Ok everyone this is my 6th fan fiction. If this is your first time reading one of my stories I say, " Hello. Thanks for reading." And to all of you who have read my stories and are now reading this one I say, " Hello again and I'm glad you are reading this new story." Okay first let me tell you what's going on with this story, just a few facts you might want to know SO I SUGGEST YOU READ THIS BEFORE READING THE STORY!!! Ok first of all this takes place after How Long Is Forever. I have changed the part about how many years Starfire was gone instead of 20 it's only 10. Second there will be memories in here: these memories take place in a different time so naturally the Titans aren't there. In the first chap you won't see much of the Titans just Starfire. And by the way they are all older by 10 years. After the description there will be a prologue, I also suggest that you pat attention to that because if you don't you won't get the story. As the story moves along the memories will reveal what has happened during the last 10 years. KEEP IN MIND that Chapter 1 starts off when Starfire is where she has been for 10 years. Warning: This story has some very sad things in it, but I promise it is a good story.

Description: After sending 16 year old Starfire back to her time the older Titans are once again faced to a life without her, or so it seems. Soon after 16-year-old Starfire goes back to her own time another portal opens, and Starfire once again returns to them. But it has been 10 years she is now older and things have changed. What has happened to their long lost friend during the years she was gone? And will Nightwing finally be able to be with the woman he loves?

Returning

Prologue:

In life or so it seems history has a habit of repeating itself.

By the year 2400 AD the planet Earth had over 1000 billion inhabits. The highest number of people in Earths history. Over population filled each country big or small, and because of this overpopulation there were more industrial factories needed to supply enough foods and goods for all people. The world had so much pollution that in all homes artificial air was conducted by machines. Water, even in the ocean, was poisonous and could not be drunken, so it had to be filtered and sold in bottles. Poverty and anger filled the world. And the world itself started to unravel. And the only way to fix its problems was—to renew itself.

In the year 2401 AD there was what all the newspapers called, " a freak storm," in the city of Los Angels, California. The storm had consisted of snow, rain, hail along with tornadoes, thunder, and lighting all at once! The city was destroyed and all most all the people living there at the time were dead by the time the storm was finished. Little did the people of Earth know—this was only the beginning of the end. Soon throughout the whole world storms like this destroyed cities. And then they destroyed countries.

In a desperate attempt to try to stop this from happening all the governments called upon the superheroes of the world. These brave heroes had been the descendents of the heroes of the early 2000s. They tried to eliminate the storms but nothing worked. In the time of 5 months from the first storm in Los Angels, over half the northern hemisphere had been destroyed. Mother Nature could not be stopped.

To all their horror the people of the world could do nothing but stay on the dying planet and flee south for safety. Soon there was nothing left in the northern hemisphere. This included North America. The whole continents of Europe and Asia.

It was 100 years before the storms stopped and the northern hemisphere was once again livable. But sadly the human race had not been able to survive like the continents of the Northern hemisphere had. By the year 2501 AD there was only 1 billion people left on this Earth out of the 1000 billion people that had once existed. 1 billion people could've once filled up the now long destroyed city of Los Angels. The human race almost completely died out. Technology was no more and people lived in "ancient times" or the "Hellenistic period" As for the great cities of New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, and many more were just stories of make believe cities told by wives when they had gotten together to sew. And as for things such as cars and microwaves, they were no longer remembered.

Soon small kingdoms arose. Their leaders were some of the strongest and wisest. Most of the northern hemisphere was now beach, desert, and jungle. And that is where most people settled for so many of their ancestors had fled to what was once called South America. Kingdoms often fought over land. People forgot about the once great civilization that they had been for facts grew into tales from generation to generation. The facts died with those who had been there. And then any remembrance of civilization died all together.

And it is in the city of Argeina in 3014AD, the kingdom unknowingly built over the ruins of Jump City, that this story begins:

Chapter 1: Time Warp

In the Year 3014 AD:

Time: an indefinite duration, during which events and conditions occur in a sequence, proceeding from the past through the present to the future. Time is constant thing. Time will never die; it was here before the world and will be long after. For some time passes too quickly; like a mother who's son seems to grow into a man in a blink of an eye. For some time is too slow, like the small girl sitting in a house looking out the window to see if the rain has stopped. But for me, time has been a curse. For me time is nothing. What do I need it for? I no longer have anyone to spend it with.

But no matter your view on it, time is time. And time passes. Sadly, I know time all too well.

She ran through the jungle. She cut branches and vines as she went along with her sword. She jumped over fallen limbs as she ran. Her red shoulder length hair was soaked with sweat and her leather sandals seemed to weaken. She had been running through this forest for three hours now without stopping. She knew she couldn't. These soldiers that were chasing her had been hired and would not stop until they killed her.

Starfire ran through a clearing and back into the jungle that covered her from sight. The men had been behind her. She ran behind a huge tree and lay against it. The clearing she had ran through had four paths leading from it. Starfire knew this jungle well.

She leaned against the back of the tree. Her breathing was heavy and she tried to clam it. In this quiet jungle panting would be undoubtedly be heard. The thick leather amour that she was wearing wasn't helping. The strong leather top stopped at her belly button and she wore dark brown leather pants with the same color sandals. She wiped away some hair that had been sticking to her face. She winced as she put a hand to her left side. She brought her hand to her side and brought it back to her. There was blood on it. She had been stabbed. Probably back 3 hours ago when the soldiers had ambushed her while she rode down the road on her horse. There had at first been 20 soldiers but she had killed 5 of them soon after they attacked. Realizing that she had a better advantage if they were in the jungle she ran into it, but as she ran into the jungle she felt something sharp in her side. But not daring to stop she kept running and hadn't noticed the wound till now.

Starfire stifled her yelp of pain by biting her tongue with her teeth as she pulled a small tip of an arrow out of her side. She had been hit with a sphere but it had broken and just left the arrows tip in her. She instantly realized that pulling out the tip was a bad idea for the wound began to bleed more. There would be no time to start running off again and even if she did run she would either pass out from the loss age of blood or die from it.

The soldiers stepped into the clearing and looked at all four paths. They wore they same leather amour as Starfire but theirs had a small metal shield over the top of their chests. The soldier in front, who was the leader, motioned his hand as a sing for them to separate. The others nodded and walked off in different directions into the jungle.

Starfire now held her breath to keep from being heard. She heard the soft and cautious footsteps of a soldier on the other side of the tree. If she didn't act quickly she would be found. She saw his foot step over a large root. He was coming behind the tree, where she sat!

The soldier stepped into the area behind the large tree. He looked around with his sword protectively in front of him. There was no one there. Little did the soldier know that Starfire sat, hiding, above him in the tree. She had quickly climbed up the tree and hid among its leaves before he had discovered her. She now sat silently sat in the tree not daring to move for if she did the leaves would rustle together.

The soldier chopped the bushes in an attempt to find someone hiding there. He came back to the base of the tree disappointed that he had not found her. He looked down at the ground and saw an object lying there. He picked it up. It was a head on an arrow, with blood on it. He looked around wildly and went back to chopping more bushes. He finally gave up and walked back to the clearing to meet the other soldiers.

A minute or so after he had gone Starfire jumped down from her hiding spot. She crept along the edge of the jungle hiding behind trees as the soldiers talked in the clearing.

" No one found her?" the leader asked. His voice hard.

" No sir. But I found this just beyond that tree there," the soldier that had almost discovered Starfire said while holding up the arrow tip, " the blood on it is still warm. General Starfire Saxon is somewhere close by."

" Then we'll keep searching the jungle for her. King Mayess has hired us to find his sons killer and we will not stop until we do. We will split up into groups of 3 and search the jungle starting from where Jared found the arrow tip." The leader said.

They all started heading for the part of the jungle where Starfire had once been. She was now a ways away but could see them clearly. The men looked around the large tree that she had hidden in. she saw the leader give the sing to spilt up. The men nodded and spilt up into groups of three and started to head in different directions. Starfire pulled out her sword from a leather belt that wrapped around the top of her blown leather pants. If they were in smaller groups in a jungle they weren't familiar with she would have the advantage and defeat them in battle easily.

As she was about to follow one group of three, a bright light blinded her and surrounded the jungle. The light then went back into itself and formed a swirling circle of light. The soldiers all regrouped and stared at it with awe.

Starfire's eyes widened. She knew what it was. She hadn't seen one for a long time. A time warp. The thing she had come here in 10 years ago. That seemed so long ago now. What was it doing here? Who could've opened it? Wasn't the machine destroyed? Why now after all these years?

The soldiers stepped forward. The leader put his hand into the white light and was sucked in. the others looked upon this with horror. What was this magic? One of them waved his hand and they also stepped in.

Starfire looked at where the men had disappeared. They were gone now, she no longer needed to worry about being hunted down. She could stay. But this could be her chance to leave here. She cloud go, there was no reason to stay. Although she didn't know where she would end up or with whom. That was a risk. But the time warp had opened up for some reason and she was going to find out.

Starfire placed her sword back into her belt. She walked over to the white light, which was now closing. Closing her eyes and praying she would be all right, Starfire jumped into the time warp. It closed behind her leaving the year 3014 AD and her past there behind.

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2014 AD—Present Year

" Please, must this be our future? Is there nothing I can do to change it?" 16 year Starfire said before she got into the time warp.

Nightwing stepped next to her and put the stolen item in her hand. Holding her hand slightly for as long as he could. She had been gone 10 years; he had missed her so much. Why did she have to leave? This was unfair!

" There's no time, Starfire. You must go before the portal closes." Nightwing said. Starfire's and his eyes met for a few seconds but it seemed like years. He longed to beg for her not to go, to please stay. He missed her so. But he couldn't be selfish he knew that. He also knew that once she would enter the portal an other dimension would create itself. They may be on the same time line but in different worlds all together. Back in her time she could change the future, but here the damage was already done. No one could change anything. So it was with this heavy heart he stepped away from her and joined the others.

He held back tears as Starfire looked at them one last time. Her last glance fell on him and then she entered the portal and it closed behind her. All was silent. There friend, the one who had disappeared for 10 years was gone once more. Nightwing let one single tear drop from his mask. It landed on the floor and was the only thing that could be heard.

Then as if almost on cue a bright white light consumed the building they were in. The light blinded them so they put their hands over their eyes. The light went back into itself forming a swirling round ball of white light. Then from it emerged about 15 soldiers.

They obviously weren't from this time, judging by their clothes and the weapons they carried. They were completely oblivious to the former Titans as they looked around they're strange surroundings. One tapped the floor with his foot. It was so such like stone but yet it wasn't. Where were they?

The portal was just about to close as another figure came out of it. The figure rolled out of it actually. When it stopped the person turned their head up and the Titans and the soldiers recognized her immediately. Starfire!

The soldiers took out their swords and held them up. The Titans just stood there in shock watching the since unfold. Starfire stood to meet the soldiers. The Titans all noticed that she had become a woman. It wasn't as if she wasn't before though, but now she had grown into herself and noticeably had all the curves in all the right places. The outfit she wore was brown leather with a leather bag slung across her back. A leather top that stopped at her belly button, which showed a great deal of cleavage. Leather pants that tucked in all the right spots and on it had a leather belt with different sorts of weapons on it. She wore leather sandals and her hair was shoulder length with free wild curls. She whipped her hair back as she looked hatefully at the soldiers.

" General Starfire Saxon of the Argeian Army we, Soldiers of the Odessian, Army are hear by ordered to kill you (by King Mayess himself) as punishment for the murder of his son, Prince Actaeon. Do you have any last words before we kill you?" the leader asked.

Starfire smiled. " I do in fact have some last words."

The leader nodded. " And what are they?"

" The son of a bitch got what he deserved." Starfire said coldly.

" You will burn in hell!!" one soldier yelled.

Starfire looked slyly at him. " You are correct, I will. But you will go there before me and since you are…save me a seat." She then took out her sword and a small axe from her belt.

The soldiers and Starfire looked at each other intensely for a few moments. And then one soldier let out a loud, " AHHHHHHHH!!!!" And with that the fight began.

One soldier charged her and she drove her sword though his neck. He fell to the ground dead. The others surrounded her. At first the former Titans all had in mind to help her but saw that she could take care of herself. She smirked and flipped out of the circle and landed on the outside safely on both feet. One soldier came towards her with his sword held up. Starfire's sword clashed with his and it echoed through out the room. They continued sword fighting and when he got distracted Starfire stabbed him in the gut with the small axe and then stabbed him in the chest. He fell to the ground. Two more rushed her she ducked and they stabbed each other instead of her. She did this with 10 others until there was only the leader left. They fought well. She got his sword away from him but then he kicked hers out of her hand. She threw the axe at him but he ducked and it missed. He then forcefully kicked her into a wall. Realizing that he could not win he started to run for the door.

Starfire stood from the ground and looked at the fleeing man. She reached into her back bag and took out one arrow and bow. She put the arrow on the bow and pulled back. She gracefully let go. And the arrow flew magnificently through the air and across the building. The arrow dropped down a bit and hit the fleeing leader straight in the back of the head and went through to the other side. The leader fell to his knees and then fell to the ground…dead. Starfire had just taken out 15 soldiers in less than 3 minutes.

She put her bow down and breathed heavily. She placed the bow back into her bag. She then walked over and picked up her sword and with a cloth she got from her belt, wiped the blood off it. Bodies sprawled the floor and she looked at them and closed her eyes and silently said a prayer. She might kill people but doesn't mean they weren't good people and they deserved a proper death prayer. She slid her sword back into her leather belt.

The former Titans just stood in shock. Starfire didn't kill people, well at least she didn't. Out to all of them Beastboy was the first to speak.

" Dude." He said quietly but it echoed through out the whole building.

Starfire turned quickly holding out her sword towards them. She cautiously stepped forward. They looked familiar, she knew them. Sometime in her life she knew them. She remembered but they were younger when she did know them. She tried to remember who they were but couldn't.

" Starfire." Cyborg said quietly stepping towards her. She jumped back a bit. And he held up his hands as a sign that he wouldn't hurt her.

" Starfire I'm not going to hurt you." Cyborg said in a kind voice. Starfire slid her sword back into her belt. And looked up at him, at all of them squinting her eyes as though she were trying to see something far away.

" It's me, Starfire. Cyborg. Don't you remember me?" Cyborg asked. She looked up and down at him. Yes she knew a Cyborg but she hadn't seen him for 10 years. He was made of metal and---Cyborg!!! She recognized him for the first time and stepped forward to him and the others.

She softly put a hand on his metal chest and whispered, " Cyborg."

" Yeah Star it's me." He said quietly. She looked at the rest. Then she remembered. The woman wearing the white cloak was Raven and the man with the green skin was Beastboy. She remembered them!

She then turned her attention to a man in all black with a blue bird on his chest. He had long black hair and a mask on. He was also familiar too. She walked towards him. He just looked at her in shock as she put a hand on his chest as though trying to feel his heartbeat. She knew this heartbeat, it belonged to …Robin.

She looked up at his eyes and whispered, " Robin?" Before he could say or do anything she let out a gasp and a moan and put her hand to her side. She lifted her hand from it. The stab wound from back in the jungle. She had forgotten about it. She looked back up at him and he saw her hand and the wound. His eyes widened. Starfire breathed in heavily. The last thing she saw was Nightwing's face before she lost all concisenesses.

As she fell backwards Nightwing snapped out of his trance and cached her before she hit the ground. He held her limp body in his arms. Starfire was back!

" She needs help. Now!!!" Nightwing yelled as he cradled her in his arms and ran out of the building with the others following him.

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Hello!!!! Okay I do know that was a short Chapter but the others should be longer. Please no flames I can't take it and reviews make me write faster!!!! Anyways as you have found out Starfire killed a prince, but why? What has happened during those 10 years to both her and Nightwing and the other Titans? And why did they call her General Starfire Saxon? All questions will be answered in the coming chapters so stayed tune. Starfire's past 10 years will be played out through out the story.

Well like I said please no flames and reviews always help me write!

My b-day is tomorrow YAY!!!!

Bye-bye,

Hailey