"Lord, please give me the right words to say and please forgive me for what I have done." Starfire was praying in the hall. If she was going to save her friends, she'd need help.
Star went into the living room where Cyborg and BB were playing video games and Raven read her book.
"Have any of you seen my Bible?" She asked. The two boys were so into their game they didn't even notice her. Raven didn't look up from her book, but she looked guilty of something.
Starfire gasped. "My... how could you... I..." She was speechless, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Sorry, but it's for your own good." Raven spoke up.
"No, it isn't." Robin entered the room. He knelt down beside Starfire who was gathering the torn pages of her Bible, sobbing. "I know you don't believe in what Starfire does, but you don't have to just go and rip up her Bible."
"Are you saying you believe in her 'savior'?" Raven asked. Robin looked down at Starfire, and then back at Raven.
"Yeah, I do." He replied. Star looked up at him, surprised.
"You... you really do?" She asked him, wiping off the tears on her cheeks. He smiled.
"Of course, and I was wondering if..."
"No!" Raven yelled. "Don't do it! She believes in a false God!"
"He is not false!" Starfire exclaimed, standing up. Raven glared at her again, her eyes turning white.
"Azareth Metron..."
"Raven, please! She's right!" Robin interrupted. Suddenly, lightning flashed and rain began to pour down. This scared Cyborg and Beast Boy half to death and Beast Boy jumped into Cyborg's arms.
"Whoa, that's creepy." Beast Boy remarked.
"Please, Raven, do not do this! Jesus..." Starfire begun.
"I told you never to mention that name again!" Raven threw Starfire into the wall as thunder roared.
"Star!" Raven also blasted Robin into the wall next to her. Beast Boy was hiding under the couch and Cyborg behind a pillow.
"Yo, Raven, what's... AHH!" Raven threw a lamp at him but he dodged it. Raven didn't bother BB, though. She just flew out the door and as far away from the Titans tower as possible.
Beast Boy crawled out from under the couch. "Man, she has issues."
Star sat up and noticed Robin was lying beside her.
"Robin! Are you injured?" She asked him as he, too, sat up.
"I don't think so. Where did Raven go?" Robin asked.
"The farther away the better. That was the freakiest moment in my life!" Beast Boy told them, sitting down on the couch.
"This is all my fault." Starfire cried.
"No, it isn't. You were trying to do what was right." Robin explained. "Raven... I guess she was always in a bad attitude. Maybe she'll come back and give her life to Jesus."
"Well, all we can do now is hope and pray that the Lord will soften her heart." Star sighed.
That Sunday morning Starfire dressed in a purple dress that came to her knees with matching shoes. She combed out her long, red hair and put on a little bit of makeup. Grabbing the Bible she had bought the other day, she hurried down the hallway and into the kitchen where Cyborg was washing the dishes.
"Would you like to come to church with me? I am going to sing in the worship." Starfire asked him.
"I guess so." Cyborg shrugged.
"Ok, it starts in thirty minutes. And it is a long way from here. I'll go see if Robin or Beast Boy wish to go." Starfire flew back into the hallway and to Beast Boy's room first. She knocked on the door.
"Do you want to come to church with me?" She asked.
"Sure! I'll be right out." He replied. Starfire hurried down to Robin's room and did the same thing.
"I'll go. I'd like to hear you sing." He grinned and came out of the room.
Meanwhile, Raven was walking down the sidewalk in the city, ignoring the fans who were squealing and staring at her with wide eyes. She kept on thinking about the scene that had happened with Star and Robin, and tried to get it out of her head.
She also remembered the verse she had read when she destroyed Star's Bible:
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you: plans to give you a hope and a future...'"
Was Jesus really up there? Did he really have plans for her?
"'... You will call upon me and pray to me, and I will listen to you...'"
Would He hear her if she called out to him and apologized? Does he even care about her is he's really there?
"'... you will seek me, and find me when you seek me with all your heart...'"
"Follow me." A voice called to her. Raven jumped and looked around. Everybody else didn't seem to hear it, and they were talking among themselves like nothing happened.
"Follow me." The voice called again. Raven was a little bit scared. Who was talking to her?
"Follow me." The voice grew louder. Was she just hearing things? Was it God who was calling her? Raven suddenly fell to her knees.
"I'm sorry, Lord! Please forgive me!" She cried. People stared, but she didn't even notice. Just then, Raven felt a new peace come inside her. She felt... happy. Really happy, for the first time in her life. She smiled. The Lord had come into her heart. He had forgiven her, and now he and some of his angels were watching her 24/7.
Star was right all along.
"This is the air I breathe, this is the air I breathe," Starfire sang into the microphone. Her three other friends were watching her in the last row, smiling. "Your holy presence, living in me (I don't know if I'm getting the words right or not).
This is my daily bread.
This is my daily bread.
Your very word, spoken, to me
And I... I'm desperate for you
And I... I'm lost without you
This is the air I breathe
This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence
Spoken to me
This is my daily bread
This is my daily bread..."
A figure walked into the room. She pushed back her hood and sat next to Beast Boy. They exchanged smiles.
"... your very word
spoken, to me
And I... I'm desperate for you
And I... I'm lost without you
And I... I'm desperate for you
And I... I'm lost without you
I'm lost without you
This is the air I breathe
This is the air I breathe." After Starfire finished singing, she received a loud applaud from the audience. The pastor then gave a sermon.
"We will be singing one more song before we leave. If you want to give your heart to Jesus, please come and we will pray with you." The pastor explained after the sermon was over.
Music started playing in the background and Robin walked up the aisle. The choir and Star began singing again.
"It's the song of the redeemed, rising from the African plain
It's the song of the forgiven
Drowning out the Amazon rain
The song of Asian believers
Filled with God's holy fire
It's every tribe, every tongue, every nation
A love song born of a grateful choir." After Robin gave his life to Jesus, Cyborg went up the aisle. "It's all God's children singing...
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns
It's all God's children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns." Beast Boy walked up the aisle as Cyborg went back to their row.
"Let it rise above the four winds
Caught up in the heavenly sound
Let praises echo from the towers of cathedrals
To the faithful gathered underground
Or all the songs sung from the dawn of all creation
Some were meant to persist
Of all the bells rung from a thousand steeples
None rings truer than this." To everyone's surprise, Raven went down the aisle and to the pastor after Beast Boy had returned to their row.
"It's all God's children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns
It's all God's children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns
And all the powers of darkness, tremble at what they've just heard
'Cause all the powers of darkness can't drown out a single word." After Raven went back to their spot, the four joined in on the singing.
"When all God's children sing out
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns
All God's people singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, he reigns."
After the song was over, everyone clapped and began to walk out the door. Starfire ran off the stage and hugged Raven.
"Glorious! You have given your heart to Jesus!" She exclaimed. She quickly let go. "Sorry."
"It's ok." Raven smiled. "I'm the one who should be sorry right now. You were right about Jesus. He actually spoke to me."
"He did?" Robin questioned.
"Yeah. And now I've got this sudden peace inside of me."
A few weeks later...
Star and Robin got married. And guess who caught the bouquet (duh!)?
Raven married Beast Boy a little while later. Cyborg... well, he was just happy he was going to be an uncle pretty soon.
But the coolest thing was that the Titans knew no matter where they went, no matter what sin they did, the Lord was always watching over them.