What's up, y'all? Okay, the only reference here is the chapter title, which is homage to the chapter title styles of C. S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia." This one's a little shorter. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: What Umbra Found Out (also the first night)
While Merlina slept and dreamt, Umbra lay on her mistress' stomach, purring like an engine. Her laid-back ears then perked up and she awoke full alert, turning her head towards the door. Someone was up. She silently landed on the floor, slunk to the kitty hole and poked her head out. Turning in all directions, Umbra kept her ears moving for any sound. Then she picked something up on them and went down a small flight of stairs at the end of the hall on her right. On the boys' floor, she saw a shadow disappear.

Stealthily as only a cat could, Umbra took off after it without making a sound. A door softly closed down below: The front door.

Umbra slipped out the door onto the island. There, she followed the shadow to Lina's garden. 'Now we'll see who's behind this,' thought Umbra. In the moonlight, she saw a bird chopping off some of Lina's yellow roses with its beak: A green bird. Shocked, Umbra gasped and whispered,
"Beast Boy!" The bird quickly turned into a kitten and got a guilty look on his face. In cat language, he guiltily said, "You caught me." Umbra glared at him and meowed,
"Beast Boy, what are you doing? You know those are Merlina's prized roses! You saw how upset she was!" Umbra tried her best to keep her scolding to a whisper (or a purr) so as not to wake anyone. Beast Boy's ears drooped and his face fell. Umbra suddenly softened her tone and asked,
"Beast Boy, what's wrong?" Beast Boy, his eyes shining with tears, looked back at the fallen flowers he'd chopped, then back at Umbra.
"If I show you something," he purred, "Will you promise not to tell ANYONE, especially Lina?" Umbra looked surprised at him. There wasn't anything she never told Merlina; she was her friend! But so was Beast Boy, and from the plead in his eyes and voice, how could she say no? Finally, Umbra sighed,
"Sure, Beast Boy. No one will hear a word. Not Lina, not Travis, not anybody. I promise." Beast Boy mewed happily, then turned into a hawk, scooped up the flowers in his beak, and carefully picked up Umbra in his claws and flew off the island.

A/N: Beast Boy has come to look "up" to and respect Umbra as a sort of mother figure, since she's an adult animal. I know Umbra's a cat, but one with personality! But mostly, they're friends.