I'm REALLY sorry I haven't updated-- Summer vacation just started for us.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans.
Raven's eyes snapped open. Something was wrong. She slipped into a black spaghetti-strap shirt and a pair of baggy grey sweatpants. Barefoot, she raced silently outside to check on Aine.
When she got there, she peered into Aine's stall and saw nothing. Raven ran to the back door of the small stable and unlatched the lock. Hoofprints showed the signs of a horse and a human struggling aganst each other, then taking off onto the bridge and into the city.
Well, she thought, they shouldn't be that hard to find. You usually don't see a horse in a city. She took off in the direction of the bridge, following tell-tale hoofprints, horse hair, and occasional scat. All too quickly, the early-morning drizzle turned into pelting rain, making it harder and harder to track Aine and her horse-napper. When the clues led Raven to a dense forest on the outskirts of the city, she began to wonder why anyone would want to take a the beautiful dapple-gray mare. She wasn't a show horse, no one could gan any profit from stealng her...
Wait.
Raven halted in her steps. Someone COULD gain profit from stealing Aine. Slaughter houses pay up to seven hundred dollars for a big horse. Maybe it was some kids who needed cash and decided that they could make fast money from an auction. Remembering a flyer she saw posted to a telephone pole, Raven forced her legs to move faster and faster. The flyer had said that the auction was today, and all livestock had to be there by eight o' clock AM. Raven glanced at a clock on a building. The black hands revealed that it was eight forty-three. Where was that auction? If only she could remember...
Maple-Leaf Farm! Where is that?
"Hello, Miss! Are you lookin' for somethin'?"
Raven whipped around. She hadn't noticed that she had wandered into the... suburbs? A man about as tall as herself was standing there.
"Yes. Can you please tell me where Maple-Leaf Farm is? It's urgent."
"Well, sure! It's 'bout a mile from here. Follow that road--" here the man pointed to a narrow road ahead of them-- " and make a right. Maple-Leaf has a big wooden sign with its name on it. Can't miss it!"
"Thank you, sir," Raven turned away and sprinted down the road. Sure enough, she found the farm.
She slipped silently into the barn (using her powers) and tried to pick out which horse was Aine. She spotted the familair dappled coat soon enough.
"Hey! What are you doing here!" A security guard started to chase her. Raven untied Aine's lead rope from the fence she was tied to. Then she lept onto the mare's back and backed her up. "Whoa, easy girl, easy," Raven spoke soothingly to the frightened horse as the security guard neared. With a newfound energy, she kicked the horse into a gallop and they cleared the fence. Briefly, she wondered if this was good for the horse's health. They galloped down the barn aisle and into the pouring rain, getting thoroughly soaked, and made it to the forest. Then, dark, ominous clouds had covered the sun, and made it almost completly dark. Lightning peirced the darkness and thunder clapped. Aine, frightened, reared up, sending Raven tumbling to ground, her head landing on a small boulder and leaving her unconsious...
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