"Can't you summon them Raven! Can't you do something?" Beast Boy's voice cracked with his effort to keep it quiet.
"I can't!" she nearly shouted, her voice cracking as well. Perhaps she could try, but it would weild no result.
Beast Boy slumped on the couch and crossed his arms. Raven, who was still listening for the sound of gentle waves and still watching the foggy city that was blurred by waves of snow and sleet, clenched her hands. An ashen gray movement, something other than snow had caught her attention. It seemed to be falling up. With a brisk pace set, she walked to the stairs. Maybe she could catch it on the roof. Her walk sped to a jog.
Beast Boy followed her. "What is it?"
"Nothing, just thought I saw something."
"That's not nothing! Go faster!" He pushed her from behind to earn a glare.
"Don't touch me."
"Fine, just go!"
They spilled onto the roof with only the cold to welcome them.
"Sooo...What did it look like?" Beast Boy asked.
"Ash, actully. It's probably nothing. You shouldn't have followed." The words froze as they hit the air.
"There's a feather over there. The wind could have caught it." He pointed to the feather. It struggled in a half-hearted manner to free itself from a drift of snow. It was dull gray and hard to keep their eyes on. Something magical about it made them glance to the sky. Raven waited for the voice to tell her something awful about the feather but it only hummed in an annoyed fashion.
Beast Boy shivered and said, "It's too cold up here for me. I'm going back inside." Before he could touch the doorknob,
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," warned Raven.
"Why?"
"I've got a gut feeling that there's someone on the other side."
"Maybe it's Cyborg or Star or Robin."
"Why would they hide themselves?" she retorted.
Faced with this logic, he backed away from the door, muttering under his breath about how cold it was. Raven knocked on the door.
("With lidless eyes we will wait for a knock upon the door.")
"Hello?"
A thin sound broke from within. Beast Boy shapeshifted into a gorilla but not before saying, "Well, I'm ready." She took a deep breath and pushed it open. The first thing she noticed was the confused look upon the creature, as if they'd entered its home and not their own. Four broken pillars of wings the color of ash jutted from its clotted shoulders and back. The wings hung like a banner in defeat. He wore a black tunic that was stained blacker in some areas where he had, apparently been injured. Raven and Beast Boy stared with theirs mouths hung open. The winged creture bowed his head in greeting and then croached, holding a hand over his stomach.
"My name is Clasp. I'm sorry but I couldn't-" he paused and fell a little closer to the floor. "I couldn't unlock the door, so I teleported." Beast Boy nor Raven had moved an inch.
The interloper then fell all the way down, landing with a groan. The Titans woke from their shock all at once. They both grabbed one arm and half-carried, half-dragged Clasp to the couch. Raven inspected the broken bones in the wings first and shook her head.
"They look too shattered for mending." When she pulled her hand away, it was covered with soft feathers made sticky with blood.
"Robin's gonna have a fit about the couch," Beast Boy commented. "I hope their alright. What does this stupid angel have to do with their disappearence?" He knew he was only saying aloud what both he and Raven were thinking.
Raven nodded, turning her hand and then checking on the stranger's other wounds. There was a rather large stomach wound but it was hard to see, since they had laid Clasp on his stomach. There was a tear from his left shoulder blade to his neck and another injury on the back of his left calf. Beast Boy had fetched the first aid kit, so she applied bandages to the scratches.
("You cannot stand in the middle of this. He will lead you to the sea and that has nothing but offer but a well excavated grave.") She ignored the advice, and continued with the bandaging.
Clasp coughed violently, and Raven withdrew to stand beside Beast Boy, who had watched the scence but said nothing.
"What are we going to do?" he finally asked.
"I don't know," she sighed wearily. "When he wakes, we'll learn from him to see if he knows about what's going on."
"Okay...I'm going to try to do some research on Robin's computer. That's where he keeps all the files on past cases."
That raised an eyebrow. "You're doing what? Aren't you afraid of blowing something up?"
His face fell. "It might be a problem." He had one hand over his eyes, the other outstrected and ready to push the 'on' button for the computer.
The computer whizzed and whirred. An amazed Beast Boy whooped triumphantly and then stopped to see an equally amazed Raven's reaction.
"Load complete," a robic voice told him. He leaned foward over the keyboard dramatically and looked up blankly."
"Want help?"
"Yeah?"
Raven stared a search, typing in "Gadashi Temple".
"The temple that had the gem stolen from it...why?"
"The jewel disappeared before all of this happened."
"Why didn't I think of that?"
They both waited eagerly for the computer to finish its search.
Yush, a mild cliffie, I suppose 'coughcough'...I think I've got this going in the direction that I want it to go, but I definately open for suggestions! Because, you know, I'm not too sure. Forgive my typos, it's about 1:00AM...Sorry about another really early morning post. Atleast I got it up here!