Closer

Chapter 10- Alternate

"Where did you send him?!" Raven glowered at the boy, her voice ice cold. She'd lost him; she'd just gotten him and yet she'd lost him.

Cyborg, Robin and Starfire were no also on their feet, tired of being pushed around by this boy. They had obeyed him so far to prevent anyone from being harmed, but now Beast Boy was potentially in danger, and they didn't even try and stop it from happening.

"Enough games" Robin warned.

The Dark Prince didn't seem fazed by his prisoner's warning,

"I spared him" he stated, turning to Raven, "I held up my end of the bargain, now you must uphold yours"

Raven's eyes widened,

"Where did you send him?!" She repeated again, the same urgency in her voice. If he didn't posses the dagger, this boy would have been dust by now.

Looking fed up, The Dark Prince leaned on the coffee table,

"Raven, you of all people are familiar with alternative universes. I simply sent your little green friend to a universe where you will no longer be a problem."

"And where would that be?"

"Come now Raven, you don't really think I'm going to tell you that?! I've been generous enough to indulge in my plans for you, why on Earth would I be kind enough to tell you where the changeling now resides? They don't call me The DARK Prince for nothing." He stalked closer to her.

"You are not going anywhere with her!" Robin stated.

Holding the hated dagger between his fingers, and holding it ever close to Raven, The Dark Prince smirked,

"Oh, Robin, I think you find that I am"

"Titans go!"

The three Titans lunged for the dark boy holding their friend. But they were not fast enough.

In seconds, The Dark Prince and Raven disappeared under a cloud of red smoke.

The Titans grabbed hold of thin air; they were too late.

In the space of five minutes they had lost two of their friends.

Robin wasted no time in setting up the search.

"Cyborg, contact Titans East, ask them to take over all of our crime fighting for now, we have to be focussed on finding Beast Boy and Raven!" Robin said

Cyborg nodded, going to the computer system and setting up a video message for the Titans East.

"Starfire, I need you to do a flight over the city, see if you can see anything or anyone related to The Dark Prince or even if you can see them yourself?"

Starfire smiled in assurance at her leader,

"And what about you Robin?"

"I'm going to track down the The Dark Prince the old fashioned way"

Beast Boy opened his eyes in alarm, sitting up he banged his head on the ceiling. Blinking several times, he took in his familiar surroundings.

Piles of clothes, messy kept drawers and wooden bunk beds. He was in his own room?

It was all a dream, Beast Boy thought to himself.

True it was a very long, vivid and terrifying realistic nightmare, but it was not real all the same.

A weight in his chest lifted, there was not "Dark Prince" and there was no dagger and there was no...

No Beast Boy and Raven.