"FLOAT! DRILL! TORNADO!" Shadow only watched as Mimic's card reader announced, "SPINNING DANCE!" she floated up high into the air and went into a spinning motion. Shadow drew three cards and slashed them through his staff.

"RUSH! BLIZZARD! POISON!"

Shadow then prepared for his counterattack. Mimic came down on him, performing a powerful and rapidly spinning drill kick. Shadow waited for the opportune moment before he struck.

BLIZZARD VENOM!"

Just as she came down on him, Shadow side stepped the attack and quickly struck out with his staff. His staff connected with her buckle, much to her surprise especially since she was spinning rapidly seconds ago. She felt the effects of the ice and poison going into her before she was tossed around and then slammed into the wall. She struggled to get up but the poison and ice had weakened her. The ice she could handle since she had ice powers already, but the poison…

Her Advent Buckle crackled and cracks began to form on its surface. Her Change Ace card was forcefully ejected and with it her armor disappeared as well. She looked up with one half lidded eye and a black eye with various other injuries to see Shadow picking up her Change Ace card.

"G-Give it b-back…" she struggled to say as she tried to get up on all fours but fell again. Shadow turned around and got on his bike before he rode away. Kat could only watch as Shadow rode away with her card now rendering her transformation obsolete. Even if her Advent Buckle was repaired she could no longer become the Knight of Suzaku without her card.

She struggled back up and leaned herself against the wall for support. She sat near the wall and slid down to a seated position. Her hand was on her injured arm as she winced. Oddly enough green liquid was trailing down her arm and dripped off her fingers. Was it blood?

If so then why was her blood green?

She was getting tired…so tired…her eyes began to close as she drifted off to sleep.

Leo's eyes suddenly snapped wide open and he sat up, much to Jinx's surprise. He looked around frantically, sweating and panting.

Jinx was relieved to see him awake but became panicked by his frantic state, "Leo! Leo, what's wrong?"

He said only this: "Onee-chan!"

Episode 21: Revelations

Craig arrived in front of Café La Salle to find nobody home. "Weird," he said. Kat had called her earlier to come over so they could talk. Craig thought it was about their relationship so he rushed over ASAP. Too bad he came just as Kat left.

"Where is she?" Craig asked himself. He thought that she may have gone fighting monsters and this worried him. She just hoped that she was okay.

It started to rain. Craig looked up to see the clouds, big clouds, collecting together. He would have to call Kat later. He turned around and rode away on his bike.

Takada grumbled as he started waking up. He then yawned. He was woken up by Leo's yell and slowly opened his eyes to see an unfamiliar ceiling. He then sat up to find himself in an unfamiliar room. It looked like a hospital ward of some sort since he saw a line of bed with white covers and pillows. He turned to his left to see Leo, looking quite panicked, and Jinx.

"Onee-chan!" Leo shouted again. "Where's onee-chan?" Takada blinked. He looked around. Where was Kat? He groaned and placed his hand to his stomach. He remembered now. The fight at the park, Shadow destroying their buckles and then it all went blank.

"Leo, please calm down!" Jinx pleaded, looking quite concerned.

"I just…onee-chan. She's hurt. I can feel her," Leo told her. It sounded odd. Feel her? "I can feel that my onee-chan is hurt."

"What does he mean?" Jinx asked Takada who she just noticed had also woken up.

"It must be a twin thing," Takada told her. "Have you heard that twins have this sort of strange psychic connection with one another? Well, Leo and Kat have it and it's real. I've seen it happen a lot, especially when they're fighting together. After their parents were divorced they were separated from one another and never saw each other again for years. The link was never severed and they could sense one another. I checked their medical records once and it showed they became ill several times at the exact same time. I also observed them when they were working together when fighting a Beast Spirit. They didn't signal one another but it was as if they could predict each other's moves. That is what makes them such a great team. If Leo can feel that she's hurt that means she's in danger."

"Leo," Jinx said calmly, trying to calm the panicky boy down, "The others are looking for her right now. Don't worry."

"They won't be able to find her," Leo said. "She broke her communicator."

"How did you…?" she began to ask but then realized it was the 'twin thing' going on. "Never mind. So, how are they going to find her then?"

"Our cell phones!" Takada shouted, surprising them. "Our cell phones have a tracking beacon built into them. If I can find her signal I maybe able to locate her."

"Do it, onegai (please)! Hayaku (hurry)!" Leo pleaded.

"Okay," Takada nodded as he took out his cell phone and flipped it over. He switched it to tracking mode and started to look for Kat's signal, broadening the signal every now and then. "She's far, but not too far…I…GOT IT!" Leo and Jinx looked anxious. "I got her signal. Leo, hand me your communicator!"

"H-hai!" Leo did as told. Takada flipped it open and placed it on his lap. He then pulled a wire out of his phone and connected it to the communicator.

"Now all I have to do is to feed the coordinates into this communicator and send it to the others…Yes!"

"Yatta…" Leo sighed in relief. Jinx smiled.

Takada smiled too but he frowned a bit, thinking, 'Let's just hope they find her in time.'

Cyborg was in his T-Car when his built in communicator beeped. "Huh?" The cybernetic African American flipped the communicator on his arm open and saw something. It looked like some sort of radar…and the blip it was showing them was Kat! Cyborg then called Robin.

Robin was on his R-Cycle, racing alongside the T-Car with Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy (as a hawk) flying through the air. His communicator alerted him. He took it out and flipped it open. "What is it, Cyborg?"

"I know where Kat is!" Cyborg answered him.

"How?"

"No time, just follow these coordinates!" The coordinates flashed all over Robin's communicator screen.

"Right! Titans, follow me!"

Kat looked high into the air. The clouds were becoming darker as it started to rain. The rain fell on her face drip by drip. She gave a smile and said, "Is this how it ends for me? To die alone, in the rain?" She chuckled although there was nothing funny to laugh about. The only regret she had was that she would be leaving Craig and Leo behind. She even agreed to go on a date with Craig later.

The poison was running through her system and since she could no longer transform or call her Card Reader she could not activate her Recover Camel card. She was going to die, she could feel it. Her green blood began to pool around her as it rained harder.

"Gomenasai…otouto-chan, Craig... Sayo…nara…" her eyes began to close.

That was when the Titans arrived. Starfire and Raven swooped down as Beast Boy landed.

"Is she…?" the green changeling began to ask but didn't want to think about the possibility.

"She's alive, barely," Raven said, feeling Kat's pulse and heartbeat. She was breathing shallowly too.

"Glorious," Starfire said in relief.

"We got to get her to the Tower!" Robin ordered.

"Let me heal her first," Raven said as she placed her hands over Kat. They glowed blue.

Beast Boy then said something that gathered everyone's attention. "Um, dudes? You might want to see this." The Titans did. "Kat's blood, it's green."

Green? The discovery rang through their minds.

"It's her blood all right," Cyborg analyzed. "And it isn't human."

"Could she be an alien?" Starfire asked.

"We'll ask her about it later. Right now we need to get her to the Tower," Raven said.

Raven finished healing Kat. It was as if the cuts and bruises were never there. However, she did have a rather wicked looking scar on her face. It ran diagonally from the top of her right eye to under her left one. It didn't touch her eyes though so her vision would be okay.

"Better get her out of the rain too," Robin said, Cyborg lifted the Knight of Suzaku up and saw that her Advent Buckle was also damaged. No card though since Shadow had taken it.

Cyborg gently placed her inside the back of his car and secured her in with some straps.

"Let's go home, Titans," Robin said. The pool of green blood was being spread around by the rain. They were getting wet.

The Royals, actually just King and Isaka, stood behind Shadow as he placed the Category Ace of Hearts card on a pedestal. He drew his Remote Tapir card and slashed it.

"REMOTE!"

A beam of green energy shot out of the card and into the Ace of Hearts. Nothing happened. Isaka exclaimed in anger, "What happened? I thought that card could unseal any Rouge Card!"

"It appears that the seal on the Category Aces is strong. That would explain why they weren't unsealed like the rest of us," King said solemnly. "Oh well, at least the other Knights are out of the way so we can work with our agenda."

"In addition, we have our own Advent Knight as well," Isaka added, referring to Shadow. "He's our most powerful pawn. Our puppet and we pull the strings."

"Correct." King then continued, "However, the other Knights, though neutralized, may still pose a threat. They also hold our brethren, Royal and lesser, captive in their cards." He turned to Shadow. "Go now, Knight of Genbu, and reclaim our kin!" Shadow bowed wordlessly and walked out of the room. "He's not much of a talker, is he?" King asked. "Was it because of the process?"

"He was always quiet even before we did what we did," Isaka explained.

As Shadow left, Shima and Hikaru watched him as he went. With them was another robed Royal with his hood still up. His robes barely hid his muscular physique.

"This isn't right," Hikaru said. "We may not be humans but we aren't monsters."

"I agree," Shima nodded. "What do you think, Daichi?" He repeated when there was no response, "Daichi?"

The robed and hooded figure with them was snoring under his hood. The two of them slapped their foreheads. Daichi was asleep while standing up.

"He fell asleep again," Hikaru groaned. "Lazy!"

"Better wake him up with a nice cold bath, right Hikaru?" Shima suggested, smiling deviously. Hikaru smirked mischievously.

"Yes, we should. Wait here while I go get the bucket!"

Leo and Takada were already out of bed and looking out the window with Jinx. It was pouring out there.

"Onee-chan…" Leo said worriedly.

"They'll find her, kid," Takada said to console him even though he was also trying to convince himself.

"I hope so."

"You and your sister are really close, huh?" Jinx asked. She didn't have a sister, or wasn't sure if she had. Her family, well, she didn't know who they were.

"Hai," Leo nodded. "We are."

The doors of the infirmary slid open and the three of them turned to see Cyborg carrying in an unconscious Kat. "Onee-chan!" Leo exclaimed as he rushed over when Cyborg laid Kat over on a bed. "Cyborg-san, is she…?" He saw the scar on her face and cringed.

"She's okay," Cyborg said, relieving the Dragon Knight of his worries. "Raven healed her. She looked pretty banged up when we found her…"

"Amakusa…" Leo's eyes narrowed as he gripped his fists until his knuckles turned white. Jinx was shocked to see Leo so angry. She had never seen him this mad before and neither did Takada. It kinda scared him especially when the air started to become tense and electricity crackled around Leo. The lights flickered, reacting to his anger.

"You all better leave while a check up on her, kay?" Cyborg said. He suggested, "Maybe you should get something to eat. The others are in their rooms getting changed so you won't see em." Leo didn't want to leave but Jinx insisted that they go so to let Cyborg do his work. They left the infirmary. Cyborg made sure they had left before he whispered, "The coast is clear."

Beast Boy morphed from a fly back to human form and Raven teleported herself, Robin and Starfire into the infirmary. They were going to ask Kat some questions.

Kat began to stir and groan a bit. She was still feeling a bit sore. When she opened her eyes she blinked to get used to the light again. She then saw all 5 Titans hovering over her. "Okay," she began, "What the heck are you all staring at?"

Robin answered simply, "You."

The Titans stepped back as Kat sat up, "What are you talking about?"

"We saw your blood when we found you. It was green. Care to explain?" Robin was giving her a critical eye and so was Raven. Kat's eyes widened.

"My blood?"

"You are an alien, correct?" Starfire asked eagerly. "That means your brother is too, correct?"

Kat sighed. She really hoped it was that easy. She had to come clean. She shook her head. "No, I'm not an alien," she told them. "I'm not even sure what I am. I just hope you can promise not to tell my otouto…Leo what I'm about to tell you." The Titans nodded and turned to Beast Boy.

"What?" Beast Boy said, looking hurt. Sure he had a blabbing problem but promises were sacred to him.

Kat began her explanation, "I'm not really Leo's sister. I'm not really Neko Katherine Hasuma. That was the name given to me when I was created."

"Who created you and why?" Robin asked, eyes narrowed. If 'Kat' turned out to be a threat in disguise then…

'Kat' continued, "I'm not supposed to tell you who created me but I do know why. I was created to replace the person I am posing as. The real Neko Katherine Hasuma died years ago. I am merely her clone."

The Titans looked wide eyed at this, except Raven. She knew something was off about 'Kat' from the moment she met her. She just wasn't sure what it was.

'Kat' went on with her story, "I was cloned from Kat's DNA and some Beast Spirit DNA…" The Titans gasped at this. "That is why my blood is green. I'm actually half human and half Beast Spirit."

"No…way…" Beast Boy breathed out.

"Heavy," Cyborg nodded after absorbing this information.

Starfire was silent but her eyes spoke for her and with great volume as well.

Kat added, "They wanted to make a copy of her, a copy that was unaware that it was a copy at all. They didn't know that I knew I wasn't real. I pretended to live Kat's life up until now."

"How long have you been doing this?" Robin asked.

"A few years now. It was right after the Beast Spirits were released. I don't know how the original died but all I remembered that it had been dark." She paused. "I have all of Kat's memories and her emotions but I was also aware of my status as her clone. I didn't want to live her life I just wanted to be my own person and not as a mere shadow. But…" she trailed on.

"But what?" Robin urged, gently this time. She remained quiet.

Starfire then put in, "It was friend Leo, wasn't it?" Kat nodded, much to the others' surprise.

"When I first met him he immediately accepted me as his sister, showed me unconditional love. He looked up to me and as we continued to spend time together I grew to see and love him as my own brother too. This encouraged me to continue to pretend to be the original not just for her sake but for Leo's sake as well," she finished. "That is why I don't want him to know. It'll break his heart if he was to ever fine out that the sister that he knew was just a fake and that his real sister is dead."

There was silence in the room…cold and uncomfortable. Thunder crashed and lightning flashed outside the window.

Raven then said, "You're wrong." 'Kat' turned to look at her.

"What?" 'Kat' questioned, wanting Raven to further explain herself. Raven obliged.

"You don't want to tell him not just because it'll break his heart but also because you're afraid he'll hate you. You're afraid to lose the love he holds for you, is that right?" Kat didn't answer but she knew Raven was right. The empath continued, taking Kat's silence as an affirmative, "I don't know you or your brother long enough but I do know that he won't react the way you think, not for long anyway." Raven paused a bit before continuing, "If he knew, he might be shocked for a bit but I don't think he'll stop loving you at all. As far as he's concerned you are his sister and that's all that matters. You're a clone, yes, but that doesn't make you a fake or an imitation, not at all. Though you realize it or not you are not mocking Kat by living her life, you are honoring it by doing so. You are your own person, not a reflection of who the real Kat was. You are Neko Katherine Hasuma, now and forever." She then added, "It's up to you to tell him if you want."

Starfire silently agreed. She had seen Leo and Kat's relationship and envied it. She just wished her relationship with her own sister was like that.

Raven's speech had an effect on Kat. She was usual strong, hiding her weaker emotions behind a brick wall exterior. However, right now, she was beginning to tear up.

"Arigatou, Raven," she said to her.

"You're welcome."

"I sure hope my onee-chan will be alright," Leo said as he sat on the couch with Jinx.

"She'll be fine," Jinx assured him. She scooted closer to him. She tried to flirt with Leo again. She really liked this guy. "You know, it's kinda cold. Wanna cuddle?"

Leo's face went bright red as he stuttered, "C-c-cuddle?" Jinx giggled. He was just so cute when he blushed like that.

Takada was standing in front of the window. Something was nagging at him from within. The rain was pouring down hard. He then noticed something outside on the water. He squinted his eyes trying to focus on it. Was it a boat? In this weather? Couldn't be. It looked almost like a person walking on the water. But that was impossible, wasn't it?

Desmond was holding the Bible to his chest and twirling his crucifix between his fingers as he walked towards Titans Tower. Of course he wasn't taking the bridge that connected the Tower with the mainland, oh no. He was walking on the water. It was not impossible given his powers over water. His body was dry as if the rain water did not touch him, also thanks to his power.

His targets were inside the Tower and if anyone got in his way he was to deal with them with extreme prejudice.

His orders were simple: Eliminate the Knights once and for all and take their cards.

Without their buckles (and card in Kat's case) they were now neutralized so he had nothing to worry about…

Or so he thought.

A/N: I see a battle about to brew. Can the Titans go up against Shadow? Will the Knights help even without their armors? Wait and see, next time!

Preview of the next chap: Shadow attacks the Tower and he has help from an army of Dark Roaches. The Titans fight as well as Takada as Leo. There's no way they're going to lose to him. The buckles are repaired, but how? What else is Kat hiding?