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Ch. 5 A bad day gets worse
Slade sat in his World History class tapping his pencil on the desk while in thought. He couldn't help but let his mind wonder to the thought of Raven. What could she be doing? Is she okay? Is Rancid going to try something again? These were a few of the thoughts that bugged his mind. Slade didn't really care, because quite fankly he didn't care about the lesson his teacher was explaining today. His eyes watched the clock like a hawk as it softly ticked and tocked."Come on, turn three already damnit" Slade said pretty loud. Robin turned around in his chair to look at Slade with his normal look.''What the hell you looking at, turn the fuck around boy wonder" Slade said to him."Wheres Raven at Slade" Robin asked with a serious look."What makes you think I know and tell you for that matter" Slade answered."I saw you and her walk away from the school this morning, and now your here and shes not, seems kind of strange".
"She wasn't feeling good so I walked her back to her apartment, ask her yourself later after school"."I will" Robin said before turning around in his seat."Yeah you will you little prick" Slade said under his breathe. Suddenly the clock hit three o clock and the bell began to ring throughout the school. Slade gathered his things and walked out of the class and headed down the hall. At the end of the hall he entered through the door to the gymnasium. Inside several boys were stretching. They all wore their white judo outfits without any shoes. Slade ignored the boys and walked into the locker room to change. Inside the locker room, Blood was already dressed and stood talking to Killer Moth. Unlike the other boys, Blood wore black judo outfit with a red poncho like shirt over it. Blood noticed Slade and went to talk to his friend.
"Good luck with your wrestling match Moth" Blood said before leaving."Same to you Blood" Moth said walking out of the locker room."Did you see the new recuits outside?" Blood asked."Yeah, but their no threat to my title, but what about you Blood" Slade said."What do you mean"."Well, do you think they'll take away your second place title, I man you do finish in second place each year don't you" Slade said with a small smirk on his face. Blood how ever did not find anything funny."You just worry about your new friend Robin, I believe he signed up for judo, he could give you a run for your money" Blood said. Slade finished getting dressed before turning to his friend."Please, I would never lose to a third rate fighter like him"Slade said walking toward the exit. As Slade got closer a boy wearing green swim trunks who looked more like a fish than a human walked past."Hey Trident, you finally going to win that swimming championship this year" Slade asked. Trident turned to Slade and the two shook each other's hands."Of course I will, because Iam perfection, I am magnificent, Iam Trident" he said going into a cocky pose."First you have to beat Aqualad" Blood said pointing at a boy in blue trunks and long black hair.
Slade and Blood walked out of te locker room, leaving Trident to argue over his loses to Aqualad."You think he'll beat Aqualad" Blood asked Slade."Maybe if wasn't so damn cocky" Slade answered. All the new students in the class sat crosslegged on the floor in a group as Blood and Slade stood infront of them with the teacher."Alright, I want all new students to pair up and start to spare with each other" the teacher ordered. Everyone bowed to the teacher execpt Slade, who was cracking his neck and knuckles."Slade, please watch the class, I need to go clear some things up with the principle" the teacher said turning to Slade. Slade simply nodded his head an watched as the teacher walked out of the double doors. Slade crossed his arms and watched the students spare with each other. Blood was off fighting two Junior fighters at once with great ease. Slade then turned his view to where Robin was fighting another new student. Slade narrowed his eye at the young fighter.
He quickly walked across the gym floor towards Robin's postion. Just as he reached their location the student Robin was fighting came flying back after a kick. Slade stepped to the side in time to dodge the kid."Nice fight, to bad you can only beat these weak newbies" Slade said in a stern voice."Are you saying that I can't beat you, mister king of judo" Robin said wipping the sweat from his brow."You said it, not me"."Then how about we test your theroy Slade"."Sure, I need a good warm-up". Robin got into his fighting stance as Slade stood smiling at him."Blood, come here and bring a rope from the janitors closet" Slade yelled. Blood nodded to his friend and quickly retreived a piece of rope before approaching his friend."Tie my hands behind my back" Slade ordered. Blood grinned before doing as he was told."Whats the deal Slade" Robin asked."I thought it would be nice of me to give you alittle advantage"."Are you serious"."Robin, I could defeat you blindfolded, so can we please get this done with.
Robin huffed before charging at the bonded fighter. Robin aimed a high kick for Slade's gut, but it never connected with it's target. Slade quickly moved to Robin's right and placed a quick kick to the back of Robin's right leg. Robin recovered from the attack and swung his right fist backwards, trying for a back hand punch. Slade saw the attack coming and leaned back to let the punch swore over him. Acting with grace Slade returned to full height and placed his knee into Robin's stomach. He continued in one motion to let his leg extend and his foot to hit Robin's head. People in the gym began to notice the fight, and made a large circle around the two combatants.
Slade cracked his neck as he waited for Robin to recover from his attacks. Robin angerliy punched forward, but was tripped as Slade moved to his left. Robin fell face first and suddenly felt a pain in his lower back as Slade jammed his heel into his kidneys. Robin spun brake dance style, hitting Slade's feet out from under him. Slade began to fall face first, but was caught with an upper cut by Robin. Slade fell to the ground, but quickly recover by rolling backwards onto his feet. When he looked up, Robin was already charging at him. Robin jumped into the air and extended his leg as he flew closer to Slade. Acting quickly Slade grabbed Robin's leg and swung him around before letting go finally. Robin flew backwards hitting a pair of bleachers that were folded up.
As the fight continued, people began to cheer for whoever they wanted to win. No one noticed Raven quietly enter from one of the doors and find a good enough seat to see what was going on. She sat with her hands in her lap as she saw Slade beating Robin around."Oh no, not again". Raven quickly ran into the crowd, pushing and shoving her way to the front. Once she got to the front, she found Slade with Robin's head in a leg lock annd Robin's arms shooting out all over the place."Slade stop" Raven yelled. Slade's attention changed from the fight he was in to where he heard his name be yelled. His eyes suddenly caught sight over to the person who had called his name. Slade then began to lossen his grip on Robin, just as he did, one of Robin's hands grabbed a hold of Slade's eye patch and ripped it off. Robin quickly rolled away and opened his hand to see what he had grabbed. Shock and fear instantly covered his face, as well as the other students.
Slade sat hunch up with his face out of everyone's sight. Suddenly his arms began to tense up as they forcefully broke the binds that tied them together. Everyone backedup a few steps, including Blood and Raven. Everyone watched as Slade slowly rose to full height and turned around with his right hand covering the right side of his face. Slade narrowed his eye at Robin who sat staring in shock."Please return what belongs to me" Slade asked angerily. Robin was frozzen for awhile before he snapped back to reality. He tossed the eye patch over to Slade, who quickly placed it on over his eye. Once it was tied tight, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"For a minute their I thought Slade was going to lose it" Blood said laughing to Raven. Suddenly a flash ran by Blood with great speed. Before anyone knew what had happened, Robin was on the ground with Slade looming over him. He then procedded to stomp the living hell out of Robin."Slade stop" Raven said running up from behind. As Slade continued his rampage, Robin finally blocked his his knee and pushed, shoving Slade backwards. In doing so, Slade crashed into Raven, knocking her hard to the floor. Slade looked behind him to see who he had bumped into, and again Slade's eyes filled with rage.
"It was an accident I swear" Robin pleaed."I'll remember to put that on you get well card" Slade replied before punching Robin square on the chin. Slade hit Robin with punch after punch after punch, with all of them filled with rage. He finally backed Robin up against the bleachers before throught another punch. Robin ducked this one, allowing Slade's fist to hit the bleachers hard. Slade could hear the breaking of many bones as the hand fell limp to his side, but ignored and continued to punch with his other hand. As Slade continued his beating, Blood helped Raven to her feet."We have to stop them Blood" she said holding her head."Leave it to me" Blood replied.
Blood quickly approached Slade from behind when Slade knocked Robin to the ground, again. Slade smirked as he moved his eye to look out throught the corner to see the approaching attacker. As Blood neared, he made his hand into a chop like form and aimmed for Slade's neck. Before the hand made it, Slade easily grabbed it with his working hand. He then quickly pulled Blood forward and nailed him in the gut with his knee."Stay out of this Blood" Slade ordered."You got it" Blood said before laying down flat in pain. Slade turned from Blood to where Robin was to find him gone. Slade looked around and then finally looked up to see Robin crouched on top of the bleachers."Get down here" Slade yelled."No way" Robin replied."Then Im coming up".
With that, Slade began to climb up after his prey. Robin immeaditly began to run to the other end of the bleachers until he came to a dead end. He turned to see Slade getting closer and closer be the second."End of the road" Slade said pulling back his fist. Robin braced himself but suddenly he began to feel the bleachers move. He tilted back and fourth as the bleachers moved out to their seating position. Slade to began to lose his balance due to the sudden movement. Robin looked across the gym to see Cyborg and Beastboy at the controls."Nows your chance Robin" Beastboy yelled. Robin nodded and punched Slade two times and then placed a roundhouse kick to the side of his head. Slade fell backwards in a dazed confusion. Robin then quickly jumped off the bleachers as they began to fold up again."See how he likes this" Cyborg said flipping the switch.
Slade shook his head to rid himself of the dazed feeling, when suddenly he felt the bleachers moving again, execpt this time they were going the other way. He tried to get off as fast as possible but one of his feet got caught between two rows as they closed. As the seats began to place pressure on his ankle, they suddenly stopped. Slade looked to see Cyborg flip the switch to stop the bleachers where they were at."Damn you and your friends Robin" Slade yelled."At least I have some" Robin responded. He then gave Cyborg and Beastboy high fives for a job well done."Hey, Slade does have friends, better than yours to be honest" Blood yelled as Moth, Mumbo, and Trident came stood side by side.
Both sides began to get closer to each other, when suddenly the teacher of the judo team returned with the principle accompaining him."Its the principle, everyone scatter" a random kid yelled to everyone. Kids began to run in several different directions and though the nearest exits. Some pushed their ways past the teacher and principle, almost knocking over the surprised grown-ups. In the confusion, Robin and his friends were able to slip out of the gym unnoticed. While everyone was filing out, Raven made her way to where Slade sat calmly watching the whole event."You okay" Raven asked."Yep, just enjoying the show" Slade responded.
Once the gym was clear, the only ones left were Slade and his friends, Raven, the teacher, and the principle, who at the moment was fuming."What in the name of hell is going on here" the principle yelled."Principle, sir, there is a very good explination for all of this" Blood said in a calm voice."Save it Blood, I already have my answer" the principle said staring straight at the man whose leg was caught between the bleachers."I should have known this whole fiesta whould have been your doing" he said walking toward Slade."Well I guess you didn't, all though it usually takes a brain to beable to know something" Slade remarked calmly."Still the same smart ass from last year huh Slade"."Takes one to know one". The principle smiled as he looked over at Raven."Who are you" he asked.
"Just an innocent bystander, so are you going to relaese me from my usual perdicament" Slade asked. The principle made a feh sound as he nodded to the judo teacher to flip the switch. He did so and the bleachers moved out just enough for Slade to remove his foot. Slade shook it around abit to get the normal feeling back in it."Now that your free, would you mind following me to my office, you should now where it is from all your frequent visits". Slade said nothing as he followed behind the principle out of the gym, leaving his friends and Raven behind.
After a few mintues, Raven stood outside the principles office listening to the verbal abuse Slade was recieving. Soon the door opend and Slade exited, slamming the door shut behind him. He immeaditly darted his eye to where Raven stood against the wall."Would have thought you would have been gone by now" he said."Oh well, I wanted to stick around to say sorry for my friends reactions" she said lowering her head."Hey, you don't have to feel sorry for what they did" Slade said lifting her chin up with his pointer finger."I think its about time you got some new friends" he added with a grin."You may be right, but they have been my friends for along time, they were there for me alot" she said."I believe what your saying, but look what they did today, they ran, abandoned you, when do you think they might do that for real". Raven tensed for a moment after the thought entered her mind.
"I've never really thought about that" she said."Well maybe you should, and maybe you might want to think about who your going to the homecoming dance with, because at the moment, Im free" he said putting on a fake smile. Raven's face quickly lit up as Slade patted placed a quick kiss on her cheek and headed for the exit."That was for earlier" he said before leaving. Raven turned a cherry red at the thought of going to the dance with Slade."I believe I will think about that" she said before walking down the hall towards a different exit.
Outside Slade leaned against the wall holding his chest in pain.'Hurts doesn't it' his mind said."What do you mean" Slade asked.'Lying to someone you really care for and love'. "Please, shes just a pawn in my little game of chess" Slade responded. 'Say what you will, but you can't ignore the feeling for long'. Slade laughed as he pushed off the wall and headed down the school's front steps. He then turned down the sidewalk and headed for his apartment. As he walked past an alley, someone holding an iron pipe appeared in the shadows. Acting quickly, the person slammed the weapon with extreme force apon Slades head. The impact made Slade slip into daarkness apon contact. The man laughed as he pulled his victum into the alley and out of sight.
Slade felt the pain surge though his head as light began to appear back in his eye. Suddenly cold water covered him and instanly woke him to full stability. "Well, well, well, arn't we in a pickle mister Wilson" someone said from the corner of Slade's blind spot."Rancid is that you" Slade huffed. The pale biker showed his face apon hearing his name announced. To Slade's surprise Rancid was not alone. Behind him twenty, no thirty men dressed in black and holding several weapons appeared."I thought I smelt rats in here" Slade remarked. Rancid began to laugh before he hit Slade smack in the face. At was at this moment that Slade relized he was tied to a chair, quiet tightly at that.
"You know Slade, you and me are kind of the same if you think about it" Rancid said."Really, I didn't know I was complete lunatic not capable of thought". Again Rancid hit Slade for his remark."Oh well, back to business. Do you recall this morning when you decided to ruin my fun I was having" Rancid said."Its a little fuzzy, but yeah I do"."Well, since you decided to ruin that fun, I thought, what the hell, I'll have some with you"."What kind of fun do you plan of having with me" Slade asked. Rancid smiled as he pulled a knife from his pocket."I was thinking about the dangerous kind of fun". With that said Rancid and his men began to approach Slade, who at the time was trying to free himself. 'Now how do I get out of this one'.
Sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger, but I felt like I needed to add a little drama. Sorry for the short chapter, more soon to come, so stay tuned.
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