Chapter 4: Sacred Pact
"Why are we still present! We should be searching for our friend Raven!" Rang out Starfire's voice as she paced angrily, a bandage wound tightly about her arm as Robin worked ceaselessly at the computer.
"Don't worry Star, I'm contacting a few friends to help us out," replied Robin, his eyes not shifting as he checked a map of Jump City that flickered to life on a great screen before him, looking for any signal from Raven's com-link.
"Why bother? We're the Teen Titans!" Shouted Beastboy as flew through the open window, shifting from his eagle form as he landed.
"This is the first time someone's infiltrated the Tower without a trace, and, the first time any one of us has been seriously injured." Cyborg answered as he pored over a security video of what had happened, Raven just seem to thrash about and sink into her bed, Starfire flew threw and was cut off as… An arm! Not Raven's, he brought a close-up image and stared at it, the arm was gloved, iron claws turned the wearer's fingers into cruel talons, a blade shone beside it, "Robin, you might wanna check this out…"
"What is it?" Robin answered, moving over to look at the image; Starfire floated behind him as Beastboy popped up by Cyborg's shoulder.
"You have cameras in our rooms? Eww!"
Robin ignored Beastboy's exclamation as he examined the picture, the hand seemed to come right through the bed, and the base of the arm seemed to be giving off a black energy. The same black energy surrounded Raven as her body sank under; a second hand was clamped tightly across her waist. Eventually, Starfire spoke what everyone else were thinking, her voice unusually quiet and distant; "what are we fighting against?"
