A/N: WOW thanks for the encouragement, I really appreciate it. And now I shall end your suspense, Enjoy, I worked hard on this one.

Chapter 7: Changeling

Raven awoke suddenly. It took her awhile to realize someone had changed her clothes. She was now dressed in a black and red strapless dress. She was seated in a large backed chair, and noticed an even bigger one to her right. She was in a throne room.

Her attention was drawn to a blood-filled well in the middle of the room, which had started boiling and steaming. Almost as if responding to her attention something began to raise out of it, or rather someone. The albino child rose until his feet were a foot above the surface of the pool.

"Ah, you're awake, my love." The boy's blood red eyes bored into her soul. She could sense right away that this was not a person to be taken lightly.

"Who are you?" she asked the daemonic child.

"I am Brother Blood. However, you may call me Sebastian." He walked down toward Raven as if on stairs from his place above the pool. As he got closer, she realized that she was shackled to the chair. "And you, dear Raven, are soon to be my bride."

"What!" she yelled in disgust. "I will never marry you!"

"You really don't have a choice, my dear." He leaned over her when he finally reached her. "You see without your chakra, you are little more than a puppet." She didn't understand what he was talking about; the jewel was still imbedded in her forehead. However, in her moment of confusion, Sebastian kissed the stone on her head. Raven felt teeth dig in around her chakra and, with unholy force, he stepped back tearing flesh as he took the stone with him. Raven's scream could be heard for miles.

Gar continued trying to pull out the chain which bound him. He had to save Raven from Sebastian. He was making absolutely no progress. They had determined that something in the room was siphoning their powers. Starfire had tried several times to blast her collar off but to no avail. Cyborg couldn't even move any of his mechanical parts. However Nightwing was entirely unaffected, as he had no superhuman abilities.

"We need to come up with a plan; we aren't going to get anywhere trying the same things over and over again," Nightwing said mainly speaking to Beast Boy.

"What do you expect us to do? You think he'll just give us back our powers and let us go if we play nice?" Gar argued. "He's going to torture us till we can't scream any more. Didn't you see how much he enjoyed hurting me…" Gar stopped and listened, he thought he heard something. Raven's scream began to audibly echo through the halls, followed by her dark aura.

"Raven!" As soon as her soul-self reached the room, their powers returned. He turned into a large bovine-shaped beast, which broke the collar. He charged the cell bars knocking the entire wall down and headed in the direction of the scream.

"Forgive me if I am wrong," Starfire said, shooting a starbolt at her collar and moved to do the same for Nightwing, "but bovine animals on this planet, do not normally have scales, correct?"

"No, Kory, they don't," Vic said, concern filled his voice.

Sebastian took out a necklace made out of a seamless, almost organic metal. He touched the red stone to the necklace and it reacted, wrapping around Raven's chakra. "You're mine now, Raven," he said as he placed the necklace around his neck.

"The hell she is!" Gar yelled as he bashed in the door open. Transforming into a rhino, he charged at Blood as hard as he could. Something, however, was keeping him from retaining the form for too long and he fell over just before reaching him.

"Is that your best shot?" He laughed as Gar reverted and clutched his sides in pain. "Pathetic," Sebastian said in a tone of disgust. He reached out a hand and red energy shot out and engulfed Beast Boy's head.

He clutched his head in pain. However this time Sebastian's mental attack was having a different effect, not simply hurting him, but unleashing his deepest nightmares unto his conscious mind. Suddenly Gar's hand shot up and squeezed around Sebastian's throat. There was something wrong with his hand though, his fingers were ten inches long and sharp. "You psychotic brat," he said in an inhuman voice and threw him across the room, smashing his skull helmet, and breaking most of his ribs.

Gar was growing less and less human in form. Bat wings shot out from his back and his flesh took on the texture of chitin. His head was now long and insect like. "DIE," he said in an almost animalistic grunt.

"Not today," Sebastian said in slight fear as he surrounded himself with red energy and sank into the ground.

"NOOOO!" he growled and clawed at the floor where Sebastian had been.

The other Titans finally reached the room that Gar had run to. They saw Raven, her forehead bleeding, and the stone missing. "Raven, what happened to you? Where's Gar?" Nightwing questioned her as he released the shackles. However she was too weak to respond, she simply pointed and blacked out.

The Titans' gaze followed the direction of her finger as they saw the hideous monstrosity, the green, hideous, monstrosity. It turned and looked at Raven. Doing so seemed to cause some sort of reaction in what there was left of his mind at that point and he reverted to a human form. He collapsed.

"Oh, my god," Vic said in a mixture of amazement and fear.

"Let's get back to the Tower. We'll sort this out later, Raven's hurt." Nightwing picked up Raven and slung her over his shoulder. Only after doing this did he think about something more important than leaving. "Uh… Anyone know where the exit is?"

Almost reacting to the question, Raven's power's consumed them. When the dark aura faded, they were on the roof of the tower.

Sebastian winced as his dark powers mended his broken bones. "What the hell is he? My attacks made him stronger, I don't understand!" His voice was reminiscent of a child who had been, in its mind, unjustly been scolded.

"You still have the necklace, don't you?" a voice of a million screams warped into words asked him.

"Yes master," he said not understanding.

"As you said, child, without her chakra, she is nothing more than a puppet, awaiting a master. She will destroy the shape shifter, and then she will be yours, uncontested." A look of malevolent epiphany spread across the boy's face.

"Your wisdom is infinite master. I will make my love kill the heathen, and… AHH!" He yelled as he tried to stand and forced pressure on his half heal body.

"Have patience. I have waited eight hundred years for you, so you can wait for your vengeance." Blood's eyes glazed over as his power healed him, awaiting his revenge on the green Titan.

The next day Raven had still not awoken. The Titans had not left her side all night, with the exception of Gar who had locked himself in his old room. They understood that he wanted to be alone, after seeing him in the Church of Blood, they didn't blame him.

"Friends, Raven is waking," Starfire told Nightwing and Cyborg, who had fallen asleep.

"Star…" she said weakly. Her other two friends jumped up as they heard her voice, and moved to her side.

"Yes, Raven I am here, we're all here," she reassured her. Raven slowly sat up on the bed. She was still a little light headed, but she was quickly healing.

"Where's Gar?" she asked her. Starfire became uneasy at the question.

"He hasn't come out of his room since we got back," Dick told her solemnly. Kory was relieved that she did not have to answer the question.

"He chased off Blood," she told them. They stared at her statement with awe. She started to get off the bed. "I need to see him."

"Uh, Raven, I don't know if you saw him earlier but… uh…" Nightwing was having trouble explaining.

"What he means is, you may not like what you see," Vic finished for him.

"I saw," she said. "That's why I need to see him."

"At least let one of us come with you in case he becomes violent," Starfire more told her than asked her.

"Gar," Starfire yelled at the sealed door. "Raven has awakened." There was no answer. Raven and Kory started to get worried. "Beast Boy!"

The door opened suddenly. He stood there, looking almost angry that Kory had told him. He had discarded his costume, and wore a nearly skin-tight, black tank top, a pair of green flares, and shoulder and knee pads. "I'm not Beast Boy anymore…" he said almost angrily. Kori was about to ask why he no longer wished to fight with them when he clarified, "…I'm Changeling."

A/N: No I did not make up the name Changeling he actually went by that at one point, however, I didn't make up his new powers either. Please tell me what you think of Changeling and if you're an artist, can I have a picky? Smiles hopefully. any way please review.