Hello all Solo Gamer here with the next chapter of The Beast Inside! Logan and the Titans have been getting along over the past few weeks, but they've begun to notice some odd things about their once shape shifting friend, and something seems to be nagging the green teen. What seems to be haunting him? Read on to find out!

PREVIOUSLY:

She paused as a bright ring appeared around her waist and split into two as it traveled up vertically up her body. When the rings disappeared the girl in front of them was changed. Her hair was now a snow white color, and her eyes were the neon green they had flashed before. Her outfit had changed into a pair of black and white spandex pants, white boots, and a black and white half shirt that's color was divided by a diagonal line. She was wearing a black elbow length glove on her right hand in contrast to her white sleeve, while a white one was on her left.

The team looked on in shock as the girl that was in their living room changed. This was only raising more questions in their minds.

"Dani Phantom! Ghost teen extraordinaire!"

NOW:

The commons room was bathed in silence after Dani's dramatic announcement. Dani had her eyes closed and a giant grin on her face, expecting them to break out into applause. Logan watched his friends faces to see their reactions and noticed them shift from shock to confusion.

"Wait," said Robin, "I've heard of you, but aren't you supposed to be a guy?"

Dani physically deflated at the statement and Logan struggled to keep in his laughter, but it was all in vain as Cyborg replied to Robin's question.

"Yeah, I heard about you too. Are you cross dressing or something? And aren't you also supposed to be older?"

Logan could hold back the laughter that exploded from his chest as he held back an irate Dani from tearing the two teens a new one. He pulled her into a hug and patted her head as he stifled his laughter.

"Damn it! Why does everyone ask that?!" Pouted Dani as she stopped struggling in Logan's arms.

"Calm down Dani. You can't really expect them to know you seeing as Danny is the famous one," chuckled Logan.

"It's not fair! I help people too you know!"

"Yeah yeah, but you also terrorized that one town for three weeks."

"Would've been longer if you hadn't stopped me…" she muttered, "They had it coming anyways!"

"Why did they have it coming?" asked a confused Starfire.

"They teased me and called me short."

Everyone gave the girl a shocked stare while she fidgeted under their gaze. Suddenly a though appeared in Raven's head.

"How did you two meet?"

A thoughtful look passed over the siblings faces as their eyes gained a faraway look. They looked at each other in silent communication and Dani nodded her head in acceptance.

"Well it happened like this…"

FLASHBACK:

Logan was stalking through the forest, the bag on his back hitting his back in a steady rhythm that was in time with his steps. He'd just left a small town a few days ago to stock up on medical supplies. He was absentmindedly whistling a simple tune as he traveled. He was finally ok. The whispering was gone, the beast was no more, and he could finally go home. He would've flown but he wanted to enjoy the journey back, and something was telling him to walk. He'd learned to trust his instincts even more than before, and they were telling him he needed to be in this forest for some reason. He was about to find out why.

As he continued forward with his trek the faint sound of multiple people shouting begin to tingle in his ears. His steps began to unknowingly quicken and quiet at the same time, his breathing silenced and he became someone else. He became what he'd so willingly subdued before, the thing he tried to hide to appear human, only he wasn't quite that. He became the apex predator that he knew in his soul he was.

He crept through the underbrush, making sure to keep track of all the voices he could hear shouting. He could make out around four distinct male voices in the area around him. He would catch snippets of their conversations. Something about a ghost, being highly dangerous, and can't be too far away. Logan didn't understand what the hell they were talking about. A….ghost? Did he just stumble upon a bunch of ghost hunting weirdo's? Then like a ghost itself, the faint sound of stifled sobs reached his ears. He stopped and listened, waiting so he could pinpoint the direction it was coming from.

Once he found it, he began to creep closer in that direction, the crying growing slightly louder as he approached. It took him a few minutes of searching, but after rounding a tree he found the source of the crying. A little white haired girl was sitting with her back to a large tree, wounds covering her scarcely clad body. She was only covered by tattered black and white jeans, black boots, and a sports bra, each of which were covered in bright green blood. She had her knees pulled up to her chest, and the tears rolling down her face mixed into to her already dripping blood. Logan's protective instincts went into overdrive. He'd been away from the hero life for over six months, but that instinct, the need to help people, was still there.

He cleared the distance between the two of them in a few steps, startling the girl as she looked up at him with a face Logan could only describe as a face devoid of hope and eyes full of fear. She tried to stand and flee, but the giant gash on her thigh made that impossible. Realizing she couldn't escape she just curled into a ball and began to mutter, a mantra of fear and desperation. A plea whispered so softly and without any hope that it would come true, that Logan vowed that whoever had done this to this little girl would pay.

"Please…..just….stop the pain,"

He shrugged off his bag and opened the large sack, revealing a large first aid kit and a few pairs of clothes. He grabbed the first aid kit, yanking it open revealing all the contents inside. He grabbed a long roll of bandages and then gently reached out and grabbed one of her arms. She froze still as stone at his touch, waiting for the pain to intensify, waiting to scream in agony. Imagine her surprise when instead of what she expected, she heard a soft chuckle and then felt the blood caked on her arm being washed away. She looked up into the smiling emerald eyes of Logan, and was greeted with a soft smile and then a message that she'd needed to hear for a long time.

"I'll make it go away, but you have to trust me, ok?"

She didn't know why, maybe it was the look in his eye

Maybe it was what he said…..

Maybe it was the way he smiled at her…..

Maybe it was because she just wanted someone to rescue her….

But at that moment, she put all her trust into a complete stranger.

She nodded and uncurled her body. Leaning forward she used her free hand to grab onto the bottom of Logan jacket, and with her eyes still locked onto him she gave her reply,

"I-I trust you so please….help me."

Logan nodded with conviction in his eyes. Conscious of the voices moving around him he set to work on cleaning the girl up and bandaging her wounds. While he cleaned her wounds he couldn't help but wonder why these people were after her? It was obvious they were looking for her, and judging by the state of her condition he knew her going back with them would result in her death. What could she have done that would've made people so angry that they tried to kill her? She didn't look dangerous at all, but looks could be deceiving. Still, he didn't think a girl that couldn't be any older than ten was dangerous enough to warrant her death. Where were her parents? Did they abandon her? All these questions and more swirled around in his head as he finished cleaning off her wounds and began the bandaging.

It took more than a few minutes, and there were a few times where they had to quiet so that the voices wouldn't come in their direction, but eventually the green teen got the girl cleaned and bandaged, however, they weren't out of the woods yet. She'd lost so much blood…..she was going to need a transfusion. That would take a while, and right now they were still in hostile territory. Logan knew that he would have to get out of here before he could give her a transfusion, and he would have to do it soon or she might not make it despite his efforts.

He looked down at the now bandaged girl and came up with a game plan. He stripped off the jacket he was wearing and threw around her. She had a confused look in her tired eyes that was quickly replaced by fear. Logan saw this and quickly squashed any fears she had with his explanation.

"We need to move," he said as he threw his bag on his now bare back and then bent down and picked the girl up in his arms, "You need a transfusion, and trying it here would be too dangerous with these guys around. So were going to move."

She nodded hesitantly and began looking around as Logan began to creep forward through the forest once more. All Logan's instincts came into play as he silently slunk through the underbrush of the forest. The voices, which were still moving around him, were beginning to grow distant and frustrated. He snickered silently while the girl just smiled slightly at him, her eyes beginning to droop as she began to succumb to the rhythm and sway of Logan's gate. A few seconds earlier and she might've missed it, but in her last moments of consciousness she heard a twig snap. Logan cursed silently. They were out in the open with no where he could hide them. Fear began to claw its way up the girl's throat as she heard the sound of approaching footsteps.

She began to hyperventilate, images of evil and torment spinning wildly in her head. She couldn't go back! She couldn't get caught again! She slammed her eyes shut and concentrated as Logan desperately tried to figure out a way to hide. He glanced down expecting to see a terrified girl in his arms, but he didn't see the girl.

He didn't see his body either.

Logan hadn't done it since that fateful day in the tower and he never thought he'd do it again, but at that moment he flipped out. Just as he was about to shout out loud he felt a hand clamp over his mouth and faint voice whisper,

"Don't freak out. It's me doing it. Now, be quiet or he'll catch us."

Logan complied and not a moment later a figure in an all-white suit appeared from the surrounding forest in front of them. The girl stiffened in Logan's arms and then began to tremble. Logan could feel the waves of fear rolling off of her, and knew he had to protect her from him. He looked around for a few moments before walking straight towards the pair. Logan began to freak the closer he got. The guy in white was literally two feet away and closing. Just before they made contact another chilling sensation rushed over Logan and the man passed straight through them. As he left the man could hear the man muttering to himself,

"Could've sworn I heard something over here. Little abomination…..I swear to god when we find her were dissolve her into a puddle of ectoplasm."

It wasn't until a few minutes after that the invisibility dropped from around the pair and they became visible again. Logan looked down to question the girl on how she did that, cause it damn sure wasn't him, and his heart dropped. Her eyes had slid shut and her breath was shallow. There was no waiting, he had to give her a transfusion now. Making sure he couldn't hear anymore voices around them he leaned her onto a tree and quickly reached into his bag and began sifting through his medical supplies. After a few moments of searching he found what he was looking for, it was a good thing he'd gotten this stuff or this girl would be dead. After pulling out a long clear tube with two needles attached to both sides he got to work.

He quickly inserted the needle into the vein in his arm and soon after blood began to flow down the tube. He then placed the other side into the girls arm. As the crimson liquid of life left him and entered her thoughts began assaulting him. Would this even work? I mean what if they weren't even the same blood type? She would die, granted she would still be dead anyways, but still. Not to mention his blood wasn't exactly normal due to his mutation and all. Also, her blood wasn't even red, it was green! What kind of person's blood was green? He sighed and shrugged his shoulders. If it didn't work she'd die anyway, so what did he have to lose really? He lay back onto the tree next to the little girl as his life force flowed into her.

He knew he was way out of his league right now. He was a frontline fighter not a medic, hell he could barely heal himself. The only thing he could do was hope for the best.

It'd really suck if she died.

Aaaand that's all comrades! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but it's my senior year and I've been on that scholarship grind so I don't have as much time to write as I used to. Anyways, this story shall continue! So a blood transfusion in the middle of the woods! How will Logan's blood affect this little girl, and how will her blood affect his? Will she even survive!? (Yes) Tune in next chapter to find out, and remember to check out my other story Hydromancer!

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