This is a very intense chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Just so everyone knows, I'm going to be in Ireland for two weeks starting on, Wednesday, July 12th. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the next chapter posted before then, but I'll try. Please review my chapters. I really want to know what everyone thinks of my writing. Enjoy!

Good-Night My Child

Destruction. Destruction everywhere. There was naught a living soul to be found, as far as the eye could see, unless, you looked inside an old fortress. This fortress was once the center of the city. This is where all the leaders stayed. Not a soul was to be found in that city except in that fortress. In that fortress, in one certain room, through one specific window. Through that one window, you could see a woman, no, a girl, aged by fear, sadness, betrayal, and more pain than you could imagine. This girl hung limp against a wall; chains attached to each arm and leg suspended her. It was hard to believe she breathed at all.

"Wow, I hadn't realized it was this…I mean, it's so…or, how did…wow," Beastboy ended, quietly, having not been prepared for such devastation

"It's hard to believe one girl made this happen," Cyborg put in.

"It's depressing, isn't it?" Robin responded.

"It makes me wish to cry tears of sadness," whispered Starfire.

Raven only nodded, she was more surprised than the rest of the team. She had seen what happened in her visions, but even those were nothing, compared to this…nothing, nothing at all.

"Nothing"

"Did you say something, Raven?"

"No Robin, I said nothing."

Once again silence fell among the Titans. All they could do was listen to the silence of death, and at the very back of everyone's minds was, is someone who can create this much devastation really worth saving, and with death and silence all around them, it was hard to ignore a voice, even as small as this one, is it really worth the risk?

"It'll be ok. It has to be ok. It just has to be."

"Quiet in there!" a guard shouted.

If she hadn't been through so much already, she might have given up right then.

"Putrid, blubber ball," she mutters under her breath.

"Now darling, that is no way to talk about your caring body guard, and you know that," a low, whispery voice, full of venom stated from the shadows.

"Shut your mouth, and don't you ever call me darling, you disgusting weasel!" she spat.

"Oh!" cried the man, reeling as if he had been dealt an actual blow, "Sweetie, that hurt. Why would you want to talk to your father like that? I guess I'll have to punish you!" the wizard practically screeched, and as a flash of light filled the room the girl's scream filled the air.

Silence seemed to stretch on forever, with no end in sight.

Suddenly, a scream reached the Titans tired ears.

"Hurry!" Raven shouted. She obviously knew the urgency of the situation, and Cyborg swiftly went full throttle. Using Beastboy's sensitive ears the Teen Titans rapidly found the source of the scream and landed a safe distance away. "We need to find out which room the scream is coming from so we can see what's happening," Raven hurriedly gasped, as she ran towards the fortress, with the rest in tow.

Everyone scrambled over walls, and raced around towers, frantically trying to reach the source of the scream, before it ended; little did they know, that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

Pain seared through her body and unending screams filled the room. She couldn't stop even though it would be an understatement to say her throat was merely raw. It wouldn't stop, ever, but then it did, and the most heart rendering sounds she had ever heard reached Karla's ears. The worst part was, she had to watch as that scream left their mouths.

"No!" Karla's cry was louder than thought possible, but it did nothing to drown out the cries of her pack, "Stop!"

Her father just laughed harder. It was going to happen again; she could feel it. Karla closed her eyes and struggled to suppress it. However, when she opened her eyes they gleamed a bright and evil red, and she was being watched.

"There it is!" Beastboy said, changing back from a hound dog to a human.

"Beastboy, are you sure?"

"Robin, trust me, that's it." Beastboy changed into a Pterodactyl (the room was somewhere at the very top of the tower), and picked Cyborg up.

"Come Robin, we should hurry. She sounds weak," Starfire said, while picking up Robin.

"You're right. Come on Raven," but when Robin turned around she wasn't there, "Raven?" Robin said, looking around.

"She's already at the window, and she seems a bit frantic for us to get there," taking a deep breath, Starfire continued, "This is a very tall tower."

Finally, everyone was at the window, watching in terror and fascination as they saw Karla's father turn his attention from his daughter to a small pack of wolves trapped in a cage. Their squeals and yelps of pain made even Raven's eyes tear up; though she quickly wiped them away, unlike Starfire, who had tears streaming down her face.

"Her eyes, oh no, her eyes. They're red," Raven whispered loudly. She was kneeling next to Cyborg. If anyone else heard her, Cyborg was the only one that commented.

"It's happening again. Isn't it?"

"Yes."

The Titans watched in horror, as Karla began to lose control. The transformation was more gradual this time. Karla was constantly fighting against the chains, holding her back. It was as if her transformation was causing her pain. She snarled and bared her fangs and began to tear at the wall. For the first time in their lives, the Titans felt completely helpless, as they saw the chains begin to come lose and Karla begin to be consumed by her anger and pain.

Crack! The chains came lose, along with a lot of the wall, and Karla launched herself at her father, with a bone-chilling roar. Raven could tell that she wanted to use fire as well, but something was stopping her. Every time Karla tried to use it she seemed to cringe, inwardly. Raven just couldn't figure out why. After a few attempts Karla gave up and resorted to claws and teeth, Raven wished she hadn't.

Karla became lost in her rage and tore at her father mercilessly. By the time she began to calm down, her father's motionless body, the walls, and Karla were covered in blood. Karla continued to crouch over the lifeless body, breathing hard, not even bothering to wipe off her dripping fur (even her pack seemed slightly disturbed by Karla's violent act).

Closing her eyes at the same time as Karla, Raven projected soothing thoughts. Gradually, Karla returned to her human form and she began to breath normally, but her eyes remained closed. Beastboy even thought he saw tears in her eyes.

Suddenly, Karla was hurled at the wall, and the chains were completely fixed. Karla, once again, hung motionless as if she knew what was going to happen.

Laughter drifted through the air and caused the Titans to look over at the supposedly lifeless body. It was shaking…with laughter, laughter that was more bone-chilling that Karla's roar. Everyone grimaced to see the broken jaw moving up and down, as though it were fully functional. Slowly, the skin came together, shredded organs mended, and the body's lost blood was replenished, all the while it was shaking with laughter, and it wouldn't stop.

At long last, the body was once again, totally healed, and Karla's father stood up, still laughing. He walked across the room with slow, leisurely steps and didn't stop laughing until he reached the door. Standing in the entryway, he stopped and smiled.

With the same low, whispery, and even more venomous voice he said, before exiting, "Good-night my child."

And this time, everyone could see her tears.

Cliffhanger, Cliffhanger...Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I feel evil. He,he. >: (