WeaselChick: For everyone that has not read my profile, I apologize for the wait. But here's the next chapter, in which we find something out about Thorn. Not everything, as I don't want to give away all my secrets.

Several minutes later, a slightly disgruntled and confused Drake climed out of the T-Car. The whole time hehad spent in the car, he'd been bombarded with questions from Starfire and jokes from Beast Boy. He sighed, closed his eyes to clear his head, then looked at the Tower.

Raven was standing just inside the doorway, along with a young boy with gray hair and green eyes. As they approached them, the boy yawned. "I assume that he is young Rorek," Drake said to Raven.

Raven nodded. "He's been complaining that I woke him up to early."

"Really?" Cyborg said. "It's past noon!"

"I know!" Rorek said in a tired and whiny voice. "I went back to sleep at four!"

"That's not what I meant," Cyborg told him.

"Are we going to talk about Thorn?" Robin asked Drake as Rorek explained to Cyborg that he "needed" twelve hours of sleep a day.

Drake nodded. "If you feel it's an automatic responsibility, then yes. We will talk about Thorn."

Robin nodded and he and Drake led the others into the Tower.

Soon, the Titans and Rorek were seated in the main room. Drake was standing in front of them, and, having just performed a spell, was flipping through pages of a very large book. "Here we are," he said, stopping and turning the book to face them. On it was an old looking, full color drawing of a man wearing loose pants and a cloak that was buttoned from the waist up. His dark eyes stared out at them with fierceness and intelligence, and he was grinning crazily. "This is Thorn. At least, it's how he looked when I met him." He paused and turned the page and showed them the next page. "And this is Thorn's true form."

The page showed another full color drawing of Thorn. Only this time, he was different. He had four dark eyes instead of two, huge gray bat wings sprouted out of his back, and his grinning mouth was full of sharp fangs. Spikes burst from his shoulders and upper arms and ran also down his spine. A small diamond in the middle of his four eyes shone with a brillant white. Above this, Drake had scrawled in titling, near cursive, writing: 'Thorn equalsTroian'.

Raven gasped. "Troian's one of the worst demons ever."

Drake nodded. "I know. It's the main reason we must defeat him."

"You mean you're going to help us?" Robin asked.

"Against my better judgement, yes," Drake said.

"If he's a demon," Rorek said. "why is he even here? Shouldn't he be in one of those weird demon realms or something?"

"I haven't yet figured that out," Drake said truthfully, lying the book down. "All I know is that he has a taste for killing anyone that he feels like, which, it seems, is you. That diamond on his forehead is usually black. It only turns white when all of his demonic power has drained into his body and blood. Of course, then it becomes nearly impossible to get off."

"So, you're saying that once that diamond turns white, he becomes a full demon?" Beast Boy asked, scratching his head.

Drake nodded.

"Yeah, I don't get that at all."

Drake sighed. "I know it doesn't make much sense, Beast Boy, but just believe it."

Beast Boy shrugged. "Whatever dude." He leaned back in the couch as the others began asking Drake questions, pausing after each one to let him answer.

"All right, that's it," Drake said after the fifteenth question about Thorn. "I've had enough of answering your questions for now."

"Yeah," Rorek said. He was leaning up against the wall to the right, his head on his chest and his eyes closed. "Shut up. You're interrupting my nap." He paused, yawned, and was hit with a blast of red magic.

"Wake up, young Rorek," Drake ordered, withdrawing his magic. "If anything, we need to go and defeat Thorn. Now."

"He's right," Robin said as Rorek rubbed his eyes, yawning. "We need to bring him down."

Meanwhile, Thorn's House

Dayna sighed and watched as Xanka, fully clothed in his Red X outfit, trained with Gizmo and Mammoth. Thorn had mentioned to them that the Titans were bound to show up sometime soon and that they needed to be fully prepared when that happened. His team had immediately spilt into the two training rooms Thorn had built: Jinx, Mystery, and Terra in one, and the boys in the other. Thorn had also mentioned to Dayna to watch the boys as they trained, just to make sure that Xanka didn't try to murder the others. She watched, bored, as they trained, and then glanced over at the door to her left as it cracked open.

Terra was standing out in the hallway, looking as if she had just come out of a fierce battle. "Thorn wants you," she said, clearly out of breath. "I'll take over."

Dayna nodded and stood up, walking out as she walked in.

"He's in the kitchen," Terra told her before the door closed.

I wonder what the ol' weirdo wants now, Dayna thought as she walked down the dull silver hallways. Entering the kitchen, she spotted Thorn sitting at the table, flipping through an old book and sipping some steaming coffee out of a mug. "Sit down Dayna," he said, not looking up.

Dayna hesitated, then took the seat across from him. "What is it, Thorn?" she asked, although her brain was really on the subject of why he was drinking coffee at near one in the afternoon.

Thorn looked over at her and closed his book. "Dayna, you seem to cause a lot of trouble," he said, setting the mug down on the table. "Mostly with Xanka. And seeing as X is a crucial part of my team, and that you also seem to like hurting him with your fire, I need you to stop doing that."

Dayna blinked. "Stop doing what?"

"Stop hurting my team members with your powers," Thorn clarified.

"Sure," Dayna agreed, starting to stand up.

"Wait," Thorn said forcefully, making her sit causciously back down. He reached into one of his cloak's pockets and pulled out a black box.

Dayna titled her head to the right as he opened it. More jewerly...she thought, looking over the extravagent piece of jewerly.

"It's a locket," Thorn said, lifting the purple necklace out by two chains connected to it. "It's very expensive, and it came from another realm. Don't lose it." He paused and handed it over to her. "Put it on," he said as she looked over it.

Dayna shrugged and put the necklace/locket on, toying with it at the same time."What's it for?" she asked.

"It restricts your powers," Thorn said promptly, causing Dayna to look up, surprised. "You can no longer make fire with that necklace on."

"How do you know I'll keep it on?" Dayna asked, popping the locket open.

"I trust you," Thorn answered. He locked eyes with Dayna for a few seconds, then stood up, picking up his coffee as he did. "I need to go and check on the boys. It's about time for them to take a break."

Dayna nodded slowly, and looked back down at the locket. She had snapped the locket closed while he was talking and now looked at the bracelets on her wrists. She couldn't remember why he wanted her to wear the gold one, and the leather one took away her teleporting powers. "If this keeps up, I'll have no powers," she said to herself. She groaned and put her head in her hands. "C'mon Titans! Hurry up...I can't take much more of living it up with Thorn and Xanka."

Outside, she heard Xanka and Gizmo shouting at each other.

WeaselChick: Always fighting...Anyway, Thorn's real name came from a website. It's an actual demon name from another country and it means 'night demon'. I just thought it sounded cool.

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