Ok. I'm typing this while watching Jaws, so there may be a few spelling errors due to jumpiness, and I might miss them. Just telling you in advance.

Disclaimer: Me and owning the Teen Titans is something that never goes in a sentence together without the word not.

Starfire was tired. With her friends they usually traveled at slow paces, and ran for the fun of it. Now she had run nearly all day. Needless to say, her legs hurt.

The herd had stopped by a stream in the canyon for the night. She heard that they would still be traveling like this tomorrow. Oh how she wished that she could fly again.

She shook her mane. Even if she could fly, she felt no joy. She wouldn't be able to. To calm herself she took a long drink from the stream.

While she was drinking her mind wandered. Where were her friends? Would they have followed her? Was Robin ok? The last time she saw him he was lying in the dust, hurt. She hoped that he was alright.

She sighed. Really this whole mess was her fault. She should have waited for the others to wake up before she had searched. Now she may never see them again.

Suddenly a voice sounded behind her, "Hi!" Starfire turned to see a grey filly almost the size of her. The filly had little white flecks on her coat, and her tail and one ear were white.

"Hello," Starfire said.

The mare shook her mane. "My name is Dashow. What's yours?"

Starfire smiled. This filly was nice. "I am Starfire."

"That's a pretty name. So what herd did you come form?"

"I did not come from a herd."

Dashow became wide-eyed. She sniffed closer to Starfire and then jumped back. "Did you come from the humans?"

Starfire snorted. "I am not a human!" she exclaimed.

Dashow laughed. "I didn't mean that." She said still smiling "I was asking if you lived with the humans when my dad got you."

Starfire's eyes widened. "Your father?"

Dashow nodded. "Yep. Inameron's my dad. You must have not lived in a herd before, because every other colt and filly in this herd is my half-brother or sister. I'm supposed to have left the herd by now, after all I am 4, but I guess dad keeps me around because I look like my mother."

Starfire was confused. "Leave?"

"Well you can't expect me to stay here forever," said the filly, "All of the foals born around the same time I was have left by now. It's probably because of my mom."

"What do you mean?"

Dashow head started to fall, "She was special to my father I guess. Sure, he mates with all of the mares in the herd, but my mother was one of those special few that you only meet once in a life time, ya know?"

Starfire nodded, images of Robin popping into her mind. "So what happened to her?"

Dashow sighed. "Well it wasn't long before you showed up. The moon was only half full at this time. But anyway, our herd was close to the human town. My dad didn't like it too much. Were getting ready to leave one night, when a fight broke out against the humans. We don't really know or care why, humans are too complicated to understand. But we started running.

Then one of the caves where humans keep horses caught on fire. We were running when we heard a screaming coming from the burning cave. One of the foals had blindly run into it. My mother, being the lead mare, ran after the foal.

She tried to herd the foal out, but the cave was falling apart. She pushed the foal through the opening, and a piece of the cave crashed in front of her. She burned to death.

We tried to help the foal, but he inhaled too much smoke. He died a few hours later. After that Inameron stopped eating. We tried to help him, but he would refuse it all. He was starting to improve, when he took you. I think that this is a good sign that he's becoming his old self again."

Starfire sighed. She thought that she was going to be angry with Inameron, but after what his daughter told her, she was finding it hard to. This was just a horse suffering of heart-ache.

Dashow shook her mane. "Now, back to my other questions. Did you live with any humans when he took you?"

Just then Inameron trotted up to them. "No Dashow, I didn't see any humans with her. Shouldn't you be resting for tomorrow?"

Dashow's ears lowered in embarrassment. She clearly didn't want her dad to hear her questions. "Yes dad." she said. Then she turned around. "Goodnight Starfire. We can talk more tomorrow." Dashow then left to a soft patch of grass and went to sleep standing up.

Inameron turned to Starfire. "Starfire, I don't know what you normally used to do, but now you're in my herd, and I want my mares to be healthy tomorrow. You should go find a spot to stand and sleep."

Starfire was confused. "Stand while sleeping?"

Inameron snorted. "Yes, it's easier to escape predators that way. Cougars won't catch any of us as easily if we're already running when they attack."

"But….how will we know if any cougars are coming?"

"I stay up and watch," said Inameron. "Now please go to sleep. We're going to reach the mountains by night fall tomorrow."

Starfire wanted to ask more, but she didn't. She stood near Dashow, and lowered her head like the others. After a few minutes she thought she wasn't going to be able to sleep while standing, but then the noised died away, and she drifted back into the soft place of sleep.

Carrion stood there waiting. He had requested a meeting with Skrine, and quite frankly he was nervous. Well, for one Skrine was one of the most powerful horses out here, and he wasn't easy to please. Second, Carrion was a stallion with out a herd surrounded by mares. He could have died and gone to heaven.

Then Skrine showed up. His brown and black coat showed all of his muscles, and scars from numerous battles. It was clear who had won all those fights. Carrion gulped.

Skrine snorted. "What do you want? You know I usually don't let stallions this close to my herd."

Carrion bowed his head, showing deed respect. "Skrine, the five horses you mentioned in the prophecy, we've seen them."

Skrine's eyes widened. "Did you get the mares like I asked?"

Carrion gulped. "Well we tried to but…."

Skrine snorted. "But you failed. Well if that's all you came to tell me you fool, then get out of my sight!"

"B-but t-there's mo-more." Carrion stammered, hoping he hadn't angered Skrine too much.

"Well then spit it out before I grow old, or decide to chase you off."

Carrion sighed, trying to keep calm. "After we were defeated by them once, we followed them to try again, but when we caught up Inameron had taken the red mare. We followed them, as they were following Inameron. And-"

"Would you just hurry up?" Skrine snapped.

"Well the remaining four came to the edge of the canyon. They split up, the black one and the brown one still following Inameron, and the green one and the other mare stupidly following the human trail."

"So you're saying the other mare is only being protected by one stallion?"

Skrine asked.

Carrion nodded. "But don't underestimate them. The mare is an extraordinary fighter."

Skrine snorted. "This won't be to hard." He turned his head. "Vixen, Melkar! Get over here!" he snapped. Carrion gulped. He had heard of Vixen, she was a mare that no stallion could resist. Melkar he didn't know.

Just then Vixen walked up. She was a light brown mare, with a white mane and tail, and a white stripe down her nose. Another horse trailed behind her, a dark shade of grey.

Skrine turned to Carrion. "Of course you know Vixen, my lead mare, but Melkar is another bachelor like you. He owes a debt to me for trying to take another mare. I decided to show mercy and not kill him."

"What do you want?" asked Vixen. Carrion could feel drool coming out of his mouth, just by staring at her.

"The five from the prophecy have been spotted," Skrine said. "Inameron has a mare, and it seems the other four have split up. The other mare took the human trail. I need her here so I can lure the stallions back and kill them. She's only guarded by one stallion. Do you remember what to do?"

Vixen sighed. "I make the idiot stallion look at me, and then lure him away easily, and drive him off a cliff or something." Carrion gulped. Vixen was scary in a way. She could easily make any stallion, except Skrine, do what she wanted. The poor idiot guarding the raven colored mare didn't stand a chance.

Melkar snorted. "Let me guess. When the stallion is disposed of, I have to go in there and herd the mare back to you."

Skrine nodded. "But Carrion and his group will be joining you." He then lowered his voice to a growl, "And if any of you touch Vixen or the other mare I will kill you. Understood?"

Carrion and Melkar nodded, and with Vixen they galloped off to retrieve Raven.

If any of you didn't get what Dashow was talking about when she said "The human cave where they keep horses" it was a barn. And I know Stallions usually don't let other stallions in their herd, but I need Melkar for what I'm going to do. Please Review.