The Princess Test

Chapter 18

A/n: ok this chapters dedicated to my fans Chrissy120 and Toothless283.

   Raven widened her eyes as the audiences' hearts skipped a beat. A second later, she felt the cool rubber on her hands and enclosed her hand around it. The audience roared their approval. Smirking, she cleared the rest of the fire rings easily, jumping onto the platform with the skill of a gymnast. She looked towards Robin who gave her a thumbs up.

      The final part of the course was easy, except for the part where it was a contest of flexibility and Raven was not the most flexible person on earth. She entered a cube where inside it was completely pitch black. Using her night vision which she had recently developed after her battle with her Demonic father Trigon, she felt around till she came to a wall. On the wall was a shape she would have to copy perfectly before moving on.

        It was the splits. 'Simple enough'. She dropped her feet quickly, opening wide and the wall collapsed to reveal her way out. She jumped into another cube where another shape was waiting. It was a double shape, which was 2 shapes and she could choose one to do. The shapes were a scorpion(pulling one leg up behind your back) and a bow and arrow(picking up one leg and grabbing it with your opposite arm and pushing your other arm through the bow shape). 'Well this is just perfect. Looks like the scorpion's easier though.' She thought and did the scorpion. 

          The wall collapse halfway, which showed that she did it correctly but not fully. Raven shrugged and jumped past the wall into the final cube. It was not difficult, but it definitely was impossible. This time, instead of a shape, it was a hole by which she would have to do the bridge and use it to walk past the hole. 

          She quickly got down into the bridge position but found it impossible to walk. So she got up and thought through her situation. 'Hmm.....well I'm not an acrobat but....Robin is! That's right! What would Robin do if he were put into a trick he knows he cant perform???" She kept pondering.

        Outside, Robin was practically biting off his nails in suspense. 'What is taking her so long to come out.' He wondered. In truth, he was scared for her. From the way she made him feel all week, he knows that failure to become the heir to the throne will result in Raven getting a punishment so vile that she cannot even speak of it without choking. So, instead, he tried to reach Raven through their telepathic connection.

         Inside the cube, Raven was near to freaking out. She had no idea what Robin would do and was starting to panic. But suddenly she heard someone in her head.

Raven!

         She gasped. Could it be? Was the telepathic connection still working? She was only too excited to find out.

Robin!

Raven! Are you alright?!? What's going on?

A bridge, I have to move past it. I have no idea how.

Ok, calm down. Think, Raven. Is there any other way? 

Are you seriously asking me that right now?

Ok, ok. Sorry. Alright, breathe. You can do this. Just relax and remember to take it slow and steady.

    Raven took a deep breath and reanalysed the situation. She got onto her bridge again and started to take slow but steady steps. She collapsed a few times but quickly calmed herself and got back up and tried again. After about ten tries. She finally made it past the hole and there, Azarath roared its approval. 

      She quickly looked for Robin and mouthed a 'Thank You'. Robin nodded in reply.