The Man within the Beast

Don't own Teen Titans

Another day, another time that Beastboy was going to poke his nose into something that he probably shouldn't. It was near noon, partly cloudy outside during the summertime. It was a mildly warm day, making it not too hot for Cyborg to wash the T-car. Robin was doing his training and Starfire was feeding Silkie. Beastboy, on the other hand, was bored out of his mind, so he decided to try and hang out with the others. Of course, remembering last time he tried that, it probably wasn't the best idea. But if he didn't do this, it would have never opened out the chapter that happened next.

Beastboy was walking down the hallway towards Raven's room. Why he always wanted to go into her room, completely confused and annoyed Raven. Anyways, he managed to go inside while she was performing a spell. Just when she was about to pour the liquid into the tube, Beastboy came up to her and said at the top of his lungs, "Hi, Raven!"

BOOM!

After the smoke cleared, Raven looked around. Other than the char on her and Beastboy's face, nothing in her room had broken. She sighed relief. Then remembered Beastboy. She turned around and glared at him with her eyes glowing. "Beastboy, what have I told you about coming into my room?"

"To not to?" Beastboy guessed.

"Good, now. GET OUT!" she yelled as her powers flung him out of the room.

"Sorry," he apologized. Then she shut the door while Beastboy sped away from her room. Raven stood in her room looking around for something. Strange. Usually, the spells she would do, if they went wrong, they would affect something or someone. Since she was the nearest to the liquid, something should have happened. The spell was to suppress a person's feelings. If it went wrong, Raven only guessed that it would bring OUT a person's feelings. But nothing happened. She went into Nevermore to check her emotions. All of them were there, every single annoying one of them. Something wasn't right, but she decided to leave it alone.

Meanwhile with Beastboy, he went to his room where he was resting on his bed. "I really got to stop doing stuff like that. I'm lucky nothing went wrong when she did that potion," he said to himself.

"Oh, but something did," a voice said. Beastboy shot up to see something that frightened him. It was the Beast! Outside of his body.

"Who...Who are you?" Beastboy asked.

"I am you. A little smarter, though, but still you," the Beast said.

"You can talk?! Wait, how are you me? I'm me!" Beastboy exclaimed.

"The potion that Raven used is supposed to suppress emotions and feelings, but it went wrong and released them," the Beast explained.

"So...then why are you here?" Beastboy asked.

"Because, when it went wrong, it must have combined with some other potion to reveal the better side of a person. In short, that accident brought out of you the better half of you," the Beast explained.

"So other people can see you?"

"Yes, but I rather that they wouldn't see me until a certain period of time." Then there was a knock at the door and Cyborg barged in.

"HEY, BB! Want to get whooped in some video games?" he taunted. Beastboy looked around to see that the Beast was gone.

"Just say no," the Beast said inside Beastboy's mind.

"Um...no thanks Cyborg. I need some time to rest," Beastboy said pushing Cyborg out. Cyborg was confused beyond belief as he was finally shoved out the door.

"O...kay, well, you know where to find me if you do," he said. As he walked away, Beastboy's eyes were completely wide out.

"How is it that he couldn't see you?" he asked the Beast, who reappeared.

"I can be seen by the others, but I don't want to be revealed just yet," he replied.

"Why?" Beastboy asked.

"Because you have some improving to do. I know that you hate learning and grasping new concepts, but the fundamentals of understanding the functions of the world around you is prominent in order to reverse the accusations that define your character," Beast lectured. He looked at Beastboy who had a lost type of look. Beast growled and grumbled, "In stupid terms, I want you to be smarter so that people will stop calling you a dumb mule!" Beastboy finally understood the saying.

"What do you mean? I'm cool, handsome, and the girls love me," he said glorifying himself. Beast pinched his animalistic nose and growled again.

"THAT IS THE EXACT TYPE OF ATTITUDE THAT KEEPS THE GIRL YOU ACTUALLY LOVE AWAY!" Beast shouted. Beastboy's ears lowered in shame. It was true. "Look, I know you. I feel the same way you do and emote the same way you emote. You must understand some things come at a bigger price than you may expect."

"Meaning?"

"In order to get what you want, you're going to have to work a lot harder for it," Beast replied placing a hand on Beastboy.

"So what do I call you? How about Beast?" Beastboy said. The man-beast shrugged.

"Okay, let's go with that," Beast said.

"Why is it so important for me to learn all these things?" Beastboy asked. Beast looked away sadly. He finally said.

"I could tell you, but you would learn better about the importance of learning if you experienced it."

"Yeah, but why?" Beastboy asked. Beast shook his head.

"You'll figure it out. We begin our lesson tomorrow at the Tower's library," he instructed. Beastboy was confused.

"We have a library?" he asked. Beast groaned shaking his head as he disappeared. For the rest of the day, Beastboy went around the Tower looking for the location of the library. When he finally found it, he was amazed at how many books there were. Bookshelves so high that it seemed that he was looking at a skyscraper. He was amazed at how many books were in the library. Just then, Raven came in and was surprised that Beastboy was standing there.

"Beastboy," Raven said making Beastboy jump a little, "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, well, somebody told me that we had a library, and I didn't think that we could fit a library in here," Beastboy replied. Raven rolled her eyes.

"We have an underground place that fits a spacecraft/submarine, a training gym, an obstacle course, six bedrooms, a garage, a common room with a 200" screen TV, four interrogation rooms, and a basketball court. Do you really think that we can't fit a library?" she asked rhetorically. Beastboy just shrugged as he walked out to the hall, but Raven stopped him. "Who told you that we had a library?" she asked.

She didn't ask this question because she was curious, rather because she knew that since Beastboy knew about the library, he would probably have another place to bother her since she came here a few times. Beastboy smiled sheepishly. He didn't exactly know how to answer that question so he simply said.

"A part of me just told me that it was here," he finally said before going down the hall to his room, leaving Raven confused.