Raventhedarkgoddess: I wish I could have updated sooner........... Sorry guys, definatly not feeling inspired a lot lately.
Chapter Twelve: All Downhill From Here
Raven woke up, head spinning, weakly moving toward Robin, who lay at her feet. There was no sign of Slade in the entire room, yet she could feel her legs, sticky with Robin's blood and her own. So much blood at Slade's hands.............
"Robin? Robin?" She called him, her voice a sweet, low whisper, brushing her pale hand over his face, moving it through the black tangles of his hair. "Robin, Robin, time to get up......" She looked around franticly, knowing that Slade would not just have let them get away and that he would be back soon, to torment, to kill her and to take Robin away from her. "We can't let him take you," she whispered. "Robin, please wake up!"
Robin let out a miserable groan, terribly beaten and bloodied but alive, and looked over at her. She's...... okay.......... "What happened?" He half asked, half whispered, seeming ready to slip away from her again, back into his own world of terrible blackness and dispair. He felt her hands, warmly carrassing his head, and saw the blood she was covered in. "What...... Are you.......... Are you okay?"
"Don't worry about me," she told him, her shoulder burning, her stomach cut open, the blood flow barely ceasing to exist there. "Let's worry about you." She whispered something, Robin presuming they were magic words, and her hands glowed a beautiful blue, the color of healing, the color, for him, of her cloaked beauty. "Just hold still."
Her hands ran themselves over his arms, his chest, his face, his legs, and finally both shoulders. "Does anything else bother you?" She was, to Robin, the picture of perfection, the picture of an angel who had forgotten her own pain in the light of his.
"Just my heart, seeing as how you look like someone kicked the shit out of you. Is there anything I can do?" Robin put one hand to hers, holding them, feeling the iciness, the coldness after hours of lying unconcious, the same tempature as death. Nothing is going to take you away from me, not now, not ever, he vowed to her in his head.
"No. Now..........Let's get out of here. Please. Let's just get out of here and worry about Slade another time. I know there are things worth fighting for at stake here, and that we have to help Anna and Lecita, but........... I don't want to lose you."
Robin could tell she meant that, that she was almost afraid to admit her selfishness, worried, her violet eyes on the ceiling, on the walls and the floor, as if worried that Slade might attack them at any second. "You're not going to lose me."
"I almost did, Robin, I almost did."
A scream cut the atmosphere of both fear and love around them, like a knife swift through butter, and Raven thought she reconized it. "Can't be her, she's dead." Terra. The name cut through her mind despite this spoken statement.
Robin got up off the floor, leaned down and pulled Raven to her feet. "One way to find out." Supporting her warm weight with his own, shoulder to shoulder, the two of them took off down the hall, with her determination radiating from her. Please, he prayed to himself, let this all be better than it sounds.
Terra backed up, the scream having left her throat, and almost slammed directly into Beast Boy. Beast Boy put an arm out to steady her and the two of them stared at the figure blocking the exit. The Slade bots were held back by none other than Slade himself.
"Apprintice, I'm shocked at you." His footfall shocked her, startled her. "For someone who doesn't have any friends, you two happen to be standing very close." His hand came out and pulled her arm, pulling her toward him. "Maybe you'd like to stand with me instead?"
"Terra!" Beast Boy held her hand, holding her back, helping her to hold her ground. "You can fight him, Terra! Don't go back to his side. Please, please don't leave me......" Terra's hand attached itself to his wrist and he dug his heels in, as did she, the black robe around her billowing up in the resistence, in both Terra and Beast Boy's faces, clouding their visions of everything but each other. "I've got you," he told her. "Just keep resisting.........." He gritted his teeth. "Starfire, help!"
I'm fighting, Beast Boy. I'm fighting for you. "Beast Boy..........." She whispered. Even after all I put him through, he still loves me...........
Starfire, who had moved forward to aid Beast Boy in rescuing Terra, pulled back and away from the two of them. Everyone has left me once more. I have lost friend Robin to friend Raven and friend Beast Boy to friend Terra and even friend Cyborg to friend Lecita. I am so alone............... She hugged her arms miserably to her chest and stood there, trying to avoid the stares, the yelling, the loving of all her friends. When did I become so alone, surrounded by these people?
Slade gripped Terra's other wrist tightly. "Terra, why do you struggle? You came to me of choice: You wanted to see these people meet their end, you and Derek." His look was one of insanity. "Terra, you came to me, and with me you will stay."
Terra kicked out. Slade had not been ready, had not been prepared for the force of the blow. The result was a low blow to his own chest, a square, painful hit in the chest. He dropped Terra's wrist, and Beast Boy dropped her other wrist. Terra stood in a battle stance, feet planted into the earth she would soon be slinging, ready to try again to defeat this dark master, this dark overlord. I can do this, I CAN do this................. I won't leave them again.
Beast Boy stood next to Terra, still not sure how he felt about having her back. Slade was standing up; The blow had not disabled him for long. "Starfire," Beast Boy called, pulling himself into a fighting stance next to Terra, "We could use some help over here!"
Starfire was standing with her head down, her hair falling all around her, the amber glowing in the dim light, her emrald eyes glowing with unshed tears. "And I need more help than you could ever understand," she whispered. She ran over, trying to act as if she was not breaking inside, and stood up. Fighting would be no problem now: She had plenty of anger hidden among the sorrow with which to fight, but at the same time, she was not sure she had anything to fight for.
Slade came forward, and, as the metal connected with her shoulder, she hardly wanted to fight back. "Star?" Terra was calling. "Are you okay?"
Just the sound of Terra's voice was enough to break her inside. Heaving a loud, angry yell, she forced Slade off of her body in an outburst of fury. "Nice one, Star!" Beast Boy called to her. Starfire didn't even seem to notice. She turned away from Slade, who was begining to get up again. What has happened to me? When did I become so alone, so angry and lost and confused and alone?
Just then, Slade snapped his fingers as he got back up, and the army moved forward, surrouding the three teens. It was all downhill from there on.
The boy moved forward, never speaking. "We have nothing else to say to each other. The girl is tradior: If Slade has not finished all of your friends by the time we are done here, I shall take care of them. The Teen Titans will be finished." This mad delsion having been declared, he moved slowly in on the three of them.
Anna moved behind Cyborg, who nodded at Lecita and she lept in, knife to knife, for several minutes fighting the boy. "I know it was you who attacked me."
"You're a friend of the Titans. We couldn't have you warning them, now could we? If you'd been inside it like you were supposed to be, we wouldn't be having this fight right now, and you wouldn't be about to lose."
Lecita's left hand gripped the knife, the other one flipping her black braid away from her face. "I'm not about to lose." Famous last words are often spoken with such confidence, and this was no exception: No sooner had she uttered the words in her harsh yell than she felt the impact on the side of her neck.
Cyborg struck the boy in the back of the head, knocking him to the floor, where he lay still as death. Anna looked at him in fury. "Why didn't you do something sooner?!" Cyborg did not respond, only went to her side and attempted to check for a heartbeat. There was one.
"We gotta find the others," he said. The mysterious boy did not move an inch, and Cyborg made the most foolish mistake he could have made. "Anna, stay here with Lecita and the boy. I'm gonna go find help."
No sooner had he run off than the boy began to stir. "Now, girls, it's time for me to finish you." Anna stared as he got up, quickly and limberly. "Master wants no memory of the Titans. You two are the first part of that memory to go."
Raventhedarkgoddess: I hope this is an okay update, seeing as it's been a while since I bothered to update.
