This is my first Fan Fic ever, so... Okay then! But I am the ultimate Master (Mistress, w/e) of Teen Titans. Trust me, I know everything about them. Lol!

Oh, and there are also poems after each chapter, but the story makes more sense if you read the poems too. Okay, so... read!

Chapter One: Torn

"Titans, go!"

Somewhere in east Jump City, in an old, rundown warehouse filled with rotted, wooden crates and boxes from years past, the Teen Titans...

"Look out!"

Starfire turned toward Beast Boy. Look out for wh-?

There was a crash. She screamed, then lay unconscious under bits of broken wood and twisted metal.

"Starfire!" Robin cried, fending off a blow.

What were these things they were fighting? They were tall, slim creatures. And brittle. Their faces featureless, their arms long, their nails sharper than swords. They walked noisily on the dusty concrete floor; their sharp spikes screeching against the walls like fingernails on a chalkboard.

They swung again at Robin, three of them. The other four were gathering up Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven against the wall, surrounding them.

"Uh, guys?" Beast Boy said, looking around. "Any suggestions?"

Robin pushed past the monsters with his bow-staff, then froze them. Aiming another freeze disk at the four surrounding his friends. Two remained. Starfire emerged from under the broken crates and shot at the lank creatures, but their metal-like shell reflected the starbolts' blows to Robin. He received the shots intended for the monsters and fell against the far wall, groaning.

"Robin!" Starfire cried, flying toward him, only to be blocked by one of the creatures who had thawed already.

A blast of blue light flared across the room as Cyborg's cannon was reflected off of the beasts. He turned his gaze to the young woman cloaked in dark blue beside him against the wall.

"Raven, a little help?"

She nodded.

Stepping away from the wall a little, she raised her hands straight out in front of her; closing her eyes, she muttered her spell: "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Her voice becoming louder. She pulled her right arm back toward her chest and her left arm above her head; on the last word of the spell, she pushed her arms in front of her again, her palms emitting her powerful black energy. Four creatures flew back against the wall, hitting it with a sickening crack as their metal being was crushed against the hard concrete.

Robin looked around. Two of the creatures were still frozen. Four of them were crushed.

Wait a minute… There's only six here…

"Raven, look out!" he screamed. Too late.

Raven gasped as the one remaining monster loomed up from the darkness. Before anything could be done, it slashed out with its rusted, metallic claws and sunk them into Raven's chest. It twisted and yanked at the flesh and tissue, blood flowing out. She screamed and masses of black energy zapped at every corner, blood-stained tears of pain streaming down her face. The beast slashed out with its other clawed hand, catching the skin just beneath her ear, her neck. Unconsciousness took over Raven, the victim. The beast, still entangled in Raven's bloody tissue, froze. Robin hooked his remaining freeze disks to his belt again and ran over to the grotesque feature.

Raven's body was hanging limply from the frozen creature by a few strands of muscle and tissue, all covered in crimson blood. Robin untangled her from the monster and gently laid her down. He knelt beside her, a solemn expression on his face.

"Bring the car around," he ordered in a voice unlike any that his friends had heard before. He was quiet. He looked calm. But the torture concealed inside of him seemed to claw and slash at his heart and mind just as the beast had at Raven. He resisted the sick, churning feeling in his stomach. He of all people had to remain at least seemingly under control.

Cyborg brought the car to the front of the warehouse where the police, an ambulance, and many onlookers stood. Beast Boy was talking to some of the doctors. He came over to Robin, who was still with Raven inside the warehouse.

"Hey, I told them Rae was hurt. They really think she should go to the hospital."

Robin looked up at Beast Boy, a disbelieving look on his face. Disbelieving and angry.

"Raven's coming with us," he snapped.

"Really, dude, we don't know anything about this! And she…" he sighed. "She's not healing herself, man."

"Beast Boy is right," Starfire said gently. She had stayed with Raven as well. "Raven needs help. And Robin, we cannot give it to her." She looked at him sadly.

Beast Boy spoke again. "Maybe we can get somebody to come to the Tower."

Robin nodded. Beast Boy looked down at the stained, distorted mess that was his friend. He winced. The beast had torn at her neck and breast fiercely. The remaining flesh lay in tangles and knots, almost disconnected from the body.

"I'm gonna go ask now," Beast Boy said, and started for the exit.

Minutes later, a few people came in with a stretcher. Robin lifted the body onto it and walked beside it out the door. Police sirens deafened him and blue, white, and red lights flashed before him.

Cyborg walked up to Robin and Starfire as they started for the ambulance. "What's going on?"

Beast Boy came over to them. "They said they could come to the Tower until we could take over," he said, a bit out of breath from running back and forth between the Titans and the ambulance and the paramedics.

Robin nodded. "I'll ride with them," he said, nodding his head toward the ambulance.

"A'ight."

The team drove off, followed by the ambulance. Destination: Titans' Tower. Mission: Save Raven.

Torn: Poems
(Raven – while it's happening)
It looms before me
It came out from the dark
It waits not a second
Its bite is worse than its bark
With claws so ragged
And intention to kill
It shoots out and attacks
With only one will
It's going to kill me
I'm going to die
I feel it sink in
It twists me, I cry
But you do not help me
You all stand there and wait
Because this isn't how I'm supposed to die
This isn't supposed to be my fate
Yet this would be kinder
Than destroying the world
Serving under my father
Daddy's little girl
That's why I give in
That's why I don't try
If I was meant to kill
Why shouldn't I die?
It yanks even harder
It gashes my neck
Then there's black all around me
The final affect
I can feel nothing
Emotion nor pain
Yet my heart is still beating
I will wake again

For you that are confused, this explains the poem:

Raven is being attacked by the creature, and she thinks that the rest of the Titans aren't going to help her because they know she isn't going to die then. Raven is destined to destroy mankind and Earth; that's her father's prophecy. She lets the monster hurt her because she thinks it would be better for her to die than to end up destroying the earth and serving her father. But, of course, she doesn't die. She just blacks out. Now she has to wait and see if she will end up destroying the earth for her father.

FYI: Trigon, Raven's father, is a demon. Watch EPISODE 6, SEASON 1 "Nevermore" for more on Trigon.

AND: If you want more on Raven's 'destiny', watch EPISODE 3, SEASON 4 "Birthmark".