"I'll do it," Jesse asked, grabbing Jade's hair and pulling her backwards so her body was pressed against his. "I'm her half-uncle, it should work."
"Not as well," Trigon replied. "It must be a direct bloodline."
"I refuse," Slade replied. "You'll have to kill me."
Trigon waved his hand, and Wintergreen appeared on the floor before him. "It won't be you that I kill." The old man looked up at Trigon, his eyes wide.
"Slade, as of right now, I am proud of the man you have become. Do not let demons back into your head or your heart," Wintergreen said. "I'm an old man, death is easy for me."
"Jared," Trigon said. The red man with the corn rolls stepped forward and took Wintergreen by the collar of his shirt.
"Let's see how easy death really is," Jared said smiling. He dropped Wintergreen to the floor, and grabbed his wrist. Jared wrapped his hand around Wintergreen's pinky, and pulled. A loud scream echoed off the walls of the chamber, and Jared threw the pinky at Slade. "One down, nine to go."
Black magic shot across the room in every direction, and all of the red men were thrown back. Jade stood at the center, where the magic had originated. She had lifted her clothes up from the floor and fit them back to her body, the magic mending the tears in them. Her hands were both raised, and magic was flowing out, holding the red man back against the wall, and her eyes were lit up, still glaring at her grandfather.
Trigon watched her for a minute. "You think you are stronger than me?"
"My mother was stronger than you," Jade replied. "And I am stronger than her. I am giving you one chance, because we are family. Leave this planet and go somewhere else. Don't return. And I'll let you live."
Trigon smiled and leaned back in the throne. With a small nod to Jared, Wintergreen's ring finger landed on the floor in front of Jade.
Raven sat against the wall of the cell, and Beast Boy was laying flat on his back on the cold floor in the middle of it. It has been a week since anyone had come into their cell to feed them or drug them to render their powers useless. Beast Boy was able to make slight changes, like from human to ape or bear, but anything that required a larger change of shape was still impossible for him. Raven could create small blasts of magic, but they were too weak to actually do damage.
Beast Boy sat up, his ears perking up for the first time in days. "I hear something." Beast Boy jumped up, moving to the bars that held them in. Raven didn't move, her body weak from bloodloss and starvation.
"TITANS?!" It was Nightwing's voice was calling. It was far away but getting closer.
"Here!" Beast Boy yelled. "Over here!"
A green light from Starfire's hand appeared. "Back away," Starfire warned as she ripped the metals bars right off the wall. "Are you alright?"
"They drugged us, our powers are weak, but we're alive," Beast Boy replied. "It's just me and Raven."
"Nightwing, Mari, and I were being held on the other side, also drugged. My strength has only just come back. Nightwing believes we are in a basement. Cyborg was with us when they attacked but we cannot find him yet," Starfire replied.
As they were talking, Raven had pulled herself off the ground and was holding the wall for support as she made her way out of the cell. "Beast Boy, can you sniff out Jade?"
Beast Boy sniffed the air and frowned. "Starfire, take Nightwing and go that way," Beast Boy said, pointing down the hallway. "Raven, let's go." Beast Boy started leading the way up the hallway and through a maze of walls and cells until they finally reached a stairway.
The door at the top of the stairs was locked, and Beast Boy shifted into a bear, knocking it down before shifting back into a human. "This way, let's go." The hallway was better lit than the basement, with stone floors and walls. Large wooden double doors were at the end of the hall. Beast Boy had only touched the door before he bent forward, gagging. "It smells," Beast Boy said, "Rae hang on, don't go in alone." Raven was ignoring him, and she pushed it open, opening the doorway to the stone chamber.
The smell hit her immediately and Raven almost gagged. Beast Boy's heightened sense of smell had him on the floor, his hand over his face. The most obvious thing in the room was the large empty throne across from them. A shuffling to their left drew their attention. Slade was hanging from the wall with chains around him. He was alive, and awake. His good eye looked up at them in silence. In front of him was the source of the smell: a mangled, unidentifiable body. It could hardly be called a body as it was just a pile of limbs in a pool of blood.
On the right side of the room, the stones were raised about three feet off the ground, creating a stone table where Jade was chained down. Raven ran to her, a wave of the hand removing the chains from her daughter. Her clothes were torn and she has bruises and cuts along her body. Raven waved her hand over her daughter, mending the torn clothes. "What happened?" Raven asked, her hands over the bruises on Jade, who was unconscious. Beast Boy had moved towards Slade, starting to unchain him. "What happened?" Raven repeated.
Slade had no response, and as soon as Beast Boy pulled the chains apart, Slade simply sunk to the floor, unresponsive. Nightwing entered the room his hand over his mouth to block the disgusting smell, and he immediately moved to where Raven was standing over her daughter. "Is she okay?"
"She's alive," Raven replied. "I'm trying to heal her but my powers are still weak."
Nightwing lifted Jade off of the stones. "Let's go, we'll get her to the hospital."
Starfire was helping Slade walk out, and Nightwing was glancing back, watching the older man's arm around his wife's shoulder. "Beast Boy," Nightwing said, with just a tilt of the head. Beast Boy shifted into an ape and took Slade away from Starfire, and together the group headed out the door and out of the building.
A/N
So not sure how you are all going to react to this one, but I promise the next one will be worse .