Hello!
Here's another chapter of "Sacrifice." In this chapter, the Titans will be holding BB's funeral. Just wait and see!
Peitaro: I'm so glad that "Sacrifice" is your favorite story of mine! giggles like a little schoolgirl
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The sky was cloudy, gray, and looked like it was about to rain. On this day, the Titans were all dressed in black for Beast Boy's funeral. For all they knew, BB had no other family, so they were the ones that arranged the funeral for their befallen friend.
Starfire had never been to an Earth funeral before, but she was still shook up from what happened. He wouldn't have to have a 'funeral' if it weren't for me... the alien girl thought. Since Star had no black clothes, Raven lent her some of hers.
"Hey Star," Robin said softly, " ' You ready to go?"
"Yes," she replied solemnly as she walked out the door to the site of BB's funeral.
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The Titans had decided to bury Beast Boy in a private spot just outside of town underneath a big oak tree. BB had always loved nature, which was quite obvious since he could shape-shift into any animal. As soon as the priest started speaking, it started to rain. The other Titans didn't care. They were all just staring at BB's wooden coffin with lots of flowers strewn across the top and on the ground near it. The Titans also included the many gifts, cards, and flowers from Beast Boy's fans next to the coffin. Being so egotistical, BB loved his fans.
After the ceremony, Cyborg spotted an elderly couple standing in the distance. Robin went up to them and asked, "Can we help you?"
"Ve just vanted to see our foster child von last time," the elderly man said in a thick accent.
"Foster child?" The Boy Wonder asked inquisitivly.
"Ja. He vas our dear Garfield. Ve miss him already," the elderly woman replied as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Starfire floated over and asked, "Garfield? There is no Garfield here. Only..Beast Boy."
"Umm...Star?" Robin whispered, "Garfield was Beast Boy's real name...."
Starfire blushed, "I am terribly sorry! I didn't know!"
"No worry. Sank you for giving Garfield such a wunderba funeral. He would be proud," the elderly man told the Titans before he lead the woman, that appeared to be his wife, away.
"I didn't know he was in foster care..." Raven said in her normal tone.
"None of us did, Rae," Cyborg said as he put a hand on her shoulder, "I wonder why he never told any of us about them."
"Maybe he didn't want to," Robin said.
"Why?? Why wouldn't friend Beast Boy want us to know about such a nice couple??" Starfire said with a puzzled expression on her face.
"I don't know. We've all had a rough week...Let's go home," Robin said in his leader-like manner.
Everyone nodded and started to walk to the T-Car, but Starfire stayed behind. She walked over to her friend's mahogany coffin and whispered to it, "I'm so sorry. This shouldn't have happened...I should be in there...not you...Oh why did this have to happen?" She then started to cry for the umpteenth time today until Robin came over, put his arm around her, and led her to the car.
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Over the next few days the Titans continued to receive literally truckloads of gifts and cards from their fans. Whenever they went out on the street, the people would give them sad looks or tell them "I'm sorry." It was getting on all of their nerves. They were having a hard enough time dealing with this loss. They didn't need it from the public too.
A few weeks after the accident, they went out for pizza when someone came up to Cyborg and said, "I'm sorry about Beast Boy." Cyborg's face turned bright red in anger. He was just about to blow up at the person when Robin's communicator went off, indicating a new enemy.
"Titans! Let's go! I got a signal from the south side of town...apparently we have some jewel thieves on our hands."
They all rushed down to the south side to where they saw Fang (The guy with a spider for a head) stealing jewels.
"Does Kitten want some more stolen jewelry today, Fang?" Robin said before yelling, "Titans, Go!"
Raven hurled a cab at him with her powers while Cy was shooting his sonic cannon. Robin threw a couple of birdarangs at him and started hitting him with a flurry of punches, and kicks before whipping out his Bo staff.
Starfire just floated in the background, in pure terror as she had a flashback of the accident.
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Raven dodged a forklift while saying, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" This made the forklift fly right back at Cinderblock, knocking him over. However, as he was falling, he grabbed a ceiling beam and it started to fall...fall right on top of Starfire.
"Star!" Beast Boy screamed while pushing her out of the way. Before Star could realize what happened, they all heard a deafening crash.
"BEAST BOY!" Starfire screamed.
The beam had crushed Beast Boy.
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She couldn't move.
"Beast....Boy...NOO!" Star screamed as she grabbed her head and fell to the ground.
A dark voice, Raven's voice yelled out to her, "STARFIRE! Snap out of it!"
"No no no no...It's all my fault!" Star continued to sob.
Raven flew to her and said, "Starfire, you need to get a grip. If you go crazy on us, we'll all get hurt. I realize you blame yourself for what happened, but that's in the past. We can't change the past..."
"But Raven.."
Just then, Fang swung one of his legs at Raven, knocking her away from Starfire. Starfire, her eyes glowing a bright emerald, developed the biggest starbolt any of them had seen. She flung it at Fang, knocking him unconscious.
The other Titans: blink
"Hey Star," Robin asked as the police took Fang away, "Are you sure you're alright?"
"No. I am not alright Robin," she replied honestly, looking straight into her friend's eyes.
"Maybe you should take some time off...You've been really upset lately..."
"But I cannot leave you! We are already 'short-handed' as it is! I refuse.."
Robin cut her off.
"It's ok Star. I've been contacting Aqualad. He said that he'd come and help us for a while. Go. You deserve a break," Robin said with a smile.
"But Robin..."
"Shh. Just go. We'll be ok."
"Yeah Star, you deserve a break," Cyborg added.
"You've been taking it pretty hard," Raven added as well.
"Alright. I guess I could go...for a few days at least...but be sure to contact me if any trouble arises, alright?"
"Ok," Robin said with a smile.
The next morning, Starfire, with bags in hand, walked out the door. She had decided to stay on Earth and marvel at the beauty. She had been living here a few years, but she still felt like she had so much to learn. Star turned back and waved one last time before she headed a private place outside of town, underneath an oak tree.
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End Chapter 3!
I hope you enjoyed it! I liked writing it!
Keep those reviews coming! -hee hee-
--darkraven--
