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So tired.

It was the only conscious thought I had, really.

My body felt weak, I coulnd't change forms, and my head hurt. Next to me, Flora must have felt the same way because, for the first time since I had ever met her, she was quiet.

"You alright?" I asked a number of times. All she did was nod, as if talking would waste to much energy.

We had slept last night, close together (though definitely not as close as the last night). I wondered now, as we walked, whether or not that had been a good idea because it seemed like we were even worse now.

She fell to her knees all the sudden, shaking her head. Her curly, black hair fell around her face. "I can't do it."

"Come on, Flo," I said, lifting her up, though it took a lot of effort. "We can't stop now, we have to – we have to keep moving."

So, we leaned on each other, moving through the jungle together. I don't know what had been in those darts, wheter it had been poison or something else, but I wondered if we'd make it. I looked to Flora. Her cheeks were pink with the effort and she was breathing hard. I wrapped my arm tighter around her waist, trying to get her to stand up straighter. She must have noticed because she smiled slightly at me, putting more strength into her step.

We stopped only for a minute, leaning up against a tree to catch our breath. A cliff stood in front of us, blocking our path. We'd have to head in the other direction.

"Beast Boy," Flora said suddenly. When I looked up at her, she was smiling. "You called me Flo."

I hadn't realized that I had but it didn't matter. I smiled back. "You said that's what your friends called you right?"

She looked up to the sky. "Can you believe it's only been two and a half days since we declared our hatred for each other?"

"I guess – I guess when you're trapped on a jungle planet being hunted you don't really have a choice but to – but to be friends." I took step back, rocks shifting under my feet. I was stumbling, falling.

"Beast Boy!" Flora screamed.

I clung to the rock face as best as I could, though my body screamed with the extra effort. Flora's appeared over the cliff edge, reaching down. "Grab my hand!"

I reached, my hand grasping hers for a quick moment before slipping off. I grabbed onto the rocks again. "I can't!"

"Trust me!"

Looking up I saw the frantic look on her face. I reached up again and grabbed her hand, this time, catching it. She reached down with her other hand and grabbed my wrist, pulling. I tried to help as best as I could, pushing up with my feet.

Finally, Flora was able to pull me back over the edge. We lay on the cliff edge, out of breath for real now and too weak to even stand.

There was a rustle.

Had the hunters found us?

I closed my eyes, too tired to even care now. I felt Flora's hands on my face. "Beast Boy, we have to move. Beast boy."

I couldn't. I couldn't even talk.

I heard her get to her feet, slowly, painfully. "Stay back. I'm warning you."

They, whoever they were, continued to slink closer though. I couldn't tell but it sounded like Flora was fighting. "Go away! Stay away from us!"

I opened my eyes as she sunk down to her knees, falling down onto her stomach. I figure was leaned over me.

And then I fell away.

I sat up quickly, crying out.

Where was I? Where was Flora?

Looking around, I realized I was in some sort of tent. It was smoky, foggy and I saw makeshift candles. It smelled like that incences stuff that Raven always used.

Great. Just perfect. Flora left me and I got kidnapped by Indians.

Just then the flap to the tent opened and Flora crawled in, smiling. "Oh good, you're awake!"

Surprisngly, she threw her arms around my shoulders in a hug. I patted her back awkwardly before pushing her away gently. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Better than okay. Aren't you? The Tonatonians fixed us right up!"

"The – the what?"

"Tonatonians. This is the planet Tonas. They told me that the Hunters have been here for years now, they invaded ages ago. They pick up random species from different planets and they hunt them. They like the challenge but often, when things prove difficult, they shoot their prey with Neutrlizing darts like they did us."

"So there were probably other people on the planet?" I asked.

"Probably," she said. "But it's a really big planet. I'm pretty sure they're still okay."

"What do the Hunters do when they catch them?"

Flora looked down. "No one really knows. Whenever someone's caught . . . they never come back. . . . Anyway, you've got to come out and meet everyone. They don't speak our language save one guy. I think he said his name was Taigas; he's like the prince or something. Come on."

We started for the flap but she stopped me suddenly. "Um, before we go out there – they, er, they think I'm a goddess."

"A what?!"

"It's not my fault, not really. I panicked when I woke up and realized I could use my powers again. I went to attack but, as soon as the vines rose from the ground, they dropped to the ground and started bowing. I didn't do anything special, just the normal stuff. Taigas told me that there's prophecy about someone who could control earth like I can. They think you're a god too. You kept changing shapes in your sleep."

"Flora!"

"What? I'm just letting you know. Might as well play along, I guess. They're making us a feast right now."

My ears perked up at that. "Food?"

"Yep." She was smiling. "And they only eat 'of the earth'."

"Well . . . what are we waiting for?"

She started out again but stopped turning to me once more. "Oh, and try not to get too freaked out. They're blue."

I stared at her oddly. "Flora. Starfire's orange, I'm green, and Raven's a sorta grayish color. I'm pretty sure I can deal with blue people."

Flora grinned, walking out. I followed after her and almost immediately I was surround by bright blue people, all of them taller than me and wearing brown tribal like cloths. They grabbed me, forcing me down on the floor before backing up. They stared at me, wide eyed. "Uh. . . ."

Flora walked up on the arm of another blue guy (they all looked close to the same). His eyes, however, were a piercing yellow while everyone else's were the same color of blue as their skin. He wore some kind of weird headdress and also a fanged necklace. I could only guess that this was Taigas.

Why was he so close to her?

"They want you to change for them," he said with a thick accent.

"Oh. Oh!" I transformed then into a pteryodactyl, hovering just above the log they set me on. The Tonatonians oohed and ahhed. I transformed then into a squirrell, grinning at the attention.

A bear. A cheetah. A giraffe. An octopus. The little blue kids ran up and each grabbed a tentacle, laughing. I wrapped my tentacles around their waists, lifting them up and spinning them around. They liked that. It was kind of cute.

I played with the kids (giving them rides on my back as different animals) until Taigas called us all to dinner. Flora sat across from me by the fire, sitting on her own log, some of the women and little girls surrounding her. I watched her as she grew flowers on the floor in front of her, picking one and placing it into the hair of a little girl besides her. The women picked the flowers too and began to braid them into her hair.

"She is odd." I looked up as Taigas sat beside me on his own log. "For a goddess. Just as you are not what I would have expected of a god. When we found you, you were both very weak. But she continued to fight, though she didn't have the strength. She fought to protect you."

I looked back across the fire, where the Tonatonian women had finished braiding flowers in her hair, like a crown. Flora looked up at me, smiling, the fire sparkling in her eyes.

"Yes," Taigas said. "Your mate is very odd."

I jumped with the shock, my mouth falling open. "My – my what!?"

"It would only make sense that the gods sent to save us from the Hunters would be mated together. Both of you so . . . one with nature and its creatures. You are one in yourselves."

My mate?

Flora was laughing, though I'm sure she had no clue what the women were talking about. The little girl climbed up into her lap. Flora grew another flower and gave it to her before looking up at me again, a serene smile on her face.

Well, she wasn't my mate, no way but . . . . "Yeah, I guess we are both alike."

I smiled back.

A/N: So what do you think. I'm thinking maybe a couple of more chapters and it might end. Stay tuned.