Here it is chapter nine and I'm glad to see how far this is going. Thanks guys for the reviews and thanks again to Wolf2 for the help. I appreciate it and I hope you all like this chapter. I don't own anything of Teen Titans just my OC, enjoy.

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Titan's Tower

Raven wakes up the next morning feeling well rested. She lets out a loud yawn and looks down to see her shredded outfit. Her expression changed to sadness when she remembered what happened last night. She can still feel Slade's hands touching her body. Just the sheer thought sends a chill up her spine.

Of all the people that could have been the messenger, he had to pick Slade. He was the last person she ever wanted to come after her. But he is and will try to do whatever it takes so she can become the portal. That's not the worst part though. It's her friends.

Slade will hurt them in order to get to her. She knows that. It's his game. To hurt the people closest to her in order to make her do what he wants. He did that with Robin and no doubt he'll do the same to her.

"Okay, calm down Raven. We can do this," says Raven as she talks to herself. "Let's just get cleaned up and try to get through this day."

Raven gets out of bed and walks towards her closet where she pulls out another leotard. Grabbing a towel she walks towards her desk where she looks herself in the mirror. In her reflection she sees her long hair. She pulls out from one of the drawers a pair of scissors and begins to cut her hair.

Once she finishes she heads out of her room and goes towards the bathroom. But while she heads there she begins to think about what she's going to say to her friends. After all she can't lie to them, especially if Slade gets them involved. They're going to find out eventually and maybe if they know the truth then she can keep them from fighting Slade until she can figure out how to stop this.

Raven has a lot of books in her room and she is sure that one of them will hold the key to help her stop Slade. She has to at least try, not for her, but for the sake of her friends. There is no way she is going to put them through the same hell they went through last night. She is going to find a way to stop this, before anything bad happens to them.

She makes it to the bathroom and opens the door, only to see someone was using it. And it was someone she didn't expect to see.

It was Anna and she was wearing nothing but a towel that was wrapped around her head. Anna looks behind her and smiles at Raven. "Good morning, see anything you like?"

Raven yells as she blasts Anna with a dark blast. Anna is send flying towards the wall denting it.

"What the hell!"

Common Room

Robin is in the kitchen pouring himself another cup of coffee. His third cup after spending all night working on finding the symbol Slade has on his forehead. After searching for countless hours he was unable to find any information on the symbol. He couldn't even find where Slade could be hiding.

He checked the old hideouts hoping to get an idea of where Slade could be hiding and found nothing. He then checked with some criminals who worked with Slade, also nothing. So he tried contacting his best contacts and even searched all night in the city. Nothing, he couldn't find him.

It felt like he was becoming obsessed again. He could feel it and wanted to try to get rid of those feelings. The last time he felt this way it almost cost his life and his friends. Well, not this time.

He won't let himself become obsessed again.

"Robin?" He turns around and sees Starfire flying towards him. "Are you okay? You look tired."

Robin rubs his eyes and shakes off the sleep from his eyes. "I stayed up all night trying to find where Slade is hiding."

Starfire's expression turns to concern. Robin noticed this and knew what she was thinking. "Don't worry Star I'm not becoming obsessed. I just want to find him before things get bad."

Starfire sighs in relief. "I'm glad, I mean I am not happy that Slade is back is attacking our friend Raven."

"I'm still wondering why he is after her and I think this symbol," shows an image of the symbol from Slade's forehead. "Is the key."

"Have you figured it out?"

Robin lets out a sigh and shook his head. "I couldn't find anything about it. Hopefully Cyborg found something about it and about that Anna girl."

This caught Starfire's attention. "What do you mean? You do not trust her?"

Robin wasn't sure himself. "She saved Raven's life, which we're all thankful for. Still, we don't know anything about her."

"So, let us wait for her to tell us," suggested Starfire. "I do not think she is bad and if she was then she wouldn't have saved our friend."

Robin knew that was a good point, but a part of him is still unsure about this. "Maybe I should go check to see if Cyborg found anything."

"Oh, okay then Robin," Starfire goes to the kitchen to make breakfast, while Robin walks out and goes looking for his friend.

"I hope he found something by now, before something bad happens."

A few minutes later

Anna is fully dressed and is sitting in Raven's room upset that she attacked her. Raven helped get her dressed and brought her to her room so they can talk about what happened.

"Do you mind explaining why you attacked me?" Anna asked clearly upset with what happened.

Raven feeling guilty apologizes to the girl who saved her life last night. "I'm sorry, but in my defense why didn't you put a lock on the door?"

"I did…I think…you guys should get real locks not computer locks," says Anna defending herself. "Still, ever heard of something called 'knocking'? It was invented for a reason."

"How am I supposed to know someone was in there? If there is no lock on the door then how am I suppose to know?"

"I don't live here!" shouted Anna. "How am I supposed to know to lock something I've never seen before? And I left a small note on the door saying it's occupied."

Raven sees Anna's note and once again the girl got her. Just before she began to argue again, Raven begins to calm down. She has been through enough from last night. The last thing she wanted to do is kill the girl who saved her life.

"You're right," says Raven admitting her wrongdoing. "I should have knocked and I apologize."

"And?"

"And what?" asked Raven.

"How about sorry for the whole blasting me to the wall?" says Anna as she pops her back.

Raven forgot to apologize for that. "I'm sorry for hurting you. It's just you surprised me, that's all."

Anna seemed confused by how she surprised Raven. "What was it? Was it me being naked in the bathroom? Sheesh, it's like you've never seen another naked girl before."

She then noticed Raven's face blushing brightly. This caused Anna to let out a small giggle with what she realized.

"Oh my God, you've never actually seen another girl naked?"

Raven's face was now red as a tomato and when she talked she stuttered. Anna begins laughing harder, which was making Raven upset.

"It's not funny!"

Anna begins to calm down and sees she is making the girl mad. "I'm sorry Raven. I just never met any girl who has never seen another naked before and would freak out about it."

Raven lets out a small sigh and knew this conversation isn't going anywhere. "Look, the naked part wasn't what freaked me out. Well, it was mostly. But the other reason is because I didn't expect to see you here. I thought you left."

Anna realized that was true. She did say she would leave last night, but didn't mention what happened.

"You're friends came by and I told them what happened. That I saved you, brought you to bed, and gave you a goodnight's kiss."

Raven narrowed her eyes into a glare. "You didn't actually say that right?"

Anna shook her head. "Relax beautiful I didn't say anything about the kiss."

"There was no kiss," says Raven whose cheeks continue burning.

"Not yet," muttered Anna before moving on with the topic. "Anyways, they told me I could stay after I saved you and I was going to say no. But, it was late and I didn't want to go looking all night for a hotel."

Raven could sense she was telling the truth and felt guilty for letting her stay all night with her. "You didn't have to stay you know. Slade wasn't going to come and hurt me."

"Oh, so that's the guy's name huh?" Raven nods her head. "Well, it doesn't matter Raven. I still wanted to make sure you were okay when you woke up."

"Why?" asked Raven. "Why do you care if I was okay or not?"

Anna sighs and decides maybe now is the best time to tell her. "There's something I need to tell you. Something I was going to tell you last night, but I decided to wait until you were better."

Raven begins to get upset that this girl who she thought she could trust was keeping secrets from her. "What is it?"

Anna walks towards Raven's bed and sits on the edge of it. "Before I tell you the truth I need you to be honest with me too. If you do that then I'll tell you what you need to know."

Raven didn't feel comfortable telling someone she just met her secrets. Last time she did that with someone she thought she could trust it was used against her. She made that mistake again hoping it would be different with someone else. She vowed since then there would be no third time.

"I'm sorry Anna, but I can't."

"Why?" Anna asked who noticed the girl looks concerned. "Are you afraid I'll judge you or something?"

Raven shook her head. "No it's just…it's complicated okay?"

Anna has seen this before and understands the reason she is acting this way. "Fine, I'll just have to earn your trust then. I'll start by telling you what my job is."

Raven nods her head. "Okay, so what is it?"

Anna gets up and walks towards the window. "You guys fight super villains, thieves, robots, monsters, and other strange bad guys, right?"

Raven nods her head. "Yes."

"Well, my job is almost similar to what you do with some minor differences," Anna takes out a notepad and draws a symbol on it. She then hands it to Raven, who looks at it. "There are things that go bump in the night Raven, things that humans don't even know about or are too afraid to want to find out. We're the ones who bump back."

Raven gets up and approaches Anna. "Is that?"

Anna nods her head. "My job is to hunt down monsters, bad spirits, and demons. Pretty much anything supernatural that threatens to harm humanity."

Raven got a little nervous and backs away slowly from Anna who grabs her by the shoulder and pulls her back. "Relax, I know what you are and that is why I'm here."

"Y-you know?" Raven couldn't believe it. How did she figure out what she is?

Anna nods her head. "Yes and don't worry I'm not here to kill you."

"Then, why are you here?"

Anna wraps her arm around Raven and smiles at her. "I'm here to save you from your destiny."

Think Anna's record will come back squeaky clean? What will happen if it doesn't? What will Robin and the others do? And when Raven wakes up will she meet her savior? Find out next time to see what will happen. Please leave some reviews and let me know what you thought of the chapter. If you didn't like it then don't leave a flame review. Take care, see you all next time, and have a nice day.

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