This chapter is a little shorter then the last few, but the next ones will be longer. It's kinda like some needed filler to move onto the next more exciting chapters.
And yes Madaline is one of mine.
Anywho thanks again for all the reviews and whatnot. I do appreciate anything you guys have to say about this lil' fic of mine. =)
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Fire.
Everything had turned to ash and the fire blazed over him. The hospital was burning, the people were burning. Their screams taunted the night as no one answered their calls. It then all slowly turned into the pitch black void and their bodies rose up as Geist himself played the puppet master. He was trapped. No where to go. He began to panic.
Robin looked around to find himself alone. Just the void to keep him company. The darkness swirled around a bit, then it suddenly began to shift into a very familiar scene. One he had seen a thousand times in his minds eye. It was a place he called home since the day he was born, but that night everything changed. A single tear crawled its way down his cheek as he watched his parents plummet to their deaths once again. He looked down to see a figure of himself when he was just eight years old, crumpled on the floor and crying. Begging for his parents to wake up.
"No... no..." Robin turned his back to his younger self and ran away. He didn't like this. He didn't want to endure all of this again. So he ran into the darkness. His one safe space. A place that could hide all of his fears. Where he could meld with something bigger then himself and be stronger then the child he left behind. But it wouldn't last.
Fire again. And so much of it. It reminded him of the pits of Hell itself, much like the environment he and Slade journeyed across together during Trigons emergence. It was so hot, it burned. It hadn't even touched him and it burned.
"Robin." It was as if on que that the man showed his face. His hands clasped behind his back. His stature imposing. "It's time to move on." the masked man simply said.
Robin looked at him with a blank stare on his face. "What?"
"Stop carrying your past wherever you go. It does not define you. You have to get up and get going Richard. You have to keep moving. Your struggle will only make you stronger, isn't that what you want?"
The fires had died and he was left alone with the mastermind once again in what seemed to be the unsettling black void. The fires were gone, it was just him and Slade.
"GO AWAY! I hate you!"
"Do you really?" The image of Slade wasn't convinced. "Are they so much better then I? They haven't found you yet, as far as you know they've left you out here to die." Slade's hand extended to point beyond the boy, noticing this, Robin slowly turned to face what was behind him.
"Guys..." His mouth hung open. His eyes widened, and his emotions stirred. It was the Titans. All of them, they just stared at him. None of them said a word. They were not themselves. Their faces void of emotion. They didn't stay long however, and soon they all began to simply fade away. Robin almost leapt out to grab them, to bring them back to reality. But before he could grasp onto any of them, they were gone.
"It's time to move Richard. Get up and move. There is no other way then forward."
Robin spun around to face Slade once again to find the mastermind gone. And once again he was left alone.
The void was about to swallow him whole... until he heard a voice. It was faint at first, but then it got louder, and louder...
"Robin!"
"Robin!"
"GET UP!"
Robin bolted up out of bed. His eyes wide as he took in his room to find Sariel standing over him. Taking heavy breaths he looked to the woman. "What's wrong?"
Sariel threw his shirt and jacket at him, "Get dressed, we gotta go!"
"What? Why? It's only like three in the morning..." He groaned, he was still pretty tired, and the nightmare sure didn't help.
Sariel had moved to the windows. Looking at the chaos that was erupting below them. "Did you not hear it?"
"Hear what?" Suddenly the uproar from the streets below began to filter into his room and an assault rifle echoed through the vicinity, causing panic amongst the civilians. Robins eyes went wide. "What is going on?" Robin got dressed quickly as Sariel looked to the streets below giving him the privacy he needed. Once done he laced up his boots and once again he attached his combat knife to his belt.
"We need to leave, like right now..."
Robin joined her at the window. There was troops below gathering up citizens and threatening them with their assault rifles. "What are they doing?"
The armed men had pictures of the three people they were looking for, they were searching the city for these people. And they would do whatever it took to find them. Sariel listened to the conversations. "They are looking for us. Two Americans and one Russian. Sounds familiar don't you think?"
Robin nodded. "Who are they... Why are they looking for us?"
"It's the ben Elohim."
"Again?" Robin mentally cringed. "Not again..." he thought to himself.
"Yea... see that chicky down there. The one with the Russian officers coat draped over her shoulders?"
Robin looked out the window to the scene that unfolded before him. People were being taken out of their homes, the soldiers drilling them with various questions in arabic. But when they had told the soldiers they had not seen anyone like in the pictures they were threatened with a gun to their head, then if not their own the their children's. The citizens became more fearful and the woman he was interrogating began to cry. She screamed and yelled and begged for her life. It was ironic that Robin had recognized the woman from simply being in the area, he owed her nothing so at this point she had obviously not been paying attention to her surroundings and not even seen him or truly thought nothing of his presence.
There was one woman that stood out amongst them. Her form was muscular, more so then most woman. She wore what he thought to be a mechanics jumpsuit but it was brown, like a khaki color. He feet were covered by black combat boots and she wore two gun holsters. One on her hip the other over her shoulders. The suit itself has not zipped up revealing a black tank top underneath and a Russian officer military jacket lay across her shoulders like it was some prize. She was blond and had a large scar that ran from her jaw, crossed the middle of her eyes and ended on her forehead. The cigar in her mouth gave her the final finishing touch.
"Who the hell is she?"
"She's one of the higher ups. Her name is Madaline Borisova. She's no Geist but she can be equally terrifying." Sariel sighed. "We need to move out of here now. Geist knew we survived the temple, that thing was left behind for a reason. We should of moved earlier... but Asif." She took another sigh and shook her head. "It doesn't matter right now, what does matter is that we get the hell out of here."
"But... the people-"
"Will be less vulnerable if we are not here." Sariel had interjected, but she didn't need Robin to go into hero mode at this time.
He hated to admit to it, but Sariel was right. They needed to move. And now. "What about Sergei?" It was odd, before he wouldn't of cared for the older man.
Sariel turned to face the boy wonder. "He and I both heard the gun shots, we bumped heads in the hallway. It seemed he got the understanding that they are looking for us. I just came to get you."
It didn't feel right, he was worried that someone might be killed and being a hero and all he should be there to prevent it, but moving away from this area now was probably for the best. Not only for them but for the people in this city.
"We don't have much time, we've been here for to long as is, someone down there will tell them where to find us."
Robin only nodded before following Sariel out the door.
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"Shhhhhh" Sergei had met them around the corner. He was looking down the stairway, something was going on downstairs in the lobby. There was only one stairwell and the lobby was small. The innkeeper was being asked to come outside to answer some questions. The older man opened the door and spoke to them in their native tongue. When he said he had no such costumer's he was taken outside and beaten.
They could hear his screams, the beating, the kicks to his person, the grunts that followed. Robins heart pounded in his chest. "Not in the head you fool!" it was a voice of a woman with a deep voice, and a heavy accent. Russian.
The trio backed up a bit up the stairs. Careful as to not make so much noise.
They could hear a singular person enter the lobby, her walk was that of a person that had only ever known the military, her steps steady and with purpose. The room was dark, but with the door open her silhouette was cast across the room. "I know you are here."
No one spoke up.
"Cowardice dogs..." The woman stood her ground.
However Sergei motioned them to move back up to the floor above. "My room faces the next building over. Perhaps we can jump over, yes?" his voice was low as to avoid the woman downstairs.
Sariel nodded. "It's better than facing her."
The trio walked back down the hall and around the corner, the floorboards still creaked but they moved slowly to avoid so much noise in fear that it would give them away but it mattered little at the moment in time. They all really knew their time was short. She would hear them regardless.
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Madaline looked up at the ceiling as she heard slight shuffling. She smiled. "So you are here my little milaya."
She turned to her men and walked out the door. As she passed them she gave them an order. One that no one would refuse her. Nor dare to try. Madaline was not a woman known for kindness. Not even to her own men. "Burn the place down, all of it. Let the fire spread. All traitors will die by flame. None shall be spared."
Madaline lite herself another cigar and inhaled. She had been here for a week and already had burned down that hospital. Would Aurora really get mad if she burnt down an entire city?
She hoped not. She hadn't before...
Two of her men retrieved some gasoline from their vehicles. Twisting the caps off the two began to pour the liquid all along the floor and even throwing it on the walls and the furniture. Once done the pleasure was all hers.
She simply threw her cigar into the lobby and the place nearly burst into flames. The fire would spread through the whole building, and then to the next and to the next.
Lighting herself another cigar, Madaline would sit and watch the show.
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Robin heard the flames roar into reality. "Oh shit! They just lit the place on fire."
Sergei opened the window and looked outside. There was another building indeed just a hop, skip and a jump away. The downside was that it was a pretty far jump. But he knew it was a jump they could all accomplish with ease. "We need to go!" Sergei shouted out to his two younger companions. "This fire won't stop with just this motel, they are going to burn down the whole town."
Robins heart skipped a beat. "Everyone is going to die... all because of us." He suddenly wasn't feeling so well.
"There is no time!" Sariel grabbed Robin. "We gotta move and now, I'm sorry it came to this, I truly am. But we have to survive ok? Meaning we gotta go now."
Robins own blue eyes looked into Sariels. He nodded. "Yea, we need to go." It was like a new determination set into the boy wonder. He knew what he was about to do went against everything he was taught, and against the code he swore to uphold when he became Robin... but he also now knew that there was a huge difference between this world and home. There was nothing he could do and although he did feel incredibly useless, he also knew he could make differences in his own way. If he was going to survive out here he was going to have to make some sacrifices. He knew now, he would have to survive another day to make up for any past mistakes.
Robin leapt out into the night, and safely landed on the rooftop of the building next door. Sariel and Sergei soon followed. They were now on the run.
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Just so everyone knows Madaline is Russian, and Milaya means something almost like sweetheart in russian... but then again I don't speak the language I just did some research.
Anywho please please review! I know this chapter is short but the others will be longer. I promise.
Thank you all again!
-Fangs