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Hey everyone I'm back from my lazy break from this story!!! (Actually I have been working on my hand made Raven costume for Halloween) Sorry bout waiting so long to update but I haven't been getting any reviews so I'm not that motivated. The only reviews I have gotten were some mean comments from an anonymous Dark Xeno...I sent an email to the registered Dark Xeno and it's a different person so if you are reading this I just want to say that if you thought my story was bad just leave 1 review instead of one for every chapter. And if you don't like it, DON'T READ IT!!! I hope you trip over your own shoelaces and a rusty nail goes through your eye! Hope everyone else enjoys the longest chapter yet.

Chapter 12 : From Fire to Ashes Pt.2

The ripped metal of Slade's mask dropped to the ground as his face was revealed to the world. He looked to be in his 40s or 50s with white hair, a white goatee, and a patch over his right eye. Cri stared at him for a moment and chuckled lightly to herself. "Hey Robin," she shouted over her shoulder. "All this time you were being beaten by an old man!" Cri dropped him onto the concrete floor and dropped what was left of his mask on his lap. "No wonder you're so weak."

Cri turned and walked away laughing, leaving Slade where he lay. Seething with anger he slowly got to his feet. "Yes Cri, I am older than one would think," he growled with a surprisingly confident air around him. Cri stopped and turned back to him, surprised by his confidence. "But you do forget why I captured you in the first place." Cri smirked, "you wanted me as your apprentice and when you couldn't sway me you wanted too..." Cri's smile disappeared and her eyes widened. She took a few steps back. "No...You didn't. That's impossible."

Slade smiled and sprinted to the door he first came out of. Cri was faster, but Slade was much closer. She ran headlong into the door the second it closed, her steel spiked boots unable to get enough traction to stop. Apparently the section of concrete around the door had been plated in metal. The other Titans ran to her to see if she was ok, but it was Raven who helped her up. Apparently the other Titans were still a little wary of Cri.

Cri quickly got up, momentarily dazed and suddenly started punching the door leaving dents. "We have to stop Slade," she shouted. Raven took a few large steps back. She didn't have to be an empath to recognize just how scared Cri was. She knew that if Cri was this scared something horrible was defiantly going to happen.

Robin ran to the door holding an explosive disk. "Get back," he ordered. Cri backed away from the door and Robin stuck the disk on. He and the other Titians, save for Cri, hid behind some boxes as the disk exploded making the door fly inward. Cri rushed in knowing it was too late.

Slade was just putting down a large syringe, his finger over a spot right under his chin. "Although every vampire breed has a 'red yellow' system Cri, you are a red yellow of the rarest breed. The dark blooded breed. I was able to easily twist your DNA eliminating your weaknesses and injected it into my own body." Cri crossed her arms and leaned on the door. "Perhaps you will have my strength and abilities Slade but the transformation will take at least 10 minutes and I will beat you before then." Slade nodded. "Yes it would have taken 10 minutes...If I had actually drank the blood. You see if I inject it into my body it will take half the time and if I inject it into my neck it goes straight to my brain, it will take even less time."

Cri cursed under her breath and her right arm pulsed with red energy, tinged with black. "I will still beat you Slade, because I have a secret." Slade laughed insanely and Cri glanced fangs. He was changing way too fast and didn't seem to be experiencing any pain. The energy around Cri's arm seemed to drip down into a sword. "What can you possibly do to me Cri?" Slade hissed. "You're much smaller than I am and now that my strength is that of yours plus what I had before you have no chance!" Cri smirked and bowed her head so he couldn't see her eyes. "No Slade I do have something. You would grind my face into the concrete before I could focus enough to use magic so I will use something that would take you about a month to figure out how to activate and use...I will use sangue furia."

4 of the other, forgotten, Titans stood near the doorway watching them. "Dude, why doesn't Cri just pound Slade? And what the heck is san whatchamacallit?" Starfire nodded in agreement.

"Sangue furia literally means blood rage in Italian." Everyone jumped and turned around to see Raven standing there, her indigo eyes wide. "Blood rage is sort of a berserker mode for vampires. It is dangerous because it drains their vitality, removes all defensive abilities temporarily, and they loose all awareness of the things around them. It's also very useful in a tight spot because it is very hard to hurt them, their strength can double or even triple, and they get a major speed advantage."

Cri looked up at Slade, her once ice blue eyes were now glowing blood red and small lightning bolts made of pure black energy shot off of the Dragon Buster and dissipated in the air. Her entire body seemed to have a faint red outline. The energy radiating off of her body made Slade and even the Titans take a step back.

Cri smirked. "So Slade..." She said, her voice was doubled, a mix of her normal voice and some other one that was filled with hate and lust. "Are you ready? I haven't had to use my blood rage in a very long time so I hope you can at least put up a good fight." Cri laughed like a maniac making the Titans take another few steps back.

"Red has wanted a good fight for ages." Cri hissed her voice becoming less doubled and more of the new one. "Red is what I call my vampire half while I call my human half blue...I base this on the color of my eyes, and right now I'm all red."

Raven walked up and stood next to Cri. "This is my fight too." She said, eyes glowing black. "I have been rejected more times than I can count and my secret revealed will not help what little reputation I have. Cri nodded, still smiling insanely. "If you can't keep up with me, then just stay out of my way."

Cri charged at Slade, her speed was easily double of Slade's new already inhuman speed. She rammed her knee into his stomach without him even realizing what was happening. She brought her elbow down on the back of his neck and he flipped over her knee. Slade landed on his hands and knees and got up rubbing the back of his neck.

Slade crossed his arms and laughed out loud. Throwing his head back still only half believing just how much his strength and endurance had been enhaced. "If that's how strong you really are then this is going to be easier than I thought."

Cri suddenly rushed forward and stuck the entire wraith blade and her fist right through the lower part of his rib cage. "Am I really that weak?" She hissed in his ear. She ripped the blade out of his chest letting him collapse, his wound already beginning to heal.

At this point Raven had gone to a corner of the room to stay out of the way. She knew that Cri was way too fast for her. She just didn't know by how much, until now of course. The Empath watched with growing awe how Cri would land punch after kick on Slade and he couldn't lay a finger on her. This fight wouldn't last much longer.

Cri was definitely stronger than Slade but her red aura had already started to fade and, blow by blow, she was slowing down. She had driven him to the back of the room, or was it Slade leading Cri to the back of the room? By the time the demoness had realized what was happening it was too late. Slade had led Cri into a trap. He grabbed a length of chain rolled up onto a strange metal carrier with a handle on each end. The starting link had a wicked looking silver spike on the end that turns into a claw when fired out of a tube on its top.

Slade fired at Cri and the spike went right through the center of her chest. The spike's sides flipped up to make something like a 3 pronged grappling hook. The chain quickly retracted so the chain carrier was pressing against her chest, the hook was digging into her back. She grabbed onto the chain carrier, coughing up large amounts of blood, and fell onto her side twitching. Her eyes had already turned blue again and their luminescence was already fading.

Raven ran to Cri's side, the other Titans not far behind. Slade laughed insanely when Raven tried to remove the chain. It seemed to be made out of something that repelled telekinesis and was too strong for her or even Cyborg to break. Raven looked up at Slade and their eyes locked, the look of cold loathing she gave him could freeze over hell. Starfire had started crying, and all of Cyborg's muscles were tense. Robin's look of hate could probably kill Slade if he was still mortal and Beastboy had turned into a cat and had put one of his paws on Cri's shoulder.

"Raven," Cri said weakly. Raven quickly looked down at Cri. Her eyes were unfocused and glazed with pain. "Take this, it will help." Cri held up a small orb of red energy crackling with black lightning. "Keep him safe for me and kick Slade's butt into next week." Raven touched the orb and it turned from red with black lightning to an indigo blue. The black lighting turned white and it wound itself around her right arm and dripped down into an energy sword. Cri had given Raven her wraith blade, The Dragon Buster.

Raven didn't have long to marvel at the gift. The second the Dragon Buster had fully attached itself to her she felt her emotions slipping out of control. Rage, Hate, and Righteousness were rising up above all others, and taking complete control. She vaguely realized that the wraith blade wanted revenge against Slade for killing the one it was once bound to.

Raven lowered her head, desperately trying to suppress her emotions. What really scared her was that it was her anger, not her father's that was making her want to kill Slade. All the wraith blade had done was release if for her. The Empath now regretted ever agreeing to take it from Cri.

Raven felt her eyebrows split as her body was switching from human to demon form. She grabbed her hood and flipped it up before anyone saw. "Get out of the room," she ordered, motioning for the Titans to clear out. Robin noted the change in voice and hurriedly ushered the Titans into a corner of the room, dragging the barley conscious Cri after him.

Raven stood facing Slade, her hood still shadowing her face. She no longer had any fear about loosing control. Righteousness would keep her from hurting her friends. Of this she was sure of. "So Slade," she hissed, looking up and letting Slade see her eyes. She had 4 and they were all pulsing fiery red. "Are you ready to face the wrath of the daughter of Trigon the Terrible?"

Cri could barley see, but she vowed to live long enough to see Raven tear Slade into little pieces. She was amazed at how much Raven's power increased when she got angry. 'This is why Brimstone wanted her dead,' she thought as Raven shot up 20 feet. She was only vaguely aware of the other Titans around her, telling her to hold on.

Tentacles made of black telekinetic energy snaked out from under Raven's cloak and wrapped themselves around Slade's wrists, ankles, torso, and neck, their icy temperature burning his skin. She dragged him to the ground and started pulling him towards her cloak. All the demoness could do was laugh

Slade screamed, pain shooting through his body. He started screaming for mercy as the tentacles electrocuted him. "Mercy?" Raven asked, chuckling sadistically to herself. "You don't DESERVE mercy! You killed the only one who ever understood me and accepted me for who I am!" She kept electrocuting Slade as she dragged him under her cloak. Slade's screams slowly became softer until they disappeared completely.

Cri saw Raven shrink down to her normal 5'5 indigo eyed self. She ran over to her. Cri could barely keep her eyes open and she didn't even bother trying to cough up the blood that was now filling her punctured lungs. It would just prolong the burning feeling of the silver chain in her chest. She looked up at Raven only seeing shadows. With great effort she took off a pouch on her belt and rolled it to her. "Contact Xenon…My father." She took a shallow breath and continued. "Ask about the legend of the phoenix." Cri then closed her eyes and moved no more.

I'm so mean to leave you on another cliffhanger like that but thats just to keep you intrested in the story. The next and last chapter is "A Nest of Burning Cinnamon" and I hope you all like it. I also need people to tell me if they want a sequil or not. I will be looking forward to your reviews.