Chapter 1: Heading Home
After Six hours and Raven constantly telling directions to Robin who was driving, they made it to Azerath. Raven could already tell things had desperately changed. Lush green trees and beautiful gardens had been turned to ash and twigs. Crystal clear waters had mud and toxic waste all in it. The castle where the Ruler lived was rubbish. As they landed they saw a young girl (about 13) standing behind a boulder. She had a similar robe as Raven but it was black and torn. When they approached her she didn't run away in fear (b/c she saw Raven).
"Era uoy Raven? (Are you Raven?)"
Raven answered in the language that Yes she was Raven and that she was there to help and she asked for the girl's name after she introduced the Titans.
"I ma Topanga, yllis. (I am Topanga, silly.) Yhw evah uoy neeb enog os gnol retsis? (Why have you been gone so long sister?)"
All the Titans are clueless except that the girl's name is Topanga, so Raven tells a lie to the titans about her sister.? "She says thank you for coming with me so that the planet can be saved. Then she asked what took so long." "Raven you should teach us your language so we can understand what everyone is saying!" BB said being frustrated that he couldn't understand a word being said. "It's not that hard Beast Boy, you just take the letters of English, turn them around backwards and then say it." Raven said as Topanga looked worriedly around then suddenly started speaking in a whisper to them, "Ti si ton evas ereh. Wollof em (It is not save here. Follow Me.)." "Come on, we're going some place safe." Everyone followed Raven who was following Topanga. On their way to the "safe place" Raven was thinking to herself, "I have a sister? Mom never told me I had a sister before. Did she get pregenet after I left home and she never said anything? Or was this an adopted sister? Or was she adopted and then was told about mom and me? Where is my mom? Is this a trick? Is she leading us in a trap? Or maybe this is my real sister. I can't be for sure until we get to the "safe place". As they arrived at the "safe place" they saw it was only a simple cave. "This is the safe place!" Cyborg asked as they entered the cave. "Tahw did eh yas (What did he say?)?" "Gnihton (nothing.)." "Emoclew; Ot eht efas ecalp. I wonk sti ton suoromalg tub ti si eht ylno efas ecalp…erehwyna (Welcome; To the safe place. I know it's not glamorous but it is the only safe place…anywhere.)." Raven was shocked to hear that there was no safe place in Azerath except for here in this cave. (I'm going to forget that it's a different language and use English. Because it is getting difficult for me to type it and it takes too long, so use your imagination and pretend only Raven, Topanga, and any other person in Azerath except for the Titans know and speak the language of Azerath.). "What do you mean the only safe place any where?" The Titans sit and try to let Raven talk to Topanga. "Where have you been for like ten years, Earth?" "Actually, I have." "What! No wonder you haven't gotten any messages mom sent you!" "I did get one, very full of static though, from mom just yesterday." "How? Mom…well…I didn't want to tell you so soon but mom died a week ago." Raven was suddenly filled with tears. It probably took a week for the message to get all the way to Earth. "Raven?" Robin asked because she was crying. "Raven? What's the matter?" Starfire asked after Robin got no answer from her. "RAVEN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! DON'T LET YOURSELF LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR POWERS!" screamed Topanga noticing that the cave was starting to shake ever so slightly and Topanga knew exactly what was happening. She tried to tell the Titans to run while they still could but they did not understand her so she yelled, "NUR! NUR STOIDI (RUN! RUN IDIOTS!)!" As the cave started to shake very badly Topanga just got up and ran to the mouth of the cave and motioned with her hand to come on, so the Titans obeyed. But as they were running BB ran back to grab Raven because the cave was about to collapse. She wouldn't move when he tried to grab her by the arm so he picked her up (like he picked up Terra in "Betrayal") and ran outside the cave with her in his arms. After the cave was destroyed, the ground started to crack a little and Topanga looked around on the ground quickly and spotted a rock the size of about a baseball and ran over to BB who was holding Raven. With only using a little effort (because she is strong like most people with powers are) she hit Raven in the back of the head with the stone making her pass out.
When Raven came to Topanga and the Titans (who were mad at Topanga for hitting Raven in the back of the head with a rock) were hovering over her. "How do you feel Raven?" Robin asked. "Fine, but what happened?" me for Topanga quickly answered, "Raven! You lost control of your powers, destroyed the last safe place, Beast Boy carried you out, you were about to destroy the whole planet of Azerath so I hit you in the back of the head with a rock, and now I can tell that your friends are mad at me for hitting you." "What why would they be mad? You saved me." "Why don't you ask them yourself?" "Guy's, why are you mad at Topanga?" "Dude, she slammed you in the head with a rock!" BB said. "She saved all of us. If I would have kept destroying things I could have destroyed what's left of Azerath." Nobody spoke as they went on a search to find any kind of shelter because Raven demolished it. When they found a boulder that arched it was dark and everyone was tired, especially Raven who was still upset that she was too late to save her mother.
Raven does not seem the same as she was yesterday when I met her for the first time in my life. Our mother had left a letter for Raven and one for me before she died. She told me not to read Raven's but only my own. I have read mine but all it really says is to make sure Raven gets her letter and that she loves me. She also told me not to be sad because she said she will die for a good cause in her letter to me. I am going to give Raven her letter tomorrow but now I'm not sure because of what happened today. She almost killed herself and everyone around her. I don't think she can handle it.