Dis Claimer: I don't own the Teen Titans. But i can say i own Kevin!
Chapter 15: And yet…There was determination.
Her feet seemed to drag through the thin navy carpet as she made her way through the blurry hallways.
Her eyes losing there focus and her cape betraying her mood as it hung honorably and poised in a imitating angle on her tired shoulders.
It was pretty much an understatement that she was visibly tired.
She cursed the boy wonder to the fiery flames of hell for making her do this. She was so close to falling asleep…so close.
Her mind was even beginning to mold the quiet tranquility of the blackness that was her thoughts, and then that damn ring snapped her close to awake again.
"Get the rest of the titans…I found something."
What the hell!
He found something…whopptdy doo….
Couldn't he investigate this himself…wait till morning or something?
She did tell him that he was the only one that was able to find Starfire. Didn't she?
She groaned again…she was starting to sound like the annoying green boy that seemed to circle her thoughts now, and she didn't like it very much.
Her Raven…like him…Beastboy.
She resisted the urge to shudder.
Her eyelashes brushed her high cheeks, indicating another blink and she felt a hundred pounds more than she should weigh.
Raven trudged another step a few feet away from the infamous main room in the tower to find the other two.
Why did she have to look for them?
Cyborg invents so many things, couldn't invent a teleport button where she would just have to press a button and they would appear in front of her?
She made an irritated sound through her teeth and fisted her right hand.
She sighed and let the fist go.
Now that was pretty stupid.
She shook her head and continued trudging. She was so tired she was thinking of impossible things…She 'psshed' in her mind. And stupidly rolled her eyes.
…After all…who the hell can teleport?
Robin paced.
Robin breathed.
Robin stopped.
Robin paced.
The pattern was going on for a couple of long minutes. In his opinion too long and the fact that his teammates weren't there the minute after he had called them was angering enough.
Why couldn't they just be there in front of him when he needed them?
Wasn't Cyborg a genius or something?
Couldn't he construct something to be able to simply press a button and his teammates would appear right in font of him?
And Raven…couldn't she teleport to places? Yes! She could…why wasn't she here!
This was important, god damnit!
He ran his gloved fingers through his hair, unknowingly visiting the fact that his fingers were indeed covered in rubber and forcefully pulled at his hair in a way that caught in his fingers and pained him a bit.
He growled an annoyed sound and punched the papers of his dismay and scattered around the floor.
Blue papers with white graphs and diagrams littering the gray crooked floor.
He glanced at them for what could have been the hundredth time that night and sighed…again.
This was some major bad stuff…and he was just standing there being angry and waiting for a group of super teens, seeming to take longer than necessary, to reach him.
Excellent.
The papers themselves ruffled his worried nerves and caused his heartbeat to speed up to unnatural level and he was thoroughly concerned.
The papers showed him something that didn't exactly fit right in his mind, yet were perfectly mapped out and seemed to be old plans, ready to be put into use now.
He didn't want to believe it.
He really didn't.
But it all made sense, in a way that actually made no sense at all.
Why would she? WAS she really? Or was she being used?
The way it was made out to be read, the girl of his hidden feelings was willingly to converse such an operation, yet he couldn't believe it.
Impossible.
Just like the thought of her purposely leaving.
Completely unutterable.
And yet…
His mind was just as strong as the heart, or so it seemed so because if the heart was actually being challenged by the mind, it had to mean that the mind was at some level of majority. (A/N: If that made ANY sense…please tell me.)
So his mind was telling him something.
Something sensible he supposed.
But his heart didn't want to hear it.
It was a lie.
A sham.
None of it was true…no…none…. nada.
And yet…
Something inside him kept biting him…kept tearing his heart into smaller pieces…he wouldn't understand now. Of course not now…but still…he felt something. And a little voice inside of his head spoke words that he never wanted to hear.
'It's true…She left…She left you and joined him…'He slammed his fist down onto the table once, and again on the cracked bulletin.
How he wished that little voice would just shut up. But the more he was put to think about the situation…if he was wishing he might as well wish for what he REALLY wanted.
He wished Starfire was here. No. He wished he were with her, in the tower. Smiling. Happy. As careless friends in a foolish love only to be comprehended by the old and wise.
He wished he would admit his feelings. Better yet, not have them at all. If he didn't have the damn feelings, he wouldn't be feeling the way he was at the moment. He wouldn't be wishing for foolish things like the impossible.
But he did anyway…
He wished…and wished…and wished…until he was beginning to gasp for the breath to hold those silly tears behind his concealing mask.
But there was something 'reasonable' in his wishing.
For one of his wishes was for Raven to use her teleporting magic and be right in front of him at that very moment.
That was possible wasn't it?
For Raven to appear with the rest of his teammates so they could start already…was that so much to wish for?
Maybe it was…
The night moon vented a sad glow through a few broken windows, casting a pale glow on our troubled hero.
It lighted the blue sheets of paper, silvering the lines printed on it.
It forced him to glance at it once more, and for some reason it finally got through. Maybe the first time it was bad…the second time was unnerving…the third time it was getting exhausting…but not until now it hit him...and he was starting to lose hope.
The candle inside of him that was raging with fire…one that was once burning with so much anger and determination…it was dieing…
The energy that fueled Robin…that determination to do what was right…conquer all evil with a fearless face...to save the damsel in distress…to save Starfire.
To defeat Slade.
To be a hero…but it was never about that really. Being a hero and such…no…that was only what came after it all.
He sighed pushing his hair back again, being mindful of his rubbery fingers, and opened the communicator again.
The flame may have been dieing, but Robin didn't know this.
The moon may have been trying to show him something he had already seen, but did he know it was killing him?
Did he know that his lack of determination (a/n:I use tht word too much. Sorry) was going to lead to his failure, possibly?
No he didn't.
And do you know why?
Why…..why is something not even he knew.
Why is something that was holding his heart at that very moment.
Why is because he loved someone.
Weather he accepted it or not…was not a choice.
He loved someone…and love brings miracles as we all know.
Love brings faith.
Love brings hope.
Love brings determination…
...Love brings…love.
And what more could Robin wish for at that moment?
Cyborg wondered…Cyborg wandered…Cyborg thought…
His own red eyes blinking red circles around the dark perimeter of his space he actually called his room.
His battery was charged.
His brain was alive and ready.
His body was prepared for anything thrown at him.
And yet….
He couldn't seem to move.
He didn't seem to have the energy to move. He didn't know why exactly though.
Weather it was because Starfire was gone, or Robin wasn't around to give him orders, he would never know.
He wished he could cry. That way, he could show some emotion. That way…he wouldn't seem careless.
He wouldn't feel like the cold robot he knew was half of him.
The dark Cyborg that controlled his sleeping patterns and eating pyramids.
The dark thing that was called to be placed as half of his mind. He might have never told anyone, but no matter what he did or said, no matter how many people he saved or helped…he knew they saw him different.
A few kids now and then would say how cool it was that he was half robot. And one, he remembered, even said he was just like him.
Right.
Like a measly arm compared to half of his god-forsaken body. But he didn't say anything…cause he knew the kid meant good. The kid wanted to feel better about himself and for the titan.
But…a child was all the kid was.
He was naive. Oblivious to what he really was. The kid would grow…he knew he would grow…all humans have to grow sometime, and so he would grow out of his childish behavior and unmask the titan for what he really was.
A Cyborg.
And now Starfire was gone.
At least she saw him for something else. Although…she pretty much passed of as a child herself, and he was sure people saw her strangely as well.
Why? That he would also never know.
He was like her brother in a way. She was like his sister in a way. He should be doing everything he could to find her. To save her. From something he was sure he had no idea of. He should be trying to invent something to make everyone's lives easier…shouldn't he? Maybe a teleporting machine or something crazy that was incredibly impossible, yet because he was "Cyborg" he could do anything. And he could…couldn't he?
No…If he could, Starfire would be right there, smiling and saying she didn't care weather he was half robot or not. Just like a sister should.
And yet…
He sighed and turned over. His weight creaking the metal platform he learned to call a bed.
He was just pretending to get comfortable when he heard an over exaggerated loud and tired knock on the door. A familiar droned voice leaked through, him recognizing it as the only girl that could be up at this hour.
He feigned sleep.
"Cyborg. Get. Up."
He sighed and made his way to the door.
She stared.
And Stared.
She stared hard.
The cracked mirror replaying the opposite of whom she was dreaming of only moments ago.
Her dreams…why did she have them anyways?
They were only a complete waste of her time. And even worse…they gave her empty hope.
Empty.
Bare.
Naked…just as she felt at the moment. Yet she was perfectly clothed, though. And a strong clothing at that. So why was she feeling this way?
Perhaps because she was about to lead a song of annihilation by her hand, or rather her voice. Literally. And deep in the darkness of her heart…she didn't want to.
But she wasn't backing out now…hell was she backing out now. She was the apprentice of a dark lord.
She was Kori.
Not that pathetic Starfire.
Kori.
Kori.
Kori….
And yet…
Her dreams were clearly of the titan that had once loved the boy wonder. Her dreams showed her images of a happy cheerful girl, sitting beside a handsome masked hero, sharing secrets and letting the sun cool to let way for a peaceful, villain free night, with the moon right at their side.
She could almost feel the breeze lift her ruby locks and catch his hair to force them to scoot nearer to each other in seek for warmth.
She could swear she heard the soft whispers of the night in the lobes of her ears and feel his cape border her shoulders out of generosity.
His cape…
He had given it to her. She had slept hugging it to her chest. She remembered. She remembered the faint scent of his cologne and gel smearing the yellow interior. She remembers herself smiling only to frown a few minutes after wards because of the choice she was going to make.
She let herself sigh and pick her hair back up, for she had let it down for sleep.
Sleep…
Kevin had slept right beside her, yet he wasn't there to see her wake. The name brought back countless memories and she wondered if she was truly doing a wrong thing.
It couldn't possibly be all that bad.
She grasped the wall with her palms, truly gabbing nothing, but needing something to hold onto.
Maybe even…a black cape.
No.
She shook her head and let the red strands of her hair whip at her cheeks.
She had been so determined at the beginning, why was she losing it all now?
She was so full of hope that there was a future with her and Kevin that she was blind to see that there really was nothing.
Empty.
Empty hope. Just as before.
But wasn't that all she was full of?
When the poisons has taken her from her only home, whipping her in front of the emperor and empress, known to be her parents, she had held onto something didn't she?
Suddenly the image of a boy with deep gold eyes registered again and she remembered that was what gave her hope.
When she looked out that window to take one last glance at the soon to be peaceful kingdom (without her) below her, she wasn't looking at her crying mother.
Nor was she looking at her angry father.
But at a boy.
A sobbing boy that had cried out to her.
Kevinand'r.
The almost invisible scars that marred her back were burning now and she wished for anything that they would go away.
There were such a painful reminder.
Kevin had walked in a few minutes ago…he said to suit up.
That it was time.
Weren't they too early?
Barely two days had passed and they wanted to start now?
The Kori she was would have been ready. The Kori she turned into would have never been happier than to prepare to distinguish the world.
And yet…
She growled. "No…There's no 'and yet'."
A knock behind brought her back from her thoughts and looked into the mirror to face the seemingly no reason to be sad Kevin.
His eyes held no determination and some type of sadness she was not acquainted with. Yet something glittered in them when she took another glance.
"Are you ready, Kori?" He asked in a way she was in fact familiar by.
The tone…it was leader like. Just like…She swallowed a long gulp and turned to face him.
Her answer wouldn't matter to be truly honest. Weather she was ready or not, Slade would force her.
She was either wiling or forced.
Didn't that sound familiar?
But still…Her answer was going to be true. She wasn't going to lie.
Because although Kori may be the bad one and lie. If she knew any better, she knew to be honest would be more harmful than a handful of lies.
Why? Because a lie was a lie. But if one were to be honest, what ever they said, it was true.
And sometimes…as we all know…the truth can hurt. So maybe that's why Kori wanted to answer truthfully.
She wanted to hurt, not lie.
Kori wanted to be Kori.
And yet…
"Yes."
Raven walked by Cyborg to wake Beastboy. Her feet seemed to have a mind of their own as if under the presence of another, they walked boldly and weren't trudging the way they were before.
She mentally growled at herself.
"So what Rob say again?" Cyborg questioned while rubbing the back of his iron head.
The girl gave a fearful glare. And ended it with a sigh and letting the little wet hood to incase her emotions.
"That he found something."
Cyborg could tell from the beginning that she had lack of sleep. But he had never expected her to be like this.
She seemed so…unlike herself.
He just dismissed the thought and tried focusing on finding Starfire.
"Do you miss her?"
The voice almost seemed foreign to him. And that was ultimately stupid for he heard it only seconds ago.
He took a glance at her and for a moment debated on if he actually heard her. After all…he could be imagining things.
He tried looking for other ways to detour this question. Like asking whom exactly she was talking about. Or saying why she wanted to know. Or even asking her the same question.
But in the end they all seemed completely idiotic.
"Yeah…You?"
She didn't look like she was expecting that question, which was stupidity in her part now.
But after a few seconds of being stiff, while still walking, she merely shrugged.
"It's…weird without her here." She hesitated and wanted to slap herself.
The real Raven seeming to take place again and she felt so ashamed.
She was thinking of what? Sleeping and cursing Robin for waking her.
Great friend she was…
Cyborg nodded and continued walking beside her.
"Same here."
Suddenly doubt clouded both their minds and for a moment they wondered if it would ever be the same again.
A heavy cloud seemed to hover over Raven and she felt an intense wave of memory and guilt.
'Do I have a purpose sitting next to you? Or can you live without it?'
'I can defiantly live with out it Star. In fact if you left right now, I would bee happier, so I can continue reading.'
Raven gulped…and turned to Cyborg. He noted the feeling of a stare and turned to face her.
"Raven?"
She looked so sad, and her eyes showed a soft yet strong emotion he had never seen on her before.
"Do…Do you know what I last said to her?" She paused looking back at the floor. She had never felt this way. She had never felt so much emotion for one friend over something that she herself had caused.
He obviously shook his head but she didn't signal that she cared for she went on without acknowledgment.
"I told her…I told her I can defiantly live without her by me. I told her it was better for her to just leave. And let me…read." She felt the tears flooding her eyes and she tried all she could do to hold back the sob that wanted so badly to escape her.
Cyborg stayed quiet, and listened.
Without both knowing they had stopped walking and her palm was resting on the right wall trying to balance her out.
"I lied Cyborg. I lied and told her to leave. I told her I could live without her…there, and that wasn't true."
A single tear leaked through the dam and she felt grateful her hood hid it.
She was rambling now, and she knew it. But she needed to get it out of her system.
"I don't deserve to be called a friend. I don't even deserve to be on this team…All I've done and caused. And then I just turn around and tell her that. Who the hell am I?"
She seemed to whisper the last words and that's when Cyborg knew she was beating herself up.
And it didn't seem like she herself was going to win.
Raven kept murmuring nonsense on how it was all her fault. How it was she who pushed Starfire away and now she was never going to get to say sorry and bring her back.
Cyborg placed a heavy hand on her shoulder but it felt incredibly light and said nothing.
He waited for her to at least look at him and he gave her a small smile.
The smile, no matter how small, seemed to speak words all on its own and she was calmed in a sad sort of way.
They both smiled before they interrupted by another voice.
"Dudes! I've been looking for you everywhere!" The exclamation caused them to turn their heads to a hands in the air Beastboy.
Raven felt her blood boil for a second.
"No." She stayed calm. "We've been looking for you." The last word ending in a syllable too long.
Beastboy 'eeped' and felt small.
Cyborg shook his head and noted that they still had to go to Robin. Who, by the looks of things, was going to be more than angry.
"Well not only do we have to take time to look for Robin, we're gonna take even longer to get there probably." Raven voiced her distaste and Cyborg sighed in agreement.
Beastboy looked at both of them as if they were complete idiots.
Which, isn't too far off.
"Can't Raven just find Robin with her powers and teleport us there?"
For a moment the tower was silent.
Raven's cheek turned a slight shade of pink and looked of to the side.
"I knew that."
The bracelet was held in his palm as he stared down at it.
He found it with Slade's note. Which had to be something.
And if it wasn't from earth it was for some other planet.
And it looked like the letters of a planet he had seen before.
Tameran.
Starfire.
Koriand'r…
The name stung in his mind until he felt like banging it against a metal wall a few times.
Before he could have sworn to anybody that his Starfire didn't keep secrets from him. That no matter how many he would keep from her, she was the pure in his life and never did anything wrong or untruthful.
And yet…
Now…the memories of him grabbing her and forcing her to say something entered his thoughts and he recalled how the others had called him harsh. Wrong. Mean.
And they were right.
And so he confronted this and apologized, but not just with a good heart. He apologized, perhaps with good intentions, but the more he remembered, the more the old real feelings were unmasked and he realized that he apologized in greed.
He himself was selfish and didn't want to see her cry. Nor did he want to be in the dark, and so to win her forgiveness he would open her secrets and fill himself on all the information.
And then he remembered al the things that happened to Starfire as a child and how he felt so useless watching it all go by, like a movie that he could stop or rewind.
And it was, in a way.
But he was there.
Yet he wasn't.
He saw her get hurt. He saw her tears. But he couldn't touch her or save her.
And yet…
He could feel the pain. He could feel the slaps to the face and it was because of that he pushed his teammates to see what was wrong and find a way to save their friend.
He jumped and hit, and he stoke nothing but images that couldn't be touched.
Only because it was already done.
The deed was done, weather it was wrong or not.
And all Robin could do was watch…watch a young Starfire suffer. And it hurt him. It pained him. So perhaps he couldn't blame Starfire for choosing this path.
She was an angel for even thinking about trying to do good and become a Titan.
She was a saint in Robin's book.
The small jewelry wove its circle on his palm and the little symbols disturbed him to no degree.
He remembered it glowing. He remembered it thrumming against his chest, directing him to this place, as if it wanted to be found by something…or someone.
It glittered a marvelous silver in the moonlight, like none he had ever seen. And the young hero wondered if Starfire was looking at the moon right now…and thinking of him…just as he was of her.
Suddenly everything became a dreary black and black outlines filtered the room, as a pitch bird like-raven spread its wings in the night and dropped to form 3 figures in the dark.
It was about time.
The voice of a freaked out Beastboy echoed through the room.
"That thing still creeps me out."
Kori stepped onto the steps to the ship and sucked in a breath of cool earth air.
She smirked through the breeze and took the last foot into the vehicle made for space flying. A small smile was flashed at her.
"Greetings Kevinand'r." She nodded and he followed the same.
His face quickly turned into one of serious and opened his mouth to speak in a business like tone.
"Slade is expecting you." He stated and passed by her to walk into a sliding door which opened to a room.
She felt the cool brush of air behind her as the doors closed and felt the warm, cool feeling of the earth air leave her, replaced by artificial oxygen.
Although she had no need for air…it was still comforting in a way, and to no longer breathe it cause a small sadness to spark inside of her.
Kori suddenly remembered hearing Kevinand'r say something…what was it again?
Oh yes.
Slade needed her.
The alien girl almost wrung her wrists, but remembered who she was at the time and decided to just walk around the ship until she felt a cold chill go up her back.
For not only did she have no idea where to find Slade…she was curios, for it had been a while since she had been on a ship such as this one and wanted to take a quick look around.
Her boots made a light click as they were placed on the newly made floors.
She was going to stop until she felt a cold chill, for every time Slade was there, that degree raced through her nerves and the spine stilled…the way it always had before.
That wouldn't change no matter who she was.
Weather she was Kori, Koriand'r, or Starfire. Slade would always hold a type of fear on her.
So silently she trotted through the corridors, her armor limiting her to the amount of movements she could do.
She looked at each door on the sides carefully and full of curiosity. She then looked to the floor and stared at the countless bubbles that littered the metallic floor in a type of silver.
Her brows scrunched to form a confused frown and she crouched to touch the hard bubbles.
They were tiny, and weren't bubbles at all.
More like dents from the other side of the floor and painted to seem like silver.
She quickly stood, finding the whole thing quite stupid and in relation to the Starfire she gave up long ago.
Kori suddenly stopped and felt the back of her hairs go up. She knew that feeling and resisted the urge to shiver.
Slade was right behind her.
Her lips seemed dryer than they used to and her tongue darted out to wet them. Her gestures on her face contorted to seem like a respectful glare, and turned to face him.
"Slade." She greeted.
She didn't acknowledge him as a master and he seemed to overlook it. For he smirked under his mask and his eyes held a mischievous glow, almost close to childish and Kori was internally confused.
"Kori."
He nodded.
She stood still awaiting any orders, and when a space of silence floated over them she decided to open her mouth to speak.
What she was going to say, not even she new.
But before she could utter a word, a robot, quite familiar to Kori, came up to Slade and spoke to him, back hunched and face with only two beady eyes.
Kori strained to hear and heard the words "Ready, and Yes sir."
What Slade said she did not hear correctly.
The robot left just as quickly and quietly as he came and Slade was left to fall into silence once again, with Kori.
Suddenly they both felt the strong rumble of a rocket and the burn of the fire alight under them.
Kori tensed her shoulders as the floor shook with a more fierce force and the act of grabbing hold of something, instinctually entered her mind.
But she glanced at her master and was awed that he could still stand so still, hands crossed behind him, and have the aura that it felt like there was a earthquake at the moment.
Even the lighted balls that hung from the opposite walls jingled with might and caused the room to spin in glowing lights, making Kori the least bit dizzy.
After a few moments of more shaking Kori was feeling like the gravity was making her feel like a whale and she didn't seem to have the strength to stand anymore. Just as she was about to get ready to become a complete embarrassment and fall to the ground in front of Slade, it stopped. Much to her approval.
Kori then stood upright again and stock still just as the person side to her. But for some reason, no matter how still she stood, he still looked to be more still than her. And it bothered her.
X'Hal how it bothered her.
Wordlessly, with a snap of the wrist a button appeared and he gently pressed on it.
Gently…Kori for a second looked confused…Slade did gently?
Before she could dwell on the question much, her mind registered the silent hum of something mechanically being opened and she was bout to get ready to face another door, when all of a sudden, her eyes shined with a glow that was once there a long time ago. Stars littered the oblivion as she stared, awe struck at the wondrous sight in front of her.
She couldn't resist the temptation to reach out and place her palm on the clear glass.
They all shone brightly and cast small sparkles in the green of her eyes.
Slade, although not visible under the naked eye, smiled through the vents in his bronze mask and turned silently to face the sight that she as well was facing.
Slade always did seem like the evil one. The one to act like the villain he was. But if it was true…why did he feel a weird, non-wanting comfort in the fact that both she and he were looking at the same constellation. And marveling at the same light.
She may seem like the perfect apprentice that he said she was. But he saw through the mask. For he had his own, and he saw her for who she truly was. A sad and lonely Starfire. Trying to cover up with Kori.
Slade was disturbed by these thoughts. But his nature forced him to always uncover masks and reveal what was truly under the skin.
Slade used to stare at the stars a lot…in envy and in admiration. But this would be the first in a while.
A LONG while.
He almost smiled but it seemed that even his own face would not allow it. Only small smirks were aloud and glares, and frowns.
No smiles.
Cause Slade didn't smile.
He heard a faint whisper and he was certain that she had spoken, but in a language he did not understand.
"What was that?" He demanded, his own voice seemed to be hushed.
Kori seemed to let someone else take over for a moment and didn't glance at him to acknowledge his words, yet continued looking out and her face was so close to the window that her breath caused a light puff of mist clouded the glass and the perspiration became visible.
"What did you say?" He asked again, his voice taking an octave higher than before.
Her voice was sweet like purity and for a moment he had to remind himself of his goals and who he was.
"They are beautiful"
He glared forcefully to contract his old face and took a stern look before quickly leaving, but not before reminding her of something and calling her back by the name that would put her back in place. He'd talk to her later...
"Be prepared. We will be starting shortly."
She nodded.
But right on the step when he left, he whispered something that he wasn't sure or not she could hear.
"Starfire."
"What took you so long?"
The question echoed through the room and his anger was clearly visible. Beastboy shielded his fragile ears by cupping his pointed ears with his palms. Robin could sure scream loud when he wanted to.
"Yo, chill man!" Cyborg's one human eye scrunched down and his hands were held by his shoulders in a signal of surrender. "We're here now."
Robin shook his head, pinching the bridge of his nose and the bracelet was placed back in the front of his pocket.
Raven rolled her violet eyes and let her hood down to get a better look around. Why were they in a broken down, cow webbed warehouse?
Although she wasn't complaining.
Robbing breathed an irritated sound out through his teeth and unrolled the blue prints onto the table the looked split through the middle, thanks to his tantrums.
"This is seriously important guys." He finally murmured. The papers folded out, some of them continuing to roll onto the wooden table and taking a stop in front of them.
Beastboy out of pure curiosity peered at them and a confused stare quickly issued its way to his features.
Cyborg took one glance and both eyes bugged out of their correct sockets. This really was some bad news. The planets were in the correct order but with each paper, there was something different. Numbers and measurements lined the borders, and then there was no Earth.
And the cause of this was a bomb placed in the middle of the blue spaces. Raven gently passed her palm on top of them and brushed her fingers lightly over them.
Beastboy was still confused but the more intently he looked, not wanting to seem ignorant and keep his mouth shut, he saw what they all seemed to see.
For there in the middle of the paper, the bomb wasn't a bomb at all.
It was a person. It had a human body, and the force of the bomb caused a silent shiver to go up the backs of those who understood.
But then he looked over them all and Beastboy became uninterested in this anymore and looked to other places from the papers. That's when his eyes rested to a stop that caused his brain to work over time.
There was a name…he had heard it before.
He couldn't seem to keep it in his mouth and the name flew from his lips in a hushed whisper.
"Koriand'r."
Robin heard him and grimaced when he had overlooked that part.
Raven bit back her tongue and forced her lips into a firm line.
Cyborg blinked a few hard times and looked from the gaze Beastboy was giving to the gaze of Robin.
Koriand'r….Cyborg remembered, was…Starfire.
She was the bomb in the center. And according to this, she was going to destroy Earth.
Just then a low rumbling was heard through the warehouse and saw dust feel from the ceiling and the pillars above them started to shake and fall.
Robin was the first to realize this and quickly issued an order.
"Titans, out!"
They needn't be told twice as they jumped away from the falling pieces above and the rumbling sound became deeper.
Before Robin ran away, he snatched the papers and followed the rest of them outside.
He panted a bit and looked at the others. All their eyes landed at the same point and Robin made a bee-line with his eyes to look at what they were starring at.
His mouth became slightly open.
There…taking of into the oblivion of space was a gigantic fire that was attached to something large and ready to leave the atmosphere.
A spaceship took off, leaving a crumbled warehouse and 4 gapping teens.
Robin starred of at it and he would have bet anything…that Starfire was on that ship.
For not only did his nature tell him, but the little bracelet thrummed against the front of his chest, glowing a bright green and it almost even seemed to be magnetized to follow the fading ship, for it acted like a little a paper clip to a magnet and Robin could feel it pulling him.
He brought a hand up and carefully let the bracelet out, but still gabbing on to I and the little object lifted and hummed louder as it pulled to get free.
Free, that is, to get to the ship.
It suddenly clicked in Robin and his stare turned into one of deteremenation. There was still hope yet. That flame may have been dieing, but there was still some life of hope in it.
"Cyborg ready the T-Ship."
The half robotic man didn't even ask why, he merely nodded and turned to Raven. "Can you take us back home?"
Beastboy was still transfixed with the fading ship but when it was a good miles out of watching, he listened to the others speaking and shuddered at going back in the blackness again.
"Yea. Azeroth. Metrion. Zinthos!" The black raven encased them once again and made its quick way back home.
End of Chapter.
Ok…so I posted this earlier than I had liked. Since I usually try posting things that are atleast 12 to 14 pages long every one a month. Sorry if it may have seen too long for you.
I didn't make it that way, its just the way I write. Sorry.
Anyways…I wanted to ask if you think I'm getting better?
I mean…am I improving in my writing?
I'm not sure…anyways.
This chapter pretty much is all about how the determination and hope are small in amount but trying to reach the top again.
And if you thoughts I put to many "And yet…"'s that's because I made it that way. Hence the title for the chapter.
And I used the word determination like a WHOLE bunch of times. I know that to.
I wasn't going to put a spark of humor in this chapter, but tried it out, tell me what you think.
About the Raven teleporting thing. And don't make Raven out to be stupid, she was just really tired.
As I currently was, writing this at 3 in the morning. So I could relate.
Not a lot of Beastboy but I couldn't really fit much of him in yet.
I'll try him with the next chapter. Also…did anyone think I made Slade a bit…I don't know…weird in this chapter? I didn't mean to. But when I tried cutting that scence out the story sorta lost it's place. So if you didn't like that part…well I didn't like it all that much. And if you did. Please tell me!
OK…here's my A/N coming to close and I always save the best for last.
THANKS FOR ALL THE REVEIWS!
WOW! I thought people would have lost interest or something, but you pushed me to write this chapter cause I was so happy!
I guess people are write. Reviewing IS fuel!
Lol. Ok thn.
Bye bye!
Love, your One-N-Only,
Princess Lali of Spain and England.
P.S. Once again thanks for all the reviews and review for this one to! Lol. If you want, I don't really want to push you. Next chapter well deal with them actually in space and getting ready to as you've read eliminate the world. Ha.