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Hi it's me again, your not gonna believe this...in English class we are all having to write stories ok? And my teacher liked The Phoenix and the Black Bird SOOOOO much she assigned it to me!!! Too cool, huh? Well anyway we are getting near the end of my story...I have decided to use 13 chapters and that's it. It's a supernatural story so I thought 13 chapters would be very appropriate.

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Chapter 10 : A Deadly Mission

The other Titans gaped at their teammate, and the woman on the roof smiled. "I was worried Cri, I knew you were all right after I got your e-mail but I just wanted to check up on you." Cri smiled, "well don't worry about me, I'm fine. I can take care of myself...You know I always pull through in a tight spot" The woman nodded.

"Oh I almost forgot, you are going to find some place to keep Spike..." Cri slapped herself. "I can't believe it, I forgot all about him." She turned to her friends. "Hey guys, is it ok if I keep my pet, Spike, here?" Beastboy started jumping up and down excitedly. "Ya dude! Titans Tower needs a pet!" Cyborg shrugged. "Y'all can keep him here as long as he's house trained." Raven glared at Cri. "Just keep him out of my room or else you may not have a pet anymore." Starfire, like Beastboy, had started jumping up and down. "Glorious!!! I would be most in favor of having an animal." Robin nodded. "Then it's settled I will pick up some dog food in the morning."

Cri quickly looked strangely at Robin. "Spike isn't a dog...He isn't a cat either" Robin closed his mouth. 'I hate it when she reads my mind.' Cri smirked and Robin mentally slapped himself. A chopper quickly approached Titans Tower and through down a rope latter. "This is my ride" Cri's mother said. Suddenly this huge raptor like thing jumped out of the chopper and landed next to Cri. The woman quickly got onto the latter and the chopper flew away. "Cri," Raven said in a shaky voice "What is that?" "Oh, I'm sorry." Cri said quickly. "This is Spike, my Vraal."

"No, no way, not now not ever." Robin said as he paced back and forth across the living room floor. "A dog, fine. A cat, why not. But defiantly not THAT thing." Cri was sitting on the couch moping, and Spike was curled up in the middle of the room, watching Robin pace with its 4 yellow eyes. "Please Robin, he could help us fight crime. If the city knew he was helping us criminals will probably think twice about robbing the bank or something." Robin glared at Cri but could not argue with the truth in her words. After a moment he sighed and let his glare drop to the floor. "Fine Cri, you can keep him here. Just don't let him on the sofa understand?" Cri nodded excitedly and hugged Spike.

Cri quickly made dinner, and after a few hours of kicking Cyborg and Beastboy's butt on gamestation, easily setting a new record for "wins in a row." The Titans started to go to bed. Cri yawned. "Sorry guys, I'm getting tired. I'm gonna go to bed now." Cyborg and Beastboy nodded and continued trying to beat the pulp out of each other.

Raven couldn't sleep. The thought of Spike living in the tower had defiantly creeped her out. Every clue to what Cri could possibly be was on her mind. She continued to try and get some sleep for another few minutes knowing it was a pointless effort. She quickly decided to ask Cri once and for all. She levitated down the hall just to find that Cri had already gotten up and was heading to her room. Raven quickly caught up but Cri was already halfway through her door and it was closing. Raven sighed and was about to knock when she heard another voice.

Inside her room, Cri had grabbed her laptop computer and set had up an audio link with a mysterious man. "Have you gathered enough data yet Agent BloodCri?" he asked in a deep chilling voice. "Yes I think I have ShadowSythe. Tell Brimstone that Raven may be half demon but she is not a supernatural threat to the city. She meditates everyday and is literally an ice queen. Her emotions will defiantly not give the city any trouble." There was a slight pause and then ShadowSythe spoke up again. "The council says that because she does have emotions she IS a threat and you have been ordered to eliminate her as soon as possible..."

Raven couldn't believe what she was hearing. Cri was an enemy agent!!! Or was she? Cri had said something about a supernatural threat. The empath quickly realized that she probably was a threat to the city, and if Cri is a supernatural hunter she should know that hands down...so why was Cri defending her?

There was a long pause in the conversation. "ShadowSythe..." Cri's voice drifted off. "I refuse to assassinate Raven. I know defying orders could end up getting me killed but I refuse to kill Raven unless she looses control." There was a long pause. "I know this is against the councils wishes, and I know that it will be much harder if I do things my way, but I think Raven has saved enough lives to deserve a chance to live..." Cri's voice had started to shake and Raven now knew she was defiantly not an enemy. "Alright BloodCri we will let you off this time, but if the council gives you an order again, I expect you to follow it down to the letter. Is that understood?" Cri sighed. "Yes ShadowSythe I understand."

Raven felt her body relax. That had been close. She was defiantly glad now that Cri was on her side. Her relief didn't last long though. A loud crash of glass breaking and a scream woke her out of her dream world. The dark sorceress realized it came from Cri's room. She opened the door just in time to see Slade jumping out the now broken window with an unconscious Cri draped over one of his shoulders. Her arms were bound with a 4 way cable held together with an electric disk.

Ok that's all for now. I can't believe there are only 3 more chapters left to write...I already have them planned out and I just need to write them. Considering the ending you will be worried if there will be a sequel or not...don't worry, there probably will be depending on if you want me to write a sequel.