Almost immediately after they entered a hallway Tokala asked Raven, "How come you know so much about these guys?" But before she could answer she shushed him. He looked at her questioningly, and she pointed to a couple of soon-to-be priests who were talking while walking down the hallway perpendicular to theirs.
"I can't believe the arrogance of those high and mighty priests. I just wanted to see the Blood-Diamond but no, apprentices cannot even go in the same section as that stone. Jerks, all of them are jerks!" said the first.
"Dude, I just came here for the chicks, and can you not use big words. I'm not a living dictionary you know!" said the second.
"What?! A…"said Tokala but Raven uttered a loud "Shh!" in an attempt to quiet him. It didn't work; the apprentice priests had heard them and were coming.
"Hey there's a chick! She's mine!" shouted the second one when he saw Raven.
"I am not a chick." Hissed Raven in a rather terrifying manner that scared the two boys out of their wits. Three more apprentices soon came, alerted by the commotion. Raven then proceeded to glare angrily at Tokala, who answered, "What I didn't think they could hear it!" A fight erupted in the hallway, and the Titans were making short work of Trigon's underlings. But then, out of the blue, a priest of higher rankings appeared next to Raven and unsheathed a nice-sized silver sword.
"Well who do we have here? A certain run-away convict that has a nice sized reward. My how you have sunk in society since I last saw you!" said the priest, as he looked Raven over.
"And you never learned, last time you talked to me you were incapacitated for a week. This time won't be much different." Raven said, finishing her sentence with a kick to the head of her opponent. Before she knew it the silver sword that he had been using was lodged in her chest, a few centimeters below her left ribs.
"Ah, but I have gotten better as well." The priest said, suddenly empowered by the smell of burning flesh that came from Raven's wound. "I've also learned little tricks along the way, for example, you cannot heal while still conscious. Have fun bleeding to death!" the priest finished as he tore the sword out of her body, causing the blood to flow faster. "oh, do you have any last word for your daddy-dearest?" he said Mockingly as he walked away, a triumphant spring in his step.
Suddenly Raven kneeled on the ground, holding the cut and started to cough up blood, "Rae are you okay?" asked Tokala. The apprentices lay sprawled across the hallway; barely any had survived to still be conscious.
"Splendid," said Raven, her voice brimming with sarcasm.
"Come on, we have to get this fixed, can I see it?" said Tokala as he crouched to the floor in front of her. Slowly she removed her hand from the wound, letting blood flow freely. "this is going to hurt, but I have no other choice," said Tokala as he wrapped a piece of cloth over his hand and grabbed the silver sword. He could feel the metal try to sear him through the cloth. Slowly he pressed the metal to the wound, making the smell of burnt flesh hang in the air once more. Raven winced at the sudden increase in pain, but the silver had burned the blood, forcing the wound shut. Once satisfied with the healing session, Tokala wrapped her chest with a large strip of cloth and helped her up. As soon as she was standing she leaned against the wall and took out her communicator.
"Has anyone found anything?" she asked to the general public.
"well, there's an extremely large amount of people roaming around here, so we're thinking this is where the main part of the plan is…" said Jinx as Flash zoomed into view.
"Run!!!" he screamed as he ran, followed by a troop of angry priests wielding silver weapons.
"Where are you guys?" asked Raven as the image moved violently.
"we're near the power core, they have a way soopped up security system here." Jinx said, reverting to her pre-good guy self.
"We're coming," said Raven, "Anyone able to fight, go there as well."
"You sure you can get there?" asked Tokala worried for her state.
"if I don't I'm not going to be in any better of a shape. Apparently I have a ransom on my head," said Raven as she started running down the hall. Tokala soon followed.
"Raven are you Okay?" asked Jinx as she met up with the newly arrived couple. Now all the nominees except Aqualad and Angel were grouped together in a hallway near the power room.
"I'm fine, some guy just caught me off guard." Raven said as calmly as she could, moving hurt more than she thought it would.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Robin.
"we have to storm the power room's defences. No one is to actually get in there though. I don't know what's in there and it might very well kill you.
"But there's like twenty guys on each door, and they aren't exactly whimpy!" said Jinx.
"We'll have to provide a distraction. We focus all our energy on one door, and we slowly take away a couple of guards at a time." Said Cyborg, quickly coming up with a feasible plan.
