Auuugh! I am so sorry. I haven't had time to update all summer, and now its fall. Please feel free to smack me for that. Also, my list I had of your characters vanished, so sorry no new characters were introduce in this chapter. But I promise you I will. But I've run into a little difficulty. The order of introducing them, and the order of the reviewers telling me them don't add up. So if you were one of the first few to tell me of it, please don't be offended if your character isn't one of the first to show up.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Titans, I would rather own the networks that show it and demand a season six.

Starfire's nostrils quivered. A pungent smell filled them, and she racked her brain trying to discover what it was. It seemed so familiar, yet she couldn't remember exactly what it was.

Perhaps her mind was playing tricks on her. The ledge was a creepy place. The sheer wall beside her had many cracks and it seemed old and worn, and she didn't even think of the drop next to her. She was nervous, and she had to pay attention to where she stepped; yet this smell kept distracting her.

Then she realized what it was. Asphalt. She had not smelled that since the day she was turned into a horse. She never really paid much attention to it, but now as an animal it wouldn't leave her alone. Another sniff and she discovered that it was fresh asphalt, probably still sticky and tar-like.

Then off in the distance she heard a faint roar of a motor. Humans were here. She trotted up to Inameron, and he glanced back at her.

"So you smell it too?" He asked, but did not wait for an answer, "I did not think that the humans would this far away form their herds. They have never been here before, but I do not think they will come down on this ledge."

"Should we not inform the mares about it?" Starfire asked.

Inameron shook his head. "Not yet. They would only panic and may scatter. We could lose a few horses, and we need every single one. We shall tell them when we get closer."

Starfire looked back at the mares and noticed that a few of them could smell it, and it wouldn't take them long to discover what it was. Starfire saw one of them, Meeko's mother to be exact, catching up to them. Meeko was following her closely.

"Inameron," she neighed with an edge to her voice, "Surly you smell the Humans up there. I can't be safe here any more. Shouldn't we go another way?"

Inameron stopped and looked at her. "Meghana, do not fret. If we stay on the ledge they may not bother us."

Meghana snorted with disbelief, and pushed Meeko protectively to the side furthest from the ledge.

Inameron sighed. "Please tell all of the mares and foals to stick together and when we pass the humans do not scatter." He then turned and continued.

Starfire glanced back. Most of the mares were becoming fretful, and when they were told about the humans, they pushed their foals in a safe position.

The roaring of the motor became stronger, and when Starfire glanced she saw that it wasn't a car, but a construction crane. The humans were building a bridge. Bulldozers and trucks were all around it, and most of them were covered in men.

Then to the horses' horror, the ledge was blocked with dirt. The dirt slanted up, and the only way around this would involve going through the humans.

Starfire smelled fear radiating from the horses, and when she looked at Inameron his ears were pinned back, and he was staring at the humans. A look of anger flooded his eyes, and Starfire realized that Inameron thought the humans responsible for the death of Owyhee, after all it was a human barn she died in, and now they were blocking his path.

But instead of charging at them, the stallion turned to his herd. "We're going to have to go up there, but we'll wait until the humans leave, and then I want everyone to stay toge-"

He never finished his sentence, for another truck drove up behind them. The truck had two teenage humans who spotted the herd. The two boys glanced down at the horses. They had no idea that animals ever came around here. Obvoisly, they could disrupt the construction process. They needed to scare them off, but instead of doing it responsibly, they took matters into their own hands. Yelling, they threw a pop bottle at the herd.

The bottle hit a mare in the back, and she shied running into two horses that immediately bolted, the herd saw them running and instinct made them run, and soon the whole herd galloped blindly into the construction site.

The three horses who had not bolted were Inameron, Starfire, and Dashow. They watched horrified as the herd tumbled into trucks and bulldozers, of which the men blared horns and loud noises and further succeded in scaring the herd.

"Catch them!" Inameron neighed and galloped after his herd to round them up again. Starfire and Dashow charged after him.

As soon as Starfire was above the ledge, she lost site of Dashow and Inameron, and was lost in the crowd of fearful horses, and angry men. A colt ran into her and so did another mare.

"Go to Inameron!" Starfire neighed. The colt and the mare looked at her, and Starfire galloped to where she last saw Inameron who was neighing to the horses to calm down and to stop panicing. He was on the other side of the site with two mares with him. Starfire saw Dashow bring him three more, and then the filly ran off to gather the others. Starfire left the colt and mare with them and like Dashow went to go get more horses.

It was easy to get a few of them to follow her, but a many mares were too frightened, and they ignored her. Starfire saw Dashow run to these few and began nipping them, and pushing them back to the gathering herd.

Then a wail was heard, and a mare neighed in fright. Suddenly Meghana charged past Starfire, and the red mare watched the mother. Suddenly she spotted Meeko, who was stuck in the newly laid asphalt. Stronger horses could run through it without getting stuck, but Meeko was only a small foal.

Starfire began to gallop over to help, when she saw a black shadow floating around a bulldozer. Starfire stared at it and it looked at her with its dark red eyes. Then it jumped and the bulldozer was covered in blackness, and began to fall over. Meeko who was trapped realized that it was going to fall on him.

"Mother, Help me!" He squealed. Meghana charged under slowly tipping bulldozer, but she couldn't stop it, and if she stayed there she would be crushed as well.

Suddenly there was a flash of white, and Inameron bowled Meghana out of the way just as the bulldozer slammed to the ground and fell upon the unfortunate foal.

And then everything stopped. All of the mares and foals had seen what happened and were in total shock. Most of the humans had left to call in a ranger, or to keep from being trampled by hooves, and Starfire was horrified.

Inameron rose, but Meghana just lay there staring at the bulldozer. Starfire noticed that the blackness from the shadow around it was gone, and that creature was no where to be seen. Suddenly Meghana jumped up and charged over to the machine and began kicking it. She bucked and kicked but the machine wouldn't move.

"Somebody help me," she squealed, "Please!"

Starfire slowly walked over. When she was beside Meghana, she lowered her head. "I am sorry," she murmured, "But Meeko is..." She couldn't finish.

"No! He's alive, I know he is!" The broken mother neighed.

"Meghana," Inameron said, "Meeko has gone to gallop with Pegasus. There is nothing more we can do here. We must leave."

Meghana's ears pinned back on her head. She turned on Inameron and attempted to bite his shoulder, but he stepped back and she missed.

"Why did you save me!" She neighed fury dripping from every word she said, "Why didn't you let me di-"

"I will not lose another mare in an attempt to save a foal!" Inameron neighed finally losing his temper. Most of the foals hid under their mothers.

Dashow approached slowly, attempting to soothe her father, but Inameron turned quickly, and Starfire saw the deep hurt that was concealed in his eyes.

"Let's go," he neighed angrily. The mares and their foals slowly began following him again, not noticing that they were no longer on the ledge, but above it.

Meghana began to dejectedly follow, but kept glancing back at the fallen bulldozer where her dead son lay. Starfire and Dashow walked beside her.

After a moment Meghana began talking to Starfire all the anger gone from her voice. "When you saved him from the cougar, I didn't know it would only lead him to die like this. He didn't even get a proper funeral."

"I am sorry," Starfire said, "It should not have happened." She then decided to tell the mare what she saw. "The bulldozer, I believe it was a shadow-creature that pushed it over."

Meghana only shook her head and they continued to walk on.

Dashow sighed and then said, "My father had reason for what he said, it was like-"

Meghana interrupted, "Like the tragedy with your mother all over again. That fool stallion of him, wouldn't even let me save my own son, he dwells on the past too much. He doubted me! He didn't think I could do it. He didn't think that I would be strong enough to save my own son, and-" Her anger was returning. And then she gave a sigh. "And he was right. I couldn't do it. I should have never foaled this year, I'm not fit to be a mother," she was beginning to wail.

Dashow shook her head. "That's not true, and you know it. Think of all the other foals you've reared. They've all grown and they sucessfully left to go join herds of they're own. You're not a bad mother..."

Dashow continued to comfort the mother, but Starfire glanced back to the bulldozer. It had been a shadow creature that had done this. Killed a foal and traumatized a mother without a second thought. And it was only one. She gave a sigh. Did Inameron really know what he was getting his herd into by entering this war?

Shew. Ok, I promise That I will update much more often, and I am planning on starting putting your characters in on the next chapter, which will put the focus around Beast Boy and Raven. Expect it to be up soon.