Fan Fiction ❯ Rearing Your Shadow ❯ Fire Bird ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6

Fire Bird

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Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, or anyone else who appears in the television show. Everyone else is mine, so don't steal them.

 

Note: I thank my friend Ashraf for the title he gave me.

 

~GxJxR

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Robin stands beside Starfire, looking at the opponent. The Man remains calm, as Robin growls at him. Starfire readies a star bolt, and her eyes become green.

 

“Shoot…” The Man says, breaking the silence.

 

Starfire releases her star bolt and shoots her energy from her eyes, and Robin throws his discs at him.

 

The man smiles, and changes his main body shape. He looks like a cheap knock off of Starfire. The man then fires a black star bolt at them, and blasts red energy from his eyes.

 

Starfire gets locked into a power struggle with him, as Robin's discs fly straight through him.

 

“Foolish mortals. I cannot believe I was once this stupid…” the man says, as he sinks into his energy, and appears face to face with Starfire, who in shock, stops shooting. He punches her in the face, and she falls back, revealing Robin.

 

Robin swings his sword into the man's face, and knocks him back. He heals as if it were nothing, and stands as if he wasn't touched at all.

 

“This is no use!” Robin says, helping Starfire up.

 

“He just keeps regenerating…” Starfire says, faintly.

 

“We can't give up. Whoever sent this thing, I will not rest until I am either dead, or they are stopped…”

 

“The first option can be arranged…” the man punches Robin in the back of the neck, knocking him down.

 

“Seriously, the other guys were stronger!” the man appears in front of Starfire “I don't know how I couldn't beat you and that other boy…” he raises his arm, forming a very demonic looking blade.

 

“STARFIRE!” Robin screams, as blood spurts up, as the blade pierces the tiles.

 

Starfire screams in pain, and closes her eyes. She opens them, and looks confused. Shouldn't she have died?

 

“SHIT! I MISSED!” the man says, holding a sword which impales Starfire's shoulder, “I was aiming for decapitation…”

 

With her good hand, Starfire punches the man with all her might, knocking him against a wall.

 

“Starfire, are you okay?” Robin asks, running over to her. He bandages up her shoulder, and they turn to face the man.

 

Starfire raises a star bolt to the man's face. “Tell me who it is who sent you, or it will be you who is to die,” She says, and he gulps.

 

“You don't know him…” the man says, smiling. The shadow sinks off of his body, revealing Robin.

 

She looks next to herself, and the man stands where Robin did. He punches her, and kicks Robin in the face.

 

“You damn humans have had this planet too long! Time for us to take over…” the man says, taking his mind off of them for a split second. Just long enough for Starfire to blast him through the chest.

 

“STARFIRE, FIRE BIRD MANOOVER!” he makes 2 swords and stabs them into his boots, (so that if he kicked something, it would hurt them) and grabs Starfire's waist. The hovers horizontally, and takes 2 swords of her own from Robin. She empowers them with star bolt energy, and readies an eye blast.

 

They both face the man, and Starfire flies full speed at him. Robin swipes him with his boots, and she swipes him with the supped up swords, as she blasts him with her eyes.

 

The man falls to the ground. He lies there, moaning in pain, bleeding. Starfire takes one of the swords, and impales him through the back, pinning him to the ground.

 

Robin turns the lights up so that they are dim, just as Cyborg did.

 

“Awwwww!” the man moans, and Robin stomps on his back.

 

“Who sent you?” he says, grinding his boot into his back.

 

“GAH!” the man screams, and he blasts Robin in the face. Unfortunately for him, he is still pinned down.

 

“Tell us or you must suffer!” Starfire says, impaling him with a second sword.

 

“AHH-NEVER!” he screams, and she impales him with another. Robin stands up, his mask destroyed.

 

“Alright, tell us or we'll kill you…” Robin says, placing his foot on the man's head.

 

“The dark lord…” he starts to say, and then he screams in pain. Robin didn't do anything to hurt him that time.

 

“What is going on?” Starfire asks Robin, and a fourth man appears in the room.

 

“WHO ARE YOU!?” Robin screams at the man. The new man destroys the lights making only his glowing red eyes visible.

 

“MASTER! HAVE MERCY!” The man screams in the dark, his red eyes visible now too. Robin throws a bird-a-rang at the new man's eyes, but they disappear for a second. All of a sudden, Robin feels a sharp pain in his back, and falls. He watches on the ground as the man's eyes appear.

 

Starfire illuminates the room, making it slightly visible. The new man impales the old one with its arm, and the old man lets out a bloodcurdling scream, as he is separated with his skeletal system.

 

The lights flash on, and only the old man's skeleton remains, with trace amounts of flesh around the hall, which is now covered in blood.

 

Robin looks in horror, as he lies on the ground, looking at what happened, trying to make sense of it.

 

“That was the leader…” Robin says in horror, reaching toward his back. He feels his hand is wet, and he pulls his bird-a-rang out of his spine, now giving him back the ability to use his legs. He sees his hand is covered in his blood, and that his back is gushing blood.

 

Starfire helps him up, and helps him to the skeleton.

 

Starfire bandages Robin and forms a tourniquet on his back, stopping the blood loss. He stumbles to the end of the hall, and falls over.

 

“Star, go on and help the others… I can't fight anymore…” Robin sighs, closing his eyes.

 

“But Robin, what about their leader? What if he is to return?”

 

“Just go…” Robin says, “If you stay, the others may not be as lucky, they need all the help they can get…”

 

Robin closes his eyes, and drifts out of conciseness.

 

He dreams. Not a dream… a nightmare.

 

He sees the new man, what looks like a supped up Slade, and a Tamoranian man. They were fighting Cyborg, and Cyborg is now locked down, unable to move. He can't move either.

 

The men laugh to each other, and the Slade-like figure throws him off the tower…

 

He wakes up in shock, sweating. He is alone… He is afraid… He whispers a word, that has just come to him mind randomly…

 

“Shade.”