Chapter Two:

The Titans were in their last month of vacation and decided they were going to spend it in Africa. Raven wanted to visit the Pyramids and just travel around the continent. It was a wonderful idea to Starfire so Robin agreed. Now they were driving through the desert looking for animals and villages to stay at. Raven was happy to be someplace she wanted to be at. She read about Africa and watch documentaries on Africa and the more she learned the more she felt. It was almost like she was getting closer to Beast Boy. She remembered the green boy told her he grew up here. In a small village outside a jungle, was his home. A small tree hut made to help his parents study the life here. It was an area unaffected by modern day tech. Once in a while people in trucks would come by but nothing modern stayed. She secretly hoped to find this village, she wanted to say good bye fully and the only way to do that was to say good bye to his childhood home.

"Oh Friend Raven look!" Raven looked up from the map to see a lush green jungle on the edge of the yellow savanna. "Raven tell me is this like what Beast Boy told you about?" Nodding her head yes Starfire squealed in delight. They all may get the chance to see Beast Boys home. However, the glee of seeing the jungle was short lived with shouts and explosions in the distance. Like the heroes they were they rushed to the disturbance. They reached a village that was being attacked by machine animals. The villagers were doing their best to fend off the creatures but couldn't quite manage it.

"I don't think they will all speak English so Raven just get rid of the robot animals and we'll find the English speaker when you're done." Nodding in agreement she did as she was told and got rid of the animals. The villagers cheered and rushed over to them. The whole village recognizing that they were American began to speak in English to them.

"Thank you, thank you." It was amazing sight a whole African village speaking English.

"Do you all speak English fluently?" One man step forward to be the spokesman of the village.

"Yes we all speak English well. Normally we speak in our native language of Swahili when we are alone. Please you must stay with us for tonight and for a couple nights. Our Chief is not here today and may not return for a couple days. He took the young chief to a council meeting in the other villages. He is training our new chief then he wants to return home. Please stay till he returns he will want to thank you." Looking to the others to see what they thought, he nodded in agreement with the young man.

"Yeah, we'll stay for a little while. We could use a break from driving for a while anyway. Where would you like us to stay? Other villages have had us in guest huts outside the village boarders we won't mind at all." The man merely laughed at the idea and turned to the other villagers.

"Hurry home and grab the blankets for the guests. Our chief will want them to stay in his hut by the jungle. Hurry now! Men bring the blankets to the hut; women make the feast for the night. Children back to your post of playing and keeping a look out for our chief." As soon as it was said everyone was off like a shot. A few minutes' later five men were outside a tree hut with blankets in their arms. The Titans looked at the hut in awe. It was huge and in the trees. Raven nearly broke down crying. It was just like the hut Beast Boy said he lived in. Could she be in his old home? She thought back to the now assumed dead teammate. He would be proud to hear someone was living in the old home.

"So we will stay here tonight? Are you sure you don't want us to stay outside the village?"

"Non-sense, I will hear nothing of it like our chief I will hear nothing of it. You saved the village from the strange metal animals. He will want to thank you personally for helping us. It is only natural that you stay here. We only ask that you join us all for your meals, and that you do not enter the chief's room." He pointed to a door that had faded green paint on it. Nodding in agreement the Titans set up for a short wait. After this they will head back to Alexandra, a four day drive away to go home to the tower.

They had been there for three days when they heard children screaming and laughing into the village. The Titans had really gotten into the swing of living here and help out all they could. Looking up from what they were doing they saw small children holding hands or running around a teenaged boy. He had to be a least three years younger than them so it would make him 17. The man who had been helping them since they got their came and explained to them what was going on.

"That is our young chief in training. He has returned, however I wonder were our chief is." Running to the young boy giving him a hug and shanking his hand he got the info he needed. He also told the boy about the four people who helped the village during a strange attack. The boy came over and thanked them before taking off at the sight of a girl. "That is his wife to be. When our Chief hands over the spear he will marry the girl and start a family."

"Why hasn't the current chief done that?" The man looked at Raven for a second then smiled.

"He wishes to go home. This is his home once but it is no longer his true home. He speaks of a girl back home. Oh that reminds me the young chief states that our chief will be back in a few days. He went to the city to get some news. He won't be long now." The Titans nodded in agreement. That was a good thing they wouldn't be able to stay longer than a week now.