EpikalStorms I expect a plot developing chapter, if you don't then I shall make my next chapter only 55 words long with no dialogue.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or the Teen Titans.
Chapter 9:
The sky was clouded by a heavy grey gloom created by the clouds looming over the city like a barrier against the rays of the sun. Lightning flashed across the sky followed by the roar of thunder. Rain pelted the roof of the buildings and the streets of Jump City in a formidable storm.
Danny had found shelter at one of the warehouses by the docks and was watching the rain fall with a sort of detached fascination. He hadn't seen rain in so long, being confined to windowless rooms or cells deep underground for such a long time.
The water falling from the sky seemed beautiful and miraculous to him even if he did blush as he realized he was gawking like a new born at such a mundane thing. Still the thick drops fascinated him he watched them fall happily, unaware of the impending doom that was soon to fall upon him.
He took a deep breath and reluctantly moved away from the window knowing that with GIW agents roaming the city it was dangerous to allow himself the luxury of the outdoors even in his human form. He sat in the middle of a clutter of wooden boxes with his arms wrapped around his knees.
Danny's eyes drooped slightly, exhaustion taking over. His stomach growled and he bit his lip hugging his legs tighter to his stomach to pressure the pain away. He lay down in a fetal position with a light sigh. He hadn't eaten since that time at the pizza parlor with the Titans more than a week before and it was starting to affect him.
He couldn't afford to look for food because of all the agents around, and there wasn't anyone he could trust to bring him food. He was well aware of the consequences of those actions, but after that little adventure with Ember he wasn't about to be taking risks any time soon.
His stomach growled again and he groaned lightly.
CREAK…
He froze suddenly. The sound of a door opening bringing him back to attention. He sat up slowly trying to make to least sound possible. The atmosphere was tense and eerily silent. Danny sat like a rabbit, listening for signs of a wolf.
After nothing happened he heaved a great sigh of relief, smiling. He slowly rose wrapping his arms around himself in a nervous gesture. Nothing was wrong, just the wind he told himself as he stepped forward like an unsuspecting dear stepping away from the safety of the forest.
The whirl of an ecto gun told him just how wrong he had been.
The Teen Titans carefully combed the area near the docks for anything suspicious. Just 15 minutes earlier they had been enjoying an especially unpleasant afternoon as Robin forced them to patrol the city under unforgiving rain.
Needless to say they were glad when they received a call for help from the decks as a fisherman panicked over a disturbance near his boat. So there they were, checking out the warehouse and promptly feeling like parents looking into the closet of their child's room, more to humor their child than to make sure there wasn't a monster hiding in there.
"So what do you think the old man heard? Cause I can't see any signs of well… anything out of the ordinary in here." Cyborg commented as they made their way deeper into the warehouses.
"Probably some cat falling over and knocking something over, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it was and it caused some kind of domino effect on everything near it, this place is a mess." Robin grumbled as he maneuvered around a pile of junk.
"Agreed friend Robin, it is most unsightly, almost like a greagagardian annual celebration at Greagar the swamp planet." Starfire winced slightly as she flew upward to try to evade the mounds of garbage and hoarded material only to fly into a thick spider web on the ceiling.
"Dude, I don't think even my room is this messy." Beast Boy gagged as he tried to pull his foot free from a sticky puddle vomit colored puddle on the ground.
"And that's saying something." Raven drawled in exasperation as she used her powers to unstick Beast Boy.
"Let's just get this over with so we can go home and take a nice warm bath." Cyborg mumbled with a longing tone to his voice. The other Titans silently agreed with his suggestion, all of them exhausted after a long day of work.
They had fought Doctor Light that morning and although he was one of the weakest villains around he was still one annoying bastard, then Control Freak had somehow gotten out of jail and they had spent all afternoon chasing him around town.
Then when they finally managed to catch him and put him back in jail there was a robbery at the bank which turned out to be the Hive Five back for the fifth time that week. Yes it had been quite a tiring day for the young heroes and they were all hoping to get out of that warehouse with no inconveniences and be able to collapse into bed for a few more hours before it was all repeated in the morning.
But fate, as always, was despicably cruel. It was not to be.
They soon arrived at the last section of the warehouse to find it had definitely not been a cat that had caused the disturbance. The whole section was so trashed it looked more like a war field than anything else.
The junk that had once been there was now destroyed and lay in pieces all over. Blast marks decorated the room with stains of black. But the worst was the blood. There was quite a bit of amount of blood all over the place, along with a strange glowing green liquid.
The Titans stood in shock for a minute before Robin recovered the whites of his mask narrowing.
"Comb the area, whoever did this is probably long gone but someone got hurt and with this amount of blood they probably didn't get far, Titans go." He commanded and with that they split into different sections of the room.
Whoever they were wasn't hard to find. The first thing they found was the body of a middle aged man dressed in a white suit that had been ruined by the splat of that green liquid and blood along with the huge whole in the middle of his chest going right through his body and opening on his back.
The second was that of the familiar cloaked figure that had laughed at them only a few weeks ago. Also the one who had, apparently, just murdered the man on the ground only a few feet away. Robin rose from his spot next to the man with a slightly disgusted look on his face.
He took out a bird-a-rang and a pair of cuffs glaring at the figure. The figure, who he now realized was actually a boy only a few years younger than himself, knelt on the ground, pressing his body against the wall and breathing heavily.
His cloak was now soaked in blood and the green liquid. He appeared oblivious to their presence and simply lay there limply, kneeling in a puddle of blood.
A gun of some sort still clutched in his trembling hands. That was when he noticed the thick cuffs connecting the boy's arms from wrist to elbow. They glowed slightly giving the impression they were not ordinary cuffs.
Robin vaguely wondered if the dead man had been some kind of government agent trying to arrest him just like Robin was now. He silently reassured himself with the presences of his friends, still shocked by the morbid sight.
"Don't move, you are under arrest." Robin stepped forward. Then the boy's head rose for the first time and Robin caught sight of his eerie neon green eyes. They widened slight and the boy tensed, his hands clutching the gun.
Robin stepped back ready to use his weapon, he felt the Titans behind him take on fighting stances. The boy slowly, and rather painfully rose to his feet. He wobbled slightly and leaned against the wall in an effort to stay upright.
The Titans faltered, uncertainty taking over. The boy's body suddenly jerked and he fell back down in a fierce coughing fit. The Titans' stances slackened and they watched in confusion as the boy hacked painfully.
"Hey kid you okay? You don't look so good…" Cyborg's eyes widened and he let the sentence trail off as the boy's head suddenly rose and they saw the green liquid dripping out of his mouth. The boy then forced himself bringing the gun along with him.
That's when they realized just how bad the damage was when the boy's cloak slid open in his efforts to stand. There were knife marks and various scrapes on the boy's scrawny body, stab wounds were visible all along his torso and stomach.
"You should probably stay down that looks really bad." The boy ignored Robin's concerned suggestion and rose to full height, trembling all over. The green liquid, which they now assumed was the boy's blood, poured listlessly from his wounds, dripping down his torso, down his legs and unto the floor.
Despite all this, a bloody smile spread across the boy's face making it clear to all of them that he was quite insane.
"It is never going to end then? It seems so, yes that's right." The boy giggled softly as blood dripped from his bottom lip. The Titans stepped back, thoroughly freaked out. The boy gave an insane cackle making blood pour out of his wounds even faster.
"So quick it seems this tragedy wishes to happen! Yet why can it not understand or at least be patient for once? What shall it be? Them or me? They seem fine, nothing wrong with them at all, nothing at all wrong!" They boy spoke in an eerily cheerful voice despite the obvious pain he had to be going through.
"And yet I, my condition is not very promising, and I'm dying anyway so it makes sense that it should be me and not them." He eyed the gun in his hands and then the smile spread wider. It was then that Robin caught on.
"Yes, I believe that will do quite nicely." He gave one last cackle before pointing the gun at his chin.
"NO WAIT!" the whirl of the gun grew louder as the boy pulled the trigger and…
BAM!
Cliffy! Shall I get telling you whether Danny died or not, or shall I give you a 55 word chapter explaining what the Titans felt at that moment and end it at the same time as this one ended? Only EpikalStorms knows. If she writes me a 4 page plot developing chapter by the end of the week that is.