Sage normally flew the same way Raven did, like a snake or a draft of air. Not like Starfire who looked like she wasn't supposed to be flying. She looked like part of the sky, as Raven looked part of the shadows.
At the moment her cousin was angry with her. As she tried to make her molecules weightless, she received a warning that if her feet so much as left the ground higher than a jump, she would be in trouble, the very wind chasing her.
The rest of the Titans broke off into runs, Raven, and Star taking off after Beast Boy, Robin running towards his motorbike, and Cyborg towards his car.
Sage ran after Cyborg, not wishing to ride on Robin's bike, fearing what Starfire might do to her. She had already gotten glares from the alien girl when Robin smiled at her. The girl was overly jealous of everything, and thought little of herself.
"Can I please ride with you?" she asked, walking up, and eyeing the car with suspicion. Cyborg looked confused.
"Can't you fly?" Sage nodded and then shook her head, confusing him a bit. The quiver on her back bounced up and down, and Cyborg nodded, opening the passenger door in haste.
"Tell me on the way." She sat down, and the car shot out of the garage. She dug her finger nails into the arm rests, and closed her eyes.
The car frightened her, cars were death contraptions, and often killed those she was to watch over.
"So why can't you fly, can't you control your powers?" he sharply turned the wheel, sending her flying into the window. Other cars moved out of the way, and the loud music pulsing from the stereo was hurting her ears.
"I have no powers," she said bluntly, and pressed her back to the seat. "I man manipulate the elements, talk to animals, read minds, and sense evil, but nothing like Starfire, and Raven can move objects on command, I have to ask…" she trailed off scowling. "Sometimes, they're stubborn." Cyborg nodded, and she wasn't sure if he was still confused or not, the machine in him made it impossible to read his mind, and the outside shell, his permanent armor, made it impossible to read his face.
"Sage," he started. "How old are you?" Sage rose an eyebrow, and thought back. She could remember the first river running, which was only shortly after the first snowflake melted, that she hadn't seen.
"Old enough, but I've died more than one." She shivered. "Every hundredth winter or so." Cyborg shook his head, shuddering. "Ask Raven about it, she know more about my world than I do. I just live in it, she deals in it."
Looking out the windows she groaned, seeing grass, wishing that she had just run there.
"Do you remember a witch?" he started. "She brought an army of creatures from the sky… I don't remember how long ago it was but…" he looked depressed. Sage folded her arms, and leaned her head back trying to remember.
"Yes," she said, after quite some times, ignoring her stomach. "I dealt with her, se had killed off my forest, and this was when my mother was still active. She's entombed in that mountain, sleeping forever." Cyborg shifted and slammed on the break. Sage flew foreword and hit her face on the front window. Her chest hit the dashboard.
Coughing, she opened the door and leapt out of the car. "Earth!" she exclaimed, picking up a leaf, and folding her hands around it.
You want us? the roots deep beneath the city asked. Sage shook her head.
"Not yet," she whispered. Cyborg grabbed her arm and pulled her deep beneath the street, into a place where she could see her cousin Earth.
But on her skin she felt the remains of Fire. Shivering she cursed, rubbing her arms, breathing ice into her hands, trying not to feel as if she was on fire.
Raven was standing next to Robin, a man named Slade, who reeked of evil was standing next to a statue of a teen aged girl. There was life vibrating from it, and Sage gasped, surprised.
"Hullo Raven," Slade said coldly. "How's your destiny coming along?" Sage slowly walked up and stood on Raven's left, rising her chin.
She knew of Raven's destiny, she and Raven had spent most of the night before speaking of it, Sage the councilor. Raven had held things back from Robin, not letting him know the deepest things. Sage had known of them before she was born.
"Terra will be of some service, she can help turn flesh to stone." Robin glared, and when Sage butted into his mind she could tell he was slightly annoyed that Slade wasn't after him anymore.
Shaking her head, she realized that she had a lot of work to do, but the smell of fire and rose her head, glaring, screaming for it to stop.
It was balling out of Slade's hands she realized, and the demon mark on his forehead. Sage stepped foreword, and clapped her hands, all of the fire went out.
Slade looked worried, and tried again, this time finding that it didn't work at all. He turned and fled, Robin running after him. Sage caught his cape.
"Robin," she said, harshly, realizing what Robin was going to do. "We don't need you to become a killer," she whispered into his ear. He recoiled, but nodded, walking over to Raven.
"Ignore him," he told her, seeing the worried look on her face. Starfire she looking the other direction.
Sage took a step back, and took a handful of dirt into her hand, and sifted it around, speaking to it.
"And you Blessed One," she said, sitting down on the step, next to Beast Boy. "Do you prefer Garfield, or Beat Boy?" she asked, reading his mind. He gave her a sharp look.
"Beast Boy,' he growled, letting a little animal out. Sage looked up, and sighed, touching Terra's hand.
"Who is this?" she asked, trying to send movement back up the arms, and awaken the mind. It was the wrong moon phase, the wrong day, and the wrong season. Everything was wrong, but she could do it in time.
"Terra, she was once a Titan," he whispered, and lowered his head. Sage sighed and rested her hands on her knees, letting the dirt fall through her fingers.
"I could make her one again," she whispered. "But not today, or even next week, it will take time… but I can do it." Beat Boy looked up and gawked.
"You really are a Goddess, aren't you?" She shook her head and closed her eyes.
"The daughter of the Great Mother and Father, I am no Goddess." Beat Boy shook his head, receiving a message from Raven not to believe a word Sage had just said.