Hey! sorry to keep U guys waiting! Writer's block! I promise to make my chapters longer this time!

Chapter 4: Gemstones

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After the teen Titans finally got back to the tower, there were questions bustling about. Everybody was busy doing research, trying to figure out what the paculiar battle was trying to tell them. All except for Raven, that was. She was too overwhelemed with everything. She needed to clear her mind. So she decided to retire to her room and meditate.

The other four Titans were in the lab researching what they could find.

"I found a piece of something at the battle scene," Said BB "But I can't figure out what it is."

"Put it under the scanner." Robin said. Beast Boy did so, and it apeared on the very large computer screen. Cyborg typed on the keyboard and the image enlarged.

Robin studied it carefully. "Good, now let's try and fill in the blanks." he said.

The picture of the piece of stome filled out into a well-shaped, marroon red stone with gold around the frame.

"Look familiar?" Cyborg asked. "Raven's chakrah stone!" Starfire realized.

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Raven lit candels in her dim room as the music in her head played. She meditated silently on her bed. She fell into her deep trance where her own little world she used to get away from everything. But she kept pulling herself out with more desturbing thoughts.

"They're never going to truste me again if they figure out." She thought, "I've worked so hard to earn their trust, and I can't lose it now if they figure out too much about me. But they're my friends. They'll trust me with anything, won't they? Beast Boy will trust me, won't he? But it's too risky. Who knows what they'll think. I just want them to trust me. The Teen Titans is the best thing that ever happened to me. I can't loose that now."

Her thoughs strayed her out of meditation and soon grew tired. She decided just to lay down and go into deep thought. "Beast Boy. He cares about me so much, and I don't even bother to thank him. But I do appreciate all he helps me with. I love it when he gets mad when I diss his jokes. He gets kinda cute when he's mad..."

Just then, three candels exploded as soon as this thought entered her mind.

"What am I thinking?!?!" She said out loud to herself. Her thoughts were getting out of control. "I need some serious training tomorrow." she gave herself a mental note. She still thought more and soon drifted off to sleep dreaming about the trust in her friends, her personal problems and secretly... Beast boy holding her. When another explosion in her room woke her up.

"Shit!"

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The next morning, Cyborg and BB were arguing over breakfast as usual, Robin was up half of the night researching, and Starfire was making a mess in the kitchen and burning everything, putting together all kinds of ingredients ofr her home made breakfast. Raven came down to pour out her herbal tea, and sat down.

"No tofu crap today! I'm cooking real bacon and eggs!" Cyborg shouted

"Dude! Do you know how many pigs they murder to make a single pack of bacon? It's inhuman!" Beat Boy defended.

"Hmm... I wonder if I could put meant and tofu in the same pancakes..." Starfire said to herself while fooling around with recipies.

The boys just looked at her in a disqusting way. raven rolled her eyes and continued to read her Edgar Allen Poe book. Robin had his head down on the table and was snoozing with his head next to his orange juice.

Beast Boy tossed her the put-together jewl. "I think you lost this last night when we were fighting Dr. Light."

Raven took the stone and examined it in her hands. "Thanks." she replied. BB smiled.

"But we still don't have any clue about what happened last night." Cyborg pointed out. Raven was still examining the stone. Something did not look right.

"This isn't mine." she interupted.

"What do you mean? You wear those jewl things all the time." Beast Boy said puzzled. Starfire then came over to see if they had found anything out. While she was at it, she tapped on Robin's head to wake him up so he could listen.

"My chakrah stone is different from this. When you hold it up to the light, you should see a figure of a black Raven on the gemstone. This one has...... f-four red eyes...." she studdered.

"Let me see!" Starfire asked. She handed her the stone and held it up to the light. Four red eyes flashed at her. as if they were alive in the stone. "Eeek! She's right."

Everybody looked confussed now. "And this is a problem because...??" Cyborg asked.

Raven stood up from her chair. "You guys go look it up in the library to see if you could fin out something. I need to train up a little. My powers are getting out of hand again." she said rubbing her temples.

"You sure you don't need help?" Beast Boy asked.

"I told you Beast boy, I'm fine. You don't need to worry about me." She lied

But Raven really needed more help than ever. She was loosing control and afraid of loosing her friend's trust all in one. She was glad that Beast Boy cared about her. Infact, she wanted him to. But she couldn't risk letting any secrets out. She needed somebody to turn to.

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"Did you find anything yet?" Cyborg asked when they were at the library.

"Nope. I'm looking as much as I can for anything on chakrahs." Robin said as he and Starfire were scanning through pages of books. They were at the public library, trying to look up information on this chakrah, since Raven wouldn't tell them.

"Man! I can't believe I let you talk me into coming here! this place gives me the creeps! It's too quiet!" BB began to shout. He then heard other people going "SSSHHH!!!" to him. "Hehe, sorry!" he said in a whisper.

"I have found pages on rubies, ambers, and even Scentari moon diamonds from my home planet! But nothing on this type of chakrah." Starfire said. She then opened up an old legends and myths book. She gasped and said "Wait! I think I have discovered something! I found a picture of it!"

The boys gathered around the book.

"That's it, alright." Robin said when he saw the picture "The legend says it belonged to some kind of demon from another demension, named Trigon."

"The stone was passed down to its unknown offspring who was half-human. Trigon spread his demonic heritage by planting seeds into others creating the evil to grow inside them." Beast Boy said, reading from the book.

"The stone represented the people of the unknown demension in-which his people came from" Starfire also read from the book

"Hmm. I wonder if Raven knows anything about this." Cyborg wondered.

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Well? Was that long enough for you? lol I'm getting so many ideas as I go along! Please review! It makes me feel happy! Any sudgestions at all! Really, I don't mind! Thanx!