Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, but I do watch the show. And all the characters I add are either mine or Shadow12002's.
Chapter 7: Zombies, Demons, and Screaming Girls
Eventually, the woman pulled away from Zaith, her eyes out of tears to cry. She dried her eyes on a bit of the collar from her shirt, and dusted the sand with her fingers.
Zaith arose from the bed, leaving his jacket behind on the bed. He then removed the moist shirt and tossed it to the floor next to the bed post, revealing his well toned upper body. He walked over to his dresser and opened one of the drawers, then began to rummage through it, searching for something. Quickly he pulled out a plain black shirt and put it on, covering himself.
Slowly, Zaith placed his firm, yet gentle hands onto the edges of the drawer, then lowered his head to one side, apparently deep in thought.
"What's your name?" He said.
"My name… It's Velia Locklier." She responded.
"Velia, huh… May I ask you a question?"
"I suppose so." Velia said, though it sounded as if she didn't want to.
"Earlier, you said that you were trying to protect your future. What did you mean by that?"
"I…" She began to speak, but could not finish her sentence. What she wanted to say seemed to bring pain to her heart.
"Velia, I understand if you don't want to talk about it, but I need to know what's wrong, or else I won't be able to help you."
"And how do you think you can help me! I don't need therapy."
"But you might need a friend."
"… Alright, I'll talk. It all started a few weeks ago. I began to have these strange dreams where things began to happen to my friends. They would vanish, float in the air. It was like a weird episode of 'The Exorcist' or something. Some where in the middle, I saw…" She paused, as of fearing her next thought.
"What did you see?"
"I saw you, murdered by the hands of your teammates… Or at least something that looked like them. Eventually your friends changed into some strange beast, which held your friends in its arms. This… thing stood on top of this building, as if waiting for something. But behind it, the city… It…"
"What? What was wrong with the city?"
"It… it was on fire. Monsters traveled the streets, killing everyone in their way. People jumped from windows, killed themselves with guns… It was horrible." Velia began to tear again, but managed to control herself from crying like before.
"Did you talk to anyone about this dream?"
"I've talked to the father at my church before, but he found it hard to believe. The only thing he aid was that god has a plan for us all, and that I will discover mine in due time."
"So lately you've been a bit edgy from this dream of yours."
"Yeah… A few days ago, I went to speak with a fortune teller. She said that someone will intervene with the justice I bring in a matter of days. I asked if there was anyway I could tell him apart from everyone else, only to be told of a strange dream, and that he will bring about my doom."
"So let me guess, when I got in your way earlier, you thought I was the person she spoke of."
"I bet you don't believe me, but what I'm saying about the dream and all... I think it really will happen."
"I do believe you. I've been having a similar dream lately, but I hadn't known of anything you saw past the part where I get killed. I always wake in after that, sweating and breathing heavily."
"You've been having the dream too? This can't be good."
"I think it's some sort of premonition. Why else would we be sharing the same dream, along with the other Titans?"
"They have the dream as well."
"Yes, I'm sure they do, but I don't think they all know it yet."
Suddenly, the door opened, the sound causing the twos head to snap to the side. Star Fire stood in the door way, dressed in a dark purple night gown. Her eyes were closed, and the crud could still be seen in them.
"Friend Zaith, may I speak to you? I saw that your light was on so…" Star Fire said, apparently still tired from her sleep.
"Sure Star. What's up?" Zaith said calmly.
Star Fire trudged over to the bed and sat down next to Zaith, completely ignoring the fact that someone else was also in the room. "I have had what you call a 'nightmare', and I can not sleep. Is there anything you can do to help me go back to sleep?"
"Before I do, can you please tell me what happened during this nightmare?" Zaith asked.
"Alright. At first, I thought I had felt something cold in the room, so I got off of the bed and checked the 'thermostat', but it said the temperature was fine. I then left the room and started to o down the stairs. On the sixth floor, I saw something on the floor, and when I got closer to it, I found out it was blo…"
"Star Fire, is something wrong?" Zaith said, noticing the new expressions on her face.
Star Fire's eyes were now wide open, as if she were seeing something terrifying. He mouth was open as well, but there was no noise coming from her. Her eyes seemed to look past Zaith at something behind him.
Zaith turned his head quickly to see what she was looking at. What he saw completely disgusted him. Beyond Velia (who was now bending over into her lap, hiding her eyes) were what looked to be zombies of sorts. Their flesh was decaying, their motion was sloppy, and their clothing was torn. Their eye glowed red, and blood trickled out of their mouths. There had to be at least fifteen of them standing behind the bed.
In front of the group of zombies stood what looked like a six year old girl. Her dress was completely black and stained with blood, which began to pool at the ground. Her dark hair covered her faces, and her arms hung in front of her, due to her leaning forward.
Suddenly, she raised her head, her eyes glowing red like the others. She opened her mouth, and her voice rang in the ears of the three on the bed. They all covered their ears with their hands, trying to protect themselves from the screeches of the girl. Zaith raised his head as he heard the scream through his hands, and saw the zombies begin to walk toward the bed.
Quickly, he drew his sword, which lay on the ground next to the bed. He stood up, and almost immediately, he began to slash at the decaying beasts that came towards the three. Arms, legs, and other limbs fell to the ground as blood squirted into the air, covering the walls in the red paint. The silver metal swung time and again at the damned beings that stood in front of Zaith, who could barely hear from the infernal song of the little girl.
After dealing with at least twelve of the zombies, Zaith swung his sword at the girl, relieving her of her head. Silence filled the room once more, save for the screaming from the ladies, and the moans of the zombies still standing. Zaith quickly dealt with the zombies, and then rushed back to the two on his bed.
"Are you two alright?" Zaith said, though he could barely hear himself, as his ears still rang from the screams of the girl.
The two nodded, and then Zaith spoke again.
"Velia, meet Star Fire. Star, meet Velia." The two looked at each other, nodded, then looked back at Zaith.
"Now that the introductions are over, Velia, grab your bow. After that, I need the two of you to follow me out of the room, ok."
Velia nodded, and then rolled across his bed. She fell off, and then landed just behind her bow in a crouch position. He stood up, bow in hand, then walked over to the tall man she had been crying on just moments earlier.
Star Fire stood up as well, and then the three began to leave Zaith's room. Zaith opened the door and then slowly poked his head into the hallway for a look around. Finding nothing, he walked carefully into the empty hallway, and then stopped suddenly.
Velia followed after Zaith, ten stopped after noticing something. Star fire followed as well, and noticed that he she passed through the doorway, her gown disintegrated into the regular attire she usually wore.
Once in the hallway, Star Fire saw what the other two has stopped to look at as well. The hallway had been cleared of all the walls, and only a large room with two staircases remained. The floors and walls were painted with blood from several corpses that were scattered across the room, all of which were missing at least one body part. Heads, arms, and legs were spread across the room, leaving trails of blood where they had fallen.
But the bloody room and deformed body parts worried the three the least. In fact, their eyes were drawn to three strange demonic beasts that lay on the ground, apparently rolling in the blood and knowing on the bones of their victims. One noticed the three humans in the room, giving a strange roar before charging towards them.
Zaith stopped it with his bare hands, only to find the fur to be incredibly hot. He tossed it to his side, then drew his sword and cut it into two. It died on the spot as it disintegrated into a cloud of sparks. The other two beasts were dealt with by Velia and Star fire, as they used their projectile arsenal of attacks, instead of the melee style combat that Zaith used.
"Great, demons… We have to find the others." Zaith said as he began to walk forward, his sword still in hand.
"This… is just like my dream." Star Fire and Velia both said as they turned and followed Zaith through the blood filled room.
I guess the rest of the story is just me wanting to play DOOM 3. Hey the first two were the junkage! Send me a review or what ever, stuff shall happen, but I don't know how yet. Later.