OK so this story is going to be the very creepy and dark kind. Most likely won't update very often because I'll need to get really depressed before I can wright anymore.

Hero's Gate

Chapter one: left behind

Robin walked through the forgotten halls in a dream. He saw the chipping frescos he heard the echos of the long silenced screams. He walked through the deep pools of ancient blood. The bitter cold turned the boys lips blue. His legs felt as if they were going to freeze in place but he kept walking. He came upon a room with a large golden arch in the middle. With in the arch lay a silver gate. Its inner mettle bars twisting and turning becoming Skulls and swords. The gate was rusty. The arch was on a raised platform and a river of red blood ran down its steps.

The boy walked closer to it and saw that there was a message carved into the arch on one side. It read:

Open my gate to let them out

five key be needed cannot do without

so go to Fire, water and mud

remember wind and don't forget blood

To unseal my gravelly lock

one must leave the living flock

and once the key has been made

the terrible toll will be paid

To those who wish to use my hold

only give me gold

and that will seal the Hero's gate

and forever seal one hero's fate.

Robin stepped back and gazed at the gate. So this was the Hero's gate. Raven had spoken about it once a long time ago but Robin never thought he'd dream about it. Robin turned about to leave but as he did so he came face to face with a creature. The creature's eye's and mouth were closed but it opened them bought. It's horrible fanged mouth poured out blood that started to fill the room. It's eye did the same. In a matter of seconds he was up to his waist in blood.

A voice pounded inside Robin's head it was Slade's "this is the Blood of your friends your family! It is your fault they are now trapped in the Hero's gate!"

"NO!" Robin screamed covering his ears and falling to his knees. His was covered in blood. He could feel that he was submerged in the plasma but he still opened his eyes anyway. In front of him floated a gleaming dagger. In its handle lay four stones, a Sapphire, a Emerald, a Diamond, and a Ruby.

Robin took the dagger into his hands it felt warm and comforting. A voice whispered in his ear. "Add your blood to ours Robin and we shall be set free from the gate."

Robin rased the knife up to his throat. "It will be fine Robin just do it" the voice whispered again.

Robin looked for the voice he saw a girl with red hair floating just beyond his reach. "Do it Robin and I will come back to do it."

Robin gulped and put the knife to his throat and pulled it across he felt the pain of the blade and knew it had torn his skin. Then he felt a hand press on to his throat. He thought he hear Raven's voice.

Robin blinked he found himself lying flay on his back a towel wrapped around his waist. Raven was holding his cut throat screaming for Cyborg to get in there as fast a possible. Robin looked around in a daze. What had happened? Raven looked at him with a worried glance.

"Robin? You'll be ok just hold on!"

Robin tried to speak weakly but raven stopped him. "Don't talk ok you've lost a lot of blood. I'm not sure what happened but I think you were sleep walking or sleep showering."

Raven looked at the piece of mirror Robin held in his left hand. Should she tell him that he had tried to kill himself? Best not now maybe later. Before Cyborg could get there though she took it out of Robin's hand. She didn't want any one else to think Robin would take his own life.

Cyborg got there quickly enough. He pulled out the needed equipment to stop the bleeding enough to get Robin to the medical bay and patch him up there.

"What happened?" He asked Raven kneeling down to look at the wound.

"I'm not sure it looks like he fell."

Cyborg began to wrap Robin's neck up. "Why couldn't you heal this Raven?"

"The Slice is too deep for me all I could do was suppress the bleeding. He'll need blood when we get him to medical bay."

"I can see that!"

"No need to get snippy! Let's be glad that the other two aren't up yet."

Robin suddenly had the need to cough. Raven quickly put her hand on his throat as her friend coughed up quite a bit of blood. Robin's eyes closed soon after not to open until after Cyborg had finished his work of sewing him up. A feeding tube had been place in his neck so that he would break any of the stitches by swallowing.

Many blankets had been piled on top of Robin so that if he went into shock he'd be warm. Raven sat by him waiting for him to wake up. She looked him in the eye. he felt her hand on his four head. Inside his mind he heard her voice.

'What happened?' She asked.

'I had a dream.'

'A bout what?'

Robin looked at the ceiling 'about the hero's gate.'

'Show me' Raven ordered.

So Robin did every single detail of it. When it finished Raven puller her hand away form Robin's head. She was shaking.

"Robin do you know what this means?"

Ok so it is midnight here so that's why you guys get the incredibly dark first chapter of my new Story Hero's Gate! If you liked it please comment. If you had nightmare because of it please comment. If you've had this dream please comment. If you want to leave the country please buy a plain ticket!