Hello again! It's time for chapter three, I guess...

Congratualations to anyone who could actually understand what Raven and Cyborg were saying last chapter when they were talking over each other! :D

Well, you know the drill, I don't own anything, accept for the new character who has just appeared and will soon become quite a big part in this mystery of why Time is confused... :D

Oh, and I own the dragon, too.

Besides that, all the other characters and places do not belong to me. It belongs to DC Comics. I think. Unless Cartoon Network owns Teen Titans...

Oh, well. Enough blabbing, time to get to this chapter!

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Chapter Three:

"Hey, don't worry," Beast Boy started, breaking the long and deafening silence. He had slowly shifted back into his normal form. "That dragon won't hurt you now."

The girl looked up from were she was, and she seemed to see the Titans for the first time. She didn't say anything.

"Did it hurt someone you know?" Robin asked, stepping forward cautiously. He was obviously referring to her anguished out-cry from before. Still, she remained silent.

"Well, Raven here has healing powers, so your friend should be okay in no time!" Beast Boy filled the silence.

"Shut-up!" Raven suddenly hissed, her eyes fixed on the girl. All other four Titans looked at her in alarm. Raven's voice was so serious.

"Why must we-?" Starfire started, but stopped herself when she got Raven's death glare. Raven floated forward slowly toward the girl, who had her purple eyes fixed on her. Wait, purple eyes? Raven's mind piped up. That isn't a normal color for humans...

As Raven got closer, she sensed the girl's panic begin to rise above her... was it concern? Worry? Raven couldn't quite read it. Actually, she was finding it hard to read this girl in general. It was like there was some sort of block on her...

Suddenly, the girl moved. Quite fast, she stood up and stepped back a couple of steps away from Raven. Raven paused. That was a sure sign that the girl was scared. But, of them? They had just saved her and the city from this dragon!

...Right?

"Whoa, whoa, hey," Beast Boy said. Raven silently pleaded him to not crack a joke, or to do something stupid, or to scare her more, or to...

Well, maybe it would've been better if he hadn't said anything in the first place, Raven mused. But he had already started...

"Don't be scared. We made sure that Mr. Scaly can't hurt anyone now."

Well... that was okay, Raven thought. But she instantly took back that thought when she picked up what she could of the girl's emotion.

Anger.

"You're the ones who hurt Zorath?" The girl finally spoke, her voice soft but dangerous.

"We did not hurt your friend, we have made sure that none of your friends can be hurt because of this dragon-like thing!" Starfire said.

For a moment, everything was silent. But then...

"He is my friend! My only friend!" The girl screamed and suddenly jumped forward and crashed into Raven. Raven, completely unprepared for the attack, crashed to the ground with the girl on top of her. Raven sensed all of the Titan behind her recoil and then instantly jump into action.

"Hey!" Cyborg yelled and then suddenly the girl's weight wasn't pinning Raven down anymore. Cyborg had used one of his 'soft shots.' It would move an enemy, but wouldn't cause too much damage... most of the time.

But it wasn't one of those rare times, as the girl stood up quickly. Raven felt a strange sense of releaf flood her. Searching for the reason why, Raven found that she didn't want to hurt this strange girl. Slowly Raven stood up, accepting this fact, but trying to figure out why.

"Raven!" Robin's voice brought her back from her thoughts. "Get her!"

Raven looked up in alarm to see the girl backing up slowly, obviously trying to get away. Raven hesitated, but then mused that if she caught the girl she could learn more about her, so Raven murmured her power words and put her hand out, toward the girl. Black energy began to envelope the girl, but then, something that not even Raven knew was possible happened.

The girl crossed her arms and then flung them wide, which... broke Raven's black energy. Pain shot through Raven's temple, and she bit back a gasp. She didn't quite like the feeling of soemone slashing through her power... which was what the girl had done. It was the only explination for the throbbing pain in Raven's head.

This girl was getting weirder as the seconds ticked by.

Beast Boy shifted into a leopard and began to chase the girl, who was running away, now. But... wasn't she running into a dead-end alley? Maybe she didn't know...

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Beast Boy was so surprised when the girl had stopped Raven's force energy... but the girl was getting away. He had to get her! He quickly shifted into a leopard and ran after her. Even though she could cut through Raven's energy, that was completely different from a live animal, wasn't it?

The girl was surprisingly fast for a human, Beast Boy suddenly realized, and her reflexes seemed pretty fast, as well. Wait. Beast Boy stopped that thought as the girl glanced back and he swore he saw delicately pointed ears instead of the human rounded ears... and her eyes were a bright, vivid purple.

Maybe not human, than. That would explain why she could run a bit faster then Robin, who had been training his entire life. Okay... If she wants fast, she'll get fast! Beast Boy thought and then jumped forward into a sprint. And, as he was a leopard, he was now going quite fast. Faster then the girl, and he was gaining on her quickly.

She seemed to notice this, as well, and glanced back nervously, and then in front of her. A wall cut across the alley, causing a dead-end. She skidded to a halt, and Beast Boy's sensitive ears picked up her mutter something about "I promised, but it's the only way..." She spun around and faced Beast Boy in a fighting stance as Beast Boy leaped onto a box and then jumped forward, intending to land on her so he could catch her.

Well, he did hit her, but not as soon as he expected. He realized that she had jumped forward to meet him and her palm was flat on his fore-head. He first felt a little tingling as the two of them crashed into the ground, but her palm stayed glued where it was. He looked at her, and saw that her eyes had started glowing and she no longer had a pupil... just glowing purple irises.

HUH? Beast Boy thought in alarm as his whole body suddenly went limp, as if he was paralyzed.

"Sorry," She said softly, and then tightened her grip on Beast Boy's head.

Suddenly, a wind seemed to sweep through the area, blowing the girl's dark hair back and revealing her forehead, which had a pentagram inside a pentagon tattoo. The star shape began to glow and get brighter, and the girl changed.

She grew thick fur all over, and her face lengthened into a big cat's snout, while the rest of her followed suit. Within a mere two or three seconds, she had changed into a leopard, and the pentagram was beginning to fade, leaving behind black fur.

She had copied Beast Boy's form exactly, Beast Boy realized as she ran back down the alley. Even the spots and the size of the ears were the same. The only difference was that she was tinted a purply-pink, while Beast Boy's form was green.

Beast Boy was about to go after her, but then realized that all of his energy was gone, probably drained by her strange power. He collapsed where he was and felt his consciousness slip away as his body reverted back to it's normal form, as it always did whenever he fell asleep or passed out.

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And so ends this chapter! :D I hope you liked it. Don't worry, the girl won't be 'the girl' forever, her name will come in soon!

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