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Chapter 7: Starfire's greatest fear
Starfire woke up from her sleep.
Her head hurt terribly and she looked around in the dark room.
She knew exactly where she was:
In her bed, covered by a thick blanket in her own room.
Starfire held her head in her hands and sighed.
"Was this just a dream…?"
She turned the light on and saw the white blouse with the dark red prints.
Starfire gasped and throw the blanket off of her body.
She was everywhere covered by dry blood.
"…no…!"
She fell back in her pillows and breathed heavenly.
Many thoughts ran through her mind.
Suddenly she saw something out of the corners of her eyes and turned around, on her side.
There, on the ground, next to her bed were two objects:
One was the teddy. The teddy with the one blood red eye…
The other was a chair.
Starfire got up and looked at it.
It just seemed like a chair from the kitchen.
"It's still warm…was somebody sitting there and…" she shivered before she ended the sentences "…watching me how am I was sleeping?"
Alone the thought of it was scary enough.
Starfire looked around in her room and stopped at a wall. On it hung many pictures of her and her friends. They reminded her on so many things.
´They always fight so hard…they face danger with or without their powers…even if they were scared…´ she thought.
"I can't blame my friends! I can't say that I'm a Titan, when I don't fight now!" she said with a strong voice.
I have to fight even if I die!
Starfire tighten her fists and went to the door to open it...
She went straight to the living room.
Her whole body was shaking with fear, but she didn't want to turn back.
If she wanted to survive this night, she had to fight.
With a swift move she opened the door and went in.
It was all dark and silent.
Starfire didn't bother and went to the kitchen area.
There she opened a drawer and took a long knife out of it.
"This had to work…" she murmured.
She knew that every knife in their home was sharp. If not…she could still throw it on somebody's head…
Starfire made her way to the door, but stopped when the TV went on.
She turned around to see and hear the malfunction.
She sighed and took the remote control in her left hand.
Then she pressed the button to turn it of.
The TV was black.
Starfire wanted to lay the remote back on the table, but the TV went back on again.
"Huh…?"
Again she pressed the button, but this time it didn't work.
She pressed harder and faster, but there was no reaction.
After maybe two minutes the picture changed:
In front of her, on the giant screen, was now the tower. No lights were in the windows. It seemed completely dead.
Suddenly the picture changed again.
Now was one of the many hallways shown. Starfire couldn't tell which one it was, because it was too dark and the picture came from the ceiling. It moved over the hallway, but suddenly it stopped.
The picture fixed now on one door. It opened. The room was completely dark, until the lights went on…
Starfire didn't know how she managed to come in the bath.
But now she was there, sitting on her knees, her face over the toilette and throwing up.
The knife laid next to her on the ground, covered with blood. She fall when she ran to the bath and hit accidentally the blade. There was now a deep cut in her waist, which was bleeding.
She looked back up and wiped her mouth with her hand.
Starfire sat next to the toilette, the knife on her left and cried.
She didn't wand to but suddenly she remembered the picture on the screen:
It was her room, which was showing. But like in Terra's room, was everything covered by blood. But that wasn't the thing which shocked her most. Starfire self laid in the bed, sleeping or dead, she didn't know. Around her, on the ground were her friends-bleeding everywhere and dead. Robin laid with his upper body on the edge of her bed, holding her hand. There where his heart was supposed to be, was a big wound.
Starfire cried harder at this whole scene.
That was her greatest fear:
When everybody she loved was killed by someone and couldn't do something against it.
Starfire didn't know what to do…
She could face villains, millions of evil master minds and psychos.
But she could never face the death of her friends, her family…or Robin.
"Please, don't let this become true…!" she prayed.
"Oh X´hal! What's going on here? Pl-please help me… Have an eye on my friends! Do not somebody harm them! I would do everything for it!"
She looked up to the ceiling, silently asking for a sign.
She hoped, whoever was there to help her, would do it.
After some time she looked back to the door and began to cry harder than before.
Starfire sat on the ground, hugging her knees and hoped for the day to come. To bring light back in the dark hallways. To bring her friends back in it…back to her.
She hoped that this was everything just a horrible dream, that she soon wake up and see Robin, who was smiling at her and says that everything was all right.
She hoped for him and her friends that they were all healthy and that her greatest fear wouldn't become true.
Unknown to her was outside the sun slowly rising and bringing light into the hallways and rooms filled with nightmares.
But Starfire didn't know it, because the bath, where she was in hadn't any window.
Starfire just kept on hoping and crying…
Ha! The seventh chapter. A bit sad, but I hope you like it and review…
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