Shadow Star, Volume 3: Shadows of the Past — Mohiro Kitoh

Shiina Tamai is an awkward, self-conscious teenager, struggling with school and self-esteem, but her daily travails become of secondary importance when she encounters and bonds with an extraterrestrial shape-shifting creature, one of a menagerie of spaceborn entities now on Earth, including terrifying Shadow Dragons, flying beasts of vast and lethal powers. A Graphic Novel. Original.