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Chapter 9! That many chapters already?! Look out for the next chapter, it's coming very soon!
Please enjoy!
Chapter 9: Tag Team Search Squad
"Roy! Where are you?" Black gloves shuffled through the nearby bush.
"Karen, he's not here!" Garth looked at Karen with eyes close to tears.
"YOU ARE LOOKING THROUGH A BUSH! He's not a squirrel!" Karen briefly looked between the gap in the bush made by Garth.
"Well, look at you. Looking through the bush too!" Garth looked at her smugly this time.
Karen turned three shades of red before walking to the other side of the walkway.
"Men." She grumbled.
Suddenly, a red and white colored wind zoomed past Garth.
Off in the distance, the wind was screaming "¡SEÑOR ROY!" (Mister Roy!) as it got farther and farther.
"I think we should get back too, the twins are going crazy over the city." Karen looked at the direction of the tower and began to take a few steps.
"Wait, we haven't checked the.." Garth started, making his way opposite of the tower.
"Let's just get back to the tower" Karen grabbed Garth by the collar and half-dragged him across the grass until he stood up by himself and followed her quietly.
~Back in the tower~
Karen huffed as she dragged a miserable and sulking Atlantean through the tunnel behind the tower.
Giving up, she threw her hands up and gave Garth a smack in the head, "Get a hold of yourself! Coral for brains!"
"OW! Karen!" Grasping his head, Garth whined at her and stood up.
Already feeling a possible bump on his head, he walked away in hopes that the blue eyed lady didn't attack him with stingers as she scoffed at him.
"Come on! We can use the Titans satellite to track him down!"
Turning on her heels, Bumble Bee stomped her way through the tunnel and into the halls of the tower.
Garth following her like a duckling would to their mother.
Finally in front of the main computer, the leader of Titans east swiped her hands on the keyboard in attempt to get a lock on any and every redhead in the area.
Garth, always the worry wort, was slouched next to her chewing on his gloveless hands.
*DING DONG
Surprised and hopeful, he sat straight up and proceeded to run down the stairs to the doors of the tower.
Opening the iron double doors,"Roy?!"
Only to meet with a blonde man with a black eye, his index finger hovering above the door bell.
Frowning, "You're not Roy." Aqualad visibly deflated and made a move to close the doors but the shocked man stopped him.
"Wait! I need to speak with Roy!"
Sniffling and almost losing control of his emotions, Garth reminded himself that this was the man who threw his poor Roy out into the streets.
The same man who arrogantly decided to take Roy. Away from the Titans. Away from him.
He must not show emotion to such a man! He was a prince! He will not be upstaged by a neglectful archer! He roared internally.
With an unbelievably hard struggle, the Atlantean sucked up his tears and stood up straight with feigned confidence.
"Roy's not here." He spoke as monotone as possible, his only reference being Raven.
"He's not? When will he be home?" Oliver scanned the room behind Garth with disbelief.
The stupidity oozed out of him. Dripping from his lips to his stance, the man was practically bred in it.
Garth tried not to hit him, the guy already had a black eye. Then again maybe a good punch in the gut will straighten him out.
Just as Garth raised his fists slightly, he didn't pay attention to a certain leader about to sneak up on him.
"Who's at the door?" Karen slowed to a stop.
"GAH! Don't scare me like that! You'll scar me for life!" Garth glared at her.
"Hello miss, I was wondering if Roy was in today. I need to speak with him. Garth had said he's not here though."
Karen gestured him to come in, ignoring Garth's surprised squeak.
She didn't know what this guy did to upset Garth but as the leader, she should assess the situation and if Roy was involved, she believed the man might be helpful to their search of the beloved archer.
"Come in."
Motioning Oliver, she began to walk to the stairs while Aqualad scowled.
Garth followed and when they were in the living room, he dove into his salt water pool.
*SPLASH
"Ignore Garth. He and Roy were very close, he's normally very polite. Now, what is it that you want?" She informed the man, smiling politely.
Oliver let out a sound of frustration, "Well I… Roy and I need talk about a few things… Umm it's personal but I would like to take him home. To Star City."
He scratched his head, "I came to visit him in hopes that he would be here, we…have to discuss his behavior from a few years back."
"It didn't go very well and Roy deserves an apology for my… reaction."
Bee crossed her arms, "Well. When we find him. We'll send him your way."
"What do you mean? Find him?" Ollie asked.
"She means… Roy left." Garth spoke coldly, a towel around his shoulders, black hair rusted in his hands.
Flipping his hair back, he glared at the man with his noticeably puffy purple eyes, daring him to repeat the stupid comment.
"What? You mean that you have no idea where he is? He just up and left?" The senior archer yellowed in surprise.
Garth only turned and sat down in front of the previously occupied computer.
"We can start looking for him in the center of the city." Bee interrupted, "From there, we'll split up to search in four different directions."
"¡Karen, no podimos a encontrar a Señor Speedy!" (Karen, we can not find Mister Speedy!) Screamed the twins as they screeched on the floor in front of Bumblebee.
"Oh my." She gasped at their little faces, they looked ready to knock out.
"They can't go out like this." The worried leader told the archer and Aqualad.
"They need to rest", looking outside she noticed it was getting dark, "We will search tomorrow. The Twins can't handle another second."
Gently picking them up, she motioned Garth to grab Meños while she carried Más.
Ollie followed them as they walked through the halls.
Stopping at a door with the Plus and Minus sign, "Can you open the door?" She asked Oliver.
Setting the boys down and taking took off their shoes, shooing the men outside, Bee redressed the boys into their pyjamas.
Once finished, she walked out to find Garth glaring holes into the ground and Oliver looking at the boy curiously.
Sighing, she gave the man a room to stay the night.
They had work to do tomorrow morning.
See you in the next chapter!
