A Dark Knight Rises
Chapter 1
How did I get here, Raven asked herself. She tried shielding herself from the down pour that was coming down. She sat against the brick ally wall wet and sad. She pulled her knees to her chest, and put her arms around them to try to keep in the warmth. She let out a sigh, and began to put the estranged events in her life together. She reminisced a few memories of her former life. She remembered how Cyborg was always like a big brother; Starfire her opposite, but her best girl friend, and Beast Boy, the prankster, she'd never let him know, but she always thought he was funny…And then there was him. Their leader, young handsome, and smart. Raven always had feelings for him; that she could not deny.
But they were her friends no longer, not since that fateful day.
See the Titans used to have another member, her name was Terra. Raven always knew there was something not quite right with her. Then she had a vision: rubble everywhere, the streets of Jump city were deserted except for two figures standing in the middle of the dusty street. It was Slade and his apprentice Terra. After that the young teenager knew she had to tell her friends the truth about Terra. She gave the others her warning, but they did not listen. After a while they began to distrust Raven, and soon out-casted her as if they shared no history. Until one day Titan's Tower was over taken by Slade and his minions, including Terra. The rest of the Titans escaped, but Raven didn't. She was taken to a reformatory where she and other fallen young heroes would be stripped over their powers. Raven staged a revolt and busted herself and the other heroes out of the prison, but without her powers…
Raven's heart began to ache, so much she began to tear up. She remembered her former friends' apologies and pleads for her to stay. But she just couldn't, not after all of that. So she left…..
It's been a year since leaving Jump City and the Titans. She was now nineteen, and still had no place to call home. She just traveled around the city, sleeping wherever her head lay. It was a hard life. All she had were the unfitting clothes on her back, and the small hope she still possessed within her soul. It always gets worse before it gets better; you'll get through this, she thought to herself. The rain was dying down. Raven got up and began to walk out of the squalors of Gotham, and towards the inner city with her head held high.
Coming up next: Desperate for food, at what length will Raven go for a bite to eat. And whole will she meet that will change her life forever!