A/N: A new story begins! This one is planned to be a long project, with weekly updates or something like that. A word of warning: this story will be packed with my own characters. The names and powers ofmy charactersare products of my own ideas and my knowledge. Any and all similarities with any other characters in other fanfics or stories are purely accidental. So don't bother accusing me of stealing your characters, as I haven't read your story. :)

Disclaimer: Since this is gonna be a long fic (I hope), this is the first and last time there'll be a full disclaimer in this story. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE PLOT! This will be true for all the other chapters as well.

And now, let's get down to business!

Dreams Of A New Dawn

How much time had passed since she had smiled for the last time? Days, weeks, months? For her it felt like she hadn't felt happy for many millennia. Although Raven never was the type that would just go out and relax with her friends, even in her solitude she had found times to forget about her curse, her constant problems with her emotions and be at least a bit like all the other teens. She had even smiled from time to time. For most of the people this would seem strange and freaky, but in her case it was a rare event. Her smile was one of the most beautiful ones that the world has ever seen, but because her powers were in constant threat of getting out of control she couldn't allow herself to feel too much.

She never really knew what was the reason for her to smile. When she had joined the Teen Titans some years ago she had sworn a life devoid of any feelings. But she had found out that in the company of the four teen superheroes she didn't have to pretend being a cruel and uncaring person. At least not all the time. She had adopted sarcasm to fight off all signs of enthusiasm within her. But a couple of times…very rarely…she had smiled. She was happy. Although the shadows of her hood managed to hide any expression of happiness on her face, deep inside her heartshe was happy sometimes.

She had smiled when her teammates were fighting over childish things, like who was the better player of video games, or if tofu counted as real food. She had enjoyed living with them, although sometimes they bothered her more than some family members could bother you. But in overall she had enjoyed their company.

So why did she leave them? She had a safe place to live, food and drink, a place to rest, some fun and she was a highly regarded superhero. Defenders of Jump City, as they were often called by the citizens who lived under their protection. Everyone loved them, everyone wanted to be like them. But something was always missing in her life. There was always a hollow space in her soul that no amount of victories, celebrations could fill. She needed more than that from life. Not even her friends were able to replace the emptiness within her. She needed someone's love. She wanted to be loved, just like any other teen. But she had never experienced what is it like to love and be loved. There had been a couple of times when she thought that she was in love. Of course she had never told about her feelings anyone, but she there were times when she had thought that she was in love. First there was Beast Boy. As annoying and stupid as he could get at times he was the first one to catch her attention. He was always there for her, trying to make her happy. But the problem with him was that he didn't really know when to stop. No matter how much she had yelled at him to leave her alone for a while he continued to stay around her. At times this was lovely, but at other times…well, she had lost her patience. And after the accident with Terra Raven knew that the blonde girl would forever remain his true love. Just as he couldn't give up on making her happy he couldn't give up his hopes for reviving her.

Then after some time she had found a book in which had resided her second love in her life. An ancient dragon, Malchior. Unfortunately, this love almost turned into a disaster as her had abused the girl's trust to get into the real world. After defeating him she had felt her heart broken. The pain of being abandoned by someone whom she had thought to be the chosen one for her seemed unbearable. For a long time she tried to keep her mind off her emotions. But as it is with emotions, you can never truly control them. Especially when it comes to love.

Her third and last love had been Robin. The leader of the team seemed to be the perfect one. He had the same kind of darkness in his soul and he was fully devoted to his team. He had saved her life many times in the past and he was the only reason why five teens with so different lives and behaviours could remain a team. He was the force that had kept them together for years. He knew when was the time to have fun and when did they have to concentrate on fighting villains. But…his heart belonged to another. Raven had always suspected that he was in love with the other girl on the team: Starfire. When the two of them finally confessed their love she was happy for them. She had congratulated as well. But behind her smile she was hurt more than the others could know.

But the pain had passed in time, just as all the pain had. However the empty space in her soul, in her life still remained. She was still searching for the safety of someone's embrace. And as she knew that she couldn't find peace amongst the Teen Titans she had left them. She apologized for everything she had ever said to them that might have hurt them. She had even admitted that Beast Boy was funny. But instead of a "victory-dance" the green shapeshifter remained shocked. Her friends tried to convince her to stay with them. But as they realized, that they couldn't say anything to make her stay, they let her go. After all she was a free person and she could go anywhere she wanted to. Saying goodbye was a lot more painful for Raven than she had imagined so many times before. She had never realized how much did this weird team mean to her. During the goodbye hugs she had even cried a bit, something that she tried to hide from her friends on so many occasions before. But the thought of leaving her past and everything she had known and held dear behind her forced the tears out of her eyes.

After leaving the Teen Titans she had traveled for some days. She had regretted her choice many times during that time. She had felt hollow before, but now her life seemed to be absolutely meaningless. She had no purpose. She wanted to go back and laugh at Beast Boy's lame jokes and go to the 'mall-of-shopping' with the Tamaranian girl. But the longer she continued to travel the distance seemed to become greater between her and the Titans.

"Maybe they had already found someone to replace me. Robin surely wouldn't allow the team to be weakened. I wonder whom did they find. Probably a girl. Starfire would hang out with her. She could finally have a friend that she could to talk to about all the usual 'girl-stuff'. Hmm, what kind of powers would the girl have?" Raven was thinking about all the possible powers that she could name. The most reasonable seemed to be another teen with telekinetic powers as Raven's powers had been fundamental in many of the tactics of the Teen Titans.

"I wonder if they miss me. I sure miss them a lot." she thought as she decided to rest on the roof of one of the houses. The city was unfamiliar to her, but reminded her a bit of Jump City in its design. She landed on the roof of the flat and walked to its ledge. She sat down on it and looked at the streets underneath her. As it was already night the streets were almost deserted, just some cars passing through the empty streets. Raven sighed, as she felt lonely again. So far from her friends, without a shelter, without anyone to comfort her. A gentle breeze brushed her face and she closed her eyes to enjoy the moment. She calmed down a bit. Suddenly an alarm went off in her vicinity and she immediately stood up to see what had happened. A loud explosion was heard and a strange figure ran out of one of the buildings. Raven instantly recognized the villain. It was Mumbo Jumbo, the self-proclaimed magician who used his magical powers to steal.

"Doesn't this guy ever give up?" she thought as she levitated up in the air.

Although she was alone she was still a superhero and as such it was her duty to stop the criminals, no matter what were the odds. She began to chase the magician as he ran with inhuman speed away from the robbed jewelry store.

A voice in her memory came back as she remembered the two words that she had gotten so used to in the past few years.

"Titans, go." she whispered to herself sadly, but in the next moment she concentrated on the task at hand. She had to stop Mumbo Jumbo all by herself.

A/N: Okay, so this is the beginning. Y'know, some explanation of the basic situation. The new characters will appear in the next chapter. If you want to find out who are they gonna be: REVIEW:)