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Chapter 3: Happy
Beast Boy woke up to the familiar sight of his garbage-filled room. "What happened?" he groaned as he slowly sat up. For some reason his left arm was very sore. "Beast Boy! You are awakened!" Starfire cried as she flew into his room.
"Hey, B, You're awake!" Cyborg yelled as he ran into Beast Boy's room. "I came as soon as I heard Star. You had a pretty nasty fall. You Ok?" He asked sitting on a nearby chair. "Fall?" Beast Boy questioned. A look of worry came over Starfire's face. "You do not remember?" She asked quietly. Beast Boy shook his head, wondering what there was to remember.
"You fell out of the sky, man. There was all this crazy black lightning and screaming so we went up to the roof to investigate. And you and Raven were falling out of the sky." Cyborg recounted, giving Beast Boy a funny look. Beast Boy jumped and screamed, "WHAT! I fell out of the sky! What happened to my ability to fly?" He flapped his arms around to illustrate his point. Cyborg shrugged and Starfire squeezed him extremely tightly.
"Raven! Is she OK!" Beast Boy yelled, suddenly remembering. He didn't even wait for an answer, just ran blindly to the door. Cyborg stopped him though. "She's fine. My scans show that her brain had a bit of a shock so she might be a little dizzy or tired for a few days but she's totally fine otherwise." This just made Beast Boy struggle even harder. "Her brains are fried! She's NOT fine! She's completely
UN-fine!" he called, whacking Cyborg's arms.
Starfire floated over to Beast Boy. "Friend, you need rest. Please return to your bed." She then picked him up and placed him on his bed. He sulked there for about half a minute when Robin popped his head through the doorway and said simply, "Raven's awake."
Despite his consistent begging to see Raven, Beast Boy was actually quite shy. "Uh, Raven, you awake? Cause if you're not, I'll just go away and uh, leave you to yourself. Ok, bye!" He started running down the hallway when someone landed in front of him. "I'm fine!" Raven said, bouncing over to him.
"Are you… smiling?" Beast Boy asked in wonder, slowly backing away from Raven. "Course I'm smiling! It's a great day, isn't it?" She said, stepping into the light. Beast Boy was stunned; his usually stony faced friend was smiling and wearing PINK!
The other titans walked around the corner, but broke into a run when they saw pink Raven. She flashed a huge grin and Robin practically fainted. Cyborg screamed, "It's that super happy crazy Raven from that creepy mirror!"
Raven was walking along the familiar floating space-rocks towards a huge maze. "Why am I here?" She thought out loud. "Last thing I remember, I was up in the sky releasing Happy when Beast Boy came and-" she cut herself off with a gasp. "Beast Boy!" She turned around at lightning speed and ran towards the portal. But it was gone. "What?" She yelled. How could she be trapped in her own mind? Unless… "NO! I CAN'T BE DEAD!" She yelled out loud, just to assure herself.
She started to fly down to the maze. "Timid? Timid are you here!" She called, floating through the endless twists and turns. "She's not here." A voice floated down to Raven. She spun around, looking for its owner. "You can't see me, so don't bother trying." Raven ignored this comment and continued searching.
"Who are you?" She asked after a while.
"I'm Raven."
The titans were afraid. And not just because they had all been hugged and squealed at by a very odd Raven. They were afraid because Cyborg and Beast Boy had told the others about Raven's mirror, and the emotions that lived inside.
"I think what we need to know is which Raven will be next. My scans show that her brainwaves are in irregular patterns so any emotion can come out at any time." Cyborg concluded and Robin nodded. "What we need is a list. Cyborg, Beast Boy, what emotions were in her mind? We need to know and we need to know now." He barked, walking over to Beast Boy. The changeling gulped and said nervously, "Well, uh, Robin, we don't, like, know all the emotions. We, like, only know three. There are eight, I think, and they all have different cloaks."
"Do you know the colours?" Starfire asked.
"Uh, yeah… Um, green, grey, yellow, red, pink, brown, um, purple and… Oh Yeah! Orange!" Beast Boy rattled off the colours, counting on his fingers. Starfire flew off and returned moments later with some paper and a pencil. She wrote down all the colours and all the emotions that they knew.
After a while they had figured out which emotions wore which colours, except for purple. "She was uh, kinda… happy and, um… a bit…uh… worried-ish, like, um, she was caring and…" Beast Boy rambled on for a while before Starfire jumped up and said, "Oh, of course! The final Raven is Affection!" the boys stared at her.
"Raven and… affection. They don't really mix. In fact, they don't mix at all!" Cyborg said, confused. "Yeah, she's pretty scary now. But an affectionate Raven, now THAT is creepy. Like, she-" Beast Boy stopped himself as Raven had just walked in.
"Hi guys! What's up? I mean, apart from the sky. He he he!" Raven giggled as she cheerfully floated towards the fridge. "Uh, hi Raven. We were just talking about y-" Beast Boy suddenly stopped, due to Cyborg's huge metal hand clamped over his mouth. "Talkin' 'bout what?" She asked after she retrieved a tub of Beast Boy's Non-Dairy Ice-Cream. "Uh, um, we were talkin' about…"
"Yibberbosh! The Tameranian festival of… black birds!" Starfire gabbled. "It falls on tomorrow." Robin quickly caught on,
"Uh, yeah! We were going to surprise you but, guess you found out!" The titans grinned at Raven, hoping she would buy it. She did. "Awesome! Well, I might know the idea, but I won't know the part 'till it starts! See ya!" She cried, cheerily bouncing out of the room.
The rest of the team sighed in relief. But their problems were far from over. "Now we have one day to throw a party!" Beast Boy complained. "And look! She ate all my Ice-Cream! I had to go to three different health food stores to find it!" Cyborg rolled his eyes (well, the non-robotic one at least). "Uh, we feel for ya man, but we kinda need to go shopping. How do we decorate a part based on black bird without it looking like a funeral?" the others shrugged.
Despite being told that she couldn't see her companion, Raven continued to look around for it. "I'm your sub-conscience. I'm here to explain what's going on." Raven sat down and looked up (which people have a tendency to do when unexplained voices show up). She cleared her throat and the voice continued.
"You see, recently, you and Beast Boy have been growing closer." Raven opened her mouth to interrupt but the voice continued. "I'm not talking in weeks, months or years. I'm talking about lifetimes. You see, you knew Garfield Logan in all of your past lives. Often just as an acquaintance but lately as a friend. And now something is going to happen that he has waited 10,000 years for. You are going to get to know each other, the best way possible. He is going to experience the 8 repressed sides of you, Happiness, Timidity, Knowledge, Crudeness, Wisdom, Bravery, Rage and Affection, over 8 days. And you will sit back, enjoy the show and have no control! Have fun!"
Raven was stunned, but there was hardly any time to process the huge load of information she had just received because a window had appeared. It was floating in mid-air and it showed a scene that Raven was familiar with. The main-room of Titans Tower. Under close inspection, Raven realised it was a view through her body's eyes.
Starfire was sitting on the couch doing Raven's hair. Starfire was surprised when Raven had suggested this, but soon realised that this was probably her only opportunity to play with Raven's shiny, purple hair. "So where are the boys?" The aforementioned sorceress asked. "They have gone to the store for the supplies of the Yibberbosh." Starfire replied, putting another plait in Raven's hair.
Raven smiled. "I like it when you guys do these things for me. Even the birthday party was fun. Well, the second one. I like Cyborg's cake. It tastes like all the yummiest things in the world put together in a mass of green, brown, white and pink!" She giggled at the memory of the cake.
Just then, the boys walked in with bags labelled, 'Jump City Party Palace". Raven covered her eyes and ran giggling out of the room. The titans, as confused as they were, just shook their heads and started unpacking. Beast Boy wandered off somewhere to escape the work of putting up streamers and the like.
Soon the team had finished setting up the very dark party and decided to go to bed. "So, what do you guys think of the new happy, giggly, creepy Raven?" Beast Boy asked the team, wandering in from the corridor. Cyborg shrugged, "she's OK, I guess. It's nice to see her smile." Starfire however was delighted and cried cheerily, "It is wondrous to see friend Raven smiling. She also lets me do the 'doing of the hair'. I have waited long for a chance such as this! What say you, friend Robin?" Robin just grunted and went to his room. "he's so emo." Beast Boy commented as he entered his own room.
Well, that's that I guess. Once again, seriously sorry for the humongous wait. D: I hoped you liked it and as always, constructive criticism and praise is welcome!