Chapter Two: The Forbidden Mirror
Beast Boy awoke bright and early the next morning. Well he woke up bright, but not exactly early. Okay he didn't really wake up all that bright either... but at least he had a plan. He hopped out of bed, got dressed, and headed towards the living room where the rest of his friends were. He heard Cyborg and Robin loud and clear before he even hit the living room doors.
"Dude! How'd you do that?" Cyborg said very, very loudly. Beast Boy guessed they were playing some sort of fighting video game and that Robin had either won or was winning. He opened the door and walked in. Cyborg and Robin were sitting on the couch; a fighting game was on the large T.V. screen.
"Just skills, Cy." Robin replied smugly, earning himself a smack upside the head from Cyborg. Beast Boy laughed as Robin winced afterwards as Cyborg let out a triumphant "HA!".
"No, that was skills, so I ask again how you did what you did." Cyborg said. Robin glared at him as Cyborg just sat there smiling from ear to ear. Beast Boy looked around the room for a certain gothic girl, but couldn't find her in the living room at all. Instead, the only female in the room was a bubbly, sweet redhead and she looked like she was cooking or making some Tamaranian dish. If he could just sneak out before she saw him...
"Friend Beast Boy!" Starfire exclaimed and seconds later she was floating in front of him holding a blue bowl that contained some purple lumpy stuff in one hand, and a wooden spoon that had some of the purple stuff on it in the other. "You must taste!" She said and shoved the spoon in his mouth. He winced, waiting to be grossed out like he usually was with her food, but it never came. Instead of the nasty taste that it usually had, it actually tasted kind of sweet and sour at the same time.
"Tastes like... Cherries... and... Grapes." Beast Boy said thoughtfully. Starfire squealed with delight.
"See? No one can resist zorkaberries from my home planet." She said happily. At this Beast Boy paled. Wasn't that what she gave Silkie, and didn't Silkie mutate? Was he going to start mutating? He was about to ask her this when the Tower's alarms went off. The four Titan's gathered around the computer system, and Beast Boy noticed that Raven hadn't showed.
"Johnny Rancid's escaped from prison...again. He attacking the bank downtown." Robin said bitterly. "Okay, Titan's Go!" He said and they ran off towards the living room doors. Beast Boy frowned.
"But what about Ra-" He started but Robin cut him off.
"She can find us on her own. Now let's go!" Robin said and then ran out of the room. Beast Boy didn't like it, but he knew Robin was probably right and that Raven would probably show up a few seconds after they got to the scene of the crime.
But Raven never showed up.
"I'm sure she's fine, Beast Boy..." Robin told his green friend for the hundredth time since they left the Tower. "She's probably just sick or something." Beast Boy wasn't convinced. Raven would fight crime sick, sad, tired, annoyed,and more.It was so rare for Raven to skive off on fighting crime that Beast Boy hadn't known it was something she would do. But nevertheless he didn't like it.
Now that Johnny Rancid was back in his jail cell the Titans went back to doing what they had been previously. Starfire returned to the kitchen area and continued with her cooking, Cyborg went back to the couch to play his gamestationbut Robin disappeared to the weight room, which really surprised no one.
"Yo, B.B. you wanna play one-on-one?" Cyborg asked looking over the couch. He was holding up a green controller. Beast Boy shook his head, too deep in thought to speak and left the living room. He had other plans. Because he hadn't seen Raven all day thus far he thought he should go down to her room and at leastcheck to make sure she was among the living, whether it pissed her off or not. Otherwise he wouldn't feel right unless he knew she was okay.
He walked down the staircase and many hallways until he approached a door that had "Raven" etched into it. He had a sudden wave of uneasiness. The idea had sounded good up until he came up to the door and now that he was here he started to reconsider. She probably was meditating or something. He started to turn back when he realized he wasn't exactly sure and was just using that as in excuse to run away. So he gathered up as much courage as he had and prepared himself to face an either angry or annoyed Raven and knocked softly on the door.
"Um, Rae?" He said quietly. He didn't get a response and his mind argued that he hadn't knocked hard enough. So he knocked again so she could actually hear it. Still nothing. He was getting ready to knock again when the door open suddenly opened. He jumped back with a high-pitched "gah!"
"Raven...?" He asked again, the uneasiness had started to become fear, fear for his own safety though. Usually whenever Raven was pissed at him she usually did something that resulted in something aching within his body. He'd lost count of how many times she'd thrown him out the window. The first few times he actually hit the water because he was caught off guard, but over time he prepared himself for it and was quick enough to morph into a bird or an animal that could fly. Of course, he was defenseless whenever he was thrown into a wall. Not amount of morphing would help him avoid the impact and he always came off worse than whenever she did anything else harmful to him. But luckily for him that even though at times Raven may have wanted him dead, it was just anger working overtime. She would never try to do anything that would actually kill him or seriously damage him, so she rarely threw him into walls. Yes, at times they had a very rocky relationship, but they did care for each other at some extent.
Beast Boy gingerly walked into the room preparing for the worst when he noticed it was empty. That did nothing to ease his growing fear because doors did not just open by themselves. He looked around for the light switch. A little light would help him see better, but he forgot all about it when he saw a glowing object sitting on Raven's nightstand. He curiously walked over to it. The glowing object turned out to be a mirror. With out thinking twice about it Beast Boy picked it up and looked into it.
"Mirror, mirror, not on the wall, who's the sexiest of them all?" He asked the glowing mirror. He winked at his reflection. "You are, Beast Boy." He said in a girlish voice. He pretended to blush. "Oh stop..." He said in his regular voice. He started laughing because he realized that he just had a conversation with his reflection, or in other words, he just had a conversation with himself. And not once did he noticed the mirror glowing brighter by the second until it was two late and the room was filled with a blinding white light.
Raven walked down the stairsto her room. She had snuck out of the Tower at the crack of dawn to have little alone time. She spent the morning at the local gothic styled bookstore reading dark poetry and mystery books. She bought a few books and headed over to the beach and spent a couple of hours there reading them or just staring out into the never ending sea. But once she realized how late it had gotten she decided she had better get back to the Tower A.S.A.P. She didn't have on once of doubt that her friends didn't notice her absence and she really didn't want anything bad to happen because of it.
When she came home she had a second or two of relief that her friends were just hanging around in the living room, but then she noticed a certain green changeling was missing from the picture. Starfire wasted no time in telling her how worried Beast Boy had been and what they had been up to in her absence. While Raven found most of it interesting she was more worried that Beast Boy had been worried. She thought that was a bad sign, but knew it was when she saw a blinding flash of light come out from her opened room. Knowing all to well what that meant, she dropped her books and sprinted to her room but was too late. The flash had faded and Beast Boy was gone. To top it off, her enchanted mirror that she used for meditation lay on the floor cracked in three different places, which was very, very bad. Because it was cracked it was no longer enchanted, it was just a mirror. It looked like Beast Boy was on a one-way trip through her mind until she could fix it and pull him out. And when she did they were going to have a very long and serious talk about why playing with her things was a bad idea. Until then she just had to hope for the best and pray Beast Boy didn't do anything bad, like release Trigon.
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