Hello! Is anyone out there even reading this? I'm feeling hurt and left out, y'all! sniff But I'll keep posting anyway. Would y'all just please review? And to all Avatar fans waiting for my Asano update: I'm in a mental writer's block. I'm unsure as to how to go about pairing Asano off. I want her with Zuko, but I want Sokka to really like her, too! It's all confusing, but I'll work it out. For the record, there is a LOT of yelling in this chapter.

Anyway, this is where the plot starts to REALLY get exciting! wink! So without further ado, chapter 7. Enjoy.

Chapter 7: The Battle of Notre Dame pt.1

20 minutes after Daniel had once again been subdued by Tobias, he woke up lying on hay. His clothes had been changed to white, and his sleeves were gone. It was pretty much boys' sized tanks in the style he always wears. He was now wearing the same silver handcuff-manacles the others wore, with his hands in front of him. His surroundings consisted of a steel cage on a prisoner's cart. He saw two more; one with Robin, Starfire, and Raven; the other, on his left, held Beast Boy and Cyborg. A large crowd of townspeople were assembled. In front of him, his sister was on her knees, shackled like him, (but no chain links) in a white burlap dress.

"Merlina!" he shouted and ran to her.

"Daniel!" Lina said as she embraced him, chainless yet tearful, "I wanna go home, brother! Please take me home!" It didn't matter anymore where she'd been taken, or what had happened to her. All that mattered to Daniel was that his baby sister was with him now; not in a dungeon, not being chased, not with Tobias, but with him.

Their family reunion was cut all too short when two priests opened the cage and gently yet firmly took hold of Lina's arms and pulled her away.

"NO! NO! NO!" Lina thrased, "DON'T TAKE ME FROM MY BIG BROTHER! PLEASE!" Daniel beat at the priests and they let go for a minute, but they quickly got her again. This time, more priests stuck their arms through the cage and grabbed Daniel, pinning him to the cage. Daniel flailed in vain as hot tears flew from his face with Star's cries of "MERLINA, NO!" with the others ringing through his ears. The cage was shut, and Daniel was released. He scrambled to the locked door and thrust his shackled arms through the bars.

"LET MY SISTER GO, NOW!" he screamed in conjunction with his friends.

"Please!" Starfire wildly pleaded to deaf ears, "Let my friend go free! She has done no one any harm! (hiccup) Please, release her!" While she'd been saying this, she'd been flinging her head around, her own tears falling in her hair. Her hysterical sobbing was to no avail. Her precious tears, over the value of pearls, could not buy Lina's freedom.

"LINA!" Cyborg yelled, "DON'T LET 'EM TAKE YOU LIKE THIS!"

"YOU'VE GOTTA FIGHT THIS!" agreed Robin.

Lina tried everything on her captors: foot stomping, kicking, head banging; none of them worked. They tied her to the stake and started to throw wood on. Tobias walked up the stairs to the platform she was on with a scroll in his hand. He stood next to her and read the scroll aloud as the drums were played.

"Merlina Diana Rose," he read, "has been found guilty of evil witchcraft and devilish works. The sentence: Death."

Lina watched as her friends passionately protested her execution. Tobias then traded off the scroll for a lit torch and faced the witch.

"There's still one more chance for you to save yourself," he said to her lowly, "Join me or your fellow demons in the Underworld." In answer, Merlina spat in his face. He glared at her. Then he turned to the crowd.

"The witch Merlina Rose," he declared, "has refused to recant her deeds and deny herself of ungodliness." He turned to her again.

"Therefore," he continued, "it is by the duty of my office that I thrust her back to where she belongs." He lit the wood around her, and Lina screamed!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Daniel screamed at the top of his lungs. His manacles glowed and shattered, as did the others.' His hair was glowing gold and floating, as were his hands. (Hey! Just like a super-saiyan!) With them, he slashed through the cage and flung a crescent of light at the others. They were free!

"TITANS!" Robin yelled, "FIGHT!"

Daniel leapt onto the platform and slapped Tobias in the face, knocking him down. Lina went unconscious from the smoke, so she didn't see Daniel slash her ropes. She fell forward and he slung her over his shoulder and beelined for the cathedral of Notre Dame behind them.

You'd think he'd go for the front door. HA! You would think that, wouldn't you? No; Daniel shot a rope of light from the spot between his palm and wrist at a certain high point on the building. It jerked him up and he gracefully jumped on the one place, the place where Quasimodo had carried Esmeralda. The light rope disappeared and, like Quasimodo, Daniel hoisted his sister over his head and cried "SANCTUARY!" The crowd echoed him, and he cried it two more times to make sure he was heard. Then he put her back in his arms and ran inside a stone-pillared hall to the bell tower.

"Did we not see this in a movie?" Starfire mused. Then she shrugged and attacked Tobias' army of priests.

Author's Review:
Well? What did y'all think? Too short? Too little dialogue? Anything? I just realized two things as I was typing this that I'd never thought of before! One: Merlina's full name is Merlina Diana Rose. It made me think of Princess Diana and how she was England's Rose! I can't believe that never occured to me. Oh, well. Plus, it also never occured to me that Daniel glowing is almost exactly like powering up to a super-saiyan, for all you Dragonball Z fans out there. ;)

I realize I may have made our main Titans really helpless with all this, but it was part of the story! I know I'm kind of giving the Rose siblings a little too much of the reins, but I've already written the whole thing. I'm sorry if I'm making the rest of them look like schmucks, but I promise that's not my intention! Please be patient with me, and get ready for another appearance by Marie and her grandmother. Besides, they're my Ocs, and I can do what I want with them...Okay, I'm done. See you next chapter!

Bowing To You,
-samuraistar