Chapter 1: Breakin:Breakout

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos."

The dark-haired girl was on the roof, meditating. She'd been up there all day for the past three days. And the Titans were getting a bit curious. Or actually only one Titan was. "What is she doing up there!" Beast Boy paced the living room while Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg were watching t.v. "She's been up there all day and won't tell us what she's doing!" Robin looked over his shoulder, "She's meditating on peace. And she sure won't be able to find it if you go up there and bother her." Cyborg seconded, "Yeah, B. Just leave Raven alone. Quit obssessing." Beast Boy looked at him, "Obsessing? You think I'm obsessing? You don't know what obsessing is!"

The green-haired youth walked sullenly away from the group. I'm not obsessing, I'm just a little concerned. Raven meditates all the time and hardly ever talks to us. She doesn't even tell us what she's meditating on! I wish I could know what she's thinking... A lightbulb popped above his head, "Bingo!" He turned the corner and headed for Raven's room.

Meanwhile, said Titan was concentrating deeply by herself. She was trying to evoke a vision although she knew it wouldn't work. Raven stopped levitating, opening her deep purple eyes and staring out into the water, thoughtfully. If she couldn't see the future, she might as well think of the past.

(Raven's Thoughts)

My mother was a human woman by the name of Arella. She was part of an evil cult determined to being Satan to the human world. And then she met that wretched Trigon and by their union I came to be. Born in the dimension of Azarath. They looked into my future and saw my destiny. I was to be the destroyer of the human race. And the prophecy began.

On the anniversary of my birth...

The skies will turn red

Flesh will turn to stone

And the human race will fall.

The prophecy will be fulfilled.

Trigon had high hopes for me. Too bad. I had no intention of becoming like him. During the years of my childhood, he taught me to be like him but then I realized that was not what I wanted to be. So I escaped to Earth and changed myself. I was who I wanted to be. I cut that ridiculous long hair of mine and wore more concealing clothes. I assumed the identity of Raven, the Teen Titan.

But old memories die hard. Before I left Trigon left an imprint of himself on me. When I'm angry, I'm subject to violent fits of rage. I have four red eyes and I just lose contol. So I supress my anger through my meditation. That's how I control it...


The door to Raven's room slid open and Beast Boy slipped inside. "There's got to be something more to Raven around here." There didn't appear to be any light so he walked through the dark. He slid one of Raven's heavy book from her shelf and opened it.

"I can't even read this mess. It's in a totally different language." He closed the book and put it back on tthe shelf then turned over and flopped on Raven's bed checking underneath it. "Every teenager has something under their bed." It was perfectly clean except for a dark spot. He reached in and pulled the object out.

It was a mirror.

Beast Boy recognized it as the mirror that had sucked him and Cyborg into Raven's mind the last time he'd went snooping. In surprise, he jumped back and the mirror slipped from his hand and unto the floor. A split appeared (On the roof, Raven opens her eyes suddenly) across the glass as it turned black and four red eyes appeared. "Oh man," Beast Boy whispered. "Am I gonna get it this time."

Black energy burst from the mirror as a rainbow of colors shot from the broken glass. Beast Boy, totally freaked out, jumped up and ran out into the living room the colors following him. Robin was on his feet, "Beast Boy, what is going on?" The colors swirled past the four Titans and began to take shape.

The shape of Raven.

Raven, in all kinds of different colors. Pink, yellow, green, gray, orange, all with different expressions and demeanors. The living room doors burst open as Raven jumped into the room and looked around. Her eyes went wide with surprise, "What the-" The other Ravens broke apart and deftly started to wreck the place.

Starfire's fist glew green and Cyborg's hand turned from fist to cannon. "Wait!" Raven said. "You can't hurt them. We're the same people. What you do to them, you do to me." Beast Boy worked his way to her, "Raven, do something!" She looked around at them then at him seriously, "Beast Boy, I can't. Oh, what have you done.."