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Chapter 11: Cures

The sink began to vibrate and then the water shot up and squirted Beast Boy in the face. He fell back on the bench and Scorpio took her chance, running out of the main room.

I'm really sorry Beast Boy...she thought when she had reached her room.

She slipped into her pajamas and feel asleep almost instantly.

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Shalt through out the hottest fire,

Go beyond the heart's desire,

To please, respect, and acount his sire.

Shining armor though shall ark,

And follow thou's love through blind dark,

Once set his eyes on the Scorpion's Mark...

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Scorpio woke abruptly, sitting up, her loose hair sticking to her sweating neck in a mess of wet and tumbled sheets. The song she had once loved as a child was haunting her, again. Luckily this time she didn't scream and no one came to her aid. When she was younger her mother had sung it to her and Nem in the sweetest of voices, every night. But once she had been sent to the Saphirian convents when she was 13, she had realized that it was a curse, the same burden her father had was now on her shoulders.

Nem hadn't gotten the mark, at least, Scorpio hoped she wouldn't. Scorpio had left Saphiria when Nem was only 11, way too young to have the Cancerian mark or the Scorpion mark. Their personality differences were only outmatched by their looks. Scorpio's thick, jet black, shoulder length hair and shadowed eyes had made Nem look like an angel. Her fair, long, hazel hair and blue eyes would confuse the townspeople, who swore they weren't related.

"It is possible," one would always sneer. "That mother of theirs..."

But the song in Scorpio's dream wasn't in her mother's kind, soothing voice. It was harse and open, cracked and shrilling, and it made Scorpio feel small and blinded. It was the cart gypsy's voice, and Scorpio could recognize it any where.

And follow thou's love through blind dark... Scorpio sung it over in her head, sorry again that Beast Boy had seen it. It wasn't his fault. He was after all, a male, and it was only their insticnt to watch a female sleeping. It had only been coincidence that he had seen that mark, and that it was glowing at that time. If she had been awake, she would have been able to stop him, just as she had stopped Robin. But fate would play out like that.

"Rella, when you grow up and you and Jet are married..."

"I'm not going to marry Jet, Nem. And I'm not going to stay here. You know that." Jet is by the pond, watching them without shame. He wanted to marry Rella, why didn't she want to marry him?

"But Rella, he is a Scorpion, like you. And he loves you."

"Nem, he is 15 and I am 13, and I don't care if he's a Scorpion or not. What difference would it make?" Jet's eyes are glowing with envy, why couldn't she love him?

"Rella, I do love you. And we are both Scorpions. It would be wonderful. We would have millions of children and live in Tavis, on the beaches. Our children would grow up there and we'd love each other forever... Wouldn't you like that?" Jet's smile is soothing and he knows his mark will be glowing soon. Rella would have to look at it at be caught in his trance. The younger cancer peasent girls are laughing and giggling.

Rella is blushing madly and she's staring at the ground because she knows her mark is probably glowing as bright as it could glow, she can see the light of Jet's mark, glowing right under his belly-button. She won't look at it. He is clever, but not clever enough.

Jet moves up closer to her and places his hand on her cheek, and she can see the light glowing even brighter, and she knows her's is glowing too. But she is angry at Jet, for his open personality and his ability to make her feel so...light. She doesn't want him, she wants to leave and find her mother. She crouches down next to his mark, but her eyes are closed. Jet, now smiling, doesn't realize the water in the pond is moving. Rella swishs up and cold pond water hits Jet in the face. He flips backward and both of their marks stop glowing, but Jet's face is as red as ever.

Scorpio squirmed under her thoughts of the convent. They had probably killed Jet by now. All of the nuns and the monks hated him, him and his ways. She missed him, but she missed Nem and the others more.

It was now 8:00 p.m., the time had went by quikly without Scorpio doing anything. It wouldn't matter anyway. She couldn't face Beast Boy, he'd hate her for what she did to him. Jet had still loved her after that, but he was a shameless boy and Beast Boy was not. Her tears fell from the corners of her eyes, sorry that her damnation from Saphiria had spread to Beast Boy.

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Beast Boy had dried off and was confused at her reaction to him. He was now on the big couch in the main room watching Cyborg playing his Game Sphere. Regularly, he would ask to play, but today he was in no mood.

"Let it go man," Cyborg told him now, still tapping on his controller. "All girls are like that."

"I don't love her, Cy." Beast Boy said quietly. "It's nothing I can control. It's that mark. And it's my fault. Raven told me not to get too close to her and I did."

Cyborg was confused, but he nodded anyway. "Raven did say there was something funky about that mark of her's." He said now, still staring at the screen. "But she's part of the team, and whatever problem she has, it's our problem too."

"She won't tell anyone. Raven can't get it out of her, Robin can't, Starfire can't, and neither of us can. It's impossible to get her to say anything, Cy. It's like she lives in her world alone."

Cyborg nodded again, his eyes not leaving the blinking screen. He knew Beast Boy was right, but there was little he could do. "Well, let this be a lesson to you then." Cyborg said. "Her powers are a great asset from what Rob tells me. We can really use her water works against that fire spinnin' apprentice Slade has. Just stay away from her from now on and the problem's sloved. No big deal." He shrugged it off and continued playing.

Beast Boy sighed heavily and watching the screen, Cyborg's blue ship cruising through tight black lanes. His mind was not set on anything for he felt at peace, as if his love for the mark had vanished along with his sweating. "Raven would probably know how to set things straight again," Beast Boy told Cyborg. "I hope she does. I really just want to be able to talk to her without shedding a lake. Get to know her, you know?"

Cyborg didn't answer and Beast Boy hadn't expected him to. He went to Raven's room.

Beast Boy knocked, quietly at first but louder everytime, until Raven answered, cracking the door open so that only her face showed.

"What?" She asked him.

"Can I ask you something Raven?" He asked timidly. "I think you're the only person that would know anything about...it..."

Raven knew right away what he wanted, reading Beast Boy's mind was like reading a cereal box, covered in pictures and big letters.

"I warned you," she sighed, still not opening the door. But she went inside and pulled out the book, taking it to Beast Boy and closing the door behind her. "Page XVI" Raven told him, handing him the book.

Beast Boy flipped the pages over and over until he reached the desired page. It read:

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SAPHIRIAN CURSES AND CURES

The Scorpions' Curse: FOR A MALE: To break the curse, one may drink 2 jerits of Scorpion blood on the night of a full moon, preferably midnight. Another affective way to break the curse is to lather your cursers mark with water and wait until it glows again in black, usually before the eve of their birth, watching it glow the full time and chanting the curse again and again. FOR FEMALES: Same as males.

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There were many other curses, but Beast Boy only read the one he needed, peering at Raven. She lifted her eye brow. "What? Doesn't that answer your question?"

"Well...yeah...," Beast Boy said uncomfortably. "But I don't know what a...jerit is and I can't...lather Scorpio's mark and watch it. Have you seen where it is? She'd think I were perverted or something. 'Sides I don't know the curse's words, and isn't there an easier way?"

Raven had to smile, only because he was right. Scorpio would never let him watch her mark and lather it with his own two hands. If she would blush everytime Robin would compliment her or Cyborg would ask her something, how would she react to this? Trying to hold back her beam, Raven added, "You're right, actually. But I'll tell you something; Scorpio knows your cursed, and I'm sure that if you tell her gently that you know about it too, she'll understand. She's very mature about her...type of person...the fact that she's a scorpion and everything." She paused and added, "I think there might be an easier way...if I remember correctly, but she wouldn't really be too happy about it either." Raven's smile vanished but she was serious all the same. It would actually be fun seeing how this would turn out.

Beast Boy grunted. "How would you know?" He asked coldly. "I thought she doesn't say anything to you."

Raven crossed her arms. "She doesn't need to. But that's all I can tell you about this so far. You can keep the book." Raven went inside her room and closed the door, leaving Beast Boy staring blankly at the book.