The Search

Chapter 1

Starfire walked into the titans always dirty and un-taken-care-of living room, and suddenly realized something was wrong. "Where is everybody" she thought to herself. She yelled their names, (Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Beastboy), but no one answered. She checked every nook and cranny of their tower to try and find her missing friends, (in case this was some kind of sick joke), but still nothing. She finally decided to take her search out into the roads of Jump city. As she traveled out side something caught her eye. It was a small, cut, polished diamond! "What is such a beautiful object doing out here, there is ought to be something wrong here, and this Shape, it seems to ring a bell" she thought to herself. The diamond was shaped like the letter S. She felt the S in her hand for a few minutes, investigating for any unique properties about it. Then, seeing nothing was wrong or unique about it, she picked the diamond up and continued her search.

Starfire checked the pizza parlor, her and Robin's favorite little corner bistro, (they had just been there yesterday after he had asked her out for the first time, how exciting!), and the arcade. Where were they? But Starfire had a feeling in her gut that they hadn't just gone off to do something without her, that maybe, just maybe the were in some serious trouble. So she headed home for any clues on the titans whereabouts, and when she walked into the their living room, the first thing she noticed was the small letter S. It was gaining heat fast! It was even starting to burn her, so she grabbed and almost threw the S out of her pocket! (for it was so hot). The small objects landed on the kitchen table, and with Starfire dumbfounded, it started to let rays of light beam out of itself.

"Why in the world is this small Diamond exerting the lights of beams?" And suddenly, everything was turning white, until the circuits to titans tower blew out and all Starfire could see was an almost holographic image of Slade, and to top it all off, Slade was accompanied by Starfire's friends, the teen titans! "Hello darling" Slade's voice echoed off the walls of wherever he was at. "Slade!" Starfire answered. "Why have you took my friends hostage?" "Well, to be quite honest dear, they would also be dead by now if it weren't for you." "You see, I want you dead, all of you, but unfortunately you remain gone...out of my grasp. So tell me, where were you? The night I kidnapped your friends. You were gone, and sure I was disappointed, but that's alright, because this game had just begun." Starfire replied, "Wait...!" And like that the image was gone, and Starfire was left with nothing but the S. "And where was I that night that Slade did the kid-napping of my friends...? This is all my fault, I must make this right. But how?"