O.K., three reviews on the last chapter and they're all positive. Thanks Dr. Evans, Raze, and BeastBoyluver. Here's Chapter 6. LM and Raven investigate room 1014, deadly bellhops attack the Titans, and Robin fights a huge worm monster. The name of this chapter says it all.
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Chapter 6: Trapped
Seventh Floor Hallway
It was night time at The Hollywood Tower Hotel and a storm was getting a close by. LM, with an M16 on his back, and Raven walked down to the service elevator. LM pushed the up button as the arrow indicator went up from one.
LM: O.K., all we need to do is check out room 1014 to see if Malgibon is responsible for all this. Then we'll head back before more of them creatures show their ugly faces and start attacking us.
Raven: Sounds like a good plan, but as long as we look throughout the entire room.
LM: Yes maim...
The arrow hit seven and the elevator made a ding sound. The elevator doors opened and the two Titans entered the shaft. LM pushed the button numbered ten as the doors closed and the shaft went up.
Robin's and Starfire's room
In room 709, Starfire was sleeping peacefully, but Robin was staring at the window. He was up all night worrying about Raven and LM.
Robin: (in thought) What was I thinking? Telling my team that Raven and LM would take care of themselves. I feel worried that something bad would happen to them. If only I could do something about it.
Robin looked down at the window where he saw a walk through garden. That's when he spotted a strange figure walking in the middle of the night.
Robin: (in thought) That's odd, who could be up at this time of night? Maybe it's- (pause) Can't be. I gotta go see.
And with that, Robin walked out of the room. However, Starfire slowly woke up and notice Robin closing the door.
Starfire: Robin?
Tenth Floor Hallway
The elevator doors opened up as LM and Raven entered the hallways. LM slowly looked around the area.
LM: All looks quiet from here.
Raven: Don't be so sure LM, I sensing evil vibes in this place.
LM: Well isn't that just perfect.
They then continue to walk down the hallway when they approached the door numbered 1014, with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the doorknob.
LM: This looks like the place.
Raven: Yeah, too bad we don't have the key to this door.
LM: Don't worry, I got a key.
Soon as he finished his sentence, LM did a spinning back kick at the door, ripping it off its hinges and landed flat on the floor. With that done, he looked at Raven and gave a small smile.
LM: Ladies first.
Raven: (looking at LM) Boy LM, your talents are endless huh?
LM: That's my job you know.
Raven entered the room as LM followed.
Main Lobby, Storage Room
Another Service Elevator in the storage room made a ding sound. As the doors slowly opened, Robin came out of the shaft. He walked through the storage room, the library, and exited out of the lobby's lounge. As he continued walking, he noticed a fountain pond with no water on his left side, and on the right side, there were two worn out statues. Robin entered the outside garden area and looked at his surroundings. There are luscious plants and trees all over the place, small lamp posts that illuminate the trails, broken pot plants, a bird fountain, a broken sun dial, and more worn out statues.
Robin: Wow, this place is huge. Better start finding this person.
Robin continued walking down the trail and approached a sign with different trails. He looked at the sign and noticed names of different places with arrows showing the directions. The first one said "Rose Garden" pointing to the right, the other said "Band Pavillion" pointing left, another one said "Arboretum" pointing left, and the one said "Pool" pointing right. Robin is trying to remember where the figure walked to.
Robin: If I know any better, I say that this person went right.
Robin turned right and followed the trail through the foggy garden.
Room 1014
Both LM and Raven looked around the room hoping to look for any sign of evidence, but what they found was just a plain ordinary guest room filled with dust and cobwebs. LM got out of the bathroom as Raven looked through the drawers.
Raven: Did you find anything yet?
LM: Nothing but mildew. This is now a waist of time.
Raven: Just keep looking, there's got to be a shred of evidence around here somewhere.
LM: Raven, we've been searching this room up and down and we couldn't find shit. (opening the closet door) Maybe the M on the guest book wasn't Malgibon, maybe it's-
LM stopped mid sentence when he spotted an ancient trunk in the middle of the closet's floor.
LM: Hey Raven, I think I found something.
Raven levitated the trunk out of the closet and placed it on the floor. The two Titans looked at the trunk. The trunk was made out of wood with metal borders and an old rusty lock. There was a name engraved on the top of the trunk and it read, "Icalbob".
LM: Icalbob? Who the hell's Icalbob?
Raven: Icalbob is Malgibon's last name. This must be his trunk. There's got to be someway to break open the lock. Maybe we could-
Suddenly, something hit the lock, destroying it completely. Raven looked at what hit it and saw LM with his pistol in hand. He put it back into his trench coat.
LM: Can we get this over with? The sooner we leave this place, the better.
Raven turned her eyes back to the trunk and slowly opened it. What both LM and Raven saw, they couldn't believe their eyes. The trunk was filled old incantation books, vials of magic potions, and papers filled with study notes and grotesque images of people.
LM: Looks like we hit the jackpot.
Outside Garden
Robin continued walking down the trail until he reached the metal steel gate with a sign that said "Pool". He slowly opened the gate and entered the pool area. He looked around the area and all he saw were a bunch of worn out folded chairs, a towel booth area that had paint peeling off, and a big pool with no water, only big botches of mildew.
Robin: If this place was closed, they should've just cleaned the place up. Looks like they left in a hurry.
Just then, he heard a female voice singing a soothing song.
There's someone I want to find.
Got his picture on my mind.
He's so easy to define.
He's the boy of my dreams.
Robin turned his head around and saw a woman in her thirties wearing a pearly white dress, watching the view of Hollywood. He slowly walked to the woman as she continued singing.
All I want, all I need, absolutely is just a man to be true to me.
Oh, once I love I always stay in love.
I will always be in love with the boy of my dreams...
...I always be in love with the boy of my dreams!
When she finished her song, she heard clapping sound behind her. She turned around and saw Robin clapping his hands on her performance.
Woman: Oh, I didn't know that someone was here.
Robin: It's O.K., I was just looking for someone around here, like a ghost. Did you see any ghost Ms...
Woman: Carolyn Crosset, and I'm that ghost you're looking for. Are you going to attack me?
Robin: No, no. I just want to know that if you were one of the people that disappeared in the Tower, in 1939 in mean.
Carolyn Crosset: Indeed, how did you know that?
Robin: A friend of mine talked to a friend of yours, Gilbert London.
Carolyn Crosset: London? He always wanted to say something.
Robin: Perhaps we should talk.
Carolyn looked at Robin and saw the warm confidence in his face.
Carolyn Crosset: O.K.
While they were there, at the empty pool, blood was seeping through the tiles.
Room 1014
Raven and LM was looking through the stuff that was in the trunk. LM sat on the bed looking at papers and weird looking tools, as Raven sat on a desk looking through the books.
LM: Well, at least we know how Malgibon turning the guests into abominations. It looks like he must've done some creepy surgery on them. This is one sick bastard. What you got on him Raven.
Raven: Well, besides being an unusual surgeon, he's also a very powerful sorcerer. The Book of Noer, The Galian Scrolls, The Bersian Chronicles, these books contain powerful spells and dark magic. (By the way, those books I got from the Teen Titans episode, "Spellbound". Just to let you know, I don't own that episode.)
LM: Ah man, as this guy isn't creepy enough.
LM continued looking through each paper when he spotted an old opened envelope with no name. He opened the envelope and took out a letter that looked ancient. He skimmed through the letter seeing what's it about when he spotted something that shocked him.
LM: Uh Raven, I don't think that Malgibon is responsible for all this.
Raven: (looking at LM) What?
LM: Read this letter I found.
Raven levitated the letter out of LM's hand and into her hand. She then carefully read the letter and it reads...
To my beloved son,
By the time you read this letter, I am already dead. I want to let you know that you have to follow in my footsteps. The book that lies before you is The Book of Pasies, in this book contains a spell that can open a portal from this world to another dimension, the sixth dimension. The Azarathian Council thought I was crazy about opening a portal to the sixth dimension, now it's time for you to prove them wrong. Go to The Hollywood Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, the portal is in that building. Cast that spell at midnight on October 31. Hurry son, make me proud.
Your proud father,
Malgibon Icalbob
As Raven finished reading the letter, she couldn't believe her eyes.
Raven: I don't believe it, Malgibon is dead.
LM: Yeah, to make things worse, he had a son that's trying to mess with our heads.
Raven: But who could this son be?
LM: Don't know, but if we don't find out, we'll be stuck in this hellhole, forever.
Just then the two Titans heard a ding coming from the hallway. They knew it was the elevator and they knew what's coming out.
Raven: More monsters?
LM: Don't know, but let's not wait to find out.
Both LM and Raven approached the busted door that leads back to the hallway and hid next to it. They waited for the right moment when they saw shadows on the floor. LM nodded at Raven as they both jumped through the door and surprised whomever was there. LM pointed his Mac 11s and Raven formed a black talon. What they didn't know is that a sonic cannon, star bolts, floating rocks, and a green tiger were about to attack them. Turned out it was the rest of the Titans that thought that Raven and LM were the monsters.
Starfire: Raven, LM, thank goodness you're still safe.
Everyone put their weapons away and let their powers down.
LM: What the hell are you guys doing here?
Cyborg: Why don't you go ask Starfire that question. She's the one who woke us up to begin with.
LM: (looking at Starfire) Starfire, what's going on, and where's Robin?
Starfire: That's the problem. When I woke up from my slumber, I saw Robin leaving the room. I woke the others up and start searching for him.
Cyborg: We've been through two floors already and haven't found him yet. Is he with you?
LM: If he was here, he would've been in (pointing at Room 1014) that room still searching.
Raven: Did you contact him.
Terra: We tried that, but our communicators are somehow jammed.
LM: Really? (taking out his cell phone) My cell phone had no reception for the past three days.
Beast Boy: You think someone's trying to disable us from the outside.
Raven: Looks that way. Both me and LM discovered who's causing this nightmare. Looks like he's taking drastic steps.
All except LM: He???
LM: We'll discuss about this later, right now we have to find Robin before he gets into trouble.
The team approached the service elevator and Starfire pushed the down button. The elevator doors didn't open, so she pushed it continually. They then heard a sound from behind them. They turned around and saw the hallway lights being turned off one after another. Within seconds, the hallway went into complete darkness. All the Titans looked a little scared but Raven was still her emotionless self reminding them what's going on.
Raven: Really taking drastic steps.
Pool
Robin and Carolyn were still at the same place just talking.
Robin: You know, I kinda like your singing a few minutes ago.
Carolyn Crosset: Thanks, I was supposed to sing it at The Tip Top Club a long time ago. That was until that night.
Robin: I see. So what's that song all about.
Carolyn Crosset: It's about looking for your true love, when you know that that love is right in front of you.
Robin: So do you love someone?
Carolyn Crosset: Just one person, Gilbert London. Ever since he became my agent, we became good friends. I just wanted to tell him that I love him but I can't.
Robin: Why not?
Carolyn Crosset: Because I'm an actress. I'm always had tight schedules and I never had any time of my own. Every time I go someplace, people always stopped me either for my autograph or a picture. They think of me as Claire Poulet, my stage name. But I want to be known as Carolyn Crosset, the woman that wants to be loved. If I showed my love to Gilbert, the media would be all over me.
Robin: Man that's terrible.
Carolyn Crosset: Tell me, do you know someone you love but couldn't tell that person?
Robin: Well there is this one girl, I don't think she knows I love her. Her name is Starfire and she's different from the others.
Carolyn Crosset: Oh really?
Robin: Yeah... She's so innocent, so naïve, so pure, and when she flies through the air, she looks like an angel. Sometimes, I just want to say I love her, but I feel like the team needs me more then her. But most of the time, when Starfire felt upset about something; I talk to her about what's troubling her. Just to make her feel better.
Carolyn Crosset: So you love her more then life itself.
Robin: I guess, but what am I suppose to do? To her I'm just the kid behind the mask.
Carolyn Crosset: Just tell her how you feel about her. Say it with in your heart. I pretty sure that Starfire has the same feelings as you.
Robin looked up at Carolyn and gave her a warm smile. Their conversation suddenly ended when the ground started to shake.
Robin: Now what? Is Terra losing control of her powers again?
Robin jumped off the stone railing and walked towards the pool, while Carolyn was looking a little afraid.
Carolyn Crosset: Oh no not again! I better take my leave now.
Robin: What are you talk-
When Robin his head, Carolyn simply disappeared. Just then he heard a loud bubbling noise coming from the background. He turned his head back and saw the pool filled with red blood, boiling like hell. The pool of blood then exploded, causing Robin to fall backwards. When he looked up, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. Coming out from the pool was a huge worm all covered in a purplish ugly silk. The silk opened up to reveal the insides of the worm and its razor sharp teeth. Robin stared in shock, only to find out that the monster was heading towards him.
Robin: Holy SHIT!
Robin jumped out of the way seconds before the worm smashed the floor. He took out three exploding disks out of his utility belt and threw them at the monster. The disks made a direct hit and exploded, but the worm is still standing. The worm made a quick dash for Robin, but Robin took out three silver balls and threw them on the ground, creating a big puff of blinding smoke. The worm closed its mouth but it didn't get Robin. It then started searching for the Boy Wonder, fortunately, Robin was behind a few overgrown bushes trying to communicate with the other.
Robin: Raven come in! I need your help!
He looked at the screen on the communicator but there was nothing but static.
Robin: Cyborg report! (nothing) LM! (still nothing) Is anyone there? (turning off his communicator) Dammit! Looks like I'm on my own for now.
As soon as he said that, the worm appeared and attacked Robin.
Tenth Floor Hallway
The rest of the Titans walked down the darkened corridors hoping to look for a working service elevator. LM was leading the way carrying his M16 Rifle while Cyborg was in the back with his shoulder light on. They were about to reach to another hallway when Starfire felt worried.
Starfire: Oh, I hope Robin is in a safer place.
LM: I'm pretty sure that Robin can take care of himself. But right now, we should get the hell out of here before-
As soon as they turned right to the hallway, they stopped only to see more creatures blocking the elevator. Half the creatures looked like bellhops but they had no faces and they were holding crowbars, lead pipes, and butcher knives. The other half had small potato sacks over their heads all covered in barbed wire. On each of their arms were metal batons with sharp points at each end. The Titans looked at one end of the hallway and saw more creatures coming out; they looked at the other side saw yet more creatures.
LM: Before exactly that happens.
LM points his M16 at the creatures and started firing. He then took out his pistol and made a clear shot at the bellhop's head before it attacked LM.
Cyborg: Titans, take em' all out!
Cyborg activated his sonic cannon and blasted the baton-wielding creature. Starfire fired her star bolts at a few of the dead bellhops but one of the creatures jumped up from behind her and held on to her. It was about to cut Starfire's neck with one of its batons when its head was shot off by LM's pistol. Beast Boy turned into a ram slammed his horns on another dead bellhop then changed into a gorilla and beats up two baton wielding creatures. Terra raised her glowing hands up and sent them down as the hallway ceiling collapsed on top of some of the creatures. Raven levitated pot plants and chairs and threw them at the creatures.
Raven: Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!
Dark aurora like needles came out of her fingers as she fired them at the two bellhops, killing them instantly. LM continued firing on the creatures when the one creature wielding the batons attacked him. LM used his rifle to block the batons. Though a few cuts on his hands and the M16 cut in half, LM defeated the creature with a jump flip kick, a big spear, and used one of the batons it dropped to stab it through its dark heart. He grabbed the other Baton and sliced up two of the dead bellhops. Cyborg continued firing his cannon at more of the creatures. Starfire was having trouble trying to restrain the bellhop holding a crowbar. She quickly used her eye beams to blow the bellhop's head off. Terra and Raven teamed up and fired black needles and sharp stones to make Swiss cheese out of some of the creatures. Beast Boy, in his boa constrictor form wrapped his body on two bellhops and one baton creature. He squeezed them tight until their spines snapped in two. He let them go and watched as their bodies became limped and fell to the floor. Beast Boy morphed back to his human form then noticed more creatures coming out of the walls.
Beast Boy: Don't these things ever get tired?
Beast Boy slowly backed away along with the rest of the Titans. They continued to attack the creatures, but the more they fired, the more the creatures kept coming.
Terra: There's too many, we're not going to make it!
Raven: Then it's time to make our exit.
Raven's eyes glowed white as a black dome covered the team. The dome then changed into a form of a bird, or a raven to be exact, and phased through the floor. All the creatures just stood there not knowing what happened.
Outside Garden
The black raven phased out of the hotel and flew to the courtyard of the garden. As the raven landed, the Titans got out through its wings and the black bird molded itself to Raven herself.
LM: (looking at Raven) Why didn't you tell us that you can do that?
Beast Boy: Dude, she got us out of tougher situations then this before you came along.
LM: I really need to get use to this super hero shit...
Starfire: Where are we now?
Cyborg: Looks like we're in some garden area.
The team looked around at their surroundings. They were in a circled courtyard with four stone benches at each corner and a fountain that didn't work for a long time. They all then heard an explosion coming from the background. They looked up and saw smoke billowing up.
LM: Strange where did that smoke came from?
Starfire stared at the smoke and realized it.
Starfire: Robin...
Pool
Robin kept on fighting the worm monster at the pool area. He threw disks and birdarangs at it but they didn't seem to have an effect on the worm. The worm opens its mouth and went towards Robin. Robin jumped flipped backwards as the worm ate concrete. Robin landed on the stone boarder, took out two birdarangs and put them together, to create a long red and yellow sword. (Another thing I got from Spellbound) Robin took out his grappling hook and fired it at a palm tree. He jumped off the boarder seconds before the worm attacked again, swung around the tree, and made the first slice on the worm's silk skin. The worm made a scream as Robin swung around again and did another strike at the other side. The worm used its head to hit Robin off the air. It made a direct hit as Robin fell off, let go of his grappling hook and sword, and crashed right through an out of shape towel booth. Robin stirred around a bit and saw the worm looking looking at him. It opened its mouth and was about to eat him when some blue light hit the worm's side and fell towards some pool chairs. It raised itself right up and look at what attacked it. What the worm saw was Cyborg aiming his Sonic Cannon and the rest of the Titans in their battle position.
Cyborg: Sorry, but you have to wait thirty minutes before swimming.
The worm made a loud roar and approached the Titans with its opened mouth.
Cyborg: Beast Boy, Terra, aid Robin. The rest of us will take that worm down!
Everyone jumped out of the way and attacked the worm. Beast Boy and Terra quickly went to Robin who's still lying on the floor covered by white boards. They then removed the boards and check to see if he's all right.
Terra: Robin, are you O.K.?
Robin: Dandy, where were you guys?
Beast Boy: Well, let's just say we had a few run ins.
They lifted Robin off the ground as he looked up and saw the rest of the team attacking the huge worm in all directions. Starfire brought an arsenal of star bolts, LM fired his Mac 11's at the worm's side, Raven threw some pool chairs, and Cyborg kept shooting the worm with his Sonic Cannon. Robin then looked at the worm's mouth and got an idea.
Robin: Terra, I need you to bring me up above the worm.
Terra: Excuse me?
Robin: Just do it!
Terra nodded and raised one of her glowing hands. A floor around Robin started to crack and a big rock raised off the ground flew above the worm. Robin then yelled at LM, who was still firing at the worm.
Robin: LM!
LM looked up and saw Robin.
Robin: When I go down, you know what to do!
LM nodded as Robin took out his Bo staff and jumped off the boulder. The worm looked up at Robin and opened its mouth, ready to feast on him. Robin threw his staff at the worm as the staff extended itself and kept its mouth opened. Starfire quickly grabbed Robin seconds before he went into the worm's mouth.
Robin: NOW!
LM took out two grenades out of his weaponry belt. He then made a jump flip, toss the grenades into the worm's mouth, and landed on the other side of the pool. The worm closed its mouth and broke Robin's staff. Everybody took cover behind the bushes as the worm approached Terra. Just as it was about to eat Terra, his body started to explode from the inside. It then made a full explosion and blood was splattered everywhere in the pool area. All the members got out of their hiding places and looked at the damage.
Beast Boy: O.K., I am so not cleaning this up.
Robin: No time for a clean up Beast Boy, we have to get the hell out of here!
The Titans ran, or fly, their way out of the garden and entered the parking lot where the T-Car and the GTO was parked.
Robin: Hurry we have to get out here before-
Just then, a lightning bolt came out of nowhere and hit a nearby palm tree. It got caught on fire and started to fall on top of the vehicles. When the tree hit the cars, they made a big explosion, engulfing both vehicles in flames. The team couldn't believe what they saw.
Cyborg: My Baby!
The iron gates that lead to the exit immediately closed and locked itself up tight. Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy, in his bird form, flew up in the air, trying to leave the hotel, but an electric barrier has blocked them off. They all fall down but thankfully, Robin, Cyborg, and LM caught them before they hit the ground.
Cyborg: Great, our cars got smashed, the gates closed, and there's a barrier is around the Tower.
Robin: What is going on here?
LM: Isn't it obvious, we know too much. We are trapped thanks to a damn sorcerer
Robin: Sorcerer?
LM: I'll discuss about this as soon as the others wake up. Right now, I think its best we head back to our rooms. It's the only safe place we have in this hellhole.
The Titans then left and entered the Tower Hotel.
Unknown Location
The mysterious figure looked at the Titans entering the hotel and gave a sigh in relief.
???: That was too close. If they tried to get out, they would have warned the whole world about my father's plans. I'm going to stop them, even if it means killing them.
End of Chapter six. Yet another long one, hopefully it works out well. Please Review.