Of Suffering and Death (open)

[Black Death]

The threats of being dragged through Black Deaths plans of destruction of the city and demise of its people did not seem to faze the young heroine. Perhaps enough talk and enough commands was enough, he had wasted his time twice with this woman, her stubbornness and constant defense was becoming an irritation, she didn’t take him seriously and he would not have that. If she though his actions were a mockery who else would take him up like that? He wouldn’t become anything less than a fear to the city. It was time to treat her a lesson.

“Your threats aren't going to stop me from going after you Death even if i die there will be more heroes that will stop you ." she then goes after him . "Avengers i need assistance in Gotham Hospital right away."

Cryptic and sinister laughter came from him. “Who will save you from your fate? It is too late, you belong to me. You’re destiny is sealed! Might you be an example to those who oppose me?” He said and began to grow bigger and ganglier looking. Strands began to run along the walls and floor into the long hall, blocking out the little light that was left.

Flameshadow began to run towards him and the fire in her eyes burned just a bright as the flames that shot from her hands. From behind her, the stands of darkness rushed towards objects in the visible rooms, swallowing everything and everything. Beds, chairs, desks, books, cabinets, even tiles from the floor, the sinks and medical instruments of all sorts, they began to levitate and pull behind flameshadow as she charged him.

Black Death stood his ground until the very moment she was about to struck and the darkness dispersed. The dragon shaped flame hit the wall, bursting out several windows behind him. He dropped down like a puddle of shadow, dodging underneath the fire that exploded across the wall. He felt the energy and it hit him harder than he thought it would. If he was not wearing the suit underneath his darkness force her would have been burnt or possibly killed.

He moved aside the wall behind her and shot a single blow at her back as he reformed. He pushed the force and then watching as all the stuff it had pick up sped towards her. The mass of force and objects had enough velocity to plow right through the wall with an explosion. An array of objects shot out and fell from the building into the parking lot below. Black Death hovered forward and stood on the edge of the hole in the wall before traveling to the parking lot. He looked around the room and then down and in the air. But where was Flameshadow? Could she be under the ruble? But when he spotted her, he would send a bubble of darkness around her which would keep her busy for a couple minutes.

Black Death instantly shadow traveled to the middle of the parking lot. He then caught sight of a strange person before him. It was not human and it had weapons which were aimed towards him. Black Deaths head turned slowly towards the new comer and his shadowy tendrils floated like torn cloth in the wind that was not there. The creature fired his weapon at Black Death and he twisted around the first three shots but then stood still, taking in the other shots into himself. He put his hand up and forced them out his hand. The same bullets fired back towards him.

“Your mortal weapons do not faze me.” He pointed to him. “Another foolish being to challenge Fates will? If you have come to aid the woman your time is wasted. Her soul is about to cross realms, she will be mine.”

The creature then shot a part on himself at Black Death and it struck him. It shot through him and out the other side and a clump of shadow force stuck to it. It swarmed the knife and scrabbled it around the parking lot. He had never felt anything like that. It was organic but not like human flesh and he felt its power. This person would make him weak if he fought him for too long. Terry was ready starting to feel tight chested and now he had two heroes to fight.

[Flameshadow]

Flameshadow grits her teeth and braced herself for what is happening. she expected this knowing this not easy opponent.She looked around quickly and was smash in the back and fell the ground and suddenly roll out of the way to dodge the derbies. She contiuned to hide behind the rumble of objects that almost crushed her . She then stared towards him with look as she lied there She then suddenly looked and saw that Venom had came. She had heard this guy was on their time now but didn't understand why JLA would let someone like him in. She knew he was ally through. She then tries to figure out a way to attack Black Death without being seen. She then sits up quickly as she drew her blade and covered it with flames her blade was covered in something that kept it from melting from the heart and she flipped into the Ceiling and swings down towards him with her fire streaking behind her. She gasped just as the bubble of darkness went around her and she crashed right into it and she started to slash at it order get out it . She glared as she screamed in rage as flame flared from her body

[Nathan Thompson]

Underneath the masked, black eyes of the symbiotic mask, Nathan was snarling and felt hatred towards the man Jamie was fighting. Holstering his Multi Gun on his back, he cracked his knuckles and neck. With skill and ease that came from over eight years of practice, his hands transformed into elegant, long and broad blades that would be suitable enough for his type of symbiotic attakcs. Slashing around in a demonstration, he said “My soul is tainted. It was fed off by my symbiote, and all that was left was cancerous excrement. This thing has caused me pain and suffering, and I will use it as a weapon to make you suffer. I'm a bringer of suffering. That's all I am now.” Under his mask, a tear slipped down.

Using the power in his legs, granted to him by the symbiote, he leapt high into the air towards the man and sent a flurry of slashes towards him, attempting to slice and dice him. Unfortunately, he could not remain airborne, and after a few minutes he landed on the ground. Transforming his arms back, he sent several compact balls of webbing towards the man, attempting to blind him if possible. After that, he threw four symbiotic knives at the guy, using his constituent matter manipulation and generation powers in perfect sequence to their full extent and full power without losing his sanity.

[Black Death]

As the darkness force ragged around flameshadow and her fire power grew, Black Death found himself in front of one who called himself tainted and a bringer of suffering. This person also interesting him, his dark charisma didn’t seem to fit why he was helping Flameshadow who was a heroine. The bringer of suffering then leaped towards him. In attempt to use his full force, he dropped his force around the woman. It would help him fend off him but leave her free to come and attack as well. At least if they were together he might be able to use that.

The creature leaped and was about to land, Black Death dissipated down to ground level and moved under him and appeared behind him. The slashes of the organic weapons entered the darkness but hit nothing, only shadow. He watched intently to see what this person could really do. Balls of a strange material then came from his hands and shot into the shadowed figure which he then spit out towards Flameshadow. He was then pelted with the four knives and he was forced back a couple feet by the his power. He making himself look to be sliced apart and then reformed. He held one of the Knives and made it explode apart.

“A bringer of Suffering you are? What suffering is left that you could take from me?” He said and then looked at Flameshadow and pointed to her. He put his hand up, motioning Venom to hold his actions. He needed a moment to catch his strength, he was losing power and his chest was getting tighter as he was quickly becoming unable to get the air he needed. He would soon either have to leave the fight, kill them or risk losing the battle.

“Tell me, do you believe your sins against me do not grow by this? Are you afraid to take the sentence you have come to acquire? Yet you pull another being in to this meddling of yours child. Leave the will of Fate alone, but you could not! Wish it upon me to pull tension in the spirit dimensions, that what is commanded to go unsettled, not even one who is dead and in debt would cross such a path!” He said as he was between them. As he talked, secretly in the darkness, his darkness force roamed the parking lot in a few different places.

[Flameshadow]

Flameshadow noticed she was freed from the darkness . She then took this chance to jump back just as the balls of webbing which shot from Black Death's body as she flipped up on her free hand which wasn't holding her sword. She then twirled her blade in her hands and then created more flames. She didn't want to listen to this man speak it just enraged her more. She didn't just going to let this man go just so he can murder more people. She then looked towards Venom for second. She then jumped into the wall then kicked from then brings her blade up towards Black Death's shoulder with flames streaming through the Blade. she knows she is tempting fate with this but she didn't actually care.

[Nathan Thompson]

Looking at the guy they were fighting, he cracked his neck and his knuckles. “Okay, let me tell you this. I may be a bringer of suffering, but I am nothing like the spirit of vengeance or anything like that. I just have the unfortunate curse of possessing this symbiote, that tries to control my actions and force me to commit atrocities and kill people. Well I will use it to cause you SUFFERING! I am the answer to this problem. I am VENOM! And I will take you down with every thing in my arsenal.” And with that, Nathan switched his multi gun into a grenade launcher. Aiming a very powerful grenade that was designed to take someone down.

Aiming, he fired it at the guy. The guy had stopped for a second, and Venom said as he grew to an enormous size, his strength reaching its peak at this size. “You need a second? Leave, and you can have a breather. Just leave. Because other members of the League of Avengers will come here soon. Lets end this!” And with that, Venom huirled his multi gun down, and leapt into the air, slashing with his hands that had become swords.

[Black Death]

These two beings were becoming more of an annoyance than anything to him and he was becoming ill and his idea about ‘talking it out’ for a moment’s breathe, wasn’t going to fly. His breath was starting to race and wheeze under his helmet, but he didn’t let it show. Flameshadow had been freed from his darkness force and came behind him with her weapon drawn. He moved to the side as she swiped at him with the flaming sword and then back flipped, blew out a ball of dark force at her.

Floating in midair he began to make his darkness expand, cupping around them and it started to block the light behind him. He turned his attention to the creature who fired a grenade launcher at him. The grenade passed right through the darkness, exploding in the background, making part of his cloud disperse and sent him to the closer to the ground. He placed his feet on the concert and watched the creature grow in size and taunt him.

“Let them come! You’re fates are sealed either way; your meddling in my affairs has come to an end. The moon shall not set until you bleed at my feet! Now the crop of Gotham will be harvest earlier than scheduled. You can be thanked for that.” He said and braced himself as Venom jumped into him as he began to expand the cloud of darkness.

A whirlwind began to form around Venom as he slashed at Black Death. It was now hard to distinguish what was the ghostly figure and the darkness, but he made himself nearly visible and he went round and round, with Venom on the eye of his whirlwind. Once there was a sound as if his swords scrapped metal. Black Death fell back in is unseeable darkness onto the ground, holding his arm, if not for the suit it would have been gone, sliced off.

The force of venoms blow, even the slight scrap had dislocated it but he held his scream. Now injured and becoming weaker from the use of his force and hardly able to breath he began to think, there had to be an end game or he would be killed. He rose up, increasing the dark twister around the creature in a last attempt and he crept out the side to find Flameshadow.

He floated into the middle of the parking lot; clearly she would see him leaving Venom to the whirlwind and come to attack him. He picked up a car with the force and tossed it at her and then conjured up several more vehicles. Strands of darkness, like veins, came forth from around him. He put his hand out when she had finished clearing them. This was the moment he was waiting for.

“Bring forth the fire in your eyes; that which I have come to love and hate with so much passion, and take a feeble reaper’s scythe if you might.” He said to her, a pulsing going through his very force as it grew around him. But the edges of his vision were also becoming black and his face went flush. He had one chance, and if he was going to go out, he was going to take her with him.

[Flameshadow]

She was in a very bad simulation here. She then jumped and rolled the first car just as it dropped towards her then. She then looked up towards him as she got right back and noticed there is more Car and then looked towards Nathan and suddenly pointed up towards the several cars that are about to hit her now, "Venom " she quickly makes pointing movements towards all cars . She was scared for once wasn't sure what she is going to do now. She was afraid to die of course. She then aimed her hand upward as she pretended to give "yes if i am going to die i will make sure you will go down with me too "She then waved her hands and fully covered her forearms with flames and makes another dragon and swings it towards him with great force.

[Black Death]

She was ready to die? It was what Black Death wanted to hear because he was ready to make that a reality. For the past few minutes Black Death was his shadowy trails were up to something sinister. He was going to use her own power against her. He was going to fight fire with fire. The large shadowy wall that was hovering above them started to budge out towards the woman and when she flamed up her body he knew it was time. Flameshadow sent off a large dragon from her hands and as she did Black Death released the ball of gas from within the mass of darkness force. It was nearly 1000 gallons of fuel.

“Then I’ll see you in hell!” He shouted at her as he motioned his hands towards the bubble.

The darkness bubble bursts and the fuel would fall onto the flaming woman. Black death tried to move back into a pathway of darkness as quickly as he could but once the fire and the gasoline mixed the light took away his path. The blast could be seen from across the whole city. The blast of so much light an energy over powered him and his darkness evaporated and he was blown across the parking lot and clear into a area of homes, landing in front of a building. The metal suit slammed, and tumbles across the street. The Black Death laid motionless with fire still burning on the front of the suit.

For a moment the dark villain’s secret was exposed but who would see him there behind the massive fireball that engulfed the parking lot. He barely conscious and had no idea what was going on. But in his unconscious state his darkness force revived and it picks him up from the ground. It moved him into a house where it pulls him into a basement and peeled him out of the suit. When Terry next opened his eyes he half naked and was standing disoriented in the destroyed parking lot in front of the hospital. Terry held his chest; he couldn’t breathe his body hurt so bad that he just fell to the pavement and could not move a inch.

He had no idea where Flameshadow was and didn’t really care, she was probably dead, the blast would have scattered anyone else across several blocks. The protective suit had saved him but he was still injured with some broken bones, a collapse lung, sever whiplash and his hearing was gone. Terry Elise lay dying in the parking lot. He cried out but his voice seemed to be gone. In his fading eyes he could see people in front of the building and they were pointing at him.

The only survivor in the blast seemed to be this man who came from no where. If anything they would think he was probably a spectator who got caught in the cross fire. Some paramedics ran up to him and were talking but he could hear him. He stopped breathing and started going into arrest. In the last moment his eyes were open he swore he saw the face of his enemy and her fiery eyes. He would wake up in the same hospital two weeks later.

[Flameshadow]

Jamie suddenly kept her mouth closed and suddenly shield herself just as blasted backwards from the explosion. She then quickly when to ground and covered her head as flames suddenly burst and spead across the ground. She then suddenly redirected the flames with her hand away from her her teammate who is on the ground from the blast. She then She had survived something that someone wouldn't haven't if she was normal human and she looked down towards Nathan had had cuts metal shoot from the area . She looked down towards her friend and sighed and lifted him from the ground and suddenly waved her hands and placed him over her shoulder. She called up the tower on her Comm-link"Flameshadow to Tower i need assistance i need medic right away " She wasn't worried about tracking Black Death right she was more worried about Nathan at moment. She then stood there and held her friend over her shoulder and holding him there.

[Nathan Thompson]

The symbiote had slinked away, leaving Nathan there, fatally wounded. He was on the cusp of death. Looking at Flame, he put his hand on hers. “It's gonna be alright..... Flameshadow, don't seek vengeance. Rely on the light.” The light in his eyes was fading, and it was obvious that the burns over his body weren't going to heal. They had been fatal, and it meant Nathan would be leaving the realm of the living. Giving his friends hand a reassuring squeeze, he began to close his eyes. “Find the Symbiote. Don't let this hatred, anger and vengeance take over. Don't kill that smoke guy. Please.” This was his last request. And then, with a single final breathe, Nathan's eyes fully closed. His soul, body and mind were all now gone. He was dead, his body burned. The symbiote had escaped due to the heat being unbearable, and it would find a host. A new host soon.

[Black Death]

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