A.N: Nightingale is a friend of Raven's from Azarath

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Chapter 3: Nightingale and her abilities.

Once Cinderblock under control, Raven turned to see Nightingale. It has been years since they have spoken, or seen each other. She rushed to hug her old friend. The other Titans eyes went wide; they never saw Raven give out affection like that to them (except when Robin saved her from the underworld).

"Nightingale! I thought you died along with Azarath!" She cried out.

"Well, few of us got out, how many I don't know, so don't ask please" She quickly changed the subject "How about introducing me to your friends"

"Yes of course, this is Beast Boy, Cyborg, Starfire, and…"

"Let me guess, Robin? I'm right aren't I?"

Robin was surprised; she knew the leaders name without even meeting him. They all started to go back to the tower; Robin kept a hold of Cyborg to have a few words.

"I've got a feeling about her Cy, she just happened to be here?"

"I can understand why you don't trust her, last time someone came like that they betrayed us. We'll keep an eye on her, okay?"

"Ok. Thanks Cy. We should go home now"

Robin and Cyborg arrived at the tower; they heard a lot of talking. Everybody, mostly Starfire, was bombarding Raven's friend with questions. She always wanted to make new friends, and Nightingale seemed pretty nice.

"So friend Nightingale, how did you and friend Raven do the meeting?"

"Well to start, my mother tried to care for me but she was dying, and my father well didn't give a shit about us. He stayed in Gotham, so my mother brought me to the temple, she died a day later so the monks raised me, I was 5. Raven and I meet a few days later" she looked at Raven "We grew up together, she is like a sister to me, even with her in heritage I didn't' care. We were like family."

"You knew?!" Robin exclaimed

"Yes of course. It was a small temple, I saw the monks teach her how to control her powers and feel no emotion, so Trigon could not use them against her. We were taught the same thing for telepathy and empathy thought, even if my telepathy is practically not existent"

"Wow that's hard, your father just walked out in you and your mom? Is he still alive?" asked Beast Boy he seemed serious for the first time.

"Is he still alive, I don' know and I don't care he never tried to help. But I was told that I have to maybe let it go, to move on."

"So do you meditate or something to keep you calm with all those emotions?" Cyborg asked her.

"No, I listen to music and sing" she smiled "Or I go into a training room and pack a few punches on the dummies. The monks saw that It made me more relaxed then meditation, I was very hyper as a child I'm not made for calm things."

It was a long day, the whole team wanted to know more about this girl. When night came, Starfire wanted to cook to show Nightingale the tamaranian dishes:

"I am going to make the tamaranian dish of new friends, the torapasingtin! It has got the sauce of Tabasco and a special berry from my home planet"

"Oh, how wonderful" Raven said sarcastically

While Starfire was cooking, Beast Boy was able to get Nightingale to play Mario kart with him and Cyborg to pass the time. Robin sat on the couch to see who won the race.

"Oh yeah! Kicked your two ass's baby! Feel the power"

"Hey! No fair" Cyborg shouted

"Guess who lost now" said Beast Boy

Nightingale celebrated her victory the same way Robin does or very close to it at least.

Dinner was served, they ordered pizza on the side so they could have something to eat. Robin watched Nightingale as they all sat to eat, even if she seemed nice and sincere he didn't trust her, yet. Raven saw and felt this:

"Robin, please don't avoid her, or something. I know her, we go way back, and she wouldn't betrays us."

"Raven, I don't want anything to happen to you, I...I mean the team, but can we test her powers? I would like to see what she is capable of thought."

"Fine Robin, I'll tell her when I see her"

"Thanks Raven so see you tomorrow?"

As Raven walked away, the boy wonder had a big smile on his face, but he heard a slight laugh.

"Nice save Wonder Boy" Robin turned around; Nightingale was listening the entire time. She just smiled at him. "Don't worry I won't tell… yet"

"You heard?"

"Oh yeah everything. I understand Robin why you don't trust me. I'm not the type of person that would just betray people okay, especially Raven. But I'll do your little test if it makes you feel better"

They walked down the hall, and then went to their rooms. As Robin entered his, he thought of the ways he could test her powers. After all he wanted to be careful, he didn't know her. He had to be sure she was trustworthy and wouldn't hurt Raven or the team.

Morning came rather fast; the titans and their guest were gathered in the training yard.

"Alright then, Nightingale you go at the starting point, when the alarm goes off you start the course, pretty simple"

"An obstacle course, really? I will break the record then, but I don't see the point to test my abilities thought"

"I actually hoped you would say that, that's why you're going to fight me. What better way to see what you can do then in a fight"

They all looked at him with big eyes, Raven quickly pulled him away from the others

"Robin are you fucking kidding me! If you're trying to prove yourself, you're doing a terrible job!"

"It's alright Rae, I don't mind. I'll go easy on him. You want him back in your arms and in one piece now don't you?"

The two birds blushed, and Robin got in place in front of Nightingale, still red as a tomato.

"OK Wonder Boy, let's get this show on the road, the sooner we start the better. I would love to catch up with Raven and

"Fine lets get his started"

Raven felt something inside her screaming, an emotion telling her to do something about this. Nightingale levitated a nearby rock and made it head right for Robin, he was caught by surprise but got away.

"My turn" He took one off one of his explosive discs, threw it at her, Nightingale feel to the ground but got right up.

"Oh, you want that type of fight, well you're gonna get it" She used one of her many spells at Robin, and levitated many objects.

This went on for about 10 minutes; Nightingale saw no point to any further; she didn't want to hurt Robin. She felt that Raven had a special feeling for him.

"Are we done now, boy wonder?"

"Robin please don't go any further I don't want you to get hurt" Raven thought "Why am I saying this, I don't have feelings for him, right?"

"Wait, you didn't do you're most powerful power"

"Make me angry, and you'll see it, but I highly ask you don't"

Robin tried, oh he tried, she got mad, but not angry. Raven told him if he really wanted to do it. He had to say something negative about her family, friends, and love life.

"Got it? but please don't say those things"

Robin of course didn't' listen, and started to shout at Nightingale. It worked; she started to let go of her emotion.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP BIRD BOY! I'M WARNING YOU!" suddenly white energy blasts came out of her hands, they hit Robin who was pushed off the island and into the sea.

"We need to calm her down! Star get Robin hurry! Rae can you do something?"

"I will enter her mind to cool her down"

It took a few minutes, but everything went back to normal, Robin only had a little bruise from the fall. Raven went to hug him.

"Thank Azar, Robin are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine" He held her tight and smiled. He was holding the girl of his dreams, but let go once Nightingale felt the emotion.

"Robin, I'm so sorry, I lost control when I shouldn't have" she said

"No Gale, I'm to one who should apologies. I provoked when you and Raven told me not to"

BB intervened "Dudes how about we call it even, Kay?"

"Fine by me"

They all started to go back inside the tower, Nightingale held Robin back to have a word.

"Don't you think I don't see what your up to."

"I… I don't know what you mean"

"Come on, you and Raven…"

"Are just good friends"

"Yeah, good friends, of course that's what they ALL say" She answered sarcastically.

END OF CHAPTER

So what do you think? I hope you like what I wrote about Nightingale and Raven's past. There will be more details in later chapters about Nightingale and her new friendships with the Titans, and the growing friendship between Robin and her.

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