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Chapter 17: Starfire's Anguish

Robin had freed both his arms and was starting to pull himself out of the darkness.

"Cana a dajian sena a lujeii siena nortana bid!" Dracon continued with his chant.

He opened his eyes ready to take take away Starfires energy, but, something charged him. It was Robin. He threw himself onto Dracon and brought him down to the ground.

"Raven use your powers and hold Dracon here!" Robin ordered

Raven looked at him and shook her head. She closed her eyes and comcentrated.

"Azerath. Metrion. Zinthos!"

A dark light bound Dracon together and held him to the ground. Robin got off of him and ran over to where Starfire hung.

"Get away from her! She is not your Starfire anymore!' Dracon said struggling to get free.

Robin turned away from Dracon

"Starfire im going to get you out of here! Starfire?!" He said worridly.

She shook her head to let Robin know she understood.

"Alright. Ill get you out of here" He said not wondering where to begin but ripping away at the darkness that held her.

It kept growing back so he took out his birdagang and Started chopping at the darkness the cuff her arms.

"Robin I cant hold him much longer!" Raven said squinting

Robin looked at Dracon he had a crazy glint in his eye that mad him look like a mad man. HE was do close to beinging out of Ravens grip. Robin left Starfire and went to get Cyborg and BEastboy out of the darkness so they could help Raven. He chopped at the darkness and eventually it let go of them.

"Beastboy! Help hold Dracon down! Cyborg help me free Starfire!" Robin said

Beastboy Ran over towards Dracon and turned into a Gorilla. He squeezed Dracon around the body so he couldnt get away giving Raven more time to refuel her energy and grasp him again.

Cyborg shot his sonic canon at the Drakness that held Starfire. It would be destroyed with each blast and then form again a few seconds later.

"Jeez! How do you excpect me to help Starfire! If these stupid black things wont go away!?" Cyborg said annoyed

"I have a plan. Blast that one over there really hard. Dont wait for the smoke to clear and then immediatly that one" Robin said as he pointed to different points in the darkness.

"Alright but I dont know what you expect to hapen" Cyborg said

"Trust me."

"Fine. BOOYAH" Cyborg said as he shot at the darkness quickly.

Robin jumped into the smoke. Cybog couldnt see him anymore.

"Dude are you crazy. Robin what are you doing!? Cyborg said and stopped blasting

The smoke cleared, and Robin appeared holding Starfire in his arms. Cyborg looked dumbstrucked.

"I told you to trust me" Robin said smiling.

"HELP!" yelled Beastboy.

Robin and Cyborg turned to see what was happening. Dracon was a using a forcefield he summound to push Ravens power away from him, and Beastboy was stuck back inside the darkness.

"Ill handle it" Cyborg said running into battle

He shot at Dracon who lost control of his forcefield as it began to dissapear. Raven had a strong grasp on him again. Robin set Starfire down on the floor gently away from the battlefield and went into the fight. First he chopped Beastboy out of the drakness and then threw some small bombs at Dracon. They all exploded and Dracon went blind for a few moments. When his sight came to view again he saw A foot about in inch from his face. About a milisecond later Robin had kicked him hard there. Raven let him go from her power as Robin had his way wth Dracon. Robin punched and kicked and hit Dracon with all his strength and his heart. Dracon was getting extremely weak. He didnt even take the effort to defend himself. Robin just struck at him harder.

Meanwhile

Starfire lay in pain from all the brutal attacks she had been put through. She remembered everything suddenly. She remembered attacking her friends under Dracons influence and she remembered Dracon beating her inside her mind. The painful memories only brought Starfire to teers. She cried curled up in a ball on the cold floor. She could barely move. Her body was so sore, she attempted to lift herself off the ground with flight but couldnt find it in her.

"What is wrong with me?" She said to herself.

Slowly she lifted herself off the floor and stood up barely keeping balance. She only had one thing in mind.

Destroy the one who had done this to her. The one who made her battle Robin. The one who made her fight her friendes. The one who edged into her terrible dreams and torrment her.

Starfire brought her attention to the battle.

She saw Raven blasting Dracon with powerful dark magic, and Cyborg shooting and attacking him, and Beastboy transformed into a wolf, and Robin. Robin seemed to be fighting the hardest he wouldnt stop, he just kept on attacking. Then Dracon used a force to push all the titans away from him and he backed away. He jumped up into the air and and flew behind Stafire twisting her arm behind her back and holding the other one.

"I suggest...(Breaths heavily) That you all... not attack!" He spat out, then continued

"Or else I will enighelate your friend once and for all!" he conluded looking at eachone of them angrily.

Starfire was extremely weak she knew she wouldnt be able to muster a starbolt or use her alien super strength.

"PLease Friends. I do not wish for anyone to get hurt" She choked out weekily.

Tears still streamed from her eyes.

"Starfire we wont get hurt, I promise. Remember. I promised to protect you and I will!" Robin said looking angrily at Dracon.

"How can you protect her? She is in my hands, her fate." Dracon said and put one of his hands a few inches in front of Starfires face.

Starfire got angry. She was angry that he was doing this to everyone and her. How could one be so evil? She felt her eyes glow green, Dracon didnt seem to noitce.

"As I was saying..... Dorne alagatin se quirnit mufan cana a dajian sena a lujeii siena nortana bid!" He finished his chant

Immediatly when he said this Starfire summouned her Starbolts around her and shot them out. The blast hit Dracon and he fell to the ground. Starfire also fell to the ground. Energy was being switched back and forth between them because the the too energies werent on the same frequency when Starfire attacked and Dracon attacked, and this caused the attacks to backfire.

Dracon was loosing energyu and gaining enery, same with Starfire. Lights of electric looking lines jolted from each of their bodies to the other. They both moaned and screamed and cried, because it was quite painful. Then the energy stopped passing between the two and they both collapsed onto the ground and looked at fried.

"Starfire!" Robin said and ran to her aid.

"Robin" Starfire whispered ad he hugged her.

"OH Please" Dracons voice came from behind them

"It looks like my attack backfired Starfire. But yours did too!" He said smiling and pointing his fist out it glowed green.

"My starbolts!?" Starfire said shocked

"Yes. My powers and your powers are very different Starfire. I can obsorb things easily and when our energies interlinked I was able to stimulate starbolts. Just like you" He said smiling

He looked so strong Starfire felt so weak though. How were they evr going to defeat Dracon?