Raven rolled her eyes and typed:
How? They closed the gate, and I don't know any other ways in.
Starfire looked at her as if she had just said a bad word.
"That does not matter!! We must go to this hell and rescue Robin! If he has been harmed in any way I will-!"
Starfire's little anger fit was cut short when a loud whoosh was heard in "Kat's" room. Beast Boy picked Raven up and was the first to approach the strange room.
"If kitty's story is true, her being Raven and all, we're all in trouble."
With Starfire and Cyborg not far away, Beast Boy gently opened the door.
A cloaked blonde, obviously not Hekata, was there, plucking out the cobwebs that still lined the old room and placing them into a black glass jar. Sealing the jar with nothing more than a black rag, she approached the portal she had conveniently left open.
As the witch was searching the room, obviously for any cat hairs she assumed Raven would leave as evidence, a deep, ominous bell tolled from the portal.
The force of the bell's sound turned the witch's head toward it as she proceeded to clean up all evidence of her.
"So quickly she calls. I will keep her waiting no longer."
She took something out of her cloak, obviously a broom because of its handle, and mounted it as if it were a horse. She levitated in the air along with the broom and flew into the portal.
Starfire was the first to approach the portal, for obvious reasons.
"That woman was the one we knew as Kat, is she not?"
Raven meowed. Beast Boy looked to her.
"I'll get back to ya on that."
He also changed into a cat and meowed three times before stretching out his paws. Raven let out an ominous meow once more, and Beast Boy changed back.
"She says no. That's not Kat."
That bit of info did very little to quell Starfire's anger. She picked Raven up and looked her square in her eyes.
"Then she serves Kat's purpose perhaps?"
Raven ducked her head. Without Beast Boy's translation, Starfire already knew what her answer was.
"So this portal. It leads to the place called hell, yes?"
Raven ducked her head once more. Apparently, that was how cats said yes.
In any case, that was enough for Starfire to hear. She instantly flew into the portal, eyes glowing green along the way, and a reluctant Cyborg and Beast Boy followed.
Beast Boy looked like he was going to wet himself.
"So uh hehe, so this is what...hell looks like. Could we maybe uhh hurry up?" He squeaked. "Please?"
Starfire almost formed starbolts, but she abstained seeing as how she was holding onto Raven.
"I do not care how long we must stay in this horrible place! We will not leave without Robin!"
Beast Boy let out a long, frightened whimper. What if we don't find Robin? He thought, What if we're stuck here forever??
The mysterious witch hadn't gone far. She was flying across the burning meadows on the way to an ominous black castle, where the same bell as earlier tolled throughout the barren terrain.
Starfire quickly followed her toward the castle. Beast Boy whimpered again, this time longer and poutier than last time, before changing into a pterodactyl and carrying Cyborg toward the castle.
Cyborg peeked through the tiny window of one tower of the castle. There, he counted eleven men and women, the woman from earlier being the twelfth person, gathered in front of Hekata and the Horned One.
"Whoa. This looks just like one of those witch meetings they talk about in fairy tales."
Starfire set Raven down by the windowpane, and Raven sat there, her tail swishing impatiently, as Starfire took a closer look inside the nearly pitch black room. It was then that she found exactly what she never wanted to see happen.
Robin was right next to Hekata, shackled by his neck like a house pet. And that was exactly what he had become: with his transformation came slavery not just to Hekata but to the Horned One and everyone who served him.
A whip lashed at Robin from his left, forcing him back into the shadows like a dog made to sleep outside for the night. Tears formed in Starfire's eyes.
"Robin..."