Next chapter! Chapter 4! Thanks to those who reviewed.

Nightwing groaned and felt a weight on his stomach. For a few minutes he had been in pain and oblivious to the world, but now he could control the pain.

"Mapht?" He tried to say what but his mouth was being blocked… by another mouth. Nightwing tired to jump and shove off whoever was on him, but he was still weak. Luckily the figure sat up and smiled her sweet, perfect smile at him.

"Circ?" He gasped.

"I'm much better right? I'm like your prince charming! I woke you up!" She beamed.

"After you electrocuted me! And Miss Pedo, aren't you like 30?" Nightwing exclaimed. Circ snarled.

"No! A woman never tells her age, and how old are you?' she huffed as she ran her hands ,which had perfect manicures, over Nightwing's well developed torso and arms.

"I have yet to hit 16." Sneered Nightwing, he tried to move but something choked him.

"You didn't." he said, eyes widening.

"Yup! I collared you!" Circ giggled her strange laugh. Nightwing tried to move his arms, but they were weak. Then the roof blew up.

Conner didn't waste time; he just punched the floor and made it crumble. The team followed him as he landed into the room.

"GA! Stupid men, always ruining everything! Fine, you want him! Well I'll give you him!" screamed Circe, she pointed her hands at Nightwing, who had gotten his hands to the collar, and released the lighting before anyone could react.

"No!" screamed the group.

"You demon!" Yelled Zatanna. The smoke cleared and the witch and Nightwing were gone.

"What just happened?" Garth said slowly. Everything moved in slow motion. KF walked to the couch Nightwing had been chained to, and saw the black blob.

"God no." he hissed. No one knew what he meant. KF bent over to pick up the black bundle.

"Wally, leave it! I can't stand to see what's left of him." Cried Batgirl, surprisingly. Zatanna, through her own tears patted her back.

"It's ok, it's ok, she probable just took him somewhere." Whispered the dark-haired girl.

"No, she didn't." Wally said. Robin, who had just been staring where he had lsat seen his brother heard the slight laughter in KF's voice.

"What?" he asked.

"I can't believe this." KF said. KF lifted up the black bundle. Four legs were hanging down and a tail. It was small and had white mask-like marking around the eyes. The creature also had silver swirl marking that ran along its fur. It had two ears that were somehow blacker than shadows and the fur paled out to silver at the feet.

"Is that a Turkish Angora?" Garth breathed. Robin did a quick mental scan.

Turkish Angora, a very old, southern European… cat.

My brother is a… no he can't be! The blinked slowly, revealing two bright, sky-blue eyes with dark, midnight blue streaks.

"Nightwing?" The cat dropped its head and passed out.

Robin held the dark cat close to his chest. The group of hero teens was back on the bio-ship and speeding home. Zatanna had raided the witch's library and was trying to look for a way to reverse the spell. Robin lifted the limp cat up to get a closer look. He stared at the cat's face, and just around the white fur mask was what he was looking for.

"It is Nightwing no matter how I look at this." Muttered Robin. Superboy frowned, got up and went to see what Robin was looking at. It didn't take long to notice the white scars that traced a mask shape around the cat's eyes. Superboy grunted angrily.

"What is it?" Batgirl asked. She was hugging herself in her seat.

"I recognize his scars." Robin said flatly. Garth came over to look at the cat.

"You mean that weird line around the white fur?" Asked the green boy.

"Yeah."

"When Nightwing was younger someone traced his mask?"

"He was 14 right?" Robin said.

"About that age." Wally answered. Garth paled a bit.

"That is scary."

"Joker is scary." Batgirl said. She had images of Nightwing's broken body in her head. She didn't chase the thoughts away. She had to use these thoughts to strengthen her determination.

I need to become better so this never happens again. She thought. She was glad Megan had cut off the connection. The cat stirred so Robin laid it on his lap.

'Nightwing makes a cute cat." Artemis said. Wally couldn't help it. He started laughing his head off.

"What is it!" Zatanna said, startled as she had been absorbed in the books. Wally calmed down enough to speak.

"Nightwing told me just last month he wished his, his dad would let him get a cat!" Wally laughed and the team couldn't help but snocker.

"Man, if this weren't real life, but just a game or simulation, I wouldn't hold back my laughing!" Robin exclaimed.

"Found it!" Zatanna proclaimed.

"What?"

"How to return Nightwing back to normal without waiting for the spell to wear off. Hmm, if we get all the ingredients, we should be able to do this tomorrow during the full moon." Zatanna mused.

When the team got to the mountain, no one was there to greet them.

"Well, if we are lucky, we can keep any of our mentors from finding out." Garth said.

"Find out what?" Black Canary (BC) asked, walking into the lounge. She saw the cat, which was now waking up, and the absence of Nightwing. She thought nothing of it.

"Where did you get the cat? Where is Nightwing?" she asked.

"Um, well this cat just sort of appeared. It was like magic!" Wally, who was talking got elbowed by Artemis.

"OW! I mean, Nightwing got called out by Batman, Circ escaped, and we found this cat just outside the cave. His name is Ben." Wally blurted his mad-up story before anyone could stop him.

"Oh." BC said. "OK." She left and the team heard her leave the mountain.

"That was a close call." Garth sighed. The team nodded.

Um, why didn't we just tell the truth? Megan asked, the mind link reinstated.

Nightwing's pride mostly. He would never live down being turned into a cat. Batgirl answered. Everyone agreed to that.

"So Ben," Robin said as the cat, now awake and looking around looked at him, "Can you just be patient until we fix you?"

"Oh dude, wrong word choice." Garth said as Nightwing/Ben's eyes widened and he flipped out of Robin's hands. Robin looked shocked. The next second everyone's jaws would touch the floor.

"Why am I a cat and why are you thinking about 'FIXING ME'?" Nightwing yowled. His voice, now that he was a cat, sounded like it did when he had been 13 and not hit puberty yet.

"You talk?" Robin said stupidly. The cat hissed and the words more just appeared in his teammate's heads.

Not really, just Megan, probably by habit, included me in the mind link. The cat still looked furious. Robin started to giggle.

"Man, how much did you hear in the ship?" he asked.

Eh? Oh yeah, how did we get off the island? Why are you guys laughing!

"Dude, your fur is on end! You're freak'n adorable!" Wally and Artemis said.

I am not adorable! Claws poked out of Nightwing's toes and he bared his teeth.

"Still cute man. Cute and violent looking." Wally laughed. Rocket came into the lounge.

"Man, some of us were trying to nap!" a pause, "Why is Nightwing a cat?" she asked.

"How did you recognize him and not BC?" Kaldur asked.

"One, I'm in the mind link, two, I can see his scars with his fur puffed up." As soon as she said this, Nightwing's fur flattened onto his back.

Scars? Aske the cat.

"Yeah, you didn't know about them?" Robin asked. Nighteing sat tall and began to groom his paws.

Kind of forgot about them actually.

"How?" Megan asked. She herself could never forget the day, the screaming, it hurt to just remember it.

I don't know. Nightwing stopped grooming. Are all my scars visible? The question was aimed at Batgirl and Robin. The two stepped over and Batgirl picked up Nightwing.

Hey!

"Sorry, need to get you to better light."

I am not a toy you can just, move around! Nightwing hissed. He kicked out his paws, that they his efforts did nothing. Megan noticed, through her teammate's laughter, Zatanna sad smile watching how Nightwing and Batgirl acted.

"It's good to have you back?" Megan whispered.

"Damn, that one is still clear." Wally said, his voice solemn.

Stop touching me now! I need personal space! Nightwing hissed again. Wally had the cat in his arms, and Nightwing's left paw pulled out to reveal letters. Wally put Nightwing down.

Thank you. Hi Zee, long time no see!

"Hey Nightwing. Strange how in the four minutes I saw you as a human, it looked like you hadn't grown much since you were 13.

Hey, I grew 2 inches! The muscles on Nightwing's back rippled, and his silver-black markings flashed in the light.

Someone is on my equipment! The dark cat streaked out towards the gym. The team noticed Garth was gone. They laughed as they heard the shocked protests of Garth.

"Anyway, what ingredients do we need Zee?" Batgirl said through her laughter. For just a second Zatanna glared at her, but smiled so that Batgirl thought she imagined it.

"Oh, well most of it I can get myself, but we also need lamb's blood, the spellcaster's DNA, like hair or blood, and a kiss."

So I was sick with the stomach glue while writing this. I'm trying to update regularly, but, stupid computer decides that the internet is bad.

Anyway, need a vote- which is better electrocution or Bullets?