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Thirteen Hour Horrors
Chapter 11: 9 PM
9:05 pm
She was alone. Utterly, and completely.
Starfire had stilled her sobbing, what was the use? She was far too tired even to summon anymore tears.
The alien stood, and weaved around a powerless Cyborg. She moved to check on Robin. It was so dark…
Mimicking the way Cyborg had, she placed two fingers at his neck and pressed lightly. There was a light throb there. She moved her fingers away and leaned closer to her masked leader.
She watched his chest for the faint expanding and contracting. It was present, and Robin was stable.
Starfire then moved to Beast Boy. He had been laid out on the floor on his stomach. He was making small sniffling noises as though it was hard to breath. But the girl dared not touch him, Cyborg had cared for him well enough, she should not endanger that.
Finally she moved to Raven.
She hadn't started levitating since the fire, and Starfire was curious. Had she been injured? Maybe she was waking up…
Cautiously, she poked the dark girl.
In the darkness, she thought she saw a response. Of course, it could have been wishful thinking.
Starfire sighed and backed away from the group.
Starfire moved to the kitchen area and pulled out a chair to sit down. Her muscles groaned, and pain shot through her body. Her vision was getting bleary from lack of sleep.
She turned her head to keep an eye on the titans while she set her head down on the table. Through the thick darkness all she could see was dark shapes.
The world got fuzzy, and she shut her eyes.
She'd rest her eyes just a second, then she'd find a way out of the mess…
9:09
Raven had escaped the flames.
And continued walking.
It twisted and turned, forever and forever ahead. Raven walked still, already bored and waiting for her destination. But it never came. It was darkness and path as far as she could see.
She felt a sudden prod to her, it was sharp, and jarred her to the side. Offended, she looked for the perpetrator. There was empty air.
Confused, she turned back around only to find a different path than the one she had been going down. This one had an exit. It was a large black looking cave, not too far off.
Raven set her eyes on it, and ran. Her cape whipped out carelessly behind her. She was tired of the nagging feeling. Tied of walking but getting no where.
For once, she was tired of Nevermore. Where were her emotions anyway?
Why was everything so messed up?
Her boots made no sound as she dashed for the exit. Each moment her mind seemed to nag her forward more. Something was important, very important.
The exit was getting larger, she was almost there. Her energy began to give out, she wasn't used to so much running. A thriving feeling that was building in her continued to drive her forward.
And then, she made it. Her hand first slipping through, before her body.
The dark and dreary landscape of her mind was rushed away, as Raven awoke.
9:15
Raven opened her eyes. A silent darkness met her eyes. For a moment she stayed completely still, recalling everything that had happened.
It had been just after sunrise. She had been trying to heal Beast Boy…
What happened to him?
Where were the rest of the titans?
She looked down, she was seated on the recliner in the living room. Darkness was everywhere. Where was Cyborg?
She turned her head to look toward the couch. There was a rumpled figure across it, and something sitting at the other end on the floor.
Raven pushed herself out of the chair. Her body was sore. She noticed the weight of her cape had changed. She looked down at it, it looked oddly distorted. Her confusion mounted as she moved to peer at the figure laying on the couch.
Robin, soundless asleep.
She shook him gently, and got no response. She moved her fingers to the pulse at his neck, he was usually a light sleeper. There was a pulse, but Robin wouldn't wake. Frowning, the mystic moved down to the figure on the ground.
Cyborg, unplugged.
"What time is it?" She called to no one in particular. She went to glance out the window, to use the moon as a sort of time dial. Her eyes landed on a body first. She could see green rifts of fur.
She moved toward it, kneeling down. Beast Boy was bandaged around his upper back, his breathing was wheezing and strained. She tapped him, careful to avoid the injury.
It had no effect on the sleeping boy. Conclusions, and wild theories had begun to form in the girls mind. That was four of the titans, where was Star-
"Raven?" Came a timid, raspy voice.
Raven spun around instantly, violet eyes checking the darkness, there was the sound of a chair falling back. A glint of red was all Raven caught before something bulldozed into her. Arms latched around her waist.
"Raven!" Starfire called, and wrung her tighter.
"Star, let go." Raven managed, pressing the girls hands off her.
Starfire pulled back and lowered her eyes. Raven got a good look at her. She looked completely drained, her hair was clumpy, her suit was torn and blood stained, her face looked dusty and there were smudge marks down her cheeks where it looked like she had been crying.
"Oh Starfire." Starfire looked up to meet her eyes. "What happened?"
Starfire fidgeted, a frown taking occupancy on her worn face.
"Star?" Raven pried.
"Robin was poisoned, and will not wake, Beast Boy had a-" Starfire motioned to something being stuck into his back. "And is troubled in sleeping and Cyborg is not powered! Beast Boy tried to hurt himself, and there was a fire-" She had begun ranting, and promptly clasped a hand over her mouth shaking her head ravenously.
Raven opened her mouth to respond, but could not find the words. The urgency in her mind…
"Raven, we must get out of here." Starfire's voice had returned to a shallowness, and she lowered her eyes again.
Instead of answering Raven jumped to another topic. "What time is it?"
Starfire scratched her arm, looking back at her team mates in the darkness. "Sometime after the hour nine."
9:26
"So there's a fire upstairs?" Raven clarified, she had sat back down and closed her eyes to try and take in everything. Starfire murmured a confirmation.
"We need to figure a way out…" Raven mused, and shifted her feet.
Starfire moved back to the table, sitting the chair she had knocked down back up.
"Could you not teleport us out?" Starfire suggested.
"I haven't enough energy."
"Oh." Starfire shifted slightly, was it her or had something brushed her?
Raven seemed to notice. "Star, what-" Raven was cut off as something snapped around sharply to wrap around her neck.
Starfire jumped to her feet, as Raven made a kind of groaning noise, hands going to her throat. But as soon as Starfire started forward, something wound itself around her wrist, dragging her back quickly.
But it stung. She yelped, trying to free it from her skin, it felt as though barbs were biting into her skin.
Raven felt her breath cut off, her skin as if touched by fire. Her fingers frantically worked at the roping, tendrils from her fingers helping as well. She was aware of Starfire being pulled out of her vision and it sped her work.
And she had it. It snapped from around her neck, a small piece in her hand looked to be barbed wire. She threw it to the floor.
Raven could feel the punctures on her neck now. She wiped a hand to find it come back bloody.
She rushed after Starfire, the entire time unaware of a barbed coil wrapping tightly around Robin's torso.
Starfire wanted to pull away, but it was so tight around her wrist that any resistant meant small barbs digging tighter into her skin. So she stumbled along to keep up, heading almost blindly into the darkness like a chained animal.
"Raven!" Starfire called back, hoping her voice wasn't too far off.
"I'm coming, keep talking!" Raven shouted back, there was the echo of footsteps.
Instead, Raven heard the sound of whistling. She dashed after it.
Starfire's direction had begun to change drastically. She was being pulled about fiercely, and tears watered her eyes from the pain. She focused on continue whistling, she didn't trust her voice to talk.
And then there was a sudden stop what whirled her around. Her back smacked against a wall, and her whistling was interrupted. A barb rope wrung itself around her feet, and she gasped. She could feel blood running down her hand, her stomach wretched at the notion.
9:37
Raven didn't know where she was. It was dark all around, and there were no windows. She had to get Starfire and get back to the others…
Something nicked at her cape, and she swung around quickly.
There was nothing there. Raven felt forward in the air. Something pricked her finger, and she backed up briskly.
There was a whimper from Starfire somewhere nearby, she turned to listen for the sound.
There was a rough stroke of metal against her back.
9:42
Starfire pulled at the bonding that was quickly wrapping around her. It was burning and pricking into her skin. Puncturing bloody pinches along her arms, sticking through her clothes, tangling and pulling her hair.
She tried to cry out, but the thorns immediately tightened, and she snapped her mouth shut.
But Starfire was nearly pinned to the wall, and her wrist ached horridly. In the silence she could hear the dripping of her own blood on the hard floor.
9:45
Raven wretched from the wire trying to grip her, it left scratched across her gray skin. Ignoring her own discomfort, she rushed in the direction she had heard Starfire.
After a bit of running, she decided to change directions.
She tripped, crashing into something prickly and warm. "Star?" She backed up trying to get her vision right in the darkness.
The figure struggled, a muffled cry escaping. That was all the confirmation Raven needed.
She thrust her powers forward angrily tearing at the barbed wire. It tore easily under the telekinetic power, falling to the floor. When she was free, Starfire fell forward, causing Raven to have to catch her quickly.
Her skin was splotchy with blood, Raven could feel it under her fingers, thick and slick.
Starfire's shoulders were shaking, and she suddenly gripped Raven tightly. "Raven.." She gasped between sobs.
"Let me see your wrist." Raven commanded, having glanced the amount of blood in that area. Starfire tenderly stuck her arm out.
Raven squinted her eyes, turning her hand to look at the under side of the aliens wrist.
The punctures rounded her wrist, but seemed to have missed the major vein and arteries.
Lucky.
Raven let go of her wrist and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "It'll be okay, we've got to get back to the others." Raven started to walk through the dark unsure of where she was going.
Starfire sniffled and nodded, allowing Raven to guide them through the dark.
9:52
"What time is it?" Starfire mumbled after they had been walking through dark halls for a while.
Raven was concentrating on figuring out where they were, and it took a moment for the sudden question to sink in. "Not sure." She increased their pace, suddenly aware of the time this was taking them. Something was building in the air, Raven could practically feel it choking at her.
Starfire held a hand over the punctures on her wrist. They were the deepest ones, and throbbed with her every heart beat.
They rounded a corner, and the dark living room was presented in front of them. The two paused, unsure of the next step.
The clouds were suddenly blown away from a waxing moon, and the light spilled through, lighting the living room.
And there was blood everywhere…
And I had the hardest time thinking of horrible things to happen. I am so out of ideas.
The last omen was…
Candle: A blue candle flame augers death in the family.
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