Neptune opened her eyes to the sound of an alarm blaring off, turning
her once blue room red. She freaked out then realized what was really happening.
"Beast boy, turn off that alarm now or I might be forced to rip your freaking head off!!!!!!"
"Hey! for Pete's sake, that's not me!"
"Who else would it be, setting off the alarm at..." she looked at her alarm
clock and groaned, "stinking one in the freaking morning!!!!!!"
"Fine then...you know me too well"
Following this comment, the alarm stopped flaring
"Thank you. I'm gong to have bacon for breakfast just to punish you"
"Well poo you"
"Oh my god...no goodness. I am so beyond sick of this. It was funny the first
time, but you think he would have laid off the the twenty fifth" She said to
herself as she pulled out yet another sharpie and made another tally mark on
the board, "That's the fifty second" She closed her eyes and went back to
blissful slumber land. She was awakened again by the alarm at the lovely hour of
6:30.
"BEAST BOY IF THIS IS YOU I AM GOING TO RIP YOUR $#& HEAD OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Robin cut in on her rant of all the ways she was going to kill beast boy.
"This is a real alarm!!!!"
"oh"
Blushing as she disappeared into the closet, she emerged the transformed beauty she
sometimes wished she wasn't. It was too attention grabbing.
"Let's go." She said and then was out the door
Now here was Robin, the boy wonder, left with something close to a predicament.
he had a minute to kill while starfire woke up (heaven knows that should take
forever). and he was sitting in a girl's bedroom. And now he felt sick. Great.
Wait what was going on? He felt like he was sinking...no falling.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" He screamed and was sucked into the hole.
Later in the kitchen
"Has anyone seen Robin in a while?" a still sleepy Starfire murmured while
attempting to function
"No actually, where is he?" Raven said as she pulled out the bucket of water she
was saving for a Starfire morning like this one.
"Hey, is it just me, or are all the boys gone?" Neptune said as she nodded to
Raven and then made the water rise into the air above Starfire's head.
"You're right...AH!" She finished. A now dripping wet starfire look over the two giggling girls with disgust. "Not funny"
"Yes it is. And yeah, all the boys are gone...weird" A squirming raven said
while trying to gain control of herself.
Neptune had doused herself with water, and now attempting to do the same with
raven, said, "Hey how about we go find out if their lazy butts are in their
rooms now" All the while, she had filled raven's hood with water.
"I'm all for it" Raven said as she put on her hood. She felt the water run down
her back, and how much the most recent outfit had cost. "And now I'm not."
Starfire and Neptune nearly split their sides laughing, but eventually convinced
Raven to tag along in their mission.
The three girls approached cyborgs room first, since he was the most likely to
be sleeping (or he calls it sleeping). Nothing. Same in Beast boy's room. As
they approached Robin's room, they started, none too loudly, arguing about who
would actually go in. They drew straws and it ended up that Raven should go in,
and she came out with the same report as the other two rooms.
"Damn" Neptune cursed as she went around kicking walls. All of a sudden, a light
came from Robin's door.
"What the hell did you just do?!?!?!?!" Starfire and Raven screamed unanimously.
Before Neptune could respond, the three were sprawled about 100 feet from the
base of a wall, and the boys were standing over. All but cyborg.
Author's super special freeze frame
If you have read Sabriel, you'll know that near and beyond the wall that
separated the Old and New kingdom, machinery of any kind malfunctions...can we
spell it out for cyborg? That's why he is not in this chapter. Back to the
story!
End of freeze frame
All of a sudden, people started running and screaming, "Hand invasion! Hand
invasion!" Guns were rattling, and the group was frozen to the spot. Then they
came. Hands are the simplest of necromancer's creations, but by far the most
grotesque (besides the mordicant shudders) no matter how many bullets passed
their throats, they would not stop until they were torn apart.
"We have to help the officers!" Starfire cried as she took flight and threw
energy shots so fast, it seemed like she herself was a rapid fire gun. Raven
helped by wrapping the hands in telekinetic cord and squeezing them into slices.
Neptune took what looked like ice swords and was using them to slice the hands
up. Beast boy turned into a vulture and did what vultures do. Robin looked on
helpless, because his grapple and things like that wouldn't work. Then he had an
idea. He pulled out his metal bar and started using that like a sword, because
the necromancer's hands were badly held together and the blunt end of the bar
could pierce their skin. The battle, which only lasted an hour, went on forever
in their minds until a strong female voice shouted,"Rana!". This shouting was
followed by a high bell, which made all the hands fall to the ground, asleep.
The gang turned around to see a woman in robes printed with thousands of little
keys. She was the ringer of the bell, and there wer
e six more in a bandolier she had across her chest. There was a man next to her, but when
spotted, he disappeared within a matter of seconds.
"Sabriel!" Neptune said, almost fainting dead away. Robin caught her at just the
right moment and lowered her safely to the ground. She sprung back up like a
jack-in-the-box. "You're real?!?!?!"
"Duh", she said. "But...who are you?"
Neptune responded, "Well, I'm Neptune, my powers include controlling water and
ice. This is Robin, he doesn't really have any powers, but he knows like a hella
lot of kung-fu. This is Raven, she has telekinetic powers, that means she moves
things with her mind. This is Starfire, she shoots energy bolts from her hands.
And this is beast boy, he can turn into animals of all kinds." She took a deep
breath, "Oh! and there's one guy who's not here, cyborg, who is part machine,
and he.." Robin cut in, "He malfunctioned as soon as we got here, so we took his
ass as far away from the wall as possible"
"Hey, how'd you know to take him away from the wall?" Sabriel and Neptune said unanimously.
Beast boy looked sheepish, literally. "I stole the book from your room and read
it"
Neptune opened her mouth to say something, but then decided against it. "Well,
that's enough with the introductions, let's get down to business. Sabriel, would
you do the honors?"
"Gladly" the Abhorsen responded. "But I can't get rid of this one burning
question in the back of my mind. How did you get here?"
"I got sucked through the floor, and so did all the other boys" Robin said
"And we got sucked through Robin's door" The three girls responded
"I see" Sabriel said. She studied them for a while.Then, turning behind her, she
cried, "Touchstone, Mogget! They're not from death!"
"Thank god" Touchstone said, and he came up the hill with a cat that had an
interchanging shadow.
"Mogget, it's time" Sabriel said as she started to take off the red leather
collar "Just don't forget to think saraneth when it comes off"
"Got it" Mogget said, and before he transformed he noticed that everyone was staring at him besides Sabriel and Touchstone. "Oh for Pete's sake, yes
I can talk."
He followed this action by becoming the free magic form he really was and making
a circle that looked suspiciously like..
"A portal?" Neptune said, "I never heard of a portal..."
"It's a new thing" Sabriel said, stopped, then continued, "We actually brought
you here on purpose"
"Why?" Starfire cut in. It was like everyone wanted to ask the same question,
because the tension that was taught in the air seemed to relax, if only a
little.
"I'll tell you later" Sabriel said with one foot through the portal, "Come on"
Everyone stepped through and found themselves at the foot of a large wall.
"Here we are" Sabriel said
Neptune was tapped on the shoulder and whipped around. Everyone else followed
the sound of her forming her ice blades.
"Oh hello professor Mcgonnagal"