Teen Titans

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Chapter 5- Riddle Me This

Maiden- The last chapter was a bit of a cliffhanger so this one will tell you what happens to Starfire and wether or not the other Titans can rescue Raven, Falcon, and Bumble Bee.

And just a little note from me to the readers of this fic, I understand that OCs may not be everyone's favorite thing to read about, but please give our fics a chance. Just because the fic features OCs dosen't mean that they take away from the original characters. All our fics will center around the main characters (Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, Bumble Bee ect.)

Robin dashed through the empty halls of Titans Tower, 10 minutes after Starfire had been found. He skidded to a stop outside of the Med Bay and heard a faint beeping comming from within. Once the security code had been typed in, the doors wushed open. Starfire's lifeless form laied ontop of a hospital bed. The Jaison twins stood over her, monitoring her vitals. Joy looked up as she senced Robin enter the room. She sighed deeply and went to inform the boy wonder.

"Nothing is broken, but much of her body is badly bruised. Her heart rate is rather slow, but her breathing had stablelized."

Robin let out a breath of relief and approached the alien beauty. Even in her broken, bloody and bruised state, she was still the most beautiful thing Richard Greyson had ever seen. Robin scanned her body with his eyes and saw that most of her clothing was in shambles. But what worried him the most were the blue, red and purple marks on the inside of her legs.

"Was she...?" he asked, not able to finish his sentence.

"We haven't had time to run that test yet." Aj replied, knowing what he implyed. All the childish joking and sarcastic humor her voice usually held was gone, replaced by a flat tone that Robin didn't like. Joy winced from Robin's sudden emotional change and AJ looked down at Starfire seriously.

"We'll need you to wait outside while we examine her." Robin nodded and turned his head back to Starfire. He brought his gloved hand up and stroked her cheek gently.

"Don't worry, Star. You'll be ok." he whispered softly before leaning in and kissing her lips gingerly. AJ watched and smiled at this, despite the stark and gloomy mood of their situation. Robin noticed and smiled at his smallest "younger sister" as she smiled softly." Keep smiling AJ, when the psychic smiles we all have hope that there's a future worth fighting for..."

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"Yo, BB! Ya got anything yet?" Cyborg asked as he and Bohusk followed the changeling through a maze of hallways. Beast Boy's current state was a blood hound, trying to find the other girls by using his nose, rather than his brain. Beast Boy turned and shook his head as he morphed back into a human.

"The only person here was Starfire...and Slade." the sound of the villian's name was like poison in the air.

"Hey! I just thought of somethin'!" Cyborg shouted as an epiphany occured. "Yall two have a mind link with the twins, right?" Gar and Jhonen nodded. "Then why don't you two try opening that up? Maybe we can find them through yall's bonds."

"Ya know what, Robo Cop? That's just crazy enough, it might work!" Bohusk said with a grin. He and Beast Boy closed thier eyes and tried to focus on the girl they were trying to reach. Both could feel the mind link opening, but couldn't see anything besides fuzzy grey images.

"I got nothing." Bohusk said when he opened his eyes.

"Yeah, me either, dude." Beast Boy added. "They must be unconsious, even to themselfs."

"How can they be unconcious to themselfs?" Cyborg asked.

"Ever heard of a dreamless sleep? Well, that's what this is like. Both twins are knocked out, but instead of thier minds generating dreams, they've shut down."

Suddenly, Beast Boy's comunicator went off. He flipped the devise open to reveal none other than Slade.

"What do you want?" Gar hissed.

"Why to give you Titans your riddle, of course." the villian said in a sugar coated voice. "Do you except it, or shall I rid you of your girlfriends early?"

All 3 men nodded for Slade to continue.

"This time, i'll ask you a riddle. To see if your problem solving skills are better than your memories."

"Just get on with it ya freak!" Jhonen shouted.

"Very well...Solve this riddle; At night, they come without being fetched. By day, they are lost without being stolen. What are they?"

"Stars," Beast Boy said suddenly. The other two looked at the green boy curiously and Slade growled in anger. "Raven asked me that same riddle the other night; I couldn't sleep so I went up to the roof and she was sitting there; staring at the stars. She asked me if I wanted to hear a riddle and I said yes, she loves testing me with hard ones. It never really made sence until now. But remembering that night under the stars with Raven made the answer clear."

"Boy can figure that all out but he can't figure out how to work a pay phone?!" Jhonen cried smacking his forehead. Cyborg laughed at this and Gar growled under his breath.

"Well at least he used his brain when we really needed it..." Cyborg said with a grin.

"Congradulations, Titans." Slade said with a rather pissed off voice. "You have earned one clue to where your precious Raven is."

Gar quickly turned all of his sences on his communicator, hell bent on memorizing every word that came out of Slade's mouth. "Or shall I say, another riddle. I hope young Garfield can figure this one out as well...Where water flows, I there reside, behind humans creation is where I do hide. While inside I dream of how up I could fly and rising outside I see all under the sky. Where am I?" with the last words spoken, the screen went black. Beast Boy's gloved hand gripped the yellow and black electronic until he could see cracks in the outter casing.

"What the hell did he mean by that!?" Cyborg bellowed.

"Beats the hell outta me, but we....hold up! I got it!" Jhonen screamed as he ran as fast as his two feet could carry him outside of the building.

Maiden- Were you able to figure out the last riddle? If you were, review and let me know your guess. If you guess correctly, then you'll see your name mentioned in an author note in the next chapter. And a special congrats to my sis Emma who guessed the first riddle right! R&R!