Chapter Ten: To Learn Magic
The next day Beast Boy awoke early, long before Raven even awoke. He was back at the tribe so he knew he had to get up. The tribe men always awoke early to do the hunting and gathering before it got to hot outside. He walked down the hall and stopped outside of Ravens room and listened closely. He knew she had a little trouble sleeping due to being in a strange area. She'll grow to love it eventually right now he needed to head out. He ran into Huru on his way out and asked her to wait for Raven to wake and tell her where he was. She nodded and left for his hut.
When Beast Boy is talking to other members of the tribe it's in Swahili Raven too.
"Ah, Garfield thought you weren't going to show up. Glad you did." Tibito was Huru's husband to be and Beast Boy liked the man. He and BB had been good friends before he was taken away and he knew Huru would be well taken care of.
"As much as it pains me I wouldn't miss this hunting trip." The other's laughed at him knowing full well Garfield was a vegetarian.
"Well we don't expect you to hunt Gar, we are just glad you came to join us and talk." BB nodded his head he'd go gathering later with them too but he needed to make sure that Tibito would be able to provide for Huru, he knew he'd take care of her just unsure as to provide.
"Well let's get started then. Let's see if your skills have improved since we were kids. I do recall I beat you in everything." BB smirked at his old friend and ran off, even without his enhanced abilities Garfield could out run them all.
Raven awoke a couple hours later, the sun had only just risen above the horizon. She woke up at this time at home. She yawned when she noticed something was missing and something replaced it. Beast Boy was not in the house but someone else was. Raven got up and threw her cloak on and ran to the kitchen area. There she saw Huru, she had started a fire and was chopping onions and carrots. Raven took a deep breath and hoped that Huru would understand.
"Oh, Good morning Princess Raven, Prince Garfield has gone out in the morning hunt with the other men of the village he won't be back till the sun is full risen." Raven stood dumbstruck, Beast Boy had gone hunting.
"Wait, Garfield, my Garfield went hunting. Like hunting with a spear, bow and arrows kind of hunting." Huru looked at Raven like she was nuts. What other kind of hunting is there?
"Of course, it's the way here. We hunt and gather for our food. Now we do have farms but in till the crop comes in we must gather. What is so wrong with Prince Garfield going hunting?"
"What's so wrong? Gar is a vegetarian he would sooner die then hurt an animal." Huru smiled at Raven. She had forgot to tell Raven that he would not actually be hunting himself, though if he did she was sure there would be much more food to go around.
"Oh, Princess Raven I am truly sorry, I forgot to say he would not be hunting himself he just went with the hunting party to get to know my soon to be husband. Though they were best friends as children, it has been a long time since he has seen him. I think he wishes to make sure Tibito will be able to care and provide for me. It is actually quite sweet of him." Raven looked away, she had no idea Beast Boy took this so seriously. He was after all the Prince and he performed his duties well, with only a day or two here.
"I'm sorry Huru for freaking out. It's just I've known Garfield since we were fourteen and he wasn't always this serious, he's the jokester back were we came from." Huru nodded her head and smiled.
"Do not fear, he is still like that he just know when he is here he also must show the other men that he is capable of being our leader one day. If he does not he will be challenged for it." Raven nodded and kneeled down next to Huru.
"Huru, do you mind teaching me a few things. I mean as a wife in the village, if I'm truly going to become this queen one day." Huru smiled and set to work teaching Raven.
"Later when Prince Garfield returns we'll go gathering that is his favorite part of the day it's just before the hottest part."
The men had come back from the hunt all wearing the same thing shorts seemed to be the most popular among men, skirts and tube tops among the women. Raven started to get frustrated with her outfit about half way through the morning. He cloak grabbed everything within reach of it. Her leotard was too tight in the morning kitchen heat, and since it was black did not help her cool off. She changed into something more of the tribe style and continued on with her duties with Huru.
Beast Boy came back at the end of the hunting party with Tibito laughing with him about something or other. Tibito stopped laughing and looked towards the huts and saw Huru and left Beast Boy in the dust a little confused till he saw Huru. Laughing again he ran after him.
"Hey Huru, did you tell Rae where I was going to be?"
"Yes and she nearly had a heart attack about it. I forgot you're a vegetarian." Beast Boy laughed at this.
"Well alright, ready to go gathering?" Beast Boy was facing away from his hut and Raven came out and pressed her fingers to her lips, she floated up into the air so she could sneak up on him. However, Beast Boy turned around just as she reached him and put his arms around her.
"You can't sneak up on me, Rae." Raven laughed a little waited for him to let her go. He kissed her forehead but noticed something amiss, her cloak. Looking down he nearly feel over. Raven was wearing a long tube top that stopped just below her belly button and a pair of his shorts, that he was sure she used magic on to make them fit. Huru started to laugh at the shocked look on his face and it snapped him out of it. "You look great Rae!" Raven blushed but said thank you all the same.
"Alright, let's get gathering before the sun rises too high and Gar here starves to death." Huru reached for Tibito's hand and raced off, Raven and Beast Boy right behind them.
It had been a long morning for both Beast Boy and Raven but they knew they had to start training. Beast Boy had a lot to learn about Raven's powers. He understood they worked based off of emotions but since Raven could control her powers so it made it easier on Beast Boy.
"To start with I'm going to teach you how to meditate." Beast Boy nodded and waited for instruction. "First find a comfortable position, mine is the lotus." She waited for Beast Boy to find a comfortable position. It ended up him sitting against a tree eyes closed. "Now find your center and enter it." She did this and waited for Beast Boy to do the same. Once he got there she started to chant and Beast Boy fell into the same monotone and they chanted together. They did this for an hour and when they stopped Raven looked over at Beast Boy. He was looking around with a shocked look on his face.
"What's wrong Beast Boy?" He looked around once more and looked at Raven.
"I feel very relaxed and my senses are super enhanced like I can hear everything, see farther, and heck I can smell every person within a few miles. It's crazy, like I never knew I could do all this." Raven smiled at Beast Boy, this was good he was doing great for the meditation part of it all.
"Alright that's great, that means you did it right. Believe me I feel the same after a little bit of meditation. Now let's get started on controlling the powers, like moving things and throwing. Now concentrate on that rock. I want you to imagine it lifting into the air and being thrown into a tree." Beast Boy did as she said and within a couple seconds of her instruction the rock was thrown into the tree.
"Yes, that was easy!" Beast Boy jumped up and did a victory dance. Raven laughed a little at it but was wondering on how he was able to do that so fast. It took her three days to do it.
"Gar, how did you do that so fast?" Beast Boy looked down at her and plopped down next to her.
"Oh it's a bit like my powers. I have to imagine and concentrate on the animal I want to be and poof I'm that animal. Like your powers I imagine and concentrate on what I want the rock to do and poof it does it." Raven smiled this was going to be way easier then she thought.
"Well let's keep going." For the next couple hours they practiced with all of Raven's powers. They even tried out some of Beast Boy's tribe magic. To his surprise Raven too was able to use the magic, had to be the mate link thing. Soon it was too hot to do anything.
"We can continue later Rae, when the sun starts to set. Right now we risk getting heat stroke and I'm burning up." He reached out a hand to help Raven up and they walked back to his hut arm and arm. Raven then noticed that he was really warm, warmer than most people would be. He had a thin layer of fur on his body.
'No wonder he's not cold when the rest of us are in the tower.'
"I wonder where the others are." Almost like reading her thoughts Beast Boy put them into words.
"We'll try to figure it out tomorrow hopefully they are okay."