Hello readers! Glad you're staring this, now before you get to the story READ THIS! I will leave all important points on this and/or updates up on my profile. This story is definite AU and will be taking place in Jump (duh.) but I will be presenting it from the time they start them team and beyond. I hope for this to be a very promising read.

There will be a story with a Raven and Jinx pairing and yes there will be other pairing, but it will stick to Rae and Jinx most of the time. There will be OCs as well, in fact one of the OCs is a main character in the story and helps my favorite couple on their rocky path. Not all the OCs will be important, just that on in paticular.

Before you get started, you should know that this first chapter is a glimpse into the future. It's to set up a little drama before the actual story starts. The events within this chapter are currently near the end of the story, but I will go way back in the past with the second. So see if you can keep up! Please read and review!

Disclaimer: I do not own teen titans. Just the idea for this certain story and the OCs

Robin flipped open his comm as he watched for any signs of movement from his rooftop vantage point. "Raven, any sign of your friend?" Static filled the silence, "Raven? Are you there, copy?"

The empaths voice was heard after the static cleared, "Sorry. Had to portal away or he would've seen me."

"So he's inside the warehouse already?"

"Yes." she sounded concerned and for good reason, "Robin... he was serious about this... He's carrying several different kinds of sheathed swords across his back... plus additional stuff under his hoody by the way he was holding himself."

Robin swore, "The hell?! How does a civvie know how to-"

"Just because he has them doesn't mean he's competent with them."

Robin frowned, "Then why did he bring them?"

Raven was becoming a little impatient on her end, she gazed at the closed warehouse in concern, "Maybe to offer them as a deal? I don't know."

Robin slide down the wall of the building he was perched on, "He wasn't expecting to live through this... why'd he come here in the first place?"

"Robin..."

"Right, sorry." he switched his comm to an open channel for the rest of the team, "Titans, move in, but do not engage. We need to know the whole scope of the situation.

"Very well." and the tameranian flew in through a window balcony and into the building.

"Gotcha." with that the changling slithered through a crack as a garden snake.

"On it." the robotic teen went through the back door."

"Raven, let's move in through the side." he met up with her not far from the front entrance and they both phased through the side of the building, ending up behind some crates for cover.

Raven stiffened as she felt another presence outside the building, "What the hell is she doing? He told us not to get involved! Not that I'm one to talk..."

Robin noticed her behavior and whispered, "What's up?"

She glanced in his direction before turning her attention to her red hooded friend in the middle of the large area, "We got company coming."

He prepared a bird-a-rang, "Good or bad?"

Raven placed a hand on the weapon and made him lower it, "She's on our side right now... Promise to behave yourself around her." she sounded a little put out by the request.

Robin nodded, more than a little confused, "Okay, if you say she can help... why do I need to behave."

"Don't you have some obsessive staring at your arch enemy to do?" she countered.

He smirked and turned his gazed to her friend talking with Slade and Ravager. The whole team could easily hear the conversation because there was a slight echo in the warehouse, but it was only in the main area. "Child," said the sociopath, "I'm grateful you came to us." he gestured to himself and his daughter.

The hooded one growled, "Cut the crap Wilson! You know why I'm here."

The masked cyclops' eye narrowed, "Ah, yes... Well fortunately he's safe, but will only remain so if you swear total allegiance to me." The hooded ones fists shook in anger as the masked man leaned forward, "If not," he produced a button and a holo screen flickered in the middle of the room. The screen showed a caucasian teenager with brown hair, no older than fourteen, strapped to a table with cables running around him. Slade pressed the button and the boy screamed in pain as his body was electrocuted. Slade released the button and the shock stopped; leaving a heaving, panting, and crying boy as the result. "You've been warned."

Robin could hear the gritting of teeth from his position. The hooded teen was really pissed. "Coward." the word flew from him and it had layer after layer of hatred added to it. He relaxed, "Okay... I'll make you a deal."

Robin was about to signal the others, but the demi demon stopped him, "Not yet." he nodded and continued to watch the events unfold.

The hooded teen shook his swords off, but unsheathed one. A chinese Dian straight sword, "If I beat your daughter, you let both of us go. No traps, no tricks, no nuthin."

Slade seemed curious about the offer, "And what if Ravager wins?"

The hooded one paused before answering in a dejected voice, "Then you let him go and I'll come with you. Train with you. Whatever. You'll own me."

Slade apparently didn't want to take such an offer, "And why should I accept such an offer?"

"Because your not the one holding the detonator."

"What detonator?"

The teen produced a button similar to Slades, "The one that could blow this whole place to hell and back."

Slade laughed, "Interesting... Rose, teach this boy some manners."

Ravage unsheathed her duel blades, "Yes father."

Robin was about to charge in there, but was held back by the empath, "Stop." she thought to him through a newly made mental link, "He needs to do this."

Robin utilized the link to convey his concerned thoughts, "But he's untrained! She'll tear him to ribbons!"

Raven conveyed her concern for her friends predicament and let Robin feel what emotions were rolling off him, "He knows he doesn't stand a chance... but he still wants to try." Robin grumbled internally, but Raven countered, "Slade wants him alive. So she won't hurt him badly... She'll most likely try to knock him out." she glanced in the general direction of a torrent of emotions outside the building, "Look, I gotta go and see if we can rescue that boy. I got the info on where he is from Slades' mind."

Raven could detect the tinge of anger and impatience in his thoughts as he answered, "Fine, we'll move in when it's necessary." he continued to watch as the hooded teen sloppily managed to avoid or counter Ravagers assault. "Wait," a thought occurred to him, "who's 'we'?" he turned to see empty space where the empath had crouched. He grumbled, "I really hate it when she does that."

Jinx was crouching near a bush by the warehouse, about to move in before a familiar voice from behind made her jump, "Fancy meeting you here."

She turned and grinned at the dark titan, "Hey Rae," she nodded to the storage house, "the rest of your team in there already?" Raven nodded. "Good." she started to move for the entrance, but was yanked back by the titan. She tugged on her captured arm, "C'mon! We gotta help him! He's-"

"I know." she was shaking, overwhelmed with her depressing emotions and Jinxs own. "He wants to fight. He's out for blood and he knows he can't win." Her amethyst hooded eyes met Jinxs coral ones, "But we can still save that which means most to him."

Jinx nodded, "Alright." she embraced the empath, Raven returning the gesture with her hands placed on the small of the felines back. Jinx murmured into her neck, "I just hope we get back in time."

Raven barely chocked bad the rising sobs with a whisper, "So do I."

Jinx pulled back long enough to give the empath a kiss. She didn't pull back, neither did Raven. They stood in their embrace and each focused on the softness of one another. The moment was supposed to last, but there were more pressing matters to attend. They bath parted with a contented sigh.

Jinx leaned her head onto the shorter girls hooded one, "That was for luck."

Raven muttered against her shoulder, "What do I get when this is over?"

"Focus." the feline reprimanded.

She pulled back but remained in the embrace, a smirk evident on her features, "You of all people-"

"Raven!"

She chuckled, "Right, sorry." an obsidian pool gathered at their feet, "Hold on tight." she was sure Jinx was going to hold on. "It's letting go that will be the problem." her thoughts focused on their next location as they sank into the pool and it closed over them. The night was still, but a clash of metal on metal could be heard coming from the warehouse.

Robin was amazed that the teen survived Ravagers assaults for such an extended period of time, "No civvie can be this good with a weapon... Who is this guy?" Ravager obviously had the upper hand in the battle, as she displayed more skill in attacking both with blades and body. A kick connected with his arm and Robin winced in sympathy, "Ohhhh... Maybe I should-" his thoughts cut off when he gazed at the communicator in his hand, thumb rubbing over the cover, "Only when absolutely necessary."

A shout cut off his thought, "-the best you got?" The hooded teen gave a violent swipe, connecting his fist with her shoulder and throwing her off balance. He pressed this advantage by slapping the flat of his blade against the back of her left hand. Her sword held in that hand clattered to the ground and was promptly knocked across the floor before she could retrieve it. "What now?" he taunted. "You gonna go crying to daddy for a new sword?"

Ravager had had enough, "SHUT UP!" She slashed at him with more speed than originally, apparently she was only going easy on him till now. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" She pounded away at him with anything she had; fist, feet, sword, elbow, it didn't matter anymore. She wanted blood.

Robin was two seconds away from calling the team in to stop the fight, but then he heard laughing. It was coming from Roses' opponent. The hooded teen was laughing as he was getting pummeled and blocking the sword strikes. He occasionally grunted at a particularly powerful hit, but he still laughed. It was the laughter of the desperate. The laughter of too much being bottled up. The laughter of the insane. "Is that all?" Ravager decked him, he knelled before her and he looked up to the upraised blade, "Is. That. ALL?"

She brought down he blade, "DIE!" He dodged it and kicked her away as he rose calmly to his feet, the laughter had ceased.

Slade was furious, "Rose!" She glanced his way, "I told you, we need him alive."

She growled and was trying to catch her breath from the kick she took to the chest, "Y-yes father... I will try." She raised her blade horizontally to the ground and took a few deep breaths, "Come."

The shadows moved and you could see the bottom part of his hooded face, he was smiling as if he was enjoying the fight. His sword and arm pointed to the ground, far from ready if she was going to strike, he raised his other arm and gestured with a finger, "Why don't you get over here?" she didn't budge, he dropped his hand and frowned in disappointment, "No?" He smirked and raised his blade in a similar position to hers, "Alright then."

He charged her, she spun out of the way to slash his back, but was blocked by his Dian; which he dragged behind him as he charged. She growled, "How can you read me?!" she pounded away at him while he blocked and backed away, "How can you match me?" she drove the point by pounding harder with each strike, "How? How?! How?!" his grin was really starting to iritate her. She knew he had no swordsman training and yet he still managed to last against her. She knocked his guard up and it left him wide open, "Got you!" she drove her sword forward... only to just graze the left side of his hoody.

He growled, "You bitch! This is my favorite hoody!" he backhanded her with his hilt and she used the momentum to hit the side of his head. They both fell, but Ravager recovered quickly and soon stood over her challanger. "End of the line I guess." he panted.

Ravager smirked and was about to sheathe her blade, but was knocked back to the ground when he swooped her legs out from under her. "Dammit!" and she slashed at his leg, this time it tore both cloth and skin.

He hissed in pain and jumped back, Robin could tell it was a shallow wound, but it might hinder him in the fight. "Ow." he checked it out as she leaped to her feet, "Ah, it's not that bad... I'll live." Ravager yelled at his nonchalance and tried to cut an arm, but he managed to clumsily block her while hobbling away in order to get back balance. He continued to taunt her, "Daddys' little girl mad? Well?" A shout of rage and a clash of blades answered for him, "I'll take that as a yes."

He lifted his sword and put his free hand on the grip, doubling his power as his sword clashed with hers. Her thin blade didn't stand a chance and was snapped in two by the weight and pressure of the sudden assault. Ravager smirked and kicked up her leg, knocking away his incoming blade and throwing up her second before she caught it. He was wide open. Robins eyes widened, "Crap! She led him into a trap!" he turned on his comm, "Titans, move in!"

He rushed forward and was just in time to see Ravager impale the hooded teen through his abdomen. He gasped in pain and the other titans stopped before they were ten feet from the pair. Slade turned to the group, "Ah, the Titans... right on schedule. But I don't see-"

"NO!" he was interrupted by Jinx, who rushed in and looked on at the scene in despair. She was shaking and sobbing. They managed to make out her words through the sobs, "Zaan."

Zaans' hooded face was covered in shadow with the exception of everything below his nose. He managed to cough out, "Hey Jen." before blood splurted from his mouth. He coughed and faced his executioner and shocked everyone when he smiled, a wide and disconcerting smile. He started to laugh and wouldn't stop. Nor would that smile leave his bloodstained face.

Ah, suspense! Don't you just love it and hate it at the same time? Before you get started, yes I realize that a character I created and my pseudonym are the same name. But we are two different people! We may share the same name, but I assure you THAT is not me and will never be me! *sigh* no matter how much I wish for the opposite... I just wrote it and before I knew it, BAM! Zaan, right there as a name! I thought it was an epic name (still do as a matter of fact) and thought 'what the hell!' I'll just leave it as is.

Updates may not be as speedy in this as some others... sorry, but I'm juggling a lot of stuff right now, but I will prioritize and get some other stories finished before I put all my focus into this. It will only take me a while because I like ALL my work to be of great quality. News can be seen on my profile. Please Review!

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Zaan (still not the character!)- Crow Claw all the way!