Chapter fifteen

"Robin," spoke the chilling voice, smoothly. "Titans. It is so good to see you all again. So good."

"The feeling isn't mutual," snarled the angry dark haired man. "I thought you were dead."

"Oh, you can never really destroy evil, Robin," Slade cooed, his slimy voice oozing down the spines of the titans and making them shudder. "It always keeps coming back to balance out the good in the world."

"You sound like you've had a long time to think about that," growled Cyborg, his human eye almost as red as his robotic one. It glinted furiously.

"Too long," agreed Raven, landing on the floor, her white cape billowing out behind her.

"What is it you are wanting, Slade?" spoke up the Tameranian, anger washing her delicate face. Slade's lone eye flickered across the team. He chuckled, maliciously.

"Oh my," he chortled, grimly. "You really haven't changed have you? You're still the same low, disgusting, pathetic excuse for 'heroes'."

"Take that back!" yelled BB, furious. Slade's dark pupil glared out under the mask.

"Why don't you come here and make me, titans?"

"SLADE!" thundered a voice which took all of the titans by surprise, and also Slade, who's eye widened tremendously.

It relaxed as he focused on who it was.

"Ah, the malevolent little telekinetic," he crowed, folding his hands behind his back as Terra jumped off a rock and walked up to the masked man.

"Terra?" questioned Beast boy, his emerald eyes full of confusion. She didn't turn around.

"How is my old apprentice?" asked Slade, spitting the last word as if it left a bad taste on his tongue. "You betrayed me."

"So what? Does it really surprise you that much?"

"No," admitted Slade. "I always knew that you were a lying, cheating scumbag just like me."

Terra's blue eyes narrowed. "What did you say?"

"Why do you think I trained you child? You can cause mayhem, havoc and destruction just the way I can. You know it, I know it and they know it."

"You know nothing!" spat the angered blonde, her hair beginning to rise. "Nothing!"

"Oh, yes I do," sneered Slade, his calm exterior grating the girl even more. "Why else would you be getting annoyed? Because you know I'm right. You know you are evil – just like me. You're no better than me. You're scum. And you always will be."

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" screeched Terra, her hair flaying around madly. Her yellow eyes glared out at the man and she flicked her hands.

Slade ducked slyly, grunting disapproval at her. That would be he last mistake. For the rock which Terra had sent towards his head was merely a ploy to distract him from the other piece of matter which was coming dangerously close to him from behind.

Slade's eye widened as he felt the immense pain in his abdomen.

He touched the hot blood which was oozing out and he fell to his knees.

Terra sneered at him, and kicked him in the face as he fell over backwards.

"Pathetic? Who's pathetic now?"

The red blood soaked through the dark clothes, giving a wet appearance. The lone eye rolled to the back of the head.

Slade was dead.

The titans were watching this scene aghast. The face off between the master and his apprentice was tearing each of them in different directions. And Raven knew something was wrong. She knew something was amiss, as soon as she saw the skinny frame jump off the rock.

And as the pointy rock pierced the evil madman in the stomach, she felt white, hot fear rush to her mind.

'Something's wrong,' her inner worry said. 'Something isn't right.'

As Slade fell down dead, she realised she had to do something, so she ran to the front of the group before Robin could protest.

Terra turned around, her hands on her skinny hips and looked at the team with a blank face.

"Hello Titans," she said, no emotion in her voice. It was oddly reminiscent of Raven's own voice – but with some cold substance added to it.

Raven stopped in front of the other four and looked the girl in the eyes. She felt it – that same piercing feeling that she had earlier and it shook her to the core.

'Why can't I place the emotion?' she raged inside, her lilac eyes narrowing. 'I know something's wrong – I'm an empath.'

"Terra, you killed the madman," said Starfire gently, floating into the air. Terra's eyes looked up.

"Yes. Yes I did."

"Terra, why did you do that? What happened?" asked Robin, his eyes narrowed.

"What happened? I took a stone and shoved it through his stomach and he died. That's what happened."

"But why, Terra, why?" questioned Beast boy. Terra looked him straight in the eyes.

"I couldn't let Slade destroy you."

The words shocked all the titans except Raven. She knew there was something wrong with this whole scene.

"That's my job," finished the blonde, turning to a fighting stance and glaring at them all.

And at that precise moment, Raven felt the twinge again and her mind chimed with recognition.

That strange emotion was a new one in Terra. Hate.

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