Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ The Force of Hatred ❯ Cases ( Chapter 3 )

CHAPTER THREE

Beast Boy was taken home to the tower and placed in his room. He was still sleeping, knocked-out, from the tranquilizer.

The titans were very worried about him for the first time in a while. “Not, that worried!” Raven grumbled. She never thought Beast Boy could hit that hard and now had an icepack tied round her head against her cheek.

The doctor, who they had called to help, came out from examining Beast Boy, and the lady explained that he was physically fine, “But his brain-activity is off the charts.” she said “Do any of you know what may have caused him to want to pop off like that?”

The Titans confessed that they had read Beast Boy's diary, just as was heard when he berated them in public, and that they hadn't exactly taken what he said too well. “I see…” the doctor said “Tell me… do you always act like this towards him?”

“Sometimes…” Cyborg said sounding peculiarly unsure. No one mentioned anything about the changes in the city and defiantly nothing about Terra, as the titans were respecting her wishes to live a normal life and didn't want to drag her into this.

The doctor wasn't sure the titans were being too sincere, but said she wanted the titans to keep in touch with her and warn her of any other signs of abnormal behavior. “I've never seen anyone so outraged and agitated in my life.” she said as she left.

As the titans let Beast Boy sleep in his room that day, Robin couldn't help but wonder something aloud. “Why didn't he transform?” He was referring to whenever Beast Boy got insanely angry like that he usually turned into the incredible beast that was inside of him. “So, why didn't he?”

The others did find that puzzling, but it didn't seem to matter too much. “Perhaps we have been much too hard on Beast Boy?” asked Starfire.

“Well… we did read his diary.” Cyborg pointed out, “And maybe we have been kinda rough on the little guy?”

Raven just rubbed the icepack against her cheek, and didn't know what to think. “He hasn't exactly been exactly reasonable himself.” she said.

The Titans just didn't understand what would make Beast Boy suddenly change like this. He wasn't the little goofball, or mischievous joker they remembered. Sure Terra dumped him. She practically dumped them all, and there had been quite a lot of changes in the city since they were away fighting the Brotherhood of Evil and all of Beast Boy's favorite hangout places were gone, but somehow it didn't seem enough. “There's got to be something we're not looking at.” Robin said.

Cyborg thought, and realized “Well… I guess there's only one place we'll know for sure.”

The girls and Robin had a sick feeling they knew what Cyborg meant.

…

That night, Beast Boy had awoken with a big headache, but he remembered everything and felt really upset now, but was still too tired to complain. Things just kept going from worse to way worse every minute and he blamed all of humanity for all this, that's when his head began to throb and ache again, but no one seemed to hear him wailing. Suddenly, and strange urge came over him as he bolted right out of bed. “What's happening?” he thought to himself “Where am I going?”

That's when he soon found himself walking straight towards the window, and actually walked straight through it, and just standing in midair without any means of support, and he headed straight for town.

After he was gone, Cyborg checked inside the room and saw Beast Boy sleeping in his bed, with a sad expression on his face. “Poor little man…” he muttered.

He went back to the lounge to join the others “He's still sleepin' like a log.”

The Titans were gazing at Beast Boy's Diary, and thinking of looking in it again. It was probably the only place where the answer was. “We should not…” Starfire said “It was already wrong of us to read it the first time.”

The others felt the same, but then again this was an emergency and they needed answers or they would probably never be able to help Beast Boy. “So… I guess we go for it then?” asked Raven.

Robin nodded and they were about to open up the book when the alarms sounded. Cyborg ran to the computers, “It's comin' from the museum.”

“Titans… move!” shouted Robin.

“Wait…! What of Beast Boy?” Starfire asked.

“Please… I doubt even a herd of elephants would wake him up.” Raven said.

…

They arrived at the scene too late, the police blocked the area off with yellow tape, and the paramedics were taking two security guards who had been murdered away. Only the titans were allowed past the tape and spoke to the police-chief and the museum director.

Security saw that nobody broke into the place, yet the security guards were found dead. The director even showed the titans footage from the security cameras. All was quiet; the guards were making their rounds, when suddenly their backs just seem to burst open. “EWW…!” everyone gaged. The guards' blood was everywhere, and to make matters worse, the Sword of Hatred was now missing from its exhibit. It just vanished like that.

First you saw it… then you didn't!

The titans, well acquainted with the story of the sword, felt this was very serious. “Looks like we've got a new case…” Robin said and the others agreed.

…

Beast Boy woke up the next morning in his room and felt he had a horrible nightmare about a murder happening. “What a nightmare.” he groaned as he walked to the bathroom.

He looked himself in the mirror as he washed his face. Suddenly he could see dry blood on his hands in the mirror. He gazed down at his real hands but they were perfectly clean. He gazed at his face in the mirror and could swear his reflection was gazing back at him sinisterly all on its own.

He shook his head madly and all seemed normal again. “Dude…!” he cried “What's happening?” He had a strange feeling, also, that he was being watched.

…

The titans had studied the scene of the crime that Cyborg copied from the security cameras, but it didn't make any sense. How did the guards just suddenly die like that, and how did the sword vanish from its display? The info-red-vision didn't show anything either. The sound scan didn't pick up any vibrations or signals of life, except from the guards.

“Say…” said Cyborg “You don't think, maybe… the legends are real do you?”

After everything the titans had seen and gone through in their lives, it was definitely possible that legend of the Force of Hatred was real. “But that doesn't explain much of what's happening now.” Robin said.

Now they were convinced that something truly evil was afoot. “But how are we to stop it when we know not of what it appears to be?” asked Starfire.

Even Raven didn't have a clue of how to figure it out.

That's when Beast Boy entered the lounge and got a sip of water from the tap. The titans gazed at him, and he gazed back. “What… are you looking at?” he asked sternly.

“Sleep well…?” asked Cyborg.

Beast Boy sighed softly and turned to leave. “Where are you going?” asked Raven.

“Out for some fresh air… That okay with you, or do you want to read in my diary again?” He said sternly, and then he left before anyone said a thing about the case to him. “Let him go.” Robin said “He's obviously not in the mood to help us.”

Suddenly, they all remembered Beast Boy's diary and how last night they were looking for clues to why he was acting the way he had. “It'll have to wait.” Robin said “The case is more important than that right now than Beast Boy's personal problems.”

The others, although concerned about Beast Boy and the way he was acting, knew Robin was right. So they continued working.

…

Now you can bet Beast Boy received quite a poor welcoming the minute people saw him in the city. Beast Boy almost couldn't blame them for the way he acted the other day, but still… everywhere he went some people ran away from him, scared that he would scream at them some more, adults would poke fun at him, and some immature people would try to get him to snap again just to see him yell.

Now there was only one place he could go to avoid ridicule and more coldness…

…

Terra was out with her two friends and Manny and Alex, but she still didn't look any better. “Are you still think about Brat Boy?” asked Jillian.

“His name is Beast Boy.” Terra said sharply.

The others all winced as if she had just into a cobra. Terra apologized, but Jackie realized “You are still thinking about him. What is with you?”

The boys kept on saying how cool it was the way he yelled at everyone in town and at the titans the other day. “Now everyone hates him.” Alex mocked.

“Serves him right though.” said Manny “I think he was just starving for attention.”

Terra clenched her fists, and a few pebbles on the ground began to vibrate. She caught her cool before she did anything too suspicious, but she wished her friends would stop mocking Beast Boy. She walked off on her own. “Where are you going?” asked Jackie.

“I need some time to think.” Terra called back. Then she was gone. Her friends and the boys couldn't believe her. “You'd think she was in love with that kid.” said Alex. Manny nodded in agreement, and Jackie and Jillian decided enough waiting! The next time they saw that kid, he was going to get it!

…

Terra had gone to the outskirts of town at the edge of the cliff where she and Beast Went on their first ever date. She remembered it well and always went there whenever she needed some alone time, but as luck would have it she found Beast Boy was there too, the one place he knew he could have some alone time and not have people berating him.

She thought she'd keep out of sight, but “I know you're there, Terra.” Beast Boy said. Busted, Terra came out and sat near him. “Why are you here anyway?” he said to her “I thought you didn't like the outdoors… too many bugs.” He was referring to the lies she said when she faked her having amnesia.

They said nothing for a while and just gazed over at the town. “What's happened to you?” Terra finally asked “You're not the Beast Boy I remember.”

Beast Boy almost felt like laughing at her “Funny! I thought you didn't remember me?” You didn't want to, and the girl I want you be is just a memory…”

Terra felt the guilt eating away at her again. “Beast Boy… I…”

“Why, Terra? Just tell me why?” he cut in. “How could you do this… to me… to you… to us?”

Terra looked down at the ground trying to find the right words. “I'm sorry.” Was all she said “I just couldn't bare it anymore. I wanted to put everything I did behind, and I didn't want to hurt you again.”

“Well, Terra… you did.” he snapped.

Terra was starting to lose her patience. She bolted upright “Look! I said I was sorry, okay?” she snapped “But look at you! You're doing nothing but yelling and screaming at people, and worse, you're putting the guilt on me, when all I was trying to do was make the future better for us both...”

“Better for you…!” snapped Beast Boy as he bolted upright “Not me… Terra, I may know about you and why maybe you'd rather live a normal life, but… what do you know about me and my life and why I would act the way I am now?”

Terra said nothing. She just stood there, not blinking her eyes, but continued to gaze into his eyes. They seemed so different, so dark and enraged with hidden fury that only she could see.

Beast Boy held his aching head. “That's what I thought, but like I said… the future looks brighter for you… not for Me.” and he began to walk away. Terra called and called out to him, but a nearby hiker heard her. “Hey!” he called “Keep it down! Why are you shouting at yourself?”

Herself…? Terra was confused. Beast Boy hadn't gone very far and even the hiker should have been able to see him. Aside from that, Terra didn't know what to think. Her attempt at not hurting Beast Boy anymore had backfired extremely hard, but what could she do about now? For that matter, why did she just sit down and talk to him?

…

As Beast Boy walked through the forest he couldn't help but feel upset for yelling at Terra like that. “She deserved it.” He thought, and then thought “No she didn't… but she did and you know it.”

“Dude! Why am I thinking like this?”