Disclaimer: Me. No. Own. The. Titans! Have fun in my sadness.
Title: Tale of Two Song Birds
Chapter: Another one Lost
"Robin!" Ran and mostly overjoyed voice. The big screen clicked on to see a fancy tamaranian room. Directly in front of the screen were two green eyes and a dull orange face, delighted to talk to her friends.
"Hey Star," Robin replied quietly, leaning against the door frame at the back of the room. On the red couch Beast Boy was holding his controller, having previously been trying to have fun playing a game. Cyborg was doing his victory dance half-heartedly around the couch.
Starfire sighed. She hadn't called for about a month, they were getting far between. About 8 years ago, she had to go back to Tamaran to take care of her 'father' who had gotten a rare disease. It had been 9 years since…
"Have you found Raven yet?" Star looked around the tower.
"She's dead," Robin hissed, knowing the naïve tamaranian wouldn't believe him. "Its been 9 years already!" The boy wonder broke out. He was mad. Even if his songbird had merely disappeared, they would have found her by now.
Cyborg plopped himself next to Beast Boy who looked like a monkey at that moment. To calm Robin and get his mind of the situation long passed, Beast Boy turned into the cute little dog and started yapping and running around to entertain Starfire. (the dog from Forces of Nature).
"I am glad to see things are still happy!" Starfire squealed, watching Beast Boy prance around the room.
"How's everything over there?" Cy questioned, clamping the green dog down with his foot.
"All is fine. I am temporary ruler of Tamaran so I have less time," Star never actually went out and said 'I'm sorry' straight forward, but you could always tell by the look on her face and the silence that crept up your spine that she was thinking it.
The screen suddenly went blank from a navy blue blast, much like Starfire's. In the background the Titan's at the tower could here a maniacal laughter and some star bolts shoot. Someone hit the sound microphone and the noises turned to fuzz until Cyborg turned it off. That was the last they heard of Starfire…
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Robin turned around to the hallway leading to all the rooms. His first thoughts, out of pure impulse were along the lines of good riddance.
Instead of turning into his room, he decided to retreat to the roof. It was starting to get dark outside and an eerie feeling crept over him. Something felt wrong with what he had just seen on the screen.
Those were blue bolts not purple so they can't be Blackfire's…He thought rigidly. Robin brought his knees to his chest and shivered a little. The sun slowly sank behind the tall high-rises of Jump city. Behind him, a sliver of a crescent moon lit up a bit, but not a lot.
As Robin's eyes grew accustomed to the dark, little lights started showering down, way beyond the city he was sworn to protect. In fact, these little shards of light were from a person's planet that he cared about. He didn't know it at the time, but Tamaran had just been destroyed, and all he could do is marvel at the fragments falling like they were some beautiful meteor shower.
Raven would love this… Robin mused calmly.
It was better before this even. Robin thought about the whole year before this day. They had still been fighting, as if nothing happened. He realized that then, the shock probably hadn't given way to the realization, so they were more in denial, even though every battle was getting harder and harder.
