DISCLAIMER: I dun own Teen Titans or ever will. But you guys know which characters I do own.

Hello peoples once again! I just got back from a car race like a hour or two ago! It was SO cool. There was so many crashes it was so good! The first place car had one lap on everyone else and about 3/4 done it's final lap the wheel fell off! So it was driving on three wheels slowly to the finsh line while all the cars passed him. He made it first and about a minute after he crossed the line the fourth tire slowly rolled past the line, it was so funny!

Anyways, I think quoting Monty Python in a story like this was caused due too eating way too many chocolate puddins while watching all the Monty Python movies. They're sooo funny!!!

Anyways, I don't really like this chapter too much. I was too happy while writing it...but anyways,

enjoy,

CHAPTER 7

Scrying

Four days had slowly passed since Raven and Robin's talk in the hallway. He keeps looking at me weirdly, Raven thought after passing Robin going to the living room

Robin turned his head slightly watching Raven's back as she walked the other way in the hall. She almost opened up on Saturday! Grr! I was so close! Why can't she tell anyone anything? Raven has been more moodily since she has been purified by that Azar lady, why can't she talk about it? Robin swung his head back to facing forward as he wandered over to his room. He reached his bedroom and punched in the code, he turned his head slightly to the way he came from half expecting Raven to be standing their with her smirk silently making fun of him for wondering what happens to her when she leaves the tower. Ugh, I'm starting to sound like a parent or something...Robin walked into his room and the door swooshed behind him.

Raven continued down the hallway mindlessly looking out the windows at the noon hour sun.

Finally she reached the living room. Raven walked over to her usual chair picking up her horror book. Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing a racing game and cheering and groaning completely oblivious that Raven was there. "Haha! You can't bet me! And you never will!" Cyborg yelled pushing the buttons with his thumbs at a great speed. "Oh I beg to differ!" BB said he pushed a button giving his car a burst of speed passing Cyborg and the finish line, "What were you saying again?" BB said dancing around with his controller in the air, "Um.... Best ten out of eleven?"

Raven shook her head slightly and muttered under her breath, "Boys."

Suddenly the door bell rang, the bell ringing through out the whole tower, "Um..." Raven said quietly as BB and Cy ignored it and started playing another round of that mindless and stupid video game.

"I'll just get it myself," She said as she walked briskly to the door.

"Hel-...?" Raven said looking around, no one was out there. Looking down she spotted it. Lying on the door mat was a large brown envelope with her name on it. Raven stared at it with some kind of fixed horror. Come on Rae, it just a freaking envelope just look inside. Who knows it may not have pictures in to think of it, it has bumps...Raven said placing a hand on the envelope, If it was pictures it would be smooth right?

Raven peeked for a second; both Cy and BB were still playing the video game. She picked up the package carefully and walked inside, "Yo Rae! Who was it?" Cyborg asked calling over his shoulder. Raven stood in her tracks trying to think of something, "Uh, some one trying to...sell us something..." she finished off. Nice excuse, she thought sarcastically. "Oh," he said looking back at the screen not paying attention to Raven anymore. Raven slipped out of the living room into the hall. She sat down leaning against the cool metal wall and took the envelope from her cloak. With a shaking hand she opened the seal and looked inside then gasped. She reached in and pulled out a expensive bracelet. This must be priced in the hundreds, Raven said staring at it. Surprisingly it wasn't in one of those velvet cases. Raven looked in again, there were also pictures. She pulled one out; it was of her meditating in her room. I was right, there was someone there. It did little to reinsure her though as an empty feeling slowly started to form in her stomach.

A red flashing light flooded the halls and Robin's voice came on the intercom, "Titans, trouble!"

Raven tore her eyes from the picture. Biting her lip she stuffed the pictures and bracelet into the envelope again. She raced down the hallway to her room. Then punching in the code then levitating the envelope over to her desk. There it lay next to the letter she gotten during Christmas. It read:

Dear Raven,

Your soul was once a beautiful thing, but now stained with the blood of others which you just forgotten like it were a bad dream. But, I was there. It was no dream, I felt pain I felt anger and I hope you suffer like you made me do.

But yet, your soul was once a beautiful. Now it drags people in torturing them slowly and painfully. Captivating people. But I am one of the lucky few that survived that pull. You think you control me? Think again, I control you. I know what you are doing at any time of the day.

Though I know I control you, you still captivate me. Your beautiful form and logical mind is beauty I know not from another being. You are mine...don't forget it...

The short letter had sent shivers down her spine before and probably still. Just the thought of someone watching her every move was disturbing enough but saying that she belongs some freaky stalker guy that was probably writing these letters from behind a dumpster or something was even more disturbing.

Raven shook it out of her system and continued to run down to the garage were the titans were piling up in.

The ride from the tower was short and uneventful.

Cyborg parked the car in front of a jewelry store located near the 'scary' part of the city. Raven narrowed her eyes and looked at the place from the outside, there was no sign of anyone that broke in or anything like that. No busted windows or anything, They probably walked through the door or something and threatened to shoot or something.

The titans rushed in, there didn't seem to be anything really busted up except for the lock on the display case. Robin walked over to the display case, "Look like they just took the stuff and r- OOF!" Robin tripped over a cowering man that was lying on the floor behind the case.

The man stood up slowly, looking at the titans. He sighed a breath of relief. "Who are you and what happened here?" Robin asked the man staring at the man. The man fiddled with his fingers nervously, "I'm Edward Jones and I work here. A few minutes ago a teenage boy just appeared and demanded for me to hand over the 18K golden bracelet and the 20K golden ruby locket. I refused and hit the button signaling you guys. Well..." the man saying taking a breath, "He got mad and the lock literally exploded and the necklace and bracelet went flying to him then he disappeared again. If the store doesn't get them back we'll go bankrupt. Together they're priced around nine hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars."

Raven's eyes widened remembering the bracelet on her desk. Beast Boy's eyes were wide also, ," he spoke in a slowly voice just imaging it. "Ew man, tofu is nasty!" Cyborg said facing BB bringing him out of his fantasy.

"Please friends let us focus on the terrible tragedy that was placed here," Starfire said putting a hand on BB's shoulder and one on Cy's.

"Face it, we have no real leads," Raven said leaning against the wall with crossed arms, her violet eyes observing the room.

"Maybe...maybe not," Robin said, "Jones told us that it was a teenage boy with powers right? That's something to go one. Plus," Robin said turning to Raven, "Maybe you could get a premonition or something?" Robin said shrugging.

"I can't totally control premonitions..."Raven said biting her lip, "But I could try scrying I guess, see if I can get any really strong emotion clues or something," Raven said shrugging at Robin's half smile, "Maybe it could link to what happened?" she said in a tone more like she was asking Robin.

She walked over to the case, I suppose I should try scrying the lock since the shop keeper said it exploded with he got mad... Raven knelt down beside the shattered lock pieces. She sighed, I really hope this works I've never really tried scrying before...

Raven closed her eyes and focused her mind on the lock, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," she mumbled the prayer. Images flashed against her eye lids. The boy had dark red hair and piercing aqua green eyes, he seemed familiar but Raven devoted most of her attention on seeing the rest of the events. The dark red haired boy screamed something that was muffled and low sounding to her ears and a sudden pain shot up her arm that was touching a shard as the lock exploded in her vision. She also witnessed the boy levitating the bracelet and necklace then vanish.

Hello Raven we meet again. The words echoed through her mind, it wasn't her voice it was the voice of... "Acerbus," she mumbled.

Very good Raven, don't forget what I said: you belong to me... Raven realized not only was she connected to his mind but him to hers. He was sorting through her memorizes! Raven focused her mind on straggling the strange force inside her mind. But Acerbus sent a wave of feelings like hatred and hurt through her mind casing the windows to glow black then explode, glass flying everywhere.

Raven opened her eyes and broke the connection. The titans removed her sheltering hands away from faces and stared at her. "So...were you successful?" Star asked the first to move. "Uh...yeah,"

"Please do not keep us in waiting, please share your information!" Starfire said happily.

"His name is Acerbus, he's from Azarth,"

"Not much but at least something to go on..." Robin said.

Raven slipped out from the store and sat down on the curve. She sighed as she rubbed her temples. Rae heard the door opening of the small jewelry store. Robin sat down beside Raven, "What happened?" he asked hoping for at least one thread of the truth.

Well, let's see: my stalker and former pupil in Azarth knows everything about me, he stole the bracelet for me...which I have sitting on my desk and then he tried to look in my memorizes I hoped he didn't see the one of Azar dying in front of me that would just add to his list of reasons to kill me...

"I saw what happened in the store nothing major just a usual break in,"

"That doesn't explain why the windows exploded,"

"I was just angry,"

"Why?"

"I was angry that someone would steal something worth that much money...nothing big okay?" Raven said standing up, "Look, Raven..." Robin said in a soft caring voice, "Can we drop it okay?" Rae said in a quiet voice, "I just want to be alone."

Tee-hee I can't wait for the next chapter!!!

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