Thanks to everybody who read the last chapter.
Here is the new one. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 10: The message
Robin had hit the wall with his head hart.
Now he was bleeding, but not much.
"I'm fine! I don't need a bandage or something like that for my head!" he tried to defend himself from Raven and Cyborg.
"Man! You just need a little plaster!" said Cyborg and held a plaster in size of a poker card up.
"You are acting like a baby…" murmured Raven when she tried to hold his arms.
"No!"
"…, please Robin. You need the plaster." Whispered Starfire and held his left hand in hers.
She smiled at him cutely and Robin sighed in defeat.
"OK. I'll take it…"
Suddenly he remembered something:
"What was the think, which gave K´ylier to you?"
Starfire blinked. Whatever it was, she lost it, when she ran to robin, after he had hit the wall.
She turned her head to the wall, where he was thrown in.
Her eyes began to search, for something that was out of order.
And there, on the ground laid a little object. It was golden and shinning.
Starfire let go of his hand and walked to it.
She picked it up and looked at it.
Her eyes widened and Starfire gasped.
"Starfire? What's wrong?" asked Robin with concern.
She turned around and whispered:
"A ring…"
"A ring?" repeated Cyborg and raised his one eyebrow.
"…, not just any ring. It's the engagement ring of the mother of mine."
"Why is it here?" Raven asked.
"I…I don't know…"
Starfire bit her lip and thought of any possibility.
Robin noticed the fear of his girlfriend and said:
"Could you please let us alone?"
Raven and Cyborg nodded and left the room.
He sighted and got up.
"Kori-"
"Richard…please, I…I need to think…!" she cut in.
She turned away from him and hugged herself.
"Kori…why are you acting like this?"
"Like what?"
"…so cold…! Damn, Kori! Can't you see what's going on? If we were here earlier…, if we would never left…if I never left you alone here, this all wouldn't happen and you wouldn't be hurt. You know that I try to imagine, what's like-"
"-to be a prisoner? To be hunted in your own home? To have no escape and you are weak against it. NO! You can't see! You do not know anything!" she yelled.
They both stood there, frozen of what she said. They both were right. It was his entire fault. But then it wasn't. She had could go to Titans East tower and help there. She also had could go with him and stay in the Wayne Manor.
Starfire could see the hurt in his still unmasked eyes.
´What have I done? ´ she asked herself in her mind.
Suddenly she regretted that she screamed at him. He was the only one who understood her. Starfire wanted to cry and scream at the same time.
She was torn out of her thought, when she felt two strong arms around her waist and was pulled to somebody's body.
Then she heard a deep, husky voice whisper in her ear:
"I know that it was my entire fault. And I will stay with you!"
Robin softly kissed her cheek.
She pulled a bit away and looked in his blue eyes, which held so much respect and love for her.
"But you don't have to do the helping me…"
"But I want to! What are you talking about? I would fight for you until I die! And I will… Don't you remember: When you jump, I will jump after you to be with you…?"
Robin leaned his forehead against Starfire´s.
Then he whispered again:
"That's what you do, when you are in love…"
Starfire had no time to react on what he said, because he already had his lips on hers for a passionately kiss.
Some minutes later he pulled back a bit to whisper:
"I love you Kori…"
"And I love you…"
Then he kissed her again. It was slower this time, as if they had all the time of the world.
Suddenly the door went open and Cyborg stepped in.
He stopped his tracks, when he saw the couple make out in front of his eyes.
He tried to back out of the room, but Starfire noticed him and stopped the kiss.
She blushed as red as her hair and Robin turned around too.
He also blushed but said with a slight angry tone:
"What's it?"
"…err…We have got a big…problem…"
Robin raised his eyebrows as a sight for Cyborg to continue.
Nobody can use his powers! We are all complete powerless against K´ylier."
"Starfire gasped: "That's horrible!"
"I know, and Starfire, you should come down. Galfore wants to talk to you…"
She nodded and looked at Robin.
"Do you come with me?"
"If you want."
They stood in front of the big computer screen and waited.
Cyborg typed something before he turned back around and said:
"Call me, when you are ready!
He stood up from his chair and left the room.
Suddenly appeared at the black screen a colossal man, with dark red hair and a thick beard. One eye was covered by a big scar; the other was looking sadly at them.
"Greetings Galfore! It is so glorious to see you!" yelled Starfire and went closer to the screen, Robin not far behind.
"Hello Princess, Hello Robin, warrior of earth" he said with a strong but sad voice.
Starfire felt instinctively, that something wasn't alright.
"Knorfka Galfore…Is something the wrong?"
The bear like man sighed: "Your brother is asking for you, he says it's about your dear mother…I don't know what it really is, but…" he trailed of.
"Is something not the o of k?"
Starfire knew, when Galfore was talking like this, and then there was something wrong.
"…princess…, yes he is complete healthy. But he needs now his sister."
"Wait! I know exactly, what that means! But she can't travel right now!" said Robin.
There was silent for a moment.
Then Starfire turned around and whispered:
"Robin…, please!" she begged.
"Is there a problem, Robin, warrior of earth?"
Robin looked to Starfire, who had a begging expression on her face, then back to Galfore.
"Err…, no…" he simply said and took a step back.
Again Galfore sighed before he continued:
"You know princess Koriand´r…; your family is falling apart… After banished your sister from Tamaran, you and your brother were the only ones of the royal family to be found…"
"I know…" whispered Starfire and looked to the ground.
"Would you come back to Tamaran? Not for me or Tamaran itself…, but for you and your brother…"
"…yes I will…" she nodded.
Then she looked up with some strong fire in her eyes.
"I will come as soon as possible!"
"Good! I suppose the warriors of earth will come with you."
Starfire turned around and waited for Robin to answer.
"Yes, they will come with her!"
She smiled at him and turned back.
"We will soon meet!" she said with a strong voice.
Galfore nodded and the screen went black.
"Well, I think we should talk to the others…"
That was my 10th chapter!!! Hope you liked it.
Next chapter: The trip to Tamaran