Chapter 5

I'm so sorry! My mother went to the hospital and I had horses I need to take care of! I'm so, so, so sorry! but please enjoy!

Jump City roof tops

Raven was sitting on the edge of a building, dangling her feet off the side. The sky had turned dark, but it was still blue, the sun was gone though. She softly hummed to her self, she was thinking about her day that had been amazing! Richard had asked her to go to the Valentine's prom, and he gave her a rose. She then was snapped out of her daze by a soft thud. She stopped humming and turned her head to see who it was.

"Hey, what are you doing up here all by your self?" Robin asked. Raven stood up and turned to face him.

"I was just thinking... I need some time to be alone." Raven stated, nonchalantly. Her eyes were full of excitement and joy.

"So, something good happened to you today... I take it." Robin sighed. Raven again was snapped out of her daze.

"Yeah..." she sighed. "It was amazing Robin." she exclaimed. Her knees felt weak, her heart felt light, her head couldn't get her mind off of the question Richard had asked her.

"Well, by the way your acting one lucky guy must have taken his move." Robin mentioned. Raven's face felt hot, a blush came to her cheeks, and she turned away to look back at the city. Robin came up behind her, wrapped his arms around her, and placed his head atop of her's.

"So, are you going to tell me who the lucky guy is?" He asked. Raven shifted in his arms and turned to face hi, she looked up at him, he looked down at her.

"Heh, if I tell you..." she teased, she brought her hand up and teased his bottom lip. "Will you keep it a secret?" she leaned in and made sure he could hear her whisper.

"Of corse." Robin leaned in, too. Raven put both of her hands on the back of his head and slowly brought him to her face. Raven slowly closed her eyes and so did Robin. Next thing they both knew, was they were ripped from each other's arms. A man in a black suit came and side kicked Robin in the side.

"You don't dare touch her!" the voice from the man came, it was muffled by the mask he wore, but it sounded mechanical. He wore a ragged cape, and a white and black mask with a red X on the mask and on his chest.

"X don't!" Raven warned. Robin jumped up from the ground and got into his fight stance. X grab something from his belt and threw it on the ground., a smoke screen covered the area. Raven coughed for a couple minutes, "Cough X!" she flew up above the cloud and rubbed her eyes. When she opened her eyes she could see the cloud that covered the roof top, it soon disappeared, with out a trace of the boys. "ROBIN!" she gasped.

Robin was now knocked off the first roof top he had been on and now was on a second roof top under this mad man Raven called, 'X'. Only thing he remembers was that he was consumed by a cloud of vapor gas, couldn't see, but heard Raven coughing, then a figure rammed him in the stomach and they were knocked on to the second roof. Robin kicked his back legs and flung X off of him. X did an aerial flip and landed gracefully. Robin rocked back on his hands and pushed himself off the ground, he stood there ready to fight.

"Who are you?" Robin asked as he took out his bo staff.

"They call me the ruthless, heartless villain. Sly and unforgivable. They call me... Red X." X stated in his sick voice. They were stalking each other, going in circles around each other. X soon charged Robin and they were both tumbling, fighting, and grunting at each other in rage.

"Robin!" Raven shouted over head. She had finally found the boys, they were in a hustle over her. "Robin!" Raven went to fly in and help, "UH!" she was soon hit by a bolt of green energy. She flinched and fell a few meters.

"Robin!" it was Starfire, she had seen the whole thing. She wanted to help her distressed friend. "Hold on I'm-UH!" Star was hit with a black bolt of energy, she was thrown a few meters then came back to kill the person who interfered.

"You stay away from him!" Raven scowled. Star came at full speed and gave Raven an upper cut to the lower neck. Raven flew back and hit the near by building. Smoke counseled the hole to which Raven had created, Starfire flew to check out the damage. Then a black figure quickly came out at full speed and hit Star head on, it was Raven.

"How dare you!" Starfire's eyes were now glowing green with fury. The girls went after each other with full force, hitting one after another, they kept at this for a while.

Robin wasn't getting anywhere with the tumbling act, X had the over hand. Robin swung his bo staff and hit X in the chest. He landed and fell over the edge of the building. Robin ran over and looked over the side, only to get slammed with X's body. They tumbled, then stopped, X threw Robin's staff away and it was hand to hand combat now.

"Grunt Your good." Robin stated.

"The, so are you..." Red X mocked. "But you need to learn when to stay out of people's business." Red X threw a punch at Robin's face, he blocked it.

"What do you mean?" Robin grunted. Robin tried to maneuver his leg under X with out him noticing.

"Like...Grunt... Staying away from my girl!" He exclaimed. Robin got made at this.

"Aw... is bird boy trying to make a move on my property?" X mocked.

"She's not your PROPERTY!" Robin screamed and kicked X in his gut with his unknown leg, sending X flying. "Don't ever call her that!" Robin stood up and clutched his left arm, breathing heavily. X slowly got up from his landing spot.

"Why you little-" X was interrupted by Starfire crashing into him. Raven slowly hovered over the building, then came down quickly. She landed on her feet, but wound up falling on her stomach. Both X and Satrfire were knock unconsious.

"Finally." Raven sighed as she tried to catch her breath. Her cape was tattered, leotard ripped and skin bleeding. Sirens were heard down on the street, cops came running up the stairs, they burst threw the door. Robin assured them that everything was fine.

"Take this guy to the high security cells, and take her to the hospital." Robin pointed to Starfire and Red X. The cops agreed and took both of them away.

"What about her?" the sherif asked as he pointed to Raven.

"I'll deal with her." Robin said as the cops walked away with the two unconscious people. "Hey, you okay?" Robin asked Raven.

"Yeah... I'm fine now..." she smiled and faded threw the floor.

"Good." Robin sighed. "I'm glad"

Rachel's house

Rachel walked into her bedroom, drying her wet hair with a towel. She didn't notice that there was a flower on her desk.

"Rachel!" her mother called from down stairs.

"I'm coming!" Rachel put down her towel, and found the rose, with a letter. She took the rose and placed it with the other rose in the white vase beside her bed, she went to open the letter,

"RACHEL!" her mother yelled.

"I'm coming!" Rachel shouted, she put down the letter and ran down the stairs to see what her mother wanted. She ran into the kitchen/dinning room. She wasn't there. "Mom?" she asked.

"In the living room!" Rachel received from her mom. Rachel ran down the small hallway and turned to the left ro find her mother sitting on their couch, her face was plastered in a smile, she was nodding, too.. "Rachel! You never told me you had a best friend." her mother got up and death hugged her baby girl.

"Mom? What are you talking about?" Rachel muttered through her mother's shoulder.

"Why her of corse!" Rachel's mother moved and looked at the red head sitting on the couch beaming at Ms Roth and Rachel.

"GASP Kori!" Rachel whispered in complete and total shock.

"I'll leave you two alone to chat." Ms. Roth left them alone. Kori got up and walked over to Rachel.

"So, I heard Richard asked you out the prom? Am I correct?" Kori asked. Kori got dangerously close and pinned Rachel up against the wall, with no physical force, but just with pure terror. "Well, I want you to get something straight, Richard is my boyfriend, he only obeys me! Why he asked you out was because he felt sorry for you." Kori poked Rachel in the shoulder three times, each one getting harder and harder. Rachel felt tears coming to her eyes. "Well would you look at the time! I have to go! Bye!" Kori said sickly and ran out the door. Rachel ran up to her room and slammed the door shut, locking it. She leaned her forehead against the door. She sobbed silently on her own. She didn't notice the boy that was sitting on her bed. He got up and wrapped his arms around her shaking body. She jumped and turned around.

"It's okay Rachel, it's me." Robin, he was there to comfort her. He placed one hand on the small of her back and the other on her head. Rachel placed her hands on his chest, while she sobbed into his shoulder. "Sh, sh, sh.. It's okay Raven it's okay."

"What?" Rachel looked up at him confused.

"What? I said Rachel. That's your name isn't it?" Robin questioned.

"Never mind." Rachel said, she forgot about what he said and nuzzled his neck.

Slade's hideout the next day

Slade threw Rachel to the side of the room. She was beaten up, bleeding, bruised, and clothes ripped. Rachel stood up and shivered. She leaned against the wall to help support her.

"I know what you are." Slade mocked as her walked closer. Rachel wanted to run, but her legs wouldn't let her. Slade walked up and got face to face with her. Rachel shut her eyes tight and turned her head towards the wall. "I know who you are... Raven." Rachel's eyes went wide, then she looked at him in pure hatred, her eyes turned white. The wall behind her turned black as she faded through the wall. Slade's maniac chuckle could be heard a mile away. "Ha, ha, ha. No matter where you run, no matter where you hide, I'll always find you. I know who you are, and I know where you live." Slade's hide out light finally went out after years of being worn out. But what could still be heard was his laugh, that horrid laugh.