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A mysterious girl from Robin's past comes back but he doesn't remember her! Who is she and why does Slade want her? Where does Raven fit in to all of this?

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Darkness and light. Sorrow and happiness. Fear and hope. Evil and good. All so different but without the one the other would fade from reality. What happens when these all join forces? A girl. Born into hate, stumbled into hope. In alleyways a shadow lurks. A shadow guides. A shadow runs from the world into night. But what if evil was only a thing of mind? Could this terror be a titan? One thing was for sure, Slade wanted Nightchild.

The day was normal. No crimes to stop. The city was safe. The titans were all fine, getting along. Why was Robin so sad today? An anniversary of what? Not his parents but almost as bad. Then suddenly the alarm went off to show Slade running down a dark alley after someone in a black cloak

"Nice cloak" commented Raven. Everyone was staring at her giving her that "are you serious" look

"What?" asked Raven?

"TITIANS GO!" yelled Robin as they ran out the door to rescue this mysterious person.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" screamed Nightchild

"Never. I'll never leave you alone Nightchild for I need you." said Slade in his usual calm tone.

"What do you want from me?" asked Nightchild

"Oh you know what I want" Slade told the frightened girl. Running down the dark alley almost reaching her hidden home when something tripped her and she fell flat faced in the mud. As she was recovering from the fall Slade was right behind her. Closer and closer to grapping the hood of her cloak to take her away into the darkness of the night. When out of nowhere came a birdarang and cut Slade's hand.

"Slade. What do you want now?" Robin demanded

"Robin so good to see you again. This has nothing to do with you just this gir…" Slade said pointing at nothing for while Slade was detracted Nightchild had run away into the alley and disappeared. At this point Raven was getting suspicious about this strange girl that Slade claims to have been running after. Then in a blink of an eye Slade vanished.

'Hmmm, who is this girl? Where did she come from? And where did she get that cool cloak?' thought Raven as she headed home with the rest of the titans.

"Wow that was a close one…why does he want me? Maybe he found out… no he couldn't have, no one knows except Batman! Oh, I have a headache." Nightchild said out loud

'What am I going to do? Maybe I could join the titans and be protected by them but what about the full moon. No, I've made up my mind I'm leaving my run down home (an old factory) and going to join the titans.' Thought Nightchild as she packed her things.

'I knew that girl but who was she, I can't remember! Oh, great now it's going to bug me to hell. Aw shit! I need to find out whom she…' Robin thought but was interrupted by a small voice.

"Robin…are you the ok?" asked a worried Starfire

"I'm fine just thinking" answered Robin taking Starfire's hand in his.

"Ok, if you want some lunch Beastboy, Cyborg, Raven (after a lot of convincing), and I are all going to get some of the cheese if you would like to join us." Starfire told him

"You mean pizza um… sure I'll come." He said to a happy Starfire

"Let us then go" exclaimed the happy alien. Then they walked to the R cycle. Robin had his right arm around Star's waist thinking about whom that unknown girl was and why had she seemed so familiar.