Chapter one: declaring the truth

The dark little girl sat on her bed staring at the floor. She sat Indian style, thinking of how her life would be once it was time for her to leave the titans. She knew the were in danger and knew what to do. Slade was after her, not her friends.

She thought of robin's words spoken to her on the day of her birth. "Raven, you've been inside my mind; let me go into yours" these words rang into her ears. Just as she was just about to make up her mind, the alarm went off in titans tower. She instantly got up, grabbing her cape that was flowing in her hands and ran to the T-car.

"Who is it this time?" Raven asked with curiosity. She hopped it wasn't Slade. She'd prefer it to be Jinx or some other villain.

"The reports did not say" said Starfire while beaming out the window. Twisting and turning at her hair, Starfire began to shake. "I do hope it is not Slade yet again. He has attacked us numerous times without us having enough rest to fight other villains"

Beastboy looked at raven who was clutching her hand. Without thinking (as usual), he spatted out, "Dude...Raven? Why are you clutching your hand like that?"

Robin frowned as he saw the marking on her hand glow in a polsing form. "It's none of your concern. Raven, you really shouldn't have come. It's obviously Slade again, waiting to get you weak. You really should have rested.-"

"I'm fine, Robin." Raven said quickly without word. She didn't find it fair for her friends to fight without her.

Raven instantly shot her head up. Everything was still in her eyes. She looked around,out the window and sensed somethnig; she sensed Slade.as everything began to go in nromal speed, raven gasped and began to breath hard. She covered her throat and screamed. Chills went up her back as her powers brought the car driving into the lake next to the road. As the car hit the water, Starfire threw her starbolts at the locked car that wouldn't budge open. As each of the titans came out,raven felt behind,she was sinking down with the car!

As the titans reached the serface, beastboy only counted 4 titans on land.

"Raven's still down there!"

Raven felt her soul being taken out of her body. Her body began to burn with heat as the marking on her continued to glow. She couldn't take it anymore. As she opened her eyes, she saw a shadow swim away from her. No more could she keep her eyes open, nor breath. As she was about to fall asleep and never wake up again, she felt something grab at her hand, lifting her to the surface.

Once she reached the surface, she began coughing and her hands immediatley stopped glowing. She looked up, findin ghtta robin was the one to save her. She was too weak to move, but was able to make out a weak smiled as her head fell back.

"Raven! Oh, this is terrible! We must bring our friend home now!" screeched the Tameranian girl.

Opening her eyes, Raven saw Starfire sitting ona chair beside her bed. She slowly sat up and looked at her hands. She groaned as she noticed she had a headake. She felt water dripping down her back and she felt her neck. It was in deep pain.she then noticed her hair was wet.

"So it's true. It's my fault I put us in danger; it wasn't a dream" Raven looked down in shame, feeling so terrible for almost harming her friends when she was trying to prevent such a thing. "Is everyone Ok?"

"Our friends are fine. Rest now,friend. You do need it. Our friends are safe from harm." with her hair swaying behind her back, Starfire left the room; leaving Raven alone in much darkness.

She laid down ,breathing deep in her throat filled with fear; cloging up her voice. After thinking hard of what happened, she tried to get off of the subject. "I just need to meditate. Everything will pass by soon.", and with that, she began to meditate. "Asarath metrion zynthos. Asarath metrion zynthos. Asarath metrion zynthos."With these words, she began to chant over and over.

A knock came across her door and the boy of wonder known as robin stepped in. "Raven? You Ok? What happened back there?"

Raven just noticing her audience, flunked down on the bed without notice.

"I...I don't know. It was like, something or someone I should say was talking to me, telling me everything will be alright if I go into the lake. It was like, somthing was controlling my powers. I couldn't take or stop it."

She looked as if she was ready to spat everything out, like she couldn't take her life.

"Listen, robin, I just need to be alone. Just,let me be right now" she said with misery. As he left, she knew that she shouldn't have made that choice.