Thanks to Annonymous, DarkChild5, Nighthawk Malow, Evil Rain Cloud, animereader1 and kairistwin for reviewing, and I really apologise for the long wait!
Again as before all talk in Gaia's home language will be done like "this"
The male silver alien slammed the door to the basement open and swung the torch on the top of his gun around the room. His eyes fell on something glittering on the floor. With a quick glance around the room to make sure no-one would hit him on the head when he bent down, he squatted down and picked up the small metal object. He shone his torch on it, it was a small screw. He looked up at the vent covering above it that was missing three screws. He rotated it slowly and pointed his gun up the vent and opened fire.
Gaia laid in Raven's arms on the top of the roof, biting hard into her own lip in an attempt to stay silent. Raven had one arm wrapped around the girl's waist with her hand resting on the top of Gaia's thigh, she focused and the bullet embedded there started to slide out, Gaia yelped and the bullet stopped. Raven winced, she hated to hurt Gaia, but she knew that it would hurt her more if she didn't get this bullet out... and if Gaia didn't keep quiet they'd be caught and Gaia would be killed. She needed some way to keep Gaia quiet...
Raven bit her lip and decided on her course of action, she rolled slightly so Gaia was half pinned under her, before Gaia could react Raven had pressed her lips against Gaia's and pulled the bullet out with her powers and healed the wound. Gaia didn't even flinch from the pain; the only thing that she could feel was Raven's soft lips pressed against her own, Gaia's back arched slightly pushing her slender frame flush against Raven's own as she kissed her back.
Through the haze of blissful feelings in Raven's mind she registered the sounds of boots running up the stairs towards the roof. Reluctantly she pulled herself up, taking Gaia with her; she pulled back out of the kiss.
"Gaia, you have to go, they'll kill you if they catch you, you know they will." Raven told her as she faced her. The two were on their knees facing each other, the wind was strong and cold as it blew around of them, but neither of them felt the cold, they were both too flushed with emotion to notice.
"But... I can't leave... It took me too long to find you!" Gaia begged.
"And you've done it once you can do it again, but not if you're dead, now GO! The water around the tower leads to the ocean you can find somewhere to hide in there!" Raven ordered.
"No! I won't leave!" Gaia shouted. Raven closed her eyes, and lifted Gaia off of the top of the tower and moved her to the water outside of the tower. As Gaia's skin touched the water, she blended in with the water and became virtually invisible. Gaia looked up at Raven at the top of the tower and ran a finger over her lips, she clenched a fist and dived underwater and swam of gracefully into the distance.
The two silver aliens burst out onto the roof to see Raven standing there waiting for them.
"Where is she!" The male demanded.
"Where is WHO? And what the hell are you doing shooting up the air vents!" Raven demanded back.
"The fugitive, we know you're hiding her. Now tell us where she is and we might not harm you." The tall female growled as she stepped towards Raven, she was tall and threatening, big muscles from years of swimming under the Okalonian seas presumably hunting and exterminating fugitives like Gaia, she was donned in militaristic clothing with metal glove like things on each hand. Raven didn't like her at all.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Raven growled.
"Then you won't mind me taking a look to see if you're telling the truth." The female alien smiled, her hand shooting out and grabbing raven by the forehead, the metal glove like thing that she had been wearing heating up. At that moment the rest of the Titans burst through the door and onto the roof to see raven suspended in the air by her the tall female alien who had a hold on raven's face, the metal glow-like-thing happened to be a mind-probe. Raven felt her mind being forcibly and violently searched for Gaia's whereabouts. The tall alien female dropped Raven to the floor where she lay slumped over on the floor.
"Raven!" Starfire gasped flying to her side.
The two aliens nodded to each other and jumped off the roof of the building, landing by their ship which was parked there before zooming off across the ocean.
"Mmmhhh... no... GAIA!" Raven protested struggling to get up.
Gaia swam as fast as she could, her body arching and flicking through the water in an attempt to escape from the ship that she could hear chasing her, the ship touched the water and suddenly plunged below it, almost nipping at Gaia's toes. She squeaked and swam faster her muscles starting to ache from the exertion, the door of the ship slid open and the female alien dived out and into the stream of water; hiding in the slipstream of the ship she quickly gained on Gaia. The Okalonians naturally went near invisible underwater, the pigments in their silver skin changing to what the area around them looked like, however, the alien female was well accustomed to this and could clearly see Gaia. The female snarled and lashed a hand out, grabbing Gaia by the ankles. Gaia's body bucked unexpectedly, her movement suddenly restricted. She turned and made to slash at the female with her claws but she easily avoided it, the two were sinking slowly to the bottom of the river which was just joining the sea. The female alien tilted herself above Gaia and with her hand on Gaia's neck started swimming downwards at a frantic pace; Gaia was trapped between the strong hands of her attacker and the force of the water against her back. She hit the sandy bed hard and the female alien began pummeling at her exposed abdomen.
As waves of pain washed through Gaia's body her hands gripped onto the sand below her, it quickly started forming and changing, hardening and filling with life energy the seeped from Gaia's very being; and it was angry. A roaring sand golem rose up from behind the female alien swiping at her and knocking her off of Gaia. Gaia jumped up and bolted off again swimming as fast as her body would allow her. She squeezed her eyes shut, she was loosing control and the golem was still attacking the female alien.
"Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos... Azarath... Metrion... Zinthos... Azarath Metr- EEK!" Gaia yelped as the alien ship swept down in front of her with grace and speed, Gaia however very ungracefully crashed into the side of the ship. The door slid open and a dazed Gaia was dragged forcibly inside and brutally cracked over the head into a void of unconsciousness. Not too far away the sand golem collapsed into nothing more than an undersea sand dune, the female alien spluttered and crawled out from under the sand nursing bruises and sprains. The ship swept by her and she pulled herself slowly inside.
Raven was flying over the ocean with the hopelessness of her quest dawning on her, she could never find Gaia in this huge ocean and even though she could spot Gaia in water after years of practice of being around her, she would never be able to spot her from this high in the air which meant that she wouldn't be able to help Gaia against the Okalonian's supposed law enforcers which were after her. As if on cue the alien ship broke the surface of the water, shooting up into the air and soon enough out of the Earth's atmosphere.
Raven's hands started to shake.
"Cyborg... have you managed to locate Raven yet?" Starfire asked worriedly through her Titan's communticator.
"No, sorry Star... me and BB are still looking but we can't see her at all. We'll let you know. Over." Cyborg's voice replied. Starfire sighed as she continued to fly over the ocean, Raven had flown off at startling speed in the direction that the two aliens had left in their ship over the ocean, she had been going faster than any of the other Titans could go. Raven's speed was powered by her panic and fear for Gaia's safety Starfire was sure. Starfire switched channels.
"Robin have you-" Starfire began.
"No... sorry Star, I'm looking though. Raven can't have gone far... over." Robin replied, his voice contained a quiver of doubt however.
Starfire sighed deeply and tucked the device back onto her belt, she scanned the water's surface and the air in front of her for Raven's shape. Starfire squinted, she could see a small black shape on the horizon, she sped up.
Starfire stopped in mid-air and floated in front of the purple-cloaked figure in front of her.
"Raven?" she murmured worriedly. The gothic witch was floating there quietly but stared unbrokenly at the sky above her, she looked almost eerily calm until other things started becoming apparent. Her fists were clenched tightly, so tightly in fact that they were shaking visibly; a muscle in her jaw was twitching and she wasn't blinking.
"They took her..." Raven breathed, Starfire wasn't sure if she was addressing her or talking to herself.
"How do-" Star started.
"They wouldn't have left without her, and... they left. I can... I can just about still see their ship, where she is..." Raven said her voice quivering this time, her eyes were starting to run, Starfire wasn't sure if this was from not blinking or if it was tears. Starfire looked up, she could see nothing in the sky.
"We'll find her." Starfire said firmly although she had no idea how she would accomplish such a feat.
"No! You don't understand! They'll kill her, I'll never see her again because she'll be tortured then MURDERED! You don't understand!" Raven screamed at her with tears streaming down her face as she backed off from Starfire, her hair was flailing wildly as her powers started going off erratically.
"No, we will get there before that happens Raven, I promise!" Starfire begged moving towards Raven.
"There's no way we can... it won't work... she's... she's going to die and it's all my fault!" Raven screamed again, Starfire moved towards her and hugged Raven boldly.
"We shall find her Raven, we will leave Earth the second we get back to the Tower. She will not die today or any other day." Starfire reassured her. Raven sobbed violently.
"Gaia... I'm so sorry... it's all my fault... Gaia..." Raven sobbed in Gaia's home language.
In a spaceship that was just flying past Mars at that present moment Gaia hung unconscious and bound in handcuffs and chains from the wall. Her captors smiled evilly.
