"Oh and that's Gizmo and Mammoth." Jinx said, pointing out a hulky figure among the many people and a rather smaller figure. "They're in my group when we're studying in HIVE."
Shadow gave a small nod as they approached the two figures. Jinx waved to them before walking forward excitedly.
"Hey Jinx! And who's this?" The small one, Gizmo asked, his voice unusually squeaky.
"This is Skia, she's new." Jinx replied.
Shadow nodded, she knew who they were already. In face, she knew everyone in the room, it was a little creepy but it was useful. She looked at all the people in gathered in the room for breakfast, studying all of them and she revised of what she knew of them. Her head snapped out of her thoughts as she heard Gizmo say, "She's the one that attacked one of the Titans right? Raven too."
"Really? How did you get that little piece of information?" Jinx asked, her cat-like eyes shone with unblinking interest.
"We just heard one of the guards say that as they passed our cell." Mammoth answered, he looked down at Shadow with a glint of respect in his eyes. Shadow looked away, deep in thought, oh so they think that I attacked Raven? This just gets better and better doesn't it? But this explains why most of these people here have been so nice to me. They're all villains.
"Hey Skia?"
"Yes?" Shadow asked, turning towards them once again.
"What did you do to Raven?" Jinx asked, "There's been all sorts of rumors, but what did you do?" Shadow frowned, how can I tell them without giving something away?
However, she was saved from answering when two guards tapped her on the shoulder. "Miss, please come with us." Shadow blinked and turned to Jinx. Jinx motioned for her to go, so she turned and followed them to one of the many entrances and before they stepped out, one of them stopped her and reached for her hands. Shadow jerked away and frowned. "I need to handcuff you." The guard said simply, holding out a pair of handcuffs in his hand.
Shadow's frown deepened but she let out an exasperated sigh and let the guard handcuff her behind her back. I can always get them off if I need to, she thought before following the guards down a hall.
"Where are you taking me?" Shadow asked.
"The Titans want to see you."
Shadow went quiet at this, Raven and her friends want to see me? What for? Shadow thought.
She schooled her face straight as they approached a huge hulking figure of a half-robot. He whispered something to the guards and they all stared at her. Don't they know that it's rude to stare, Shadow thought annoyingly as she met the eyes of Cyborg, he did not seem to recognize her as he gave her nothing more than a fleeting glance. He turned back to the guards and whispered something else to them, the guard looked uncertainly at her and nodded. One of the guards walked over to her and took the handcuffs off, Shadow massaged her wrist and watched the half-robot who indicated for her to enter the door that he had just opened. Shadow walked into the room and was enclosed into total darkness when Cyborg closed the door. Cyborg stood in front of the door, obviously there to barricade her from leaving.
She sensed another three people in the room, her mind told her it was Beast Boy, Starfire that stood beside Cyborg, and Robin was in front of her, but no Raven. She paused waiting.
Then a bright light flashed onto her face, causing her to shield back in alarm and bump into Cyborg. She looked up at his serious grave face. "Please, sit." He said simply.
She turned to the front and saw a chair and a table with a lamp on it, which was now shinning onto her face. Robin sat on the other side of the table. She moved toward it, very much aware that all eyes were on her. The chair scraped against the concrete floor as she moved it back, she sat down, putting both her hands on her lap, and she waited. The tense atmosphere mixed with the unnatural silence made the Titans anxious, but Shadow stayed unaffected, she felt strangely calm.
"Alright," Robin said, finally breaking the stony silence. "Answer my question, who are you?"
"Oh you don't know? Then why should I tell you?" Shadow asked, her voice mocking although her face still remained expressionless. She tried to read the expression Robin's face, but the shadows shielded him.
"There has been nothing about you, no papers, nothing. You're an illegal immigrant here." He stated smugly and calmly as though those words would frighten her into telling everything that he wanted.
"You also attacked our friend, Raven." He continued, "Who are you? And what are your connections to her?"
"Where is your darling friend Raven? Why isn't she here?" Shadow asked, her voice still mocking although she was actually genuinely interested. She felt a sudden burst of anger from Robin as he answered, his seemingly calm voice quavered slightly. "She's lying in the Tower's infirmary, still unconscious from your last encounter."
Really? I guess whatever that happened that day must have affected her too Shadow thought to herself as she recalled the headache and aching body she had just woken up in the night before. To Robin she said. "Really? That's too bad, I would have liked to talked to her."
"I'm sure you would, now answer my question, who are you and what did you do to Raven?" He asked again, this time not even bothering to hide his frustration.
"My name you need not know and I have no idea what happened between Raven and me." Shadow said and the next minute she saw a flash of movement in front of her and felt someone grab her the collar of her shirt, jerking her up. "Tell me! Tell me now! Stop making me beat around the bush! What did you do to Raven?" Robin asked roughly, his face uncomfortably near hers. She stared at him coldly, "I told you, I don't know."
And she felt a searing hot pain on her face as she felt herself flying through the air and her back hit hard onto the wall. She heard Beast Boy yelp, Starfire gasp in shock and Cyborg trying to restrain a very angry Robin.
What is his problem? Shadow thoughts as she watched the Titans try to restrain their leader, he's the leader and he cannot even control himself better than his teammates
"Cy, let me go!" He shouted and the half-robot.
"You're not going to help Rae this way, calm yourself." Cyborg said.
Shadow got up and licked away blood from her lips that had resulted from Robin's punch. Her body was better from the time she had first woken up, but it was still weak nonetheless. She walked over to the Titans and waited until they had noticed her. "She'll wake up tomorrow at about eleven o' clock, you can come look for me if she doesn't." Shadow said then turning to glare at Robin. "And in the meantime, you can stop acting like a spoiled child."
With that, she turned and walked to the now unguarded door. Opening it, she saw that the two guards that had escorted her there. They looked surprised at seeing her alone, then she saw a bigger and taller shadow overlap her own. "Take her back to her cell please." Cyborg said, his hidden nervousness reaching out to Shadow. And as the guards put the handcuffs back on, she turned to the Titan and opened her mouth to tell him not to worry and that everything would be fine.
The half-robot looked at her curiously waiting for her, but she scowled, more to herself than him and turned away thinking. Why should I care? He's not my friend… But I do care. Why? I care about him, all of them in fact.
Shadow walked behind the guards, deep in thought until a rather familiar presence entered her range. She stopped and sighed silently. Oh joy I have another visitor
"Hey what are you stop-?" The guard behind her cried out in pain in mid-sentence. The guard in front of her spun around sharply and looked at her, but his gaze was soon directed at something behind her and his eyes widened in fear and he gave a shout before a masked man knocked him unconscious.
"Hello, fancy seeing you here." Slade said in his usual rough sketchy voice.
"Yes, it is such a joy to see you." Shadow replied tartly and her eyes flashed red momentarily in anger. "I'm surprised that you even dare to come and see me."
"Whatever do you mean my dear?" Slade asked in a courtier's voice.
"You lied to me." Shadow said flatly, her anger badly hidden under her usual mask. "You told me so many lies, there's no need to pretend that you didn't."
Slade's one eye widened in surprise, "Oh? Guess you found out… So who told you? If you told the Titans, than you're more trusting than I thought… So who?"
Shadow laughed, it rang cold and cruel, echoing in the empty hallway, "I have my sources. I guess you don't know everything after all."
"Really?" Slade asked and his hand jerked forward, grabbing onto Shadow's upper arm. "Tell me! Who told you?"
Shadow jerked away and leaped back. Her hands flew free of the handcuffs and were now held before her, bright emerald fire shinning around them. Shadow growled out, the sound came rumbling from her throat, sounding eerily like a wolf's. "You want to fight don't you? If you want to fight, I'll give you one."
As she said those words, a black wolf, sleek and well built leaped out of her green fire. It growled at Slade, hackles raised and ears pinned to the back of its head. Its red eyes glowed so brightly that it made the lights in the hallway seem dim. Slade took out a small device and studied it. His eye was calculating when it returned to her. "Looks like I'll have to change my plans." He leaped forward running towards the unmoving Shadow but a black blur knocked him down. It growled and opened its jaws wide to bite him, but Slade kicked it away and ran towards Shadow again. Again the wolf rushed towards him, this time, Slade turned sharply and slammed a fist down onto the wolf's snout. However, the wolf had bit down onto his arm and had flung Slade a few feet away from it.
Slade got up and watched Shadow with interest, "Your powers aren't as strong as your sister's, but you have your strong points. You'll fit perfectly into my new plan."
"A plan, which I have no interest in."
Slade took out a small ball and twirled it round his fingers, before letting it fall onto the ground, which resulted in smoke rising from it. The smoke surrounded Shadow, and dulled her senses. She listened, trying to pick out Slade's footsteps, but she could not hear anything until she felt a sharp prick on her neck and Slade's voice echoed sinisterly in the hallway, "You have no choice dear."
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