Chapter 35

One day with Naruto and Raven out of the picture, Crucifier managed to find Enchantress deep inside the ruins found in the Amazon forest.

It had been a difficult battle with his servants helping put but he finally managed to convince the crazy woman to work with him.

His servants had been greatly damaged that their bodies were barely hanging as the eldritch magic ate away at their immortal life.

Crucifier may not care for humans but his servants were his people and he was greatly hurt by their pain.

"Drink" Crucifier cut his arm and commanded the Great Ten to drink his blood that was shining with great power

"My lord…you can't…it will weaken you."Kong Kenan muttered as his right side was erased while the rest was dying down

Before becoming the vampire's servant he had been the Superman of China with all the powers of the original Superman at a lower scale as he was a product of genetic experimentation.

He used to be bully but now Kong had been doing his part as a hero. Even as a vampire, Kong followed that path as all of the Great Ten also retained their original personalities.

To them Crucifier was their master that they couldn't dislike but they could see the problem with the path he was taking.

So it would be the best thing if they died here now or more people would die at their hands.

Crucifier could feel the conflict of desires in his servants and sighed as he dropped his blood into their mouths to fight against the magic.

He didn't hate their thoughts about dying for the greater good since it was an admirable quality.

'They will learn with time and those feelings will belong to our side.'

"I didn't think you cared. Aren't you a failure as a being of darkness?" Enchantress's raspy sound entered his ears

Looking at the beautiful woman garbed in green robes, Crucifier shook his head as his ruby eyes glowed in the dark.

"My lord doesn't believe that darkness mean we have to hate each other and backstab. It just means we thrive in the darkness like the beings of light thrive in the light.

We continue to lose ground because of such a simple misconception. If we could just stand together than the light would have to make proper compromises, unable to just paint us as evil and unnatural." Crucifier muttered with an emotional tone while clenching his hand showing his passion for the subject

He had shown calm features throughout the whole ordeal, this was the first time any one of them had seen him so animated.

Really, if he wasn't a vampire they wouldn't think of him as a villain.

"Not a bad answer but changing people of this side his harder than the light. Power speaks and you are just a tiny little bug."

"I hold no such grand schemes in my mind. I am satisfied with this humble dream of mine." Crucifier smiled as his servants stood up with a stronger connection to him

It was a good result even if he had ended up losing 20% of his power.

With Enchantress by his side their weakness was covered up and the heroes would be too late by the time they come face to face.

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Back with the league, Batman was busy with many things as he had been relentlessly trying to communicate his side with the government so they could see the bigger picture.

After countless hours of arguing, he finally got his point across as they realized that the threat of vampirism was spreading too fast and was uncontrollable unless they made the changes.

That was only good thing because he just lost his two strong supporters at his delicate time and they had been unable to find anything yet.

But with the security cameras updated to the highest level of tech around the country along with the super computer behind the system, the task should be effectively handled while members from the police and armed forces were chosen to be trained under the program created by Bruce.

The rest of the forces also had a change in their training regime and addition of new weapons.

If the pressure wasn't enough, Batman found that Robin and Black Canary got captured. His body shook from the shock and while his heart wanted to go and search for him, he knew that the world needed him most at this time.

Biting his tongue, Bruce chose to stay and continue his work with a heavy heart while letting Shazam handle the search.

With Naruto's awakening, the team's pressure was lightened a bit as Raven was able to cast some spells over some cities to help them out.

It was unfortunate these spells couldn't be casted over the planet because of other forces in the dark that would take this as an attempt to discredit them and take it as a challenge.

Bruce didn't want that headache so he didn't suggest such a drastic move.

The information provided from Naruto's memories was not very useful and it reinforced the thought that the boy had made a stupid decision, letting his emotions get the best of him.

They were all fighting for the same cause but anyone could see Naruto wasn't very experienced especially at seeing death.

Every one of them had seen death in huge numbers and were obviously horrified but didn't let their emotions take over anymore while Naruto ended up pushing and the choice ended up being wrong.

No one was always right so you shouldn't try to push through without facts backing you since luck can run out at the worst of times.

'Hope he learned from this experience because we can't handle any more mistakes.'

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"What are we going to do about Robin? I really can't take this situation anymore. Why is this bastard vampire acting like a fucking rat?" Jaime raged as smashed his cup

The situation was messing with his head. Nothing seemed right anymore as his leader was incapacitated and his friend was taken, most likely a vampire by now.

Impulse didn't know what to say as he couldn't believe that Tim was taken. It wasn't even that long when he had seen Tim as New Batman's (Dick Grayson) partner but now that young but charming man was gone.

Everything was derailing so fast and he wasn't seeing a solution at all.

'I killed him. I killed Tim.' Impulse body was shaking from the guilt he felt at the thought of his loved one

The future was terrible but his loved one still existed but now he had just caused one of them to die.

"Impulse shake out of it, man." Jaime noticed Impulse acting weird and shook his shoulders

Seeing the tears from his eyes and the look, Jaime hugged him, "Bro calm down. We can't just give up like that. There must be a way. We are the Golden Dawn so think positive."

Jaime had been feeling pressured but seeing the broken expression of his friend forced him to act as the moral support with scarab guiding him.

'There is nothing impossible. You just haven't discovered it yet so never let such thoughts touch your heart and mind.'

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Kara saw the duo but moved away as she didn't know what to say. She was good at everything but communication wasn't her skill.

Understanding other people and pulling them out of the darkness was his skill so she could only do what she was best at.

Flying to her sanctuary, Kara operated the computer and created nano cameras with the resources available.

Putting them in different areas in Africa, Kara activated them so they would fly in a pattern she programmed while she watched all of them to catch any clue.

These nano cameras flew around at fast speeds and captured everything perfectly.

This was the only way she could search anymore as flying around had proved completely useless with Naruto.

She didn't find the vampires but noticed something else.

'What is that?' Kara thought as she noticed that the forests were slowly expanding

Sending the cameras into the sky, she noticed that it was happening everywhere.

Using the cameras she tried to find the origin point but couldn't get any clue and decided to meet the clone.

Flying to Jump city, she looked at the clone laughing and talking to Mary in an engaging matter.

He seemed happy even with all that pressure on his shoulders.

'That's so like him. Shouldn't have expected anything less. Charming some girl where ever he goes with that smile of his and his pure personality.' Kara thought with a smile as she hesitated for a second

"Naruto, I need your help." Kara spoke at a different frequency so only he could hear

"Kara, you need to go back to the original. I can't help you. I have no powers at all."

Those words shocked her, "How?"

"I met Death and she decided that I will learn better by actually not having those powers instead of acting like I didn't have them. Did something happen to the real one?"

"Nah, its fine. He is just sleeping after training too much. I will be going now so take care and good night." Kara replied as she flew away before he would notice anything from her words

She didn't want to increase the clone's pressure. The real one was already under it.

"Naruto, wake up"

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A.N Hope you enjoyed

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