(A/N) Regrem Erutaerc, this almost never happens, but you're totally wrong. I only said that he grew as large as Trigon, not that he was in league with him. Overactive Mind, what brought it on will be explained in this chapter. wizardmon92, not hard at all, it's an action based show. I also forgot to answer your question from a few chapters back. Everyone's ages are something like this: Beast Boy 16, Raven 16, Starfire 17, Robin 17-18, and Cyborg 18-19. I don't have any concrete thing to base that off of except for how they look and act. If anybody has something more official, like what age the comics said they were when Terra died or when Trigon came, I would be glad to hear it. Raven+Robin4ever, yeah, new powers, but can you guess what they are before you read this chapter? ;-) SxStrngSamurai13, you'll have to read this chapter to find out if your guess is correct.

Disclaimer – I don't own the Teen Titans, some guy with lots more money than me does. Lucky punk.

Tamed – Facing Your Fears – A clue gives a lead, a lead gives a suspect, a suspect gives something to search for answers.

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There was a pall that hung over the Titans as they sat in the common room. Beast Boy was still holding Raven, who had finally fallen asleep instead of her constant pleas for protection. Robin and Starfire sat side-by-side, Robin's arm around her shoulder. When Raven had been carried in Starfire had cried. Only Cyborg wasn't present. As soon as they had gotten in he had gone to the lab to run tests on Adonis' armor.

So, it was with hope filled eyes that everyone who was awake looked at Cyborg when he returned. Their hope dipped as they caught the downcast attitude he bore. "I got good news and bad news." Beast Boy sat up a little straighter. "Good news is I know what he did. There's a powdery film over his armor that's made of some kind of chemical. It makes you deathly afraid of him, but only him. It gets in your head and makes you feel like you can't beat him no matter what."

"Dude…if that's the good news, what's the bad?"

Cyborg's shoulders slouched as he sat down onto the couch. "I don't know how to reverse it. It's way beyond anything I've ever seen. And…we've all been exposed. Beast Boy got it when he beat down Adonis, and you and me got it when we were picking him up to cuff him." He said to their leader.

Robin leaned forward. "But if we were hit by that stuff, why didn't he scare any of us?"

"Takes a few minutes for it to work its way through the blood stream."

"This doesn't make sense. How could Adonis come up with something like this? It's not his style, and he's too much of a moron to think it up." Robin thought intensely for a few moments when a possibility came to him. "This sounds more like Jonathan Crane."

"Uh…and who's that?" Beast Boy always got confused when Robin gave half answers.

"The Scarecrow, a psycho that I met back in Gotham. He's supposed to be locked up in Arkham Asylum still." Robin quickly made his way over to the computer and started typing. "I'm checking the Gotham police records to see if there's been any break outs lately." Robin frowned darkly. "I need to make a call." He stood and was quickly out of the room.

"Why does friend Robin leave the telephone behind if he needs to make the call?"

"Probably 'cause of who he's gonna call."

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Later that day after sunup Robin was pacing back and forth in his room. He had gotten word back from Gotham and found out that his suspicions were right. The Scarecrow had escaped over three months ago and no one had seen him since. He also found that no other help could be offered and they would be alone in their fight, but that the chemicals used wouldn't be permanent if they weren't able to find some antidote. Just…it could take weeks before they finally wore off. At the very least, he had been told attempts for an antidote would be made in any spare moments possible.

He needed to experiment on something himself. He left his room and rounded up Beast Boy and Cyborg and took them to the front lobby. He explained what he had found and about what it meant for them. The three stood somberly behind the front door waiting for what would be next. "Alright guys, we need to find out just how bad this stuff has gotten us. Starfire can't even face leaving the tower, so we'll find out if it's that bad for us. In turn each of us will attempt to walk out and head towards the edge of the water, come back when you can't go any farther, and then tell us what it did to you. Cy, you go first, I'll go last since I've been hit with Scarecrow's formulas before."

Cyborg nodded and stepped up to the door and swung it wide. He took his first step out and froze. "Rob…m-my systems are going nuts. I'm picking up Adonis on every signal. I…" His breathing had grown rapid and labored. "I'm picking him up on every sensor, but I can't see him. Rob! He's…he's almost here! I can't let him get in! He'll tear us all apart if he gets in the tower before I can get the defenses up! I've got to get the defenses up!" His voice had been steadily rising and sounded less and less rational as he went. It was like he was infected with a virus all over again. He backed into the tower and made to run up the stairs, but slowed considerably after the door had shut. "Uh, Rob? I…I'm not…picking him up…anymore." He turned slowly to the spiky haired leader. "Dog, that's messed up. I couldn't think straight. I couldn't even read my sensors right. I…" He sat down on the stairs and put his head in his hands.

"Cyborg, don't worry about it. Scarecrow's been doing this for a long time." Robin laid a hand on Cyborg's shoulder and the titanium teen looked up mournfully. "There's a reason he's one of Gotham's most dangerous criminals. It took me days of fighting it, with the best teacher there is to beat that feeling, and he's probably improved on his past tricks." Robin sighed deeply and looked up at Beast Boy. "It's your turn."

Beast Boy walked over to the door and opened it, staring out. He took a step, paused, and then kept walking. He climbed down a few of the rocks and got to the water's edge, changed into a sea lion as he jumped in, and changed back as he jumped out. He walked back up to the tower and inside again. He looked wary of being outside, but other than that seemed fine. "I think I'm immune…sorta."

"How?" Robin wasn't demanding, just asking for Beast Boy to explain.

Beast Boy looked down at Cyborg who still had a look of fear and shame on his face. He would give anything to have Cyborg have done better than him at this too. "When we were on the island, I had Raven do to me what she did to Dr. Light." Both Robin and Cyborg stared in horror and shock at Beast Boy. "I thought it would help me learn control my other form."

"So…you saw what scared him so bad?" Cyborg seemed to forget his own fear some at the thought of learning what Raven had done to the hapless villain.

"Whatever it is that she does, it makes you see all of your worst fears and the worst things a demon can think up for torture."

"And you survived?" Robin was awestruck. He knew Beast Boy could be brave; he had to be with their line of work, but nothing to that magnitude.

"I grew up learning how to face fears…I…was able to recover pretty quick from what she did. Compared to that, whatever it is that Adonis is doing is manageable." Now, when he had every opportunity and right to feel like bragging at his accomplishments, Beast Boy couldn't think of any time he'd wanted to do so less.

"I'm impressed. Deeply." Robin was smiling slightly at the green Titan. "Well…guess it's my turn to see what I can do." Robin walked to the still open door and looked outside. He took a step and another and another. He kept walking forward, but it looked like he was straining under a heavy load. After he'd gotten half way to the water his steps looked less and less labored. He finally reached the edge of the water and turned to come back. His steps seemed much easier on the return trip, but he walked much slower this time. After finally coming back inside he shut the door and knelt down to the floor, out of breath. "It…is…worse…than last time." He gasped for air between almost every word. "I think I can beat it, but it's going to take a little bit, and I'll have to do it all over again when I actually see him." His breathing had steadied and he stood up normally again. "Come on, let's go upstairs and get something to eat. Cy?"

The big man rose to his feet. "Yeah, Rob?"

"It's your choice what you do here. If you want to stay at the tower, that's fine. You'll coordinate everything Beast Boy and I do. If you can come with us, that works too. I won't order you one way or the other." Robin smiled grimly at his tall friend. "Besides, you've beaten stuff like this before with Brother Blood."

Cyborg looked down at his shoes. "No…I haven't. With Blood, it was my will against his. This is…it's me attacking me. I don't know how to look through the false info my head says when it even messes with what I think my hardware is telling me. I'll…stay at the tower."

Robin nodded and the three walked to the rear elevator.

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Beast Boy tossed and turned in his bed. It wasn't that he wasn't tired; it was the late afternoon sun coming in through his window that was keeping him awake. He had tried using thick curtains, but they only seemed to make it worse. A nice dark place ruined by bits of light filtering in. The last few nights had been quiet, except for a false alarm at a shipping yard. Robin had made them stay to fix the faulty wiring that triggered it. Beast Boy turned over again and decided that sleep just wasn't going to come until it was a little darker.

He got up to find something to do until dusk and wandered into the common room to watch a little television. He stopped when he saw Raven floating beside the couch in deep meditation. Rather than wake her out of it, he went to the kitchen table and just sat watching her from his chair. She had recovered fully by the next morning and was acting like her self again. Except that, just like Starfire and Cyborg, she showed no signs of being able to overcome the fear that was now rampaging through her mind and wouldn't leave the tower. She didn't even like the roof anymore.

Raven could feel Beast Boy watching her. Sadness seemed to come from him in wave after wave. He wanted to help her so badly and he felt so powerless. All the new skills he had developed, all the new knowledge he now possessed, and all the love he had for her and it all just wasn't enough. Raven felt so angry with herself for not being able to face this fear that she was having to meditate half the day to keep from blowing up anything. Robin had found the marble she made and had nearly thrown his back out trying to pick it up. At least she found comfort and peace with Beast Boy. It really did mean a lot to her that he cared so much.

She had tried to take off from the roof to push her tolerance of these new fears and it had taken her nearly an hour to stop freaking out. Beast Boy found her scrunched up in the fetal position on the couch after she had been there for forty minutes and held her tightly while he rocked her. She would have been mad at herself for showing him that weakness, but something about their relationship made it OK for him to see that part of her. The part of her that still remembered she was not a full-grown woman ready to stab out against the world on her own. The part of her that wished it had parents. The part of her that not only wanted to be cared for, but liked it.

It was this part of Raven that decided she had meditated enough so that she could spend time with Beast Boy. Her legs unfolded and touched down. She walked over to him and sat in the chair by his side. He put an arm around her and she leaned her head onto his shoulder. It was the way they liked to sit when they were just enjoying each other's company. The others had seen them doing it at various times, and only Cyborg was caught off guard by it. Starfire had giggled and flown off happily while Robin merely smiled at them, usually waving a greeting and farewell in one gesture. Beast Boy's eyes were just growing heavy enough to close when the alarm went off.

Everyone was quickly in the command center of the tower, their living room, to see what had happened. It seemed like it was too early in the evening for Adonis, so it was probably some other thug trying to make a name for himself by out doing the cops and needing to be taken down by the Titans.

But it was Adonis. He had broken into the shipping yard Beast Boy and Robin had been to just the other night and was clearly seen on surveillance. Beast Boy was nervous about what this fight would bring. Robin had gotten through being afraid when they were just out in the open, but he still had yet to face Adonis, and Beast Boy didn't know if he could take the egotistical body builder on his own.

When they got to the shipping yard, they entered as quietly as they could. Robin stealthily flipping over and rolling past various objects that he used as cover along the way. Beast Boy was flying high overhead as an owl so that his wings were as quiet as a bird could get.

Beast Boy was the first to spot Adonis and swooped silently down next to Robin and morphed into himself. "He's six rows down on the right." Robin nodded and started skulking his way past the other rows of shipping containers. Beast Boy had taken off back into the air, keeping watch of Robin's progress and of Adonis' actions so that Robin wouldn't be caught off guard. As Robin peeked around the sixth row at Adonis, Beast Boy held his breath, hoping that he wouldn't just stay that way or turn to run away.

He smiled as Robin started in towards the villain, well, as much as a small ground owl can smile. He changed into a hawk and went into a dive so that he and Robin would get to Adonis at the same time. Adonis' form still looked distorted to Beast Boy, but he figured if he just aimed for dead center from here he would hit his mark. Beast Boy changed into a rhino, figuring on landing on the distracted thief.

He came crashing down on Adonis who had only just turned to look at the advancing Robin and laugh at him. The impact knocking him down for the count. Beast Boy changed into his normal form and stood over the prone figure. "Oh yeah, who's the man? Who's the man?" He looked to Robin to see his smile, but quickly shouted in surprise at the figure looming up behind the boy wonder. "Robin! Look out!"

Robin went into a duck and rolled to his side. He spun around as he came out of the roll and was in a set-fighting stance. "Nice to see you again, straw man."

"I'm afraid I can't say the same, boy."

"Why're you in Jump City, Scarecrow? Gotham get too tough for you?"

He laughed eerily. "No. I merely came to a much easier harvesting ground for my needs before I return to my usual fields. There is more of the ingredients I need here than in any city on this side of the country." An arm, which had hung dead at his side rose with the butt end of a large scythe in it that he hefted into a more proper grip.

Robin readied himself for the strike. "Why'd you get the lap dog? You normally prefer to scare up trouble alone."

Scarecrow swung the deadly weapon quickly to his side, which Robin backed out of the way of. "My precious little pet knew the area better than I do. I offered to make him the most feared in the city for his assistance. I, of course, took precautions to assure his…loyalty. Such an easily preyed upon mind are those that rely solely on their strength!"

Another vicious swing came at Robin's head, which he ducked. He kicked upward, knocking the scythe out of Scarecrow's hands and jumped for the skinny frame of the mad man but was knocked out of the air by the body of Beast Boy. Adonis had woken back up and caught him distracted by what Robin and the Scarecrow were doing. The two quickly got to their feet and stared at their opponents. Robin would go after Scarecrow while Beast Boy could take down the already softened up Adonis. Instead, Adonis charged the both of them and neither knew which part of him to jump from or hit. They may have been able to break the binding fear that had gripped their teammates, but he still looked horrifically disfigured to their minds.

Beast Boy changed into his other form and lunged for Adonis' chest only to pass through the illusion and land hard on his stomach. Robin tried another tactic and attacked Adonis' legs with his freshly drawn bo staff. He connected firmly with the large man's knee and he tripped, hitting the ground hard. Robin would have continued his assault, but he was kicked in the back by the Scarecrow. Adonis and the Scarecrow quickly made their retreat while Robin was picking himself up slightly dazed from having been kicked into the wall of one of the large metal boxes while Beast Boy was regaining the breath that had been knocked out of him.

"Dude…we can't beat him if we can't see where he really is!"

"I know. We need more firepower. Think you can handle it?"

Beast Boy sighed. Their back-up plan seemed risky, and the risk was one he didn't like at all. "Yeah, I just don't want anything bad to happen."

"We'll both be watching to make sure it doesn't, but a three man team is what we need. You could take out Adonis alone if you could see him, but since you can't it's going to take at least two people to knock him down…especially if he changes into the beast."

"I know…OK, I'll do it when we get back."

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"Raven," Beast Boy started out cautiously, "can I talk to you about something?"

Raven eyed him warily; it looked like he was about to knowingly say something that might upset her. "What do you want?"

"Heh, cut to the chase, right?"

"Right."

"OK, uhm, Robin and I can't beat Adonis by ourselves, not when he's got the Scarecrow with him too. I could beat him up if he didn't look all funny because of that junk he got us with. You could help us if you…"

"I can't."

"But, Rae…"

"No, Beast Boy, I really can't. I can't even go on the roof anymore without needing to meditate for an hour afterwards to calm down again. I can't take even one step out the front door, and just opening the door makes me want to hide on the couch with you. I hate what this is doing to me, but I can't beat it. It's too strong." She looked absolutely pitiful, fretfully hugging her own arms tightly against her stomach under the folds of her cloak.

Beast Boy pulled her to him and softly spoke in her ear. "It's OK to be afraid, but there's another way to beat this. Robin and I talked about it, and I don't like it, but it could work."

She liked the way his hand was rubbing her back soothingly. "What's the other way?"

Beast Boy sighed, he'd hoped she wouldn't even ask. "Merge with Happy. You'll be able to do whatever you want no matter how scary it gets. You'd be too…uh, I guess, bubbly to let it get to you. But we'd only have about three days. If we couldn't find him or if he doesn't come out then you'll be right back to where you are now." Beast Boy gripped her more tightly. "But you don't have to do it. I think it's too risky, you might do something for fun in the middle of a fight and get hurt. I couldn't take it if you got hurt."

Raven liked his concern, but she was calculating things in her mind. It was a good idea. She could help like she wanted to. Being too happy, she wouldn't feel the effects of the fear powder and could fight alongside Robin and Beast Boy. Maybe even find the antidote in the process. "I'll do it."

He pulled her to arms length and stared in her eyes. "Rae, I…"

"Beast Boy, please let me help. I'm tired of being too afraid to keep you safe. Do you think I could handle it any better if you got hurt while I was cowering here in the tower? I need this. I need this so that I don't fall apart waiting for some other solution." She hugged him. "Will you come with me?"

He smiled at her, worry for her still in his eyes. "I wouldn't miss it for Mega Monkey twenty-three."

She laughed softly and they walked off to her room.

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(A/N) Building into the climax. You know you want it, but you won't get it till I give it to you, so go review while you wait! ;-) By the way, ONE BILLION, TRILLION, GOOGOL PLEX bonus points to SxStrngSamurai13 for correctly guessing who was helping Adonis. I was most impressed.