Hey, I'm back. This chapter took awhile, sorry guys. It was a mixture of a school assignment ((heh, more horror stories)) so I didn't have as many ideas for this chapter as I would like, but I guess it will due. Just no serious flames about it. The other was that my friend and beta, artemisgirl's computer was down, and I like to make sure these chapters aren't messed up.

So far, all my reviews have been great! No flames, to my surprise. Some of you have been asking questions, but I don't think I should really answer them. If I do, it will give away parts of the plot that I don't want to give away. Hope you guys like surprises.

The new Titans episodes are getting more interesting...You can check out to find out a little about the new episodes. Things are goin' get good.

So now, the long awaited ((at least in my mind it is)) new chapter of my story, entitled, Anguish.

Disclaimer- I don't own Teen Titans. If I did, episodes would come out faster, this story would be a few episodes, and Robin would kick more butt, if that's possible.


Starfire drifted down the stairs of Titans Tower, her eyes slowly filling with tears. She drifted in front of Cyborg and Beast Boy, who were back to playing Gamestation. They asked her what was wrong, but she didn't say anything, so the two went back to playing their game. In reality, she was zoned out, her eyes unfocused. Her only thought was, what is wrong with Robin?

"Booya!" Cyborg yelled, "I beat your sorry green butt AGAIN!" Cyborg punched the air, as he mocked Beast Boy.

"Um, how about 18 out of 35?" Beast Boy asked, not looking at Cyborg.

Cyborg opened his mouth to respond, but stopped as he heard...crying. He looked over his shoulder, and saw Starfire, her head buried in her arms, with a pool of tears leaking out. He smacked Beast Boy, who was still asking for a rematch, and pointed to Star. They both got up, and walked toward her.

"Um...Star?" Beast Boy asked quietly. Starfire looked up at him, her face red. Beast Boy kneeled down near her. "Hey Star, what's the matter?"

Starfire swallowed, her eyes watering. They will think I am stupid... she thought, but spoke anyway. "Friend Robin.... he is..." Tears escaped her eyes, as she stared of into space. "It sounds as if...as if... someone is trying to...kill him. He is yelling...things exploding..."

Beast Boy patted her on the back, as she put her head back between her arms. "Hey Star.... He's probably just watching some old battle tapes. Cyborg does tape em ya know..." Beast Boy knew he was lying.

Cyborg had heard enough. He headed for the stairs, his arm turning into his sonic cannon. As soon as he was sure he was out of Star's earshot, and starting sprinting toward Robin's room, ready to face whatever was going on.

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Raven, the dark empathic teen, was having trouble meditating on the roof of Titans Tower. It was not her thoughts or emotions that were causing her trouble, but those of Robin and Starfire. Their damned emotions were so strong that she could almost read their minds. And she HATED that...

Starfire had no real reason for being mournful. She could not possibly know what Robin was feeling.... She should do us all a favor and go back to miss cheery again... she though bitterly.

She cursed Starfire aloud. God, just make her stop...Her hands started to glow. Got to get a hold of my emotions...letting them get out of hand... Later, she would have to visit Nevermore, and get her emotions straight. Maybe even try to intimidate them, which would not work, but might as well try. Her thoughts turned to the Boy Wonder.

Robin's anguish had changed, but it was still overwhelming. Now HE had a reason for feeling like this, but she couldn't help wish that he would go feel like that somewhere else.

She forced her thoughts away, trying to begin meditating once more. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos...." She started to chant. She was finally starting to get ahead of her emotions, which she had lost far to easily this morning.

Another flood of emotion rocked though Raven, powerful enough to knock her down, quite literally. Her eyes widened in surprise, before quickly returning to their normal size. Robin's grief had increased tenfold. Now Raven was worried. She had never felt an emotion so strong... Never strong enough to overwhelm her anyways...She hoped that she never felt anything like that ever again.

She finally realized that she was lying on the ground. She quickly tried to get up, but found that her knees were weak from the onslaught of Robin's anguish, and she thought for a moment. He's been having those nightmares for almost a week now...what make's last night's so different from the last? What has happened to him, or could have done this to him?

She slowly tried to stand again, this time succeeding. She was a little wobbly, but she was up. She had made up her mind. She was going down stairs, see what the hell was wrong with Robin, make him get over it, so she could go back to meditating.

Raven walked towards the stairwell, before just levitating. Her legs were still weak, but she wasn't letting the other Titans know that.

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Robin stood in the middle of his room; the lone light left illuminating him, casting the rest of his room into darkness. The cracked Slade mask was still in his hands. He was looking at it, but he wasn't. It was if he was staring right though it. He suddenly turned on his heel, and threw the mask as hard as he was able against the wall.

It was almost as if the mask had a voice. As the mask hit the wall, there was an ear-piercing scream, only audible to Robin, right as the mask split into two sides, a light side, and a dark side. Robin stared at them, hatred filling him, as he thought dryly, just like the sides of someone's' souls...

Suddenly his hate just... left, only to be replaced by a strange felling. Then, the Boy Wonder did something he had only done once before. He fell to his knees, and cried.

Robin's emotions started to swirl within him, before attacking him, in an endless barrage of grief. This attack kept showing him the worst of his life. It showed him the time he became Slade's apprentice, his time as Red X, and millions of others. Then it shifted to something he tried not to think about. It turned to the night his parents died...

Flash back

Richard Grayson, or Dick, as he was known back then, was with his family, performing at one of the world's largest circus. That day, they were in Gotham city. They were up, performing their trapeze routine.

Suddenly, as they were performing, Two-Face broke into their circus, his gang spreading out into the crowd. Two-Face announced that he believed that Batman was in the crowd, and he would kill them all if he did not show himself. As he spoke, a bomb was raised far above the crowd.

Him and his family made a bold decision. They decided to get rid of the bomb. His brother distracted Two-Face, as the rest of his family got rid of the bomb.

They got as far as getting the bomb through a trapdoor that led though the roof, before it turned to a massacre. Dick was on the roof, as he heard the gunshots. He quickly pulled the bomb up on the roof, letting it roll into the sea, before looking down though the trapdoor.

The first thing he saw was Batman, beating up Two-Face and his gang. The next was a sight that would have him fighting crime until the day he died. There, far on the ground laid his family, killed by bullets...

End Flashback

Robin struggled to gain his composure, but could not. He continued to cry, until his eyes could not stand it anymore. He closed his eyes, and took long, ragged breaths, trying to regain his composure once more.

He slowly stood up, almost falling, but stood. He walked towards the mask he had thrown, and put the pieces back together. Why he did this, he did not know. He slowly walked back into the light in the middle of his room. Just as he did this though, his door opened, and two figures appeared in the doorway.

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Cyborg just entered the hallway that led to Robin's room, just as he collided with Raven, who was coming out of the stairwell. Cyborg fell, Raven right beside him, his eye rolling. He quickly jumped up, and tried to help Raven up. The dark empath just glared at him, before pushing herself up, and pulled up her hood and looked away.

"Yo look Rae, I'm sorry. Just didn't see ya there. But Star said that it sounded as if someone was up her killing Robin, so I was trying to get up here as fast as I could...You know what's goin' on?" Cyborg asked. He said this quickly, so Raven missed the first half of it.

Raven looked back toward her, her lips pulled tightly together. "Robin's just beating himself up. You can go back to rotting whatever's left of your brain. I can handle this. Alone." She turned to leave.

"Oh no ya don't Rae," Cyborg said, grabbing her shoulder. "The way Star said this, it sounded serious, so I'm not leaving until I see what the hell is going on up here. I ain't leaving."

Raven's eyes glowed for a moment, as if see was going to hit Cyborg with a spell. She shook her head, struggling to get a hold of her emotions. She sighed and spoke, "Fine, you can come. But after Robin explains what's going on, you have to leave. I have to talk to Robin. Alone."

Cyborg raised a brow, trying not to laugh. "What are you going to do? Are you going to try to make a move on him?" Hey, it might be possible, if Raven went crazy.

"Yes Cyborg, that's exactly what I'm going to do. Then afterwards, I'm going to go fin Beast Boy and tell him that he should be a comedian," Raven said dryly, her eyes rolling. She headed toward Robin's door, Cyborg quickly following. She pushed the button to open it, and stepped inside.

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Robin just stared at the silhouetted forms of Raven and Cyborg. He turned his face, hiding it from both the light and them. He did not want any of the team to see him at his weakest. He struggled to wipe away the tears.

"Wow.... Robin. What the hell went on in here?" Cyborg asked quietly. The flashlight on his shoulder popped up and turned on. He tried to walk into the room, but couldn't find a path to get to Robin, without breaking anything. He just stood in the doorway.

Raven levitated herself over to a chair close to Robin, turned it so the back was facing Robin, and sat down towards him. She looked up at him, trying to read his emotions. He's masking his emotions... She thought.

Robin turned, his masked eyes wide in surprise that Raven could have gotten that close to him without his notice. "I got mad.... I just lost it...." Robin said, taking a step back to be masked by shadows. "I'm sorry if I disturbed anyone, but will you please get out!" Robin demanded more than asked, anger rising in his voice.

Cyborg looked to Raven, who nodded. "Alright...but I got tell ya, Starfire hear you, and she's cryin' downstairs." And with that, the light from Cyborg's flashlight disappeared, and he was gone.

"I-I made Star cry?" Robin asked, his eyes growing once more. He didn't believe it. She heard him? She was crying because of this? "You mean she heard-"

"Mmmhhh," Raven muttered, looking at the crushed look on Robin's face. She decided to jump right to the question. "What made your dream last night so terrible? I know you've been having them for awhile, but last night, it did something to you."

Robin's first thoughts were outrage. She's been reading my emotions? But then he actually did think about. Everybody's known something has been up...and he being an empath would know how about this... But did he really want to tell her? He stared at her, trying to make out her eyes from the shadow of her hood. I was going to tell her about this if these kept on going on... but should I tell her now?

Raven looked up at him, her head turned to the side, trying to read his emotions, now that his guard was down. She wished she didn't. As soon as she did, she was hit with the earlier onslaught of grief. I wish I didn't do that... she thought with a wince. She took of her hood, to get a better look at him.

Robin made up his mind. He wasn't going to tell her, not yet. At least, he thought that. Before he realized it, he was already telling her his dream.

"It...it was horrible. Slade finally got it though his skull that I wasn't afraid of him. So- so he went after you guys...one by one...right where we all could see, but none of us could do nothing about it..." He swallowed, taking a deep breath. "He slowly tortured Beast Boy and Cyborg before killing them...and I just stood there...doing nothing..." He stepped farther back into the shadows, away from Raven. "What he did to you and Starfire.... Its...it was horrible. He tortured your minds, then he...raped you...and I just stood there...doing nothing...why? Why would I just stand there? WHY COULDN'T I HELP YOU TWO?!?!?!?!" He yelled, punching the wall, his fist leaving a dent in it.

Raven stared, a look of surprise on her face. Has his dreams been like this all along? I though that I was the dark one...

Robin's face then took a look of half confusion, and half determination. "How could he come up with those things... I WON'T let it happen..."

Raven still stared at the possessed Robin. Is he thinking these things ARE going to happen? I mean, that's impossible, he can't see the future... "Hey, Robin look, I can-"She started, before the alarm went off.

"YO! JINX AND HER GANG'S TRYIN TO BLOW UP JUMP BRIDGE!!!" Cyborg's voice crept up the stairs.

Raven got off her chair, shooting a questing look over at Robin.

"Just go, I'll be there in a second." Robin said, not looking at her. Raven sighed and nodded, as a pitch-black raven enveloped her, and she disappeared, Robin just stood there, Slade's mask still in his hands, which had been unnoticed throughout the entire confrontation.


Ok, that's it for now. I know this is different from my first two chapters, but I just wanted to write this, to explain what's going on within the Titans. So remember, Review. It's like voting. If you like my stuff, and you don't review, you can't whine if, IF mind you, my stuff starts to get weak. And I don't mean constructive criticism, I mean Flames. Well, that's all from this guy, who, for some reasons, in a good mood, and typing too much.

EDIT Hey, sorry about the one part, about saying this will be the last chapter like that. I could have SWORN I deleted that. What I meant was, well never mind. I'm starting to get more comfortable writing this, so it will only get better.