Summary:

Azure eyes covered by a messy fray of golden locks gazed, shocked, into the mirror, "I-I'm normal?" Beast Boy breathed, not believing his eyes, "it worked." Did he give up everything for her?

Prologue

A bright, warm, sunny day shone down onto quaint lil' ol' Jump Memorial Hospital, a small but powerful hospital that specialized in severe illnesses. Inside, Starfire forced back anxious tears from running down her cheeks and her eyebrows were furrowed upwards into a heavily worried expression. She had been waiting in the lobby room all day with Raven, who appeared more melancholy than her usual self but she didn't seem to be as worse off as Starfire.

Raven blinked at Starfire as the Tameran finally shed her tears which had tried to helplessly force back many times, surprising Raven at how much Starfire cared for her friends. She sometimes let herself envy Starfire's ability to love just about everything good life had to offer, even if it was just silly 'ol Beast Boy.

"Garfield Logan will survive," a doctor walked into the lobby, a sense of anxiety painted his aged face, "and it appears that he will make a full recovery, but-"

"Oh, what glorious day!" Starfire flew up with joy, a look of relief and happiness replaced her once sad face, "we shall celebrate with a big snufflegarf dinner!"

Raven didn't seem to share Starfire's joy, who seemed to miss the doctor's anxiety, "but what?"

"Well, it appears that he was infected by this virus before," the doctor rubbed his arm, still as anxious as before, "when he was first admitted into the hospital, he knew right away what he had--it was the only reason we were able to save him in the first place."

"And what does that have to do with anything?" Raven raised an eyebrow, she had a bad feeling and didn't like at all where this was going though Starfire was still celebrating her friend's recovery.

"I received his medical files a few days ago," the doctor flipped through Beast Boy's medical history, "it says here that he's been infected with an incredibly rare strain of the Sakutia virus only found in the deep jungles of Africa. There's a 99.9 percent mortality rate for those who are infected, Gar being the only person in the world to survive. According to these records, after he recovered from his illness, his eyes, hair, and skin turned green and the amazing ability to change into animals was bestowed onto him."

"Well, that helps our situation out a lot," Raven was leaking in monotone sarcasm, though she was still worried enough to want to find out what exactly it was that the doctor was hiding.

"We're not sure how, but," the doctor bit his lip, Raven held in her breathe, and Starfire tried to dance with a random nurse who, unfortunately, happened to pass by, "when he was first infected, he was currently living in Africa, but now that he got it the second time-"

"He was nowhere near Africa," Raven's brain began ticking faster than normal, how could he have gotten something that wasn't found anywhere near their location?

"Well, yes, which is why we're confused as to why he was infected yet again," the doctor's anxiousness changed to a look of dead serious concern, "it's not contagious but it can be spread through animal bites, monkeys to be exact."

"Are you trying to say that there's a monkey running around the city with this virus?" Raven's heart began to beat faster, an epidemic of a disease that tolled a 99.9 percent mortality rate would most certainly be of serious concern, "I'm calling Robin."

Starfire stopped her dancing and gave Raven a cute naïve look, "what is going to happen to the monkey of viruses?"

"It's more than likely going to be disposed of," Raven said, not very much caring of how appalled Starfire was by such a cold statement.

"If Beast Boy can be cured," Starfire wistfully watched Raven open up her communicator, "then the monkey of diseases may also be cured!"

"Robin, we have a problem," Raven ignored Starfire, trying to retell Robin what she had just discovered at the hospital. Robin and Cyborg had stayed at the tower in order to conduct a rather dangerous mission: find a clue of who or what infected Beast Boy and try not to get infected themselves.

"I agree," Robin sighed, he somehow already knew what Raven and Starfire had just discovered, "I did some background research on Beast Boy and thought that some monkey was going around biting people but I'm starting to think otherwise."

Raven sighed; Robin was probably one of the worlds best investigators, second to Batman himself. Though both Titan girls were relieved when they both heard that there really wasn't some rampant hell monkey ready to kill people with a single bite, they still felt anxious as to what had caused this rare and sudden illness to reappear, "so, what exactly happened then?"

"I'm not going to come to any conclusions myself until we talk to Beast Boy," Robin looked down, as if pulling something out and revealed a rather large syringe, "but I think he infected himself on purpose. I found this in his room."

"WHAT?!" The doctor, Raven, and Starfire yelled into the communicator, not believing their very own ears.

Raven slowly turned to the doctor, annoyance quickly twitching away at her right eyebrow, "y-you never found bite marks, did you?"

"…no."

End Prologue

This is a rather short test story. Just trying to find out how successful this story might be if I decided to finish it. Hope everybody enjoys this short prologue so I can post the rest of the story (chapters are somewhat long). Coupling is unknown and my digital lips are sealed. It seems obvious now, but my way of writing will confuse you. ;-)