Chapter 51: Us Three

"Ugh, my head…."

Robin sat up in a bed that looked older than he was! It had a wooden finish and markingssimilar to the ones he'd seen. "Please tell me we won…" Beastboy's voice was a real whiner as Robin could hear all over the clash of a sword going into the next room. Where were they? "Um, guys?" Starfire poked in her head and squealed with bountiful joy. "ROBINNNNN!!!!" Her eyes teared and her hair shone as she landed on top of him in all the excitement. "Malchior said you would recover if we went with Isis, but Beastboy didn't like her but you had to…. so we took you to the home of one of Verra's closest friends!" She hugged him tighter.

"Careful star, he might pass out again if you hug him like that." Cyborg came into the room with the little wizard right behind him. "Thank the gods for your recovery young one, it was her healing that helped." Wizardmon beamed. "And my ingeniousness too." Verra looked at Robin from next to his bed, he'd come too. "Aw kid."

"Please, don't see me as a bad guy, we only want what's best."

"That's right." Malchior and Raven came through the door. "We knew you'd be bed ridden and so we came to see how your wounds had faired." He said in the freshest of accents. Raven looked at him funny and spoke. "Yeah…and we are going to go back to the scene and look for your crystal –

"It's missing?!" Robin rummaged through his sheets and got out of them with a grunt. He almost fell over with the stinging still in his arms. "Agh!" "Rest some more, you'll need your strength once this is over."

"Isis!" Cyborg exclaimed. Robin was slowly falling into a spell put on by the dark lady. She waved her hand in a flash of white and asleep he fell.

Robin awoke a second time as he was greeted by plain not-so Starfire. "Hi."

"Greetings." A nudge at his forehead made his body feel light. She stroked away his hair as he lay in her arms.

"Robin?

Yeah…?" His center was hollowed out.

"You do not think I am to blame?

"For what…?

Being in the way at your hardest –

No I don't think…"

They were silent for a while, not thinking of one another and yet…. There was a further conflict. Between teens. Robin felt weightless and happy, Starfire was sad. Something was wrong only because her pain did not confront the boy wonder at all. He evaded it, as not what friends do. They moved from one another as Starfire almost left the room.

"He dude." Beastboy turned into a cat and looked Robin in the eye. Verra followed. Robin suddenly felt like kicking the thing…it hurt…. The fact of hearing a friend yell. He did, and Beastboy was able to become a bat and leave the room. "Rae! Come Quick! Something's wrong with Robin!"