Disclaimer – I do not own Teen Titans, Eragon, BloodRayne, Deltora Quest, Soul Reaver, Dark Stalkers, The Legend of Dragoon, or any of the other things that I took little tidbits from.

Sorry it has taken me SO FRIGGEN LONG to update but I wanted my teacher to read my story and I wanted to leave her hanging when she finished reading what I had. (Evil laugh) So anyway this is chapter 11 of 13 ...I'm glad everyone liked my story and I want you guys to tell me if you want a sequel written to this because if you don't I probably wont write something this long ever again and just write oneshots...

Chapter 11 : From Fire to Ashes Pt.1

Raven quickly ran down the hall shouting for the other Titans to wake up. Within a minute everyone was gathered in the living room with Raven practically yelling out the events that had taken place within the last few minutes. "Raven calm down," Robin said sternly. "Cri has a tracking beacon in her communicator we will find her." Cyborg looked skeptical. "Ya and Slade probably knows that too, and why are we trying to save someone who was sent here to kill Raven?" Raven glared darkly at him and a red glow began to bleed into her indigo eyes. "Because Cyborg," she hissed, her voice dripping with venom. "She is the ONLY person who has defended me before fully getting to know me instead of, say, shooting me with a sonic cannon because I 'seemed' evil." Cyborg backed off, his eyes wide with fear. Raven then turned and walked out of the room leaving the other Titans in a state of utter shock.

Raven quickly found Slade's hideout, an old abandoned warehouse near the docks, and landed on the roof. 'I partially regret leaving the other Titans behind but I'm sick of wasting time.' Raven thought grimly to herself. She morphed into her soul self, a huge black raven, and phased into the warehouse. She landed on the concrete floor and changed back immediately scanning the room for signs of Slade. She found none but she did find Cri strapped to a metal table with cables. Cri was obviously awake because she had turned to look at Raven. "A little help over here Raven?" Raven quickly ran over and cut the wires. "You can tear apart robots but you can't rip these wires...Now why is that?"

Cri sighed deeply and the air around her seemed to shimmer. She pulled a jet black cape made of silk out of thin air and tied it around her neck. Suddenly Raven was looking at a different person yet it was still Cri. Her ears had become pointed and her skin had paled slightly, her eyes seemed to shine with a soft luminescence making her look a lot like Raven. When she spoke her voice seemed smooth but was as cold as ice. "I couldn't break the ropes Raven, because if you stretch them steel panels will move aside and press the silver core against my skin. Raven I didn't tell you for fear of being rejected. I am a Dhampir, and the vampirec breed is both yellow and red."

All the clues Ran through Ravens head and they all added up. The Empath cursed herself for not seeing it sooner. Everything pointed to this, Cri was half vampire half human, and if she had both vampire breeds in her, her parents must have both been Dhapirs too otherwise a 2 way breed as a Dhampir would be impossible. One of her parents was the yellow-eyed breed, a master in hand to hand combat, strength, and speed. The other was the red-eyed breed, strong in magic, summoning, and outwitting their opponent. Cri's mom had green eyes and yellow is an element in making the color green so it is likely she inherited her fighting ability from her mother.

Raven was about to ask another question when Slade walked in. Cri immediately got into a fighting stance, a low growl emanating from her throat. Raven whirled around to face Slade, her hands and eyes glowing. The front door burst open and the rest of the Titans ran in ready for a fight. "Thought you might need some backup." Beastboy said with a spark in his eye. Slade didn't flinch for a second. Suddenly an electrified cage dropped on Beastboy, Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire. "Excellent, now I have the demonic daughter of Trigon, and the half vampire daughter of the assassin Rayne all to myself.

The Titans gaped at Raven and Cri. Cri turned to Raven, utterly shocked. "TRIGON?!? He doesn't mean Trigon the Terrible does he Raven?" The dark sorceress nodded in disgust. "If I'm not mistaken your mother is the one responsible for all those mutilated corpses with fangs we have been finding..." Cri sighed and shook her head. "Not all of them, I regret to say some of them were actually my doing...destroying supernatural threats and people who dig too deeply into stuff like that is my job, and not a very pleasant one at that."

Slade's laughter filled the warehouse echoing off the walls just to laugh at them again. "And that's exactly why I want you as my new apprentice Cri. You can be even more ruthless than I am..." Slade started laughing again but stopped when he heard someone else's laughter. Cri was laughing at him. "I may be a more ruthless fighter than you are Slade but there is one thing you forgot. My methods may not be approved by many people but I fight to protect people, the lives of mortals. Yes I will admit to drinking blood, yes I will admit that I have killed before, and yes I admit to being half vampire but I'm not a monster Slade. We are bound by our experiences not by our heritage, so the only monster here Slade, is you. And I have trained my whole life to kill monsters."

Cri just stood there smiling and watching Slade. Raven glanced back at her teammates who couldn't have been more shocked if they had been struck by lightning. She walked over to the door of the cage making them shrink back but Robin seemed to hold his ground. 'Here it comes,' thought Raven. 'Now everyone will turn against me and I'm going to have to find a new home.' She kept her head down as she broke the lock with her telekinetic powers letting them all out and then walked back to Cri who seemed to be having a staring contest with Slade.

"I'm ready when you are Slade." Said Cri, who then pretended to yawn and look at her watch. She smirked showing her fangs. They weren't long but were defiantly sharp. Raven could probably guess that they extended when she is about to bite something. "Come on Slade," hissed Cri. "Afraid that a little girl is gonna beat ya?" It was pretty obvious to Robin, a combat expert, that Cri was trying to trick Slade into making the first move, but that wasn't the question. The question was, would Slade let his ego get in the way of better judgment?

After a few tense moments Slade whipped out his bow staff and charged Cri with amazing, almost inhuman, speed. He swung his bow staff down at Cri and hit empty air. Cri grabbed his ankles from behind and started swinging him around. Cri threw him up into the air with force enough to send all 245 pound of Slade into the 50 foot ceiling and then some. Cri's cape shimmered and became a pair of black feathered wings whose tips touched the floor. There was a spike at the top of each of her wings giving her a look a bit like a predator about to strike a defenseless animal. She spread her wings and beat them down hard as she jumped catching Slade as soon as his body had peeled itself off of the ceiling. "Have we met before?" She asked with a smirk on her face. She once again threw Slade and this time he hit the far wall before sliding down into a dumpster.

Cri landed on the concrete floor, her wings creating enough wind to blow Raven and Robin's capes flapping. "I'm surprised he survived that throw." Cri said thoughtfully "I think I pulled a muscle in my arm..." Beastboy walked up to her a bit nervous. "What do you mean 'survived'? No one could have survived that!" He ended at a yell. "You killed him Cri, you killed him!!!" Cri raised an eyebrow at the changeling. "Then if you find some other explanation as to why I can still smell a heart pumping and sense brain activity in that dumpster I'm all ears." Beastboy backed off going a lighter shade of green. Apparently Cri being able to smell the blood someone heart pumps just is a little too much for him.

"Come on Slade, don't make me have to actually drag you out. Then again you could just stay in there. Garbage is all you really amount to." After about a minute of waiting Cri sighed and walked over to the dumpster. As she looked inside it, she was greeted with a devastating uppercut courtesy of Slade's armored fist. He smirked as he heard a loud crack signifying that he had broken her jaw.

Cri fell to the ground a few feet away. She put a hand to her chin and moved her jawbone slightly. Slade heard a small crackling sound and then there was silence. "I can heal broken bones Slade, but I thought you knew that already." By now Slade was furious, Cri had outsmarted him at every turn and when he finally did manage to hurt her, she only healed herself and shrugged it off as of it were nothing. He had never faced an opponent anything like her before.

Slade quickly climbed out of the dumpster only to be pinned against the far wall with Cri's hand around his throat. "Do you have some sort of identity crisis Slade? Why do you always wear that mask? Do you think that it will protect you?" Cri smirked wickedly. "Lets see the face behind the mask, shall we?" With those last words Cri grabbed the front of the metal mask, her nails digging into the metal as if it were putty, and ripped the mask clean off of his face.

WARNING!!! The next chapter will tell you what Slade looks like and if you don't believe me just look inside the original Teen Titans comics to confirm my story. See you in chapter 12. Oh and this is the longest chapter I have written so far. Yay for me!!!