A dark bird floated through the air weaving weakly through the clouds, the site of the metropolis of Jump city appeared in view as the black form dove through the clouds. It's eyes focusing in on the symbol of justice shaped as a giant 'T'. The bird floated above the beach surrounding the structure landing gracefully on the sandy shore it began to reform into the shape of a young woman, Raven fell to the ground exhausted ignoring the pain coursing though her body.
The young woman looked up to the beautiful her mind lost in the sight of the clouds above her. A sharp pain in her right arm snapped her back to reality the dark girl looked fiercely at her limb to see that her arm was bent slightly out of regular alignment, she sighed as she knew it was broken. Blood began to seep into the sweatshirt that she wore, Raven looked away for two reasons to see if she had anymore injuries and to not look at the disturbing sight. Aside the various scrapes and cuts the only serious injury was her arm.
The world around her began to fade to black as she began to lose consciousness, to her relief the last thing she could remember was hearing a familiar voice shouting to others, She couldn't tell what they said or who they were yelling to but she felt safe knowing that someone had found her.
Elsewhere a young lich was laying on the concrete floor of their make shift base screaming in agony. Olwen lay clutching her chest as her companion stood nearby frozen in fear. The young lich trembled as the pain racked her small frame.
Lust stood nearby thinking of the reason her friend was acting in such a way, she had felt the power from their base disappear and knew Olwen had felt it. The seven generals were all connected to their lair due to them forcing parts of their own energy to create the building, if anything went wrong they would be alerted but now it seems that it was wiped completely off the map. Lust felt no more presence of her beloved home.
Olwen sat up from the floor breathing heavily her eyes glazed over, Lust was at her side immediately picking her friend up. Olwen leaned heavily on the larger girl's shoulder, looking up into Lust's crystal blue eyes she smiled weakly.
"We have to go home…. Something isn't right." Olwen said slowly as a dark mist began to form at their feet.
"I fear the time of reckoning is upon us Ira." Lust said lowering her head. The pair was consumed by the shadows leaving the barren warehouse.
Raven slowly opened her eyes to see the white ceiling tiles of the med bay of the tower. She sighed as her eyes scanned the room the curtain that surrounded her bed blocked most of her view but she could feel the presence of someone nearby.
As if on cue Beast boy moved into view a mature smirk on his face, his emerald eyes seemed clearer now than the last time she had seen him, although he looked like he had gone through hell. Bags under his eyes showed that he hadn't slept in a night or two.
Raven tried to sit up only to have his hand land on her shoulder stopping her. "What's your rush you just woke up? At least sit down and lets talk." Beast boy chuckled.
"Last time we talked you pretty much condemned me to the fate of being a monster." Raven said giving him a glare, Beast boy lowered his and looked away.
"I know, I shouldn't have treated you like that… I'm a ass. You came to us with only to try and redeem yourself and I treated you like a creature that was about to bite my head off, and when I found you on the beach when our security went off I was scared you were dead. I want to say I'm sorry… I know if it means nothing to you right now but seeing you beaten and bloody scared me to no extent." Beast boy said looking up to the amethyst orbs of Raven .
"I forgive you, but your previous actions broke something in me and I have no idea if it will ever be right again." Raven looked down at the pale sheets that covered the bed. Beast boy looked down at the floor, both titans stayed silent for sometime until Cyborg walked around the corner.
"I'm glad your awake, green bean here has been sitting nearby since he found you." Cyborg chuckled as he began to check the gothic girls vitals. "You have been out for two days. You had us worried when your powers didn't start working right away."
"Yea I sort of spent nearly all of my energy finishing something." Raven said averting her eyes from the pair and looking towards a window. Before the two boys could ask their communicators beeped.
Cyborg looked at the screen on his arm as Robin's face appeared, Cyborg instantly noticed a look of relief from the titan leader. "Cyborg get Beast boy and come to the common room we have some important news from the Justice League."
"BB is here with me, I'll try to drag his green butt from Raven's bedside but not going to be easy." Cyborg winked at Beast boy getting a scowl in return he laughed. "We will be there in a couple minutes."
"Robin out." Robin said before disappearing from the screen.
"Ok come on BB lets go and let Raven rest." Cyborg said turning towards the door.
"Yea I'm coming. I'll talk to you later Rae, I'm glad to see that you're ok." Beast boy said before bolting out the door shifting into a cheetah in mid stride.
"It's Raven, not Rae." Raven yelled as the door closed behind them. Raven struggled to get out of the bed but her limbs felt if they were made out of rubber, she relaxed slightly flopping back on the pillows looking up at the barren white ceiling. "I wonder if all that energy I expelled was worth it?" She asked nobody as she closed her eyes.
Robin stood with his arms crossed facing the intercom screen when Cyborg and Beast boy entered, the two looked up at the screen to see the original members of the Justice League on screen. The two looked at each other and swallowed hard.
"Well we are all here that can make it." Superman said getting Robin to turn around and look to the door. The two new arrivals chuckled sheepishly under the glare of the powerful heroes.
"It's ok guys. They didn't call to yell at us." Robin said with a cocky smirk. "Ok now that we are all here…"
"But we aren't where is Star?" Beast boy asked the masked leader.
"She is getting supplies with Raven." Robin forcefully winked at Beast boy.
Before Beast boy could reply Cyborg spoke up. "So what is the problem?"
"Superman briefed Raven on the epidemic that we were having with a army of "undead"." Green Lantern said calmly getting nods from the three boys. "Well there seems to be a complication."
"The armies have been going berserk since about two days ago, they are going Dawn of the dead style, remake not original." Flash almost shouted getting a couple glares from the other members.
"Yes, the creatures have been erratic since a couple days ago attacking anything and everything even their own." Martian Man hunter calmly said. "They were acting much like a hive mind, now they are seeing everything as a threat."
"Then why don't we try to contain them so they will destroy themselves." Beast boy suggested.
"We cannot do that due to the number of creatures and they just seem to regenerate as fast as they die." Superman said watching the green boy's ears wilt at his suggestion getting shot down.
"Where did these creatures come from? Do you know the leaders?" Robin asked getting the League to talk among themselves for a few seconds.
"We believe they are reanimated corpses from the ages, They all seem to be coming from the north down but we cannot search the whole arctic circle. We have sighted only five monsters that were different from the others but they appear to have vast magical resources. The other creatures wear coloured cloaks similar to Raven's and they refer each other in Latin." Wonder Woman explained.
The titans looked at each other in shock and back to the screen. "We have fought these ones in the cloaks. There are seven of them." Robin said getting nods from the league. "They wiped the floor with us, it was when Raven and Beast boy had disappeared. We fought them and many of us were hurt too badly to pursue."
"I thought there was a third that disappeared at around that time." Wonder Woman asked.
"There was… Olwen," Robin began.
"She seems to be still in their clutches." Beast boy said interrupting the masked leader. "We have been trying to figure out a way to get her back. We haven't had any luck so far."
"Ok, this has been a informative discussion. Thank you Titans." Martian Man hunter said writing something down.
"If we find anymore information we will contact you." Robin said with a small salute.
"Thank you, we hope you find your friend." Superman said as the screen went black.
The three boys let out a breath they didn't realize they were holding. They glanced between each other with smirks of their faces.
"We lied to the Justice League… and got away with it." Beast boy giggled.
"Technically we didn't lie that much. Robin said the biggest one." Cyborg said getting a scowl from the masked leader. "oh by the way where is Star? Really."
"She is in her closet doing a alien ritual." Robin said scratching the back of his neck. "It seemed a little silly to say that in front of the Justice League."
"So how are we going to beat the Justice League to Olwen?" Beast boy asked getting confused looks from the two boys. "If we don't get to her first they might do something drastic and like banish her to another dimension or something."
"Your right BB, Olwen was our friend maybe she was just mislead if we give her a second chance maybe…" Cyborg said crossing his arms.
"But she only gets one chance. If she doesn't take it she is a criminal." Robin said getting a nod from the two boys.
Lust and Olwen stepped out of the portal to see their castle in ruins, the other generals were there as well picking through the debris. Lust dropped to the ground in shock tears began forming in her eyes as she looked across the wreckage. Pride stomped over to the girls and picked Olwen up by the collar, lifting the small girl off the ground.
"Look what your so called Queen did. She was the one that destroyed our chance to make this world ours." Pride bellowed in Olwen's face.
"Without the tower our control is fading, the armies will begin to deteriorate and will be lost." Gluttony said standing up from the chunk of wall he was sitting on. "Our magical focus point has been destroyed with that so is our hope."
"There is only one answer to this problem." Greed looking over to the lich girl. "We have to kill the queen."
"What! I won't let you!" Olwen shouted struggling to get free from the monstrous creature that held her. "I won't let you lay a finger on Raven!"
"You won't have a choice…" A familiar voice echoed behind the dark haired girl. A sharp indescribable pain coursed through her body before Pride dropped her to her knees, the undead girl looked down to her chest to see a black blade piercing through her rib cage. "This is the second time this body has killed you. For shame."
Olwen's was tossed to the side freeing her from the blade, holding the hole in her chest Olwen looked up into the face of a biohazard protection suit, behind the plexi-glass face shield she saw the face of the man she hated more than anything else in the world. Her father.
"You cheap bastard." Olwen coughed proping herself against a flat rock.
"Where is all that 'I'm going to destroy that body'. All talk I guess." Edward Ingarfield laughed as he watched Olwen bleed. "You all follow me from now, now move out."
Lust rushed over to Olwen and began to franticlly try to help her friend. She didn't notice the looming shadow over top of her. Olwen weakly tried to warn her by pointing but coughed up a portion of blood.
"She is a lost cause leave her." Pride bellowed grabbing Lusts shoulder, Lust shook out of the grasp and glared at the larger man.
"You bastard I'm helping her until I can't anymore." Lust yelled getting a sigh from the mammoth man.
"You silly Banshee, your choice." Pride turned shouldering his massive weapon.
Lust turned back to Olwen not noticing the whistling come at her, with one swift chop Lust's body dropped in front of her friend her head landed a few feet away with sickening splat. Pride laughed he shook the blood from the massive blade.
"She made her choice. It was to die with you." Pride laughed ignoring tears welling up in Olwen's eyes.
The remaining generals walked away lead by the monster. Olwen looked up to the sky and the first time in her life she prayed. Prayed for Lust's soul and the protection of the titans.
Raven's eyes snapped open a sharp pain burned in her chest, holding tightly to covers she instinctively looked to the north.
"Olwen's in trouble." Raven looked out the window sorrowfully. "If it's trouble for her, chances its coming for me."