(( Chapter 1 ))

Home sweet Tamaran

"Starfire, is everything ok?"

The young alien sighed.

"I am... wondering."

The large giant at the door walked over to Starfire and sat beside her.

"Is something wrong princess? You have not spoken a word since your arrival."

"Everything is wonderful, my friends are happy, and I am happy... nothing has ever been better."

Galfore suspiciously eyed her with his small squinty eyes.

"What has happened while you were at Earth?"

Starfire hesitated then grabbed a strand of her long beautiful amber hair. She fumbled with it for a minute then turned to gaze out her window at the planet of Tamaran; her beloved home plant that she had not visited since she was due to be betrothed (or arranged to marry.) to a Glgrdsklechhh. (gar-gul-sklech... a large green alien that looked like a booger.) She remembered that day so well, Robin was so... "Jealous" as Cyborg had joked... but then... why had he attacked her?

"Nothing is wrong, I assure you. Everything is... fine." Starfire lied. She hated lieing, especially to Galfore, growing up he was her closest thing to a family.

"Starfire... you did not get angry with them did you?" Demanded Galfore

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A shadowy figure ran past. Starting up her fire bolts Starfire chased it to an abandoned old warehouse near the docks. She hesitated a moment then slid open the door, it obeyed her command with a loud 'creeeek'.

"Hello? Is some one there?" The nervous Tamaranian made her way into the center of the warehouse. Dust was swept away and smoke gathered at her feet as she walked.

She suddenly felt a huge jab in her back as she was thrown off her feet and into the wall in front of her. Old bricks from the wall fell with her to the floor; she gazed up in front of her and saw... And saw... Robin!

"Rob-"

She didn't get to finish her sentence; Robin grabbed her around the neck and threw her across the room. This time Starfire caught herself in midair and stood there hovering about the ground in front of Robin. Her eyes were wide with shock... her best friend... was angry... at her?

"Robin what are you-?"

Robin pulled out his bo-staff and twirled it around his fingers and ran at her, jumping of the right wall and smashing his staff in her stomach causing her to fall to the ground. Gasping for breath she felt a tear fall from her left eye. Her hands tingled and urged her to fight, to let go of all her anger but her heart refused to.

"Robin please...why are you attacking me?"

Again he came at her, anger burned in his eyes, anger that Starfire could not figure out. Her stomach curled in pain and her body ached from his staff. Starting up her fire bolts once again, a green glow lit the room. She stood up and flew into the center of the room, her hands balled into fists to try and hold back the desire to fight.

"Robin I do not wish to hurt you!" She cried confusion rattling her mind. This could not be the Robin she knew... Why would he attack her? Why would he want to hurt her? ...He had hurt her one time before but Slade was behind that... both times.

"Slade is behind your badness! What is he doing to-"

Charging at her he caressed her face with his fist and landed behind her on his feet. She held her face in her hands as Robin came from behind and got her in the back with his bo-staff.

With her eyes glowing green from her Tamaranian blood she took Aim at Robin's staff... within one blow the staff was cracked in half and was lying on the ground... Focusing her attention on the staff she didn't see Robin make his toward her, throw two bombshells at her feet. Each bomb went off on its own time, the first caused blindness with its smoke and the second tore her outfit under her neck and her skirt on the rims. She fell to her knees with tears falling slowly from her eyes.

"...R-Robin?" she whispered trying to make out the blurry spiky-haired form she saw in front of her.

"I d-do not understand... did I do s-something wrong?" She tried to stand up but her legs felt numb.

Robin's form became clear; his eyes were narrow as he gazed at Starfire.

She shook. She knew he was strong and once he was in battle he did what ever it took to win... exactly how he was with Slade... Anger suddenly found it's way into Starfire's heart and all the bad memories poured in... Robin as Slade's apprentice... Him grabbing her arm so tightly because she had not stopped Slade... Red X...

"Robin I told you I did not wish to fight you..."

Her hands became enclosed in a reddened star bolt. "But I will if I must!" And she used all her energy into that one star bolt, she flew to her side and threw it as hard as she could, just enough to knock Robin off his feet and fly back into the wall and break through it to the other side.

Heavily breathing Starfire's eyes and hands lost the reddened glow and as the smoke disappeared she gasped as a weak Robin lay under a large pile of bricks with his eyes closed.

"ROBIN!" Starfire screamed and began to rush toward him but was held back by her right hand. Turning around Starfire once again looked into his eyes...

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Ooooo do you like my first chapter??? Hope you do it took awhile.... But anyway... I used to have Blackfire talking to Star in the beginning but then I was like, "Oh shitake mushrooms! Blackfire was banned! ... oops." So yea, now I changed it and all is well! If you enjoyed it please submit a review! Tehe, thanks!

Mucho Grande Love!

::Cute Alien Girl::