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Chapter 2 Starts
Back at the Titans Tower, everyone listened as Robin gave them the info he could find on Specter. Of course raven was too busy messing with the crystallized black rose to pay any attention to a word Robin said.
"Ok, all I could find on this guy is that he's an up and coming villain. His moves are much like mine, which partly explains why he could escape from so easily." Robin states. "It seems that while making his crime seems like an average theft he managed to swipe these." Robin said bring up a picture of three rather stunning antique looking pieces of jewelry.
"Ooohhh, such pretty jewelry!" Starfire chimed, her eyes twinkling.
"What's so special about those?" Cyborg asked non-chalauntly.
"Dude! They probably cost mondo amounts of money!" Beast boy says in protest to Cyborg's question.
"As I was saying, these specific pieces of jewelry are said to control the elements or possibly give their unique abilities that pertain to the elemental symbol on the gem." Robin continued.
Who is that guy? And how did he get these roses like this? Raven thought as she looked at the crystallized black rose.
"Uh, Raven? Have you heard what I've been saying?" Robin asked as he noticed Raven was currently preoccupied by the rose.
"Huh, oh, sorry Robin." Raven said snapping back to reality. There was something that intrigued her about the rose and Specter. "I've been out of it, I exhausted myself fighting that guy." Raven lied. "I'm going to go meditate for awhile. Do NOT disturb me." Raven added seriously, looking mainly at Beast boy.
Raven went to her room, locking the door behind her. She sat on her bed cross-legged and began to meditate. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos....." She softly chanted over and over. raven began floating above her bed, she opened her eyes, they were glowing black. She covered herself in the raven silluette and took off out the window. in search of Specter, to prove to herself that she wasn't losing her edge as a hardened crime fighter. Specter was riding toward the inner city area, he drove off a bridge and into the concrete waterway below, he continued riding until he came to a large sewer pipe, he vaulted into the pipe and headed into the darkness. He came to a large dome like structure a few miles into the sewer system. Inside the dome was a large black rose garden, in the center was a series of computer screens and a workbench with all sorts of gadgets and tools. Specter parked the motorcycle next to the workbench, then head back down the sewer till he came to a ladder, he climbed out into an alley way behind a rundown water treatment facility near the docks. Specter headed back into the city through the back alleys. Raven flew through the sky as she continued her search, when she finally spotted Specter behind a video store.
"Stop right there." Raven's voice echoed through the alley.
"Huh?" Specter spun around in time to see Raven stepping out of the shadows. "Perfect."
"You are going down." Raven said as her eyes began to glow. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She tossed trash cans at Specter.
Specter jumped over one and was hit by the second while in the air. He hit the ground and rolled back onto his feet, he charged Raven dodging the trash cans. He finally reached her, he grabbed her hands and pinned her to the wall.
"Rrrrgggh! Let me go!" Raven growled.
"No, if I do you'll just continue to attack me with garbage." Specter said.
"I said let me GO!" Raven's rage and hatred began to rise forward.
"You know for someone so beautiful, you sure are angry." Specter said shaking his head.
"What?" Raven was shocked and surprised. "Me? You're joking...." Raven said looking away.
Specter let her go and backed up, he sat down on one of the overturned trash cans. Raven crossed her legs floating in mid-air.
"No, I'm not, you eyes were red and everything, you sounded all demonic like." Specter said.
"Not that, I mean about me being..." Raven blushed a little. "You know....beautiful."
"Of course you are, I mean look at you I'm sure you've got men dying to go out with you." Specter said putting his chin in his hands.
"No, not exactly." Raven said. "I'm considered a freak, I can't show any emotion otherwise my powers go haywire."
"Maybe, you just need to learn to live with your emotions." Specter said.
"I've tried thousands of times." Raven shook her head. "Wait! Why am I telling you this? Youre a criminal!"
"Touché." Specter said standing up. "But you have to admit I am a great listener."
"Yeah, whatever." Raven said getting ready to fight.
"Hey aren't those your friends?" Specter said pointing out of the alley into the street.
Raven spun around, there was nothing there. When she turned back around he was gone and in front of her were three crystallized black roses. She picked them up and looked around before taking off back toward the Tower.
"Beautiful huh?" Raven said softly.
As Raven left a Slade-bot crawled out of the shadows on a brick wall, its eye zoomed in and out. Back at Slade's hideout, Slade sat in a large chair looking at his monitors, one of which had Specter and Raven on it.
"Interesting." Slade said leaning on his elbow. "Interesting indeed."
Specter made it back to the abandoned Chemical Plant, he was whistling happily, until Slade came flying out of the shadows. Specter was quick, he began block most of Slade's attacks as soon as Slade reached him.
"So apprentice, anything interesting happen while you were out?" Slade said executing a roundhouse kick.
"No, not really." Specter replied ducking underneath the attack.
"You wouldn't keep any secrets from me either would you?" Slade elbowed Specter in the chest sending him sliding back a few feet.
"Even if I did, you'd already know about it." Specter said now having Slade on the defensive.
"Touché, touché." Slade said backing into the shadows. "You are improving."
Raven returned to her room in the Titans' Tower. She walked over to her full length mirror. She looked herself over, turning to the left, ten to the right. She saw the crystallized black rose's sparkling reflection on her dresser, she pulled out the one she received in the alley and put it in her hair. She gave small smile. Back at the Chemical Plant Specter was laying on his bed hold Raven's picture from her file above him. He couldnt get her out of his head.
I have to see her again tomorrow night. Specter thought to himself.
Slade on the hand had called in a few 'friends'. "Jinx, Mammoth, Gizmo. I want the three of you to keep an eye on my apprentice, I believe he and Titans are conspiring against me."
"Really?" Mammoth said. "What makes you so sure?"
"Shut up you!" Jinx said hitting Mammoth. "As you wish Slade."
"Yeah, we'll make sure that scuzbucket knows whos boss!" Gizmo said flying above Mammoth and Jinx.
End Chapter 2
 Warchild13 · Sat Jun 21, 2008 @ 02:59pm · 0 Comments |
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