Closer

Chapter 5-Holy Water

Robin's voice distracted The Dark Prince for a second but that's all it took for Raven to kick him hard, knocking him off of his feet and then fly up into the air.

Beast Boy instantly morphed into a rhino and ploughed through the hooded figures, making them scramble- in a still very creepy manner- around the hall.

Starfire began throwing starbolts left, right and centre, while Robin was whipping his staff from side to side, flinging more robed figures onto opposite sides of the the room.

Cyborg leaped forward to get to the centre where Raven had been seconds ago. He had eyed the pale boy before his friends, thanks to his enhanced mechanical eye. Springing forward, Cyborg readied himself for collision with The Dark Prince.

Sensing the attack, The Dark Prince rolled over from his place on the floor in a millisecond causing Cyborg to bash into the floor, almost falling through it.

Raven watched this with a shield of dark energy around her. Most of the robed figures were aiming for her, with arrows, darts, daggers; anything that they could throw at her. Noticing the quickness of The Dark Prince, she realised he must have some powers similar to her, powers that were most likely gifted to him by Trigon himself.

An arrow hit her shield, causing her to take it down for less than a moment, but that was all it took for another one to hit her. An arrow chipped her arm, sending her plummeting to the ground below. Under normal circumstances a plain arrow would never have the strength to bring down her shield or her. That meant that these were no ordinary weapons that were being used.

She fell to the ground without her piers noticing. A stinging pain surged through her arm where the arrow had grazed her skin. She tried to push herself back up, but was shoved back down by a foot.

A robed figure stood over her, Raven began chanting her mantra, but as she did the sting in her arm intensified, she couldn't fight back. Hopelessly, she done the last thing she ever wanted to do during a fight. Closing her eyes she cried out,

"Help!"

All four of the Titans whipped their heads round in surprise, having never heard Raven cry out for help. An easy feeling crept into all of their stomachs, but they couldn't get to her. They were each fighting off robed figures from each side, The Dark Prince was nowhere to be seen.

The robed figure that loomed over Raven pulled out a dagger similar to the one that The Dark Prince had had in his possession minutes ago. However, this dagger was silver and not nearly as threatening as the black one. Raven cried out in excruciating pain as the hooded figure plunged the dagger into Raven, he had been aiming for her chest but she rolled over and the dagger dug deep into her side. Normally when in pain, she would cry out once and then bite down the pain: but not this time. She couldn't stop herself from expressing her hurt. The hooded figure went once again to stab her with another dagger, this time able to get to her chest, he raised the dagger higher and higher-

Beast Boy rammed into him, sending him flying across the room. He morphed back into his human form and bent down beside Raven. Cyborg was covering them, fighting off the red robes without faces.

Beast Boy hands shook as he looked at Raven. She was whimpering in pain, her hand clutching her side where a dagger's handle stuck out at an odd angle. Her face contracted in a way that Beast Boy had never seen. She looked so fragile, so broken. Her dress now ripped and her bun now undone. She was paler than usual, and getting whiter by the second. Beast Boy knew he couldn't do anything,

"Cyborg! You need to help her!" He shouted, quickly switching places with Cyborg.

On bent knee, Cyborg examined the empath with s careful eye. Here eyes fluttered behind her eyelids, she was losing consciousness,