Titan Legends Volume 3. In this volume we're introduced to a new character: Rose Wilson (Slade's, a.k.a Deathstroke's, daughter). I am uncertain if in the original comics she was out for revenge, or if she wanted to be like her father, but in my fanfiction she is out for revenge; and it turns out she knows Link, and reveals a vague backstory involving him. We also see the return of the fabulous Lord Ghirahim.

Chapter One: Friend or Foe

It was almost noon that day, when we all heard of some kind of commotion going on downtown. Being the heroic team that we were, we went to investigate. My name is Link, by the way, and I am a member of the Teen Titans, a team of heroes who defend Jump City (weird name, I know). Aside from me, the other team members, who are also my very good friends, include Robin, the serious and determined team leader; Cyborg, a man who is half mechanical, but still human; Beast Boy, a kid who can quickly change into any animal, almost as quick as he is quick witted; Raven, a very mysterious girl who is adept at shadow magic; and of course, Starfire, a girl from another planet, who's both strong in battle and kind in heart, and I also… well… have a crush on her. As for me, well, I'm a swordsman in a green hat and tunic, and not much is known about me… not even by myself! But since I joined the Titans, things have been starting to make a bit more sense.

As for the trouble we went to investigate, when we arrived on the scene we saw an oddly dressed character that we had never encountered before. It was a girl from the looks of it, and she was wearing a silver and black jumpsuit adorned with light brown armor. She was also wearing a mask over her head and eyes, with her long white hair sticking out of the back. She had apprehended an innocent bystander and had him by the neck, with a long sword in her other hand. She was threatening him, but why?

"Tell me what I want to know!" She demanded angrily. "Where can I find Slade?!"

Did I hear that correctly? The others had heard it too. This girl was looking for Slade? Slade was a criminal mastermind that operated within this city. Before I had joined the Titans, they had had a number of less-than-pleasant encounters with him, and more recently, after a… incident of sorts… I found out that Slade was the man who had killed my parents, Daniel and Mary Skyward, in the past.

Why did this girl want to find Slade? Whatever the reason, it looked like she was going to extreme measures, as she held her sword right in front of his throat. The man kept claiming that he knew nothing, but it didn't seem like she was listening. At that point, Robin gave us the signal to intervene.

"Hey, you!" Robin shouted towards the girl. "You really shouldn't play with knives."

Robin said that as a way to provoke the opponent. He does that in most of our battles, as do the others sometimes. The girl then dropped the man, who ran for his life, and then turned around to face us. Now that I saw the front of her mask, I noticed that it had two eye openings that looked a lot like the ones on Slade's mask. Was she an accomplice of Slade or something?

"Ah, you must be the Teen Titans." She said smugly. "Nice to meet you, but I'm afraid I'm a little busy right now."

"You can't just threaten people and expect to get away with it! Whatever you're busy with, it's going to have to wait, because we're dealing with you now!" Robin warned her.

She chuckled after she heard that. Robin threw one of his bird-a-rangs at her, but she managed to dodge it. Starfire attempted to strike her with several starbolts, but she dodged those too. In fact, she dodged practically everyone's attacks, and managed to get in some hits of her own, with a fighting style that seemed familiar. It was like how Slade battled, but at the same time, different. Eventually, she found an opening to escape, but before she did, she gave us a warning.

"If you see Slade… let him know that the Ravager has a score to settle with him." She said.

She then ran down a nearby alleyway. The others were going to stop, but I decided to go after her. I wanted to find out what this girl has to do with Slade. I ran down the alley, trying my hardest to keep up with her. Eventually, she quickly climbed up a building at the end. I followed her up, though not as quick due to my equipment weighing me down. When I had got to the top, I couldn't see any sign of her. At first I thought she had gotten away, but when I turned around I saw the tip of her sword right in front of my face.

"Not bad for someone carrying all that stuff." She told me.

I knew she could see that the climb had worn me out a little, but still had plenty of fight in me. She looked like she was going to attack, but all of the sudden she stopped. She looked at my face rather closely for some reason.

"Hey… you look familiar. Have we met?" She asked me.

I was confused by her action. I had never seen this girl in my life, and I informed her of that, but she wasn't convinced.

"No, no… It definitely feels like I've seen you somewhere before." She said.

She pondered this assumption for a moment before finally arriving at a conclusion.

"No way! You're Daniel's kid!" she proclaimed. "You're Skyward's son aren't you?!"

"WHAT?! How could you possibly know that?!" I asked her.

"Cause my dad and you're dad were like best friends! I met you when you were just a baby!" she answered.

She then took off her mask, revealing light blue eyes underneath. She stepped towards me as if I were a friend of hers, but I was still wary.

"Sorry for the rough reception. I'm Rose Wilson." She said while holding out her hand in greeting.

I couldn't tell if she was telling the truth or not, but I wasn't exactly the kind of person to judge someone before I know them, so I shook her hand.

"Umm… I'm Link… uh, Skyward, apparently." I told her. "Wait a minute… Are you saying that Slade is your dad?!"

She turned her head in a look of what seemed like both disappointment and disgust.

"Yeah, he is… though a lot of the time I wish he wasn't…" She said.

It was around this time that the other Titans had caught up with me. I explained everything I had heard from Rose thus far, and Robin suggested that we take her back to the tower for 'interrogation'. He and Cyborg were prepared to take her there forcefully, but Rose insisted that she'd come willingly. Starfire, as always, asked if I was okay. I told her I was fine, and I was grateful for her concern.

Back at the tower we were all gathered in the interrogation room, which was simply a small room divided by a glass wall. Rose was on one side with her hands tied behind her back, while the rest of us were on the other side. Robin was ready to interrogate her. The first thing he asked her was who she was, and then why she was so intent on finding Slade.

"My name is Rose Wilson… known to some as the Ravager…" she told us. "As for why I'm looking for Slade, well… he's my father."

The others all gasped at that info. Apparently they were all surprised that Slade even had a daughter. I wanted to know what she meant when she said that she had a 'score to settle' with him, so I asked her.

"I want to make him pay for what he's done… and not just to your city… but also what he did to his own family… my family." She began. "It all started about sixteen years ago, here in Jump City. I lived here with my dad, Slade, and my mom, Laura Wilson. Dad was best friends with Daniel Skyward and his wife Mary. We had always gotten along, even if dad was a bit, well… icy at times."

"But soon after Link had been born, things started to change." She continued. "Link was suffering from a very strange condition where he wouldn't wake up, no matter how hard you tried. His condition just grew worse, with Mary barely able to feed him. My mom and I helped as much as we could, but dad… he apparently had something else on his mind. He began obsessing with this project that Daniel was working on, saying that it was more important than anything else. And when mom tried to convince him to forget about it, I don't know why but, he just went mad and began attacking us. He ended up killing mom, and I had thought he would kill me too, but he didn't. He said that I was weak and waste of time to kill."

"I ran away that day, but I vowed that someday I'd show him that I wasn't weak, and I would make him pay for destroying our family. I trained for years, swearing to ravage him like he did our family!" she finished, yelling out that last part.

The others were as moved by that story as I was. I then told Rose that I could relate to all of that. When she asked why, I told her. I told her that Slade, her father, had killed my parents too. She was shocked by that, as she had thought it was only her mother that Slade had killed. This info only made her want revenge on Slade even more.

"Rose, I understand how you must feel. But trust me… seeking revenge won't solve anything. It won't fix what has happened… it will only make you angrier and angrier, until that anger… consumes you." I told her. "Trust me… I know from experience."

Rose was puzzled by that comment, but Starfire explained to her that I had been through a horrible event involving Slade, one that had caused me to turn evil. I was cured of it, thanks to Starfire, but the knowledge of what I had been still haunts me.

All of the sudden, the Tower's alarm system went off, but it was not for a city emergency. There was an intruder inside the Tower. We all rushed out of the interrogation room into the ops room to try and figure out who the intruder was and where they were within the tower. From the Titan mainframe Cyborg pinpointed something moving in the evidence room, and we all raced there as fast as we could.

When we got there, the room was empty at first, but when we went in further, we all heard a voice from behind us. A voice I knew all too well.

"Well, what do we have here?! A housewarming for your uninvited guest?! Oh, you shouldn't have…" he said sarcastically.

We all turned around to see a tall pale-skinned man in a white unitard and a red cape. He also had white hair, in which half of it was covering eyes; sinisterly purple eyes. He flicked his fair and chortled.

"I must say, your tower's defenses are not very sound." He said mockingly. "It only took me a few seconds to get in."

"Hey! No one disses my tower!" Cyborg yelled at him.

"Enough fooling around! Who are you?!" Robin demanded.

"Oh, but of course! Link and his little friend Starfire know who I am, but I haven't introduced myself to the rest of you. Well, allow me to inform you. My name is Ghirahim." He answered.

Several of the others were a bit puzzled, be it by his appearance, tone, or simply the pronunciation of his name.

"Ghira-who?" Cyborg asked.

"Ghira-what?" Beast Boy also asked.

At that point I briefly filled them in about everything I knew about this man. How he was an accomplice of Slade who was sent to spy on me when I was on my three year journey around the world, and apparently he wasn't through with his 'eaves-dropping'.

"Oh, perish the thought. You really should be flattered Link, that you have a 'fan' such as me. You don't have any other ones… that's for sure." Ghirahim said smugly.

A fan? More like a stalker. Both Robin and I demanded he tell us why he was here. To answer, Ghirahim told us that his master had sent him to 'fetch' something from our tower. By master, I knew he meant Slade. Whatever he was after, we weren't going to let him have it.

I made the first attack, charging at him with my sword. But Ghirahim anticipated this, and grabbed my blade with only two fingers! I was able to break it free from his grip though, and he had apparently been distracted by this, because Starfire came flying in and punched him right in the chest. The blow sent him flying several feet backwards into the wall. Despite the heavy blow he got back up rather easily, and then suddenly disappeared.

I warned everyone to watch their backs, because it was more than likely that he would appear right behind one of us and attack. That is what he had done in the battles I had with him before, however he used a different tactic this time. Instead of appearing behind one of us, he reappeared overtop of Beast Boy and attempted to strike him with two black rapiers. Fortunately, Raven got him out of there just in time, and Ghirahim's swords were stuck.

As he was pulling them out, we all took advantage of his vulnerable state and pummeled him with various attacks. Still, even after all this, Ghirahim was still going.

"Quite the impressive team you're a part of kid." Ghirahim told me. "But tell me… are they ready for this?!"

After a second of thought, I knew what he was going to do. I tried to warn everyone about his next attack, but I wasn't quick enough. Ghirahim snapped his fingers, and suddenly nearly a dozen levitating black daggers encircled each of us. I saw this coming and parried them away with a spin attack, but the others weren't so lucky. They were each hit by Ghirahim's attack full force. Everyone screamed in agony as the daggers pierced them. Fortunately, they were all stronger than I had been when I was first hit by that attack, as they were all still conscious. Even so, the attack had left them all severely wounded and barely able to move.

I now stood to face Ghirahim myself, as I had done before during my world-wide journey. I was more experienced now, but I knew that Ghirahim knew this. I activated my spirit mode powers, special powers that had been granted to me by the light spirit Lanayru, and stood ready to try and counter his next attack.

Ghirahim rushed at me, but before I could counterattack, he was hit by someone else, sending him into the wall again. I turned to see who had helped. It was Rose.

"Heh. I got out of those handcuffs a while ago." She said. "Good thing I did too. So who's this creep?"

I informed her of what had been going on here; about Ghirahim breaking in to try and steal something for Slade. When she found out that Ghirahim worked for Slade, she was even more eager to help me take him down.

"I believe I have toyed with you long enough. Time to get what I came for." Ghirahim said.

He then vanished for a second, and then reappeared in front of the north-most wall of the room. He grabbed three computer chips, one red, one blue, and one green.

"It's been fun. Tah-tah for now." Ghirahim said before he vanished.

Rose and I went to tend to the others, who were still injured from Ghirahim's dagger attack. We helped each of them to the infirmary. Everyone was rather surprised and impressed that I had had to face someone that strong one-on-one before. I told them it was nothing, though Cyborg said I was just being modest… as usual.

Both Rose and I asked about the computer chips that Ghirahim had taken. Robin informed us that Slade had tried to steal them a few years ago, but had been stopped. However, nobody knew what the chips were for. Cyborg had tried seeing what was on them, but the data on them had been protected by an extremely secure firewall that he was unable to get past. Whatever was on those chips, it must've been important.

After what had happened, everyone suggested that Rose should stay at the tower for a while. She was a bit reluctant at first, and Raven was sort of against the idea, but eventually we convinced her to stay, for at least a week. Having the daughter of our mortal enemy living under our roof didn't seem like all too good of an idea, but after she had helped us drive off Ghirahim, I felt like I could trust her… at least a little.

Still, this whole ordeal had me worried. Those computer chips that Ghirahim had stolen for Slade seemed really important. I don't think the data stored on them was any ordinary data. Slade was definitely stepping up his game. What was he planning?