Well, here we are! Black Magic present, read and all accounted for! Whoo-hoo! Enjoy it? Well, at any rate it wasn't as off-the-rails as Asylum, right?

Right…?

Heh heh heh…

Anyhoo, just one more instalment to go, and we're all done! Yay! And I'll wrap up all the (very) loose ends. Oh dear, you poor little cretins… I've left you hanging on so many loose threads, and some twists I bet none of you were expecting when you started reading this! Raven pregnant?

Oops… You never saw that coming, did you? Or maybe you did. I mean, they're goody-goody teenaged superheroes…

…but I did drop hints the size of the USSR…

Anyway, just for your enjoyment… a taster of Remember the Titans…

"…You are cutting it rather fine, however," Slade went on lazily, consulting the intricate gold pocket watch in his hand. "Only three minutes to midnight. I must admit that I feared you were not going to show up at all…"

Robin forced a laugh.

"What, and miss this? Not a chance!"

"Indeed." Slade discarded the watch unceremoniously, his gaze still fixed on Robin. "No matter; three minutes is more than enough to dispatch you once and for all, sweet Avenger…"

Slade moved faster than Robin could follow – although maybe the shadows of the room helped – and leapt into a flying roundhouse kick. It caught Robin full-on in the chest and threw him so far backwards that the boy couldn't quite believe the distance he had enthused when he painfully staggered to his feet. He clutched at the red diamond at his neck, trying to straighten up.

He was losing already.

With three – probably less than that now – minutes until midnight, Slade certainly wasn't in a mood for toying, as he usually was. As he had so clearly stated, the need to dispatch the Avenger ASAP was painfully prominent, and for whatever else he was, Slade was a man who got things done.

Slade was upon him again, but this time Robin was ready for him, snapping an axe kick at the villain's head. For once his short stature worked for him – his heel caught Slade squarely in the chin, snapping his head back. Using it to his advantage, Robin spun into a back kick, using his heel again – and the sharp, heavy edge of his steel sole – to catch Slade in the solar plexus. Slade stumbled and doubled over, able to do little else. Robin spun again, 180 degrees, into a reverse kick, knocking Slade right off his feet.

Karate. Taekwondo.

Robin handsprung right over Slade's fallen form, darting towards the orb in the middle of the sacred spell circle again. Slade swore obscenely at him, already getting up. Robin ignored him, his attention on the Orb of Azarath—

—And suddenly the seer was in front of him. Robin attempted to sidestep her, but found it quite impossible; she seemed to know which way he was going to move every time.

"Get out of the way!" He snapped at her, frustrated and desperate beyond belief.

She smiled indulgently, shaking her head.

Furious, and in a move that was very out of character, he snapped a hook kick at her head. She raised her arm, taking the blow, then twisted her hand over and grasped his ankle, the movement faster than his eyes could follow. She held him there for a few agonizing seconds—

—Then threw him to the ground, where he landed painfully on his back.

"This is the first time I have met you, Avenger," she said, smirking, as she leaned over him. "But already I have decided that you are insolent, and that you are terribly impatient, and that you are exceedingly arrogant. I don't like you very much at all, dear boy. Isn't that a sin; for me to dislike you already, when we have only just met?"

Robin propped himself up on his elbows, his gaze meeting hers, blue penetrating green.

Her smile only deepened as he looked away and got to his feet. He stood facing her, and only the slight raise of her eyebrows informed him that Slade was behind him. Instinctively he whipped around, taking the hammer blow aimed at his head on his forearm in a knife block. He snapped a switch kick at Slade's stomach again, hoping to get him where he was already weakened, but Slade deflected it, instead bringing his knee up to meet Robin's chin with a sickening crunch. The Boy Wonder was thrown back to the ground, landing a few feet away.

Robin got to his knees, almost retching at the taste of blood in his mouth. His jaw was screaming with pain, but he could still move it, so he knew it wasn't broken. The blood streaming from his mouth, however, would have given anyone the impression to think otherwise. He wiped it away and spat onto the floor, astounded at the amount of blood. The cut above his left eye still bled too, although it was beginning to slow and congeal.

Slade started for him, cracking his knuckles…"

What was all that about? Well, it's quite a way in, so… like I said, it doesn't answer any questions…

More heads-ups on the fic:

The pregnancy: Which pretty much takes centre stage. Well, it's VERY important, anyway, if not quite centre stage… Rest assured that there will be some kind of conclusion to it.

Seth Elliott: What is he up to? You will find out… eventually…

Terra: Who has a much larger role in Remember the Titans. In fact, in a lot of ways… you could even say she's the most important character in the entire thing. Why is that? Not telling! Ha ha ha! But I'm afraid… if you hate her, either stop reading, or please come to RTT with an open mind about her. You will be seeing a very different side to her.

Speedy/Roy: I promised he would be in it, and he will be. I know it seems like I am cramming irrelevant characters into this now, but I'm not. He fits in rather nicely and I think you're gonna like him…

The Return of Batman: Yes, he's back. Will he find out about the bouncing bundle of joy? And what will he do if he does?

Cameos from other characters: Remember the Titans includes VERY small and brief cameos from characters such as; Superman, Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, Johnny Rancid, Kitten, the Amazing Mumbo, Barbara Gordon (not as Batgirl, I'm afraid), Commissioner Gordon and (no kidding) Static Shock. Again, I'm not cramming needless characters in; they are hardly in it, maybe say a line or two each… and you will understand why when you get there… Technically the fic is the Teen Titans fandom crossed over with Batman: TAS/Superman: TAS/Justice League/Static Shock. Nothing that really affects the storyline, though; don't worry! Crazy random crossovers really scare me… Just think of all five series running parallel, like I do…

The Azarathian Senate: Is most certainly back, and with a vendetta to settle…

Main pairings: RobinxRaven, with a little bit of RobinxStarfire (please don't hurt me!), and of course, Beast BoyxTerra. Side pairings include one-sided MarcusxJonathon (no prizes for guessing why it's one-sided) and maybe even a little bit of DEFINITELY one-sided SethxRaven… I'm not saying anymore about that right now…

There are also a lot of fight scenes in the fic; there is a RobinxSlade one that I actually researched by getting out books on martial arts from the library. I am quite proud of that one. Plus the other super-powered Titans come into a few scraps of their own; witness Starfire and Beast Boy not taking any nonsense from a certain blonde ex-Titan, and Cyborg and Raven chasing the Amazing Mumbo through a jewellery (Brit spelling) store…

Plus: Magic! Real magic! More research on my part into Wiccan ceremonies and lore (Quinn, despite this, I am NOT A WITCH!). I like to think of Remember the Titans as a fusion of action and fantasy.

Hopefully you will think so too; and hopefully I have intrigued you!

Huge thankyou to every single person who has ever reviewed! Especially big thanks to all regular reviewers! At least half of you have been here right from the start, in Asylum!Together, I am sure we have hit and overstepped the 400 mark on this; and that is a victory for all of us! We're all in this together; because if no-one read and reviewed, what would be the point? I wouldn't even bother updating… I hope to welcome you all back for Remember the Titans, which will be up within a month, I promise. I guess the easiest thing is to put me on Author Alert, and the site will notify you when it goes up. Then you can always take me off again afterwards…

Plus, don't forget to check out the "Official Black Magic Art" (by me!) on the DeviantART account shared by my co-writer Narroch06 and myself. It's up for you guys; any non-readers won't even understand it! Link on my crazy new profile!

And on that note…

What'll happen to the team now that Robin and Raven are in such a dilemma?

Just what is Seth Elliott up to?

And what's the deal with Slade's seer?

Tune in next time;

Same Bat-time…

Same Bat-channel!

And now, I leave you with a poem I read on a fridge magnet:

Beware the deadly donkey,

Falling from the sky;

You can choose the way you live, my friend,

But not the way you die.

That… really is all for Black Magic. Check out the art, but otherwise… TTFN (until RTT)!

- RobinRocks xXx