"Focus, Raven you can do this." Ken said as he watched Raven fight one of her most powerful emotions. This emotion she had suppressed and refrained from doing anything that might have triggered it.

"Aw, come on. You know you want to smile every time you see Robin. And, you want to laugh at BB's jokes. You even want to join Cyborg when he's playing a videogame. Don't try to hide it. Free your happiness! Be as merry as you want." Ken face faulted as he listened to Raven's joy emotion.

"I know I want to. But If I do, you'll just free the hold on my powers that are triggered by joy and terrible things will happen. I'm going to be happy and you are going to relinquish the hold you have on my powers. I'm in control of everything. My body, my powers." Raven walked toward her and grabbed Joy's wrists.

"Hey…lemme go, meanie!" Joy said, struggling to break Raven's grip. Raven did not let go and cast an icy glare at Joy. Joy found herself freezing up and slowly fading away. Raven closed her eyes and inhaled sharply. She breathed deeply for a few seconds, and opened her eyes to find her cloak a dark pink color.

Ken grinned and a few seconds later, he and Raven were back in their usual spot in the middle of the sea, sitting parallel from each other.

"Congrats, Rae. You managed to overcome one of your most powerful emotions. And you paralyzed her, too. I'm surprised you mastered that so fast." Ken said, beaming.

"What, you thought I would be horrible using my powers?" Raven said in a low, demonic growl.

"Uh…Raven, you ok? You're growing fangs and…oh, crap you didn't overcome your rage." Ken felt Raven's energy in the air. Raven's tentacles shot from under her cloak, quickly constricting Ken.

"So, Ken, are you afraid? Afraid that I may kill you right now?" Raven said evilly. Ken merely smiled.

"Ok, Rae, so you overcame your rage long before I came here. Sorry, I forgot." He said calmly. Raven blinked her eyes and the two were suddenly in an open field.

"So you mastered teleporting and you're…better at it…than I am…crap." Raven tossed Ken across the field, reverted into her normal form and teleported behind Ken, delivering a drop kick to the back of his neck. Ken flew to the ground, but managed to turn himself right-side-up before he hit the ground. He smiled at Raven and they threw off their cloaks.

"So you want to start our spar early, huh? Ok, bring it on!" Ken flew up at Raven and punched her in her stomach. She counterattacked him with a mid-air back flip, sending Ken back several meters.

"So your strength has increased tenfold, huh? Even better." Raven flew at Ken and attempted a flying kick. Ken sidestepped, but Raven quickly turned around and attempted a roundhouse kick. Ken ducked, grabbed Raven's leg, and threw her to the ground.

Raven landed on her back and groaned in pain. Ken flew down, intending to stomp on her. Raven saw this and rolled over before Ken could hit her. Ken made a large hole in the ground on impact. Raven sprang up and punched Ken in his jaw, making him fly out of the hole and onto the ground. Ken sprang up and wiped the blood off of his lip.

"Not bad, Rae. Why don't we spice it up, now?"

"You mean…"

"Yeah." Raven and Ken created swords and flew at each other again. They swung at each other furiously. They never touched each other, always blocking or parrying the other's hit.

"You're getting, hurgh, better Rae. Now, faster!" Ken created another sword and swung at Raven ferociously. Raven blocked every hit, but began backing away from Ken. Ken kept walking forward, attacking Raven like she had done him a great personal wrong. Raven began getting nervous as she defended herself.

"Getting scared, little Raven?" Ken spoke in a demonic voice. "Don't worry. I'll end it right now." Ken mustered all of his strength and swung at Raven with the sword in his left hand, breaking Raven's sword. He knocked the broken sword out of her hand with the sword in his right hand, threw the sword over his shoulder, and tripped Raven.

He quickly placed his other sword on Raven's throat and smiled evilly. His eyes glowed blood-red and he smiled, showing his fangs. He held Raven down with his power and held the sword above Raven's head. Raven looked up in horror at the demon about to kill her. She closed her eyes and braced herself for the hit.

Ken thrust the sword down into the ground above Raven's head, missing her by several inches. Raven opened her eyes to find Ken smiling, his face normal now, and extending his hand. Raven, no longer held down, grabbed his hand and stood up.

"You didn't actually think I was about to kill you, did you?" He said, making their cloaks float back to them.

"Well…you did have me scared there for a minute. I mean, for a minute there, you looked like…Trigon." Raven said, looking down at the ground. Ken frowned as he put his cloak on.

"I…I know. Let's get back to the Tower right now."

"Which direction is the Tower in right now?" Raven asked. Ken pointed a finger to the right. Raven nodded and the two teleported to the roof of the Tower.

"Raven, come sit down here. I have something to tell you." Ken said, sitting down on the edge. Raven looked at Ken inquisitively as she sat down next to him.

"What's up?" She said. Ken looked out into the sea.

"Raven, I'm really impressed with the progress you've made. You're learning faster than I did."

"Hey, I guess I'm just that good." Raven said arrogantly.

"Really, the reason you're so good at that stuff is because mom was."

"What do you mean?" "They never told you? When an Azarathian gives birth, the child gains some of the powers of the parent depending on the gender. If it's a girl, the child receives more of the mother's powers. If it's a boy, the child receives more of the father's powers.

"So you got most of mom's powers and I received that bastard's power." Ken said. Raven looked down at the ground.

"Ken, our fighting styles are almost completely the same. Why is that?" Ken shot an inquisitive look at Raven.

"We have a special bond, not because we are brother and sister, but because we are so close. We eat alike, sleep alike, we can sense what emotion the other is feeling, read the other's mind easily, stuff like that. Dad had us enrolled in the same combat training school and we learned how to fight at the same pace. Our own styles merged and combined as we sparred with each other and soon, we were almost completely alike. The only way people could tell us apart was by the sound of our voices." Raven remained silent for a few moments before speaking again.

"Ken, what exactly happened to mom?" Ken sighed.

"Are you sure you want to know?"

"Yes." Ken sighed.

"Ok. This is the full story about our mom."

"Our mother was not a full-blooded Azarathian. Our grandmother came down to Earth from Azarath when she was about twenty-one years old. She lived near Asia and married a man there. Soon after her marriage, she gave birth to our mom. Mom didn't really like Earth, so grandma sent her to Azarath, hoping she would be happier there.

"Mom quickly adapted to the Azarathian way of life. She learned to control her powers, which were mostly defensive, as our grandmother was really against violence of any kind, and she became a guard for the royal family. I don't remember much after that other than that she fell in love with Trigon, who had disguised himself as an Azarathian at the time. She died when we were young. They said she was a kind woman who never took anything for granted and--"

"Tell me how she died." Raven interrupted. Ken shot a sideways glance and sighed again.

"Mom…was killed by the same demon she married. Trigon knew we had immense power from the very moment we were born. He sought to use our powers along with his to rule Azarath. He had us enrolled in many combat training schools throughout Azarath. Even though we were young, we were learning faster than everyone else. Mom thought we shouldn't just be learning how to fight and enrolled in the best schools. They taught us more than what people here on Earth learn in school.

"Trigon thought she knew of his plan to rule Azarath and was trying to make us smarter so we would know what he was up to."

"That's so…"

"Stupid? Yeah I know, but Trigon wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He was willing to do anything to gain power…even if it meant killing his own wife."

"He was going to kill his own wife? He's…"

"Mad? Crazy? I know. He was going to crazy, mumbling to himself about how to get rid of his obstacle. It seemed like he did have a conscience at the time, because he also said things about how she was the only one who had ever loved him.

"I don't know if you remember this next part, but we eavesdropped on him one day when he thought he was alone, put two and together, got four, and found out his plan. Don't you remember this?"

"No." Ken shot another sideways glance at Raven.

"A result of the amnesia, no doubt." Ken stared at the ground for a moment, then quickly clapped his hands over his mouth as he realized what he had said.

"Amnesia? What are you talking about?"

"Err, we'll save for later. It's getting late now. We should be getting to bed. You have another training session in the morning. G'Night Raven." Ken quickly hugged Raven and teleported away.

'What do you mean amnesia? And what happened after we found out about Trigon's plan?' Raven said telepathically to Ken.

'I'll tell you later, Rae. I'm going out into the city now. See you at dawn.' Ken, who was now wearing blue jeans, a red shirt with a dragon on the front, and white and red shoes teleported back up the roof and teleported Raven to her room.

'I'm perfectly capable of doing that now, wolf breath.'

'That the best you could come up with?'

'Ah, shut up.'

'Heh heh. Night Raven.'

'Good night, Ken.'

Raven tried to clear her head of what Ken had told her, but the word 'amnesia' kept floating lazily to the front of her mind. That night her dreams were haunted by images of a yellow-eyed demon about to kill a woman with dark hair.

Out in Jump City, a certain midnight-blue haired teenager was looking down at the streets from atop a skyscraper.

"I haven't been training as hard as I should be. Time to correct that. This should be good dexterity practice." Ken backed from the edge of the skyscraper, ran and jumped off, easily clearing thirty meters.

"Man, I'm rusty." Ken straightened his arms and legs, pinned them to his sides, and fell face first toward the ground. As he got closer to a building, he created a long rope that had a hook on the end of it.

"There it is." He said as he spotted a flag pole sticking horizontally out of a building. He threw his around it and looped around the pole three times before pulling the hook off of the pole and doing a double back flip in the air. He twisted around in his second back flip and threw the rope around the pole again. This time he swung forward, pulled the rope off, and ran along the wall.

At the end of his wall run, he jumped off of the building to another close building. He kept jumping back and forth until he reached the top of one building. He hung on the edge for a second before pulling himself up, bringing his lower body up so he was doing a handstand. He forcefully pushed against the roof of the building, launching himself into the air eight feet.

He did a front flip and twisted in mid-air so he was facing the same ledge he had just pulled himself up from. He ran off of the building and used his powers to stick to the wall he was now running down. He jumped off the building when he was halfway down and did a front somersault, landing against another building. Before he lost his footing, he jumped to another building and another and another until he reached the end and did an extremely long jump to the shore that was facing the Titan Tower.

He smiled and wiped some sweat off of his brow.

"That was pretty fun. I have to do that more often. I guess it's just a sprint back to the Tower now." Ken immediately started sprinting to the Tower, running on a dark energy bridge that was being created as he ran.

When he reached the shore of the Tower, he teleported to his room and collapsed on his bed, exhausted.

"I didn't know I was this far behind on my training. I've been slacking off too much." He panted. When he had caught his breath, he changed into his red shirt and black shorts and teleported into the living room where he jumped onto the couch, grabbed the remote and began surfing through channels on the TV.

"Ken, you in here?" A voice called out when Ken had finally found a good program. Ken looked over his shoulder to see Robin looking back at him.

"Hey Rob, what's up?" He said, looking back at the show.

"Can we talk for a minute?" Robin said.

"Sure, what's on your mind, man?" Robin sat down on the couch.

"I just want to talk to you about Raven." Ken suppressed a grin.

"What you want to know?"

"Well, I was thinking of taking her out somewhere this weekend before the rest of the gang gets back, but I don't where to take her."

"Why don't you just go take her someplace she likes? You know, go take her to a restaurant that serves the food she likes?" Robin looked at the floor.

"It's just that…I don't know what she likes." Ken got a sly smile on his face.

"And what makes you think I know?"

"You're her brother! Surely you know everything about her!"

"So she finally told you, eh? Fine, I'll tell you. She loves Chinese and Italian food. And dancing. She absolutely loves dancing, even though she's not a very good dancer herself."

"Thanks, Ken. You're a lifesaver."

"No prob, Rob. You must really like Raven." Robin looked out at the starry night sky with a dreamy look on his face.

"Yeah, I do. She's just so beautiful, so smart. She's someone I can really be myself around; I can have so much fun when I'm with her. You don't have any problem with me saying this stuff, do you?"

"No, not at all. I'd be glad if you went with Rae. Better you than some horny fan boy who just wants to get in her pants. But, don't you like Starfire?"

"Starfire's just a really good friend. She's very pretty and funny, but she's not someone I'd want to…you know, be with. I can relate to Raven more and really love her." Ken could not suppress his grin any longer.

"The more you talk, the more I'm convinced you two are meant to be together. But you two are never going to be together unless you start spending more time with each other. Try hanging around with her and talking to her when you can." Robin grinned, too.

"That makes me feel loads better. I thought you were going to be like other girls' brothers and beat the rap out of me for liking your sister." Ken chuckled.

"I'm not going to beat you up just for liking Rae, but I will if you mistreat Raven, I'm bringing hell's fury down on your ass. Well, I'm going to bed now. G'night, Rob." Ken threw the remote into Robin's lap and teleported to his room, leaving Robin, who had the same dreamy look on his face.

'I'm hooking you two up, even if it kills me.' Ken thought as he laid down on his bed.

"It may, Ken. It may." A demonic voice rang out softly throughout the room.

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DR: Wassup, everybody! Sorry for not updating in...forever. School's been taking up a lot of my time. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far!
Ken: coughcoughliarcoughcough You don't care about your reviewers...
DR: Did you say something Ken?
Ken: No, I didn't say anything...he thinks he's so high and mighty...he acts like he has a frickin candy cane stuck up his...
Raven: Woah there, Ken! You can't say that!
Ken: Why not?
Raven: Santa knows when you've been naughty and when you've been nice! He knows you're about to say something naughty!
Ken: Santa don't know squat!
Raven: What! You dare mock the great St. Nick? Oh, it's on now. Pounces on Ken
DR: Well, I have to break up this catfight. R&R! Can someone hand me a baseball bat? Preferably made of iron or steel?