Well, school starting, getting ulcers in my eyes, and just plain writer's block pretty much explains the long wait for the update. But you guys understand, right?
I'm sorry for the update and that you may find this chapter slightly boring. Sorry, but I have to introduce the new characters sometime. Might as well be now.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Teen Titans. I'm not even sure who does...
"You do?!" Cyborg exclaimed, leaping to his feet. Starfire did the same, just as shocked as Cyborg.
Robin spun to face them and continued, more serious than ever. "Of course, I don't know why I didn't see it earlier."
"Well?!... Where are they?" He was really testing Cyborg's patience.
"Think about it. If you can locate them anywhere within the Earth's atmosphere, they must be..."
Cyborg had to take a seat. "Out in space. Man, I'm so stupid!"
Starfire now found her words. "What do we do now, Robin?"
"We have to go after them. What else?" He walked out of the room very leader-ish, expecting them to follow. "To the T-ship!"
With Raven...
When Raven finally awoke, she groaned and opened her eyes, only to find three unfamiliar faces staring back down at her. Or was two? Ugh! Her head hurt.
"Oh, look! Autumn, she's waking up!"
"Shut up, Falon."
"Nobody asked you, Ember!"
Raven slowly raised herself to a sitting position and held a hand to her head, as if it would soothe her headache. "Who are you? Where am I?"
One girl with azure colored hair spoke up. "Well, I think this is sector 2C room 15, but it could be sector 1K room 27. I don't remember." She smiled politely and shrugged.
Another girl with fiery red hair and pale skin muttered, "I don't think she means the room. And it's sector 1A room 4 if you must know."
They got into a somewhat one-sided arguement, the red haired girl obviously winning. Raven took the opportunity to look around the room.
It wasn't huge, looking about 15' by 17'. The walls were extremely thick and completely immune to anything you threw at it, being constructed out of a non-earthly. The floor was cold and hard beneath her bare feet, and the ceiling looked blast-proof and a bit rotted at the same time.
"Shut up, both of you!" A new girl said. "Don't you see that she's confused and frightened?"
Raven spoke up again. "I am confused, but I wouldn't go as far as frightened. I just wanna know what happened and where I am."
The first girl cleared her throat. "Ahem, I'm so sorry. How rude we were! I'm Falon!" Her azure blue hair came just past her shoulders. She was about Raven's height, if not a smidge shorter, and her slightly pale skin only complemented her bright blue eyes. Although, she was so skinny, she looked as though she could be blown away with the wind.
As for her clothes... well they were better than Raven's. The top resembled that of a decollete tank top, that of which cut off just above her belly button. It was a light shade of violet. The bottom half of the outfit looked like typical boy shorts, and were obviously the same color. "And this is Autumn and Ember."
Autumn smiled and waved. She had wavy auburn hair that was a couple inches longer than Falon's. She was less pale but just as skinny, and her eyes were dull green. She was wearing a forest green tunic and baggy, pajama-like, pants of the same color. "Hi," she said.
Ember didn't respond, deciding to continue glaring at the floor instead. Her firey-red hair was straight down, came down all the way past her narrow waist, and covered her left eye. Speaking of her eyes, they were a very pronounced, bright hazel.
The way her clothing covered her was not unlike Raven's. The only difference was the color. Ember's rags were black with a strange hint of dark red somehow.
Raven looked over to the farthest, darkest corner. She saw a girl with long silver hair. She was the palest and thinnest of them all and looked around the age of 18, contrary to the rest, who were Raven's age. However, the light was too dim in the corner for her to see was the older girl was wearing. "Who is she?"
"Oh," Falon said, "that's Sadie." She looked to Autumn, and there was a long silence before anyone spoke again.
"Um... we don't really know much about her though. Except we're pretty sure she doesn't age." Autumn explained.
Suddenly, Ember got up and stalked over towards them. "She doesn't! Do you want to know who she really is?!" She said. "She's a victim! That's who she is, a victim! A Lucius victim! That's who she is!" She didn't seem to notice that her hands were in flames.
Autumn edged toward her uneasily. "Careful Ember, you don't want to hurt anyone. Just calm-"
"Calm down!?! Don't tell me to calm down! Don't you ever tell me what to do! I can explode in here and there not be any effect!"
Raven's eyes went wide at the sight of Ember's arms, now mostly encased in the flames, and her eyes, which had lost their pupils. Autumn looked to Falon. "Falon, do something!"
"Me?! Why me?!!"
Autumn looked frantic, having grabbed Ember by the shoulders, trying to keep her back. "Because I'm a little busy here!" She grunted and pushed her back against the wall.
"Fine." Falon said, closing her eyes in concentration. She put her the tips of her index and middle fingers to her temples and muttered something inaudible. In opening her eyes, Raven noticed they were all white and glowing like hers did.
Falon ran up and touched Ember's forehead. "Sleep." She commanded. Almost instantly, the violent and angered flaming teen closed her eyes and fell over in torpor. Caught by Autumn, she was lain down against the wall.
Autumn sighed in relief. "Whew, thanks Falon." No response. "Falon?" She turned to find Falon passed out in the middle of the floor. "Oh crud! I forgot again. She's gonna kill me for this."
Raven didn't know where to start. "Uh..." She stood in a stupor, bewildered and even more confused.
Autumn sighed again. "Ok, I'm going to explain this before you have to start asking questions." She took a deep breath. "Ember has fire powers and a huge temper, Falon has twin brother and they both have physic abilities, and I have control over the seasons and get caught between their arguements a lot. We and the guys in the room next to us are all from earth. This sector is for earth 'beings' with powers. It's the closest sector to where Lucius stays. Most of Lucius's victims stay in this sector, and there's no way out of here." She paused. "Any questions?"
Raven regained her composure during the short speech. Her mind was swimming with questions. "What do we do here?"
"You mean, how do we live?" Raven nodded. "Well, for starters, we're almost always in this room. A meal is sent in every three days through a little slot in the door. Water is given with every meal and whenever and wherever you can find any. At noon each day, we get to go out in the courtyard with the everybody else in this sector. Some are chosen to work: cleaning the ship, working in the engine room, ect. But only the lucky ones get to work. The rest of us are stuck in our rooms or wherever the gaurds decide to take us."
"What do you mean 'wherever the gaurds decide to take us?'"
"Oh, did I mention that in the courtyard, anyone can do anything they want to? Yeah, there's almost always a riot or a huge fight. That's why most of us don't even bother coming out."
"But what about the gaurds?"
"Those sickos? Almost all of them are men. Sometimes, we are lucky enough to be caught by a woman. Anyways, the gaurds prey on innocent people like us and steal us away to the bottom of the ship. That's where the torture is."
Raven gulped. "Torture?"
"Do I have to spell it out? Everyone goes through it at least once. I mean, I really don't want to have relive it."
"Oh... sorry. I didn't mean to-"
"No, it's okay. I'm just being a baby. I shouldn't be the one complaining. I've only been taken once. Falon's been three times, and Ember's been down there nine."
"It was horrible." Hearing Falon's voice surprised them. Apparently she had woken up. "You never know what's going to happen. How long your going to be down there.... I saw Lucius once. I swear I did. But he didn't pay any attention to me. Only to Violet. Only Violet. She lives. She didn't die. She never will. Never forever. Violet..." Her eyes were set on Raven, but were in a blank stare. Falon looked like she was in a trance.
Raven looked to Autumn, who shrugged. "She does this whenever shes remembering or has a vision or something. I don't know. I guess it's a physic thing."
Falon suddenly regained her usual lively self. "Ooh, Autumn, tell The Violet Story! You're the best at ghost stories!"
"Oh, alright." She took another deep breath and began to stare deep into Raven's amethyst orbs. It sure added to the effect. "Violet is a well-known myth. She's said to be Lucius's first victim. She had dark eyes, dark hair that came down to the middle of her back, and naturally pale skin. In fact, she looked a lot like you." Her voice gained some kind of creepy sound to it as she continued. "She was an 'accident'. Lucius found her on Earth and brung her here, tricking her into loving him. But one night, when he was kissing her, he bit her lip a little too hard and broke the skin.
"After tasting the first drop of her blood, he couldn't stop. He drained her and turned her into a vampire like himself, even though it was an accident. Then, he knew he had to kill her. With her being a vampire, she could become a threat to him in no time. So he killed her. He tore her apart and burned the pieces.
"It's said that her scream was heard throughout the ship that night, and that her spirit still lives down in the torture sector, forever in tormented by the pain and memories."
Falon grinned wide and clapped. She had looked like a little child, enthralled by the tale. "Yay! Autumn that was awsome! You are the best!"
Suddenly the door to the cell was swung open and banged against the wall loudly. A gaurd dressed in the same attire as the men from Lucius's first attack, during the fight with Dr. Light. He lunged forward, grabbed Raven (who yelped in surprise) and swooped out, slamming the door behind him.
The remaining girls (excluding Sadie and Ember) exchanged a look, half worry, half confusion. A groan was heard behind them. Ember woke up. "Ugh, Falon I'm going to kill y-... Hey where did that other girl go?"
With Beast Boy...
"Okay, so let me get this straight." Beast Boy shook his head, trying to understand everything. "It's Sebastian, Zephyre (AN: prounced Zef-fire), and Talon."
Each nodded.
Sebastian was around the age of twenty-two. His hair was a lot like Lucuis's but much longer, and his eyes were forest green. He had a muscular build and out sized Beast Boy by far. He was a natural leader and had no trouble keeping calm in the most difficult of situations. Though no one dared to try and press his buttons.
Zephyre was about seventeen. He had unkempt, dark red hair and eyes much like Ember's, if not. He was less fibrous than Sebastian, but he was still beat Beast Boy in size. At times, he had trouble keeping his cool and constantly struggled to keep his powers under control (due to his anger issues). Sebastian had been a great help to him, in teaching him how to calm down and repress his anger without bottling it all up.
Talon looked nearly identical to his twin sister Falon. The only difference was that his hair and figure was more boy-ish, considering he is a boy. Beast Boy found comfort in the fact that he was an inch or two taller than Talon and was also a bit more well-built. As for his personality, Talon was the opposite of his sister. He was the perfect antidote to his sister's bubbly, upbeat attitude. Some days, one could mistake him as some kind of emo kid. On other days, he was completely emotionless. In other words, he was slightly bipolar.
Beast Boy continued. "And you're a werewolf, you have fire powers, and you and your twin sister do physic stuff." Sebastian, Zephyre, and Talon nodded again (in that order).
After a black-armored gaurd threw our green hero in the small room, Sebastian freed him from his bonds. His obvious rage startled them for a moment, and so Zephyre and Talon prepare to fight. Sebastian motioned for them to back down and give him space.
Beast Boy had transformed into the Beast.
Sebastian transformed into his beast-like, werewolf form as well. He managed to beat Beast Boy back into his human form, with some difficulty, and somehow calm him down, even though the changling refused to share the reason for his violent anger.
After Sebastian introduced everyone, Talon explained the living conditions and customs and such, and later, Zephyre told The Violet Story. Beast Boy was captivated. All he could think about was Raven.
'Whoa. Violet sure does sound a lot like Raven. Her looks do anyways. Raven has dark hair and dark eyes and pale skin. And Lucius bit her on the lip too! What if he turned her into a vampire too! I can't believe I didn't see that coming... Of course he was a vampire, duh! I've got to get to Raven! Who knows what they've done with her!'
"Um... Beast Boy? Hellooo, come in Beast Boy." Talon called for his attention. Beast Boy's faces had gone through about five different emotions while he was staring into space and not speaking a word. "Beast Boy!"
"What!" Beast Boy snapped back at him. "Sorry, I was just think about my friend Raven."
Thrice a gasp was heard. Apparently, she was already well-known. "The Raven?" Sebastian questioned. "Not the one Lucius is after..."
"Um, yeah I think so... why?"
"I'm sorry, but your girlfriend is in grave danger, as are you."
"She is? I am? ...Wait a second, she is not my girlfriend."
Zephyre spoke up. "Ahem, danger?"
"Oh yes," Sebastian continued, slightly embarrassed, "I don't know how to explain it, but it seems as if I can sense the danger. And it's a strong feeling right about now. I'd be more careful than usual if I were you."
"And Raven?" Beast Boy said quietly, his voice an octave higher than before.
Sebastian shook his head.
"That explains a lot." Beast Boy muttered sarcastically, stomping off to sulk near the door. He didn't know why, but he felt more emotional than usual today. Or was it tonight?
Zephyre opened his mouth to tell him off, but before a word had time to form on his lips, the door blasted open and a gaurd looking exactly like the gaurd that brought him in the room grabbed Beast Boy (who shrieked in surprise) and flew out, shutting the door behind him loudly.
Zephyre and Talon looked to Sebastian in confusion. Sebastian didn't return they're gaze, instead staring at the door with a determined, knowing, sort of look in his eyes. He only told them this: "He'll be back."
There you go. The least I can do is leave you wondering what's gonna happen to them. Review and try and guess! Didn't I make it obvious?
Oh well, the darkness calls!
Aka: It's time for me to go to bed. 'Cause going to bed and going to sleep are NOT the same things! Take a slight insomniac's word for it.
