Somewhere In Time: Nope, not Slade. You're right, not his style. Good news is, you find out this chapter! And, don't worry, I won't give up on this story! Life….has just been a bitch lately. Boy problems. All I need to say right? But, everything should go smoother and I should have the last two chapters typed and posted before January is up.
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22Sango22: Anna is Eva's mother. Sorry, she hasn't made much of an appearance…wait…did I even name her before? O.o
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WARNING! AS YOU WILL NOTICE THIS STORY IS RATED T. NOW YOU ALL MAYBE WONDERING WHY SINCE NOBODY EVEN SO MUCH AS SWORE IN THIS STORY SO FAR, WELL, THIS CHAPTER IS THE REASON! AS FOR WHAT I AM TRYING TO WARN YOU ABOUT, DON'T READ THIS WHILE EATING…OR POSSIBLEY IN THE DARK…OR POSSIBLY BEFORE GOING TO BED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans…darn.
Chapter 6: Koray
"She doesn't hate you. And she doesn't blame you."
Those were words were simple, but, somehow they made Beastboy feel like he had a weight lifted off his shoulder.
"How do you know that?" He asked, his voice betraying the relief that he felt hearing her say that. He said more to silence the tiny voice trying to push the guilt back. "Did you know her or something?"
"I…don't know…" Eva said as she felt a swirl of emotions well up in her chest; the flashes that she had brought up too many emotions that she didn't understand. Eva let Beastboy go, pulling away, but, unnoticed by the two, when she lifted her hand, a black handprint was left. It slowly disappeared into Beastboy.
Beastboy tossed and turned in his bed, sleep eluding him for most of the night. But, sometime around midnight, he finally fell into a dream-like state.
He felt calm, an unnatural calm that Beastboy had never known himself. But, he saw it all the time in a certain someone and as the wind pushed at his back, causing a deep blue cloak to envelope him, he knew who he was dreaming of. No…more like seeing something through her eyes.
But he didn't really have time to contemplate this as he sensed someone approach behind him. It was in a different way then what Beastboy was used to. It was more like he could feel a fuzzy chill from somewhere behind him rather than the use of scent and body heat that Beastboy was used to using to find someone.
"Out here all alone, my sweet dark bird?" The man asked, his calm, icy voice cause the hairs on the back of Beastboy's neck to stand on end.
"Who are you?" Beastboy asked, on edge and wanting to turn, but his body wouldn't let him. He also noticed that it was not his voice that came out. It was a voice he knew and missed fiercely. Raven's.
Everything became fuzzy again and he found himself with one foot groundless and starting to fall backward. His eyes traveled from a man masked in shadows holding a blade dripping with blood to movement in trees.
Who he saw was quiet clear. Her long black hair and deep blue eyes were unique in Beastboy's mind. It was Eva.
Beastboy gasped, sitting up quickly in his bed as his sheets stuck to his sweaty skin. He panted, trying to calm himself from the nightmare as he tried to understand what he had seen.
His mind ended up on what Eva had said before she left the tower.
Beastboy looked up at her, gently grabbing her hand. He didn't know why, his body did it on his own. All he did know was that something deep within his subconscious didn't want to let her leave his side. "How can you not know?"
She hesitated, that was clear in her deep blue eyes. "I…can't remember anything before two months ago."
"What!? What happened?"
"I don't know. I was attacked…but that's as much as they could figure out."
His sheets laid abandoned on his bed as Beastboy headed down the hall. There were some things that he needed to find out.
It was still dark when Eva opened her eyes. The clock that sat on the table beside her bed read 1am. And, as she lay there, she wondered what woke her up. It was about that moment when she realized the lamp on the other side of her room was on that she also noticed the wave of malicious joy that filled the air in a sickly joyous feeling. Like the joy that is felt when torturing cute animals. So, to say that Eva felt sick at the feeling was an understatement. She quickly pushed herself up and turned towards the lit lamp.
There sat a man, grinning like he had a secret and gathered joy out of watching you figure it out. His brilliant golden eyes were what drew Eva's gaze first. They shone so brightly in the room the seemed almost to glow, but these same eyes also filled her with fear. What made them glow so brightly also shown with the deep level of insanity this man had fallen into that would have rivaled the Joker's. Then she noticed the blood that was on his cheek, dripping slowly down, drawing Eva's eyes to the white, blood stain tunic he wore. He had one leg bent and had a hand on the foot, the other was on the ground, but both legs were covered by a tattered dark pair of jeans with tears through the knees. Both were also stained with blood.
But what really caught her eyes was the large blade that was in his hands. The wooden handle was so stained with blood it was now a permanent red. The blade resembled that of a machete, but the end curled up to a point and in about the middle, it spiked out. These spikes would tear painfully through flesh rather then cut it nicely. The shine it reflected from the lamp only served to contrast the dark crimson liquid that dripped off the surface of the metal blade.
"Good evening." He greeted, sounding pleasant with a voice so calm, it actually made him seem even madder. "Do you remember me?"
Fear welled up inside Eva as she tried to shake her head no, but, then:
She was looking over the cliff again. She followed the stranger's silent movement towards her until he stopped several feet away.
"Out here all alone, are you, my sweet dark bird?" The newcomer's voice was calm, but filled with dangerous excitement. Her head started to feel foggy as his rush of uncontrolled emotions settled around her, cloaking her in what felt like a suffocating fog.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Koray."
She turned, now on guard. Koray…Koray meant death in one of Earth's many languages, she couldn't remember which one. She lifted up her hands, ready to defend instantly at the sight of the blade in his hands. Eva wanted to run, but, the body she stood in stayed put, not seemingly disturbed too much by this. She wondered absently if she was seeing Beastboy's missing teammate, Raven's last moments. Koray did call her a dark bird.
"Azarath metrion zintho-" She started to chant, feeling a swell of power in her chest. But, before she could finish the chant, his blade tore through her side, sending her stumbling backward a step. He was quicker then she expected.
Her eyes landed on his golden ones.
Left foot back
Her blood pushed passed her hand trying to hold it in.
Right foot back
She noticed movement by the trees
Left foot back
She saw a girl with long black hair
Right foot back
The ground was gone.
Her vision turned now on the sky as she fell.
The lamp exploded, dragging Eva from the vision. The room is thrown into total darkness, but she didn't notice any of this as she made a dash to the door, tumbling out of bed.
Koray was just as quick and he managed to grab the end of her purple nightgown, tearing it up to her thigh. But he wasn't able to stop her as she ran out of the room; the only thing on her mind was getting away from him. She dashed quickly down the hall, faintly noticing the shower of glass from the frames on the wall and from the lights above that followed in her wake. She prayed that her mother was still asleep on the couch.
Eva only dared to look behind her when she was running down the stairs that lead from the second level to the kitchen on the main level, but she soon realized that was a bad decision. The moment her foot touched the tiled floor of the kitchen, and she tried turning to run into the living room that connected to it, her foot slipped out from underneath her, sending her falling hard on her side onto the hard tile. She slowly propped herself up onto her elbow before she noticed that she was lying in a warm liquid. When she looked, all she saw was red. Her elbow was in a pool of blood, streak marks cascading from there from where her foot slipped in it. Her body went numb as her eyes followed the stream leading to the pool, following it back to the source.
Eva wished she hadn't. Before her was could barely be considered as a human remain plastered across the entire far side of the kitchen. What blood was not splattered across the pale walls and cabinets was dripping and streaming down to the pool underneath Eva. This man had literally sliced this person to unrecognizable pieces and scattered them throughout the kitchen. It was a sight that would make anyone sick to their stomach. Eva knew, though, that she was looking at the fate of her mother, Anna. Her eyes widened in fear, now fully understanding what the man was planning on doing to her. Koray only grinned as the overhead light in the kitchen shattered into thousands of pieces, cloaking the remaining house in utter darkness before he started to descend the stairs.
A bloodcurdling scream emitted from the house.
A/N: So, for the sake of ratings, I toned it down a bit so not to force the rating to M. Please let me know if I didn't succeed. The beginning was mostly just dreams and flashbacks and such. But, it had to be done. This will pave the way for the next chapter which will be tying up some loose ends and start to draw this story to a close.
Oh! And I don't know if any of you got a notice saying this chapter was up before, but, if you did, it was up but then afterwards I realized I meant to edit a part so I took it down.