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Ok so this chapter is going to be a lot more complex than the last couple so it might be a bit longer. So again a big thank you to Dawnmist11, the reviews are great but I would appreciate more, I'm hoping to get 30 by the end of the story so basically review please!!
On with the story. Again thoughts are italicized.
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The doors to Alex's prison chamber slid shut behind Jared, the grin that was on his face was now gone. He started to walk down the narrow hallway back to the control room.
'You know maybe Alex is right, I could just run and leave all of this behind, tonight even. Right now! No I can't leave Alex here; I've got to make sure they don't kill her. Even if she doesn't return my feelings, I'll do my best to protect her.'
Another pair of steel doors slid open as Jared left the hallway, the henchman who was torturing Alex was on the other side of them. The henchman, though his face was hidden by a mask, his eyes were visible and they were filled with anger and annoyance.
Jared kept his expression unfeeling, "You may go back to you're assignment." He said evenly though it took an extreme amount of effort.
The henchman grunted in response and lumbered past Jared who watched the man go down the hallway and turn left into the cell that held Alex. Jared spun around quickly, not wanting to hear Alex's pained screams again.
Jared now stood between two hallways, one led to the control room, where he was to report back to Fahrenheit in seven minutes and thirty four seconds (if you were late, you would suffer something that was a little less than the pain Alex was going through right now). The other led to Gavin and Jared's rooms.
'I've still got seven minutes; I'll just go chill in my room for a bit.' Jared thought taking the right hallway.
It was a short walk to his room, but when Jared opened the door, Gavin was already there. He was sitting on Jared's desk chair, leaning back so the chair was balancing on its back legs and his feet were resting on the desk. Gavin was shuffling a deck of cards and had his back turned to Jared.
"So how is the scrawny little mouse doing? She all bloody, and crying for the pain to stop?" Gavin asked with a smirk on his face. It took all of Jared's power not to flinch at the teen's words.
"Yeah she's real bloody," Jared said simply flopping down his bed. Gavin turned in his seat to look at Jared. Jared's expression was emotionless but Gavin thought he saw something different in the ghost-boy's eyes.
"She got to you didn't she," Gavin accused, his eyebrows were pulling together, narrowing his eyes. He stood up and when he did so the chair he was on fell to the floor with a clatter.
Jared sat up in the bed, "Who ever said that?" He said trying to maintain his cover.
Gavin took a swing at Jared's head, "I knew it was going to be bad having the both of you here. You disgust me, she dumped you, she's nothing but an annoying, goody two shoes bi…"
Jared kicked Gavin in the ribs and sent him crashing into the wall behind him. Jared then pinned Gavin down and said, "You know, you're really idiotic. I told her that she better have a good time in hell once Fahrenheit kills her."
Gavin spat in Jared's face, causing the phantom to loosen his grip. Gavin flipped Jared and mimicked his move and pinned him down and slapped him in the face (A/N: GIRLY MAN!! Lol!!). "Do you expect me to believe that shit!? I can see it in your eyes, you broke! You know why you broke? You're weak; I told Fahrenheit you'd never survive as a villain."
Jared got one of his arms free and punched Gavin in the face, blood was now flowing freely down his nose. Gavin started to lunge again but a voice made both the boys freeze.
"Now now boys, don't fight over a girl. It's unbecoming." Fahrenheit stood in the open doorway staring at the two boys through his mask. Fahrenheit stood at about 6'5, had a muscular build (A/N: what superhero/villain doesn't?...Don't answer that!), wore a black uniform with bronze metal on his forearms, knees, and shoulders. He had red hair and goatee that matched his eyes that looked like they could burn you on the spot.
Both boys stood up straight, Gavin's nose still bleeding and greeted their master, "Good evening Master Fahrenheit, how much did you hear exactly?" asked Gavin a hint of nervousness in his voice.
Fahrenheit walked up closer to the boys, towering over he looked down and answered them, "Enough, I am disappointed in you both," the boys winced, they hadn't spent a long time with Fahrenheit but they knew to never disappoint him. "Whiplash, you doubted my decision, something you should know never to do," the sinister criminal continued, he now turned to Jared, "And you Specter, Whiplash was wrong about you not having the stuff of a villain, you lied to your own colleague. Badly but no matter, oh yes I know you were lying. I heard your whole conversation with the Grayson girl. To cross out my earlier praise, you were an idiot to think that you could lie about something like that. It's insulting to think that you would assume I would believe such an outright lie."
Both boys remained quiet unsure of what to say or do, or what would become of them. They stood frozen and waited for Fahrenheit to continue.
"So I shall reward you Whiplash, your punishment will not be as severe, meet me in the training room in exactly twenty five minutes. You may go, I want to speak to Specter alone," Fahrenheit dismissed the more aggressive of his apprentices. Gavin shot Jared a glare as he left.
Jared and Fahrenheit both watched the doors slam shut, and turned to look at each other. Fahrenheit made a roundhouse kick to Jared face, which a sickening cracking noise. Jared swung his arm at his master but Fahrenheit caught the boy's hand and spun him so he could catch the other one. When Fahrenheit did this Jared's back was now facing him, he placed his foot on Jared's back with a force that made Jared scream.
"Now, you see if I force my leg down at the same time as I pull your arms up, I can break your arms. Then I'll go for your legs, breaking each of them, leaving you as limp as a rag-doll," the masked man said, whispering into the ear of the writhing teen.
Jared trying to hold back another scream as Fahrenheit pushed down more on Jared's back said through gritted teeth, "People will come and find me, Mr. Grayson, my dad, the Justice league, the Titans are probably already on their way to find Alex."
Fahrenheit laughed, "Mr. Grayson is part of the Justice League and you brought his daughter here, do you honestly think they'll save you too? Your father is off in some spectral zone trying to keep the peace with the dead, and the Titans? Again, you brought their leader here, they won't want to save you. And when I'm through with you, you won't be able to save yourself either."
Fahrenheit was about to snap Jared's arms, but Jared phased through him. Jared then bombarded the evil master-mind with balls of spectral energy. Fahrenheit having had it shouted, "ENOUGH!" As he shouted a large wall of fire sprang up (A/N: why do you think his name is Fahrenheit?).
Pure anger flashed across Fahrenheit's eyes as Jared stared back at him, his hands glowing, ready to fight. Fahrenheit laughed again and the fire disappeared. This confused the ghost-boy. He foolishly let his guard down, and suddenly Fahrenheit pulled out a spiked disk and slashed it across Jared's face.
Jared let out a yell of pain, blood was trickling down the gash in his face. Since the boy was in shock from the blow, Fahrenheit hit one of the nerve points causing Jared to fall to the ground.
"No one cares about you Specter, don't forget that. Take him away," Fahrenheit said, and two guards came and pulled Jared's limp body up by the arms, and dragged him off to an unknown cell.
'Just you watch Fahrenheit; I'll be stronger than you one day. And on that day, I will kill you.' Jared thought as he watched the doors to his cell slide shut.
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The Titans now dressed in their uniforms, with Tyler leading them were walking, almost running out of the Tower.
"Shadow, try to find Alex's mind. Find out where she is and how to get there, if you can let her know that we're on our way," Tyler ordered, Desiree nodded in response.
Desiree's face was blank for a moment and then, "She's in a warehouse five miles east from the pier."
"Were you able to talk to her?" Tyler asked, his determined expression not fading.
"No, I think she's asleep or something…" Desiree said trailing off. Tyler didn't respond to her this time.
"Scorch, Enchantra you two fly ahead, Shadow can you use your energy to lift me?" Tyler asked. Again Desiree nodded in response. A black circle formed below Tyler's feet and he started to float.
"What do we do once we get there?" asked Scorch, he and Enchantra were already floating above them.
Tyler and Desiree rose up to the two other Titans. Tyler answered, "Improvise, hopefully Terminator and the others or the Justice league will meet us to help out."
"And if they're not?" Enchantra said looking behind her; the four of them were already speeding off towards their goal.
Tyler shrugged, "Like I said, improvise."
For the rest of the flight, the four teens flew in silence; each had a grim but determined look on their faces. They zoomed past the pier and the carnival rides, people looked up from above and pointed as they past by, probably wondering where the fifth Titian was. A few minutes later a line of warehouses appeared.
"Which one Shadow?" Tyler shouted to the witch.
"The sixth one," she shouted back. The Titans landed and there was no sign of help from the other Titans or their parents.
"Well should we wait for help or storm the castle?" asked Derek with a smile on his face.
Tyler paused for a minute, then a small lightning bolt appeared and sparked in his hand and he said, "Storm the castle of course."
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Alex was alone in her cell for the first time since she had been brought to Fahrenheit's lair. She hung limply from her shackles her head down. She wasn't trying to escape, the shackles had a defense against her alien powers, 'so Fahrenheit knows I'm Starfire and Nightwing's daughter obviously.' She didn't know what time it was but it had been a few hours since Jared had left her cell and she was starting to wonder where he was, if it was time for him to be here.
'I bet he just lied to me again and is laughing it up now with Gavin and that Fahrenheit dude. I never should have trusted that bastard! Ugh, and where are Tyler and Derek? Or my parents? Shouldn't they have found me by now? Maybe they've given up, how long have I been gone? A day, a week? I really wish there was a clock in here. And when do I get to meet this Fahrenheit guy? Is he just gonna let his "henchmen", who I could knock out in a minute if that stupid Gizmo guy hadn't sprayed me with knock-out gas before we got here, do all his dirty-work? Some villain if you ask me.'
The only noise in the room was Alex's breathing, and she was exhausted. The guards never let her sleep, when it looked like she was about to fall asleep the whip would crack across her back again. One time they did allowed her to sleep, but Alex was only visited by worse horrors. So when she started to nod off, she shook her head viciously to try and wake herself up.
'You remember the last time. It sounded like Tyler was screaming, you tried to find him, and then, the screaming suddenly stopped and was replaced by complete silence. Then the laughing started.'
Alex's memory was interrupted when she heard the doors slide open behind her. She turned her head to see who it was. "Hello? Who's there?"
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Ooooh another cliff hanger!! Well how was it? Let me know!!