Don't own Teen Titans…

And well I guess the pairing is still pretty far off but this is a clue…it isn't a Star and Robin fic…


Chapter 2
Raven wasn't the kind of girl who would faint over seeing a boy's face but when she opened her eyes a little much later she found herself resting on the couch in the Tower's common room and she was staring up at three pairs of rather wide blinking eyes.

She immediately shot up and looked around, "Where has he gone to?"

The trio that had surrounded her gave her and each of themselves quizzical stares.

"Who ya' talking abut Rae?" inquired Beast Boy.

'Was it a dream? Did I dream it?' Raven asked herself.

"Oh by the way Rae…" Cyborg then pushed something soft into her left hand, "I found this stuck in your hair…"

Raven's eyes widen as she saw what Cyborg had put into her hands, it was a feather as black as she could imagine the color could ever go.

"Hey Raven, I know you're named after a black bird but since when you started spouting feathers…?" joked a certain green skinned team member.

Cyborg and Starfire then started to back away a little as Raven eyes started to glare severely at the doomed party.

Back in her room Raven sat down on her bed and studied the feather, she was a jumble of emotions and that meant she had to visit them herself to get some answers.

After a few minutes in Nevermore, Raven started walking and was surprised to find that none of her emotions had attacked her.

'Usually by now Happy would be bouncing around me…' she wondered to herself.

And just as she walked over to the other side of an upside down range of canyon she soon found the reason as to why her other emotions were surprisingly absent.

"So who are you waiting for…?" chirped Happy.

"Raven…"

"I'm…Raven…so…are you waiting for…me?" stuttered Shy beside the figure.

"Not exactly, we're a part of Raven's one true self but then again you can make that statement as it isn't far from the truth." Intelligence added behind Shy's shoulders.

Raven quickly walked over to her grouped together emotions and saw the same person who she had seen earlier.

"It's you!" she gasped.

All her emotions then looked at her and then back to the hooded figure.

"Sorry to have scared you like that just now…" the figure apologized as he pushed his hood back, "I didn't mean too…"

With his face now open for all of them to see one by one as each of Raven's emotions took in the face of the boy standing before them and each one slowly made their way to the floor in an unconscious state.

"Is it me or do I seem to have that effect on you?"

Raven then grabbed the boy's hand and dragged him over to a spot where they wouldn't be disturbed.

"Look here…what are you doing in my head? And how did you use my mirror? Oh my god! You even went into my room!" shouted Raven out to him in one long breath.

"One question at a time…but to answer you one, I'm not doing anything to your head, I'm just visiting it. Two, I didn't use your mirror I just walked in and lastly I've never been into your room. Happy?"

Raven would have strangled him right there and then if she wasn't to busy suppressing the urge to stare longingly at the young man's beautiful slender face.

The young man's face was as pale as hers was and his medium length hair was neatly combed back behind his ears. He was just a little taller then she was and he wore almost identical costume to hers.

Instead of a purple cloak he wore a black one and well his leotard was just so dangerously formed fitting to his frame that Raven had to give it a second look, unconsciously.

But what Raven couldn't help but just gaze at were his eyes, she found that she could easily get lost by just looking into them. She could look into them and see nothing but a vast whirlpool of black mesmerizing her to just stare at them like a moth to a flame.

"Are you done?" his voice broke her out of her little revere.

"Huh?"


"Are you done staring at me as if I have something stuck on my face?" he asked her.

Shaking some sense into herself Raven backed away a little from the youth, "Look what are you doing here anyway? This is my mind not some playground…"

"Full of questions today aren't we?"

Raven shot him a 'don't even go there' look.

"Look I just came to make sure if it was true…"

"True what's true?"

"That there was another survivor from Azarath…"

"Survivor…? Look I don't know what you're trying to pull here buddy but your not going to pull a fast one on me…" Raven warned him.

"Israfel." He interjected.

"Huh?"

"My name is Israfel, and you must be Raven."

Raven stood there not believing what she had just heard. For if what this 'Israfel' person said is true then she wasn't the only Azarathian left.

"If this is some sick joke, Israfel I'd swear that you won't live to see the sun rise…" she seethed.

Coolly returning her stare, "I assure you Raven that I'm not joking to you on this matter but if you do not believe me then maybe I can prove to you that I am really who I say I am…"

Raven crossed her arms and stood there as if allowing him to continue, "You once had a nursemaid named Gayla. She was probably the closest thing you had to a real…"

"Enough!" yelled Raven, putting her left hand up to his face.

Beneath the pair a whole lot of explosions were going inside the Tower which was sending the Titans into various stages of running and dodging around the common room.

They sort of figured that since Raven did not do anything to Beast boy right there and then this was the aftermath of her pent up emotions.

"How do you know this…" snarled Raven as she inched closer to him, her violet eyes trying to find some point of focus in his black ones.

"I was raised by the disciples of Temple Azarath for many years ever since I was young. Later I sort of became their protector since it is in their beliefs not to fight so they chose me to do their battles for them. They thought me all I know from skills of fighting to the way on how to use my powers effectively."

Raven had her doubts about his story but some part of her wanted to believe him.

'He knows of Gayla and since I've told no one of her his story has to hold some truth to it…' she mused.

"How did you come to be on Earth?" Raven asked once more, this time in a calmer voice.

"I'm not so sure of all the details but all I could remember was the disciples pushing me into this portal they had opened and I when came to I found myself in some unknown dimension, this dimension. And that's what I've been doing for some time now traveling between places hoping to find survivors from Azarath."

Somewhere behind the duo hidden behind a well placed rock formation a small discussion of sorts was taking place. Intelligence, Suspicion and Happy were having a small debate to see which emotion would win. But sadly for Happy she was losing to a two to one majority.

Raven wanted to trust Israfel but her nature was preventing her from doing so.

"So how did you find me? Did someone ask you to come here? Did someone send you to come after me?" she asked him, her voice growing louder in volume.


The black cloaked boy snickered, "Paranoid aren't you? No one asked me to come here really, I arrived here in Jump City barely a week ago and while I walking along I saw your images flashing across the news and my investigations lead me to here…"

"So you found me…big deal…all I want is for you to get out of…" a loud sound echoing around caught her in mid sentence.

It seemed like after a six months hiatus the members of H.I.V.E were back in business and their target this time around was the train station where an army train carrying their newest weapon from their R&D research labs had been scheduled to make a short stop.

As usual the three H.I.V.E members had figured that they were about to get away cleanly when the Titans would show up and spoil their victory.

With the Titans short of two members at the moment each they seemed to have a handful with their perspective opponents. Beast Boy was battling Gizmo while Cyborg was wrestling Mammoth somewhere else. And Jinx was having a short game of dodge ball with Starfire.

Each girl was skillfully avoiding each other's thrown spells/blast that just seemed to go on and on. And just when Jinx had jumped out of the path of one of Starfire's blast she was suddenly blown away by a surprised blast from the late arriving Raven.

"Friend Raven, I am pleased to see that you have arrived to participate in battle. What had delayed you?" just as she finished saying her sentence Starfire fired off another blast to the H.I.V.E sorceress.

Raven did the same but didn't answer Starfire's question, she wasn't in the mood to tell her about her little bewildering conversation Israfel. So she did the next best thing and vented her confusions and frustrations on a certain pinked haired villainess.

After a five minute tag-team effort from both Starfire and Raven Jinx was soon put out of commission but just as they finished with her they saw or rather heard the loud shrill of a yell that emanated from the flying through the air figure of one Beast Boy.

While he was flying past the two girls, "Wouldn't mind some helppppppppp….crash" he managed to say out to them before crashing into an empty unused train coach.

Just as they were about to confront Gizmo Cyborg suddenly crashed right before them and moaned out, "Is it me…or have they improved slightly…?"

Raven gave Starfire a quick look before saying out, "I'd take Mammoth, you take Gizmo…" She didn't even leave Starfire room to object as she quickly flew off to battle the large overgrown furball.

Even Raven had to admit that Mammoth had improved somewhat in his overall skills for she was finding it quite the task to disable him. And while she was too busy handling Mammoth she didn't notice how the others had fallen.

Jinx had managed to escape from the steel coach that Raven had temporary imprisoned her in and had ambushed Starfire who was helping Beast Boy fight off Gizmo. And with Starfire trapped in a bubble trying hard to escape she made little work of the changeling who was outnumbered.

And once Beast Boy was seeing stars around his head the two made their way over to Cyborg who then shorted circuited when he was hit by a blast from Gizmo's circuitry immobilizer gun.

'This doesn't look good…" Raven mumbled to herself under her hood.

She was as they say 'had her back against the proverbial wall' with the three members of H.I.V.E ganging up on her. She was all that was left standing between the army train and the trio that was advancing on her.

"It's now down to you alone, your friends aren't here to help you anymore…" said the trio simultaneously.

Raven immediately recognized the voice that had spoken to her instead of their normal voices, "Slade…"

And just as they were about to attack her a loud blast went off right in front of the advancing trio. The blast was so powerful that even blew her right off her feet and had thrown her a good 3 feet back from where she had stood. She had never felt a blast that huge before in her entire life…

When the dust from the blast had cleared Raven with her hood having fallen back behind her during her fall found a familiar figure hovering right in front of her, his cloak was moving around him as if it had a life on its own.

"Three on one isn't exactly what I call fair, and I'm sorry if I overdid it with that blast." he said out to Raven while holding out his right hand for her.


Raven sort of took accepted his hand at first but when she was up on her feet she quickly pushed it away, "Reckless…" while she mumbled the rest of what she had intended to say.

Pulling down his hood, "Hey I said I was sorry, not need to call me names…"

"Hey what happened…?" said a pained voice.

Gizmo, Mammoth and Jinx who had taken the full brunt of the energy blast groggily made their way out of the mess of smashed up coaches, compartments and trains and looked around them.

"Hey what are we doing here?" wondered Gizmo, in his own voice.

Jinx was having a Mammoth sized headache as she dug her way out and screamed out when she saw the state of her hands, "ARGH! MY MANICURE'S RUNIED!"

Both Israfel and Raven took notice of the shout and looked over to see the H.I.V.E members coming around.

"I'm so going to make them pay…!" rumbled Jinx as she stomped her way forwards intent on inflicting a huge number of vexes so painful onto Raven whom she initially thought had thrown that blast.

But then halfway there she stopped and suddenly instead of having eyes glowing with rage she had pink hearts throbbing in them instead.

"Who's that cute handsome boy…" she swooned after catching sight of the never seen before boy standing beside Raven.

Raven pulling her hood over her face, "Look I don't need your help…I can handle this by myself. So if you'd excuse me I have a job to do…" she said rudely as she strolled past Israfel.

Israfel putting lifted his hood over as well, "Oh no your not, why don't I handle the two boys while you take care of the pink haired one."

"Just who do you think you are ordering me around…!" she immediately spat back at him.

"Look if you want I'm more then willing to switch assignments with you…how about I take the girl and you take on the other two?" he rapidly cussed back while pointing to the trio who were coming around.

He had a point not that she was going to admit it, "Fine…"


The two of them made quick work of the trio who had somehow gone back to being their rather unorganized and clumsy selves and as Israfel wound a whole roll of industrial strength steel cable over Mammoth and Gizmo, Raven had Jinx enclosed in four rings of dark energy.

Jinx had been actually too busy flirting with Israfel to even bother fighting with Raven who all she had to do in the end was to pry her off of the poor boy's right arm.

"No…please…don't leave me…lets be friends…I don't even know your name. Hey Goth girl don't hold him like that! Raven don't you even dare…oh…I'd get you for doing that!" yelled Jinx as she saw Raven grabbing onto Israfel's hand dragging him away while shooting her a raspberry.

Gizmo and Mammoth thankfully were unconscious to miss out on seeing their third member crying out kicking her legs around jealously like a love sick schoolgirl.

Furiously pulling her hood back so that she could glare at him properly in the eye, "Look here…let's get this straight! Firstly, you do not order me around and secondly, I am more then capable of fighting my battles on my own…" Raven uttered in her most irritated voice.

Israfel calmly uncovered his face and simply blinked before her, "I wasn't bossing your around Raven, I just thought that the pink haired girl would be a better opponent for you because I didn't want to intentionally hurt her because I still can't control my powers completely that well in this planet and also I do not engage in physical confrontations with girls. I then helped you in your battle because I didn't want to see you get hurt from the impending and unfair mêlée. I didn't help you because I doubted your abilities in battle."

It was now her turn to blink at him a couple of times.

"You…you…" snapped Raven, she couldn't find the right words to even allow Israfel to understand what she was feeling right then. But simultaneously Raven was also trying to fight down the blush that was threatening to explode on her cheeks.

No one or no boy had ever told her to her face that he didn't want to see her get hurt before

"Hey that's some fancy moves you got there…" commented Cyborg who was shooting off a few sparks of stray electric bolts to the air from his damaged right arm.

"Yes strange friend…you have helped us significantly." Starfire added while trying to get her vision back in focus.

"Hey…is it me or are you wearing Raven's outfit? Never knew she had one made out in black. Either that or Rae you're making a secret fortune selling out your used costume out to your fans…" commented Beast Boy as he poked his head over Cyborg's good shoulder.

Beast Boy later that night had to ride home in the T-car with a very uncomfortable oversized glowing black metal nut stuck in-between his lips.

Israfel and Raven were making their way back to the T-Tower flying side by side along the night sky. They hadn't said a single word since the station and had even kept a safe distance between each other as they flew. They didn't even bother to look at each other even once on the short trip back.

Israfel was giving Raven as much time as she needed to think up of something to either say to, shout to, yell to, or even ask him about anything.

Raven for her part was as confused as she could be, she needed a long mediation session after things were done that night.

Back in the tower or rather in the main meeting area sat the Titans, Cyborg who was busy repairing himself was eager to learn about this newcomer as was Beast Boy. That was of course if he had succeeded in begging Raven for forgiveness in his muffled voice. Starfire who sitting next to Israfel was staring rather blatantly into the darkness of his hood, wondering if she could hide something inside its vast nothingness.

"So mind telling us your story? Where you're from and all that…" as Cyborg got the ball started.

Israfel looked over his shoulder to Raven who felt that he was looking at her, "Don't look at me…tell your whole life story to them for all I care…"

She then shot a death look to the muffled whimpering Beast Boy beside her and he quieted down while changing into a green wide eye puppy.

With a small wave of his right hand the nut from Beast Boy's mouth instantly disappeared which earned Israfel one of Raven's death's looks and a series of thank yours that the changeling began shooting towards the Goth girl.

"My name is Israfel and my purpose here is well…I don't really know why I am here for I think I have no purpose. And no Beast Boy I did not take Raven's clothes this are my own clothes. It just happens to be the same design but of different color. I actually came from Azarath and that is all I can say at this moment. I hope that you can respect my wishes not to explain any further…"

"Okay…I've heard weirder introductions before and since it's getting late why don't we get some sleep and maybe continue this tomorrow…?" suggested Cyborg.

Starfire and Beast Boy made no objections and as the three of their eyes landed on Raven…

"Fine…he can stay for the night…" she finally relented.

"Master, are you sure this is wise course of action for us to take?"

"Of course, I have made him into my apprentice since you have failed to do yourself. He will bring the prophecy to light."

Raven couldn't sleep that night and as she twisted and turn she just couldn't fall to sleep. Frustrated she got up and decided that maybe a nice cup of hot tea would help ease her frustrations.

She had no problems with the darkness of the Tower, since it was around 2am no one would be awake to disturb her in her quest for making some tea.

As she quietly made her way into the kitchen she was rather surprised to see that the kettle already had some hot water in it. She didn't care to figure why that was but instead she tried to look for her usual mug.

Raven's mouth scowled as she sipped her hot tea sitting by the kitchen's central island, her favorite black mug was missing.

She was getting bored with the silence which was a strange occurrence but figured that maybe a little channel surfing would get her bored to sleep.

So as she made her way to the common room Raven was startled to see a dark figure standing by the window looking out to the moon.

Sensing her distinctive presence inside the room, "Not able to sleep, Raven?" Israfel whispered out.

Raven slowly walked over to the window to see just what was so wonderful to look at and saw nothing out of the ordinary but what she did see was that Israfel was currently holding her favorite mug in his hands, she cursed him mentally.

"Sorry…I didn't know that this was your favorite mug." he casually said out while staring out to the night sky.

'He can read my mind? No one's been able to do that…' Raven then raised a brow, "You're a mind reader aren't you?"

Israfel simply nodded, "I'm going for a refill you want me to bring the pot over?"

Raven said nothing.

She was slightly taken aback to see the still piping hot kettle slowly floating over with apparent ease to where they stood and watched it as it poured a little of its hot contents into his cup.

"Sure you don't want some?" he asked her again.

Raven this time stuck her cup out a little, and let the kettle refill her cup with hot water. She barely noticed the black sparkles of energy that was actually holding the kettle up and by the way how Israfel's expression was so relaxed she figured that he must be very in control of his powers.

"Not really…it took me a whole month to just get it that controlled. It seems that our powers go a little haywire in this dimension in the beginning. "

"Stop reading my thoughts…" she warned him.

Raven saw the small grin Israfel wore on his face, "Sorry but I just couldn't help myself…I just hear it so clearly inside my mind…it's as if you were talking to me."

After a bout of silence between the two, "Why didn't you say everything out to them? You know where you're from and all? You could have told them everything about me just to spite me…" asked Raven.

Israfel looked over to the lilac colored pajama clad girl currently being bathed in moonlight and cocked his head, "Well it's your privacy. I mean you didn't tell it to them yourself so I had no right to tell them for you. And for the record I don't spite my friends."

Raven lifted her cup to her lips and drank a little of the liquid down and once she had done so, "Thank you…" she softly said out.

He smiled a small smile for her, "You're most welcomed and I think you're lucky that you've made friends so quickly…you're the first person who has actually talked to me in a very long time." Israfel said out to her in a hushed tone.

"Trust me it's not all what it seems, I ain't exactly the friendliest person to talk to if you hadn't notice…" she commented back monotonously.

"I don't think so…I think you're a real friendly person to talk too…" he contradicted.

Raven peered over her raised mug, there was a certain part of him that was so recognizable but she couldn't point it out. As she studied his face under the moonlight she couldn't help but noticing that he was very good looking.

"I'm sure you say that to all the Goth girls you met…" she replied him sarcastically.

"No…not really, I only compliment people from what I've seen for myself and trust me Raven I hope you don't mind me saying this but you can be a really friendly person if you want to, you have those emotions inside of you. It's just you don't show them out that much, I know your reasons for doing so but it's just so sad. I've seen your 'happy' Raven smile a few times while I was in your mind and it really suits you if you did it for real. I really like the way how you smile…it's really beautiful."

Raven kept her cup up around her lips just a little longer…she had actually drank up all her tea a few moments ago. She did this just to hide the tinge rushing over to her cheeks from hearing his comments.

Raven didn't know why but this was the second time in as many short hours she could recall that she had blushed for his sake.