Starfire growled and flew straight at Hekata.
"You! What have you done to Robin??"
Hekata laughed and slipped away.
"You'll find out once you join him!"
She and the other witches cackled, firing strip after strip of pure darkness at Starfire.
Starfire soon found herself entangled in the strips and struggled to get out, but it was useless. As the witches, however, proceeded to attack the other titans, Starfire's eyes glowed a bright green.
The righteous fury that resulted formed starbolts in each of Starfire's hands. The light from the starbolts was unbearable to the dark strips, which fell apart.
As the starbolts and the glow in Starfire's eyes faded, she looked down to the pure darkness falling down in measly drops. She didn't see that coming.
Jinx jumped on Hekata's broom and fired a hex at one of the columns of the castle, which came down toward Raven. As Raven projected a shield around herself, Jinx, Hekata, and the witches paused for a while, then laughed so hard they almost fell off their brooms.
Hekata was the first to recover, pointing a long, black nail toward the shield, which began to shrink.
"Cackle Foolish witch!"
The shield began to tighten around Raven, squeezing the air out of her like water out of a wet towel. Hekata grinned.
"Darkness can only feed darkness!"
Raven struggled to get out but, not surprisingly, it was hopeless.
"I...am not...a witch!"
As she continued to try to struggle, or at least, to breathe, Starfire again lunged for Hekata, starbolts in hand. Hekata lost focus on manipulating Raven's shield, shrieking briefly as the starbolts approached her.
"Aagh! Not the light!"
Starfire looked curiously at this, and then, thinking of nothing but Robin and how Hekata had hurt him, practically shoved both starbolts into Hekata's stomach, followed by a couple of star rays to her head.
Instantly, the green light impaled Hekata and cut through every part of her body. Her final scream hung throughout the whole atmosphere like fog as she burst into several tiny shadows, all of which disappeared.
Incidentally, Jinx and the other witches also vanished as the castle began to crumble. Raven was the first to make a run for it, but she stopped when Starfire was actually running into the building.
"What are you doing?? We have to get out of here!"
Starfire still rushed inside.
"No! I will not leave without Robin!"
The light from the starbolts kept the pure darkness of the walls at bay, leaving her enough time to reach Robin and get him out.
--------------------------------a half-hour later, Titans Tower--------------------------------
Starfire paced back and forth in front of the door to the infirmary. The sounds of blinds opening were heard inside, followed by sizzling noises and stifled cries of pain, obviously from Robin.
Soon after, the cries of pain were no longer stifled, which alarmed Starfire, who rushed straight inside.
Inside, Cyborg and Robin decided that there was only one cure: sunlight. Robin looked like he felt himself bursting into flames, but tried to swallow it as the big yellow orb directed its golden rays toward him.
Almost instantly, the large horns shrunk into the tusks they once were and then disappeared. The black scales an wings literally burned off of Robin. His claws and talons also shrank back to normal, and his teeth were restored to normal as well. Robin's cries of pain became winces, then pants, and finally, they stopped.
Starfire quickly flew to his side, scanning him up and down for any part of the spell that remained.
"You are...all right?"
Robin nodded, then looked down at his boots, then his gloves, and finally, the back of his shirt, all of which had some pretty nasty holes.
"Except now I'm gonna need new clothes. Excuse me."
He got up and left for his room.
-------------------------------Living Room-------------------------------
Raven was quietly reading her book, obviously to try and suppress something. Even when Beast Boy started bugging her with tofu and the like, she still tried to maintain focus on the book alone.
Needless to say, Beast Boy was a bit curious.
"Ummm, Raven? You OK?"
Raven sighed. It was hopeless to try and focus now.
"I just...can't believe it."
Beast Boy tilted his head, giving her the signal to continue.
"For a minute I even thought that...that Kat and I were becoming like friends. And then this happened."
"I know how you feel." Beast Boy sat down next to her. "I was even starting to have a bit of a cush on her, but maybe that was the post-Terra talking."
Now Raven was a bit annoyed.
"And you got the same results with Kat as with Terra. Hopefully this time you learned your lesson."
Beast Boy sighed heavily.
"Did I ever! No more crushes for me!"
Exactly two seconds after that sentence, the doorbell rang. Beast Boy sprung up to get it.
A blonde pizza delivery girl in tight-fitting khaki capris was at the door.
"One veggie pizza for a Mr. Beast Boy."
Beast Boy looked her up and down before walking to the kitchen.
"Oh OK. Just gimme a second."
He proceeded to write the check, but when he was done, he then took to writing down the Titans' phone number and even started scanning the phone books for a florist.
Raven rolled her eyes.
"Here we go again."