Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ The Trap ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2

The Trap

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

 

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

 

“What is happening?” Starfire asks Robin.

 

“I… I-it doesn't say.” Robin looks baffled. Never before has this happened. The computer always says at least something about the crime, but this… says nothing…

 

“That's new,” Raven says, raising one eyebrow.

 

“Any location?” Cyborg asks.

 

“Yeah,” Robin says, pausing.

 

“Where?” Beast Boy asks.

 

“Here…” he says in shock. He removes his mask, and looks at the others. Starfire looks shocked. He's never removed it before… “The disturbance is IN the tower…”

 

“That's…” Crow looks for a word, “New…”

 

“Yes…” Starfire says.

 

“Well…” Robin starts, putting his mask on, “Titans… go?”

 

The titans break up into 3 groups. The groups are Cyborg and Beast Boy, Robin and Raven, and Crow and Starfire. Each goes to a different part of the tower to search.

 

Crow and Starfire search the bottom of the tower, Cyborg and Beast Boy search the top, and Raven and Robin search the middle.

 

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“What time is it?” Beast Boy asks Cyborg. He yawns.

 

“Midnight… exactly…” he says, looking at his arm.

 

“Damn people, attacking at night…” Beast Boy says, as Cyborg shines the light in front of them.

 

A man stands in the corridor. He is the third robber from earlier. He wears a ski cap, and a jacket. He has gloves with no fingertips, and wears jeans. He would be normal, if he had a human face. His face is jet black.

 

“That is not normal…” Cyborg says, stepping back.

 

“I'm not that stupid…” Beast Boy says, walking back with Cyborg.

 

“The dark lord has returned…” He says, sinking down into the ground. He laughs as he sinks down into a shadow.

 

“The what?!” Beast Boy screams nervously.

 

“I think that might have been that guy Crow told us about…” Cyborg says.

 

“And he's come to earth to resurrect a big demon like Trigon, but stronger!” Beast Boy screams.

 

“We don't know that…” Cyborg turns, and bumps into the man.

 

“Shade!” He screams, as Cyborg's light shines in his face.

 

“NO SHADE HERE BITCH!” He says, pressing a button on his arm, making a large spotlight pop out of his chest. He turns it on, and the man screams, and backs up. He holds his eyes, and smoke rises from him. He sinks down, and disappears.

 

“So, light kills him?” Beast Boy asks.

 

“I guess so…” Cyborg says, putting the light away, “I can't do that for so long, so I hope he thinks I can.”

 

“I get it, so he stays away!” Beast Boy says, and Cyborg nods.

 

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“This is weird…” Raven says to Robin.

 

“I know.”

“No, I mean, REALLY weird. Why would the computer say there was something here? First, who would rob us, and second, who would pull our alarm, and make a police report that there was something going on here?” Raven asks.

 

Robin understands completely. She's right. It is impossible. The only place to activate a distress signal in the tower that goes to the computer IS the computer, and also, the computer picks up police radio and puts the spots they are talking about on the map. “You're right… this is impossible…” Robin says, “Unless someone was in the room, and used this as a distraction…”

 

Raven hears a creak. A man stands behind them. Robin throws an ice disc, but it passes through the man, and freezes a wall.

 

The man is the first robber from earlier, and like the last one, he too has a jet-black face. Robin looks in horror.

 

“What is that?” Raven asks in fear.

 

“I don't know…” He looks at the man, and the man steps forward.

 

“…He comes for his revenge on the one who betrayed him…” The man keeps walking.

 

“AZARATH METREON ZINTHOS!” Raven screams, and she slams a piece of wall on the man. It hits, but then he disappears.

 

“Where did he go?” Robin asks, as the jewel on Raven's head begins to stop shining black.

 

Before it fades out completely, The man jumps out of the black energy, and punches her.

 

“FUCK!” She screams, and falls back. She catches herself, and stops for a second.

 

“YAH!” Robin screams, making a sword with two bird-a-rangs, and slashes at him. The man disappears into Robin's shadow.

 

“They can combine with any darkness…” she says.

 

“How do you-“

 

“It hitched a ride in my powers, and your shadow. Do you have anything better?” She looks around.

 

“Good point…” a hand bursts out of Robin's shadow, and pulls him down. Raven uses her powers to flip a light switch on.

 

“GAH!” The man screams, as he begins to smoke, and then disappears.

 

“That's much better…” Robin says, rubbing his ankle.

 

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Crow and Starfire walk in the bottom of the tower, looking for the man.

 

“… So, that's how I defeated the dragon empire,” Crow says, walking ahead of Starfire.

 

“Thank you for telling me that story,” Starfire says, walking up to him.

 

“What are you doing? What if we get attacked head on?” he asks.

 

“I can use my powers as a light,” she says, shining her hand.

 

“Okie dokie,” he walks on. He sighs.

 

“Are you okay?” Starfire asks, and he nods.

 

“Just tired,” he says, and she turns back to the hall. She sees a man.

 

“Who are you?” she asks.

 

The man, like the others, has a jet-black face.

 

“… He draws closer with every step I take…” the man says, and Crow turns his arm into a sword.

 

Crow lunges at him, and the man becomes shadow. He sinks into the ground, and appears behind him. He punches Crow in the back of the neck, and knocks him down.

 

“AH!” Crow screams, and he gets up.

 

Starfire shoots a ball of energy at him, and it eats through him. The robber screams, and the energy hits the wall behind him. He melts his wound away, and cringes at them.

 

“Strange… that hurt…” the man says, and he looks delighted, “I can speak on my own? Master gave me a free will?” he looks at the opponents, and he laughs. He slams into Starfire. “That hurt ya' hoe!”

 

“AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!” Crow screams, and he grabs the robber.

 

“Really?” he sinks down into the shadow, and Crow's powers stay in his outline.

 

He rises in front of Crow and he punches him in the face. Crow falls, his nose bleeding.

 

“It worked before…” Starfire says, and she hits 2 energy balls together. There is a blast that illuminates the room, and the shadow man disappears, screaming.

 

“Shit…” Crow says, getting up, and looking at Starfire, “Keep a light please…”

 

Starfire opens a communicator and Robin appears on it.

 

“TITANS! REPORT OT THE MAIN ROOM! AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KEEP THE LIGHTS ON!”