Yay! My second chapter! Much much larger than the first, hopefully to the enjoyment of many of you! I like this chapter, it tells you a lot more about Phantom... And more shall be revealed... Eventually... -chuckles at power she holds with her computer-

Anywho, please enjoy! R & R too! That'll be what gets me going with Chap. 3! ...Or if I get bored someday... P

Disclaimer: Keep reading! In the time reading this and knowing that there's no chance I could own anything relating to the Teen Titans, you could be on the third paragraph!

"A GIRL!" Were the shocked voices of Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy.

"Ahhh! Dude! And she has cat ears! AND A CAT-TAIL! ...AND A TRENCH COAT!" Beast boy raged, his hands holding his head in utter confusion.

I chuckled, and swished my black cat tail with delight, "Bingo. You guys sure are smart!" My ears flicked in interest, poking out of my raven hair, and my tinted sunglasses glinted in the moonlight. My dark brown trench coat fitted out this arrangement nicely, covering my black body armour.

I grinned, continuing with my mocking. "Thaaaaaaaat's riiiiight..." I said in a singsong voice. "A girl, you sexist little jerks... And if you don't mind..." I muttered the last two parts, and grabbed the painting and put it into a pack I brought with me, and slung it over my shoulder, after quickly but gently wrapping it in a clean cloth.

Unbeknownst to me, at this action, Raven took note of it, and raised an eyebrow underneath her blue hood in perplex. Why would a thief want to preserve its bounty?

"All right! Let's get it on! Just to let you know, I won't take it easy on you just because you're a girl!" Cyborg opened his cannon arm up.

I rolled my ears, and my ears fell down to the side of my head in disdain. "Good. Otherwise I might've gotten bored."

"Titans! Go!" Robin shouted, as he pulled out his staff, Beast Boy morphed into a tiger, Raven murmured, "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" and pulled a couple trashcans to her use. Starfire flew forward with everyone, more starbolts at hand, and Cyborg had his cannon at ready.

"Bring it," I muttered, and brought blue flames to surround my hands, which burnt not me but my opponents. I was completely focused, I could handle this battle. I had spent my entire time with Him just to prepare for this.

I ran forward then stopped a distance away from the Titans, and grinned, my body engulfed in the blue flames.

The Titans all stopped, a clueless look upon their faces.

"What is she doing!" Cyborg asked, baffled.

"We can not allow her to do this! She is ending this fight by herself!" Starfire yelped.

"What the - " Raven began.

"What is going on?" Robin asked, clueless of my real plan.

"This girl is one strange chick..." Beast Boy murmured, back from his tiger form for a moment to scratch his head.

My grin doubled, and the flames completely engulfed me, and a bright light covered the hall.

-Narrator PoV-

The light faded, and the Titans were stunned to see that in the place of Phantom, a large, blue glowing panther, eyes a dangerous yellow, and its paws enwreathed in the same blue flames as the Phantom's hands were only moments before.

"DUDE! WHERE DID PHANTOM GO!" Beast Boy cried again, pointing at the large ghost cat - me, by the way.

"I'm not sure, but that thing still has the painting with it, so we have to fight it, no matter how freaky-looking it is!" Robin cried, twisting his staff and holding it at ready position.

"Freaky looking? Oh I'm hurt!" A familiar voice rang through out the hall of artifacts.

"What!" All the Titans called.

"Is that-" Raven began

"Yes. It is me, Phantom, in my panther form. You shall all see more soon! AHAHAHAHAHA!" The voice rang out from the panther, and it sprang forward, right through Cyborg' blast and through all the Titans to the other side.

"What the-" Cyborg was clueless.

The panther turned, and grinned, roaring, "Fools! You can't attack a ghost! Just try and take down the mighty power of The Phantom!" The panther roared again, and pounced on top of Cyborg, with the sound of smoking machinery filling the air, and sinking Cyborg into... the ground!

"Hey! What the" a baffled Cyborg said, his head only just sticking above the ground. He quickly found himself fuming, unbelievably frusterated at his helplessness.

"Take it down! Titans! Go!" Robin called, and the Titans attacked, Starfire blasting the creature with starbolts until she stopped, panting for breath.

"You shall not harm my friends!" She called to the giant cat.

"Oh really? I'd like to see you say that after I've played with you!" The panther leaped out of the smoke and its front paws rested on Starfire's shoulders for a moment, then she, too, began sinking down into the depths of the cement floor.

"Ah!" Starfire cried, her shoulders burning with the pain of flames, and as she sunk into the ground, as her arms were locked in the ground, unable to perform any starbolts.

"Starfire!" Robin cried, and he ran forward, striking the animal on the side, only to see his pole go straight the body of the ferocious cat. "What—" he began, only to be flung into a nearby wall by the force of the cat's giant sizzling blue flamed paws.

"Ugh..." Robin's head drooped, his eyes dazed and his shoulder smoking and burnt where the panther had caught him.

"Oh no! Robin!" Beast Boy morphed into a green male lion and went bounding up to the giant panther. The panther raised an eyebrow and grinned evilly, blue flames surrounding it once more as the flames died down and in the panther's place was a giant lion, identical to Beast Boy's only glowing blue and yellow eyes and blue flames remained.

"Yipe!" The BB Lion growled pitifully, ears lowering against his head and eyes dazzled in fear.

The Phantom's lion clawed him again and again, until he was forced back into his normal form. The Lion took hold of his collar of his shirt, and pulled him underground, and quickly returned, with Beast Boy's head above the ground like everyone else's.

"Awww man..." Beast boy's eyes were rolling, and his face was covered in different scratches and cuts from the lion.

The lion growled and faced Raven, quickly morphing from the lion back to the panther.

Raven's head looked to where Robin lay plastered against the wall, and where her other friends' heads were sticking up from floor. "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" Raven's eyes glew black, and a raven's claw clamped itself around the panther's body, trapping it in midair.

The panther growled irritably for a moment, and writhed in pain as the raven's claw grew tighter and started to crush her lungs, then stopped, and looked straight into the eyes of Raven, and there; there Raven saw many things.

FLASH!

A girl, all alone, huddled in a corner of a dark room, lightning radiating her features in jagged, harsh light. The lightning lit up the child, her knees up against her chest, and her arms crossed over them. The girl had tears streaming down her face, and two black ears stuck out of her head, and a tail, matted and dirty, curled around her legs and her raggedy white dress. Her eyes were yellow and amber, like a cats', and were full of fear.

FLASH!

The same girl, a little older, wearing a type of grey body armour a different section covering her arms, legs, chest, back, and hands. Several brown belts overlapped her waist, with different weapons inserted into each one. The girl had blue flames around her hands, and was battling men with silver masks, and black body suits. The girl cried with anger and rage as she attacked the growing number of soldiers.

FLASH!

The girl kneeled, one hand supporting her, sitting on the ground, the other laying against her upturned knee. She was the Phantom, the same one they were fighting now, only this was the look of obedience and humbleness upon her face. Her eyes were dull and empty, as she turned her face to look upwards at a man sitting atop a throne. Gears and mechanisms surrounded the two, and a single light shone upon the man on the throne. And that man was—

FLASH!

Phantom cried out in agony, her body surrounded by a bright ray of yellow light. And then stopped, her body stationary, scuffed and bruised, keeled over in the torturous pain she was in. She gasped for air, and suddenly got up, flames surrounding her hands, but was once again kicked down in the ribs by the same man that was on the throne. And that man was

"Slade..." Raven murmured, awed and flabbergasted. She released Phantom, who landed, on all four feet, head near the ground near the ground and panting heavily for breath. After a few moments of both teens recovering from this, the panther looked up with her amber eyes, but there was something different inside them now.

Sadness...? Remorse...? A cry for help...? Whatever it was, it was gone now, replaced by anger and rage.

"GET OUT OF MY HEEEEEEEEEAD!" The panther raged, and rammed Raven with her head into a wall.

The air raced out of Raven's lungs, and she let out a muffled, "Ooof..." before she was flung onto the ground by searing teeth in her shoulder.

Raven dazedly looked up at the cat, which was panting again, on the ground, watching her; knowing she was helpless. All of them were.

The panther took hold of Raven's cape, and, tiredly, pulled her underground so that everything below Raven's nose was underground, so she was unable to summon anything to her aid with her voice.

-Phantom Pov-

I looked up tiredly at the destruction I had done. All for that... that man, that creature, the one known so commonly as a monster. Slade.

I narrowed my eyes, and the same blue flames surrounded me and changed me back to my normal form with the dark brown trench coat.

That girl... I paused as I went over to pick up the pack with the painting in it. I looked over my shoulder at the half-conscious Titans, Raven included. She had... delved into my mind... and it hurt... It brought back horrible memories I never wanted to relive... Things I barely even remembered... until now. I flicked an ear at this thought. Weird.

I put the pack around my shoulder, as Slade's voice hissed in my ear, "I don't know what happened back there, Phantom. I lost contact with you for a few moments. But keep your act up. Or when you get back..." He stopped, enough for me to know what was to come if I didn't keep my tough girl act up.

I stopped, and stood up, and craned my head towards the skylight, full of stars and the half full moon.

'Someday...' I thought regrettably. 'Someday I will be released from your power Slade... and when that day comes...'

My head came back down to level, and I straightened up a bit, and looked at the Titans. They were coming to, and Robin was starting to escape his imprint on the wall.

"Thanks for the play time Titans, but I gotta go." I grinned my now famous maniacal grin, and phased out, my power I had used to pass the Titans through the floor. The power to be 'feel through.' At least that's how I thought of it. Objects could pass through me, including laser beams and starbolts.

I defied gravity with my power and floated upwards, out if the skylight and out of the museum into the sky, away from the Titans and my only hope, and towards the man who held my future in the palm of his hands. Because I could not escape... from Slade.