Hello everybody. I'm back with Fighting Flu and SCHOOL WOES! is finally finished. Hurray! It's my first finished story!! Now I'm going to finish this story. I know the font in the last chapter was really weird but when I finish writing the story, I'll fix all errors if I can. Sorry about the weird font though. But enough talk, let's continue what I started.

Beast boy: Troubled-ego doesn't own any of the Teen Titans and that's great for me cuz she's crazy I tellz ya!!

Fighting Flu

Chapter 7

Beast boy kicked a soda can off of the street. The can bounced against the brick wall and fell back on the sidewalk. Beast boy looked at it and finally crushed it under the weight of his foot as if the can itself was something detestable and disgusting. The young green human looked forward at Starfire and Robin who watched the police take the H.A.E.Y.P away. Robin looked behind him perceiving discomfort from his green comrade. "Beast boy. We'll get her back." He comforted, placing a hand on the changeling's shoulder. Beast boy shrugged Robin's hand off of him and walked ahead with his hands swinging and his shoulders slumped.

"He is depressed."

Robin spun around. "Starfire..."

"He has the feeling of utter hopelessness. Raven has been kidnapped and he feels like we will never accomplish in finding her." Starfire added. She walked ahead of Robin, looking back at him. Robin peered into her emerald eyes. She looked hurt. Raven was a very good friend to her and she was in trouble. Robin approached his alien friend and grasped her hand firmly in his. "We'll get her back," he smiled. "I promise. I swear on my grave—"

Starfire covered Robin's mouth. "Never say such things as that!" Tears began to form in those green orbs. Robin gasped, "I didn't mean it like that Star." he gently stroked her face with his thumb and wiped away the tears. "None of us are going to die. Raven will not die."

Starfire smiled and hugged the masked teenager. "Thank you Robin. I can always continue to count on you to help me feel better, though I continue to worry pain-strikingly about Raven."

"I know. I hurt too...I hurt too..." He let go of the embrace. "C'mon, Beast boy's way ahead of us."

Beast boy was indeed way ahead of them. He took some time exploring Jump City Park. The young shape shifter sat on a rock and tossed stones at a nearby pond. The sun began to set and the scenery turned into some orange hue. Beast boy sighed and tosses another friendly stone. "I thought I told Cy to keep an eye over her." he reminded himself. "I'm so stupid! I should have stayed and looked after her! Maybe this would have never happened." Beast boy observed the reflection of the sun over the water. 'Beautiful,' he thought. 'This was always Raven's favorite time of day. I don't blame her. It's so vivid!'

Footsteps came up to the green boy that resembled somewhat of an elf. "Beast boy."

The vegetarian turned around from his perch on the rock. It was only Robin and Starfire. Figures. "What do you want?" he asked with hint of annoyance in his voice. Robin looked aback. Beast boy was definitely on the moody side. "What are you doing in the park?"

"None of your business." Beast boy hopped off the rock and continued to walk to the T-Tower. "I'll meet you guys at the tower."

Robin had a strong urge to ask if he would just walk with him and Starfire, but it was obvious that Beast boy didn't want to be bothered. It was almost like he was acting like Raven. He glanced over to Starfire. She seemed to be looking far away, also surprised of her green friend's action. "It's alright Star, we'll just walk home together. He wants to be alone for a moment."

"Then he came out from there," Cyborg explained, pointing to the broken garbage basket. "I tried to defend her but the guy...he was so strong. He picked me up with ease and tossed me like a rag doll to the wall. Next thing I know, he jumps out of the window with Raven!"

Robin grasped a piece of the garbage basket. "Perhaps I should scan this. What was this kidnapper's name again?"

Cyborg shifted his eyes around the room before turning his gaze at the floor. "He said his name was Flu."

Starfire looked around the room in disbelief. "A villain with no apparent weakness? What shall we do? How do we possibly track this brute down?"

Beast boy leaned against a wall in the room, holding something in his hand. "Everyone has a weakness."

"What's that?" The android asked, finally noticing the object in Beast boy's hold. The green metahuman glanced at his robotic teammate, reflecting the object in his half-organic face. "The mirror! Put that back BB! You know what harm it can do!" Cyborg ran up to Beast boy and pulled Raven's mirror out from the changeling's grasp. "No!" Beast boy screamed, pulling it back. "I need that to get Raven back!"

"If you use the mirror B, we might never get out of her mind!"

"But we need it to find out where she's located! It's the only way to save her!"

Starfire stood up from Raven's bed. "Stop it! Stop it both of you!"

Beast boy and Cyborg stood in their normal positions still holding onto the forbidden mirror.

"You two are both acting like Flimberk Numbleweeds! There is no need to dispute over the mirror! So stop it because fighting will not get Raven back!" she boldly shouted.

"She's right," Robin agreed, observing the room for more clues of the attacker. "I don't know what's so great about that mirror of Raven's but there are other ways to find someone's whereabouts. Just stop acting like immature pin-heads."

Beast boy sighed and let go of the mirror. "Raven used to call me a pin-head all the time."

"I'm sorry BB." Cyborg apologized while returning Raven's mirror to her desk. "I never wanted to start a fight with you, man."

Beast boy nodded. He was getting out of hand but he just couldn't help it!

"I'm going to quickly analyze these clues in the lab. When I'm done, we'll search for Raven." with that, Robin left to work on this new case. Starfire also left saying she had something she needed to do. After apologizing one more time, Cyborg left as well and said that he'll make it up someday. That left Beast boy alone in Raven's room. 'I'll get you back Raven.' He snooped around in her things. If she were hear right now, she would kill him. Beast boy stumbled along a pack of cards when raiding one of her drawers. The memory put a smile on his face. 'How could I forget this scene?'

'Almost finished,' Raven thought. 'Just one more card.' She gently used her psychic powers to stack the last card to complete her card pyramid. "Ahh...relaxing." she sighed, slowly shutting her eyes and resting her head on the coffee table. Not soon enough did a green lizard explore the walls of the living room and found his dark angel resting. 'This should be funny.' he thought, transforming back to his human form. He made his way over to the sleeping Goth girl and sat cross-legged next to her, observing her features. She looked so peaceful and relaxed. Her violet hair fell over her porcelain face. Beast boy slowly reached over and placed the lock of hair behind her ear. 'Much better...' he pondered. All he could do was smile until something made his nose itch. It must have been the dust in the air, but before Beast boy could turn his head in a different direction, he sneezed. When he reopened his emerald eyes, he found Raven's work of art spread across the coffee table. He could feel a cold chill up his spine as Raven—the ice queen—breathed on his neck. His glance slowly met hers and a nervous smile forced itself up his face. "Uhh, oops. C-can I help you with t-that R-raven?" The pacifist looked at her ruined card pyramid and growled. It was a deep, ferocious growl that you would expect to come from a mad dog or maybe even a wild bear. Beast boy could feel himself shrink in size as Raven towered over him. "Go...away!" she boomed. "Now!" Beast boy scampered and raced to his room, shutting the door and locking it behind him.

Beast boy laughed at the memory. It wasn't funny back then, but times change and more than ever was the situation hilarious, especially since he was desperate for a good laugh right now. He sat down on Raven's bed. Lying down, he began to feel the comfort of the soft mattress and white, silk sheets. It was almost like Raven was embracing him right now. He felt warm inside. 'Wait! I felt this feeling before!' He wasn't exactly sure what it was but he liked it. There was another time when Beast boy felt this way. When was it?

The team had just come back from a battle with a gang of hoodlums who were causing havoc upon downtown Jump City. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg immediately went to their rooms leaving Raven and Beast boy alone in the living room. Beast boy sat down on the couch while Raven was looking through the cabinets in the kitchen—probably to prepare some herbal tea for herself. Beast boy grunted in discomfort and held a hand over his chest. Across the room, Raven could feel his pain and she ran up to him. "Beast boy, are you alright?" Beast boy quivered, "I'm fine. It's just a scratch." Raven's worried face turned into a façade of sternness and major seriousness. She cupped her hand over Beast boy's and slowly removed his gloved hand from his chest. There she saw it. It was a cut across the left side of his chest. Beast boy stifled a laugh, "Guess it was a deeper scratch than I thought."

"Hold still." Raven ordered. A white glow surrounded her hand as she placed it right on top of his wound. To Beast boy, her hand felt cold but her touch was so soft, so gentle. He could hear Raven chant her three words as the chill surrounded his 'minor' wound. When Raven was done, she shivered a bit. This concerned the green elf.

"You okay?" he inquired.

"Yes." Raven responded. "I feel a bit of you pain when I heal the wounds."

Beast boy quirked an eyebrow. "Oh. Sorry."

Raven's touch on Beast boy still remained. She smiled. "I can feel your heartbeat. You're nervous."

Beast boy was taken aback by Raven's sudden show of emotion. "Y-you smiled!"

Raven could feel her green friend's excitement and decided to pull her hand away from his chest. That is when Beast boy saw that there was not even a mark from where his scratch used to be. Raven sat on the couch and pulled out some sewing supplies. "Take your shirt off." Beast boy's eyes widened. Was she trying to make a move on him? "Beast boy," she repeated, more stern than the last. "You want me to fix the hole in your shirt or not? If I don't fix it now, it will continue to only grow bigger."

Beast boy sighed. 'Guess she wasn't.'

"What was that?" Raven asked out of nowhere.

The vegetarian forgot that she could read minds. "Never mind. But Raven, my whole costume is a one piece."

Raven gave Beast boy a look like he was crazy. "Just take it off."

Beast boy nervously smiled. "Okay, okay!" He took his belt, his shoes, and his gloves off and unzipped the back, slipping his costume off and handing it to Raven. That's when Raven began sewing. The changeling just sat next to the empath on the couch only wearing his boxers with little green frogs on them and across the top it said, 'I'm feeling jumpy'.

"Is there a draft in here?" Beast boy half-joked.

Raven glanced at him for a second and smiled, then resumed her sewing. The shape shifter definitely felt awkward sitting next to a girl he liked with his underwear on. So, feeling weird, he got up and walked over to the kitchen to prepare tea for Raven and himself, thinking if he drank tea, Raven might think of him differently. Not long did it take for Robin to enter the living room. "Hey Raven, what's up?"

"I'm fixing a hole in Beast boy's costume."

"Oh," the masked boy nodded. "Okay." He turned over to Beast boy. "And what are you doing?"

Beast boy met glances with Robin and sheepishly smiled, blushing in embarrassment. "Making tea. Where is Starfire and Cyborg?"

"Well, Cyborg is in his room putting one of those Gundam models together and Starfire is also relaxing in her room, working on her scrap book. They seem to be enjoying their alone time." Robin answered. "I'm gonna see if there's anything to eat that would satisfy a Boy Wonder's hunger." he joked, peering into the fridge.

Beast boy made his way over back to Raven who was almost done with the sewing. He placed her tea on the coffee table and took a sip of his own. He knew that Raven liked her tea plain and believed that adding anything extra would only spoil the taste. Beast boy, on the other hand, put about six teaspoons of sugar in his cup. When Raven was done, she tossed the costume to the shape shifter and croaked a "Thanks" whilst reaching for her tea. Beast boy looked on to see if the telepath enjoyed her tea. After her sip, she glanced at Beast boy. "Good."

The green teen smiled knowing he had done something right in Raven's favor. The two of them finished drinking their tea and Raven gathered the cups, made her way over in the kitchen where Robin was eating a sandwich and washed the dishes. After the psychic completed her little chore, she went to go upstairs but someone stopped her by placing a hand on her shoulder. Raven only stood there like she would turn around with red, angry eyes and yell at Beast boy for touching her, but she didn't. She slowly turned around and looked at Beast boy, a smile played on her lips. "Are you gonna put that on, or are you gonna walk around in your underwear all day?" she asked, amusedly. Beast boy's face flushed. "I just w-wanted to say thanks."

"Your welcome...Garfield." She smiled one more time before climbing upstairs and slamming the door shut in her room.

'Did she just call me by my real name?' Beast boy asked himself surprisingly. 'And she smiled at me like three times in one day!' Beast boy turned around to see if Robin noticed anything. Nope he was oblivious to everything while he ate. Beast boy returned his gaze to the stairs. That was when he felt it. He felt so warm and fuzzy inside. 'She smiled at me.' he thought dreamily as the feeling increased.

Beast boy rest his body on Raven's bed, ready to doze off. 'This must be the most comfortable bed in the T-Tower.' He's been in everybody's room at least once. Starfire had a weird bed. It was small and round, not really comfortable either. Starfire had a pink room that was a bit messy with all the stuffed animals around and her desk filled with things for her scrapbook including papers, paste, scissors, and stuff like that. Cyborg's room was really neat and clean, but his bed was veryuncomfortable. I mean, it was a slab of metal for crying out loud! Robin's room was kinda clean, if you didn't count the newspaper clipping all over his room and his messy desk filled with weapon pieces, masks, and other junk. His bed was just ordinary like any other. Beast boy really knew that his room was the messiest. There were clothes everywhere. He was the only one with a bunk bed, which wasn't really comfortable either. When it came to Raven's room, one word would pop into Beast boy's mind: Perfection.

Raven's room was perfect in every way. Well, it was very dusty like it hadn't been dusted in years, but that must have been how Raven liked it. Maybe she reflected her room of wherever Raven came from. Anyway, other than the dust in her room, Raven's room was perfect. But to Beast boy, her bed was the best in the Titans' Tower. If a person that had gone a long time without sleep came into the tower to see which bed was the most comfortable and which bed he can surrender to, he would try all the beds and not feel tired. But when he tries Raven's bed, no matter how much he doesn't want to, the bed will make him go to sleep no matter how hard he tries to keep awake. The other beds don't have that kind of power. That is how Beast boy felt about Raven's bed. So whether Beast boy chose to sleep or not, Raven's bed instantly brought Beast boy into it's dreamland, and he began sleeping the best sleep he ever had.

In the lab, Robin was putting his microscope to good use. "This is interesting," he mumbled. "It's a match."

Beast boy couldn't sleep in the kidnapped pacifist's bed for long. "Beast boy! I awaken you!" Starfire screamed, shaking Beast boy violently until he woke up.

"Wha-What?" the green hero muttered. "What's wrong Star?"

Starfire pulled the green transformer by the hand. "I fear that there is no time for explanations Beast boy. The best thing to be doing, is to be following me to the lab of Robin's."

So the Tamaranean warrior princess dragged poor, tired Beast boy all the way downstairs to the laboratory. "Robin! I have fetched Beast boy!"

Robin turned around. "Good, we're all here then."

Cyborg looked at the tubes filled with chemicals and the many empty beakers and test tubes. "So what did you find, Robbie?"

"Come and look." Robin ordered. He pointed to two microscopes next to each other. "With this one," he pointed to the one on the left. "I gathered DNA from the pillow in Raven's room. Look in it." Each Titan looked in the microscope.

"Ew. What is that?" Beast boy asked, obviously disgusted yet amazed at the same time.

"Flu cells." was Robin's answer. "Now this one," he pointed to the one on the right. "has DNA from the trash basket that Flu came out of." Each Titan looked through that one too.

Cyborg shrugged his shoulders. "Their both the same. What does that mean?"

Robin smiled confidently. "It means that this Flu guy is actually a real life, living virus! He is the full manifestation of the flu!"

"Are you saying this Flu guy must have gotten Raven sick in the first place?" Beast boy asked, stroking his chin.

"Yes!"

Starfire gasped. "How terrible!"

Robin looked at Starfire while putting a serious face back on. "That's why we have to find him and take him down!"

Cyborg's gaze dropped down to the floor. "But how do we find her?"

"Where did you say that Flu escaped?"

"The window in Raven's room." Cyborg responded, slightly uplifting his head. "He probably jumped into the ocean since well...there's no other place he could go."

Robin nodded whilst narrowing his masked eyes. "Then if we want to find Flu and Raven, we have to follow their tracks. To the T-Sub!" he declared, running out of the lab but soon turning around again. "Maybe you should bring some medicine or something. Something tells me Raven's going to need that stuff ASAP." Then the apprentice of the famous Batman scurried away once more.

Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast boy gathered lemons, cough medicine, pills, water, and some ginger in a small backpack. They took off for Robin and the T-Sub. The mechanical water machine glided through the dark depths of the ocean searching for the murderer germ and the telekinetic. "T-Sub lights, on!" Robin ordered.

The bright lights searched the grounds of the ocean. Nothing was found. Not even a single footprint. Robin and the other Titans desperately searched for any whereabouts of valuable clues to help them in this mystery and it would be impossible to search the whole ocean in one day—even with the T-Sub.

Starfire observed the wonders of down under. She attracted herself to the wondrous fish and lively underwater plants that dotted the ocean floor just like the stars in a midnight sky. "Fascinating..." Suddenly a big fish swam by the window Starfire was peering out of. It's small black eyes shot towards her. Starfire yelped. "What is it?" Robin inquired, worried of Starfire's expression.

"I have never seen such big fish before." she admitted. Robin chuckled, "Star, it's nothing to w—" he stopped. His eyes grew wide. Starfire looked at him curiously.

"T-that shark..." Robin muttered. "Look at its mouth!"

The three teens averted their gazes to the mouth of the mighty Tiger Shark. Stuck between its teeth was a fragment of some familiar blue material. All of them gasped. "NO!" Beast boy screamed. "It can't be! It's not what we think!" He pressed his hands against the glass. "Raven!"

Starfire's eyes watered. "What does it all mean?"

Cyborg couldn't stand to look anymore. "It's not possible. No way!"

Robin squinted at the shark. He needed to know for sure. Was that a piece of Raven's cloak? Robin got up from his seat and moved to the back of the sub. Cyborg's eye followed the leader. "Yo, where you goin'?"

Robin reached for the red scuba suit and a spear. "I'm going to see if that is what we really think it is. I won't quit until I have every answer!" He stuck his flippers on and attached the goggles to his face. "I'll be fine."

"Dude," Beast boy had a look of desperation. "This thing is a Tiger Shark! Don't you know anything? Those are like the most aggressive sharks ever! Going out there is suicide!"

Before placing the mouthpiece in his mouth and opening the hatch, Robin turned around and smiled at Beast boy. "I'm going to be fine." With that, Robin adjusted his gear a put the mouth piece in. Then he winked and put his thumbs up and jumped out.

Robin could feel the sudden chill of the water. The Tiger shark immediately noticed the swimming bird boy. He was in its territory. The shark prepared for attack, but Robin was ready. He took the spear out and dodged the shark's closing jaws in the nick of time. Before the shark had noticed anything, blood was flowing out of the scratch on its side. The shark returned for another attack but Robin already had what he wanted and made way for the T-Sub. Sadly, the shark was faster in water and grabbed onto Robin's flipper. Robin bopped it on the head with his spear and let it keep his flipper. The hatch was soon reopened as a figure in a crimson swimsuit made his reappearance. "Hi guys." he smiled, taking his gear off.

Starfire—clearly not impressed—got up from her seat. "How could you do such a thing? You scared the zimphlorks out of me! If you ever do something foolish like that again where you risk your life just to gain some sort of clue, I will never forgive you!" Tears of worry streamed down her face as Starfire grasped a wet Robin into a tight bear hug. "You frightened me."

Robin felt sorry. It was probably a stupid thing to do but he just couldn't help himself. "I'm sorry Star. I'll never do something like that again." Yeah right. That was impossible of a promise to keep since he risks his life almost everyday. But he'll never go out chasing sharks again. That's what he promised.

"So what is the material?" Beast boy impatiently asked.

Robin let go of the Tamaranean and examined the blue cloth. "It's Raven's. No mistake about it."

Beast boy's head drooped. "I knew it. I knew we couldn't save her no matter how hard we tried! I should have stayed to watch her. Maybe all of this would have never happened."

Cyborg shot up from his seat, startling Robin and Starfire. Beast boy couldn't give a damn either way. "What are you talking about, man? You wouldn't be able to even stand up to the guy!"

This time, it was the shape shifter's turn to launch up from his seat. "Are you saying I'm weak?!"

"That's exactly what I'm saying!"

"Dude! What the hell is your problem!!"

"My problem?! You started it!"

Robin jumped between the two. "Stop it! Both of you! Quit acting like a bunch of children!"

The changeling and the metal man sighed and sat back in their seats.

"Raven is really gone. Isn't she?" Starfire's usually cheery state was now completely diminished.

Robin returned to his seat. "It's not true fact. Let's just pull up at the city." Robin pulled the lever back, making the T-Sub move up and above the water. Each Titan stepped up.

"Are we gonna continue our search or what?" questioned the vegetarian, leaning against a closed down warehouse.

"We can search for more clues." the leader answered.

Beast boy pounded his head on the wall. "Forget it man! No matter what we do, we will never find her! I bet that stupid shark did get her...Stupid shark." The teenagers looked towards the floor, feeling disappointed in what they found earlier. Beast boy wanted to block everything out. He didn't feel like smiling or showing any other sort of emotion. 'Maybe this is why Raven doesn't show emotion. Maybe someone she was close to died. Or maybe something else tragic happened. C'mon BB, you're thinking about a dead girl.' He sighed, but his ears perked up. Did he hear something? Sounded like something laughed and it was coming from the abandoned warehouse. "Did you guys hear that?" he asked, making sure he wasn't hallucinating.

Robin looked up from the ground. "Hear what?"

The green elf motioned for his teammates to approach him. "I heard something coming from this building."

Cyborg cocked an eyebrow. "Isn't it weird that you hear things from a place that's abandoned? Let's check it out."

Beast boy transformed into a rat and crawled under the entrance that was boarded with wood. Starfire managed to quietly tear apart one plank from the entrance, enabling her and Robin to slide under. Cyborg, on the other hand, punched his way through the frail wood, making a loud cracking noise. All the teens freaked out, thinking that whoever was in the building might have heard the ruckus Cyborg made. Cyborg sweat dropped and followed the other three. Starfire clutched the backpack in her hand tightly. It was quiet...too quiet. Robin spotted an entrance to the basement. "Over hear." he whispered, lifting the door open.

The Titans quietly creep down the stairs. A cough was heard. Beast boy's ears perked up. 'Raven?' His feet broke into a run.

"Beast boy!" Cyborg reached for the animal shape shifter but he changed into a leopard and escaped Cyborg's attempted capture. The rest of the teens were forced to run after Beast boy before he killed himself. Beast boy transformed back and stopped suddenly, causing the others to crash into him. A shadowy figure turned around and switched on some lights. "Oh Raven, we have some visitors."

Flu stood above the Titans—who now stood up from the floor in their fighting positions—and smirked. "You finally came. I've been waiting for you." The Teen Titans looked into his piercing yellow eyes as he stared back at them, seemingly amused. He continued to smirk as a person in the background inched her frail body upward.

That's the end of this chapter. The story's almost over. Probably one or two more chapters left. It depends on how long the next chapter is. But, either way, this story's coming to a conclusion. I'm done with SCHOOL WOES! so if you want something funny to read, go ahead and check that out. The first and second chapters may not be the best but it gets better throughout the story. After this story, I will be working on some more poetry for troubled-ego's poetry and then I'll read some people's stories. After all that, I'll get my sequel to SCHOOL WOES! up. If you want to find out what that sequel is, read the last chapter of SCHOOL WOES! or better yet, read the whole story if you haven't already. In the last chapter, I made a lot of spelling errors, so I'm going to fix that later and I'm sorry about the weird font and if you didn't approve of the song, I'm sorry for that too. I sort of bleeped out the curse words, but if you didn't approve of that either, I apologize. Anyway, I'll get the next chapter up as soon as I can.