It happened about three days after their date. Cyborg and Ruby were busy trying to make a nice breakfast and she had opened the fridge, beginning to pour herself some milk. Suddenly the carton dropped from her hands and she fell to the floor, unconscious. Cyborg instantly began to panic, holding her body, shaking it lightly. "Ruby? Ruby! Oh man! Titan down!" he shouted. The others came in at a heartbeat and stared at her body. They tried pouring cold water on her, slapping her lightly, making loud noises and not even Starfire's home planet folk songs could wake her up. Robin put two fingers to the underlining of her neck and waited a few seconds. "She's still breathing and her pulse is slow."

Raven, using her abilities scanned her body and her eyes glowed a dark purple. Her cloak levitated and once it settled down she smiled securely to the Titans, "It's okay. She's just in a trance at the moment."

"By who?" Starfire asked. She gave a glance out to the oceans and crossed her arms, "Someone who can help Ruby find out about her past."

Ruby woke up in a dark realm, surrounded by only blackness. She lit her finger on fire and tried to see anything but the blackness but it continued to stay the same shade, no shadows or reflections of the flame. She shook, knowing she was alone. "Hello? Guys? Cyborg…?"

The figure from her previous dreams arrived but her figure started to take form. It was a beautiful, blue-skinned woman with clear watery eyes and navy blue hair in dreadlocks with a silver blouse on and baggy pants. She had dark blue lips with water-droplet earrings, finned fingers and toes. Her ears had small fins connecting them to her head and she tiny blink at her.

Ruby gasped and smiled at her, "You…you're like me!"

The girl looked at Ruby with a gentle maternal look, "I guess I am. My name is Aqua, and I am one of the controllers of elemental abilities."

"One? You mean there are others? Do they look like us?"

"Well not exactly. Somehow all are female and most have strange forms like we do. The elements consist of Earth, Plant, Darkness, Light, Fire, Water, Lightning and Wind."

"So why am I here? And where the heck are we exactly."

Aqua sighed and rubbed her head, "Aren't you the curious one? I guess that's why they picked a fox for the controller of fire. Well, just come with me and you'll probably figure out why."

The background melted away to reveal a small doctor's office. There she saw through the small window, her parents at a young age holding each other's hands close together. "Your parents had a hard time trying to conceive a child. They went to several doctors once they did though trying to save the baby so they wouldn't have to get an abortion. A DNA scientist, a person that helped shape your destiny knew of your parents from college. He knew that this was his opportunity to create a child with no flaws. But the serum was the opposite and the cells in your mother's uterus took it as a mutation but continued to grow and survive. This happened to a lot of those who control the elements. Unfortunately the doctor was killed before any of us could meet and so we were separated."

"So are you part of the bunch then? Let me guess, you are of water."

"correct. We will meet sometime in the future but for now is there anything else that you would like to ask me?"

Ruby stood slightly in the becoming darkness that was beginning to swallow the psychic image and she raised her finger towards Aqua with blinking curious eyes and sparkling eyes. "Do we have powers beyond our control of the elements? Like with you, you are able to make all this and enter the minds of others? Anything for me?"

"you seem to have a strong knowledge of auras about you. Tell me what do you see when you close your eyes?"

Ruby closed her eyelids over her blue eyes and concentrated. An image of the outline of Aqua came into her eyelids like a computer screen and then from within a small blue-green flame began to flicker. "A flickering glowing colored flame."

"Then that is your power. You are able to read aura, the special color of a person's soul that lets you know whether or not they are good. The brighter the flame, the more pure they are."

She opened her eyes and gave a chuckle, "Yours is pretty bright."

"Currently I'm working for Titans East. And if you ever need me for answers, call me in the dream realm."

Ruby's eyes flickered open back at the tower and she mumbled, the faces surrounding her making a great grin spread across her face. "Guys…you waited for me to wake up."

"Of course we did. You are our friend." Robin said, helping her up. Cyborg held her from behind, making her want to faint just to be in his grip. But she stood up and waved to them, letting them know she was okay.

"So what happened?" Raven asked.

"I learned about everything I had questions about!"