Disclaimer: Unfortunatly for you, I do not own Teen Titans.
Any way, this chapter has a "Robin and Starfire-left-alone" moment. Nothing...um... "bad" happens, I promise.
I wanted to interview Scorpio again for you guys but she won't pick up.
Chapter 21: Lies
"Promise to come back for me, Rella? Do you promise?"
"Yeah, Nem. I promise. Just make sure you tell Sister Mya what I told you to tell her."
Nem, whom hates lying, wrinkles her nose in disapproval. "Why can't I come with you?"
"Because Nem, it's too dangerous..."
"Then why are you going. If it's dangerous for me then it must be twice as dangerous for you..."
"Don't worry..."
"But you'll die!"
"No, I won't. I promise."
"Promise?"
"Yes, I promise."
There was a light, far up away from where Scorpio could feel herself, drifting in a sea of tears.
"Scorpio? Scorpio?" Raven was next to her, she could feel her, but she couldn't see anything. And Raven, who's flushed with worry, could only see Scorpio's glass eyes as they stared at the cieling.
She blinked a few times, wincing and squinting. Something in the room smelled heavy, something burning. She closed her eyes again and opened them, to find herself in the West Bay, Raven by her side.
"Raven, if you cared you'd kill me off now," Scorpio said, choking on the words as they escaped her.
Raven winced and reached for a glass of water. "Don't say that. You're alive, aren't you?"
"It's not worth it."
"Don't say that," Raven told her as she dabbed a cloth in the water and then placed it on her forehead.
"I'm not joking. I want to die."
Raven sighed heavily, looking at the moniters of the West Bay, glancing at Scorpio from the corner of her eye. "I'm not going to let you."
"Kilei! Bedi moit!" Scorpio hissed through clenched teeth as she sat up. "I want to die!"
Scorpio was unaware of Beast Boy, who was staring at the two through the door way, his eyes heavy. She looked at him now, her whole body numb. "Just kill me off!"
"Don't say that, Scorpio...please..." Beast Boy began, looking at the moniters to avoid her glare. "You made it out OK, and Jet's gone...forever."
"What?"
Raven and Beast Boy exchanged looks of distress. No one had told her. "He...didn't make it..." Beast Boy started, begging Raven to tell her.
"He died, Scorpio. I'm...sorry..." Raven winced at the words. Apologizing for something that wasn't her fault made no sense to her. But when Azar had died...when Azar had died...
Scorpio, who had jumped at the news and had sat straight up right in the bed, rested her head back down and turned the opposite way, facing the window. "I know," she started. "I felt him, his soul. When he left."
I'm sorry, Rella.
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The only two left were Robin and Starfire. Raven had went against Robin's orders to take Scorpio back to the tower and Beast Boy had insisted he go with her. Cyborg couldn't get too close to their location because of the frequency.
They were walking down a burnt hallway after they had seen Jet's body, utterly useless and white.
"Slade is here," Robin told Starfire, looking at the ash covered walls. "I know he is."
Starfire nodded. Her heart was weak. In one day she had already seen 1 dead body and Scorpio squirming and screaming at the top of her lungs from pain. "Yes...but without our communicators we won't be able to track him."
Robin's mask twitched at the words. She was right. Without Cyborg and his gear, and without their communicators, tracking Slade's body heat would be rough. "There has to people down here..." Personally he was thinking that the fire spinner was still here, him and Slade. Without Raven and Beast Boy they couldn't contact Cyborg to bring the sub. They were stuck down here until one of them came back.
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Cyborg picked up his beeping communicator, only to find Beast Boy's worried face in the window.
"What is it, BB?" Cyborg asked.
"You have to go down and get Robin and Starfire, they're still down there."
"Where are you?"
The Communicator when black. Beast Boy had turned it off.
Scorpio had went back to sleep, her eyes still seeing that broad light, teasing her, mocking her. She couldn't die, she couldn't experience the light. She couldn't go back for Nem. Not any more.
"Is she OK?" Beast Boy asked the back of Raven's head, glancing at Scorpio's lower back.
Raven caught his eye. "She'll be fine if we can bring Nem over here."
"Nem?"
"Her sister. She only wants to die to contact her sister from the spirit world."
Beast Boy shuddered. "She misses her that much?"
Raven shrugged. "She promised her that she'd come back to save her. She never did. She's worried about her...whether she's still alive or not."
Beast Boy wrinkled his nose. "And you know this because..."
Raven didn't answer, but then turned to the moniters. "It's in her journal," she said in her usual low voice.
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Robin caught someone, running fast out from the hallway in an Apprentice uniform.
"Stop!" Robin yelled, running after him. The figure turned around and shot something from his hand: fire.
Starfire followed Robin as they both dodged the flames. Robin shot a flat ice disk at the appretice, freezing his entire body from his shoulders down to his ankles. He hit the floor.
Robin pushed his boot on the apprentice's chest. "Tell us where Slade is," he demanded, pulling his mask off.
He was about Robin's age, taller...maybe... with red hair and amber eyes that were full of hate. Neither Robin nor Starfire recognized him. "I don't have to answer to anyone," he answered, the ice melting off his body.
Robin pulled out his staff, crushing the ice on the apprentice's chest and pushing it harder to his skin. "It's your choice," Robin said sternly, pushing the staff with more force.
The apprentice spat to the side, looking at Robin with a smirk on his face. "He ran off, bird boy. Just like the rest of us. This place is going down."
There was a flash, an amber ball of flames enveloped the apprentice and burned Robin's boots, melting his staff. He pulled back and watched the ball grow smaller, the apprentice no longer there.
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Sorry for the short chappy, guys. Promise the next one will be longer.