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Chapter 7: Protection
Raven smiled as she watched Ren and Jay play on the slide at the park. Terra had gone to get some ice cream while Raven stayed to watch her children. It had been several days since the incident at the Shack. She hadn't seen any of the other Titans except for Terra who had been staying with them at the apartment.
"Here you go." Terra said as she walked up and handed a cone full of vanilla ice cream to Raven. "Hey guy's, I got ice cream!" Terra yelled, and immediately the twins started running towards them.
"Thank you Auntie Terra." They said simultaneously as she handed them each a cone of vanilla and chocolate. The two then went off to eat it on the swings.
"So I guess I'm an auntie now?" Terra said laughing.
"Of course you are." Raven said laughing. She watched her children finish their ice cream before going back and playing on the slides again. Raven had never realized or cared to remember how awful her childhood had been. She had seen so many suffer and die, her being the cause for some of it before she had become a Titan.
Raven leaned back and relaxed. It was a peaceful day and the weather was just right. Terra would help her out for as long as she decided to stick around, and if none of the other Titans came around, everything would be fine. Life had been much more hectic over the past few days, and the dark haired girl was relieved that it was finally calming back down.
"Now what do we have here?" came a chillingly cold voice. A shadow appeared behind Raven and a gust of wind picked her up and sent her flying before she could react.
Terra jumped from the bench and turned to face AfterShock who had also moved so that he was between Terra and Raven and the two children who were looking scared as they watched their mother stand, her eyes seeming darker than they'd been in five years.
"AfterShock, what do you want?" Terra demanded, eyes glaring icily at the villain as she picked up a few rocks and let them hover beside her.
"So you're AfterShock?" Raven asked, a hint of sarcastic fear in her voice. "You pissed off the wrong person buddy." She muttered as her eyes grew dark and she whispered three words she hadn't in over five years.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." A steel pole flew from out of no where and began attacking the villain. Raven floated into the air, her eyes fixed dangerously on AfterShock.
"Oh, I'm so scared." He said in mock terror. Grinning wickedly, he pulled out several ball shaped objects and tossed them at the two girls. Two were nets which trapped both of them to the ground. Raven's shot out electricity when it touched her, and she hissed in pain as she lay trapped on the ground. Terra was in a similar position, but she was unconscious from the lack of air. Terra's net had constricted around her, cutting off her air supply and rendering her unconscious.
Three other balls were bombs. Two of which hit Raven, and the other one missed. Raven was now bruised and bloody, while Ren and Jay watched on in horror, too afraid to even call out. One more ball remained. It struck Raven, and instantly she felt her powers being drained.
How is this happening? It can't! I can't lose…what about Ren and Jay? She thought frantically as she felt herself slipping into a black void of exhaustion. She could barely keep her eyes open, and her breathing was becoming ragged. Her dark purple eyes finally closed, her last sight was AfterShock grabbing her two unconscious children and disappearing. Ren…Jay….
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Raven woke with a start and seemed to jump up in the bed she had been placed in. Her entire body ached and her head spun dizzyingly as she felt gentle hands lower her back down onto the bed.
She tilted her head just enough to the side to see Robin. Her body stiffened in alarm, and then she took a better look at her surroundings. She was in her room at the apartment where she and Teresa lived. She could see BeastBoy sleeping on a chair in the corner, and Robin was looking at her intensely.
"You…" She managed to say with a bit of anger and hatred as she turned her head to face away from him. She was mentally and physically drained. She remembered her children being taken and fear gripped her immediately. Were they alive? Were they dead? She had no idea, and only one thought scared her the most. She couldn't protect them.
"You've been out for two days. We were beginning to think that you wouldn't." Robin said sitting down in the chair he had been sitting on before she had awoken so abruptly. "Terra's alright, she woke up yesterday and she's recovered pretty well." It was obvious he was nervous to speak to her, knowing she could blow him up or kill him, but the truth was, she was too weak to even move very much.
"Ren…Jay…"She managed to get out again, worry in her eyes and voice as she looked over to him with the unspoken question.
"We don't know." Robin said looking away, not even being able to look at her. "We haven't found AfterShock. You need more rest, go back to sleep." He said as he breathed out a heavy sigh.
As Raven drifted off into another endless sleep, she heard him mutter, "I'll find that bastard and I'll…" But she couldn't stay awake, and she drifted off to sleep.
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I know it's REALLY short, please forgive me, still waiting for comp to get fixed….-DIES WITHOUT COMP-
Love ya all, (Ducks flying rotten tomatoes)
-DHM-
