The whole mountain had been swallowed up in fog and clouds under a moon less sky. Phantom shapes loomed like dead giants in every direction. Between their broken and jagged forms ghost like figures danced. Gleaming eyes sunken back in to skeletal frames peered through the gloom keenly, hungrily. Sprawled some where between the mist and the crags the T Ship's broken half lay black and dead. It's sparks long gone and it's warmth no more than a memory it rested like the bones of an ancient whale. Huddled next to the cadaverous vehicle two youths trembled from cold and fear.

Beast Boy had long before abandoned the human form for a larger and more cold resistant creature. He was now towering above and around Robin in the shape of a massive woolly Mammoth. Robin sat huddled against the warm hulking flank. The cold had numbed the boy wonders snapped bone, but it had not completely erased the pain. As he huddled and gazed dully out in to the night he rubbed the wound subconsciously.

In the distance one wolf came daringly closes. It's skeletal frame showed through it's matted and mangy fur. With a snarl it stepped closer still until Beast Boy hurled a large snow ball at it. The wolf disappeared with a startled yelp back in to the shadow world where it had come from.

From behind him Robin could feel Beast Boy change back in to his human form. The green Titan then stepped up to Robin and huddled up next to him. "We have to leave this place or the wolves will get us."

"Just kill them." Robin said bitterly through his chattering teeth.

Beast Boy pulled away with a snort. "What? No!"

Robin turned to his smaller companion. "They are trying to kill us. They'll starve to death up here any way. You'd be doing them a favor."

"I'm not going to kill them." Beast Boy's ears dropped slightly. "Besides, I'd have to hunt them down one at a time. The second I go after one the rest of them would attack you."

"I can handle it."

Beast Boy snorted again. "If one of them got it's jaws on you the only way you would be able to get rid of it would be to let it have what ever it bit." He reached over and poked Robin's arm causing the Titan leader to yelp. "And they'd go for your arm first."

Robin pulled his arm closer to his body and continued rubbing it. "If we leave Cyborg and the others may not be able to find us."

"My communicator still works." Beast Boy argued. Another wolf stepped in to view. It was larger and less mangy than the other had been. With a savage growl it approached the two teens. Beast Boy morphed in to a tiger and took a swipe at the wolf. The wolf ran off, but did not go far.

Beat Boy returned to Robin's side and leaned his now massive furry body against his freezing team mate.

"OK. Maybe your right." Robin admitted as he pulled his cape tight around him self. "But how do we get out of here? We can't just walk."

He felt Beast Boy shift again. This time the smaller Titan remained leaning against him. "I could carry you. Not by air though. I'd freeze in minutes as a pterodactyl. Maybe as the Mammoth."

"They didn't seem to be afraid of you as a Mammoth." Robin's voice was trembling.

"That's the biggest and warmest thing I can think of though."

Robin nodded slowly. "Will you be able to see your way?"

"You have a flash light in your belt, don't you?"

Robin nodded again.

"Give it to me."

With shaking hands Robin retrieved the light and handed it back to Beast Boy. The green Titan flicked it on and aimed it out in to the darkness. Two wolves scrambled out of it's beam.

"This should be all right." Beast Boy pulled back and stood. "You keep an eye on my back side and I'll worry about getting us down the mountain."

"OK." Robin rose stiffly to his feet and wrapped his good arm around his chest. "Are you sure you can make it out of here?"

"It's that or get eaten." Beast Boy changed in to the massive prehistoric elephant and knelt down. Robin reluctantly scrambled up and perched on to the fluffy green back. Beast Boy picked the light up with his trunk and, with one last look back at the ship, started off in to the craggy unknown.

Starfire woke up and rolled to her side. The moon was out and the stars were glittering in the sky. Slowly she sat up and stretched. "What a Glorious night!" She stretched again and noticed that some thing was tugging gently on her skin. She lowered her arms and looked down at her self. Her eyes widened in shock as she discovered several wires firmly adhered to her body. "What is this?"

From a chair near by Raven's voice floated over. "Starfire, are you awake?"

The tameranian turned around and looked her gothic team mate over. "I was not dreaming of a jet then?"

Raven, having obviously fallen asleep at some point, had strands of hair falling over her eyes and face. She shook her head 'no' causing the strands to sway back and forth.

"Is Robin found?" Starfire asked.

"Cyborg is getting the T Ship ready to go out and look. All we can do now is wait for him to finish."

"But we can fly!" Starfire protested.

"I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted." Raven said dryly. "If we were to go out and look our selves we may render our selves useless if Robin and Beast Boy are in trouble."

Looking discouraged Starfire sighed. "I understand."

"I'm sorry. I wish we were out looking right now."

Starfire pulled her knees up and hugged them. "What if he is hurt?"

Raven sighed and stood. She walked over to Starfire and sat down on the bed. "Robin and Beast Boy can care for them selves."

"I know. I am just worried for our friends."

"Well then you are not alone." Raven said quietly.

Cyborg slammed the panle closed and brushed off his hands. "There ya' go baby. All better."

The lonely half of the T ship sat long and shimmering. All evidence of it's previous encounter with the monstrous jet were gone. It was now refueled and ready for it's next task.

With a touch of pride Cyborg patted the ship. "Good as new and ready to go hunting, arn't you?"

Cyborg did not expect the ship to reply and there for nearly jumped out of his metallic skin when his communicator chimed. Chuckling off the momentary fright he picked his communicator up and switched it on. "What's up?"

"Starfire is awake and wants to know how much longer you will be." Raven's grave voice filtered through.

"I'm done now. Grab the emergency medical supplies. and meet me down here in five minutes."

"Understood." The communicator chirped as Raven terminated the conversation.

Again Cyborg patted the ship. This time the pride he had felt was gone, replaced with worry. "You had better be ready to go hunting."

Beast Boy waisted no time during his flight down the mountain. Each step, while placed firmly and steadily, was a hurried one. From atop his back Robin tossed out one or two small flash bombs at the pursuing wolves. Though the bright explosions momentarily stunned the savage beasts it did not stop them.

"They are catching up to us." Robin said through clenched teeth.

He felt the massive body under him pick up speed. Behind them the largest wolf in the pack was racing towards them. Robin pulled out another flash bomb and gave it a toss. The small marble sized device burst and filled the landscape with light for a moment. The wolf yipped and halted in it's tracks. After a moment it shook it's head and started running again.

"These things must be mad!" Robin said as he drew his cape around him self again.

After several more minutes of running Beast Boy started to slow down. His sides were heaving. Robin move up to Beast Boy's shoulders and looked down.

"What's wrong?"

The trunk waved the flash light all around. Small trees no more than a foot high dotted the landscape.

"We reached the tree line?"

The massive head nodded.

"We can build a fire then." Robin said. "Can you go on further?"

Beast Boy nodded again and continued to trudge through the snow. A growl from behind them sent Robin scrambling for another flash bomb. After he through it the flash reviled several wolves baring down on them.

"See if you can find a cave. We can build a wall of fire around it and stay in it for the night."

Beast Boy started waving the flash light around as he ran. Ten, maybe fifteen minutes latter he slowed and came to a stop. A crack in the rock wall eight feet up was just wide enough for them to squeeze in.

"That should work, we won't even need a fire." Robin said with a small smile. Suddenly to his surprise the massive green trunk lifted him and set him in the crevasse. Beast Boy let go then and stepped back.

"Where are you going?"

With out even trying to reply Beast Boy handed up the flash light. He than shifted in to a small deer and darted off. Seconds latter the wolves thundered hungrily after him. Robin leaned out of the stony alcove and shone the light after the starving pack.

"BEAST BOY NO!" Robin's voice was swallowed up in the miniature forest.

As the sounds of the wolves faded in to the darkness he drew him self back in to the cave and pulled his knees up. Grumbling he dug out his communicator only to remember it was busted. Angrily he gave it a hearty toss. It smacked in to the cavern wall and bounced out in to the night.

Weary and worried Robin pulled his cape tight around his body and started rubbing his broken, and now swelling, arm. "Stupid. That was just stupid." He said angrily.

Some where in the distance a wolf howled. The other joined it. As Robin listened his stomach flopped and tightened. Though he lacked the understanding Beast Boy had for the animals he decided the sound seemed like some horrifying grim victory song. Forcing all manner of gruesome images to stay out of his mind he curled up tighter. Seconds ticked by, then minutes. After a while the wolves quieted and all was still.

Hanging his head Robin huddled as far back as he could. "Beast Boy."

A moment latter, after hearing a tapping on the stone in front of him, his head snapped back up. A green owl was standing at the door way, preening it's ruffled feathers.

"Beast Boy!"

The smaller Titan shifted to his human form and grinned. "In the still attached flesh!"

"I thought.. how did...? That was the STUPIDEST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE!"

Beast Boy chuckled. "I can argue that. Now are you going to hog that cape of yours or are you going to let me in before I freeze to death?"

Shaking his head Robin lifted half of the cape and let Beast Boy huddle up against him.

"Hay, Beast Boy?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't ever do some thing like that again."

Beast Boy yawned. "Don't worry, I'll think of another way to be stupid."

Robin didn't reply, he was all ready asleep.