Chapter 2
Later that night, Harry roams the halls of the school after having a dream that was all too real to him.
/Flashback/Dream/
"Harry...Harry...Harry!' said the voice, causing Harry's eyes to shoot open and look around only to find himself in a dark room that was all too familiar to him. He turned when he heard the sound of footsteps and watched as a little boy was thrown into the room by a man with unruly black hair.
"And you stay up here and don't even think of coming down and ruining your brother's party again!" said the man,before slamming the door shut leaving the little boy bleeding.
Harry only watched with the same neutral expression he always wore as he relived this memory.
"Why do I have to deal with these people? I hate them so.., no I need to stay calm and keep control, not lose control of my emotions. It gets me no where," said the little boy when he saw the only chair in the room being encased in a black aura.
"That's good control you have their little one," said a soft whisper like voice. This made the little boy turn towards the new voice and Harry to look at the familiar figure standing in the corner of the room.
The figure was dressed in a blue cloak that Harry had forgotten looked just like the one he was wearing, the only difference being the color. He watched as the figure came up to he younger Harry and place two glowing black hands over young Harry's arm, encasing the wound in the black aura as she healed it.
"Thank you, miss, but who are you?" asked younger Harry, looking up at the woman's face.
"I am your Great Great Grandmother, but you can call me Raven," said the women, giving Harry a soft smile.
Over the next hour or so Harry would be reliving his great great grandmother's story and how she gave up her life to guard the gem and the portal to protect the earth from the demon Trigon.
"So you have been keeping this demon in that gem for thousands of years," said Harry, trying to confirm what he had just heard.
"Yes and sadly I can no longer bare the burden, my darling; I must pass on the gem to another of my line so they may guard him," said Raven who looked like she was going to cry.
"And you want me to carry the burden, don't you?" said Harry, being so blunt he was basically saying 'I have to carry it now, don't I?' The look on Raven's face said it all.
"Yes only one with Trigon's blood and control over their emotions and a truly good heart can carry the gem," stated Raven."Which is why I came to you."
"You really think I can do it?" asked Harry.
"I know you can," said Raven.
/Present/
Harry is drawn from his thoughts by the beeping of the little yellow badge with a T on the front that sits on the side of his belt as it goes off. Taking the device in hand, Harry pushes a button on the side of the device and the T pops up, along with a small screen that appears showing the face a boy who looked to be around fourteen maybe fifteen years old with slicked back black hair and a domino mask on his face.
"Raven, this is Robin do you come in?" asks the boy.
"I'm here, Robin; what do you need?" asks Harry looking at Robin.
"Listen, we need you back at the tower; we recently came across an object that was used by a recent villain and all of the league's magic users are occupied. How soon can you be here?" says Robin.
Harry doesn't mind being pulled away from the school, knowing sooner or later he'd run into his parents. Opening a black doorway, Harry walks through it and walks right into Titans Tower where he finds the team assembled in the living room.
"I'm here," says Harry, gaining the Titans' attention. He is cut short from asking what is wrong when he is crushed in a bone crushing hug by Starfire. "Oh, Friend Harry, I have missed you so!" exclaims Starfire.
"Tell me how is the school of magic; are your making more friends; who gave you this cloak; did you miss us? Oh do tell me, Harry, did you miss me too?" asks Starfire, firing questions faster than her star bolts.
Harry normally would have pushed any other person off of him but when you switch bodies with someone like Starfire, there really is no point in personal space, so Harry decides to quickly answer the questions in order so he can get to the point of him needing to be here."Fine, not yet, my friend Hermione, of course and of course," says Harry, giving his usual tiny smile.
"Hey, shorty, how ya been?" asks Cyborg, coming up to the cloaked teen and patting him on the back, almost knocking him over.
Soon Harry is greeted by a green dog licking his face leaving it covered in drool, and he delivers a glare to the green shape shifter who had the decency to blush." Sorry Harry, couldn't help myself," says Beast boy.
The hand on his shoulder alerted Harry to the stop light colored hero behind him giving Harry his usual smile.
"Welcome back," says Robin
"Thanks guys, so why did you call me here?" asks Harry, feeling the room go from happy and silly to tense and serious.
"We called you here to look at this," says Robin, holding up a black scepter. It is about seven feet tall and ends in a point that looks like it has a hand growing out of it; said hand grasps a large orb like gem.
"I noticed every time the jester attacked the gem would glow a red color," explains Robin, handing the staff to Harry, who takes it into his hands and starts to focus.
Upon examining the staff, Harry tries to find out what the core, wood, and gem are, but there is only one thing about this staff that Harry recognizes, and that is the is made from the wood of his great, great, great Grandfather Trigon's crown.
"We need to destroy this staff, now," says Harry, surprising the rest of the Titans.
The first one to speak is Robin who wants to know why the staff should be destroyed.
"This staff was from a dark and evil cult that forged the staff from the wood of a demon's crown. This is the darkest object I have ever felt in my entire life," says Harry, which is saying something since he had been in the Black Family estate.
"And you really don't think we can just lock it away?" asks Robin, trusting Harry's instincts.
"No, the magic mixed into the staff is too strong that if it were left alone it would eventually find its way back to the owner," says Harry, telling his friends the truth.
"Alright then how do we destroy it?" asks Cyborg; he got his answer when Harry uses his powers and wraps them around the staff.
The team watches as the staff's wood begins to splinter and the gem is taken from the hand's grip. They watch as beads of sweat begin to form on the young boy's face until he stops and the wood is completely destroyed and all that is left is the gem, which has broken into several large pieces.
"Well now that that's taken care of," says Harry before he starts to form a portal back to Hogwarts, but he is stopped by Starfire putting her hand on his shoulder.
"Must you leave, Harry? We do miss you greatly," says Starfire, looking at her friend sadly.
"I'm sorry but I have to go back; there are things they can teach me that I can't learn on my own," says Harry, glancing at his friends' sad faces.
"Dude, you've told us how miserable they make you; why go back when you're safe here?" asks Beast Boy.
Harry's hood shifting is the team's only way of knowing that Harry has turned his face from them."Nowhere is safe from them," says Harry, opening another portal and walking through it, leaving his friends frowning and feeling awful for their friend and team mate.
"Robin?" Ask Starfire, looking at her friend.
"We can't interfere with Harry's dission" said Robin