Alright. The first chapter was pretty intense but it had to be done to set up the story. Now we move onward… About 15 years onward! A quick VERY IMPORTANT note:- Flashbacks are in italics…. Otherwise I doubt this will make this much sense…

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Chapter 2:- Awakening

Raven ran through the trees, her breathing came heavy. They were behind her. All of them. They were chasing her.

She ran harder, quickly turning back to see if they were still there. They were. Then suddenly, she ran into something. She doubled back and looked up at the gigantic figure before her. A man clad in full body armor, and his face hidden in a black and orange mask with only one visible eye.

"Remember me?" came a deep, drawling voice from under the mask. Raven gasped and walked backwards, tripping over her own feet into another man. This one wearing a long, black coat and a black balaclava, two pistols gripped firmly in his hands.

Raven gasped again and ran to her left, but was stopped by a gray-haired man with white and yellow robes and bright red glowing eyes. She doubled back, but was cut off by a long-haired teenager with a remote control clenched tightly in his hands.

Raven fell into the center and stared around as others began to appear. A blue-skinned magician. A huge red and yellow robot. A beast made of electricity. A boy in a red robotic suit. A giant heart with tentacles. A man in a black suit with a yellow light bulb emblem. All so familiar yet so distant, and all so intimidating.

More people showed up to surround her. Hundreds of people. And soon they closed in, slow and terrifying. They all hated her. They all wanted to see her blood on their hands.

"Time to die, Titan," they all said in unison.

She crouched down in a feeble attempt to protect herself and clenched her eyes shut.

"NO!" came a booming voice. "She's mine!"

Raven's eyes snapped open as a huge, clawed red hand came down upon her attackers, sweeping them all aside in one swift motion, before grabbing Raven and bringing her eye level with a tremendous red beast with four glowing red eyes. She struggled pathetically against the tremendous strength of the beast that held her in its grip.

"RAVEN!" came a cry as a figure pummeled into the beast's face, knocking it down. Its hand unclenched and Raven fell hurtling towards the ground. She shut her eyes in fear.

But she felt talons grasp around her and heard the flapping of wings above her. Then, the talons set her gently on the ground and she looked up to see her rescuer.

He had shoulder-length hair that blew in the wind, and green skin all over his body. His fingers were claws, and his eyes a deep emerald, but nonetheless he gave off a good aura, one that made Raven feel like laughing.

He offered her a hand, and she took it and climbed to her feet.

"Thank you…"

"What are friends for?"

"Friends? You mean you don't hate me?"

"I never hated you Raven."

"How did you know my name?"

"You think you're alone Raven… But you're not. You're never alone."

"What?"

"You're never alone."

He disappeared into black, and Raven was left alone in a sucking vortex of darkness, with nothing else except that voice.

"Never alone. Never." It echoed throughout never losing its volume or intensity.

"Never… never… never…"

Alone… So alone. And so cold. With nothing but that voice. His voice.

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Jump City Public Hospital, 6:41pm, May 23rd 2020.

The green line on the screen slowly intensified. Each second the arches grew larger, the beeps accompanying them became louder and faster.

"Oh my God! She's waking up!" yelled a nurse.

"Take her off life support! Quickly!" screamed a doctor frantically.

The nurse ran to the side of the bed and flicked the switch, the iron lung immediately ceased its relentless rhythm.

"Patient's name is Raven. No second name listed. Been here since 2005. Was put in a coma by a bullet to the head," read the nurse from Raven's file.

"Where's the bullet wound?" asked the confused doctor, looking down at his patient's flawless face.

"Heart rate's beginning to slow down again."

"Get me that defibrillator," said the doctor pointing. The nurse quickly spun the dial on the main machine, and the doctor wielded the two electrified pads above Raven's chest.

"Clear!" he yelled, pushing downward with the pads and letting a surge of electricity flow through Raven's body. It immediately seized, and let out a circular blast of black magic that threw the doctor through the window and into the lobby and the nurse crashing into the wall.

The magic quickly dissipated with a resounding bang, and Raven's eyes snapped open and she sat bolt upright in her bed.

The nurse groggily opened her eyes and groaned. Raven span to see her and asked: "Are you alright?"

"Yes… Are you?"

"I'm fine…"

The nurse remained silent.

"Where am I?"

"You don't remember?"

"No…"

Something stirred inside her head and she grasped it in pain.

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"Raven!" yelled Beast Boy dashing towards her in the form of a cheetah.

Raven looked up at the villain standing above her. The pistol was leveled towards her head. He wore a grim smile on his face, then he pulled the trigger.

The gunshot hung in the air, echoing without stop.

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"Wait… I was shot…" said Raven.

"Yeah," replied the nurse. "Although your memory was seriously fragmented, Dr. Stievo said you'd suffer sudden memory recoveries whenever something reminds you of your past. He also said that segments of your past may appear in your dreams."

Raven was instantly reminded of the huge four-eyed beast that grabbed her in her most recent dream. "They were real?"

"Most possibly."

"Then who was that green man who saved me?" said Raven, pondering her thoughts to herself.

"A green man?"

"Yes."

"Do you mean this man?" asked the nurse pulling a picture from Raven's file. He stood about six foot two, with shoulder-length hair, green skin, clawed hands and emerald eyes.

"Yes… That's him."

"He's been paying for your room for fifteen years."

"Fifteen years?"

"Yeah. You were out of it for a while. You may find you look very different than you used to."

Raven span on her bed, and looked at the mirror on the wall. Though it was broken from the force of the magic, she could easily see she did not look the same. She was about five foot nine, in an awful hospital outfit, and long, flowing indigo hair. Her eyes had become a deep scarlet, which gave her a dark and disturbing look, and the jewel in the center of her forehead glowed an eerie purple.

"I have to get out of these clothes," she said.

The nurse chuckled. "I can get someone to get some for you in town."

"Thank you," said Raven, climbing out of her bed.

"Aren't your powers working?" asked the nurse.

"What?"

"Your powers?"

"What powers?"

"The powers you used to subconsciously throw your doctor out of the door and heal the large hole in your head."

"No… Oh, here's your picture back," said Raven, confused handing back the picture.

"No. You keep it. After you get some new clothes I suggest you go out and find him. He might be the only way to get your old memories back."

Raven nodded absent-mindedly. She had powers? Who was this huge demon thing that hated her? And who was this green-skinned hero that saved her life in that dream? All the questions danced around in her mind as the nurse slipped quietly out of the room.

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"She's awake," said the doctor that had treated Raven, who was standing in the middle of a dark room.

"This is unfortunate," came a deep, drawling voice form the darkness. "But not unfixable. Have her incapacitated as quickly as possible, but be sure to keep her alive. We're not finished with her yet."

"Yes, sir," said the doctor turning to leave.

"And doctor?"

"Yes, sir?"

"Make sure she doesn't contact the others. Having the Titans return to ruin our plans just as all is coming to order would not be desirable. And I will hold you personally responsible."

"Yes, sir," said the doctor, bowing his head and leaving quietly.

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Raven stepped out of the bathroom.

"It's official. Black works on you," said the nurse with a smile.

Raven didn't smile back, but silently appreciated what the nurse had done for her. The nurse had somehow managed to track down her old cloak (although the hood was strangely missing), along with the shining red jewel she used to wear on her brooch. However, the rest of the old costume didn't fit anymore, so under her cloak, she wore a long black dress with a long slit up the left side.

"Yep, when you find that green character, he's a goner."

"Any ideas where I'll be able to find him?"

"No clue, but there have been rumors of a green man in the forest on the island."

"I don't remember a forest."

"One, you can barely remember anything. Two, you wouldn't it sprung up about ten years ago almost overnight. Right where the old Titans Tower used to be."

"Titans Tower?"

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Raven sat meditating on top of Titans Tower in the sunlight. Robin and Starfire approached from behind her.

"Hey Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg are looking for you."

Raven let out a low, very cheerful giggle. She quickly stopped and clamped her hand to her mouth. "I need to be alone," she said quickly before standing up and walking straight through the solid steel wall.

"Many of your earthly ways are still strange to me, yet that was just plain freaky, correct?"

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"Another flashbacky thing?" asked the nurse.

"Yeah."

"Anything good?"

"I was on the roof of Titans Tower… Did I live there?"

"I dunno. History was never my strong point."

Raven hesitated slightly then showed her appreciation: "Thank you…"

"Don't worry about it. I know that was hard."

"What?"

"I meet a bunch of patients every day, some have a hard time saying thank you. You're one of them."

"Alright… I better get going."

"Good luck."

"You too."

And with that Raven stepped out of the hospital into the changed world before her.

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OK Done with Chap.2. Next chapter, Raven meets an old friend, an old foe, and a bunch of old memories!