It has been like what? Four months since I last updated. I thought it was only a month or two… oh wells, hope you remember what happened so far and enjoy this chapter 

No… No, NO! This cannot be happening. Shadow tried to scream out but her lips refused to even twitch. The voice only echoed inside her head. Move you stupid body! Move! MOVE!

Her desperate commands were in vain as her whole body stayed rigidly still, she could not even move a finger at will. Silently, she cursed in her head with every word that she knew in her wide range vocabulary of curses.

"What did you do?" Raven's voice sounded into her head, breaking her long train of curses. Shadow could no longer feel the familiar aura of Raven's emotions, but she could very well see the fear and shock on her face, and apparently so did Slade as he gave a low chuckle.

"Why do you want to know?" He asked. He watched them with gleeful eyes; eyes that were very much like that of a child that had just received a brand new toy before his birthday. His hand was twirling the device once again. "You're going to find out really soon."

Lifting the device in front of his mouth, he whispered softly so that Raven could not hear but his voice sounded raspy and cracked at the back of Shadow's neck. "Kill her."

Almost immediately, black fire rushed into Shadow's hands. Her legs tensed under her and soon she found herself jumping high above Raven. Raven looked startled but she lifted her hands in time, and a black sheet sprouted forth to shield her from the surprise attack. Shadow leapt back and she watched helplessly as her own body leapt in again and slashed at Raven with black claws formed at the tip of her fingers.

No… stop! Stop! She drew in her powers and her movements started to slack and grew weaker. Her powers raced back and forth as an unknown force pulled it out rapidly. Shadow's own will and mental strength grabbed onto it and pulled it back in. Thick beads of sweat soon formed and rolled down her neck and forehead. Gathering her powers back in, she soon found herself drenched in perspiration and she could feel exhaustion overtake her whole body. But her movements only slowed slightly; she could very well die of fatigue if she didn't stop fighting the force holding her soon.

Out of the corner of her eye, Shadow spotted Slade sitting lazily on the bed. His one eye still glittered with amusement. Slade, how dare you… I refuse to be treated like a mindless puppet again!

Making use of her new found anger, she gathered her mental strength and she yanked her powers back, and for a moment, her body froze. Shadow almost laughed out in triumph at this, but her small victory was short-lived. She had forgotten that whatever that was making her fight also made her defend herself. And so distracted was she that she did not notice the oncoming blaze of black fire rushing towards her and crashed her right through the wall.

Shadow's eyes remained opened even as she fell forwards towards the rushing ground. Oh joy, I'm going to die…

Suddenly someone swung from the air and caught her. And set her gently on the paved floor. She got up shakily from the floor, although if her body had been in her control she would have preferred to lie down.

"Shadow? What happened to you? Where's Raven?"

Shadow tried to open her mouth to answer but she was once again reminded that her body was not in her control when a voice crackled from behind, "Interesting. Change target. Attack Robin." She spun round immediately at the command ignoring the protests of aching muscles, and her powers streamed from her hands and straight at Robin. His eyes widened in astonishment but he still managed to leap away in time.

"I knew I couldn't trust you." He said watching her movements intently; turning to his teammates behind him he gave a command. "You guys go find Raven, I'll handle her."

They all gave a small nod before flying or running off in different directions.

Legs tensed once more and she attacked with black fire forming around her hands. Robin leaped back again and threw one of his boomerangs at her. A black shield formed around her and smoke erupted from the impact. And out of the smoke, Robin sprang forth and slammed at her with his staff. Shadow flew and hit yet another brick wall.

Robin walked over to her and leveled his staff at her neck. "Tell me, where is Raven? What did you do to her?"

Shadow rolled her eyes mentally. If I could, I would tell you. Her hands went flying as black fire sprang out and lashed out like a whip, sending Robin crashing to the other side of the street.

She got up again and picked up the staff that Robin had dropped. Robin gathered some things from his belt and placed them in between his fingers. He threw them but Shadow calmly swung the staff around her and reflected everything that he threw. But she had missed one, which lodged itself onto the staff.

As Robin grinned at the advancing Shadow, the staff exploded. Shadow went flying once more, her body quite literally ached and burned like wild fire. If I survive this, I'm going to ache. A lot. And I'm quite certain that I'm going to enjoy the company of pillows before I rip that human rat apart. She thought as her ever-going body got up again.

"I'm asking you again. Where is Raven?" Robin asked, in a seemingly very patient way.

Shadow sighed, if I didn't tell you the first time, what makes you think that I'll tell you on the second time?

Shadow ran towards him again, black disks appeared around her and spun towards Robin. Robin growled out in frustration and started to throw his boomerangs again, but this time, instead of implanting a bomb, he threw a small ball. Then shells of the ball fell apart and two small bright blue balls attached by a thin string sprang from it and wrapped themselves around Shadow. Blue sparks encircled her body and a scream erupted from her mouth. Pain was on her like a boa constrictor strangling its prey. Her powers burst from every pore of her body and cut the strings. She fell forward and landed hard on her knees, although her body no longer hurt that much, a sharp, burning throbbing still continued from somewhere behind her neck. Her right hand grabbed at her neck and clawed out a small bug like thing that was attached to her neck. She held it in front of her and saw smashed pieces of metal things.

"Who knew such a small thing could be so destructive?" Shadow laughed humorlessly as she watched the destroyed street around her start to spin.

A shadow fell over her and Shadow's stomach rolled in dread. She sighed in exasperation as she started feeling faint and everything in her line of vision started to blur. Her whole body shook with weariness and she sighed again before everything blacked out.

Raven sighed as she sat beside a white bed inside the T tower's infirmary. She stared at the bandages wrapped round Shadow's arms and sighed again. Getting up, she walked towards the window and stared out at the clear blue sky. Turning back to Shadow, she sighed once more before walking towards her bedside again.

She watched her sister tentatively, biting her lower lip. Her hand reached out towards Shadow, reaching for her forehead. Her hand paused just a few centimetres away as she hesitated. Then her hand continued forward.

Suddenly, a hand reached out and grabbed her hand. She gasped and pulled back but her violet eyes met another similar pair. For a while, a tense silence stood between the two sisters before Shadow let go and lied back down with a sigh. Raven stared at her before speaking calmly as though nothing happened. "I didn't think that you would wake up so soon. Thought you would sleep for at least a day or two."

"I'm sure you did." Shadow commented dryly. Her eyes turned towards the door as it swung slowly open.

"I see you're awake." A voice sounded coldly from the door.

"Yes, thanks for your concern Robin." Shadow sigh.

"Raven can I speak with you? Privately?"

Raven glanced at Shadow who was just staring out the window, seemingly totally unconcerned. She nodded her head. "Yes Robin."

Getting up, Raven silently walked passed Shadow's bed and followed Robin out of the room. "What is it?"

Robin turned towards her and said tartly. "I don't know why you trust her. She attacked you and she…."

"Might be working for Slade, yadda yadda yadda. Yes Robin, you've told me a thousand times." Raven groaned out softly. "Look: number one, she's my sister. So I trust her..."

"Yeah, but look at Blackfire…"

"Number two," Raven said raising her voice slightly. "She is not the type that will betray me."

"And how would you know?" Robin asked glaring at her.

"Look, I just know ok? Why can't you just trust my judgment?"

"Because, I don't want whatever happened that happened today to happen again!" Robin replied angrily, his voice rose significantly.

"And I'm very sure that whatever happened today was not her fault. I want to know the full details from her before I tell you anything."

"But what-!"

"Keep it down won't you?" A vexed voice sounded out.

Robin turned and glared at Shadow who stood lazily at the doorway. "It's not polite to eavesdrop."

"Yes well, you were a wee bit too loud so it would be a bit unfair to say I was eavesdropping. "

"And you shouldn't be out of bed anyway."

"Well, from the recent events, I learnt that my body has a rather high endurance and can endure much pain." Shadow replied dryly as she rubbed her forehead.

His glare that was directed at her was ignored as she continued to rub her head. "What do you want?"

"You owe us an explanation."

"Do I really?"

"Yes, yes you do. Now spill."

"And what is it about?"

"Slade." Came the tart answer.

Shadow growled and sighed. "Fine, I'll summarize it. I came, Slade found me. Told me a bunch of lies. I was confused. Wasn't sure. Then found out that he was lying when Raven and I fought…"

"Wait, how did you know that Slade lied by just fighting with Raven?"

"She got some of my memories. Don't interrupt." Raven hissed impatiently.

"Yes, yes. And then you threw me into jail. I met him there. He told me that he wanted me to help him. I refused. We fought. Then he said something about me fitting perfectly into his new plan. Then he left. But before he did, I think he put something on me. A small bug of some sort"

"Was it that that made allowed him to control you?"

"Yes." Shadow replied simply.

"Wait, what are the two of you talking about?" Robin asked, obviously very confused.

"Raven didn't tell you? Well, she can tell you now."

"Shadow, as you said, 'attacked' me. But Slade was controlling her. Somehow." Raven said simply.

"Oh."

"What happened after I fell off the building?" Shadow asked curiously.

"Oh, the rest of the team came. We fought Slade, but I couldn't get the controller, but in the midst of the fight, the thing exploded. And then Slade just left. The rest are trying to track him down now."

"Hmm, really? That's nice." Shadow said offhandedly as she turned her attention to the bandages wrapped around her arms. Her hand ran along it and she found the loose end and started to unwind it.

"What are you doing? You're still injured." Raven said; her calm mask suddenly became perplexed.

"Really?" Shadow asked as she finished unwinding it. Her arms showed no sign that she had been injured except that there were long red ugly streaks along it. Inspecting it, she sighed with satisfaction before walking away.

"Where do you think you're going?" Robin snapped at her.

"No where really, I just need some fresh air. Don't worry I know the way around here."

"Shadow?"

Shadow turned, her cloak flickered in and out of the shadows of the dark hallway. "What is it?"

"Here."

Shadow caught something thrown at her, she looked at the dagger with a calm expression but there was a questioning look in her eyes as she looked up at Raven. But she turned and started to walk away.

"Thanks."

Shadow sighed as she listened to the rhythmic distant sound of waves crashing onto the shore. Hours had passed since she left Raven and Robin downstairs. She had only walked up to the roof of the tower and from there she saw the sunset and the city slowly light up in preparation for its nightlife. The sky was dark with only a handful of stars to light it up.

Shadow frowned as footsteps sounded behind her.

"What is it?"

"I'm just here to say that I don't care what Raven thinks, I still don't trust you." Robin's voice sounded from behind her.

"I don't care what you think."

"And if you hurt and of my friends I'll-"

Shadow turned sharply around and swung at Robin. Her dagger clashed with his staff that Shadow guessed he had wanted to threaten her with. She forced him down and pushed him against the ledge. "What will you do? If I had wanted to hurt them, I would have done so already." Drawing her dagger away, she turned away from him as he panted slightly from the sudden attack. "I might not be as powerful as Raven but I've defeated her before, I'm sure that I can do so again."

"Then why don't you?"

"Don't I what?"

"Hurt her."

"And why would I… hurt her?"

Shadow walked away, she walked down the stairs to one floor below before stopping just a few feet away from the door of the stairway. Tilting her head slightly towards the shadows in the corner, she asked. "Why didn't you stop me?"

Shadows fell from the place where she watched and Raven appeared. Raven looked into Shadow's eyes and replied. "Because I… trust you."

Shadow stared before looking away. "Trust? Do you really?"