Disclaimer: Blah, blah, blah, i do not own teen titans, nor do i really own a lot of the stuffi actually "own".. but whatever... and i kinda own NightFox.. blahblahblah

The Loss

Chapter 1

NightFox was a hard villain to win against, his powers making him impossible to catch, and his annoying comments from the rafters of the warehouse, were angering the Titans, making them lose their concentration. He was getting harder and harder to pinpoint, and the acoustics in the warehouse were not helping. Starfire was throwing starbolts everywhere, in a desperate attempt to hit NightFox with one of them, but the bolts were not helping at all, except to shake the warehouse, making sawdust fall to the weathered floor. Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were spread out on the warehouse floor, searching in the dark corners and along the shadowed walls for clues as to where Nightfox was. Robin was crawling up in the shadowed rafters, his eyes adjusted to the dim light of the moon filtering through the grubby windows, attempting to see the mysterious criminal. Unfortunately, the villain was able to hide easily in the corners of pure darkness, and Robin couldn't risk a light to search in those too, lest he give away his location.

"Wherever there is a villain…" NightFox jeered, and Robin whipped his head around to where the sound had originated from, or at least where he thought it had come from. "There is a superhero…" the silky voice came from a different corner this time, and Robin attempted to follow the voice. "Isn't that right… Robin?… My favorite birdie-boy is back, isn't he?" Nightfox jeered again, "How is Batman, by the way?" the voice resonated around Robin, whose nerves were jangling. "I hope you send my condolences, and my regrets that I could not invade his fine city instead…"

Nightfox suddenly leapt from his hiding place, foot outstretched. Robin saw this at the last second, and attempted to grab the ankle of the villain, but his fingers slipped right through as though through smoke. Unfortunately, the foot became solid a moment before impact, catching Robin on the chest, and throwing him back across the wooden rafters.

Nightfox disappeared again while Robin rolled and stood, catching his breath and his masked eyes wary of another sudden attack. "Come out you coward!" Robin yelled, but his bait did not lure NightFox, who was well aware of this trap.

"I would love to stay and chat, Robin my boy, but unfortunately, the darkness is disappearing, and soon I must return home." Robin stared into the deep darkness, trying to discern a distinct shape in the gloom. There was none, but NightFox continued, "Night, dark, gloom, black, shadows, its all my element, young chum. You cannot beat me in my element. I'm sorry, but this is the one time you cannot beat a villain. Just give it up." He hoped Robin would fall for the bait.

But Robin, being an egotistical leader and all, could never give in to his nemesis's commands, and fell for the bait unwillingly. Suddenly, Robin had an idea, probably the best, and perhaps worst, one of the day. "Raven! Flip on the lights!" Raven complied, and thousands of watts of lights turned the gloomy warehouse of not a moment before, into a brightly lit auditorium, filled to capacity with empty boxes and bags of varying degrees of degradation. All the other Titans shielded their eyes with their arms, but Robin was looking around in the warehouse, searching for NightFox. The only shadows were those of his comrades, and his own.

"Come out! I know you're still in here!" Robin yelled, directing his comment at NightFox, but someone just chuckled behind him. Robin whipped around, but there was no one there, save for his shadow. Another chuckle resonated around the room, and Robin whipped around again, but the rafters were empty, looking particularly desecrated in the light.

"Unfortunately for you Robin, wherever there is light, there is darkness, where there is a superhero, there's a villain. Wherever you are, I am there as well. Good, and bad. It's the circle of life Robin, something you can't even change. Life, and ultimately death." A human form was emerging from Robin's shadow, towering behind him. The form's arms were raised, palms flat, and suddenly the hands pushed Robin on the back, and the boy wonder tumbled forward. Robin flipped, outstretched hands grabbing a rafter as it flew by. Robin righted himself gracefully on the wooden beam, eyes searching for the attacker, but there was none to be seen.

The man stood in Robin's shadow once more, eyes little more than white slits, hands barely formed into fingers and palms, body a cruel impression of a man. "Goodbye Robin…" the figure whispered, and grabbed Robin by the ankles, and threw him through the wooden rafters, to the gray weathered stone below. Robin was thrown down, quick as light, and had no time to react, and neither did anyone else. The figure above in the rafters smiled to himself, watching the teenage leader fall in slow motion. Starfire screamed, and desperately lunged forward, not unlike Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven. But unfortunately, none of these efforts proved victorious, for Robin fell and landed, right on his head. Robin's last thought, How could I? last image of Starfire running towards him, and last sound, was Starfire's scream, and then all he saw was, black.

To be continued...

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