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Chapter 14. The amulet and the chakra.

Valere and Raven arrived at Titans East an hour before dawn. They landed on top of the tower. Valere retracted his wings and they went to the main room. Speedy was watching TV or maybe sleeping.

"Hello Speedy." Raven greeted.

He jumped up, drew his bow and spun around. "Raven? Good to see you." He put his bow away and gave a slight bow. He turned to Valere and held out his hand. "The name's Speedy."

Valere took the hand with his firm grasp, as always. "Valere."

Speedy started to lead them away. "I've not slept in two, so Bumble Bee ordered me to take a break." They stopped at a door. "She's in here."

The three of them went inside. Bumble Bee was sitting at a desk and rubbing her head, she was also grumbling something about 'not good enough'. She finally pulled away from her work long enough to notice the three standing there. "Oh! Sorry." She got up and walked over to them.

"Good to see you again, Bumble Bee." Raven said.

Bumble Bee turned to Valere. "I'm the leader of this tower." She held out her hand for a hand shake.

Going against his nature, he shook her hand like he would any other. "My name is Valere." The last thing he needed right now was a jealous Raven. "We flew here through the night, so if you don't need us immediately, we should probably get a few hours of rest before we begin."

She nodded. "The last thing we need is a tired team." She looked at Speedy. "Could you show them to their rooms?" He nodded.

Valere shook his head. "That will not be necessary. One room will do and all we need is directions."

Valere and Raven slept for 2 hours, for they were too tired to even meditate, and their third hour meditating. Valere decided to make breakfast for their hosts. When they were all done eating, they went to the tower's main room.

"We have two other members, Mas y Menos," Bumble Bee told her visitors, "but they are on another mission right now."

Valere nodded. "That would be one of the reasons you requested backup." He reasoned.

She returned the nod.

"Where has Slade been?" Raven asked.

"He's been popping up in random places," Aqualad told them, "but he appears as if he's looking for something."

"Do you have any idea of what he could be looking for?" Valere asked.

"Some civilians heard him muttering something about a stone for a dead book." Bumble Bee answered. "I know the name of it but…"

Valere had stiffened up. "Is it possible for our existences to be so similar on that kind of level?" He asked himself in a whisper. He became deadly serious. "Would this book happen to be called 'the Book of the Forsaken Dead'?"

"That's what it was called!" Speedy snapped his fingers. "Why? What is so important about it?"

Valere ran his fingers through his hair, something he rarely did. Raven put her hand on his shoulder. "It was created so that souls of the dead could be summoned to the living realm, out realm. If it was destroyed…" She was cut off by her love.

"Goodbye, undead." He gave off an evil smile. "Resurrection is possible without the book's existence, however.

"We need to find that stone." He said in a stern voice. His fingers fiddled with his amulet. "This amulet's gem should look exactly like the stone."

They all gazed at him strangely. "Why would it?" Raven asked.

"Because, it is the stone from my existence." Raven jumped back and put her hand over her charka. Valere's eyes grew wide. "The necklace. You're using the necklace's crystal as a meditation tool."

The other Titans looked confused. "There's a necklace as well?" Bumble Bee asked.

He nodded. "There's also a gauntlet." He started to use his hands. "You knew what the book does. The stone separates a person's entire being into two separate personalities. The necklace lets you see things that should not normally be seen. And, the gauntlet can change the very fabric of a realm." He would have kept going, but the alarm went off.

Bumble Bee checked the computer. "It's Slade."