Chapter Five: Extinguished

Plunging into the raging water, Blaze struggled to catch light. She was hoping that somehow she could bend enough of the air to help pull herself out. It was no use. The pain was too unbearable. Her skin was disintegrating before her eyes, flames still struggling against it's nemesis. The water was sinking into every cavity in her body. She tried to scream, to release some of the pain. It didn't work. She only inhaled more water. It was inside her now, in her core. Her fire was burning out, and her light was fading.

She couldn't tell whether she was sinking further or if her eyes were just failing. It was getting dark. She couldn't ignore the pain. It was engulfing her. She couldn't see anymore. Only feel. The pain and the agony, but something else. Something was pulling on the back of her neck. It didn't help. Whoever was tugging at her couldn't save her now. "Robin," she managed one more whisper as she faded into the darkness.

Robin! Where's Robin!

Her father was there, Zeus, sitting on his golden thrown. He didn't say a word, just pointed underneath her feet. She was floating on a cloud. It wasn't her though. No more skin, no more clothes. Just burning fury. She didn't even have a specific form anymore.

I want to see where Robin is!

Zeus stood, waving his hand in front of him. Robin's picture appeared in front of him. he was still underwater, but here was no movement. He was still conscious, but he had been down there for so long.

Wait. Who's pulling him out?

"The same person who tried to save you." Zeus roared, yielding his daughter in his hand. "The one who pushed you in."

Thenwhosaved me?

"I did. I brought you back to Mount Olympus. You are safe, but only barely. Must of your previous self I could not save."

She did seem lighter floating.

No! I want to go back! Please, father! I want to go back!

"Why would you want to go back there? Haven't I made it enjoyable for you here at home?"

Father, I must go back! Please. Give me skin, give me hair, give me my life back.

Zeus frowned. He didn't like the idea, but he had seen her fate. She was right, she was needed on Earth more than here. "Very well. Produce your screen around yourself."

What?

" When you came home, I had to take you back in time to right before you fell. I had to save you that way. To spare the fabrics of time, you can bend the light around yourself now and I will place you right where you were when you fell. You will not die this time."

I died?

"Do as I say!"

She did. Her light screen appeared in a ball around her.

Water was rushing towards her. She plunged into the water, and breathed a sigh of relief when her light screen (more like ball), withstood the initial blow of the raging water.

Blaze frantically searched for Robin. She could see him. He was being pulled out by Red X, who flung Robin's limp body onto his disc and then came in her direction. Blaze rose in her ball. "Try copying this!" she yelled towards him. Red X was in awe, possibly thinking about how he could copy it.

Blaze aloud a hole to form in the pink light, she stuck her hand out of it and shot an inferno right at the thief. It his him square on, but when she withheld it, he had once again vanished.

Robin was falling again. This time Blaze caught him, and directed both Robin and herself towards the shore. Once on land, she gently placed Robin down in the sand. She didn't know how hurt her was, if at all. He was unconscious at this point, dwindling between dream and reality. She needed to get help, to wake the others. But she was so tired. She tried to make it up the slope to the tower, but collapsed before reaching it.

Did I really die?

Note:

I do realize that this chapter is extremly, extremly short. i don't understand why, but it is really difficult to write long chapters for teen titans. at least for me it is. i know some of you are aggrivated by this, but believe me, i am too. please be patient, i'm trying to work on it.

i hope the drama makes up for the shortness, at least a little.