Just wanna warn some potential readers, this is a romance fic and it will probably be cheesy at times. It's how I roll. I am cheese. I have a Tumblr where I'll post the art, I'll also post it on DeviantArt. Tumblr may have some extras.
Usernames Tumblr is B the Crazy Slytherin a hyphen between each word
Deviant Wolf Eternity
Chapter 2
Raven was floating on an infirmity bed, healing.
Nightwing was sat on the bed next to her and he was very angry. He had woken up a few hours ago to be told he had been stabbed and Raven, in panic and not having enough time to heal him had instead absorbed the injury onto her body but the injury was so intense she had fainted. The brat had poisoned his blade and even a demon with healing powers couldn't withstand whatever was on the new apprentice's sword.
"She is gonna be okay, dick," said the reassuring the voice of Cyborg.
The half man and half robot had quickly boom tubed down when Raven had called in a complete utter panic. He had found Dick on the bed and Raven on the floor bleeding. Cyborg had treated her as best he could but let her heal herself after.
"Yeah bruh," Gar said, seated by Raven. He was constantly dabbing the sweat off her brow. "You know Raven, that demon blood in her won't let YOUR little stab wound take her down. She's tougher than you."
Dick scowled. He knew Gar was right but he was so angry at himself. How had he let himself let his guard down?
"Forgive me for being worried about my friend," Dick replied. "Not only was Slade after her but now he has a stab-happy apprentice brat."
"You must not fret Richard," Kori said placing her hands on his shoulders in a soothing manner. "Once she awakens we can make a plan on how to keep us all safe from Slade."
...
Damian sat in a comfortable chair and watched as Slade destroyed the room. Glass was lay broken on the floor, the remnants of a chair were sprawled all over. The man in question now had bleeding knuckles to complement the nasty bump on his head.
"You did," Damian said in boredom. "She gave you a concussion. Who gives a fuck? You're alive aren't you?"
Slade stopped his attack on the meeting room and glared at the young man with his one good eye.
"She got away Damian," he sneered. "And you stabbed their leader. Not only will they be more cautious they will also be more prepared to handle YOU."
Damian rolled his two good eyes and scoffed.
"My grandfather gave us almost 2 months to get the demon. We have plenty of time. You are just embarrassed that she took you down, again."
Before Damian could react he had been backhanded by Slade.
"You are being mouthy Damian," Slade told him. "You are starting to remind me of your father."
"Don't you compare me to him," Damian yelled as he attempted to kick Slade.
Slade immediately had Damian on his knees, a knife at his throat.
"Enough," he said. " At the next battle, you will attempt to get the girl. I will hinder the other titans WITHOUT setting off the demoness. Understood. "
Damian wanted to tell him that he was afraid of going against the woman that he refrained. Slade was the one with the knife after all.
"Fine."
...
...
The sky was a blood red and it was raining. The winds were blowing at hurricane speed. Bodies lay on the ground below. The force didn't discriminate. Men, women, and children all tossed on the ground as if they had not mattered.
It was getting closer and closer to her and nothing was stopping it. Her friends where all part of the body counts, they couldn't help her.
The force continued to get closer until it was right in front of her. She could see its teeth.
"Hello there," it said as more of its characteristics appeared.
She could tell it was male, he was pale white, even his hair. His eyes were a deep shade of blue it was mesmerizing yet terrifying.
He grabbed her by the neck.
"I think I'll keep you."
...
Raven was awakened from her nightmare by the sirens of her room going off. She quickly changed into her uniform and phased into the meeting room.
"It's Slade," Nightwing said immediately upon her entrance.
All four titans were stationed in the room awaiting orders. Raven could sense the anxiety and excitement rolling of Nightwing. Slade always brought the worst in him.
"He is at an abandoned hospital building," Nightwing continued. "Whether he's alone or with his apprentice is unknown so be vigilant. Raven if things start to head south you need to leave."
Raven nodded.
"Titans go!"
...
The night was young, a full moon illuminated the sky. The old hospital sat in between more abandoned buildings. Raven and Starfire arrived at the scene before the two male titans. They landed on the roof of the hospital and both mentally prepared themselves for the battle.
"We must take extra care today," Starfire told her empath friend. "Slade has managed to beat us by just using harsh words in the past."
Raven nodded her head at the alien girl's statement.
"Let's wait for the guys to get here," she told Starfire.
"Now where is the fun in that?" a male voice with a slight Middle Eastern accent said.
The new young apprentice appeared out of the shadows, his blade in his hand. He was ready for a fight. A gigantic red canine-like creature appearing after him.
"Personally," he said to the two women. "I think of this like a threesome. Two feeble women were taken by a strong man."
"How dare you, you disrespectful child," Starfire yelled.
Starfire immediately began throwing her starbolts at the man. He effectively dodged them and ran at her with his sword. The two became quickly entrapped in battle.
Raven focused on a few boxes and metal objects strewn across the roof. They became encased in her black energy.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She screamed as she tossed the materials at the new villain.
The new apprentice seemed to have heard her battle cry and immediately kicked Starfire into the path of the oncoming boxes. Raven was unable to stop them and they hit the tameranian straight on.
"Star!" She yelled as she flew to her friend who crashed into more boxes littered across the floor. Momentarily forgetting about the other man.
...
Damian kicked the alien woman right in front of the wooden boxes meant for him. That distracted the demoness enough for him to pounce on his intended target. Slade had set a trap for the two men which meant they would be delayed for at least 20 more minutes. If he could get just get his dampeners on the demon.
He tackled her to ground and immediately tried to put the power dampening shackles on her wrist. She fought back, her hands glowing with energy as she tried to hit him. Fortunately for him, he was able to avoid her hands at such a close distance. He was much more skilled at hand to hand than she was, even with her powers.
"If you stop fighting me I'll let the alien go scotch free."
She managed to kick him in the gut and she phased through the floor.
"Fuck," he hissed. She could be anywhere.
Damian stopped and remembered his training. His grandfather had always told him to feel his surroundings. How the air changes, to listen for any possible movement. To feel the slightest presence.
He heard the rustle of more boxes to his left right before they collided with him and saw the blur of blue above them. He jumped and used the boxes as leverage and jumped at the unsuspecting girl.
She grunted in pain as she landed on the ground. His much larger body landing atop her own. He grabbed her by the neck and tossed her against the closet wall and he squeezed.
A little oxygen deprivation wouldn't hurt.
She fought against him with her tiny fists but he was too strong for her. Finally, he reached into his utility belt.
He had her.
...
Raven could not focus. She was panicking and the lack of oxygen was clouding mind but she still had to stop him. In a last-ditch effort, she gasped out her mantra. Her hands glowed with energy and she grabbed the man's head.
Raven was immediately assaulted with memories, and the feeling of anger, despair, loneliness, and sadness.
They were of a little boy, they called him Damian. They made him train non-stop. His grandfather, a man named Ra's Al Ghul, worked the child to the bone. She saw him being beaten and scarred. Then she saw images of a man in a batsuit. Batman? They were telling him to be better than Batman in every way. Telling Damian to be better than his father in every way.
Suddenly Raven felt a sudden and excruciating wave of pain and she was reliving her own horrible memories and then it went black.
...
Damian knew right away that she had infiltrated his mind and he was infuriated. He quickly fought back and got a glimpse into her head. Then he punched her in the face and she slumped in his arms. However, before he could toss her over his shoulders and slink off into the night, he was tackled by a green ram.
"Not today," said the ram as he morphed back to the changeling.
Knowing he had lost, Damian ran to the edge if the building and jumped.
"I'll track him," Nightwing said as he appeared and immediately jumped after the apprentice. " Get the girls home."
Changeling nodded and picked up the blue empath and headed to the alien that had just begun to pick herself up.
"Hey at least we didn't lose," changeling told star as he helped her up.
...
Raven sat in the titan meeting room. She had a splitting headache she knew would become a migraine. Richard handed an ice pack over to her and she placed it on her head.
"So what did you wanna talk about Raven," her leader asked.
Raven had contemplated telling him anything. She had awoken from unconsciousness only an hour ago after being unconscious for an entire 30 hours. She immediately sought out the used to be Robin.
"I went into the new apprentices head," she stated.
Nightwing cocked an eyebrow.
"Like when you saved me from Slade?"
She nodded.
"What did you see?"
"What didn't I see," Raven began. "His name is Damian, he has been trained by something called the league of assassins since birth. He is the grandsons of a man named Ra's Al Ghul, the son of Talia Al Ghul."
Richard's eyes widened.
"Ra's is a bigtime villain of Batman," he replied in thought. " And Talia is kind of an old flame of his. I didn't know she even had a son."
"Richard, there is more" she said with a mildly worried tone. "He's Batman's son by blood."
"What," Richard asked with complete amazement and slight horror. " What do you mean Batman's son?"
"Batman fathered him?" Raven replied. "As in he is the sperm donor? That man is half Bat?"
"Okay I get it Raven," Richard said. "Is there more?"
Raven nodded.
"I think I created a bind between the two of us."
Nightwing's eyes widened even more.
"Like the one between us?" He asked.
She nodded
"I … are you okay?"
Raven shook her head. In truth she wasn't, this man, Damian, his mind was so loud.
"No," she said. "All I can feel is him right now. He has such strong emotions and strong memories. He is furious, Richard, and I am starting to feel terrified. He's so mad. He's clouding my head up so much and I have been unable to block it out. I don't understand."
Richard put a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder.
"It's going to be okay," he told her. "Go get some rest. I need to make a drive down to Gotham. Batman needs to know this."
"He's Bruce Wayne isn't he," Raven said as Richard headed out.
Richard stopped dead in his tracts and looked back in shock.
"Did this come from Damians mind too?" he asked.
Raven nodded.
"I see," Richard said. "I'll handle this Raven, be safe."
Raven nodded but became more worried. She had felt Damian resentment towards Bruce Wayne. He would be furious when he found out they outed him. And all that fury would be directed at her.
She would need to keep her guard up but currently, she felt as if her head was going to explode.
...
(24 hours prior)
Damian was now the one destroying the room as Slade watched.
"I told you it would not be as simple as you expected," the one-eyed man told him.
Damian only growled and threw a chair at him which Slade easily deflected.
"You will calm down," Slade said sternly as if talking to a 2-year-old, not a 20-year-old man.
"I can still feel her in my head," Damian seethed. "She saw things, private things. How dare that whore!"
Damian tossed a few more things and destroyed some more furniture. Slade finally had enough.
"Stop this now Damian," he said grabbing the younger man. "Use this link to her to your advantage. Her mind is her greatest weapon but also her weakness."
Damian nodded, a plan forming in his head.
"I'll have her in our grasp by tomorrow," Damian said. The plan already fully formed.
"Do not fail this time boy," Slade said.
Damian only smirked.
...
Raven had tried to meditate, she tried to create a barrier against him, and she even tried to distract herself by playing a video game with Garfield. Video games….with Garfield Mark Logan. She had been desperate.
Nothing had worked.
She could still feel Damian's fury and hatred towards her. She didn't understand why she couldn't block out this mere human man. She could with Richard, she could even block her father, but not Damian Wayne (Al Ghul?)
Perhaps it had something to do with being the true son of Batman. Raven had never met the bat but from what she had heard, he had a strong mind as well.
Raven sat in a tub of lukewarm water. It was the last ditch effort after trying to sleep and taking some ibuprofen. It still wasn't helping.
Her mind was still full of just Damian. His anger, his despair, his fear. His everything .it was as if she couldn't think or hear her own thoughts. All she could hear was the sound of clanging swords and grunts of pain. All she could feel was the emotions of an angry young man. She was so distracted by his emotions and their volume that she did not hear her bathroom door open nor did she didn't sense the new presence. What she did hear was the splash and she definitely felt the water move.
She opened her eyes and was shocked to find a blade centimeters from her face and the man overtaking her thoughts now standing over her.
"Boo."
Raven felt a sudden and wet kick to her head and it all went black.
