Wee! My eleventh chapter! I'm so excited; I never thought I'd make it this far! Thanks so much AprilKisses and VioletNeo4! And to answer your question Violet, hope you don't mind me calling you that, I don't not like Robin, it's just I was pointing out his strange obsession with Slade, as April so kindly pointed out in her review. :P ( And don't worry April, you'll see some pairings soon! xD )
Note: From this point on, I will be editing my former chapters with different things. Now don't worry, they won't be too drastic, just spelling errors and the way I arranged things. For Chapter One, I simply added more description to it, so go back and look over it if you want. :)
My Disclaimer shall be… none other than the menacing, evil man… Slade!
Slade: -glare- Who are you?
Wingy: Umm… -blinkblink- I'm Wingy, the creator of this story! :D
Slade: Hn. Want to be my apprentice? I seem to be running out of victims…
Wingy: -sweatdrop- Just tell them I don't own the Teen Titans.
Slade: -glare- Wingy doesn't own the cursed Teen Titans. She's just a pathetic moron who doesn't want to be my apprentice. Which reminds me. I've been in a total of FOUR chapters so far! Jerk! –bursts out into tears-
Wingy: O.o –cough-
Well, in this chapter, the italicized sections and paragraphs mean a flashback is occurring! n.n
So, on with the chapter!
"I told you, I. Don't. Know." Phantom growled from her spot in the hospital wing, laying helplessly in the bed.
Her fur was bristling and her ears were flat against her ebony coloured head in anger. Her left ear, a battle scar of sorts, was still bandaged heavily but didn't hurt as much now.
Her minor cuts and bruises were gone now, healed by Raven's powers, but the rest of her body still damaged from her fight with Slade and then the ruckus with the Hive gang.
Her grey hand was formed into a fist; due to a build up of anger from interrogations the Titans had been giving her the past few days.
"Then why were you trying to kill us?" Robin asked dryly, seated in a backwards chair facing Phantom. He raised his eyebrows, the white mask hiding his eyes that everyone could imagine were filled with skepticism.
"I wasn't TRYING to, you guys just seemed to be freaking EVERY WHERE and get in MY way. Technically I'm the victim here." Phantom sniffed and gingerly crossed her arms over her heavily bandaged chest.
Robin grunted.
"What were you doing when we 'got in your way'?" Raven asked, her face and body hidden by her long blue cape. She wasn't in the best of moods. Changing guard over security of Phantom's 'room' was tiring. Especially at three AM acting as guard with none other than Beast Boy rambling on about his little 'pet,' the stupid worm-thing, Silky, was doing every single second. ( A/N: I had to put the little guy in. :3 )
"Stealing things." Phantom responded simply, and shrugged, gripping the sheets of her bed with her paw-like hands again.
The Titans in the room, Robin, Raven, and Cyborg, sighed with exasperation. This is how the interrogations had been going for the past three days. Angry questions, snide answers. Sweetly-asked questions, sarcastic answers. It got old. Even Starfire thought so, and that was saying something.
"All right. Let's go Titans. We'll be back Phantom, so don't try anything." Robin got out of the chair and set it in its place, walking towards the door as Phantom rolled her eyes in scorn. Like she actually could?
Twenty-four hour surveillance, two guards at the door every hour of the day, and bio-scans ready to beep and alert the Titans if anything went wrong… oh yeah. She was planning an escape.
As the door swished shut and Phantom was left alone, she sighed and laid back down on her bed, her arms behind her head and her pale yellow eyes staring at the ceiling.
"Like I'm in the condition to leave this safety area…" She murmured, and turned to her side, staring out of the huge window that showed the illuminating horizon of the sea.
She growled and closed her eyes to the blinding light, pulling the covers over her head, "No one appreciates me…"
The Titans were all in their rooms; sleeping, the threat of Phantom gone.
All of them, except Robin and Starfire. They were tonight's lucky six-hour shift, at three AM Cyborg and Beast Boy would relieve them.
Robin was leaning up against the wall, arms crossed over his chest, staring sullenly at the wall directly opposite of him. Starfire was sitting on the ground, her legs crossed and she hummed happily, knitting a pink scarf.
"Wonderful, is it not?" She grinned, holding the half-finished scarf out to Robin.
"Erh…" Robin stared at the maroon coloured… thing. Stray woolen threads that he sincerely hoped were wool poked randomly out at different places. It was frayed and poorly made, but Robin gave her a crooked smile saying, "It is. It's your best yet!"
"Oh, marvelous!" Starfire yelped, and flew up to him, holding the scarf at arms length, "Then it is you who I shall bestow this gift upon!" She smiled even broader at threw it rather vigorously around his neck.
She smiled and put her hands together in hopeful clasp, floating up and down next to him, "You truly do love it then?!"
After sputtering and loosening the scarf's hold around his neck, Robin smiled, "Of course."
They laughed, unaware of the disturbance going on just beyond the steel door.
Phantom tossed and turned in her bed, sweat trickling down her forehead.
'Please… please let the pain make it stop…' She thought desperately in her mind, but the horrible nightmares continued…
Slade's voice echoed in my head. His horrible masked face etched before in a sea of black, the cold brown eye stained with the colour of blood.
The ebony around me faded, and I found myself looking on something I hoped I'd never see again.
"Wonderful Phantom. It's your best yet." Slade walked away from a frail form on the ground, and sat on his throne.
A small figure, sputtering, its sides heaving, slowly got up, clutching her side, "I live to serve you, Master."
I gasped, invisible to the people in the scene. 'That's me…' I thought, and put my hands to my mouth; I thought I was going to puke. Had I really been that eager to serve that scumbag?!
The image faded, and I was left in black again.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you." My father's voice, firm and strong.
The memory exploded into my face like fireworks, and I swear, I had to keep from crying.
I was sitting on the ground, a younger version of me, who was still known as Arianna. My older sister's famous hat, which curved around my head, too large for my still ebony hair. It's curved rim was a tannish colour, the rest of the soft, leathery hat light blue with the symbol of some unknown school in gold on the front of it.
I loved that hat. ( A/N: :3 I have a hat like that too… )
"Daddy…" The mini-me bit her lip and tried to stop the tears from flowing down her face, but failing, her face wet with past tears.
"Don't worry Arianna. We'll always be with you." He smiled and put a hand on her cheek, before pulling her into a tight embrace, followed by Phantom's sister and mother.
Arianna was the only one crying, why did they have to go?
TS-EEW! TS-EEW!
Red beams of light shot the demolished piece of ceiling above them, causing more rubble to fall down on the group.
Arianna's family let go, each getting up, one after another.
"Don't worry. We'll be with you forever." Arianna's father got up, facing towards the oncoming danger.
"We love you sweetie. Remember that Arianna." Her mother kissed her gently on the cheek before joining her husband.
"Hey, runt. Take care of that hat, will ya?" Lily playfully punched her on the shoulder.
Arianna grinned, as the transparent Phantom put her hands to her mouth in fear. What was this? She'd never seen this before… why didn't she remember it?!
"Arianna. You need to run. Now. Don't worry about us." Her father turned to look at her, his deep brown eyes reflecting her sadness and his own.
"You need to run away and find help. Never stop running." Arianna's mother smiled warmly, her normally neat bun falling from its graceful position, her light brown hair falling over her shoulders in an angelic sort of pose.
"Don't worry." Lily flipped her brown hair over her shoulder, and smiled, "We're gonna be with ya. It's a Love thing."
Arianna smiled, as more lasers blew into the wall behind Arianna, she screamed and started to get up and run away, as her parents and her sister ran towards the figures dressed in black, all wearing the same identical mask of silver, their silver hand guns blasting with power and force.
'They're gonna be okay… right?' Arianna thought as her small padded feet slammed into the rubble and floor, scratches marking up her feet, and bruises from falling again.
Screams of pain greeted her thoughts, human screams.
Tears flew out behind her as she looked behind her, unaware of the falling rubble reigning down on her head.
A heavy weight hit her head, and she collapsed.
"NO!" Phantom called, trapped in the spot she had found herself in, as the world around her faded to black.
Tears began to fall down her face as she realized what was happening, but sniffed loudly as the blackness enveloping her began to change into something else, something not too far ahead of what had happened from the last scene.
Arianna, waking up on the cool black floor. She shook her head, and looked around in the dimly lit room, a spotlight around her.
"Where am I…?" She asked, as Phantom gripped her hands in anger of what was about to happen. She knew what was going to start… right about… now.
"In my… home." A tall, menacing figure walked towards the young Arianna, his arms behind his back.
"Mr. Slade!" Arianna got up suddenly, and rushed towards him, hugging him around the legs, for that was where her height came to.
"Arianna. I'm sorry to say-"
"What happened, Mr. Slade? I can't remember a thing!" Arianna cried.
"Really?" Behind the mask, a smile curled.
"I'm sorry to say Arianna, but your life will change now. I saved your life and now because of that you will serve me." Slade's voice echoed in Arianna's large cat-like ears.
"But…" Arianna stepped away from him, and looked confused.
She smiled, and looked at him, "Okay."
Slade narrowed his visible eye.
"My little… Phantom."
Phantom cried out, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" As darkness covered the world around her and took away everything she had hoped for.
"Phantom." Raven's violet eyes sprung open, as she sprang out of bed and ran for the door, not bothering to put on her cape. It wasn't the time. She'd have to deal with her leotard and the chilliness in the hallways of the Tower.
As she thundered by Beast Boy's door, she noticed it was already opened, closing shut with a low hum.
She literally flew up three flights of stairs, not bothering to use the slow elevator, and threw open the stair doorway to the hospital hallway, as she heard frightened shouts from Robin and Starfire, and footsteps thundering in the hallway.
She turned the corner to find the door to the hospital wing open; she dashed inside and stopped at the door, stunned by the noise of the alarm going off and the sight in the room.
A pale Beast Boy was by Phantom's writhing, sweating form, the vital signs through the roof on the screen. Starfire stood next to the bed, placing a cold cloth on Phantom's forehead. Robin was tapping furiously into the machine, and then slamming his fist angrily on top, he noticed Raven in the doorway.
"We could use some help Raven! Now!" Robin shouted.
Stunned, Raven flew into the room, and nodded to Robin, and concentrated on her powers, only after Phantom's eyes flew open, pale and frantic, tears at once brewing in her eyes and then falling down her face.
She was crying, as Cyborg clunked into the room awakened by the sound of the alarm, she was sobbing for her life.
Scared, and alone, Phantom threw herself into the surprised Beast Boy, clutching onto his arms, ranting and saying something about, "Everything's a Love thing. I've figured it out… I've figured it out!" She sobbed, and Beast Boy held her, softly whispering as the Titans relaxed, "It's all right. I'm…" He looked around the room at the Titan's faces, "We're gonna be with ya."
The next morning, all the Titans had spent their time in the hospital wing; the sun dawned brightly in the room.
The Phantom was sitting up in the room, glancing through nearly closed eyes at the Titans sprawled around the room, Robin and Starfire sitting in chairs, leaning against each other, Cyborg leaning against the wall, snoozing, Beast Boy sprawled in the next bed beside Phantom's bed, a weird pink worm-thing resting on his chest, and Raven meditating in the quiet room in front of the window gently chanting, "Azarath. Metrion. Zinthos."
"Raven?" Phantom asked, turning away from the brightness of the light, staring at the wall behind her with the shadow of Raven slowly moving up and down.
"Yes?" Came her reply, landing back down on her feet with a small gentle tap.
"I remember. Everything."
"Good. We're going to need it."
Whew.
:3
That was good. The part in the hospital last night was almost too sweet for me to write. Hah hah. xD
Review please!