Chapter 4- blood and drawings

It had been a month since Knight joined the team. Things had gotten better. Knight would occasionally be taken to the lab to test how his powers work and to see if anything Trigon related was happening. So far they all showed the same thing. The Mark of Scath was the source and Trigon wasn't up to something. Knight would also play video games with Cyborg and Beast Boy. Knight didn't really talk much about his previous life before the Mark and eventually the other members stopped asking.

Knight lay on his bed. Like he did most of his spare time between video games, lab tests and training. His room was now filled with new clothes and books. The rain, thunder and lightning occupied the large window of his room. He lay there with a pencil and his sketch pad. They were the first things he bought since joining the Teen Titans. He had mostly draw landscapes and drawing of the group and tower. Now he was starting a new drawing. Raven, he hadn't been able to stop thinking about her. He thought that the feeling would be passed off as just a crush and then pass. But no, seeing her everyday and talking to her made it grow stronger, Knight was confronted by the conflict, he thought she was amazing but he knew that the Mark would get in the way. He had attempted to cut and burn the Mark off when he got it but the Mark would heal the skin instantly and repair itself.

Knight began to draw Raven, he focused on the structure of the picture first by faintly drawing on the paper. When he drew, nothing in life was wrong, no conflict, no crying baby that woke everyone up every two hours. The Titans had developed a schedule for who would so which tasks when. Knight's last task had been to feed Medusa, luckily. Slade hadn't made an attempt to reclaim his daughter yet but the team knew he would. Eventually, Robin had been working hard on finding him for the last month, eating up his most of time with the rest of the group, who helped him when they could. Knight let all that worry melt away when he drew, that was his 'happy place' if you would call it that.

There then came a quiet knock on the door. Knight broke out of his trance, the worries and conflict came flooding back. He slammed the sketch book closed and hid it under his pillow, he quickly walked over to the door, he opened to reveal Beast Boy.

"Hey bro" said Beast Boy "wanna play Return on the Ninja Robot Aliens with me and Cyborg"

"Beast Boy" replied Knight "you've just saved my evening"

The three were playing the video game when Robin and Starfire entered the living room with Medusa, she was currently asleep and wrapped up in her blanket. Raven was probably in her room as always so there wasn't anything odd about that.

"Perhaps if I were to care for friend Medusa tonight" said Starfire "you seem dreadfully tired"

"Wow. Thank you Star" said Robin, he then handed Medusa over to Starfire, she then kissed Robin goodnight and flew over to her room to. Robin then turned to the others playing the video game.

"Last one heading to bed..."

"Turns the light off" said Cyborg "yeah, yeah we know the drill"

"Oh good, I'll see you in the morning then"

"Night" said Beast Boy, Cyborg and Knight in unison, not moving their attention from the game. This crept Robin out so he headed off to bed.

Raven had finished reading her book and was now lying in bed, thinking. The last month had been quite and now she was fearing that Slade or someone else would strike at any moment. And then there was Knight. The two had gotten close enough to train together, Raven was teaching him all she knew about the Mark and what power it held. But most importantly how to control that power. The two had very different ways to control their powers, Raven suppresses emotions whilst Knight embraced them. Raven tried suppressing the emotions she knew were emerging from Knight. She remembered how Malchior made her feel and how he lied to her, she wasn't scared of the feelings she felt to Knight but the prospect of him betraying her, she couldn't go through that again.

She heard a knock on the door, she came out of her daydream. Annoyed by the visitor at her door she grabbed her cloak and flung it over her shoulder and stormed over to the door.

She opened it to reveal nothing there, she looked down the hallway in directions, nobody, the corners were too far away to run to in order to hide. She stepped out of her room to get a better look. She heard the rush of wind behind her that she associated with Knight's teleportation.

"Knight, I swear to god you'll pay for this" she turned around to see a pair of glowing orange eyes.

Knight was the last one to leave. He had saved the game and turned the TV off, he was now at the doorway, he was about to reach for the light switch. Then he felt the Mark of Scath begin to change temperature. Normally it became warm when he used his powers, this heat traveled across his whole body to fuel his power. But now it was cold, like ice, instinctively he placed his left hand over it, it was getting colder and colder until it almost felt like a burning feeling. He fell to his knees and called out in pain. Then his vision became blurred and he thought he was gonna pass out. He didn't, at least he didn't think he did, his vision then seemed to settle again but he was looking down a hallway, what he saw was terrifying, he saw a pool of blood and bloody handprints on the wall, both seemed to show that someone was dragged away from the door, then his heart sunk deeper and he recognised the hallway and the door.

It was Ravens.

His vision became blurred and returned to the living room. The Mark began to return to normal and Knight quickly pulled himself up and pulled out his T phone.

What was left of the team followed the blood trail. Knight at the front, the vein between the Mark and his right hand glowed as he scanned for Raven magical presence. Nothing so far. Medusa was crying in Robin's arms.

"Whatever took Raven" said Knight "covered its tracks perfectly, I can't sense it or Raven"

"The blood trail should lead the way" said Cyborg

At that point the trail ended.

"I had to open my big mouth"

"She could be anywhere" said Beast Boy

"Who would take Friend Raven" said Starfire

They all remained silent, they all knew who but they were too afraid to say it

Knight's scanner had picked something. It was faint but close. He rose his hand upwards

"She's in the living room" he said turning to the other Titans "hold on"

They disappeared

They reappeared in the living room, the light prevented them from being able to see outside, the room showed no signs of blood or Raven. The presence was close, Knight could feel it. The team started running around looking behind furniture to see if she had been placed behind them. Cyborg then stood in the centre of the room.

"I've got a pulse, it's close" he said

"Her essence is close as well" said Knight walking up to him

A bolt of lightning hit the nearby port, causing light to fill the window and the team could see outside.

Raven had been strapped outside to the roof, her back to the glass, her torso had been lacerated and blood had smeared the glass.

To be continued