A/N: OK, at first I wasn't sure what way to go with this chapter.. But then I figured exactly what way I am going to go into it, and so there should not be one more long wait in between chapters. Here it is. The Chapter where you find out about Beast Boy. I was very happy by the way it turned out,once I figured out what way I wanted to go,it wasn't hard at all towrite this chap,cuz I had already known what happened to Beast Boy, seeing as I am the Author. There is nothing corny. R&R to tell me what you think! ((It's a superlong Chapter too. Yay!))
Disclaimer: If I owned the Teen Titans, Robin and Starfire would have kissed by now.
It is so obvious that they like, no love each other. Get it on with!
OK, on with the story.
Raven knew she probably wouldn't make it back to the tower before the night ended, but the least she could do was aim for getting there in the early hours of the morning.
She had been continuing on for hours, telling herself to stay strong, though she felt like passing out, right then and there.
She thought of how Beast Boy had carried her, and she found herself wishing that he was carrying her in his arms right now.
Where the hell did that come from? She thought, mentally scolding herself.
Which brought her to why she had stopped.
She had thought she heard a yell, coming from the left of her.
It had.. It had sounded like Beast Boy.
But where? There was nothing but trees to the left.
Brushing it off she rose off the ground to continue.
But then she heard it again.
An obviously muffled cry.
There had to be a road, or something else, behind those trees.
Stepping forward into the brush, she pulled back a tree branch, and it snapped back at her as she slipped by. She stopped.
This was.. a clearing of some sort?
Her eyes adjusted to the darkness, and with the light from the moon, combined with the openness of the clearing, she was able to make out a distinct figure.
"Beast Boy!" She said in a loud whisper.
He was in the air. Floating. His eyes were glowing a dark shade of orange, and blood covered the ground next to him.
"Beast Boy!" She nearly shouted his name this time, and rushed out into the clearing.
I don't know how, but she had found me at the airport.
I missed the flight and was angry.
She begged me not to be angry with her, and I told her I needed an explanation.
She told me she was homeless. She taught that ballet class to survive. Both of her parents were dead, and she had no living relatives. When the Ballet classes would be over, she was sleep in the building, hoping no one would find her. Ballet was her life, all she had, and it was taken away from her. They shut the building down.
She had no where to go.
I had no where to go.
Two of a kind me and her.
I knew one place though, one place where we could stay.
Start over in a sort of way.
My crime fighting days were over
Her teaching days were over.
Starting over is what we had in mind.
I sold the plane ticket, and we lived off that for a little while.
Then, I took her to Roan.
A very old friend of my parents.
A man I had known long ago.
The man I took you to.
He excepted us, he was lonely.
We were happy with him.
He treated us like his own children
He never had any.
We were satisfied.
I got a job, and worked hard.
She got a decent job as well.
We lived.
Until.
One day strange things started happening to me.
I was on the roof putting in some shingles, and was pushed off, forcing me to morph into a bird and fly.
I was very angry. I had never wanted to morph again,
but when I looked up to yell at either Catalina or Roan, no one was there.
Every Friday I could look forward to something very disturbing happening
One week I even found myself waking up with meat in my mouth
Then one day, he made himself known.
His name: the Snake. Only a third human.
He was the leader of The Veihn.
I didn't know what he wanted with me.
I didn't know shit about him, or the Veihn
He knew everything about me.
He told me I would join.
I told him there was no way in hell.
He vanished into thin air, with only one promise;
That I would become a member.
I was naive.
I thought just because I could turn into animals, I could conquer anything.
I went to work one day.
It was a very strange day.
I feltsomething watching me.. Something I couldn't see.
When I returned from work that night, Catalina was gone.
In her room there was a note on the bed.
It said where to meet the Snake, or I wouldn't get her back.
I was foolish.
I went alone, in the mind set I could take out anything.
I was 'Beast Boy.' Former Teen Titan.
When I came to the spot they said they would be, I found her. I found Catalina.
She was bleeding.
I wanted to help her.
I would do anything to help her.
I loved her.
People do stupid things for love.
They attacked me, and I tried to escape with her.
I didn't.
The Snake said that the only way they wouldn't kill her, is if I would join willingly, which is the only way to become a member.
So I agreed.
Now I wish to God I wouldn't have.
It would have been better for her to die, then..
I soon learned that their victims were embedded with the cuts all the way across their chests.
They were given a week to heal, and then any power would be taken from them.
Usually no one made it that far without dying.
However, if you didn't die, they would most times kill you off anyway,
or use you for an unknown purpose.
I lost a lot of blood after the cuts
They had been especially vicious on me because I 'rebelled.'
The snake beat me daily, didn't matter if I was close to death.
I nearly died many times, but Catalina's screams late into the night made me set a resolve daily, to save her if nothing else.
I survived.
Now was the time to take my power.
They took most of my power, but halfway through the ceremony, something went wrong.
I nearly died.
No one had gotten this far yet, so they decided that I was strong, and could be used for the ultimate purpose, and figured my power was gone.
It wasn't.
I still felt the ability to turn into animals. I still looked the same, they only took my ability to morph, (or so they though) not the animal DNA that I survived on. I still had some of the ability left.
Not a lot, but enough to know I still had it.
Once I had been 'purified,' Snake came to see me once again.
He told me had had complete control over me, therefore, he would give me all of his power, because I was the only one capable of carrying out his plan, and with complete control over me, he had complete control over the world.
Each day I grew more and more hateful of him.
I hated him more than life.
The hate became so strong that one day I rebelled, and refused to carry out one of his commands.
I was brutally beaten, and tortured for weeks.
I couldn't stop it all.
They are more powerful than anything.
Anything except love.
That, they do not understand.
They didn't understand why I was doing this for her, not that that mattered, because they had baited me with her.
They had been watching since I was born.
Me leaving Teen Titans had been their opportunity to lure me in.
I rebelled again much later, and found myself in the same position
Hunted Vs Hunter.
No way I could beat the Snake.
But I wouldn't give up.
I heard Catalina crying in my ears.
The anger built up inside of me.
So powerful that at any moment I thought might explode.
That is when I set a resolve, no matter what, to destroy the Snake.
So that is why I rebelled again.
I was still very naive though
Though the Snake said he had control over me, I was set in my mind that I had control over myself.
I rebelled..
And.. He forced me to kill Catalina
When I had back this so called 'control,' I looked at what I had done, and I became hard hearted.
Nothing mattered to me anymore.
She was gone.
Now there was no going back
I would do what they say
I would become one of them
And I did. I robbed banks, stole jewelry, killed innocent victims, started fires that wiped out entire citys.
Sometimes I had control, sometimes I was controlled, but eventually I realized that either way I would have to do it, and so I did it without being controlled mentally, just for the knowledge that I wasn't being controlled. I hated being controlled. I was going insane.
I was slowly forgetting Catalina, forcing myself not to think of her, knowing if I did I would not be able to pull through. But one day, I remembered something I must have locked away in my memory.
Catalina being beaten by the Veihn. Her head being shaved. Her legs being cut, and all the anger and hate was renewed in my mind.
All the anger that had been building up over time reached the boiling point.
I wasn't ready to kill the Snake, and destroy the Veihn, nor did I know how, but I knew I would, but first I had to escape, first chance possible.
I found my chance one day when the Snake wasn't around on one of the 'initiations' as they put it.
They threw me in pigs blood every night, and I was forced to stay there, sometimes for nights, sometimes for an hour at a time.
I was sent with two 'guards' and that is when I found my chance.
I would use the power that Snake had given me, without his controlling it, to escape.
I killed them
I killed them with both.
It felt so good
My first taste of sweet revenge coursed through me.
I would come back for more as soon as I was ready.
I still didn't know the complete control the Snake had over me, though..
Until.. Each night the scars lit up and glowed, and I would double over in pain.
You have seen the scars. They are in the shape of snakes, with the prophecy of 'The one fulfiller'written with a knife all over my chest.
They would make me want to die. The scars would. Every time they lit up, they reminded me of what I had done.
I fought them.
I didn't go back to Roan, just wrote him, telling him I was fine
I received many letters in response. Just.. None that I ever answered. Ever.
I was running from the past. Running from the secrets it held.
Running from things I couldn't explain.
Running from it all.
I had acquired a name while I was there.
Madule.
It means Blood in their tongue.
I was taught their ways for so long.
It was almost like brainwashing.
I tried to break free, and I acquired a job as a manager for a large company,
turns out I was quite successful.
I was admired, good shit like that, but I wasn't happy
I knew I still had bonds over me
I knew at any second Snake could appear and force me back, or make me kill someone.
I returned to Roan, to tell him I was allright, though I didn't try to explain anything, he didn't ask.
I left him. I had to return and fight the Snake to the death, but before I did that, I had to see you.
I missed you Raven. I missed you, Cyborg, Robin. I even missed Starfire.
I was going to die fighting, not knowing how to kill the Snake, so I had to see you one last time.
Blood is on my hands, my being forced to or not doesn't matter to me.
I know what they want with me now, that is why I will either fight to the death, or defeat the Snake.
Either way is the way it has to be.
He stopped, knowing no more was needed to be said, and looked up at Raven.
She was digesting everything he had just said, and sitting, shocked, looking like a statue.
"I.. I had no idea Beast Boy."
Beast Boy stood up, dried blood stained his shirt where the gash had been.
"I won't blame you if you hate me Raven. I don't deserve anything else."
Raven turned to look up at him, and at the look on his face, her heart broke into pieces
"This isn't your fault Beast Boy. You did this to protect her."
"Yes, and I ended up doing the exact opposite.
"That wasn't you! That was them! Why are you to blind to see it?"
Beast Boy turned away, and looked over his shoulder at her. She was standing now,andhad her hands clasped together tightly, turning them an even paler color. She was biting her lip in a futile attempt to keep the tears from flowing.
'No. It can't be.' There were.. Tears in her eyes. For him?
He clenched his jaw and bit back the groan that threatened to escape.
Trembling he turned back to her, and before she knew it she was in his arms being held tightly.
They stood for several minutes holding each other, both understanding nothing needed to be said, if not for a moment.
She felt his pain, and she felt his hurt, she wanted so badly to destroy the Snake.
To watch them all slowly die.
But somehow she knew, Beast Boy would come out of this a better person.
He would no longer be the innocent boy she had once known, carefree, happy. But, he would be strong, he would be intelligent, he would be wise beyond his years. If.. If he got out at all. She forced herself not to think that way, just as he released her.
She let go of him, and he stepped backwards, and sat down on a fallen tree trunk, rubbing his forehead.
She heard him whispering "Catalina." to himself, and felt a pang of anger and unexplained jealousy.
If it hadn't been for this stupid girl, he might not even have left in the first place.
Pushing away her hateful thoughts, she stepped forwards, and sat on the log beside Beast Boy.
Beast Boy turned his head to look at her, and then let his gaze drop to the ground.
"I will take you back to the Tower, and then I am returning to fight the Snake."
Raven took a deep breath, and let it out, turning to him she stood up.
"We are in this together now Beast Boy. I am going with you."
"No, we are not. And you are going back to the Tower." Said Beast Boy standing up as well, angry now, even at the thought of her going with him, at the thought of putting her in danger.
"Yes, we are you stubborn ass. If you think I am not going with you, then you must be mistaken."
"You are going back!" He said forcefully, gripping her shoulders, and turning her around to stare into her eyes.
She stared right back. "Fine. Take me to the Tower. Leave me. I will just follow you, and be in perhapsmore danger."
He released her, immediately seeing her point.
Rubbing his arm he stood up, and paced back and forth.
Stopping after awhile, he turned to her, and let out a sigh.
"Fine. You can come with me, but when we are almost there, you are to turn back."
She nodded, though knowing in her head she would go with him all the way.
R&R!