It's so much fun to see all of your reactions But I'm glad that you guys are into the fic. Anyway, here's a update! And look. The title of this chapter is the same as Backstreet Boy's song. They're BACK! In this chapter, I'm putting the lyrics of this song in it, that's why its called "Incomplete"

And here it is

Chapter 12: Incomplete

Water dripped from along the walls like a waterfall and came as small waterdrops from over the ceiling. The wall was made from deep rock and mud. The ceiling was highly concentrated with dirt and minerals.

The caverns were dark, dug up by man to make tunnels from under the palace to the other end of the city, usually use for shelter or storage. In between the palace and the city was a large lake. It explained why there was water coming down from the earth, dotting over the tiled floor.

Pillars of white rock came from the ceiling top to the floor, dripping slowly salty water. The fiery light of the torches that usually guided visitors down the cavern, made the white pillars of minerals glow intensively like pearls from the ocean.

The walls were muggy with dirt and rock and water that came down. The tiled floor was slippery from the drops of water that still continued to crack through the thick dirt over their heads. And the cavern was alined with torches, their flames were waving along like they were dancing, creating shadows beside the walls, making them come alive.

The caverns were silent, except for the whooshing of water above the surface as the night winds came and blew the water along in waves to the sandy shore. And also the dripping of water disturbed the silence. But it was by nature's purpose.

As you travel further down the caverns, where they were barely any torches to light the path, there laid the jail cells of Tamaran, where all Tamaranean criminals would sleep and be tortured to death. For the reason they are buried underground so far away from the surface was so that no sun rays would let their powers breathe and they could use their Tamaranean strength and ability to flight to escape. Down here, they would be vulrenable.

But right now, most of the cells were empty. Except for one.

Empty spaces fill me up with holes

There sitting tiresome and weak were the Teen Titans. Their clothes were torn and a few bruises crossed their bare arms and legs and scratches from thick nails were pierced into their cheeks. Dried up blood covered them and gave them a horrible smell.

They were cuddled into balls, trying to keep themselves warm from the bitter cold. Unfortunately for one, Cyborg was the only one who was out cold. His battery had died when the guards arrested the Titans. His body didn't glow pale blue and his mechanical eye wasn't flashing throughout the night to indicate that he was dreaming. He looked almost as pale and dead as Starfire when she had that incident.

They had tried to help him for days, trying to figure out how to recharge him and bring him back to life. But they couldn't. Even Robin who was very intuned with technology couldn't help his best friend. All of this was his fault.

Robin was at the far end of cell, separated from the others. Tied up tightly around his ankles were shackles, too thick to be broken down with one of his weapons. And even if he did have them now--they were taken away from him in case he was to 'commit another crime.'

Robin still had his mask over his mysterious eyes and his uniform on, but it was torn and ripped apart by swords and their beatings. And since he was the 'suspect,' he received more torture than the others. He still couldn't understand how this all happened. How did someone managed to get his bird-a-rang and framed him? He never leaves his ulitity belt out his sight.

It didn't matter now. Robin squeezed his legs tightly against his chest and wrapped his broken cape, filled with holes and dirt and blood, around his pale body to keep him warm for the rest and yet another night.

His eyes looked around at the others, seeing them fast asleep. Redfire was tug under Cyborg, with an arm around him. Tear marks shedded his eyes as if he had been crying in his sleep, probably dreaming about his parents' murder, in which he was claimed of committing.

Beast Boy was beside them, as a human body, with his green skin raising up with goosebumps. His animal-like teeth shuttered from the chill and a drop of water from above hit his nose and made his body jump. But he easily fell back to sleep, still cold.

Raven was alone, with her long yet ruined cloak wrapped tightly around her. Her pale face was wrinkled as she tried to sleep with the stinging sensation of bruises and blood clogging her throat. Her short violet hair fell in front of her face, with a hand beside it. Like Robin, all of the Titans were wearing shackles. Raven had a shackle around her wrists as well, skin tight so she would feel pain if she tried to use her magical powers.

Beast Boy had one around his neck, stretchable no matter what shape he took, so he couldn't transform and escape or help the others escape. And even with the need to transform, he still whined like an injured puppy who broke his paw. A purple-ish bruise swelled around his right eye and his legs were covered with scratches at each attempt he tried to turn into an animal. His back was whipped hard from their lashes.

Robin shuttered at the fact that they all tried to help him and for the prize, they too were locked up like a bunch of barbarians. Robin turned his head around in shame and tried to sleep, although thoughts poisoned his mind.

As his eyes closed, Raven's eyes opened. She blinked her dark eyes a couple of times before slowing raising her body up. It wasn't daybreak just yet, but she had to wake up from the nightmare she was having.

It was similar to what had happened to her at Starfire's parents' room. She lost control over her powers as well as her emotions and they led to destruction. Four red eyes were watching her in her dreams and wouldn't go away, haunting her with words of doom and destiny.

She rubbed her eyes and the back of her neck. Lumbs formed on her back from the tension she had built the last couple of days, maybe weeks even. She couldn't keep track. Raven sat on her knees, her shackles jingled against each other as she did.

She winced as she scratched close to her wrists, trapped by the shackles. She couldn't take them off. Her dark eyes looked drained and tired, probably from all of her beatings and attempts to use her powers. She sighed heavily in defeat and rubbed her arms against the cold, wrapping her cloak tightly around her.

She observed the others, looking at them sadly as they tried to sleep. Cyborg was still out of power, his soft face seemingly asleep in peace. Redfire cuddled beside him, as if for comfort since he had lost both of his parents and couldn't be near either one of his sisters. How terrible.

Beast Boy had his arms wrapped around himself, his knees pressed against his chest to keep himself warm. His teeth grinded against each other from the dead, cool breeze that came from the tunnel. His ears were down to keep them warm too.

Silently, Raven crawled up to Beast Boy, the sound of the shackles followed her as she came by his side. She looked at Beast Boy softly for some strange reason, maybe from being so tired and weak.

Raven then took off her long, hole-filled cloak and gently wrapped it around Beast Boy's body, since now that he couldn't transform to either a bear or a tiger, he couldn't do anything to prevent the cold front from torturing him to death. His skin was sticky was sweat and as she touched his hand, he was just as cold as he felt.

Raven flipped the hood over his head to keep his ears warm and she smiled faintly and crawled away from him. She turned her attention to Robin, who was sitting all alone in the corner. She crawled to reach to him, but she was limited by the shackles and they stopped her in her tracks, making her stop a few feet away from Robin.

At the sound of the shackles and chains, Robin opened his eyes and turned his head to see Raven in front of him, looking at him awfully curiously.

They stared at each other for a long time, without saying one word to each other.

Distant faces with no place left to go

Robin turned his head away from her gaze and tucked in his cape tighter around him. "You think that I really didn't do it?" He asked quietly, unsure.

Raven looked at him, "I do."
"Why? There was proof right in front of you."
"I..." Raven gulped a little from her dry throat, "I knew because I saw you through your eyes. I knew you were innocent."
"Through my eyes? My eyes are hidious."

"That's not true, Robin. There's nothing wrong with you."
"Not according to them," He said, referring to the Royal Court.
"It doesn't matter what they think, Robin."
"It matters to me of what she thinks."

Raven understood, but it still didn't make any sense to her, "Why do you say that? You think that Starfire agrees with Karras' accusion?"
"You saw her face, Raven. She really does think that I did it."

"Now Robin, you and I both know that Starfire would never accuse you of anything."
"But her parents are dead and my bird-a-rang went straight through her dad. What does that tell you?"

Raven bit her lip as she stared at Robin, who looked away, but with that same frustrated and yet depressed look. Wrinkles were on his forehead and his black mask was sticky against his skin. He rubbed his eyes and sniffled to try and stop himself from crying.

"It doesn't matter." She heard him say. "It's all my fault we're in this mess. If you guys haven't tried to defend me, I would be the only one in here."
"No Robin, we wanted to be here with you because we believed you. You were framed of a crime you didn't commit. We believed you."
"Well, it was a stupid thing to do."

Raven's fists tightened with the urge to yell at Robin, but she remembered what had happened many times before when she tried to show her most dangerous emotions. Probably the lake would come down on them and they'd drown because of her.

"No it wasn't, because it wasn't your fault. If...if I haven't lost control over my powers, maybe I would have saved Starfire's parents. I could have, but I wasn't strong enough." Raven sniffled as she shut her eyes tight.

Robin looked over her and was surprised to see a crystalline white tear that was so bright, so out of place, come sliding down her cheek. Raven's face was pained with so many thoughts that crossed her mind.

"But I couldn't and when Karras pushed Redfire away, I--lost control over myself. I was so angry for some reason. At that moment, I wanted to crush him, hurt him, kill him so I could join you in the cell, so you wouldn't be alone."

Raven placed a hand upon her cheek as she continued crying. "Something about Karras just releases something deep inside of you, something you've always tried to hide. But at the sight of him, I lost control...I couldn't hold back to what I was really feeling inside. It was terrible."

Raven's face squirmed into an even sadder face, with tears streaming down her cheeks. "It's not your fault that we're here. It's mine."

"Raven..." Robin opened his eyes wide in shock.

Darkness stirred in the night, the wind blew pass the trees and shook their leaves with a eerie sound, crumbling about as if cold from the gust gave the branches the shivers.

The night sky was clear, although from a distance thick clouds are coming along, for late showers. The full moon arose from the east and set high, almost perpendicular to the Earth, its lunar glow was beautiful and white across the plains, the grass flickering in the breeze and light as if it were the Atlantic Ocean itself.

Behind these empty plains was the palace of Northern Tamaran, illuminated with a dim golden glow from the candles and torches that were lit inside of the halls to guide any night crawlers and travelers who would get lost within those twisted hallways and passages. From afar, the palace looked so peaceful and beautiful, especially under the moonlight. It seemed enchanting, like from a fairy tale. But to some, living in a palace was no fairy tale.

The night was still from noise, except by nature's course. But it was only for a while. A foreign sound came scratching through the tall grass, brushing it aside to pass through, and at quick haste. Footsteps ran stealthy across the plains. And even if a twig would snap somewhere or a bird would flock out suddenly from the trees, the figure would run faster and faster, as if having the sensation that someone was following her.

Without you within me, I can't find no rest
Where I'm going, is anybody's guess

Her long hair flowed behind her back, as smooth as the waves of the ocean, but as red under the moonlight as the flames on a brush fire. She kept on going, taking heaving breaths, tired as if she had crossed a long journey to come this far. She kept on going, with sweat beading down her forehead and her legs burning from muscle contractions, letting her body breathe from this exercise.

She panted loudly, but quickly held her mouth tight, afraid that even her own heartbeat would ruin her hiding place and let her predator, her captive come and claim her and take her away from here, her secret little piece of land.

Starfire stopped after such a long run. She bent her knees and looked down at the ground, breathing in and out deeply to calm her raging heart and her muscles to cool from all of the blood that had flowed inside of her. She would have preferred to fly, but again, she didn't want anyone to know she was here.

She stood up and looked over the sky as a new cold front came and blew around her; in between her legs and arms. The wind blew her long crimson hair in front of her emerald eyes and a long dark cloak that she used to camouflage herself from the guards and him.

These past days, as their wedding date drew nearer and nearer, he wouldn't leave her alone. He was always there, watching her as silent as a mouse but as haunting as a ghost or phantom. Every time he approached her, she could feel her fear of him growing, but at the same time, her unconscious response to obey his every command. But she couldn't allow herself to, although he noticed these kinds of things coming from her.

I've tried to go on like I never knew you
I'm awake, but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I'm going to be is

Slowly she was surrendering as the days gone by. Only because she felt that things really are hopeless for her. They always were. Every bad circumstance turned even more worse, just as horrible, but graphic and more life-threatening.

Starfire shuttered a little from the bitter cold and goosebumps started to arise as the breeze blew around her. But it was more than the night chill that made her feel this way.

She gulped loudly, closing her eyes tight as she slowly brushes back the cloth, revealing a shining object by her belt. Carefully grabbing its helm, Starfire took out the knife and placed it in front of her, staring straight at the blade. The moonlight bathed it in a silver glow, brightening her sad face.

Her face that was filled with grief, misery, sorrow, pain, guilt, anger, the feeling of being useless, anything that wasn't a happy feeling was portrayed on her face now. Crystalline white tears slid down her cheeks as she positioned the knife just right.

She aimed the knife right to her heart, where it was already broken and torn apart by everything that has happened. She held onto her breath, sealing it with a gulp. Her long hair flowed around her face, sticky against her skin.

It wasn't worth living if you don't even have the chance to express it freely. To be yourself and do what you wanted. To be free, to be filled with happiness, peace, joy, love. But life didn't give it to her no matter how much she tried to make it right. Her effort wasn't worth it and that's what she felt.

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Starfire closed her eyes as a new breeze came, as if a sign that it was the wind that would carry her poor soul to the place where the dead go, where her parents would be waiting for her. She started moving her fist closer and closer to her chest, with the blade shining brightly like an eagle's eye.

But before she was able to stab through her chest, she suddenly remembered Redfire's words.

"Don't you know how lucky you are?"
"How am I lucky?"
"You have these amazing powers and although these things have happened to you...you could have gone into a totally different direction with them like Blackfire. But you didn't. You stayed as the sweet, loving sister that I remembered. And I admire that."

Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg.

"Naw no way, we wouldn't miss your party for the world." Cyborg replied.
"Yeah Starfire, we're your friends. We want to support you in everything you do." Raven smiled at her softly.
"Yeah Star, remember we're your baggage. You don't go anywhere without us." Beast Boy winked at her.

"I'm sorry, Star." Raven said softly in a whisper. Her face looked weak after attempting to save her parents from their fate. "I tried."

And Robin.

"I don't want to let you go." She whispered. Robin stared at her softly. "You don't have to." He said and held her in his arms in a hug. Starfire wrapped her arms around him, her hands massaging his back. Robin could feel the tears sliding down his back.

"What if we can never convince my father to end this? Karras' so...manipulative. He..." Starfire sobbed at the thought of Karras touching her and trying to act like someone he isn't. Robin hushed her and patted her head, reassuring her. "We will, Star. I promise you that we will."

"Will we?"
"Of course."
"What if he doesn't?"
"We'll think of something."
"Anything?"
"We will find a way stuff." Robin touched her chin and lifted her head so she could look at him. "Love will find a way."

Starfire stood still, hearing their voices whispering inside her ear. She turned around as if she was expecting them to be there with open arms, and Cyborg and Beast Boy and Raven and her parents too. But there was no one there. It was only a figment of her imagination.

Starfire sobbed quietly to herself as she tried to hold the knife again, haunted and tormented by their faces. They loved them so and now already she felt that she lost them. She was to marry tomorrow to Karras, but she didn't want that. But if she didn't, her friends would be killed. She had thought about it, about the marriage. He had promised to keep them safe. But who is sure that he will keep his word?

Voices tell me that I should carry on
But I am swimming in an ocean all alone

Starfire looked over the full moon with tears glittering in her emerald eyes. The wind blew around her, wanting to carry her up to the skies and let their cold breezes caress her and embrace her like loving arms. But she stayed cold on the ground, watching the clear sky for the moment.

It seemed so beautiful, and yet space looked so empty. That's how she felt. Empty. Oh, how much she wished that her mother was beside her to hug her, or her father to smile at her the same way he did at the ball. Or Galfore to tell her stories so she would forget her troubles. Or watch movie marathons with her friends back at the tower.

But she couldn't. She was still standing all alone.

Maybe she shouldn't have come here to Tamaran with the Teen Titans. She was so blind with joy in seeing her family again and her home she forgot all of the dangers that they would face. Especially this, in which they were all caught off guard. Maybe it was a mistake to even have lived on Earth with them, she would have thought the same way as her parents had always expected her to be. Maybe it was a mistake to fallen in love with an Earthling so perfect as Robin.

Baby, my baby, it's written on your face
You still wonder if we made a big mistake

Starfire closed her eyes as she started to aim the knife to her chest, praying silently to herself for forgiveness to her friends and Robin and her family. And then she cut herself off from all kind of contact. No thought crossed her mind that would delay her any further.

Slowly, the knife started going toward her chest, shining brightly in silver.

I've tried to go on like I never knew you
I'm awake, but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I'm going to be is

"Love will find a way." Robin's voice whispered in her voice, soothing her away from her task, his breath mingling inside her ear and tickling her skin.

Starfire opened her eyes and gasped quietly as she turned her head, only to be welcomed by the sounds of the trees rustling in the wind. Her face fell with disappointment. Her eyes sparkled with her tears, her heart tried to endure it. But she couldn't.

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I don't mean to drag it on, but I can't seem to let you go
I don't wanna make you face this world alone
I wanna let you go

"Robin..."

Alone

Starfire looked at the knife in her hand, with the blade shining under the moonlight, it flashed in front of her eyes. Was she that desperate to get away from this difficult times? The thought of it all made her want to cry. Her eyes started to blur with tears when she thought of what Robin had told her one night, when she started panicking with guilt.

"Crying isn't going to get us anywhere, Star. You have to be brave.
Your past isn't what determines who you are. It's who you are now that counts. Star, You're a Titan. A hero known throughout Earth, and on Redfire's computer.

"Star, from this year that I've known you, you are the most amazing, honest, kind, most wonderful person I've ever met. I mean, I don't normally show any part of myself to anyone. I try to keep it hidden. But you..."

Robin stepped closer to her, cupping her face in his hands. "You brought it out of me and for that, I trust you. I can trust you with my life, Star." He said and pressed his forehead against hers. "You're different, naive yes, but you are so different Starfire. And that's what makes you special.

"Although you've gone through all of that, you made yourself to be the girl that I've fallen for. Starfire. Not Koriand'r of Tamaran. But Starfire of Earth."

I've tried to go on like I never knew you
I'm awake but my world is half asleep
I pray for this heart to be unbroken
But without you all I'm going to be is
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"Robin...My friends..." Starfire whispered softly to herself. Her hands felt weak and she left the knife fall down to the ground and let it hid within the tall grass.

Although so many troubles have gone by her path, she was still able to make it, didn't she? Although when nothing was happening to her, she kept a chin up and was always smiling, being the one who would give the others strength because she had hope.

But, she thought, it isn't only in the times when they are good you need to be strong. You need to be strong in everything you do, to have faith that things would be alright no matter what. And when things go bad, you accept them and attack them head on. No matter how much she would try, problem will always come her way. Her life experience was an example of that. And look at her now.

"I am a Teen Titan." Starfire said to her thoughts. "I am a Teen Titan. And I won't run away. Not anymore."

Starfire closed her eyes and clasped her hands together as she prayed to her god for strength and courage to do this task that will test her faith and loyalty to her friends.

Although the tears still came along with the thought of her plan, she knew what she had to do. She felt that in her heart that it was the right thing to do, no matter how much the others would protest. This was Starfire's choice, although the consequence for her choice would be great, she knew that this is what she wanted.

Starfire looked up and saw her home up ahead. No more light cast off from the hallways, meaning that everyone was officially asleep. The wind howled lowly passed her, blowing her hair and cloak in front of her. She brushed strands of her hair as her eyes shined from her old tears.

Starfire nodded to herself as a new, fresh breeze came in and finally carried her off from the ground and into the sky. Her body soared as if she was one with the sky, like nothing else was important. But her mind focused on her plan and the palace was just ahead of her.

The ultimate decision she will make would be her own sacrifice to save her friends. She was going to marry Karras, but long before then, she will have her friends escape, let them be free and far away from this place and go on to live happily and let her heart finally rest with the dread of her past and all that had brought upon her.

Starfire's body soared in a trail of green light and soon her figure was too small to see and she was swallowed by the darkness of the clouds that came storming over Northern Tamaran.

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