Here you are. The next chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Sorry if it's a little short again.
Chapter Six
The Titans quickly gathered the item they held most dear.
Robin grabbed a briefcase from under his bed. He opened it carefully, looked at it's contents and removed one.
Beast Boy searched through his entire room before remembering where his item was. He had to pull out everything from his closet before he finally found the large wooden box. He opened it and slowly went through each of the precious items and picked out the most meaningful one.
Cyborg went to his room and looked around carefully. He walked to a wall and lifted a secret panel revealing a coded safe. He punched in the numbers and opened it revealing another lock. Several locks later, her retrieved his item gingerly.
Starfire rushed through the entire tower gathering things up and laying them on her bed. It was very hard for her to pick which item, but she finally finished.
They were all ready. Now all they had to do was wait.
***
Once the time came, they all paced around, carefully holding their items.
Rama came at the same time he had the other night. He looked at each of them and signaled for Robin to step forward.
Robin walked up to Rama dignified and standing straight. Rama saw nothing in his hands.
"Where is your item?" Rama asked.
Robin, without a word, pulled it out from his pocket. He handed it to Rama without a complaint.
In his hands was a picture of his parents. They were all together, the three of them. They were a family. It was the last picture before his parents died.
Robin walked back to his friends. Rama motioned Cyborg up.
Cyborg stepped forward and produced a football from behind his back.
"A football?" Rama questioned.
"It was given to me by my sister on Christmas just a week before the accident." He said sadly before stepping back into his place.
Starfire stepped forward. She carried a bag. She removed the bag from her shoulder and dumped it's contents on the ground.
There were several items and she picked each one up explaining what it was and why it was important.
"This is the first leaf to fall from the Herusha tree the day I left Tamaran, and this is my mustard, and this is the first polish of the nail I have ever had, and…"
"That's quite enough." Rama ordered. Starfire left it at his feet and stepped back quietly.
Beast Boy slowly walked forward. He brought his hands forward from behind his bad revealing a necklace. It was beautiful and was made of wood and had jewels encrusted through out and was woven together with cloth. It was small and beautiful.
"What is this?" Rama asked.
"It's a Tribal…. Uh… Well, basically it was my mothers given to her by my father when they got married, I was planning on giving it to uh… someone special…" Beast Boy kinda explained.
Rama left all the items on the ground.
The Titans looked at him intently.
Rama turned away from the Titans.
"Hey!" Robin yelled. "What about Raven?! We kept our part of the deal!"
"One of you lied." Rama simply stated before turning and leaving.
***
The Titans were perplexed. Which one of them lied? They went through each reason that each item held, and they all seemed correct. They couldn't believe one of them had lied, so they didn't. Rama had been the one who lied. He had to have been.
Now what were they to do.
***
Rama had returned to the building where he and Raven had been staying.
It was empty.
Everything was still in it's place, but Raven was gone. Nowhere to be found. Rama at first thought she had left for home, but found that was not the case when he found a paw print in the dust.
Durga had been here. Durga had taken Raven.
I will not post the next chapter until after Christmas. I'm sure you all don't want to read it on Christmas and I don't want to post it. So yeah. And it's not ready...anyway. Merry Christmas.