Beast Boy looked remotely surprised himself. He and Raven both blushed and he took his hand off hers.
"Oops, forgot. No physical contact..," he muttered.
Raven was about to reply when suddenly, the room became pitch black.
Both of them stood up. "What happened?" Beast Boy asked.
"The lights..he found a way to turn them off from the outside...he wants in."
"And I bet he's gonna find a way in too...Raven, I think it's time we kicked some serious
Shadow butt."
"Cover me," Raven ordered, and raised her hands to face the door, her palms filled with
powerful dark energy.
"I gotcher back," Beast Boy replied from behind her.
There was a moment of silence in which both Raven and Beast Boy watched the door warily....then BOOM!
The door exploded and after the smoke cleared, Shadow stood there, but he looked different.
He had long black hair, fangs, and instead of legs, a gassy looking funnel descended from his waist.
"Whoa, dude!" Beast Boy squealed.
"Oh boy..," said Raven under her breath.
Shadow drew back his head and roared, making him expose his newly developed fangs.
Beast Boy and Raven wasted no more time, Raven flew upwards and fired the energy from her hands while Beast Boy
changed into a polar bear and charged at Shadow from below. He took a swipe at Shadow with one giant paw, only to be
knocked backwards by a blast of energy.
"Beast Boy, hold on," Raven said from above, and shot at Shadow, firing what looked to be bullets from her hands.
Beast Boy quickly jumped up and transformed into a tiger. He pounced at Shadow just as Shadow was rising up toward the ceiling.
Shadow and Raven met opposite each other in the air.
"See what happens when you let anger and hate take control? You become invincible!" he bellowed, and then cackled.
"Then I'd rather not be invincible," Raven replied angrily. Closing her eyes, she raised a finger to her forehead and chanted,
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos."
Shadow prepared to attack when all of a sudden, the broken door hit him from behind and knocked him to the floor.
And just as he was about to get up, Beast Boy knocked him into the wall by charging at him as a rhino.
"Alright!" Beast Boy shouted happily and grinned up at Raven. The smile was wiped from his face when he saw that she
was not looking pleased. Reluctantly, he returned his gaze to Shadow, who had gotten back up, and his eyes were now glowing
a dangerous red.
"FOOLISH CHILDREN, ALL YOU HAVE DOWN IS INCREASE MY POWERS!" he shouted, his voice sounding much more
deep and monster-like.
He turned to Beast Boy and shot red laser beams out of his eyes.
"Whaaa," yelped Beast Boy, dodging it by turning into a parrot.
He flew up to Raven, who was pelting Shadow with more energy bullets.
"Got any plans?" she managed to say through attacks.
"Yah," Beast Boy replied, "Don't get hit!"
They both flew out of the way as Shadow sent powerful waves of energy at them.
Being so close to the open doorway, Raven and Beast Boy took the opportunity to escape to the hall.
Shadow came floating out after them, firing with his laser eyes.
"YOU CAN RUN ALL YOU WANT BUT IT'S NO USE! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE DESTINY!"
"And you can't escape destiny in prison."
Shadow turned to his right, and was blown away by a sonic blast.
"Alright! It worked this time!" said a happy Cyborg.
"Robin, Star, Cy!" Beast Boy said astonished, "You guys made it!"
"You bet we did," Robin replied, "And it looks like we did just in time."
Starfire flew over to Raven and Beast Boy. "Friends, you are unharmed?"
"Somewhat..," murmured Raven.
"How did you find us?" asked Beast Boy amazed.
"Through a search on Shadow...we couldn't find anything on him about any previous thefts, but then a page
about this place popped up. Said how a patient escaped from here when this place was running. Someone
named Adrian Perry...," explained Robin.
"Guy was a total nutjob," Cyborg continued. "Crazy loner who believed the world's destruction would end all his
problems. Even confused his inmates when he said he could communicate with his shadow."
"Sounds like him," said Raven.
"How did you figure out where to go?" Robin asked Beast Boy, and everyone else stared at him curiously.
"Uhhhhhhh," Beast Boy replied nervously, "Lucky guess?"
The Titans didn't have time to reply, for Cyborg was then blasted with a ball of Shadow's dark energy.
"I HAVEN'T BEEN DEFEATED YET TITANS, NOR WILL I EVER!" Shadow roared.
"Titans, go!" Robin commanded.
Raven and Starfire both flew at Shadow, Starfire firing her starbolts, Raven her dark energy.
Robin headed for Shadow himself until the dark figure dropped down right in front of him.
"Looking for something?" Robin asked, and then attempted to kick Shadow in the stomach.
But his foot went right through.
"Huh?" Robin said confused.
He looked up, and got blown backwards by a ball of energy.
"Don't worry, Robin, I got 'im," said Cyborg, rushing to his side. Cyborg raised his right arm and
shot at Shadow with a sonic blast. This attack went through him as well.
"WHAT! THAT WAS A DIRECT HIT!" Cyborg shouted.
"It's his shadow," Robin said suddenly, "You can't hit his shadow. You can only hit his normal form."
Robin and Cyborg both looked over at the real Shadow, who was fighting Raven and Starfire.
"Titans! I have a plan!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy leaned in and listened carefully.
"Since we can't attack the fake Shadow, we're gonna have to concretrate all our attacks on the real one. But
we're gonna need to distract the fake one somehow---"
"Leave it to me!" Beast Boy chimed in.
"Sure you can handle it on your own Beast Boy?" asked Robin.
"Hey, they don't call me Beast Boy the Super Great for nuthin," he replied, polishing his nails on his uniform.
Robin and Cyborg exchanged looks of confusion.
"Right....," said Cyborg, "Just be on a lookout for him."
Robin and Cyborg rushed over to help Raven and Starfire. Beast Boy stood alone, glancing around.
"You want some of this?" Cyborg shouted, shooting at Shadow with his sonic cannon.
Shadow dodged Cyborg's attack and shot at him with the lasers from his eyes.
"Whoa!" said Cyborg, diving out of the way.
"Yaahh!" yelled Starfire, as she hurled more starbolts at Shadow. One actually hit him this time and Shadow
staggered in the air. But he quickly regained himself and shot his laser beams at her. The first two didn't hit her
but on the third beam, she wasn't so lucky.
Starfire dropped through the air.
Robin looked up. "Starfire!" he gasped, and jumped up to catch her in his arms.
"Raven!" he called. Raven looked down at them and immediately flew over.
"What happened?" she asked, looking at Starfire.
"She's been hit," Robin replied, uncovering her shoulder.
Raven leaned forward, her hands glowing with black energy, and placed them on Starfire's shoulder.
Underneath, the torn skin came back together, and the wound healed automatically.
Starfire slowly opened her eyes, and touched her healed shoulder.
She then looked at Robin and Raven. "Thank you both!" she said brightly.
"Anytime," muttered Raven.
"Could you guys hurry it up over there?" Cyborg shouted while trying to avoid an attack by Shadow. "I'm
gettin' my butt kicked!"
The three of them hurried back over to Cyborg. Beast Boy watched the scene a good fifty feet away.
"Okay...nuthin to do but watch them destroy Shadow...or the other way around. What am I doing? I should
be helping! Standing around like this is pointless! Why did Robin make me do this? Wait, I volunteered...
Well now I'm volunteering to go help!"
Beast Boy started running in the direction of the fight when suddenly, the shadow appeared in front of him.
"Going somewhere Changeling?" it asked.
"Not anymore!" Beast Boy replied, and turned into an eagle. The shadow fired at him with its lasers.
Beast Boy evaded it with his aerial agility.
"Looks like BB found Shadow's evil twin," said Cyborg to Robin as Robin tossed a freeze disc at the real Shadow.
Raven overheard and looked in his direction. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw Beast Boy fighting the shadow on his own.
But she didn't have time to go help, as a ball of energy was shot at her.
"Can't catch me," said Beast Boy in human form, then turned into a frog and hopped out of the way as laser beams came
his direction.
"Star!" Cyborg shouted across the hall. She flew over to him wearing an eager face.
"I need a lift."
"Hiyah!" Robin said as he tried a high kick in the air. Shadow caught him by the leg and threw him into a wall.
"Think you can dodge it this time?" said Cyborg, who was being held up in the air by Starfire, titanium suit and all.
The sonic energy burst out of his sonic cannon and scored a direct hit at Shadow, making him fall to the ground.
"This is almost too easy," Beast Boy said lazily as he sprang out of the way of more lasers.
"This fight's over, Shadow," said Robin, the team gathered around the fallen villain.
"Surrender, we do not wish to fight you anymore," Starfire pleaded.
"Hey, are you blind?" Beast Boy teased the shadow, "I'm over here!"
The shadow roared in frustration. It immediately started firing lasers in every direction at Beast Boy.
Beast Boy dove of the way and looked at his left arm. There was a burn on his sleeve from where the laser had grazed it.
"Whoa, that almost hit me...," he whispered to himself. "Whaaaa!" he yelped and jumped out of the way again as a ball of energy
came his way.
"You think you've won...you think it's over..," Shadow mumbled on the floor as the Titans watched.
Beast Boy flew over the shadow, but he couldn't dodge the new speed of the lasers, and one of his wings was struck as soon
as he got up in the air.
"Ooww," Beast Boy cringed and held his arm while sitting on the floor. "Uh oh...," he heard himself mutter as a dark figure stood
over him.
"You've had the upper hand until now Titans," Shadow continued, "But now...now you're the ones who are going to be left in pain and
despair...now it is you who will spend the rest of your days in misery..." Shadow lifted his head and looked past them at the helpless
Beast Boy. "If I am going to pay...so is he....AAGGHH!" he shouted as he raised himself up.
All four of the Titans used their powers on him at once, causing a huge cloud of smoke to rise up and block their view.
When the smoke finally did clear, Shadow lay on the ground, not moving at all.
"Is he...dead?" Starfire asked cautiously.
Robin put a hand to his neck. "No, just knocked out I think."
"Whew, that was a tough one," said Cyborg wearily. "How'd you handle, BB?"
No answer.
"BB?"
The Titans looked across the hall. Beast Boy laid on the floor, looking deadly still.
Starfire gasped.
Raven looked at him in shock. "No...," she whispered.
She flew over and kneeled down next to him. "Beast Boy?" she said softly.
Looking him over, she saw that there were burns all over where the lasers had hit through him.
Raven put her hands on his shoulders and shook him hard. "Beast Boy, wake up!" she shouted at him.
Still there was no movement or any signs of life.
Raven swallowed. Her eyes were now starting to shine with tears. "Beast Boy you have to wake up..."
The rest of the team was standing over Beast Boy now. They were looking from Beast Boy to Raven in agony.
"You have to...," Raven whispered, a tear rolling down her cheek.
Beast Boy didn't move. His green skin glowed paler than normal.
Raven looked down and closed her eyes. She fought back more tears as they plummeted against her eyelids.
No..he can't be dead..he just can't be....There has to be a way.....
Raven lifted her head up and placed both her hands on Beast Boy's face.
"Azarath Met--"
"Raven, what are you doing?" Starfire asked tearfully.
Raven ignored her.
She closed her eyes and focused all of herself on Beast Boy. Her mind, soul, and heart, everything, was focused on him.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
Beast Boy's body began to glow with dark energy...Raven's energy...
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His wounds...they started to heal themselves....she felt them healing....
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His heart....she felt it start pumping life back into his body....
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His mind....she felt it awaken and come to life again....
Raven continued her chant, but only in her mind. She kept her eyes closed. She held her breath.
Then she heard the sound of someone letting their breath out, and she heard the rest of the team gasp.
Raven slowly opened her eyes. And when she did, she came face to face with Beast Boy's green ones.
"Whoa...," he said, awestruck. "What just happened?"
Raven immediately took her hands off of Beast Boy's face. She let out her breath and looked at the floor.
Beast Boy looked down at his chest. "Whoa, what happened to all my burns?" he said, thoroughly surprised.
Cyborg held out his hand and lifted Beast Boy to his feet. "It was Raven, man, you should of seen what she did to you."
Robin and Starfire were staring at Raven, looking half worried and half amazed.
Raven stood up, and swayed on the spot. Robin and Starfire grabbed her to keep her from falling.
"Are you alright?" asked Robin, looking concerned.
"Yah...," she answered, sounding a bit drowsy, "Just a little dizzy..."
"Then let's head home," said Cyborg suddenly, "I'm more than ready for a nap."
"I'm with you on that one!" Beast Boy said, grinning.
"Me and Star will just go grab Shadow," said Robin.
As they followed Cyborg to the outside, Beast Boy paused and grabbed Raven's shoulder.
"What?" she asked, turning around to look at him.
"I don't know what you did back there Raven, but uhh....thanks," he said, somewhat shyly.
"You're welcome," Raven replied. They both looked at each other.
********************************
"Finally!" Beast Boy said excitedly, "Sunlight!"
The rising sun peeked over the city's buildings.
"We all ready to go?" asked Robin as Starfire followed behind him, carrying Shadow.
"You bet!" Cyborg exclaimed. "And guess who gets a front seat!"
"Me?" asked Beast Boy surprised, pointing at himself.
Cyborg grinned. "That's right! You earned it man! Just don't mess with my controls...."
Beast Boy looked at Raven and saw a small smile escape her lips.
"You know what? I think I'm going to have to pass on that," Beast Boy replied in a superior tone.
And he crawled to the back seat with Raven leaving the rest of them looking utterly confused.
~Finished~
(A/N: Whew, finally finished! Man, that was a lot longer than expected. Hope you guys enjoyed it though! _ I'm thinking
about writing another Teen Titans fic, maybe what would be the next episode after this one. Good idea? Yes? No?)
"Oops, forgot. No physical contact..," he muttered.
Raven was about to reply when suddenly, the room became pitch black.
Both of them stood up. "What happened?" Beast Boy asked.
"The lights..he found a way to turn them off from the outside...he wants in."
"And I bet he's gonna find a way in too...Raven, I think it's time we kicked some serious
Shadow butt."
"Cover me," Raven ordered, and raised her hands to face the door, her palms filled with
powerful dark energy.
"I gotcher back," Beast Boy replied from behind her.
There was a moment of silence in which both Raven and Beast Boy watched the door warily....then BOOM!
The door exploded and after the smoke cleared, Shadow stood there, but he looked different.
He had long black hair, fangs, and instead of legs, a gassy looking funnel descended from his waist.
"Whoa, dude!" Beast Boy squealed.
"Oh boy..," said Raven under her breath.
Shadow drew back his head and roared, making him expose his newly developed fangs.
Beast Boy and Raven wasted no more time, Raven flew upwards and fired the energy from her hands while Beast Boy
changed into a polar bear and charged at Shadow from below. He took a swipe at Shadow with one giant paw, only to be
knocked backwards by a blast of energy.
"Beast Boy, hold on," Raven said from above, and shot at Shadow, firing what looked to be bullets from her hands.
Beast Boy quickly jumped up and transformed into a tiger. He pounced at Shadow just as Shadow was rising up toward the ceiling.
Shadow and Raven met opposite each other in the air.
"See what happens when you let anger and hate take control? You become invincible!" he bellowed, and then cackled.
"Then I'd rather not be invincible," Raven replied angrily. Closing her eyes, she raised a finger to her forehead and chanted,
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos."
Shadow prepared to attack when all of a sudden, the broken door hit him from behind and knocked him to the floor.
And just as he was about to get up, Beast Boy knocked him into the wall by charging at him as a rhino.
"Alright!" Beast Boy shouted happily and grinned up at Raven. The smile was wiped from his face when he saw that she
was not looking pleased. Reluctantly, he returned his gaze to Shadow, who had gotten back up, and his eyes were now glowing
a dangerous red.
"FOOLISH CHILDREN, ALL YOU HAVE DOWN IS INCREASE MY POWERS!" he shouted, his voice sounding much more
deep and monster-like.
He turned to Beast Boy and shot red laser beams out of his eyes.
"Whaaa," yelped Beast Boy, dodging it by turning into a parrot.
He flew up to Raven, who was pelting Shadow with more energy bullets.
"Got any plans?" she managed to say through attacks.
"Yah," Beast Boy replied, "Don't get hit!"
They both flew out of the way as Shadow sent powerful waves of energy at them.
Being so close to the open doorway, Raven and Beast Boy took the opportunity to escape to the hall.
Shadow came floating out after them, firing with his laser eyes.
"YOU CAN RUN ALL YOU WANT BUT IT'S NO USE! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE DESTINY!"
"And you can't escape destiny in prison."
Shadow turned to his right, and was blown away by a sonic blast.
"Alright! It worked this time!" said a happy Cyborg.
"Robin, Star, Cy!" Beast Boy said astonished, "You guys made it!"
"You bet we did," Robin replied, "And it looks like we did just in time."
Starfire flew over to Raven and Beast Boy. "Friends, you are unharmed?"
"Somewhat..," murmured Raven.
"How did you find us?" asked Beast Boy amazed.
"Through a search on Shadow...we couldn't find anything on him about any previous thefts, but then a page
about this place popped up. Said how a patient escaped from here when this place was running. Someone
named Adrian Perry...," explained Robin.
"Guy was a total nutjob," Cyborg continued. "Crazy loner who believed the world's destruction would end all his
problems. Even confused his inmates when he said he could communicate with his shadow."
"Sounds like him," said Raven.
"How did you figure out where to go?" Robin asked Beast Boy, and everyone else stared at him curiously.
"Uhhhhhhh," Beast Boy replied nervously, "Lucky guess?"
The Titans didn't have time to reply, for Cyborg was then blasted with a ball of Shadow's dark energy.
"I HAVEN'T BEEN DEFEATED YET TITANS, NOR WILL I EVER!" Shadow roared.
"Titans, go!" Robin commanded.
Raven and Starfire both flew at Shadow, Starfire firing her starbolts, Raven her dark energy.
Robin headed for Shadow himself until the dark figure dropped down right in front of him.
"Looking for something?" Robin asked, and then attempted to kick Shadow in the stomach.
But his foot went right through.
"Huh?" Robin said confused.
He looked up, and got blown backwards by a ball of energy.
"Don't worry, Robin, I got 'im," said Cyborg, rushing to his side. Cyborg raised his right arm and
shot at Shadow with a sonic blast. This attack went through him as well.
"WHAT! THAT WAS A DIRECT HIT!" Cyborg shouted.
"It's his shadow," Robin said suddenly, "You can't hit his shadow. You can only hit his normal form."
Robin and Cyborg both looked over at the real Shadow, who was fighting Raven and Starfire.
"Titans! I have a plan!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy leaned in and listened carefully.
"Since we can't attack the fake Shadow, we're gonna have to concretrate all our attacks on the real one. But
we're gonna need to distract the fake one somehow---"
"Leave it to me!" Beast Boy chimed in.
"Sure you can handle it on your own Beast Boy?" asked Robin.
"Hey, they don't call me Beast Boy the Super Great for nuthin," he replied, polishing his nails on his uniform.
Robin and Cyborg exchanged looks of confusion.
"Right....," said Cyborg, "Just be on a lookout for him."
Robin and Cyborg rushed over to help Raven and Starfire. Beast Boy stood alone, glancing around.
"You want some of this?" Cyborg shouted, shooting at Shadow with his sonic cannon.
Shadow dodged Cyborg's attack and shot at him with the lasers from his eyes.
"Whoa!" said Cyborg, diving out of the way.
"Yaahh!" yelled Starfire, as she hurled more starbolts at Shadow. One actually hit him this time and Shadow
staggered in the air. But he quickly regained himself and shot his laser beams at her. The first two didn't hit her
but on the third beam, she wasn't so lucky.
Starfire dropped through the air.
Robin looked up. "Starfire!" he gasped, and jumped up to catch her in his arms.
"Raven!" he called. Raven looked down at them and immediately flew over.
"What happened?" she asked, looking at Starfire.
"She's been hit," Robin replied, uncovering her shoulder.
Raven leaned forward, her hands glowing with black energy, and placed them on Starfire's shoulder.
Underneath, the torn skin came back together, and the wound healed automatically.
Starfire slowly opened her eyes, and touched her healed shoulder.
She then looked at Robin and Raven. "Thank you both!" she said brightly.
"Anytime," muttered Raven.
"Could you guys hurry it up over there?" Cyborg shouted while trying to avoid an attack by Shadow. "I'm
gettin' my butt kicked!"
The three of them hurried back over to Cyborg. Beast Boy watched the scene a good fifty feet away.
"Okay...nuthin to do but watch them destroy Shadow...or the other way around. What am I doing? I should
be helping! Standing around like this is pointless! Why did Robin make me do this? Wait, I volunteered...
Well now I'm volunteering to go help!"
Beast Boy started running in the direction of the fight when suddenly, the shadow appeared in front of him.
"Going somewhere Changeling?" it asked.
"Not anymore!" Beast Boy replied, and turned into an eagle. The shadow fired at him with its lasers.
Beast Boy evaded it with his aerial agility.
"Looks like BB found Shadow's evil twin," said Cyborg to Robin as Robin tossed a freeze disc at the real Shadow.
Raven overheard and looked in his direction. Her eyes widened in fear as she saw Beast Boy fighting the shadow on his own.
But she didn't have time to go help, as a ball of energy was shot at her.
"Can't catch me," said Beast Boy in human form, then turned into a frog and hopped out of the way as laser beams came
his direction.
"Star!" Cyborg shouted across the hall. She flew over to him wearing an eager face.
"I need a lift."
"Hiyah!" Robin said as he tried a high kick in the air. Shadow caught him by the leg and threw him into a wall.
"Think you can dodge it this time?" said Cyborg, who was being held up in the air by Starfire, titanium suit and all.
The sonic energy burst out of his sonic cannon and scored a direct hit at Shadow, making him fall to the ground.
"This is almost too easy," Beast Boy said lazily as he sprang out of the way of more lasers.
"This fight's over, Shadow," said Robin, the team gathered around the fallen villain.
"Surrender, we do not wish to fight you anymore," Starfire pleaded.
"Hey, are you blind?" Beast Boy teased the shadow, "I'm over here!"
The shadow roared in frustration. It immediately started firing lasers in every direction at Beast Boy.
Beast Boy dove of the way and looked at his left arm. There was a burn on his sleeve from where the laser had grazed it.
"Whoa, that almost hit me...," he whispered to himself. "Whaaaa!" he yelped and jumped out of the way again as a ball of energy
came his way.
"You think you've won...you think it's over..," Shadow mumbled on the floor as the Titans watched.
Beast Boy flew over the shadow, but he couldn't dodge the new speed of the lasers, and one of his wings was struck as soon
as he got up in the air.
"Ooww," Beast Boy cringed and held his arm while sitting on the floor. "Uh oh...," he heard himself mutter as a dark figure stood
over him.
"You've had the upper hand until now Titans," Shadow continued, "But now...now you're the ones who are going to be left in pain and
despair...now it is you who will spend the rest of your days in misery..." Shadow lifted his head and looked past them at the helpless
Beast Boy. "If I am going to pay...so is he....AAGGHH!" he shouted as he raised himself up.
All four of the Titans used their powers on him at once, causing a huge cloud of smoke to rise up and block their view.
When the smoke finally did clear, Shadow lay on the ground, not moving at all.
"Is he...dead?" Starfire asked cautiously.
Robin put a hand to his neck. "No, just knocked out I think."
"Whew, that was a tough one," said Cyborg wearily. "How'd you handle, BB?"
No answer.
"BB?"
The Titans looked across the hall. Beast Boy laid on the floor, looking deadly still.
Starfire gasped.
Raven looked at him in shock. "No...," she whispered.
She flew over and kneeled down next to him. "Beast Boy?" she said softly.
Looking him over, she saw that there were burns all over where the lasers had hit through him.
Raven put her hands on his shoulders and shook him hard. "Beast Boy, wake up!" she shouted at him.
Still there was no movement or any signs of life.
Raven swallowed. Her eyes were now starting to shine with tears. "Beast Boy you have to wake up..."
The rest of the team was standing over Beast Boy now. They were looking from Beast Boy to Raven in agony.
"You have to...," Raven whispered, a tear rolling down her cheek.
Beast Boy didn't move. His green skin glowed paler than normal.
Raven looked down and closed her eyes. She fought back more tears as they plummeted against her eyelids.
No..he can't be dead..he just can't be....There has to be a way.....
Raven lifted her head up and placed both her hands on Beast Boy's face.
"Azarath Met--"
"Raven, what are you doing?" Starfire asked tearfully.
Raven ignored her.
She closed her eyes and focused all of herself on Beast Boy. Her mind, soul, and heart, everything, was focused on him.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
Beast Boy's body began to glow with dark energy...Raven's energy...
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His wounds...they started to heal themselves....she felt them healing....
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His heart....she felt it start pumping life back into his body....
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos.....Azarath Metrion Zinthos....Azarath Metrion Zinthos...."
His mind....she felt it awaken and come to life again....
Raven continued her chant, but only in her mind. She kept her eyes closed. She held her breath.
Then she heard the sound of someone letting their breath out, and she heard the rest of the team gasp.
Raven slowly opened her eyes. And when she did, she came face to face with Beast Boy's green ones.
"Whoa...," he said, awestruck. "What just happened?"
Raven immediately took her hands off of Beast Boy's face. She let out her breath and looked at the floor.
Beast Boy looked down at his chest. "Whoa, what happened to all my burns?" he said, thoroughly surprised.
Cyborg held out his hand and lifted Beast Boy to his feet. "It was Raven, man, you should of seen what she did to you."
Robin and Starfire were staring at Raven, looking half worried and half amazed.
Raven stood up, and swayed on the spot. Robin and Starfire grabbed her to keep her from falling.
"Are you alright?" asked Robin, looking concerned.
"Yah...," she answered, sounding a bit drowsy, "Just a little dizzy..."
"Then let's head home," said Cyborg suddenly, "I'm more than ready for a nap."
"I'm with you on that one!" Beast Boy said, grinning.
"Me and Star will just go grab Shadow," said Robin.
As they followed Cyborg to the outside, Beast Boy paused and grabbed Raven's shoulder.
"What?" she asked, turning around to look at him.
"I don't know what you did back there Raven, but uhh....thanks," he said, somewhat shyly.
"You're welcome," Raven replied. They both looked at each other.
********************************
"Finally!" Beast Boy said excitedly, "Sunlight!"
The rising sun peeked over the city's buildings.
"We all ready to go?" asked Robin as Starfire followed behind him, carrying Shadow.
"You bet!" Cyborg exclaimed. "And guess who gets a front seat!"
"Me?" asked Beast Boy surprised, pointing at himself.
Cyborg grinned. "That's right! You earned it man! Just don't mess with my controls...."
Beast Boy looked at Raven and saw a small smile escape her lips.
"You know what? I think I'm going to have to pass on that," Beast Boy replied in a superior tone.
And he crawled to the back seat with Raven leaving the rest of them looking utterly confused.
~Finished~
(A/N: Whew, finally finished! Man, that was a lot longer than expected. Hope you guys enjoyed it though! _ I'm thinking
about writing another Teen Titans fic, maybe what would be the next episode after this one. Good idea? Yes? No?)