Chp.6: In the Castle
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" Beast Boy screamed as they all swirled dizzily around in the mirror.
"OOF!" they all said at once. Robin rose up, knocking Beast Boy off his back and looked around. They were in soft blue-green grass, next to a blossoming tree behind some bushes.
"Are we here?" Cyborg asked.
"Get down!" Robin whispered. They all ducked down behind the bushes as two guards walked by in their green and silver armor outfits with purple capes. Once they passed, Robin rose up to see over the bushes.
"I see the castle… She has to be in there!" Robin said and took off, dodging behind trees, bushes, anything he could.
"Robin left without a plan… I'm so gonna have to write this down in my diary," Beast Boy said. Cyborg and Raven looked at him strangely. "Not that I have one…. Heh-heh…"
"Right," Raven said. "Now… let's go."
"Hello, people will see us!" Beast Boy yelled.
"Shut up! I know," Raven said. "Watch, I'll be able to get you guys help." She picked up her mirror and looked at her reflection. "Blackfire," She said and glowed. "You either have to know there name, or show their reflection before yours," She said as light went completely over her.
"Raven?" Cyborg stared at the light.
The light cleared, and before them stood none other than Blackfire in Raven's clothes.
"Wh-what?!" The two boys cried.
"Now wait here. I'll get you some people to disquise yourself as," Raven said, sounding weird coming out of Blackfire's body.
"O-okay…" They both muttered.
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Lyss's two friends walked together. "Hey, do you think they hung that dude Lyss was talkin' about?" the purple headed one asked.
"I dunno… I thought we Tamaranians were a peaceful folk, really…" The other one said.
"HI-YAH!" They heard suddenly and were kicked in the back of the head. They both fell down unconsious while Raven grabbed their feet.
"That was simple," She said dragging them off into the bushes.
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She shined her mirror on the two unconcious boys then eyed B.B and Cyborg. She turned the mirror in their direction. It lit up.
In moments, Cyborg appeared as the purple headed man with only bits of metal on parts of his body. Beast Boy emerged as a slightly shorter version of the spiky haired boy with green hair. They looked at each other, then stripped the real versions down to their underwear, putting on the clothes themselves.
"Well, that worked well," Beast Boy said shoving his clothes into his suitcase. "Now, let's go find Robin and get him to change."
"Don't bother. He'll handle himself. We can't catch up to him, not at the rate he's going. Besides, I need to find an outfit to change into," Raven said.
"Nah, it's fine! Blackfire goes to all kinds of different planets and stuff. They'll just think that's one of the outfits she got."
"I doubt it," Raven said.
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Robin had barely made it past the guards. He wore himself out getting all the way to the castle. He slid down and sat against a tree panting. "Oh, man, why am I being so stupid? How am I supposed to get in there without a discuise?" He said to himself. "It's even more gaurded in there than it is out here… I can't sneak in…" A guard walked by that was about his height. Robin smirked.
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Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg walked in a line, Raven in the middle. "Announcing Princess Blackfire," Beast Boy called in a funny accent.
People waved and stared and whispered. "That was discrete," Cyborg muttered sarcastically.
"Well, it's better if we announce Blackfire so that people won't think we're sneaking around. C'mon," Beast Boy said.
"Whatever, just go," Raven said as they marched into the castle.
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Robin looked himself over in his new guard outfit. He pulled his black and silver boots on. "Not bad," He said. He then paused. "-but that Lyss will recognize my face…" He reached up to his mask. "I always hated doing this…"
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Raven stood in Blackfire's room while she changed into one of the fancy dresses for the party. Beast Boy and Cyborg sat on the stairs watching the dancers practicing. "I hope we don't have to dance…" Beast Boy said.
"Me too… I'm not really very good at the whole dancing thing," Cyborg shrugged. The door opened and a line of soldiers marched in.
"H-hey, look at that guard! He's like half the size of the others!" Beast Boy said pointing to a skimpy little guard in the back with strangely shaped black eyes.
"You do know that you're even shorter than he is when you're in your original form, don't you?"
"Uhhhhhh---"
"Right. Now shut up and help me look for Robin."
"Fine," Beast Boy said.
The short guard looked up at the discuised Beast Boy and Cyborg. He looked back ahead and smirked.
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Starfire walked down the hall slowly, heading towards her room to change into her party dress. She sighed. She was not looking forward to the party. Going to that party meant finally giving into fate and marrying Lyss the next day.
She walked slowly as a line of guards passed. A guard in the back looked over at her. His eyes widened. She looked over at him.
The two stared into each others' eyes as they passed each other. The boy seemed ready to say something, but the guard behind him kept pushing him away. She stood there watching after him.
"Who was that guard…? I have never-seen that one before…" She said.
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"Ta-da," Raven said monotoniously as she walked out in a black dress with silver sleeves. "Let's go find Robin. When we find him, we'll find Starfire."
"Right," The two boys said and stepped next to her, leading her down the hall and down the stairs.
"Say, Ra-I mean Blackfire, how do you think Robin made it in here, anyways?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't know, but I'm positive he made it in somehow," Raven said.
"Yeah, you know how he is," Cyborg said and grinned. "He's bound to be somewhere nearby!"