It was in the middle of the night. Artemis was taking watch when she heard something. The sound was faint, like it was far off. She went over to Superboy. "Superboy...Superboy..." She whispered, trying not to wake up the others. He stirred, than sat up. "What?"
"Do you here that?" She asked, knowing full well that if she could here it he most definitely could. He cocked his head towards the sound, face set in concentration. "Ya, it sounds like a plane."
"Maybe we can flag it down, I'll wake the others." She said. Than went over and got everyone up. They quickly made the fire brighter and waited while the sound grew closer. They were all hoping and praying that it would notice them and land.
Finally it came into view. It was all black and narrow. Batman's jet! They thought with joy. It lowered itself several feet above the tree line, wind whipped around them. A ladder was lowered, with Batman on it. Artemis never thought she would be so happy to see him.
He hit the ground and seemingly glided over, studying them. Aqualad took a few steps up to him, trying not to lean on his cane to much. The first question that came to mind that Batman wanted to ask was 'Where's Robin?', but he refrained and asked instead. "What happened?"
Aqualad responded. "We managed to apprehend the Shadow, and Miss Martian put her to sleep for the flight back to the cave. During the trip the Shadow caused a giant hole in the wall and the bioship rocked and flipped. She and," He took a quick breath to steady himself. "And Robin either fell out or the Shadow took him as a hostage. Miss Martian tried to land the bioship but it crashed. When we arrived we searched the area, but only found an abandoned cabin. Luckily it had a few medical supplies and some food."
Batman's eyes hide widened slightly at the mention of Robin falling out of the ship, but he set emotion aside and asked. "If the Shadow was asleep as you say, than could this have been done unintentionally?"
"At first that is what we suspected." Aqualad said, than he brought up Robin's earlier transmission. "Until we heard this."
Static then "Robin to Aqualad do you copy *churr*?" "Aqualad to Robin. What is your location?" "*chuuuuuur cha*tah...Sy...*chuurr*" "Do you copy? We have suffered multiple injuries. Robin are you there? Are you okay?" "The Shadow is*chaaaa*ing me...you cop? The Shadow...*churrrr* a threat, do you copy?" "Robin! Be carefull!We will try to pinpoint your location and come to you soon." Static fill the air. "Robin are you there! Robin! Robin!"
Dread had started creeping inside Batman as cold as frost and as heavy as lead. It was harder to shove it aside, but he managed it and said. "I'll take you to the cave, report to the Justice League, and start a search for him while you five-"
"No!" Wally said walking up. "If your going after Robin, I'm coming too!"
Batman glared at him, but before saying anything Artemis whispered in Wally's ear. "You won't do Robin any good if your injured like that. You'll only slow them down. We can go to the cave and get well and that way everyone will be able to help, and our chances of finding him faster will be better."
Wally looked like he wanted to argue more but held his tongue and looked down. Batman picked up right where he had left off. "While you five heal. Let's go." They climbed up, M'gann lifting Aqualad cause his limp prevented him from going up the ladder. Than they all crowded into the small space. She looked at her ship. A pained expression crossed her face as she felt it cry out at them leaving it behind. She buried her face in Superboy's shoulder. Robin's gone with a dangerous shadow chasing him, everyone is hurt, and now I'm leaving my bioship injured and alone in the forest! It had to be the worst day of her life. The jet took off, everyone grim.
When Shadow had snapped at Robin and gotten under the covers she felt herself nearly hyper ventilating at what she just realized. I may never get back. She was far from being any science person (on the account that she couldn't read English.) but it hadn't occurred to her all the coincidences that needed to happen for her to transport. For one they were talking about crossing dimensions, and for two it took both teleporters going at the same time to get her here. The possibilities of that happening twice she knew were exceptionally unlikely.
I may never get back. She thought again. I may never see Sunshine or Chamele again. I may never see Rogue again who is the only real friend I have at the moment. I may never see Storm, who was forever patient with me, or endure another one of Wolverine's training exercises, or see Bobby and Kurt being their idiotic selves, or have to listen to Kitty, Jane, Sunshine, Jubilee, Amara, and Rahne talk about clothes, or listen to Beast talking about nature during one of his 'educational hikes', or sit in the giant living room watching a movie with everyone and almost feeling like this could be actually be a home...
Shadow had to stop herself. She was breathing to fast and tears nearly spilled over. She placed her hands over her head and curled herself up in a ball. Get a hold of yourself! I'm not some little kid who needs to be coddled. The situation is far form being okay, but for crying out loud! Sobbing like a baby won't solve anything and get me anywhere. I just need to calm down and think this through like I did all the other times.
If it worked once, me being blasted to another dimension, it can happen again. It will. Think about Sunshine and Chamele, get it together for their sake, get it together so they won't have to worry and you'll see them again. She remembered a time, shortly after she and Sunshine found Chamele wandering in the woods, when they were staying inside that cave during winter. She kept on trying to find the nearest town, but so far hadn't seen a hint of any other civilization. Sunshine was getting sick, and hunting was bad so all three were starving.
She remembered the night, after they had fallen asleep, it was a full moon, and she had curled up in this same position wanting to scream and cry. She couldn't cure Sunshine who was getting worse, she couldn't feed them they'd been surviving on plants and hot water, she could barely keep them safe and sheltered from the cold. It would have been so easy to just leave during the night and go off on her own. It had been so tempting to just shuck all this responsibility and run.
She had turned over to peer at them, sleeping next to each other under the thin and tattered blanket shivering now and then. They trusted her. They trusted...her. She watched Sunshine's sickly pale face, her arm was draped over Chamele to try and keep her warm. Shadow looked at Chamele's face, all innocent. That was the night Shadow was set in determination to do everything in her power to protect and watch over them. To keep them safe, even if it killed her, she promised that she would never abandon them as long as they needed her.
All sniffles and fear were gone. Even if they may not need me. They don't deserve to have me disappear off the face of the planet, without even getting to say good-bye. I will find you again. In all that is in me, I will find you again.
Shadow didn't need to sleep, the night air could give her plenty of energy, but something just seemed to lure her into it and she was soon out like a light.
She felt being pulled. At first she tried to fight it, but it was to strong. A thousand colors swirled past her, blurring and shifting going at the speed of sound. They made a tunnel around her and she was sped to the end. It all happened in the blink of an eye. At the end of the tunnel, she saw the inside of the mansion. It was a hall way and Chamele was there, looking at her. "Chamele!" Shadow called trying to get closer, but couldn't move.
Chamele was clutching one of her three unicorns. It was the black one with a white mane, silver horn, and ice blue eyes that used to be red, but Chamele had changed them so it looked more like Shadow. She was still just staring at her no matter how many times Shadow yelled. Finally her lips slowly formed the question. "Shadow?" Sunshine appeared by her, kneeling down and setting a hand on her shoulder. Her eyes were red and wet with tears.
"Chamele who are you talking to?" Shadow read the words Sunshine spoke. Chamele pointed in the direction and said. "Sunshine, look! It's Shadow!" Sunshine turned than said. "Chamele no one is there. This isn't a game. Come one let's go."
"Sunshine! Sunshine!" Shadow screamed, trying to get Sunshine's attention. Chamele started crying, and sobbed. "She's trying Sunshine! You can't see it but she's trying to come back to us!" Shadow was frantic now. "I am! I am! And I will, I will get back to you!"
All of a sudden she was being shaken, like there was an earthquake. The last the thing she saw was Sunshine pulling Chamele in for an embrace as they cried. She saw Chamele start to turn, red rimmed eyes, skin, and hair all turned gray.
The shaking was worse until she was turning over and over. Someone was there, she brought her blades out with the intention of slicing the person in half who had drug her away from Sunshine and Chamele.
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What did you think? I hope your still enjoying it so far! The reason the first few sentences were in bold was because for some reason they were super tiny, and since I'd prefer my readers to not need a magnifier glass to read I set them in bold.
The reason for this some what quicker update is that I'm going to do a poll. I know I don't have that many followers but anyways. For those of you who don't know the Teen Titans (fan scream here) are coming back in 2013 for a new season! I was wanting to write a story in tribute to that but I'm not sure which one I want to do, so please decide for me! Also if you have any ideas for me to write leave them in a review please!