CHAPTER 12

Stolen

A blood curling scream hurdled itself through the Tower. Bed room doors flew open in a flash as the startled teenage Titans sprinted out into the hallway. Robin counted heads of the frightened team members, who were looking around at each other with wide horrified eyes.

"What the hell was that!" Beast Boy panicked still wearing his deep purple pajamas. The rest of the team were wearing miscellaneous sweat pants and tee shirts.

"Fullmetal," Robin said to him sternly. With a couple gasps, the entire team tore down the corridor. They ran though the fear still shook them to the bone. No one knew what happened, but it had to be bad, so the kept moving. They broke down several hallways and turned around about twelve corners before they reached the living room, to which they finally screeched to a stop. The room was left in shreds. Books were thrown everywhere and the couch was torn to bits. The dark room looked like something that came from a horror film. The Titans started to scour the place for anything, anything at all that might leave them a clue to what happened.

"This obviously wasn't an accident," Beast Boy said flipping over an overturned book. Nothing.

"Of course it wasn't Beast Boy," Starfire squeaked as a flash of lightning flew across the window. A sudden sparkle caught the corner of her eye. Something was protruding out from underneath the shredded couch cushion. She floated daintily across the room to investigate. As she picked up the pillow, a broken chunk of metal laid on the floor. A gasp crept out of her mouth and she nearly dropped the pillow. Cyborg came over to see what was wrong with the red headed girl, and followed her gaze to the floor.

"Definitely no accident," he said as he picked up the hunk of metal he knew so well. It was Ed's arm. It was broken to bits, and soaking wet. The slight memory of him fixing it in the garage flashed through his mind.

"What do you think happened?" Starfire asked warily, half not wanting to know the answer.

"The Hommunculi," Robin interrupted. Everyone turned their eyes to the masked kid, who seemed unturned by the recent event. "Isn't it obvious? The Elrics said that they were being chased by them, and now they found a way through this so called gate, and are trying to finish the job."

"But where could they have taken them? We need to find them!" she started to panic. Raven crossed the room out at a distance towards the window silently. Silence filled the room, all except the frightened mumbles of the alien. Crossing her legs, she started to sit in midair focusing her thoughts in her head. She sat their for a while in complete concentration. A shockwave was sent through the room turning the hairs up on everyone's back as she floated in the quiet breeze of the room. After a while her feet drifted slowly towards the floor, and she turned towards her friends, who were awaiting the answer of her concentration. "I sense people through their souls, so I might not be able to know where the Homunculi are, but I can feel the Elric brothers clear as day. They must have taken them to the piers. That's where I felt them," she said monotone, but a slight streak of alertness followed her voice.

"Why the piers of all places?" Cyborg asked. Robin stepped forward and waved him down.

"Who cares why, we need to go now," he said as he bolted out of the living room towards the garage. As he disappeared around the corner, a fading scream came from him. "TEEN TITANS GO!" and the rest followed him into the night.

sorry about the short chapters. I promise the next one will be more exciting (I bet you can predict that though). Let me know how it is so far. There is still much more to go on this, don't think the story is over.