Chapter 3: Defiance
A/N ok so the Cinderella thing stopped I'll have to rename the story; it just never really worked out. It is still however going to be Robin/OC. I apologize to any new readers, but I really did try the Cinderella thing and it just didn't happen. Hope you like the new direction. Do read and review, constructive criticism only, no flames please!!
Arrendi
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans just the plot, Katarina, and Demy.
Chapter 3:Defiance
"Come out come out little Katarina. We know you're in here and in order to save all these people you need to come out RIGHT NOW!!!!" cooed Demy to a silent shivering crowd. Her little sister had run off to this god forsaken party and caused all hell with Slade's mediocre plan. Katarina was supposed to have been home so that he could kidnap her and take her to the famous Bruce Wayne's home, but instead Demy had to go on a wild goose chase so that Katarina could go to some stupid party.
"You won't hurt them without going threw us first!" a new voice yelled. The entire crowd sighed in relief upon seeing the Titans on the stage, but they were in for a surprise. Demy turned and gave the Titans an evil grin as her eyes sparkled devilishly.
"Well Hello there Teen Titans, come out to play?" she cackled.
"Actually" responded Robin in his usual villain facing voice "We'd like to party, but your in the way."
"So sorry, let me send you to another type of party!" sneered Demy. Robin caught sight of the matching chopsticks in the girl's hair and blanched, but only slightly. Without alerting the others to the girl's identity he quietly pressed a silent alarm for Raven; it was a Cristo.
"A party for all, may they burn in hell." yelled Demy. The spell was cast but a new voice interrupted it.
"NO DEMY!!" Katarina yelled "You won't kill them!!"
The girls golden hair was in a perfect half up half down style with her white chopsticks visible. She had landed in front of the Titans after a flip from above, and now stood shielding them from the spell her sister had cast. Demy growled knowing that the spell wouldn't work on other sorcière demons, only on mortals.
"Get out of my way little sister. You are in enough trouble as it is! "
"I won't let you Demy. I won't let you kill them. Kill me, fine, but you can't kill them! "
"How dare you stand in the way of me!" Demy raged at the tall girl before the Titans "You... you are nothing but a mistake in our fine family and you dare to defy an older, wiser Cristo?"
"You may not kill those who protect mortals Demy!"
"Watch me!!" hissed Demy and pointed at Beastboy "Matrice."
"Protégez!" yelled Katarina also pointing at Beastboy. Katarina's spell hit first creating a glowing yellow bubble around Beastboy, upon the other spells connection the bubble shattered but still saved him. Demy looked as if she could kill, but she didn't all she did was through another spell at Katarina who tried to doge it but got hit anyway. The two of them disappeared in clouds of smoke leaving the stunned crowd and the severely concerned Titans.
"Is it just me..." muttered Beastboy "Or did we just get in the middle of a family feud?"
"It's worse then a family feud." said Robin darkly "It's a demon family feud."
The silence that filled the building was unsettling as everyone left but the Titans. Robins was intent upon finding clues that lead to the white demon and the black demon. Beastboy had turned into a hound and was sniffing the area where the black demon had been standing, Cyborg was looking for clues in the stage access catwalks where the white demon had come from, and Starfire was hovering around Robin. Raven appeared from nowhere and demanded to know what was going on.
"You were right Raven." Robin explained "The Cristo family is somehow involved with what's been going on. It seems their in the middle of a family feud because of a white demon. The one called Demy is the older black demon, her foot prints match those that we found in the alley."
"So the Cristo's have lowered themselves to Slade's level." murmured Raven under her breath "Rare...something is amiss and I don't think it's just Slade."
"Hey guys I've got something!" yelled Beastboy "It's an invite to a charity ball tomorrow."
"Meeting place?" asked Robin arching one eyebrow at Raven. Raven nodded and looked around at the other Titans.
"Be careful I am warning you know. These demons have no mercy...even the white ones can be extraordinarily dangerous...." she said in a voice that crawled down the other Titans spins "Make sure you can move, and I mean fast, in whatever you wear. If a spell comes your way you don't want to be hit with it.
"Why?" Robin asked "Are all of their spells evil?"
"Not all of them, but they don't use multipurpose spells." Raven answered blank looks were on almost all of the Titans "You know like mine? Azerath Metrion Zinthos and I can do almost anything?" Raven sighed monotonously "They use the command version. In their own language they call a command and it happens. Anyone know French?"
Everyone but Robin shook their head no. Robin said "Yes." surprising all of them. Raven asked how well he knew it.
"I'm fluent. Batman made me learn Spanish, French, German, and Chinese. Bases for almost every language in the world."
"While the fought here, did they use spells?" Raven asked still in her normal voice. She was defiantly acting different, but then again demon knowledge was her forte and everyone knew she thought a lot like Robin when she wanted to.
"Yes. They used two spells, but they were in another language." Starfire piped up "Very odd words to me."
"The black demon yelled die and tried to kill BB, the white demon yelled protect and blocked the spell. The black demon used another but she didn't yell it and I didn't hear it clearly." Robin answered looking at Raven who merely nodded.
"It's a masquerade!" said Cyborg looking at the invitation "We get to dress up."
"Oh that is most marvelous!" sang Starfire "I love the dressing of up! Especially for a ball of masks!!"
"All I need is my tux." said Robin smiling
"I need a mask man... I can't go as a cat to this one." whined Beast boy "And I hate masks. They make my fur crawl."
"I hate dressing up." muttered Raven solemnly "It's disgustingly happy."
"Well Titans, lets play dress up." grinned Robin as he headed out the door.
The next night
Five teens entered the annual Grand Charity Ball for the Jump City Children's Home. The three boys wore matching tuxedos but one was navy, one was black, and one was a very dark green. The two girls wore different dresses one was hot pink with pretty beads and a bow in the back, the other was a simple black evening gown made of taffeta. All of them wore the same mask, just made to go with their outfit the reason being that the masks were wired. Two hours later they sat around a table looking very bored. Robin constantly swept the room with his eyes to spot the girls they were watching for and suddenly he did. Quietly he stood up and murmured that he was going to ask somebody to dance. The response he got was shocked as the only music playing was ballroom and the other Titans had no clue he was so well rounded.
Robin made his way to the table where a girl sat alone in a beautiful white sleeveless gown embroidered at the top and bottom with a swirled design in black thread. Her blue-green eyes were covered by a simple white mask with jewels shimmering at the corner of her eyes. The girls golden hair fell almost to her waist, but some was on top of her head in a neat bun with two white jewel encrusted sticks protruding from the bun at parallel angles. Her face was purely a mask of happiness, the disgust and sadness she was truly feeling was shown only in her eyes. Robin put on his biggest smile and d put out a white gloved hand.
"May I have this dance?" he asked quietly. The girls head snapped toward him and her eyes peered at him. She looked to be analyzing who he was and why he was asking her to dance. Finally she nodded and took his hand. As he escorted her onto the dance floor and whipped her into the proper ballroom dancing position he began to whisper in her ear.
"Should I ask why you're here?"
"No you shouldn't. You don't want to get involved with this."
"Why not?"
"Demon business. I'll take care of what threatens you."
"But you see we don't like letting people do business about us without us being involved, and we have a demon on the team."
"You've got an Azerath demon. Big difference, as in my kind kill for a living her kind kill when they want to and don't when they don't want to."
"You saved Beastboy We owe you help."
"You don't owe me anything, I was putting a stop to my sister it's what I do."
"About your sister, what did she do to you last night?"
"Let's just say pray she doesn't attack you I can't do any protecting for a few hours."
"Mmm not good." Robin murmured "Any magic at all?"
"No nothing, it temporarily absorbed my powers. I have forty eight hours until I can get them back."
"What's she planning on doing to you between now and then?"
"She's made a deal with Slade. He finds me a good home that she approves of where they can watch me to make sure I don't leak information, and he gets a disk containing anything and everything he needs to know about you and your team. With that disk you'll be dead in three days time."
The entire time they were talking Robin and Katarina were swirling around the dance floor in perfect time to the music. She had stepped on his foot countless times, but he really didn't care she was busy whispering information to him. Raven had seen what he was doing and pulled a flabbergasted Cyborg onto the dance floor and old Beastboy and Starfire to fallow suit. Soon the other four Titans were lurching unsteadily around the dance floor trying to copy Robin and his partner. Starfire took to floating a couple centimeters off the floor so she would not have broken toes at the end of the dance, and Raven mentally told Cyborg how to dance. Soon it went into a fox trot and the other Titans just had to stand watching because they had no clue how to even fake the proper dance.
The music stopped as did the chattering and laughter. The lights went out and an ere glow from the small candles at every table lit the room. Robin felt Katarina start to shake a little as if she knew something was wrong. His strong hand still held her waist, but his other hand fell to his own waist reaching for a birderang.
"Katarina" a cold voice called "You had better come here. You're powerless and your sister is getting angry."
"Correction, I am already angry and getting angrier. Katarina get over here NOW!" called Demy her voice unearthly and gravely.
"Don't go." whispered Robin "Head left there's an exit there."
"I have the demon girl from the Titans. You know I'll kill her and we both know our kind can see in pitch black so I know you're not having trouble seeing me."
"Raven can take care of herself, don't go." whispered Robin trying his best to keep the quivering demon girl near him.
"I have to, Demy's heartless she really will kill her." responded Katarina. Suddenly candles and tables flew everywhere. A scream echoed from the other side of the room, but it wasn't Raven.
"I've got Rae. Let's move Robin!" called Cyborg. Robin grabbed Katarina's hand and started to run.
"I don't think your sister will hurt all these people, too much publicity. And as for a safe home, Titan's Tower should be good enough for her."
"The disk!" yelled Katarina over the screams and panic of the crowd.
"We'll lay out a plan later; right now we need to disappear."
Katarina laughed "You really wanna leave without a trace?"
"As much as possible." returned Robin not bothering to look back at her.
"What kind of cars to you have with you?"
"None they belong to my mentor why?"
"Can he pick them up?"
"Sure."
"Good."
A white smoke surrounded Robin and the other Titans and when it cleared they were in Titans tower. Robin held Katarina who was unconscious.
"I never want to do that again." whimpered Beastboy shivering uncontrollably.
"I agree with friend Beastboy. That was a most unpleasant feeling." whispered Starfire for once quiet.
"My circuits are goin' haywire here!" exclaimed a distressed Cyborg.
"I hate that type of travel." muttered Raven "They are the only kind of demon who can do that and it's not pleasant."
"She said she had no powers for forty eight hours I don't get how she did this, or why she ended up unconscious." Robin said aloud half to himself half to the Titans.
"Defiance." said Raven simply.
"What? What does defiance have to do with anything?" asked Robin confused by the demon girl's answer.
"Katarina defied the binding spell. She'll be out for a few days, defying a spell is an extraordinarily dangerous thing. If the spell is strong enough it can kill the demon defying it."
A thunderous sound suddenly echoed threw the tower and lights started to go off everywhere. The power flickered a few times and blacked out and soon an ere voice floated to the Titans.
"I don't want my sister here." called Demy "And I don't want you alive."
