Well. Time for chapter six. Weird that this story is already that long, and I haven't quite gotten to the height of the excitement yet. Yes, there's more coming... mwahahaha!

Disclaimer today is done by... oh, well. You know the drill, anyway. I don't own Teen Titans or any related media, accept for the girl and the dragon. And the plot.

Oh, and you may have noticed that I've stopped naming the chapters. I can't quite think of good names for them anymore right now, so for now it'll just be "Chapter xxx" unless I have a brain explosion and think of something out of the blue! Heehee!

Oh, and if anyone was wondering, the video game Cyborg and Beast Boy were talking about was Metroid: Other M. Heehee! I just can't wait for that game, so I had to get it in here! :D

ANYWAY! Let's get this show on the road!

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Chapter Six

"I don't know, okay?" Raven snapped for what seemed like the thirtieith time this week. Beast Boy looked cynical, like he didn't believe her.

"Are you sure you don't know what Slade was talking about?" He asked again. Out of those thirty times Raven had been confronted, Beast Boy had probably been responsible for 25 of them. He seemed really suspicious of her, and that hurt Raven a little. He didn't trust her enough to take her word?

"Beast Boy, I've told you, I have absolutely no idea!" She snapped and stormed off to her room. She flopped down on her bed. What Slade had said to her last week before he had made a getaway had been bothering her for quite some time. Future?

But... Raven didn't even know if Time Travel existed. She knew it did in sci-fi movies, but it didn't in real life. But... if this Slade was from the future, than maybe they would have some way of time travel? But... it just seemed far too complicated for something to happen only 20 to 30 years from now. Technology would needed to have become far more advanced.

Unless Slade had made an alliance with a time god of another dimension, maybe? Or perhaps he had acquired some forbidden power?

Or maybe he was just trying to scare them...

Raven's head hurt from all this thinking. She had considered at least 50 possible things by now, and everyday she came up with more. She flopped down on her bed and looked out of her window, which showed a view of the setting sun. She sighed. They had gotten no where over the last week. They still didn't know who the strange girl was, or what Slade had been talking about. Or even where the dragon had gone. How does a huge dragon disappear? But yet, there was no trace of either the dragon, the girl, or Slade. Raven shook her head as she watched a lizard crawl up her window on the outside.

Wait. A lizard wasn't usually purple. Or have horns. Or have bulges from it's back that suspiciously looked like wings, either... And her room was quite far up, how could a lizard crawl up all this way?

She looked closely and realized that it indeed wasn't a lizard. It was a mini dragon. She quickly stood up and walked to the window to investigate it closer. It stared back at her with yellow eyes. It was definitely a dragon, albeit a tiny one. It could easy fit in the palm of Raven's hand.

"What the..." She muttered. The dragon tapped it's 'beak' on the glass, as if asking her something. It blinked at her. She just stared back, eyes wide.

It tapped again and mentioned upwards with it's head, toward the top of Titan's tower. Raven, mystified, slowly extended her power to the little creature to read it's emotions.

It stared back at her with those big yellow eyes as she picked up... insistence and some type of urgency from the little dragon clinging to the glass. Raven nearly recoiled in shock. It's mind and emotion were so... civilized and advanced. Much like a human.

Again, the dragon nodded up to the top of the Tower and then back at her. She sensed that it was asking her to go up there. But just to make sure...

"You want me to meet you up on the top of the Tower?" She asked. The mini dragon nodded eagerly. Raven stood up, a little stunned, and nodded back to the little dragon. It grinned at her and scuttled up toward the top of the Tower. Raven shook her head walked out of her room. Silently, not wanting to draw any attention to herself, she dashed to the elevator and got inside. She pressed the button for the roof floor, and waited as it went up. After a bit, it ding-ed and opened onto the top of Titan's Tower. Raven stepped out and looked around.

"Over here!" A little voice said. Raven spun, her hands instantly beginning to glow with her dark energy, but then she saw that it was the dragon. The dragon could talk? Raven's day was getting weirder and weirder...

She walked over to it and knelt down, looking at it straight in the eyes. "What do you need?"

It looked up at her and blinked.

"Thank you for coming," He started– for the dragon's voice did sound male– "If I remember correctly, your friends claimed that you have healing powers?"

"Yes..." Raven said cautiously, not sure where this was going.

The little dragon sighed in relief, and looked at her with his big eyes. "Then, please... will you help me? I have a friend who is sick, and I don't know what's wrong..." His yellow eyes were imploring.

Raven paused, suddenly remembering something. "Hold up."

The dragon cocked his head to the side and blinked.

"How do you know about my powers? When did you hear my friends say this?" She asked.

"Why, when you fought me, of course! You all thought I was unconscious, but it takes a lot more then that to bring me down!" He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Raven felt shock run through her like lightning.

"But now, you're so..." She started.

"Small?" He finished. "Yep. Amethyst said we had to go into hiding, and so I've shifted smaller!" Raven's head was spinning at this news.

"Wait a sec. Firstly, Amethyst who? And... shifted?" Raven asked. The little dragon shook his head.

"Amethyst is my friend who is sick. And we don't have much time to heal her, so can we keep the more... complicated things for later?" He asked. Raven nodded. "Thank you. Now, will you help or not?"

"Yeah," Raven said, deciding that if she helped this odd little dragon, then maybe she could find out more about him and the strange girl.

"Thank you," He said softly, as if a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders. Raven almost wanted to hug him.

"Where is Amethyst?" Raven asked. The little dragon looked up at her.

"I'll tell you, but you must not tell anyone else." Raven nodded, and the dragon told her where he and Amethyst had been hiding. Once she got the directions for the way there, Raven stood back up.

"I'll be there as soon as I can," She promised and turned back toward the Tower. She had to meditate before she left in order to make sure her power was at it's strongest.

"Oh, and Raven?" She looked back at the little purple dragon. "You can call me Zorath."

Raven smiled and nodded. "Okay, Zorath. I'll be there before this day ends."

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"You came!" Zorath said excitedly as Raven entered into the abandoned alley way. She looked down at him.

"Of course I did," She said, looking at the cute little dragon. "Now, where is...?"

"Over here," Zorath said and bounded a little way down the alley. Raven followed him closely. She didn't see any type of shelter, so she wondered how Zorath and 'Amethyst' were living. If they weren't living with any type of shelter, then it was no surprise Zorath's friend had fallen ill.

Raven suddenly stopped and stared. What she had thought was just a dumpster was actually an entrance of some kind. Zorath beckoned her in, and Raven ducked into the opening.

The room that greeted her was about the size of her room, and a bit cluttered. Dust was settled in the corners of the completely stone underground room. There was a small table with some paper plates and plastic forks and knives, which were accompanied by a cheap box of cereal and an open bag of Doritos. The room was lighted by one bare bulb in the ceiling that was flickering on and off. In the farthest and darkest corner of the room was a pile of blankets and pillows.

"Amethyst?" Zorath asked quietly, mentioning for Raven to stay where she was as he trotted over to the blankets. "How are you feeling?"

No one responded, but the blankets moved a bit and Raven just glimpsed some black hair. Zorath's whole little body sagged, and he mentioned Raven over. Raven quickly hurried to his side and looked down at 'Amethyst.'

Raven felt like she had been struck by lightning. A pale, freckled face, with shaggy black hair peeked out of the covers. Oh her forehead was a black tattoo of a star inside of a pentagon.

This was the girl from before! The one who had copied Beast Boy's powers!

But that wasn't the only thing that shocked Raven.

The edges of Amethyst seemed to be... somewhat see-through. It was like she was fading.

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Well, I hope you liked it!

Just one last question:

What should Amethyst's nick-name be? I's debating between Amy (which is a little easier to remember) or Ammi (which sounds more like her name). What do you think?

Please leave a review with your thoughts and ideas! I really appreciate them! And I need help with her nickname!

Oh... and if you think of a cool nickname for Zorath, too, you should submit it!