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Chapter 3: Awakening
"How is he?" said the Boy Wonder.
Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy were in the hospital, on the second floor along the corridor, with Dr. Temon. The doctor sighed.
"Look for yourselves." The doctors led them to a door, and opened it. Inside was Cyborg, restrained on the bed, screaming in agony. Several doctors are standing beside him. Part of the time he is trying to break free of his restraints, half the time looking as if he's going into convulsions. Each of the Titans wore a mask of fear and sorrow for the cybernetic teen's well-being.
"He's less violent when he's put to sleep, but of course, that only goes so far," said the doctor, motioning into the room at Cyborg. "We've run as many tests as we could, judging that we couldn't get a full scan of his head because of his mechanical makeup. We surmise that..." The doctor pauses as Cyborg rips his left arm free, and the other doctors close onto him, and quickly drug him with tranquilizer. "The aliment affecting your friend isn't physical, it's psychological."
"Psychowhat?" said Beast Boy
The doctor sighed again, and closed the door, leading the four Titans down the corridor. "I'm sorry I couldn't be of much help. All we can do is hope for the best."
"Robin, is our friend going to be all right?" ask Starfire, her voice cracking from emotional stress.
Robin did his best to smile back at her. "Of course. I'm positive that everythig's going to be fine." Inside though, was still the fear that he's wrong.
Raven decided to change the subject as they all continued to walk. "How about the other guy we brought in?"
The doctor cleared his voice. "Ah of course, I knew that you'd be interested on the other patient you lot brought in." They reached the end of the corridor, and all of them went through the door into a fairly large room. A constant chirp from the heartbeat sensor echoed through the room.
The young man from the museum lay on a bed, all sorts of cords and electronic instruments attacked to him, and was dressed in hospital patient attire. His clothing, and other items that were on him, were neatly set side by side on a table on the other side of the room. The young man had a slightly muscular build for a body. His hair was a ragged dark black that reached down to his shoulders, a sharp contrast to his skin, which was nearly a milky white. His chest where he was impaled was dressed with blood soaked bandages. He lay still and unmoving on the bed.
Beast Boy walked closer to the young man and looked directly in his face. "Dude, is this guy dead?"
Raven sighed in disgust. "You hear that chirping?"
"Uh...yeah."
"That means he's alive."
"Ah...my bad." Beast Boy sauntered away toward the table with the items.
"Beast Boy," said Robin, "Don't mess with any of that stuff."
Beast Boy feigned a mock salute. "Yes sir!"
The doctor began to speak. "This is a very strange case we've had. We took several scans of this young man here... what was his name again?"
"I believe his name was mentioned as Tyan," Starfire piped out. She was however distracted too by the items on the table, and glided over to Beast boy, who was balancing back and forth whistling innocently while everyone was facing him. The doctor got Robin and Raven's attention back to the patient.
"So, ahem. Tyan is it? Well, as I said before, we ran several tests. Strangely enough, we found some fairly interesting facts."
Raven sweatdropped as a loud clang emited from the other side of the room, along with a yelp. "Such as?" She said, in her monotone voice.
"Ah yes...," the doctor pulled out a clipboard and ajusted his glasses. "Well, for one, he has an exceptional regenerative ability. The chest wound he suffered should have killed him if he was a human being."
"So he's not human," said Robin.
"That's the second thing. His DNA matches of that of a human being almost perfectly. There are some alterations, but of course, I'd say he's human, or within the boundaries of the species."
The doctor walked over to the end of the bed and pulled off a folder with a number of photographs of X-Rays and normal pictures of Tyan's body, and gave them to Robin to look them over.
"As you can see from the X-Ray's, his physical makeup matches exactly with a humans, except there seems to be some kind of bone buildup in between his shoulder blades, shown here." He points to a position on the picture. "Also, we have also found evidence of recent lesions and scarring all over his body."
Robin spoke quizzfully. "What does that mean? I'm not a doctor."
The doctor adjusted his glasses before answering. "I've seen these type of injuries, though not in the great extent this one has, during my time in the War. I believe he was either tortured, or was fairly careless. There is evidence of burns, slices, incisions, and even blunt damage that has been inflicted on this person."
Raven walks over and peers at the young man's face. "Is he asleep?"
"No, he's in a coma... I think. He isn't responding to external stimuli, but the last MRI says that nearly his entire brain is functioning at full. Quite remarkable, since most people only use ten percent-"
"Any way we can increase Beast Boy's brain productivity?" asked Raven cooly, who was watching Beast Boy pick up each item one at a time inspecting, then tossing it back down onto the table to reach for another. Starfire was busy hovering around Beast Boy too intrigued by the items on the table to protest anything, and floateded over Beast Boy's shoulder.
Beast Boy's ears picked up the statement and he frowned. "Rae, that isn't funny. I just don't use my brain much."
Raven gritted her teeth in annoyance at Beast Boy's pet name. "Don't call me Rae, unless you want to find yourself scattered everywhere in this room in pieces!"
Beast Boy shrank back under the table. "Uh... sure. Sorry." He continued messomg around with Tyan's affects. Beast Boy's eyes gleamed as his sight set upon a certain item. The sword. The sword itself was sheathed in an old, worn down leather scabbard, but a circular cut in the leather allowed the long sword's blue pommel to be seen. Beast Boy couldn't control himself. He snatched the sword and scabbard from the table.
"Cool! Hey guys! This guy's sword is sweet!" Beast boy unsheathed the sword from the scabbard and began twirling it around.
"Beast Boy! Stop it before you put someone's eye out!" Robin exclaimed. His fear may become true, as the sword connected with the table with the items and cut it clean in half.
Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head nervously as everyone stared at him. "Ehh...oops?"
Then, an echoy, disembodied voice resonated around the room, causing everyone, but Tyan to jump. "Someone have this idiot to let go of me. The fool doesn't even know how to properly use a sword."
Everyone stared at Beast Boy, wide-mouthed. Beast Boy stared at the sword in his hands wide-mouthed. This continued for a time until the voice began again, the pommel pulsating along with the voice.
"You all deaf or something? Or do you rather have me embedded into one of you because of this fool?"
Beast Boy yelped in fear and tossed the sword away from him. The sword slid into the middle of the room. The sword's pommel began pulsating again.
"Did you really have to throw me? I do have feelings you know."
Everyone was too dumbfounded to speak. There was a talking sword, speaking to them, in the room!
Robin was the first to answer the srange occurance. "Uh, guys... we just heard that sword talk... am I right?" Everone nodded their head slowly, their gaze stll on thw weapon.
"This is wierd.." said Raven
The sword began talking again. "Hey, people. Can one of you pick me up abd hold me over Master Tyan? How about you miss?"
"I uhhh..."
"I would do it myself, but as you can see, I'm not as lucky as everyone else. I need to check on master Tyan!" The sword was sounding more agitated every second.
Raven sighed, "Alright..." She walked over cautiously and picked up the sword slowly. Then, she brought the sword over to the young man on the bed and held the sword over his bandaged chest.
"That good enough for you?" Raven said annoyed that she was taking orders from a sword.
"I can't see his face, angle the bright blue stone on me towards his face will ya sweetie"
Raven did so, only on curisosity of what was happening.
The sword's pommel began flickering bright on and off for the next few minutes, and no one moved. Then, the echoing voice of the sword erupted into the room once again. "Ah good, we don't have to kill him. He's still conscious."
Robin stood there perplexed. "Kill him?o? But-," Robin was interrupted by the doctor.
"He's conscious? This is very peculiar. I thought he was in a coma."
The sword laughed. "Bah you clerics these days. This kid isn't a normal kid. Rather, you should be thinking of him as-,"
"I think you said enough my friend," said Tyan, "as he slowly sat up on the bed, ripping cords off himself. "I think I'll speak on my behalf."
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