Chapter 14
She looked around the corner, violet eyes searched for her foe, she wasn't here she was safe…for the moment. Raven moved as silently as possible as she made her way across the room, it was silent and all was still, almost unnaturally still, she didn't know where the rest of her team was only that they had left her here alone to face the horror here by herself. They had know ahead of time what was going to happen but had neglected to forewarn her, a scowl crossed her face, how they could abandon her she didn't know but payback was a bitch and Raven had her number.
A sound from across the room had Raven soaring across the room and ducking behind the couch, she crouched as low as she could so as to not to be seen. Ravens heart started to pound in her chest, she lowered her breathing so that it was practically unnoticeable, sweat beaded on her forehead and her upper lip, she could not be found, and she will not be found.
The sound of footsteps could be heard as the person walked by and stopped on the opposite side of where Raven laid in hiding. Raven stopped breathing as she listen as she tried to find a way out, right now she was trapped, one wrong move from herself and she would be discovered, one right move from the person standing opposite her and she would be discovered. She only hoped that her luck would hold out and the person would leave without seeing her.
Raven heard the person sigh in defeat and walk away; she waited until she heard the kitchen door close and the footsteps had faded to slowly stand up. Looking around the empty room she sighed in relief, she was safe once again, but for how long, she didn't know. She had to escape, quickly.
Raven continued her journey across the room as silently as possible; she was almost to the door and false since of security feel over her. She was almost safe, she was-
"Friend Raven!" Starfire tackled Raven to the ground, just two feet away from the door, just two feet away from salvation, she held her dearest friend in a hug that could only be rivaled by another Tamaranian. Ever since her battle with the woman of red heirs Starfire had taken to spending more time with dearest friend Raven.
Standing up, still holding Raven close to her Starfire made her way to the kitchen, "Friend Raven! I had thought that you had departed with Boyfriend Robin and Friend Cyborg and Beast Boy!"
As Starfire hauled Raven to the kitchen where her current creation of horrors waited them, Raven growled under her breath, "Damn them. May the Gods have mercy on their souls if I get hold of them!"
…Jump City Mall…
Nightwing sighed in relief as he took a bite of the pizza in front of him, as much as he loved Starfire he did not love her cooking. As Nightwing ate, he ignored the occasional surprise, awed stares of the few people in the pizza parlor. By now he was use to it and his thoughts drifted to his team, they were his family, and they meant everything to him and he would do everything he could to protect them.
There was a time in his life that not everyone had the mettle to stand up to him. As Batman's protégé he made villains run in fear of him. As the leader of a group of superheroes he was renowned enough to be awed and respected, and Nightwing made sure to use all of his ability to keep his family safe.
Nightwing clenched his teeth against the guilt that swelled inside him. Raven was like his sister and the fact that he held a bond with her didn't help the knowledge that he couldn't do anything to help her in her current situation. All he could do is offer all the support he could for now.
A flash of red from the corner of his eyes caught his attention, Nightwing resisted the erg to swiftly turn and observe, and instead he took a sip of his soda and carefully looked to his left. Immediately he was reminded of what Starfire had told him about her encounter with the woman of red hair and Ravens brush with the man of red hairs. There several yards away was a man and woman, both just towering over the consumers shopping in the mall. They each possessed a full head of vibrant red hair that almost seemed as if their head was on fire, Nightwing watched as the man shocked his head at whatever the woman said. The woman pouted and pointed to something that he couldn't see, light shimmered off of the thin wristlet the woman wore.
Nightwing knew, despite the lack of evidence, that these people were ones and the same that Star and Raven encountered, regardless of there human persona he could feel that same otherworldly aura around them that he felt about Raven when she used her powers.
Nightwing moved to confront the pair when a scream across the food court and the alarm from his communicator caught his attention, glancing away from the vivacious pair he looked for the disturbance when he fond none flipped open his communicator, it was Plasmas and apparently he had evolved, closing his communicator Nightwing quickly glanced to where he last saw the two suspicious individuals only to discover that they had disappeared.
Growling in anger he flung his boomerang over the panicking crowd and soared his way to the where Plasmas was.
…Titians Tower, Med Lab…
Cyborg was bent over a metal work tablet; a wired flashing head gear was covering the organic part of his face giving him a ghoulish look, one of his fingers were transformed into a small flame thrower, he was working on two small bracelets, a project Nightwing had assigned him. One of the bracelets was colored hot pink; a thin sheet of high pressured glass separated the technology, which greatly resembled that of which covered over half his body, from the damage of the outside world. Next to some tools laid another bracelet, this one green, with the same glass sheet protection it.
Cyborg was not alone in the med lab. Strapped to a bed, not three feet away from him, with ebony bands of magic, that doubled as a restrained on her magic, was one pink eyes jinx sorceress who was aptly named Jinx.
Jinx strained against the bands of magic that held her tightly against the bed, her pink eyes were glazed over with a hidden desire that seemed to infesting her normal thoughts and beliefs. Pink sparks of magic escaped but before they could do any damage ebony smoke smothered them like flames.
"Dude, what dose this do?" the green changeling was also with Cyborg although, unlike Jinx, he was not strapped to a bed, instead he was wondering around the room pointing and touching things he wasn't suppose to. Beast Boy was leaning against the metal table nest to Cyborg playing with a gadget. His tall lanky form stood almost even with Cyborgs' bulky one, no longer was he the short skinny 4'2 of his adolescent time, but now stood at 5'12 and he was built like a swimmer. Lean and tall, unlike Nightwing and Cyborg, his muscles weren't obvious at first glance, but if he were to go shirtless, for the rest of his life, he would get his own fair share of girls.
"A DNA laser, don't touch it," Cyborg plucked the gadget out of Best Boys hands placed it on the table out of Beast Boys reach and continued to work on the pink and green bracelets, "I told you, you can stay in here if you don't mess with my stuff, I really don't won't to have to explain to Robin as to why you're missing an arm, leg, or an eye."
"But, Dude, I am sooooo bored!" Slumping to the floor Beast Boy started to play with a disregarded device. "Don't you have something, I dunno, fun to do?"
Snorting in annoyance Cyborg didn't look up from his project, "You don't have to stay here," ginning malevolency he stared down at Beast Boy, "in fact, if you think its so boring here you can go and spend time with Starfire and Raven."
Beast Boy shuddered and gave the thingamabob in his hands a twist, "No way man, last time I ate something Star made I was stuck in bathroom for weeks!"
Chuckling Cyborg turned the flame thrower that once was a finger back into a finger, "I know; we share the same bathroom."
"And if I did you're going to have to scrape me off the ceiling when Raven blasts me."
"Hehe," Cyborg removed the odd headwear from his head, "do you think that was really fair of us, leaving Raven to the whims of Starfire?"
"It was either her or me, and I, for one, vote for her."
"Hehe, same here."
Sounds of struggling interrupted whatever Beast Boy was going to say next, Beast Boy pointed to Jinx, who was still struggling to get free, the ebony magical bands would not yield to her; tape was placed around her mouth to muffle anything she was trying to scream. "Why the hell she's here?"
"Dunno," Cyborg flipped the green bracelet over to some final examination of it, "Nightwing just told me to construct something that would suppress her magic."
"Why?"
"Dunno."
"Why?"
"Dunno."
"Why?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"Hehe!"
Cyborg turned to Beast Boy, his hands out stretched to strangle him before he could take another step though the whole building seemed to vibrate, the vibration ran through the wall and the floors and the three occupants of the medic-bay, although one of them was oblivious to it. Grabbing hold of something, Beast Boy and Cyborg tried to hold there ground, until the vibrating ended, Beast Boy was unfortunate to have nothing to grasp onto when he stood up and thus he kept on falling flat on his ass. When it had finally seemed that all had calmed down the two of them looked at each other as Beast Boy stood up on wobbly legs and tried his best to keep from falling back down, "Dude! What the hell was that?"
"Dunno."
"Hehe!"
"Beast Boy!"
