Hell, my fault really. I accidentally deleted the wrong story... gotta start all over again, not really but still! Mostly will remain the same; just a FYI for those who read this story before, before I deleted it! Here we go again... Blah... luckily for me I keep backup.

- Chapter 1 -

- Azarath's Honor Guardian -

- Four Years before the initial "Go" Event and existence of the Teen Titans -

- Azarath -

Demon invaders charge through a gaping hole in the temple's defensive walls, pouring into the courtyard. The last of the Azarath army, mostly pacifist monks, engaged the invaders, in hopes of holding the line. But monks were not warriors and the remaining military forces of Azarath were vastly out numbered by the masses of demon invaders; who now storm through the temple's chambers and halls. Each of them looking for one thing. The Jewel...

Raven, thirteen at the time, was in her room with her final defense; a being with the name of Serenade who had a title "Arbiter" and was the Honor Guardian of Azarath. Much was unknown about him except for the fact that he was one of the most powerful people she knew, or by the words of her mother and the Hierarchs. Just like an Azarath he wore a cloak but his was neutral grey and like hers, his hood was over head, all the time, never has she even seen him without it or his face.

Serenade turns to the door, "Raven open the portal to Earth and escape; just as your mother spoke earlier," his noble honor bound voice said as his head went on the door. The door is slammed from the other side, surprisingly the hinges hold, "Hurry!"

She nods quickly slightly scared, "A-a-azarath Metrion..." she chants as she reads from a book, contueing the spell.

The pounding on the door grows ever more powerful and the door warps more with each blow. Serenade quickly puts his back against the wall and pushes back at the door to buy more time.

"... Neferor Zinthos!" Raven chants out loudly at the spells end.

The portal rips open swirling out purple and black energies like a mystical whirlpool giving an ominous purple hazy glow. Raven looks from her book to the portal that shined in front of her, surprised, bedazzled. I done it... I opened the por-

The door crackles loudly with splinters of wood shower the floor and upon Serenade, "Go into the portal!" he shouts with shoulder against the door bracing it.

She quickly glances to him, "Come on!" she urges waiting for him first.

"I a-" the door is slammed and he staggers back briefly. He recovers instantaneously and shoves his shoulder back into the door, "... am not going."

Her eyes widened slightly, "You can't let me go by myself!" she shrieks, "I am..." she looked down going silent, "Afraid..."

"I am sorry that I cannot go with you Raven, but I am the Honor Guardian. It's my duty to watch over the royal family; which is you and the Seeress, your mother Arella," he somewhat regretfully explains, "You will be out of the reach of Skath's hands on Earth for some time, but the Seeress needs my help now..."

She nods lightly understanding, but the fearful expression on her face still remained for never has she ever ventured anywhere without her mother or Serenade by her side.

"I am still small though..." she pouts softly hoping to suede him to go. Don't let me go alone... please...

He looks over his shoulder to scared stiff thirteen year old Raven. He sighs reluctantly before turning his whole body to her, letting off of the door. "You have learned a lot from the Seeress, Raven, you will be fine on Earth..." he assures, "Now g-"

The door explodes open in a fiery explosion of shrapnel, the demons rush in immediately with a few ignoring Serenade. "Get the Seeress's daughter, the Jewel!" One roars over the stampeding horde.

Drawing out Twin Hooks or hook swords, used by the Shaolin Monks of China, he shouts, "Go!"

He engages the first wave of the demons, but more focused on the ones closest to Raven. As for Raven, she just stared and watched for a while; rarely had she ever seen him fight. He takes most of the lesser demons out easily with a single swift slash in his somewhat uncanny elegant ballet of swift sword play. She finds herself a little spellbound by the deadly blade ballet, but was immediately snapped out when his blades clashed and locked with a larger and more powerful demon's scythe.

"He is poweful because of being a good... swordsman?"

At the corner of his eye he sees Raven still standing near the portal staring, just staring at him fighting shaking like a chihuahua, "Don't worry about me!" he snarls throwing off the demon's scythe.

"The Jewel is mine!" some short tattered hobo dressed stony goblin shouts a few feet from Raven. She shot a look to the goblin that was eyeing her with massive phlegm green colored sinister eyes locked on her and grungy little hands with stubby fingers moving cynically.

Her eyes widened especially seeing herself within the goblin's eyes, she screams as the goblin lunges at her with open arms, "Hehehehe... HEEE! The Jewel is Mi-!" He jolts once with his phlegm green eyes rolling back into his skull before he falls to her feet with a gaping pot hole in his back.

"Damn it Raven, go!" Serenade growls with arm extended out with palm out. The demons jump him from all around dog piling him like a quarter back with no offensive linemen.

She gasps out loudly with a few vases and windows breaking within the room, "Sere-!"

With a bloom of black energy the demons are sent flying all around, "I am the Arbiter!" Serenade roars loudly immolating with the neon black energy. He looks to Raven with piercing eyes shooting daggers of annoyance at her and comes stomping to her. The demons jump from the sides, but before they can even hope for the thought of any attack they found themselves kissing the floor with their own tainted oddly colored blood and the blood of others that they laid beside with, who were also dead.

He comes up to her towering above her like an obelisk, just staring down upon her still shooting the daggers of annoyance at her. Without warning he grabs her with one hand and tosses her into the portal without any effort. Round and round she went with a scream; until she disappeared in the center with a blinding flash. The portal closes and the demons encircle him from behind.

He sighs bitter-sweetly, "You all are fools thinking that Skath will keep his promise. He will rub you out once he gets what he wants."

He turns seeing the many different demonic faces with death bringing glares bearing and weapons thumping lightly against their hands, ready to be used on him.

"We'll kill you first!" one of the demons chanted triggering the bum rush.

- Dimension 12A -

-Four years Late... Days after the Fear Itself Event -

"I am the Arbiter!"

Raven shoots up from her bed startled by the dream with Serenade's last words echoing in mind. She looks around seeing that she is in her room, safe and sound; even though her room is spooky to most and undeniably dark and twisted.

She takes in a deep breath and exhales, "That's the second time I had that dream..." she speaks to herself in her casual monotone voice, "Wait... why am I talking to myself?" She takes a look at her communicator seeing that it was six-thirty in the morning. With a quick shake of her head she lays her head back down into her pillow softly and snuggles back under her blankets. Her eyes close slowly. Way too ea-

The sound of the alarm wailed out with the steady flash of the red light that followed with it. Her eyes shoot open, immediately she jumps out of her bed quickly to her feet, grasps cloak puts it on.

She sighs tiredly, before giving her famous sarcastic, "Great..."

- Azarath -

The once bristling, powerful and flourishing city of Azarath now laid in ruin, plagued with dark sinister skies and four crimson eyes that beamed through their darkness. The last of the Azarath fled into other dimensions except for one who continues the eternal battle... Serenade.

The last of the wave of the fiery minions spawned by Skath was hacked through. Tired beyond even immortal belief Serenade looks up to the four piercing eyes in the sky, "Can't fight your own battles..." he pants deeply, "Skath?"

A cold dark sinister chuckle booms from the dark skies, "I will not waste my energy on a small worm like you..."

"Afraid?" Serenade remarks smugly too keep his morale up. Where the hell is Cero already!

Another chuckle comes, "Why continue to fight?" Skath asks with a chilling caring like tone, "It is inevitable to change what is to be destined..."

"Hell I can make up stuff too!" Serenade comments naively, "It is my destiny that I will one day eat some chicken in the future..."

"Amusing... but also foolish..." Skath comments unfazed, "But let me ask you this, do you know what you are protecting?"

"I am protecting Raven, Azarath's next Seeress."

"Of course you are," Skath replies with an cynical chuckle, "Have you not ever wondered why the Azarath people somewhat shunned and feared Raven?"

Serenade thinks on what is said. Raven didn't really have much friends, hell the only two I know of are me and her mother...

"You are protecting the key to the end..." Skath then reveals with a climatic like voice, "Not only to Azarath but of Earth too..."

Serenade's eyes squint angered, "I don't believe you..."

"Did you not ever wonder why you are the only Honor Guardian?" Skath questions grimly to make a point, "Or wonder why the hierarch council and the Seeress, Arella, remain secretive about Raven's history around you?"

Serenade growls, "You're trying to fool me!"

"I speak only the truth," Skath speaks firmly, "You can still flee with your life..."

Serenade looks away to the ground with a sense of betrayal, "Truth or not, I won't allow you to harm Raven."

"I do not plan to harm my daughter... for I ne-"

Serenade blinks confusedly, "Daughter?" he interrupts stricken.

"Yes, daughter," Skath assures clearly, "Did not Arella disclose that too you?"

"I am here Master!" a small little twisted voice speaks to Serenade's mind. But it wasn't one of insanity or conscience.

"It's about time!" Serenade snaps back loudly within his mind, speaking via telepathic.

"Your silence speaks that you are stricken..." Skath comments unaware that Serenade was not even listening to him.

"... It's hard to pinpoint what dimension you're in Master, let alone get to one that is shrouded by demonic pow-"

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Just get us ou-"

"So you are speechless?" Skath's voice booms, "Betrayed by the ones you protect?"

"Master?"

Serenade looked to the four crimson eyes that beamed through the darkened black sky squinting upon him. "It wouldn't be first time..." he acknowledges Skath casually, "But I won't believe it until it happens and until then I won't let you hurt Raven, regardless if she's your kin or not!"

"Then like Earth and Azarath, you too will meet your demise."

"Cero, get us the hell out of here now and to Earth!" Serenade commanded telepathically.

"As you wish, Master..."

With a a dark cloud of a purplelish neon black Serenade disappears with the cloud fading away, leaving Skath alone at the ruined Azarath.

"That worm may prove to be a nuisance in the future..." Skath speaks to himself; contemplating his future plans.

- Dimension 12A -

- Yosemite Mountains -

Serenade appears out from the shadowy energy that he left Azarath with, but now finds himself surrounded by Red Woods in the middle of mountains, at the rise of dawn with the morning rays starting to beam through the canopy of the trees.

"Cero wh-" he falls to one knee to the floor exhausted from the eternal struggle with Skath.

"Master are you okay?" Cero asks near him as he looks to him.

He shakily rises to his feet, "Yeah..." he wheezed taking a a couple short steps to a tree, "Just... drained, need to rest," he replies leaning against a trees base.

Serenade then puts his back against the tree and slowly slides down against it to the floor, sitting against the tree panting slightly.

Cero sat down near his Master, "Is there anything that I can do?"

WIth a deep breath and a long exhale, Serenade looks to him, "Hell, you rather as well go find Raven for me, while I rest."

Cero nods quickly, "I won't fail you Master."

Cero disappears into a cloud of the shadowy energy, "Damn, I just hope Raven doesn't get too scared about Cero..."

- Jump City -

Doctor Light once again terrorized the city with his killer flashing display of lights. He stepped out of some rare gem store steadily with no worries, even though the alarm was wailing out.

"Ha! Those fools would never respond this early..." Doctor Light chuckled confidently, "Now I can-"

"Don't you think it's a bit early to be stealing?" Robin announces perched on top of a stop light post looking down to Doctor Light.

The others came into battle position, except for Beast Boy who trudged to the scene as a tired blood hound. He morphed out, giving out a long yawn, "Seriously dude... too early..." he comments half asleep, drowsy with eyes drooping closed.

Doctor Light chuckled, "Well you know what they say..." he starts cynically bringing up his light blasters, "Rise and SHINE!" he roars blasting out beams of light. The team scattered, Beast Boy however remained standing still, asleep, getting blasted back into a passing bus. "That should wake you up!" Doctor Light remarked smugly.

Raven energmelds from behind the unsuspecting Doctor Light, "I don't have time for this... we're all still half asleep..." she mutters wearily starting to turn into her towering sinister self to scare him like the last time.

Doctor Light was swept off his feet by shadow energy and thrown into a reinforced concrete structure, all done within mere seconds. Raven came back to her normal self, uncertain what just happened. What the heck was that? Did I do that?

"Are you Raven?" a small voice asks by her.

She spins around once not seeing anyone, her eyes shift from side to side, "Uh... who wants to know?"

Doctor Light gets backed up a little dazed before shaking his head, "How dare you throw m-"

"Silence fool!" the small voice barks loudly with a newspaper vending machine bashing Doctor Light in the back, who then stumbles forward bumping into Cyborg who looked down with smug smirk before punching Doctor Light to the floor with a hook.

"Boo-yeah!" Cyborg then triumphantly hollers.

Raven looks to the floor, where the voice came from, what she saw was a little midget black chihuahua that was too small to be even the runt of the litter, with the shadow energy used to throw Doctor Light gleaming from its eyes. She then rubs her temples with closed eyes a little annoyed at this new oddity. Great now there's a magical talking chihuahua... Just what we need another pet at the tower... Hope this one isn't as annoying as Beast Boy.

She let out a sigh before looking down to the chihuahua, "Why do you need to know exactly?" she monotones as usual, "And who are you?"

The little black dog sits, "I am Cero," he reveals straight out, "My Master searches for one named Raven after retreating from an eternal battle with a demon named Skath."

The glum docile look on Raven's face and within her eyes became stricken with fear hearing her fathers cover name. Who the heck is his Master and how does he know me and my father?

Cero waited for reply as he stared back to Raven with massive satellite ears focused at her, "Raven is this tiny canine your pet?" Starfire asks landing nearby Raven looking at Cero.

"So you are Raven?" Cero states jumping to his feet.

"Yes..." Raven answers slightly resentful.

Starfire scoops up Cero, "Oh he's soooo... cute!" she coes sweetly snuggling him within her arms.

Robin steps to the two, "Uh... can you please tell us why there's a talking chihuahua?"

Cero disappears out of Starfire's grasp in a cloud of black mist and appears within the shadow of Raven. He shook out his body to recover from Starfire's tight snuggling.

"Hey! He uses that weird creepy shadowy magic like Raven too!" Beast Boy blurts out pointing at Cero. Raven glares at him, "Uh... but it's uh... somewhat helpful?" he comments sheepishly wanting to avoid a beating.

Robin crossed his arms disgruntled like, "Again, why is there a talking chihuahua that does shadow magic?"

"I believe it's an old pet of Raven," Starfire answers on assumption, "One from her home world of, Azarath, if I am uncorrected..."

"No..." Cero informs, "Raven is not my Master."

"Then who is?" Raven asks with a bit of suspense cracking through her monotone.

"I am not at liberty to speak my Master's name for I honor calling him my Master," Cero rejects lightly, "However, his name is that of a synonym of the word sing..."

"Oh! Oh!" Beast Boy hollered squeezing his way in front of Robin and Cyborg, "I love sherades! Is it Emo?"

"No..." Cero replies with a light shake of his head, "Plus, that's a type of music not a syn-"

"R&B?" Beast Boy blurts out.

"No, again that's a-"

With a snap of his fingers, "I got it! It's Techno..." Beast Boy then guesses way off once more.

Cero sighs, "No..." Cero tilts his head looking to Beast Boy with a bit of wonder. Is this green gremlin looking being an idiot? Or is it that he's just naturally naive?

"Okay then, it has to be, Death Me-" something thuds the back of his head.

"Shut up already!" Raven growls after whacking him in the head.

"Ummm... is the word you seek serenade?" Starfire asks a little sheepish.

Cero's head turns to the red head female, that obviously did not have the scent of a human, "Yes..." Cero yips standing up on his fours.

Beast Boy shakes off his daze from Raven's hit to the head, "Serenade?" he then blurts out obnoxiously as usual, "What kind of name is that?"

Raven blinked numbly, "Where is he?" she said calmly maintaining herself.

"The Master is resting in a woodland area, Yosimite to be exact..."

Silence goes by for a few seconds the others then looked to Raven. Robin steps up breaking the silence, "Uh, I am guessing you want us to go get this Sere-"

"No." Raven rejects monotone, "I have to go alone."

Robin's eyes opened slightly surprised, "Why?"

Raven turns away pulling hood overhead, "I just got too..."

Starfire steps up to her resting one hand on Raven's shoulder, "But we are a team and we also wish to assis-"

Raven shrugs off Starfire's hand, "I... I just got to..." she replies before energymelding.

The team remains very concerned, however the concern feeling was washed away as they looked to the small black chihuahua that remained with them.

"Uh..." Cyborg started a little uncomfortable, it wasn't everyday that he talked with magical talking chihuahua's, "Shouldn't you go too? I mean he's your master after all..."

Cero sits once more, "No..."

"Okay, now what?" Beast Boy comments uneasily looking to Cero staring back at him with tilted head, gold beady like eyes and massive satellite ears focused on him.

Cero continues his stare at Beast Boy.

What will the Master do now...?

Hope I can at least improve the story from before I deleted it! Damn you Tequila... anyway leave comments/reviews. Thanks...