OK. I am sorry, for I have not updated sooner. My dad recently lost his job and needed the computer to find one. Between that and school, and chores I never got a chance to update until now. I am sorry

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Starfire trotted down the shoreline looking for birds. Every one she saw was white, with an occasional brown. None had any black. But she kept trying.

She wanted to find out who had left the feather there. It had to be a bird. There was just no other explanation for it. What other animal had feathers? Well there was the duck-billed platypus, but they didn't live in North America. She remembered reading that in an old textbook somewhere.

Behind her she heard Robin's neigh calling her back. She had ventured too far. She gave a little stomp of frustration, but turned back.

Then she heard a little flutter. There was a cry and a few birds took off. Then she saw a bird that was black! She opened her mouth to call to her friends, but the black seemed to move on it. Startled Starfire looked closer to see that the bird was not black, but had the shadow of a bigger bird cast over it.

She gave a sigh before Robin called again. Her hooves threw up clouds of sand as she walked back. She couldn't stop thinking about that feather. Finding a black bird would put her mind at ease, and she would know what it was.

A nagging thought kept saying that there was something else out there, something that she and her friends knew nothing about. It could be anything, a threat or an ally, but just seeing one black bird would prove that it was just a bird, and make those thoughts go away. She wanted to search just a bit longer.

She approached Robin, who nickered in greeting. He stared at her as if asking if she found a bird. She shook her head.

Robin stamped his hoof. "None of the others found any either. I guess we'll look more tomorrow."

"I can not look a bit more now?" Starfire questioned.

"No. We don't know if any Stallions are nearby, and it's getting dark. It's going to be harder to spot snakes if there are any."

Looking around Starfire could see that he was right. The sun was setting behind them, making the sky look like it was on fire. Still, she could look after herself in the dark. After all, you would hear a snake before you saw it.

She opened her mouth to protest, but suddenly heard a scraping noise. It was coming from somewhere behind Robin.

The two horses turned to the shore to see a turtle emerging from the water. It clearly didn't see them, and when it got high enough it started digging. Starfire stretched her neck to get a closer look.

The turtle continued it's digging until it had a fairly large hole, and the stars were beginning to show. Then it turned and seemed to sit over the hole. After a moment a plopping noises were heard.

This continued a bit before the turtle turned and buried what was in its hole and turned back to the water, disappearing beneath the waves.

Starfire heard hoof noises nearby, and could smell Raven and Beast Boy. She called to them and trotted over to where the turtle had been. She delicately began digging slowly, as to not damage whatever was in the hole. Soon Robin joined her, being as careful as she was.

She heard Raven and Beast Boy come up close to them, and Cyborg was not far behind. Soon her hoof struck something. She looked down in and saw white. She pulled the sand away, to see and egg. Beneath it were more eggs.

Behind her, Starfire heard a gasp. There were about fifteen eggs in all, and their shells were a beautiful white.

Raven snorted. "What kind of eggs are these?"

"They're turtle eggs," said Robin, "We saw their mother lay them."

"Don't turtles usually lay their eggs in the spring?" Beast Boy chipped in, "And do turtles even live in...What State are we in?"

Both Starfire and Robin shrugged. It had been long since they had seen any signs of human life. For all they knew they could be in Nevada.

Cyborg sniffed the eggs. "Do ya think we can eat 'em?" he asked, before receiving a sharp nip on the ear from Beast Boy. Cyborg had been missing meat and the turtle eggs looked so good, he just wanted one.

Raven snorted. "We're horses now. We don't know what it would do to us if we even try to eat one."

"I agree with friend Raven," said Starfire, "I think we should bury them again and leave them alone."

Robin nodded and began to throw sand over them again. Cyborg made sniffing noises, missing his chance to have a bit of meat again.

Raven yawned; exposing her now crooked horse teeth. She trotted over to a soft patch of grass and lay down ready for sleep. Beast Boy lay down near her. She snorted and turned her head.

Starfire lay down in another patch of grass. Robin joined her lying very closely. Starfire sighed in contentment thankful for Robin's extra body heat.

Seeing everybody lying down, Cyborg lifted a hoof to dig up the eggs again, but everybody spotted him and snorted angrily. The liver colored horse turned away from the eggs, and trotted over in a soft spot of sand and lay down.

Seeing that all were lying down, Starfire looked up at the starry sky. From here she could barely see Tamaran. It was just a white spec like all of the other stars and planets out there. Oh how far away it seemed form here in these uninhabited plains. She knew the Robin was beside her and that she wasn't alone. A quick glance told her that he was looking up too.

Suddenly he snorted. "Starfire. Do you see that constellation there?"

She was confused. "What is this "constellation"? Is it some sort of ship?"

Robin shook his head. "A constellation is a group of stars that makes a pattern like those three up there, that's Orion's belt." There was no impatience in Robin's voice. He was always patient with Starfire.

"Who is this Orion?" She asked.

"Orion was a hunter, who existed back in ancient Greece. They say that he was a little too fond of the Greek goddess Artemis, so her brother Apollo became jealous and sent a scorpion to kill him. Artemis found Orion and placed his body in the stars."

"So there are more of these constellations?"

Robin pointed his nose to a larger group of stars. "See those? That's Pegasus, the legendary winged horse."

Starfire smiled. For some reason she had a feeling that that should be important to know, but she couldn't figure out why. Suddenly she heard a fluttering noise and looked above the lake to see a flock of three birds flying by. All were white.

Starfire wanted to continue her search, but Robin had told her not too. She let out a sigh and lay down her head. "Goodnight Robin." She murmured.

Robin looked down at her before saying, "Goodnight Starfire." And he lay his head over her neck. Above Pegasus twinkled sending a soft light down on the horses below.

Starfire was the first one to wake up. She looked around to see the others were still asleep. Robin was sleeping on his side, appearing to have rolled around in his sleep. The sun was not even in the sky yet. The sky had actually formed clouds for once.

Starfire looked out onto the lake. Last night Robin had said that she could continue her search today and she was eager to start, but he was still asleep.

Perhaps I could slip away for a moment and return, she thought. After all, what Robin didn't know couldn't hurt him. Starfire rose and trotted in the direction she had taken before Robin had stopped her.

She saw a few flocks, but not one bird was black. After a while she grew thirsty. She looked back and saw that she could no longer see where her friends slept. She would take a drink and go back.

She let her muzzle drift in the cool water before taking slurps. Behind her she smelled horse. It was a male but she couldn't recognize him. It is probably one of my friends, she decided.

She finished her drink, and lifted her head. The hoof steps behind her grew louder. She turned around and saw who it was.

It wasn't one of her friends. It was a white stallion with a grayish muzzle, and he seemed almost as surprised to see her, as she was he.

The stallion threw his mane in a powerful way, and said, "What's this? A mare wandering around all by herself?" and then he snorted before taking a step closer to Starfire. She gulped.

There it is my new chapter. Again I am sorry for the delay in my update. I promise to do it sooner. Please Review.