Chapter 20 'Fire'

"He's not here!" Beast Boy exclaimed in a frustrated tone. "How could he not be here? This is the exact spot I left him at!"

"Are you sure that we didn't make a wrong turn-."

"I'm positive!" Beast Boy answered cutting the dark girl off. "Agh, what kind of friend am I, just leaving him out here like that when anything could have happened since last night."

"It's not your fault," Raven said in a comforting tone as she reached out to place a firm hand on the green boy's shoulder. "It wouldn't have been safe for either of us to venture out last night. We will find him Beast Boy, we just need to keep looking."

"But how could he have moved?" He asked as he turned to look Raven in the eyes.

The empath instantly felt guilt flood over her as she noticed the water beginning to form in Beast Boy's eyes. She couldn't imagine the overwhelming feeling of regret he was feeling for not staying with his friend and helping him. Sure, she could sense most of it, thanks to her powers but she knew he was holding back a bit for her benefit.

"You need to think positively," Raven demanded. "If he's moved from the spot you left him at there's a good chance that someone has found him. There are still plenty of titans left in the games, one of them could have very well found him and fixed him by now."

"Yeah but, I'm supposed to be his best friend Raven. What kind of best friend doesn't even try to-."

"You said you heard a canon fire, you couldn't have possibly known it wasn't him when you had every reason to believe it was," she said in a matter of fact tone.

The changeling let out a long sigh as he collected himself. "You're right, I just wish I could have done more. I hope Cy's alright…wherever he's at."

"If it makes you feel any better maybe I could contact Robin and…Beast Boy look out!" Raven exclaimed as a tree beside them proceeded to blow up due to her powers.

Beast Boy quickly spun around only to witness a rather frightening sight. Giant balls of fire were zipping through the jungle at light speed, catching onto trees and causing them to crash around the two titans.

"Run!" Beast Boy yelled before transforming into his cheetah form and taking off.

Raven wasn't too far behind him flying steadily and as quickly as she possibly could. She knew those fireballs had to have been contrived by Slade as some sort of secret weapon in the games but she was too busy worrying about how far they'd have to flee, deciphering Slade's motives would have to come later. She decided to take a quick peek behind her to see if just maybe the attack had stopped. She hadn't heard any trees dropping in a little while so there was a possibility.

As it turned out that was a bad idea. Unfortunately, as soon as the half demon turned around a streak of fire shot through the sky and snapped off a rather large branch off of one of the trees directly above her. Before she realized what had happened the limb was upon her, stopping her in midflight and knocking her to the ground. Luckily she was able to toss the limb off of her with the help of her powers but the flames were growing increasingly closer to her thanks to the lapse in time.

Raven quickly got to her feet and just as her feet began to levitate she felt a sharp tug on her cape. It was just her luck that her cape had gotten stuck on the branch as well. Pulling one, two, three times she was finally able to rip a small piece of the cape off and free herself.

"Get down!" She heard a familiar voice exclaim just before she was tackled to the ground.

She could feel her eyes turning into slits, ready to glare at the shapeshifter when a large fireball came flying over them and crashing into the nearest tree.

"How did you…" Raven began just as another ball of fire came crashing into the tree directly next to them.

The violet haired girl knew this wasn't good, they couldn't stay lying on the ground like this forever. Eventually one of the fireballs would hit them or a tree would come crashing down on top of them.

"Beast Boy, I need to you hang on very tightly, okay?" She yelled over the roar of the flames.

"Uh, what exactly do you plan on-AH!" Yelled the green boy as he was engulfed by a large black raven. Thinking quickly he grabbed onto the emapth's waist for dear life as she teleported them back to the safety of the cave.

"Jeez Raven, next time you're going to do that, warn me," Beast Boy said.

"I did warn you. If we'd stayed there any longer we would have been burnt to a crisp," Raven retorted.

She glared up at her teammate before realizing that Beast Boy's face was directly in front of hers. When she'd teleported them she had forgotten the compromising position they had been in during the firestorm.

"Um…" she began in her monotone.

Beast Boy must have noticed her blush because he quickly got a look of realization on his face and jumped backwards so he was no longer hovering over her lying form.

"Heh, sorry about that I-."

"It's alright," Raven replied as she sat up. "Thank you for…back there."

"S'no problem," Beast Boy said with a simple wave of his hand as he proceeded to get a pained look on his face.

"Are you alright?" Raven asked genuinely looking worried.

"Yeah, it's just my back," Beast Boy replied with a wince.

"Turn around," Raven commanded.

The changeling gave her a confused look before doing what she had demanded. When he did so Raven couldn't help the small gasp that escaped from her lips.

"What?" Beast Boy asked in a somewhat panicked tone.

"Nothing, your uniform is just ripped, I uh, think I can fix it," Raven lied as she stared at the horrible burn that he must have received when the fireball had whizzed over top of them.

"Oh, sorry about that Rae. I guess I must have just pulled something back there and-."

"Yeah," she interrupted. "Why don't you lie down and I'll see if I can thread it back together."

"Yeah…okay," he replied giving her a slightly confused glance.

The dark girl knew he would surely have a problem with her healing him for the second day in a row. In fact, she wasn't sure she was even up to it today. The gash in his leg from yesterday had taken a lot out of her and she knew she was still recovering from that, but she wasn't going to allow him to go traipsing around the jungle with a severe injury. Gently she reached out and placed her hand on his back, making sure his eyes were averted from hers she formed the blue glow around her hand and began the healing process.

"Dude, if you can teleport us places do you think we can find Cyborg by-."

"I can only teleport to places we've been in the arena, Slade's made sure that I can't use my powers to get out, trust me I've tried, and seeing how I don't know where Cyborg is I couldn't very well do so."

"Right, hadn't thought of that," Beast Boy said with a sigh. "So what do you think those fire ball thingies were about?" He asked.

"Probably something Slade contrived to kill off a few components that were too sane to go around killing anything that moved," Raven replied trying to keep her focus.

Beast Boy shivered at this comment. Or it might have been from the healing, Raven wasn't entirely sure. "Who do you think that canon was for this morning?" He asked.

"Wouldn't know," she said in her typical tone.

Beast Boy quirked an eyebrow at this as he glanced back slightly to see what she had been doing behind him. She'd been back there for awhile now, and while his back had been beginning to feel better he knew his clothes still weren't fixed. And that's when he saw it, the faint blue glow formed around her hands as she leaned over him with a determined look on her face.

"Hey!" He exclaimed as he quickly flipped over so she couldn't reach his back.

The half-demon's eyes narrowed at him. "What?" She asked.

"You were totally healing me!"

"Brilliant observation," Raven stated with a roll of her eyes.

"Are you sure it's a good idea if you…Raven?" He asked noticing the strange look that had come over the empath's features.

In an instant she slipped into unconsciousness and Beast Boy had to scramble to grab a hold of her before she smacked her head against the rocks. He knew it was typical of her not to mention what she had been doing, especially because she knew he wouldn't want her risking her health to do so. But staring at her now with her eyes closed and her body completely limp he couldn't help but wonder why she was trying so hard to make sure he was okay. Sure, Raven cared for all of her teammates but was she willing to risk her health for all of them? When Beast Boy thought about it she probably was.

"Agh, stop letting your mind play tricks on you Beast Boy," he whispered to himself. "Raven cares about all of you guys, stop looking into this so much. Just because you want her to like you doesn't mean she will." Looking back down to his violet haired teammate Beast Boy carefully pulled her towards him and placed her head on his lap so she would be more comfortable while she rested. "It doesn't matter if you like me or not Rae, you're going to be okay, I promise I won't let anything happen to you."

A soft clinking sound filled Beast Boy's ears. Looking around he realized it was a small rectangular device that had drifted to the edge of the waterfall. He stared at it momentarily before looking back down to the resting girl. Her cape had blown out around her so he really didn't feel bad about twisting it into a make-shift pillow while he went to check up on the object. After all, for all he knew it could be some kind of bomb Slade was planting to take them out because the fire hadn't worked.

When he reached the object he could see the letter 'T' embroidered on the front of the box. The green teen looked cautiously back and forth before bringing the device inside and opening it up. inside was a small vile of liquid with a note placed underneath it.

Beast Boy,

You and Raven are a hit here. You guys literally have the viewer's complete attention, they love you and they'll keep loving you as long as you keep up the star struck lover boy attitude. I managed to send you some Azarathian potion that should restore Raven back to normal health. Hope it helps.

- J

Beast Boy stared down at the vile of liquid in his hands. Keeping up the lover boy act wouldn't be too hard for him, not getting killed by Raven on the other hand…that was going to be the hard part.

BBRAE drama to come in the future! I'm pretty excited for it. What about you guys? And don't worry, I know I haven't told you who the canon was for yet but the next chapter will reveal all.

As always, I love your feedback cause you're all so awesome.

Xoxo-Megz