

Slade deliberately led the Titans to the place where Raven's true destiny was to be fulfilled to serve as a living portal for Trigon to conquer Earth. Eventually, however, Raven's past caught up with her: On her birthday, Slade (who had been presumed dead) reappeared, wielding new powers and marked with a symbol which Raven could not fail to recognize. She was consistently invaluable to their success. Raven helped the Titans for years, working alongside the other four to protect Jump City from villainous menaces. In " Titans East - Part 2", Raven, along with the rest of the Teen Titans, responded to Cyborg's call for help in the Titans East tower and fought Más y Menos with Beast Boy, and she fought Speedy. In " Haunted", when Robin was haunted by a drug-induced hallucination of Slade, Raven linked with his mind and saw glimpses of Robin's past, including his initiation by Batman and the death of his parents. In " Deception", she joins the team to fight Gizmo Mammoth and Jinx to stop them from stealing an item for the HIVE.In " Switched", a backfired plot by the Puppet King left Raven and Starfire stuck in each other's bodies, creating a new sense of empathy between the girls. In " Nevermore", Beast Boy and Cyborg inadvertently ended up stranded inside Raven's own mind, where they met the personifications of her separated emotional aspects and also encountered and fought the manifestation of Trigon's heritage inside her. Robin goes missing and the group return home in defeat. Later the team all goes out for pizza, and has their first fight with Jinx, Gizmo and Mammoth which they lose.

Raven tells him he can just get up and change the channel. In " Final Exam" Beast boy is shown aruging with Cyborg over the fact that he lost the remote. Though Raven, still feeling alienated from her new friends, remained distant to them, the other Titans soon came to learn more about her origins. Afterward, the group decided to stay together and formed the original Teen Titans. Despite Raven's obvious insecurity, the others invited her to join them in defeating the truly hostile aliens the Gordanians, who had attempted to enslave the girl and her presence proved ultimately essential to the motley crew's triumph over the Gordanians. Raven managed to discern the girl's true reason for her demolition work and convinced the others into a more peaceful approach, which won them the alien's friendship. Raven arrived at Jump City, where she met several super-powered youths fighting a rampaging alien girl (Starfire). When Raven turned sixteen/eighteen, she sensed Trigon's power returning and fled to Earth. Trigon spared her and Arella after satisfying himself that, upon his return when she reached adulthood, he could seduce Raven into becoming his ally. Later, after Azar's death (in which she entered another plane of existence), when Raven was plagued by prophetic dreams of Trigon and, defying her teachers, she confronted her demon father in Limbo at his bidding. Azar, the spiritual leader of the temple, then took the young Raven under her personal tutelage, instructing her in the truth of her parentage, and in pacifism, meditation, and the submergence of her emotions to resist Trigon's influence, while perfecting her powers of teleportation, astral projection, and empathic healing. Fearing that the child would bring evil among them, Juris, a magistrate of Azarath, attempted to cast the infant Raven into Limbo, only to be destroyed himself. In their inter-dimensional world, Raven, Arella's daughter by Trigon, was born. Abandoned by the demon, Arella was bent on suicide (while carrying Raven) when she was taken in by the pacifistic disciples of Temple Azarath, a group who had centuries earlier forsaken life on Earth to pursue their own nonviolent lifestyle. Arella, Raven's mother, was chosen to become the bride of the demonic Trigon.
