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Chapter 91: In Terror We See

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The door opened with a click and a Screeeech. Robin gulped as his brain went to work with his legs already ahead.

As soon as Slade had gotten up, Hsari had repeated the measure. "I will go." He bellowed. Angra grunted as he began to collect himself from out of the air. "Why? Just so'st thou can pledge to thy master that his prize is his alone?" He frustratingly bent himself forwards. "Babysat, are ye now?" Angra heard not a word from the large cat as he followed Slade down a new hall to catch the mouse.

It was cold and feverish down among the rotting persons known as what he might just become in a couple of years. He thinks he can make a servant out of me…Thought Robin.

As if he were a thing placed on sale and spent wretched money on…like a new pair of shoes, until they were worn and grey. Robin had never felt so embarrassed or violated at the same time before, only when the blackmail had begun in the past. But being picked up and thrown over the shoulder like a screaming child? Ugh!

Checking out of his loose thoughts, Robin decided to try to find the exit on his own. "Slade'll just try to read my mind again…And…And why was it me who hurt the bad guy?"

He felt very infantile from transforming back into a small boy, back and forth. Now he was 15yrs, and the clock was slowly repeating what time wanted changed. It was all a mistake, he couldn't be like this! Not forever…

A broken sink mirror was left to the side of the room. Crack beyond repair. Robin gazed in on himself. "What am I? Who am I?" He whispered to himself. Pushing away from the sink, the gears in his head began to shift. Until each was in unision. What could glass cut?Was all he wondered.

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Traveling with the group, Beastboy looked back no further than each step that needed to be taken. Cyborg was using his tech to find something, anything that would lead them back to the castle.

As they walked Cy began to feel as if they were being followed. "It is not the same one you know." He turned around. "Who said that?"

"Look up, smart one." Malchior had awoke and had been over Cy's shoulder awake that whole period of walking. "Hi." He grumbled, frowning. "You can let him down now Cy." Verra was being carried by Starfire who was trying to used a pointed stick to take the bug off of the hybrid's fur. Cy nodded and stopped in the middle of their path. He shifted the weight of the passenger and let him down gently.

"Next time you want me to carry you?" Smirked the Sorcerer.

"Hey! Don't be a hater! He saved your butt." Bb snapped. Mal shrugged back. "Whatever." While he worked out his aches, Raven popped back into his mind. So that's why I seemed unseemingly rude…Because of her…

Raven had barely met up with the rest of her party as she panted on foot. Her power needed to take time to keep itself still until the feeling of a traitor was out of her mind. "Clear thought keeps a calmness within the soul."

She looked ahead. Mal was going to be ok. They were awkwardly silent as the two still had tensions between them. "Glad to see that I'm not the only one." He smiled.

"I'm just glad that you didn't have to carry yourself by your powers." Raven crossed her arms. "WE did save you. So you have to tell us where they went."

This time Malchior responded as if he'd been hit hard in the chest. Backing away he tried to run from her. Raven chanted away. Azarath Metrion Zinthos! Slamming him into a boulder her eyes poured out white light.

"Before you came to the Tower, I had a feeling that some things may NEVER change between rivals."

She flung him into the air, catching him in mid air. He was in shock. "You lied about coming back to help us. And you are STILL under Rokuro's control…"

She let him down slowly. "Yes…"He sadly sighed. "You have me 'cornered' Ravenna."

"You mean, he's the spy Lady Miyu told us about? I thought Kana was!" Bb shouted. "Raven declares promptly that I've done little since my return. But listen to me! I am an innocent! —

No! All of the time HE has been helping that monster dragon, keeping Robin from us?" Starfire dropped the guadan that landed on all fours.

"Understand if I had not done it the lives of the desert kingdom would not be spared."

"You mean they're alive!" Beastboy blurted out in surprize. "Robin was trying to keep them safe, not you!"

"Robin this, Robin that. I'm up to my knees in the hollowed crap that Roku has dragged us under to believe." Kayu said in his strongest of forms. "You should be the one to bring us there. Seeing as you've been sending letters to the enemy!" Kayu ripped at the older boy's belt compartment and pulled out an envelope with a symbol of the dragon king attached to the front. "A King's seal does not belong to the son."

"Now that's just freaky." Verra's itched at least had lessened during the argument. "Just freakin freaky if you ask me." Verra sniffed and soon his nose did the work of a hound's.

"B? Are you ok?" Cy did not try to hold either back as they came at Mal in wolf and dog form. Tearing the envelope from his hands, Kayu was indeed worried that the animal and Titan would harm more of their companions.

"Alright, Alright!" Malchior held his aching cranium in his hands. "You have at last found out more than you needed to know. Being 'out of it' becoming the enemy twice, was punishment granted by Stupid Roku and his Stupid sevants. Having that great fall, also failure for getting rid of the Titans. And even catching you off guard. And all in waiting to free my damnable self from his hands." He shook and held himself back, backing into Starfire's fist.

Cursing in her own language she was not at all happy from what she had done. "Raven!" she cried to her friend. He was out of it again, so the rest would forget the whole episode entirely.