghai.
Lex Luthor adjusted his tie and took a long gaze to the temple. His father had been researching something very interesting. Lionel still clung onto life. They assured Lex, or perhaps told him to prepare it being any day now. Lionel was still hanging on in there.
He was able to locate what Lionel had worked on and was trying to find a way to figure out what was so important that Lionel Luthor would risk his professional reputation. Lex, on a leap of faith, called the person in Lionel's contact book and he had agreed to meet him in Shanghai. Lex had closed in on a mystery which potentially vexed him for quite some time.
The figure stood outside, arms crossed. The serious Asian gentleman obviously was not one to trifle with and Lex knew he was all business.
"My father, he said that he was after a stone," Lex said.
"Mr. Luthor was after many things," the gentleman said. "And those many things may have gotten him into trouble. But yes, there are many wonders of the world which Lionel Luthor appreciated. And there were many wonders of the world which our curiosity could get us into much trouble."
Lex understood right away what the man referred to. A certain wonder in Smallville which Lex intently studied got him into trouble. The man motioned for Lex to follow him out back behind a temple. If he wanted any answers, and Lex most certainly did, there was no choice to obey.
"Is this stone of power valuable?"
"You can't put a price tag on such divine work," the older man warned. "Lionel Luthor wanted knowledge which no one could possess. There is a legend of someone coming from the stars. The stones would give them power. But if someone could unite the stones into one unified crystal, than they could have control over this traveler. This traveler could create wars or end them, depending on what kind of values they have."
Someone who had seen Lionel Luthor's thirst for control up close understood what this man could do with such great and such awful power. Lex began to stick the pieces together in his mind. Lionel had intended to grab onto this traveler from the very beginning. Whoever he was, Lex did not know. Lex recalled vague memories of a boy staying at Luthor Mansion when he was younger. Which was funny, because years ago, Lex did not remember being in Luthor Mansion as a child.
He left and the only time Lionel mentioned the boy's leaving was to say it was not him. Lex never got an explanation and over time, he had forgotten about it. Lionel's obsession must have only gone worse. The strange events surrounding Smallville only increased as did Lionel's focus on the city.
"Your father is very sick," the older man said.
"He's dying," he responded.
"Obsession tortures the soul."
Lex allowed these words to slip out of the back of his mind. He could see a couple of figures coming around. Lex reached over to the side arm which he now carried at all times. He could never be too careful in situations like this.
"They are strange tourists," the older man said.
Lex would have to disagree. They were more than tourists. They were something else entirely. Lex drew in his breath and looked towards each of them. One by one, Lex watched as the goons moved to the back. One of them had a radio.
"No sign of him yet."
'You want to know what they are involved with, don't you?' Lex thought to himself. 'And you want the same thing which your father had been denied.'
Those words came in very strong in Lex's mind almost to the point where his obsession had been pretty much fueled. A small smile popped over the face of Lex Luthor when he thought of obtaining something.
"I can hear what you're thinking," the old man said. "The same devil which possessed Lionel Luthor is working its way into your mind."
'He just wants the power for himself,' the voice concluded in Lex's mind. 'You know what you have to do. You know the power you have. And the potential you have.'
The voice grew even greater in prominence. Lex wondered what these thoughts going into the back of his mind were all about. He watched the mercenaries.
"The stone is said to be inside that temple," the old man said. "But, there is a terrible force which overwhelms those who do not have the strongest mind."
"I have strength," Lex argued after a couple of seconds.
The man answered with a hand on Lex's shoulder and grabbed him forcefully. Lex resisted the temptation to turn around and shoot this man in cold blood.
"You believe what you wish to believe at this time," the old man said. "You believe your strength is better than you thought it was. But it's just nothing, Mr. Luthor. Nothing other than a lie."
Lex did not buy it for a second. He followed the progress of the figures walking into the prison and thought about making his move.
Shado stepped into the front entrance of the temple. She searched around to see whether or not the coast was clear.
"We have to move," Shado responded. "We can't…."
Harry popped up behind them. Mei just broke out into a swift smile. Mera gave an accommodating smile to her king. The four of them stepped into the temple further. The HIVE guards they saw disappeared around the hallway.
Harry clasped his hands against the edge of the medallion and allowed the power to flow into him. A subtle vibration came over the edge of the medallion. Harry knew that there was something coming. And it was beyond the usual HIVE drones which caused them problems.
"You feel it as well?" Mera asked him.
"Yes," Harry said. "And I know why."
He felt this feeling on the AMAZO another lifetime ago. Those eyes shifted over with Harry thinking about the hideous image of the preacher, Deacon Blackfire. His sadistic ways, his diabolical laughter, and the fact he worked his mind into them.
"He's after the stone," Harry said. "The Deacon."
Shado understood the danger and soon Mei and Mera would understand it as well. The quartet moved around the edge of the temple and into the shadows. No sign of them just yet. Harry moved closer and opened the doorway. He could almost feel the Deacon's presence on top of them.
'It must be frustrating how you can't manipulate my mind like you can them,' Harry thought.
Harry caught sight of Lex moving into the side entrance of the temple. He wielded a gun in hand. Lex turned to the left and to the right. He moved to the same area of the temple which Harry felt the mysterious source of power.
'This complicate things, doesn't it?' Sara asked.
Sara's words prove true. Lex being here did complicate things. The attack on him by HIVE outside of the prison where Claire ended up getting her mind swapped with Damien Darhk's did not cause Lex's interest to waver. On the contrary, it only caused his interest to grow greater. Harry hated to admit it, but he could see where Lex was coming from.
'We should be able to take him out,' Shado thought
Something else happened through. Several HIVE drones made their way up the steps. Lex turned around to face them.
"I remember you."
A casual blast from the gun blew the drone away. He dropped to the ground with a loud thump.
"Perhaps we should work together, Mr. Luthor," a voice said from the shadows.
Shado drew back her bow to try and get a clear shot at Lex. Mera's fist curled up in frustration. Mei put her hand on the sword blade. Someone else had entered the room behind them. Harry had no idea what to expect from this next person coming around the corner, other than it might not be anything too good.
Genevieve Teague, the reincarnation of the Countess, who had Isobel burned alive, stepped inside. Lex turned his attention towards her.
"Mrs. Teague," Lex said. "You're a long away from one of your high society events, aren't you? Now, I'm curious about something. What is a woman like you doing at a temple like this?"
Genevieve's lips curled into a smile. "Just merely seeing one of the most exotic locations in the world. And preparing to bring home a souvenier from my collection."
"You were with my father's group as well," Lex said.
"Clever, Lex," Genevieve said. "You are a smart boy, although you get it from your mother's side of the family less so than Lionel's. He was arrogant enough to try and cut me out a deal."
Was Lex surprised Lionel tried to double deal someone? To be honest, no he was not surprised at all. There was a point he expected it. It was almost the Luthor way to do something. He was fully aware two of them disappeared from the landing and Lex held onto the gun. He pointed it at not Genevieve, but the bodyguard behind her.
"Lex, you're not bold enough to fight all of them," Genevieve said sounding very condensing in the process. "Why don't you put the gun down sweetheart, and I'll let you walk out of here. Trust me, it's a lot better for you."
An echo popped into the back of Lex's head. A repeated chant of "shoot her" came forth in Lex's mind. Lex closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He steadied the gun and pointed it at Genevieve. One of them nailed Lex in the shoulder and caused him to drop the gun.
"You had your chance," Genevieve said. You should have taken it when you had the opportunity."
The HIVE drones working for her stood over Lex's broken body. Shado watched and Harry nodded. She drew back her bow and fired.
Genevieve stepped down the steps into the temple. Her excitement reached a higher level the closer she got. For years, for centuries, her family hunted for the stones. One of them was an inch away from her. Genevieve could feel the power coursing through her. The stunning siren song echoed throughout the area the further Genevieve stepped towards the edge. She came across the front of the gate. Her heart stammered a couple of beats when closing in on the edge of the temple. Genevieve's lips curled into a very devious smile when approaching the stone.
'Finally.'
"Touch it and you drop."
Genevieve turned around. The mysterious force guiding her down here did not warn her of the figure stepping out of the shadows. Genevieve's eyes narrowed when facing this figure. The dark hair and the haunting eyes, they seemed familiar. Genevieve recalled watching as Deacon Blackfire stood next to her and burned the figure at the stake.
"I told you I would haunt you across a thousand lifetimes," Isobel said. "Now, take the stone and drop it."
"Or what?" Genevieve asked. "What are you going to do? You could kill me, couldn't you?"
Genevieve withdrew a dagger out and stabbed Isobel in the shoulders. Blood spilled from her arm just as much as it burned. The enchanted dagger ripped from Isobel's arm as it had been pulled out with a solid hiss. Genevieve smiled and stabbed the dagger at her enemy one more time.
Isobel flashed out of the way. The wound on her shoulder caused her blood to burn. Isobel's eyes followed the progress of Genevieve Teague who rushed towards her. Isobel blocked the flowing shot with the dagger and returned fire with a couple more shots of her own.
Another stab caught Isobel in the leg. The dagger weakened her.
"HIVE created this to deal with magic entities," Genevieve said. "It's quite useful, isn't it?"
A flash of fire came in front of Genevieve. The dagger launched out of her hand and The Dragon swept her down onto the ground. Genevieve's breath had been taken out of her body.
"You," she said. "No, it can't be you."
She dove at the dagger which had been knocked out of her grasp. Isobel slumped hard against the wall breathing. The wound burned against the side of her leg. Every moment she struggled to breath was a moment she was not killing Isobel.
Harry grabbed her and then healed the wounds. That dagger packed a punch and made every single one of Harry's nerve endings sear with agony. Harry's eyes glazed over.
"I'm in your debt."
Genevieve crawled up the steps to the exit. She had been rieled back in. Her attempt to withdraw and fire it resulted in the weapon jamming.
"You are truly the worst," she breathed heavily.
The mystical energy inside of the temple rattled to life. Harry peered over his shoulder. A giant Kappa guardian of the temple came to life. Harry's eyes fell on the creature who extended two daggers made completely out of scorching hot fire.
'Of course,' Harry thought. 'Of course.'
The Guardian of the temple rushed towards Harry. The sorcerer flashed out of the way. The burning daggers plunged against the wall. The figure dropped down and repeatedly nails him with a series of punches to the side of the head. The Dragon flashed out of the way. The dagger slashed against the wall and left burnmarks. Harry appeared and vanished.
Mera and one of the larger HIVE goons crashed through the wall on the other end. The Queen held the HIVE goon in a choke hold and slowly put him down. More came up from the underground tunnel. Mera engaged them into battle.
The Kappa Guardian did not hold any discrimination towards who it attacked. It just rushed forward as fast as possible with the daggers extended. The blades caught a HIVE Drone flush across the chest. The burning embers stabbed through his chest.
Harry took a moment to study the guardian and how it moved. And by knowing how it moved, he would know how to take it down. Mera's attacks proved to be fruitless. The HIVE goons attacks also proved to be about as fruitless.
The Guardian crashed one of the goons through the wall. Dust and grime shot up in the air. Harry took a few seconds to readjust himself. A blade made completely of ice manifested from Harry's hand. Harry jumped up and drilled the ice blade through the chest of the creature. The creature staggered back a couple of feet and gave a hideous growl. It rushed towards Harry once more.
"The further it gets away from the stone!" Isobel yelled. "The weaker it gets!"
"You want me?" Harry asked. "You want my power?"
The guardian chased Harry through the opening in the wall and down the steps. The HIVE drones decided to depart from the situation. Genevieve, deciding that her own self-preservation was more important than the stone for the moment, also vanished into the shadows.
"Come at me!"
The Guardian sensed the most dangerous being in the temple and followed Harry in very hot pursuit. Hot being literal as fireballs rained down on Harry Potter. Harry avoided the attack from this brutal guardian who came closer yet to ripping him apart.
Harry stepped back with a smile flashing over his face. The Guardian charged at Harry and came very close to wiping him out. Harry avoided the Guardian blasting him down to the ground. Harry flipped completely over and stuck the landing behind the Guardian. The Guardian turned back around and sent a hot mass of fire directly at Harry's chest.
The light cleared and Harry popped right back up. He noticed a weak spot on the Guardian's back. A glow emitted from it which drew in the power. Harry summoned a bolt of light to jam into the guardian.
Isobel took the guardian's legs out from underneath him. The guardian of the temple crumpled and left the protection of the stone unguarded and unfiltered.
Lex Luthor took a couple of steps forward towards the pedestal with the stone. He could hear chanting in his mind. A figure dressed in a robe stepped behind him. A hand pressed on Lex's hand and steered him closer towards the stone.
"You're almost there," the figure said with excitement. "Don't you want what your father could never hold in his hand no matter how much he desired it?"
Lex stopped with a slight amount of hesitation coming through him. He had no choice, but to not in agreement. He did want the one thing his father could never hold pressed in the palm of his hand. The stone laid out on a pedestal just ready for Lex to grab and to make his. He moved ever so closer to obtaining power beyond all life itself. Lex touched the stone.
"Yes."
Deacon Blackfire appeared before Lex. The preacher's demonic eyes looked upon Lex. One hand extended out and placed upon Lex's shoulders. Blackfire held Lex in his grip and under his power. It was almost like nothing else mattered to Lex.
"Are you ready to change the world, Brother Alexander?" Blackfire asked.
"Yes, Deacon Blackfire."
Black smoke surrounded them all and caused them to vanish into the night. The doors burst open just seconds before they did. Shado, Mei, Isobel, and Harry all came down. Isobel rushed forward to the pedestal where the stone laid only to realize it had vanished into the night.
"No!"
Isobel busted the pedestal into pieces from an outburst of magical energy. Her hands shook violently as it was beyond impossible for her to keep things together. Isobel drew in a couple more breaths. Harry put a hand on her shoulder.
"Someone beat us to the punch."
The Guardian activating when it did was not to protect the stone. Well, it was to protect the stone from Harry grabbing it and giving it to Claire so she could achieve her goal. No, what happened was someone, and Harry knew who, prevented the stone from getting into his hands.
"At least it's not a total loss."
Mera marched Genevieve Teague into the room. The normally arrogant woman looked very subdued and terrified. It had to do with the fact that her hands tied together and there was no obvious way to defend against any attack. And more importantly, there was no way to defend against any retribution.
Isobel's face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning. Her hand started to glow when approaching the woman who had her burned alive. Burning embers came from her fingertips.
"Wrap her around the stake," Isobel said. "I want to see her beg for her life before I burn her to death. I want her to see how it feels."
"I have….I have information!" she yelled.
Isobel scoffed. It was very dubious that this woman did in fact have information. Oh, she might as well have been trying to save her own skin to be perfectly honest. She put a hand on Genevieve's forehead. The dagger came closer to her throat.
"You fear what would happen if I caught you," Isobel said. "Stabbing me with that dagger was your last chance to take me down."
She broke out into a smile when facing the trembling woman on the ground. Isobel was glad Genevieve had been terrified to death. It served the woman right.
"They used you," Isobel crowed in triumph. "They used you to get what they wanted. HIVE no longer needs you. Blackfire no longer needs you. You are worthless."
"Yes," Genevieve said. "Is that…is that what you want to hear? Is that what you want to hear? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR YOU PSYCHOTIC WITCH?"
Isobel came this close to burning the woman at the stake on principle. The Dragon did not relinquish the grip on her hand. It was a warning for her to stay calm. Isobel played her calm just for now. She knew sooner or later though, vengeance would be hers.
"You said you had information," Harry said. "You will get a humane execution if I feel your information is useful."
"And if not?" Genevieve asked him.
"I will make you beg for your life before I slowly take it," Isobel said. "Don't fuck with me, Countess. You don't want to know what I can do."
'I'm glad we have her mostly under control,' Sara chimed in.
'Yeah, you don't say?' Gwen asked. 'She really is a good asset. Glad she's on her side. It can be a bit scary when she gets revenge happy though.'
The devoted sect of followers clamored around outside of a crypt which resembled a Black Phoenix. Inside of the crypt, glowing orange fluids were pumped into the temple. One of the true believers, a dark haired man with greasy hair, put his hand on the temple. He turned to the others, who all bowed their heads.
"The latest battle broke our leader," the greasy man said. "What those who foolishly oppose him do not realize is that he will rise again. Stronger than ever. Our Order will guide over the White Bumblebee. Each and every day he gets stronger. He is the only one to bring order to the world."
"For the greater good!" a crazed man yelled.
"For the greater good!"
The greasy-haired man just smiled and adjusted the stasis tunes flowing into the temple. The next thing he knew, a knife impaled through his stomach and dropped him down to the ground.
A figure moved in the light and took out the vast majority of the cultists surrounding the crypt. They did not have an opportunity to defend themselves. This figure in the hood was so swift in his attacks that he had already started killing the next victim before the last one hit the ground.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?" a large redhead woman who resembled an overgrown harpy shrieked. "You dare discrete the great White Bumblebee and….."
The figure decapitated the woman before she finished her voice. Her head dropped to the ground, mouth still open in mid-yell. The figure stepped back and pulled the hood back to reveal the haunted and ravaged face of one Ra's al Ghul.
Glowing orange fluids pushed into the stasis tube. Ra's sliced the lifeline leading into the tube. The front of the tube opened up to reveal the withered and ancient body of a once dangerous man.
"Age has not treated you kindly, my old pupil," Ra's said. "It's a trainwreck I've weathered many times before. Riddle left his mark on you, didn't he?"
Ra's decided it would be for the best to put his old student out of his misery. It would also settle a debt held with the Dragon from a long time ago to eliminate his most persistent enemy. Ra's wished to go into the grave all of his debts paid.
His children should not have to suffer for his sins.
"Hold up, Brother Ra's."
A haunting figure of a man dressed in a scraggly beard and a wizard robe stood in front of him. Ra's stalled just enough to step back and face the figure off in the distance. The figure's lips curled into a smile.
"I wish to offer you a deal, my brother," Blackfire said. "I know you cling onto life, selfishly and foolishly. Each trip you take through the pit of Reincarnation weathers you a little bit more. Strips away a bit more of your being, and a bit more of your soul."
Ra's heard his words and wondered how relevant they might be to his plight.
"I offer you a way to heal and to live without the Pit," Blackfire said. "I also offer you riches and power beyond your wildest imagination."
Ra's turned away from the White Bumblebee. The crypt sealed itself back up and the tubes hacked away now pumped even more into him.
"What do you say?'
"Speak, and if I don't believe, you will die," Ra's said. "And he will follow."
Ra's intended to hear this man out at the very least. Something about his voice compelled him to do that much.