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I thought you all deserved a longer chapter today :D

Note: Don't own teen titans. If I did, I wouldn't feel the need to write this story


At first the boy thought he was dead for everything was quiet, but he had felt no pain... Was being engulfed by flames that painless? Tentatively his green eyes fluttered open and they were greeted by a colourless blackness. Wasn't it suppost to be white? In all the movies and comics he had ever seen they had all said that when they died they saw white.

"Get off" A gravely voice sent daggers at him.

"RAVEN!" The boy yelled, completely forgetting about how he couldn't see further than his own nose. His arms around the empathy tightened, but he let go immediately when he heard her hiss in pain. Pulling back, his eyes where greeted with the fimiliar gallery as Raven's energy sheild fell. Her strength always seemed to surprise him.

"You idiot, we both would have died" She practicly spat it at him like an angry snake, her eyes narrowing in anger as she pulled herself out of the dent she had created in the staircase. Her hand glowed a ocean blue and hovered gently on her sissling stomach.

He gave her his signature, sheepish grin as the burn disappeared, only leaving a fresh scar that glowed an anrgy red. Beast Boy wondered why she wasn't fully healing herself as she started to decend the marble staircase.

"Because I need to save my energy, Beast Boy. Not waste it." Raven didn't even turn her head to speak to him as she spoke in her usual monotone, giving no hints to the pain she was in.

The green boys eyes widened in shock, Raven had always avoided invading other people private thoughts. "But- He-" was inturrupted by the wave of her hand, signalling him to come closer. Huffing out his fustration, he put his thoughts to the impending doom they were all in. A mischievous grin spread like warm butter over his face.

When her green team mate arrived beside her at the bottom of the staircase, she spoke in a commanding monotone. "Help Star and Cyborg buy us some time. We need to find out what hes up to and we need to find out now."

"Owe you, Rae" The boy gave the girl one last look over to make sure she was alive before morphing into a rhinoceros mid strid and charged towards the battel of blue, green and red near the two stories window. "Sutle isn't his stlye, is it?" She asked no one.

Raven made her way on foot over to the struggling boy in the glass case. She needed to conserve her energy or else she would be of no help to her team mates, so floating was out of consideration. The cloaked girl was a child of rape of a higher demon and a gentle human, and all her life that had perched on her shoulders, a berden she must bear alone. Many did not know their purpose in this world, but Raven did. It had been enscribed into her skin from the day she was born. To be the key to Earth's destruction. But that day had passed and now she had no purpose. A wondering soul in a world that did not welcome her.

When she had arrived at Earth all those years ago, she had promised to make it a better place knowing she would never be able to repay the people she was destined to kill. Hinding in the shadows and preventing the odd robbery was the way she had lived her life until she met these amazing people who now go by the name of the Titans. They had not judged her nor pushed her away, but rather greeted her with open arms and given her a place to call home. Forever she would be in their debt.

When she arrived at the shattered glass case the first thing she noticed was blood. The glass that made up the case was not shatter proof to prevent injury but rather a solid peice to protect the artifacts from storms or fires. It seems that the risk of a teenage boy getting flung into it never crossed the designers minds.

Robin struggled in vain to get up from the position he was stuck in, with each movement the shards of glass dug in further. It was like being stuck in the middle of a thorn bush, the trick was just to stay still and hope someone would come and cut you out.

Raven said nothing as she walked up to their broken leader, taking each step with care. Muttering her chant under her breath, she took control of her powers and engulfed each shard of glass in black energy before yanking each out at once, knowing the longer she took the more pain Robin would be in.

Robin gritted his teeth together in pain before gasping breath like a fish out of water to pull himself up into a standing position. He flinched visiably when Raven hovered a hand over the most painful looking gash on his back, a feeling of weightlessness coming over him when her powers went to work healing his wounds. When she was done he nodded his thanks before they both took of at a run towards Slade. Raven and Robin had always had a connection between them that came in handy when there was no time for words. Robin realising he could not sneak up on the villian on his own, extended a hand to Raven who nodded in understanding. Taking it they both sank into the floor.

Cyborg couldn't believe it, he wouldn't believe it. Here stood the villian that they all thought had disappeared. Poof. Gone.

The young adult let out a snarl that would make Beast Boy proud when the villian of black and silver gave Starfire a vicious kick to the stomach, exactly where he hit her with a fire ball. She dropped like a stone in water, clutching her stomach in pain and gasping for breath.

Cyborgs arm powered up as Slade turned to him, sending the vilal villian a blast of blue. The man (or what could be described as a man) fluidly side stepped the blast, letting out a low chuckle as he did.

"Opps~ You missed." With a quick flick of his wrist, Slade had the metal man pressed against the cold, concrete wall, his hand wrapped around his metal neck. "I know you may be half machine, but I know you can still feel pain" The threat hissed out of his mouth slits in his mask, slithering like a snake of fear into Cyborg's ears.

With that the metal man could feel things starting to get hot. The hand that was wrapped around his neck started to glow red, the heat being produced catching his breath and made the giant man struggle in fear. All the wires that connected his human half to his metalic were starting to heat up, melt even. Sparks started flying and Cyborg knew if anymore were snapped then he might shut down.

The young adult thought as first he was hullosinating when a blurr of green came into his vision, but when the hand that was casuing him so much pain for him was ripped away, he knew little green bean had come to his rescue.

The white rhino, or that was what its speices was called since this one was green, threw all its weight and power into its charge. But with all that weight he was at a disadvantage for stealth, even a deaf man would be able to feel the vibrations that thundered through the tiled flooring.

The villian turned to meet his new opponent, getting annoyed now that he was always inturrupted before he could give the death blow.

Slade was happy for his mask when he turned around to meet the biggest speices of rhinoceros, or else the boy he knew was behind the animal would of had the pleasure of seeing his eyes widen in surpirse. The impact was sofened alittle by the fact he put his arms out to grab hold of the large horn that threatened to gorge him, but it still felt like being hit by a lorry traveling at 70 miles per hour.

The gigantic animal keep running even after hitting the man, who now clung to his front horn. Tossing his this way and that to try flinging the villian away so he could go for another charge. But Slade had other plans.

Planting his feet into the ground, breaking the tiles and getting a solid foothold. The green rhino kept pushing but the villian now had the upper hand. Before the boy could see his error and morph into something bigger, Slade wrapped his arms around the rhinos head and swung all 2,300 kg of muscle into one of the supporting pilliars that kept up the higher balcony. The rhino didn't even have the time to stand up before the balcony that now had no support but the wall it was held against, collasped ontop of the helpless animal.

"No wonder their endangered" Slade chuckled, feeling the need for some praise for his inhuman strength. Oh he could get used to this. His hand clutched the ruby, red gem that hung around his neck with a golden chain and he marveled at its power.

A sudden chilled shiver involuntarily traveled down his spine, accompanied by a smirk that spread along the villian's face. "Looks like I need to hit harder to break a raven's wing" He muttered to himself as he spun around to be face to face with the daughter of his former employer. "Don't you think so, my dear?" He breathed into her stoic face.

Her stone face twitched slightly, but not in annoyance. "Wrong bird." An uncharacterist smirk formed like a crack in stone over her features.

Before Slade could turn around, the cold metal of Robin's staff came over his head in a swift movement and with a yank from its owner, caught his throat in a chock hold. The man could feel the pressure on his back from where the teen was pressing his feet into his back to hold himself in the position to strangle their most hated villian. Slade fell backwards, knowing once he did the Boy Wonder would be forced to release his hold or be trapped beneath the villian.

Swinging to the side and out of the way, the teenage boy used his staff like a pole vault to get himself clear of the fire ball Slade sent his way.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Slade had no time to roll out of the way when a black portal opened beneath where he lay, engulfing his legs and midsection. Managing not to get fully engulfed by clinging to the sides, his hands clawing at the tiled flooring."Give up, you monster" A voice dripping with pure hatred snarled in his ear. A cold hand gripped the front of his uniform, taking the gem with it.

Glancing up, Slade was nose to nose with the demoness. But instead of being afraid, the villian chuckled with amusement. "No, my dear. You are the monster."

The girl blinked.

Then he was gone.


Good? Bad? I had intended things to go differently to this, but I felt this was a more satifiying ending to the chapter. Please excuse any typos, I was so excited to post this I might have missed some.