Chapter 1: Happy birthday, Raven

I slowly sank down in the sofa and just stared out through the window and at the sea. Something felt odd… Really odd. I sighed and touched the crystal shard at my forehead that held my father captive. It had already been six years since that day… I had been fourteen when I had captured my father in the shard and stopped him from conquering the earth and this week I was finally turning twenty. But something about it made me worried, I guess it's the growing feeling of something dark that makes me nervous.

"Raven…" I gasped and sat up straight as I heard my father's voice. I just heard a mumble after that but I'm certain, I had heard him say my name! He hasn't been able to do that in six years…! I haven't heard him unless I wanted to…!

"Raven?" I gasped again when Damien suddenly appeared and placed a hand on my shoulder. We looked at each other and he raised an eyebrow. "Is everything alright?" I took a deep breath and nodded.

"Y-Yes, I have just slept badly lately so I'm hearing things now… Is there trouble in town?"

"Yes. Let's go, if you feel up for it." I nodded quickly.

"Yes. Let's go." I rose from the sofa and walked towards the door, feeling him staring at my back. And it took him just a few jumps before he was by me, grabbed my wrist and pulled me in into a hug.

"If something's wrong, you know I'm here." I took a shaky breath, nodded and hugged.

"Thank you. But I'm certain I'm just imagining things right now. My birthdays always make me nervous since I don't know if anything will change this time." He nodded and closed his arms tighter around my waist.

"But even if something in your powers would change, we will always be right here. We will always be ready to help you and save you if needed. Even if you are quiet good at taking care of yourself." I chuckled lightly and hugged him one last time.

"Thank you, Damien."

"So, love birds. Anything planned for Raven's birthday or should we all do something together?" Jaime asked with a smirk and Garfield came up between the seats.

"Yes,yes! Please! Can't we do something together this year?! You two went out on your own last year! And she's turning twenty! It's BIG!" I smiled and looked at Damien.

"I don't mind unless you had something planned." I said and looked at Damien.

"Nothing planned, I thought they would come jumping over us about it since you are turning twenty and Garfield never shut up about what a magical number that is." Jaime laughed, I chuckled and Garfield got that grumpy face expression only he could make while Starfire sat silent by the wheel with a smile on her lips. As she stopped the car she turned towards the boys in the back.

"So, remember. We are here undercover, nothing have happened yet and we will not blow this operation. The police just need us to be here if it goes south. Got it?" They nodded and she looked at me with a smile. "Let's do this." I nodded and we all stepped out of the car but I wobbled a bit and Damien was quick with coming up by my side, holding me up with an arm around my shoulders.
"Just tell me if you need to sit down." I nodded and we followed the others. I knew by now that it was impossible to hide things from him, he could see right through me since he trusted body language more than words sometimes. And I think he can smell lies miles away. As we came into the big hall filled with guests, I got really nausea and grabbed Damien's hand and jacket. He looked at me and without a word to me, he turned to Starfire.

"I will go and sit down with Raven for a bit." She cast a glance at me and nodded.

"Do so." He led me over to a chair and forced me to sit down and sat down on a knee in front of me.

"Is everything alright?" I shook my head.

"I feel nausea… What were they going to action out?" He looked towards the stage.

"Some sort of staff I believe. Why?"
"It could simply be that the staff is magical and I get nausea form the magic in it." I muttered and pulled a hand through my hair. "Not that I have ever come across anything that makes me feel like this."

"Could it be related to your father?"
"Possible…" I mumbled and slowly rose but he pushed me down at the chair again.

"Sit. I will go and get a leaflet so you can see what it looks like." I didn't say anything and watched him walk away but then rose when he was out of sight. I stood up at the chair so I could see over the crowed and gasped when I saw the staff. I grunted and covered my father's crystal as it suddenly started to hurt and fell down from the chair, turning in agony.
"Raven!" Damien, Garfield, Jaime and Starfire came running. And the last thing I remembered was the image if that staff and the pain that shot through my head from the crystal.

"…don't know what to do. She has been out for three days straight now and those marks around the crystal aren't like anything we have ever seen before." As I opened my eyes to Starfire's voice, I suddenly faced Wonder Woman who was staring down at my face.

"Woah!" I said surprised but gasped as pain shot through my head again.

"Easy! Easy!" Damien said and came up by me and took my hand. "Deep breaths, stay calm or it will hurt." I looked at him with a confused expression.

"How do you know?" He looked surprised at me.

"You don't remember waking up?" I shook my head.

"Isn't this the first time?" Now he shook his head.

"No. You woke up short after the auction had ended but then you panicked, screamed about that the marks were hurting you and then got knocked out by the pain. It has happened like three or four times the first days." I blinked. Days?
"What day is it?"
"Two days before your birthday. You have been out for five days, just waking up to scream in pain and then get knocked out again." I placed my hand at the crystal and marks around it. It was warm… I closed my eyes and sighed.

"Something will happen this year…"
"Don't say that, Raven." Starfire said and walked up to me as I opened my eyes lightly. "Everything will be alright. And Batman bought the staff so it won't get in the wrong hands. He was there apparently and when he saw how you reacted to it, he decided it was too dangerous to let anyone without our experiences have it." I opened my eyes completely and looked at Batman and nodded a thank you to him, and then I looked at Starfire.

"But how can I not say that? You said it yourself: You have never seen marks like these ever before." I slowly sat up and turned to Garfield. "Could I get a mirror?" He nodded and quickly fetched one and handed it to me. I took a deep breath and raised the mirror and looked at the marks. "That is signs from my father's realm. But I don't know what they mean." I lowered the mirror and placed it at my lap and then looked at the others. "You should all just lock me up in some magical room or something. Or on that island of yours, Wonder Woman." I looked at her. "I'm begging you! There has never been anyone like me before; we don't know what's coming!" She bit her lip and looked at the others in the Justice League.

"We got the prison we held Ares in. I'm okay with having her there if it's by her own free will, what about the rest of you?"

"No! We can't just lock her up!" Jaime said upset.

"Yeah!" Garfield agreed. "She might be Trigon's daughter but she's not him!"

"I'm partly him!" I said with a harsh tone and looked at the two. "I'm half human, half demon. Half of my mother and half of my father who is practically Satan himself! Not even Superman can stop him and I'm half of that! I'm rather locked up in a cage than risking to put this world into ruins like I accidently did with Azarath!"

"Azarath?" Batman asked and quickly took two step forwards. "What's that and what happened?" I took a deep breath.
"It's a world who's people saved me and my mother from Trigon the first time. I was stupid enough to try to contact Trigon while being there and accidently summoned him there. He put the whole planet into ruins within minutes and took me to his realm. I don't want him to do the same thing here!" I raised my hands and showed the images of Azarath. Or rather what was left of it. "I'm begging you! Lock me up until we know what we are dealing with!" They all looked at each other and all discussed it together. I sighed deep and looked down at my reflection again but gasped and threw the mirror into the floor when I saw that my face had that red skin and four eyes and I quickly looked at my hands. Nothing.

"Raven?" I looked at Damien who looked confused at me.

"He will fear your true self…" I heard my father's voice said and I quickly covered my ears.
"Stop it!" I hissed and Damien quickly climbed up on the bed and the others turned towards us.

"Raven! Raven, look at me! What's going on?!" He took my hands and lowered them from my ears and I heard my father chuckle.

"Stop it!" I screamed and pushed Damien away and quickly rose from the bed but when I saw my reflection in the window, I fell down on my knees and pushed myself into the corner between the bed and the wall.

"Stay back!" Damien said as the others started to walk towards me and I pushed myself deeper into the corner. He slowly and very carefully climbed down form the bed so he was sitting in front of me. "Raven, what's going on?" He said with a calm tone. "What do you see and hear?"

"Can't you see it?! Can't you hear him?!"

"See what? And do you mean you heard your father?" He sat down cross-legged and looked at me. "Raven, all I see is your dark hair, your pale skin and your purple eyes and I do not hear your father at all. Should I hear him and see something different?" I took a shaky breath and looked at my reflection, still seeing the red skin and four eyes. He followed my gaze but then turned back at me and slowly took my hand. "Whatever you see, it's not real. Your father is messing with your head. I…" I quickly threw myself into his embrace and he hugged me tight, he even pulled down the blanket from the bed and covered me from the others. "It's alright, Raven. It's alright. It's just a bad dream." I nodded and looked up at his face and he smiled at me before he looked at the Justice League with a demanding stare. Superman sighed.

"Very well, let's take her to Themyscira." He said and Damien nodded.

I sat quiet on Damien's lap and had my eyes closed. He held me close and talked lowly to me and I responded every then and then. Everyone was coming along, even the guys who had gained special approval from Diana, which I got to know was her real name. She was the daughter of the queen of the Amazones.

"We are almost there. How are you feeling, Raven?" Diana asked me and I opened my eyes and looked at her.
"Fine, right now at least." She nodded.

"You need to sit on your own seat now, as when we flew up. It might get bumpy thanks to the magic protecting the island." I nodded and sat down in the seat next to Damien's and took deep breaths as I fastened the seatbelt.

"You will be alright." Damien smiled and I smiled back lightly. The marks wasn't glowing as much as before and had almost faded completely now. But they were still there, reminding me of my father each time I saw them. I grabbed the seat's armrests as it started to get bumpy.

"We are going down!" Damien took one of my hands in his and made sure I breathed steady and as we finally hit the grounds, I took another few deep breaths to stay calm.

"You did amazing, Raven. Don't worry." He said and kissed the over side of my hand before he unfastened our seatbelts and we all rose from the seats. Garfield was first of, running out with his mouth covered with his hand to puke. The landing must have been too much for his tummy to handle. The rest of us walked off slowly, getting greeted by the queen and the Amazones.

"Welcome to Themyscira! We are happy to have you all here." She turned to Diana and smiled wide and with an even wider smile, Diana walked over to her and hugged her.

"Mother." She greeted and then turned to me. "This is Raven, the girl I told you about." She nodded with a smile and walked over to me.

"Welcome, Raven. We will do everything we can to help you."

"Thank you." An amazon came up with a pair of bracelets, wide ones. "My daughter told me you wished to suppress your powers until your birthday had passed tomorrow. These bracelets were given to us by Hera, Zeus wife. They have been modified so that you can wear them but just like with Ares, they will suppress your magic and make you mortal. Only I or Diana can take them off from you, and of course the gods. Is that alright?" I looked at them and then held out my arms.
"Yes. Please." She nodded, took the bracelets but as she came close, I heard my father scream at me and I screamed in agony. "Hold me down and put them on! Please!" The amazons didn't hesitate to listen to my words and quickly held me down on my knees and held out my arms as the queen quickly put them on. The moment both were on, I breathed out as I felt a light and warm magic go through my body and suppressed every dark feeling I had ever had and replaced it with happiness and light and even my father's voice went silent. I looked at the bracelets in surprise and then up at the queen.
"May I keep these forever?" Everyone chuckled and Damien looked at me with a smile as I smiled at him for the first time in a very long time.

"You may keep them for as long as you need them. See them as a birthday gift from us. Happy birthday, Raven."

So that was chapter one! I hope you like it!
I started to write on this fanfic mostly for fun and have gotten quiet far. If this is something you people want to read, tell me and I will post more! If I don't see any interest in it: I won't post more. :)
Thank you for reading!