Hello again! It's time to read part 2 of "Beast Boy's Game!" I'll remind you again that this is a sequel, and to read the story before this if you want it to make any sense. Anyway. there may be a bit more humor in this one since its Beast Boy… but I'll still try to keep my best to keep it serious. Okay? Okay! Now, on with the story! I don't own Teen Titans…
Beast Boy's Game
Part 2: Check the Seal
Beast Boy screamed in absolute terror, falling through an endless blackness. He tumbled head over heels over… and over… and over again! The darkness smothered him, and he curled into the fetal position as he prayed for his very soul. "Oomph!" he landed. Rubbing his sore behind, he sat up. "What the…?" He had landed, more gently than he should've, on a black marble floor. The first thing he noticed was a word. It hovered in midair, and he couldn't see a projector anywhere…
NAME:
There was a little blinking underscore after the word, as though it were waiting for a response. He approached and tried to touch it. His hand passed through the word, but he didn't feel anything. It was simply there. It was the only source of light too. If it said more, maybe it would grow brighter. "Beast Boy!" he proclaimed.
NAME: BEAST BOY (CONFIRM? Y/N)
He was right, and he could see a little further into the blackness. But, he still couldn't see the end. Was there an end? Did this floor of black marble go on forever? Swallowing, he spoke again with a nervous tone. "Yes." The lettering disappeared immiediatly, leaving him in darkness. "Crap…" he muttered, his plans to see further foiled.
After a few moments, a spotlight turned on behind him. He turned with a cry, but found something he didn't expect. It was…… was that the front door of Titan's Tower?
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"Raven! What's wrong!" All three remaining Titans exploded out onto the roof., Robin in the lead. They skidded to a halt, finding her lying there. She was weeping softly, a golden watch clutched in her left hand.
"He's gone." Raven choked as they knelt around her. Cyborg helped her into a sitting position, and she pointed. "It's back… it's back!" she cried aloud. The black disk had made its way to the center of the roof. It was hovering there, spinning. With nothing else for her powers to break, Raven's powers became like static electricity. Bolts of black energy went up and down her body, not really going anywhere. The others withdrew a few inches, not wanting it to discharge on them.
They turned and went over to the black disk. It spun innocently, hovering there as though it were the most natural thing in the world. Starfire and Cyborg knelt down to get a better look. A starbolt formed on Star's hand, "Should we destroy it to free him?"
"No! He's still in there!" Raven shouted, throwing herself on her feet. "He was sucked in, just like me…" Her voice fell to a whisper. "He's in the game now. Just like I was a year ago…"
"Okay. Let's check the seal." Robin nodded in the direction of the stairwell. "We'll see if that thing got out somehow." Cyborg and Starfire nodded.
They were off, save Raven. She walked and sat Indian-style near the disk. She swallowed aloud and reached to touch it. It sparked dangerously, and she quickly withdrew. "So… you remember me too." She sneered at it. "He'll beat you, y'know. Just like I did last time." She said it with every ounce of venom she had… but she didn't sound too sure of herself. "He'll win…" Raven whispered.
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Beast Boy looked around in curiosity. The never-ending dark room was gone. He was at the front door of Titan's Tower. It was broad daylight, too. Nothing looked out of the ordinary that he could see… licking his dry lips, he approached the double-doors. "Uh, dude…? Wasn't I just sucked into a big black portal thingy?" he mumbled, pushing the doors open. "Hullo?" he shouted. "Anybody home?" the lobby looked right, just as he saw it everyday. Making his way to the elevator, he got it and went up to the common room. The doors hissed open, and what he saw was –!
Just the way he left it.
No one was in the common room at the moment, but it looked just as it had only minutes ago. "The roof!" He suddenly remembered he'd left Raven behind. Running to the elevator he took it the rest of the way up and dashed up the stairwell. "Raven!" He burst out onto the roof, looking for his romantic interest. "…Raven?" he whispered. There was no one there. The roof was completely empty except – hey, what was that? Beast Boy went quickly and found Raven's cloak lying in a heap near the center of the roof. "What the –?" He picked it up and found her leotard, shoes, belt, and brooch under it. "Is she naked somewhere?" he wondered wildly. He also found the pocket watch he'd just given her. "Why would she leave this behind? Clothes are weird enough… but I really thought she liked this." he mumbled to himself, picking it up. He brought the cape and cowl to his nose and took a whiff. Yep. It was hers alright. "Hmm…" he looked around, as though someone might be watching him. Then… he put it on. The dark purple clashed horribly with his purple and black spandex, but he liked it. Securing the brooch, he looked himself over. "Neat…" he smiled. He'd tried on Robin's clothes before, but so had the others. He was the only one to have tried on Raven's cloak… more than once! He'd tried to use it and use the force when they'd been sucked into that Space Trek show by Control Freak. But this time he was wearing it right. They way she always wore it. "I better go find her and the others. They're probably worried about me…" Enjoying the fact that he had Raven's scent floating around his animal-caliber nose, he exited the roof via the stairwell. "Where would they go to look first…" he suddenly remembered. "The seal! If Raven thought I got sucked into the Dark Fall's game, they would've gone to check the seal!" He rushed, the cloak billowing behind him.
A few minutes later, he arrived at the cave. Holding his old flashlight-helmet, which he kept for whenever he went down there, he plonked it on his head and flicked the light on. The cave was monstrous, but he didn't have far to go… The light suddenly reflected off of the enormous metal shape.
It was like a coin that had been stood up on its side, then secured with all sorts of restraints. The symbols he'd drawn a year ago were still pulsing with Raven's magic. The date that Cyborg had melted into it was still there. The 'T' Robin had placed at the center was still in residence. All that, and the thousands of binding symbols were still there…
Gulping aloud and looking around, Beast Boy neither saw nor heard anyone. "What the crap…?" he knelt near the left side of the seal. There was a piece of clothing on the ground, bunched up like it had been there only minutes. It was Starfire's skirt. Flushing red, he dropped it as though it might bite him. He quickly scanned the cave over again, trying not to look at it. No one was there. Shifting the feminine article with his foot, he saw her top, her belt, her gauntlets… everything she wore everyday. "What's going on…?" he mumbled. He looked closely, and found Robin's mask nearby! His cape and utility belt weren't far, and it didn't take long to find his boots or gloves. "Where is everybody?" They'd left their clothes behind, and vanished? What the hell was going on?
Beast Boy was suddenly feeling very odd about wearing Raven's cloak. It was all that remained of her… trying not to think that way, he looked for signs of Cyborg. But… he couldn't find any. "Oh wait. Cyborg doesn't wear clothes." He rolled his eyes. His metal friend didn't need clothes since most of his body was armor and metal. "This doesn't –"
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"–make any sense at all…" Robin said, stroking his chin. "Raven knows for a fact it was the same creature, but…" The seal was still in place, right where they'd left it.
"Scans show it hasn't moved an inch since we put it here." Cyborg said, checking the read-out on his arm. "It's just fine." The three of them looked up at all the symbols and writings and warnings they'd put on the great metal slab. "If it's the same shadow-thing, then it must've found another way out."
"Let me be the judge of that." They all turned to see Raven had arrived. The Titans immiediatly noticed something different about her. Her cloak had vanished. "Yeah, I know." she said, reading their expressions. "I was sitting on the roof, and it disappeared into thin air."
Starfire, who was standing at the left side of seal, tilted her head with worry. "I should hope that the rest of your clothing does not vanish, Raven!" Both boys laughed behind their hands, but Star looked genuinely worried.
"My pocket watch is gone too." She mumbled, looking up at the seal. "It was there… and then it wasn't."
"Pocket watch?" Cyborg cocked an eyebrow.
"Yeah. Beast Boy gave it to me as a…… a gift." She finished lamely. She didn't have the guts to say anniversary present, even though they'd been an 'item' for a year. "Let's see what's going on, on the other side." Raven levitated into the air, folding her legs into the lotus position. She assumed the position of meditation. "One sign that I'm in trouble, and shake me awake." The three of them nodded, and she shut her eyes. "Azarath… Metrion… Zinthos."
Raven's astral form left her body, disappearing through the seal. Black with a white outline, it flew down the dark hallway. Pausing here and there to check the writings on the hall, it made its way forward. Seeing the shrine up ahead, it slowed down and approached with caution.
"Aaaaseeeeeooooooraaaaaaseeeeeeth…"
It was a semi-circle shaped room, and there was a well in the middle. Green and black mist hovered around it like an oozing, spectral trail. Four columns held the roof up, but looked equally disturbing. Each had a faceless, stone statue leaning out of it. Their arms seemed to be out in offering, a stream of green was spouting lazily from each one. A smokey substance than looked like Starfire's powers in liquid form was coming out of each one. Four bottomless bowls were there, one under each fountain. The columns themselves had hundreds of eye-less faces carved into them, and they all seemed to be staring at her.
"Yooooodeeeeeeeeaaaaanooooosh…."
Just the way Raven remembered it from the last time she'd seen it She looked around cautiously, ready to make her physical body scream and alert the others. Hovering in midair, she approached the well slowly. Thousands of symbols were carved all over it. Happy she'd only needed twelve, she touched the well with both hands…… leaned over….
"RAAAAAAANAAAAAKAAAAAAAAA!"
Raven screamed in mortal terror and the cave shook! Back beyond the seal Starfire grabbed physical body by the shoulders. "Awaken, friend!" she shook the pale girl hard. "You are in danger!"
Raven's astral body fled at the speed of light, slamming back into its physical one. She cried out and crashed to the ground. Sprawled in an awkward position, she was even paler than normal. Breathing hard, she clutched at her breast with both hands and tried to calm herself. "It's still there…" she mumbled, sitting up. A bead of sweat worked its way down Raven's temple. "It's… still there…"
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"Guys…? Hello?" Beast Boy was back in the common room, sitting on the couch. He was trying to contact the others with his T-communicator, but there was no response. As though they weren't there. His brow furrowing, he went to the main computer and tried Titans East. "Nothing…" he muttered. "That fog's getting' pretty bad…" he looked out over the bay. Jump City wasn't even visible through all the swirling fog. He folded his arms, trying to think. "Where'd they go…?"
Beast Boy thought for a long time, sitting there in silence. He looked up very suddenly, going a rather pasty shade of green. "They didn't go anywhere! I'm not at home at all!" He staggered to his feet in shock and horror. "I'm in the game! It looks just like the tower!" He remembered how Raven had described it to him. The game the Dark Fall had sucked her into had looked just like Titan's Tower. But… it had been all wrecked up. Old and dusty and stuff. "It looks okay though…" he mumbled, clutching his fists as he looked around. "Is that thing here…?" He looked left, then right, as though it would jump out any second. Getting chills and wondering what was going to happen to him, he sat to think. What should he do now? Look for the symbols again? He remembered them all! "I gotcha now! Lussa!" he threw out his arms. "Kars!" he rambled down the entire list of the twelve magic symbols, then stood dynamically!
Nothing happened.
Standing in silence, he went a little pink in the cheeks and sat down again. "Well, it was worth a shot…" he mumbled. "What do I do now…?" he held his chin in his palm, leaning forward and resting his elbow in his knee.
His eyebrows tilted upwards, and he frowned softly. Taking out the pocket-watch he'd picked up, he popped it open. The watch hadn't been wound yet, so it was no use for telling the time, but… the picture… "Raven…" he mumbled softly. "What did you do when you first got here?" he whispered to the picture as though it were her he was talking to. Snapping it closed at last, he stood. "Well… don't worry! I'll figure it out! I'll get back just like you did!"
The entire room went dark very suddenly. Clouds billowed on the horizon, and lightning played across the sky. A pair of gaint eyes stared at Beast Boy from the horizon, and he stared back in mortal terror. The eyes narrowed in… amusement? Anger? He didn't know. Flashes of light and rolls of thunder rocked the tower, and Beast Boy was thrown off of his feet. It started pouring down rain, beating against the windows of the common room. He watched them beat harder and harder against it, and he suddenly saw it was becoming hail.
ICICLE!
He threw himself out of the way as a twelve-inch icicle pierced the glass and speared into the floor where he'd just been. "Holy shi –!" he didn't have time to finish cursing, because a barrage of them were coming! He staggered to his feet and it was like Indiana Jones running down the hall of booby traps. Razor-sharp icicles broke the windows apart, spearing into the carpet, furniture, counter, TV, and everything else. Beast Boy yelled and swore and staggered as he ran for his life!
An icicle struck the back of his leg, tearing the spandex and drawing blood.
Beast Boy cried out in pain, falling forward. Clutching his leg he turned just in time to see a rain of them come right for him. "Raven…" he whispered, the fear growing in his eyes.
That's all for now, ya'll! Be sure to stay tuned for the next part of Beast Boy's Game! It's coming soon, so make sure and come back soon, n'kay? So… Beast Boy has found the tower just about the way it was in the real world? Why were his friend's clothes left behind? They're still safe and sound in the real world, and the creature is still sealed away… then how is it all happening? We'll find out more next time! See ya soon!