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Let the Bodies Hit the Floor!
The sun rose as it had for all eternity before that day in Jump City, but it did not bring warmth and cheer...
"No..." This was the less than eloquent gasp that escaped the lips of the Boy Wonder as he gazed upon what was most assuredly the most gruesome display to ever appear in Jump City.
Bodies. Six bodies with the heads missing and a piece of steel rhebarb skewering them through their sides so they were stuck together like some sort of demented friendship bracelet.
Beast Boy had long since turned and puked his morning tofu breakfast onto the pavement and Starfire was currently sobbing into Robin's chest.
Cyborg and Raven were surprisingly contained, although you could tell that this disturbed them no less. And it was Raven who first broke the silence.
"We should call the morgue so they can identify the bodies. There's nothing we can do."
Robin hated that she was right, but nonetheless these people were beyond he point of no return and they needed to be given what little respect they could.
"Robin." The chief of police came up to him looking grim, but reserved. This wasn't the first murder he had seen, but it was no less gruesome. "Aside from the bodies being decapitated there is one thing that stands out."
"What's that?"
"They are missing vital organs. Like this one here." And he pointed to the body of a women in her early thirties. "She's missing her liver. The next one is missing her right kidney. And on it goes. I'm telling you I've never seen anything like this."
Robin's eyes narrowed at the gaping wounds in the bodies an noticed something else. "Chief. Are those...bite marks?" The police chief nodded somberly and Robin proceeded to rake his hand through his hair in an attempt to make sense of this abominable act. But as with many things there is no making sense of it.
"Thanks Chief. We'll be in touch."
Robin turned to the rest of the team who by now had recovered enough to walk stiffly back to the T-Car. However, Raven paused. There was a malevolent presence nearby.
She whipped around with her hands glowing black to find...nothing. Only the street and its shops before the masses began to surge throughout the city.
Dismissing it as nervousness Raven turned and joined the others in the T-Car. While a figure watched from the rooftop of a nearby building with blood dripping down it's chin and the grin of a predator that had found it's prey at long last.