Beast Boy had decided it was time for a change of scenery. So he changed into a tuna and headed south to try and clear his head. He kept swimming and flying, alternating to avoid predators, and at times people. But something was pulling him south. It shocked him when he swam into a block of ice. I'm not that far south am I? He thought to himself. He surfaced to find that as far as he could see in any direction was ice. He hopped up on the ice as a polar bear and sniffed the air to smell what was around him, but found nothing. Huh, I figured there would be someone here that could explain why I have this feeling of needing to be here. He thought to himself.
As he started walking around looking for tracks, something crashed into him at full force. He went into full attack mode, until he realized it was a small girl, maybe about 13 lying in the snow. Looking closer, he realized that she looked like Raven, except she had green hair, and a pure black cloak, and she was unconscious.
He grabbed the back of her cloak in his jaws and dragged her towards an outcropping of rocks to give her some respite from the cold. Whether she was friend or foe, he didn't know, but he wasn't about to let a young girl freeze to death just because he didn't know. As he got closer to the rocks, he found a hollow that looked a lot like a cave, and it was big enough to fit both of them comfortably. As he was dragging her the last bit into the cave, her scent hit him like the back swing of Cinderblock. Her scent was of brimstone and ash, an earthy woody smell, and some weird soap he couldn't identify. He shifted back to his normal form, and bent down to examine her more closely. as he was about to open her eyelids to see if her eyes were responsive, they shot open on their own, showing the deepest emerald green he had ever seen. They started glowing darker, and before he could even react, he got thrown across to the opposite wall, hitting with a thud, sliding down to the ground.
Before he could even get his vision to clear to be able to fight back he heard something that made him freeze in his tracks.
"Sorry dad, I didn't mean to send you across the room, I was kind of surprised." she said sitting up.
"Um, I guess the first thing I should ask is who are you, and why did you call me dad?" he said his vision finally clearing.
"Oh, right, that. Mark said you would have the hardest time getting your mind around this." She said matter-of-factly. "My name is Nightfire, although you call me Arella, or Ella for short. I have your last name, obviously, and I called you dad because that's all I've ever called you."
Beast Boy leaned against the wall, deep in thought. His mind may have been miles away, but his senses were on overdrive, trying to convince his brain what they were sensing were in fact true, and not imagined.
"If I'm your father, then, who is your mother?" he asked not totally believing it was true, but before he could even register she wasn't standing in the same spot, he smelled the brimstone and ash, and she was right next to him.
"No. she can't be. She's dead. I watched her die in my arms. I see her ghost for crying out loud." Beast Boy said, almost in tears falling to his knees.
"She's not dead. She didn't die, that was all a dream, and you would have figured it out if you would have just stayed instead of running! Why do think she keeps coming to find you? Why do you keep doing this to yourself, dad? You have done this my entire life, you feel like you are the worst person in the world, and you have to take responsibility for everyone. Why can't you just be normal!?" she yelled at the rocks and ice around her started cracking and falling.
Beast Boy leaned over, wrapping his arms around her pulling her close, and both just held each other and cried. After a time and lots of rock dust falling around them, they had finished their tears.
"So she's alive? She's really alive?" he asked looking hopefully at his daughter.
"Yes she is, and she has been waiting for you to come home." Ella responded.
"What did she say when you saw her before coming to me?" BB asked.
"I haven't seen her yet, that was Mark's mission and from what I can tell, mom isn't taking the news so well, we might want to avoid going home for a little while, cause we definitely don't want mom sending you through to another dimension, I'm sorry but I like existing, and don't want to fade away into nothing just because mom was not in total control of her emotions when she sees you." She said jokingly.
But if she is alive, then I really need to apologize for messing things up so badly. This isn't one of my silly pranks, but something way bigger. Something that could change the fates of more than just our lives, but also that of our children. He thought to himself while frowning at the rocks.
"Um dad, you do realize, I can hear your thoughts just like mom can right?"
"Oh, yeah. I forgot. You know you are just as bad as your mother with giving me that look? I think you learned that a little too well." He said with a slight chuckle. "So what are we going to do about your mother? I mean you said that we couldn't go straight to her right now, so I assume you have a plan?"
"There is something I need to show you before you can go to mom, and not to mention I wanna see if grandma and grandpa really do still have your room set up the same from when you were younger. They changed it for Mark and I when we were little and never got to see it the way you had it when you were a kid", She said with a sad smile drifting towards the opening.
If I have kids, then that means Raven and I…….
"Don't even think about that while I am around please. You too are mushy enough in the future I don't need it here too. Plus who wants to think about what their own parents do behind closed doors. No thank you", she, said with a shutter, not even bothering to look back at Beast Boy.