Chapter Eighteen: "Unknown Plans"
Robin didn't wake up right away, but he did wake up. He found himself gasping for air. He didn't know why, but he was.
"Keyda!" he yelled out, looking all around him.
"Yes Robin?" she answered, standing behind him.
"You were in my dream!" he exclaimed.
"Yes I was." She answered truthfully.
"Why?" Robin demanded.
"That is for you to figure out Robin." She said, looking at him with a straight face.
"Will you please tell me what's going on?" he asked her.
"Robin, you know why you're here. You must choose; marry Kayla or watch Starfire die."
"No! I'm not going to marry your leader!" Robin said bitterly.
"Then you have sentenced Starfire to death." Keyda replied.
"NO!" Robin shouted.
Keyda spoke softly, "Robin you must, there is no way out of this."
"I will find a way." Robin hissed.
Keyda disappeared and Robin was left alone. He looked towards the door and wondered over to it. To his surprise it wasn't locked. He quickly ran out of the room in search of Raven.
He found her moments later.
"Raven!" He shouted out, pounding on her door.
Raven heard him and opened up her door to let him in.
"Robin what's wrong?" she asked, looking at him concerned.
"You know what's wrong." Robin said coldly, but softly stated, "We need to get out of here. I need to warn Starfire."
Raven quickly gathered the things she needed to take them back home. They got into the same positions that they were in the first time they transported themselves through Realms.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos . . . Carazon Rakashas Endere . . . Vaserix Endrien Azarath!" she yelled.
Robin landed on Raven's floor. Raven followed moments later, only she landed gracefully. Robin sprinted to Starfire's rom and there she was, in the same position as when he left.
Raven unfroze everything.
"Starfire?" he asked, watching her eyes flutter open.
"Robin? What is wrong?" she asked, looking at his painful expression.
"Starfire, we need to talk." He said seriously.
"About what?" she asked.
All the titans were in the main room, looking at Robin with wide eyes and jaw dropped mouths. Well, Cyborg and Beast Boy anyway.
"And now they want to choose; you or Kayla." Robin stated sadly as he sat down on the couch next to Starfire.
"Robin, what are we to do?" She asked him.
Robin didn't tell her everything that had been said, it was to painful. He didn't want her to worry and so he left the parts out where if he chose her, she would die. Raven wanted him to tell her, but she didn't push it.
"I don't know." Robin sadly told her.
"You don't know!" Cyborg and Beast Boy yelled out in unison.
It was the first time ever that Robin actually admitted that he didn't know what to do. This meant that things were bad . . . very bad.