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Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or any DC character. However, I do own Ghost Blade.

Note: This is where the M rating really starts. And, Ghost Blade will at time be referred to as GB.

Ch 5: The Blood of a Clown

As hard as she tried, she couldn't will herself to summon her powers. They were locked away and she wasn't getting them back.

The Joker nelt down at Raven's feet and placed a hand on her leg. She tried to rollaway, but her limbs weren't responding. He licked his lips and inhaled a deep breath through his nose. "Uhmm... Lavander... I love the smell of lavander and you reek of it." An evil smile spred onto his face and he pushed her legs apart with his right knee.

Fear, something that rarely entered Raven, shot through her mind.

The Joker put his left foot next to her outer, right thigh and bent closer to her. "Slade is expecting your capture to take longer then this..." His right hand grips her left breast and had she not been vertually paralized, a sream would have erupted from her. "So... how about a game to pass the time." A phsycotic laugh trembeled from his throat.

Raven's fear was imidiately replaced with sheer terror. Any anger, discust or courage that had been left, quickly evaparated and she know now that even if she could move now, her terror would hold her frozen in place.

'This just can't be happening.' Raven's mind was repeating over and over, trying to make her wake up from a nightmare that wasn't real.

"Sure..." The Joker's head shot up at the sound of a female voice. "Let's play tag." Before the sentance even finished, a foot slammed into the Joker's face with such force that he thrown three feet backwards and in the process, ripping Raven's leotard. "You're it."

Someone behind Raven hosed her into a sitting position. She could feel cold air on her left breast and looked down at it. Finding it exposed and begining to bruise. She tried to cover herseld with her cloak and her control of her limbs was retuning, but she was still unable to do it herself. Luckily, her savour did it for her.

Raven was proped up against a wall and the women walked in front of her to reveal that she's wearing Red X's costume. "You're not... Red X..." Raven's voice sounded a if it hadn't been uesd in years.

"I am now." Red X turned around at the sound of the Joker laughing and threw a flaming 'X' at him. It wasn't very large, but when it touched him it burned through his suit at his lower stomach and scorched his flesh. She turned back to Raven for a quick moment to said, "We're not your enemy."

'We?' Raven's thought was short lived however, when she saw a figure next to Jinx. She never noticed that the Red X costume was unable to crate flaming 'X's.

The man started towards the Joker after varifing that Jinx was still alive. With his suit being entirely black, he looked like a living shadow. He was wearing goggles and a thing over his mouth and nose that resenbled one she had seen being worn by a character named Replitel in a game that Beastboy played called Mortal Combat. The sword at his hip showed him as one who was ready to kill.

He stopped ten feet behind the Joker and imidiatly an arua of fear washed over the clown. A feeling of safety built within Raven and she noticed Red X getting into a fighting stance. The Joker turned to the man who seemed to change the emotions of the people in his presance.

"What took you so long, Ghost Blade?" Red X asked the living shadow.

"Some punk stole a women's purse," Ghost Blade shruged, "but I knew you could hold off until I arrived."

Red X laughed sarcasticlly. "You make it sound like you do all the work." They both shrugged this time.

Ghost Blade charged at the Joker. The clown pulled out, seemingly out of nowhere, a gun and pointed it at his foe with trembling hands.

As Ghost Blade reached the Joker, the gun was fired, but the bullet passed through him. He leaped forward and passed through the stuned Joker and ended in a crouch directly his foe, but all Raven had seen was a black streak.

Ghost Blade thrust froward onto his hands and quickly reversed his momentum by pushing backwards with his arms. With his momentum heading towards the Joker he kicked out at the back of the clown's knees, which was followed by him thrusting his body to the right with his left arm. He turned in the air and landed on his back as the Joker landed next to him. Ghost Blade slamed his forearm on top of the Joker's neck, which was followed by blood spraying out of his mouth.

Ghost Blade flipped over blackward to his feet and put ten feet between him and his foe on the ground, which put him next to Red X. "I guess you were right." He chuckled.

Before Red X could respond the Joker rolled onto his stomach and fired the gun, that should have fallen away, at Ghost Blade. The bullet hit its target in the leg, Ghost Blade doing little more then making a loud grunting sound, and continued through to hit Raven, who was still sitting against the wall, in the shoulder.

Ghost Blade turned towards Raven as she let out a short lived scream, while Red X took care of the gun with anouther 'X'. Raven's cloak had opened and GB could clearly see her bruised breast. The scream had appearantly awakened Jinx, for she was now at Raven's side. Ghost Blade turned his attention to Red X. "Did he try to rape her?"

The mask of Red X turned to face him. "He did." There seemed to be hesitation within her.

Ghost Blade turned back to Raven and Jinx. "Leave here now." He saw that Jinx was about to protest with Raven's injury, but he cut her off. "Just do it!"

Raven grabbed a hold of Jinx and in a second they were consumed by a giant black bird of energy, which dissipated soon after.

Ghost Blade turned to his love. "You might not want to be here for this." Red X nodded slowly, turned and ran down a small alley within the alley.

When he knew she was gone he walked over to the Joker and drew his sword. The Joker had gotten up to unsteady feet and smiled as Ghost Blade approached. He was about to said something to GB, but Ghost already knew what it was and just raised his blade over his head. Fear, again, found its way into the phsycopath, but Ghost Blade didn't care, he just brought the blade crashing down through the clown.

When the blade finally conected to the ground, the Joker had been cut right in half. Blood covered everything in a seven foot radias, aswell as bone and brain. The corpse crumpled to the ground, spilling gut and more blood under it.

Ghost Blade turned and headed out of the alley, leaving a few words behind with the gore, "You'll never have the chance to rape again."

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A black raven of energy appeared in a courtyard and faded, leaving two teenaged girls in its wake.

Raven and Jinx made their way toward their base, only to stop at the smell of burning wood and flesh. They hastened their movement at that foul odour.

They came to the tree Jinx had been sleeping in ealier. They fell to their kness as they looked up at the the not so long, dead fire that used to be the mansion. Several chared and broken bodies, all dead, lay on the ground.

Jinx turned to Raven with tears in her eyes. "Why?"

"Because..." Raven lowered her head. "Someone found out I was here." Tears began to flow freely from her eyes.

Jinx put her hand on Raven's shoulder. "It's not your fault." She looked away from the horror in front of her. "We need to find somewhere to hide."

The two walked away, hardly able to stand.

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