Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. This is my first fic. Read and review please. ENOUGH STALLING!!! LET'S CUT TO THE CHASE!!

Chapter 1: Prologue

The city was in ruin. Everywhere buildings burned and crumbled, falling to the ground like unstable jenga towers. The city appeared to have been involved in a war for years, when in reality all this happened in a mere half hour. Any lost soul unlucky enough to pass through the city now could say that they had seen the Apocalypse. Bodies were scattered all over the ground, lying in pools of blood that covered the ground like puddles after a heavy shower. Everyone in the city was either dead and lying on the ground, or had just mysteriously disappeared. No one was left alive in the city. Not at first glance, anyway.
The only thing that could possibly be more disturbing than the presence of the corpses was the presence of the strange black creatures lurking about. These creatures were black all over and had blowing yellow eyes. Each one stood at exactly 5' 6" and was thin and muscular (if you can't get an image, think heartless from Kingdom Hearts 2, and if you still can't get an image, just make up your own). Along with this, the creatures also had auras of darkness emanating from them. All of the creatures also carried weapons: swords, guns, clawed fingers, etc. These strange shadow creatures are vicious and merciless. They possess no fear and have only two main objectives: destruction and serving their master.
But these mindless killers aren't the only ones left "living" in the city. 5 others were there, 4 of which were armored knights that had wings. The green warrior was 5' 9" and was muscular, but not bulky. The silver knight standing beside him was 5' 8" and had more lustrous armor than the rest. He also had two giant shotels on his back (think Gundam Sandrock Custom from Endless Waltz). The third warrior wore bronze armor and also stood at 5' 8". He was little less muscular than the others, but still had enough to look strong. The last knight was a warrior whose armor was as black as the night. He blended in so well with the darkness that only the flickering flames from the burning buildings could show he was still there.
The fifth and last person in the city was a 15-year-old boy. He had dark blue jeans and had his short black hair spiked up. The gray shirt he wore was ripped and blood stained, just like his leather jacket, which was missing the right sleeve. He was kneeling on the ground, clutching his bleeding right arm and gritting his teeth in pain. The cuts and bruises all over his body, as well as the katana he held in his right hand, were evidence that he had fought ...and lost.
"Can I kill him now?" whined the silver warrior "I don't think I can go another minute without slicing something!" The bronze warrior turned to him.

"Just be patient and wait" he replied calmly "Besides, you've tortured him enough. Just leave him be."

"Leave him be!?!? He's the last wing knight, the only person in the world who can stop us! We can't just leave him be!!!" exclaimed the green warrior.

"SHUT UP!! ALL OF YOU!!" yelled the dark knight.

There was a sudden silence in the shattered city. Even the shadow creatures stopped moving at the sound of the dark warrior's voice. Turning to the bronze warrior, he said, "The boy has to die", said the warrior, "and he will, whether you like it or not".

"But Daemos, hasn't he suffered enough?"

"Understand, Thorne, that he is a wing knight, the only warrior who has the potential to stop us. To allow him to live would be to dig our own graves." Daemos answered.

"But..."

"Thorne!" Daemos said, cutting him off "Not all things on this planet are honorable. I gave you the chance to live by joining with me, and you knew the consequences that came with allying with me. Yet you still don't understand. You should have learned by now, especially when you fight by my side, that not all of the battles you fight will be honorable!" Thorne, in defeat, merely bowed his head.

"Of course, I understand. Sorry to waste time like that. If you don't mind, I'm going to leave now. You guys can just catch up to me later, right?" and before they could answer, he turned around, opened his wings and flew off.

"Wuss" said the silver knight.

"Silo!" Daemos yelled.

"Huh?" the silver knight absent-mindedly responded.

"Have the Specters pull out of the city now", ordered Daemos, "I'm going to have one final word with our friend here".

"Awww...but I wanted to kill him!" whined Silo.

"Didn't I just tell you to do something? I did, didn't I?" Daemos said in an annoyed tone "I suggest that you get on that now because the next time I have to repeat myself, I won't be as understanding." Finally getting the point, Silo flew up.

"You heard him!" he told the Specters. "All of you get your asses outta here, now!" One by one, the Specters walked into the shadows, disappearing into the darkness.

"As for you, Corona", Daemos said to the green warrior, "when all the Specters are out of the city, nuke it." Corona grinned at the sound of the last two words.

"My pleasure" he replied. After giving Corona his orders, Daemos turned to the boy on the ground that they had all been ignoring for the past five minutes. As Daemos walked towards him, he looked up and the two met eyes. While Daemos' eyes showed amusement in watching the boy suffer, the boy's eyes were full of anger and hate.

"We beat the crap out of you. We Drove your face into the ground, immobilized your right arm, and even broke a few of your ribs," Daemos said as he continued walking slowly towards him, "and yet you still show no fear. You may not have had the strength of a wing knight, but at least you had the mind & heart of one". Then the boy spoke in a weak but still audible voice.

"You...destroyed my home town...killed my friends...and my family..." Daemos couldn't help but notice that the boy seemed to be gathering energy. But since it was a small amount, he didn't really care. "I...will...make...you...pay..." the boy continued, "someday...I'll make...you ...pay..." This caused Daemos to chuckle, and eventually laugh. Silo flew down beside Daemos.

"Hey Daemos" he said, "they've all pulled out. Now can we please leave? This place is boring."

"Excellent" said the dark warrior "well done, Silo. Now we can leave" Daemos opened up his wings and flew up in the same direction as Thorne. Silo followed suit.

"See you later, loser!" he yelled down to the boy "it was fun, in an 'I kicked your ass' kind of way!" It didn't take long for the young man to realize that Corona wasn't with them. He looked up and, sure enough, there was Corona, hovering over him while charging an energy blast over his head. The energy grew at an alarming rate, and it didn't look like Corona was going to stop charging for a long time. But it grew to be about twice his size, he compressed it into the size of a tennis ball in his left hand.

"Any last words, Xander Blade?" Corona yelled down. The boy (Xander) finally mustered enough strength to get up on his feet. Letting go of his right arm, he looked up to Corona, charged up his energy one last time before calmly speaking.

"Come on, Corona. Give me your best shot" he just barely held his volume on the last part, while at the same time struggling to maintain his balance. Corona grinned.

"Alright, but just remember you asked for it!" he yelled down. He then cupped his hands, pointed it down, and after taking one last quick charge, fired off a giant pillar of energy. It got closer and closer to the ground, toward Xander, until finally, it hit.

Raven's opened her eyes after she hit the floor. She was meditating when she had that strange and horrifying dream. She stayed on the ground for a while, trying to recall what had happened in that dream when...

"You alright?" Raven looked up to see a concerned Beast Boy.

"I'll be fine" she replied. Beast boy helped her up, only to have her fall down again when he let go of her arm. Luckily, he caught her again before she hit the ground.

"You'll be fine, huh?" Beast Boy teased. Hiding a blush, Raven replied,

"I will be fine, just let me stand". "Alright, alright, don't have a cow!" BB replied. He slowly backed away, allowing Raven to stand up.

"Hey! When you finish making out over there, feel free to come over to the couch so I can finish pounding your face into the ground!" Cyborg yelled from the couch. BB let out a small blush and rubbed the back of his head, before returning to the couch to continue playing Soul Calibur 2 with Cyborg (one of the best games ever). Raven looked around the living room, looking for something to sooth her mind. She saw Robin talking to Starfire at the window. No one could hear what he or she was talking about, but Robin must've said something funny because Starfire started giggling.

'I wonder when they'll admit their feelings for each other' she thought, 'But who am I to talk about revealing feelings' she thought as she took a quick glance at Beast Boy. She continued look around, when something on the table caught her eye. It was a newspaper with a headline that read Vigil Held at City Square to Remember Maverick City Disaster. She remembered now. It was two years ago that Maverick City, a large, busy, highly populated city, was attacked and totally decimated. There were no survivors and all the buildings had burned to the ground, with only a few walls left standing. When investigators from the government went there, they found al large amount of radioactivity, so they assumed that this was the work of a terrorist with an atomic bomb. But no one was ever found guilty, and to this day it is still a mystery as to how and why Maverick City blew up. Raven had gone to the ruins a year ago when the titans were hunting down a group of rogue robots. Then it hit her. The place in her dream looked exactly like one of the places she had seen at the city ruins! Could her dream have been a vision of what really happened that sad day two years ago? Before she could piece anymore pieces together, Robin's miniature COM link alarmed, as did everybody else's. The big screen changed, interrupting Cyborg and BB's game. Cyborg threw down his controller

"Aw man! I was just about to score a knock out! When I get my hands on whoever decided to cause trouble I'm gonna-"

"There's a disturbance on the bridge" Robin said, cutting of Cyborg's ranting.

"The bridge huh? Let's make this quick, I've got some things I need to think on," said Raven.

Robin turned off the screen and faced the other Titans. "You guys ready?" he asked. Everyone nodded. "Alright then", Robin said, "let's go kick some ass."

Thanks for reading all the way to the end. I'll update a.s.a.p. , but you got to review so I know what's wrong with it. Farewell till then.