Don't own teen titans. Took this story down about a year ago and redid it. Hope its better.
"Ok then, when Raven gets back we'll show you to the guest rooms." Robin said before sitting on the couch with Starfire and turning on the tv.
With Rannesh
Rannesh had been flying around the city for a while, cooling his head as he scouted for possible enemies. "God!" he thought to himself as he scanned the ground "I'm going to beat Vega into the ground the next time I'm alone with him. Stupid flame boy! And Raven! That woman is maddening; I'll be damned before I let her belittle me like that again. But it really doesn't seem like I have a choice? She is my master now; she can make me do whatever she damn well wishes. And with our past; life is going to be hell for a little while. I hope she can forgive me in time. Living without her has been worse than any punishment or torture imaginable."
Finishing his scan of the city, Rannesh did an arcing u-turn in the sky and headed back towards the tower. Suddenly he stopped in mid air above a deserted park, smelling two familiar scents. "But why would they be here?" Rannesh asked himself before descending from the evening sky to investigate.
Once he landed he found Raven kneeling on the leaf-strewn floor with Yana looking on, concern evident on her face. Catching Yana's attention he motioned for her to meet him out of hearing distance of their distraught mistress.
With Raven and Yana
Following her charge, Yana teleported after Raven, looking around to find them hidden in the trees of a now empty park. Raven was just kneeling on the ground, glaring at the dead leaves that littered it as if they were the cause of all the agony in her life. Not knowing what to say, Yana stood their contemplating what to do. Suddenly she noticed Rannesh motioning for her to meet him away from Raven. So quickly and quietly, Yana snuck away from her troubled friend.
"What are you doing here?" Yana immediately asked as soon as they were out of hearing range.
"Could ask you the same question." Rannesh countered coolly. "I was returning from scouting till I smelled you. Why are you in a park at night?"
"Raven got into an argument with Robin." Yana explained. "Seems he's not to happy with all the secrets Raven's been keeping."
"Return to their home" Rannesh ordered, heading back towards Raven. "I'll take care of it."
"Rannesh" Yana implored. "I don't think that's such a good idea."
"Go" Rannesh commanded in a much firmer tone.
"Fine. But don't push it." Yana warned before flying off.
Rannesh silently made his way back to Raven, his irises changing to a softly glowing white in the failing light of day. Stopping a few feet short of Raven he waited for her to acknowledge his presence.
"What are you doing here?" Raven asked him as if he were the most unwelcome thing in the world, refusing to turn and face him.
"I am not allowed to guard my mistress while she agonizes over trivial matters?" Rannesh asked right back, his voice uncharacteristically soft and comforting.
"Ha" Raven laughed, sounding more harsh than amused. "I hardly consider my problems trivial. And I'm not in the mood to deal with you right now." Raven snapped standing up to leave only to find Rannesh had teleported in front of her so that there was barely an inch of space between them.
"So you could, in the future, be in the mood to deal with me; with us." Rannesh asked, his voice barely above a whisper.
"I'm sure I have no idea of the "us" of which you speak. There is no us!" Raven seethed, but did not step back.
"So is that your solution?" Rannesh asked closing even more of the remaining space between them, bringing himself so close he could feel Raven's body heat. "Ignore our past? Ignore what happened? Without even hearing my side?"
"I don't need more of your lies" Raven angrily whispered, her body still refusing to step away from the demon in front of her.
"I never lied to you" Rannesh said, desperation in his tone. "I, to this day, have never lied to you."
Raven just stood silently for the better part of a minute, searching Rannesh's face for any sign of falsehood. Finding none, she softly muttered, "We should get back to the others. It must be pretty late if it's dark enough for your eyes to change."
Giving Raven one last unreadable look, Rannesh stepped away from Raven, gesturing to the sky, "fly or teleport?"
Without even giving him an answer Raven disappeared in a flash of dark energy. And with a heavy sigh Rannesh followed in a similar burst of black.
With the Titans
Yana descended the stairs from the roof to find Vega, Beast Boy and Cyborg engaged in a fierce Mariocart battle royal with Starfire, Terra and Ari each cheering for one of the boys. Krade and Robin just sat in the background, neither of them talking.
"Eat that!" Vega yelled as he clinched the victory from under Cyborg's nose. Leaping onto the coffee table in joy, he spun around to see Yana giving him a disapproving glare. "Oh, Yana" he managed to stutter out as he quickly got off the table. "I thought you were with Raven?"
"Change of point" Yana said storming up to Vega. "Rannesh took over and sent me back."
"You left them alone!" Ari's shocked scream startling the titans out of their video game induced stupor.
"I was ordered to" Yana said turning a slightly less severe glare to Ari. "Were you ordered to play video games?"
"Well, no, but…." Vega trailed off, unable to think of a good excuse.
"I swear Vega you are such a child sometimes" Yana reprimanded the tall red head.
"Hahah, well life would be boring if we were all as serious as Rannesh." Vega joked, only Ari and Krade noticing that his smile and laugh were forced. "But back to your news, you left them alone?"
"Not good" Krade added with a shake of his head.
"Well what could I do!" Yana tried to justify. "I was ordered to return here. It's not like I could do anything different. If I had a choice I wouldn't have left."
"Wait?" Robin cut in. "what is the big deal? Why can't Raven and Rannesh be alone?"
"Lets just say" Ari said without her usual laugh. "They didn't exactly part on the best terms."
"Now that's an understatement.." Vega began before Yana's loud yell of "Vega!!" cut him off.
"No fair!" Beast Boy whined. "Tell us what happened between Raven and Rannesh."
"I really do not think that is any of you business Beast Boy." Raven said in a low, threatening manner, catching the last question as she finished her teleportation. Then turning to Robin and asked, "they are staying the guest rooms I assume?"
"That is if you do not mind providing accommodations for us?" Rannesh asked as he too, materialized out of the shadows.
"We don't mind at all." Robin said with a smile. "Raven, do you mind showing them?"
"No" was Raven's short reply as she led the Kagar out of the room things with Robin still awkward after their argument. While she led them to the guest rooms Raven pointed out important rooms as they went along. "There's the gym. There's the showers. There's the pool. And here's the rooms. We have two doubles and one single. However you want to split it is fine."
"Me and Yana will share!" Vega answered quickly. Throwing the blond a wink. Even Yana's eye roll and scoff did little to hide the subtle blush that fought its way to her cheeks from the all-seeing eyes of Rannesh and Raven.
"No." was Rannesh's curt reply to Vega's suggestion. "Girls in the first room. Krade and Vega, you are in the second. I'll take the single."
"Ahhh" Vega groaned. "no offence big guy" he said giving Krade a pat on the back as they entered their room. "but you're not much of a party."
Krade just let out an almost inaudible chuckle and he and Vega shut their door and settled in for the night.
"How much you want to bet Krade just ends up knocking Vega out?" Ari asked with a devilish smile as she and Yana went into their room.
" I don't make bets I know I'll lose." Yana answered with barely contained laughter as she closed the door.
When only Raven and Rannesh remained, Rannesh turned to Raven asking, "the single?"
"I'll take you." She said as she led him to the last room at the end of the hall. Unexpectedly, Raven followed Rannesh into the room, quickly shutting the door behind her. "Exactly how long has that been going on?" she asked Rannesh with surprise.
"What exactly are you referring to?" Rannesh tried to clarify. Sitting down on the queen sized guest bed.
"Don't play dumb Rannesh" Raven replied with annoyance. "Vega and Yana?"
"Surely you could not have forgotten all of your time spent with us; no matter how hard you tried?" Rannesh answered with a small laugh.
Raven gave him a short half hearted glare before answering. "Well I know they always had a little crush on each other. But they were never so blatant about it. I mean it goes against the covenant after all.
"I'm afraid", Rannesh said with a tired sigh, laying down on the bed more. "Vega, following in his forefathers footsteps, has shown a general disregard for rules. Thanks be given that Yana is from a sensible breed. She is aware of the law, she would never break the covenant."
"You Kagar and your covenant." Raven growled in disgust, heading for the door.
"It is the only thing that has kept us together." Rannesh said with a shrug. "It is the only thing that has allowed us to survive for this long."
"Some things are more important than survival." Raven snapped. "Do you know when my brother is going to arrive with the horde?"
"A few days. He never had your, or your father's power. It will take him at least that much. Until then we just have to be on guard for scouting parties." Rannesh then sat up to face Raven. "Can your team handle themselves? This won't be an easy battle."
"They'll be fine" Raven said before leaving, sounding as unsure as she felt.
With the Titans
"God it's been a strange day!" Beast Boy said as he flopped on the couch with the rest of his team.
"Yo man, you can definitely say that again." Cyborg agreed.
"There is still much I do not understand" Starfire added with a frown.
"That makes two of us Star" Terra said with a nod.
"Everything will make sense in time." Robin reasoned. "Until then we have this Daemen character to worry about. We need to get more information on him if we're going to fight him."
"What do you want to know?" Raven answered as she came into the room joining her team on the couch.
"Well if your 160 how old is he?" Beast boy asked, still having a hard time excepting that Raven was over ten times his age.
"My younger brother is 140. He was born twenty human years after me." Raven said as she filled a teakettle with her powers and put it on the stove.
"How big is his army?" Robin asked.
"About 50,000 strong, 10'000 under the command of one Kagar. My father only used fire sprites because they are stupid, easy to control, willing to serve, and moderately powerful. So that's why there are so few." Raven said.
"So few!" Terra yelled. "That is more enemies than we've ever faced before!"
"Thank you captain obvious." Raven sneered at Terra as she summoned over a cup of tea.
"Raven! Why are you always so mean to Terra?" Beast Boy demanded.
Giving Terra a searing glower Raven said mockingly, "I don't know? Why am I so mean to you Terra? Maybe it's because I'm a mean old witch?" and with a final hate filled look, Raven left calling over her shoulder, "we'll discuss battle plans tomorrow."
There was a long awkward silence until Terra stood up and left, shrugging off Beast Boys attempts to console her, saying with a tight voice, "I'm fine. I'm going to bed."
After Terra had departed there was another awkward silence. Robin then stood up, saying in a commanding voice that made it clear not to argue, "It's been a long day team. I think everyone should go to bed."
Begrudgingly all the teens went to their respective rooms. Letting the sweet relief of sleep seize them. All except two, one prowled the house with glowing white eyes, protecting against enemies, reminiscing about past joys, and the other sat on her bed. Afraid of the memories sleep would bring.