The Titans have entered the mine. Now all they have to do is to survive the traps that the Griknack set up. Will they get through without getting hurt?

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE TITANS! DAMMIT!

Chapter 7: The Griknack's Traps

It was well in the morning and the Titans are ready to fight the Griknack. The Bluamibals and the Elders gathered to see the Titans enter the mine.

Elder 1: Titans, are you ready to take on the Griknack?

Robin: We're ready for anything.

Elder 1: Very well. Now remember about the traps that the Griknack placed in that mine.

Robin: We'll remember.

Elder 2: We all wish you luck and courage on your battle.

Robin: Thanks. Come on Titans, let's go.

The Titans headed towards the cave as the Bluamibals cheered for their heroes. Each member went into a dark and mysterious mine. Cyborg turned on his miniature flashlight on his shoulder as he proceeded to walk behind the others. The mine was old and rusty and there were cobwebs on most of the equipment.

Raven: Very decorative.

Cyborg: Yeah, looks like no one ever used this mine in a long time. You think the Griknack scared them away.

Robin: Either that or it killed them all.

They continued walking down the dark mine until Starfire saw something very disturbing that made her scream.

Robin: What's the matter Star.

Starfire nervously pointed at what she saw. Cyborg turned his light to that direction and the team stood in shock. A Bluamibal skeleton was sitting on the ground. Next to it is a sign carved in dirt that reads, "Turn Back". Beast Boy quivered in fear by the skeleton.

Beast Boy: I think we'll take the skeleton's advice and leave right away.

Beast Boy quickly walked the other way out when Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy's head with his big metal hand and lifted him up. He quickly turned Beast Boy around and placed him in the other direction.

Cyborg: Not yet BB, we have to defeat the Griknack first.

Beast Boy: Wait a sec, did you see the skeleton? That's a sign of things to come.

Robin: Well we need to continue down this mine and destroy the Griknack. It's the only way to get the acid and resurrect Terra.

Beast Boy understood what Robin said and remembered what Raven said last night. He then followed the rest of the team down the mine until he stepped on a strange tile that had a marking on it. When he walked off it, the tile slowly sank into the ground. As the team walked down the cavern, they immediately heard something coming from behind them, like a quick snapping sound.

Robin: You guys hear that?

Another snapping sound came up.

Cyborg: Yeah, where's it coming from.

They continued listening to the strange noise as it grew louder and louder.

Starfire: It sounds like it's coming from behind us?

The Titans turned their heads and saw rocky pointed edges rising up from the ground.

Cyborg: That's not cool man.

The Titans quickly retreated in order to get away from the rocky points, but the points were getting closer by the second. The team immediately stopped at a dead end as the spikes get closer to them. They thought they were doomed until Starfire accidentally pushed a small rock into the wall. All of a sudden, the floor beneath the Titans started to open up, sending them falling to the next floor. Soon they were all in a discomforting pile.

Beast Boy: When the elders said that the Griknack set up traps, they ain't kidding.

After each Titan got up, they continued down another mine.

Robin: Any good reason how those traps were activated.

Cyborg: Don't know Rob. Maybe there must've been some switches around the cave. Someone must've stepped on them by accident. Right BB and Star?

Both Beast Boy and Starfire had embarrassing looks on their faces.

Beast Boy and Starfire: Sorry...

Robin: Next time, let's avoid any more danger O.K.?

The Titans then walked passed a metal support arch that leads straight to another arch. What they didn't notice is that they walked past a laser trip wire. Suddenly, two metal walls came down from the ceiling and trapped the Titans.

Cyborg: Uh... Looks like we stumble into another trap Robin.

Robin: Gee, how can you tell?

The walls then moved towards each other, making the hallway look smaller.

Robin: Titans, stop those walls from closing in on us.

Cyborg and Starfire went to one wall and used their combined strengths to stop it. At the other wall, Raven used her powers to form a black aurora on the metal wall, while Beast Boy morphed into a rhino and pushed on the wall with his brute strength. No matter how hard they try, the metallic walls still kept inching towards the team.

Cyborg: It's no use, these walls are too strong.

Robin: Keep trying.

The team kept trying hard but it's no use. Robin was getting impatient when he felt something different on the ground. One of his feet was standing on the hard cold floor while the other was on something loose. Robin bent down, swept the dirt off, and found a wooden door on the ground.

Robin: Guys, I think I found a way out.

The rest of the team stopped what they were doing and joined Robin. Robin quickly opened the door and discovered a dug tunnel large enough to fit the entire team in. Each Titan entered the tunnel one at a time. Just as last member went in, the metal walls broke the wooden door, seconds before they were shut completely. The team was crawling their way through the tunnel until they reached the end. Once they were out of the tunnel, they were back at the same mine with one of the metal walls at one end of it.

Beast Boy: "Let's avoid any more danger", you said. Well, look who's talking!

Robin: Shut up, Beast boy.

The Titans walked down the dark mine this time trying to be careful on to step or trip on anything.

Beast Boy: First the rock points, then a trap door, and now crushing walls. This Griknack likes his privacy a lot.

Starfire: This place is more dangerous then the planet Kyatuche.

Raven: Just don't tell us what Kyatuche is like Starfire.

Robin: Don't worry guys. As long as we don't step onto any more traps, we'll be fine.

They continued walking down the long tunnel until one of the members stepped on another tile on the floor. When the tile sank, multiple cylinder holes popped out of the walls.

Robin: O.K., who stepped on a trap?

Cyborg: Actually, you did Rob.

Robin: (looking embarrassed) Heh heh.... Opps...

The cylinder holes fired multiple poison darts at the team. Fortunate for the Titans, Raven formed a black dome around them for protection. The darts bounced off the shield and went flying around the mine. When they stopped firing, Raven let go of the shield. The team looked around saw poison needles all over the floor. Raven placed a black circle on the Titans feet and the team levitated over the needles.

Once there were no poison needles on the ground, Raven brought the team down, and they continued to walk.

Raven: Can we please get this over with? I'm growing sick and tired of this.

Ten minutes passed and not one Titan had stepped on a trap yet.

Cyborg: Hmm... Not traps, no surprises. Looks like it's smooth sailing from here y'all.

Robin: Yeah, but we still have to be careful. Who knows if they're more traps around here.

Beast Boy: Speaking of careful, can we take a break from all this walking? My legs are killing me.

Raven: I agree with Beast Boy, we've been walking for a while and I think my feet are starting to swell up like a balloon.

Robin: Fine. Everyone, take a five minute break.

The team sat on crates and boulders to rest their feet and legs. Beast Boy, however, was leaning over on a shovel. He suddenly tripped and fall, sending the shovel along with him. But instead of falling off completely, the shovel stopped halfway. The team watched in suspicion as Robin and Cyborg approached and observed the shovel.

Cyborg: It looks like some type of switch that leads to another trap.

Robin: Problem is, no trap or trick didn't reveal itself.

Beast Boy: Maybe the trap didn't work at all.

Robin: Or maybe it did work and it's coming.

While the boys were talking, Raven heard a faint rolling sound coming from behind her. She couldn't quite tell what the sound is until it grew louder and louder.

Raven: Uh guys, I think I found our trap.

The team looked at what Raven was looking at. Within a few seconds they saw a huge boulder rolling towards them. The Titans stood there in fear.

Cyborg: That can't be good.

The team then ran for their lives, away from the boulder. They went from corner to corner, cavern to cavern, with the boulder following them. Like a Pac-Man game except the Titans were the ghosts and the boulder was Pac-Man. The chase went on for a minute or two until Robin saw a light at the end of the tunnel. The team exited the tunnel and jumped off a cliff. Beast Boy morphed into a hawk and took flight, Raven levitated up in the air and formed a floating black disk for Cyborg, and Starfire lifted Robin and flew. The boulder fell off the cliff and went to the bottom floor, destroying itself into many pieces. The Titans hovered down to the ground and looked at their surroundings. Their were mining carts all over, metal crates containing old diamonds and gems, and a few small cranes that carried small metal beams. What made it real disturbing was that there were skeletons of Bluamibals all over the floor, some of them broken to pieces.

Robin: Looks like we made it to the Griknack's lair team, keep your eyes open.

They checked the place up and down but they didn't find the Griknack.

Starfire: No sign of the Griknack anywhere.

Cyborg: Yeah, even my scanner isn't detecting any life except us.

Robin: This doesn't make any sense. If the Griknack set those traps, then where is it?

The team pondered about this for a while. What they didn't know is that behind them, the pieces of the boulder started to roll to the center of the lair. Soon, big rocks and stones rolled and hovered to the center and was building up. Beast Boy then turned around and saw the number of boulders towering over the Titans.

Beast Boy: Dudes, I think I found our answer.

The Titans turned around and they too saw the towering rocks. They stared as the rocks formed arms, legs, a body, and a head. It was quite noticeable that the rocks and boulders turned into the Bluamibals worst fear, the Griknack. All the Titans started to say a word they thought they never had said before.

The Titans: Holy Shit!

End of Chapter Seven. Major cliffhanger, please review.