Note: No, I don't own Teen Titans. However, there are 3 characters in here who I do own. And reviews give me that nice, warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Or at least I want to blame it on reviews and not my dinner, so give me more excuses to blame it on please.

Thanks to sum4jcfor beta reading. You should go check out her fics, they're really good.

Thanks to Knotz for my first review

The inferno roared down the narrow alley. Trash cans were ripped to shreds by the force of the heat. Insects popped from the enormous pressure, and then their inside immediately vaporized thereafter. Bricks were torn from the walls, broken into chunks, and sent flying through the air. Windows shattered, then melted in midair, forming little balls that bounced off of the walls as they traveled through the passage.

"No one….but me….shall..claim…him." The cloaked figure walked down the alley towards where Loch had been just moments before. The smoke was filling up the air, making it too hard to see anything. "I got him. There's no energy, and there was no teleportation. He's dead, and his power belongs to me now." A small, yet deep laugh emanated from his throat as he stopped to stare at the wreckage of the alleyway.

"We are not yet beaten, Toren." The voice radiated from the smoke, causing the hooded figure to back up. The smoke started spinning into a vortex, a green haze emitting from it.

"It's..it's not possible. No one could have survived through that." His eyes began to glow bright red. "I have trained myself to be the ultimate." He was walking forward, raising his hands in front of himself. "I will be ultimate. I don't know how you got my name, but it does you little good."

A powerful beam of electricity shot from the smoke, the smoke swirling around it. The bolt caught Toren square in the chest, sending him flying backwards. He righted himself in midair, slightly shaking from the shock, then proceeded to fire a volley of fireballs down the alley. Each one, however, was stopped mere seconds after being fired, and redirected themselves back at Toren. Being caught off guard again, Tored tried desperately to dodge the incoming flames, but to no avail. The flames burned straight through his clothes and torched his skin, burning through the outer layer into his body, all the way to the bone. Screaming out in pain, Toren collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain. The mist approached him as he went into spasms on the ground.

"Why are you protecting him?" Toren spat out as the mist came closer. "You want his power, why didn't you take it already?"

"I am not protecting him. Everything that has happened has been done by this boy." The mist moved aside to show Loch, the green aura surrounding him, his eyes burning with a green flame. "If you do not know of the legend that follows this boy, you do not deserve his power." Toren's eyes grew large as the aura around Loch's body lifted off of him and flew straight into Toren. Toren had no time to yell as his body disintegrated. A red mist appeared, floating in the air, as if it had a life of its own. Loch raised his hand at the new mist, and the mist flew right towards Loch's hand. It became absorbed through his skin and disappeared. "And so it begins."

"Waitaminute, that's not possible!" BeastBoy exclaimed. He was running around the 2 titans quickly, examining them. "There's nothing there," he said as he pulled up Robin's cape. "No dirt, ashes, nothing, but we saw them go through the smoke."

"If there's smoke, there's fire," Raven commented calmly. "And if there's fire, there's fuel."

"But there is no fire. I would have been burned by it." Robin lifted his arms to show the lack of burn marks.

"Aaaahhh!" BeastBoy yelled, clutching his head. "Nothing makes sense, and my head's hurting. Make it stop, please, or at least make sense."

"Well then, don't listen to this. If there was an explosion from inside the school, where is the debris? Pieces of the school, littering around everywhere. There's none, which means that the explosion was contained, probably by a force field. However, for a force field to be able to hold an explosion of this size and power, it would require a generator the size of a house."

"Or a barrier." Raven coolly said.

"Force field, barrier, same thing."

"No, not the same thing. I don't meana barrier from a machine, I mean a psychic barrier. A pyrokinetic puts up a telekinetic barrier around the school, then fills the barrier with fire. It also explains the smoke without fire: a gasaelokinetic."

"So then, there are other psychics out there?" Starfire asked. "I thought there was only you. How do you know there are others?"

Raven peered calmly through her hood. "We have meetings."