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OKAY, chapter 8 is finally done, i updated from the last part where she released her sheild instead of creating another chapter so enjoy! And i promise i will update next time in chapter 9 AND i will update sooner!!

(( Chapter 8 ))

Seeing Is Believing

Flying through the sky with great speed Starfire eyed the people below. The ones she used to save... with her friends. How happy she used to be with them, and now she didn't remember a time when she smiled and actually felt happy, not 'evil' happy for causing destruction but happy as in feeling the real happiness in her heart. Now, young Starfire wasn't even sure if she still had one.

Her body shivered as she caught sight of the building that held the synothium... she recognized it easily from the last time she was there. Red X was after it... Starfire landed on the roof of the building and paused a second. Robin had made the mistake of making Red X and beat himself up when some one stole the suit... he made a mistake but everyone eventually forgave him...

Eyeing the door she blasted it with her now very powerful eye beams and it fell open.

...They forgave him... but they would never forgive her.

She shook off that thought and entered the building, careful not to be seen... the last thing she wanted to do was fight. Stopping in the middle of a large room she could take a pick of several different hallways. She eyed the first hallway and remembered that BeastBoy had taken that one, no synothium. The second hallway Raven had taken, no synothium. The third hallway Starfire had taken and she had not found any... the fourth hallway was the one Robin had taken and he had found synothium, and Red X.

She flew as fast as she could down the hallway and came to a large door with red sensor beams in every direction. She felt her face smooth into a smile as she thought of Robin being able to get by these without a problem... Starfire balled her hands into fists and raised them above her head. A large red bubble spread around Starfire and acted as a shield to the beams and Starfire was able to cross them without any trouble... until she came to a large dive in the ground and at the bottom was a heavily pounded white shield. At first a few of her star bolts just cracked it, and by then Starfire was beginning to become impatient and... a little angry. She had no time to waste on this pathetic shield, with her eyes glowing red and her hands the same she flew toward the shield and was able to smash through it, but it was a hard impact and she was thrown to the floor and the shield just went back to normal.

Starfire took a deep breath and headed down the short hallway, yet she came to another door... she threw open the door with her strength and peered around the room. The floor was black and had green lines on it to represent a grid, looking up she saw what looked like a canon. A heat tracking canon actually.

Brushing her bangs out of her face she just flew across the floor without any trouble from the canon and grabbed the vault door with all her strength she had left. She threw it aside careful not to let it touch the floor behind her and gazed around the room. Synothium lay inside all the cupboards around her but she was interested in the one hovering in front of her, the most powerful one.

Looking up at the synothium she felt so empty again, like she was nothing but a thief... but maybe she was suppose to be evil now? Perhaps that is how it was suppose to end up.

Shaking her head at all her bad thoughts she reached out and grabbed the synothium...

Red lights began to flash furiously around her and in the distance she could hear buzzers sounding... no doubt the Titans would soon be here...

"Drop the synothium!" Cyborg's voice echoed through out the room.

Starfire froze. As long as she did not turn around they would not see her.

"Yo! I said drop the synothium!" Cyborg repeated.

Minutes passed but felt like hours and Starfire remained with her back to the Titans.

"Now." Ordered Raven.

Then she heard the noise, the cold breeze blow past her from Robin bo-staff when he twirled it around in the air... Robin?!

Starfire spun around and gasped.

The synothium in her hand fell to the floor and caused a large explosion that sent Starfire flying backward into the wall and the Titans blown across the room... landing on the black floor with the grid and the heat seeker.

Rubbing her head Starfire peered over at the Titans... she couldn't believe what she her eyes saw... Robin... he was lying on the floor with the others around him but it was him. Robin... he was ok. Peering down at his side she saw his bo-staff... Starfire covered her mouth, her eyes froze wide open. The sight of her star bolt cracking the staff in half was replaying over and over in her mind... Robin only had one bo-staff... and if the one he had now was in perfect condition... then...

Starfire felt her body shake...

"...He was not there... he did not attack me..."

And as a smile of happiness spread across her face she heard a loud buzz and the floor that the Titans lye on lit up in a red glow to show an 'x' where they were at and the canon wired to the ceiling hovered above them and lit up in the same red devilish glow that once lit Starfire's hands.

"ROBIN!" Starfire screamed and lunged forward with all her might. She threw herself in the middle of her friends and raised her hands. Just as the canon shot a harmful red beam down at them Starfire unleashed her lime green powers and a shield covered her and her friends.

Slowly opening their eyes to see a tall red head standing in front of a blinding red light; shock over took them.

"Starfire...?"

Mumbled Raven in her monotone voice... which usually didn't how emotion but now it sounded filled with worry for her friend fighting off the beam in front of them, trying to save her dear friends.

Robin shook his head from the crash with the ground and peered up at Starfire. At first he didn't know what Raven had said but now it was clear.... Snapping back to reality he began to see Starfire shake. The beam was wearing her down.

"Starfire!"

Starfire was trying hard to not let go but it was too much, she was putting all her energy she had into the shield that protected her and her friends but she couldn't hold it anymore... it was too strong...

...Starfire released the shield... and the canon's beam shot down directly at her...

She let out a scream and fell to her knees. Robin ran to her side and held her up so she wouldn't fall.

"Starfire are you ok? Starfire can you hear me?"

Raven grasped Starfire's hand. "Starfire please wake up." She cried; BeastBoy put his hand on her shoulder.

A single tear fell from Starfire's eye before they both slowly opened to see Robin's face.

"Robin!" Starfire threw herself into Robin's arms... she was so happy to finally see he was ok, he was ok because she had now saved him instead of destroyed.

Slowly pulling back Robin looked at Starfire.

"Starfire what happened to you?"

Starfire peered around at her friends. "I... do not understand..."

"Starfire you just disappeared... you left your room and never came back, where did you go?" asked Raven.

Starfire began to fall from still being weak but Robin immediately caught her.

"I followed you to Pier 22... to pursue the criminals..." Starfire paused. "I entered a warehouse near the water and... "

Her voice choked and she didn't want to talk anymore.

"I found your communicator in there Star, what happened? It was a mess, there were dents in the walls and a brick pile was on the floor... was there a fight?" asked Robin.

Starfire just froze and looked at Robin. 'Was there a fight'?

"...The brick pile... was not upon you?"

Robin's eye's narrowed.

"Star what are you talking about?" Cyborg's voice was filled with so much confusion you could almost see the question mark above his head.

But Starfire wasn't paying attention. She was too busy looking at Robin; the way his eyes were narrowed... they didn't look familiar. Not like they did in the warehouse when he attacked her...

Starfire shook. She remembered the narrowed eyes from the warehouse... she saw them many times before...

on the roof of the tower... in the warehouse... on Tamaran...

Starfire's body began to shake furiously with anger. Robin still held his grip on her but he began to notice her shaking.

"Starfire are you-"

Starfire wasn't listening; she was too busy thinking of those eyes... She looked up at Robin.

"...Slade..." She muttered under her breath.

Her friends moved closer to her.

"What did you say-"

"Slade!!" She screamed and broke off from Robin's grip and crashed through the ceiling of the building... heading for Slade with nothing but anger in her body and revenge in her mind.

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