Here is chapter 4 of this story.

AvidWriter- thanks for the advice. I use the symbols for stuff like time (as in both 12:45 and 3 hours later) and listings (e.g. chapter 4) but I try to make the dialogue only use letters, not symbols.

Lysander: Interesting idea. I've been considering having Starfire help her, but I've been wondering if she could even do the spells. After all, all she does is star bolts and flies. When did someone ever see her casting a spell? I might put some of your suggestions into this chapter (or next chapter), but for now we'll see.

Thank you unknown for reviewing!

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans and neither do you so haha

Reference to Batman here (verrrrrry subtle and cookie for whoever notices it!) Ok, not subtle. Just an inside reference where you need to know things about Batman to get it. And, a very obvious Batman reference…Also, a lot of obvious references to Nevermore.

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Raven walked to her room, annoyed that the others were following her. She started to think about how they could help her. Maybe if she thought of some way one person, not all four of them, could help her, she'd only have to deal with one of them. But how could any of them help? How could they possibly be of any usefulness? She was stumped by this.

They finally reached her room and another thought appeared before Raven: Why did she bring them to her room? Why did they go there? Ignoring this question for now, Raven entered her room, allowing the others to enter.

Although she had a monotone expression, Robin knew she was furious, which made him angry as well. Why was she so determined to not get any help?

"Dude, why is she so reluctant to let people help?" Cyborg whispered to Robin when they were well behind Raven.

"Who knows? It might be because she wants to show that she can fix things without someone else helping..." He trailed off and stopped speaking when he realized that's what he did, or tried to do, when he left for Jump City.

Once everyone was inside the room, Raven closed the door and faced the others. They were half glancing around and observing her room, half looking at her. She immediately regretted taking them all into her room, the only place where she could get privacy in the whole tower. "So how do you plan to help?" she finally asked.

"We'll help research spells that take away powers," Cyborg suggested.

"How?" Raven inquired. "I've spent the morning rereading the books I have on spells. I've looked at all of them. None have anything on spells like that."

"Well, how do you suggest we help?" Starfire asked.

"I can't think of any way for you to help," Raven replied. "Which is why there's no point in you helping."

"What were you planning to do then?" Beast Boy asked her, still standing by the door.

"I was planning to try and figure out what to do." Raven replied. "But it seems like the only option I really have is just wait and see if my powers ever return to me."

"Raven, there's no way that's the case. And if it is, we should at least be able to figure out what's wrong," Robin said. He refused to let them just sit around and hope the situation will get better on its own.

"How do you suggest we do that?" Raven asked. "Even if I had my powers back, I'm certain the spell wouldn't allow us to find the source of it. Besides, it might not even be a spell that did this. There's still a chance that something weird is going on inside me and for the time I can't use my powers because of that." This quieted everyone and left them thinking about a reply. After a while, Beast Boy spoke.

"Well, to find out if it's something going on inside of you, why don't we go in you?" This created the four other titans to stare at him strangely. "You know, with the mirrors and the going into the mind and meeting happy who was all 'Fweee!' and sad who was all 'Nobody likes me,' and brave who was all 'Let's kick ass!' and stuff…" Beast Boy stopped when the strange looks didn't go away.

"Wait a second…do you mean when you messed with my mirror that I use for meditation and went into my mind?" Raven asked, feeling like she accomplished something if she deciphered Beast Boy's rambling.

"Yea that! With the scary crows and emotions and mazes!" Beast Boy said, happy that he was understood.

Raven sighed. "That's a good idea, and I'm surprised you were able to think of it, but it wouldn't work. How could the mirror possibly work if I don't have my powers? We couldn't use it."

"But me and BB got in, and we didn't use magic," Cyborg said. "All we did was pick up the mirror and look in it.

"Yes, but the mirror is linked to my mind. If my mind isn't functioning as it normally is, then it will affect the mirror as well." This was the first time Raven noticed something. Whether her powers were gone because of some natural cause or not, her mind wasn't really affected. It still felt as it was any normal day. Did that mean anything? Wouldn't her mind alter if her powers naturally vanished? Then again, it was weird that they vanished in the first place, so it was hard to make heads or tails of any of this.

"Well," Robin said, dragging her out of her train of thought, "we should at least try. If we immediately say something can't be what we should do without trying it, then we'll never get out of this mess."

"Let's say one of us can get in. Then what? Wander aimlessly and ask my unstable emotions about it? And what about getting out? Without my powers, I don't think I could get you back out."

Robin sighed. "Look, I can't make you do anything. Since it's your mind and your mirror, how about you decide?"

"Might I suggest for us to do a voting?" Starfire said. Robin liked the idea, and was about to say they should, when Raven spoke first.

"I don't think so," she said angrily. "Why should I let you guys vote on what to do with my mind? Robin already said it's my mind, and it would affect me the most. And besides, I doubt all of you are taking this seriously. You're probably thinking about this as if it's some new adventure, or some part of a video game. You'd want to go in my mind because it would be thrilling, but it wouldn't affect you directly. At least, you don't realize it would. It would most likely affect you, although not right away. But you're too thick headed to think ahead of time to worry about getting out. All any of you care about is getting in, and you figure if you get in, you can get out." During this long rant, they kept expecting for an artifact to get covered with black stuff and then shatter, but they remembered that she doesn't have her powers. Perhaps the only good thing about her not having them is they didn't have to worry (as much) about stuff breaking when she let her emotions get out of hand.

Robin sighed yet again. "Fine. But we're not going to simply ignore that idea. We're going to abandon getting in with the mirror, though. We'll try and find another way to get in. What we should do now is figure out possible ways to get in. You should research meditation, Raven. I'm sure there's a way that doesn't require magic that would let you go into your mind and explore it. The rest of us will help you and research other things." Then the horn sounded and red lights went on for the second time that day.

"Or," Raven suggested, "you guys could worry about keeping the city safe and I could worry about figuring out how to get out of this mess, which was my idea in the first place."

Robin half-glared at her. "We'll discuss this more later, but you won't be alone with any of this. We will be helping, like it or not." After that word, he rushed out of her room, everyone but Raven following.

She could hear Robin said it was people from the H.I.V.E. Raven knew she now had what was probably an hour or two for her. She was going to start doing research on meditation, but not right away. For now, she had to collect her thoughts and emotions and put them in order. She knew that this wasn't needed, as she didn't have to worry about her powers getting out of control, but it was now a habit for her. She didn't think she could focus on anything if she had a cluttered mind.

And besides, if she let it be cluttered, then that would be adjusting to the situation. And that would mean the situation might be as it is for quite some time. Raven hated that idea. Even if her powers were a thing that didn't let her feel, didn't let her actually enjoy life, didn't let her say how she really felt about things, caused havoc….

Raven blinked. Did she actually want to not have powers? Did she make this happen by herself subconsciously? "No," Raven muttered, "that can't be it. I may hate them, but I don't want them gone. Then I wouldn't be a true Titan. Sure, Robin can easily be just as good, even better, than any of us without powers, but he's different. He has been working on martial arts and agility for his whole life. I'd just be getting used to fighting with just weapons and my arms and legs now. It would take years for me to become even half decent.

But if I couldn't be decent, then I couldn't fight. And if I couldn't fight, I wouldn't be an actual Teen Titan anymore…

The thought scared Raven. What would she do if she wasn't a Titan? Just wander aimlessly like Terra, always looking for a place to fit in? And Terra became Slade's apprentice for a while. Would Raven join the dark side as well? It would be much easier for Raven, considering how that's the side she's meant to be on….

"No," Raven said. "I won't have to leave the Titans. I'll solve this and get my powers back. And if I end up needing help, I can ask them for some."

Feeling not entirely reassured by this, but overall feeling a bit better, as well as feeling like her mind is a bit more organized, she exited her room to go to the kitchen. She had some research to do, and having some herbal tea to drink would help her stay focused.

----Weird Dude's Place, Same Time as Titan's----

"Interesting," he muttered. "So they're going to try and get in her mind to see what's wrong." He was still annoyed by the interruption previously. Apparently, an idiot got into the room the potion was still in and thought there was a spill or leak. This was why he couldn't trust any of them. Their heads were too thick and their minds to narrow to understand anything.

His mind going back to what was happening now, he wondered if this would affect it. There would be a lot of signs of him in her head that you could only see if you went in, but would it matter if they saw those signs? Sure, the leader was trained by "the legendary Batman", but that probably wouldn't make him smart enough to figure out how he cast a spell that you need the potion or a very specific counter-spell to undo.

But still, they would figure out he's behind this all. Although, would that be a bad thing? They couldn't figure out where he is, and if they did, then good luck getting there.

Maybe it would be amusing to see them enter her mind…

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Yeah, so-so ending, but a lot of stuff happened in this chapter. And, I finally updated! Sorry to those who were waiting for an update that took months to arrive (if there was anyone waiting, that is…)

Feel free to review! Suggestions are more than welcome (as you can see, I used some of Lysander's). The plot is more of a write as you go along plot than a planned out plot, so suggestions are definitely helpful. But, I do have the end planned out… That's now my mind works. It thinks of an ending and writes from there...Ok, I'll stop babbling.

Will wait for 4 more reviews before I update! .