OK, so to top it all of I'll explain the situation to those who aren't able to clarify for themselves;
One: Slade shows up, but it's him in the body of a child him about 12 years old or over, haven't a clue . Roko was an evil side to the prince Richard/ Roku, his mother called his true self Richard and his counterpart evil dad's been calling him either. He was supposed to be one; a bad influence on the kids.
And lastly: Becoming a helper of Lord Roku as an evil catalyst, he was a light catalyst to help his friends he met on his journey. That was how he met the guardians and was turned. Easier said than done right? Uh uh.
Arianna, Ravenna and the guardians, Alice and her old counterpart Arisu were all once allied or against the king or his son and family. Ok, so enjoy the story some more!
Oh! And... will we discover who Alice's boy's mom is? Is she...-
We've discovered that Verra found out about the calamitous trials and will go to his guarded allies. Alice no longer has a guy? And who is Rini from Tokyo and why did she find the Titans to infiltrate their home? And where has poor Rob/ Richard gone off to? The window being opened and the letters and contacts by transmission...i don't like the sound of that! Anyway, the fourteenth chapter!
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Chapter 14: Into the Flames, Recovery and Memory Recap!
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The letter was proof, the date anonymous for today, not though since many weeks. In fact there was even a transmission from a stray character on the computer- Robin's own reply had been quite casual;
I'm not sure when I'll be in, I heard from Titans East that you would be on leave due to some serious illness-
~The fever?~ Stories 1 through 2 of A New Beginning and The Next Chapter of Our Lives.
Can't be sure when I'll swing by. We've been...rather busy on our own. New stuff, same old criminals-
He does not mention the dragon...Star thought to herself. He covers up this as if he knows that this person will...
Are you sure this is alright? Your team, I can't be sure if they'll follow. But in case ANYthing happens in the time you're out of commission...call me, ok dick?
"Who is this person? He knows my Richard?"
She'd seen enough, this was proof, Robin was back to-
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"Oh, whoa is me indeed..." Wintergreen could not help but sigh as he began to pour three cups of hot brewed tea leaves from one of Roku's favorite teapot of his time, soaked to the brim in hot boiling water.
When that was done he eyed the large wooden table with a sad gaze.
"When will our hero come home? You still do believe you are that same soldier as our days together...Wilson...I hope..?" Slade owed nothing more than to protect what allies he had. Wintergreen owed a life to serving his best friend, yet...he admired the way they used to be-
He swung his head away from the sight. Still holding the half filled pot he sighed. Talking to himself. How unexpectedly tragic...he thought.
"Rokuro reminds me of the obsessive Slade that began this whole dillema, though he knows far to much about us and our memory of-
"RAAHH!"
Swing!
Smash!
"Oh my! A visitor? This late? But-
Footsteps followed the echoes of noises, Rokuro had been disturbed?
"Wintergreen...Wintergreen!" He swerved to his right, the old man could hear just fine, Roku had ben in his dojo...Slade's old dojo to strengthen the mind further into awareness. At least that was its mission...instead he would act against everyone's wishes and train in an inter-dimensional study. But if he goes back to his world, should that mean...Wintergreen panicked for the first time...in a while. Roku got the better of his emotions. Turning William into a raving lunatic!
"Sir...I-I...a guest!" The god watched as his coward of a stolen butler crumbled to the floor, speechless from the god's demeanor and the frown he wore made that all possible. Why did this guest want to use force just to see him? A rebel perhaps- no! I wasn't just anyone, just someone looking for a way out...
The door slammed open, broken by the hinges and hanging loose from the side. Sparking electrical wiring made the god smirk to himself, as a shadow took form to steal the limelight. The god smiled with outstretched arms in front of him- mind speaking to the witless butler to dim lights in the room and to make the god look even more formidable.
"Robin was it? Good to see you again." He chuckled a thank you with a wide grin as a servant handed him a change of clothing.
"I'll just be a moment, you may sit if you'd like, there are seats by the fire."
Robin gasped a bit when he saw (the fire), an orb that spun like a globe. And bellow him he saw a tightly sealed door leading deep to the underground.
He bumped into the chest of the king himself slowing trying to back away soon after.. Surprised he gulped up to the god. Wondering how it could be no one else but the man who said he'd gone to change down the great hall. He wore another outfit, this time with a dash of red here and there.
The lining was red and the cloth looked like some dark silken material, only for his majesty...Robin had worn something similar while in the dragon's kingdom as a prisoner- we looked so alike in the picture...Wha-
Wait! My vision when I escaped the castle! He's Roku? Robin had imagined an ugly half man dragon man or worse- The guy was like Dracula with a long red strand holding together his black hair in a long warrior's tail...His son had two names...Rokuro and-
He turned his head, no need to observe, just because he'd maybe taken a new body didn't mean he was any less dangerous! He'd pulverized Beast boy! Summoned...that girl Cy was sure he'd fought, and Red X was loose in the city? Alive? But Veronica...And...
"I'm sure you must have so many questions for me. Very well, go ahead...take a seat, there."
Wintergreen had brought out the tea on some fine china. Roku nodded just as Slade used...to, do...
"I see you've taken to the note my accomplice sent you..." The god spoke with cool curiosity. He'd start the conversation off in a way that would reel in his visitor's interests...easy enough.
"Sl- My team wasn't aware until later...the scroll and the writing. I can't decode it or make sense of it...not now anyway-
"Oh?" The god leaned back into his large armchair, the orb shaped fire ball burned blue now. "Did you not ask little Ravenna to help out? Or were you able to only see it in brief detail?"
Robin gaped a bit up to the lord dragon god. "Ravenna...Malchior called Raven that name...And so do.."
"Wha- Wait? How do you know anything about this? I'm just telling you, aren't I?" Robin shifted out of the chair to stand. "I'm letting you read me easy...you can't be trusted, this was-
"You wish to know the past identity of you and that girl? My old foe, Arianna..." he said as his word 'foe' slipped out.
"You..." Robin turned back as he was just about to go. Hell! What had he gotten himself into?
"You mean Starfire. That's who she is-
"Not, what she was?" asked the god as he also began to rise from his resting place. His arm lifted up to blaze through the orb of blue light and flame. Running over to him Richard tried to stop the mistaken lord from harming the place, whatever the orb was it was powerful...
"Wait! It's not-
The world began to become quite chilly around them, until when Robin looked down after opening his eyes to avoid the glowing light he saw himself hoisted above the world. Into the dark void of the atmosphere.
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"He ran away...quite sure that's what it said..." Malchior lead the others down the hall with Raven at the end of the line combing out her hair's side part.
"Yes, and he was also greatly concerned about Slade's disappearance when he was replaced by our new foe!" Starfire hurried up ahead to find the door and pushed it down by melting it. Mal was ahead and had already tried to pry it loose, no one else but she had any luck.
"Good job Starfire, now where's the database you were telling us about?" Raven walked over to an even more disturbing sight. A virus had entered the mainframe of Robin's computer.
Cy brushed her by and she let him do the rest. "It's a bad one all right, got to find...-
Starfire figured that this was far enough to the point to tell them about another find.
"Um, friends? There is also a library book from the shelf in his, gulp... abode." She began to pull from it a leather bound book that didn't look as if it belonged to a library at all-
There was a shock of energy that made the ex- princess fall back into Bb's arms. The book fell without even having a scratch on it. The pages and binding remained free from dust, though there was a substance on it like black soot.
The little Calumon shook all over as a feeling about the place came crawling back up his tiny spine.
"EAHH!"There was a big hairy arachnid on the guy's back. He flung into the air and spun unto the spider had gotten dizzy enough to creep away.
Raven picked it up using her magic and let it levitate in the palm of her hand. Cyborg got distracted and flung himself to stop Raven from holding such a scary creature.
"Rae! Don't touch that thing! It's...-
"It's harmless, as long as I don't-
CRRRACK...The floor was not only creaking under their feet, it was crashing down into the basement floor! Even the titans tried to fly out towards the way they'd come. Some more than others...
"Eee!" Starfire looked down and screamed even louder. It was darker than a void in space! This just wasn't supposed to happen! Not in Robin's room! They fell with a boom crash bang as the Teen Titans were shocked to look at the dead looking body of...a friend. "No..." Raven then swore wishing she'd never had a bond strong enough to hurt another living thing!
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Back at the study of the dragon...
Wintergreen was only allowed to find a place to bring the power source child's body. He was knocked out cold, what did the dragon know about guests? Nothing that's what!
"Oh dear boy...when will this end..."
Roku was waiting though and the portal would prove worthy to turning the young man away from his friends. The god only laughed till it was time to spell cast away the youngster from the scene of the crime.
"We will meet again, Richard...you will see my face once more...Soon."
The glow was able to knock out the old timer and the dragon once again, was free to wander the world. Richard's own world would come to crumble...
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"No..."
"Is he," Beastboy and Calumon poked the body as they asked. Cy had the virus in his database now to exterminate it for good.
"Ronnie...should a' known!" Verra had not come back to Jump City in a while, now he embarked the stairs with Wiz Gregory right behind. "What's going on? Veronica was on the intercom! She said you guys were-
"We're fine..." Raven breathed. Was Robin being like this, her worry growing...really...
Greg stood now. Why was he sleeping so early in the day? And in the basement?
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Robin saw his unusual half sided past sneak into view. His mother and a few of his relatives including an old Romani fortune teller were chanting to the dark that collapsed around them all.
"Br-no, no, NO! Come back! Help me... please..!"
Then a fire breather, Roku flared and attacked until he was right in the boy's face-
"Ugh!" Robin awoke to the whispers of others not like the ones in his nightmare. Briefly panting until he wiped the sweat from his brow, Raven's instincts lit up in the back of her brain. ~What was that light...~she though to herself. The book of dragon lore was by her feet. "Could this be...?-
She reached to it with her arms almost cradling it. She dropped it half way through when a voice rung out.
"Hey Rae? Rob's awake! And, I think he wants to talk to us..." Beast boy pointed to the awakening sleeping beauty. Raven gasped flushed and ashamed that her powers could not have reached him, the green elf had found him first...hmm
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Sadly, there was no comfort in that look he gave them. Robin stood shakily until he eyed the ground away from the gaze of his friends. He was going to leave them? That's the prophecy? Sounding more and more like dejavu. He had seen no one but the dragon in the form he understood of a human...he wanted Robin forever on his side, Slade mentioned a position in crime...and something-
"I..." he turned away from Raven, the most fervent when she wanted people to notice her, and relentless when it came to prying...out secrets...
"Where did you go?" Verra...and Kay? They were on his trail, a pack of mangy dogs!
"I..." gulping he turned to her voice, her call...
"Yes, we were most concerned for your safety-
Starfire...why couldn't she just find...no...he loved her, right? She needed to be excluded from this cursed world that Roku planned to create.
"You're not....Arianna, you're not!" Giving his best objection in years felt horrible! It hurt, like he have to fight again with a sad and heavy weight on his chest. He sounded like a protesting drama queen...pathetic.
You're Kori! Our Starfire of the planet Tameran...we can just go back to the way it was be-
Cy brought a hand to his shoulder. "You're not acting yourself man. This happened and we've got to-
"Get out of my way...or..."
"VERRA!" He growled out.
Robin's lips quivered as the past recollected itself. He was going to just fight his old heroic buddy? He was part dog and fox! With claws!
"Roku's not the only thing that you've got in mind to defeat... Give it up. We'll find him, he'll pay-
"Whoa! You mean Slade? Thee Slade?" Cy scratched his head. "Go ahead. Tell em what I told you, B." He gave his green friend a push forward. Richard's gaze looked deadly...
"um...yeah, Cy caught um.. him in that fight with the cat dude-
"You. Mean...HSARI..." Robin's fists undid themselves. Why am I so angry? Why is this not real...?
"Yeah! That's the guy! He beat up Cy, and he had..umm, Red...X?-
Cy brushed his shoulder and gave him a pat there.
"I know, he was with me in the other world..." Beast boy's ears went flat, the leader wasn't kidding... he never was...lately.
"I don't think we should beat ourselves up. This will not end, once it has begun without considerable amounts of patience." Kay said with a cough.
"You are right , we will have to just-
"No. Roku wants us to wait! He'll just regroup! I saw that flame, it was so cold..."
Raven put her foot down. "Robin, you're hurt, I can heal you only if you'll...tell us the truth. What happened? What flame? When our bond severed, I thought he...was to blame...you did this didn't you? To save us? To protect-
"Yes and I don't know how it was done.. I have something to say to you all. The beats of all hearts stopped for one moment to listen, to wait for the announcement.
"I'm quitting the Teen Titans."
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. Gosh...what a baby! Aww, and I was just getting warmed up! And I am continuing this story no matter what! You'll see cliffhanger! Reviews, also don't forget to read the first through the fourth and last which is this for now. I'll probably be busy. Maybe i'll sleep in! ANYWAY enjoyed the story so far? Then you'll find this soul stealing piece to be-