Divine Right

Teen Titans

Pairing: Raven & Slade

Declaimer: I own nothing. Teen Titans is owned by its creators. I only have a say so for the characters I create and the plot.

"Talking"

-Thinking-

=Sent Thoughts=

Chapter Four

First Meeting

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Raven awoke suddenly to the pounding on her door. She leaped from the bed and landed in a defensive stance. As she slowly stood up straight she looked around her room and saw that she was the only one there. Her window is still closed and locked so no one had entered unannounced.

The pounding sounded again but this time more violently. As she went to the door she heard muffled voices.

"Please Master Bruce that is no way to wake up the poor girl." She heard Alfred demand of Bruce. "I'm not even sure she should go out tonight. She does not know the lay out of the town, she could get lost."

"She got sent here to help not sit around or go sight-seeing." Bruce said grimly. "She has plenty of time in the day to learn the ins and outs of the city. And about her getting lost, I'll make sure to keep her with me. So you can stop worrying."

Raven crept closer to the door and heard Bruce's body shift. She thought he was going to knock again. Shuffling was heard as someone stood in front of her door, she had a strange vision of someone with their arms out stretched to block the way. Alfred spoke calmly to Bruce.

"I will awaken her. Please make sure you that you're ready to leave when she's done getting ready." Alfred was heard to say. Heavy footsteps were heard walking away from her door. When she could no longer hear them a light knock sounded on her door.

"Raven it is time to wake up." Alfred said cheerfully. As he went to knock again Raven opened the door a crack.

Raven stood hidden by the door with only part of her head showing. Alfred gave her a kind but tired smile. As he went to speak Raven cut him off.

"You're tired, why are you not asleep?" She asked plainly confused. Alfred just shook his head and said.

"I did not think you would have liked Master Bruce's method of waking people up." Raven gave him a pointed look so he said. "It seems that I am too late for that since it is obvious that he has woken you with his outlandish pounding." Alfred said with a short smile as Raven nodded and sighed. She looked at Alfred and said.

"You don't have to worry about me getting lost. If I do indeed get lost, I can always teleport back here." Raven said.

"Teleportation, hmm, can you teleport anywhere?" Alfred asked intrigued.

"I can only teleport somewhere I have been before or know the exact location." Raven stated quietly as she rubbed her forehead with the palm of her hand.

"So you rely on coördinates and placement of everything in that one area." Alfred said to which Raven nodded her head. Alfred thought for a moment than smiled. His smile looked overly cheerful and put Raven on edge. "When you get back from the patrol and have rested I will have a task for you. Please get dressed for Master Bruce doesn't like being kept waiting." With that said Alfred bowed and left the hall.

Raven shut the door and leaned against it. She tilted her head back and stared at the ceiling contemplating what to do.

"I guess I better get dressed."She said to herself in a grim tone. "Don't want to keep the Bat waiting, he might destroy the belfry.

She looked to where she had placed her uniform. With a sigh she pushed herself off of the door and walked to her uniform. She took off her pajama and was clad in only in her undergarments. She took the pants and pulled them up her long legs. The pants were the correct length for her legs and her waist. She found the belt and tightened it. She looked at her waist and thought some thing was missing. She thought for a moment before it came to her. She ran to her dresser and pulled out her jewel belt. She placed in upon her hips and returned to getting dressed.

She took the tunic, it had a high collar and was slightly loose that it seemed it would reach to mid-thigh, and pulled it over her head. When her head and arms were through the holes she looked for the clasp. She found a silver studded belt with a silver latch. She placed it upon her waist and tightened it. She pulled her jewel belt so it was on top of the tunic and not under it.

She looked for the gauntlets and pulled them on. They covered her arms from her fingertips to her elbow. Her fingers are now covered with cloth. The back of her hand and from her wrist to elbow are also covered in silvery metal. The intricate designs on the gauntlets were beautiful.

She grabbed her boots and sat down on the bed. She pulled them on forcing the bottom of the pants into them. She used her powers to call the protective guards. When they came to her she latched one to a boot and then latched the other one to the other boot. She looked at the mask that sat beside her. As she stared at the mask she thought about what she was going to do with her hair. With a sigh she used her powers to braid her hair into a thick rope and tied the end off with a silver ribbon. She picked up the front side of the mask. As she looked closely at it she learned that the mask had to stripes of silver on it. The stripes went from the eye sockets to the two V's that were left when the mouth had been out. She raised and eyebrow because she thought it was strange. She shrugged her shoulders and took both sides of the mask and clasps them to her head.

With everything in place she got up from the bed and walked over to her dresser. She picked up her new cloak and flung it over her shoulders and clasped it with her jeweled clasp. She walked over to the mirror and looked at her reflection. She pulled up her hood and thought that she looked decidedly spooky. The silver stripes on the mask looked to glow in the light. Everything on her was either black or covered with shadow. The only things not covered were her mouth and her eyes.

With a small smile at her reflection she turned and left her room. She walked down the hall and downstairs. She went to the entrance way and phased through the floor. As she came through the ceiling she learned that Batman was staring at her. She landed in a crouch as her cloak billowed around her.

Batman was actually surprised about her appearance. She looked even darker than he did. When she came through the ceiling he thought that she was a wraith.

"What is your hero name?" Batman asked suddenly. Raven cocked her head to the side as she said.

"My hero name is the same as my name, Raven."

"I think that you should change the name because you look nothing like a Raven. In fact you look like a wraith."

"No thank you I will be keeping it. I already changed my uniform so I see no point in changing my name. Also it would be to confusing if I had to called by two different names." Raven stated as she got to her feet. She stood off to the side waiting for Batman to begin with the mission details. Batman took a deep breath and let it out in a rush. With a sigh he rubbed his face with a hand. He looked at Raven and asked.

"How are you going to get around the city? Are you going to fly or will you ride one of the vehicles?"

"I told you I don't fly I levitate." Raven stated crossly as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"What's the difference?" Batman asked.

"Levitate is by using the power of the mind and flying is by the use of air currents and gravity." Raven said with a pointed look. "To answer your last question I can drive about anything. The biggest vehicle I drove was a large bus."

"Why were you driving a bus?" Batman asked confused as he cocked his head to the side.

"I drove a bus because a villain had stolen something from Nightwing. It happened when he was still being called Robin. The only way to get the item back was to win the race. I was levitating and Starfire was flying beside me. We were closing in on the villain and he shot us with a weird ray." Raven said as she rubbed her left arm sheepishly.

"We were not able to get off the ground. He drove up beside us and said that the only way to race was to have wheels on the pavement." Raven stated as she looked off to the side. "It was annoying we were in the middle of the blasted desert and had to walk to find transportation."

"When did you find the bus and did you steal it?" Batman asked crossing his arms.

"I did not steal it. When Star and I were walking we came upon a gas station. One of the mini villains that we fight had just gotten out of the store and was heading to his vehicle. Starfire flew up to him and explained that we needed his car to help Robin get back what the Ding Dong Daddy stole from him."

"Please do not tell me she told him about the stolen item and who it belonged to." Batman said.

"Unfortunately she did and Gizmo just had to tell the other villains about the race." Raven grumbled. "Some how we found a truck with chickens in the back. Starfire just had to ask the blasted driver if we could have a ride. The chickens were able to go all over the place. They seemed to like using me as a perch. I was sneezing and was starting to get ticked off. I was glad when we left the truck and began walking again."

"We came upon the bus and saw a lot of villains getting in to it. We call over two of them and stole their uniforms, well in my case parts of them. Star got decked out in head to toe armor and I just had horns attached to my head. I made my eyes glow red." Raven said as she looked at Batman daring him to question about the red eyes. He made no move to question her so she began again. "Star was telling a story about her many fake villainous deeds and I sneezed. The horns fell off and I think Star said bless you. She did not change her voice so they found out about us." Raven stopped as she sighed. "We beat up the villains and I drove the bus."

"Did Nightwing get back the item?" Batman asked as he uncrossed his arms.

"Yes he did with the help of Red X. Red X is a villain that stole a suit from Nightwing and became a thief that stole for the highest bidder."

"Why did he help?"

"Nightwing saved him when his motorcycle crashed. So he was just returning the favor. He took out the other villains so Nightwing could win."

"Sounds like it must have been fun."

"It was so funny I forgot to laugh." Raven stated sarcastically. Batman chuckled under his breath as Raven glared at him. He waved a hand in front of him and said.

"Since you don't know your way around the city. . ."

"Whose faults that?" Raven asked under her breath. Batman glared at her for the interruption. All she did was to look him in the eye calmly.

"As I was saying, I promised Alfred that I would not let you get lost so you will have to ride with me. We will be taking the Bat-mobile."

"Oh joy I get to ride shot-gun in the Bat-mobile." Raven sarcastically stated as she walked over to the car in question and stood by it. Batman raised in eyebrow at her lack of enthusiasm. She saw the look and smirked. "If you what me to go all fan-girl about riding in the Bat-mobile your barking up the wrong tree. If you wanted to have someone do that you should have asked for Beast Boy." She stopped as she thought of something. "Beast Boy was thinking about changing his hero name. He was trying to find out which to use, The Changeling or Beast Man. I for one would go with The Changeling."

"Well that's all well and good but we have wasted enough time. So get in and let's go." Batman demanded as he got in the Bat-mobile. Raven sighed and got in. She shut the door and put on her seat belt. She made sure to tighten it and hold on to the handle above the door lightly. Batman observed this and asked. "Why are you holding on to the emergency handle?"

"Because Nightwing told me once that you are a terrible driver and if I wanted to keep whatever I had eaten recently I would hold on."

"That is not true. I am a great driver." Batman stated angrily.

"That's not what Nightwing said."

"Well I will just have to call him when I get back about that." Batman stated

"Do it, he has detailed reports and witnesses accounts about all the near misses you almost had when he was your sidekick. That's just with him in the car, who knows how many more. Your just lucky that the Bat-mobile is like it is or you would not have it anymore." Raven said as she looked out the window.

Batman glared at the windshield as he started up the Bat-mobile and left through the tunnel. Raven smirked because of how he was acting.

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Gotham City - Downtown

Commissioner Gordon was standing before the Bat-signal waiting for the Dark Knight to show up. He was about to turn and leave when two figures came out of the shadows. Batman stood before him as his companion stood fully in the shadows.

"I had almost thought that you were not going to come." Commissioner Gordon said as he rubbed his hands because of the cold of the frosty October night air.

"Well I'm here now. What is the problem Commissioner?" Batman asked.

"It appears that the Joker and Deathstroke are trying to steal Military grade missiles from the Military supply warehouse outside of Gotham. We do not know why they need them but we know that it can't good." The figure gave a snort of laughter and said.

"Oh really imagine that."

Commissioner Gordon jumped for he had forgotten she was there. He saw Batman look over his shoulder at her. He was glaring and Commissioner Gordon knew that if Batman glared at him like that he would be afraid for his life. Yet all the girl did was to wave him off.

Batman turned back to the Commissioner and said.

"I will make sure that they do not get the missiles."

"Thank you Batman I look forward to the good news." Commissioner Gordon said as he left the roof of the building.

With Commissioner Gordon gone Raven came out of the shadows. She crossed her arms under her cloak and stood still.

"It looks like we will have to fight Slade right off the bat. No pun intended." She said as she walked to the edge of the roof. "In which direction is the Military supply warehouse?" Raven asked over her shoulder.

"It's straight ahead by the bay. You can't miss it because it is the biggest warehouse there." Batman said as he began to walk to her. Raven faced forward again and then dove off the roof. Batman ran to the edge only to see her fly off down the street and over the buildings. He sighed as he took out his grappling hook and grappled to the next building. He just hoped she would wait for him to get there before she went in.

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Military Supply Warehouse - Raven

Raven was waiting on the roof of an adjacent building watching the warehouse in front of her. She was well hidden and waited for Batman to catch up. She heard the roof creak and she sensed Batman's presence.

"It's about time you got here. I was starting to get worried that you were lost." Raven deadpanned as she continued to look at the warehouse. Batman stood beside her and she could feel his anger. "You should really calm down. Your anger will get you no where except hurt. If you can't think clearly you're doomed to fail."

"Next time you pull that stunt I will make sure to ground you, literally." Batman said as he sighed.

"So that's why you're angry, because I dove off the roof. Not because I left you behind." Raven said as she looked up from her seated position.

"Let's just get this over. We can talk when we get back." Batman said as he walked over to the edge of the roof and grappled to the target warehouse. Raven got up and levitated down beside him. Batman looked to make sure she was ready. At her nod Batman looked through the sky light. He counted ten of Joker's minions but he could not see the Joker or Deathstroke.

Raven walked across the roof and looked through another sky light. As she looked through it she saw the Joker standing watching the preparations. She also saw Slade lounging upon a large crate. She raised an eyebrow at his choice of attire. She waved to Batman. He came over and she showed him her find.

Batman signaled for Raven to stand by the other skylight as he readied to break through the one in front of him. Simultaneously the sound of broken glass was heard as the Heroes broke through the skylight to fight the villains below.

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Military Supply Warehouse Ten Minutes Prior - Slade

Slade sat upon the crate watching the minions work. He thought that the henchmen of the great Joker were absolutely ridiculous. They did not seem to get the simplest commands right. He watched the Joker walk around yelling out orders. He had to hand it to the Joker he had away with fools.

He pulled up the sleeve of his suit and checked the time on his Baume & Mercier watch as he waited for the Little Bird to strike. He began to think he was wasting his time. He was not even sure that she was here. All he saw was a brief view of a girl's face. He saw a girl who had short purple hair. The kids in this day and age were running around dyeing their hair multiple different colors so she might not even be the one he was waiting for.

He looked off to the side and saw the Joker walking towards his seat. His eyebrow rose, not that anyone could see it beneath his mask. The Joker was whistling, an off tune menace that made him want to grind his teeth.

As the Joker finally stopped beside his crate Slade spoke.

"Can I help you?" He asked low and menacingly. He was not looking forward to the infamous Clown Prince's shenanigans. He did not want to work with the blasted clown in the first place. The only reason he was here was because his underground connections told him that the Joker was going to mess around with Military grade missiles. The last thing he needed was for the fool to set one-off and blow up the city. Not that he cared about the city, it could be destroyed now and he would not lift a finger to stop it. The only reason he was even remotely worried was because he did not want his house destroyed. That and the fact he didn't want to die again. Once was enough and he knew this time he would not be coming back.

"What do you think you're doing sitting there?" The Joker demanded in his demented voice.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Slade said as he turned his head to the side to once again watch the minions.

"It looks like you are sitting down while my henchmen do all the work."

"Sorry to disappoint you but I don't take orders from idiots." Slade said not even the slightest bit sorry. "I'm over seeing and acting as look out."

"Look out; shouldn't you be outside to do that?"

"I already know that someone is coming. There would be no point to sit outside when I could just as easily sit here and wait for them to show up."

"So the Bats is coming and with help." The Joker chortled as he rubbed his hands together in manic glee.

Slade ignored the Joker after his statement knowing he was not worth the time of day, in this case night.

He had climbed to the roof and used a special pair of binoculars to look for the famed Bat signal. About twenty minutes ago the signal lighted up the sky. He knew the Dark Knight would come, hopefully with the one he was waiting for.

His eye narrowed as he saw a shadow cast over him. He was going to look up when saw that the shadow had been joined by another. Beneath his mask he felt his lips quirk in to a smirk. It was about time the bird came to roost.

Slade looked up just in time to see Batman jump through the sky light. Slade rolled deftly off the crate and landed in a crouch. On the other side of the warehouse he saw a figure dressed in black and silver. He was not sure if it was her. He wanted to get a good look at her but he had no choice. He just had to get stuck fighting damn Bat.

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Military Supply Warehouse - Raven

Raven landed amid the group of minions. They all turned to face her. Five of them looked over to Batman and then ran with their tails between their legs. A whispered spell was all Raven cast against them. She ignored them after that as she placed her attention on the remaining five. She placed a hand on her hip as she matched stare for stare.

"You know it's rude to stare." Raven said shortly. With the words spoken they came out of their mystified state. Two of them came from either side, swinging their weapons. All Raven did was dodge to the left, causing the minions to miss her and hit each other knocking themselves out in the process.

"Two down three to go. Come on try not to make this so easy." Raven monotones emotionlessly. The largest and strongest minion ran at her and all Raven did was scoff. He tried to hit her in the side but all she did was to put her hand on his fist and use his own momentum against him. She used the force of his blow to strengthen her kick as she kicked him in the side of the head. He dropped like a ton of bricks.

With that one out cold she turned to face the remaining two only to see them trying to get away. She sighed as she waved a hand at the ceiling, using her powers, causing two pieces of the rafters to come undone and pin the fleeing villains to the wall. She looked around at the enemies and dusted off her hands.

"That was just too easy." Raven said to herself. She shrugged a shoulder as she walked towards Batman who was starting to look worse for wares. She used her powers to control a lid of a crate and cast it at Slade's head. He dodged the lid and aimed an upper cut at her.

Raven used both hands and grabbed the fist, but instead of stopping it she used the blow to get thrown in to the air. As she was falling to the ground she used the force from the upper cut to axe-kick Slade's head causing him to hit the ground hard.

Slade stood up shaking his head and then cracked his neck.

"Where did you learn how to fight?"

"Do you really think I would come here alone and not be able to defend myself? Not to mention that Nightwing would not have allowed it either." Raven said as she crossed her arms over her chest. She listened to the background noise of the fight between Batman and Joker.

"I see. Then what fighting style was that?" Slade asked as he slowly walked around the bird with his hands behind his back.

"It's called Tai Chi."

"Using the opponents own force and weight against them. It is an easy fighting style to learn for someone who is small and slight." Slade said in a condescending voice as he stopped behind her.

"So what's your point Slade?" Raven demanded as she turned around to face him. Slade glared at her. "Oh what's wrong Sladey cat got your tongue?" Raven sneered.

Slade straightened his back and stood to his full height.

"What, trying to intimidating now? Sorry you're a few years to late. I stopped being afraid of your when I learned I could throw you around that cave. Or are you upset that I got your name wrong. What was it again, oh yes Deathstroke, that's really fitting for someone who died and came back to life. What's wrong got to old to play with kids you had to go and play with the big boys." Sarcastic clapping was given by the cloaked mage. "Well to bad for you I got called in for help." She said with eyes glowing white.

Raven was going to attack when a thought occurred to her. She started to smile.

"What's up with the outfit? It looks like you're wearing leather underwear over your suit." Raven teasingly stated as Slade clenched his fists at his side. "I have a hard time looking down without laughing. It brings to mind the question. . . ." Raven stopped conspiringly as she watched Slade's muscles tense to attack. She readied herself to phase as she began again. "Did you pick that out yourself or does your mother just dress you funny?"

Slade's lone eye widened as he took in what she had just said. When he understood his eye narrowed into a slit as he sprung to attack. All Raven did was grab his arm, pull him close and send him over her hip to land in a heap behind her.

Raven turned on her toes to look at the fallen villain.

"What's wrong Deathstroke one little girl is too much for you? You need help?" Joker said as he started to laugh dementedly from atop a crate. Batman was standing in front of said crate watching the fight from the corner of his eyes.

"It seems we've got an audience. Well someone should witness the fall of the Great Deathstroke. You should have stuck to being Slade." Raven stated with her hands on her hips.

Slade was going to attack when the sound of sirens was heard in the distance and seemed like it was coming closer.

"Oh Dear it seems the police are here. Sorry Bats got to run. Nice to meet you Blacky but I got to go." Joker said as he escaped with Batman on his heels.

Raven turned her head only to see Slade getting away. She took off after him and chased him through the streets.

She chased him down alleyways and across streets. As she was chasing after Slade she happened to look through a shop window and she saw the owner. She stopped spellbound when she learned who it was. A smile came to her lips when she realized that he could help her fix her music box that Beast Boy had broken on her. She looked around her only to learn that Slade was nowhere in sight.

"Well it looks like Slade got away." Raven said as she scoff and shrugged her shoulders. "Oh well, I better get back to Batman before he sends out the search parties." She took one last look at the shop then turned on her heels and walked away.

She remembered the location of the shop and its name as she returned to Batman.

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Here ends Chapter 4

Fixed some mistakes

Reviewer of Chapter Three

eemotion- I'm glad you like the story so fine and think it is well written and yep they have met. Slade was not ready for the new Raven but he will make up for it later.

discb- Yeah they but heads a lot. About the chess well some times Bruce is not in the mood. Alfred was just trying to cheer Raven up.

SailorSea- Thanks I'm glad you like the chapter. Raven seemed like the person to choose the white pieces. She spent her life trying to go against her fate and what she is. The patrol went well.

Nyx811- Hi thanks for the review. I like your profile picture. Nice Grim Reaper. Here is the update you requested.

Reason why I wrote this is Raven and Slade Youtube videos.

This story was forever bouncing around my head and would not stop. So I wrote it down.

Hope you like it.

Reviews are welcome

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