Prologue

How could it happen? One second he's standing there being his normal joking self, the next he's gone. Just like that in a blink of an eye he was gone from their sight. Where he stood was an "S" shape. It confused Robin for a second, thinking this man was dead and dead for good, but he wasn't and he took the young prankster. He took Beast Boy, but why?

Chapter One: Beast Boy's Confessions of the Past

Raven was up early like normal today. She headed to the roof for some quite meditation time, knowing she won't get another chance later that day. She sat on the roof chanting her mantra like usual when she heard something new. A new voice, one she hadn't heard since Melchior incident.

"Hello Raven, long time, no feel." Raven jerked out of her thoughts and landed hard on the ground. Groaning in discomfort she hears another voice this time outside her own thoughts.

"Oh, God, Rae, I'm so sorry if I interrupted you! I… I didn't think anyone would be up here so early." The young green man blushed as he said that thinking of course she was up here it's peaceful.

"Oh, Beast Boy, it's… um fine I didn't notice you I was yanked out of my meditation by something else. Don't worry about it. Um … What are you doing up so early and on the roof?" Raven saw Beast Boy blush even more when she asked. He seemed to go into deep thought over this. Almost, like he was debating with himself on telling the truth. "Beast…" Raven was cut off by Beast Boy.

"Raven, do you know about my past?" Raven looks up shocked, she didn't know about his past, nothing about it. All she knew was his real name was Garfield Mark Logan. She knew everyone's past from going over the files but she remembered Beast Boy didn't give information about his past.

"No, I don't know anything." Beast Boy nodded. "I thought not, I don't talk much about it. It's not a happy past." They sat in silence for a few minutes. It again looked as if Beast Boy was in deep thought about something. Then out of nowhere he began to talk.

"Raven, my childhood wasn't all happy like I make it out to be. It's funny in a way that this mask I put on every day the funny guy is just a fake. A total lie to all of you, and sometimes that hurts but not as much as the past hurts. I find it easier to lie to you all then to admit the truth about the horrible things that have happened." Beast Boy stopped to take a breath and to think over what to say next.

"Raven, I can lie so easily to Robin, to Cy, even to Star. I can lie so easily without wanting to kick my own butt too much. However, when I lie to you I want to throw myself out the window or throw myself to an alternate dimension. I hate lying to you Rae. So…" He pauses again. "I'm going to tell you the truth. All I ask is that you don't change how you act around me. Don't feel sorry for my past, because I know yours was not all peaches and cream either. I just can't lie to you anymore Rae." He stopped and looked at Raven with pleading eyes and understanding.

"I promise Beast Boy." With that said Beast Boy began the tale of his past.

"I was born here in the states, I don't know where exactly but it was in the states. When I was three, my parents decided that they would take their research to Africa. My parents were scientists, mostly in the field of genetics. I mostly grew up in Africa I can speak in three languages." Beast Boy pauses to laugh a little.

"Kunguru oh tamu kama wewe tu alijua, Como eu te amo tanto. So the languages I just used were Swahili and Galician it's a form of Spanish lost to most areas of the world. So I grew up in Africa with my parents and the tribe we lived just outside of. Remind me sometime and I'll show you what I would have looked like before the accident." Again Beast Boy paused reflexing on that day.

"One day, I was around six; I was exploring an area around the jungle. I heard a noise from the bush I was next to and I peeked inside. There sitting on the ground was a monkey. However, this monkey was strange; it was green and not the normal color. So like a young child I was, I reached out to it to study the monkey. Now you may find this funny but I'm not dumb, actually I'm far from being dumb I just act it. I wanted to do the same line of work as my parents. Which worked out fine for them, I was home school so I spent an extra couple hours a day in the lab with my parents. Well when I finally got a hold of this strange little monkey it went from being quite tame to very violent in a blink of an eye. It bites me," Beast Boy rolled up the sleeve of his shirt to show several scars and one large bite mark. Raven had only just noticed Beast Boy was wearing a black button up shirt and black slakes and shoes. She couldn't remember the last time she saw Beast Boy without his uniform on.

"I screamed, and cried I remember trying to stand up and run but I couldn't move at all. I screamed for my Mom. She came running and saw the monkey in the tree. She began to panic and picked me up and ran to the lab. My Dad had no idea what had happen, but soon realized it as the bite mark started to leak green poison. My dad ordered my mom to hold me down, which she did and my dad picked up a needle with the word 'Sakutia' written on the label. I don't know what happen next only that I passed out. When I woke up I was green. My skin, my eyes, and my hair, everything was green. A year or so later, my Mom and I were walking on the side of the jungle I started to have thirst for animal knowledge. I once and still do somewhere in a mansion in Africa have every book written about animals. I knew most of the animal kingdom by heart and I told my parents I one day wanted to discover and study animals, instead of genetics." Beast Boy just smiled remembering that memory.

"Mom was over joyed with this idea and helped me to do it. So, on this walk we were discussing the many animals on the African coast line. We came across a snake, not just any snake though, it was a king cobra. My Mom placed me behind her to protect me from the snake. I knew though, it would strike soon and my Mom would die, I couldn't drag her back to the village for treatment I was too small. I remember wishing for a mongoose. Then all of a sudden, I felt my body change and twist itself into something else, it was painful so much so I screamed startling the snake and forcing it to strike." Beast Boy looked like he was remembering the pain and speed of what had happen.

"Then the snake and I were on the ground fighting and I won. I then ate the snake. I changed back and looked at my Mom with tears in my eyes. We went home and told my Dad. For years after that my parents helped me figure out my powers. The changes were still and still are very painful but I'm almost immune to pain now. Well when I was ten my parents and I went on a boating trip." Beast Boy stopped and took a deep shaky breath. Raven could tell this was about to become difficult.

"On this trip, something went wrong. The boat hit something on the bottom of the river and began to sink. The river was moving too fast for anyone to swim not to mention the crocodiles in the river ready to strike anything in the water. I was at this time still unable to transform into big animals. My parents took me to the side of the boat and told me to transform into a bird and fly away from the boat. Not to look back, but to keep flying away. I did as I was told and transformed into a raven, a bird I had just been reading about. I flew away, and I looked back once. I saw them wave to me, say they loved me and then they disappeared in the river and over a waterfall. I was so shocked I transformed back into myself and was alone in the jungle. Today," Beast Boys voice broke and was wavy.

"Today is the seven year anniversary of their death. I came out to the roof to look at the stars like I had done so many times with them and go to sit in the church on the edge of the forest outside of Jump City." Raven looked up at Beast Boy with tears in her eyes.

"That's what my tale is. Though not the whole tale, there is more to tell. I just, I don't know if I'll be able to tell you the rest just yet." Beast Boy looked away from Raven unsure if what he saw would be rejection as a friend for being so weak.

"Beast Boy, thank you. Thank you for telling me all this, thank you for trusting me with your past." Raven made a mental note to remember the words in the other languages to look them up later but right now she enjoyed a moment with Beast Boy. She turned towards him and gave him a hug.

"Come on Raven let him know you love him tell him!" Ravens eyes widen at that thought of telling him she loved him even though she wasn't quite sure herself. Not to mention there was no way the young changeling could love her back. When Raven released Beast Boy he had stood up once again and looked at the sky.

"I think I'll be off to the church now Raven. If I'm not back by lunch will you tell the others I went to the city to goof off or something?" Raven nodded in agreement and Beast Boy transformed into a Raven for the first time in her memory and took off.

'Wow, Beast Boy is a beautiful raven, I wonder if that is because of his memory of his parents?'