Part one, Raven starts to wonder about Beast boy after an enteresting midnight encounter with him. What is he hiding and why? I don't own the Teen Titans. Also for thoughs of you who are fans of Tatsuro-san the idea for this story is mine but one of the main themes is from an idea in one of his storys, 'You Saved Me' but it was only used momentarilly and it inspired me. The thought of this was in my mind before I read it but it was an insparation. Tatsuro-san if you're reading this I really hope you enjoy it!
The New End
Chapter 1; Colors
Raven's eyes snapped open at the crack of thunder and growled as lightning illuminated her room. Raven hated storms ever sense the 'wicked scary' insident. "Tea..." Raven moaned "... all I need is some herbal tea." That's all Raven ever need to do during a storm to go back to she'd never admit it, Raven liked the part of her demonic blood that gave her perfect night vision, she never needed to light her way so she always had at least this time to her self, that of course changed the moment she walked into the common room.
Standing by the window, staring out over the water, was Beast Boy. Beast Boy's ears twitched which let Raven know he had heard her. As she continued to the kitchen, Raven eyed Beast Boy carefully. For the passed month, Beast Boy had been acting strangly. Beast Boy had been quiet and distant lately, though only Raven had seemed to acually notice. Ordinaraly, Raven would had reavled in the calmness but this seemed more like an omen, the calm before the storm. The tea kettle began to whistle and as Raven took it off the burner she carefully watched Beast Boy for a reaction, there was none.
Finally, Raven's curiosity got the best of her, 'Damn you Wisdom!' She growled in her mind. At frist, Raven thought Beast Boy was asleep but as she aproched, his eyes drifted to her and a false smile crossed his face. "Heya Rea, couldn't sleep?" Raven eyed him for a minute before asking, "Beast Boy, are all right? You've been acting strangly." There was a flash of lightning but Raven was sure the green in his eyes flashed white.
"Wh- what do you mean? I'm fine..." Beast Boy studdered, Raven just stared at him. With a long sigh Beast Boy began, "Fine... lately I've been feeling like somethings coming... somthing bad." "How bad?" Raven asked. "Real bad!.. it feels like every strand of animal DNA is being riled up all at once! The last time I felt like this was..." Beast Boy suddenly stopped. "Was?" she asked. This time there was no dought because it wasn't just his eyes that flashed, Beast Boy's eyes and hair turnned black for just a moment. He was silent for a second before his eyes flashed golden then purple.
Beast Boy chuckled lightly, "Well... some time ago I sorta... tried to sneak into your room. For some reason my powers wouldn't work, by the time I was able to turn into a fly you walked out." Raven shot Beast Boy an annoyed look, partly because she didn't know why his eyes were changing colors and partly because she wasn't sure how much of what he just said was false. "Fine don't tell me." Raven growled. Beast Boy smiled as his eyes flashed pink, "Thanks Rea." Suddenly his skin became a normal tan color for a second, "Hey, I know it's late but how about a little snack, I'm a pretty good cook."
The next day every thing was back to normal, Beast Boy was losing to Cyborg at a racing game while Robin and Starfire were cheering them on, the only thing out of the ordenary was Raven. Instead of really reading a book, Raven acted like she was while watching Beast Boy. So far nothing had happened but she was still hung up on last night, 'why were his eyes shifting colors like that?' she keeped asking herself. Suddenly the room as bathed in a flashing red light. 'Great' Raven growled to herself."Down town... Johnny Ransid... titans go!" Robin anounced. Raven saw Beast Boy roll his eyes which made he smile a little.
They arived in no time, Johnny was trashing a pizza place. "What's wrong Rancid? they scimp on the sause?" Robin quiped. "Can it bird boy! This was just to get you punks here!" Johnny roared. "Dude, there's five of us and only one of you, even you aren't dumb enough not to know you're out numbered." Beast Boy joked. Johnny smiled darkly, "Oh you're half right runt, one of us is out numbered..." Johnny said as he snapped his fingers, making about five hundred slade bots appear, "... but it ain't me."
Robin's eyes narrowed and he said, with nothing but hatred in his voice, "So, you've sunk so low as to work for Slade?" Johnny just smirked, "Flattery'll get you no where, but for the record... I'm not working for Slade, but that dosen't mean I'm not on a pay roll." Johnny pulled out a gun, as the robots began to swarm the Titans, and pointed it at Raven. "The goth chick dies first, then we can play."
Before he could fire, Johnny was tackled to the ground by a large green tiger. "Bad kitty..." Johnny laughed. Beast Boy growled at Johnny vishisly as he turned back into himself, "If you ever try to hurt her again, there won't be enough of you to fit on the head of a pin!" Beast Boy hissed as he shifted back into a tiger. Suddenly twenty of the Sladebots attacked him.
Beast Boy fought back as hard as he could but it wasn't long before there was a sickenly loud crack and blood curtaling scream of pure agony. "Beast Boy!" Raven screamed as her powers knocked the Sladebots away, what she saw however made her vomit. Beast Boy was bloody and brused, but the worst part was that the bone in his left arm was broken and sticking out of his skin. "Now then..." Johnny laughed as he picked his gun back up, "...where were we?"
"Stay... a-way... from Raven..." Beast Boy gasped as his vision began to fade. 'i have to protect her...' he tought to himself, 'I have to save her. I HAVE TO!' Before he could pass out completely, Beast Boy heard another voice in his head, 'then let me fight...'
"Just lay there and die like a dog freakshow!" Johnny spat as he cocked to gun, "Time to die you li..." a roar cought Johnny's attention and suddenly somthing knocked the gun out of his hand and another hit his head, which he was able to catch. Johnny looked at what hit him and saw that it was the head of one of the Sladebots. This drew Johnny to look to where Beast Boy was, what he saw terrified him beyond reason.
Every Sladebot that had jumped Beast Boy was torn to shreads, but what scared Johnny the most was Beast Boy himself. Beast Boy's normaly short hair was now long, reaching all the way to his knees. His shirt was ripped in several places which reviled a tiger stripe pattern on his shoulders as well as well developed mucles, his finger nails extended to claws that ripped right out of his gloves and his one tiny fang was now two long fangs. The part only Raven seemed to notice was Beast Boy's eyes. The once shining pools of rich emerald where now deep blood red and slit like a cat's. Even his voice was far more intimidating and dangerious, "Let. Her. Go. NOW!"
"Y-You don't scare me, I've got plenty of robots and you've only got one good arm." Johnny mocked as he tried to sound tough and not scared. Beast Boy looked at his arm, "I guess you're right, I can't fight you with just one arm..." Johnny smerked and was about to smart something off when Beast Boy grabbed his wrist, "... I'll just have to fix that." Raven flinched as Beast Boy pulled on his wrist to put the bone back in his arm, he then swiped his hand over the bleeding hole and it disappeared, as did all the other cuts and bruses he had sustaned. "Now then..." Beast Boy growled as he looked around at all of the robots, "I suppose next I sould take care of all your little friends."
To a normal person, it looked like a wild animal flailing in a sea of mechiens but to Raven it looked like Beast Boy was dancing, moving to some unherd song. The only real give away that a fight was happening was the flying wires and disembodyed robotic limbs. When he finally stopped, Beast Boy was standing infront of Johnny, who was currently on his knees. Beast Boy picked Johnny up and held him over his head, "Who sent you and why?" He growled.
"EAT. ME. My boss is ten times scarier then you!" Johnny said as he spit in Beast Boy's face, this of coures pissed him off to no end. Beast Boy slammed Johnny into a wall, pinning him to it, "Don't tempt me gutter trash! Now, tell me who sent you before I do something neather of us want!" Beast Boy demanded in the calmest voice he could muster. "UP. YOURS!" Johnny hissed. Beast Boy threw Johnny onto the ground, "Fine you wanna be street punk have it your way..." Beast Boy's hair receeded to it's normal length but turned a whiteish green color. The stripe pattern dissappered along with his fangs and his skin turn a pale green color. Beast Boy 's eye color shifted from red to a redish purple, "...But don't say I didn't warn you." He said in an odd voice.
Johnny began to back away from him but it didn't help. Beast Boy grabbed his shirt and held him to his face. Suddenly, Johnny's began to glow purple, the same color Beast Boy's eyes were glowing. "Who sent you to kill Raven?" Beast Boy asked. "Some one eyed chick..." Johnny said slowly as the others walked up, "She called herself Ravager. I think she may know Slade though, she was the one who gave me the robots and the order to kill. She had on a black and copper bandana over her face." "Why Raven?" Beast Boy asked. "I don't know, I didn't ask." Johnny replied.
Beast Boy let off a low growl in frustration, then turned back to Johnny. "You will go to the police station and turn yourself in, after you are released you will give up your life of crime and turn honest. Do you understand?" Beast Boy asked and Johnny nodded, "Good. Go." Johnny's eyes stopped glowing and he began to walk off. Robin was going to stop him but his leg was in to much pain, "Let him be Robin, he'll not be any more trouble."
"What is it that you have done to him Friend Beast Boy?" Starfire asked. "I'll tell you later but first lets get you all home, you all look pretty beat up." Beast Boy said. "How..." Cyborg whined, "...thoughs rust buckets trashed my car!" "Don't worry I'll handle it." Beast Boy said as he closed his eyes and held his arms up. The rest of the titans sat confused until they heard screeching and were swarmed by bats.
Robin and Cyborg instantly flipped out and began to flail wildly until Beast Boy said, "You know, I wouldn't do that if I were you guys... they might just drop you and at twenty storys up that probably won't end well." Both boys froze in an instant and Beast Boy just shook his head. Starfire on the other hand was having a ball, "WHEEE!" Starfire squealed, "Friend Beast Boy, your little friends are most adorable!" Beast Boy laughed at that and said, "yeah, I think so too."
Beast Boy, who was standing on the cloud of bats, gazed down to the young woman in his arms who he was carrying like a new bride. Since the fight with Johnny and Beast Boy's strange transformation, Raven's mind was jumping from, 'Am I going to die?' to 'Is that Beast Boy?' and back. Raven finally relized that she was being watched and looked up to see Beast Boy staring and her with a look of longing. He blushed a little at her and said, "Morning sleeping beauty. How are you feeling? Are you all right?" "Uh yeah, I'm fine." Raven responded, there was something about the way that he was staring at her that was making Raven both flattered and uncomfortable.
The tower came into view and they touched down, with Robin and Cyborg jumping off the first chance they got and started to kiss the ground. Beast Boy cocked an eyebrow as he watched this until the largest of the bats landed on his shoulder and began to squick to him, "Thanks, I'm sorry to have to bring you guys out during the day... No no I was just joking, I know you would never let them fall... Thanks" he said.
Beast Boy carried Raven into the common room (still bridal style) and placed her softly on the couch while Starfire, Robin and Cyborg walked in and all three colapsed on the couch next to her. "Now then let's get you all healed up." Beast Boy said. Raven was about to get up to do it but Beast Boy stopped her, "NO! No, I'll do it, I just need to borrow your mirror." he said. Raven's eyes narrowed as she asked "Why?..." Beast Boy just smiled and looked at her. Raven's eyes widened as she said, "Wait, you?..." Beast Boy nodded at her, "Alright I'll go get it."
"I'll do it, just tell me where it is." Beast Boy said. Raven looked at him then sighed, "It's on my dresser, next to my spell book." Beast Boy nodded again and suddenly disappeared only to reappear a moment later with the mirror in hand. Beast Boy's skin regained it's color, his hair also turned back to normal color but grew out a little which he combed back with his fingers. Beast Boy blinked and his eyes turned golden and an inquizitive look crossed his face as he studdied the mirror.
"Robin, may I borrow a Bird-a-rang?" Beast Boy asked with a voice that mached the look on his face to a tee. Robin handed him the weapon to him but was suprised to see him use it to cut his finger open. Beast Boy sat the mirror down on a near by table and began to chant in a strange language that not even Raven knew. "Blood as a portal, blood of mine... Blood open the gates and enter my mind." Beast Boy held his finger over the mirror and let a single drop of blood fall onto it's surface. When the drop hit the glass, it began to ripple like the surface of a pond. Beast Boy continued to chant as a black aura appeared around the rippling glass, "Into my mind, into my soul... now enter a void beyond our control." the aura shifted from black to green and Beast Boy swiped his hand over the mirror making it stop.
"It's ready." Beast Boy said as a portal open. He held his hand out to Raven and said, "After you, Lady Raven." Raven stood up, but didn't take his hand, and stepped into the portal. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg were all dumbstruck at the fact that Beast Boy of all people had just preformed a spell. "Come on you three." He said with a smile.
(For thoughs who are wondering the spell says. "Blood as a portal, blood of mine... Blood open the gates and enter my mind." "Into my mind, into my soul... now enter a void beyond our control.")