A/N: Here's another BBRae fanfic that I would like to share with the world.
For the most part the characters are the same, other than them being in their late teens (Nightwing: 20 years old, Starfire: 20 years, Cyborg: 22 years, Raven: 19 years, and Changeling: 18 years) at the start of the story.
I have also added a couple of characters from a fictional story that I am writing called Eldrid (18 years when introduced) and Nidhogg (23 years when introduced). They will introduced in later chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans
Prologue
All was calm within the large T shaped building on a lone island in the middle of a bay.
The citizens of the city that the island was on the coast of would tell you of all the wonderful deeds the residents of the tower have performed in their day-to-day job of protecting the city.
The Titans leader Nightwing, formerly known as Robin, had given the team the night off, allowing him to take his girlfriend, the Titan's resident Alien Starfire, on a date. Cyborg had been given time to see Bumblebee and the Titan's East a couple of days ago.
This left the tower in the capable hands of Raven, the Titan's half-demon sorceress, and Changeling, the Titans' animorph -formerly known as Beastboy- for the night.
Only one room had light coming from it's large windows.
The Tower's common room.
Both Titans were sitting on the couch, doing what they normally did to pass the time.
Mega Monkeys X was being played by an oddly serious green hero, while Raven stared into the pages of a book she had started early in the week.
And the volume of the Gamestation had been turned down real low.
'Player defeated,' the game's announcer… well, announced.
Raven could hear a faint mumbling coming from Changeling as the green hero got of the round couch to switch off the Gamestation.
"You don't mind me leaving you in charge of the tower, do you?" Changeling asked, turning to the cloaked figure still on the couch.
"If you want, you can go," Raven replied, her empathic abilities picking up a faint trace of stress emitting from the green eighteen year old, "I'll be fine."
Changeling nodded, turning towards the common room doors.
"I'll be back in about fifteen minutes," he informed the half-demon.
"I said I'll be fine," Raven replied, turning a page in her book, "Just go before you snap."
Changeling nodded again, leaving the common room to the sorceress.
Feeling his stressed aura leave, Raven sighed loudly to herself.
She knew why Changeling was leaving; he had told her himself that he was having trouble controlling the Beast lately, and so she had offered to help. It started with trying to teach him simple meditation techniques.
And then trying to talk out his problems.
They had tried several other ideas, before finally settling on an idea that seemed to work the best.
Raven would sneak Changeling out of the tower at night so that he could turn into the Beast while in the forest near Jump City, letting him relieve the stress that built up with containing the Beast.
And then Nightwing and Starfire started going out on more and more dates, leaving the remaining Titans with more free time, allowing Changeling to sneak out on his own.
Sighing again, Raven continued to read her book.
TT~TT~TT
Twenty minutes had passed since Changeling had said he'd be back, and Raven was beginning to grow worried.
Adonis had recently escaped from prison, and the Titans hadn't been able to find him yet.
And if Changeling could access his Beast form, then there was a chance that Adonis could do the same.
Thud!
Raven turned towards the window in time to see a large creature latch onto the frame of said window.
The large creature definitely looked like the Beast; large muscular body covered in shaggy fur, with a snout that was like a cross between a canine's and an ape's. Even his fur was green.
But something was off about the green creature that was now pounding the window with its right fist.
Raven reached her empathic powers out to the Beast but quickly pulled back, mentally reeling as she took a step back physically.
That wasn't Changeling.
It was Adonis in his Beast form, covered in green paint.
Reaching for her communicator, Raven flipped it open and quickly called Nightwing.
"What's going on Raven?" Nightwing demanded.
Before Raven could respond, Adonis' Beast form tackled her to the ground, crushing her communicator with his fist.
As Adonis turned his gaze to Raven, the sorceress sent her soul self out in search of Changeling, hoping against all odds that Nightwing would be able to put two and two together and Changeling would be able to get back to the Tower in time.
Crash!
Another Beast smashed into the Beast that had been pinning Raven to the floor, both Beast smashing against the wall opposite the large windows of the common room, growling as they fought each other.
Raven tried to get to her feet so that she could help Changeling, but one of the Beast leapt towards her, the second following close behind.
The closest Beast slammed its right claw into her side, throwing her across the room and into a wall, where she fell to the floor and lost concinesuss.
The last thing she saw was the worried green eyes of Changeling's Beast form staring at her from the window that overlooked the bay, before he jumped outside.
TT~TT~TT
Raven awoke to find herself in the Tower's infirmary, medical equipment humming and beeping around her. She raised herself to a sitting position and quickly yanked off the wires that were attaching her to the equipment around her.
She needed to find Changeling and make sure that he was alright.
And explain what had happened before Nightwing did something rash.
Little did she know that she was already too late.
A/N: Hope ya'll all enjoyed that.
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Yours truly,
Eldrid Ragnarok
