Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, but I do watch the show.

Chapter 4: Cursed

Zaith awoke suddenly, feeling the cold air across his body. He rose slowly, finding the thin blanket still covering him. He looked over to the window, and it was shut.

He stood up and began to but his boots on, giving his feet the warmth they wanted. With the chill running up his spine, he put on the denim jacket he hung on his bed post the night from before.

After changing, Zaith walked over to the thermostat on the wall, but noticed it said 75 degrees F.

"75, but it's freezing in here."

Still feeling cold, he buttoned his jacket, and then proceeded to the door. He left the room and headed downstairs. Slowly, he descended to steps that he traveled up and down on the previous day, making his way to every floor.

Upon getting to the sixth floor, a flash of light seemed to reflect off of something on the floor. Zaith knelt down to inspect it, and found it to be a red substance, most likely blood. Zaith then looked forward, and noticed a trail of leading to the next corridor, pooling under the door.

Zaith opened the door to the next hallway, finding blood splattered across the floor and walls. Scratches and cuts imbedded the walls and floor, appearing as though there had been a struggle. Carefully, Zaith bean to walk forward, stepping onto the blood covered floor.

Only a few steps in, and Zaith heard a sinister sounding laugh coming from farther in. Curious, Zaith continued forward. Above, a hallway light flickered, blinding Zaith for a moment. The flickering stopped, and a figure stood before Zaith. The persons long hair hung before them, their head tilted before. The figures cloak was soaked in blood, raising Zaith's eyebrow in curiosity.

"… Are you alright?" Zaith said to the figure.

The figure stood there motionless, ignoring his comment. Zaith moved forward, and as he did, the light above flickered again. A moment later the light died and the figure was gone.

"… Okay… Whatever."

Zaith moved forward again, making his way to the end of the hallway. As Zaith reached for the only exit to the hallway, save the stairwell, he heard the same sinister laugh yet again. This time behind the door Zaith reached for. He grasped the handle of the door again and quickly thrust the door open.

Upon opening the door, a screaming women came rushing toward Zaith, her hands ready to strangle Zaith. He shut the door, frightened by the scream. But as Zaith calmed from the experience he began to wonder why there was no sound when he shut the door on the woman. She was surely close enough to grasp his throat in another moment, and closing the door at that speed would have caused her pain.

Slowly, he reached for the door again, but found a room, brightly lit and decorated by many things. Zaith entered, confused. In the center of the room lied a bed with purple sheets, and a single person lie on the bed. The purple skirt and long tanned legs made identifying her easy.

"Star Fire, are you awake."

Star Fire rose slowly, and the sight scarred the hell out of Zaith. Her arms we deformed, her breasts… weren't there, apparently cut off, and her head seemed charred from fire, her air raised on end, tangle and messy.

"Star Fire, are you alright?"

Suddenly, the room began to change as blood splattered the walls, the floor became black, and spikes began to emerge from the ceiling around Star Fire's bed. As for Star Fire, she morphed into a large, black monster with horns and spikes coming every which way. It stood on all fours and what looked like blood veins glowed blood red.

The creature howled at Zaith, then charged at him. Zaith prepared himself to catch the beast, but if vanished into a cloud a grey smoke in front of him. The room began to mist away, and as the floor faded, Zaith fell into a black void of nothingness.

Moments later, a room formed around him, and from the looks of things it was Raven's room. Raven was lying on her bed, leaning on her arm. She watched Zaith come from the ceiling, and rose from her bed when he landed.

"Zaith are you alright?" She asked, running up to him.

"I'm fine, but what's going on?"

"I can tell you." A voice said behind Zaith.

Zaith turned around, finding a dark figure standing by Raven's door. He wore a black cloak with the hood up, making it hard to see his face.

"Who are you?" Zaith asked.

The figure took off the mask, revealing himself to be Shadow.

"Shadow, what's happening here?"

"Don't worry about it, I have it under control." Shadow said calmly.

"Under control? Are you crazy, Star Fire just turned into some crazy monster and tried to attack me before I floated into Raven's room.

Suddenly, Zaith felt something drive into the back of his left shoulder. He cried out in pain as he fell to the ground. He looked behind him, and found that Raven was driving a knife into him.

"Raven wha-"

Then, another sharp pain came from his chest. He looked forward, finding Shadow to be plunging a katana into his chest. As Zaith gasped for air, he could hear the maniacal laughing of his attackers.

"Your pathetic Zaith, you could never get away from your future." The two said together as they continued to laugh.

Zaith awoke suddenly, gasping for air. He placed a hand to his sweaty forehead, trying to realize what happened.

"It… was a dream."

He sighed, relaxing from the nightmare. It was another bad dream, one that he had been getting for the last three months. Remembering from a while back, he knew that it was actually a premonition of sorts, as a fortune teller would say. Zaith was cursed by some sort of demon that would try to kill him over and again.

"I don't feel like sleeping anymore." He said as he looked at the clock on the wall, finding it to be 1am. He got up, put his boots and his jacket on, and exited the room.

He made his way down the stairs, and found a flash of light reflecting off of a piece of glass on the floor. Several more pieces of glass trailed towards the door to the next hallway. The door was ajar, and as he tried to push the door open, a bucket of water fell in front of him.

Someone's laughter could be heard in the distance. The person turned the corner and revealed himself to be Beast Boy.

"Yes, I got you Cyborg! Wait, you're not Cyborg."

"Of Course I'm not Cyborg. Now what are you doing, trying to prank someone."

"Well ya, note the bucket."

"And how I'm not wet."

"Good point. Bad prank."

"Yeah, now go get some sleep."

"Tried, but I had some creepy nightmare where I ended up getting stabbed the back by Raven and in the front by Shadow."

Zaith, with terror in his eyes spoke to Beast Boy quickly. "Go to bed, NOW!"

"But I don't nee-"

"NOW!"

"Alright, shesh."

And with the Beast Boy went down the hall towards his room.

"I can't let you or the others be cursed like me…I have to do something and fast."

I don't know why, but this one ended up being very jacked up. I didn't mean for this to happen, but it might give ma a new edge to my story.