"I don't know how you're alive and moving but I'll end this now." Alhrik said. Robin then gripped the blade in his midsection and held on tightly, letting the now trickling blood in his hands run onto the ground. Alhrik brought his other bladed arm back and prepared to stab it into Robin's head which would complete the incantation. Robin caught his hand and gripped it firmly, nearly crushing bone. He then swiftly pulled the blade out of his midsection and sent a jump round kick to Alhrik's head sending him flying. Ignoring the pain in his stomach and hands, he concentrated and formed what aura he had left into a physical blade of pure energy. Alhrik got to his feet, blood dripping from the wound on his head from the kick. Bringing his blades up he charged, aiming right for Robin's head. He sent a flurry of stabs right at Robin's head. He dodged them all. Alhrik's next strike with his blades ended when Robin brought his energy sword up and shattered the blades while taking off Alhrik's hands at the same time. He then stabbed the sword right into Alhrik's midsection. As Alhrik's blood trickled to the floor from the sword wound, Alhrik coughed up blood and spoke. "I knew you would be different. You had no more mind aura. So you took your life aura. Well I'll die, but with your life aura depleted you'll be with me." "Then so be it." Robin then brought the blade up Alhrik's chest, slicing through bone and organs until bringing the sword out of Alhrik's area where his shoulders met his neck. Alhrik's blood sprayed over the floor and Robin's arm. Alhrik then fell dead.
Starfire heard the words come out of Alhrik's mouth. "I'll die, but with your life aura depleted you'll be with me." She gasped when she heard this. She saw Robin kill Alhrik then and there. "Robin," she whispered to herself, "Please don't let it be true..." But Robin heard and looked over at her with a sad look. "I'm sorry, but it is." The energy sword began to dissolve as Robin fell to his back. Starfire ran over to him, cradling him in her arms. "Don't leave me Robin! You can't leave me; we've been through so much. We've made it so far. YOU CAN'T DIE!" Starfire cried out, tears running down her cheeks. "It's because I love you. Please don't die." "I- I understand now." "(Sniffle) Understand what?" "I was told that I would have to make a choice...but I think they meant the wrong person. You're th-the one that will have to make the choice. You have to." Robin collapsed in her arms. She cried more as she cradled the dead Robin in her arms. While one side of her conscience mourned his death, another part wondered what he could have meant. She stood to her feet. Then she noticed the two bodies...Alhrik's body was glowing purple and Robin's blue. "Th-that's what I have to choose." Whichever one she chose, she could return home, everything would be back to normal and the Titans would be back. But one of two things would be different. It was simple she could choose Alhrik and Slade would be gone forever. But it would mean that Robin, the one she loved, wouldn't exist. But if she chose Robin, Slade would remain and continue his evil onslaught. But Robin would be with her. She ran to Robin's body and cradled it in her arms. "I CHOOSE HIM! I DON'T CARE IF IT MEANS FIGHTING SLADE...as long as he's by my side..." The floor around them began to glow. She looked down to see Robin's eyes slowly opening. "Starfire...but you could've ended it." "I can't live without you Robin...I love you too much to live in a world without you." "Star...fire..." The two embraced in a kiss as the light overtook them.
To Be Concluded...