>>6349332“Nabu.” you snarl, and as you do the wind from your dash catches up to you. Washing over Nabu and the other man. Staggering the human, Nabu's cape blowing around him from the breeze you whipped up with your super speed. “How the hell are you still alive? I watched you die!”
“Karn, son of Tatsu.” Nabu says, turning to you. As does the orange and black-suited man, hands going reflexively to his weapons. But as he sees you, suddenly you see him visibly relax. Instead of addressing you the figure turns back to Nabu.
“You're on your own. You can't pay me enough to fight him.” he says nonchalantly, turning his back on you both and walking back out into the open. Silence hangs between you two, your fists trembling with barely-restrained rage.
“Karn! That's enough. He's on our side.” Batman calls, you blinking in surprise at the words.
“What? After what this monster's done? He tried to have my son murdered!” you snarl, aura blazing higher as the sandstone cobblestone beneath your feet shatters as your power swells. “You think I can just let him go?”
“He already died for his crimes. He was given a second chance to redeem himself.” Batman says, his tone hard, commanding. But then he quits addressing you, instead addressing Nabu. “How goes the search?”
“Deathstroke knew nothing. He spoke honestly.” Nabu replies to Batman, neither of you taking your eyes off one another. The tension so thick you could cut it with a knife. “We're at a dead end.”
“Dead for one of us.” you reply, clenching your fists tighter, your rage threatening to burst forth. But as you draw deeper and deeper into your rage, suddenly you feel your body starting to tap back into Supreme Instinct. And cold clarity washes over you as you straighten yourself, Nabu backing away as he immediately senses the change in you. And as you speak, your voice is no longer strained. But calm. Eerily, overly calm. Like the surface of a frozen lake, your words laced with frost as you address him again. “Disappear. Or I'll kill you again.”
Your voice, spoken with such cold certainty has Nabu acting IMMEDIATELY. An ankh shape appears of his magic behind him, Nabu vanishing with his teleportation spell. You can still sense his energy distantly, up near the surface. Proving to you that this place isn't one you can simply teleport out of. But knowing he's fleeing satisfies your frigid anger, and with a sigh power back down. Not dropping all the way down out of your Berserker God form too, but letting this icy power fade away again until it's needed.
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