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~*Chapter 2*~

Raven stood, staring at what looked like her ten-year-old dead sister. Ebony? It wasn't possible. Ebony had died during a battle with Blackfire, Starfire's older sister. Raven could actually feel her dying when she held her hand for the last time. The Galactic Hospital had called Raven, confirming that Ebony was dead, but now she was standing right in front of her very eyes! How? There was no way Ebony could bring herself back to life. She was dead! You can't use power when you're dead! At least that's what Raven thought. She decided to test that. She stepped forward.

"Ebony?"

"Yes?"

It spoke again! But how? Could ghosts speak?

"Is that you?" Raven asked, stepping a little bit closer.

"Of course it's me!" Ebony replied. "Who else would I be?"

"A ghost?" Raven said, half asking, half-sure.

"Why would I be a ghost?" Ebony slightly shrugged.

"You died after the battle with Blackfire." Raven said, pointing her index finger out slightly. "The Galactic Hospital called me and everything!"

"If I was a ghost, could I do this?" Ebony asked. She leapt forward and caught Raven in a warm embrace. She hugged her big sister tight as if she hadn't seen her in years.

"Um," Raven mumbled.

"I'm not a ghost. I didn't fall through you." Ebony remarked, letting go of Raven. "I might have died for a little while in hospital, but I was able to gain back strength and return to life! Somehow, I guess word never got to you. Oh well. The important thing is that I'm back. It's a miracle!"

{I already got my miracle.} Raven thought. She sighed and looked towards Ebony. "I have a hard time believing that you did that on your own. You were the weakest little thing I had ever seen when the paramedics loaded you up and zoomed off to the hospital."

"Are you saying I'm not strong?" Ebony crossed her arms and looked at Raven stubbornly.

"No!" Raven replied a little too quickly. "I'm just saying that it was amazing how you were able to come back to life."

"Isn't it?" Ebony asked. "Now, come on! I want to surprise the rest of the Titans and have a party!"

Ebony ran inside Titans Tower with the biggest smile in the world across her face. She was practically skipping.

{There's no way Ebony could have come back to life.} Raven thought. {It's just not possible! Maybe an older, more experienced person of our race, but definitely not a ten-year-old girl! Who helped her?}

From his new hideout, Slade sat in a chair, watching a monitor. It read 'heartbeat' at the top, 'body functions' in the middle, and 'lifeline' at the bottom. He watched each label have a line underneath it that beeped and moved.

"She seems okay," he stated. "At first, I wasn't so sure about this plan, but now I see that it's fool proof."

"Excuse me, Sir," the butler began. "But those you asked for have arrived."

"Excellent," Slade grinned underneath his mask. "I shall greet them."

Slade got up and walked into shadows. After a moment, he walked back out with a few people following him.

"I am pleased that you all could come," Slade greeted. "Please, make yourselves comfortable."

One person crossed his arms.

"Is this about those Teen Titans?" he asked. "Those duckies were once my students until they tore apart my school."

"They make me sick," another one said stubbornly. "Come, Brother, we are wasting our time."

"On the contrary," Slade corrected the other person. "This will not waste your time. I believe I have discovered a plan to get rid of them once and for all."

"Keep talking," another one ordered. "Perfection doesn't have all day."

"I do not wish to talk all day," Slade explained. "Just listen. You might like what you hear. I have found a way to bring a dead body back to life."

"Gross!" a mid-sized one cried. "Bad luck's not supposed to happen to me, you know! I just do that to whoever I face."

"What would the bad luck be?" Slade asked, curious.

"Me hearing something disgusting like that," the mid-sized one replied.

"I do not mean to disgust you," Slade continued. "I simply mean to tell you the facts. This awakening is crucial to the Titans. The one I awakened is a loved one of theirs. It's a perfect distraction."

"Where do we fit in?" a tiny one asked. "I can't pull the strings on a dead person."

"You won't be," Slade said calmly. "You'll be pulling the strings of the Titans. It's as simple as that."

"I get it!" another small one exclaimed. "Wow. I didn't even need a machine to get that one."

"It's the perfect plan," Slade insisted. "The Titans will never suspect anything about a ten-year-old girl they love more than anything."

The rest of the people laughed evilly. Slade folded his hands and narrowed his eyes.

At Titans Tower, the place was quiet, mostly because Beast Boy's mouth was still covered by Raven's shield. Cyborg and Robin silently munched on scrambled eggs while Starfire was still upstairs, panicking about Blackfire having no star bolts. Beast Boy sat on the couch, desperate to speak and pondering about tofu pancakes.

"Hey, where'd Raven go?" Cyborg asked, biting into a piece of toast.

"She was here just a second ago," Robin began. "I think she went outside."

"What do you suppose she was doing out there?"

"I don't know. Maybe she's started some weird exercise program."

"Why do I highly doubt that?" Cyborg asked matter-of-factly.

Without any warning, the front door to Titans Tower opened, and there stood Raven with an expression of shock on her face. She didn't need to explain why. Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy saw what had gotten Raven so freaked.

"Good morning, Titans!" Ebony greeted. "Did you all sleep well?"

"I'm still sleeping," Cyborg said shakily. "I'm dreaming."

Ebony smiled and walked down to the kitchen table where the two boys had stopped munching on breakfast.

"You're not dreaming, silly!" she cheered. "Why would you want to be dreaming right now?"

"I wouldn't. I mean, I don't! I, uh," Cyborg stumbled over his words. "I'm just a little surprised."

"Me, too," Robin added. "Ebony, didn't you die a few days ago?"

"I can't remember," Ebony sighed. "Maybe it was just a bad nightmare we've all experienced. I'm here. I'm alive."

Beast Boy was throwing a rage as he came up to Robin, Cyborg, Raven, and Ebony. His arms were flailing in the air and he was definitely screaming inside Raven's dark shield.

"Big Sister, did you try to shut Beast Boy up just for wanting to make tofu pancakes?" Ebony asked. She stretched out an arm and made the black shield disappear.

"EBONY!!! OH, MY GOD!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!" Beast Boy's shouts could've broken the sound barrier if they were any louder.

"Calm down!" Ebony ordered. "Take a deep breath and calm down."

Beast Boy stopped and did as Ebony told him.

"Do you feel better now?"

"I'm fine," Beast Boy reassured. "I'm just so shocked and surprised and happy and excited all at the same time."

Ebony smiled big and hugged her friend.

"I missed you," she said warmly. "I missed the rest of the Titans, too. I know I've been away."

"Hold up!" Raven spoke up. "Ebony, you said we were in a bad nightmare and that you were never dead. If your body hasn't been awakened somehow, why are you saying that you went somewhere?"

"Gee, Raven, why do you always have to go and ruin a good time for everyone?" Beast Boy asked stubbornly. "It's like you can't find any of the good things in life!"

"He does have a point," Robin agreed.

"It's a good one," Cyborg added.

Raven ignored the comments the other Titans were giving. All of her energy was focused on Ebony. She gave her little sister the death stare and turned so that she couldn't her silently curse at her.

"Big Sister?"

"Don't talk to me," Raven ordered. She walked up the stairs, through the halls, and back up to her room.

In Raven's room, she was punching her pillow to get rid of her anger.

"Stupid little sister!" she shouted, throwing her right arm into her pillow. "I know you're hiding something! People don't just come back alive!"

She threw her pillow up in the air and ripped it in half with her telekinesis.

"Why couldn't she just die, and leave me the hell alone??? I would've remembered her in spirit! Is this some sort of punishment I get for missing her?" She started yelling out every burden and problem building inside of her.

Suddenly, there was a knock on her door. Raven locked it with telekinesis.

"Raven?" Are you occupying your room at the time?" Starfire gently rapped on the door.

"Go away!" Raven screamed.

Starfire felt her stubbornness growing inside of her. She used a star bolt to melt the lock, and she walked inside the room.

"Raven, I have heard the news about Ebony," she began, "and I am quite thrilled that she is here."

"Yeah, so is everybody else," Raven said willfully. "Now get out of my room!"

"I wish to make one last statement," Starfire said gently. "I do not believe that Ebony came back here by herself."

"You don't?" Raven asked, her voice getting less mean.

"People do not just appear after dying," Starfire declared. "I am certain that the people of your world do not have the ability to rise from the dead."

"They don't."

"That's what I mean!"

"Maybe an extremely experienced person of our race with a long history in revival could," Raven began, "but definitely not my ten-year-old sister."

"I agree," Starfire said, putting her hands behind her back. "That's why I think someone is behind the awakening of Ebony. Perhaps someone we have faced in the past has come back with a new plan."

"It's not Blackfire!" Raven shouted too quickly.

"I do not believe that Sister is behind this," Starfire reassured. "I believe Slade has something to do with this strange happening."

Raven got up off her bed and walked towards her fellow Titan.

"What does Slade want with Ebony?" she asked.

"I do not know, but I am certain that he has come up with a new, clever plan," Starfire said regretfully. "I can feel it."

"You've been practicing meditation lately, haven't you?"

"Yes!" Starfire exclaimed. "Isn't it wonderful?"

"Sure, whatever," Raven huffed.

"Well, what I mean to say is, I shall have my eyes open to keep a lookout for anything suspicious that might be happening with Ebony," Starfire finished.

"Uh, thanks."

Raven closed the door to her room.

~*End of Chapter Two*~