Hey had this idea for an while, and got a plot all worked out. I'm quite excited to write this. I don't own Teen Titan.
Reposted Chapter one May 2017. Will reposted others chapters as soon as Possible.

Fun fact: The fear of owls is called Oclophobia

Quote: Don't let your fears choose your destiny - unknown

Owls, Bats and Birds
Chapter One - Owl Tales

Robin had never liked owls, they're were one of his childhood fears. Growing up in the circus he would hear stories of Owls... Owls that were always watching. Owls that kidnapped children, who were never seen again. Owls that murdered anyone who come looking for them.

He used to get nightmares about them, coming after him. His cousin would tease him non stop for believing the stories. The teasing often trun into an full blown wrestling match, that his older cousin normally won. His parents never said anything about the stories, neither did his aunt or uncle. They just told him to stay away from owls, whether they meant actual owls or not Robin didn't know.

Once Robin started working for Batman, he explore the roof tops of Gotham. He saw lots of ancient owl statures in nooks and crannies, they had made him feel uncomfortable. He had asked Alfred about them, Alfred told him about the legend of the Court of Owls and about the Talons. The stories were similar to the ones he grew up with, but never told anyone those stories - not even Wally, not even Batman, after all it was ancient superstition of the circus... Just old wives tales... just like not crossing a path of a black cat, covering mirrors when someone died in a house, and the whole magpie thing.. One for sorrow, two for joy...staying away from owls was just like one of them...

Robin hadn't thought about those stories for an very long time. But this week he had been seeing an owl, he was sure it was the same one all over Jump, and it brought it all back. He couldn't tell nobody about it either, he was Robin the Boy Wonder, he was the leader he couldn't be scared of owls. But as the week carried on Robins uneasiness grow, he was sure he was being followed...something was going to happen soon - something big, he could almost feel it. He knew his friends though he was getting overly paranoid again, especially with him doing extra patrols for the city and changing all the codes in the tower again, updating the security , but he had to be ready, ready for anything...

"Robin?" Robin snapped out of his thoughts and trun to face Raven, she looked slightly concerned "You've been up here for ages. Are you alright right?"

"I'm fine Raven," said Robin automatically, he turned his head back onto the buildings of Jump. He had been outside an few hours, he was surprised no one interrupt him before now.

"You forget sometimes that im an empath." Raven said, not unkindly "Something on your mind, what is it?"

It was almost impossible to hide things from Raven, it was pointless trying "Thinking about the past" reply Robin... it wasn't a lie and Raven never question his background that much. She never push him to tell her anything he didn't want to.

"Well, the others are waiting for you to stop brooding." said Raven dropping the subject... For now anyway "Story night remember, it's your trun." Story night started as an team bonding excises (one that didn't involved being hero's or training) To everyone surprise, everyone enjoyed it, so they made it a regular thing...like movie night. Each week one of them would tell the others an story. Beast Boy stories were normally animals based, Cyborg had an skill for science fiction stories, that the other wanted Cyborg to write them down and get them published. Starfire stories were either from her home plant or retelling for earth tales (She often got muddled up and the three little pigs somehow ended up in an gingerbread house fighting a troll) Raven's stories were lot of different ancient folk tales. Robin's stories were alway true, some of them were dark tales of crime fighting in Gotham other were misadventures with Kid Flash and Speedy, but they were alway true.

Robin had forgot about story night. "I'll be down in an minute, I've just got to think of one..."

"I told the others, I was going to drag you back downstairs, so think on your feet."

Robin signed he wasn't going to fight Raven on this, he knew he was isolating himself again. His team knew he needed some time by himself, but they also wanted to make sure he wasn't alone with his though for too long. Robin would do his best not to made them worry about him too much " Okay, I'm coming down."

The other titans were making popcorn when they arrived. "Robin!" said Starfire brightly "You are ready to be social again." sometimes, Starfire without meaning too made things awkward.

"Sorry just got lose in my thoughts." said Robin with a grin. "Didn't realise how long I was up on the roof for."

"No worries Rob." said Cyborg grabbing the popcorn away from Beast Boy who was hogging it "Are you ready?"

No he wasn't, he might as well tell them stories of killer owls since they were playing on his mind... "I suppose so..."

The Titans all sat on the couch waiting for Robin to begin. "This story starts years ago hundreds of years ago, it starts with missing child and an owl." Began Robin.

"Errrr is this an another Gotham crime story?" Asked Beast Boy, unsure with the odd start to the story.

"It's a story I head once growing up." explain Robin, the Titans looked at each other for a moment in confusion. Robin stories were alway true, for him too tell them a made up one, was very out of character for him "The child before he went missing said there was an owl following him, watching him. Back then the adult laught thinking it was just an childish story. Then one night he went to get some water but didn't return, all they found was his hat and on owl feather on top..."

"The owl took him away?" Asked Starfire, she was doing her best to follow the odd story. "Did Batman save him?"

"This was way before Batman time, It didn't even happen in Gotham" said Robin lightly "It happen in an time when heroes weren't in the open. Back then, there were fears that their powers would be seen as witchcraft and they would be hunted down...of course they were some exception to that..."

"So who safe the boy?" Asked Starfire interrupting Robin's history lesson of superheros.

"No one ever found him again." said Robin "The child was part of a travelling circus and people weren't all that kind to gypsy or travellers - no one took the disappear seriously... Then years after the first child went another child disappeared, and all they found was an owl feather...The child's father went searching for the meaning behind the owl feather, but he was found dead a week later..."

"This story freaking me out," mumble Beast Boy "Someone needs to tell him it's not Halloween."

"Dose this stories have a happy ending... Yes?"

"Not really" said Robin shrugging "No one ever believe the stories, saying the children ran away. There were many children who went missing... They were never found, and no one ever found out who the owls were." Robin paused for a moment thinking back, what did the older children of the circus say? "There were many rumours about what had happen to them, they were all skilled performers, all of them talented. Rumour says that they are all still alive but are owls themselves."

Cyborg frowned, Robin told the story like it was based on fact. Like it was real. Almost like an history report, like a conspiracy theory. Kid Flash once said Robin only told real stories because he was rubbish at making them up. Cyborg saw Raven frowning too, Cyborg suspected that Raven was having similar thoughts as well. But they was no way Robin story could be true... Could it?

...

It was late at night and Raven went to make one of her herbal teas, "What are you still doing up?" Raven asked Cyborg as he sat at the kitchen table.

" I wanted to finish an upgrade on my arm" said Cyborg concentrating on what he was doing "Beside, Rob has only return from his midnight rooftop walk" Cyborg didn't go to bed untill he knew everyone was safely inside the tower. Robin was well know for his night time patrols of the city, an habit from Gotham he still carried out. Beast Boy also went out in the dark sometimes as did Raven. Cyborg would wait till everyone was safely back before he trun in himself. "Robin story worries you." commented Cyborg

"Most of Robins stories worries me" said Raven flatly, as she boiled the kettle. Most of the Gotham based stories were scary, they did help explain some of Robin serious attitude toward crime fighting. But Raven could do without another story with the Joker in it.

"His other stories are all true." said Cyborg quietly

"That's why I'm worried," said Raven "His story... remind me of something I heard once.. Only I can't remember what..." Raven paused "He's been an bit off this week..."

"He dose seem to have a lot on his mind at the moment." said Cyborg fairly "He's getting himself worked up again, caught him hacking into the city CCTV last night..."

Raven didn't know about the latest round of hacking. But Robin's behaviour lately was becoming more and more worrying "I think we need to talk to him," said Raven pouring the water into an mug "We know what he's like when he gets like this..."

Robin was a great leader, but he wasn't great at dealing with his own negative emotions. He would become obsessed with work and solving other people prombles. Talking to Robin and getting him to talk things out, finding out what was going on in his head, seemed to make him less stressed out and less likely to deal with things on his own... less likely he would do something similar to Red X again.

"Wait untill the morning," said Cyborg "He's in his room, hopefully sleeping, he seemed to be worn out when he returned."

If it wasn't things like Red X, Robin would forget to sleep, his mind going onto overdrive. "First thing." said Raven

Cyborg nodded his head "First thing."