Raven stared up in shock at Slades face.
It was gray, like hers! But what caught her attention most was two things, one, the eye coverd up by the mask was red, and at a slit angle, like her eyes when Rage took over. . .but the thing that she couldn't tear her eyes away from was the mark where a red jewl was sopposed to be...there was just a black, almost burnt mark there instead.
He crouched down next to her.
"Slade...your...but...how?" She said, almost in a whisper He sighed and looked around the room, then abck at Raven.
It's a long story, but you need to hear it. He reached out and took her hand. She stood with him and they walked over to her bed, they sat on the edge.
"You weren't ment to be the prophesy child that destroyed the Earth...that was sopposed to be me" Ravens mind railed against all these new thoughts fighting to enter her mind.
"But...wait, what happend?"
"I'm getting to that...see, your mother wasn't the only one tricked by a demon. My mother, Silvarien, was tricked by a demon just as powerful as Trigon, named Zinch, I was born, named to be the end of the planet Earth. My mother was killed by Zinch so no one would know of me. But Zinch trusted to wrong person, in other words, Trigon" "When I was five, my father discoverd Trigons plans, and that he had a Preistess from Azaerath Pregnent, but it was to late, Trigon killed Zinch, and banished me to Earth" "But your mother, knowing then what was happening, found me before I was sent, and slipped me a spell book, and a story of what happend, and what I was" Raven looked guiltily at the floor. She stood from the best, Slade wached her closely. She walked to a small black nightstand and pulled out the book. Slade seemed to hold his breath. She walked over and sat down next to him, and handed him the book. He took it and looked back up at Raven. "Why did you take this?" She shurgged unable to look him in the eye. To her surprise he laughed. He shook his head.
"I will talk to you about that later, I need to finish my story first. . .where was I? Oh, anyway, I was sent to Earth by Trigon, he didn't think I would live long, and if I did, he thought he could use me later..." He dropped off, and Raven recalled the times he had helped Trigon, and wonderd if that was what he was thinking of. He glanced at her and startted again. "To make a long story short, I grew up, and in anger from what happend, and I did remember it all so clearly, I studied the book I was given, endlessly, non stop...it was all I ever did, I barley ate, slept, anything, I wanted revenge, not for my father, but for what was happening to me"
"What was happening to you?" Asked Raven. Slade looked at her.
"How do you think I made that suit Raven? How would I know about all those emotions? How to help you?" Raven starred stuned at Slade. He nodded knowing she understood.
"I was in a endless fight with myself, always angry, sudden waves of sadness, I almost killed myself so may times"
Raven looked away, she knew what he ment, she had thought that sevral times herself.
"I grew power hungrey, I wanted to do anything to make it stop, to kill Trigon...but he found out" "I was 15, same age you were three years ago when it happend to you. My powers reached there ultimate hight, and I went to find him" "We battled, I lost, I was to full of myself, thought I could beat anything and everything" He paused and reached up and touched the burnt scare on his forhead. "He took my powers, everything I had, all I had" Raven looked at him. His one red eye was darker then it had been, and his other eyes seemed distent. "Thats why I worked with him, he promised my powers back...but when I wouldn't kill you" He looked up at Raven, Raven suddenly relized she had moved closer to him. She tried to slide away, but he grabbed her arm.
"Why did you kill me Slade?" She asked. There was a long silence, Slade pulled Raven closer.
"I'll tell you why"