Chapter 5: The Robin
Robin drew a swift hand over his face, feeling the heat of his cheeks from inside his gloves. He let mouth a moan and slumped down onto the floor.
During his kicking himself session, Beast Boy stormed around the corner, his face livid.
"Don't you ever talk to Raven like that again." He snarled, his ears flattened and his face contorted into a silent rage. Robin only glared back at him. Then he lost it. He'd had enough of everyone having ago at his own mistakes. He didn't need them to tell him that he was wrong. With all his strength, his balled his fist and threw it into Beast Boy's ravenous face. But Beast Boy saw this coming and with a small growl, morphed into a wolf. A booming snarl erupted out of him and he pounced. Robin fell back and brought his legs up, slamming them into BB's stomach. The wolf flew back and collided with wall where he morphed once more, into a tiger. Robin got back onto his feet and drew out his staff. As Beast Boy leapt once more, he raised it up, letting the paws land firmly on the pole. Beast Boy roared with rage and pushed off the pole and slashed out, his claws slicing through the air and ripping through Robin's glove, leaving red lines in his flesh. Robin let out a small gasp and withdrew his injured arm just as Beast Boy growled and turned to pounced again. Robin flung out the staff, letting it whack against BB's side before he could get off the ground. BB rolled onto the ground, morphing back into his human form, clutching his side and glaring up at Robin. Once more his face elongated into a lizard like face before Robin was finally facing a Velociraptor. Its wide mouth opened, revealing its wide array of teeth and it hissed, thrashing its tail angrily. Robin knew that Beast Boy would be able to attack him easily when he was like this, especially with the added rage.
He was thankful that he was backed up against a window. As BB charged. He brought out his staff again and punched it against the button on the other side of the window. The window zoomed open and wind gusted in. BB was at a too quick a pace to stop and was flung out of the window. He let a cry from his lips before he changed at lightning speed into a crow, swooping back up. Robin smirked slightly as the window closed once more.
The sounds of roaring came to Starfire from within her calmer state. Her head boiled, with some kind of anger. She felt her powers twisting and writhing, she felt them roaring inside her head. Her eye's opened, glowing a vivid green. The familiar bolts began to flicker dangerously as she sat up. She heard a voice beside her and thought that it sounded like Raven, but she didn't care about what she was saying. She wanted to obey her powers lust for injury and injury was what was going to happen. Getting into a crouched position, she steadied herself for about a second before blasting off the bed, shooting through the walls and towards the sound. She felt her body screaming in pain, as she still wasn't full healed, but she continue on, shooting down through the corridor. Her head was roaring and her starbolts began to charge up, way above their normal power. She flew round the corner and came to the scene before her. There stood Robin, smirking at the form of Beast Boy outside the window and there Beast Boy fought to stay up in the air, but his eyes were fixed on her. Starfire raised her arm, not realising that now her starbolts had gone a bright red, aimed and shot an almighty starbolt at Robin.
Robin heard the sound of air being disturbed and recognised it, but it was a split second before something slammed into him, knocking the air out of his lungs completely. He was hurled backwards, rolling on the ground hard and fast until he crashed into the wall. He looked up and saw a figure, emitting a red glow. He raised his hand to his eyes, to try and see who it was, but something smacked him square in the chest, making his head whack against the wall, jolting his vision badly. He growled and tried to get up. When he felt as though he was standing, he glanced up and finally saw the face of his attacker. It was Starfire. He felt a great surge of relief as he saw that she was alright, but that was quickly swept away as he saw the great lines of red circling down her battered and bruised body.
"Star!" Robin cried out and he began hurry out towards her. Suddenly a fist pounded into his face. He heard someone else crying out, saw a great hand of black, before he fell back hard on the floor.