To those who aren't able to clarify for themselves; Alice realizes that Robin has...GASP..revealed that he's quitting the team! She goes to deliver the message sent through Aaron to the Dragon Earth to save his realm from destruction.

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 .He wishes to be free of having to work for Roku. But is planning as we speak... -Roko the counter part of Richard's- counterpart; Rokuro 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. Rob still does not know who Roku's lackey; the kid Slade is! Kay, Verra and Wiz were once handed over to Rokuro the god by his son. But he fell into despair and made a deal to have them babysit the son. Until they were destroyed as newly made demons...

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. Way before being tempted to meet his fate at the tower and to turn over his pals... That was how he met the guardians and was turned. Easier said than done right? Uh uh. Raven becomes suspicious of the guardians that have helped her along the way, when so much needs to be seen through to the end! Why are they not going after Roku and contacting Lady Isis? And who was Ravenna in a past life? And who is Nina? A cyber android built by the scientists once hired by Verra's other self as a weapon against any that stand in her way...is she a handful or is she just a character?

Arianna, Ravenna and the guardians, Alice and her old counterpart Arisu were all once allied or against the king or his son and family. Alice has collapsed under pressure having once been a mighty lady and an apprentice of a high lord Roku. But now she'll choose the side she wishes to shed the most tears for in times of great sorrow and great accomplishments are to be made... Ok, so enjoy the story some more!

Find out right now! Here we go!

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Chapter 15: Dragon Lady; Wolf Digest, and Recollections; Rainy Days;Views and Discussion.

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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The flash back ended for Starfire as she cascaded into the depths of despair all over again...

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"He's with the league?" Beastboy gaped. He became very cross, especially with Robin...he always got the special treatment. But this was stupid...he was almost an adult like his mentor and all of society! He acted, too soon too different from the times they'd fought, showed off while laughing together...was it really a, force of evil that did make you far from yourself if it got you? Why Robin at all!

"Why not just make him go back home? Um...to his mentor? Why's the league gotta step in?"

Starfire swerved around the corner and gasped to herself. "They cannot...telling the team league would mean..."

Calumon shivered and sighed, letting out a sharp whine. He was talking as he had a bad dream. "They're gonna do tests on im`, or send him away...or worse...they will just interfere...Roku's gonna get them... nononono!!"

"Cal!" Bb lost his heard hotheadedness for that moment to help as the little fluff ball tumbled into a heap and started to shiver even more this time. The triangles on his forehead glowing brighter now than ever made him feel like he was drifting off to some place far off, distant.

Starfire wanted to go away from the chaos, when they'd just come home, with not one Slade-Bot or one cryptic clue to unravel. Maybe even go to the park, later to the pizza place they loved so much; to come home to the tower and watch a movie they could...

She found herself crying with her fists balled up in a lump. Her inner spirit guide and figure Arianna was doing something that on Tameran would be decided by a seasonal, ancestral and an elemental process of rite...was she in a stance Starfire had seen once before? Or was this new and suddenly a truly heartfelt subject to delve into?

It touched her body and her unknown spirit like fireworks...so warm though, it was a hearth in a warm room lit by candlelight...and...dragon fire?

"EEP!"

Starfire stumbled into the door of her love's domain. The one they had set aside until his valiant, courageous, and strongly awaited return. Rubbing her bruised side and neck she looked up. Only to believe this was all a dream.

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In the fires as they burned quietly all alone together, a dragon transformed into his human-like double. He wasn't sure about how the world's dragon energy sisters and brothers were faring, nor did he care or wish to...soon, Richard would bring him the mighty golden dragon as proof. If he was of course worthy as an immortal, and ethereal; eternal godly being. For a time he could find peace as he wished in this, that poor unfortunate wasn't sure of his world any longer, he'd fled away to his last nesting ground? "So be it!" Roku's fires flickered and trembled as they danced in the wake of an awesome presence that was, a dragon lord from the eternal. Controlling the flow of his divine powers as the night shaped itself rare under the fullest moon in ages- he laughed. Cursing those that should oppose him, those that had and releasing demons' foul stench upon the earthen realm.

"I,"

He began to tell the daemons once they had become whole; His domain was a great hall as they fled through the gates to the outer center fields, there they would find spirit to collect. Dreams to keep. But first...

"See that you have arisen my children of the darkened, pale moon. Now...BREATHE! BREATHE UPON THOSE!" He cried to them with a wave of his arm into the air.

"Those that have betrayed our trust, the unnatural, the predestined. THE HUMANS OF EARTH SHALL BE OURRS!"

It was a rally of imps, ogres, great powerful assassins and hunters of the weak minded souls that repeated that praise, that good powerful blessing and war cry to 'the god fallen from the clouds.'

Roku embraced his welcome, and...if he did not succeed at first. Try, try until the tendons finally...snapped!

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Ah yes, to finalize it all. Robin would know what hit him, his instinct as a Titan and hero would make him, ugh. Fight his way out...BUT! Ronnie was waaay ahead this time. With the crystal shard that Slade had since the takeover in the kingdom many times, anything was possible! It was a shard of ruby red and it belonged to the mighty son of Roku. No one knows if it was used as a piece to mindlessly shatter Dick's own, or if it would save their hides later...were the Guardians or gods involved in its construction? Hard to tell. All we can say is that the power of the crystal is unmatched by the user's strength. It can be used for the purpose of good and life bringing throughout the realms. Or it can steal, snatching them from under your nose in an instant!

It was bound to the god's child by fate...once in the arms of a loving mother the child's heart was said to reside in every crystal, "So the Titans were each given shards of their own...? Hm.." collapsing into his throne the dragon lord only sat sluggishly staring at the sky and past the walls of his chamber.

~PIPER, COME TO ME.~ Mind speak was hard for those without its power already flowing through them. Miss Pipette heard as she came to teleport. All around her she could see shapeless light and dark rainbow hues. This was a vision of time space. A sight she would perfect even as a prisoner here. They would send her to do harm no more! She would report to Eternal spirit Destiny all of the following...

Roku was going to harm the earth!

~Piper, dear girl if you'd be so kind as to-

~..YOURSELF...That, my child is an order...~

Before Little Pipette could fight the wave of magic it swung her into the balcony as she drifted backwards on tiptoe. Floating, that wave was a thread. That bound her before her captor. Poor boy...~Lady! Why can I not return home...~

Roku rested his great chiseled face onto his hands. "Hm, perhaps it is time for a change of scenery... Piper?"

She did not open her eyes, as the mist allowed her to free her arms to hug her chest she looked about ready to give. She was terrified of what she'd witnessed here, as Shadow rider and Dragon lord and doctor all took turns to watch her. She just wanted to erase it all and have the evil spell click away from her ankle as if it were a ball and chain...

The god thought to himself, he would free her eventually, but she was bound spirit wise to this castle. The realm of dark thought...But for merely a moment she just scrunched up her face and began to weep.

Now the god wasn't sure he'd dealt with this before, a nursemaid or maiden might for a prin-

No...that boy would be all that he'd agreed to for HE was bound by promises. A promise he was willing to run from just to spite his lord...

~One last favor-

"NO! N-n...o-no!" She shook her head and cried. Wet drops of liquid hitting the floor. One by one.

Roku...finally had had enough, this child was simple in body - mind...but confused the still sleeping god.

His cloak swept by her, a scent of fresh herbs and scent of fire filled Piper's senses. She froze as he spoke with spite, guilty conscious feeling and...

Calm...Absolute essential painful heartfelt beats made the poor girl's heart shatter under those cold fingers as they clasped her chin to look into his eyes...

"Oh so very sorry about Destiny...He never really loved you as a child born under his name, did he?- He seemed to remember that destiny was one of many Eternals of the sleep and spirit realm.

"Was it Cascade or Sunbeam, Bright Eyes of your world that truly loved you as you are? You-

He said with the words now scaring her once more. Owe nothing to him, this spell will prove that you deserve to be highly thought of as well as Destiny."

He saw her crack under pressure as she blurt out every thing that she knew...of her life without destiny's assistance. "He cares...that was why he made by the lady's heart go to learn in his keep and to...become an apprentice under sleep teacher Dream Wake." She shook her head, the pressure already to its boiling point.

"Wh-why would they...not care about me-

"They have not come for you in over a series of sleepless nights..." Rickety floor panels began to turn to sand under her feet.

He smiled and gave the child a push into the sands of time.

"Ahh! No! Destiny waits until I am strong, we have a bond-

"Do you?" Inquired the god as the sandstorm around them began to make the room spin.

"Who gave you food, shelter, and the powers that be to use as you see fit? WHO strung you along a path in order to become better than any 'book keeper' of the ancient?" He shouldered the storm as if it were a beast he could command to do just about anything he so wished.

"….I...I-i-i,uh-

The sands turned into dust as they swung pebbles and sand clots at Piper's form. She dodged as she had during Roku and Mr. Shadow's training...it was incredible how much the pressure had some how molded her into a fighting machine that she could not control...no...

That girl Starfire was her mother's dear friend. The fabled Arianna. Dragon lady and tamer of all the strangeness having been known to with the great lumbering spirits. She had been a student handled by Orion the sage of the west who rode upon the white dragon before its passing into the afterlife.

The dragon did not have a name nor did its age make it suitable for those to question it. It was the first immortal creator next to its brother and sister/mother, Wolf...She could imagine just that in the room, a misted white wolf...

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Anius paced the icy front as the snow was just beginning to drift inwards towards the land. Anieu was not sleeping well...and it was all from the thought of that man...that pup- boy human half Richard...

He was not pack, the mountain lion's leader's mate Rheela had spoken of a child who could not form words well in the presence of many spirit. Yet had great fear for his friends and family- the guardians were able to find him and the gods knew when the spirit wolf and lioness had come before the council. Aleiah knew nothing as soon as she had given birth. She had fallen gravely ill as if she were a mortal on the brink of dying herself!

Thor decided it was time to find the many guardians that gave their power to help the one somehow responsible for helping to awaken the demon lord, Roku...

"Are you ok? You did not stay with us for long in the den tonight, I was...worried... Anius."

"Small Paw!" Anius's great jaws snapped at the littlest pale brown wolf. She was tired as she gave a toothed yawn bearing only pup's jaws. His pride and joy, her very name depended on growing up to find a name for herself.

"I am your father first and your pack leader at the ready, most important of all...when did you awaken? Where is your mother's second in command- Haulos?" he asked sharply turning his head to her as she groggily began to reply.

"He...he may not be a wolf spirit...bound by out true calling," she began. Her nose outstretched towards the night sky. "I'm sure he knows of the rules for pack just as we do...he is not a threat as human Ri-rich...

The swift wind swept over Anius's matted fur giving it a hushed wavy appearance.

"His name is of two aliases, we may call him one of these for now...the gods believe that his identity as he believes is sacred. Yet the other- a pet name given to him by his fallen parents..." he saw the reaction of Small Paw's features. She was of course saddened for the guardian's guarded boy...lost a family? No one to go home to? She let out a sharp whine and whimpered softly.

"There is a world that humans use to hide from the world of selfless actions of everyday, my little one." He gave her a small nudge into the direction of the west. That was home, where had he gone?

"But father-

Um, Anius? Where has the boy to return to? Did he find this world you speak of? Is he there?"

Anius shook his scruffily furred head, " He is within a world of those called 'Heroes."

Anius grunted in the direction as he turned eastward. The snow was coming down and blanketed even the trees. "He now believes he is fighting a foe, an enemy of people called 'Villains'. They are a threat as the boy and his Team believe in the world of the earthen realm of the west." Clarifying this, he knew that the ravens would be here to pick up the signal; to be on watch for demons trying to fight the good spirits...to devour or betray and entrust their plans. To make believe in their scum of the earth tactics...

It was said that the boy knowingly had left with only his will to fight and a sure heart for justice. To a city, a place with only cold streets of paved icy waves of watery fog. In Gotham...the city in its beginning to an end...

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The car drove down disheveled streets until the neighborhoods soon became quiet. Enough so that Robin- um, Richard could think straight.

"Hey Al? Um, what did the weather broadcast say about tonight?-

"Oh? seeking the thrill of a good chase tonight I see, the villains have been strangely quiet ever since the incident with, Catwoman. I must tell you some time later."

Richard pretty much sat straight up in his seat when he'd heard it..."Was she...injured by someone? Did she get attacked by a crime boss? What kind of mess-

Alfred turned to park in behind the safety of the manor's large steely gates. "Miss Selina Kyle as you must have known last, is very close to master Bruce...they were going to-

"Get hitched!" Dick shouted with a gasp as the wheels of the car stopped and the doors began to click to unlock.

"That was the original plan, with you as the best man of course," smiled the butler earnestly to the boy.

"But...then what happened? Did the cat get beat or something? Did she go missing?" He didn't actually mean a real cat, Selina was an ally and a crook. She could be two people at once if she wanted. Dropping Bruce like yesterday's news. Al left his young friend to see the news to an end himself. Alfred poked his head in the door once before leaving to the other side. Bruce didn't take the act of vengeance well with Kyle...she was to break of connectivity with him as well as to stop seeing him on late night watches. So, he...Bruce went to work overseas to clear his troubled head...he met another...-

Master Richard?" Dick thanked Al and turned to the door. Holding his coat over his head using it as protection from the rain, drops beat down hard as the men got out.

"Dick! We'll be soaked! Wait for me please!" He didn't have time, the door bell to the giant manor rung as the young man fidgeted with his coat and shivered restlessly. ~Who? Bruce is with someone else? Who could that be? He did say he was going away on business bu-

When the doors collapsed away Robin saw his answer staring him in the face, Red eyes, red dress, red hair...who else could it be?

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"Yes?" she chimed as if her visitor had been a girl scout from the block one few houses down. Very soon you little rotten...oh! Was Roku watching this performance?

"You..."Richard sneered as he watched her eyes pierce his heart mercilessly. Bruce? With her? "No,freaking way..."he had to think this through "Wh-

"Ronnie? Did you get the door?-

Who was that? A cheerful tone and a happy bounce in his step...how?-

"Dick...? What are you doing here?"

"I-

"I emailed you right away! Sorry I didn't call. We've been busy and there hasn't been much socializing, time..." He was home? But Bruce should have welcomed him with open arms and Alfred should have been able to steer him away from creepy Ronnie! What was this?-

Dick huffed to gain some clarity. "Don't you remember? I did email you over the months you'd been away...then you stopped. What happened?" he stood dripping under the over head. This was all weird and unnecessary. He was home that's all.

Bruce felt as if he'd been slapped by a friend. But this child was too important to him to turn away to the league. Robin felt abandoned and also thought that Bruce wasn't Bruce anymore thanks to...

"I came home, I left my frie-

"Now that's not very nice of you!" Ronnie scolded the teen who worked his way towards Bruce. He didn't have to cling any more. It was now or never. He felt hotter than before, when the fire in Roku's keep had been lit to its fullest...this was deteriorating.

"Did you tell them that you left? Why here? Don't you have any other rela-

"NO! I DID tell them and I DON'T! My parents are gone, as if you hadn't guessed. Bruce only has me, Alfred-

Sighing with a sob forming slowly this was all unusual as if it were a mental trigger caused by drugs or doctors.

"Come on in, I'm sorry Dick. Alfred, Ronnie? Get inside before it starts to pour. Veronica? Can you get some tea started for Richard, he's almost out cold..."

/C

Days later as soon as Dick was almost well enough to get out of bed the fever broke, this was no ordinary fever. He could not walk or talk well enough to speak in clear sentences for days. Ronnie felt as if Roku were testing the man-bat and his son. The virus left his body in a few days thankfully, the Titans tried to call in but their pleas were sent to the watchtower's main station.

All that time Bruce had been called out to go to Wayne Industries' for a few meetings and talks. Views on the new weapon called android 'Nina' from Takahara Shoji's Corp went almost well, she fought side by side with the Teen Titans and came in Titans' Tower now and again to train.

"She's just a prototype though..."one of the men from Japan's private branch said solemnly. "She may live only as long as four years before assumed obsolete-

"Yet," Takahara said with a smile and crossed arms round his chest; "She isn't going anywhere for a while, let her enjoy living as a Titan. That was what she wanted when she was born to this industry..." Bruce smiled too. Nina was a big asset but also had the greatest groups to work with, they were sure but steady as they made way across the board. They caught everyone's eye with this new fierce competitor.

"She will be sent off to see to a negotiation with warring countries within a few months, the dates are not set. We will have those later." A woman with Red ruby lips you could only guess was sitting with legs crossed next to Bruce. From England she had many advanced tactics of her own as well for her men in white. She was simply curious to where the little one was heading, if her heart really meant that it wanted to mean heroism more than any other.

Bethel, Was sure she'd laid it down for the other men in the company. Science and magic was forbidden but Takahara used it anyway. Goody two shoes magic of course with a purpose, he was purposeless...that dog...

Bruce only knew of the engineering parts of science to make the world a better place mumbo jumbo...Takahara had a past life to team up with so he was unbeatable. In another year they had once met, Verra and she. As half siblings before her mother Lilth had killed his great king of a father. In Asia everyone is honorable to those higher up from them and they can do no more so to them selves. In the old world, Veravakumu was prince and had only cousins but no siblings. Until his father went to trade overseas with the rich in an attempt to reclaim his honor. The first of his wives had fallen ill and passed on . His father had since remarried to a woman with falling raven locks and a girl of the west by her side was to be his half sister. Her new name was Veronica...When the plot to destroy the king was said and done the people were trapped in the world with Lilth as queen and her daughter as high priestess. So? They weren't from around here after all...Verra was sent to live with his relatives in spirit kingdom of the old world of 1000-1200 A.D.

Verra was beyond joyous when he got to see his distant cousins of spirit world Europe. They were somehow all connected back then...

Loralei Ainsley, Kayumon and Lori's betrothed Rokuro the 2nd. Verra knew that there was nothing between the Ainsley and Noburo groups, but intimidating talk of marriage plans. When the queen was left without her soul mate and king they wed. On A late summer eve that would spell doom for them all to come...though no one knew he was a banished god.

Verra had talk to the vulgar and cool headed evil rat Roku- for short...

They knew one another barely but got more acquainted when the small boy child was born to continue the line. They were too wrong about that. It was said that the palace burned to the ground and that the mother and child bother survived. Only, Roku had been the one to start the fires...

Why would he want to bury his own life into the ashes of the home Little Richard had been birthed in?

The rest was mysterious and awe shocking, attention grabbing for the heart, and tear jerking. For Lori did not live in peace with the god, yes in fact he was the one to poison her-

Ok, that's all we'd like to discuss for today the rest will be settled by the _

Ronnie jumped at the sound of shoes filling the door way. Elevators ringing. And a boy's cry for a father's love...hm, this would be quite the performance. Wouldn't it...Grayson...?

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