It was a quiet time in Gothem during the early summer. The Teen Titans had succesfully put the criminals they'd caught behind bars and Slade hadn't been heard from for quite awhile. During this time of peace, the young hero's had time to finally catch up on the things they had been meaning to do for a long time. Cyborg schedualed appointments with the top heads of Dell, Microsoft and Apple in order to update his technology and get repairs done to his cybernetic parts. Beast Boy, being a love sick heart broken dog of a man, set out on an expedition in hopes to find Terra. He had it dead set in his mind that there was no way she could be dead and he swore he would find her and bring her back to the Titan's Tower. Starfire's sister, Blackfire, was finally heading to court for her actions on Earth and the spree of law-breaking, and was called upon to stand as a witness to her decietful sister's case.
Not everyone was busy however, Robin and Raven took this time to practice their skills. Raven spent many hours reading her dark magic books and focusing her powers, while on the other side of the tower, in the bacement, Robin spent most of his time in the Virtual Reality training room. This would be the last day most of the Titans would see each other for the whole summer.

Raven sat in the titan living room. She was mediating in the living room, like she always did. She was able to do this since Robin, was the only titan around. Yet she found that her feelings for Robin, where much more than feelings of friendship, so lately she had to mediate much much more than normal. Her emotions could not only be deadly but it could ruin her friendship with Robin and Star.

" Azarath Metrion Zinthos" She chanted.

The sweety young super hero known simply as Robin, walked into the kitchen. He had been training hard the last few days since no one was around to bother him. Raven and him had a sort of 'stay out of my way and i'll stay out of yours' sort of relationship at the moment and it suited him just fine.

Slade he thought to himself as he opened the large metal door of the over sized, fully loaded fridge and grabbed a energy drink, He's never too far off. If I allow myself to get week he'll stomp me even harder then he used to. His red gloved hand clenched into a fist before he could open his drink.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." Those were words he'd heard more then one time before. Words that had both saved his life and set fear into his heart on more then one occation. Saying nothing, Robin grabbed a bottled water, set it on the coffee table in the living room and exited the living area.

When the door slid closed, Raven stopped her chanting, and opened one eye. She had manged to ignore Robin once again, as he was in the same room as her. She let her self float down to the ground. She decide that some tea would be good before returning to mediation.
She walked to the kitchen, and what she needed for her tea floated to her. She smiled softly and got to work brewing the tea. She lets her thoughts wander for a few moments. She found her self thinking about Robin, and how he had saved her from her father, and her so called destiny.

Robin returned to the training room and hit the reset button on the large computer infront of the two way mirror that acted as a window into the room. He punched in a few numbers, X amount of difficulty, X amount of bad guys, X amount of time to compleat the sequence in, and X amout of weapons he was able to use. Taking a long swig off his drink, he set the can down and headed into the room.

The work out he had set for himself wasn't any where near the difficulty level he had mastered himself to, but taking some leasurely and basic training aloud him to think about the way the begining of the summer had turned out. Cyborg was improving himself, Beast Boy was out looking for his lost love, and Starfire... His mind froze his movement as digital copies of Slade's shadow ninjas surrounded him. Star... He repeated her name in his mind as the copies closed in and piled ontop of him. A moment passed before they were sent flying back and Robin, with hell in his eyes, began to pummel his opponents. Starfire was one of his most valued friends, but the tought of her and her presance always tended to hold him back and to a certain extent he hated it.

The thirty minute sequence he had set up for himself ended and Robin exited the training room. Dripping soaked with sweat, he returned to the living area where Raven had been meditating. She was still there, only now she had a mug of tea infront of her as she hovered effortlessly in the air. He opened his mouth to say something, but his stomach cut him off.

"RRRRRRRrrp." A hazy aura seemed to surround him and his head and shoulders dropped. "Uhh.... Pizza?" He asked finally as he regained his composure. "My treat."

" That is fine" She told him. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" She chanted again. She didn't know what else to say. Even though it was peaceful without the other titans, it meant that the place was very quiet for the most of the time. Though as long as no one else attacked, then she guessed it really didn't matter.

"Alright." He said turning to head down the hallway toward his room. "I'm gonna go shower and change into less smelly clothes. We can leave after that." In his room he stood staring at himself silently in the mirror. Watching as beads of sweat feel from his jet black hair onto the oak dresser he kept his uniforms in. The red of his mask had darked with the dampness of the sweat and his body almost seemed to be surrounded by oder squiggles going up toward the ceiling. A heavy sigh escaped his chest as he headed into his personal bathroom and proceeded to clean up.

After Robin had left, Raven crashed to the ground. The thoughts that swam through her head after that were over whelming and caused her powers to loose it, her cup of tea broke into many pieces. " Darn it, after dinner I'll have to visit the mirror" She mumbled. She didn't visit the mirror a lot but she figured she needed to have a talk with emotions, maybe that would help her get control over this.

The shower lasted longer the most did. Robin was at a difficult point in his life where being a superhero, no longer was the one and only thing he wanted. His heart was sore, tender and begging for him to stop ignoring it. Truth of the matter was, Robin wanted nothing more then to rip his heart out and become as cold as Slade. His thoughts brought him to his knees in agonizing deffeat as he contemplated a life being as cold and heartless as Slade. Yet, he couldn't continue going on the way he was.

"Starfire." He said outloud to himself as it echoed of the ebony tile walls of his stall.

After the shower Robin collected his team mate, Raven, from the living room and the two headed for the city in the T-motor boat, another one of Cyborgs 'babies'. The ride across the gentle water didn't take more then five minutes and they walked the rest of the way in silence.

"What'll ya have?" Robin finaly said once they'd taken their usual seats on the deck of the pizzaria.

Raven walked with Robin, yet she didn't speak, normally when the Titans when out, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire talked enough for the rest of them. Yet there wasn't much talking when it was the two members of the group, who were the quietest. Raven took a look at the menu," I'm fine with whatever as long as it's not blue or tofu, or little fish" Raven told him. She still remembered that day Starfire, had tried to get them to each blue fuzzy pizza, she shivered slightly.

A hardy laugh escaped Robin's throat. All the memories of the weird and strange things Beast Boy and Starfire had tried to make him eat set off a montage of horrible endings in his head and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Yea, no tofo meat or cheese this time. How about the untimate meat lovers with extra cheese just to spite the gang." He said with a lifted eye brow. Saying it in such a manner almost made him feel naughty, as if he was broken some unspoke pact with Beast Boy no to eat meat or animal product. It was strange how the group had been sepreated for almost a week now and he didn't miss them all that much. The quiet time in the tower was enjoyous and Raven wasn't bad company once you got past the dark aura and the negitive energy ways.

" That sounds like the best pizza ever" Raven said with a smile grin. It was the closest she every get to a smile. Yet she liked the idea of once having a pizza with real meat. Even though normally the didn't do things like this it was nice to be able to agree on a meal with out a fight insueing over what would be eaten

The pizza was ordered and set on the table after about twenty five minutes. Bubbling cheese ontop of sizzling meat made both their mouths water as the staired at the REAL pizza like ravonous beasts, ready to tear into the flesh of a fresh kill. Robin took the top plate, placed a slice covered with topping on it, and set it infront of Raven.

"A civil dinner... now this is what I'm talking about." He offered a friendly smile as Raven's eyes trailed from the plate, up his serving arm and into his mysterious eyes. Something about her froze him in his tracks for half a moment but he shook off what ever it was that had stunned him and served himself a slice, taking a careless bite into the scaulding hot cheese and meat pizza.

" Thank-" She started to say, yet cut her self off when she found her self starting into Robin's eyes. Well at least the part she could see, that wasn't fully covered by his mask. She was relived when he seemed to stop staring into her eyes. " You" She finished was she was saying.

She looked down at the pizza and slowly ate it, she glance around the area around them. She could hear various people who were enjoying the peace, that the city seemed to have.

Out of almost no where Robin let out a loud yowl of pain. His mouth was screaming for redeption from the boiling hot cheese and he began to chug down the picture of soda that set between him and his dinner guest.

"Uh sorry, I'll order a new one." He said slightly embarassed and nervously.

Raven glanced up at him. She was surprised at the rate he drank down the whole pitcher. " Are you sure you don't want to order two?" She said teasing him slightly. She blinked for a second, wondering why she had just said that.

Robin smirked at her remark and thought the idea over for a moment. He realised that the only reason he had to down the soda was to take refuge from the inferno in his mouth, so if he didn't nom down so hard on the pizza he wouldn't burn himself again. Right?

"Nah, one should be fine." His cool toned voice ws accompanied by a smile. It was nice to hear that without the others around Raven could open up and be a little more like herself.

" Well if your sure" She said with a small smile. She then focused on eating the rest of her first slice of pizza. Once she was done for that slice she reached for another. Though she found that she wasn't all that hungry.

Being at the pizzaria quickly became boring to Robin. Without BB and Cy's jokes there wasn't much to laugh at and without Star's constant talking it was just plain to quiet out on the deck. Cars drove by, honking at the young heros, but that was pretty much the only noise that surrounded the two. After half an hour neither of them had eaten much and Robin asked their waitress for a box for the left overs.

"What do ya say we head back now?" He asked his shaded friend.

" That sounds best" Raven told him. She figured she could use some more time to mediate before reading another spell book and sleeping. When the waitress came back with the check and the box, Raven, started putting the pizza into the book.

After paying the bill and packaging up the few remaining slices, the duo left the pizza place and went home. Robin returned to his room and began to prepare for a nights rest while Raven returned to her meditation. It hadn't accured to him until he laid down in his bed how strange it must of appeared to the public that it was only him and Raven together today, where usually it's all five of them.

The thought swirled in his head and the longer it was on his mind, the more it made him uneasy. Raven was... a friend at most he told himself countless numbers of times. Convincing himself that the public could only see what was really there, a friendship, he tried to take comfort in his own mind. It's not that he really cared if people suspected the two were dating, it was that he was unsure and uneasy that there was the possibility that perhaps the summer that laid ahead would change everything.

Raven sat floating in the living room once more chanting " Azarath Metrion Zinthos". She sighed as she couldn't seem to focus, dinner with Robin was odd. It also sparked strange thoughts in the civilians that saw them. One of her many powers gave her insight into other minds, and with her powers not fully under control lately, she gather that many people who saw them thought they were dating. She fell to the ground again.

She stood up, and dusted her self off. She needed to visit the mirror.

Meanwhile at the center of the firey pits on the earth, the powerful demon known as Trigon, summoned Slade to his chamber. The four eyed, burnt-red skinned white haired lord of darkness had formed a plan to dominate the earth and grow in power.

"Slade..." The demon man's crack voice beckoned to his faithful foot soldier. "The stars have alligned perfectly. It is now time to put out plan into action. Your first order is to go to Titan Tower and open the portal to hell. Bring Raven to hell so that she might start to emprove the powers we'll need her to use." Trigon sat on a thrown of black onix that glistened with the reflection of the hellish fired that surrounded the two men.

Raven got to her room, where she grasped the mirror. She within seconds was taken into her mental flied. It was where she found all her emotions and told them to meet her in the center. It was there she found three new emotions. She sat there discussing with them.

Slade bowed to Trigon," Yes, My Lord" He said. He hated saying those words, yet it was those words, and working for this man, that would give him the chance to come back to life, and take power, and crush the titans. Slade waited till he was dismissed before leaving the area, and heading to titan tower, with some of the fire minions.

A deep and hard laugh pushed threw Trigon's lungs and he waved the back of his large long nailed hand at his fallower as to dismiss him and send him on his way.






A bus unloaded it's passangers in Central Park in New York City as the sun rose. An old man with a hunched back and a cane hubbled down the stairs of the shuttle and onto the side walk. The man was fallowed by a green dog with one large darker green spot on the perfect center of his back.

"Well ol' Fellah," the old guy said petting the dogs head as he sat on a bench. "this is New York, hope you find what it is you're looking for." With a wise raised chin the old man sat back on the bench, taking a deep breath of air. His mind clouded with memories of the last couple days. Being a native to Southern California, it was this old man's last wish to see the 'Big Apple' before his time on earth expired. While waiting for the bus to pick him up on a shore coast, the old man noticed an odd green pile of something on the sand.

Seemingly without fear the old man approched the pile of interest. With great curiousity he poked the fuzzy wet lump on the damp sand with his cane. It moved slightly, revealing it's self to be a water logged dog. It's sad eyes looked up at the man with pain and lonelyness, begging the man to take pitty on him.

"A dog eh?" The man muttered to himself. "Poor thing, the sea algie has turned your fur green. You must of been out to sea a long time Fellah, you must be starved!" The dog jumped immediatly to his feet at the mention of food and began to wag his bone thing tail. "Alright Fellah, let's get something to eat." Smitten by the old mans friendliness the dog fallowed the man onto the bus, protecting him from thugs who would try to take advantage of the feable man, and bringing him many pretty women?

The mists of the man's memory cleared and he was fast asleep on the bench, drooling and smiling like a fool. Beside him the dog's ears dropped with the realization that the old man, at heart, was nothing but a lady chaser. With a good stiff shake of his fur the dog bowed his head and took refuge in an ally between the bus station and a small dinner. In an instant he was covered in a small white haze.

As the haze cleared an green boy formed and emerged. Beast Boy had finally reached New York. Rumor had it that Terra had trancefered to an American school when 'strange things' began to happen to her in her school back in Japan. Thinking it was caused by stress and not feeling welcome, it was said that Terra fled to escape the strange things she was encountering. It was Beast Boys mission to find her and bring her back to Titan Tower to join his team and manage her powers.

"Terra... You've got to be somewhere in this crazy place." The snaggle toothed youth said to himself as he walked out from the ally and surveyed the area he was now in.