hello :) i no i no dont be mad! i took forever to update and im sorry, ive just had loads of work and i kept getting other good story ideas and for a while i didnt no how to continue this story but i finally did it :D well any way since it took a while to write i hope you enjoy ;)

disclaimer- i dont own teen titans :P

chapter 11

"Ember are you unharmed?" starfire asked kneeling down beside her friend who managed to sit up.

"yeah I'm fine" ember said rubbing her head and looking into the smoke from starfires starbolts trying to see if slade had been defeated or not.

Starfire was starting to help ember up when an arm locked around her neck pulling her away from the injured girl.

"starfire!" ember said in a panic, starfire started pulling on the arm trying to get it away from her neck. Slade looked down at starfire.

"if you had just agreed to come with me no one would be getting hurt" slade said putting pressure on starfires neck who started struggling more.

"let her go!" ember shouted getting onto her feet shakily. Starfire managed to get free after kicking slade in the shin hard and slipping out of his arms which loosened from the pain in his shin she then quickly turned around and landed another kick in his chest.

Starfire stood in front of ember defensively.

"you shall not harm my friend!" starfire said forcefully. Her eyes ablaze.

"why would i hurt someone i want, if i harm her then she may not be able to work for me silly girl" slade said mockingly at starfire who growled in frustration.

"well you will not get her then" starfire tried to say back mockingly, slade only laughed.

"now enough playing i didn't come here to play" slade said walking tauntingly towards starfire who was now floating slightly above the ground starbolts in hand.

"i am not here to play the games either" starfire replied tilting her head to the side menacingly. Slade charged towards starfire who floated to the side out of his reach before sending a kick at him. Slade managed to dodge and threw a punch at starfire which she quickly dodged also.

Ember sat off at the side watching as her closest friend here fought for her.

Slade got out his bo staff and began to swing it around before trying to hit starfire with it. She just simply floated side to side to dodge the hits what she wasn't expecting though was slade to kick her, to busy dodging the staff she didn't see slade lift his foot and when she did it was to late. Slade landed a powerful kick to her stomach causing her to fall backwards onto the floor, she glared up at him for a moment ignoring the pain before shooting up into the sky.

Slade looked up but couldn't see her so turned his head to look at ember who was now standing with the assistance of a tree. Slade looked back up at the sky to see if he could see the red haired alien before turning back to ember and walking towards her.

"seems shes so absorbed in the fight with me she forgot what she was here to do" slade said walking towards ember, all ember did was smirk.

"you know you should give her more credit, she isn't as dumb as you make her out to be she's much stronger and clever then that" ember said, the smirk on her face turning into a grin.

"and how would you know that, you barely know her" slade replied a smirk evident in his voice.

"because unlike you i pay attention to where the person I'm fighting is at all times and what they are doing, maybe you should try it sometime slade" ember said back cockily and looked to the forest to the side of her. Slade followed where she was looking just in time to see a green blur coming straight at him at a very high speed.

Starfire rammed into slade grabbing him by the material near his neck and continued flying, she looked down at him her glowing green eyes looking into his eye as she gave him a smirk.

"hello again" she said as she raised one of her arms, fist covered in green before punching him in the cheek and releasing him. The force from the punch and the speed that she was flying at sent slade flying. He crashed into a tree and the force caused the tree to crack and fall.

Starfire stared ahead until she seen an unmoving slade lying on top of the tree and flew over to ember a smile on her face.

"that was awesome starfire thank you" ember said giving her friend a hug.

"oh thank you! You are most welcome" starfire said happily before looking at ember. She was barely standing up right.

"are you ok friend ember?" starfire asked concerned tilting her head to the side.

"yes i guess, just a little tired and beat up, im not really used to this" ember replied with a shaky laugh.

"i will try and contact raven" starfire replied before closing her eyes and freeing her mind of thoughts like raven had showed her to do.

"raven? Raven can you here me?" starfire asked in her mind and waited.

"yes starfire i can hear you, are you guys ok?" starfire heard raven say in her mind.

"yes, though ember is a little as she says beat up where abouts is everyone?" starfire asked opening her eyes and smiling at ember who was quietly watching her.

"bumble bee and Cyborg are taking care of cinderblock, speedy, aqua lad and mas and menos are still in town, me and beast boy are on our way to them and robin is heading towards you guys he should be there soon" raven replied.

"ok thank you friend raven, i will bring ember back the way i came and hopefully we shall meet frien..." starfire started but was cut off when she was hit across her back by a bo staff she fell to the floor infront of ember who looked at her panicked.

"starfire? Starfire!" starfire heard raven say in her head but lost her concentration and couldn't reply.

"did you really think i could be defeated so easily, silly girl i thought you would've known that by now" slade said with a cackle walking towards starfire who was getting to her feet.

"get away from her!" ember screamed her eyes glowing orange and she became once again engulfed with flames. She ran towards slade and attempted to punch him but he kept dodging.

"stay still! You coward!" ember shouted frustrated and angry as she used her last burst of energy. Slade simply just laughed while dodging.

"is that all you've got, your too slow you'll never land anything if you move that slowly" slade said laughing. Ember screamed with frustration and carried on trying to punch him still covered with flames.

"thats it your going down!" ember screamed jumping into the air and creating the biggest fire ball ever which was twice as big as her and throwing it towards slade with all her force. The impact on the ground caused fire and smoke to fly high into the sky over the trees.

Robin ran silently through the forest in the direction he thought was starfire.

'i hope there both ok, i hope i make it in time, i dont no what ill do if either of them get hurt' robin thought but stopped in his tracks when he heard what sounded like an explosion, he looked up to see a pillar of smoke and flames in the air.

'seems im going the right way, i just hope that was a good thing and not a bad' robin thought and took off running in that direction again.

"robin? Can you hear me" robin heard ravens voice in his head but carried on running.

"yeah, whats going on is everything ok?" robin asked back slightly panicked.

"starfire got hold of me not even about two minutes ago saying how she got ember and that she was on her way to meet you when she cut off half way through a sentence, i think something's wrong" raven replied and robin sped up.

"yeah i think so to, there was just an explosion and it was defiantly ember, i didn't think she could make a fire that big" robin replied gritting his teeth and willing himself to go faster.

"then something must be wrong, when i was talking to starfire i got the idea that ember could barely stand, and now she's fighting... robin i think you should hurry, is there any orders for us we've just reached the others" raven replied and she sounded slightly worried making robin push himself to his limits.

"yeah head back to the tower and just monitor the situation, if i need help ill call for you" robin replied before concentrating on where he was running again.

Ember floated back down to the ground and landed on her knees breathing heavily, she looked up but all she could see was smoke and fire, she hung her head back down again and closed her eyes trying to get her breath back. That didn't happen though when she felt a hand wrap around her neck from the back and lift her into the air so she was hanging.

Her hands flew to her neck to try and get the hand off.

"so much power, but you need a little more practise on your aiming" slade said with a little laugh "so your going to be my apprentice one way or another silly little girl you cant escape, so you can either come with me by choice or ill have to take you by force...whats it going to be?" slade asked holding her against him now.

Ember turned her head slightly to the side so she could see part of his mask.

"i will never be your apprentice. Never!" she spat at him, he simply gave a short laugh before he sighed.

"thats a shame, i didn't really want to hurt you but i guess i have no choice" slade said before lifting her in the air by her neck again. She clawed at his fingers but it made no difference, slade threw her, she hit the floor and rolled a couple times before she came to a stop.

Gasping from pain and loss of breath she lifted a shaky hand and put it on the floor struggling to lift herself up when a foot collided with her chest knocking her further back. Tears rolled from her eyes as she struggled to breath from being winded, she looked up and glared at slade as he walked towards her not having enough energy to do anything else. Slade lifted his foot for the finishing blow when he was suddenly lifted from the floor by his neck.

"how do you like being held by the neck hhmmm" starfire asked floating slightly off the floor, one hand clenched in anger at her side the other locked firmly at slades neck. She threw him just like he had ember and rushed to embers side.

"friend!" starfire exclaimed when seeing her.

"starfire i'll be fine just deal with slade" ember said and starfire gave a determined nod before standing up and turning around.

"my my i thought i dealt with you already" slade said walking forward and starfire copied.

"i do not go down that easily" starfire replied hands now glowing green.

"oh well you'll go down this time" slade said running for her. She flew over his head and kicked him in the back making him stumble. He turned around and punched her in the face causing her to fall from where she was floating and land on her feet.

Starfire growled and fired an eye beam at him which he barely dodged, she then jumped into the air and fired a barrage of starbolts at him, what she didn't expect was for him to jump out threw the dust cloud where the starbolts had hit and grab her. They both fell back to the ground starfire hitting first. She moaned but stood up and got back into a fitting stance to be kicked down from behind.

She was starting to get tired, she went to get back up when a foot stepped on her back and pushed her back down.

"why bother getting back up when your just going to fall back down" slade said putting more pressure on her back. Starfire ground her teeth together and put her hands on the floor ready to push herself back up when slade grabbed one of her arms and twisted it behind her back.

"stop struggling it will only make it worse for you" he said pulling her arm and pushing down on her back more, starfire screamed in pain, enemies didn't normally restrict her like this and it hurt her physically and mentally, knowing that she couldn't get out of it.

The pressure from her arm and back was suddenly realised and a distressed looking robin was by her side.

"star are you ok?" robin panicked she gave him a weak smile and started to get up.

"i will be fine friend, thank you for helping me" starfire replied incredibly happy to see him, he smiled back at her and she walked over to ember who was now sitting up.

"star you take care of ember ill take care of slade" robin said and starfire nodded.

"so you finally decided to show up then" slade said getting up off the ground where he was kicked to.

"how dare you hurt them you will pay!" robin shouted running towards slade bo staff in hand and attempted to jab him with it.

"why are you so angry robin? Did i do something to upset you?" slade asked side stepping to avoid the bo staff, robin just growled.

"so these two girls are important to you?" slade asked bringing out his own bo staff and managing to hit robin with it.

"of course they are! What a stupid question" robin said through clenched teeth trying to land a hit on slade, slade jumped in the air to hit robin from above and robin swiped his staff side words to push slade away.

"so whose the most important out of them hhmmm?" slade asked and robin glared.

"ok let me re word that, say they where both in danger and you could only save one who would you save?" slade asked grinning evilly inside his mask.

"what are you going on about?" robin shouted trying to hit slade more forcefully.

"maybe if you look behind you, you would understand" slade said stood with his arms crossed. Robin looked over his shoulder and ended up spinning around.

Behind was starfire and ember struggling in the hands of plasmas. Robin jumped as he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned his head to see slades eye looking down on him.

"so robin which one will you save?"

hehe cliff hanger who will he choose i dont no! mwhahaha i do really lol :P well i hope you enjoyed this chapter i promise i will not take as long as last time to update but i do have lots of work at the moment and my other storys but i shall try my best hehe :D anyway please review it makes me happy when i get reviews lol :P any way until next time see ya :D

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