Chapter #14; One Step at a Time
A/
"He is smart, no? Mine and your dad, prince-ling..." Robin madly shook his head at the intruder.
"No..we, the Titans...We defeated them!" Robin growled at the face and arm. "And I am...no.."
A kick to the shins sent the monster off, falling but not losing his grip on the Titan brat's arm. Robin cried out in pain as he fell along with the perpetrator villain. They both were knocked, dazed on the carpet floor until the shadow clan leader caught himself to balance and stood up first. "Do you enjoy being 'in the wrong?" The demon asked his opponent. While at his feet the teenage titan tried to stand himself.
Robin had his head down. ~That thing is probably angry at me..~
*SLASH! ~Right in the stomach...ow...~ Robin tried not to fall into the tightness of the demon's arm grip,
Panting weakly it was as if his life force had been sucked from his scarred body. The boy's blood ran cold, his lips trembling. "Why can't you fight? Oh, well." The demon had a smirk etched across his face.
"Let us return now. Yes?" With a grunt from the drained boy wonder, the monster took leave of the room. With a hostage.
Arm in arm, coated with weaknesses.
B/
The dark figures had known this, their lead villain king was lost in this worthless woe filled sandy dune. The other world. One that even scared Raven's subconscious, they stood ready, though thinking only of their fears and looking towards the mind-benders on the city grounds. Alice shifted. Gripping friend Verra, Wiz only crashed into torment as the things were shooed by some evil force.
Huffing back the two; Terra and B shot glances back and forth, high and low. "Good thing they like him and not us." said Tara as she referred to the leader's position. To get caught up in turmoil.
Beast boy grunted;
"Yup."
Terra's remark wasn't all true too quickly for words. They didn't get the fact down. Robin didn't care how many times he got to be picked out of a dozen, he just hated to be the special one. All alone, the look on his face from the ceremony on the mountaintop...
Ugh! I wish he'd just get eaten already!" Beast boy stomped all around. "Why must you continue to hate him most deeply? He is in crisis!"
Starfire gulped a tearing broken sob back. She turned off the communicator with a gasp.
"That he put us into! Star? Oh, g...I'm sorry, I-
A loud roar pounded down from the heavens. Cyborg looked over the others, separated. Lost too.
C"'mon, if it rains too hard we'll never find Star, and-
"Sorry good for nothing..." Beast boy grumbled until Raven elbowed him.
They turned to the end of the sewer, yet instead of being welcomed by a blinding sunny surprise the were encased in dark frigid waters. Not sunbeams on the bay. But a red moon instead.
"What kinda place is this? I can't see- omph!" Verra cascaded into the watery world of red moon without thinking.
"Yip!"
"Sorry B, I almost stepped on your tail!"
"But-
Wait...i don't have a tail...do I...?" to confirm the mishap the group turned around. Something slithered past their feet undetected. Stopping to think the girls in the group looked below the water.
/B/
Running at an amazing speed of lightning and star bolts the demon character had them both, Robin and he- running on the wind. Or walking. Shadow would have dropped the child then and there had it not been for the motivation...
"You- you're one of them? And you have control over those monsters-
Daemons. Sonny..." the demon averted its gaze to meet the teen's.
"Yeah well, I could really care less what you call them..they are out there, and so is my team!"
"So?
"So...Stop!" Robin's enemy tuned to be nailed to the floor by a steely boot, Robin would never miss to keep them on. He was unleashed from the grappling pain of claws, still begging for the marks to die down.
"What do I have to do with Roku, what does this...thing really want with us?" Robin looked up from the cringing in pain demon. Looking up at the walls the mask of his nemesis's desire had finally found a home. The evidence room looked no different from the one, on earth. It lay untouched for now.
Robin huffed. "I'm contacting the titans. And you're not getting out of this until you tell me everything..." It sounded like a threat coming from the mouth of a 17 year old boy detective. For it was the wording from a 17 year old detective and crime fighter.
The demon on the cold hard floor let out a cackle. A whooping laughter major bonanza as B would call it. "Oh, sniff* you are doing of the cracking me up, prince... good thought to think..." the worst thing for someone separated in the demon realm happened. As for the communicator, it burst. Robin growled at the demon and would soon attack.
He would have attacked had the monster not been ready to return to intention and motives of the one and only dragon king's. Shadow was after all the living dead.
"For that darkness enclosed within shadows, gives me strength to see you and I meet our ends!" the demon attacked but robin made a mad dash for the door.
"Gahh!" the demons that had gotten to his friends from their entering this world filtered out the clean enough air to breath. Robin bounded out on his hands and knees. Above him in plain sight Starfire was floating about.
It was only a matter of time before the miasma destroyed everything mortal. Sta-
"Aah!" The monsterthat Robin had eluded had blasted him back into the miasma, smokey filled room. Dropping from the rafters the demon created a wall to break their connection. Star fire was too late.
Gasping Star fire picked up her unit from her belt and sent a strong signal out. She went ahead, as for the others... Outside of the tower..