Another update. School's starting in less than a week, so I decided to upload as much as I can and also prepare for school.

Chapter Ten: The Enemies

"Hai-ya!" Raven delivered a swift flying kick to Slade's jaw. "And Round One concludes me as winner!" She looked at Slade who was getting up.

"Nice try. But I'm sure the tide will change in Round 2." Slade replied. "Ouch." He tried moving his arm, but it hurt, somehow. Sighing, Raven walked over and put her right hand on his forearm. It glowed for a moment before Slade stopped feeling the pain. "I didn't know you could do that."

"Well, now you know." was the reply. "C'mon, let's finish this thing."

They got back to their positions. "Alright now, let's charge at the same time."

Raven ran towards him as he took out his staff. Summoning her energy she made the ground beneath Slade to jut out, and in response he somersaulted across, landing behind her and swung his staff at her. Her arm went up to block the blow, and twisting her wrist she took the staff and swung used it as a balance to swing herself into the air, aiming a kick at Slade's head. But he dodged and in reflex his staff was now pointing upwards. But the most incredible thing was that Raven was standing at the top of the pole, her arms folded and smiling.

Slade's eyes widened. "Wow."

"No time for talk!" She shot into the air and landed lightly on the ground. She raised her arms, summoning various rocks behind her back and then pushed her arms forward. The rocks followed suit and flew towards Slade. Stepping on each rock and towards Raven, he raised his fist and aimed for her. She turned her body sideways to avoid the punch and stopped Slade in mid-air.

"That's why I love my powers, Slade." She flung him against the wall. And onto the ground.

"Let's see how you fare when it's many against one then." Three additional Slade bots entered the arena. All looked like him.

Snap! All fell with their heads severed. She held Slade in place and walked over to him. She picked him up by his collar and bent her knee against his throat. "Now say those words."

"Never, my dear." He gave a low kick to Raven's left leg, tripping her and she fell.

"Argh!" She was about to get up when Slade came over her. Her immediate reaction was to lift the area below him several meters high while she bought herself time to get up. He had jumped and landed. Now he was charging towards her, and she did the same to him. But he was stronger in physical terms and had knocked her to the ground. Now he was on top of her.

And then their eyes met.

Their faces were only inches apart.

It was a really awkward situation, with Raven's widened eyes and Slade's. Silenced consumed them as they recovered from shock.

"Don't ever do that again." Raven's voice broke the silence.

"Like I did that on purpose. But I never noticed your eyes could be so big." Slade remarked. A tiny wave of fury washed over Raven albeit flattered at the compliment.

"Thanks." She replied.

Three months later...

"I have been thinking, Raven, that maybe you shouldn't be my apprentice anymore."

"What?" Raven was drinking her tea halfway before she suppressed choking it out. "But why?"

"Don't get me wrong, child." Slade got up. "You not working for me anymore. Instead, you're working with me."

"OH. Then why didn't you say so earlier? I nearly choked!"

Slade shrugged. "You think too much."

"Hmph." Raven ignored him and continued drinking her tea. 'Shows that he doesn't think me as just a 14 year old kid.'

"Oh by the way, I'm going out tonight." She informed Slade.

"To where?"

"Oh, somewhere. And no stalking of me, please."

Raven looked at herself in the bathroom. Her bangs were trimmed to slightly below her eyebrows, in a perfectly straight line. Now she looked somewhat younger. She was wearing a black shirt that barely covered her tummy and only had a spaghetti strap on the left side as a sleeve. And to top it off she wore her black jeans and her three-inch heels. Her eyeliner was applied, but not so heavily, and her contacts colored her eyes blue. Her hair highlights in it, and now she was half- unrecognizable. Picking up her bag, which had a strap to hang onto the shoulder, she teleported herself to the club at the South of town, which was open to all ages above 13. The very first club in the city to have such age limits met with much criticisms from the public but it still continued anyway.

Raven entered. Already, a couple of teens were fighting while the others around them ignored the fight and continued dancing.

"Party rock is in the house tonight..."

She scanned around the place and spotted a green guy dancing with a half-man half-robot and...the Boy Wonder, Robin?

She moved further ahead, and saw a two girls who were most probably sisters. One had red hair while the other had black hair. Although the one with black hair looked slightly Asian than her sister.

"Everybody just have a good time... And we're gonna make you lose your mind,"

This song IS addictive, Raven suddenly realised. No wonder the youths were dancing so hard to it.

The song had changed. The girls started cheering loudly when they heard the sounds of Super Junior being blasted out.

"Heyyy, babe, what's your name?" Raven looked to her right. It was the green guy.

"Erm, Rachel." She surveyed him from top to bottom. He wore a pink and black suit and had pointy ears like an elf. New superhero in town?

"I'm Beast Bey- er I mean Beast Boy!" He flapped his arms in pure nervousness.

'Way to go, Garfield.' he told himself. 'Now this chic will never be impressed.'

"Hi, Beast Boy." Raven replied with a mocking tone when she said his name. "Who are you anyway?"

"One of the new superheroes in town," he boasted, "it's not an easy job!"

"..." Raven was speechless. New superheroes? Those people in their suits were the superheroes? Wow. How come Slade never told her?

"Err, um, " Beast Boy tried getting her attention again, "My team's the Teen Titans. Heard of us?" He wiggled his eyebrows, expecting her to say yes.

"No, I'm new in town." She lied, flashing him an innocent smile. "So why're you here instead of kicking butt?"

"Haha," he laughed nervously, "we had a friend whose sister visited. She brought us here. See that black-haired girl? That's Blackfire, Starfire's sister."

Raven looked in his direction. She was right, both girls were sisters. The one called Blackfire was having a lot of fun, apparently.

"So..." Beast Boy piped up again. "Wanna dance?"

She spent about half an hour dancing with the green boy while he sang and danced to the song.

'He sure is one happy chap.'

"Hey, you know what? I bet I can dance better than you." Raven challenged Beast Boy.

"Oh,no you can't!" Beast Boy shot back, laughing.

"BEAST BOY!" Cyborg was yelling. "Get here now! Star's in trouble!"

"Urgh..." Beast Boy sighed as he drooped his head. "I gotta go. See ya soon, Rachel!"

"Bye, green one." She replied with a small wave. Curious about this team, she followed them silently as they attacked the flying squid-like robots that was abducting the redhead known as Starfire.

As she watched them rescue Starfire, Raven couldn't help but to feel amused.

How come she never knew about this team? Slade would have a lot of explaining to do tonight.

She turned around from the rooftop, jumped and vanished into the air.

Sorry, but first thing's first. There's no pairings for this story. YET. I put Slade and Raven in the Character thing because this was really about them, the relationship between two partners in crime. Request if you want a Slaven pairing. I've been thinking alot about it these days too -_- Beast Boy was the best I could do since he's attracted to hot girls, like my Raven for instance :3 hehe. Rest assured, there are no pairings until further notice.

And, the songs used are just Party Rock Anthem and Super Junior. I don't own them :P

Thanks for the review, "Poppy"! :D

- TZJZ