Argent decided that this was getting very frustrating very fast.

It was almost a year since the Brotherhood had lead their assault on all of the Titans, and out of necessity (sprinkled with a pinch or two of irrational fear), they had grouped into their respective directions. That left Argent far from her home, up in Chicago. The climate was the same, she supposed; Titan's North got a bit chilly now and then, but the busy city kept them on their toes.

Keeping your blood pumping, that kept you warm.

Today, though, today she could've used a spell to sit.

The street was in complete chaos because of gallons of muddy rain. She could barely stay in the air, could barely make out her teammates' forms through the thick, fabricated storm around her. It threatened to pull her in, and that's what kept her far. Argent felt completely useless - she would be powerless in winds like that, but this far away she couldn't tell what was going on.

What she did know was in the middle of all that chaos stood a boy and a girl. Their faces were obscured; the boy wore a large ram's head, pulled until it was just bone. It hung so you couldn't see his features, even through the eye sockets. The girl had something like a raven's skull; but it was far too big. There was nothing with a visage like that on this planet. Argent has a sneaking suspicion that they weren't from here anyway.

When they had arrived, it was with a loud tear, like something very precious had been torn in two. The ram rode a plateau over asphalt, and it had left the team agape. What was sandstone doing in Chicago? Kole had spun in the air into a sort of pick-axe, her legs tight together and her arms arched out wide. Gnarrk moved fast towards the boy, smashing Kole through the rock he controlled. It shattered like sand, and a new one rose up from the asphalt. There was something eerie about it. Even Red Star balked before calling the girl's name in the sky. "Argent!" his voice was a loud shriek into the sky, and he threw his arm towards the girl with the avian skull.

She had nodded quickly, bob cut bouncing with the movement. She swooped down, created a large hand with her plasma-like energy, snaring the girl in it. She was as thin as a twig and wore a simple sundress that appeared as if it had been soaked-through. Her hair was long and thick, also incredibly wet. Her skin was ashen, paler and whiter than even... oh, whatshername, that girl that everyone assumed Argent should've gotten along with perfectly... oh, Raven! That was it. Huh, odd similarity...

Her distractions had let the girl slip through the fist, and Argent chided herself but remained calm. She was not one to become upset or overwhelmed easily.

She flew closer to the ground, and suddenly a river was ripping it's way down the streets. Get in the game, Argent! There weren't any excuses for this. Quickly, she surveyed the scene seeing where she would be needed more. Kole and Gnarrk were climbing over tightly packed rocks, moving to where the ram seemed to be getting further and further from the two. Red Star wasn't anywhere to be seen. She scanned for the source of the water, and quickly made a plasma wall to block it off.

That is where they had created the storm, leaving Argent abandoning her teammates.

Adrenaline had kicked in, and Argent threw her lithe body into the malestrom. She could hardly see, but as she moved closer a few things became easier to make out. There was the girl, hauling chunks of hail at the Russian. Argent pulled together a large, electric fan and placed it on the makeshift-dam, letting it blow all the muddy water in the air away. Still, though, the girl pulled huge chunks of ice to throw at her teammate. Understandably, there was water everywhere but... there didn't seem to be any real effort in her collection of it. Shouldn't she have as least seen her move it from the gutters, or collect it from the atmosphere? She was pulled from the thought with a noise; with a loud growl, Gnarrk professed that he'd reached the ram and now he was so fevered that the strange boy couldn't escape from his fury. However, he turned his gaze to the raven girl. Argent could barely follow the gaze fast enough, but the girl was already meeting it. He leapt from Gnarrk and Kole with an unfathomable speed, and this... this is where things got really hard to follow.

He wrapped one arm around the girl's small frame, using his broad back to shield her from Red Star's various radiation blasts. With his other hand, her made a fist and pulled it from the top of his head to his lower stomach. There was another sound, another precious tear and suddenly there was a rip in her vision. Argent found it very hard to describe, even to herself and even when she had seen it. It was like... her eyes skipped over this particular foot in the horizon. It was like the air was too hot and the ground was too cold and it was a million things at once, and all the sudden all three were gone; the ram, the raven and the tear had torn themselves straight from existence.

Argent looked at the ground. Kole was herself again, brushing dirt of Kole and talking to him soothingly. Red Star was looking up at Argent, trying to see if she was alright. She nodded quickly, and pulled her communicator from her skirt. "Titans North to Robin... we're gonna need a hand."

A/N:

Shortish chapter, but I wanted to introduce these guys so I could post these chapters in rapid succession. Ah, the title's got a double meaning, huh? Most information about these Titan's powers (and the fact that they even make up the Titan's north) is from the Teen Titans wiki, and kudos to my friend Alyssa for creating the ram & the raven's designs; I just picked their wicked powers wooo! And, of course, these two are icebergs. Just wait ;)