Chapter 4 The rescue
"Let me get this straight. You're gonna go fight a dragon and rescue a princess just so Slade will give you back your house which you only don't have because he filled it full of freaks in the first place." Said Cyborg confused.
"Ummm…yes?" Asked Beast Boy. "Sides you make it sound like I'm alone…Cyborg?" He asked looking around.
"Over here, my scanners say it's this way." Said Cyborg. "And please tell me why Robin ran off on us?" he asked.
Beast Boy shrugged. "He just said something about fulfilling his real quest…which I'm pretty sure meant he was going to save his girlfriend." Said Beast Boy.
"He chickened out on us!" Yelled Cyborg.
Beast Boy sighed.
"You hungry, I'm hungry." Said Cyborg.
Beast Boy didn't talk.
"You're holding out on me aren't you?" Asked Cyborg. "You have food don't you?"
Beast Boy twiddled his thumbs continuing to walk.
"Don't hold out on me you little grass stain." Said Cyborg.
Beast Boy sighed. "Fine." He said pulling out a block of…
"Tofu…never mind I think I'd rather starve." Said Cyborg walking ahead.
"Dude! There's nothing wrong with tofu." He said. "You know you want some…it's filled with soybeany goodness." He said waving the tofu in front of Cyborg's face.
"What's wrong with meat?" Asked Cyborg.
"Dude!" Yelled Beast Boy. "I've been most of those animals. Eating that would be like…eating myself or something!"
Cyborg groaned. "It's better then tofu."
"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"No it's not."
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"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"No it's not."
"Yes it is."
"No it's-hey what's that smell?"
"Don't look at me I didn't-." Began Cyborg.
"I'm not accusing you…but now that you said something about it-."
Cyborg sniffed at the air. "I think it's brimstone…we're getting close."
The two walked upward only to come across a huge castle surrounded by burning lava. "And how do you propose we get across there?" Asked Cyborg.
Beast Boy shrugged turning into a bird and soaring over the bridge.
"HEY!" Yelled Cyborg. "What about me!"
The green bird landed on the ground and transformed into his normal form. "Walk." He yelled over to him. "Cause I'm not coming back over there for you." Said Beast Boy.
Cyborg groaned and stepped onto the bridge carefully. "What if this thing breaks…it doesn't look too safe." He said.
"It's not going to break now hurry up." Said Beast Boy.
"Oh man." Said Cyborg walking across slowly. "Okay…I can do this all I have to do is walk very slowly and-."
"Hurry up!" Yelled Beast Boy making Cyborg jump and break a plank of wood on the bridge.
Cyborg glared up at the changeling and sighed. "If you would shut up I could concentrate on getting across." He yelled.
Beast Boy let out a huffing noise and sat down on the ground resting his head on his hands looking bored.
By the time Cyborg got across he found Beast Boy laying on the ground his head resting on a rock. "Are you sleeping?" Asked Cyborg looking down at him.
He didn't get a response.
Cyborg groaned and bent down pulling up the changeling's pointed ear, he smirked to himself just thinking of the green boy's reaction. "YO B WAKE UP!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
Beast Boy's eyes popped open and he shot up letting out a loud high-pitched scream.
Cyborg burst out laughing. "Man…you sound like a girl."
Beast Boy calmed himself down and glared at him. "Took you long enough." He said.
Cyborg smirked and wiped a tear from his eye. "Well excuse me but some of us can't fly." He said.
"Well-." Suddenly a loud roar erupted from the castle. "I'm guessing that's the dragon that we're suppose to slay?" Asked Beast Boy.
"We?" Asked Cyborg.
"You can't leave me to slay that thing!" Yelled Beast Boy waving his arms wildly.
Cyborg sighed. "Fine, we'll split up whoever finds the dragon first has to slay it…got it?" He asked.
Beast Boy blinked stupidly at him. "Split up? SPLIT UP! Do you know what happens when you sp-."
"Shhh…I hear something…I'm going this way you take the other way." Said Cyborg walking to the right.
Beast Boy sighed and took off towards the left side. He passed bones of what he figured was some of the past people that had tried to rescue the princess…needless to say they didn't look they had gotten too far. "I really hope I don't turn out like that." He said to himself. He walked aimlessly looking around until he ran into something hard. Looking up he found a statue of a knight and not realizing it was only a statue he let out a loud scream and flew backwards only to end up bumping into another one. The helmet slid off of the statue's head and fell onto Beast Boy's head. He let out another scream and ran around until he ran into a wall falling over. He sat up shaking his head and tried to see through the knight's helmet. Beast boy reached up to take it off but before he even touched the helmet a faint light caught his eye. He stood up and walked around the corner only to see a tall staircase. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss. His mother had read those words to him before when he was a small boy.
"Wonder if that's true?" He asked himself. Shrugging he headed up the stairs.
"Now…if I was a princess where would I be?" Asked Cyborg to himself. Cyborg looked around. "Man how am I suppose to know this stuff?"
Groaning he walked around the corner to a large room. "Hmm…now this looks like something a-."
Cyborg paused hearing a soft breathing sound beside him. "All right BB if that's you I'll…" Cyborg turned around to see a large dragon behind him. "Help." He squeaked before letting out a loud scream and running away. The dragon blew fire at Cyborg just missing him by an inch and took off after him.
Cyborg turned around firing his sonic cannon at the beast but it didn't do any harm. "Oh man this is not good."
The dragon continued to charge. He looked around frantically and took off down another hallway the dragon plowing down walls behind him.
Beast Boy neared the top of the tower panting. He pushed open a door to reveal a girl sitting on a bed, her hood pushed up covering her face, and reading a book.
"Ummm…hi." Said Beast Boy not really sure what to say at a time like this.
The girl looked up at him and looked back down to the book not seeming to care. Suddenly the book dropped from her hands and fell to the floor and she looked back up quickly, staring at him as if she'd never seen another person before in her life. A small lamp by her bedside became covered in a black aura and blew up.
"Are you Princess Raven?" Asked Beast Boy bending over and picking up her book handing it to her staring into her amethyst colored eyes.
She took it hesitantly. "Yes." Came a monotone voice. "I am."
"Great lets go." Said Beast Boy grabbing her hand and pulling her up off the bed.
"But-." Began she began.
"Sorry we gotta go." Said Beast Boy.
Raven pulled her hand away from his grasp. "Look, I'm not into all of this lovey-dovey-mushy-crap, but I don't think this is how it's suppose to go." She said.
"Oh, and how is it suppose to go?" Asked Beast Boy.
"I don't know aren't you suppose to sweep me off my feet out the window and down a rope onto your valiant steed…or something like that?" She said.
"You've thought about this before haven't you?" Asked Beast Boy.
"I read." Stated Raven.
"Yeah…come on." He said grabbing her arm again and pulling her out the door.
"Could you slow down?" Asked Raven being pulled down the stairs by him.
"Sorry, can't." Said Beast Boy.
"Can you at least tell me your name?" Asked Raven.
Beast Boy stopped, flipping up the knight's helmet he was wearing and peered through at her revealing his emerald colored eyes. "Ummm…Beast Boy." He said.
"Beast Boy?" Asked Raven. She shrugged. "Well, it's not the worst I've ever heard-."
"RUN!" Yelled a loud voice from around the corner.
"What was that?" Asked Raven.
Cyborg rounded the corner grabbing Beast Boy's arm who grabbed onto Raven pulling them along. Raven looked behind watching fire burst from around the corner. "You didn't slay the dragon?" She yelled.
"Yeah, it's on our to do list." Said Cyborg. "I did manage to tie it up a little." He said. "Good thing that the dragon has a chain."
"Dude!" Yelled Beast Boy. "You said whoever found it had to slay it."
"I thought you didn't like to hurt poor innocent animals?" Asked Cyborg.
"This is different!" Retorted Beast Boy. "This dragon isn't innocent…it's trying to kill us!"
"As much as I love to hear you two argue…we need to get out of here before it catches us." Said Raven.
"Right." Said Cyborg. "Do you remember where the exit is?" He asked.
Beast Boy groaned. "We're doomed."
"There!" Yelled Raven a torch becoming surrounded in a black aura and blowing out.
"Did you do that?" Asked Cyborg looking at the dark girl.
"Umm…guys…how about we talk about this latter." Said Beast Boy looking around nervously.
A large blast of fire burst out from the wall behind them. The three of them quickly took off towards the exit and out onto the wooden bridge, the dragon following behind. And with one puff of fire the bridge snapped sending them hurling down to the lava below. Beast Boy let out another one of his high-pitched screams forgetting all about his powers and continued to fall. A few seconds latter he felt himself hit something hard.
"Weird…I always thought dying would feel differe-."
"Yo man you aren't dead." Said Cyborg's voice from beside him.
Beast Boy opened his eyes to see darkness. "You're right…I'm blind!" He yelled. "Some one help I can't see…I'm gonna die!"
"Would you shut up." Said a monotone voice beside him. "You have that helmet covering your eyes."
"Oh right." Said Beast Boy laughing. "I knew that."
"You know it might feel better if you take that thing off." Suggested Raven. "Besides you might run into something."
"Hey…you get to keep your hood up why should I have to take this off?" Asked Beast Boy.
"Are you just trying to argue with me for no reason at all?" Asked Raven.
"Yes…I mean no." He said quickly.
Raven rolled her eyes. "Just take it off." She said.
"I don't feel like it." Said Beast Boy.
Raven glared at him and chanted three words under her breath.
"Umm…what's she-." Before Cyborg could finish the helmet on Beast Boy's head became surrounded in a black aura and tumbled off his head.
"How did you just-what was-and you just-." Said Beast Boy confused.
"Yeah…why are you green?" Asked Raven.
"I'm a changeling." Said Beast Boy.
"Look can we please hurry up here…I wanna get going before that dragon breaks free." Said Cyborg. "Besides I think we have to get her to King Slade's palace sometime soon, you never know what kind of conniption fit Malchior will throw next."
"Not to mention we should probably see how Robin's doing." Added Beast Boy.
"What are you guys talking about?" Asked Raven.
"Malchior…your future husband." Stated Beast Boy. "I feel very sorry for you."
"What?" Asked Raven again obviously confused what was going on. "I thought that you were the one who was supposed too-."
Cyborg looked from her to Beast Boy and began to chuckle. "Lemmie get this straight…you-you think that he's-he's your-." Cyborg couldn't finish his sentence he clutched his sides breaking out in hysterical laughter.
"I did…but now…I'm not too sure." Said Raven giving Cyborg a confused look.
Beast Boy sighed. "We were sent by King Slade to bring you to his palace to marry his son Malchior." Said Beast Boy.
"Then why didn't this Malchior just come and save me himself?" Asked Raven looking annoyed.
"Good question." Said Cyborg. "You can ask him when you get there."
"Sorry but if this Malchior wants to marry me so badly tell him I'll be waiting for him right here." Said Raven plopping herself down on a rock.
"Dude, we can't do that." Said Beast Boy. "Cyborg, I believe you could be of use here."
"Sure thing green bean." Said Cyborg bending down and picking Raven up slinging her over his shoulder.
Raven glared at Beast Boy who smiled knowingly at her.
What do you guys think? Oh Robin and Starfire will be included in the story. Don't worry I didn't forget about them. lol.
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