Yay! New chapter! Finally! Wow... I think this is the first one of my Teen Titan stories posted something on since teen Titans ended!
...Probably not... but, yeah.
Anyway, this chapter is dedicated to Quicktosee because they were the only one (besides my editor) who reviewed the last chapter.
It drifts up eerily like a two-headed snake not being able to decide which way to go, so it splits itself in half, with each dividing from each other, forming two thin trails, with occasional bits not going with either one.
I fly away towards it, leaving an angry citizen behind.
I notice now that it's a townhouse on fire. No flames are visible, but smoke is still drifting out the windows.
I land down in front of it and I'm not quite sure what to do. I don't know if I should call the titans, call the police, or go in there myself. I rule out the last option.
I look down at my communicator, and open it up to call both the police and the titans, when I look back up at the townhouse and notice there is no smoke. It's not burning.
Instead somebody is giving me looks from inside one of the townhouses, wondering why I'm there.
I turn around and walk away, deciding that I need to get back to the tower, but I also decide to take the long way home.
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I sit up and yawn. I'm still tired, but at least now I don't feel like I'm going to pass out, well, not from being tired that is. I'm still hungry. Maybe I'll stop somewhere, but I don't have any money...
I'm sitting in the main room of Titan's Tower. It's dark outside now, and I don't see anyone in the room with me.
I'm hungry, so I open the fridge door and find blue goop everywhere. I stick my finger in a bowl of it and am about to stick it in my mouth when I come to my senses.
I open the freezer door, leaving a blue goop mark from my finger. I stick my hand in and feel around. I find nothing but frozen yellow goop (guess it changes colour in temperature), until I reach my hand to the very back of the freezer.
I pull out a container of ice-cream.
Since when did we have real food in here?
I grab a spoon and pop open the container. ...Just to find out that there's only a spoonful left. I scoop it up and eat it, just making me hungry for more.
I teleport to my room and search through my drawers, there has got to be something or some money somewhere.
I find neither, and notice that I only have one resort left.
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I walk into Beast Boy's and take one disgusted look around. I decide not to spend too much time looking around though, because then I might just back out.
I grab a box on the floor and open it up. It contains half eaten slices of pizza. I drop it and grab the next box. The pizza has green fur all over it.
I stick my hand under a pile of junk and pull out another pizza box. It has a whole, untouched, pepperoni pizza in it.
"Wow." There must have been some mistake at the pizza place. Which saved this pizza from being eaten and/or tortured by Beast Boy. He probably didn't even touch it after he found out it had real pepperoni on it.
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I sit in my room, stomach not grumbling anymore, but feeling a bit sick.
I start to wonder where everybody is. Nobody was in the main room, and Beast Boy wasn't in his room.
A call!
I open my communicator and check and see when the last alert was. Two hours ago. They're out on a call, and they've been gone for two hours. Or maybe they stopped out for pizza after?
Why didn't they wake me up? Why didn't the alarm wake me up? Maybe I got to the tower after the alarm went off?
I looked at the details of the call. It had happened at 12 White Woods, and it was a fire.
That was the place I had seen the smoke rising from this morning!
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I teleport to the street in front of the town homes, but have to move back because of the intense heat. I can see the T-Car to my right, and fire trucks everywhere.
Water is being sprayed onto the building, but it's not helping any. I don't see any of the other titans, but decide not to worry about that right now. Now I have to worry about the building and any residents still inside.
I run up to the nearest police officer. "Sir, is everybody out safely?"
"Everyone living in the buildings have been accounted for, but we didn't find out about one of them until a few seconds ago. The titans are in there looking for him."
I grab my communicator and contact the titans all at once. "Titans, the man you are looking for has been found, nobody else is in the building."
"Raven?" Beast Boy asks, seemingly amazed that I'm talking to him over the communicator.
"You need to get out, now. The building doesn't look like it is going to hold for too long."
The titans all sign off, and I'm left standing outside the building waiting for them.
I feel horrible, and not because of my stomach either.
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It's been a minute and Robin and Beast Boy are still in there.
I feel horrible: really horrible. I've already missed two calls while I was out cold, and now I'm late for this one.
...And Robin and Beast Boy still aren't out.
Sweat drips down my forehead, but it's not from the heat. I'm worried. They've been in there too long. I stand up as I see something move near one of the windows now on fire. The glass smashes out and a green armadillo rolls down the grass towards Cyborg, Starfire, and me.
Robin isn't with him.
"I'm going in."
Cyborg, Starfire, and, after he changes, Beast Boy all stare at me. I probably would too if that were possible, which technically is because if-
"You are?" Starfire asks.
"Yes, I am."
"I'm going in too." Cyborg replies to me a steely look that shows determination.
"Three to me!" Starfire replies, staring at the burning house.
"Well, since you guys are all going, then I guess I'll just stay out here and-"
"You're going in too, Beast Boy."
"Aw man."
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Cyborg, Beast Boy, and I are wandering through the hallways. I have produced a shield to keep the smoke out of our eyes, and I am levitating so that we don't make the floor creak through. Beast Boy is a hummingbird, and I am carrying Cyborg with my energy.
Starfire split up from us at a turn in the hallway. Unlike Beast Boy and Cyborg, she doesn't need the safety of my shield to breath. She's able to sustain the smoke for a while.
"So, what was the point of us coming in here if we can't do anything?" Cyborg asks me.
I shrug, and I am sure he is mumbling about me now behind my back.
We come to another break in the hallway. "Which way?"
"Left!"
"Right!"
A safety beam from above ours comes crashing down on the right side of the hallway, going right through the floor, and blocking most of our way.
"Left it is," I reply, looking back at the flaming beam as I levitate us down the hallway.
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Beep. Beep. Beep. Cyborg and I grab our communicators at the same time. We both open it up and speak into it "Hello?"
"Friend Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy! Good news! I have found Robin and we are making it out of here right now! He is unconscious, but I am sure he is happy to be alive and out of here." Starfire gleefully replies into the communicator, making Beast Boy, Cyborg and I each let out a different sigh of relief. Well, Beast Boy's sigh sounded more like a squeaky chirp, but it's still the same thing.
"He's not hurt, is he?"
"No, he is good. In fact, when I found him he was still conscious. But then when I was flying with him I accidentally bumped his head into a wave machine of computer chip proportions."
"A what?" I ask, completely confused. Beast Boy is also confused and lets out another squeak, this time sounding a bit like a whiny cat.
Cyborg gets it though. "Star, you mean a microwave?"
"Yes! The wave machine of micro! That's exactly what I meant." Starfire squeals, and she sounds surprisingly a lot like Beast Boy's chirp. "Oh! Friend Raven, we are out of the house!"
"Good," I reply, looking into the communicator at the now fading background of a burning window, "we'll get out of here soon."
She nods, and as I close my communicator I see a fireman rush over to her.
"C'mon, lets go," I say, turning around and dragging them behind me.
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"I think we can walk now." Cyborg says to me as we reach some concrete flooring. I set him down and take down the shield.
We are in the basement: the worse possible place to be during a fire. I look up at the ceiling, but I don't see anywhere where it might collapse.
"Come on," Cyborg says, turning on his shoulderlight, "I bet there's a window or cellar door down here somewhere."
"I doubt it," I reply, "I'm surprised this townhouse even has a basement. The chances of them having a cellar door are zero to none."
"Well, we'll look for a window then."
"Basement windows are only about half a metre across. We'd be lucky if I fit through, let alone you."
"Do you have to ruin everything? I'm trying to make sure we don't die!"
I sigh. He's right. There's no use arguing.
We continue walking and I glance around. The walls are a yellowish colour, but not the type of yellow you'd paint it on purpose. The ceiling is even worse: it's brown.
"Raven?" Beast Boy asks me, curiosity in his voice.
"What is it?" I ask, hoping he's not making some lame joke at a time like this.
"How come you don't just teleport us out of here?" He asks.
Everything goes silent. Cyborg stops walking, causing Beast Boy to walk into him.
"Yeah, Raven, why don't you fly us out of here?" Cyborg asks, something sounding a bit like suspicion in his voice.
"I don't fly us out of here because for the last fifteen minutes I have been levitating us around with a barrier circling us. I don't have all that much energy left."
"But do you have enough?"
"I guess." The real reason why I didn't fly us out of here was because I didn't want to fly through the fire.
"Then lets go."
I take a deep breath in, and then exhale. I grab my cloak to "wrap" it around us, and then suddenly the concrete floor shakes.
It continues shaking and Cyborg and I fall over onto our backs. Beast Boy comes soon after.
I grab my hand up to put a shield on the ceiling. If the ground continues to shake then the ceiling might cave in, and that means that we are done in for.
The shaking gets more intense, and a ground starts to open up out of the ground. It is widening until it is in a weird line like shape. It is glowing red.
A gasp of air from Beast Boy.
Fire shoots out of the ground and I drop my shield down from the ceiling. I cover Beast Boy and myself, but I cannot see Cyborg. He is on the other side of the opening.
The fire is flying. Yet, most of the fire seems black... Half of the fire heads toward the ceiling, heading straight through it.
The rest heads towards me.
That's when I notice what it is.
They are the fire demons my father had summoned when he was trying to control me. That's all over with though. How are they still alive?
The demons charge towards me, and I feel Beast Boy grab onto my arm. I had forgotten he was even there. I make my shield thicker and Beast Boy clings onto my arm harder.
A demon smashes into my shield and I feel pain wrack through my body. I drop the shield down, and I feel heat surround me.
It feels like my whole body is being burned, and I can no longer feel the arm Beast Boy had been clinging onto. Rather it's been burned, or Beast Boy has made it lose feeling.
I pull my legs up to my head and curl in. I raise my hand to create attempt to create another shield, but I can't feel the heat anymore. Everything's stopped.