Hi peoples! Sorry it took me a while to post up this chappie. It's not easy keeping up with three different stories. Well, here it is! The fourteenth chapter!

Chapter 14: The First Battle

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Mar'i staggered up to her feet wincing in pain feeling the red liquid dry up in her palm.

Kariand'r gasped. "Mar'i! Stay down, you're injured."

Kariand'r placed a helpful hand on Mar'i's good shoulder, but Mar'i pushed it away stubbornly.

"I'm fine." She spat glaring viciously at Deathstroke. She gave her a playful grin. "You got a lot of nerve attacking us Deathstroke. Big mistake."

"Don't make me laugh." Deathstroke chuckled.

"Why are you attacking us anyway?" Kariand'r demanded standing in a fighting position next to Mar'i who still had her hand securely on her injured shoulder.

"I don't have to have a reason." Deathstroke grinned taking three cartwheels towards Mar'i and Kariand'r.

The two twins stood their ground ready for anything Deathstroke was going to throw at them which were probably more of her kunai knives.

Deathstroke then came to her last cartwheel landing on her orange gloved palms, pushing herself up high in the air, flipping forward in the air so fast she looked like a blurry orange and black ball.

"Show-off." Mar'i said rolling her eyes.

Just then, Deathstroke finally came down, but with something in her hands. Mar'i and Kariand'r both gasped with surprised looks on their faces when they saw not kunai's in Deathstroke's hands, but a long silver-coated Bo-Staff coming down fast towards Mar'i.

Kariand'r quickly dashed towards her sisters' side grabbing hold of Deathstroke's hard, metal Bo-Staff before it smacked into Mar'i. Her eyes shone a bright light blue as she thrust Deathstroke off into the empty 9 P.M street but Deathstroke a quick step ahead of her.

She quickly let go of the metal Bo-Staff hanging in the air by the push of her body against her sailing Bo-Staff kicking Kariand'r right in the chin.

Kariand'r flipped backward, falling to the cold asphalt ground from the rapid blow; blood exploding inside her mouth.

"Kariand'r!" Mar'i cried about to run towards her, but was stopped by Deathstroke taking a firm grip on her fathers' red collar shirt she was wearing.

Mar'i almost toppled over from being pulled so violently but instead was knocked over by Deathstroke's solid knuckles.

Mar'i felt the painful stream of blood gushing through her cracked nose as her body began to hit the hard ground. She tried shaking off the pain and tried to keep herself up, swaying to the side and taking a few steps back.

"I'm not going to go down that easily." She huffed.

Kariand'r groaned stepping back up to her feet. "Neither am I."

"Crap. Since when did they get so tough?" Deathstroke thought looking at the determined looks on Mar'i and Kariand'r's faces. She smiled evilly. "Oh well, this just makes it a more interesting battle."

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Shadow stared up at the brightness of the full moon in the starry night sky. He let out a mournful sigh letting the gentle breeze of the cool night pass through him, lifting up his black hooded cloak making it dance with the wind as his eyes came to a calming close.

Shadow's eyes flipped open when the sweetest sound of the air whizzing past him was shattered by heavy breathes of his out-of-breath brother.

"Dude! You are one seriously messed up bro! Do you know how much you made me run? I yelled out your name like, a thousand times and you just walk by like I'm nothing!" Stevie yelled stomping his way towards his sulking brother.

Shadow was silent, still looking up at the luminous moon not even glancing Stevie's way. This made Stevie furious.

"Dude! Are you even listening to me?" He screamed.

Silence.

Stevie tightened up his fist in rage, but blew off his steam letting out a calm breath. He walked over towards Shadow and rested a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"How long are you planning on pulling the loner act?" He asked.

Shadow looked back at his younger brother and then looked down at his small black boots letting at a sigh.

"Look dude, I know you're pissed at mom for lying to you, but you just gotta let it go and get over it man." He said giving him a few pats on the back.

"It's not that simple Stevie!" Shadow barked. Stevie took a step back in fear. "It really hurts knowing that your own flesh and blood, the person who cares about you more than anyone ever will in this whole damn world, lied right in your face!"

He looked up at Stevie, who now had a terrified look on his face at how his own brother just snapped at him.

Shadow growled in frustration. "Never mind. You're too young to understand."

"Shadow, I'm not too young to know what you're going through." Stevie told him. "I know, it hurts being lied to, especially by your own flesh and blood, but there is something you're not going through that I am. Something that hurts just as much as this, maybe even more."

"What's that?"

Stevie looked deeply at his older brother, his spring green eyes now filling up with sadness. "Watching you fall apart." (Sniffles. That's so sad!)

Shadow turned and looked down at his brother, his face showing extreme sadness and pain. At that very moment, Shadow's bleak seriousness completely left his face, now feeling guilt.

"Stevie . . . I—"

But Shadow's words were stopped by a shrill scream in the night air. The two boys looked below from the building they were on top of and spotted the great fight scene between the two twin girls they met up with not so long ago and another girl they've never seen before dressed in orange and black.

"Dude, it's that chick you were so harsh to." Stevie pointed out. Shadow was silent once again, staring deeply at the fight scene against the three girls. He seemed to pay great attention to Mar'i as if he were examining her carefully.

"I was harsh to her?" He thought like he couldn't believe it watching Mar'i soak a punch to Deathstroke right in the chin and then giving her a high kick knocking her to the ground. She panted madly, sweat overflowing her face. She wiped it off her forehead leaning down on her knees. Shadow's face went crimson.

"Damn, look at those girls fight! You go girls!" Stevie rooted punching his right fist in the air while Kariand'r punched Deathstroke right in the left cheek with her glowing light blue fist sending her flying into a brick building.

Deathstroke smacked into the building falling flat on her butt. She glared looking up at the two girls who were giving each other a high five at their progress.

Deathstroke growled, charging after the two girls taking out two kunai's (why doesn't that surprise me) and pointing the tips right at their throats.

"Look out!" Kariand'r yelled flying up in the air as swiftly as possible. Mar'i gasped and quickly moved out of the way.

"Come on Mar'i, think of happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. Happy—yikes!" She cried almost getting hit by a kunai, but quickly dodged it.

"Don't let your guard down girl!" Stevie yelled enjoying the fight with much enthusiasm.

Deathstroke looked towards Mar'i's way, walking towards her twirling her last kunai in her left hand; an evil grin on her face.

Just then, a light blue Starbolt zapped Deathstroke right in the left shoulder. She looked up and saw a large amount of Starbolts pouring towards her.

"Nice work Kariand'r!" Mar'i called out running towards Deathstroke, grabbing her by the collar, and smacking her right in the face with her hard fist.

"Daaaaaaaaammmmmmmmnnnnnnnn!" Stevie cried in amazement.

Deathstroke felt an outburst of red blood filled her mouth. She swallowed it down hard, giving Mar'i a dark flare of anger as she raised her left fist and soaked her right in the right cheek.

Kariand'r gasped. "Mar'i!"

Deathstroke then turned back towards Kariand'r and quickly reached into her utility belt taking out a couple of smoke bombs throwing them towards Kariand'r's way. They exploded in Kariand'r's face making her blind and choke violently.

"I (cough) (cough) can't (cough) see!" She choked. The cautious fumes of the smog then suddenly got to her head as she felt her body becoming woozy. She then lost complete ability to fly and landed hard on the asphalt ground. Deathstroke looked down at the two defeated girls and smiled victoriously.

"Dude! That's not fair!" Stevie cried out waving his arms in the air like a maniac.

"Come on, we have to help them." Shadow said already flying towards the three girls. Stevie quickly changed into an Ash Falcon—a grayish falcon with black eyes—and swooped down following his older brother.

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Deathstroke gave out a low, sinister chuckle as she looked down upon her defeated opponents.

"This mission was too easy." She stated.

"Then let's try kicking it up a notch." A young, determined voice came from behind Deathstroke.

She quickly turned and saw a dark hooded teenaged boy and a large grayish bird with black eyes that transformed into a green haired, green eyed preteen.

She smiled. "Shadow and Stevie; Beast Boy and Raven's two boys." She said walking towards them with her hands behind her back.

"How do you know our names?" Stevie asked glaring darkly at Deathstroke.

She smiled. "I know a lot about you two and your little girlfriends too." She told them looking down at the unconscious Grayson twins.

"They're not our girlfriends." Stevie stated trying to sound all bleak and mysterious.

"Oh really?" She said looking at Shadow, walking casually towards him. "Then that means you're a free man. Looking for a certain person that can totally kick ass in a cool fashion? If you are, then I'm your girl." She purred lacing her black gloved fingers in Shadow's soft spiky purple hair.

Shadow pushed his head aside glaring at Deathstroke. "Sorry, I don't think you're really my type."

"Is that a fact? Oh well, I guess I'll have to use force in order to make you mine." She said taking out four kunai's from her utility belt and sailing them towards Shadow and Stevie.

Stevie yelped and ducked for cover while Shadow raised his right hand surrounding himself in a black force field.

"Dude! You couldn't have given me one of those?" Stevie asked looking up at his brother watching the kunai's bounce off the force field.

Deathstroke sneered at the two boys ready to charge after them using her hand-to-hand combat skills when she was stopped.

"No, your mission was to bring back the girls."

Deathstroke stopped and looked down at Mar'i and Kariand'r, who were still out cold.

"Yes Master." Deathstroke said making her way towards the two twin girls, but was stopped by an invisible force pulling her away and knocking her against a brick building wall.

"Stevie, protect the girls." Shadow ordered. Stevie gave a soldier solute and ran towards Mar'i and Kariand'r.

Shadow glared at Deathstroke with his serious violet eyes. "I won't let you hurt them." He growled.

"Ooh, the scary eyes. You know you look very sexy when you do that." She cooed batting her masked eyes.

Shadow gave her a death glare but then saw her reaching for something in her silver utility belt. He was about to stop her by trapping her in a force field, but was too late.

Deathstroke kicking Shadow right in the stomach and landed on her feet throwing a few smoke bombs right on the ground. Shadow used his powers to wave the smoke away only to find that Deathstroke was gone.

"Damn it." He cursed.

"Shadow! I think they're waking up!" Stevie called. Shadow turned and already saw the girl with the long black and reddish-orange awake and the girl he just yelled at opening up her eyes. He ran to her side and carried her in his arms as she woke up.

Mar'i moaned in pain, her eyes fluttering open. She felt being carried by someone with very strong arms as her eyes fluttered open.

"Hey," Shadow whispered giving her a small smile. "You alright?"

Mar'i's eyes widened in shock as she quickly moved out of Shadow's arms as if he were about to rape her. "What the hell are you doing here?" She screamed.

"Where's Deathstroke?" Kariand'r asked Stevie.

"We beat her up for you." Stevie smiled proudly.

"Wow! You hear that Mar'i? They helped us out!" Kariand'r cheered joyfully flying up in circles gleefully.

Mar'i turned and looked up at Shadow with an unsure look on her face. "You . . . helped us?" She asked.

"Well, yeah." Shadow said getting up. "We couldn't let that girl beat the crap out of you."

Mar'i gave him an uncertain stare, her eyes shifting up and down examining him once again as if he were a stray dog at the pound. He gave her a smile that said, 'You can trust me' which made Mar'i feel like blushing. She quickly turned her head away before he noticed her face turning a bright crimson.

"I'm Shadow by the way." He said reaching out his hand for her to shake. Mar'i turned looking at his hand and then looking up at Shadow. She gave him a death glare and turned her head away folding her arms in front of her chest.

"Mar'i! Don't be so rude!" Kariand'r told her sternly as if she were Mar'i's mother.

"Can you blame her after the way Shadow treated her the first time they met?" Stevie asked looking up at Kariand'r.

Shadow sighed rubbing the back of his neck shamefully. "Look, Mar'i was it?" He asked.

Mar'i was silent.

"Listen, I'm really sorry that I was very rude to you on our first encounter. I was in a really bad mood and—"

"So you just let it out on me?" Mar'i yelled.

Just then, a dark figure flew past Mar'i, Shadow, Kariand'r, and Stevie. They all looked up and saw the dark figure coming down. They all got into a fighting position ready to attack whoever this person was, but stopped when the dark figure stepped into the light.

"Mom!" Shadow yelled.

Suddenly, a green falcon was heard in the air as it sailed down and transformed into its humans form.

"Dad!" Stevie cried.

A young lady flew down next to Raven and Beast Boy.

"Mother!" Kariand'r yelled.

And finally, a Ferrari pulled towards them, Richard stepping out of the car.

"Dad!" Mar'i yelled.

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Uh-oh! The parents are here! I smell a family feud! Well, hope y'all are ready for the fifteenth chapter. I'll post it up soon. 'Till then, peace out yo!