Tim listened to Rose very carefully, and asked a few questions. When the call was over, he had a look through his closets and then went down to the big common room, where the rest of the Titans were hanging out. "Remember a week or so ago when we all agreed we would do our best to come to the rescue if Slade's fiancée was in trouble? Well, now's our chance. She was drugged and abducted by her brother, who then crashed his SUV. The drug he gave her makes some people get up and do things, even very complicated things, without knowing it, so they think she just sleepwalked out into the mountains and got lost. Slade is-out of town on business and can't be reached."
"I'll bet he is," Cyborg said, "and I bet I can guess what kind of business he's on."
"I don't like that either, but Yukie hasn't done anything wrong, and the clock is ticking. Raven, do you think you can teleport us to this location in Japan?" He called up a bird's eye view of the hospital from a satellite street mapping site.
"Yeah, I should be able to do that," she said, surveying the screen.
"It doesn't look like this right now, though. This must have been taken months ago. Right now there's a terrible winter storm going on, so we're all going to need serious cold weather gear. It's something like thirty below without the wind chill factor. Dress in layers-lots of layers," Tim instructed. "Cover every inch of skin. Gar, take the time to research which animal can really stand up to the weather."
"Gotcha. It's probably going to be a polar bear, though-Oh, hey, is there any chance we can swing by Tokyo while we're there? You gotta meet Kitaro," Beast Boy said. "I've been thinking maybe we ought to ask him if he'd like to join the Titans for a while. I know we've already got a magic user, but there's no reason we couldn't have two, and I bet they'd learn a lot from each other."
"Where do you know him from?" Raven asked, a slightly sharp note in her voice.
"Uh-it's a long story, but he's somebody who would go out of his way to help somebody in trouble. That's the kind of person we want on the team, right?" Gar asked.
"We can talk about it later," Tim said. "Anyway, get your gear together and meet back here in half an hour."
"And don't forget to wear your long johns!" Gar added cheerfully.
Raven was the last to return, about five minutes after Gar, who was usually the tardiest. "Um, I have some news about where we're going. Remember how I said there was going to be a new Snow Elemental? Well, it's happening now, and right now, on this whole entire planet, the place with the worst wintery weather-."
"Betcha can't say that five times fast!" Beast Boy interrupted.
"Not now, doofus! The worst snowstorm on Earth is going on right there in that area. So-anybody want to guess what Yukime means? I looked it up when I realized where we were going."
Tim groaned. "Don't tell me. Winter? Frost? Ice?"
"Lady Snow, or Snow Princess. It's not a common name in Japan, not any more. It's kind of old fashioned, like if somebody named their kid Mildred over here. I don't think we have to worry about her freezing to death. That doesn't mean she's out of danger, though. The old Snow Elemental is trying to kill her right now." Raven predicted gloomily.
Starfire pointed out, sadly, "I did think we should have warned Rose. I wish we had."
"That's...really not good," Robin said. "I mean, even if she wins-think of Swamp Thing and Clayface. They're very powerful, but they're not human anymore, either. Not human enough to lead a normal life. I think either way, this is going to be a terrible loss."
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