Seattle was a dreary place to be, especially when it was spring. The rain was cold and stung the skin like needles. I and the other Outcasts were slightly miserable, not that it was unusual for our group. Aura and Militia had started a fire in the abandoned warehouse we had found. However, it wasn't enough to keep the chill from our bones.

"When are those villains gonna stop chasing us?" asked Dan.

"When they can't find us." I stated.

"That is going to takes a lot of confusing the enemy" said the phantom boy. He wasn't as uncomfortable as us. It might have something to do with the fact that he was a dead ghost.

The four of us thought of what he just said. If we split up, the chances of being found would go down and we would be able to fight back at the Brotherhood of Evil without the risk of getting everyone captured.

"All right," said Aura, "we'll do this. However, there will be no back up for anyone. If one of us is captured, there would be a minimal chance of escape."

"All of us are escape artists anyway, and we've shown them that we are already." Militia said.

"Okay, we split up at dawn. I will go north." said Aura

"I'll go east." I said.

"I've got the west." Militia answered with a smile.

"South is mine." Special put in.

"I just gonna float around the country. If I see any of you, I'll say hi." Dan promised.

Dawn came and we split up. I flew east, avoiding towns and cities, living in the woods and catching my food. When I got to the city Midway, I was slightly curious. Dan said that he woke up in this city and that there was a lot of trouble in this one place. As a superhero, it was my duty to check it out. When I came to the downtown area, I spotted a familiar face.

It was Madame Rouge.

I saw her the same instant she saw me. She went into attack mode and attempted to knock me out of the air, but I dodged and flew lower. I fired the red energy I had and hit her to the ground but something knocked me out of the sky. I recovered and found a certain white burglar on one of the tall buildings nearby.

"Do you think we are that stupid, madam?" asked Andre de Blanc.

"Yes." I deadpanned. He shot a rope at me and attempted to pull me down. I simply flew away, dragging the criminal through the sky after me. He only succeeded his task after Madame Rouge grabbed his feet and pulled me down to the ground.

"You are now our captive. No way you will escape from us this time." She said

"Stop right there, Rouge and Blanc." an authorative tenor voice said.

I looked over and was a tad surprised to see a man with an odd helmet, a robot, a woman, and a mummy. All seemed to be superheroes, I mean, who wears spandex unless they are?

The man with helmet seemed to be the leader, his psychic power and leadership aura nearly blinding me. The only other one like that in the group was the mummy. He had a power only radiation or powerful people gave off.

"Let the kid go. And pick on someone your own size." said the robot.

"I will be no help in this instance. I will take the child back to our base." said Blanc.

"Very well. I will deal with the Doom Patrol on my own. Be careful, the girl is a slippery one." She told him with a slight smirk on her face.

"Slippery this!" I shouted. I reached deep into the back of my conscience. I found the darkness and righteous anger inside and let it out. The true form of the Morrigan was not constrained by the ropes that bound me, and they snapped as I grew into the 12 foot high, black bird of terror.

The expressions on Rouge and Blanc were priceless. At least Rouge had the right to scream like girl. Blanc didn't. The white burglar went into a dead faint and Rouge immediately ran. She could see why Private Hive had nightmares after going after this girl. The Doom Patrol simply got out of the way of the frightened villains.

"What are you?" asked the woman in purple and black.

I morphed back into my human form and gave her a quizzical look. They didn't scream and run like anyone else who saw my true form. It made me slightly happy that I found people that were not scared of me.

"My name is Shadow, and I am a Celtic witch." I answered with a small bow. "If you do not mind, I will be on my way."

"You don't need to go right now. We could use someone of you caliber on our team." said the helmeted man. "My name is Mento. This is the Doom Patrol." He introduced his team.

"I'm Robotman." said the robot.

"Elasti-Girl." said the woman.

"and I am Negative Man." said the mummy. "What are you doing in Midway?"

"I was running from the Brotherhood of Evil," I answered. "I was here because I sensed something curious in this city."

"Any others like you?" asked Mento.

"Running away, or with my powers?" I queried.

"Running away." He specified.

"Steve, it is getting dark out. We better head home. She can come along and have a bite to eat." Elasti-girl told Mento.

"She better not be like Beast Boy." muttered Robotman under his breath.

Later, in the mansion that was the Doom Patrol HQ, I had told them everything about me and skillfully avoided the question of other kids like me being on the run. I wouldn't sell out my friends like that, and it was irrelevant to the topic at the moment.

"So let me get this straight," said Negative Man, "You have a goddess inside your body?"

"Yeah." I said timidly. Most people freaked out about that little fact.

"Okay. Anything you can tell us about this goddess?" asked Mento.

"Well, she is the Celtic goddess of the battlefield. She is called the Morrigan." I answered. My hood on my cloak had been up all this time, so they couldn't see my face.

"Does it affect your appearance? We haven't seen your face at all." asked Robotman.

Instead of saying anything, I lowered my hood. The Doom Patrol caught their breath as they saw my face.

My hair was the color of dried blood and in a braid down my back. My eyes were scarlet. I had the Celtic symbol of Life on one cheek, and the symbol of Death on the other. My high cheekbones gave me a slightly elfish face. Thumb knuckle bones hung from my ears as earrings. I looked a little worse for wear, but who doesn't when they are on the run?

"That answers my questions." said Robotman.

"Here is the big question for you. Would you like to join the Doom Patrol?" asked Mento.

I was a little stunned by the question. Join them? I could stop villains and be with people that understood me. It would be nice, but why would they offer me this if there wasn't a catch?

"Do you guys mind?" I asked.

"Not at all." They all said.

After a minute of thinking I accepted. They gave me a place to call home that day. But that was only the beginning of my adventures in the Doom Patrol.