Okay, I'm on a roll, so I'm going to keep continuing! Thanks to any and all reviewers. Sorry the first chapter was so short, but I just needed to introduce you to the killer.

Chapter Two: Hounds of Hell

[The abandoned warehouse on Lincoln Street. 9:36 P.M.]

[Raven's P.O.V.]

I walked in to where Vampyre said he would be. I trusted him not to hurt me, but the others waited at the entrance. I slowly crept into the darkness, feeling Vampyre watch me. I wish he would show himself, this was creeping even me out. I tentatively and felt something. It felt like flesh, but it freaked me out, because it was cold. That was when Vampyre appeared. I realized my hand had touched his face, but I didn't realize it would be so cold. His eyes looked into mine. I saw something there that was never there. It was a longing for something. Was it love? Was it friends? Was it for destruction? I couldn't tell, but I also saw something else there. Madness. But it was gone in an instant.

"Vampyre..." I said, looking at his face. It was very gaunt. It was too the point of skeletal. I looked at the rest of him. He looked like a walking skeleton with hair, skin, and eyes. He touched my hand, and it was warm.

"Yes Raven?" He said, dropping to the floor, and drawing himself up to his full height. [About a centimeter taller than me] He touched my face, as if for the first time, and it struck me as strange, the shiver it sent up my spine. But, then again, maybe I had just never noticed how creepy he really was. Either way, we had to find out who framed him.

"We found this at the scene of yesterday's killing. It looks like yours." I said, holding out the knife for him to see. He picked it up and looked at it through the darkness. Then he spoke, in his icy voice.

"It is. I didn't know it was missing."

"Well, it was. Who do you think would set you up?"

"I can't think of anyone. Thanks for returning it to me." I looked him in the eye again. And saw it again. I looked into Madness. But then it was gone. I shuddered to think what had actually happened to him. He withdrew the dagger, and placed it in its sheath. He looked again at Raven. "Anything else?"

"Did you hear about that killing? Down on Sunset Street?" Raven asked, hoping to get his view on it.

"Gruesome. In the extreme. Whoever did it obviously knows human anatomy. I just can't think of who would've done this."

"If you find anything out, let us know. Okay?"

"You'll be the first to know." He said, disappearing into the darkness. I sighed audibly. He knew something we didn't, and it looked like he would only tell me. As long as the others were here, he would hold his tongue. I decided to get back to him on it.

[Robin's P.O.V.]

I was wondering what was taking Raven so long when she walked out into the streetlights. She looked a little more depressed than usual, and I cocked my head to her shoulders, which were drooping down.

"Learn anything?" I asked.

"No." She said, looking up. I sighed. Obviously Vampyre was as much in the dark as we were, no pun intended. It frustrated me, because we couldn't figure out who had committed this murder. Maybe we overlooked something.

"Let's go back to the Tower. We can go over it again, and see if we missed anything." I got on my motorcycle, and the rest got in the T-Car. We rode back to the Tower in silence. I kept going over the facts in my head, but I couldn't see where we had went wrong.

[Titans Tower. 10:03 P.M.]

"What did we miss?" I asked myself out loud. The facts kept spinning through my head, like a very angry bee.

"We forgot one very important rule: Everyone is a suspect." Raven said.

"Okay. Cyborg, where were you last night, at about midnight?" I asked.

"Where do you think? I was sleeping." He responded, apparently offended that I had accused him.

"Beast Boy?"

"I was making a snack." He said, nervously.

"Raven?" She looked at me like I had accused the wrong person. Who knows? Maybe accusing her was wrong, but she was still a suspect until proven innocent.

"I was reading the Book of Azar." She said, maliciously. Although I hated to accuse her, I had to....

"Star?"

"I was in the glorious world of the sleep!" She said, cheerily. How could she be so cheery when we had a serial killer on the loose? Raven then spoke up.

"Robin, where were you?" I hesitated. They would likely accuse me, because I was out of the Tower, but I don't think they would.

"I was just out for a... uhh... um... midnight run, you might call it." This was when things went horribly wrong. They all looked at me, as if it was me that had committed the crime. I couldn't believe it! My own friends, accusing me. But I couldn't blame them, the evidence was suspicious...

[Vampyre's P.O.V.]

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!" I laughed at how the rest were reacting to Robin's story. Much better than I had expected. "This will be easier than I originally thought. Titans, you'll soon come to realize who the REAL menace is. Until then, stay in your little world of bliss." I faded back to my hideout, and got ready for the next phase...

[End chapter] Okay, so, could've been longer, but I promise, there will be long chapters, just not in the beginning! So review!