Dark just lay there, motionless on the bloody floor. The shock of his finding was immense; he had found his love and one of his dearest friends, bloody and laying in the middle of the floor.

Her body had been mutilated. Not only had all her bones been crushed because of the massive piece of concrete that had fallen down on her, there were many cuts and wounds that were inflicted afterwards as well. One in particular that ran across her face. Terra had been jealous of her looks, so she made sure that she never had to worry about that again, she made Phoenix look as ugly as possible.

Dark still lay on the floor looking up. Blood that had collected on the ceiling started to drip down and hit him right on the forehead, however he did not care, he did not want to move.

After a few minutes Dark had decided it was time to move, he wanted to take one last look at his love before he said goodbye to her, this was going to be the hardest thing he has ever done. He got up slowly, almost slipping on the collected blood at his feet, and approached the dead girl ever so lightly. He made it to the middle of the room after what seemed to be an eternity, and looked down. He kneeled and said a prayer.

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"Dark? Dark where in the hell are you? Why won't you answer me?" Shade called out into the walkie-talkie once again. Still no answer, and Shade was beginning to get really worried. "Ok everyone, new plan." He said once again. "We may have a bigger problem, Dark isn't responding and I have no idea why, suspend any search for Phoenix and let's begin looking for Dark, something tells me that if we find him, we will find Phoenix too." Shade ordered as he walked down one of the corridors.

"Roger." Robin's voice came over the speaker.

"Roger." The rest said.

"Dark, where in the hell are you? It's not like we don't know this tower like the back of our hands, so why is it so damn hard to find…" he trailed off, he had come across the bloodied hallway where Dark had first found Phoenix. "Everyone come in! Quick!" Shade yelled.

"What is wrong Shade?" Starfires concerned voice came over the speaker.

"Everyone report to the hallway of Dark's room, there is some pretty nasty shit going on here and you all have to see it to believe it!"

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"Oh my God!" Raven muttered as she approached the hallway where Shade was standing. It was just the two of them for the time being.

"Yeah, I know. Pretty nasty isn't it. Something tells me that when we follow this hall, we will find what we were looking for."

"Well, I hope you're right, and I hope the others get here as soon as possible because this is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. If this WAS from Phoenix, I never knew there was this much blood in one person at one time." Raven said, concluding her statement.

"Oh yeah, there is quite a bit, there can be about seven pints of blood in a humans body at any given time, and trust me, if you think this is a lot, then there is plenty more to come, this is not nearly enough." Shade said, sounding quite intelligent to Raven as she had her back turned to the boy, attempting to hide her smile.

The rest of the group arrived, and in perfect timing too, Raven was beginning to become a little uncomfortable, not because she didn't like Shade, in fact it was because of the opposite. She did like him, ever since that kiss on the top of the tower last time. She liked him, and she wanted him to know, but she didn't know how to show him, and being with him for more than a few minutes without anyone else was too much for her to bare, for now anyway.

"What's up Shade…" Robin said trailing off, just as Shade had when he entered the hallway.

"I don't think I need to tell you, I'm pretty sure this hallway speaks for it's self." Shade said right back to Robin. "Ok guys, we need to follow this hall. I don't know what to expect down the hall, but if we are going to go anywhere, it's down that way." He said, pointing down the bloodied hall. "Everyone ready? Titans, GO!" He yelled out.

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As they walked the hall, everyone became more and more sick. The sights were just repulsive there was blood everywhere. It was all over the walls, on the floor and somehow, even made its way to the ceiling. It was almost like instead of dripping down, the blood was going up.

"My god, I hope we find them soon, I can't stand being here any longer." Beast Boy said aloud so that the others could hear him.

"No one is going anywhere until we find the both of them." Robin said as he turned his head towards the changeling, but kept walking forward.

They kept walking when the blood was beginning to grow more and more in its quantity. They believed they were approaching the source when they saw an open door at the end of the hall.

"It's Dark's room!" Frosty called out, as the entire team broke into a sprint and reached the door.

They got to the door and looked through, but the light blinded them for a few seconds. When their eyes adjusted to the sight, there they were. Dark and Phoenix. One kneeling before the beautiful girl and the girl lying on the floor covered in blood and mutilated.

Starfire let out a large gasp as she fell towards the floor, but Robin caught her mid-fall and placed her on the floor gently.

Cyborg, just keeled over and vomited at the side of the door.

The team just walked over slowly to where their leader was kneeling in the center of the room. Shade approached him first and gently tapped him on his shoulder.

Dark looked up into Shade's eyes, his face covered in the blood of Phoenix and tears streaming from his face. He stood up under his own power, again looked at Shade and then just embraced him and began to cry once again. His love was gone, her soul had left, she was no longer a person, but a spirit in search of an appropriate place.'

All through the tower there was only the sound of silence, except for the faint sobbing coming from down that bloodied hallway.