Ok, people how did you like the 7th chapter? Good yes? Anywho, I need to set a few ground rules, once again I will remind you this is not and will never become a CyRae fic. No matter how you protest I will not change my mind. In my reviews someone asked me not to make Carmen so perfect, understand this, Carmen isn't close to perfect. Cyborg told Raven only the good things about her not the whole shebang. Understand? I also apologize for that one blob of a paragraph; someone said it was sort of hard to read. I'll make chapter 8 better.
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ch8
A girl was attached to the purple shoe. She was relatively short. Her hair stopped at her mid-back tied in a low ponytail and black as night. The silver strikes added a strange shine to her beautiful dark blue eyes, which seemed to oddly turn lighter as they got closer to the pupil. Cyborg stared at the girl who came through the mysterious vortex. She stared right back. She looked around her to gain her bearings.
"C…Carmen?" Cyborg's hands shook, he began to breath heavily as his heart sped up. She girl quickly looked up at him at the call of the name. "Carmen? Is it…no, no it can't be you! You died," Cyborg aimed his cannon. That girl couldn't be Carmen it just couldn't! She died; people from the dead only come back in monster movies. The girl cocked her head to one side, and then took a step forward. Cyborg stepped back a few inches. She continued to walk closer to him; slowly she had backed him against a wall. Cyborg straitened his aim. The girl slowly reached out and lowered Cyborg's cannon to see his face. She narrowed her eyes as if looking for something.
"Victor?" She spoke.
Raven hadn't the slightest clue where Cyborg went. She panted from her efforts as she stopped for a short rest.
"Where did he go?" she looked around for some sign. Raven noticed a trail left behind by the blob and followed it.
"Is that you, Victor? Victor Stone? Did I finally find you?" Carmen's eyes began to tear up. She reached up and placed her palm on his cheek and stared straight into his eyes. The pure intensity of her eyes made Cyborg shudder. "It is you…I found you!" Carmen leaped up and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck. "I've only been able to dream this moment for so long I almost don't think it's real!" Cyborg restrained her arms and pushed her away. "What's wrong? You…you don't remember me do you?" Her expression went from unlimited joy to almost unbearable sorrow.
"I remember Carmen Nash, but I'm not positive you're really her. I've seen so pretty weird stuff in the last four years," Cyborg explained.
"I understand. Would this be good enough proof?" Carmen pulled up her left pant leg and pushed down her sock to reveal a dark red turtle tattoo on her ankle. ( A/N:*evil grin* )
"The tattoo. Hehe, I remember that!" Cyborg laughed. "You got in BIG trouble when my mom found out you got a tattoo at thirteen!" Their laughter echoed under the bridge.
"Is that enough proof?" Carmen placed her hands on her hips. Cyborg laughed and wiped away from laughing so hard.
"Yeah, so is that stance! It really is you!" Carmen hugged him again and was embraced by him in return. "I can't believe it. They told me you died."
"For a while I thought I did die,"
Back at the bank, the other Titans managed to get themselves out of the closet and followed the signal from Raven's communicator.
"Raven!" Robin called out to her. She stopped running. "Raven, did you find Cyborg?"
"Not yet, but I've been following the trail of that…thing," Raven pointed to the trail of slime on the road.
"Good work. It should lead us right to them," Robin waited for Starfire and Beast boy to catch up.
"Have we located Cyborg?" Starfire asked.
"Not yet Star, but the slime trail should lead us to him," Robin explained. Beast boy looked up at the forming rain clouds. The sky was dark and a storm was more than likely to occur when a drop fell on Beast boy's nose.
"Dude, we better hurry before the rain washed it away,"
"Your right. Titans go!" Robin shouted in the easily expected leader tone. The Titans followed the blob's trail in hopes of finding Cyborg, hopefully still alive. They ran down narrow allies and through the old park. Suddenly, it began to downpour and there trail washed away. "No!" Robin slammed his fist on the ground in defeat.
"Do not fret Robin. If we search individually we may be able to find him with more success," Starfire suggested. The Titans went in separate directions to search for their friend.
"…and then my dad built Titan's Tower, probably to make it up to me," Cyborg finished telling what had happened to him after the accident. They had seated themselves on the old bench. Carmen listened attentively, as she always did, to his tale. "Your turn. What happened to you?"
"It's actually kind of hard to explain," Carmen admitted.
"Lots of things are,"
"Well, when the blob thingy attacked me it began to send me to its own dimension to be devoured there. Apparently something interfered and I didn't go the whole way. I stopped in the dimensional index, that's where I've been for the last four years," Carmen explained.
"Dimensional index? What's that?"
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HAHAHA! I'm doing it again! R&R Tune in for chapter 9 if you want to know what the 'dimensional index' is.