Chapter Seven

Having turned so they was facing the person who had called out Robin's name, the three Titans having hoped that it was Raven let out a collective sigh of disappointment when they saw it was Chief Dalton. Once the chief had reached them, Robin addressed him before adding that they was in a hurry.

Chief Dalton nodded to that and said "Then I won't keep you any longer then necessary. I am just needing to go over a few things with you, involving the young woman you spoke to Robin." Robin nodded to that, and asked him what he needed to know? "First of all, I would like to know what happened when Raven showed up and joined you?"

Robin sighed at that since he didn't have time for the full explanation of what has occurred so far. So he gave a simple run down, saying "As it turns out sir, the one you had in custody was the real Raven while the one who came here with Starfire, was an imposter who had taken on Raven's appearance as well as her powers." This caused the chief to sigh, and ask where the imposter was now?

Robin looked over at Starfire and Cyborg for a moment, before looking back to the chief and telling him about what Beast Boy had told them concerning the imposter Raven's abduction. The chief then asked if they knew who was responsible for the imposter's abduction? Robin told him that they didn't know who the kidnapper was, but they did know where the imposter Raven was taken. The chief then asked "Is there anything that I can do to assist you?" Robin simply asked him, where the real Raven was? "I'm afraid that she has left. She came to me saying you was finished speaking with her, and since I couldn't officially hold her I let her go with a summons to return at a later date so she could pay the fines against her." Robin sighing at that, then asked the chief if he knew where Raven had gone? Chief Dalton shook his head no.

Robin then turned so he was facing Starfire, and said "Starfire, find Raven as quickly as possible." Starfire gave him a nod of her head, and took off. Once Starfire was gone, Robin turned back to the chief and said "Once this situation is resolved Chief Dalton, I'll come back and fill you in on what is going on." Not waiting for a reply, Robin quickly turned away from the chief and with a shout of "Let's go!" he took off running with Cyborg following him.

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After her talk with Chief Dalton and having given him some random information on how to find her, Raven made her way out of the police station with a sigh of relief that for the most part this horrible day was over for her. She then took a look down at her current attire, and with another sigh mumbled "At least no one will recognize me and hound me with questions." Shoving her hands inside the pockets of the hoodie that she was wearing, Raven started walking with no real destination in mind.

Some time later, she was making her way through a residential area lost in her thoughts. She was brought out of those thoughts, when the sound of crying reached her ears. Following the sound, Raven soon came upon the source and found a older woman with brown hair standing over a younger girl who was down on the ground crying her eyes out about something.

Raven started to intervene and help the young girl. Before she could do so, the brown haired woman moved slightly and Raven saw another girl that was identical to the one that was crying. The brown haired woman then pointed to the crying girl, and shouted "What is the matter with you Racheal?!" Raven found this kind of odd for a moment, before the woman continued with "Why are you so mean to your sister?" in a slightly calmer voice, followed by "Do you want attention so badly, that you would harm Rachel just to get it?"

Racheal simply huffed at that, and mumbled "It's all her fault for being born first, and getting all of the attention." At those words Raven was suddenly hit with a very strong pain in her head. The pain was so bad, that it caused her to cry out and drop to her knees.

At the sound of Raven crying out in pain, the brown haired woman quickly turned away from her children to see what was happening. Catching sight of Raven down on her knees, the woman told her children to get inside the house, before running towards Raven. On reaching the young red heads side, the woman placed a hand on Raven's shoulder and asked "What's wrong?" Raven however was overcome by the pain, and instead of answering the woman's question she passed out. Raven would have fallen to the ground, if not for the woman quickly caching her.

As the woman gently placed Raven down on the ground so she could go for help, the young empathy was reliving something she had seemingly forgotten.

Flashback

As two young children ran around seemingly playing, a older woman with long purple hair stood a short distance away watching the two children with a happy smile upon her face. Sometime later the two children stopped running around, and seemed to be talking to one another in whispered tones. Being curious about this, the older woman made her way over to the children and "What are you two whispering about?"

Seemingly realizing that they were caught, the two children looked up at the woman with identical expressions as they asked "Mom can we go explore the city?"

This seemed to surprise the woman, for she was quite for some minutes. Feeling a couple of tugs on the robe she was wearing, must have snapped the woman out of her thoughts for she looked down at her children and asked "Why do you want to go explore the city, when you can see all of it from here?"

The two children looked at each other for a moment, before looking back to their mother and one of them saying "It's not the same, as going out there and seeing it Mom."

This was followed by the other child saying, "We promise to be careful, Mom."

Though it broke her heart to do it, the woman said "I am really sorry girls, but you two know that Azar has forbidden you from leaving here." This caused looks of sadness to appear on both of the children's faces. While she had a feeling that it wouldn't do any good, the woman hated to see her children sad. With a sigh, she called out "Raven? Racheal?" which caused the two girls to look up. "I'm not going to promise you anything, but I will go speak with Azar about letting the two of you go out into the city."

A sudden look of happiness appeared on the girls faces, as they both embraced their mother and shouted "Thank you mother!" from Racheal, and "Thank you, Arella!" from Raven.

Glad that her children were no longer sad, Arella told them to go play while she went and spoke to Azar. The two children nodded, and ran off so they could play. Arella watched them for a few moments, before turning away with a sad sigh.

End Flashback

Feeling something cool and damp being placed on her forehead, Raven groaned a bit. Hearing a soft "Are you awake?" come from someone close by, Raven opened her eyes and looking to her left found the brown haired woman from before sitting beside her. Raven tried to sit up, but her head still hurts and she was forced to close her eyes as a whimper of pain escaped her lips.

Though she was in pain, Raven managed to ask "Who are you?"

The woman said "You can call me Mrs. Sparks." Raven gave a very small nod of her head at that, and the woman followed up with "Can you tell me your name?"

Raven started to answer with Raven, but remembering that she currently didn't look like herself she said "My names Rachel Roth."

While there was no vocal reply, Raven did hear a soft brush of something and assumed that Mrs. Sparks had simply nodded. There was a few moments of silence after that, before it was broken by "Do you have any family that I could contact for you, and let them know where you are, Miss Roth?"

Although she now knew that her apparent double had been telling the truth about being her sister, thanks to her current headache, Raven simply said " I don't have any family here in Jump City." since she didn't know how to contact Racheal.

This was followed by a soft sigh, and the sound of Mrs. Sparks apparently getting to her feet. This was confirmed by the sound of footsteps, leaving the bedside. A few moments later, Raven heard "I won't kick you out Miss Roth, but as soon as you are able to do so I would like it best if you left." Before Raven could say anything in reply to this, the sound of footsteps was again heard and soon followed by a door being closed.

With a sigh, Raven raised her arm and as she placed her hand over the cloth on her forehead, she mumbled "Really could use my healing powers right now." She then closed her eyes, and said "I hope you are okay, sis."

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Not to long after Mylynn had left, Racheal noticed that the flow of demons coming from the portal slowed somewhat, before stopping completely. With a small smirk, Racheal thought 'Looks like Mylynn still needs practice.'

Taking a look around at all of the demons around her, and finding that none of them was looking in her direction, Racheal took advantage of this and looked down to see what she was bound with. Finding out that she was simply bound by magic, Racheal let out a small sigh of disappointment before thinking 'How foolish are you, Mylynn?'

Before doing anything to free herself, Racheal raised her head so she could once again check the demons locations, as well as see if any were watching her. Having fully raised her head, Racheal let out a gasp of surprise when she found that she was alone on the alter. Taking this as more of Mylynn's inexperience with her magic, Racheal was about to try and free herself when she heard. "Man, this place gives me the creeps."

A few moments later, a familiar green teen appeared and Racheal cried out "Beast Boy!" This was followed by a whispered "Thank Azar, you're not Raven."

As Beast Boy made his way towards her, Racheal noticed the look of confusion on his face. Before she could ask him about it though, he asked "Who exactly are you?"

Racheal let out a small sigh, before saying "Beast Boy, I promise you I will explain everything to you. But first, we need to get out of here."

Beast Boy however crossed his arms over his chest and growled out, "We are not going anywhere until I get some answers!"

Racheal started to shout at him that they didn't have time for this. But before she could do so, a voice came from behind Beast Boy that said "You're not who I expected boy, but you will prove useful."

Not seeing the pleading look upon Racheal's face, Beast Boy turned to face the person directly behind him. He managed to only say "Rav…" before a sudden sharp pain ran through his abdomen. Looking down at the jewel encrusted dagger, Beast Boy managed a soft "why?" before he was pushed away by Mylynn, and fell to the ground landing on his back.

As a cry of "Beast Boy!" rang throughout the chamber from Racheal, a smirk crossed Mylynn's lips as she looked over at Racheal and found her body covered by red tattoos.

"It is now time, for the earth to die." With this said, Mylynn began a very familiar incantation. "The gem was born of evils fire…."

End of Chapter Seven

Bold Numbers:

The first number deals with the part above it, as well as the part under it. I had considered having Raven be the one who called out to Robin, but then I decided to give Raven a different part which was the part following the number one.

Number two. This number again goes with the parts above and below it. I was going to add more to the flashback part, but figured to just end it there and see if I can add more for it later. On the lower part, I had planned to start with it since it starts where I left off last chapter. But with the other parts, it seemed better to make it the ending for this chapter.