Chapter Two

Sage

Sage sat down at the couch staring back at the Titans who were staring at her. "So who are you?" Robin said his mask rising with his eyebrow. Sage lifted her eyes to meet his. She looked through his mask, and saw that his eyes were brown.

"I was called Daughter, by my mother, she was the Great Mother, and my father Lord of the Hunt," she said softly, wringing her fingers. "I left, and I am no one now. No forest to guard, no animals to run with, no parents, I am no one." She shrugged, and looked up at them once again.

Raven was backing away. "I knew it," she breathed, everyone turned to her. "She's a goddess in the old religion," she muttered. "An angel in the new, but a cousin of mine," she didn't sound happy, and she looked away. Sage lifted her eyes, and met Raven's.

"And you are the granddaughter of the devil, my uncle," Sage's voice held no emotion, and she made Raven look at her. "I'm glad to see that you to are rebelling," she smiled, and Raven smiled weakly at her.

"I sensed you all week," Raven informed her. Sage smiled again.

"And I you, I felt light penetrating darkness," Beast Boy walked up to Raven.

"So... this is your cousin? She's prettier than you," he said. Raven turned and glared at him. He recoiled, and turned into a mouse and ran away. Raven covered up his escape mouse hole with the couch, and glared at him.

"I'll deal with you later." Everyone laughed, and Sage was confused. Was this funny? She had lived among animals and plants to for so long; she didn't really understand human emotions. Her mother and father didn't express emotions lately, only sorrow, and weakness. So she did not laugh, only looked at the changing that everyone called Beast Boy.

He is blessed, she thought to herself. Father's hand is upon him.

"So..." Robin said looking at her. "Mind giving the Titan's a try? Maybe you could join us. It's still early, and we can test what you can do." Sage looked up at him, Starfire clapped.

"This is just like before," she said, then stopped. "Promise us new friend, no matter what, that you will no leave us for a man named Slade." She looked sorrowful, but Sage didn't understand.

"She can sense evil Starfire," Raven said bluntly. "She won't go with anyone evil," she gestured down at herself. "I'm in the process of purifying myself, she can sense that too. Maybe she can help." Sage nodded.

"I won't leave unless I find a wood that needs me," she said proudly. "But right now I will protect the humans and try to keep them safe," she scowled. "I will prove my mother wrong." Raven goggled, as did everyone else. Starfire asked what she meant, but Sage didn't say.

"Well, the city needs you now, Slade is still at large," Robin said referring to the fact that Slade had escaped Terra's volcano. Beast Boy looked away, bubbling with pain. Sage felt it. She eyed him, and slowly sent tendrils of her own mind into Beast Boy's. She sent him a vision of peace, and quite, along with visions of ice. That always made her calm down.

But it didn't make him calm down, instead he turned to Rave. She shook her head and put her hands up. "Wasn't me." Her voice cracked and it was so much different than before, so much deeper, darker and sadder. Sage recoiled slightly, and then sighed, realizing that she was here to help the Titans as much as the people that they helped.

"Alright," Robin said, clapping his green gloves together. He could barley hide the eagerness in his face. "Lets get training.