This Prison
Chapter Fourteen
Fight
(A/N: I couldn't think of a better title, okay? The creative mojo isn't working today!)
Being in the tower for so long--well, not in the tower but…you know what I mean--I knew who Slade was. He was doing Trigon's biding by trying to get Raven to feel so down on herself that she actually wanted to become the portal. He was a ruthless criminal mastermind that was out to (or so it seemed) find an apprentice and take over the city. At one point, he succeeded when a mysterious blonde girl named Terra joined the Titans. Her presence was short lived at the tower, and it was challenging for me to read her thoughts. No one knew much about her. Slade had brainwashed the girl into being his apprentice but she apparently turned on him. I did not know much about the situation as I could not see past the boundaries of the tower walls. The most I knew was that she and the green boy had some sort of romantic interaction.
We all stood there for a moment, silent and thinking. The last time Slade had attacked--on Raven's birthday--he'd left what appeared to be red burns all over her skin. Unbeknownst to anyone other than the Boy Wonder and I, those marks were needed for her to summon her demon father.
"Titans, Malchior, Rorek, go!" Robin commanded. I assumed he had added Malchior and Rorek because he didn't consider us part of the team. I didn't blame him. Robin turned and ran out the main doors with the bionic man, the elf, and the redhead following close behind. Raven was with them but stopped when she saw Rorek and I standing there.
"Coming?" she inquired. She hovered in the air with a questioning look over her face and crossed arms over her chest. I nodded and looked to my brother.
"Forgive me, princess--" Rorek began. Raven cringed at the title.
"Don't call me that."
"My apologies. What is "Slade"?" Raven faltered at the question.
"I'll explain later. We need all the magic help we can get." He nodded and Raven engulfed us with her dark powers.
We were dumped out in front of a boxy concrete building. We stood up from the wooden-plank bridge of a sort (A/N: it's a boardwalk type deal). I spotted a wooden sign hanging from a post that read in chipped black letters: Pier 41. The rest of the team had not arrived.
"Where--" Rorek began.
"Shhh!" Raven hissed, placing a finger to his lips. He quieted at once. A rough chuckle sounded behind us. We all spun around to see a man standing in front of the garage to the pier. He was adorning in black and orange armor and pads to absorb shock. His mask covered his entire head. Only one eye hole was allowed and slits resembling a grate were where his mouth ought to have been. And on his forehead shined a red s-looking symbol. It was the mark of Trigon. His arms were crossed.
"I knew you would have the intelligence to teleport, child." Slade scoffed. Raven sunk into a fighting stance, just to be ready. "Did you pull these clones from medieval times?" His uncovered eye drifted to Rorek and I before he looked back at her expectantly. "Or is this the Malchior your dear daddy has told me so much about?"
"He told you nothing!" Raven yelled, ripping the planks up from beneath him with her telekinesis. He flew backward but kicked off the building. He flew toward Raven with a fire-edged punch. I summoned my magic and he was blasted back in a flurry of black and red. He landed a good fifteen feet away. He looked a bit shocked.
"Perhaps you should have studied what Trigon said more closely." I recommended sarcastically. I held a ball of energy above my palm, ready to attack if need be. "Do you truly wish for the mortal world to be engulfed in such power?" I asked him. He looked even more surprised. Truthfully, so was I. I didn't even know what I thought and here I was trying to persuade him against it. I was merely trying to aid the violet-eyed princess.
"You don't know what you speak of, boy." Slade said, regaining his composure. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rorek give a look of bafflement.
"I believe I do." I walked nearer to him. He eyed my suspiciously but I did not back down. Intimidate your opponent. That's the easiest way to catch them off guard. "I have seen things for over a thousand years." I knelt down to his face and spoke again. "I am a demon." Slade's eye grew wider still and I shot him back with another ball of power. He got up with haste and threw a stream of fire toward me that I blocked with ease. Raven took the opportunity of Slade being preoccupied with an incoming flame. She slashed at his chest, only leaving a small scratch. After a few moments of fighting, the rest of the titans arrived.
"Aaaa!" Robin let out a cry as he landed a kick to Slade's head. His neck let out a sickening crack as it turned one hundred eighty degrees. Robin turned to see his work and let his masked eyes widen. The enemy twisted his head back into place.
"You really need to do better, Robin."
"Shut up!" the boy yelled, tackling Slade to the ground. He landed a good two or three punches before the man caught one and threw his smaller opponent backward. A black-outlined post knocked Slade to the side and the elf took a few slashes at the man in bear form. He missed and drew back as Cyborg blasted with his sonic cannon and Starfire with her starbolts. Robin dove back into the fight with a metal staff and began slashing at the demon-follower. He was knocked back with a single kick. I used a spell to shoot black and red fire from my mouth (A/N: you know the curse Raven figured out Malchior was teaching her dark magic? Yeah. That's what he's using.). He jumped up and landed a kick to the elf and the redhead. Both of them went tumbling into the bay.
The fight went downhill after that. The elf lay on the beach, unconscious. Starfire's aim was off. Most of Cyborg's battery was drained. Robin was fatigued. I blocked another fireball and got back on the defensive with a punch. I whirring sound told me that Cyborg's battery had drained. Slade avoided my punch and threw a streak of fire over his shoulder to an unsuspecting redhead. Starfire was hit. She fell into a dumpster and I did not hear anything from her.
Robin cut in again but was thrown to the side with a grunt from Slade. He hit the ground with a thud and fell when he tried to get up. He too was left unconscious. Raven threw a lamppost toward Slade and called out to a long forgotten Rorek. "Help us, Rorek!" He looked up and finally did something. He preformed a spell that shot the armored man back with an electric shock. All of us but Slade were surrounded in white energy as Rorek teleported us back to the tower.
He levitated the unconscious bodies to the couch. Raven and I shared a glance and then looked at him.
"Why didn't you do something in the first place?" I said angrily.
"I--" I cut my brother off.
"Never mind. I don't want to hear it." I told him. A groan from the couch alerted us that someone had awakened. The three of us turned to see the elf sitting up. His eyes were half closed and he was rubbing his head.
"Who where the moon men?" he asked groggily.
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A/N: Beast Boy's last statement wasn't supposed to make sense. Deal with it (did anyone notice that Red X said that in one episode?).
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