My Big Fat Green Hippo
Chapter2:
It was a long night; Beast Boy did not get to sleep till 3 am. He dreamed of being back at Titan's tower gorging himself with tofu. He wished he'd never wake up, but the zoo keeper made sure that this fantasy was not fulfilled. "Bang, Bong, Crash!" Bells sounded, as it indicated that it was time to wake up and eat breakfast. BB's eye lids flew up like curtains. The keepers started flinging over their morning nutrition, over the fence landing in a giant bowl in the middle of the pen. Beast Boy approached the stringy slop with caution. It looked the grass, mud, anything else that he would not preferably eat. It smelled like Starfire's cooking. He thought to himself, "How can they call this breakfast?" He waddled away from the slop and relocated to the other side of the pen, afraid the radioactive ness of the 'food' would surely make him croak.
As the sun grew higher, gates to the zoo opened and people of all ages, kids, adults, seniors, flooded into park. Beast Boy watched all of the kids laughing, and the teenagers shrugging, and toddlers begging their parents for candy. He watched the 'I'm too cool to be here' kids throwing garbage into his pen.
He was drenched in beverages and coated in popcorn by the end of zoo hours. He tried to sink away in the back of the crowd of hippos trying to avoid an unexpected bath! One of the keepers jogged up to the pen and washed the hippos one by one. He smelled like rancid broccoli and weighed like 300 lbs. BB decided to call him…well let's just say he didn't call him a very nice word. He was the only one left, he tried to run as fast as he could but his hippo like form was of no help to his running. The keeper caught him and gave him a bath in a dirty pool full of dirty water with his dirty hands. He felt gritty and even more unclean then he had before .After a very unpleasant bathing he waddled out of the pool and into a dark corner. He lowered his head down and thought to himself, "I hate it here! They give us food that was probably found rotting in a dumpster. Teens and brats always laughing at you, and stupid toddlers poking and pulling at you, man I am pretty sure one of them BIT me! And there is no privacy; I mean a fat guy just gave me a bath…" He shudders reflecting on his bath. He closes his eyes trying to get a good night's sleep, and if any of the other hippo's bothered to look over at him they would have seen a single tear rolled down and streak the face of an unhappy hippo.
The next morning the Titan's mourned the temporary loss of their fellow titan, but most particularly Starfire mourned the most. "Starfire don't worry, we will find him." Robin said trying to re-assure her. Cyborg's hands clicked on the computer keys while Raven meditated. He called everyone around the computer to share in progress, "I got a lock on his signal, he's somewhere down town." He says pointing to the red, glowing dot. Robin got on the T cycle and Cy in the car, and Star and Rae headed out, they all went to look for the changeling. After traveling through the streets they ended up at the city dump, where they kicked down the gates and searched through the massive piles of trash and junk. Raven called the others to where she had been searching, as they gathered she extended her hand and revealed Beast Boy's communicator. Starfire looked deeply disappointed and Robin sighed in defeat, "Let's go team we'll just have to look again tomorrow…
A/N: I know it's still not that long….it's not a terribly long story and I still hope you'll give me good reviews, on the story itself..thanks!