Raven's eyes returned to normal and widened. Shadow purposely held her gaze for a moment before looking over at Moonlight. Raven followed his eyes. With a final glare at Shadow, she left with her cousin.

The room became warm enough to make Shadow uncomfortable. A golden-robed figure appeared. Shadow watched him warily.

"You have sympathy for Desdemona," he accused.

Shadow bristled. "I will do my job."

"Don't get attached. We cannot afford to have this job compromised."

Shadow bit his tongue. He simply nodded and then shivered in the sudden cold that accompanied the robed man's disappearance.

Moonlight and all five of the Titans were watching a horror movie Beast Boy had picked out. By the time it was over, Moonlight was asleep.

Moonlight's shoulder was against Robin's. One of her hands was over his. He'd wrapped his fingers around hers. As the credits began to roll, Robin blushed and moved away.

"Dude!"

Moonlight woke with a start at Beast Boy's outburst.

"Dude, I so can't believe you slept through that!"

"I've had scarier nightmares. My father is a demon, remember?"

There was a moment of awkward silence.

"I'm going to bed," Moonlight said finally.

Moonlight sat up drenched in sweat. She swallowed a scream. It was all just a dream, a very bad dream. She climbed out of her bed and stumbled toward the kitchen. Raven was waiting in the dark with two steaming cups of herbal tea.

"Rae?"

"You screamed."

"Did I wake anyone else?"

"No. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire went out for pizza. They couldn't sleep. Bad dreams?"

"I felt like I was being ripped apart," Moonlight murmured. She pressed her hand to her chest. She shut her eyes tightly. "It hurt so much, but it was just a dream."

Raven watched her take a sip of her tea. "Have you ever heard of our grandfather?"

"No."

"How horrible was he to have spawned our fathers?"

Moonlight looked into her cup. She knew Raven didn't expect an answer. Suddenly, she was thrown backwards into a wall. Moonlight groaned and opened her eyes. She climbed to her feet.

"Raven!" Moonlight threw her knives at the cloaked figure attacking Raven. Her eyes were bright and her weapons were glowing. She hurled white balls of her namesake at his retreating back.

Shadow grabbed her wrists from behind. "Stop it!"

"Do not mess with me right now," Moonlight spat.

They wrestled for a little while, fell to the ground, and then wrestled some more.

"Idiot!" Shadow's face was close to hers as he struggled with her on the floor. "Stop squirming and think," he growled in her face.

"Go to –"

Shadow slapped her. Instead of being stunned, Moonlight narrowed her eyes and punched him.

"Get off her!" Robin came out of nowhere to kick Shadow in the side. Robin tried to slam him against a wall, but Shadow simply melted into the darkness.

Moonlight, with her unusual eyes, saw where Shadow was. She sprang from where she was sitting up to him. She shoved him back into the refrigerator. "Who was that? Where'd he take Rae? Why'd he come here? How'd you get out of your cell? Why did you stop me from going after him? How'd he get in? What –"

Shadow avoided her eyes as she began to cry. Her grip on him served more to hold her up than to hold him in place. Moonlight bowed her head. She had been clutching his shirt. Her grip relaxed until her hands were resting on his chest.

Shadow sighed. "I guess you need some answers. That was Chaldor. He shut off the power. No one noticed because all the lights were out except in my cell. When they turned off I was able to move through the darkness. I don't know where he took her exactly, but I am pretty sure it's somewhere the walls between dimensions are thin. He's probably trying to fulfill an ancient prophecy."

"Trigon?" Robin was standing close to Shadow and Moonlight with his staff ready.

"No, his father, Hammod the Horrible," Shadow replied. He looked into Moonlights eyes. "You are the last piece."

"The sword," Moonlight whispered.

"You know?"

"Know what? The prophecy? I've never heard of it before. I had a nightmare about it earlier tonight."

Shadow felt his heart beating under one of her hands. Again he found himself sympathizing with her. "If I didn't stop you, he'd have killed you."

"How could he fulfill the prophecy if he killed her?"

Shadow glared over at Robin. "Simple. Have a lesser demon animate her corpse. The result wouldn't be as powerful, but it'll work nonetheless so long as it was done while there was still blood in her veins."

Robin and Shadow glared at each other. Moonlight wiped her eyes and moved to clean up the mess that was left of the kitchen. She winced as she cut herself with a piece of ceramic from a broken mug. "Ouch. How'd he get in?"

"I think I've told you enough, Moonlight," Shadow replied.

She glared at him with her illuminated eyes. "Why so tight-lipped all the sudden?"

Shadow just held her gaze until Robin stepped in. "You're going back in your cell," he growled.

Contrary to Robin's expectations, Shadow laughed. "Our little moon maiden has sliced it to pieces."