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Chapter 6: Riddles
Robin's steel-toed combat boots stomped the ground in anger. Who does that Raven think she is? I'll be glad when I get out of here. The darkness sent unexplainable shivers up his spine and his masked eyes swept the terrain nervously. I have to find the others and get out of here.
"You can't leave so soon," a malovolent voice said suddenly, "The fun hasn't begun yet." From nowhere, ten feet high walls sprang up around the young teen. A labyrinth. Robin pulled his grappling hook from his belt and pressed the button shooting it forward. Some invisible force made it bounce away harmlessly. He pounded the wall, frustrated, as Raven's laughter echoed clearly and maniacally in his ears.
"Now Robin, that's no way to go about it. Anger only feeds the darkness. You'd do well to hurry before Starfire-" Robin looked up suddenly, "Undergoes something that might. . .let's say damage her fragile mentality. Take it easy." She paused and started laughing, "Meditate, why don't you?"
The voice quickly faded and Robin walked on, burning anger deep in his chest. Slowly, he inhaled deeply and said under his breath, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," and continued on like that. The words weighed down with frustration as he kept running into dead ends. "Starfire!" he called suddenly. "Starfire, where are you?"
Said alien girl was currently lost in her wave of nightmares. She remembered her childhood on Tamaran and how horrid her older sister was to her. Starfire was crying. She held in her hand, a broken. . .um, doll? (Hell, I don't know what Tamaranian kids play with.) Her older sister Blackfire stood above her smirking. "You broke my doll!" Starfire cried. "So?" Blackfire shrugged, nonchalantly. "I'm telling Mother!" She rose to her feet to be grabbed by Blackfire. "Oh no you won't. If you do. . .I'll tell her you're the one who broke the window in her room."
"But you did that!" Blackfire grinned, "Maybe. But whose Mother gonna believe? You or me? I am the oldest." Starfire's ivory eyes, clouded with tears, lowered in defeat. Blackfire grinned, "That's right, little sister. Know you're place. Wherever you go, you'll always be the baby."
The unconscious red-head was held close to the wall by Raven's dark energy. Robin walked on, head low, carefully holding himself under rigid control. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Man, if I had Raven's powers I'd blast through these walls and- "Starfire!" He'd finally found her. He rushed forward, excitement turning to anxiety when she didn't move.
"Starfire, you have to wake up. You have to fight the nightmares!" Starfire vaguely heard him. In the back of her mind she whispered, Robin? Robin shook her desperately. "What can I do to wake her up? Starfire, please." He looked around at the black tendrils of energy, binding her in her own personal prison. "Raven's hate is projecting these nightmares and memories for us. She feeds off our anger, our despair, our hopelessness. But there has to be a way to reverse it. . . "
"That's it!" He took her by her shoulders and shook her, "Starfire, you have to think of Raven. You need to focus on her, that's the only way to break the paralysis." Raven . . Yes, I will focus on my friend. She thought about how Raven had helped her, how she had to work together when thier bodies had been switched. She remembered them meditating together, cruising the mall together.
Memories flooded back to her in a massive tital wave: their seance, Raven's birthday (-sweatdrop- . . .bad example) Starfire's staged wedding. Raven, the only other female inhabitant of the Tower related more to her than anything else. Her shocking green eyes opened suddenly, like a light had been switched on, startling Robin and sending him back. "Starfire!"
She looked around, "Where is Raven? We have to help her!" The black energy disappated slowly and as it did, Robin felt some anger seep away from his heart. Raven was angered and that gave him great pleasure. "Star, we have to get out of this place." Starfire straightened up and stretched fiercely, "My it seems like I've been sleeping for a thousand malruplits. Agreed, let us quickly journey from this place."
The two traveled the maze, muttering Raven's chant under their breath, until coming to the opening of the maze. "Look! Surely it is our way out!" Starfire glided over easily but from nowhere dropped one of the dark, red-eyed ravens that guarded the land. Robin withdrew his bow and prepared to strike but the creature suddenly spoke to them.
"You've
come to the end. I congratulate you but there is one thing that you
must do. Before you gain your freedom, you must answer me this riddle:
Everyone likes to look at me.
They tend to usually like what they see.
For I am something just like you
Something that is polished and new.
You look to me for silent reflection
You look to notice imperfection.
In front of me, one could waste away
You stay and stare for days and days
You love to see and say: Oh my!
Now answer me this: What am I?
Starfire looked innocently curious while Robin sweat-dropped. "I guess Raven doesn't know how much I hate riddles." Starfire looked at her, "Perhaps she does." The giant raven fluttered its dark wings, "Answer quickly. The powers you wield. Hurry now, lest your fate be sealed."
Can you guess what 'I' am? Go on guess. I hope this was okay. If it's not say so and I SWEAR TO GOD I'll revise it. malruplits- an alien word. Like when Star said one time: Pleasant slorvaks. Slorvaks most likely meaning sleep, or dreams
