Title: Fallen Angel

Summary: Dawn fades in, slate-pink parody of day; Insulated in sleeps hazy visions... (Exort from a gothic Poem: Sorrow is A Sort of Joy by Jason Paul Fox)

Disclamier: I do not own Teen Titans

Chapter 1

She gasped loudly as pain shot through her entire body. Tears screamed down her face as her mind filled with horrible images of her friend's deaths. She held in screams that desperately wanted to come out. But who would hear them? Who would come to rescue her from her prison of physical and mental torment? Her friends? Her beloved flying shadow?

Flying shadow... Yes he could have saved her but he was gone. He'd returned to his own time and place. Left her with her feelings and now barely controlable powers. Abandoned her to this torture!

He'd promised her it was only to visit his sister. That was all. He said he'd be back the next day.

It had been a month.

Maybe he'd gotten distracted. Maybe his sister asked him to stay longer.

And during that time...

Things had changed a lot for her... She wasn't the same. Her powers had gotten out of control and someone or something was taking advantage of this. Because she couldn't defend herself she'd wound up being defeated and taken prisoner. Now she was being forced to use her powers for evil. She could resist all she wanted but it did no good.

She was held to a stone chair by heavy metal shackles that dug into her flesh whenever she moved. Wires attached to sharp needles pierced her head, neck, arms, legs, and chest and sapped her energy. Strong drugs scrambled her mind when she tried to focus. The only thoughts she was allowed to have were sad negative feelings and memories. These things just caused her to drop into a deep state of depression, causing her powers to go out of control.

The ruins a whole city block and the city bridge gave silent wittness to its destructive power.

Help me, she thought as an image of the one she loved passed through her mind. Please come back! I need you! I want you! Why'd you leave me like this? Don't you care?

She rested her head on her lap as tears streamed down her face. How was she expecting him to answer her? He wasn't even in her world. He was gone and he would never come back. Just like everyone else. Everyone always left her. Always made her feel left out and unimportant. Treated her like the freak she was...

No! the girl thought, shaking her head to rid herself of that thought. That's wrong. My friends don't hate me. They care about me. He cares about me! They're my friends... friends care...

Without bothering to give herself time to think, she lifted her head and looked around herself. The darkness and gloom of the room made things look depressing, adding to her own dispair. Her tormenters knew what they were doing. But they didn't know enough. She could stand to be in those surrounding for awhile..

But I can't stay here, she thought, hanging her head again and closing her eyes to block the gloom. I have to get out of here. I had to... But... about that time more drugs flowed into her, filling her with more depression. Do my friends even realized I'm gone?

Suddenly her heart began to pound. That horrible drug induced fear was coming back. She lifted her head and looked around herself wildly. She thought she saw something moving in the shadows. It seemed closer this time than it had before. She tried to tell herself it wasn't real but her mind wouldn't believe her words neither would her body as she began to shiver.

The shadow had suddenly gotten eyes. Evil soul piercing blood red eyes. She breathed heavily as the creature opened its mouth into a horrible grin.

Suddenly fire came out toward her. She lowered herself onto the stone chair and screamed.

In another world the someone she cared deeply for was just saying good bye to his sister when he suddenly got the worst feeling, like something was wrong somewhere. He stood still and concintrated. Though he heard nothing he felt something. A horrible fear that wasn't his own. Someone was trying to reach him. Someone he cared about and had almost forgotten.

"Raven..." he whispered so softly it almost looked like he hadn't said anything. Something's wrong with Raven...

He looked up into the sky. He knew he had to return. He pulled something from his ebony cloak and suddenly a portal of darkness appeared before him. Without even thinking of the consiquenses he jumped through.

Robin was getting desperate. He'd tried everything he could to find her but nothing had worked. Something was keeping him and his friends from finding her. Whoever it was they were much more intelligent than Slade.

"Any luck yet?" Starfire asked, coming up behind him as he tapped away on the computer keyboard in his room.

He looked over his shoulder at the red haired alien and shook his head. "Nothing," he answered, his face full of worry. "Not even a blip on the rader. I'm beginning to think they took her out of the city."

"I don't think so," Starfire told him, putting a hand on the back of his chair as she shook her head. "If they had things would have calmed down under the surface. She's still here and she's upset. You can tell that by how her powers are acting."

"But why do they want her?" the raven haired boy asked Star. "What is she worth to them?"

Starfire closed her eyes and lowered her head. "I do not know," she repied. "Maybe they know her some how. Maybe they are trying to make her become like them. "

Robin looked away, his face still full of concern. "Something doesn't feel right," he said. "What if they're not even from this dimension?"

Tha alien girl couldn't give him an answer because she had none. They might not be. They could be from the same dimension that one boy came from. Maybe they were youkai!

It might explain why they wanted her so bad. She was half of what they were. Maybe they thought she could control both races... but it didn't seem likely that that was the case either. Something else was on their minds. Something much more sinister.

"Just keep looking," Starfire told Robin, as she patted him on the back. "You'll find her. I believe you will." She turned away from him.

"Where are you going?" he asked the alien girl, as he watched her go.

She looked at him and smiled slightly. "Just for a fly around the city," she replied.

Before he could ask her what, for she was gone. He sighed and turned back to the computer. C'mon Raven. Where are you?

Starfire walked to the roof of the Titan's Tower and rose into the air. She hesitated a moment, looking back at the Tower then sighed and continued. She hadn't been entirely truthful with Robin. She was going to fly around the city but she had other things on her mind as well. She's noticed some strange creatures roaming the city recently that looked like humans but not. She had to find out what they were and where they came from. Since she was afraid to tell the others about it, because she didn't think they would believe her anyway, she wanted to do this on her own.

A short time later she landed on the sidewalk and looked down the street. This was the place where she'd spotted the creatures. They have to be here somewhere, she thought, walking down the street and she looked around herself. Or maybe they have gone? What if they are running a rampage through the streets?

The very idea almost made her panic but she kept her head, telling herself they couldn't have done much... Just as she was starting to feel a little better she heard a sound from above.

Instantly she shot into the air and spotted something black flitter near the top of the building. What is that?

Before she could find out a noise to her left caused her to turn her head. The next instant she felt lead rip into her body!

A/N

I got this idea while trying to fall asleep one night. I know I've written dark fics before but this one's a bit different. I'm trying something new. Please stay with me fans! I'll try my best! I'm even adding more detail than usual which I almost always avoid doing. This fic as you know from the summary is Teen Titans related but that's all I'm going to say. Just incase you might not know it... the girl is NOT a fancharacter. She's an actual character.