Sorry it took so long to upload, I was a little busy.

The Titans land on Tameran to retreive Starfire and learn of a new past and hatred.


With Friends Like These . . .

They could see the damage done to her home as they descended below the red streaked clouds. Everything was gone and all that remained was Starfire. She did nothing to hide the sadness in her eyes, her face, even in her stance. When they landed and went to stand beside her she held herself in her arms and her gaze dropped to the soil.

"Starfire," Robin was the one to reach for her, unsurprisingly. "What's happened here?"

"Azrathians came." She answered sadly. Her voice was quiet as though the effort to speak was to much. "They destroyed everything and everyone. I have searched as much as I could of Tameran, yet find no one. My people are dead and I . . . "She paused as a sob came, "I did nothing to save them."

Robin opened his mouth to say something, anything that would comfort her. But she had thrown herself at him before the words came. Her head she buried in his shoulder and she cried endlessly. Robin could do nothing; only wrap his arms around her. He wanted to tell her everything would be alright, but he knew it was a lie. He couldn't lie to a member of his team, couldn't lie to her.

"What's gonna happen to this place?" Beastboy asked after what must have been a half hour. At his words she struggled but composed herself enough to speak.

"The Azrathians who destroyed it will likely return and claim the planet as their territory. And we were so kind to them before . . . "

"Why would they want to destroy you?"

"Why did the crusaders of your planet rage war on those just south of them? Why did the ones called settlers drive away the natives that inhabitated the land before them? Why did the Cortez destroy an entire nation and have another vanish from the pages of history? The answer is same: We are different."

"So, because you aren't the same they destroyed you completely?" Cyborg asked this time still looking at what remained of the royal city as he did.

"Perhaps, in a way, yes." She sighed, "A thousand years ago Azrath and Tameran were sister planets. We circled the same sun and we followed the same orbit. There was not a night that passed where we could not see Azrath among the stars. The only thing that was not known was if our ancestors were able to stand each other. But somewhere in history they decided that two nations so completely different could not survive together and a great war erupted between us. Then, perhaps a year before I was born, the war ended by my fathers hand. But he was a kind Grand Ruler, Galefore tells me for I never met him, and spared Azrath. Now they have come to finish what was begun all those years ago. My kind truly are a peaceful race, but we can be driven into ferocity."

"I'm sorry Starfire. If there was anything we could have done-"

"No, you did not know my relation with the Azrathian people. You could not have fully understood why Raven and I could not get along at first. This is why and you had nothing to do with it. There is no need for you to apologize." Then Starfire raised her head and looked around her. Fate seemed to be having its own fun with her as her fist tightened in realization.

Raven was gone.

When she asked of where she had gone Robin only answered, "She disappeared after the bird came. We haven't seen her since."

"Then she knew of what was to come and fled before she would need to face me." Her eyes began to glow and emerald spheres of pure energy formed at her hands as fury for her traitor friend rose in her. Robin stepped forward and gripped her shoulder to calm her, but it had little effect.

"Dude, Raven wouldn't do something like that," Beastboy defended, "She's our friend."

"It wouldn't be the first time she's kept secrets from us would it?" Cyborg said only making Starfire worse.

"Yeah, but I saw her after the bird came, before she left. She just went to go put the Cesark in the water so it would dissolve. She even asked me to come with her. She wasn't planning to leave."

"So something happened between when you saw her and now that made her want to leave." Robin concluded, "But what?"

"She knew you would not follow to attend the funeral of an animal." Starfire answered, "She had no intention of staying; only making it seem so."

"Starfire, we can't just jump to conclusions."Robin told her, "I know she's had her share of secrets, but it's always been in an attempt to protect us. Look I know your hurting-"

"You do not know what I'm going through." She snapped. "You could not even begin to understand the amount of pain this gives me and what it means. I am the last of my kind, the only Tamerainian left. What am I to do now? I am truly alone in this universe and I have Raven to blame for it."

"We don't know that yet. And you know your not alone, you have us. We're still your friends and we're still here. We're not leaving you Starfire."

Her energy faded and she returned to the mournful state she was in before they had talked to her. This time Robin went to her first, holding her in his arms before she could collapse with grief. He stayed with her during the ride home managing to fit the both of them in her section of the T-sub. She sat on his lap with her arms around his neck and her head buried in his shoulder. He could only hold her like he had before.

There was no end to this.

Even when they returned home she did not fly, hardly even spoke. She went through the kitchen, found her pudding of sadness, untouched for such a long time, and went to her room. Robin followed part of the way, but when she locked the door to her room he figured she was better off alone, for the moment. But as he walked away he heard her whisper over and over, almost as if it were a chant, a single sentence.

"I am not the Warrior," She said, "I am not the Warrior."