Chapter 1

Raven got up from her meditating stance. She had been meditating for an extra hour each day. She had woken up one morning, feeling conflicting emotions coming from someone in the tour.

She could catch strains of anger, helplessness, sadness, and love. At the time, she hadn't cared about who the emotions were emanating from, due to the effects it was having on her and

her self-control. She couldn't really worry about who was feeling the strong emotions when she was in danger of destroying the tower. And besides, whoever was overrun by emotions

always seemed to be fine in the morning. All the titans seemed to be normal when she came down to breakfast. Suddenly Raven heard something crashing into the ceiling below. Well, that

doesn't sound right, she thought calmly as she ran downstairs. She stopped at the breakfast nook and nearly fainted.

Robin and Starfire were attacking each other with such ferocity that the room looked like cyclone had been through it. They hadn't noticed Raven come in. She quickly came to her senses

and lifted Robin and Starfire away from each other. She held them in the air for a moment, then reluctantly threw Robin against the wall, knocking him unconscious. She saw Starfire open

her mouth to explain, but Raven raised her hand, motioning for her to be silent. She lifted six metal tables and barricaded Robin inside a cube.

"You can talk now."

"Robin....just came in.....and attacked....me."

Raven could see she was still shaken by the experience. But she still needed to know what was going on.

"Anything else important?"

"He seemed to be reluctant at first, like he was forced against his will to attack me. But.....after a while he was attacking me like I was...some villainous creature that tried to harm him."

"Star, you can eat breakfast now, if you haven't. Calm down, we'll figure out what happened. I just don't understand...." What was going on?

"I have eaten."

Raven looked inside the kitchen and found no evidence that food had been prepared today.

"No, you haven't."

"I do not require nourishment. Today's events have stolen my appetite." Raven could see that she couldn't convince her to eat. Time to try a different approach.

"Would you like to go to your room?"

"F-fine." Starfire was almost about to cry. Raven decided to go to Starfire's room with her. She teleported herself back downstairs to the breakfast nook.

The metal tables were pushed over, and Robin was gone. A window was broken, and his communicator was on the floor.

Something is seriously wrong.