Chapter 1- birth and death
Knight walked through the cold and dark streets in the dead of night. His face concealed by his black hair. He'd been walking for over half an hour through the streets of Jump City following a shadowy figure.
It had been a year since Knight woke up and found that a weird symbol had been tattooed onto the right side of his chest. It wasn't long later until he found out that it had given, or awakened some sort of power within him. And more here he was, now 17 and he was working on a case where doctors were going missing in the past few moments, this stranger was always in the area before and after the disappearances occurred.
Another ten minutes and the figure came to an old abandoned buildings. 'Oh how convenient' Knight thought to himself. He watched as the figure entered the building and Knight moved around the side to prevent anyone else on the inside seeing him.
He then heard the faint sounds of a woman screaming. Knight began to fear the worst. He peered in through a cracked window to see what looked like a group of doctors. They all seemed terrified. They were surrounded a woman who looked to be around thirty, then Knight found out why she was screaming.
She was giving birth.
Knight still didn't know why he had been asked to follow the stranger, he then saw said stranger walk up the to doctors. Their fear escalated.
"The boss can't be here I'm afraid" said the stranger to the woman "but he sends his love"
"TELL HIM TO GO TO HELL!" Screamed the woman. The stranger raised his hand to slap her when an armoured hand stopped him. The stranger turned and gave the same expression as the doctors.
"Uh. Master" said the stranger "you said you weren't coming"
"I couldn't miss this" the Master said, he turned to the woman "hello dear"
"BASTRARD" she screamed
"Still angry. Understanding"
One of the doctors faced the Master and spoke "umm... Slade, we're... The child is almost here"
"Excellent" said the Master, Slade his name was, he turned to the stranger "excellent thinking. Instead of brainwashing an apprentice, just make one"
"Well" said the stranger "thank you, Master"
"Yes. Unfortunately, now I have the child, there's no need for you"
Before the stranger could react, Slade had pulled out a gun and quickly shot the stranger in the face, the stranger stood there for a moment before falling to the ground, the doctors began to run to the body but Slade stood in the way. The doctors went back to the woman.
Knight watched the horror from outside. He knew the name Slade from a network of younger superheroes who he had tried to recruit. Knight had to act fast to catch him. He looked into the room again and saw a stake of boxes and focused on them. He used his magic to push the boxes on the floor. The doctors jumped in fear but Slade just turned and walked towards the boxes. Knight took the chance and ran to a nearby door, he quickly and quietly opened it. He pulled the cotton hood of his leather jacket over his head and approached Slade's position. The veins that went from the mark on his chest to Knight's right hand began glow red ad magic pulsed through them. Just one touch and Slade would be unconscious. He approached Slade. He got closer and closer until Knight was right behind him, he raised his hand and threw it towards Slade's shoulder.
Slade grabbed Knight's arm and twisted it to a point when Knight felt the bone snap in two. He yelled and fell to his knees.
"A warlock" said Slade "Didn't know you still had an interest in me"
Knight looked up, cradling his broken arm, his eyes glowing crimson red, all his veins quickly followed, he felt the bone reattach itself. The woman's screams in the background then began to fade. This drew the attention of both Slade and Knight. One of the doctors rose up with a blanket and a child in her arms.
"It's a girl" said the doctor
"Excellent" said Slade, he then slammed his fist into Knight's face, causing his veins to fade until Knight's Caucasian skin and his eyes to return to their normal hazel look. Knight fell to the ground, clutching his bloody face. Slade began to walk towards the doctor that held his daughter.
"Give her to me" he said
"Keep away from her. You son of a bitch!" Yelled the woman
"If the child didn't need you, I'd kill you right now"
Knight rose up once more, the crimson red veins healed his broken nose. And faded again. The veins of arms glowed as Knight prepared to send an energy blast to kill Slade before he got the girl.
At that moment, Knight's telepathic scanner picked up something, no someone. More like the magic that they welded, it matched his own. But there was something dark about it and it was approaching, fast. He then saw a small group of people fly towards the windows on the upper half of the building. Knight knew that whoever they were, they'd probably mistake him for Slade's new apprentice, so Knight threw telekinetic energy at a nearby wall causing it to collapse. Knight ran.
Raven sensed the magic's source leave the area and escape quickly from the building. She had tracked it for the last few minutes and that left her open to be detected from a telepathic scanned the magic's source had put up. She'd find it later, right now she had a job to do.
The Teen Titans burst into the building. Robin first riding a Pterodactyl that was Beast Boy, Starfire to his left, Cyborg to the right and Raven to the back of the group, they had heard screaming of a woman not long ago and Raven sensed a magical presence. Robin jumped off Beat Boy who morphed back into is true form, they all landed on their feet and faced Slade.
"Stop torturing the woman, Slade" said Robin
"Oh, Robin" said Slade "My former apprentice, I'm not responsible for her pain" he the took the baby from the doctor to present to the Titans "she is"
"Why would a baby human cause pain?" Said Starfire curiously
"*sighs* Star" said Cyborg "ain't it obvious. She gave birth..."
"To my daughter" finished Slade "my new apprentice"
The team then turned from Starfire and back to Slade in shock
"Please let me introduce you all to... Medusa"
"Really" said Beast Boy "I could come up with better names than Medusa
"Not now Beast Boy" said Robin "Titans, go"
Starfire was the first to attack, she send pulses on green energy into Slade's directing. He jumped up to avoid them and landed onto a metal platform, Cyborg then shot energy beams at Slade doing his best to avoid Medusa.
"Um. Robin" said Cyborg "how exactly are we going to get Slade without harming the kid"
Slade began to chuckle when a black aura covered Medusa and she was lifted out of his arms and into her mothers
"There" said Raven "now you can go nuts"
"Thanks Rae" said Cyborg as he and Starfire resumed firing, Slade then jumped down from the Platform and ran towards Cyborg and Starfire and knocked them down in one swift move.
"Star!" Yelled Robin
"Cyborg!" Yelled Beast Boy
"Guy!" Yelled Raven
The three remaining Titans formed a row between Slade and the doctors, Medusa and her mother. Slade stopped when he was a few feet away from the Titans. He began to chuckle once more. He reached from the gauntlet on his right arm and begun to rub the original black colour to reveal a gold colour, then then raised the arm. Before anything happened he was thrown back into a wall by an invisible force. The titans took the opportunity to grab Starfire and Cyborg as they regained consciousness. They then began to lead the doctors, Medusa and her mother out of the building when Slade raised his gun and fired. A bullet hit the mother in the head, just missing Medusa by an inch. Robin caught the woman and Raven caught Medusa before the mother dropped her. Cyborg then began to shot the structure of the building as the team led the doctors, the mother and Medusa out of the building. When they were on the street then building had collapsed.
The Ambulance had arrived after a few minutes it was called but there wasn't anything that could have been done. The mother was gone, Medusa was crying in Robin's arms. The Titans had left the scene before the ambulance arrived and watched the scene from the rooftops.
"Now we know what Slade was up to" said Beast Boy to Robin "dude, now what do we do?"
"Well" said Robin "Raven said she felt something, a magical presence, it had since us a left before we showed up but it was following Slade's previous apprentice. If anyone would know anything. It will be them"
"Then how will we find this magical presence. Friend Robin "said Starfire
"Finding it will be easy" said Raven "getting to it won't, it sensed me, that why it left"
"Do you think this... Wizard guy push Slade back?" Said Beast Boy
"If they did" said Robin "then that just confuses things big time"
Cyborg then spoke "we can't focus on that now, we need to leave before Slade gets his bearings"
"Right" said Robin "Titans, well investigate in the morning, you head back" he handed Medusa to Raven "I'll stop of at a supermarket and buy baby supplies. Until she's safe from Slade, Medusa stays with us"
"Oh yeah" said Starfire "a new friend to play with"
"Great" said Raven sarcastically
Knight watched from the crowd of civilians who were watching the ambulance pull away with the dead woman inside. He looked away out of guilt. If he had up telekinesis to keep Slade down not just push him way she would still be alive. As he turned he saw the Teen Titans standing on the rooftop. He watched them walk away, obviously with Medusa. He had watched the battle from afar to get a look at the magical presence he felt. This... Raven girl, he knew she was powerful. He had watched them battle criminals either on the telly or from a nearby building. But what was intriguing about her is how she had controlled her powers, he used emotions to control their powers, different emotions had different levels of power and it was different but Raven suppresses them to control her powers. And the gauntlet on Slade. If it was what Knight thought Ito was then the Titans were in danger for taking Medusa. They will need his knowledge and help. He begun to walk in the direction on the Titans Tower.
'Time to meet my heroes' he thought.
To be continued.