Ridiculously Romantic
"I did warn you did not I?"
Robin and Raven helped the poor Beast boy up and stood in defense mode. Cyborg, instead of using his sonic cannon, raised his fists just. "Starfire, we do not want to hurt you, we are your friends!" He said.
Starfire growled and jumped towards them, swinging her feet and kicking with all her might. "Right, that's a good one! Slade told me you would say that!"
"What?! You believe Slade! What's going on! Why all of a sudden on his team?" Beast boy panted, trying hard not to get kicked by her sharp thin heels.
"Because. You. Hurt. Me!" She struggled as she threw punches at him. Beast boy stopped out of shock.
"We hurt you?" Oblivious for a moment that Starfire's heel was aiming for his green head, Raven screamed. "BEAST BOY! THE SHOE!" Beast boy looked around and ducked. "WHOA!" He said, going back to his friends.
"Starfire! We never hurt you!" Cyborg tried. "We would never hurt you!"
"Right! And I'm the owner of Magical Hogs, and all my pigs can fly!" She snorted. "Get real." She threw an energy ball towards Raven, but it shattered against her black powers.
"Starfire, you get real! What is your problem!" Raven flew above and threw a black swirl at her. "Why are you acting like this?"
Starfire easily dodged it and flew up to her opponent. Her eyes were a light green and were shining lightly. "Because you hate me! How dare you hurt me and act as though none of it happened!" Starfire forced a large flame out of her palms.
"Starfire, don't do this!" Beast boy said, changing into a green eagle and flying around her. "We would never hurt you! We don't even know what you are talking about!" He flew and nipped at her head.
Starfire fell down and landed softly on her heels, bending on one knee. Her head was down and Beast boy had nipped at her ponytail, causing her long hair to fall around her face.
The two flying teens landed softly and reunited with their friends, watching the heavily breathing Starfire. "Star?" Robin said, walking closer to her. "Starfire, its Robin. Your best friend."
"Tell him." Slade whispered in her ear. Starfire still looking down giggled softly. "I need no friends." She whispered. Robin made his way towards her, hands out just incase she fought.
She quickly snapped her head up and everyone gasped. Her eyes were a dangerous dark, emerald green and her hair was swaying down to her butt. She stood up and flicked her wrist. "You betrayed me once, and I will never let you do that to me again!" She screamed, forcing out another batch of starbolts.
Each pelting the teens that used to be her friends. Raven stopped most with her powers, but couldn't get around to all. Beast boy dodged them with difficulty as a cheetah and Cyborg blasted them away with his punches.
Robin however, was having the worst trouble. He tried getting closer to her, but had to dodge many that were causing him to falter back. He didn't want to hurt her at all, but maybe he had to.
"Starfire no!" He yelled, flipping over her body. She turned around and glared at him, pausing her powers. Robin breathed in and out heavily and watched her. She stood still, glaring menacingly.
"Starfire," He whispered. "What are you doing?"
Beast boy and Raven crept up behind her and was about to pounce on her, when Starfire threw her wrists back with out looking at them and exploded them with a sudden fiery blast from her green energy. They all went soaring back and landing in piles of crates.
"What has gotten into you!" Robin yelled. Walking slowly towards her. Starfire's eyes slit dangerously in a glaring position. "Why must you hurt us?"
"Because!" She threw her hands out in a raging motion. "You hurt me!"
Robin knitted his eyebrows in fury and confusion. "What are you talking about! I would never hurt you Starfire, and that's a promise I will always keep! I would never hurt you physically." He said through clenched teeth. Then it hit him. She was under amnesia!
"Starfire, you are under Slade's control! He wiped your memories away from you! I never hurt you! He did!"
"Liar!" She snarled. "I would never hurt you child, it was that pesky boy. Bring him to me Starfire, bring him to me." Slade's voice whispered. "Slade would never hurt me! You, all of you, hate me!" She cried, pointing to Robin and the struggling teens.
"No we didn't!" Beast boy said, holding on to his ribs.
"No more talk, let's fight!" She growled. She crouched to the floor, sending her tight skirt to slide up slightly. Robin gulped. This was going to be a hard battle. How could you fight the one you care about, but the one you care about cares for nothing about you?
Robin turned to his friends and glared. "Leave this up to me. If something were to happen, don't follow, search." He said before crouching and motioning two fingers for her to come and get him.
Starfire snickered and ran towards him, as he ran too. They both met each other half way and started fighting. Starfire kicked high, Robin blocked. Robin punched, Starfire kicked it away.
"How are you doing this?" Robin growled, blocking her fist. "You are way to fast and you know every move I will take."
Starfire kept blocking and punching, throwing in a few blasts of energy and kicks. "Easy, Slade taught me. Prepare to die." She whispered in his face. She kicked with all her might, but Robin leaned his head back, the heel just barely grazing his right cheek.
"Robin!" Cyborg called. "Damn! Starfire sure knows how to kick some ass!" He said to the two teens next to him.
Boy wonder blocked her kick again and jumped back. He touched his bleeding cheek and growled. "That's it, I'm mad!" He watched as she smirked seductively and ran off. "What?!" He ran right after her.
"What about us!" Beast boy said, readying himself to run after. Raven put a hand on his shoulder and sighed.
"Remember what he said. Don't follow, search. Let him and Starfire handle this himself."
"What does he mean by don't follow, search?" Cyborg growled. This was getting confusing.
"I think he meant, if something were to happen to him and he wasn't able to get back, then we have to search for something." She said, trying to think of ways he could've meant.
"Where do we search?" Beast boy asked.
"I'm not sure. But I think I know where we can start." She said. "Let's go home." Picking up Cyborg, the Titans flew home and left Robin to quarrel with their tranquil friend.
"Starfire stop this instant!" Robin said, running and jumping on crates after her. Starfire instead of flying was running away.
"Alright." She said, turning to face him and stopping in the middle of an old warehouse. Robin looked around and his suspicion grew and grew.
"Why did you stop here?" He asked.
"Because." Starfire smiled sweetly. "It's a lovely place isn't it?"
Robin gave her a suspicious glare and shook his head. "Star, you have to remember us! We would never hurt you! We are you friends!"
Starfire chuckled and nodded. "Yep, he was right. He knows you better than anyone I know."
Robin sighed. "No. You used to know me better that anyone, but now, I guess that place 'has' been filled by Slade."
A shock went through Starfire's mind and a memory of them laughing came through. She shook her head and touched her neck. "I guess so." She whispered.
"Starfire, you can fight this! You need to remember us!" He begged, walking closer to her. "You can fight this!"
"Us, I see no us? I only see you and me." She said smirking.
"Starfire! Remember the Teen Titans! We are your friends! I would never hurt you, that's a promise!"
Another memory shocked her mind. 'Because some things, I have trouble keeping as promises' Robin's voice echoed. Starfire shook her head once again and glared.
"Like you said, Some things you have trouble keeping as promises, how is it that this is any different?" She asked.
Robin stepped back. 'If she is under amnesia, how is it that she remembers that?' He thought. "That is a promise that I will always keep, no matter how hard it may be!"
"I don't believe you!" She screamed. She was close to tears. Why were these memories come back to her? If she never knew them before, how is it that she saw them in the past?
"I swear to you Starfire! Please don't do this!" Robin was begging, inching closer and closer to her. "Please!" He whispered.
"Don't come any further ROBIN!" She yelled as another memory swept through her like a cold breeze. 'Robin! Robin! Best friends forever? Robin!' Her own voice seized her mind and tingled her very core uncontrollably.
"Starfire I-" Robin stopped shortly when he heard evil cackles around the room. He glanced around and then glared at the girl before him. "Where exactly did you lead me?"
"Right into a trap you foolish boy." Slade answered. He walked out of the shadows behind Starfire's slightly shaking body with five gray ninja's following in suit.
Starfire regained her poseur and looked away from his hurt eyes. Slade put a hand on her shoulder and leaned in close to her ear. "Good girl." She smiled weakly, but never once stared at the boy in front of her.
"Take her back to her room boys, and you!" He pointed to Robin as two gray ninja's led Starfire away from him. "Let's go." Slade walked off towards Starfire and disappeared.
Three gray ninjas jumped on Robin and held his struggling body down. "No! Let go! Starfire! You have to remember you have to-" The light that was once reflecting into his eyes, now became black as he fell deeply into an unconscious sleep. One of the gray ninjas dropped the metal pipe and dragged Robin to the hide out.
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"When do I get him?" Her voice screeched. "You said I could get him once he was in your arms!"
"We will discuss the matter when I arrive in your chambers, until then you will have to wait."
"But I don't want to wait! I want him now!" She cried. Slade's head was on her wall's t.v screen.
"Listen to yourself Blackfire, you are acting like an impatient child." He glared. "I thought you said you were a woman?"
"I am a woman, and this woman wants Robin!" Blackfire was in her chamber room and was pointing a finger to the screen. "When will you get here Slade?"
"In a while." Blackfire was about to argue more, but Slade hung up.
"Why that dirty son of a-"
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Tree here, tree there, everywhere he walked, a tree was there. Never once did Devion get out of that forest that he stayed in. After that night, he would walk around and look for that small hut that Slade had carried him to.
Just because his eyes were sealed shut, doesn't mean that he didn't have good sense of smelling as a demon. No, he had perfect eyesight, perfect hearing and even perfect sense of smell as a demon. But no, all that changed once he became human.
It was getting late again, and he was pretty sure he had come close to the hide out. But since nightfall did arise, he had to get back to the small burning hut that had scarred his mortal hand.
'I will find you Slade, because I know that you took my mistress.' Walking back to his hut, he managed to leave out twigs and sticks showing the way to where he left off.
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Thundering of footsteps were heard coming down the hall of Slade's layer. All boots, except for the high clatter of the thin heels that Starfire owned. Slade's voice was the first to hear through out the uttering silence.
"Take her to her room, bring Robin to me." He said, opening the door to his favorite chamber. Three gray ninjas held Robin's unconscious body and followed Slade, while the two walked along Starfire as protective guards.
As they came to a complete stop at Starfire's door, she turned around and smiled. "Thank you boys. I can take it from here." One ninja glared and zapped off, while the other smiled warmly.
She walked in and immediately sat on her bed, stripping her high heels off.
(*Back to Slade*)
"Leave him there, he should be awakening any minute now." The ninjas dropped him on Slade's command and zapped out. Robin was lying on the ground as Slade watched him from the chair.
As if on cue, Robin started stirring. "Uh, where am I?" He groaned. The room was dark, except for the fact that the screens on the wall were producing t.v screen brightness.
"Good evening." Slade said. His leg was crossed over the other and his hands were folded in a praying position as his pointer fingers jabbed at his bottom lip. His elbows rested evenly on the armrests and his one sided face could only be seen.
"Slade." Robin growled, swaying from side to side as he got up. Slade smirked and watched as Robin regained his posture.
"How are you feeling Robin?" His same warm but creepy tone asked.
"Where is Starfire." Boy wonder snarled.
"What is it with this Starfire girl?" Slade asked, moving out of the way a bit. The screens were showing Starfire walk around her room as if she was oblivious to the fact that she was being watched.
"Do you like her that much Robin?"
Robin blushed and turned away. "No, not like that! She's just-! How could you do that to her! Turn her against her own friends?!"
Slade chuckled amorally. "Because it was the easiest way to get to you."
"You are a god damned Bastard!" Robin yelled, making his way towards Slade.
"Listen up Robin, and listen good, cause I don't want to tell you twice." Slade said in a more serious tone. Robin paused and looked at him. "I will let Starfire go, but only if you become my apprentice. If you should neglect your level, Starfire will become mine, and she will never remember who you or your friends are. You got me?"
Robin stared at the screen that had Starfire fixing her face up in the mirror, and then glared at Slade. "That is harsh."
"This is a harsh world. Are you in it, or will Starfire become mine? I mean she is an excellent fighter now that she knows my moves." Slade rambled. Robin was steaming. How could he do this!
"Slade, I will get her, and we will never become your apprentices!" Robin yelled, readying himself to run out the door. Slade stood up instantly and his tone was fierce and serious.
"Don't be foolish boy! One click of my button and all my ninjas are on you in a heartbeat. And plus, this little button here," He pointed to the small green button in his arm. "One click and your lovely Starfire has lost everything in her memories forever. No way of getting it back."
Robin's panicky eyes glanced at Starfire's innocent yet controlled body then to Slade. He sighed in defeat and walked up to him. "What do you want from me Slade?"
"Nothing more than your help as my apprentice Robin." Slade clapped twice and three gray ninjas appeared. "Show him to his chamber." Robin walked with the ninjas and appeared out of sight of Slade.
Slade growled as he stepped down to lower level of his floor and walked towards another Chamber. "Blackfire." He really did not want to hear her annoying calls.
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As Robin walked along the long golden halls of Slade's hide out, he thought hard about his and Starfire's situation. 'If I disobey Slade, then Starfire looses every chance she has at becoming her regular self. But if I agree, she will be set free.'
"Move along." The gray ninja nudged him in the back. Robin turned around and glared, but continued walking.
'How do I set Starfire free, but escape myself?' He thought. 'If I were to play along, could Starfire be set free then myself escape during the night?' Robin glanced at the rough looking ninjas and frowned. 'Those guys look tough, really tough.'
"Get in boy." One of them said, pushing Robin into a leaking chamber. "Make nice nice with the rats now." He laughed stupidly and closed the door on Robin's face.
Robin looked around the room through his masked eyes and sighed. "Great. I'm the guest and I get the shittiest room. Ain't life just a bag of tarts." Sitting down on the unbelievably comfortable bed, Robin groaned.
"This isn't happening. Someone just wake me from my horrible nightmare and tell me this isn't real." Scattering paws and claws echoed through the water dripping room from rats, but a whisper also seized it.
"You get used to it."
Robin jumped fifty feet in the air and landed on the far right side of the door. "Who's there?"
"Guard." A timid voice said casually. "So, um, you the new guy?"
"Why are you talking to me? Don't you have errands to run for Slade?" The words leaked from Robin's mouth like venom and the sounds of rustling clothing could be heard on the other side of the door.
"Your right, why would I need to talk to a spoiled brat like yourself." He said stiffly. Robin couldn't help but feel guilty.
"I'm sorry. I'm just having a bad day."
"You're not the only one kid."
"So um," Robin searched for words. "What are you doing down here anyway? You're a gray ninja from the looks of it." He glanced out the barred window to the ninja standing outside of it.
"I um, well you see I only have the adequacy to be strong. I don't have the fighting abilities like the other grays. So I get stuck playing guard duty." He said sadly. Something about this ninja seemed awfully friendly.
"Oh." Was all Robin could muster. "So you worked down here all your time since Slade?"
"Naw, sometimes I go up and take care of Miss Star." The ninja said warmly.
"Star? As in Starfire?" Robin grasped on to the bars and looked out towards the ninja.
"Yeah, she's a perty gal. Very friendly when you get on the right side of her. She's been so nervous since the fight, I would know I talk to her all the time." The ninja's voice calmed and changed in a comfortable tone.
"You talk to Starfire?"
"Ain't you listening? I always see her. Slade only comes to her when he needs something from her, so she appointed me her friend and he agreed to it. Not to go overboard in my say or nothin, but he has a soft side for her. He won't touch or do anything to her for some reason." The ninja sighed but continued on when Robin listened silently.
"He's always nice to her, even though he yells sometimes. She fights back though, she has a fiery spirit don't get me wrong. After her amnesia, she's been getting flashbacks of this guy, but Slade always reminds her that the boy never liked her. He's sometimes there to comfort her that he is. Now that one girl, Blackfire, boy she is some loony. Crying for some Robin guy every chance she sees the master."
The ninja's voice seemed to slip out of tune as Robin's mind carried his thoughts to a hard wistful control over his body.
'Starfire thinks about me? She can sometimes remember? Slade never touches her or is hardly cruel to her for that matter? What is he plotting? Since when does he have a heart for things that never really mattered to him?' Robin's handle on the bars lightened and he dropped his head in serious thought.
"So the master often thinks of ways to get rid of her ya know?" The ninja asked as his tone finally came into tune again.
"Um sure." Robin said. A voice called from down the hall and the ninja sighed happily.
"Silver!" Starfire's voice called. It filled Robin's ears with bittersweet deliberation.
"That's Lady Star's call, I must be on my way. Another gray will be here shortly. I should warn you, gray is not a happy go lucky ninja." Silver started walking away but Robin's question paused him.
"Is Silver your real name?"
"No. Slade made me as a Gray. Lady Starfire named me because she thought gray was a plain name. Silver sounds much more appealing no?" He chuckled and answered Starfire. "Coming my lady! Bye sir."
"Take care Silver." He said weakly.
"Keep it down boy, I don't want to hear your whines." Another gray ninja made his way to the area where Silver had stood. Robin growled and lay on his bed. 'Yep, bag full of tarts.'
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"So where exactly do we start looking?" Cyborg asked, following the marching Raven with Beast boy by her side.
She never answered him but continued walking. Cyborg's vein popped out and his eye started blinking red in haste. "You gonna answer me, or am I supposed to think I am crazy for talking to myself?"
No answer.
"Good god! I'm crazy!"
"Cyborg shut up." Raven's said tonelessly. She stopped dead at the door in front of her and waited before entering.
"Robin's room?"
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"I did warn you did not I?"
Robin and Raven helped the poor Beast boy up and stood in defense mode. Cyborg, instead of using his sonic cannon, raised his fists just. "Starfire, we do not want to hurt you, we are your friends!" He said.
Starfire growled and jumped towards them, swinging her feet and kicking with all her might. "Right, that's a good one! Slade told me you would say that!"
"What?! You believe Slade! What's going on! Why all of a sudden on his team?" Beast boy panted, trying hard not to get kicked by her sharp thin heels.
"Because. You. Hurt. Me!" She struggled as she threw punches at him. Beast boy stopped out of shock.
"We hurt you?" Oblivious for a moment that Starfire's heel was aiming for his green head, Raven screamed. "BEAST BOY! THE SHOE!" Beast boy looked around and ducked. "WHOA!" He said, going back to his friends.
"Starfire! We never hurt you!" Cyborg tried. "We would never hurt you!"
"Right! And I'm the owner of Magical Hogs, and all my pigs can fly!" She snorted. "Get real." She threw an energy ball towards Raven, but it shattered against her black powers.
"Starfire, you get real! What is your problem!" Raven flew above and threw a black swirl at her. "Why are you acting like this?"
Starfire easily dodged it and flew up to her opponent. Her eyes were a light green and were shining lightly. "Because you hate me! How dare you hurt me and act as though none of it happened!" Starfire forced a large flame out of her palms.
"Starfire, don't do this!" Beast boy said, changing into a green eagle and flying around her. "We would never hurt you! We don't even know what you are talking about!" He flew and nipped at her head.
Starfire fell down and landed softly on her heels, bending on one knee. Her head was down and Beast boy had nipped at her ponytail, causing her long hair to fall around her face.
The two flying teens landed softly and reunited with their friends, watching the heavily breathing Starfire. "Star?" Robin said, walking closer to her. "Starfire, its Robin. Your best friend."
"Tell him." Slade whispered in her ear. Starfire still looking down giggled softly. "I need no friends." She whispered. Robin made his way towards her, hands out just incase she fought.
She quickly snapped her head up and everyone gasped. Her eyes were a dangerous dark, emerald green and her hair was swaying down to her butt. She stood up and flicked her wrist. "You betrayed me once, and I will never let you do that to me again!" She screamed, forcing out another batch of starbolts.
Each pelting the teens that used to be her friends. Raven stopped most with her powers, but couldn't get around to all. Beast boy dodged them with difficulty as a cheetah and Cyborg blasted them away with his punches.
Robin however, was having the worst trouble. He tried getting closer to her, but had to dodge many that were causing him to falter back. He didn't want to hurt her at all, but maybe he had to.
"Starfire no!" He yelled, flipping over her body. She turned around and glared at him, pausing her powers. Robin breathed in and out heavily and watched her. She stood still, glaring menacingly.
"Starfire," He whispered. "What are you doing?"
Beast boy and Raven crept up behind her and was about to pounce on her, when Starfire threw her wrists back with out looking at them and exploded them with a sudden fiery blast from her green energy. They all went soaring back and landing in piles of crates.
"What has gotten into you!" Robin yelled. Walking slowly towards her. Starfire's eyes slit dangerously in a glaring position. "Why must you hurt us?"
"Because!" She threw her hands out in a raging motion. "You hurt me!"
Robin knitted his eyebrows in fury and confusion. "What are you talking about! I would never hurt you Starfire, and that's a promise I will always keep! I would never hurt you physically." He said through clenched teeth. Then it hit him. She was under amnesia!
"Starfire, you are under Slade's control! He wiped your memories away from you! I never hurt you! He did!"
"Liar!" She snarled. "I would never hurt you child, it was that pesky boy. Bring him to me Starfire, bring him to me." Slade's voice whispered. "Slade would never hurt me! You, all of you, hate me!" She cried, pointing to Robin and the struggling teens.
"No we didn't!" Beast boy said, holding on to his ribs.
"No more talk, let's fight!" She growled. She crouched to the floor, sending her tight skirt to slide up slightly. Robin gulped. This was going to be a hard battle. How could you fight the one you care about, but the one you care about cares for nothing about you?
Robin turned to his friends and glared. "Leave this up to me. If something were to happen, don't follow, search." He said before crouching and motioning two fingers for her to come and get him.
Starfire snickered and ran towards him, as he ran too. They both met each other half way and started fighting. Starfire kicked high, Robin blocked. Robin punched, Starfire kicked it away.
"How are you doing this?" Robin growled, blocking her fist. "You are way to fast and you know every move I will take."
Starfire kept blocking and punching, throwing in a few blasts of energy and kicks. "Easy, Slade taught me. Prepare to die." She whispered in his face. She kicked with all her might, but Robin leaned his head back, the heel just barely grazing his right cheek.
"Robin!" Cyborg called. "Damn! Starfire sure knows how to kick some ass!" He said to the two teens next to him.
Boy wonder blocked her kick again and jumped back. He touched his bleeding cheek and growled. "That's it, I'm mad!" He watched as she smirked seductively and ran off. "What?!" He ran right after her.
"What about us!" Beast boy said, readying himself to run after. Raven put a hand on his shoulder and sighed.
"Remember what he said. Don't follow, search. Let him and Starfire handle this himself."
"What does he mean by don't follow, search?" Cyborg growled. This was getting confusing.
"I think he meant, if something were to happen to him and he wasn't able to get back, then we have to search for something." She said, trying to think of ways he could've meant.
"Where do we search?" Beast boy asked.
"I'm not sure. But I think I know where we can start." She said. "Let's go home." Picking up Cyborg, the Titans flew home and left Robin to quarrel with their tranquil friend.
"Starfire stop this instant!" Robin said, running and jumping on crates after her. Starfire instead of flying was running away.
"Alright." She said, turning to face him and stopping in the middle of an old warehouse. Robin looked around and his suspicion grew and grew.
"Why did you stop here?" He asked.
"Because." Starfire smiled sweetly. "It's a lovely place isn't it?"
Robin gave her a suspicious glare and shook his head. "Star, you have to remember us! We would never hurt you! We are you friends!"
Starfire chuckled and nodded. "Yep, he was right. He knows you better than anyone I know."
Robin sighed. "No. You used to know me better that anyone, but now, I guess that place 'has' been filled by Slade."
A shock went through Starfire's mind and a memory of them laughing came through. She shook her head and touched her neck. "I guess so." She whispered.
"Starfire, you can fight this! You need to remember us!" He begged, walking closer to her. "You can fight this!"
"Us, I see no us? I only see you and me." She said smirking.
"Starfire! Remember the Teen Titans! We are your friends! I would never hurt you, that's a promise!"
Another memory shocked her mind. 'Because some things, I have trouble keeping as promises' Robin's voice echoed. Starfire shook her head once again and glared.
"Like you said, Some things you have trouble keeping as promises, how is it that this is any different?" She asked.
Robin stepped back. 'If she is under amnesia, how is it that she remembers that?' He thought. "That is a promise that I will always keep, no matter how hard it may be!"
"I don't believe you!" She screamed. She was close to tears. Why were these memories come back to her? If she never knew them before, how is it that she saw them in the past?
"I swear to you Starfire! Please don't do this!" Robin was begging, inching closer and closer to her. "Please!" He whispered.
"Don't come any further ROBIN!" She yelled as another memory swept through her like a cold breeze. 'Robin! Robin! Best friends forever? Robin!' Her own voice seized her mind and tingled her very core uncontrollably.
"Starfire I-" Robin stopped shortly when he heard evil cackles around the room. He glanced around and then glared at the girl before him. "Where exactly did you lead me?"
"Right into a trap you foolish boy." Slade answered. He walked out of the shadows behind Starfire's slightly shaking body with five gray ninja's following in suit.
Starfire regained her poseur and looked away from his hurt eyes. Slade put a hand on her shoulder and leaned in close to her ear. "Good girl." She smiled weakly, but never once stared at the boy in front of her.
"Take her back to her room boys, and you!" He pointed to Robin as two gray ninja's led Starfire away from him. "Let's go." Slade walked off towards Starfire and disappeared.
Three gray ninjas jumped on Robin and held his struggling body down. "No! Let go! Starfire! You have to remember you have to-" The light that was once reflecting into his eyes, now became black as he fell deeply into an unconscious sleep. One of the gray ninjas dropped the metal pipe and dragged Robin to the hide out.
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"When do I get him?" Her voice screeched. "You said I could get him once he was in your arms!"
"We will discuss the matter when I arrive in your chambers, until then you will have to wait."
"But I don't want to wait! I want him now!" She cried. Slade's head was on her wall's t.v screen.
"Listen to yourself Blackfire, you are acting like an impatient child." He glared. "I thought you said you were a woman?"
"I am a woman, and this woman wants Robin!" Blackfire was in her chamber room and was pointing a finger to the screen. "When will you get here Slade?"
"In a while." Blackfire was about to argue more, but Slade hung up.
"Why that dirty son of a-"
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Tree here, tree there, everywhere he walked, a tree was there. Never once did Devion get out of that forest that he stayed in. After that night, he would walk around and look for that small hut that Slade had carried him to.
Just because his eyes were sealed shut, doesn't mean that he didn't have good sense of smelling as a demon. No, he had perfect eyesight, perfect hearing and even perfect sense of smell as a demon. But no, all that changed once he became human.
It was getting late again, and he was pretty sure he had come close to the hide out. But since nightfall did arise, he had to get back to the small burning hut that had scarred his mortal hand.
'I will find you Slade, because I know that you took my mistress.' Walking back to his hut, he managed to leave out twigs and sticks showing the way to where he left off.
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Thundering of footsteps were heard coming down the hall of Slade's layer. All boots, except for the high clatter of the thin heels that Starfire owned. Slade's voice was the first to hear through out the uttering silence.
"Take her to her room, bring Robin to me." He said, opening the door to his favorite chamber. Three gray ninjas held Robin's unconscious body and followed Slade, while the two walked along Starfire as protective guards.
As they came to a complete stop at Starfire's door, she turned around and smiled. "Thank you boys. I can take it from here." One ninja glared and zapped off, while the other smiled warmly.
She walked in and immediately sat on her bed, stripping her high heels off.
(*Back to Slade*)
"Leave him there, he should be awakening any minute now." The ninjas dropped him on Slade's command and zapped out. Robin was lying on the ground as Slade watched him from the chair.
As if on cue, Robin started stirring. "Uh, where am I?" He groaned. The room was dark, except for the fact that the screens on the wall were producing t.v screen brightness.
"Good evening." Slade said. His leg was crossed over the other and his hands were folded in a praying position as his pointer fingers jabbed at his bottom lip. His elbows rested evenly on the armrests and his one sided face could only be seen.
"Slade." Robin growled, swaying from side to side as he got up. Slade smirked and watched as Robin regained his posture.
"How are you feeling Robin?" His same warm but creepy tone asked.
"Where is Starfire." Boy wonder snarled.
"What is it with this Starfire girl?" Slade asked, moving out of the way a bit. The screens were showing Starfire walk around her room as if she was oblivious to the fact that she was being watched.
"Do you like her that much Robin?"
Robin blushed and turned away. "No, not like that! She's just-! How could you do that to her! Turn her against her own friends?!"
Slade chuckled amorally. "Because it was the easiest way to get to you."
"You are a god damned Bastard!" Robin yelled, making his way towards Slade.
"Listen up Robin, and listen good, cause I don't want to tell you twice." Slade said in a more serious tone. Robin paused and looked at him. "I will let Starfire go, but only if you become my apprentice. If you should neglect your level, Starfire will become mine, and she will never remember who you or your friends are. You got me?"
Robin stared at the screen that had Starfire fixing her face up in the mirror, and then glared at Slade. "That is harsh."
"This is a harsh world. Are you in it, or will Starfire become mine? I mean she is an excellent fighter now that she knows my moves." Slade rambled. Robin was steaming. How could he do this!
"Slade, I will get her, and we will never become your apprentices!" Robin yelled, readying himself to run out the door. Slade stood up instantly and his tone was fierce and serious.
"Don't be foolish boy! One click of my button and all my ninjas are on you in a heartbeat. And plus, this little button here," He pointed to the small green button in his arm. "One click and your lovely Starfire has lost everything in her memories forever. No way of getting it back."
Robin's panicky eyes glanced at Starfire's innocent yet controlled body then to Slade. He sighed in defeat and walked up to him. "What do you want from me Slade?"
"Nothing more than your help as my apprentice Robin." Slade clapped twice and three gray ninjas appeared. "Show him to his chamber." Robin walked with the ninjas and appeared out of sight of Slade.
Slade growled as he stepped down to lower level of his floor and walked towards another Chamber. "Blackfire." He really did not want to hear her annoying calls.
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As Robin walked along the long golden halls of Slade's hide out, he thought hard about his and Starfire's situation. 'If I disobey Slade, then Starfire looses every chance she has at becoming her regular self. But if I agree, she will be set free.'
"Move along." The gray ninja nudged him in the back. Robin turned around and glared, but continued walking.
'How do I set Starfire free, but escape myself?' He thought. 'If I were to play along, could Starfire be set free then myself escape during the night?' Robin glanced at the rough looking ninjas and frowned. 'Those guys look tough, really tough.'
"Get in boy." One of them said, pushing Robin into a leaking chamber. "Make nice nice with the rats now." He laughed stupidly and closed the door on Robin's face.
Robin looked around the room through his masked eyes and sighed. "Great. I'm the guest and I get the shittiest room. Ain't life just a bag of tarts." Sitting down on the unbelievably comfortable bed, Robin groaned.
"This isn't happening. Someone just wake me from my horrible nightmare and tell me this isn't real." Scattering paws and claws echoed through the water dripping room from rats, but a whisper also seized it.
"You get used to it."
Robin jumped fifty feet in the air and landed on the far right side of the door. "Who's there?"
"Guard." A timid voice said casually. "So, um, you the new guy?"
"Why are you talking to me? Don't you have errands to run for Slade?" The words leaked from Robin's mouth like venom and the sounds of rustling clothing could be heard on the other side of the door.
"Your right, why would I need to talk to a spoiled brat like yourself." He said stiffly. Robin couldn't help but feel guilty.
"I'm sorry. I'm just having a bad day."
"You're not the only one kid."
"So um," Robin searched for words. "What are you doing down here anyway? You're a gray ninja from the looks of it." He glanced out the barred window to the ninja standing outside of it.
"I um, well you see I only have the adequacy to be strong. I don't have the fighting abilities like the other grays. So I get stuck playing guard duty." He said sadly. Something about this ninja seemed awfully friendly.
"Oh." Was all Robin could muster. "So you worked down here all your time since Slade?"
"Naw, sometimes I go up and take care of Miss Star." The ninja said warmly.
"Star? As in Starfire?" Robin grasped on to the bars and looked out towards the ninja.
"Yeah, she's a perty gal. Very friendly when you get on the right side of her. She's been so nervous since the fight, I would know I talk to her all the time." The ninja's voice calmed and changed in a comfortable tone.
"You talk to Starfire?"
"Ain't you listening? I always see her. Slade only comes to her when he needs something from her, so she appointed me her friend and he agreed to it. Not to go overboard in my say or nothin, but he has a soft side for her. He won't touch or do anything to her for some reason." The ninja sighed but continued on when Robin listened silently.
"He's always nice to her, even though he yells sometimes. She fights back though, she has a fiery spirit don't get me wrong. After her amnesia, she's been getting flashbacks of this guy, but Slade always reminds her that the boy never liked her. He's sometimes there to comfort her that he is. Now that one girl, Blackfire, boy she is some loony. Crying for some Robin guy every chance she sees the master."
The ninja's voice seemed to slip out of tune as Robin's mind carried his thoughts to a hard wistful control over his body.
'Starfire thinks about me? She can sometimes remember? Slade never touches her or is hardly cruel to her for that matter? What is he plotting? Since when does he have a heart for things that never really mattered to him?' Robin's handle on the bars lightened and he dropped his head in serious thought.
"So the master often thinks of ways to get rid of her ya know?" The ninja asked as his tone finally came into tune again.
"Um sure." Robin said. A voice called from down the hall and the ninja sighed happily.
"Silver!" Starfire's voice called. It filled Robin's ears with bittersweet deliberation.
"That's Lady Star's call, I must be on my way. Another gray will be here shortly. I should warn you, gray is not a happy go lucky ninja." Silver started walking away but Robin's question paused him.
"Is Silver your real name?"
"No. Slade made me as a Gray. Lady Starfire named me because she thought gray was a plain name. Silver sounds much more appealing no?" He chuckled and answered Starfire. "Coming my lady! Bye sir."
"Take care Silver." He said weakly.
"Keep it down boy, I don't want to hear your whines." Another gray ninja made his way to the area where Silver had stood. Robin growled and lay on his bed. 'Yep, bag full of tarts.'
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"So where exactly do we start looking?" Cyborg asked, following the marching Raven with Beast boy by her side.
She never answered him but continued walking. Cyborg's vein popped out and his eye started blinking red in haste. "You gonna answer me, or am I supposed to think I am crazy for talking to myself?"
No answer.
"Good god! I'm crazy!"
"Cyborg shut up." Raven's said tonelessly. She stopped dead at the door in front of her and waited before entering.
"Robin's room?"
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