Okay this is my first Teen Titans fanfic. It is NOT a pairing, because well...I figured we have eneough of those, and besides that, my favorite character is the star of this fanfiction: Jericho! Yes, the little blond with the big green eyes who posesses people. Side note, no, this isn't based on the comics, though it does have some information from the comics that wern't mentioned in the animated series.

I'm pretty much going to say this once: I don't own Teen Titans, or any of the characters in this fic. It also gets a little graphic in future chapters, just so your warned. If you don't like that kind of thing, I would suggest not reading this...

The Forgotten Son

Ch.1 - One less than Perfect

"Right, good work Pantha," Robin checked off her area, all was well. There were only a few Titans left to check in, leaving their monthly reports with the main computer in the Jump City tower; Red Star was out on a mission, so his would be an hour or so late; Bushido was training, but was due to make the report in the next twenty minutes or so; Kid Flash had probably just forgotten.

The Boy Wonder sighed, knowing he would have to contact the last person on the list himself if he wanted the report at all…That was when he realized Kid Flash wasn't the last one on the list; Jericho hadn't checked in either.

Usually, the muted boy would be one of the first to give his report, as a simple sign for 'ok' over the communicator, or he would send a message if something had gone wrong. Jericho was usually so prompt; Robin wondered how he had managed to miss the peculiarity of the matter. He picked up his communicator again, checking to make sure he hadn't missed it…No; there hadn't been a call from Jericho…Strange…

Rather than waiting, the team leader decided to call the blond boy. No response. That was strange as well. He tried again, and then once more, before the belief that something wasn't right had settled itself firmly into his mind.

"Cyborg, Try and get a lock on Jericho," Robin called to his half-robotic teem mate across the room. Hopefully, the absentee titan's communicator was still working.

"Right, I'm on it," responded Cyborg, as he started to work. He furrowed his eyebrow, finding it strange that the signal was exactly where the mute was supposed to be, on his mountain top. The half-machine man rather confusedly said "This says he's right there…Or at least his communicator is."

That didn't bode well with Robin. Again, he picked up the communicator, and this time he said "Robin to Herald, You there?" The Herald would certainly get to Jericho the fastest by going through his other dimension.

"Yeah, Herald Here. What is it Robin?" The other Titan's face appeared on the little screen as he picked up his communicator. He was a little confused. He had already made his report earlier in the day, so what could this be about?

"We're having trouble getting in touch with Jericho. Can you go see what's up?" The black-haired boy requested, hoping there wasn't really anything wrong…Maybe he was just being paranoid…

"No Problem. I'll report in when I'm done," The Herald replied, before closing his communicator and heading to see Jericho.

While they were waiting on Herald's report, both Bushido and Red Star had reported in, everything clear, and the Boy Wonder had finally managed to get a hold of the Kid Flash; Everything clear there too. That just left Jericho's report.

Not much after that, Herald called in with what he found.

"We've got a problem," said the blue-hooded Titan. He sounded worried.

"What?" Robin knew that if it had Herald worried, then it was probably one of the worse things he could think of.

"Take a look for yourself," Herald moved the communicator, so that Robin could see what he was seeing. Jericho's guitar was smashed, into many pieces, and his communicator lay damaged on the ground next to the rock he usually sat on. It was barely functional, really only enough so for the tracking mechanism to work.

The Herald had searched the entire mountain for any sign of Jericho, but the remnants of the guitar and communicator were the only sign that he had ever been there at all. Aside from that, the place seemed untouched.

"Any sign of him?" asked the dark-haired team leader, hoping there was some kind of a clue as to where the other Titan could have been…or been taken.

Herald looked back at the screen, "I can't tell anything. I think we should get Cyborg out here, maybe he can find something I couldn't see"

"Good idea," agreed the other with a nod. A missing Titan was more than enough cause for alarm.

Apparently Cyborg heard the conversation, thus with a nod to Robin, he started for the T-Ship. With any luck, he would be able to find things that normal humans (or as normal as the Titans came) would miss.

As Cyborg was leaving, Star entered. She saw the look on her friend's face, but before she could ask what was going on, Cy had hurried past her; He was in too much of a hurry to explain.

"Robin, what is the matter with Cyborg? He seems…Distressed," She asked, walking over to the computer which the team leader had moved to in Cyborg's stead, continuing the search by relaying messages to all of the others to keep an eye out for some sign of their mute friend.

The dark-haired boy had barely noticed her come in. His eyes remained fixed on the monitor he was working on as he replied, "We can't find Jericho. It looks like something might have happened to him."

Any number of ideas as to what could have happened were chasing each other around in Robin's mind, each a bit more unlikely than the last.

"Happened?" Starfire blinked, wondering what he meant exactly. What could possibly have caused them to simply loose the other Titan?

"Herald went to check it out…From the sight of things, he might have been taken against his will," Robin explained, remembering the sight of the smashed instrument. Certainly, he couldn't come up with any other legitimate explanations as to what would have caused Jericho to let that happen.

Star immediately showed once more how obviously she wore her heart on her sleeve. "If he is missing, then we must go and search for him!" it was clear she was worried. She counted each of the Titans as friends, and cared about them. As such, the Tamaranean would do everything in her power to protect them.

Robin sighed, realizing the redhead was ready to fly off at any moment to save their missing ally. "It's not that simple Star. Cyborg is going to see if he can find anything, but if he can't, we don't have any clues at all," He said, sounding a little frustrated with himself.

"If the clues are not found, do we not have some other way to find him?" she asked, hoping there was something they could do. Surely, they must have come up with another way of keeping track of the Titans after that fiasco with the Brotherhood.

The Boy Wonder shook his head. "Unfortunately, no, we don't," he replied grimly. True, they had something in the works, but it wasn't ready yet…If it had been, this wouldn't have been happening…Now all they could do was to wait.