Disclaimer: If I owned the Teen Titans I would've remade it to include my own character.

From Darkness Comes Light

By: Patattack

A Normal Day for Some

The sun began to rise over Jump City. At this time, people and cars were starting to be seen with a bit more frequency on the streets. In the alleyways, a young man was sleeping by himself on an old beaten up mattress that he'd found on the ground. Despite it being in his nature to rise earlier than now, his journey from the previous night had left him tired more than usual. His eyes fluttered open as the sunlight just barely made it to him. He still wore his cloak in a manner that it covered his face entirely. Having had enough sleep, he stood up and stretched out his limbs. He looked around himself, taking in his surroundings. He began to walk away from where he had slept, in order to find some food.

As he made his way through the alleyways, he happened to hear a plea for help. With his sharp hearing, he could discern that it was a woman and that she was being pursued by another individual. Putting all thoughts of food aside, he quickly went in the direction of the sound. When he got near the mouth of the alley, he saw a young woman of about his own age backed against a wall by a burly menacing man. Keeping himself covered, he stepped between the two. He crossed his arms and stared at the man with a look of ice.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing pal?" Though trying to act tough, the man wasn't entirely at ease with the cloaked boy's eyes and the look he was giving him.

"Get lost," the boy said coldly while continuing to stare down the man.

"Listen here now, she's mine and you can't do a thing about it. If you back off, nobody's gonna get hurt. So scram!"

"Leave her alone, or somebody might actually get hurt." His tone left nothing out as to who would be hurt if he didn't leave.

The man picked up a piece of pipe, holding it in an attempt to scare the boy away. He advanced towards him and the girl behind him, but as soon as he took the first step, he found himself completely paralyzed in mid air, unable to move the slightest bit despite struggling with all his might. The boy walked in an unconcerned manner towards the frozen man. He plucked the pipe out of his fist and tossed it aside. He walked away from him, almost as if he was going to leave him in his current state, but then he turned around to address a few words to him. "Don't do this again," he said in a serious voice. "I won't be as gentle next time." At that, the man felt his body become free again. Not wanting to stay around the dark boy any longer then was absolutely necessary, he immediately ran away from them.

The boy turned to the young woman who was looking at him with a mix of awe, gratefulness and uncertainty. "You okay?" he asked in a voice that was a little warmer than before. The girl simply nodded. "I'm not going to hurt you," he attempted to reassure her.

"I-I… Thank you for saving me," she stuttered. She walked up to him and hesitated for a second before deciding what to say next. "Can I… could I just see your face? So I can know who you are?" She was uneasy upon seeing his golden eyes.

"I'm sorry, but no. People don't have a tendency to react too well when they see what I really look like."

"Ok then. Well, thanks again." The boy nodded to her and she walked away.

His stomach then decided to let him know that he was hungry and required food. He looked in the direction of the alley's entrance and spotted a piece of paper sticking out from underneath a couple of garbage bags. Fortune must have been smiling at him, he thought, as it turned out to be a hundred dollar bill. He picked it up and placed it in his wallet. His stomach churned at the thought of food he'd be able to buy. He then pulled his cloak completely around himself and went out into the streets.

Inside Titan's Tower, its inhabitants were beginning to get out of bed, with the exception of Beast Boy who was snoring away. Raven had been the first to have left her room. She was currently dressed in her black leotard and blue cloak and was sitting on the couch, enjoying the peaceful quiet while drinking a cup of herbal tea. Thoughts of the mysterious black cloaked person occasionally crossed her mind. She went over the small details about him that she already knew, though it wasn't enough to come to much of a conclusion. 'His voice belongs to a boy, it looks like he'd be about my age, he wears dark clothing and hides almost all of himself. He has a strong power within him, he hardly talks, he's not easily intimidated and he displays little emotions.' Raven sighed. Despite her talents for deduction, she'd hardly have a chance of finding out more of him without at the least seeing him closer.

Raven sensed Terra coming before she entered. "Morning Raven," she said cheerfully.

The young sorceress turned her head back and gave a simple greeting. "Hey."

The geomancer was followed by Robin and Starfire. "Morning," their leader said.

"Good morning to everyone. Is it not just the most beautiful day ever?" Starfire spoke in her usual overly cheerful and happy voice.

"Umm, I guess so." Terra looked outside the window at the sun which now dispelled the last traces of the nighttime darkness. They could predict that the day would most likely be an ordinary one as far as the weather went.

The four titans now gathered were then joined by the tower's resident half man-half machine. "Morning yall," he greeted them in a booming voice. His friends all acknowledged him in their own manner. "So, who wants breakfast? We should have enough time before Beast Boy gets out of bed." Cyborg went to the kitchen area, donning a chef's hat and apron before getting to work. The others gathered near and sat down, along with Raven. "Let's see here," Cyborg mumbled as he looked in the fridge. As he did so, his attention was caught by a pie plate with what looked like blue mold. He reached to take it out, but when he grabbed it, the substance jumped out of the fridge and on the floor. Cyborg raised his foot and brought it down on the moving pile, thus crushing it and causing it to break apart. "Umm Starfire? Did you put some blue thing in the fridge?"

"Oh yes. Last night I made a Tachamakrish Pie and placed in the refrigerator so that it could be conserved to be eaten later."

"Ohhhh. That explains a lot then." He proceeded to pick up the offending substance and dispose of it. Having cleared the fridge of all alien food, he took out the required ingredients for making waffles and started to work on them. Shortly afterwards, he laid out a stack of them in front of his friends. "Eat up everyone." Cyborg and Starfire ate theirs with large bites, while the others consumed their own a little slower.

Eventually Beast Boy made his appearance in the main room. "Hey guys." He walked to the kitchen and began making tofu waffles for himself. Surprisingly, Cyborg made no comment about such, though perhaps because he was too occupied by eating.

Unfortunately, it did not last. As soon as the green titan had sat down, Cyborg had noticed what he had on his plate and failed to refrain from poking at him. "What kind of junk are you eating BB? You otta have something real, not that… stuff."

"What's wrong with this? It's way better than what you're eating," he replied.

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is not."

"Is too."

"Is too."

"Is not." Cyborg laughed at how easily he had tricked his friend. "I didn't mean that. I wanted to say is too."

"Beast Boy, Cyborg, just quit it and eat," Robin interceded.

"Soo, what's happening today?" the changeling asked as he took a bite of his waffles.

"Combat practice is starting in half an hour at the training grounds," Robin said. "Then we're free. As for the rest of the day, it'll depend if anything comes up."

The cloaked boy made his way through the streets, searching for a place to get food with the money he'd found. As much as he disliked the idea of being in public, his hunger demanded that he suffer through such in order to find a place to get food. Fortunately for him, only a few people really paid attention to him and his apparel and he walked away from them before they could enter into contact with him. He continued on in this manner until he reached a small darkened café that was open. His attention having been caught by this place, he decided to check it out. When he entered, he could only see a waitress, but he could hear the sounds of someone in the kitchen. "Good day. Please be seated." The waitress was dressed in a gothic look and didn't seem phased by the cloaked boy's clothing.

He sat down in a shadowed section where he would be able to look at the door and through the window. He kept his hood around his head and his gloves on his hands. The waitress raised an eyebrow at his behavior, but did nothing more than that. She gave him a menu, waiting for him to place an order as he was the only customer present. He briefly looked at his options and chose something that would satisfy his hunger but not cost him too much money. She went to the kitchen and brought him a glass of water. He nodded to her and she walked back to the kitchen. A short moment afterwards, she placed his food in front of him. "Thanks," he muttered. The boy ate his meal in silence, enjoying the feeling of having a satisfied stomach.

He finished soon and walked up to the cash register where he passed the waitress the hundred dollar bill. She looked oddly at it, but asked no questions and simply took the money, giving him the appropriate amount of change. He put it away and walked out of the place. Instantly upon stepping outside, his ears picked up the sounds of people running in panic from a short distance. His eyes zoomed in on the spot he'd heard the noise and even if other people would have been hard pressed to discern what was happening, he could see a band of ten armed men running into a bank. 'It's official, this is a record,' he thought to himself as he quickly made his way towards the disturbance.

Robin was in his room, preparing for a session of combat training, or what Beast Boy sometimes called 'The Death Run'. He picked up some of his exploding energy disks which he put into his utility belt. Then he sharpened a few of his birdarangs before attaching them to his belt also. He then grabbed one of his telescopic staves, put the belt around his waist and went out the door with the intent of meeting the rest of the team at the training grounds. His idea changed when the alarm went off throughout the tower. He ran to the nearest terminal for the Titans' main computer. Typing a few quick commands on the keyboard revealed to him the reason for the alarm. He then picked up his communicator and contacted all the other titans. "What's the trouble?" they asked.

"Bank robbery on 31st street. Titans, go!" With the renown battle cry, they all prepared themselves for the upcoming confrontation.

The cloaked boy was running as fast as he could, but was restrained as he had one hand on his hood and another gripping his cloak to avoid revealing more than he wanted to. The robbers were still in the bank as he was making his way to it. The parking lot of the bank had been cleared of vehicles and people. No police cars or officers had arrived at the scene yet, even as the boy was getting closer. Finally, at the moment that he reached the parking lot, the doors burst open and the bank robbers rushed out, carrying money bags with them. They didn't have an enormous quantity with them because of their numbers and the fact that they were more focused on getting in and out fast. Though they hadn't counted on the cloaked boy making an appearance. They almost would have ignored him, but for the fact that a wind blew from his direction, just strong enough to halt their advance. "Where the hell did that come from?" one of them asked.

"It's that guy over there," another pointed to the cloaked boy.

"Well what're we waiting for? Get him."

The men raised their weapons, automatic rifles, pointed them directly at him and fired. Like the previous similar situation that he'd been in, a transparent barrier surrounded the boy, stopping the bullets in their tracks. Some of the men gaped in astonishment at the cloaked individual who was obviously a metahuman. Desperately they fired at him, until their guns clicked dry. Then faced with the realization that nothing they had could dispose of him, they scattered in two directions, to the boy's left and right, hoping that he'd be unable to pursue them all.

Apparently they didn't know the full extent of his powers. The shield disappeared as soon as the men stopped firing. He then began to concentrate. As he did, a wind kicked up, but stronger than before and spinning on itself. It spun faster and faster, becoming a tornado in a flash. The two groups of robbers suddenly found themselves being pulled into the powerful twister, despite their efforts. It spun for a short moment longer, trapping all the men within, then began to fade away, the boy not wanting to cause harm to come to any innocents. When the wind had completely died down, the ten robbers were surrounded by transparent walls all around them like the barrier the boy had erected a moment ago.

The boy's hearing then alerted him to the sound of an approaching vehicle. He looked in the direction he'd heard it. Coming from a short distance away at an elevated speed, was a blue and white car. He could see that there were six people inside, but his eyes zoomed in on the person sitting in the passenger seat. He saw a pale girl dressed in a black leotard and blue cloak similar to his. He stared at her for a second, before snapping back to his senses. Realizing that the vehicle in question was headed towards him, he held onto his cloak and ran out of everyone's sight, but left the robbers trapped in the transparent prison.

Cyborg was driving the T-Car in the direction of the bank being robbed. All the other titans were in the car with him. As he drove, Terra suddenly placed a hand on her back just between her shoulder blades, not quite like it was causing her pain, but more like she could just feel something there. "Terra? Are you alright?" Beast Boy asked.

"I'm fine. It's just… I can feel something ahead of us. Like a big power discharge or something. I can't really say what."

"Well, we'll find out what it is soon enough," Cyborg said.

They continued until they turned on the street where the bank in question was. As the T-Car got closer, Raven was the first to take note of the black cloaked boy, while the other titans saw the transparent prison in which the ten robbers were trapped in. A brief moment later, Raven felt that someone was staring at her, and then she realized that it was the boy outside. Yet as soon as she saw this, he rushed away from the scene before they would arrive. "It's him," she muttered.

"Who's what?" Cyborg asked as he pulled the T-Car to a stop in front of the bank.

The six titans got out and stood ready for anything to come at them. "It's the person from the security recording last night," Raven explained. "It seems like he's already taken care of the problem."

"Ok. He took care of the bad guys, but where's he run off to and why?" Robin asked.

"I don't know," she admitted. "But we might be able to learn something about him here," she pointed to the transparent structure with the robbers inside it.

"Cyborg, do a scan on that thing to see what it's made of. Raven, find out what you can about what happened from those guys. Beast Boy, Starfire, take to the air and see if you can find any trace of our mystery cloaked person. Terra, you and I will ask the people around what they can tell us." They all nodded to the leader and went to their assigned tasks. The shape shifter turned into an eagle to have better vision and flew up with Starfire to search for the dark boy. Robin and Terra walked towards the civilians in the area to ask what they'd seen. A scanning device extended out of his Cyborg's right arm which he pressed against the translucent field.

As for Raven, she waited shortly until the police arrived. She used her magic to bind and carry the men out of their temporary prison so the police could handcuff them and take them away. Before the last one was put into one of the cruisers, Raven told the officers to hold him back so she could interrogate him. "Tell me what happened here," she ordered him in a no-nonsense voice.

"To hell with that! I ain't tellin you a thing!"

Raven placed a finger on his forehead and concentrated. She delved into his recent memories, despite the little mental resistance he offered. She could see the scene of him and the other robbers crashing into the bank and pointing their guns at the people, ordering them to get down. She sped through these, focusing on finding the moment that she was looking for. His mind then came to when they were running out of the bank. Through his eyes, she saw the black cloaked boy as he put up a barrier against all offense they threw at him. Then she could see the man run away, but get pulled back and spun around in what she assumed was a whirlwind, though his vision of the event was blurred. She broke the spell after reaching the moment when they were trapped in the transparent barrier. As she was done, the criminal was now taken away. By that time, Cyborg had also finished. "What'd you find out Rae?"

The young teenage girl's face twitched a little at the name, but she refrained from doing anything more. "He possesses strong control over wind for one. He trapped them with what I guess was a tornado."

"That's not all he can do. The scan on that thing," he indicated the barrier, "says that it's made up of air. Plus it looks pretty similar to what we saw in the security recording."

"Then that means he controls air," Raven stated. "He must be able to condense it into shapes he wants. By compressing the air around people he could freeze them in place like the two guys last time. And by manipulating it he can create wind. Apart from that, I'm pretty sure he has sharpened sight and hearing."

"What makes you say that?" he asked curiously.

"When we were driving to get here, I could feel him looking at … us." For some reason, Raven refrained from mentioning that it had specifically been her he'd been looking at. "And he must have been looking at us for longer, which means that he'd heard the T-Car coming before most people would have. So that would imply that he has sharp hearing." Cyborg nodded at this. Raven placed her hands on the transparent structure and concentrated for some time until she managed to dispel it. The two were soon joined by Robin and Terra.

"What'd you find out?" the leader asked. They all told each other what they'd discovered and compared their results. When they finished, Robin picked up his communicator and contacted Beast Boy and Starfire. "Did you two see any trace of our mystery person yet?"

"I am afraid we have not. Despite our best efforts we have been unable to locate him," Starfire said.

"Yeah, even with an eagle's eyes I can't see hide or hair of this guy," Beast Boy said, having turned back into his normal form.

Robin sighed at this. Cyborg placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't beat yourself over for this. We'll find him some other time. Besides, he hasn't done anything so far, except for stopping a few bad guys."

"You're right," he admitted. "Beast Boy, Starfire, you can come back. We'll continue looking for this guy later."

The cloaked boy was resting on the floor of an old abandoned warehouse. His sharpened senses had allowed him to avoid detection by the flying girl and green eagle, despite nearly having been seen once. "Well, this wasn't so bad," he said to himself. "Except now probably about half the city's seen me. Could've been worse I guess." He lay down for some time, pondering about his life and what he'd done so far. Eventually his thoughts returned to the moment he'd seen the girl who'd caught his attention. He couldn't help but wonder what she looked like without her cloak. He laughed a little at this. "How hypocritical of me." He decided to rest a little bit longer, before he'd head out again.

In a more hidden and secretive area of Jump City, a tall man stood in front of computers screens. The one eye that showed from his orange mask observed the footage displayed with great interest. "No trace remains of this mysterious meta-human, but we have a recording from the last time he was seen." The anchorwoman's face disappeared and was replaced by the image from a bank's security camera.

The masked man watched the cloaked boy intensely, observing every detail about him and his powers. "Interesting," he muttered. "You have a great power inside of you, much like Terra. But you appear to have perfect control over yours. Such talent could serve me well."

I hope this was worthy of your time and if you don't mind, I'd really appreciate reviews. I wanted to make this chapter longer, but I ran out of ideas and stopped it there.