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Chapter 3
Young Hero’s rising
Raven
As I felt the blood start to drip down my throat I felt odd.
Usually a person in this situation would be scared. I felt calm, strong, unbroken,
turbed and still whelmed. Not distraught like Clockwire who I could hear to the
left whimpering. I looked around one
last time and saw through the windows that we had a crowd waiting to see if I
would live.
“ Want to make thing interesting?” I asked the Riddler. I
had hoped Apollo would be up by now ready to come and seek attack the guy, but
no such luck. When I asked the Riddler I saw a little light in his eyes as if
enjoying this. Being the evil villain he was I could understand why.
“ Whatever do you have in mid Miss Raven? “ I saw him smile
a sick twisted smile that made my blood turn cold. I motioned that he look
around and he did.
“Ah, want to put on a show before your death? But of course,
I would never deny a pretty girl like you that,” He cackled to me. He leapt up
pulling me up with him by the collar of my civies. As he did I swept out my leg and froze his
hands that were holding me. Why didn’t I
just do that in the first place, I thought to myself as I went to duck a
hit from his frozen hands. That’s why,
said the little voice in my head.
“ Move!” came Apollo’s voice from the left so I rolled out
to the right as he jumped in and started to attack him.
“ Now now, I want to dance with raven not you,” the Riddler
said to Apollo as he struck him in the head with his hands, which were still
frozen by the block of ice. Well, used to be frozen until the hit to Apollo’s
head which was when the ice shattered leaving his hands unharmed.
“ Come now Raven, let’s dance!” I was trying to get over the
shock wondering if Apollo was okay. When I heard him groan and start to move I
knew he would be fine. I dove back into the battle and countered every strike
and sometimes burning him with fire.
“ Time to finish up now Raven, the audience is getting
bored. Time for the grand finally!” that’s when the Riddler pulled out a gun.
“ Raven get out of there right now!” I heard Scar yell off
to the side. I then noticed that all the adults were knocked out still form the
blast. Great, I have a mad man with a gun
trying to kill me and all of the adults are out of it while the others are all
still at the base in the middle of the ocean, just great, I thought. I
rolled to the left and jumped up sending a shard of ice at the gun knocking out
of his hands. I sweep my leg out and it slides across the floor to Knight. He
picks it up and runs out of the room to make sure the Riddler can’t get it back
again.
Out of nowhere I see Scar come out and jump onto the
Riddler’s back and whack some little device onto his head. I see sparks and
watch as he jolts around and rips it off his head in one clean swoop. He then
goes to try and take Scar off his shoulders but it was too late, the boy had
already abandoned ship by the time the Riddler started to get the shock.
“ Like I said before, a little shock like that won’t stop
me!” the Riddler’s twisted smile came back to his face as he cackled.
“ But I know what will !”I shout as I send a wave of ice at
him wrapping him in a cocoon. By the time I stop there was an ice sculpture of
the Riddler in the middle of the room. That's when I passed out.
Apollo
I watched as Raven dropped to the floor. I tried to run and
catch her but I was too late. Exhaustion,
I thought as I saw the thin layer of sweat along her face. I noticed then
that the adults were getting up and trying to understand what was happening.
Frostfire saw me holding her and came over with a worried look on her face.
“ She shouldn’t have used that much ice,” it was all she
said. She picked her up and took her away, towards the infirmary I suppose. I
realised I was staring so I got up and went to check on the others. Clockwire
looked like she had sprained her ankle but she was managing to stand on it.
Knight had come back from running out of the room and was helping her out by
letting her lean on him. Scar came running over to us from his mentor Omega -
who was helping the other mentors up and checking they were all okay.
“Where’s Raven? What happened is she okay?” the little guy
was rushing his words. Understandable
though, I thought to myself when seeing the look on his face. I knew the
two were close. They had been friends for years supposedly.
“She’s with Frost. I think it’s just exhaustion from using
to much of her power at once. Frost said she shouldn’t have used that much
ice,” I quoted her.
I saw Scar relax a little and then turned away. But a second
later turned back towards us all.
“ Can I speak to you Apollo?” I nodded my head in response
and followed him down the hall into one of the empty rooms.
“How come you rushed to get to her? Do you like Raven?” He
asked it outright. And it was freaking crazy. It wasn’t true though. She was
just a friend. Just a friend, right? I thought to myself repeating it
a few times. I wasn’t sure I believed it though.
“ Cause she’s a friend and a teammate. Why wouldn’t i? She
was going to hit her head if didn’t,” I said adding in as many excuses I could
find. But there was no point because Scar didn’t believe me anyway.
“ I think it’s because you see her as more than that, don’t
you? It’s ok if you can’t admit it to me but don’t lie to yourself, or her,”
Scar said with an eyebrow raised and him staring at me through the whites of
his mask.
“ I don’t know what you mean Scar. I think maybe your just
reading the lines wrong,” but I knew he
was right deep down anyway. But I wasn’t going to admit it. It would ruin
everything.
“ Whatever dude, just can you go and check on her? Omega
wants me to check to see if the system was hacked and that will take a while,”
he asked me. I could practically hear him giving off a little cackle in his
head.
“ Yeah sure. I’m sure Frost will be needing someone to
explain what happened to her anyway,” I said as I turned to follow the way
Frost had gone as I left the room.
I followed a corridor until I reached a room marked with the
word: Infirmary. As I opened the door I saw Raven laying there on the bed
without her mask on. I could see the big cut along the side of her face. A scab
had already started to form. Then I noticed the rest of the cuts and gashes on
her. And the dark red line along her throat. Oh god, I thought.
“ Apollo, come in,” I heard Frost’s voice even though I
couldn’t see her. It sounded a little strangled. I came in and noticed the she
was standing behind the door at the basin washing the blood from Raven’s mask.
“ Can you please tell me what happened? And please let me
get the piece of glass out of your head,” she said looking over me. As she said
there was glass in my head my hand went straight to the little stinging pain in
my head. Glass, how? I thought. I
went to sit down by Raven’s bed as Frost went to grab a pan, tweezers and some
wadding and antiseptic.
“ The Riddler came in and Raven was the only one that could
react. The rest of us were still unable to move from the blast. And all of you
were out cold. Knight tried waking you all up but you wouldn’t even stir. It
was about then the Riddler pinned her and stuck a knife to her throat. She
managed to talk her way into a fight instead of him just killing her then and
there. She bought me enough time to get up and help her out by giving her time
to breathe for a minute. But the Riddler knocked me down with his hands that
were surround by ice- Raven had frozen them- saying that he only wanted to
dance with her,” I said looking for an answer about why he would want that.
“ it's a very long story Apollo, you would have to pardon me
not telling you and let Raven tell you herself,” she said looking down at her
hands as she sat on the end of the bed. Touchy subject obviously.
“ Anyway, by now she was already out of steam and was
fighting him one on one again. Scar jumped down from nowhere onto his back and
put one of his stun thingies on his head, but Riddler just laughed and went
back to fighting Raven again. After a few minutes he pulled out a gun and
pointed at her head. She managed to get it away from him before he could shoot
it though – she slid it to knight and he took it somewhere- and went back to
fighting him again. After a minute she froze him in that block of ice, then
once she stopped she just collapsed,” I finished realising that at some point I
had grabbed her hand. Frost noticed and nodded towards it.
“ I have to go deal with some things but I will be back in
an hour. Could you stay with her, if she wakes up yell out, or there’s a com on
the wall over there,” she told me getting up to leave. “ Thank you” she said to
me as she left not looking back.
For about a half hour I sat there holding her hand. She
started to stir and her eyes fluttered open.
“ Hey, how long have I been out for?” she asked not
realising her mask was off.
“About an hour now, You feeling okay?” I asked as I went to
get her a glass of water. As I brought
it back I grabbed her mask and handed it to her.
“Did you take this off?” she asked me looking a little
worried. I shook my head and put down the glass of water on the table beside
her.
“ No Frost did. I came in to check on you and it was off.
I’m sorry if you didn’t want me to see you,” I said to her lowering my head to
look at my hands. I felt her hand on my shoulder so I looked up at her. Her
chocolate brown eyes staring back at me.
“ It’s ok. I was going to tell everyone together who I was
anyway. Speaking of can we go and see them?” she asked me. At first I was hesitant and when
she stood up she faltered and started to fall again. I reached forward and
grabbed her around the waist and held her up.
“ I guess you better get them to come here,” she whispered
to me. I probably should have let go of her but it felt nice to be so close.
We’d been seeing each other a lot since last month at the museum. We’d grown close. Maybe more for me than her.
I knew I shouldn’t feel like this but I couldn’t help it. She was pretty
amazing. Uh, cut it out, she’s not into
you get over yourself, I thought to myself and put her back on the bed
removing my arms. At first she looked a little shocked that I just dumped her
there but then she recovered and smiled at me.
“I’ll go and get them. Wait here and don’t try to get up,” I
turned to leave to grab them. As I left I thought I heard her say something but
she was too quiet and I missed it.
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