Raven breathed heavily as she leaned against a wall a mere twenty feet from the entrance to the common room. The rather short trip from the medical room had taken a lot more out of her than she had thought, she struggled to move once again but her legs would have none of it. Raven groaned as she slid to the floor exhausted her goal in site.
"You would think after that all I have done, a walk down a hallway is the thing that stops me." She panted looking towards the steel doors.
The doors suddenly slid open to reveal Cyborg and Robin, Raven noticed they were talking about something but she couldn't concentrate, the pair turned away from the dark girl not noticing her. Raven's eyes widened realizing that they never noticed she let a weak cough, instantly the two boys stopped in their tracks.
"Did you hear something?" Robin asked the larger boy.
"Yea it sounded like it.. Holy shit. What are you doing out of bed." Cyborg said turning and noticed the crumpled form. Cyborg rushed over to the dark girl picking her up quickly. "You shouldn't be out of bed Raven your far too weak."
"I found that out the hard way." Raven panted. " But I had to tell you I know where Olwen is and I think she is in trouble."
The two boys looked at each other and back to Raven. "We will find her don't worry." Cyborg said starting to walk down the hallway.
"I know that's why I'm coming with you." Raven said getting the boys to shake their hands.
"You are too weak to make this trip." Robin said getting a weak glare from the dark girl.
"I can rest in the ship, I know where she is. You would have no way of finding her if I stayed here." Raven said awkwardly putting her hands on her hips.
"Ok we need you to come along, but what about the ship it is going to be packed if six of us are crammed in there." Robin said getting a chuckle from Cyborg. "What's so funny?"
"I have been working on a project off and on for a couple years now. It's one of our older ship turned into a troop carrier. I started building it after the brotherhood incident, it isn't as fast as our other ships but it can hold nineteen Titans that's including the five piloting." Cyborg said opening the medical bay doors.
"What did you call it this time? T-carrier T-craft?" Raven asked rolling her eyes.
"Nope, I didn't want to get into the T-whatever funk so I haven't named it yet. I was thinking Pelican or maybe Albatross." Cyborg said scratching his chin after laying Raven down.
"When can it be ready?" Robin asked.
"Give me a hour maybe a hour and a half to run some system checks and fuel her up." Cyborg thought about it.
"I'll help maybe it will cut some time off of it. Raven you stay in bed." Robin said starting out the door.
"Aye aye captain." Raven said saluting Robin getting a chuckle from Cyborg.
"Be good." Cyborg said shaking a finger at Raven as he turned to the door. "Rest up it will be a bit before we will lift off."
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The airship floated through the clouds gracefully like a large bird. The ship was a copy of a bomber type plane built out of the remains of "bits and pieces" Cyborg had put together. It's unfinished exterior shined as the sun reflected off the unpainted metal of the giant single wing design, the genius Cyborg had put cabins where the bombs would have been stored in a ship of this size, it's cockpit was large but it could not hold all five titans inside so Cyborg elected that he would take navigation and plotting the course in a room just off the cockpit.
Starfire clapped joyfully as she looked out the side window to the landscape below. Her mood changed as she noticed the rolling fields began to grow darker as if decaying or destroyed by fire. The desecrated lands gave way to snowy wilderness, curiously she looked to her friends.
Robin's determined glare was back, earlier this week his face had brightened when Raven was found it had returned back to scowl that she knew well meant no time for enjoyment. Beast boy had a look of stress yet relief his happy-go lucky attitude gone for the moment. Although she could not see Cyborg from where she was sitting Starfire knew that the large boy was proud of his creation and worried for his friends. Raven perplexed the young princess, even though her friend was resting in the chair beside her she had a small smile on her face, Raven never had a smile. Starfire sighed and watched the scenery.
"Where are we going? There isn't anything out here." Beast boy whined over the intercom.
"Raven told me that just north of the old tower up here should be our target." Cyborg answered.
"But this place is a wasteland… I should have brought a thicker coat." Beast boy whined again.
"Beast boy you can transform into any animal… turn into a penguin or something, and don't you dare say …." Robin answered but was interrupted by.
"Are we there yet?" from the green boy.
"We really need to keep him muted when we take these trips." Cyborg said turning off Beast boy's communications.
"You haven't learned now you never will." yawned Raven as she sat up in her seat. "We should be reaching the target any minute now."
The ship soared over a small mountain range earning gasps from the Titans, the remains of a large building scattered over a couple square mile area. The ship banked circling the ruins, Cyborg scanned the area quickly.
"We got only one creature down there. I can't identify what it is." Cyborg announced through the intercom.
"Let's get down there and get a closer look." Robin ordered.
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The titans stepped out of the craft slowly the icy wind whipping around them. Quickly Beast boy shifted into a bloodhound and sniffed the air, changing back he pointed towards the wind.
"I smell a lot of blood this way. It was hard to tell but it sounded like movement that way too."
"Titans split up and if you find anything call the others." Robin ordered getting nods from the teens.
Cyborg and Robin went together, Beast boy and Starfire, and Raven floated carefully alone. The teens searched every rock carefully until Starfire looked around nearly destroyed pillar. Starfire saw a shadowy monster standing over top of a body and blood coating the ground, the alien princess let out a loud scream making the shadowy creature bolt from its prize for cover.
Starfire quickly flew over to the body to see if it was her lost friend only to see a decapitated body with it's chest ripped open it's pink robe stained with freezing blood. She sighed as she realized it wasn't Olwen, Beast boy soon arrived sniffing the air. Shifting out of form he placed a hand on the alien's shoulder.
"I heard you scream is something holy crap!" Beast boy shouted noticing the body. "We got to call Robin."
Starfire nodded weakly and pulled out the communicator. Robin's picture along with Raven's appeared. "We have found something I believe we are at the west side of the structure. Come quick there was a creature here and we do not know where it has gotten to."
Breast boy quickly shifted into a polar bear and growled at a pile of broken walls, a heavy breathing coming from a crevice made Starfire ready herself for a attack. The creature slowly appeared crawling on all fours a tattered dirty bloodstained pink cloak covered it's body masking what it was, the creature growled at the larger bear and alien.
"We found the creature and it appears angry at us." Starfire added before turning off her communicator.
The creature quickly rushed at the pair growling and snarling. A quick swat from Beast boy's massive paws rolled the beast away. Beast boy charged at the fiend as it was standing back up, it quickly rolled out of the way and using some debris corrected itself and pounced on Beast boy's back. The shape shifter quickly morphed into a armadillo and rolled away as the area was lit up with green blasts from Starfire.
The creature slowly stood up from the onslaught blood seeped from under the cloak. It started to run away only to have it's path blocked by two titans, it turned around to see two more titans. It growled as it looked like it was looking back and forth at the titans.
"You looked like you were handling it quite well without us." Cyborg commented readying his sonic cannon, Starfire giggled. "Lets take this thing down."
"I don't think you will have to." Raven's voice echoed around the group.
A circle of black energy surrounded the creature making a large dome capturing it. Raven appeared quickly afterwards from behind Beast boy and Starfire. The creature reeled back from the walls of black energy almost knowing what would happen if it contacted it.
"I know this creature as do all of you." Raven calmly said leaning on Starfire. "It's Olwen."
The titans shook their heads. "No way that thing is Olwen." Beast boy said proudly. "I would have smelled her. That thing don't smell like her."
"It does not act like friend Olwen. It acts like a Zorknarf from Rigel 12." Starfire said getting confused looks from the titans. "Well it does."
"BB and Star are right that thing isn't acting human." Cyborg said pointing at the dome.
"Remember when Olwen said she goes a little crazy around blood?" Robin said calmly giving a cocky smirk to Raven. "Maybe this is it."
Raven nodded earning confused looks from the remaining titans.
"Olwen is a lich. One of her weaknesses is she losses herself to the undead side when she sees blood. There is plenty of it behind us." Raven said pointing over her shoulder.
"So how do we turn her back?" Cyborg asked.
"I'm not sure…. The book never said anything about how to turn them back." Raven said sheepishly.
"Maybe we do the withdrawing. If she is away from the cause it might make her change to herself." Starfire said with a smile.
"It's worth a shot. I got some restraints in the ship we can keep her chained up until she calms down." Cyborg said rushing to the ship.
"I think we should bury the body over here." Beast boy motioned behind him. "At least give them a peaceful rest."
"Beast boy you and I will do that. You two can watch Olwen." Robin said getting a nod from the two girls.
The boys left leaving the two girls and a growling hissing creature that was a girl. Starfire tilted her head curiously watching the undead girl's movements.
"How will we calm her down so that we can restrain her?"
"Good point if I let the barrier down she will more than likely bolt or worse." Raven answered.
A dark image of zombie Olwen feasting on Robin's brain ran through Starfire's mind. "No we must not let her eat the brains."
"Ok…. Well I'm going to try something. Go grab big rock over there we can use it to knock her out." Raven said pointing to a pile of rubble.
Starfire lifted a massive pillar getting a shake of Raven's head, the alien chuckled and quickly smashed the debris into smaller parts. Holding a rather large rock Starfire readied herself for Raven's plan.
"Ok this is a little primitive but lets see if it works, I'm going to let a hole the size of the rock into the shield. Aim for the back of her head." Raven said getting a nod from Star. "One… two… three… go!"
Starfire hurled the rock into the small opening in the shield at the turned Olwen, a loud crack was heard as the projectile bounced off the undead girl's head. The two girls watched as their target staggered back and forth dazed until it collapsed to the ground face first.
"Um… I think that worked a little too well." Raven commented dryly to the alien.
"Yes and I held back for I did not want to crush her head." Starfire poked her fingertips together nervously.
Cyborg turned the corner with shackles in tow to see Starfire poking Olwen's body with a stick and Raven sitting on a rock nearby.
"I'm not going to ask…. Just help me put the restraints on." Cyborg said looking at the drooling corpse.
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The ship flew quickly towards Jump, all of the titans nervous about their cargo. Their once ally turned into a ferocious beast. Raven turned towards the other and sighed, quickly standing up from her chair she turned and walked towards the cockpits exit. Beast boy noticed her movement and turned to her.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to check on Olwen. Someone needs to check if she is ok after getting knocked out." Raven replied.
"Be careful…she might still be a little…" Beast boy stuck out his tongue and twirled his finger near his ear.
Raven's eyes narrowed to a glare she quickly turned away and slammed the metal door. The other titans looked at a confused Beast boy. The green boy tilted his head to the side and shrugged.
"I don't know what is wrong with her I was just worried she might get hurt."
Robin and Starfire sighed dramatically at the confused boy.
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Olwen awoke suddenly from a wave a water splashing her in the face. The undead girl began to cough and wave her arms franticly, when she stopped she looked up to a hard glare from Raven who held a small bucket. Olwen looked up confused at the piercing glare.
"What is going on? Where are we?"
"We are somewhere over the pacific ocean right about now in a prototype craft." Raven watched panic course through Olwen. "In a boat."
Raven sighed she had forgot about Olwen's fear of flying, the undead girl relaxed a little.
"Anyways… we are bringing you back to the tower, It's a strange story. All I really want to know is what happened to Lust?" Raven said kneeling down to Olwen's level. "We found you and her… she was beheaded and it appeared that you had started eating her."
Tears began to well up in Olwen's eyes, shaking her head in disbelief. Reaching up to wipe her eyes her hands caught as the chains connected through a metal loop in the floor. A distraught whimper come from the girl as Raven watched her carefully.
"All I remember is my father appeared stabbed me in the back, Lust tried to help me and she was killed by Pride." Olwen managed to say through whimpers.
"How could she die she was a banshee, she didn't really have a physical form." Raven asked handing Olwen a towel, which she used to blow her nose.
"Undead are weak to blows to the head. Beheading is instant redeath, we are weak to concussive blasts too. It's a reason I try to stay away from Cyborg." Olwen sobbed.
"Does every undead know this?"
"I would think so, If they don't they haven't been undead for long, or they haven't fought much as undead." Olwen said looking up to see Raven starting to walk away. "Raven… what did I do to wear these?" Olwen asked shaking the chains.
"You lost yourself." Raven said going through the steel door leaving the undead girl in the hold.
Raven stepped into the cockpit and quickly sat down on the chair with a small smirk on her face. Robin turned to the dark girl.
"What did you learn?"
"A way to save us all. We have to notify the justice league A.S.A.P." Raven said getting a smile from the fearless leader.