Disclaimer: Do you really think this would be up here if I owned Teen Titans? I doubt it would. So as you all well should know I don't own Teen Titans! But Athana, Aruis and Niccia are mine. And I don't want to be one of those annoying people who put the little "©" by their characters names, so don't you dare steal them.

Summery: When a strange girl shows up at Titans East Tower Bumblebee refuses to trust the girl. But Aqualad seems to know the girl, he refuses to tell the Titans who she is, just that she is trustworthy. Why does he refuse to tell them? And who is this girl?

A/N: And I refuse to tell you what the pairings are just that there are some, mostly since I have no clue what the story is at the moment. From my many months of role playing, I have learned to just go with the flow and see where it takes me. There is no prolog since I couldn't think of one that didn't give the girl's identity away.

Chapter One: Ocean Eyes

Diving behind a large rock coming up in front of her, a girl crouched down watching an army that had been chasing after her. She set down her knee length white boots that she had been holding so that she could swim better as the army swam off. The girl was from Atlantis, and the army chasing her was actually the royal families' army. She wasn't a criminal, not in her view, but she had to get away from Atlantis. Watching the army swim away she let out a sigh of relief, watching the bubbles float to the top. She started to think, everywhere she went in the ocean they were waiting for her. She had gone to the mermaid cities, and even to the most remote places she could think of but their army was waiting for her. If she didn't find somewhere soon where she could hide she knew they would find her.

She didn't commit any crime, but she had gotten on the bad side of the king and queen, nobody wanted to be there. Everyone knew what it meant, she was considered a criminal, her of all people, a criminal, but this was all her parents fault. But her Athana, daughter of Aruis and Niccia, a criminal. She was known to be a rebel in Atlantis, breaking many of her parents' rules, but never doing anything that would make her a criminal. If she hadn't gotten into that fight with her parents she could be at home, breaking their rules as usual, but she wasn't going to put up with their lies anymore. They were overprotective and treated her like an item not a person, after sixteen years of life she finally snapped at them, putting her here now.

There had to be one place where she would be safe, she wasn't going back to Atlantis, not as a criminal or anything else, she was sick of it. Her blonde wavy hair floated free in the water around her as she sat behind the boulder thinking of what she was going to do, not wanting to move into the open incase the army came back. She could understand why they sent an army; they wanted her back alive, no matter what. She was a very important person in Atlantis, especially now. She put her hand to her forehead; all of this stress was giving her a headache. She could find the perfect way to escape from her house, which was more like a prison to her, but she couldn't find a way to escape these guards. This was all such a huge mess, and it was all her parents fault. She turned around to make sure the army was gone, checking both ways before she came from behind the rock. There had to be one place free of those guards.

There was, she couldn't believe she hadn't thought of it before, if the king and queen were searching all over the ocean for her why not go to land? She knew that soon they would give up on searching to ocean and move to land but it would give her some time to relax and think of a plan, one that she needed desperately. But even when she got to land where would she go? She didn't know anyone on land, not that she knew of. She had never heard from anyone after they left Atlantis so she didn't have a clue what to do after she escaped. Well she would have to figure out what to do after she got there, the more time she spent in the water the easier it would be for the guards to catch her. She picked up her boots and pushed off from the ground, jetting herself to the surface. Her tight blue midriff blended in well with the water around her, making it seem as if the part of her body it covered weren't there. Her knee length white skirt clung to her legs, stuck there from the force of the water around it.

As she broke to the surface she didn't move for a moment trying to get used to the air, she had been to land only once before, her mother and father had needed to come for business and they took her with them since they did not trust her alone. She looked around, a little while away she saw a large city, and next to it on an island what oddly seemed to be a large "T," she didn't bother to give it any other thought and started to swim for land. When she reached the shore she had cut her ankle on a sharp rock, not realizing that it was bleeding she sat on the shore her skirt clinging to her body. She put on her boots and stood up, deciding the best thing to do was to get as far from the water as possible, at least until she found somewhere to hide. She walked into the city, it was so different from Atlantis, she came through a park and seeing the grass and trees she soon took to it, there wasn't really any real grass in Atlantis, not like this grass on land, and seeing the different colored leaves on the trees fall off only made her feel more peaceful, even if she knew that it couldn't last. A gentle breeze blew her hair; she closed her sapphire blue eyes relaxing that much more. Her eyes sparkled like the sun shining on a gemstone, or the ocean.

She came to the end of the park, and headed to the center of town, or at least she thought it was the center of town. She saw many people running and went to go see what was going on, but she couldn't get close enough. She saw an alley to her right and went down it, coming out on another street, going up another alley just next to her she saw a man, she couldn't see his face; he seemed to be cloaked in all dark clothing. She went closer to him, not leaving the alley, and saw that he was being attacked by a group of teens. She didn't get a really good look at most f the other for one of them immediately caught her eye. She couldn't believe it was him; she gasped backing up a little so as not to be seen. Not like she thought he would see her, he was concentrating all of his attention on the man he was fighting, although working together with the other teens to beat him. She couldn't believe it, she hadn't seen him since they were both children, she didn't have a clue where he had gone. But now here he was just like that, it was perfect; he could help her, hide her, and get her out of this mess.

But first she would have to wait until he was done fighting. What was he doing anyway, there seemed to be police around, why weren't they stopping the fight? And if the dark man was a criminal, why weren't they the ones fighting? It didn't matter though, all that mattered was she was starting to form a plan, slowly, but it was coming.

Before she knew what was happening, she heard two people screaming something in Spanish, and she was being knocked to the ground. She watched the man in dark run off just before she blacked out.

"Who is she?" Athana heard a girl say as she started to come to. She kept her eyes closed so that she could hear more of what they were saying.

"I don't know, but we have to help her," another, deeper voice said, one she was unfamiliar with.

"I wonder what she was even doing back here," the girl said again.

"Well Speedy's right, we have to help her," a voice she was all too familiar with said coming into the conversation, "Sage tripping over her may have knocked her out, but it stopped him long enough for u to catch him." She slowly opened her eyes seeing to smaller people looking at her with blank stares. As they saw her waking up they said something in Spanish, and she guessed they were the ones who had shouted just before she was knocked out. She saw three other people, the ones she guessed had just been talking, and a red-headed person held out his hand, she grabbed it and he pulled her up.

"Are you ok?" he asked as she steadied herself holding her head.

"I'm fine, just a little dizzy," she said glancing at the dark-haired one, smiling. To her surprise he smiled back, maybe he remembered her.

"Good," he said, "I'm Speedy." He held out his hand again and she shook it, "That's Bumblebee, Mas, Menos, and that's Aqualad," he introduced the rest of them she looked back at Aqualad, that's what he was going by now, it seemed so, different.

"I'm Athana," she smiled.

"Where are you staying," Bumblebee asked, she broke away from Aqualad and looked at her.

"I'm not really staying anywhere right now," she said truthfully. They all exchanged glances, most of them unknowing, but before they could turn her down Aqualad spoke up.

"Why don't you stay with us?" he asked kindly, as if he didn't know her, she tried hard to keep from smiling, he did remember, and he remembered their promise. Bumblebee shot him a look of mixed uncertainty and anger but agreed to it anyway.

"I don't know," she said, "I'm not a big fan of living off of someone."

"It's no trouble at all," Speedy said, she turned around to look at him, their eyes meeting.

"Well…"

"No trouble at all," Bumblebee echoed Speedy forcing a smile; it was obvious she wasn't really sure about inviting her in to stay at their home.

Looking at all of the teens one at a time she caved, she had actually known she was going to stay with them since she saw her old friend, but she wasn't going to let them know that, "Ok," she said smiling.

"Vamos!" Mas y Menos said speeding off. The other teens fallowed leaving Athana and Aqualad at the end.

"Hey ocean eyes," he said smiling.

"Aqualad huh?" she said, "different."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Not sure, it's just… different."

"Well come on ocean eyes," he said looking back at her as he started for the tower. She followed him, soon seeing the tower she had seen when she first came to the surface.

"You live there?" she asked as the came to the door, "It doesn't look like a house."

"Maybe not in Atlantis," he said, "Ok and not here either, but its home." He started to open the door but she stopped him.

"Wait," she said, "you won't tell anyone about… you know."

"What?" he asked a puzzled look on his face.

"I have a reason for being up here you know."

"What is it Athana?" he asked, "You can tell me."

"I was running away," she said, "something happened, and the guards are after me, I don't really want anyone knowing about me."

"Well they've already seen you, they know you're here."

"No I mean, I don't want them to know that we knew each other," she said, "Or about who I am."

"Oh, so that's what this is about," he said, "but what did you do? What happened?"

"It's not important, but I'm not going back."

"You have to go back sometime, you know that."

"I know, but I don't want to unless I absolutely have to, my parents told me something, it's important, I couldn't just take them lying to me."

"I understand, I won't tell anyone."

They went into the tower going into the main room. Mas y Menos had already started playing the gamestation when they came in. Athana stared in awe.

"What took you guys?" Speedy said looking over at them.

"Just showing her the city," Aqualad said looking at him. Speedy looked at him, a look in his eyes, was it jealousy? Athana seeing them lock eyes smiled.

"What were you guys doing back there?" she asked changing the subject, "Who was that you were fighting?"

"We're Titans East, we fight crime," Bumblebee said.

"And that was Sage, a currently new robber to Steel City," Speedy finished the answer.

"Nosotros puntapié malo mozo nalga," Mas said.

"Metido ellos en cárcel!" Menos added. Athana looked puzzled.

"What did they say?" she asked.

"Don't ask us," Aqualad said, "They only speak Spanish." Athana nodded.

"So now that you know about us, where do you come from?" Speedy asked.

She hesitated, "I'm from Atlantis." She saw Bumblebee give Aqualad a suspicious look.

"Really," Bumblebee mused, "So why are you on land?"

"Well I just needed some time away, I just had a fight with my parents," she said not looking at Aqualad this time, not after seeing how suspicious Bumblebee looked. She wasn't planning on telling them everything, not yet, it was too soon, Aqualad was here and that was all that mattered.

"Hey, why don't I find you a room?" Speedy asked standing up, looking for an excuse to get Athana out of the room so Bumblebee could talk.

"Thank you," she said politely standing up and following him. Mas y Menos ran after them seeing the look Bumblebee gave them.

"Ok, so who is she?" Bumblebee asked Aqualad once everyone was out of the room. She had her hands on her hips and that determined look on her face that said she wasn't going to take no for an answer.

"What makes you think I know?" he asked her knowing she wasn't buying his lie.

"I'm not an idiot," she said, "I've seen the way you two have been looking at each other, and why else would you lie about what you were doing on your way home?"

"What makes you think that was a lie," he asked again, not really sure of how to answer her.

"Like I said, I'm not an idiot," she said, "So just tell me how you know her; it'll be a lot easier."

"Why don't you trust her?"

"Because I know nothing about her!" she was starting to yell, "If you would just tell me…"

"Fine! Our parents knew each other, is that all you wanted to know?"

"No, I want to know who she is! Who were her parents? And why was she up here in the first place?"

"I can't tell you anything she hasn't told you already. I know as little about her now than you do, we haven't seen each other in years. Not since we were both about five."

"Then why should we trust her? Not even you know about her, and you know each other."

"Do you trust me?"

"Yes but what does that have to do with this?"

"Then trust me when I say she's harmless. I know she is I just can't tell you why."

"I don't know…"

"I do."

"Fine, but it'll take a lot more than that for her to gain my trust," she said going to her room.

"Here you go," Speedy said showing her an empty room, "Don't you have any bags?"

"No, I…. left on short notice," she said hoping they wouldn't find her out.

"Oh, well ok," he said not know what to say next.

"Hacer jugáisGame Station?" Mas y Menos asked.

"Game Station?" Athana said.

"Don't expect to win against them, they haven't been beaten yet," Speedy said seeing her enthusiasm.

"There's always a first for everything," she said smiling. Speedy closed the door to the empty room, and they walked into the living room. Mas y Menos sat there waiting for Athana to get ready. She picked up a controller and they started the game.

All three of the boys sat there in awe by the end of the game as they saw the screen flashing Athana's name, "How did you do that," Speedy asked, "I mean how did you do that?"

"My parents rarely let me out of the house back at home, videogames were about the only thing they thought was safe," she said.

"Well either way you're good," he said.

"Nooooo, cómo podía esto acaecer," Mas y Menos said, "Nuestro tanteo , ella batir nuestro tanteo!"

"Prepare to keep playing this, they seem upset," Aqualad said walking in, "How did you do that?" Athana just smiled, this was much better than home.

A/N: Ok we're going to forget the damn laws of physics about most of the stuff in here, so relax it's only a cartoon.