Ch 7

"Man, you seriously needed to get out of the tower," said Cyborg as he held his girlfriend's hand while the three of them walked around the mall.

"Yeah, but I don't see why I couldn't go by myself?" asked BB.

"Is a screw loose in your head or something, B? Three villains are after you," said Cyborg.

"Right, I knew that," he laughed.

"And your girlfriend really needed a break from you," said Bumblebee. "You were driving her crazy."

"I only wanted her to stop reading books for a second, so we could cuddle," he blushed.

"Aw, how cute. Beastie Boo wanted to cuddle with his Rae-Rae," mocked Cyborg.

"Shut up Sparky, I think it's cute," said Bumblebee. "There aren't a lot of me out there who want to cuddle with the ones they love anymore."

"I just wanted to be close to her incase som—

"No! No! Don't even think like that man. You're not going to die so shut up already," Cyborg said as he walked past BB and Bumblebee and stood in front of an electronic store, "now we are going to enjoy ourselves in the message chairs.

"Awwwww," they all moaned in comfort.

"This is the life," said BB as he smiled at the couple.

"You said it B, I'm never leaving," said Cyborg.

"I hear that," said Bumblebee, who closed her eyes until she felt Cyborg holding her hand.

BB looked at the couple and realized how much he missed Raven. He closed his eyes, sighed, and concentrated on the chair's movement on his muscles. Before he could find peace, a voice entered his mind.

'Hello Garfield.'

The voice still made his bones chill. 'How are you doing this?'

'Why the power of magic my dear boy? How are things?'

'What do you want now?' he gripped the sides of the chair.

'About your powers Garfield, I have control.'

'What are you talking about?'

'Oh, you want a demonstration. Well so be it.'

Suddenly BB felt this intense pain in his back as he screamed. As he got up from the chair, he ran out if the store. "AHH!" he screamed.

"Beast boy, what's wrong?" asked Cyborg.

"Cy, s—something is coming out of my back," he said as he screamed again. This time he fell to the ground. Before Cyborg could help his best friend up, BB shot a hand towards BB. "N—no, stay back," he managed to breath. He took a few breaths as two, white wings came out of his back.

"Wow," said Bumblebee as Cyborg helped BB stand up. "Beast boy, you have wings."

"What did the crazy maniac do to me?" yelled BB before he collapsed into Cyborg's arms.

Cyborg was driving his T-car like a mad man back to the tower. In the back seat was an unconscious, green changeling, bleeding from his back with his wings folded up. Bumblebee turned back occasionally from the passenger seat to make sure BB was still breathing.

"Hang in there Beast boy," said Bumblebee as she sighed. "How did he even get those wings in the first place?"

"I don't know, but I'm guessing Galtry had something to do with this. He's not going to get away with this."

The T-car was floating over the water with Titans Tower in sight. As they pulled into the garage, Cyborg parked, undid his seatbelt, carried BB carefully out of the backseat and into the house. "ROBIN, RAVEN! EMERGENCY, MEET ME IN THE INFIRMARY NOW!" he yelled as he rushed his best friend to the infirmary along with his girlfriend right behind him.

Cyborg laid his BB down on the bed, hooked him to the machines, and inspected the wound from his back. After he cleaned the wound, Robin and Raven rushed into the infirmary.

"Cyborg, what's going on?" he asked. "What happened to Beast boy?"

"I think Galrty got into his head somehow and then all of a sudden, BB grew wings. I've cleaned the wound," he said as he watched Raven heal the wound, sat beside his bed, and took his hand.

Raven felt a hand tighten around hers, so she faced BB, whose eyes were open. "Hey Rae," he smiled, "miss me?" She couldn't help but smile even though he was being so caviler about what just happened to him.

"Are you ok?" she said as she inspected his wings delicately.

"Oh man that feels good Rae," he said as he purred.

"Beast boy, do you think you can retract yours wings?" asked Robin.

"I can try," he said as he closed his eyes concentrated on the wings disappearing. Suddenly he felt a burning sensation in his back as he tried to stop himself from screaming from the pain. He took a breath out as he realized that the wings were gone.

"Well, that's good B. You can control that transformation."

"Dude, I think I've always had this new transformation inside me. I've never realized I had it until Galtry mentioned it. He's controlling this new transformation somehow."

"We just have to figure out how he's doing this and stop him," said Robin.

"He's probably using his control to lure Beast boy out of protection. The more he transforms, the more his life is shortened."

"We can't just hand him over Raven," said Cyborg.

"That's NOT what I'm saying Cyborg," said Raven.

"That might not be a bad idea," said Robin.

"WHAT!" yelled Raven and Cyborg.

"We use Beast boy as bait and then we attack. We just need to make sure this plan is fool proof," said Robin.

"I don't know Robin. Things could go wrong, and I don't want Beast boy to get hurt," said Raven.

"It's in the job description Rae," he said as he turned to his leader. "Robin, I'm in."

BB could feel the tension in the room and so could Robin and Cyborg, who quickly rushed out of the room to avoid Raven's wrath. BB risked a glance at Raven, and he couldn't read her. He didn't know what to say.

"Are you crazy?" she asked. "They will kill you if your condition doesn't get you first. I am doing everything I can, looking through books and so far I haven't found anything. You are NOT leaving this tower Garfield!"

"You can't tell me what to do Raven. I want to get rid of these villains once and for all."

"We all do but this isn't just Galtry and Slade we're talking about. This is my father," she grimaced when those words came out of her mouth. "He's brutal with the people and creatures alike that he's made soldiers to do his bidding. He will destroy you!"

"I can take what he dishes out Raven. He has no idea what I've been through," he sighed. "I mean I hate to say this, but I think everything I have been through has prepared me for this. I need for you to be by my side Raven. I need you to help me and the rest of the Titans defeat these three evils."

"Well we can't exactly make any kind of move until we know where they are," said Raven.

"You're right," he said as a devious smile came to his face, "so what do you want to do until then?" he asked as he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at her?

She rolled her eyes and smiled at him. "I think I should get back to looking though my spell books," she said as her boyfriend's face dropped.

"I want to spend time with you Rae."

"And us making out in my room was your idea of spending time together?"

"Well, we can always go to my room."

"No, I think you should help me find a way to save you. We're wasting time by giving into out hormones."

"It's not a waste of time to me Rae. When we're together like that, I feel so close to you. I feel loved and right now I don't feel like you lo—He was interrupted by Raven's lips on his mouth. He wrapped his arms tightly around her and deepened the kiss. When she pulled away, he was confused. "Um?"

"Now we look through my spell books," she said as she led a dazed Beast boy to her room.

"You call that compromise?" BB asked as Raven organized the remaining books she had available into piles.

"This is your life we're talking about. Am I the only one in this room who cares about it?"

"Of course I care it's just I want to spend time with you, without books for a little while."

Raven put the book she had been looking through down and sighed. She smiled and shook her head. "So, you want to make out?" she asked as BB grinned and pounced on her, knocking the book from her hand and attacking her lips.

So she gave into the insatiable Changeling and she had to admit that she enjoyed this more than looking through books. Of course she would never admit that to him. He was tender and gentle, nothing like she expected, and it got one of her emotions to thinking, 'I wonder what the sex will be like,' said Lust. Wait a minute lust?'