"We're… breaking in?" asked Raven.

"Yup!" Penelope replied, taking her hand, and made a portal with Raven's power through the palace's limestone side.

Raven, however, shook it loose. "I'm not going with you, Penelope."
"Oh, yes, you are." Penelope suddenly shape shifted into an octopus, like Beast Boy would've; only her skin remained its creamy glow. She grabbed Raven around the waist, and shoved herself through the shrinking portal.

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"Come on, dude," Cyborg sighed. "We've been sitting here looking for Penelope for, what, two hours? She isn't going to show. Let's see if she's hiding in the mountains."

Robin sighed. He shouldn't have trusted Penelope again. They'd only wasted their time, as always. "Yeah, let's go…" he began to walk back with his team.

"Hey!" Robin heard a voice call out. "Are you the Teen Titans?" Robin turned around. A young man with light red hair and a torn shirt stood in front of him. "You're Robin, right? The leader?"

"Yeah," he replied. "Who are you?"

"My name's Elliot Pembrooke, Penelope's brother. Has she come yet?"
"No," Starfire replied. "We have waited and waited, but, she has not shown up as Robin had promised."

"You promised your friends she'd come?" Elliot asked.

"Well… I told them I was sure she'd come," Robin admitted.

Elliot sighed. "And she hasn't shown. Goddamn her…"

"Do you know if she'd be around the mountains?" asked Cyborg.

"No, she said she was going straight here…" Elliot replied thoughtfully. "Oh, no… No, no, no!"

"What?" asked Beast Boy.

"Goddamn her to hell! Little lying bitch!" Elliot stamped his foot. "Come with me." He began to run away from the marketplace.

"Wait up!" Robin called out, running beside Elliot. "Where exactly did Penelope go?"

"I can't be sure, but, I have a good idea," he replied.

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"Just stay out here for a minute," Elliot told them. The Titans were in front of a small, decrepit home; Elliot's, apparently.

"Why?" demanded Robin. "What's going on?"

"I'll tell you later," Elliot replied, going inside, and slamming the door in the Titans' faces.

"Robin, what is going on? Why does Mr. Elliot choose not to tell us of Friend Penelope?" Starfire asked.

"Well, its obvious Elliot and Penelope are going to attack everyone, and-" Beast Boy began.

"Don't even make stuff up, man…" Cyborg said dryly.

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Elliot ran across the hallway to his room. When he was in his room, he went to the trunk at the end of his bed- a hope trunk; his mother had called it- and opened it. Inside was a mask of a jaguar-like animal, and a sheath. He attached the sheath to his belt, and carried the mask outside, where the Titans were.

"Alright, kids," he began.

"Don't. Call. Us. Kids," Robin said slowly, with a lot of anger rising in his voice.

Elliot sighed. "Okay, fine, then. Titans, listen, I'm going to make this short: We need to get to the palace of Queen Neredeir, because that is where my sister and your friend will most likely be. Okay?" He didn't wait for an answer. "Good. Come on." Elliot ran to the west, the other Titans in pursuit.

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Raven hit the floor. "Ow," she said simply. "Penelope, be careful."

"No time to watch what we're doing," Penelope replied, landing on her feet. "To the palace room, away!" She ran down the hall.

Raven ran after her. "Do you know where the throne room is?"

"Are you kidding?" Penelope laughed. "I know this place like the back of my hand!"

"Hey!" Raven heard a coarse voice croak after them.

"Oh, no," Penelope whispered. "Neredeir's guards."

"Stop! Intruders!" The guard yelled after them.

Raven and Penelope ran faster. They came to a 'T.'

"Now which way do we go?" asked Raven, looking down both hallways.

"Easy," Penelope replied. "You go down the left hallway; I go down the right, which is where the door to Neredeir's throne room is."

"You're just going to leave me there?" Raven gulped.

"Of course not," Penelope replied. "Just go!" She ran down the right hallway.

Raven cautiously half-ran down the left hallway.

"Stop!" she heard the guard call after her. She glanced behind her. Only one guard. Nothing really to worry about.

"Halt!" Raven suddenly heard a voice in front of her say. "Intruder!"

"What?" Raven thought. "Oh, wonderful. More of them…" At least eight guards stood in front of her, and there was another chasing her.

"Where is she?" the guard behind her asked, grabbing her shoulder roughly.

"Who?" Raven replied innocently.

"The other girl."

"Right here, baby!" Raven heard Penelope's voice giggle out, even though Raven couldn't see her. "Prepare to meet thy Maker!" Penelope suddenly appeared out of a portal.

"Seize her!" the guard behind Raven ordered the others.

Penelope laughed. She suddenly shape-shifted into an elephant, and blew her trunk. The guards panicked at Penelope's sudden size.

"S-s-stop! Intruders! Arrest them!" the head guard ordered.

"Is that all they can say?" Raven thought.

Penelope reared up on her hind legs, and came down; causing a quake that sent the guards flying. Penelope shifted back into her normal self.

"Had enough?" she smirked, a star-bolt forming at the end of her fist. "Didn't think so." She fired a star-bolt at one guard, then another, then another. The remaining guards broke into a cold sweat, and ran.

"Excellent," Penelope said, lowering her arms. "Come on," she said to Raven. "I found the throne room."

"I thought you said you knew where it was," Raven said.

"I lied. I needed you to distract the guards," Penelope replied simply.

"Why did they chase after me alone?" Raven asked.

"I don't know," Penelope replied, pausing. "Maybe it's because they recognized me as a native to Lapsci."

Raven shrugged. It didn't matter anymore, as long as Penelope found the throne room.

"Take my hand," Penelope said to Raven.

"Why?" she asked.

"We need to get to the throne room as fast as we can. Going through a portal is probably the easiest."

"Oh…" Raven took Penelope's hand.

Penelope sank to her knees, and placed one hand on the velvet carpet. A black portal opens beneath them, and they go under.

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"Where's Penelope now?" Robin asked Elliot. The Titans and Elliot were at Queen Neredeir's palace, but neither Penelope nor Raven were nowhere in sight.

"She's somewhere…" Elliot replied, scanning over the castle.

"So, like, how do we get inside?" Beast Boy asked, scratching his head."Let's break down the door," Cyborg suggested, aiming his sonic cannon at the drawbridge.

"Please tell me your not-" Elliot started, but Cyborg's cannon cut him off with a loud 'boom!'

"Serious… Nice," Elliot said sarcastically. "Stupid kids…" he thought to himself.

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Raven and Penelope warped through the portal.

"We're here," Penelope said.

Raven looked around her. It looked like a normal castle; a velvet carpet, oil paintings hung on the walls of past kings and queens, tapestries bearing seals hung behind a throne… Raven gasped. On the throne was a woman with shoulder-length black hair. She wore a black dress that spread around her feet, and had a lusty look on her face.

"Who are you?" She demanded, her voice echoing off the walls.

Penelope stepped forward, spreading her legs apart. "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

The throne room was silent. Raven looked at Penelope, then back to Neredeir, and then to Penelope again.

"What?" Neredier asked.

"What I have just said, Queen Neredier, has nothing to do with anything. However, I will kill you."
Neredeir threw back her head and laughed. "What makes you so positive you can beat me, Inigo?"

Penelope scowled. "My name is Thaliaurore. You have kidnapped my parents, and caused your father's kingdom to fall. Prepare to die."

Neredeir raised her eyebrows. "Thaliaurore. I remember your parents. Nicozine and Amera, weren't they?"

Penelope raised a fist. "You're lying! My parents' names were Duantre and Galirou!"

"No, those were not they're names. Aren't I right, Nicozine? Amera?" Neredeir stood up, calling to a wooden door that looked like it had been locked. It opened, and out strode a young man and woman, dressed in royal-looking clothes.

Penelope gasped. "Mother? Father? Why are you here?"

The woman spoke. "We were never your parents, Thaliaurore. We started your precious rebellion simply to pick out who was loyal to our Queen. You and your brother were not."

The man nodded. "When enough people joined the rebellion, we 'disappeared' with the information on attacks, strengths, and weaknesses. However, we did not count on a spy returning with information on the team of child heroes, and you to then go after them, hoping to defeat us."
"Alas, girl, you cannot," Neredeir sighed kittenishly. "Since you have challenged me to a dual to the death, let us begin!"

"Wait!" Penelope broke in. "How do you know about the spy's visit and my going to Earth?"
The man smiled. "There are others with some loyalty to the Queen in your rebellion who were kind enough to tell a space traveler or two."

Penelope gasped again. "You! You were the travelers from Kyotu! You said you would help our rebellion with your armies!"

The woman cackled. "Yes. And you told us everything you knew ever since we left. Isn't it wonderful, for us?"

Star-bolts formed at Penelope's hands. "Yeah. But, it'll all be over soon." She flew into the air, aiming the bolts at Neredeir.

Neredeir laughed again. "Silly child. You've forgotten; I fly, too." And with that, Neredeir jumped into the air, tackling Penelope to the floor, and holding her down by the arms.

"That wasn't flying!" Penelope protested, squirming under Neredeir's grip. "That was a really good jump!"

Neredeir ignored her. "Nicozine, Amera! Get her friend!"

"Raven, run!" Penelope panted.

"No," Raven replied, bracing herself for Nicozine and Amera.

"Raven, I'm serious! Nicozine can generate acid through his saliva or touch! And Amera's screams are like sonic cannons!"

"Oh… oh, no," Raven muttered, backing away to the door.

"You can't run, dearie!" She heard Amera call after her.

"Raven, run to the hallways! I can sense Robin and Elliot and- oops…" Penelope mumbled.

Neredeir grinned. "Amera, Nicozine! Follow the girl!"

"No!" Penelope shouted, turning into a lion, throwing Neredeir off of her, and began to run to the door.

"Not so fast!" Neredeir shouted after her. She opened her fist, the closed it, and did it again.

Penelope suddenly staggered, dropping to her stomach, and reverting to her human shape. She clutched at her throat.

"You might've forgotten, again, Thaliaurore," Neredeir said quietly. "I can suck oxygen away from a person."

Penelope closed her eyes, and felt everything drain away.

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Hope that wasn't too confusing for you all to follow. Oh, and, if you want to see a full picture of Penelope, go to .com/art/Request-Penelope-Pembrooke-111198301 and worship the ground this guy walks on!