Before Note: I want to thank everyone again for the awesome reviews and for adding this story to your favorites/ follow list! I am excited to share my twist on Ravens past with all of you and I hope you enjoys it! I hope I didn't insult Raven fans too much, sorry in advance if I did. Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer:
Raven: So what do you want me to do?
Tiggerific13: The disclaimer.
Raven: Why I think it's pretty obvious that you don't own anything.
Tiggerific13: (sigh) I know, I know, just do it.
Raven: This is so stupid. Well I guess I have to tell all of you people reading that Tiggerific13 does not own the Teen Titan. It's pretty obvious that she doesn't and this is a waste of my time and your time so lets just get on with the story.
Tiggerific13: Ok, now that is out of the way… On with the story! Enjoy!
Opening Up
Chapter Three: There but not really there
Raven "I don't want to tell you so I'll just show you" Raven got into her meditation position and started to chant "Azarath Metrion Zinthos"
Suddenly a white light surrounded the Titans and they couldn't see anything. All of the sudden they fell on the ground and the Titans living room was nowhere in sight.
BeastBoy stood up quickly and rubbed his now sore butt "Raven! A little warning next time would be nice!" He continued to grumble about his sore "butty"
Robin stood next to him rubbing the back of his head "uhhh Raven, where are we?"
Cyborg stood next and whistled at their surrounding and Starfire stood up next to him and she whispered "glorious."
Raven shrugged "we are in my memories, I told you I would show you my past instead of telling you. Well I suppose I will have to tell you the basics. Well I'm not from earth; I am from anther dimension called Azarath, this is Azarath and this is where I was born and this was my home before I became apart of the team."
The titans looked around in awe at the beautiful city. BeastBoy broke the admiring silence "Why would you ever want to leave this place?"
Raven sighed, "You will find out soon enough." With that Raven motioned them to follow her. She started to walk down the street with her friends right behind her. They didn't say a word and just followed Raven.
After five minutes of walking they reached a gorgeous garden with a women in a white cloak like Ravens walking through the garden. She held a bundle of blankets and she was singing to it.
All of the Titans except Raven stopped; Raven continued forward and noticed that they had stopped and she turned around "Its okay, we are here but not really here, no one can see us and nothing we do will affect anything around us."
The Titans still seamed wary but followed Raven. She stopped right in front of the woman who was cradling the bundle of blankets and the team stopped around her.
They listened quietly as the women stopped singing, she kept her eyes on the bundle of blankets and since her hood was up they couldn't see her face. The women reached up to the bundle of blankets and readjusted it so that you could see what was cradled inside of the blankets.
It was a little baby girl. The baby was sleeping but the titans could tell by the small amount of purple hair on her head that it was there teammate Raven.
The woman started to speak "Oh my dear Rachel, I envy your ignorance and innocence to whom you are and what you will become. I am so sorry my dear Child, I love you dearly and that will never change." With that the woman sighed and started to walk out of the garden towards the street.
Raven stood there and watched as her mother walked away. After a few minutes BeastBoy broke the silence that had fallen upon the team "Rachel?"
Raven nodded "Rachel Roth, that is my birth name. When I got older I was given the nickname Raven because of my powers and I just started going by that instead."
Starfire gave her a small smile "Your mother loved you dearly, it is so sweet."
Raven didn't say anything instead she got into meditation position she mumbled, "Here's your warning." With that she closed her eyes and chanted yet again "Azarath Metrion Zintohs" The bright light engulfed the Titans again and they were taken to another memory.
They landed on a patch of grass located in a park. They stood up and BeastBoy sighed and grumbled, "Well I guess that was a little better."
Cyborg surveyed their surroundings "Raven, are we still in Azarath?"
Raven nodded "Yes, just a different memory." She started to walk towards a playground that was located not so far away and the Titans scurried after her.
When they reached the park Raven stopped and pointed to a group of kids who were running from a pathway to the park.
The Titans watched as all of the kids squealed with delight as they ran as fast as there little legs would carry them. There were around twenty kids in the park all looked around the age of five. While the kids all scurried off to their favorite part of the playground; a women in a light blue robe and a long dress walked up behind them watching them with a smile. She sat down on one of the benches and kept an eye on the children as they played.
The children were laughing and playing, having the time of their lives. Raven pointed to the swing set and the Titans redirected their attention to the little girl who was using one of the swings. She had pale skin and violet hair that was braided into two braids that went just past her shoulders. She had violet eyes and wore a violet dress that had long sleeves and stopped just below her knees. She also wore cute black ballet flats. The little girl was giggling and smiling as she went higher and higher on the swing.
Starfire squealed and clapped her hands together "Raven! You are adorable!" Raven groaned at the comment.
BeastBoy started laughed "She has a smile on her face! Are you sure its Raven?"
Cyborg joined in laughing "Yeah I'm not to certain, cause this little girl is also wearing a dress and she doesn't seem to mind." Robin smirked at that comment because they all knew that Raven never wore a dress without complaining about it.
Raven groaned again "yes it's me and yes I wore a dress and yes that is an actual smile on my face and a real giggle now can you all just shut up!" They went dead silent.
They watched for a minute as the five-year-old Raven enjoyed the swings until a little boy came over and called her name "Rachel! Come on were going to play tag!" Rachel smiled at him and called out "I'm coming Dmitri!" Dmitri smiled at her and waited as she stopped the swing. Dmitri had black hair but what were surprising were his eyes, they were the color of a tangerine. He had on an orange short-sleeved T-shirt, dark blue overalls and orange shoes.
When Raven joined them she smiled at him and they ran off to join the rest of the kids. The kids circled up and one kid shouted "ok everyone ready?" There was a chorus of murmured yeses and then the kid shouted, "I'm it!" The kids screamed and started running in different directions.
The Titans watched as the kids ran around chasing each other. Starfire was beaming at the children's happiness, BeastBoy was also had a huge grin on his face, Cyborg was smiling, Robin let a smirk onto his face and even Raven was sporting a small smile.
The children played there game for a while and then the women who had sat on the bench stood and clapped her hands signaling that it was time to go. The children groaned and Dmitri and Raven came to stop running right in front of the titans. The women started to walk back from where they came and the kids slowly started to follow.
Dmitri had smirked as the kids started to go out of the park. Rachel started to follow but then Dmitri stopped her "Just wait one minute, please." Rachel nodded and smiled. After a minute Dmitri spoke "I had a lot of fun playing with you." Rachel smiled at him "I did too!" Dmitri smiled then kissed Rachel on the cheek and then he ran off after the rest of the kids calling over his shoulder "Catch me if you can!" Rachel touched her cheek and then a huge grin crossed her features and she ran after Dmitri laughing.
The Titans were focused on the kids until Raven redirected there attention to the playground that was now covered in darkness when the darkness lifted the playground was destroyed.
The Titans mouths fell open as they stared at what use to be the playground Raven in her completely monotone voice started "This is when my powers start to truly develop and react to my emotions. This was only the beginning to the damage I would do in the future." Raven muttered her saying and waved her arm and a black square appeared in front of them. Images started to play across the square. There were images of a wrecked room that looked like it had once been a classroom there was a image of the remains of a water fountain, images of what use to be a house of mirrors but was now destroyed. The square kept replaying images of destroyed thing until Raven waved her hand again and it disappeared. "I did all of those things because I let my emotions control me. I had no control over my powers, I didn't even understand my powers or know who I was." Raven sighed "warning, Azarath Metrion Zinthos"
They appeared in a bedroom with a now seven-year-old version of Raven siting on the bed with her mother siting beside her. Young Raven spoke "Mom, why does destruction follow me? The kids say that I am a bad omen." Her mother sighed and shook her head "Rachel you are not a bad omen despite what everyone says. You are just simply different; your powers are based off of your emotions so the more you feel the more power an the more out of control your powers will get." Young Raven looked at her lap and then she looked at her mother "Mom, what are you saying that I can't feel emotions anymore? What do you want me to do? Be boring and just not do anything!" Ravens mother shook her head "You may still be able to feel a small amount of emotions but you must first learn how to control your emotions and your powers. It will take time." Young Raven looked at her mother "What do I have to do to control my emotions?" her Mother looked at her sadly "The best way and the easiest way would be to go stay with the monks of Azarath for a while, they can teach you meditation, spells, ways to control your emotions and keep your powers from controlling you." Young Raven looked at her mother in shook "Your sending me away?" Her mother reached out to touch her cheek but then young Raven swatted it away. Her mother sighed, "It will only be until you learn how to control your emotions" Young Raven looked hurt and then she swallowed and steeled her expression "Fine." Her mother looked at her daughter one more time and then she walked out of the room. Before she closed the door she whispered, "I love you, I am so sorry." With that she closed the door and Young Ravens expression didn't change. She sat there on the bed staring at the wall her face showing no emotion.
The Titans looked to Raven and she got into her meditation position and chanted "Azarath Metrion Zinthos."
This time the Titans landed in a library. There were huge piles of books surrounding them and in the middle of all the books was a version of Raven. The difference between this Raven and the last two Ravens was huge. Her hair was now cut off in her signature bob, she wore the same leotard and cape she wore now and she looked older too, about thirteen.
This Raven was reading a book in her meditation position, she then sat down the book and started to meditate and chanting something they couldn't really hear under her breath. After a minute Raven stopped and picked the book back up and read over a page again. At that moment a Monk entered her fortress of books and he said "Raven, You have been in here all day what are you doing?"
Raven looked at the monk and in her deadpan voice she started "Reading" with that she returned to her books and the monk sighed and in a wary voice he tried again "Raven, what are you doing?" The Raven uncrossed her legs and stood up "I go back in a couple of days and I have worked so hard for this control I don't want to lose it." The monk chuckled a bit and Raven looked taken a back for a minute then her face went back to showing ne emotion "what's so funny?" The monk smiled at her "Raven you wont lose control, you have so much control that I am sure if you tried you might actually be able to feel your emotions again." Raven shook her head and deadpanned "I am not risking it." With that she closed her book and started to walk away from the monk.
BeastBoy looked around the library and his face scrunched up in disgust "If I had to spend my childhood here I would be drained of all my funess too." Raven rolled her eyes "first of all funess is not a word second this place really helped me, I just didn't appreciate it at first." BeastBoy gave her a sad look and then murmured, "If you say so."
Raven transported them again and this time they landed in the garden again. They all looked around confused and then Robin spoke "Um Raven are we in the right place?" Raven nodded "Yes."
At that moment a now older Raven and an older version of her mother walked into the garden. Raven was carrying a suitcase and her mother looked at her feet sadly. They stopped when they reached the center and her mother looked at her "Rachel…" Raven held up her hand "Arella, please Raven… don't make this harder than it needs to be." Arella nodded and then hugged her daughter. Raven sighed and hugged her mother back she pulled away and spoke "I need to do this, going someplace new will help with my control and powers besides it will also hide me. Trigon knows I am here now so I need to move on so that he will spare Azarath." Arella nodded in agreement and then composed herself and said "Goodbye" Raven nodded put her hood up and picked up her suitcase. She said "Goodbye" and then she turned around and a portal appeared Raven stepped through it and disappeared. Arella looked after her daughter and she whispered, "I love you." With that Arella walked out of the garden.
Raven transported them again but now they were back in the Titans Tower living room.
They all looked at Raven and she sighed, "I came to earth and started my life here, I hung out in the shadows and stayed in hiding working on my control and just staying out of sight and then Star came and we started the team."
The Titans were silent for w while and then Robin spoke "Do you sometimes want to go back, it was after all your home once."
Raven shook her head "I cant, despite me leaving Trigon did spare Azarath, he destroyed it."
The Titans slipped into a depressed mood and Cyborg spoke "You kind of had a downer childhood." Raven simply nodded in response.
BeastBoy hoped onto the couch "Dudes! The depressingness is bringing down my vibe!" Starfire nodded "that was indeed the downer of moods" Raven smiled sheepishly "Well my past isn't that interesting."
Robin despite the mood smirked "It was kind of interesting, you wore a dress willingly that is huge for you."
Raven sent him a death glare and the titan boys started laughing. Raven grumbled "I would have suspected something like that from Cyborg and BeastBoy not from you." Robin held up his hands in mock defense "Sorry."
Starfire smiled "Friend Raven, that color was so lovely on you! It matched you hair and eyes, oh we must journey to the mall of shopping and get you another dress in that color because you looked wonderful!" Starfire continued her rambling and Raven slumped and groaned; that sent the boys into another fit of laughter.
After a few minutes of laughing Cyborg clapped his hands together and looked around as they all calmed down "well two down three to go, so who's next?"
The Titans went silent for a bit and then Robin let out a long loud sigh "Well, I guess I'll go next."
BeastBoy sat up straighter "Yes! I finally get to know if there is skin and eyes under the mask!" Cyborg laughed "hold up Rob, 20$ says there Brown!" BeastBoy sighed, "Dudes! Robin wouldn't suit brown, that's to boring. 40$ says there Green" Raven smirked "100$ says there blue." BeastBoy and Cyborg looked at her and both replied "your on!" Starfire studied Robin and stated "I will not join you in your bet, but I will agree with Raven. Robin seems to be the blue eyes type."
Cyborg waved his hand at her remark "We'll see, continue Rob."
Robin chuckled and reached up to his mask carefully starting to peel away the mask. He looked down at his lap so that the team couldn't see when he looked up his eyes were colored….
To be continued….
End Note: Haha, just a mini cliff, I am sure most of you know the answer though. Well that is my twist on Ravens past! I hopefully didn't insult Raven fans too badly. I wanted to show that Raven did have fun and my explanation of why she is kind of a control freak is because she has seen what her powers do when she is not in control and it kind of freaked her out.
Well the next update will probably be posted on Thursday or Friday because I have had Robin pretty much written. Thank you for reading!
Next Up: Robins Story