Hello everyone, sorry this chapter took so long, there was a lot of stuff going on at school since there's only like 6 days left! I'm leaving my school this year to go to the upper school and I found that if you join a lot of clubs then you get to go on lots of trips at the end of the year. I promise to get a new chapter up asap, maybe tomorrow if I get a good amount of reviews!

Also, I'd just like to say that I'm only human. I guarantee to make mistakes. If you notice any, point them out but don't be too criticizing, no flames, humans have feelings. Thanks, please R&R.

"You were running your power supply dry. It was inevitable that you would soon be unable to use them at all…"

"There's supposedly an underground 'competition' where super villains come with humans and make them fight this big black creature called the Brindar and if they win the villain wins this prize. They call it entertainment."

"The prize is an immortality potion. Can make you live forever. We can't let Slade get it."

"No, you are disqualified from the events."

Slade narrowed his eyes, "At what charges?"

"She is not a human," the hooded figure stated. Her voice seemed familiar.

Starfire gasped, "Blackfire?"

Blackfire gasped as Starfire got right up to her. She threw more and more starbolts trying to get Starfire as far away from her but they didn't stop her. The other titans watching in horror from above as Starfire refused to show any pain. Starfire took the hand from behind her back and threw it around Blackfire's neck. She held on for ten seconds and then released. Blackfire fell down heavily.

She was back on the island where she had been held imprisoned a while ago. Behind her was Slade, he had teleported her once again away from her friends.

"Over here!" shouted Raven, getting everyone's attention. They all ran up to her, there on the beach was Starfire, the waves splashing her face. She was unconscious, with a very pained expression. The water around her was stained with her blood.

"About a year ago, around about the incident of Slade hiring you as an apprentice, Starfire was very clever to look to the future and if something such as this," Raven gestured the unconscious Starfire lying in the bed, "were to happen, she would be prepared. Every other week, Starfire would go to the nearby hospital and put aside a small amount of her own blood. Eventually it amounted up to several gallons of Tamaranian blood."

"All we can do now is wait."

Her eyes flashed open when suddenly; she felt a cold grip tighten around her sore and slightly severed neck. It lifted her up in such a way that she had to hold on to the hand to let the oxygen through her windpipe. It took her eyes a few second to adjust; they were tearing slightly around the edges from the sudden wave of pain that course through her body. It wasn't hard to figure out even before her eyes opened that this was Slade yet again come to seek what he so desperately wants.

"Where is it?"

"It is a potion of immortality. Can make its drinker live forever, carefully crafted by the monks of Ningiya with very precise measures of rare and valuable ingredients. Any cubic thousandth of a milliliter could set the whole balance wrong. This brew of potion was only tested once by a wise man that walks the world collecting every piece of information of any use to him. He seeks enlightenment; he has eternity to find it. And while you age and suffer the disadvantages that it brings you, I shall be ruling this world with an iron fist."

"The potion vial's gone."

'How could Slade have done all this to you?' He pondered. 'In the past weeks, he's practically dragged you through hell and back again. How could one man be so heartless?'

If Slade could now live forever, then Robin would have to make it the worst eternity imaginable. He swore revenge and he promised himself that he'd enjoy it.

Starfire slowly regained consciousness and penned her eyes to see Robin fast asleep sitting on a chair with his head mounted on his folded arms which lay across the edge of Starfire's mattress. She smiled at him but the smile quickly turned into a wince as the pain came to her. She moaned slightly. "How did you sleep?" asked a sleepy voice from the side of her bed. Starfire turned to see Robin in the same position but staring intently at her through his mask. There was a reassuring smile plastered on his face.

"I have slept better," Starfire replied groggily. "You surely slept uncomfortably on that chair, why not use your bed?"

"I wanted you to see a friendly face when you woke up."

"I would be happy just seeing the tower's medical room. It is a relief to be away from Slade." Robin leant forward and gave her a gentle hug so as not to hurt her. They stayed in that position for more than a moment which Robin soon found was quite uncomfortable but nevertheless, he just couldn't let go. Starfire felt the same way, it warmed her from within. Finally Starfire moved to one side slightly and Robin took it as a signal to stop. He reluctantly pulled back. "So, in what way am I injured?" she asked hesitantly.

"You've got two broken ribs, as for everything else; Raven's taken care of it." Starfire pulled the blanket down a little to reveal bandages across her lower chest. She could pinpoint exactly which ones were broken by the throbbing feeling they gave out.

"How long have I been gone from Titan's Tower?" she asked after a brief silence.

"Little more than two weeks," Robin replied.

"And how long have I been asleep?"

"Two days."

"And you have been here by my bedside all that time?" she asked, he gave her a smile which spoke for itself. "You should get some rest. In a bed."

"You'll be ok?" he asked, she nodded slightly trying her best not to hurt herself, "Do you want anything before I go?"

"No thank you Robin, now go, sleep. I shall be fine," Starfire wriggled up deeper into her sheets and watched Robin leave the room. She sighed; it is good to be home. She put her head to one side to see a hospital bag full of blood; it was clearly marked with bold lettering that spelt, 'TAM. 01'. She smiled; I knew it would come to good use in the future.

Her eyelids fluttered shut and she soon drifted off into a deep dreamless sleep.

Robin walked down the hallway and into his room, the door shut behind him automatically and after taking two steps into the room, he collapsed onto his bed, fully dressed. He on the other hand dreamt that night. A scene materialized in front of him, he was in the National Bank. His team was on either side of him and dead ahead was a shadowed figure. Everything seemed very vibrant and detailed. The way the wind came in from the open door and messed with his hair, the tiled stone floors felt cold even through his boots, it all felt right, natural and usual but at the same time it felt wrong like something was about to happen. He automatically shouted, "Titans Go!" The shadow turned towards them, it held a face that had no features, no expression, and not even eyes could be seen from behind the darkness. Beast Boy raced forward as a green Bengal tiger and leapt into the air only to be knocked back by some unknown force that radiated an electric blue colour from the figure's outstretched hand. Next Raven aimed her magic to drop the photo frames of employees at the villain but he did a well delivered forward roll and jumped to his feet leaving the frames to smash one after the other behind him… or her. It was hard to tell. Cyborg readied his sonic cannon and Robin took out three disks from his utility belt and Starfire flew into the air with her arms outstretched. Suddenly, everything stopped. The figure threw his arms in front of him and with a wave of electric blue light that quickly faded; the team was frozen in their battle positions. An eerie ringing echoed across the room followed by a sudden bang. A split second later, the team broke free of the invisible binds holding them still completely oblivious to what had just happened. Then once again they stood stock-still but for a different reason, the figure had gone. Each titan looked around confusedly and Robin turned back to see Starfire lying sprawled across the floor with a heavy flow of blood streaming from what looked like a gunshot wound at her upper chest. She lay there, several feet behind where she was airborne not long ago with her hair spread out. She lay entirely still. Robin ran to her side but when he was about to check her pulse, she disappeared into the ground. Robin awoke in his bed and sat up for a moment thinking everything through. He decided to reassure himself by going to the medical bay to see Starfire, hopefully asleep in her bed. He got up and hastily walked to the elevator. He pressed the button and waited; but he quickly got sick of waiting and took the stairs instead. The medical bay was one floor below. He reached the room and hesitantly opened the door. Starfire was not there, all that was there was a thick, dry bloodstain where she lay before. Then he woke up.

He sat up with furrowed brows and looked around the room. It looked real enough but so did the room in his dream. Robin pinched himself hard on his arm. It hurt just like it would; but the dream made him feel pain as well. He definitely needed some reassurance. There was an obvious déjà vu feeling as he reenacted the scene from his dream, up until he bumped into Raven. "Raven, what are you doing up this early at…" he looked at the watch he was still wearing from the day before, "7 am in the morning…"

"I don't know about you but many people normally wake up at this time. What's up?"

"I didn't have a very good night's sleep."

"Well at least you slept in your bed this time. Did Starfire wake up?"

"Yeah… Raven, can you tell me something about dreams?" he asked hesitantly.

"What do you want to know?"

"Well I had this … nightmare last night and I'm worried that it might actually come true."

"Well in the case of prophetic dreams, the dreaming mind is able to piece together bits of information and observation that we normally overlook or that we do not seriously consider. In other words, our unconscious mind knows what is coming before we consciously piece together the same information. If in your dream it's something that's completely out of the blue and there is no link to anything else in the real world then it probably isn't precognitive. Maybe it's a response to real life trauma like Starfire going missing… that kind of nightmare falls under 'Post-traumatic Stress'."

"How did you know my dream was about Starfire?"

Raven started walking past Robin and he could have sworn that she whispered, "Because it always is," in his ear. He stood still for a moment and turned back to where Raven had just walked away. He mentally twitched and started making his way to the medical room.

When he good there, he saw Starfire, the same as when he had left her the previous night; asleep peacefully as she slowly recuperated. He smiled and quietly closed the door on his way to the kitchen. As he walked onwards, he thought to himself how much Starfire would appreciate a home cooked breakfast in bed meal.