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The doors slid open, making way for Robin as he entered the Evidence Room of Titans Tower. His team, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven, followed the Boy Wonder, who was carrying a strange object in his hands. Setting the object on stand in the room, Robin turned around to face his teammates.
"Good work, team. We've managed to stop another robbery," he congratulated.
"Another day of stopping crime!" Beast Boy agreed.
"Those guys didn't want were coming to them!" Cyborg pumped his arm in the air.
"Hurray!" Starfire beamed.
"Great," was Raven's deadpanned response.
"Since the robbery happened, the press has been going around the museum." Robin turned back around and gestured to the standing. "The museum's given us this to watch over until everything's settled down."
Everyone stared at the object. It was a four-sided pyramid, large enough to fit in her palm. Etched on each face were strange symbols, but they did not look like runes or pictographs, more like circuits of a computer.
Out of the Titans, Raven looked at the object with much interest. There was a strange feeling surrounding it. It was mysterious and dark, almost like...
Poke, poke, poke. Poke, poke, poke.
Raven stopped her personal train of thought when Beast Boy started poking at the object. She almost twitched with annoyance as she floated towards the green teenager. Moments later, Beast Boy yelped as his hand was smacked away by a familiar black aura.
Beast Boy turned to Raven, holding his "wounded" hand. "What did you do that for?!"
Raven glared at him. "That thing centuries old and can probably break easily. The last thing we want is a bunch of people bothering us because you broke it."
"Alright, sheesh!" Beast Boy rubbed his hand before turning to Robin. "So why do you think they want it? It doesn't do anything!"
"Probably sell in on the black market," Robin said with the utmost confidence.
"With an antique like that, I'd say they could make a fortune," Cyborg agreed.
Beast Boy's ears perked up with interest. "How much?"
"Don't answer that," Raven told them.
The green changeling glared at the Gothic Titan, who glared back, and it ended up as a contest. Fortunately, Cyborg broke the tension. "I'd say we've had enough robberies for tonight. Who wants waffles?"
"Oh, I do!" Starfire beamed.
"I get to make them!" Beast Boy shouted.
"Oh no you don't!" Cyborg told him. "I'm not eating that tofu junk!"
"How about we put to a test?"
"Last one there has to eat Beast Boy's cooking!"
And Cyborg was off like a shot, running to the door with Beast Boy. Starfire followed them, calling out, "Wait for me!"
The two remaining Titans blinked at the puff of smoke in the wake of their friends. "So," Raven broke the silence, "what are we going to do with it?"
Robin turned back artifact on the stand. "For now, we just leave it here," he said pressing a button, and a red force field surrounded the artifact. "Hopefully no one would be getting through our new security."
While the Boy Wonder headed towards the door, Raven stood, her eyes focused on the strange the artifact. She could still feel the strange sensation emanating from it. Yet, there was something else about the artifact, something drawn the Titan towards it...
Raven almost gasped, noticing something out of the corner of her eye. She whirled around only to find nothing. Nothing save for the shadows, that is.
"Raven, are you alright?" Robin's voice made Raven turn to her leader, who was standing at the doorway.
Raven glanced at the artifact again, and shook her head of her previous thoughts, convinced she was just seeing things. The artifact was safe and sound. Nothing strange or supernatural would be going on tonight, at least Raven hoped. "Yeah... I'm fine," she glanced the artifact before floating to Robin.
Yet, just as the door slid shut behind her and Robin, neither of them noticed the artifact glowing.
"Azerath, metrion, zinthos. Azerath, metrion, zinthos. Azerath, metrion, zinthos..."
Raven had been repeating her usual mantra. She floated a few inches above the bed, her legs crossed and hands rested on her knees. Her eyes remained closed as they have been for the past hour.
It had been a while since the others decided turn in, and she could not sleep. Raven had been feeling uneasy-not sick, even the slightest... just weird. Like one of Beast Boy's attempts trying to make laugh. So she went with meditation, which worked if only just a little.
"Azerath, metrion, zinthos. Azerath, metri-"
Her chanting stopped and eyes shot wide open. There was something in the Tower, something dark and sinister... and it was calling out to her.
"Come..." a voice called. It was like a ghostly wail, very ancient with an echo that distorted its gender identity.
Raven looked over her shoulder, then in front. She scanned every inch of her room only to find nothing. Whatever she was sensing, Raven knew it was not in her room. No, it was elsewhere in the Tower.
Grabbing her cloak, Raven leaped from her leaped from her bed. The door slid open for Raven rushed out of the hall. "Who's there?!" she called out, but there was no answer. She turned right, then left, for both times to find no one.
"Come..."
Raven swirled her head down the hall. Whatever she was hearing, it certainly was not a hallucination. Her first thought was to wake the others, but she pushed it aside. Waking the others would not help her find answer. Not right now, anyway.
Putting on her cloak, Raven floated down the hall. Again, the voice called out, "Come..."
The lone Titan continued down the Titans Tower, phasing through walls when needed, until she stopped. Raven's eyes narrowed, recognizing the door right in front of her: it was entrance to the Evidence Room.
Raven did not need to be Robin to know what was behind that door. However, she was not sure what to expect behind it. Was the call a trap or was it something else? Raven was not sure.
"Come..."
She shook away her suspicions. Raven knew she needed to find out, and this was the only way she knew how. With a soft inhale, she entered the room.
The doors sliding behind her, Raven found herself alone in the room with the artifact. It remained behind the force field, its center pulsing with red energy. And then, there was the dark presence Raven felt from before. It was much stronger, so much so that it coated the entire room.
Once again, Raven could feel a sensation in the back of her mind. She felt earlier when Robin place the artifact in here, and so she knew what the feeling was.
She was not alone.
As her eyes darted around, Raven called out, "I'm here, like you wanted. Come out and show yourself."
"If you insist." Raven whirled around and found herself face-to-face with the intruder.
Standing in the far corner was a figure in a brown robe, an old woman actually. A hood was raised over her head, but Raven could see the bits wrinkled skin and white hair underneath. From the woman, Raven could sense a dark power rolling off her, the same dark power coming from the artifact.
Under her cowl, the woman stared at Raven. "Welcome, young one. I have been expecting you."
Raven charged her hands with black energy. "Who are you? What do you want with me?" she demanded.
"Those are interesting questions. I am many things. As for what I want... " the woman's voice trailed off as she slowly approached Raven.
Raven took a step back. "Stay back, I'm warning you!"
The woman almost smirked at that. "Child, is that fear I sense from you?"
"I'll show you fear! Azerath, metrion, zinthos!" Raven exclaimed.
With that, she shot a black beam of energy from her hands. The beam was intended to surround the woman and imprison her. However, it merely passed through the woman as if she was nothing.
The lone Titan's eyes widen seeing the woman unharmed. "How..." Raven began but the strange woman cut her off.
"You can not harm what it no longer part of the living, child."
Of course it would be that, Raven thought to herself.
"You showed an interesting display of power, yet that was far from adequate," the woman mused. "Let me show you how it is done."
The woman raised a single hand and Raven swore her throat was getting tighter. That was true as her hands went to her neck and she wheezed for air. Raven's vision started to blacken and her brain started to starve of oxygen.
Then, the invisible grip was gone and air gushed into her lungs. Raven collapsed onto her knees, gasping for as much air as she could. She was more focused on breathing to even notice the old woman standing over her.
Raven looked up and now she noticed the woman's eyes. They were milky white with small veins, a sign of them being atrophied. The sickly sight of them made a small shiver run down Raven's spine. "So much potential, yet wasted over frivolous training," the woman said softly.
Shaking away the insult, Raven coughed and spoke. "What...what do you want?"
The woman stared at Raven. "What I want, child, is you. Ever since my holocron was brought here, I could feel your power. Your potential is endless, very raw and untame."
Raven stared at the strange woman. Holocron? Potential? Just what was this woman even talking about?
Before she could even ask, Raven's eyes widen as an image flashed before her eyes. She was staring at her own face, but there was something different. Raven could see six glowing eyes burning with rage. They were the eyes of her father, Trigon the Terrible, on her face.
Another flash and the image was gone. Raven found herself staring at the old woman. "Interesting," the old woman's voice was amused. "You carry a great deal of anger inside of you."
Raven took a step back with shock. This woman whom she just met and tried to subdue knew her secret only her friends knew. "You read my mind," Raven growled, her shock turning into anger.
The woman slightly tilted her head. "Is there a problem?"
"I don't like people who pry into my head!"
"Like it or not, I now know, child." The woman's face remained neutral. "You try to control your emotions. You fear losing control of them or else you would destroy everything around you."
At the moment, Raven wanted to do nothing more than put this woman in some prison. But that would not work since she was a ghost. This strange woman was stating out loud of Raven's fears as if rubbing it in, and Raven hated it. "Is there anything else you want to say?" she sneered at the old woman.
"Actually yes," the woman answered casually. "What if I told there was another way to control your powers?"
Raven's anger faded, only a for moment, as she asked. "What do mean?"
The old woman walked past Raven and towards the ancient artifact on the stand. "I can train you to control your powers without the usual need for suppressing your emotions."
The Titan blinked at the old woman. "Why? Why do this?" Raven had every right to be skeptic. This woman just showed up, choked her, and now was asking to train her. It just did not make sense.
"Because you are strong. Your potential is endless... just like someone I knew," the woman said with a smirk before facing Raven. "But you lack the right training and discipline."
"And you would give that to me."
"Yes," Raven was given a nod.
Now Raven was silent. If she took this offer, then she would not to have to rely on her previous training. No more meditations, not the constant need for restraining her own emotions. No longer need to be afraid of losing control. It would be freedom.
"Alright," she answered, "but if I'm going to be taught by you, I need your name."
The old woman faced Raven. "I've had many names, child. But you may called me Kreia."
AN: That's my idea. I hope you liked it. Please leave your thoughts in the reviews and please leave constructive criticism. Also, this idea is up for adoption, so send me a PM or leave a request in the review to let me know if you're interested. Thanks.
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