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Teen Titans: Symphony of the Darkness
Book 1: The Silence Breaks
Prologue
By Saint Raven
The room was large, filled with shadows produced by the one small, solitary window situated high up on the rear wall. A lone figure sat slumped in a high-backed chair. His breathing was slow and labored, as if his lungs were filled with coal dust. He raised something large and ovular to his lips, and drank deeply from it.
The figure smiled, lifting his eyes to the several large screens in front of him. Nearly two dozen televisions and computers faced him, each receiving a different camera feed placed at strategic points throughout Jump City; the local mall, several businesses through the downtown area, and even a couple of churches.
However, three of the feeds interested him far more than any of the others. First, one camera showed him a birds-eye view of a dark cavern, filled with charred earth and cracked walls. In the center of the cavern, on a small pedestal, stood a statue of a long-haired girl. The girl's face was frozen in agony, as if begging to be set free.
Smirking, the figure turned to the next feed. Another dark room, this time filled with two men. One, an older gentleman, was serving tea to the other, a tall, broad-shouldered man in full body armor. His face was hidden by an orange and black mask, with one frightening eye peering out from behind it.
"Oh yes," the figure purred, stroking the screen lightly. "My Queen will have great use for you, dark one, that is, once I have seen your face…"
The figure sipped again from the chalice in his hand, before turning to the final monitor. It showed a large and brightly lit living room that was currently filled with a collection of teenagers in various costumes gathered around a long table that had been placed in the center of the room. The teens joked and laughed with one another onscreen, but the man in the chair paid no attention to them. He stared at the two empty seats at the table. Situated next to each other, one had a card with a black bird on it. Next to it, the other empty seat had a card with a pink fox.
The figure raised the chalice to his lips one last time, draining the fluid in on large gulp. He tossed the object behind him. The chalice hit the floor and kept rolling across it.
"Two angels, one of darkness, one of light," the figure whispered to the air. "Consumed by their brothers' hatred, the Queen of Infinity shall be born."
The chalice rolled into the small shaft of light created by the room's one window, revealing the object to be the head of a young woman, her face frozen in terror. The head continued to roll until it rested against the women's decapitated corpse.
"And the Queen will consume all other deities, ruling all with an unbreakable fist. And her most loyal servant shall be rewarded above all others."
The figure laughed maniacally into the darkness as he pressed a button on the arm of the chair, and the room was plunged into darkness. The only visable object remained the body of the dead woman.
The figure's voice floated out of the darkness. "You're lucky," it said to the woman's body. "Your suffering is over. For this world's," it breathed, "is only beginning."
Author's note: I apologize for the lateness of this entry, but I've had computer problems for the entire Christmas break. Oh well, I'm back on track now, and hopefully will be posting Chapter 1 within the next couple of days. Again, sorry it's so short, the next chapter will be much longer.