Let me start by saying that I still don't own anything of DC, WB, or well, anything. I'm sorry this took so long to write, but stuff kept coming up. Enjoy.

Ch. 2- Welcome home.

It was almost 3 in the morning and Raven had been sitting in the abandoned subway for almost an hour. She tried to meditate to pass time and to prepare herself for anything, but her mind was still full of the poems she had been reading. She looks up to see a figure standing in front of her. A hand reaches out to help Raven up. Raven is startled to find that the hand belongs to a younger woman.

"Don't be scared child. I am Zelda. My brother, Xeo, told me that you would be waiting here."

"Where is this Xeo?"

Zelda smiles and turns her back to Raven.

"He is at the palace. He is anticipating your arrival Raven. Please follow closely."

Raven opens her mouth to ask another question, but stops as Zelda is surrounded by a black aura that is identical to Ravens. Zelda hold out her hand an opens a portal and turns to Raven.

"This portal will take you to my brothers throne room. Wait for him there."

Raven looks at Zelda and walks into the portal. The portal closes and Zelda's aura fades. As this is happening she takes on Raven's image and begins to laugh.

"Enjoy your time with him Raven. He'll soon be the only friend you have left."

Zelda walks to the stairs leading out of the subway and flies into the night's sky.

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Raven steps into a large throne room that looks as thought it had beenthe living room of Titans Towerwhere a skinny man with long, shaggy, white hair and glowing violet eyes is sitting alone laughing to himself. Raven slowly begins to walk towards him. The man springs from his seat and lands without a sound in front of Raven. He's still laughing to himself.

"Lady's and Gentleman! Let me introduce you to our newest guest!"

Raven looks around and notices that there isn't a single person in this deserted kingdom but herself and this man.

"She has traveled across time and space to join us tonight for this once in a lifetime feast. So tell us young woman. Who are you?"

Raven takes a second to compose herself and sighs.

"My name is Raven, from the Teen Titans. I'm looking for a man named Xeo. I was told by his sister that he would be here."

The man stops laughing and begins to stair hard at Raven. Than he turns and walks over to his throne and falls into the seat like a rag doll being tosses onto a bed by a careless child.

"I am Xeo, King of Jump City. You say you have seen my sister, the back stabbing little… well, anyway. Do you bring news from the past?"

"Umm. I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about. Did you say king of Jump City?"

The man stands up and begins to laugh again.

"You said you had spoken with my sister. Well, she's not my sister, but may as well be. I want to know what happened to her after she slapped this mind control device around my neck and stole my works and fled to the past to destroy the Teen Titans."

Raven is overtaken by a sudden rage. She tries to bottle it up but the walls of the room begin to shake and crumble. The man holds up his hand and begins to chant Raven's spell and she quickly calms down.

"How do you know that spell?"

The man begins to laugh and smiles and dances around the room.

"I really wish I could tell you, but this damn collar took away all my real memories"

Raven holds out her hands and the color flies off of Xeo's neck. Raven's eyes begin to glow and she takes Xeo by the shirt.

"Tell me how you know that spell!"

Xeo eyes turn stone blue and the smile of a mad man quickly fades from his face.

"Zelda's mother told us it when this city was still full of life. When there was still hope for the poor saps that lived here and looked up to the Titans. Before they were all killed."

Raven lets Xeo go and falls to the floor. Overwhelmed by this news she begins to cry and she is amazed to find that nothing is happening due to this release in emotion.

"How? Who? When? I just left the tower a few hours ago."

"You left the Titans years ago. 24 years, 3 months, and 27 days ago to be exact."

Raven looks up with tears in her eyes. Xeo sits down on the floor next to her and wipes away her tears.

"You disappeared without a trace. Later, Slade proclaimed he had killed you one night, but the body was never found. That pushed my father over the edge. He killed Slade and went off on his own to become Nightwing."

"You're Robin's son? Who was your mother?"

"I'll get to that later. After a year, you showed back up out of the blue and settled down. You hung up the cloak and gave up on the idea of fighting for the innocent. You never told us why, but something had changed you. You had a child and began training us. You told my mother, that you wanted us to be the leaders of the new teen titans. Zelda, my surrogate sister, is your daughter. When you died, she swore revenge on the ones you respected most and now she's gone back in time to kill the teen titans."

"Zelda is my… Who is her father?"

Xeo holds out his hand and opens a portal.

"Come on, I can't tell you that. It would totally ruin the surprise. Now go and stop her before she does something that you'll both regret."

Raven looks him in the eyes and kisses him. She begins to walk into the portal.

"You never told me who your mom will be."

"Believe me, You'll find out soon enough."

Raven enters the portal and finds herself back in the subway. She looks back into the portal and hears Xeo's voice fading away.

"Tell my old man, not to kill Slade! I don't want this realm to exist!"

As the portal shuts, Raven nods and a single tear runs down her cheek. She turns to the mouth of the subway and takes flight.

Well, this is it on this chapter. Still short, but it's a little better that the last one. Next chapter coming when I can find time to write it but be ready for the showdown between Zelda and Raven. Oh yeah, and to find out who Xeo's mom is. Later.