"It's so hot in here!"
"Turn on the lights."
"Okay, WHO TOUCHED ME?!"
"Heh, my bad…"
The voices of the confused teenagers floated into the hot air of the auditorium. Victor reacted quickly and switched the lights on, looking at the thousands of lined chairs standing before him and his friends.
"Richard, would you mind explaining why we are spending our dance night in here?"
Karen said in a calm voice, but dripping with annoyance.
The group of friends eyed him suspiciously for some seconds, until he got his hands out of his pockets and managed to speak.
"I…uh.." He cleared his throat and raised his head, looking to his friends eyes, he bowed his head once again, figuring it would be easier if he just wouldn't look at them while talking.
"Someone is going to attack downstairs." He said shuffling his feet, suddenly amazed by his black polished shoes.
"What do you mean attack?" Roy raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.
"Garret is looking for something and he is coming to get it." He waited for mere seconds and raised his head. Garfield and Kori had complete terror plastered on their faces, as well as the rest of the Titans, well, teenagers.
"Dear…" Kori whispered.
"So that means that everyone downstairs is in danger!" Wally ran to the door as fast as he could, but no one followed.
"What, are we really going to leave them out there in the hands of this, psycho?!" He said, and the room fell silent.
"Terra will take care of them, Wally. She was the one who told me to take you guys here." Richard said. Wally's grip on the doorknob softened, as he came back to the group of troubled friends.
"When will he be here then… what are we supposed to…"
Garfield's sentence became interrupted when they heard the sharp sound of gunshots downstairs. They covered their ears immediately and kept quiet, trying to make out whatever happened downstairs.
Hopefully, nothing bad happened.
Meanwhile downstairs, there was total silence, except for silent whimpers and shuffling feet from nervous teenagers looking for an exit.
Garret stood in the middle of the room, gun in hand, aiming to the roof. Terra was beside him, looking to the floor.
"Where is Anders?" He said calmly at first. Heads turned and muttering started to rise, making the room a little noisier. Everyone seemed to be looking for her, but she wasn't there, and neither were any of her friends.
"WHERE IS SHE?!" Garret threatened to pull the trigger to a random teacher and all the students fell to the floor by his desperate and angry voice. Terra turned to him, hate filled her eyes.
"Nobody has seen them, you're losing your time."
"I don't want to listen to you." He said simply. Terra kept her mouth shut, not only for her own good, but for fear of blurting something out.
Silence fell over the room once again, and then a girly voice was heard from within the crowd.
"I know where they are!" All of the students turned their heads to the direction of the voice, as well did Garret and Terra. Her heart dropped and seemed to stop beating, and a cold shiver ran down her spine.
"What?..."
A petite blond walked to the center of the room, wearing a pink headband and a long sparkly pink dress, with shoulder length curls framing her evil little smirk.
"They're in the auditorium." Kitten said.
"Excellent." Garret pushed Terra to the side and started moving slowly through the crown, reaching for the door.
"WHY YOU LITTLE…" Terra screamed. She went over to Kitten, her face inches away from hers. "If anybody dies tonight, it's your fault."
"Don't try and scare me, it won't work." Kitten said crossing her arms.
"ARE YOU STUPID?" Terra pointed at the door. "You just told a guy with a gun where they are, what do you think he'll do with that, play cops and thieves?!"
Kitten stuttered for a moment, but kept her ice cold expression. Terra raised an eyebrow suspiciously.
"Don't try to act all bitchy on me, it's no use. You know what you did, and it's your entire fault."
She started for the door, by the direction Garret went. "Hey, but you'll finally win! Kori will die but its okay, because you'll have no one to fight with, excellent job Kitten!" She slammed the door behind her, leaving one emotion opening up in Kitten's heart.
Guilt.
"Yo guys… I hear footsteps." Victor said.
"Hurry up, find somewhere to hide, a room or something, lock the doors and turn off the lights." Richard lost no time, and each one of them moved quickly. When he was sure everyone was hidden, he turned off the lights, and made his way through the darkness to the control room where he crouched being blocked by a bunch of boxes.
"So much for saving the day" He thought.
And his mind fell silent as the door was busted open with another shot. The only sound he heard now was his silent and nervously irregular breaths, and Garret's footsteps.
He saw the light flowing inside the auditorium once again from the huge glass windows in the control room and hugged his knees.
"I just hope he doesn't find her…"
He took Kori's hand and led her into the hall, disappearing in the darkness of it. Soon enough, Wally, Jinx and Karen followed. Roy, Jericho and Raven went past Victor and Richard and left them both alone.