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Chapter 1: Found

Raven was on the roof of Titans Tower, in her locus form, around midnight, meditating, cleansing her thoughts. Slowly she cleared her mind of the business from the day, which hadn't had ended since morning. For some reason she had thought a lot about Malchior. Embarrassment followed her since that day: her sudden interest in the oppostie gender, her friends seeing what a fool Malchior had taken her for, and the blissful hug that had escaped the confines of her shoulders onto Beast Boy's neck. She would force herself not to think about it again.

What bothered Raven most was the fact that she had no one to talk to abou it. She wanted to get everything off her chest and she couldn't. Slowly it was building up, and Raven couldn't do anything about it. Her current friends had always expected her to be strong, unmovable, indifferent...so vague and deep that Raven couldn't break the surface.

She sighed to herself and focused on the waves below, crashing and thrashing in an endless motion. Raven smiled slightly to herself. The weather was dark and damp...it anything it was her type of environment. Suddenly her train of thought was broken by an extremely large wave that deposited something...something...

Raven burst through the doors of the main room, surprised to see that all of her friends were still awake and going about the day as if normal.

"Hey Raven," Robin said casually. "Anything wrong?"

Out of breath Raven walked up to him, Beast Boy and Cyborg tapping madly at their controllers. "Something...something on the east coast of the island. The waves..." Raven took a deep breath. "The waves left something on the coast. It could be trash but it could be dangerous."

Robin smiled and touched Raven's shoulder lightly. "Good thinking Raven. We should go check it out."

"Dude! That's the third time Stafire's beaten you! It's my turn!" Beast Boy shouted at Cyborg. Apparently Starfire had been quite good at the "video gaming" that she had always watched. "IT'S MY TURN CYBORG!"

Robin wrinkled his nose and turned to Raven. "Maybe we should just go. I don't want to get in the middle of this..." Raven merely nodded and they were off.

The weather was horrible, to say the least. The wind was strong and the darkness was too much to go by. If Cyborg or Stafire had come with them they would've been able to see better. Robin pulled out his communicator and used it as a flashlight.

"Where did you say you saw this?" Robin asked, doubtfully by the sound of it.

"Over there, by the boulder." Raven pointed and the wind blew her hood into her face. "Ugh...Let's just go and check. This weather is awful." They could barely hear each other but they understood. Robin nodded and they trudged to the area.

Raven couldn't see anything, but then Robin flashed the light at a shallow crevace in the boulder, and Raven couldn't believe her eyes.

"Dear Azar! Robin, look!"

Shocked, Robin ran to the cravace and his mask grew as wide as it could grow.

In the crevace was a small girl, no older than 14, unconscience and floating peacefully on the murky water. She looked dead, but Raven could tell she wasn't, for her skin still maintained color. It was a milky tan, slightly blue from the cold. Her hair was darker than the night sky and it reached her shoulders with ease. The only article of clothing she had on was a thin cloak that was ripped and tattered from the bottom. It covered her delicate shoulders and her slightly risen chest down to her knees.

"Robin...we have to do something," Raven said. "We have to take her into the tower. No hospital is open this late at night."

"I know. You have the strength. Take us in." Robin smiled as Raven muttered some words under her breath and a black aura covered the threesome.

"Perhaps we shall go check on our friends," Starfire suggested. "They may need our help and-"

"AHHH YEA! What now you little grass stain!" Cyborg bellowed.

"DUDE! That's not fair! You just...hey...stop!" Beast Boy threw the controller down and the words "You are a Loser" flashed on the screen. Cyborg grinned deeply and rested his hands on the back of his head. "No one can beat the masta."

"The masta is known for cheating." Beast Boy retorted.

"Friends, we must go see if Robin and Raven have made discovery of their-"

The doors hissed open and Raven and Robin came in, Raven levitating a girl behind her. Stafire, Beast Boy and Cyborg were speechless.

"Man..." Cybrog began.

"No time for that. What bay do you want her in?" Robin asked.

"West bay is fine...small enough." Cyborg replied.

The West Medical Bay wasn't used often, only in extreme cases. It wasn't a large room, but it was big enough for all of the Titans and the girl to get in comfotably. Raven placed the girl on a the bed and Cyborg took her blood pressure and heart rate. Star and Beast Boy couldn't do anything much but gather towels and blankets from the closets.

"Will she be...OK?" Starfire asked timidly, eyeing the patient.

"Let's hope so Star. Right now I can't even find a pulse." Cyborg sighed to himself. "I don't even know if she's breathing or not."

Robin crossed his arms. "We're going to need help."

Beast Boy emerged from the doorway. "Raven hasn't tried yet. If anyone can help, Raven can." He smiled and shot a look at Raven, who was already shaking her head.

"I don't think so Beast Boy...I might...mess something up or something..." What Raven didn't tell them was that she hated strangers, especially this strange young girl that had popped out of the blue. Entering people's minds was hard enough, but entering a stranger?

Robin furrowed his eyebrows behind his mask. "Are you sure? It wouldn't hurt to try. Cyborg isn't making any progress."
Cyborg grumbled something about Robin under his breath. Something about Robin not doing any better.

Raven was still unsure, but if Robin was certian, then she would have to try.

"OK. Move back."

The team moved toward the doorway as Raven pulled her hood over her eyes and began to chant.

Almost instantly images began to appear...voices...emotions that Raven could not identify. Her friends had seen her teeth grimace and her eyes tighten.

"Yes, Rella." "No, don't go there." "Saphiria is dangerous."

The voices were loud and extremely clear but Raven couldn't understand them. They had a certain mist about them, she had heard them before.

A picture of a lake, a girl, standing...wishing she would be free. Anger, so vivid. "Come back, please, Mama, come back...please..." Tears, anger, again.

"You are talented, Rella. You will go far." A smile. "Promise to come back for me, OK? Promise we will always be sisters. Promise...Do you promise, Rella? Do you? Promise me..." A kidnapping, tears, sadness, depression.

A room, dark, isolation. A heavy burden, a burden...so heavy.

"You are talented, Rella, you will go far." "No she's not." Mean words. "Leave, get out of Saphiria."

Raven pulled back, mostly because she could no longer breath. Her healing powers had done something they were not supposed to, unlock the girl's memory.

And the girl woke.

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