Chapter 2- rooftop conversations

Medusa had been crying for over ten minutes now and no one had bothered going to bed because the crying could be heard all over the building. Robin had gotten her milk and clothes. But she still cried. He was now currently trying to burp her.

"Ok remind me never to have kids" said Beast Boy

"Likewise" said Cyborg

"Why is friend Medusa crying" said Starfire "she's fed and dressed"

"That's why I'm trying to burp her" said Robin

Raven looked up from the boom she was trying to read, she then stood up

"You're doing it wrong" she said

"What?" Said Robin

"I had to look after three kids. One of which was a baby, now let me"

Raven then took Medusa and brought her in so the her chin rested on Raven's shoulder, Raven then began to pat Medusa's back until she burped, then crying then stopped and she began to fall asleep.

The rest of he team showed a shocked expression as Raven up Medusa into a cradle

"What" said Raven as she picked her book up and began to walk back to her room.

Raven had reached her room, placed the book back on her shelf without any other of her friends either asking her to take care of Medusa or made fun of her for knowing what to do. She was just about to start getting ready for bed when she sensed something. The same magical presence than she felt before. It was on the roof, how she hadn't sensed it approach she didn't know. But it was time to find out.

Slade had waited for the crowd to disperse before pulling himself out of the rubble. When he did he started to walk towards the Titans Tower, enraged by the fact they took his daughter. This wasn't pure revenge. This was a farther's instinct. He began to run, not caring if people saw him or not, the tower then came into sight and he stopped.

"No" he said out loud "you go marching in guns blazing your anger will make you vulnerable. Wait it out, you have the gauntlet. Wait for them to lower their defences and then make them pay" he then turned his head to a nearby alley and walked towards it. He had a whole new skill set to learn.

Raven had reached the roof of the tower, she looked around only to see nothing, the sound of the water hitting the rocks down below was the only sound that she heard. The presence was near, she could feel it but she couldn't pinpoint the exact location. She then heard the sound of wind rushing behind her. She turned around to see a male human around her age wearing black boots, black baggy jeans, a black short sleeved shirt and in his fish hand was a leather jacket that seemed to have a cotton hood. Raven sensed the power within him and in response she summoned black auras around both her hands and made her eyes glow white.

Knight saw Raven present her power to him, she didn't need as he could sense it anyway but it was clear that she was sizing his up. Knight gave a small smile. He focused his magic onto his whole body, causing his veins to glow a crimson colour, his eyes eventually started to glow crimson. The two beings then began to circle each other. Waiting for one to react. The silence was now boring Knight so he then spoke.

"Good evening" he spoke "Raven is it?"

"Yes" she replied "it is. And you are?" That last statement being said sarcastically

"Now that's no way to speak to a guest"

"True. But it is a way to speak to a ally of Slade"

"I know you can read my mind, you can see for yourself that my alliance to Slade is non-existent"

Raven then extended her telepathic powers to Knight and saw the last few hours in Knight's time, she saw that her statement was false.

"It seems I was wrong" said Raven, not showing any sign of embarrassment

"Happens to the best of us" said Knight

"Now is ask again, who are you?"

"My name is Knight. And don't bother telling me. I know who you are"

"How?" She fear that Knight knew about her farther, Trigon. If he did, he might see her a threat and will want to take her down.

Knight smiled "You aren't the only one who is capable of reading other people's minds and a door once opened can be entered both ways"

Both then returned their eyes to their true colours and dismissed their powers.

"So how did you get you powers?" Raven asked as they approached each other

Both was curious about the other. About the powers they had but before Knight could pull the neckline of his shirt to show the symbol on his chest a bolt of green energy struck Knight, sending him over the edge of the roof. Raven quickly turned to see the other titans were standing there ready to fight whoever came back from the side of the building. Knight levitated back to the ledge and put both his hands up till they were level with his head.

"Where's the child?" said Raven

"Safe" said Robin "but until this guy is gone, not truly"

"Ok" said Knight "I'm not with Slade"

"How do we know you're telling the truth?" Said Cyborg

"Oh for crying out loud" said Knight

"He's not" said Raven "I checked inside his mind. He calls himself a warlock"

"A what?" Said Beast Boy

"Another word for wizard" said Robin

"Oh"

"I didn't like to use wizard" says Knight "warlock sounds cooler. Look I was investigating the disappearing doctors. Then I found Slade. And not just that but also the fact that he has the Nightmare Gauntlet"

"The what?" Said Cyborg

"It's an ancient weapon" said Raven "it was used by Azarath warriors against the demons my farther lead. That was until it was lost when Trigon attacked Aarath before attacking earth"

"Slade now owns it" said Knight "and now you've given him a reason to attack people with it"

"Friend Medusa" said Starfire

"Yes. And I know you know him and his ways. So I know that he will wait until the right moment. I just want to help"

"Yeah about that" said Beast Boy "you're not the first person who we let in and turned out to be with Slade"

"I know of Terra. And I apologise for that. But I'm not like her. Raven said it herself, I can be trusted"

"Well then" said Robin "if we need you we'll call you"

Knight looked at the Titans. It was clear that he wasn't gonna win their trust over night. He needed time.

"Very well" he said "then I bid you goodnight to you Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire" he then turned his attention to Raven, he smiled to her "Raven" he bowed his head slightly, he then turned his attention to the group "tell Medusa i say goodnight" the then levitated from the ground. He then floated down to the ground on a nearby bay.

The next day

The Teen Titans were on the rooftops of Jump City. They were waiting for something to happen. And also locate Knight. If he knew anything about the Nightmare Gauntlet. They need to find him.

"Right. Titans each of us will take a part of the city until we find Knight. Beast Boy will take the North side, Cyborg will take the South, Raven the East, myself will take the West and Starfire will take the sky's, Titans go"

Raven flew over the streets in hope to extend the radius of her scanning in order to pick up Knight's presence. Raven had a limited range of her telepathy so she had to quite close to contact him and she knew that he had a similar problem. She looked over the city. Watching the people, she remembered the battle with Trigon and the fact that everyone of these people had been petrified by her farther. Now they walked completely unaware of the events that took place almost a year ago. It had only been a month since the events in Tokyo and Raven was noticing the effecting it had. Robin and Starfire were spending more time together and they were enjoying life. Beast Boy was still upset about Terra but he had comfort that she was now living a normal life. Cyborg was working on his car. He had nothing holding him back but Raven had the memories of her farther and the pain he put herself and her friends, sure she stopped him but for a little while, he won. And she will never be able to let it go.

At that moment she caught Knight's magical presence. She lost her train of thought to see Knight walking away from her. He was just visible but it was definitely him. He wore the same clothes as before. The jacket was on and his hood was up. If she couldn't sense his power, the distance between them would have made it hard to identify him. Raven slowly floating towards him. Just enough to visual see him but far enough to avoid the public openly drawing attention to her. She lowered herself to a rooftop near where Knight was approaching, he then passed the building and Raven ducked down to avoid his seeing. She hoped that if he sensed her he would think that she was just patrolling the city. She peers over to see that Knight had disappeared.

She stood up in hopes to see him, nothing. His presence was also missing. She was about to rise up to the air again but then she heard the rush of wind behind here and a familiar presence was sensed again.

Knight watched Raven turn to see him. He treated her to a polite smile before speaking.

"You know if you want to ask me out. You don't need to stalk me"

"You really think your funny?" Said Raven

"Well. I'm not a bad a Beast Boy"

"That's true... Wait how do I know that?"

"You read my mind. You really think that you saw than just a few hours"

"Look. You seem to know more about the Nightmare Gauntlet than I do. Robin wants us to find you and bring you in for questioning"

"Look I'm willing to give the info for free. Just ask"

"Ok. How'd Slade get the Gauntlet?"

"When Trigon destroyed Azarath, a warlock got in and stole a bunch of artefacts, they got stolen by a gang who sold them on the black market"

"And you know this from..."

"Well last night I didn't go home because, well I have no home so I asked around and found the guy who stole the stuff in the first place, nice guy actually. We're playing poker next week"

Raven chuckled at the joke. 'What the hell she thought'

"So I am funny. Good to know"

"Don't get cocky"

At that point, the jewel on Raven's clock started to bleed red, she then pulled out her T phone and opened it. Cyborg's face showed up.

"We got the Joker stealing from the bank, he's got backup, so do we" he said, then the sounds of fighting burst from the phone and then Cyborg said "hurry" then static.

"I'm on my way" said Raven. She then turned to Knight, who was still smiling "I've got a job for you".

The Joker and his henchmen were loading the van with the money from the bank in the ally behind the building. Robin had been restrained and was forced on his knees by two other henchmen. An unconscious green lion that was Beast Boy lay on the floor with a tranquilliser dart in his back. Starfire had also been restrained but she was also blindfolded to prevent her from shooting energy from her eyes. Cyborg has been knocked out, the T phone lay in pieces next to him.

The Joker abandoned his task and left it to the henchmen. He approached Robin. Robin looked up to see he's horrific smile.

"Well well. Ho ho. The boy wonder" said the Joker "if I'd known you had put a group of baboons of your own together, I would have come around sooner"

"Go to hell. You bitch" hissed Robin

"Oh manners Robin. Your in the presence of a lady" the Joker gestured to Starfire.

One of the henchmen then approached the Joker with a crowbar. The Joker grabbed it and faced Robin again.

"We're going to play a little game now" he said, chuckling "it's called What Hurts More. I'm going to hit you. And you tell me if it hurts more or less than the last time"

The Joker burst into laughter before sending the crowbar down onto Robin's back, he yelled in pain and the metal hit bone. The Joker then rose the crowbar again the henchman forced Robin back onto his knees and the Joker hit Robin again, this time in the jaw, Robin fell to the ground agin coughing blood.

"So which hurt more. Robin" said the Joker

"Go... To... Hell... Bitch" said Robin

"Wrong answer" the Joker then started to kick Robin. He began grunting and yelling in pain.

"What going on. What are you doing to friend Robin" said Starfire turning her head around

"Shut up" said the Joker who then slapped Starfire across the face

"Star!" Yelled Robin

The Joker then turned back to Robin, he rose the crowbar over his head, ready for a killing blow. But at that moment the crowbar was covered in a black aura and sent flying into a nearby trash can. A bolt of crimson red lighting was sent flying into the Joker's chest, sending him flying into the side of the van. He looked up to see that the black aura came from Raven and the red lighting came from Knight.

"Get them!" She shouted and his henchmen ran towards the two magic wielders. Raven threw streams of black aura to the henchmen to knock them down whilst Knight teleported to his opponents and attacked from different angles. He's would appear, throw a punch and disappear again.

The Joker quickly got into the van and prepared to drive away when black energy in the form of a tentical grabbed him and threw him out and towards Knight, who placed his right hand onto the Jokers shoulder, the Joker reacted as if he had been electrocuted and he fell on the group unconscious.

Beast Boy woke up in his lion form in the medical wing of Titans Tower, he morphed back to his true form and a headache of total agony gave across him. Cyborg was sitting next to him.

"Easy bro. To got tranquillised" he said

"Ah man, hate it when that happens" Beast Boy responded "what happened"

"Joker got us. Almost killed Robin but Raven and Knight showed up"

"Wizard guy is back?"

"Friend Knight saved us" said Starfire flying into the room excited. Medusa in her arms "it's so good to see you awake. Medusa cried for a whole half hour after she knew you were injured"

Robin limped into the room, his face bruised badly. "Guys" he said "anyone seen Knight. I have a few questions for him"

"Oh he's with Raven" said Starfire. She then resumed tickling Medusa who was giggling happily.

Raven walked into the large living room to see Knight looking out the window. She quickly approached him.

"Quite a view. You guys have" he said

"You get over it" said Raven "last night you were about to show me the source of your power until..."

"Starfire showed up. Yes I remember, you still want to know"

"Yes. I do"

"Very well"

Knight turned to face Raven. He noticed that he was only an inch taller than her, the two were unprepared how close they were yo each other and found themselves looking right into each other eyes. They seemed to hypnosis each other for a few moments. Knight admired the colour and how it made them more beautiful. Unfortunately Knight blinked, breaking the spell and they both came back into reality. Knight pulled the neckline down again to show the symbol. Apon seeing it Raven stepped back.

"What is it?" Asked Knight

"That's the Mark of Scath"

To be continued