Hey people. This is my first fanfic so I am really nervous about it. I'm a long time fanfic reader and I finally just decide that I was going to start publishing my own stories so here is my first.

Summary: Post "the End" Trigon is defeated and the titans are getting back into there normal routine. Raven and robin are closer from their experience and new feelings are beginning to appear but Starfire isn't willing to let robin go and there is something waiting for just the chance to get back at the titans.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT NOR WILL I EVER OWN THE TEEN TITANS OR ANY OTHER CHARCTER IN THIS STORY!

Chapter 1: back to normal

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos," The mantra flowed from her mouth filling her mind and reverberating of the walls of her room making a sort of hollow echo. There was nothing else, the words were everything, they were the universe, nothing else existed. It felt good to be able to meditate again. After her birthday encounter with Slade the hardest thing other then knowing what was to come was not being able to meditate. Her mind calmed and her body relaxed as she gave up thinking to bask in the joy of thoughtlessness.

She slowly landed on the flour and open her eyes. Getting up she walked over to the large window that covered her entire wall trying to shake off the pins and needles that racked her legs from staying in the lotus position for too long. Pulling back the lavender curtains she winced as the bright morning light fell into her room blinding her for a moment. Robin had been right when he had decided to give her this room. Not only was it large enough to fit all her shelves, trunks, cabinets, and other pieces of furniture, but it also gave her a great view of the lake and a part of the city off to the side.

It was hard to believe that barley barely three weeks ago the sparkling waters before her had been pools of acrid smelling lava and the shining sky scrapers had been blacked and falling apart. Last night had been another nightmare of her first view of the destruction she had inadvertently caused. Looking up from a child's view she had seen the horrified images of peoples faces twisted in anguish and set in stone. The dream had gone on tilting her head up to see a massive red figure roaring and one giant hand coming down as if to grab her and squeeze the life from her limbs.

Like all of them just when she was about to wake up and scream with terror when a barrage of small explosions hit the hand. Out of nowhere a gloved hand pulled her up and steadied her. Masked eyes had looked kindly into hers. Other figures were coming out of the wreckage now too. Green blasts hit the giant over and over. An earsplitting sound met her ears and a beam of thick blue light crashed into the giants stomach. The giant was faltering but he wasn't going down.

Just like it had been when she was awake she felt the power surge through her. Fury at this thing being in her home. She had felt the magic flow from her, her soul self, the raven, shining bright white over everything, a great flash, and then nothing.

A rare smile graced her lips. They hadn't given up, HE hadn't given up, and they had won. Robin had gone to hell, literally, to find her, and when she had been ready to just stop to let Trigon destroy this world, the one place she had ever been excepted, Robin had held her up and given her the strength to banish him from there. They had been spending even more time together now. He and She had always been close especially after she had been in his mind but this had just helped to strengthen the already growing bond.

She walked to her door letting her cloak stream out behind her. She could already hear the sounds of the tower waking up. BB and Cyborg were already yelling over tofu and from the strange gargling sound that was coming up to her even through the 2 floors which separated her from the kitchen it sounded like Starfire had decided to take matters into her own hands.

She closed her eyes and let her black power surround her and phase her through the floor.

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Everyone looked up as the door swooshed open and Raven walked into the main room. If it was anyone else they would have burst out laughing at the scene the teen heroes were in. Cyborg was trying to wrench a piece of tofu from Beastboy's hand while robin was pulling on his other arm to try and get him to unclench his grasp on Beastboy's throat. Starfire oblivious to the fighting going on only meters away from her, was stirring a green and pink concoction and adding something that looked suspiciously like a skinned rat to the mixture.

"Friend Raven I have prepared a batch of Googlespelch in honor of this glorious day, would you like to partake in the traditional earth art of the licking of the spoon"? She said in her overly perky voice holding up a spoonful of whatever it was to her. "Uh no thanks Star I'm not hungry" "Very well I will see if my good friends Cyborg and Beastboy will enjoy some"

Cyborg and Beastboy quickly backed off of each other in mutual fear of whatever Stars new favorite dish was.

"Star is that like the stuff that made me puke for three hours like last time"?

"Of course not friend Cyborg"

"oh good cause I was…"

"IT IS EVEN BETTER"

"Happy day"

Robin had settled on the couch and was flipping through the channels aimlessly when she came over too him.

"Hey Raven" he said with a smile over a scream of horror from beast boy.

"Hey" she said suddenly feeling flustered in the way only robin could make her. It had been like this for awhile now every time she saw him or they passed each other in the halls. She wasn't stupid, she new what was happening to her. She had know for awhile that she had a crush on the resident boy blunder but hadn't approached him. It was a hopeless thing, anyone with eyes could see that he totally belonged to Starfire and that they were practically together. That's why what he said next came as a shock to her system.

"Hey Rae, um I was wondering um if you um weren't doing anything and you weren't um busy if maybe um you and um I could um maybe go out um for a um while um"?

Before raven could reply two loud shattering noises echoed around the room. Looking over at Starfire she saw that her eyes were glowing a violent red and that whatever had been in the bowl was now dragging itself across the floor. The other sound had been the fact that half the light bulbs in the tower had just cracked and burst into flames.

" SHIT"

she thought, mentally calculating how long it would take to replace them.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY" Star shrieked her eyes boring down on Robin who had backed up to the wall sweating now looking a mix of surprise and fear. Beast boy answered for him.

"Uh star I think Robin you know the guy you are scaring out of his wits, just asked Raven, the one with the purple hair and the blue robe thingy, out"!

Ok how did I do? If I sucked please tell me. Just not in that way. I know I made the characters a bit OC and I didn't have a lot of dialogue but not bad for my first try right? Please review flames are welcome as long as they are more like little matches then wildfires which spread across a city leaving death and destruction in its wake and leaving thousands of people burned and homeless.