Beastboy: Shouldn't you be working on A Symbiotic Bond: A Venomous Titan Reborn?
Rain: I'm suffering some serious writers block on it right now. I know where I want to go but my fingers won't type it.
Beastboy: I guess it's fine but please try to keep this one going. I'm tired of universes being deleted.
Rain: Yeah yeah. Hello everyone! RaintheLingingEspada here and I decided to create another Teen Titans Fic. I've had this idea for a while and unlike the others, I know what I'm doing with this one so I hope you enjoy Silent Shout: Echoes of a Changeling's Heart
Summary: Garfield Mark Logan was a soul plagued with tragedy. He was weak in saving his parents. He was weak in stopping the deaths of his adopted family in the Doom Patrol and failed to stop his previous caretaker in killing the first love of his life. These events caused Garfield to shun his heart and train to be strong but when he meets the Titans, will the hearts of two rekindle his own or will he ignore the shout of his aching heart?
Pairing: Beastboy/Raven/Starfire
Disclaimer (Beastboy): RaintheLingeringEspada does not own Teen Titans or any DC properties. Please support the official release
Silent Shout: Echoes of a Changeling's Heart
Prologue
"Jill. Hang on. Help is on the way!"
"G-Gar…I'm so sorry…I should have listened…."
Through the harsh rain, Garfield Mark Logan sat in front of a tombstone with the name "Jillian Jackson" etched into it.
"No…Please, Jill. You'll be okay, I promise! We'll be laughing at the hospital next week!"
"I-I will never regret meeting you, Gar…You brought light into my world…."
It had been a week since the funeral, and his heart continued to break. Mento had warned him that loving a civilian would come with some unforeseen risks, but Garfield had waved him off at the time, saying that everything would be fine.
"J-Jill…Please don't…."
"I'm scared b-but at least the last thing I'll s-see is y…."
"Jill? Jillian?!"
Garfield hadn't known that his previous caretaker, Nicholas Galtry, would come back into his life.
He didn't know that he would take his girlfriend of a year hostage.
He didn't realize that the man would shoot her.
He didn't know that she would die from her wounds.
Garfield remembered cradling her body as he wept in the middle of the street, Galtry's body mauled in half from the intense battle they had gone through, the sirens of the ambulance and police in the distance.
Why?
Why did this keep happening to him?
He didn't do anything wrong. He just wanted a simple life with a family, homework, school, a girlfriend. He never asked for these powers! He never asked for any of it! Why did he have to suffer like this?
Garfield traced Jillian's name on the tombstone and murmured, "Why does everyone I love die?"
His original parents died in a boating accident.
The Doom Patrol was killed in battle, leaving him alone.
And when he finally found hope with someone he could see a future with, it was brutally ripped away from him by a man who wanted his inheritance. But what sickened him the most was how he was powerless in every situation.
Too weak to save both sets of his parents.
Too weak to save his adopted uncles.
Too weak to save the love of his life.
Weak.
That single word followed him everywhere he went.
As Garfield sat there, he recalled something one of his kidnappers had told him once.
"Kid, you'll come to find that all that matters in this world is power. Whether it's physical, mental, influential, or other."
"Is that why it is so easy for you to betray and hurt others?"
"That's exactly why. Power means everything. Once you come to understand that, you'll know why villains like us do all we can to gain and keep it. Because without power, we're weak, and you never want to be put in that position."
"Why?"
"Simple, if you're too weak, you'll get everything taken from you and wind up sitting in a cage, waiting to be sold to the highest bidder. Just like you right now."
Garfield now understood.
"If I were stronger…If I knew how to use my powers to the fullest…I would've been able to save them all…." Garfield whispered as thunder rumbled above him.
It was then the words of his adopted father rang in Garfield's head.
"The reason I am so hard on you is that I see so much potential in you. You can change into any animal, real and extinct, on Earth and outside of it, but I know that that's only the beginning of your true abilities. You could become one of the world's top heroes, but you're pissing it away with your lackadaisical attitude. If you don't take this seriously and go all in, all you'll ever amount to is a sideshow act at the circus."
Mento had been so harsh with him back then, and Garfield's flippant replies hadn't made it easier.
Why didn't he listen to him?
Mento was trying to teach him, yet he refused to listen, and now, he was alone with nothing but scars to show for it.
"Jill…I know that it was my humor and carefree heart that attracted you to me, but I-I can't continue to be the Garfield you loved…Not anymore…Not when I failed everyone I ever cared about," Garfield whispered before he stood up in front of the grave.
"That is why I've decided that today would be the last time I see you…." Garfield told the tombstone softly. "Because Beastboy died with you and the Doom Patrol…Only I remain…."
Garfield took a deep breath and said, "You asked me before Galtry came about what I wanted to be. I told you that I wanted to be a movie star, but now, I will be the hero both of my families wanted me to be. I will be the one to fight for those that can't fight themselves…."
Garfield leaned down and placed a kiss on the top of the tombstone and murmured, "You made me happy, Jill…Happier than I had ever been. But this heart of mine will only get in my way of what I must become to make my new dream a reality…, And that is why I leave it here with you…" Garfield placed a purple mask on her grave along with a silver necklace that hung over his neck.
"I don't know if there is a Heaven or not but rest well, Jill…Keep my heart safe up there," Garfield told the tombstone before he turned around and walked away from the grave and into an unknown future.
Rain: How is that for a prologue? If you guys are curious and want to see more, leave a review!
Garfield:…Goodbye.