Jedi: Here I am, back way sooner than I thought. Thanks to Tao,
Ravendarkprincess, Johnny Cage, I'm-A-Shady-Gurl, TriforceofWisdom, ashlee
and gamegurl mirai for reviewing! Gamegurl, thanks for telling me about
that mistake I made. Sometimes I write so fast, I don't even know what I'm
doing. ^^ But anyway, without further delay, here's the second chapter!
~ The Raven's Omen - Chapter 2
The firemen arrived at the scene just as soon as the Titans had made sure everyone was away from the flames. Six fire trucks were parked in the curb and dozens of firefighters fought to put out the fire (nawh, really?). The police void-tape kept everyone away from the hazardous place and Robin and Cyborg were standing with the crowd, watching the flames ease down.
"This couldn't have been an accident," Robin thought out loud. "The fire engulfed the entire building almost at once. And no one here saw it coming..."
"Yeah, but... who could have been responsible?" Cyborg asked.
Before Robin could tell him his hypothesis, BeastBoy stepped into the middle of the conversation, grinning from ear to ear. Cyborg frowned at him.
"What are you so happy about?!" he said grimly and insultingly, mostly trying to concentrate on the fire incident.
"Hey, dudes! Look what I found stuck in the thorn bushes beside the orphanage!" He pointed down beside him at a slightly singed golden retriever with a burnt tail and a limp paw. Robin sighed and looked at Cyborg, who just rolled his eyes at the poor creature.
"So? It's a dog. It must belong to someone, BeastBoy... just let it go." He turned back to Robin, nodding for him to continue. But BeastBoy interrupted again as Cyborg opened his mouth to talk.
"I tried! But he won't stop following me. I think he likes me." BeastBoy patted the dog.
"Of course it does. You are an animal, after all..."
"We need to huddle," Robin continued. "Where are Starfire and Raven?"
"I dunno," BeastBoy said shrugging. "I thought they were with you."
The three ran behind the structure to look for the girls and found nobody. Robin began to get concerned. They began calling out their names and they received no answer. Asking rescued kids if they had seen the girls... one of the boys did see Raven running down an alley and he pointed it out for them. Robin looked in but it was deserted. He sighed in disappointment and started to turn away. But the retriever that had been following BeastBoy limped to an isolated door in the alley and barked sharply.
"Something's going on in there?" he asked the dog, which he then thought was kind of stupid since the dog wasn't going to answer back. But the retriever barked again and scratched the door.
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~"Raven... can you hear me?"~
"Starfire...? W-where are you?" Raven managed to whisper.
~"I am precisely at your side. Can you open your eyes?"~
Starfire's voice seemed so distant to Raven. Raven opened her eyes but she was still partially blinded by the blast. It had hit her directly to her face and chest, without any way to prevent it. But her vision slowly improved until she noticed the red and purple blur she was seeing was Starfire. Starfire smiled at her in huge relief.
"Oh, you are okay! I was afraid the shock may have paralyzed you for good!" she said merrily as she helped Raven to her feet.
"What did happen, anyway?" Raven questioned in monotone.
Raven was near-sighted still and couldn't see where they were. Starfire looked around once again and sighed sadly.
"I have been deceived by the loveliness of the golden canine's appearance," she said. "I reached to help him out of the bushes, but a strange force picked me up and heaved me to this glowing prison."
"What glowing prison?" Raven was alarmed and ran to the opposite direction, ramming into a green, shimmering fortification. She fell backwards at the shock and painful sting it brought (A/N: Ever seen 'Titan A.E'? Well, it's sort of like the Drej prison... except that one was blue). She stood up and furiously rammed her fists at the wall. When that didn't work, she took a few steps back, still facing the wall.
"It is no use, Raven," Starfire urged. "I have attempted to destroy the barricade, but I'm just not powerful enough for these mysterious rays."
Raven disregarded Star. Raven raised her arms, her palms stretching out to the wall. She breathed through her teeth as she gathered in her dark energy. Starfire withdrew nervously, knowing she was dangerously close to the target. Raven's eyes began to glow. The moving energy made her cape flutter.
"Azarath..."
"Raven, don't!" Starfire exclaimed.
"...Metrion..."
"We're in an enclosed space! You could get hurt!"
"...Zinthus!"
Too late to take it back, the dark beams released and barely making a scuff in the wall. As Starfire predicted, the beam bounced back to Raven, knocking both her and Starfire down. The impact wasn't so great, thankfully, because Starfire's warnings threw Raven out of concentration. Both girls sat up, rubbing their heads.
"I tried to alert you," Starfire said softly.
Raven sighed loudly and scowled at herself. "I know. I'm... sorry."
She crawled near the wall, able to see faintly through it. She squinted to take a good look at this 'lair' they were trapped in. It resembled a small, windowless apartment and it was an awful mess. Two single candles lit the room dimly. There were all sorts of machinery strewn about on the ground, and one really big thing in the corner covered with a large tarp. Raven tilted her head lower to the ground to see what was under, but a black boot stood on the way.
"Curious?" a voice said from the other side of the cell. "Don't worry... you'll get to meet my precious machine soon enough."
Starfire and Raven shot upward and stared at the kidnapper's face. It was a woman, just about an inch taller than Starfire. Ebony black hair hung a bit past her shoulders, her dark green eyes stared at the two teen heroines maliciously, and her gray clothing made her appearance very eerie. She smirked at them for a moment before she turned her back and walked to her mess.
Raven raised an eyebrow at the lady. She was surprised she hasn't blabbed about her plan on capturing them.
"You must be kind of confused," the lady said, holding a Styrofoam cup with coffee in her left hand. "Let me fill you in the details... my name is Mistress Megara, to my peers. I have been in the scientific industry for fifteen years, until some new young executive came along and fired me." Megara growled angrily at the memory and crushed her cup with her hand.
"Mostly I keep to myself and my inventions now... but along came a client..." she smiled. "He guarantied me that he himself would get me a much larger occupation than before... on the account that I exterminate the Titans off first."
"Why are you interested in just catching the two of us, then?" Raven said grimly, referring to her and Star.
"Oh no, no, no! Don't get me wrong. I am leading to capture all of your bratty little friends... and since Red's little exclamations for help worked quite well on you, I suppose we'll give that another spin."
"Oh, I knew that beautiful golden hound was under you will!" Starfire said a bit mad.
"She's talking about you, Starfire," Raven said, rolling her eyes under the hood.
"It is time to come face to face with your destiny." Megara said pulling off the tarp and revealing the immense machine hooked up with many wires forcefully shoved into the wall's electric outlet. It wasn't very menacing, but it didn't look welcoming either...
"And for my first test subject..."
Mistress Megara put her hand against the glowing barricade, causing it to open slightly. Then, a familiar force snagged Raven out of the cell robustly and onto the machine. Starfire rushed to the opening, but Megara swished her hand away, causing the opening to close.
"No! Let me out!!" Starfire pounded the wall brutally. She gazed at Raven helplessly. She was so very close to her friend... but there was nothing she could do. She could only sit back, watch Raven perish, and await her own turn. Starfire sat with her head between her knees, too scared to see what was going to take place. She shut her eyes tightly, only hearing the sound of the machinery revving up.
But there was another faint noise outside... the sound of a dog barking.
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Cyborg and BeastBoy rushed to the alley when they heard the barks of the retriever. They saw the dog running with a limp in circles, stopping at moments to scratch on the door. Robin was standing facing the door, looking like he was about to go inside.
"Hold up, Robin!" Cyborg shouted, catching Robin's attention before he could enter. "You can't just barge into an apartment! We've learned that from past experiences..."
Robin gazed at the door blankly. He wasn't listening.
"Yeah," BeastBoy agreed. "Really risqué experiences..."
"Starfire and Raven could be in there..." Robin finally said. "BeastBoy, slide under the door and investigate."
Without dithering, BeastBoy morphed into a small garden snake and slithered under the door. When he was across, he turned back to himself and walked quietly down the stairway. An electrical noise came from the bottom of the stairway.
'Could be a blender or something,' BeastBoy thought, turning away sure that there was nothing going on in there. But there was a shrill scream. A scream he did not recognize, but at the same time he was sure it was someone he knew. He bashed the door open and gasped.
"OH MY GOD!"
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To Be Continued...
~ The Raven's Omen - Chapter 2
The firemen arrived at the scene just as soon as the Titans had made sure everyone was away from the flames. Six fire trucks were parked in the curb and dozens of firefighters fought to put out the fire (nawh, really?). The police void-tape kept everyone away from the hazardous place and Robin and Cyborg were standing with the crowd, watching the flames ease down.
"This couldn't have been an accident," Robin thought out loud. "The fire engulfed the entire building almost at once. And no one here saw it coming..."
"Yeah, but... who could have been responsible?" Cyborg asked.
Before Robin could tell him his hypothesis, BeastBoy stepped into the middle of the conversation, grinning from ear to ear. Cyborg frowned at him.
"What are you so happy about?!" he said grimly and insultingly, mostly trying to concentrate on the fire incident.
"Hey, dudes! Look what I found stuck in the thorn bushes beside the orphanage!" He pointed down beside him at a slightly singed golden retriever with a burnt tail and a limp paw. Robin sighed and looked at Cyborg, who just rolled his eyes at the poor creature.
"So? It's a dog. It must belong to someone, BeastBoy... just let it go." He turned back to Robin, nodding for him to continue. But BeastBoy interrupted again as Cyborg opened his mouth to talk.
"I tried! But he won't stop following me. I think he likes me." BeastBoy patted the dog.
"Of course it does. You are an animal, after all..."
"We need to huddle," Robin continued. "Where are Starfire and Raven?"
"I dunno," BeastBoy said shrugging. "I thought they were with you."
The three ran behind the structure to look for the girls and found nobody. Robin began to get concerned. They began calling out their names and they received no answer. Asking rescued kids if they had seen the girls... one of the boys did see Raven running down an alley and he pointed it out for them. Robin looked in but it was deserted. He sighed in disappointment and started to turn away. But the retriever that had been following BeastBoy limped to an isolated door in the alley and barked sharply.
"Something's going on in there?" he asked the dog, which he then thought was kind of stupid since the dog wasn't going to answer back. But the retriever barked again and scratched the door.
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~"Raven... can you hear me?"~
"Starfire...? W-where are you?" Raven managed to whisper.
~"I am precisely at your side. Can you open your eyes?"~
Starfire's voice seemed so distant to Raven. Raven opened her eyes but she was still partially blinded by the blast. It had hit her directly to her face and chest, without any way to prevent it. But her vision slowly improved until she noticed the red and purple blur she was seeing was Starfire. Starfire smiled at her in huge relief.
"Oh, you are okay! I was afraid the shock may have paralyzed you for good!" she said merrily as she helped Raven to her feet.
"What did happen, anyway?" Raven questioned in monotone.
Raven was near-sighted still and couldn't see where they were. Starfire looked around once again and sighed sadly.
"I have been deceived by the loveliness of the golden canine's appearance," she said. "I reached to help him out of the bushes, but a strange force picked me up and heaved me to this glowing prison."
"What glowing prison?" Raven was alarmed and ran to the opposite direction, ramming into a green, shimmering fortification. She fell backwards at the shock and painful sting it brought (A/N: Ever seen 'Titan A.E'? Well, it's sort of like the Drej prison... except that one was blue). She stood up and furiously rammed her fists at the wall. When that didn't work, she took a few steps back, still facing the wall.
"It is no use, Raven," Starfire urged. "I have attempted to destroy the barricade, but I'm just not powerful enough for these mysterious rays."
Raven disregarded Star. Raven raised her arms, her palms stretching out to the wall. She breathed through her teeth as she gathered in her dark energy. Starfire withdrew nervously, knowing she was dangerously close to the target. Raven's eyes began to glow. The moving energy made her cape flutter.
"Azarath..."
"Raven, don't!" Starfire exclaimed.
"...Metrion..."
"We're in an enclosed space! You could get hurt!"
"...Zinthus!"
Too late to take it back, the dark beams released and barely making a scuff in the wall. As Starfire predicted, the beam bounced back to Raven, knocking both her and Starfire down. The impact wasn't so great, thankfully, because Starfire's warnings threw Raven out of concentration. Both girls sat up, rubbing their heads.
"I tried to alert you," Starfire said softly.
Raven sighed loudly and scowled at herself. "I know. I'm... sorry."
She crawled near the wall, able to see faintly through it. She squinted to take a good look at this 'lair' they were trapped in. It resembled a small, windowless apartment and it was an awful mess. Two single candles lit the room dimly. There were all sorts of machinery strewn about on the ground, and one really big thing in the corner covered with a large tarp. Raven tilted her head lower to the ground to see what was under, but a black boot stood on the way.
"Curious?" a voice said from the other side of the cell. "Don't worry... you'll get to meet my precious machine soon enough."
Starfire and Raven shot upward and stared at the kidnapper's face. It was a woman, just about an inch taller than Starfire. Ebony black hair hung a bit past her shoulders, her dark green eyes stared at the two teen heroines maliciously, and her gray clothing made her appearance very eerie. She smirked at them for a moment before she turned her back and walked to her mess.
Raven raised an eyebrow at the lady. She was surprised she hasn't blabbed about her plan on capturing them.
"You must be kind of confused," the lady said, holding a Styrofoam cup with coffee in her left hand. "Let me fill you in the details... my name is Mistress Megara, to my peers. I have been in the scientific industry for fifteen years, until some new young executive came along and fired me." Megara growled angrily at the memory and crushed her cup with her hand.
"Mostly I keep to myself and my inventions now... but along came a client..." she smiled. "He guarantied me that he himself would get me a much larger occupation than before... on the account that I exterminate the Titans off first."
"Why are you interested in just catching the two of us, then?" Raven said grimly, referring to her and Star.
"Oh no, no, no! Don't get me wrong. I am leading to capture all of your bratty little friends... and since Red's little exclamations for help worked quite well on you, I suppose we'll give that another spin."
"Oh, I knew that beautiful golden hound was under you will!" Starfire said a bit mad.
"She's talking about you, Starfire," Raven said, rolling her eyes under the hood.
"It is time to come face to face with your destiny." Megara said pulling off the tarp and revealing the immense machine hooked up with many wires forcefully shoved into the wall's electric outlet. It wasn't very menacing, but it didn't look welcoming either...
"And for my first test subject..."
Mistress Megara put her hand against the glowing barricade, causing it to open slightly. Then, a familiar force snagged Raven out of the cell robustly and onto the machine. Starfire rushed to the opening, but Megara swished her hand away, causing the opening to close.
"No! Let me out!!" Starfire pounded the wall brutally. She gazed at Raven helplessly. She was so very close to her friend... but there was nothing she could do. She could only sit back, watch Raven perish, and await her own turn. Starfire sat with her head between her knees, too scared to see what was going to take place. She shut her eyes tightly, only hearing the sound of the machinery revving up.
But there was another faint noise outside... the sound of a dog barking.
~\~/~
Cyborg and BeastBoy rushed to the alley when they heard the barks of the retriever. They saw the dog running with a limp in circles, stopping at moments to scratch on the door. Robin was standing facing the door, looking like he was about to go inside.
"Hold up, Robin!" Cyborg shouted, catching Robin's attention before he could enter. "You can't just barge into an apartment! We've learned that from past experiences..."
Robin gazed at the door blankly. He wasn't listening.
"Yeah," BeastBoy agreed. "Really risqué experiences..."
"Starfire and Raven could be in there..." Robin finally said. "BeastBoy, slide under the door and investigate."
Without dithering, BeastBoy morphed into a small garden snake and slithered under the door. When he was across, he turned back to himself and walked quietly down the stairway. An electrical noise came from the bottom of the stairway.
'Could be a blender or something,' BeastBoy thought, turning away sure that there was nothing going on in there. But there was a shrill scream. A scream he did not recognize, but at the same time he was sure it was someone he knew. He bashed the door open and gasped.
"OH MY GOD!"
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To Be Continued...