"Welcome back, BB! We've missed you!" a pink clad embodiment of Raven's happiness skipped towards Beast Boy from a path of rock that came out of nowhere.
"Right. Look, Happy, I'm just here to fix up Raven's mind, and then I'm outta here. I won't bug her and her boyfriend anymore." the shifter was infamous for dramatics.
"Oh, your still sour about that." her face fell- a rare occurrance. He flashed a bitter smile.
"You can say that." he scoffed and replied with stinging sarcasm.
The pink-clad emotion sighed.
"Well, follow me. I'll take you to wisdom's realm. She'll know what to do..."
They walked along the trail of ashy rock and soon came upon the archway to "where air fresheners come from," Happy's realm. She stepped forward and faced Beast Boy with a solemn face and spoke, almost all cheeriness in her voice had been lost.
"Things have changed rather abruptly around here. It looks a lot different from last time you came."
Beast Boy assumed that was her warning as she said nothing more and stepped through the arc. Beast Boy swallowed- hard- and with good reason. He was expecting bad, like the pink trees had faded in color and the sky was duller, but he was in no way prepared for what was really there.
The trees, once ripe with life, were bare and grey. The usually lush fields of bright green grass had turned brown and crunched as you stepped. The sky was probably the worst part; it was like there wasn't any. Pure, enending blackness stretched to every corner of the realm and possibly farther. Beast Boy felt like this place itself had drained life out of him.
"Happy..." he managed to utter. He looked and saw she was on the ground now, no longer possessing the power to float.
"BB, if this were another time, if you weren't so upset, this would be the part where you'd hug me and make me better..." her eyes were closed now, and her cloak flashed from pink to black for an instant. All Beast Boy wanted to do was comfort her, but something was keeping him rooted where he stood. He shook his head, distressed. He flung his head back and yelled.
"Wisdom! Wisdom where are you? Please, we need you!" his eyes were clenched shut and his hands balled into fists.
He slowly opened his eyes and watched as a black blob on the ground before him began to take the form of a brown-clad Raven. Her eyes, which usually held such powerful confidence and certainty had diminished in allure a great deal. She peered darkly from under her hood towards the mutated boy who had summoned her.
"I have been waiting in my realm. Why did you call me here?"
"I can't bear to see what anyone elses homes look like. Please just tell me what I need to do to fix this."
Wisdom bluntly ignored his request.
"Why are you so eager to go?"
"Because I'm trying to forget..."
"What would it be you are trying to forget? Us?"
"Sort of..."
"Why? Do you not care for us as we do you?"
Beast Boy realized how hard it was to get frustrated when she spoke so scholarly and he was too busy struggling to keep up.
"I do! But... How can I believe you do too?I mean after all that happened today..."
He quickly rediscovered his ability to become angry whilst recalling the events that had transpired that very day.
"I am Wisdom, Garfield. Not treachery nor deceit. Why question me?"
"Well, if you're so wise, then explain to me how this could have happened! Why she LET it happen!"