Hekata brushed back her ponytail and giggled lightly.

"Hi. I was wondering if-."

Before she could finish her sentence, the alarm rang. All the titans rushed to the giant screen in the living room, followed by Hekata.

The screen displayed a video of a swarm of demons, obviously sent by the Horned One, trashing the Jump City hospital, with the doctors either running out of the building or desperately trying to get the patients to safety.

Hekata grinned.

"Master."

Cyborg looked a bit dumbstruck.

"What'd you say?"

Hekata quickly covered her little slip-up.

"Faster! I said go faster!"

Cyborg raised an eyebrow. That was too odd not to notice.

Robin, however, was the first to leave the building.

"Titans, trouble!"

The others followed him out, but Hekata stopped for a brief moment when the Horned One appeared in front of her.

"I trust you know what to do?"

Hekata placed a finger on her lower lip.

"You never mentioned sending your minions to a mortal hospital."

The Horned One laughed.

"Oh! Silly me, I forgot to mention the details of your job. I have indeed sent a legion to vandalize the earthly hospital, but that is part of the plan. As the titans engage in battle with my minions, your job will be to defeat them first."

Hekata nodded, but the Horned One wasn't finished.

"Your victory will seize the trust of the titans. If so much as one remains unconvinced, change their minds until not a shade of doubt rests there. Once all doubts are dispelled, I will meet with you when the time is right. Understood?"

Hekata nodded again and left.

"It shall be done, master."

As she ran after the titans, the horned one disappeared once more.

-------------------------15 minutes later, Jump City Hospital-------------------------

Utter Chaos. Those were the only two words to describe Jump City Hospital now. There were demons all over the place, with many of them still running amok in spite of the titans' efforts. Beast Boy was particularly in trouble as he struggled to get the little pests off of him.

"Aaah! Get 'em off get 'em off get 'em off!"

Unfortunately for him, the other titans had their hands just as full. Except, of course, for Hekata.

She changed her arms into swords and slashed at many of the demons, and each one she struck burst into a puff of red smoke. Then her skin became hard armor as she slashed at the remaining demons. As Raven cringed at the sight of some demon spit on her cloak, Hekata calmly walked past.

"Well, that was fun."

The titans were completely shocked, particularly Beast Boy who, incidentally, was the first to recover. Almost instantly, he was all over the new girl.

"Wow you da man! Uhh, I mean you da- da- shoot I hate when this happens!"

Hekata laughed just to keep going with her façade, but deep inside she felt like throwing up. She served a master for whom sweetness was out of the question, so it was only logical that her first taste of laughter would be bitter.

Now it was Robin's turn to be impressed.

"Not bad. Not bad at all. Who are you anyway?"

Great. Hekata thought. They finally ask my name, and now I don't know what to reply with. Oh well, I suppose I will have to improvise.

"Kat." Hekata finally answered, "My name is Kat."

"Well uhh, Kat..." Cyborg was next. "Would you like to-?"

"Join the titans?" Beast Boy was quick to butt in.

"Actually I was gonna say if you wanted to go out for pizza."

Cyborg was a bit annoyed at being interrupted, but that faded fast.

"But now that Beast Boy here brought it up..."

"Wow, I'm very flattered!"

Not, Hekata thought, but she tried to hide it.

"I'd like that."

Beast Boy was stir-crazy.

"All right!! You are so gonna love it there! We got..."

All of Beast Boy's chattering lasted until they were back at Titans Tower, and even there he kept on babbling!