Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ The Haze ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1

The Haze

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Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, or anyone else who appears in the television show. Everyone else is mine, so don't steal them.

 

Note: I thank my friend Ashraf for the title he gave me.

 

~GxJxR

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The pitter patter of footsteps in the rain, the smell of fear in their; eyes it looks like they have seen a ghost.

 

Three robbers run down the street, trying to avoid the cops, and get away from the person who scared them enough to do this. They run into an alley, around a corner, up a fire escape, and into a building.

 

The building is dark. No one is there.

 

“You got it?” One asks.

 

“I dropped it…” the other responds. The passing police car lightens up the room, and his sweat is illuminated.

 

“HOW COULD YOU DROP IT?!” The third screams at him.

 

“I'm sorry!” the second responds, crying.

 

“Shhhh!” the first says, and they quiet. No one breathes. You could hear a pin drop, it is so quiet… it is like it's not even raining. There is a band, and a smash. A window just gave way.

 

“Is it him?” The second asks, trying to whisper, but his voice keeps cracking.

 

“Maybe…” the first says, putting his hand in his pocket, and fingering a gun.

 

He jumps the corner, but only sees a cat. A man follows the cat, and 4 others do too. In walk a girl in a hood, a boy with spiky hair, a big man, and a girl with long hair. He walks back to his friends and sits down.

 

“The Teen Titans are here too!” he whispers to them.

 

“But where is the other guy?” The second says, finally not crying, “He started to chase us first…”

 

“Wait… where's Charley?” The first says, looking for the third guy.

 

“I though he left with you?!” The second says aloud, and then he yelps.

 

“SHH!” the first says, turning back, “You want them to he-“ he sees no one there. “Tim?” he says, backing up, he slips, and sees a jet black hand floating in the darkness grab him, and he disappears.

 

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“Where are they?” Crow asks, on the spot where the robbers were. He sees a puddle where the first was, a wallet here the second was, and a watch where the third sat.

 

“I thought I saw them come in here,” Cyborg says, looking at his arm, “My sensors say there is still an organic being here.”

 

“Maybe the culprit is invisible?” Starfire asks, shining her energy to light the room. There is a groan, and a window shatters.

 

“TITANS GO!” Robin says, running toward the window, and he sees nothing as he looks out of it.

 

“It looks like something just shattered it, and didn't leave…” Raven says, looking to the sky. Nothing. She turns back, and puts up her hood.

 

“But I still SMELL someone!” Beast Boys says, turning into a dog.

 

“Drop it, we lost this one,” Cyborg says, and he turns back.

 

Beast Boy mopes back, and out of the room, and they go into the pouring rain.

 

“I have a hunch…” Crow says to Raven, and no one notices, that in Raven's hood, behind her ear, 2 blood-red eyes float in the shadow.

 

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They arrive at the tower, and Beast Boy yawns, as he jumps on the couch, and is joined by Cyborg.

 

“Oh yeah! Game time!” Cyborg says, Grabbing a controller, and Crow jumps on the couch as well. He and Beast Boy turn on the Game Box 603 and turn on the first person shooter, “Donut 2.”

 

“Co-op?” Crow asks.

 

“Nope,” Cyborg says, making a headset pop out of his head, and plug into the controller. The others put on headsets, and log onto “Game Box - Alive' to play other people.

 

“Boys and their videogames,” Raven says, to Starfire.

 

“Actually, the Video Games are quite fun,” Starfire says, smiling.

 

“I'd be playing, but we haven't bought Crow his own controller, so we have no more,” Robin says, holding a Slurpy he got on the way home.

 

“Yeah, well, if you're being killed by a demon or villain, video game skills REALLY don't help,” Raven says.

 

“Yes, but I am still wondering what happened to the three robbers,” Starfire says, trying to think.

 

“It won't matter,” Robin says, lying back in a chair, “We'll get them next time they make a robbery.”

 

“Yes we will,” Starfire says, yawning.

 

“Well, nice game guys,” Crow yawns, “Getting late.”

 

“Yeah,” Beast Boy says, “Hay, Crow, remember last week, when you and I said we'd catch that guy who possessed me?” Beast Boy says, walking with him in the hall, leaving Cyborg behind.

 

“Yeah,” Crow nods.

 

“Any leads?” Beast Boy asks.

 

“Well, I don't know, but the robber thing, it gave me an idea…” Crow says, thinking back.

 

“What?” Beast Boy says. Cyborg is behind them, and heard the whole thing.

 

“Who is it?” he says, putting his head between them.

 

“There was a guy, when I was locked in Hell,” Crow begins.

 

“YOU WERE IN HELL!?” Cyborg asks.

 

“Oh, did I fail to mention that? Well, I got kicked from heaven once I got ratted out for my plan about Raven,” He says, scratching his head, with a nervous smile on his face, “Anyway, I was locked up in Limbo, because I was strong, and that was the only place I could be held.”

 

“Okay,” Beast Boy says, actually paying attention.

 

“Well, I had a cellmate, who was an amazingly powerful warlord,” He says, “And he had an escape plan. He uses his powers to get us out, I make a distraction, and then he opens a portal for me to just jump through so I can escape to earth with him, so we can do what we want with each other's help.”

 

“Well, how do you know you could trust him? I mean, with enough power to escape from the jails in Limbo, it would be easy for this guy to leave you,” Cyborg explains.

 

“Well, I was told he is a man of his word. He never betrays his friends,” Crow explains, and Cyborg nods, “Well, anyway, we escaped and I had to do a distraction. What I did was I double crossed him, and didn't distract the guards. They got him, and I escaped. But he saw me escape, and he said, he would get back at me.”

 

“You tricked someone with that much power?” Beast Boy asks.

 

“Well, your powers are disabled within a fencing, and he was going to get out of the fencing and use his powers.” Crow closes his eyes. “Freedom from that place was awesome…” he smiles.

 

“Well, who was he?” Cyborg asks.

 

“His name was-“ The alarm goes off.

 

“SHIT!” Beast Boy says in anger, “I was going to sleep!”

 

“Crime doesn't sleep, BB,” Crow says, running back to the main room.