A Home Lost
A/N: Noticing my reviewers (THANK YOU!)
Disclaimer: I don't own TT.
A man was hunched over his laptop, his eye quickly scanning the document on the screen. He had read it so many times. It was an online newspaper article. Its title was reflected in the man's grey eye.
'Child killed in super powered robbery'
Suddenly a metallic voice said: "You've got mail." The man opened his cyber mail box and skimmed the message inside. His miserable eye flickered a moment with anger, and hope. He closed his laptop with a satisfied click and placed it on the glass coffee table. The uniform was hung up and covered in a thin layer of dust inside of his closet. He swung the doors open defiantly and smiled triumphantly as he ceremoniously put on the uniform.
His son would be avenged.
Beast Boy was sleeping soundly when he heard something. His pointed ear twitched slightly. He opened an emerald eye, glanced around and saw nothing, but still remained wary. A few minutes passed and Beast Boy began to feel sleep stow over him again. Then, he smelled smoke and jolted awake. Smoke? Either Star's cooking again or something's really wrong. He thought sleepily. He theninstinctively turned into a wolf and howled to alert the others. Raven was the first one woken by the howl. She leapt from her bed and smelled the smoke immediately. Thinking only of stopping the fire, she quickly flew towards where the smoke was originating, causing her eyes to water and send her into a momentary coughing fit. The fire had started in the living room.
"BEAST BOY, WAKE UP THE OTHERS!" Raven yelled above the crackling of the flames. She then attempted to contain the flames using a wall of black energy. Robin dropped down from the second floor, and landed lightly behind Raven. "I won't be able to contain the fire much longer." Raven stated, calmly, but with a slight note of urgency creeping into her voice. Robin nodded and jumped back up to the second floor, he began grabbing everything he could at a feverish pace. As soon as his arms were full he jumped back down and ran outside. Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy soon came down; arms as full as Robin's were and ran out the door. Beads of sweat had now appeared on Raven's face, she was about to collapse. There was a loud shatter, of wood and metal, and as if synchronized with the destruction, Raven's hands fell to her sides, her eyes rolled back, and she slid to the floor, the fire consuming the world around her. For a few moments the flames taunted Raven, singeing her hair and clothes. Then in a flurry Cyborg broke down the door, and in a blur Starfire flew in, grabbed Raven and flew back outside. And while Raven cried in her feverish sleep, cradled by her only friends. The others, slow cold tears on their cheeks, watched as their only home, far from being saved, burned and collapsed, with a loud sound. A sound like the dying cry of a mournful beast.