Hey guys! I took a College Placement Test for Writing, and I scored a 99 out of 100 on it! Now I know if Computer Science ever fails me, I could actually go into English! (Which means more writing from me). Anyways, in more relevant news, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter! I think some of you might either say 'It's about Time!', 'What the hell is going on!', 'Woohoo! It finally happened!', or 'What the hell Allen! I need more!' Those are just some of the guesses on my part.
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Twilight Sigma: Well of course, there would be no story if that didn't happen afterall. And yes, I will personally enjoy writing when Beast Boy goes into heat ;). Enjoy the chapter Wyatt!
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Chapter Thirteen: Speed Vs. Beast
Wally had just finished cracking his knuckles when Beast Boy charged forward as a wolf, wanting to catch his opponent off guard with a surprise assault. However, he found that Wally, a speedster, had plenty of time to react. He sped to the right to dodge the would be attack.
As Beast Boy turned in that direction as a wolf to continue his attack, a red gloved fist appeared in his eyes. The fist made contact, sending the wolf back several feet into the air. The wolf turned the hit into a backflip and landed on its haunches, before it suddenly jumped forward with its claws and fangs bared.
The speedster easily ducked underneath the attack, and then pushed up into the underbody of the wolf, causing it to unbalance while still in the air. The wolf landed awkwardly on its face, before it morphed back into Beast Boy. Beast Boy looked back to glare at the speedster.
"C'mon, it's like you're not even trying." Wally taunted from behind as Beast Boy dazily got up from off the ground.
Beast Boy growled at the comment, before he suddenly morphed into a lion. His claws reached out to grab at the speedster, only to grab thin air again. His claws dug into the ground, and the lion looked left and right for its prey.
A force bigger than that of a truck ran into him from the side, causing Beast Boy the lion to again fly through the air. He roared in pain when he hit the ground and rolled front over back several times, before he got back on his legs and looked to where the speedster should have been.
Wally wasn't there.
Another force hit him in the side again, this time right beneath his rib cage. So as Beast Boy flew through the air, he found himself briefly winded at the air was pushed out of his lungs. He slammed hard into the ground and slid a little ways. He stayed lying down as he morphed back into his normal form again.
Wally ran forward again, preparing to take down the former Titan with a finishing blow. Then Beast Boy suddenly transformed into a rhino. Having managed to see the speedster coming right at him this time.
Wally barely managed to avoid impaling himself on the big beast's horn, but he still bounced off the big thick body onto the ground. The rhino's skin had been like running sideways into a brick wall.
The rhino tried to stomp on Wally while he was down, but the speedster rolled to the side to avoid the hit. Beast Boy snorted as he tried again and again to squash the rolling speedster. Unfortunately, one stomp made his foot sink a foot into the ground where it was still muddy. And in the time it took him to get his foot out, Wally had gotten up and took off once again.
The rhino morphed back into Beast Boy. Who studied the area around him closely while in his human form. He let his breathing calm, as he focused solely on his senses. The main one being his hearing. If Wally was going to use speed to try and trick him, he would use that against the speedster.
The sound of running feet came from behind him, like a machine gun going rapid fire. Beast Boy only waited the one second he needed, and then he suddenly leaned his body to the side, his leg remaining at a diagonal angle where he had been standing. Wally the speedster ran right through where Beast Boy's body had been, only to catch on Beast Boy's outstretched leg.
Wally flew through the air. His arms flailed to the sides in surprise before he hit a tree at over two hundred miles an hour. And again, a loud audible crack was clearly heard as his nose connected with it.
"Cmon, awgain!" Wally shouted, as he clutched his bloody nose. He turned to see a smirking Beast Boy.
"Sorry man. You're the educated one. So I don't have many other lessons to try and teach you." Beast Boy taunted back to the speedster at last.
The speedster was suddenly in front of him, wiping the smirk off Beast Boy's face. "Well then." He spoke with a clear voice. "Here's another one for ya to learn good buddy."
Pow!
A lightning fast uppercut hit Beast Boy right in the face. Making him fly high up into the air, before he came crashing back down towards the ground. Right where Wally was waiting.
Pow!
Another fast punch knocked him through the air, where he plowed into a tree so hard, it caused it to shake. Beast Boy gripped the back of his head from the immense pain he felt coming from the contact he made with the tree.
A pair of hands lifted him from off the ground, and he looked up into Wally's enraged bloody face. "Never piss off a freaking speedster!" He shouted, as he cocked his fist back again for a devastating haymaker.
Beast Boy quickly changed into a snake, dodging the punch. And Wally ended up punching the tree instead with his hand. "Owy!" He yelled in pain as he clutched his hand from the pain. Beast Boy quickly reappeared right in front of him, and delivered his own powerful haymaker.
Kapow!
The powerful punch sent Wally flying back into the air, before he landed on the ground again about twenty feet away.
"And you should know I'm not as stupid as I look!" Beast Boy shouted back, before he changed into a panther and pounced forward.
Wally rolled to the side of the attack, and was quickly back on his feet. The panther turned around and jumped for Wally with his claws outstretched. Instead of running though, Wally darted forward between the claws, and kicked the panther in the face, hard.
The panther cried out in pain, and tried to grab the speedster while he was still close, but Wally had already used the push from his kick to fly back into the air. He landed with one knee bent, before he charged forward again.
Beast Boy morphed into a bear as he roared loudly in challenge and ran forward to meet him.
Meanwhile
Raven came out of her mirror and landed on her bed where she had set the mirror down before going in to talk to her emotions. She had just wanted them to shut up, and stop making her feel so guilty about what she had done. She couldn't understand before why they had been so mad with her.
That is, until a little before she left, when she had finally gotten some answers… and then discovered a few of her own.
'I have a crush on Beast Boy…'
Raven looked at the green walls of her room. Seeing a faint outline of his face somehow reflecting off them.
'I have a crush on Beast Boy…'
Raven looked down at the green carpeted floor. She could imagine it being the fur of one of his many animal forms. So soft and fuzzy… and warm.
'I have a crush on Beast Boy…'
Raven finally looked up at the green ceiling as she fell back onto her bed. All she could see was a bright smiling Beast Boy staring down at her in her mind's eye. With the little fang sticking out of his mouth.
'Azar, I have a crush on Beast Boy... how did I develop a crush on him? It's insane! It doesn't make any sense… I shouldn't be attracted to him!'
But the more she thought that, the less sure she was of herself.
Yeah, she still felt that he was the most immature one on the team. If not, in the entire world. Even despite what she had seen the past few days, she still felt that Beast Boy was hardly capable of being serious. That he was still the prepubescent teenager she always knew and… not hated, but got extremely annoyed with. Plus, he was what people would consider a freak. His appearance alone would be a turnoff to most people.
But then again, it wasn't like that was all he was. Sure, he didn't tell the greatest jokes, but he could be funny when he didn't try so hard to do it. He might have been considered immature, but he did have a brain beneath that outer shell of his. If he didn't, he would have always acted like a brainless idiot… … like an animal. He really did have a human brain with a human mind in that green head of his.
Besides, she didn't care about his outer appearance. She had known him long enough to know he was anything but a freak. And who was she to judge? Beast Boy, along with the others, had accepted her as a friend even when they learned what she was. That had meant a lot more to Raven then she had realized up till then.
Yeah, he was immature a lot of the time. Yet, he was quite capable of being serious and mature when it was required of him. He could switch from one to the other so easily, it was like he simply tore off his outer shell to become what he hides on the inside… now that Raven thought about it, the change would happen almost instantaneously. Like that was a part of who he really was.
'But why would he do that? If he could be serious all the time, why does he choose to be childish? Why did he banter with Cyborg day after day on tofu Vs meat? Why did he watch childish shows with Starfire? Why did he always joke around with Robin, even knowing it could piss him off in a serious situation?... why did he always try to annoy the nine hells out of me? Why did it seem like he always went out of his way to make sure I was included in everything? Why did he always pay so much attention to me, when I didn't want any to begin with? Why is he the way he is?'
It looked like Raven had some new questions to ask him now.
Raven looked back at the green floor, and again, an image of one of his animal forms came to mind. One that she had only been able to see while on camera. That had been another interesting day there. The day where it felt like they truly had a fight. And when he had saved her from Adonis almost right afterward.
Guess that was another thing she had to accept about the green teenager. Despite his happy appearance, like her, he harbored a dark side to himself on the inside. His own Beast. She didn't know if it was anything like her Rage, but still, it was his own dark side he had to control.
But then she wondered, why was she even thinking about the Beast now? She had never seen it except on camera? It was such a random thought that she wondered if it was even her own. Or was it one of her emoticlones...
Raven felt like she was getting a headache from all her thinking. And she hadn't even went outside to talk to the green bean yet…
Oh yeah, she still had to apologize to him for what she said earlier. She even had to give him a small smile. Her headache got a little worse, maybe sleeping would have been a better idea than talking to her emoticlones?
'No… I would have woken up, and I'd still be feeling guilty for what I had done. Things would have gone nowhere. And I still wouldn't have known who it was I had a crush on. Now that I know, I can deal with it accordingly. What I did last night was necessary.'
Raven finally got up from off her bed. She had to make sure Beast Boy was still okay. She had really hurt him last night. All she could do was apologize and hope that things worked out. Heck, she'd even give him that small smile if it meant getting him to forgive her. As for the crush, she'd have keep it to herself for now. She wasn't supposed to feel anyways, or else who knew what would happen with her powers. It would be just like the hurt from... the evil bastard from before. It would fade with time.
'But Affection said it has been around for several months already… and I wasn't even aware of it before… and she was still hurting from that incident… so is it possible for a crush to really fade?'
Raven shook her head to clear it. Not that it helped her headache any.
It was only a small crush. It would fade, just like the hurt from Malchior. It had to. Or else she could destroy the world… or him.
'Isn't that a dreary thought?' Raven thought.
Raven opened the door to her room, making sure she had her cloak wrapped tightly around her this time. Still, the rush of cold air that came in was chilling to her exposed skin. There was also some morning sunlight coming in through the door.
'I talked all night with my emoticlones.' Raven thought to herself, before she looked down from the brightness of the sun. Down to where she had left Beast Boy last.
Her eyes widened as she saw the now demolished tree in front of her. She floated forward to it and picked up a piece of bark from off the ground. In the bark itself, was deep slashing marks, some of which had went all the way through it. Making the bark appear to be cracked. The claws had to be Beast Boy's, what else could have done it?
'Did I really hurt him that badly last night?' She thought. His empathic signature in the area was still strong. Even though it had been hours ago when this likely happened. There was so much anger, hate, self-loathing… regret, shame, and fear. Fear of what, she didn't know.
'Was he really so mad at me? Or was he mad at himself? But then why would he be mad at himself? He was the one who told me all those things yesterday… he even said it in a confident voice... right?' Raven had to question to herself.
Suddenly, she heard a loud roar in the distance. Taking her mind off track.
She looked up to a hill that looked to be about a half mile away. Was that where he could be? But then, why had he roared with such savagery?
She saw a flash of light, followed by an explosion. Followed by another roar. Her eyes widened as she finally realized what had likely happened.
'Beast Boy!'
Raven was up in the air in seconds. Her target being the hill where she heard the noise coming from. Why was her heart racing so quickly now? Why did it feel like blood was thumping in her ears? Why was she so recklessly flying through the air just to get to him?
'It's only a crush… I'll get over it… he'll be okay…'
Then why did the thought of losing him seem to painful for her to bear?
Back to Beast Boy
'You're kidding me! She just had to be with him!' Beast Boy thought as he back flipped through the air again. Jumping right over the speedster beneath him, and a green fledged arrow that sailed underneath him. It hit the tree behind him, blowing it up in a shower of splinters.
'Bad enough that this speedster was kicking my butt! Now I have to deal with his pissed off girlfriend for breaking his nose! Twice!'
Beast Boy landed on the ground in the form of a gorilla, and he beat the ground in front of him. This caused the Earth to shake, and it also caused Wally to lose his balance while running so he fell to the ground hard. He wiped blood from his nose onto the muddy ground beneath him as he tried to reorient himself.
Before the gorilla could take advantage of his downed foe, it felt a blunted arrow attach to its chest before it unleashed shock waves of electricity into its body. Beast Boy growled in pain, before he changed into an eel, allowing the electricity to flow into him. This in turn also helped to provide him with a small boost in energy.
He changed into a cheetah after the arrow was shorted out. And charged right to where the masked archer was firing from the trees. He moved in a zigzag pattern, dodging arrows that either exploded, sent out currents of electricity, unleashed a spray into the air, or unleashed this weird green sticky substance on whatever it hit.
Beast Boy leapt over one last arrow, as he pounced towards the archer. Her eyes went wide as she raised her bow to protect herself. It wasn't going to be enough though as he brought a large paw down to strike.
KAPOW!
The blur appeared in front of her so quickly, Beast Boy didn't even have time to process what happened next. Wally's punch hit the cheetah so hard in the face, that Beast Boy went flying all the way across the hill into a tree. He morphed back into himself as he fell and hit the ground at the base of the tree.
"Owwwww…" He moaned in pain to himself. He was sitting up against the tree trunk, rubbing his sore head and his sore nose where he had been hit. He had to get up though, he had to get to safety. He had to find Raven and get her to safety.
That was when an arrow hit the ground next to him. Covering him in the sticky green substance that reminded him a lot of Red X's own red substance.
He tried morphing into a rhino to escape, but was still trapped in it. Then he tried a pterodactyl, and that failed too. He tried a T Rex, then even the massive Allosaur, but nothing worked. Finally, he morphed back into himself, his normal, defeated green self. He sat back against the tree, with his head hanging back against the bark.
"Well, look at what you managed to bag today Artemis." Wally said, before he roughly lifted Beast Boy's head. Beast Boy was forced to look up into a pair of angry green eyes. A punch hit him in the face, making Beast Boy accidentally bite his cheek.
"Now, tell us! Where are you hiding Raven!" Wally shouted into his face, while Artemis stood behind him, an arrow pointed right at Beast Boy's face.
Beast Boy spat in Wally's face, his spit containing blood. "**** you." He said.
Wally, in a fit of anger, punched Beast Boy in the face even harder. Beast Boy groaned in pain as he felt his nose break. But then he smirked up at him. Even as blood flowed slowly down his face.
"Well looky here, now he have a matching set." Beast Boy joked, obviously pointing out Wally's own broken nose.
Before Wally could retort, Artemis shoved the pointed arrow closer to Beast Boy's face. "Tell us now!" Artemis said, as she pulled the string back more threateningly. "Tell us where the demoness is! Or so help me!" Her arm was shaking as she held the arrow there. Beast Boy's smirk disappeared as he looked up into her eyes. Although he saw bloodlust there, he also saw a kind of fog over them. Like it wasn't really her in control. If anything, that scared him even more than the bloodlust.
Suddenly, Wally had a grip on her arm. Artemis looked up into his face with a look of defiance. Beast Boy became confused. Why were these two suddenly focused on each other?
"Artemis, you have to calm down." He said to her in a calm voice. Yet her posture didn't relax.
"Don't you dare tell me what to do! I'll be as calm as I want to be, after we bring in that ****ing demoness!" She yelled in his face. Before she pulled the arrow back to its farthest point on the string.
Slap!
Wally did something that really surprised Beast Boy, and probably Artemis too. He slapped Artemis in the face. She looked at him in shock after a moment.
"Artemis! We're supposed to be the heroes here! Sure, we can deal it out as much as we want, we can intimidate them to get our information, but we can't just threaten his life! No matter if he was a former hero, or a villain! That isn't what a hero does! That is what a villain does! Are you really a villain Artemis!? Like the rest of your family!?"
Suddenly, just like that, the fog disappeared from her eyes. She let out a gasp and clutched her chest with one hand, taking a step back. She rested her bow to the side as she did so. Beast Boy breathed a sigh of relief. But had to wonder what Wally had meant with the last statement.
"Wally-" She started to say.
Thwack!
Artemis collapsed onto the ground as a large branch encased in black hit her in the back of the head. Wally's eyes widened as he immediately checked to see if Artemis was alright.
While he was busy with that, Beast Boy suddenly saw a shadow appear from the tree he was laid against. The figure was shrouded in darkness, but as soon as he heard the chant, he knew who it was.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."
The goo he was in was encased in black before it disappeared. Beast Boy instantly got up, but got light headed from the move. Before he fell though, an arm appeared under his shoulder, and he was kept upright.
Beast Boy turned his head, and saw Raven's calm expressionless face a few mere inches from his own. He still remembered what had happened the night before. And it made him confused why she was even there to save him. Wouldn't she have rather seen him captured?
"Raven." He said in a confused voice.
She smiled, knocking his entire world upside down. "Do you know anyone else that could look like me?" She asked in a sarcastic tone. Beast Boy was in shock. Raven didn't even sound mad, heck, she appeared glad to see him!
Before he could answer, a fist appeared in his vision, and hit Raven in the chest, knocking Raven away from him and into another tree. Beast Boy fell on the ground, having not expected what had happened, and he hit his head on it. The owner of the fist ignored him as he closed on Raven.
Raven groaned in pain as she got up from off the ground to see that it had been Wally who had delivered the blow. She rubbed the middle of her chest where his fist had connected with it. 'I knew I should have aimed for him, instead of his girlfriend.'
"So Raven, do you want to do this the easy way, or the hard way." Wally asked, as he cracked his knuckles once more.
Raven looked calmly at him. "I doubt if I went with you, that my supposed punishment would be any less severe. So I think I'll just take you down now and wait till later to receive it." Raven said, as her hands glowed black with power.
Wally shrugged. "Oh well, suit yourself."
Suddenly, he disappeared in a flash. And Raven ended up looking all around herself, confused at where he had went. She had never faced a speedster before.
A fist appeared out of nowhere, hitting her in the stomach. She almost hurled bile from her empty stomach as she fell down on her knees, but she instantly sent a wave of power at where the punch had come from. She heard an oof, and then the sound of someone crashing into the ground.
She looked up after she felt her stomach wasn't going to rebel on her anymore, only to find nothing. A second after that, she felt someone kick her side hard, sending her flying into the air. She almost instantly righted herself in the air and flew around looking for her target. She barely saw him go into the trees, and she used her powers to bring down a few where she thought he would be. There was no movement after that for a moment.
That was when this weird wind started to whip up around her.
At about this time, Beast Boy finally opened his eyes and got up from off the ground. He saw Raven up in the air. He looked back to see if Artemis was still in the same position as before, and saw she was indeed still knocked out. And would be for quite some time, judging by the bruise that was developing on her forehead.
He looked back to Raven, and his eyes widened when he saw she was now in the middle of a swirling vortex. She didn't seem to be catching on to what Wally's plan was yet, and was busy hurling her power all around. Besides, she was high up in the air. There was no way he'd be able to hit her from up there.
Beast Boy's eyes looked down at the bottom of the vortex, and he could barely make out Wally's form. He was sprinting at speeds that broke the sound barrier. Beast Boy briefly wondered what he was doing, and then his eyes widened in realization.
Wally was creating a vacuum around Raven.
Raven kept on sending waves of her power in random directions, trying to catch the speedster. She tried to tear up the ground he was running on. She tried sending glowing ethereal fists in every direction. After a few seconds, she finally seemed to realize what was happening. And in a desperate attempt she sent a wave of black power out in all directions. But somehow, nothing hit the speedster who was steadily getting faster and faster. The vortex he was making closed in a dome above her (defying the laws of physics the way a true DC Comic would) as he pulled every bit of air from around Raven's body away with his speed.
Raven tried to take a breath, and fell onto her knees on the ground. She tried to keep herself from passing out, but there was nothing to breath. Her hair was flying all around her pale face, and her powers were weakening. Yet Wally didn't show any signs of stopping.
Beast Boy realized Raven was suffocating.
'No!' Beast Boy thought as he finally ran forward to try to stop the vortex. He tried to punch Wally, but his fist kept on missing. Then when he tried to jump into it, Wally punched him back. Not even stopping in what he was doing as he did so.
Beast Boy flew back several feet onto his back. And he looked up into the vortex to see Raven starting to lose consciousness on the ground. She somehow managed to look up at him through the vortex, and weakly lifted her hand out to him.
'Raven!' A large, primal howl filled his mind, as both he and the Beast thought the same thing. Beast Boy felt anger coursing into his body, just like what he had felt only three times before in his life. It was a sign that the Beast was surfacing. And normally, Beast Boy would have fought against it.
Only this time, he didn't fight it.
Hell, he welcomed it.
Raven was starting to lose consciousness. Her lungs were burning, as her mouth tried to breathe in any air that was around her. She barely saw the outline of Wally running around her now. Her vision started to turn black and hazy on the edges. Her hand fell to the ground, as she lost the will to hold it up. She collapsed onto her stomach. She was about ready to fall to sleep's embrace.
Captured, just like that.
'AHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'
Suddenly, the vortex around her disappeared. Air, sweet, beautiful, forest mountain air rushed in and filled her desperate lungs. She took in several quick, deep, needy breathes. The oxygen traveled to her brain, and her vision finally cleared.
She looked around for the reason why the vortex stopped. Curious as to why it had been so sudden. But there was nothing around her. Except for Artemis's still knocked out body.
Raven sent her into a portal, putting her far away from where she was at. She didn't know exactly where, but she hoped it was far enough. She then realized something else.
Where had Wally gone?
And where did Beast Boy go?
...
And why did it feel like she was passing out again?
Wally was running. Hell, running had been a while ago. He was sprinting at top speeds for a speedster like his life depended on it. Which, in this case, it most certainly did.
He was now miles away from where he had originally been. Still sprinting through forest, hoping he could reach the plains. Where he wouldn't have to worry about hitting a tree. And where he'd be able to put his top speed into high gear.
He snapped past a branch, making it shake from side to side rather quickly. Seeming oddly familiar to something from before. Then a few seconds later, another something went through the same branch, causing it to snap off at the base. It didn't slow whatever it was down in the slightest. It somehow managed to stay behind the fleeing speedster.
Wally looked behind him, eyes wide with fear. He had always wondered why the Bat had asked everyone to detain Beast Boy with the demoness. Though he personally preferred to use Raven instead of demoness. But it had made no sense why they had to capture a changeling that turned into animals.
Well, back in that clearing on the hill, he had figured out why. 'Where in the freaking animal kingdom does that thing exist?!'
A few miles later, Wally saw the treeline in the distance. There was still forest about a mile or two after that, but he could easily go hid top speed in that area. And hopefully put some distance between himself and the creature. He looked behind himself, no longer seeing that creature behind him. He let out a sigh of relief.
He was almost there. His feet were pounding towards freedom.
A large hairy green fist appeared from the side, knocking Wally into a tree so hard, that it toppled over from the force. Wally screamed in pain, as he felt something in his side crack. He tried getting up to defend himself.
Again, another hairy fist appeared, knocking him the other direction into another tree. Wally screamed in pain as he felt another something in his other side crack. He couldn't tell how many ribs were broken now. Still, he got up and started running again.
He tried desperately to get to the treeline, when he felt a huge green hand grip his shoulder and turn him around.
Wally screamed in fear at the green monstrosity before him. Now that he was seeing it up close.
Beast Boy was gone, and in his place was the Beast. His small body was replaced by that of a ten foot hunched form. With large muscular arms and legs to propel him forward. A torso that was so muscled as to put any bodybuilder and animal to shame. It had an additional hunk of muscle on its back that allowed him to lift almost anything, while also protecting his neck. Fangs went an inch or two past his mouth going up. He had another set hidden on his top teeth inside his mouth that went the same length. And a mane of green hair went almost halfway down its back.
The scariest thing though, had to be the white, pupil less, rage filled eyes that were staring into Wally's soul. Wally looked back with nothing but fear. "Somebody help-!" He tried to scream.
The Beast threw Wally, and his body crashed hard into a boulder this time. The force of the hit was so great, the boulder cracked into many pieces. Wally felt something in his arm shatter this time. Yet he still got up and tried to flee. His legs still worked just fine, if only they could get him past the treeline.
The Beast was in his path again, moving with a speed that far out rivaled his own. It punched up, connecting with Wally's jaw, and he was sent flying high up above the treeline. Then he came crashing down on the ground again.
He felt something crack and shatter in his leg from the contact, and he finally gave up. He was feeling so much pain by this point, that he could barely tell what he had broken by now.
He didn't try to move as the Beast picked him up again. Wally's body went limp in its grip and the Beast growled at him. He bared it's fangs, and Wally could see all its sharp teeth. Yet he was beyond caring at this point, he just wanted the pain to stop.
The Beast lunged forward, and Wally closed his eyes as he passed out. His last thought being of Artemis. The Beast was mere centimeters away from his throat.
"Mate!"
The Beast stopped, his fangs a mere few millimeters or so above the speedster's pulse. The pupilless eyes looked up, to see a dark form descending through the trees. Dark tendrils spread out from the figure as she landed, and her hooded face looked up, revealing four blood red eyes.
"We are not to kill him. You know how guilty our hosts would feel if they were to think their bodies had killed someone." The voice of Rage said in a berating voice to the Beast.
The Beast looked down at the red headed speedster, then back up at Rage. He started to whimper. Since he didn't know how to speak in his form.
Rage calmly glided up to him, taking his large face in her hands. "It's okay, that pitiful human wasn't trying to kill me. He was only trying to get me to pass out so he could capture me easily... I'm grateful you saved me my mate, but we can't kill him... No matter how much we might want to."
The Beast stared into the eyes of Rage, before it sighed reluctantly. It set Wally's passed out form on the ground gently. Rage bent over Wally, checking to see how severe his injuries were. A bright red light came from her hands. She healed a punctured lung, a two line fracture in his leg, a compound fracture in his arm, five broken ribs, and countless other injuries that were likely to kill the speedster if he didn't receive medical help then. She didn't heal everything completely, just enough that he would survive.
He would still be in a world of pain though when he awoke.
Finally, Rage got up, and snapped her fingers. A dark portal opened beneath Wally's prone form, sending him off to some random location. She then staggered from exhaustion, but the Beast was right there to hold her up. She smiled gratefully at him.
"I have healed him enough so he can get medical help for himself. But I am afraid I still used more energy than I should have." Rage said in a tired tone.
The Beast said nothing as it picked her up from off the ground, and put her on its back. Rage weakly gripped his green mane of hair as the Beast ran back through the forest to where master had helped mate set up the den.
Beast felt his master at the edge of awareness in his subconscious. He was sending weak signals now and then, meaning he was in a dream now. He would have no memories of what transpired. The Beast found this good, for even though he hadn't killed the weak human, his master would have been devastated at what he had done. Sure, he had given weak human a broken nose, but Beast had almost mauled human to death. Master would likely be traumatized by the memory of it, so it would keep this to itself.
Even though Beast was primal, and all powerful, he respected his master. And in his bloodlust, had he killed the human, he would have never been able to forgive himself, nor would his master have forgiven him. The Beast would kill for food, or in self defense, but he sometimes forgot he should never do it for revenge. Because that wasn't what his master would want, nor would that be what his mate would want. In some ways, even he wouldn't want it.
The Beast, after a minute, finally arrived back at his mate's den. She was still weakly gripping onto his mane. He set her down gently at the foot of it, before his body started to shrink again. Within seconds, Beast Boy's body was standing on the steps. But his pupilless eyes still showed that the Beast was the one in control.
He put an arm under Rage's shoulder, helping her to limp into her den. The door swung open easily for them, and he was able to help his mate to bed without incident. When Rage felt the mattress beneath her, she let out a soft sigh of relief.
Awave of black spread out from her.
The Beast felt a surge of power come from her, but it didn't feel like it did anything. When it was done Rage opened her four eyes to look at him.
"I have used the last of my power to move our den from that place. There is no doubt the Justice League would have been on their way there when those two found you."
The Beast nodded his head, before he licked her face. A small smile came oto it. "I will rest now, and let my host take back her control again… hopefully she'll be able to forgive me for taking control like that... but mate, don't push him into obtaining feelings for my master like that again please. He needs to find and develop his feelings on his own. Much like how my host has to."
The Beast, again, nodded his head in understanding to her. He might not have been one for words at that moment, but the growl that came from him after the nod sounded in the affirmative. He then settled down on the floor at the side of the bed. Rage weakly lifted her head over to see her mate turn into a kitten, before it yawned widely, and soundly fell asleep. Rage gently stroked the kitten, eliciting a pur from it.
Rage smiled one last time. "Good night, my love."
Rage's four eyes closed, and she fell asleep on the bed. Some time after this, her four eyes turned to two.
Beast Boy and Raven weren't disturbed for the rest of the night.
Author's Notes:
Well, I think this chapter is going to be well received. We got some action, a bit of information, and some more mysteries.
So I know I have Beast talk inside Beast Boy's mind. But in the real world, because he is mainly animal, he doesn't. Also, since Beast Boy's intellect isn't involved here, I had the Beast think in a more… primordial way. So I'm sorry if some of you are confused by that. Personally, I'm glad with how this chapter turned out. And that scene at the end for me was perfect! Though I did have to clarify something. It was pointed out to me that it felt like the two were being forced together since the Beast and Rage had already chosen each other. I wanted to clarify that the two still have to have those feelings develop on their own... if they develop that is. Hehehehehe...
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Till Next Time
Allen
