The moment Arthur and the Titans stepped through the gate, the world itself changed. One instant, Metropolis’s controlled chaos and flashing sirens had been behind them. The next, an endless green horizon swallowed everything whole. Trees towered into the sky, their trunks so wide that they couldn’t possible see the sun. The grass beneath their feet wasn’t grass at all in any normal sense, it rose past their shoulders, thick and glowing faintly with an unnatural bioluminescence.

Robin was the first to move, instinctively scanning the perimeter. Starfire’s eyes widened as she slowly turned in place. "This... is quite beautiful."

Cyborg’s systems whirred loudly as he adjusted his optics. "Okay, yeah, this is officially not in any of my databases... Arthur was correct, though this is not an ordinary dungeon."

Beast Boy looked down at the grass swallowing him and immediately jumped back. "Okay.. Nope! this is way too big. I know this is just grass and trees but why is everything always terrifying when its bigger?"

Behind them, the gate glowed then turned red.

The air snapped like a lock sealing shut.

Robin turned sharply. "It just sealed us inside.."

Cyborg cut him off. "Yeah, I see that, we’re locked in now."

Blue beetle floated slightly off the ground to get a better view of the horizon, his expression tightening. "We are now inside a foreign dimension with no apparent exit, other than getting rid of the boss of this place that is."

Beast Boy slowly turned his head toward Arthur. "You knew that was gonna happen, didn’t you? I mean the tall trees and whatnot not that it is a red gate."

Arthur didn’t even look particularly concerned. His violet eyes glowed faintly beneath his mask as he surveyed the forest like it was just another map he’d memorized long ago.

"Expected it," he said calmly. "Different dimensions always manifest like this. The gate doesn’t lead somewhere, it replaces where you stand, these are prisons for these monsters, prisons the rulers made for them."

Robin’s tone sharpened. "Well, you could have at least mentioned where we would end up."

Arthur tilted his head slightly. "You were all excited to go in. I didn’t want to ruin the moment."

Cyborg groaned. "That’s not how warnings work, man."

A deep, distant shriek tore through the forest.

It was loud like something massive moving through the air itself.

Beast Boy physically jolted. "Okay NOPE! what was that?!"

Arthur’s gaze shifted upward slightly. "Wyverns."

Beast Boy pointed at him. "HOW do you just casually say that like you’re reading a menu bro?!"

"Stop panicking Garf, if you spend enough time here with your powers, you’ll be able to transform into one of these beasts as well."

"I don’t like that image in my head." Beast Boy replied.

Robin exhaled slowly, trying to regain control of the situation. "We need mobility and visibility. We can’t move through this terrain like..."

Arthur raised his hand slightly.

The shadows beneath them rippled and something massive emerged from it.

A dragon rose from the ground, Violet eyes opened across a colossal shadow dragon skull, and wings stretched outward far beyond the canopy.

Kamish.

Beast Boy stared up at it. "Oh boy."

Blue Beetle, who had been unusually calm, took one look at the creature and immediately stepped back. "That’s our ride I assume.."

Robin, however, was already assessing it like a tactical asset. "Not bad."

Arthur nodded once. "Yes, this will be our ride, I mean I can fly but Kamish is big enough for all of us."

Starfire floated closer, looking at the massive shadow dragon with genuine awe. "It is... magnificent, I’ve seen it a lot of times before but not up this close."

Kamish lowered its head slightly acknowledging her words.

Then Beast Boy attempted to climb it.

He grabbed onto what he thought was a stable ridge of shadowed scale.

It immediately shifted.

Like the dragon had noticed him touching it.

Kamish’s eye flicked toward him.

A low growl rolled out from Kamish.

Beast Boy froze mid-climb. "Uh... hey there buddy.."

Blue Beetle tried helping him up and accidentally stepped onto a shifting shadow wing.

The wing flexed.

Both of them lost balance instantly.

"WHOAA!" Blue Beetle yelped.

Beast Boy grabbed him mid-fall. "WHY IS IT MOVING?! CMON THIS IS NOT OKAY!"

Kamish exhaled through its nostrils, a slow, displeased sound that made the surrounding trees shake slightly.

Raven crossed her arms, watching the chaos unfold. "This is painful to observe."

She smiled anyway, and Starfire placed a hand over her mouth, clearly trying not to laugh.

"I have no control over him." Arthur lied casually.

Beast Boy, still clinging desperately to a shadow ridge, yelled back, "STOP LYING MAN, ATLEAST TELL IT I INTEND TO SURVIVE!"

Kamish lowered its head further.

Then, almost reluctantly, stabilized its form so they could climb properly.

Blue Beetle carefully stepped on again, this time slower. "Okay... okay... we’re good... we’re good..."

Kamish immediately rumbled again.

Blue Beetle froze. "I take it back. We are not good."

Raven finally laughed out loud.

Even Robin allowed a faint exhale, Arthur gave a small nod toward the dragon. "Kamish."

The dragon’s eyes flicked to him instantly.

"Fly."

Kamish’s entire body responded at once, "At once, my king," it rumbled.

Beast Boy blinked slowly.

"...Of course it talks with a deep voice."

A beat of silence followed.

Then Kamish launched upward, the forest dropped away beneath them, the enormous world of the dungeon revealing itself in terrifying scale, floating cliffs, distant storm systems trapped between colossal trees, and something massive moving far below that none of them could immediately identify.

Robin steadied himself. "Alright..."

Starfire grinned despite everything. "This is... exhilarating! Quite different from flying on my own!"

Cyborg held onto the shadow scales. "I’m gonna need a hardware upgrade after this trip, I swear.."

Beast Boy, still clinging on for dear life, looked at Arthur. "Next time you say ’it’s fine,’ I’m leaving man."

Arthur’s eyes glowed faintly as he looked out over the endless forest.

"...It is up to you, I can send you home right now if you want to." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"wait you can?!" Beast Boy asked.

Arthur simply smiled at him and Kamish soared deeper into the dungeon world.

Below him, the trees were so massive they looked like giant pillars. Arthur stood at the very crown of Kamish’s skull, balanced as if gravity doesn’t exist. Violet light pulsed faintly in his eyes as he scanned the horizon of what this world contains. The Titans clustered behind him along Kamish’s spine, gripping scales, ridges, and makeshift holds with varying degrees of confidence.

Robin stayed crouched low, braced against the air, eyes already calculating angles, distances, threats that weren’t visible yet. "This is an ecosystem scaled to an entire world.."

Beast Boy, clinging too tightly to a ridge, slowly looked down once more, then immediately regretted it. "Why did I look down again. Why do I keep doing that... even though I can turn into a bird.."

Arthur’s gaze remained forward, almost detached.

"There," he said calmly.

The others followed his line of sight but they couldn’t see it yet.

Far ahead, rising out of the endless forest, stood a structure way more massive than the trees they left behind.

A castle.

But calling it a castle felt like calling a mountain a rock.

It was built from stone so massive it looked carved from an entire country. Towers jutted upward aimed at the sky, and along its walls moved shapes, giants, armored and enormous, even from this distance clearly larger than anything the Titans had ever engaged.

Arthur’s voice carried over the wind. "There’s a literal fortress at the center of this dimension. Giants occupy it, but they’re not limited to it. The entire forest is their hunting ground."

Cyborg zoomed in his optics. "Yeah... I’m sensing movement everywhere. Can’t identify it though."

Robin narrowed his eyes. "From my perspective... this would’ve been classified as a national-level extinction event for any hunter force that entered it blindly."

Arthur gave a faint, almost approving hum. "It is. Time distortion included. What feels like months here is hours outside. Most would never even reach the castle."

Beast Boy blinked. "Months...?!"

Arthur glanced back slightly. "If they survive the journey to it at all, the forest itself is a deathtrap."

A low, distant sound rolled across the sky.

Beast Boy froze mid-thought. "Okay, I don’t like that sound. I don’t like that sound at all."

Arthur’s eyes sharpened.

"Wyverns," he said simply.

At first it looked like shadows drifting through clouds.

Then the shadows unfolded.

Winged forms, enormous and jagged, tore through the upper atmosphere in packs. Their silhouettes distorted against the sky. The shriek that followed wasn’t just loud, it vibrated through the air.

Beast Boy physically jolted.

Cyborg locked his arm into firing position. "Yeah, I see them now. And I’m not liking the numbers."

Starfire’s eyes glowed brighter, energy gathering at her hands.

Arthur’s expression didn’t change.

Instead, his hand lifted slightly and pointed a finger at the wyverns.

Kamish responded instantly.

The shadow dragon’s entire body shifted mid-flight, muscles tightening under blackened shadow scales like a weapon being drawn. A deep growl rolled out from him.

Arthur’s voice was quiet.

"Full speed," he ordered.

Then, without raising his tone at all, he added,

"Clear the air."

Kamish roared.

The dragon surged forward, wings tearing through the sky as, the Titans were forced to brace as acceleration crushed the air around them.

Starfire laughed suddenly bright, exhilarated. "It is thrilling!"

Robin’s voice cut through the wind. "Focus. Don’t enjoy this yet!"

Arthur remained at the front, unmoving atop Kamish’s skull as the world rushed beneath them, his violet eyes tracked every movement in the swarm ahead.

"Be careful," Robin added sharply, "they’re closing in fast!"

Arthur’s reply came calm, almost detached.

"So are we."

And Kamish dove straight into the storm of wings.

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