The story of the beast
Summery: In locating beast boy ravin uses a book that shows her all of beast boys past... and in better understanding him she not only finds him but a love for him.
Rahaha I'm back! I've been working on art so haven't been able to post anything in a good couple of years.. but i have been thinking of things to write. This is my first Beast boy Raven fan fiction (romance adventure humor..and awesomeness) and its more of a practice for righting at length. I plan for ti to be kind of long so don't freak if it doesn't get completely on track and give you what you want right away. I also have no internet so that has inspired me to sort of make up some of the characters past in the bits I cant remember from the comic books or the show. So thats a warning there.. that if its not correct please don't kill me, Im taking some liberty in OCC. To be honest its less of a challenge but a lot more fun. And I write these for fun. Warning number two. I'm not a very good speller, in fact I suck, and no I'm not gonna have someone I know prof read these and I don't have time to get them checked online. IF it bothers you that much, you may kindly point out the mistakes I will make an effort to fix them for future readers. Warning three.. I have no idea why I'm righting all this. I guess just back up. I don't mind criticism in reviews but I know when the heat turns up and the flames show. But I normally don't even read the authors notes when there this long. There normally filled with text talk and so much fan fic slang that by brains explode as the explanations are caught at crossfire. HOW BOUT THIS! GOT YOUR ATTENTION NOW! nope? ah well if you read the whole thing.. type Bananas at the end of your review.. or just Bananas if you don't wanna say anything... cause I like bananas, bananas are good... ( if you got that reference let me know.)
Disclaimer: I don't own teen titans, or beast boy or raven. nor there romance.
Chapter One. The Wonder Of Reference
Beast Boy had been missing for weeks. And the titans were far beyond slightly worried. They had reached a full man hunt. Cyborg was at the tower as the control center, watching criminals, doing searches of taps from the cities in the area, and trading messages between every super hero that could afford time to look. Robin and Starfire had taken to searching nearby planets to make sure he wasn't abducted. The others kept busy but ravin had a plan of her own. In these situations its always to know best what you are looking for, she had been the only one to even think of the possibility that beast boy had run away, although it has happened times before. Most of the team had regretted not paying more attention to the green little changeling in the few weeks before he vanished. And Ravin, though she would have finally been able to read in peace.. could not stop thinking about the grass stain.
Which is why, when the other titans scoured the land, sea and stars, she found her self here, an old forgotten down in the english country side standing out front of a antique store. The building its self was a tin brick building that had the look of being stretched as bent and shifted up to the top floor. The windows were grimy to a point of just being a non transparent gross shade of brown. The address was faded gold numbers nailed to a faded piece of green wood above the door of the shop; which had matching green paint slowly chipping off its edges. The name of the shop was hard to read through the grime of the window, but it had been cleaned enough so that you could make out the words " Old Reference" and beneath it an illustration of a writing desk. Ravin smirked at the name reveling in a sense of confront. Taking a breath she stepped in, a small chime of a bell was heard over her as the door opened, and then slammed shut as she now stood just in the main room. If that is, you could call it that. It was more like a library; and not a very clean and organized one ether. The shelves stood tall and warped under the wait of the large spied books they supported and the many strange items they housed. As Raven looked up she saw that the ceiling was far higher then she expected, it was the roof of the building in fact. The front room when through all three floors, and the book cases and shelves were piled in such a way that it reminded her slightly of that Mc ensure panting, only less gravity and.. reality defying . In the few places where there were no shelves, or the later to clime higher into the vertical maze she found a small area by a fire place, and though there were shelves on every wall the middle was quite clear except for an old couch, two ratty torn up arm chars, and a dusty book covered coffee table.
Suddenly the sound of rolling was heard off in another room.. or floor, Raven couldn't tell as the sound bounced and echoed through fire code violating house. For fear of danger she took her stance, not willing to chance anything at this point. The sound of rolling grew closer accepted by the sound of some books falling or pages being flipped through.. a glass breaking. As raven sensed the presents was close her hands began to emmet a black energy ready to strike when...
"RAVEN!" said a voice, Rave looked up and saw a head that had popped up from one of the book shelves. It was a girl, and a very strange one at that. Her hair was jet black tied up in a wild bun allowing the ends to poke out from all directions, a clump of hair hung in front of her face and curled down to her shoulder just above her collar bone. Her eyes were a wild green that was like a forest in spring. They were wide as they scanned the hooded girl in question.
Raven removed her hood, and was greeted by a gasp and the girl vanishing as she lessened to the noises from before at a much faster pace, and with more glasses broken. Until the strange girls stumbled out before ravin. " Hey Reference. Long time no see." said raven giving a small smile. Reference smiled back.
"Come in! You have got stories to tell! I'll brew us some tea" Reference spoke in a thick coginy accent. She dragged ravin off to the small kitchen in the back. Raven watched how reference started opening cubers only reveling a surplus of cook books in every different language, one looked like it was Tameranien. She sighed at the antics of her old friend and got a good look at what she was wearing. On the whole, it matched the shop, it was filthy. it was almost if she had been sitting on the shelves collecting dust her self. Her black dress pants were ratted and torn and off her waist line was a belt that from which hung a slew of pouches and trinkets. She wore a tie up plane black vest, styled like a corset, under this was a dark green cotton shirt that was cut slightly at the color and tied back up with lacing. On the vest held even more trinkets, brooches and watches, metals even. And over all of this was a light wool jacket that was unbuttoned and reached just below her knee. As she reached up, discovering the tea at last, Raven notisted her hand, and the many rings on it. Most of which the styles clashed but the one most prominent was a poison ring that sat on the pointer finger of her right hand. Raven decide to make conversation as the water boiled.
"Clever name for a shop, Reference."
"Hey it works considering how old I am, and no one actually thinks its my name."
"How old are you again?"
"Don't remember... I stopped counting some where around 900, stupid curse."
"Understood completely. So what do they call you if not 'Reference'?"
"Well I go by Rachel Roth." Ravens eyes widened and her mouth opened a gape.
"Really?"
"Naw just messing with ya. I go by Ella Mockingbird." she said laughing
"Sounds like you." said Raven coldly. Reference shrugged, as she did the many objects on her rattled around a bit.
"Thats some bling you got there." Raven remarked as reference began working on the tea.
"My mum used to say less is more." Raven raised an eyebrow " Well I've never been much to lessening at her."
"Your grammar astounds me as usual."
"Your just jealous cause I sound like a rock star."
They both let out a small short laugh until Raven remembered that wasn't the first time she heard that joke.
It was during one of there fights with mad mod. And Raven had made some comment about the royal guard robots they are fighting. And beast boy had been stupid and was hypnotized faster then you could blink into thinking he was a brit.
"British engineering love. Finest in the world." said Beast Boy proudly
"Will you please stop talking like that." pleaded raven in her usual monotoned voice.
"Your just jealous cause I sound like a rock star." and then he preceded to air guitar.
"Hey Raven? You ok?" asked reference
"Sorry what?"
"Raven, i've been telling ya for the past 5 minuets that the tea is done and you were just standing there with a smile on your face. Didn't know you liked tea that much."
"Huh? oh umm.. Sorry. I sort of spaced out. A friend of mine once made the same joke." As she finished she followed Reference into the living room. The two sat down and each took there tea.
"Hmmmm a friend. Thats new. Last I heard from you they were just team mates." said reference with a knowing smirk on her face, until it was wiped away by a frown. "WAIT! That means I'm not your only friend anymore. I don't wanna share you." she said with a pout sipping her tea. Raven raised an eyebrow.
"Reference..."
"OK I'm only joking. THANK GOD! You've got friends now so I don't have to feel drained from keeping you entertained. Oh a rhyme!" she got excited and leaned back into the arm chair. "Well with all your great new friends I'm guessing you here for a reason considering you didn't drop a line. so whats on your mind? Oh another one!"
Raven frowned at her distracted friend. Though she had known the girl for years she still had not quite gotten used to her behavior.
"Well I'm here about my friend actually. He's been missing for weeks."
"Hmmm. So why see me? Do I know him?"
"Well no.. you see I figured if the rest of my friends are looking for him on a larger scale thinking he was taken, that I could search on a smaller scale. Like he took a personal journey. The problem is I already checked with his old team members and they haven't seen him. And thats the only place we knew where to look. Everything else about him is a mystery. I need to learn about him so I can figure out where he might have gone."
Reference got a large smirk on her face as her eyes grew narrow. She gulped down the rest of her tea and stood up fast, almost knocking the coffee table and its many books over.
"Sounds like a fun challenge. Im game.. whats his name? Oh i am on a roll with the rhymes today.. I'm not evening trying."
"Beast boy."
"Beast Boy... hmmmmmmm..." and with that she was off. Raven quickly followed. And as she did she continued to notice something about the house. From the outside it looked no longer then 20 feet wide but inside it stretched ten times as long; as far as she could tell. The towering cases made it hard to really figure that out. She began gliding as she realized she was loosing track of Reference, who was quickly speeding up and down the rows in the maize.
"Where are we going?"
"The library." Raven was as close to flabbergasted as she's ever been. And then slightly frustrated by the confusion.
"Your entire house is a library!"
With this Reference slowed down and stopped in front of a rather large door. She spun around to Raven and smiled.
"Haven't you noticed something about this house, how strangely large it is?" Raven looked around again. "Its a space saver charm. What ever room is not occupied gets magically squished to fit what it is outside. And because its just me, I can have the outside look small. I just cant through a party." she joked as she opened the large door revealing a library with shelves that seem to stretch to the sky. And a glass sealing. in the center was a long table. " Take a seat raven I'll be right back."
Raven worked her way to the center of the room and sat down at one end of the long wood table. She looked up at the sky through the glass ceiling and notisted that the sun was starting to set, casting a dusky glow all through the library, making it look magical. She began to get lost in thought. She hasn't visited Reference for years. In a sad way she didn't need to. She had met her long ago when looking for a place to stay, before arriving in jump city. Reference took her in and shared with her many over her books. Raven still got books in the mail from her now and again, and they wrote each other, but she had grown so close to her team, so relaxed, that even if she did go, she would have brought friends. Beast Boy would like her. She would laugh at his jokes. She enjoyed the ADD silly cheese humor of them. They were quite similar, though Reference was much stranger having only the company of herself for the most part. If only Beast Boy had left a note or had been smart enough to tell some one what he was up to instead of disappearing like a stupid brainless annoying little...
SLAM!
Ravens thoughts were interrupted Reference 'presented' her findings.
"Ok heres what I got. His section in the super hero files, new paper clippings from being a titan and doom patrol, his official physical and his comic books."
"He has comic books?"
"Yeah. I guess its sort of the nerds way of thanking you guys from being heros and saving them. Oh this one is my fav. They took some liberties by the looks of it."
Raven picked up the comic book and let out a short laugh, looking at green man with side burns a 70s hair style and a strange looking red and white uniform.
"As amusing as this would be, its written by fans. I don't think it can help me much."
"Maybe he's at a comic book convention in the states?"
"Already tried that. Every convention in the U.S. and Japan."
"Yikes. Ok how bout the medical records? Oh looks here he's got sensitive ears and neck."
"whats that support to mean?"
"umm ' subject Beast Boy appears to take on cat like behaviors when his ears are fondled, scratching the neck his leg will begin to twitch.' sounds like the perfect house hold pet"
"ok I so... didn't need to know that."
"I don't know, sounds like you could get him to shut up with a touch of the fingers." she replied with a suggestive wink.
Raven just scowled and continued working through the files.
"Is this really all you have on beast boy?" she asked as her search began to look all in vain.
"Well thats the problem, Beast boy doesn't appear in my records until he was twelve, when he joined Doom Patrol. Before that its like he never existed." Raven looked deep in thought considering her friends words.
"How about Garfield Logan?"
Reference thought for a minute before darting off. She came back with a small thin book. As Raven flipped through it she notisted there were only four newspaper article clippings.
The first one she looked at a happy couple in a black and white picture holding a smiling baby boy. The head line read " Family of scientist on the move." taken from an Austrian new paper.
Today we say goodbye to some of our best anthropologist as they leave Australia to head toward Rio Brazil to study the many species of birds, animals, insects and plant life. Dr John Logan and Dr Helena Logan leave our shores with there newly born son Garfield on a journey to study new life.
Raven skimmed the rest and quickly jotted the name of the university they worked at down. She looked at the smiling boys face. Yup, that was Beast Boy, though who would have thought he was an aussy. She turned the page to a grimmer head line.
MR AND MS LOGAN FOUND DEAD AFTER HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Raven not wanting to intrude, quickly skimmed the article before her eyes landed on there son Garfield logan has yet to be found. Next to this article was a small missing persons add with his name and description '18 month old Garfield Logan, Blond hair, Green eyes, 16 pounds, response to 'gar' If you have any information please contact the police department of rio or the university of anthropology in Australia.
Turning the page she found the next article, the headline read 'small green wild boy found.'
Though the green child found in the jungle no longer fits the physical description, DNA has identified him as the missing person Garfield logan who disagreed after his parents death at the age of 18 months. It has been three years sense he has gone missing putting him at the age of about 4 1/2. He has been taken into care by a team of american scientists, who have already discovered that his behavior has been changed from surviving on his own in the jungle. The way this happened in still unclear but it seems that his skin was not the only thing that was affected in the accident that killed his parents.
Raven stared at the black and white photo of a four year old beast boy on a lab table, he was on all fours and sniffing a toy that had been put in front of him with a curios expression. To be honest she was not surprised that beast boy had spent some ears in the jungle. It made sense considering his behavior sometimes. Not to mention that his powers which give him animal instant as well, would have allowed him to survive. She looked at the photo again and notest ribs showing on the torso of the young boy. I guess they didn't help enough.
She turned the page again to find a head line that almost knocked her off her chair. " 11 YEAR OLD GRADUATING UNIVERSITY." mesmerized she read on.
From his humble beginnings, of being found at age four in the jungle, young Garfield Logan has shown greatness in being the only person to graduate a university at age 11 with a degree in anthropology and a dotter in zoology from the university of natural studies in washington. The now Dr. Garfield Logan plans to return to rio brazil to complete his parents work. Many of his profferers the very people that raised him see much greatness in him, and know his future to be bright and full of discovery.
Next to the article was another missing persons add. Garfield Logan, age 11, hight 4'2''. Green hair, eyes and skin. last seen boarding a plain to Rio De Janetro yet was not abroad when it arrived.
Ravin was shocked. Beyond shocked. she looked at the young boy in his graduation gown, showing his trademark toothy grin. She had wished the articles were longer because she would need a long explanation from Beast Boy about why he never told them he was a college grad. She leaned back in the char and let out a long sigh. Rio, Australia, Washington. Three new places was a start but as she started to think she couldn't really think of a reason he would go back to any of them. She looked up at Reference who was reading a Teen titans comic book.
" I hate to follow a week lead but I guess I'm going to washington."
" Didn't get enough from the articles?"
"Just factual, what I need is to get inside his head and figure out why he might go to these places."
Raven looked down at the articles searching for something. A frase, something hidden in the text, or a message in a photo. With out saying a word Reference stood up and motioned for her to follow. They climbed up the small stairwell to one of the balconies. They kept walking till they reached about half way when Reference stopped and pulled out a black book that looked untouched. She handed it to raven.
"Twilight.. are you serious?"
"It's there cause I thought no one would think to pick it up." she said with a smile as the door part of the bookcase started sinking into the wall then sliding off to the side. " hang on to that book, I need it to close the door." she said as she walked forward. Raven held the book between her thumb and pointer finger as if it was beast boys sock.
" Not a fan of vampires Raven?"
" Not when the stories written this bad."
" You've read it?"
" A christmas gift from Starfire. I had to." Reference just chuckled and kept walking. Now that ravin notisted this room was almost completely bare. All that was there was a leather trunk against the back wall. Reference bent down and opened up. inside was a book. It was completely white and looked brand new, for a moment raven stepped back as the thought of another white book came to mind. But Reference picked it up none the less and stood up to face Raven.
" Now I wouldn't do this if we weren't friends. This book is one of a kind and can never be copied. In it lies the answers. You may borrow this book till you find your friend, and then bring it back to me. Now your free to spend the night here, or move on with your quest."
" I think I should get moving now thanks." she gave a smile as they headed out together. As Raven was heading out the door Reference grabbed her arm and held her in.
" I almost forgot. Every journey must start at the end."
" Whats that support to mean?"
" Sorry im in criptic mode." and with that Raven was pushed out and the door slamed"
"I hate criptic mode."
WOW that was longer than i had thought.. and theres still so much story to go. Yes it will mostly be about beast boy, but with some reactions from raven and yada yada yada. sigh.. i never thought i would type out GARFIELD LOGAN that much.. sorry if the info is kind of repetitive. also i know i kind of focused on my oc but i couldn't resist. next chapter will be more raven and some more beast boy and what ever else i can think of. ALSO in case you were wondering.. no those rhymes were not planed. as i was re reading it i started to notise that i was uncontionaly giving her rhymes, and she really seems the type to point them out so i added it in for fun... ok.. gnight!