Even thought I'm not getting many reviews, (hint, hint) I'm going to keep posting anyway, because I just can't help it. Tee, hee! Okay, this one might be a little short, too. Just bear with me, okay? Okay. (cracks knuckles) Here we go!

Chapter 3: Lina's pimped up ride

(2 Days Later...) Upon hearing the news that Daniel had left, Merlina fell into a deeper depression than before. She wore her black robe, spent all her time sitting up in bed and staring into space, her hair went flat and stringy, and now she refused to eat at all. Starfire still went to see her, but Merlina responded only with blinks of her eyes.

The third day, Starfire brought Merlina her favorite dessert in the whole world: Confetti Cake.

"I am back, friend!" she chimed gently, "And I have your favorite pre-packaged dessert!"

Before she could start the usual coaxing, though, Cyborg burst into the room, yelling "Star! We've got an emergency!" Star quickly followed Cyborg out. Lina's once monotone face now showed concern and interest. Slowly, she got out of bed and walked out of her room to the operations center to find Cyborg and Starfire talking to Robin, Beast Boy, and Raven! Where was Daniel?

"We got to Paris," Beast Boy said, "and we scoured the whole frickin' city to find Tobias! Finally, we did, but he was dressed in a priest's robe, surrounded by a whole group of witch hunters!"

"We put up a good fight," Robin picked up, "but Daniel weeded Tobias out and ran after him himself."

"And before we could do anything," Raven finished, "Tobias cast a spell on us, yelling, 'Begone, intruders!' and we appeared back here."

"What about Danny, Rae?" Cyborg grabbed Raven's arms, "What happened to Danny?" No one said anything.

"Dude," said Beast Boy, "...we don't know."

(Clunk) All heads turned to see an unconscious Lina lying in a heap on the floor.

"She got up?" Beast Boy said.

"And back down," said Raven as she knelt by her friend and waved her hand over her face, reviving her. Lina's eyes opened immediately. She sat straight up.

"We're going to Paris," she quickly said as she got up.

"Merlina, no!" Robin grabbed her arm, "Don't you see, this is all a trap! This is exactly what Tobias wants you to do. He'll stop at nothing to get you. You go where he is, he'll have you right where he wants you, Lina. And I"m not letting him hurt you again."

"I said we're going," she replied, "and if Tobias wants me, he can have me. I don't care what happens to me." She stared into space. "...I just want Daniel back." She slipped out of his grasp and walked down the hall.

"Now let's go!" She snapped her fingers and soon Umbra came trotting up to her and went down the hall with her.

While the others got the T-ship up and running, Lina changed her robe to white, put on her Japanese sandals, and neatly tucked her wand back in her dress. Then she and Umbra went outside just as the ship was lifting off. Lina grabbed up the cat by her neck fur and jumped off a rock and into her new vehicle, built by her and Cyborg: the Ponderosa! (sfx: whip crack!) Cyborg built her as he did his car, except it was a boat that could turn into a car, a sub, an air ship, or a space cruiser! The paint job was, like the car, sky blue, but just a solid sky blue. It had a tan colored, vinyl interior with two front seats. In the back were 3 benches along the sides, each with 3 seat belts. The floor was shiny mahogany, and if it went sub, the middle of the floor opened up to reveal a window to the water. But I digress.

Into this pimped up ride Lina leapt, her cat in hand. She got in the driver's seat, pulled out her wand, and stuck it into a hand outlined pad with a hole for the wand in it. With the wand in the hole and her hand on the imprint, she turned it to the right, and that was the ignition. Immediately, the Hemi engine roared to life. Umbra removed the mooring rope from the boat and jumped in the special kitty box on the back of Lina's chair.

"Step on it, Lina!" she meowed encouragingly. Lina buckled up and floored it, the boat's nose pointed toward France. And while she shredded the sea in the Ponderosa, (whip crack!) her friends tore across the sky.

Author's Review:
O.O Well! I certainly hope y'all like Lina's boat! I know I do! Something I need to explain about the Ponderosa (whip crack!): I wrote this chappy at about the same time I was in a particular obsession phase with "Bonanza!" I'm kinda in love with Little Joe. I know; I'm weird. Now usually, Lina's not one to just sit there and be depressed. But as I said before, I'd always wanted to have Lina in a deep, dark, Evanescence-mood depression over something major. As you all have pretty much figured out by now, (not that it takes a brain-dead monkey to figure it out) Daniel and Merlina are better siblings than any two siblings I've ever heard of. Theirs is the ideal brother/sister relationship, where each of them cares enough about the other to not only worry to death when the other is in any kind of trouble, (i.e. Daniel freaking out over Tobias) and would do anything to fix it and/or make it all better. This is evident in the fact that Daniel tracked Tobias down and ran off to France in order to take him out. Him not telling Lina about this just brings out the reckless, almost irresponsible youth in us all, but at least he was smart enough to take someone with him at Starfire's suggestion.

Doris is, of course, Tobias' pet. I named her after the ugly stepsister in "Shrek 2." But we'll take more about her later. You're probably wondering why Lina didn't immediately do something about Daniel's disappearance in the first place. For one thing, if you've just been sexually assaulted, I doubt you'd be in any mood for any action. I'd probably do the same thing. In fact, I'm sure I would. Needless to say, she was in no condition for anything at the moment. Especially if you consider this: Merlina's a virgin. Nothing like this has ever happened to her in her life. She's been introduced to plenty of the corruption of today's world, having been on a different continent before, but no one ever imagines anything as heinous as this would happen to them. One more thing: Tobias' act against Merlina is a reference to "Ceres: Celestial Legend," Volume 9, when the progenitor of the Mikage family (being awakened in the main character's twin brother, Aki) goes after Aya in the school library. But let's stop digressing and continue! (bowing)