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Chapter Four: Flight of the Titans

"WHAT!" Yelled Robin.

Everyone in the room flinched. "We're really sorry," said Kiyu meekly. "She is our cousin…we don't like it anymore then you—"

Robin put his head in his hands. "She can't die!"
Rei opened her mouth but Robin cut her off. "How can I save her?"

"We're not—"
"How?"

"We don't—"
"How!"
Kiyu threw up her hands. "Robin. Listen to me! We. Do. Not. Know! Do you really think we're not going to try! We've been trying for years! Hiyd, Hiss, Circi and Larel. They are four of the most dangerous people in…on…well, they just are. You just expect us to be able to wave our arms, go 'Alakazam' and heal her? Our powers don't work that way!"

Robin stared at her. "So there's no way?"
"Of course there's a way! You don't think we'd come all the way here to say, 'Sorry, she's just gonna die and we're not going to do anything about it'? There's a way alright, it's just not the easiest way."

Robin groaned. "Which sends us right back to my original question…How?"

"Oh. Right. We have to get the Akuba coin, split it into the original dark objects, then get them back to their Guardians."

"Guardians?"

"Yeah. Sorcerers kept each of the objects that made the Akuba. I presume you saw that man on the TV? The one with the necklace?"

Starfire nodded. "The one that was stricken with the sudden sickness?"
Rei nodded. "That's Colad. He's one of three Sorcerers of Azarath. That's why the Akuba didn't affect the newscaster, but it did get to him. The Akuba only affects people like us."

"And Raven." Said Robin. Rei smirked again. "Why do you keep doing that!"

Smirk, smirk.

"Cut it out!"

"Ok, y'all, that's enough." Said Cyborg, stepping between the smug-looking Rei and an infuriated Robin. "We gotta get the Akuba, 'split it' and…"

CRASH.

Kiyu leapt to the doorway and peeked out.

"We don't need to find the Akuba—it just came to us."

Rei rolled her eyes. "Never fails. We're just mapping out the plan when the bad guy bursts in. Are all villains this addicted to evil clichés?"

Kiyu grabbed her sister's hand. "Cy, BB, Star—you're with us. Robin, get Raven out. They've got that blasted coin with 'em, and that can't help her condition. Wait for us just a bit outside the city—we'll catch up with you soon!"

Robin nodded. As the others left, he gently lifted the telekinetic off her bed. "Wait!" he cried at Kiyu. "How am I supposed to get out without being seen?" she turned and thought. After a split second, she waved her hand, and a strange energy filled Robin.

"There. You can fly now. Hurry!"

A few minutes later, the Boy Wonder was soaring over the city, carrying Raven on his back. It was an odd feeling—not flying, but being able to do something he'd never done before.

This has to be the weirdest day of my life. Which was saying something.

Suddenly, a starbolt shot past his ear. He looked behind him to see his alien friend chasing him.

"Starfire!" he yelled. "What are you doing!"

"Keep going, Robin!" cried Rei, who was coming up behind the Tamaranian. "Circi put a controlling curse on her—I'll take care of it!" She seemed to reach inside Star's head and pull out her spirit. "Ah-here it is!" there was a small dark stain in the otherwise white essence. Rei held her orb like and eraser, and—

"Robin GO!"

He tore his eyes away and shot across the rooftops.

Unbeknownst to Robin, below him, a stream of silver liquid shivered up walls and over buildings.

Hiss.

"Heh heh heh…" she whispered as she slithered after her quarry. If she had a mouth at that point, she would have been grinning hungrily. "Kiyu and Rei may have held up by idiotic brother and cousins, but they couldn't stop me now, could they?"

With a sizzling sound, she became a mist-like cloud and floated on a breeze, up behind Robin and Raven. It would have been rather appealing, but it had a menacing aura and a toxic smell.

Robin felt a prickling on the back of his neck. He whirled in the air to see the gas floating behind him.

"You must be Hiss."

"Clever boy." She replied. Then, instead of a cloud, she was a girl. She looked almost like Rei—pale, with silvery hair, but her face was snake like, and her grey tresses were wispy. "And handsome, too. I guess my dear cousins told you about me. You're Robin, I suppose…and of course," her voice became low and dangerous. "Raven."

"I get the feeling you're not to happy to see her."

"That traitorous fool? Why should I be?" Hiss snarled.

"Why should we be, sister dear."

Hiyd was indeed wimpy-looking. He was scrawny and awkward, with oily hair and beady eyes. Hiss's own cold eyes narrowed. "You took you're time. I presume you killed the others?"

Robin's heart skipped a beat.

"Erm…that's just it…we just got away…"
Hiss glared at him. "So they're alive."

"Well, whenever Circi put a curse on someone, Rei would get rid of it, and Kiyu kept deflecting attacks, and that big robot dude knocked out Larel—"

Hiss's eyes glowed blood red momentarily. "Must I do everything? I mean really—"

"ROBIN, I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET OUT OF HERE!"

Rei and Kiyu (followed closely by Star, Beast Boy, and Cyborg) were speeding towards the evil duo. Hiyd grinned. In an instant, he was no longer a gangly boy, but a large, hulking man, holding a brutal club. He knocked Starfire out of the air, then aimed again at Beast Boy.

"ROBIN!" Kiyu yelled, shooting a series of fireballs at Hiss. "IF LAREL AND CIRCI COME THEY'LL HAVE THE AKUBA AND THAT WON'T BE GOOD!"

That snapped Robin out of it. I have to get Raven away from here!

Leaving the battle scene far behind, he soared towards a forest on the horizon.