Wow! Chapter Nine already? Sorry the last chapter was sooooooo short! It was a quick 15 minute chapter! This one will be better! (But not longer! Sorry!) So I hope you enjoy it!

Disclaimer: Okay, this is for both readers and people who are actually dumb enough to think I own Teen Titans.

Readers: Please don't come after me with knives and pitchforks because this chapter is so short.

Dumb people: I DO NOT OWN TEEN TITANS!

Thanks!

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Chapter Nine: The Dream

          Shadow woke up in her old bed at her father's house. 'What am I doing here?' She thought. 'I don't live here anymore!'

         She tip-toed over to the door and opened it. As she stepped into the hall, she realized she wasn't at her old house anymore. She was in a long dark tunnel. The door slammed behind her. She spun around. The door was gone. Shadow felt the wall. Totally solid. 'Well that's no problem,' she thought. 'I'll just go through the wall!' She walked into it.

          "OUCH!" she cried, rubbing her nose. "What's going on here?" This was weird. She was in her dad's house (or so it seemed) and she couldn't use her powers. Not good.

          A bright light came from the end of the tunnel. Shadow shielded her eyes. What was this? 

          "Kaherine!," an eerie voice called. "Kaaaaaaaaaa-ther-iiin!" The voice was so familiar. Shadow just couldn't put a finger on it. All of the sudden, the floor started moving. It moved her to the end of the tunnel at high speed. When it stopped, she fell to her knees.

          "What was that?" Shadow asked herself as she stood up. Her mother walked into view. She looked exactly like Shadow. Her curly red hair boinked up in the exact same places as Shadow's did. Her eyes the exact same color of emerald. Her smile, the same caring, sincere, loving way as Shadow's did when she was daydreaming about being happy with people who cared about her.

          "Mom?" Shadow whispered, her eyes swelling with tears. "I thought you were-" her mother shushed her and stepped backwards- back into the light. "Mom!" Shadow shouted, "Come back!"

          But instead her mom coming back out of the light, her father did. She grinned an evil, vile, grin, and pulled her into the blinding light.

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          Shadow woke up drenched in a cold sweat. "It was just a dream," she told herself, "It was just a dream!" She looked at her bedside clock. 6:30PM. Okay, she thought, If I fell asleep around 3:30PM than I've been asleep for three hours. She got up and out of bed. She brushed through her hair, and got ready to go to her favorite café. It was Karaoke night, and she felt like singing. It usually helped to calm her nerves. And she really needed to calm her nerves right now.

          On the way out,  she decided that she would stop by her uncle's house on her way to the café. He had something she felt she was ready to have.

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Hey! Sorry its so short guys! I'm making a new one as you read! (if im not doing anything else that is!)