Savez-Vous Pourquoi?

Guess what? I'm back from an unknown hiatus. Yes siree, and back with a new chapter. Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed, it really inspires me. :) And once again thanks to Julia for letting me use her idea and run with it! This chapter was delayed because I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with it, but here it is. It's not word for word correct, or chronologically correct, but… for the most part it's right! Well, here you go!

Jungle Fever

Raven had landed on a patch of lush green grass that looked to be located out in the middle of nowhere. A snake slithered by her, seemingly not to notice her, though she jumped back a few feet from being startled. The calls of monkeys and birds surrounded her ears, and the smell of wildlife filled up all of her senses. It was very moist and humid outside, so much so, Raven found her cape growing damp with sweat. Raven stood up and looked around even more of where she was. Lush green trees surrounded her in what looked to be a jungle type setting. She sighed deeply and wondered what she should do next. She closed her eyes and heard the sound of running water.

She levitated into the air and rose up so she could get a bird's eye view of where the water was coming from. She had not risen up but two feet when her head crashed into what seemed like a glass ceiling. She let out a groan and drifted back to the ground. She rubbed her head in pain, and then reached her arms up into the air. Nothing. She rose up again, and once again her head hit the invisible ceiling. She grumbled some choice words under her breath and once again drifted down. Her head was throbbing, but she did not rise up again. Instead, she chose to walk.

"Gar…!"

Raven stopped walking and grew quiet. She knew she had heard some voices, and where there were voices; there was people… and a way out of wherever she was. She started running towards the voices, and ran right though a boy of about three or four toddling his way to a fatherly figure. Something wasn't right here. Did she just run through the little boy?

A motherly figure was standing in the doorway of a hut watching as the man picked up the little boy.

"Mark… those spots on his body are getting worse. What could they be?"

Mark walked closer to the woman, before putting the little boy down.

"I don't know Marie, let's just hope it's not…" his voice trailed off.

Raven noted that the sun was starting to go down and the humidity was fading. Raven shivered and brought her cape closer around her, but it was no use, it didn't create any more warmth inside of it. The door to the hut opened and Marie walked outside.

"Garfield, Gar honey. It's time to come inside," she called.

There wasn't a response from the little boy in any way. A feeling of tension began to grow I the air, and Raven's stomach knotted. Marie called out to Garfield again, but the jungle was quiet. She went inside, and came back seconds later with Mark trailing behind her. They walked around to the back of the little hut. Raven walked up behind them and spoke.

"I can help you find your son…"

The two didn't even look back at her, or give any sign they had heard her.

"Wait…" Raven said reaching out to touch the women, but her hand went right through the woman's dress as she let out a shriek.

"Garfield!"

Raven walked through the two figures and saw at the ground was the little boy, barely alive, and unconscious. His breaths were in shallow quick drawls, and sweat covered his forehead. Mark picked up the boy, and walked back to the hut and inside with Marie followed her. Raven said nothing as she also followed them inside, realizing now that they could not see, hear, or feel her. After a few moments of expecting Garfield, Mark drew back and looked at his wife with tears in his eyes.

"Marie… I don't think Gar can survive this. Only animals are believed to be able to survive this disease."

"What… can we do?"

"Well…I have one idea."

Raven watched in both horror and amazement, as he undressed his son, and placed him inside a machine that looked like it had come straight out of a sci-fi movie. He inserted needles and tubing all over Garfield's body, and squeezed his son's hand.

"Mark… are you sure this is safe?"

"No, but we have to try. By injecting him with animal DNA, we just might be able to save him."

"I hope you're right…"

The night seemed utterly dark and miserable, dragging on into the night. The only thing that could be heard were soft sniffles of a broken woman, and the coughing of a young boy. When morning finally came, Raven was exhausted from pulling an unnecessary all nighter. The laughter of a child was heard from out in the yard, and Raven recognized it at once as the little boy, Garfield. She rushed outside, worried to know if the child would make it. She came outside just as Garfield ran into Marie's arms, who had a horrified expression on her face.

"Mark—the boy's skin is still green!"

"I don't know why Marie. Some imperfection in the system. But be glad he's alive."

Garfield laughed as his mother tickled him, and his father went inside. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a snake slither up next to his mother, a very venomous looking snake. Marie saw it too, and violently flung her son out of harm's way. Raven watched in amazement as Garfield turned himself into a green mongoose to save his mother's life.

Raven looked at him, stunned.

"Oh my god…Beast Boy…"

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