Thanx so far to the many reviewers for well... Reviewing. And before this sounds like a cheesy award winning speech, I must get on with the story. Now all I need is some evil twists to plant around the main plots. Being evil isn't easy ya know. You gotta go carefully plan evilness and then put it to work, and you gotta do it yourself because your henchmen are idiots who ruin everything.... Ok.... Chapter 13 time...

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" Azarath Metrion Zinthos..."

Raven was on the rooftop attempting to meditate while surrounded by the jovial of the dawn. Bright pinks and oranges stained the once ebony sky, and the translucent glare of the water quickly lost all obscurity and succumbed to the light of the new day. Raven would soon retreat back inside now that the darkness had faded. No matter, as long as she meditated, she may have a chance at stabilizing her powers. She just hoped that they wouldn't fail her at the wrong time.

" Azarath Metrion Zinthos..."

But the dream, or rather nightmare she had earlier ceased to torment her mind. What if the dream was a sign? If so, who were the fools to even ally with her inhumane father? Only a fellow demon would aid him, and the two didn't look like demons to her. Hybrids. They were the only explanation. But she was the only Hybrid alive on Earth, and she would rather wear pink than help her parent. Perhaps the two were aliens... She didn't actually see the duo exit the mist, all she knew was that they had the figures of humans.

" Azarath Metrion Zinthos..."

That wasn't the only thing giving her stress. Who or what was at her window last night? Instead of worrying about it, she passed it off as one of those crazed fans of Beast Boy he would tell her of. Beast Boy having fans was hard to believe, but after taking a walk down the sidewalk with him a few times, his presence didn't go unnoticed. Apparently the green teen was the classical local hero... Now she was getting side tracked. She just told herself to concentrate instead of trying to debate whether Trigon was still hunting her or not.

And then it happened.

As soon as she relaxed, it was like she was tossed into a vortex like a rag doll. Her head spun ominously while she regained a normal standing position and opened her eyes. She wasn't on the rooftop anymore. She was in some sort of... Battleground? No, the place was familiar to her... The bloodstained streets... The cardinal and sable thunderclouds... And the cries of tortured beings echoing through empty, mist-ridden streets... She now knew where she was, and she preferred not to be there.

And as she expected, along came the clatter of footsteps from the shadows. Slowly, the demonic form of Trigon sliced through the fog and continued his stomping through the street. He almost looked delighted to see the body of a child laying still on the sidewalk. Raven wanted to just run to him and rip his black heart out of his chest, then toss him in a car smasher found at your local dump. Too bad for her she couldn't move. Great.

There they were, behind Trigon. The two shadows... If only she could get closer and see who they were. Instead, they stayed behind within the shadows as Trigon approached someone standing many feet away blocking his path. She couldn't see that person either. All the secretness and hiding was starting to enrage her. She wanted to know, Now.

And as she pushed forward to clearly see them all, she suddenly fell to her knees. Trigon was glaring at her when she looked up. It must be an ability he had. In reaction to the sharp pain she felt, she attempted to use her dark energy to repel whatever she could now sense sneaking up on her. Why she felt pain was a question, the being behind her didn't cause it. Slowly, the scene of corruption crashed and faded to something else. She still had her eyes closed and lightly the affliction disturbed her.

" Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" She screamed

With almost a war cry, she yelled as a massive wave of dark energy suddenly shot from her defensive shield. She was crouched over on the ground when she realised she was back on the roof mysteriously. Her quick question was answered when she heard the shout of someone behind her.

Apparently, Beast Boy had explored his way to the rooftop and saw Raven partially on the ground. And as he approached, the wave of energy sent him rolling half way across the roof. He shook his head and climbed to his feet as did Raven. She stumbled and turned to him as they slightly approached each other.

" Dude! What's up with THAT!?" Beast Boy gawked

" An accident." She monotoned, realising what happened was just a clash with reality

" Raven, that's no accident! Something's up with you... Now, are you gonna tell me plain and simple or do I have to keep annoying you until you tell me what's goin' on."

" Nothing..... Nothing you should know of...." She mumbled lowly

" Huh? ...What did ya say?" He rubbed his ear "........ Dude, Raven... Your wound..."

Raven looked to her shoulder to see the once white bandages slowly soaking to red. The expel of her dark energy using the force of her mind must have been a strain on the damage. It didn't seem like a major matter to her, but at least it got Beast Boy to forget about confronting her on what was going on in her head... And in her life.

" Maybe you should go get some first aid..." Beast Boy suggested

" Obviously..." She muttered

Quickly, what she saw around her flashed back to the hell on Earth that resided in her nightmares. And in that short second, one of the shadows behind Trigon crept out from hiding. And she was about to see their face when...

' Hello!? Raven!? Are you there!?" Beast Boy waved

" Uh.. I... Have to go..."

And to her surprise, her aspiration to get away made a previous ability resurface. Her powers of darkness flowed around her and swallowed her up, then seeped through the roof. Beast Boy looked extremely confused as she just stood there like a moron who was talking to himself. He sighed knowing Raven had retreated to her room and trudged back to the stairwell to go play video games.

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Raven didn't looked surprised to make her escape in that manner. She had other things to worry about. Life just seemed like one giant puzzle of which none of the pieces interlocked. Remembering the wound, she strolled to her bathroom to grab the medical kit. In her short time spent at the manor, she had also disposed of the atrocious white... Everything... And quickly replaced it with blue and black... Everything.... She idly lifted the medical kit from a hook on the wall and cracked it open to grab some bandages and the evil bottle of rubbing alcohol. As she tended to her bloody injury, she pondered what she saw of the first shadow.

From the glimpse she caught of the person, she knew it was an armour-clad teen boy, and that he had haunting blue eyes that would rattle up ghosts themselves. But what really got to her was that she saw him before. She just couldn't recall where or when she did. Could such confusion be anymore bothersome? And he didn't look like a demon, or hybrid, at all. He was definitely not from Earth.

She winced and poured the stinging concoction on the affliction. It would be a lot easier if she could heal herself instead of using medicine she wasn't even sure worked. Maybe what happened next would have happened anyway if that thought didn't cross her mind.

Her hand illuminated and radiated energy onto the bullet wound while she watched indifferently. The pain was being eased somehow... A new ability? It seemed useless to her, it acted as it only eased pain. In fact, it was almost like there was no wound at all. She looked to her damaged shoulder, she saw there was no longer a wound at all. She could heal! Now if only she could harness it... Just like her ability to go through walls. Thinking about it, she only gained a new ability at least once per year. Whatever triggered them to suddenly emerge she blamed on the recent bewildering happenings. At this rate, she would gain as many abilities as Trigon possessed... Or more...

Now that the injury was no longer present, she could go back to training... Not that she actually lost any training time. The injury was only half a day old. She tried not to worry about her abilities and told herself to focus on what Trigon was planning. That reoccurring nightmare must mean something.

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Raven somehow managed to sneak past a Final Fantasy obsessed Beast Boy, slip into the kitchen unnoticed by Mr. Logan from behind a newspaper, grab a cup of herbal tea, sneak pass Beast Boy again, and back into her room. If stealth was that easy, then she'd sign up to be a spy any day.

She entered her room and set the mug on her night stand and strolled to her personal bookcase incase the library was inaccessible, or in this case, a place to be confronted by Beast Boy about what's going on with her. Her dreams were the key... But she didn't know exactly what they meant. It was nearly impossible for her father, dare she refer to him as that, to get back the amulet, thus, plunge Jump City and the rest of the world into ruin. There wasn't much point in trying to figure it out, all she did was run into dead ends. So with that in mind, she prepared to bury herself in another book.

Crack.

" What the..." Raven turned

And her plan to go reading was foiled. Someone other than her just made the floor creak in her room. She looked around fearfully, hoping it was just Beast Boy playing the usual prank. Her room was too dark to tell if anyone was hiding, and she didn't get enough time to pin point the source of the foot step. Too bad she didn't have control of the power that allowed her to go through walls, then she could escape without damage. And the silence began to panic her.

" Show yourself." she demanded

" Don't you remember me," he stepped from the shadows " Sweet Raven?"

And in an instance, the person surfaced from the darkness and Raven knew who he was.

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Cliffhanger! Muahahahaha! >:) Now several hints have been issued of whom shadow guy is. Piece the pieces together and it seems soooo obvious. And with all my might, I'll try to update again later tonight or tomorrow. And due to the Final Fantasy reference, I must quote this:

I do not own Final Fantasy or other things owned mentioned in this fic.

Thank you, now back to your regularly scheduled program... Which is this fic... And this is the end of the chapter...Ok... If there's another chapter uploaded then everything is peachy...