Kori and Cassie were looking at him expectantly, both obviously curious to what he found out.
"Bruce help?" Stuttered Cassie.
He nodded. "I know what I need."
"Well?" Kori questioned, anticipation burning in her eyes.
"Well what?" He teased.
She rolled her eyes and raised a glowing fist, "Well if you don't tell me I'll blast you all the way to Timbuktu."
Garfield held up his hands in defeat, "Fine. To solve my predicament I need an act of true love."
Cassie pulled his sleeve making him look down. "L-like true l-love's kiss?" She questioned.
He nodded.
Kori's eyebrows furrowed, "Where in the world are you going to find true love's kiss?"
He raised an eyebrow, "I have Terra remember?"
Starfire bit her lip, "She's back in Arendelle though."
Garfield nodded, "That's why I need you to get me there as soon as possible."
She nodded, "Then lets go." Kori started down the hall and he followed.
Behind him he heard another set of footsteps, he turned to see Cassie keeping even with his pacing. He paused and looked at her curiously, "What are you doing?"
Cassie looked up at him with surprising determination in her eyes. "I g-go too." The little girl had crossed her arms and was sending every nonverbal indicator she was could to tell him she was not changing her mind.
Garfield looked ahead to where Kori was getting farther ahead of them and then at Cassie beside him. He made a snap decision, "You can come as long as you can keep up." He quickly ran down the hall to where Kori was waiting for him, snickering at his cleverness. Garfield felt thoroughly impressed with himself as he stopped in front of Kori, until he felt a familiar tug at his cape. He looked down to see a silently fuming Cassie.
"J-just because I young and n-no talk good, d-does not mean I stupid." She stuttered vehemently.
He hung his head in shame, "I'm sorry."
Cassie pursed her lips, and for a second Garfield thought she wasn't going to forgive him until she broke into a smile. "You are f-forgiven."
Kori coughed into her hand, Garfield and Cassie looked to her.
"If you two are finished, we have need to get to Arendelle." She tilted her head, "By the looks of your head we're running out of time."
At Arendelle tensions were rising. Princess Terra was trying to control it, but Duke of Slattington was making things difficult …
The Duke smacked his palm against the table, "The monster can not be allowed to let this eternal darkness continue."
Princess Terra cleared her throat, everyone seated at the table looked to her. She stood with the grace of a person of her station and spoke calmly. "Unless you have forgotten, that 'monster' is the Queen. I have given my word to Prince Garfield to protect Arendelle, including it's Queen." She shot a blatant glare at the Duke, "I will also not hesitate to protect it from treason."
The Duke lips pressed into a thin line, yet he remained silent.
Terra smirked victoriously and stood up. "If you will excuse, I have business to attend to with the Queen." She quickly turned and exited the room before any could protest. Terra slipped down the hall silently, pausing in front of the door leading to the cells.
"She shouldn't be treated this way." Terra murmured as she pushed the great door open.
Down below in the Dungeons, Raven was just coming too …
"Ow." She whimpered, Raven attempted to open her eyes, but everything was fuzzy so she shut them again. Her whole body was sore, as if she was thrown to the ground …
"Robin!" She sat straight up, everything clarifying. Looking around she realized she was in cell. Raven stood to realize her hands were cuffed, the chain led to the wall across from her.
Click, click, click …
She looked up at the sound of footsteps. She walked to the barred door, but the chains kept her three feet from the door.
Click, click, click …
A girl paused in front the door. "Hi." She stated timidly. "I'm sorry you're in here, but no one is sure what to do with you."
Raven studied her for a minute for she realized who she was. "You're Terra!" She exclaimed.
Terra meekly nodded. She took a breath as if gathering her courage and then stared down Raven. "Where is Prince Garfield?" She questioned.
Raven felt her heart stop. "You mean he's not here?"
Terra's eyes widened. "We haven't seen him since he went to look for you."
"Garfield." Raven sank to her knees whimpering.
"You know if you could just undo the night we could fix everything. You could go back to ruling, a search party would easily be able to find Garfield."
Raven looked up at her through her bangs, "Don't you see? I can't."
"B-but", Terra stuttered.
Raven shook her head, her eyes still on the ground. "Terra just let me go, so I can't hurt anyone else."
Terra bit her lip and glanced away. "I'll see what I can do." She quickly left the way she came, the clicking of her heels an unintentional goodbye.
Across the hallway, in the opposite cell …
Robin couldn't open his eyes, every time he did was met with pain.
"You know if you could just undo the night we could fix everything. You could go back to ruling, a search party would easily be able to find Garfield." A girl's voice pleaded.
His ears perked up as he attempted to place the voice.
"Don't you see? I can't." Raven whimpered.
Robin opened his eyes, everything coming back to focus. The stacked stone and barred door indicated a cell. He realized there was a girl outside his door with her back to him.
"B-but" the girl stuttered, reminding him of Cassie.
"Terra just let me go, so I can't hurt anyone else." Raven pleaded.
Robin smacked his forehead, he had just seen Terra tackling the would-be assassin. He watched as her weight shifted from foot to foot nervously.
She looked down the hallway. "I'll see what I can do." She quickly left the way she looked, the clicking of her heels an unintentional goodbye.
Robin walked over to his door to see Raven on her knees in her cell. His breath caught, he gripped the bars, "Raven!"
She looked up in surprise, "Richard?"
He nodded, but the remembered her and Terra's conversation. "Is Garfield missing?"
Raven slowly stood up, "I guess so."
"I wouldn't worry about him."
"Why?
"When I last saw him, he was with my sister Kori."
Raven titled her head, "That girl with the red hair, she's your sister?"
Richard sighed, "She's adopted." He'd had conversation many times before. Pretty much with every sibling, since all of them were adopted. "She has good head on her shoulders and will protect Garfield."
He watched as she visibly relaxed. He then noticed her shackles. "Why don't you get out of those?"
She looked down at her shackles, confusion etched her face, "How?"
Robin flashed back to when he watched Bruce teach Kori …
A younger Bruce stood next to a much younger Richard outside the cave. Across from them was a much much younger Kori. She had just created five different hole in the cave with an accidental energy blast an hour ago, prompting Bruce to declare he was going to train her.
Kori looked down at her hands, her face scrunched in concentration. A green glow began to emenate from her hands
"That's good." Encouraged Bruce, he pointed to the adjacent tree. "Focus your energy, imagine it severing the tree."
Kori nodded, aiming her hands at the tree. Almost immediately a beam of energy shot from her hands, severing the trunk of the tree.
Richard looked up awe as the tree started falling towards him. Without warning Bruce tackled him to the ground, just out of the tree's range. Richard grinned at Kori from under Bruce, "Do it again!"
"Richard?" Raven tilted her head, bringing him out of her reverie.
He shook his head, clearing it. "Sorry, I was just remembering what happened the last time I did this." He took a breath. "Focus your energy. Imagine the shackles popping open."
Raven squinted at her shackles. She pursed her lips as a shadow encompassed them. Richard jumped as her eyes turned black, the shackles being blown apart simultaneously. Raven's eyes quickly slipped back to their midnight blue as she stared at her hands in shock.
"Well?" He asked.
"Well what?" She questioned in surprise.
Richard chuckled, "Well, do you think you could get us out of these cells?"
While Raven and Richard were planning their escape out of the castle … Garfield, Kori, and Cassie were just arriving at the castle …
Cassie looked down the bridge at the castle. At her short stature the building loomed at twice it's size.
"We made it."
Cassie turned to see Garfield exiting the sled assisted by Kori. Now only a few stripes of dirty blond hair were visible now and his skin had taken a gray tinge.
Ever since they had left the cave Garfield had been sinking into darkness. Saying very little and when he did speak it was of lost hope. She had watched as Kori created a flow a positive energy to combat Garfield's negative. To her it was obvious who the prince's true love truly was, but she had a feeling Garfield and Kori didn't.
Cassie silently trailed behind Garfield and Kori as they walked down the bridge, she took note of how Kori's hand was very close to Garfield's.
Kori knocked against the giant doors. The doors opened revealing two servants.
"Prince Garfield!" Exclaimed an older lady.
"Where have you been?" Questioned a stout man.
Kori pushed Garfield through the door, "Find Princess Terra of the Southern Isles. Garfield must see her."
"We will." Affirmed the woman.
They turned taking Garfield with them as the door closed, leaving Kori alone, sheturned and strode past her. Anger, sorrow, and regret obvious in her stride. Cassie watched in disbelief before taking a breath.
"STOP!"
Kori paused rigidly, and turned around. Cassie flinched, she had never seen such a dead look in her sister's normally vibrant eyes. But, she would not be deterred.
"H-how can you …", She paused searching for the right words, but then they came to her. Cassie focused on the words, determined not to stutter. "How can you walk away from the person you love?"
Kori faltered, her mask shattering. Her eyes dropped to the ground, sadness exuding from every fiber of her being, "He's with his true love."
Cassie balled her fist in fury, her eyes ablaze. "You do realize that if you are wrong. Garfield will suffer the consequences."
Kori still didn't look up and Cassie made a snap decision. "I will not him suffer because of your fear!" She spun around and charged and the giant doors, slipping through the tiny crack she had made.