Chapter Six: "Unknown Visitor"
Everyone looked at each other and Robin asked again, this time with more anger in his voice.
"Nobody went in your room Robin." Raven stated.
"That's a lie!" Robin yelled at her. "Someone was in there and they tore it apart!"
"Please Robin, be calm. We will find this unknown visitor and regain your lost possessions." Starfire said calmly.
"What was taken?" Cyborg asked.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out." Robin said, trying to calm himself down. After that he walked back to his room and attempted to clean it up. Nobody dared to go after him, or to check on him for that matter. They were afraid of him blowing up and yelling at them for no reason.
Night time crept over the tower and everything was in shadows. Cyborg and Beast Boy stopped their game and turned the lights off.
"Night ya'll. Titans tower is locked down, and I'm going to bed." Cyborg announced, as he let go of the control panel he had just used to lock down the tower.
Starfire walked to Robin's room. She just stood there, debating weather or not she should tell him good night. She decided not to and continued to her own room.
Inside Robin had finished making a list of everything that he was missing. Afterwards he slipped his pajamas on and lay in bed. He didn't fall asleep right away because the events of the day played in his mind at a hundred miles an hour, repeating itself and making him unable to think of anything else.
Finally, after almost two hours of tossing and turning he fell asleep. But even in his dreams he wasn't able to relax. His nightmare played in his head, yet again. This time, with more details.
Shadows, so many shadows. A girl, about his age, shoulder length brown hair, hazel eyes, Blood red lips, pale skin. She wore a black suit that seemed to show every feature, every curve of her body. She wore black high heel boots that went just below her knees. She was so dark looking.
Wait, pale skin, paler then Ravens. The girl that the book store owner described.
The girl disappeared as quickly as she had come.
"Who are you?" he called out into the darkness. He reserved no answer.
Just then he saw Starfire curled up on the floor; a single light flowed over where she lay on the ground. "Starfire!" he shouted to her, but she was unconscious. He ran to her, he bent down and tried to pick her up, but his hands went straight through her, as though she was a ghost, an illusion.
"What kind of joke is this!" he asked, looking at her. She seemed so real. He heard what seemed to be the sound of wind, but he didn't feel anything.
"Not a joke." It said to him.
Robin got up and looked around. He walked a few steps away from Starfire. But quickly turned back around when he heard her scream, he ran back to her and found her bleeding.
"STARFIRE!" he shouted. He ran to her side and tried to pick her up, but again he could not. Starfire seemed to have noticed him and looked up.
"R-robin, I am . . . bleeding." She sobbed. "Please, I do not think I will make it." She continued crying. "Please Robin; hold me in your arms." She pleaded through tears.
Robin tried, he truly did. "Starfire," he began to cry, "I can't, I want to, but I can't." he berried his face in his hands.
"Robin, I . . . I . . . love . . ." she looked at Robin, he looked down at her and with a final breath, ". . . you." And she fell silent. No breathing, no movements, she was gone. Robin was furious and upset. He cried into the darkness, still trying to touch her.
"NO! Starfire, please come back! I love you too; I should have told you sooner, I'm sorry. Please, you can't be gone!" he sobbed.
The girl reappeared in front of him, both smiling, and saddened.
"YOU!" he stood up, "You did this didn't you!" he pointed as he accused her.
The girl didn't say anything. She just disappeared, back into the shadows. He walked over to where she disappeared, but found nothing but a wall.
"Who are you?" he shouted, "And how could you let Starfire die like that! You could have saved her, couldn't you?" he shouted. Pounding the ground as he fell.
The wind like voice came again, "I could have." It said to him.
"But you didn't." his face felt like a burning fire. He got up and yelled out to the voice, "Show yourself you coward . . . you murderer!"
The girl came out of the shadows again.
"YOU?" he pointed at her. "You did this!" he tried to grab her shoulders, but his hands passed right through her. Then the light that was on Starfire slowly grew, and showed a wall filled with Robin's missing gadgets and pictures of him. It was like a shrine.
The girl walked over to him and for an instant, he felt her. He felt her body touch his, and she pressed her lips to his.
Robin sat up instantly. Breathing heavily and sweating badly. He got up and ran to Starfire's room. He didn't bother knocking, but quickly opened her door. He found her asleep on her bed. He walked over to her and touched her face lightly.
"Starfire, Starfire" he called out to her in a soft, but nervous voice.
Her eyes fluttered open. "R-robin?" she asked, confused. She sat up slowly and looked around. "What is -"Robin stopped her by giving her a hug. Tears running down his masked eyes.
"Oh Starfire, I'm so glad you're ok!" he hugged her tighter, afraid that if he let go he wouldn't be able to hold her again.
"Robin, what is the matter? What happened?" she asked prying herself away from his grasp. "Was it the bad dream again?" she asked looking at him with worried eyes.