It all starts here.

Where my pages fall from their place,

Onto the street where the words are erased

By the ever pounding

Blinding sheets of rain.

Never to be read again

You'll never learn of my past sin

The words blurred

But it can't erase the pain.

A book abandoned on a shelf

Unable to destroy itself

Where anyone could read its hallowed words

Gathering dust while you read another

A book you could forever smother

With the adoration that I crave from this dark world.

Inside me lies a story

A story of unimagined sadness

A story no one can read

It would drive them into madness

But it's like no one will even try

No one even tries to pry

Apart my yellowed pages and take in,

My unforgiving sin.

Is it the title?

Does it bore you?

The lack of pictures

To ignore you

But I'm afraid I cannot illustrate,

These pictures filled with hate.

Do the bloodstains

Really scare you?

Every drop shed

Do they dare you?

To ask me where I lost all of my red,

Now I bleed black instead.

This book gave you more fear than knowledge

So here I stand, perched on the edge

Staring at the jagged rocks below

I hope you never know.

The wind whips harshly at my hair

Soon it stops, and I lay there

Do I dare to open up my eyes?

See the blood-red skies.

Am I impaled upon the rocks?

I cannot hear the bloody drops,

I look upwards

And only see the sky.

How dare you ask me why.

Cradled in your warm embrace

I feel the tears fall from your face

I realize that you just caught me now.

Wow.

You read my book

And read it over

Still could not grasp what get me sober

So busy hiding

While I was being read.

What went on in my head?

You'd rather read me instead?

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Doomsday was nearing for the not-so-teen Titans, but anyone on the street wouldn't know it. They weren't having a conversation about their desperate situation or their teammate's well-being. They weren't crying or screaming or even frowning. They weren't cussing each other out in frustration. They were hopping from rooftop to rooftop on their way to their green friend. Neither of them was sure how they started singing it, but they were.

"Everywhere we go-oh." Robin started out.

"Everywhere we go-oh." Cy and Jinx echoed.

"People wanna know-oh."

"People wanna know-oh."

They sang it the entire way there, but it was barely a whisper by the time they got to their friend's location. You don't sing at the top of your lungs when you're trying to follow someone to their secret base. It just doesn't work like that.

They found Beast Boy, after four hours of roof-hopping, crouching over a manhole. They couldn't see his face, covered by his lengthened emerald hair, and he was doubled over in a cat-like position. Cyborg hadn't noticed his friend's slightly longer hair. Maybe being together with someone rather than being alone really did affect your appearance, even if only a little.

He raised his head as Jinx leaped from the nearest building, landing soundlessly on the ground in front of him. She bent over to get a better look at the manhole, which was uncovered, but didn't have the rotting smell that most sewers have.

"Why doesn't this sewer stink?" She said rhetorically.

Gar's mouth fell wide open before he transformed into a tiger and pounced on Jinx. He pinned her hands above her head and snarled, making Jinx flinch and struggle. Beast Boy let out his retractable claws, barely scraping the skin on her arms.

"Are you working for Slade?" He thought-spoke, baring his teeth.

"Geez, what is your problem!?" Jinx yelled, while twisting her body so that her feet were flat on the ground. She flipped up, causing BB to land flat on his back. He de-transformed out of shock and was about to leap for her again, but Cyborg and Robin came running over.

"Beast Boy, it's okay. Jinx is here to help." Cy yelled, getting between him and the sorceress.

"Pardon my French but...ARE YOU PLUMB LOCO!!" He yelled back. "Jinx was probably rented from the H.I.V.E. by Slade so we wouldn't stop his big plan, and now she's gonna betray us right when we're a millisecond away from beating him and cost us all our lives!"

He inhaled, having said all of that in one breath.

"You done?"

"Yah, I'm done."

"Look," Cyborg assured him, "I know you don't trust her, but she hasn't seen Slade in almost twenty years. I know for a fact that she hasn't. She's helping, so just deal with it."

"...How do you know she hasn't seen Slade?" Beast Boy questioned timidly, as if it were a forbidden question.

"I've been..." He searched for the right words, "...Monitoring her."

"...And, when's the last time you 'monitored' her?" he asked again, making air quotes.

He sighed, "...About...three weeks. But I know she wouldn't betray us like that, okay?"

"Betray? Wouldn't she have to be on our side to betray us?" Beast Boy pried further, he really did know the answer, but this was so much fun!

Robin smiled. "Your interrogation skills have gotten a lot better!"

Cyborg growled. Jinx laughed.

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"Maybe we should check up on the guys." Raven suggested as they flew towards Atlanta.

"I am sure that they are unharmed." Starfire assured her, gliding closer to her side.

"Okay, maybe they are. Let's call the guys, because I'm bored and sick of looking at rooftops."

"Well, in that case..."

"Wait," Darren flew up ahead of his mother and crossed his arms over his furry chest, "What if they're tracking Slade? We might give their position away by calling them."

"...You're right. Good call, kid." Raven sighed. "Are your wings getting tired? I could levitate you if you want."

Darren nodded. "Thanks, they are getting a little sore, and I don't think it's good to stay in this form for a really long time."

But his wings really weren't all that tired. I hate using this demon form, even if it does make my powers stronger. He thought as he was surrounded in a black aura. He returned to his normal state, and felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from his mind.

This demon form, it isn't me. All that drives this demon is adrenaline, it wants to kill everything, race everyone, and it can't even sit still. But this demon can use my powers so much better than I ever could; I bet I couldn't even cure a hangnail in human form. He thought as he sat down in his little bubble. Darren brought his knees up to his chin and hugged his legs closer. But that demon can have all the blood he wants in battle, because that's the only thing he's good for.

He looked out from the bubble, gazing at the clouds as they rolled past. Connie was flying comfortably next to Raven, right above Darren's head. He had never noticed how much she looked like Star. But she lacked the naïve look that her mother had so well mastered.

That, and her was much darker.

"If you're that bored, we could always play I-spy. C'mon Rae, I spy something... white!"

"Clouds?"

"Damn, you're good."

"Connie!"

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Meanwhile, the other half of the Titans was wading their way through the sewers. But they weren't waist deep in raw sewage; they were waist deep in clear, crisp, cold water. Obviously, this wasn't a real sewer.

They could hear the Slade-bots splashing ahead of them, and Robin signaled them to go faster. After about twenty minutes of chase, the robots stopped, and stepped onto a large metal platform. A blue light emitted from the machine, and before they knew it, the robots were gone. They had vanished into thin air, right before their eyes.

"...A teleporter." Robin said, his mouth agape, as he walked towards the platform.

"Add that to the weird list." BB joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"I've been meaning to build one of these." Robin said, pointing a thumb towards the machine.

"...So, are we gonna follow them?" Jinx asked. She felt more than a bit uncomfortable around the other Titans. She knew they didn't trust her.

"Yeah, it's risky, but we'll use the teleporter." Robin said disapprovingly, walking up to the platform. "Brace yourselves, teleporting isn't an easy ride."

The titans were surrounded in an electric blue glow, before they disappeared into thin air. But that one, irrational action would jeopardize their entire mission. They had no idea where the teleporter would send them. It ended up sending them to the worst possible place they could be.

Atlanta.

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Wildfire had the wind knocked out of her as she was slammed against a brick wall by a green beam of energy. The Green Lantern imposter had something that the other robots couldn't even dream of.

That robot had GL's ring.

The green light slammed her again and again against the cold brick of the wall, which was slowly crumbling behind her. The attacks seemed to hurt less and less as she lost feeling in her limbs. The corners of her vision were turning black, and then suddenly her entire field of vision was navy blue.

"You okay?" The demon asked, forming a similar shield around himself.

She coughed, making blood trickle from the corner of her mouth. "...Not really."

"If that robot has GL's ring, then that means Slade really does have the Justice League hostage." He said, making conversation as he healed her. "But I wouldn't worry about them, they're veteran superheroes."

Connie rose to her feet. "They have my Grandfather; I can't take that sitting down."

Darren laughed. "I wish Slade had my Grandfather."

"That would be funny." Connie chuckled lightly. "But c'mon, we need to squash this robot."

Darren raised his shield and ran into battle, leaving Connie by the wall of the building. This was getting a little too easy. You shouldn't be able to joke about your grandpas while you're trying to foil a Slade-plot. Slade had something else in store. Connie knew it, Raven and BB knew it, Star and Jinx knew it, Robin and Cy knew it, but she was worried that Darren didn't. He hadn't been himself lately.

That's right, demon. Get your kicks now, because I can't have you being bloodthirsty 24-7. So you just keep on killing.

I hope you're having fun.

Oh, but I am...

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Okay, I could continue this chapter for a little longer, but I've got some serious cramming to do. Jax, Zeph, finish the Author's Note for me.

Jax: Aye aye, cap'n.

Zephyr: Sorry N/M Shin hasn't updated in awhile, its exam week and she's been busy cramming.

Jax: She got the day off of school to vote, but decided she should write the chapter instead.

Zephyr: She didn't vote, just so that she could update this story...sniff, she loves you all so much...

Jax: And the poem at the beginning of the chapter had nothing to do with the story, N/M Shin just had to write that. Sometimes she just needs to get poems out of her head, or she can't fit anything else in it.

Zephyr: We're also sorry if you think we left you at a cliffhanger...it wasn't intended.

Jax: Next chapter should be a songfic. So look forward to that.

Zephyr: Oh, and, N/M Shin left you guys a memo...

Memo: Raven actually didn't kill Trigon. She found a way to temporarily cut off her powers, so that she can feel emotions. However, she can't feel and use her powers at the same time. This means that a little of Trigon's influence might be present in Darren...

Zephyr: Dun dun dunnnn!!!

Jax: So, as always,

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