Chapter 3:Aplogy and the Symbol

After both of our favorite titans finished getting ready they both walked into the common room to see that the rest of them were already there.

Well Robin walked in first, and started breakfast, Starfire walked in second and joined him.

"You two got here late. It's almost eleven thirty." Said Cyborg.

Both Starfire ad Robin glanced at each other and grinned.

"Well we woke up earlier but then decided to get some rest again." He half lied, knowing that Starfire would never lie, so he had to try and explain.

They all just shrugged and went back to their daily activities, which consisted of Raven either meditating, or reading, and Cyborg beating Beastboy at video games. Robin and Starfire were making toast with eggs, and of course the veggie meal for Beastboy.

Then Starfire asked what the eggs were made of, and Robin was there to explain, but when she found out, she freaked out.

"Babies!" She screamed. Robin tried calming her down, but she was starting to act like Beastboy when it came to food.

"Yea, but they were never born so it doesn't matter Star, it's okay!" He said while waving his hands in front of her.

"Not even born! What kind of cruel act is this!" She kept yelling and now Beastboy jumped in.

"YEA! Tell him Starfire!" He cheered her on.

"Would you like to be created and then just used for the appetizing of someone's stomach, without even given the chance to take your first breath?" She asked angry with him now.

"No Star, you see, they're um…" He looked for the correct word, but truth is he didn't really experiment with eggs.

"Exactly dude! Don't you feel sorry now, eating a whole bunch of baby chicks, and they don't even get to…um…whatever Starfire said!" Beastboy said, then turned into a chick.

Starfire picked him up and shoved the little green chick into Robin's face.

"This is what you are killing Robin!" She said while still holding chick Beastboy.

Robin looked nervous; he didn't want to make her any madder.

"Um…so what do you want me to do Star?" He asked.

She pulled Beastboy away, and held up an egg.

"Say sorry!" She said.

Cyborg overheard and was about to burst with laughter, Beastboy was proud that 'someone' was finally taking a stand with him.

Robin picked the egg out of her hands and was a little uncomfortable, that he had to speak to an egg.

"Um…Sorry." He said in a whisper, more to her, Starfire, than the egg.

"Ha! You see Cyborg, someone else thinks that I'm right!" Beastboy yelled.

Cyborg was on the floor dieing of laughter, and Raven pitied the sight in front of her.

Two people fighting for a dead egg, one of them saying sorry to the egg, and another rolling on the floor finding the whole thing hilarious.

She rolled her eyes and tried to go back to her book.

Then before you knew it Beastboy and Cyborg were at it bickering about if what was better, tofu, or meat.

Robin and Starfire trying to solve the problem. Then Starfire suggested going to Pizza Palace.

"Perhaps it is a better place to eat?" She asked.

Robin nodded and Cyborg and Beastboy rushed to the T-Car, while running, they were already fighting.

"Dude, we are sooo not getting an all meat pizza!"

"Well, were not getting anything with your nasty tofu!"

"Hey! My tofu's more healthier than your nasty full of fat meat."

"Well that explains it!" Cyborg said.

"Explains what?" Beastboy asked confused.

"Explains, why you're a stick."

They continued there fighting until Raven showed up in the garage and gave them both a death glare that sent them both to silence.

Robin and Starfire came into the garage and climbed into the car.

Cyborg was a course in the driver seat, Raven sitting shotgun, and the others in the back, with Robin on his R-Cycle.


When they got to the restaurant they grabbed their normal table and discussed what they were going to eat.

"An all veggie pizza." Beastboy said.

"OH no, we are having actual food. An all meat pizza" Cyborg protested.

"What! Dude my tofu is so real food. It's your meat that's bad." He fought back.

"We are not having some tofu on my pizza. We are having pepperoni and that's final.

"No we aren't. Those are poor little piggies you're slaughtering every minute for your taste buds to be happy. You think that's fair Tin Man?" Beastboy shouted.

"Well when you put it that way…. I don't CARE!"

As the argument continued Starfire looked over to Robin which was sitting next to her and said,

"Perhaps this wasn't such a good idea after all."

Robin glanced over at the two arguing boys and back at his secret crush.

"Yea…maybe not. Hey guys I think we should just get to ordering!" Robin suggested trying to calm the fighting.

"NO! Not until we agree that meat is what's going on the pizza!" Cyborg shouted.

"No way dude! Tofu all the way!" Beastboy yelled.

"Well this isn't new" Raven muttered.

Robin tried again to calm everyone down, acting his job as the leader. Starfire intended also but something stopped her.

She sensed something. Something familiar, something familiar was coming. This didn't go unnoticed by Robin and Raven was feeling something too.

Robin glanced at Starfire and saw that she was staring at the sky, as if looking for something, but when Robin looked up he saw nothing. Starfire glanced over at Raven and saw that she was staring off into the same thing.

"Friend Raven, do you sense it too?" Starfire asked the goth.

Robin was confused but worried.

"What is it Starfire?" He asked wanting to join the conversation.

"Starfire, I'm not sure were sensing the same thing, but I sense something." Raven said sill looking out into the clouds.

"Is it familiar to you Raven?" Starfire asked, to see if perhaps they were sensing the same thing.

"Raven what is going on?" Robin asked again, irritated that Starfire didn't answer him.

"No, it's not familiar to me but it's trouble." Raven responded, totally ignoring her leaders question.

"Starfire tell me what's going on." He said a little angry. Starfire looked over to Robin.

"I am not sure, but I sense something. Something coming, and Raven says that's it's-"

The communicators began to blink and Robin finished for her.

"Trouble"

Cyborg and Beastboy dropped their fight and started to whine.

"But we haven't even eaten yet! How are we suppose to fight if we have no food to generate or muscles!" Cyborg said.

"Yeah!" Beastboy also whined.

Robin had already hopped on his R-Cycle, and Raven got into the shotgun seat in the T-Car.

"Come one Team. We have time to complain later. Right now we have to find out who's behind this."

Cyborg gave up and jumped into the T-Car. Beastboy took off flying with Starfire.

When they got to crime scene they began to look around. It was in an old abandoned warehouse.

"So who's the master mind this time?" Beastboy asked.

"Who do you think? Who's the only one who would take old abandoned warehouses and turn them into their lair?" Raven asked, knowing who it probably was that was behind it.

"So what are you trying to say?" Beastboy asked still clueless as of what she said.

"It's probably Slade smart one. That's what she trying to say." Cyborg answered.

"We're not sure yet. It could be someone else." Robin said expecting anything, but he knew it was probably Slade.

Starfire still had the feeling and was keeping quite.

"It's doesn't look like's anyone's here. So can we go now!" Beastboy said, quite hungry and wanting to go home.

They all looked at him with angry faces, until they heard something. Or more so someone.

"Oh. Come on Titans you aren't leaving now are you?" A dark sinister voice echoed through the darkness, and they all knew already that their calculations were correct.

"Slade! Come out and show yourself!" Robin said, hatred dripping in every word.

Starfire lit up the darker part of the warehouse a little lighter to see where Slade was with a starbolt.

"But Robin," Slade started, "I'm not here to fight."

Robin, didn't believe him he stood his ground in a fighting stance. Cyborg transformed his arm into a sonic cannon, Beastboy turned into a wolf, and Raven was getting her black magic ready.

Starfire didn't seem ready to battle, for some reason, she believed him.

She let down her starbolt and waited for him to make the first move.

"Spilt up! Find him!" Robin ordered, and they went their separate ways, except for Cyborg and Beastboy, they went together.

"What is that you wish to do then Slade?" Starfire asked quite furiously.

Slade still didn't come out, but he heard the anger in her voice and chuckled menacingly.

Robin didn't take it anymore and charged at where he heard his voice. His bo-staff hit a wall, and nothing more.

"Robin, please, I really rather not fight, I'm here to do something else." Slade said again.

Robin growled.

"Come out!" He shouted.


Raven and the others were still looking for Slade, but found nothing.

Starfire went on her own, walking closer to the voice, but acting calm. Just as she was taught.

Then she heard something behind her. But she didn't turn. She kept walking. She heard the footsteps come closer and then when she thought he was close enough, she turned and gave a high kick.

Slade caught her foot in his grasp and Starfire gasped. He threw her to the side, and she came back up quickly.

Slade was quite impressed but he didn't show it.

"Please, I am asking nicely, for you to surrender." She said timidly but somehow made it seem brave.

"Now Starfire, if you were in my shoes, would you surrender without a decent fight?" Slade said.

Starfire stood stiff.

"I would NEVER be in your shoes, and you said, you didn't want to fight!" She stated as in a fact. She then threw some starbolts, which he dodged with ease.

"You know, dear child, lying won't solve anything?" Slade said smirking behind his mask.

Starfire's starbolt faded quickly as she came down and gave Slade another quick in the air while falling.

Slade grabbed her again, but she learns things quickly and knowing he was going to do that, she pulled up and punched him the face. Slade wasn't expecting this and staggered back. Starfire used this to her advantage and gave him a few more punches with a blur of starbolts. Slade tried to dodge them but she managed to take him hard and he was hit forcefully.

"I don't lie!" Starfire screamed angry.

"But you are. Aren't you princess" He said calmly.

"As a princess I was never in your shoes!" She responded.

"I didn't mean royally. I was quite impressed when I found out, what you are. (Yea, I'm gonna take something from the episode "Birthmark") It's always the innocent one's isn't it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." She said with her head down a bit.

"You see your lying again. You're a thief Starfire. You and always-" Before he could finish she charged at him with a numerous punches and kicks that could put anyone in the hospital with severe injury.


The other titans heard the ruckus and ran to where the noise was coming from.

Robin was the first to show up to see Starfire punch and kick the life out of Slade.

Slade jumped out of the way from the last of Starfire's kicks. He quickly took something out of his back armor packet belt. (Yea, like when he took out his steel staff, he had to take out of somewhere, so that's were his pocket is)

Starfire and Robin were ready for anything, but surprisingly he didn't take out anything dangerous. Or so they thought.

"I have a message for your precious Starfire."

Starfire gritted her teeth, but did nothing else.

Robin stood in his battle stance, and then, before the others came crashing into the area, Slade threw something at Starfire.

Robin didn't notice because he had charged at Slade with his staff, and in the other hand a couple of bird-a-rangs.

Starfire's quick reflexes allowed for her to catch the thing that Slade threw at hand. The other titans rushed in to see a confused Starfire, and an angry Robin, but no Slade. Before Robin could even touch him, he somehow disappeared.

Starfire saw that the thing was an envelope, and turned it over. Her eyes went wide when she saw a symbol on it and she quickly hid it from the others.

"So where'd he go?" Cyborg asked.

Robin grunted. "He got away."

Beastboy just shrugged. Robin told them all to head back home, probably to find a lead on Slade. Raven sensed that someone was having a mix of emotions. She could feel anger from Robin, careless from Beastboy, worried from Cyborg, but something new was on Starfire. Raven was feeling a lot of overpowered emotions from her. A lot of fear, and anxiety, thrown in with surprise and awareness.

Raven would have to ask her about it when they got to the tower.

When they reached their home, Robin went straight to his room, the boys went to the kitchen to eat, and Starfire quietly exited to her room as well. Almost unnoticeable.

Almost.

Raven saw it, and caught up with Starfire.


Starfire reached her room and dared to take out the envelope again.

The symbol on it. She knew it well. She thought, for sure that it was in her past. But, then Slade had to bring it back. He knew. And now she was left with the envelope, which meant they knew. They knew where she was.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on her door. She quickly pulled her pillow over the envelope to hide it.

"Come in" She said acting like everything was fine. When it surely was not.

"What's wrong Starfire?" Raven asked fast to get on with it.

"Nothing is wrong. Honestly." Starfire said

"Starfire I could feel all those feelings that you were going through back at the warehouse after our fight with Slade. And those feelings were pretty strong. Something is wrong. Tell me Starfire."

Starfire sighed deeply. She couldn't lie.

'I will do the 'bending' as they say of the truth' she thought.

"It is nothing really. Slade just brought up something from my past, and then I got scared and worried that Robin would lock himself in his room again to find a lead on Slade." Starfire said. It was the truth. Partly.

Raven knew the way that Starfire felt for Robin. So that was nothing new. She could believe it. For she had the same for Beastboy.

Raven was a little unsure about the part where she said, Slade bringing up something from her past. But she shrugged it off.

At least she cared.

"Okay Starfire." Raven said, before she exited the room to start some more herbal tea and read.

Starfire sighed with relief and when she was sure Raven was gone, she took out the envelope again.

The symbol was specially made for her. And she knew it.

It had two letters that where curved with royal likeness and golden bordered with red in the back round. A "P" overlapping a "T".

It was a circular sticker that sealed the envelope, but it still meant a lot.

She opened it carefully. They knew, was what was going through her mind.

She read it carefully.

Dear Princess of the Thieves,

Yes Kori, we know where you are. We know what you do also.

That should be enough of a sign to know what we're going to do.

Look, we need your help.

You're the princess of thieves. Don't fight it. Although you will anyway. (Starfire laughed at that part)

Sincerely,

The Royal Thieves

P.S. We miss you Kor.

Starfire gasped. She knew what they meant. They're coming. They're coming to get her. But they said that they miss her. Truthly inside she missed them too. They were her family. Maybe not by blood. But still family. And she missed them, now she is going to have a chance to see them again. But she wasn't quite sure she wanted to. She was afraid. Her past was coming back into her life, no matter how much she did want to fight it.


Okay...So there's the third chapter, sorry it's taking so long to update but the same thing with the other story i'm writing, i get grounded. So let me try to be a bad girl and i'll try not get grounded so often. Again sorry for the inconveince.

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