Teen Titans: "Ties"

Terra- Three months have passed since I managed to trick Beast Boy into thinking that I have changed. I only did that in order to protect him and the others from Slade, but now I'm out of town and still on the run. In fact, right now I'm currently running through a barrage of alleyways, trying to dodge every minion of Slade's that comes towards me. At least no one else will get hurt besides me...

One of the minions jumps towards my leg, I command some rock to come up so I can fly out of its way. The minion falls into the pit that I had created by getting the rock. It was too soon to start rejoicing; more of them were coming my way. Is it just me or do the minion's look angry? Impossible, there's no way to tell because they wear masks…

I throw a few rocks at them using my powers, four of them hit the dust, but that wasn't even half of them. I frantically toss rock after rock at them, getting an average of two of them done per throw. This is going nowhere… I could use the earth and make a giant wall appear and block their path, but then I would also be blocking mine since I'm in an alley way. I could also just fly up, but the dark shadows on the roofs of the buildings, that were obviously some more minions, told me not to.

After hours of running through this infinite maze I felt like giving up. My hands were frozen due to the cold temperature, my feet plastered onto the rock that was keeping me from running on my own two legs. Minions after minions started to appear, began chasing me; the more I destroyed the more that appeared. Too many appeared, I was seriously at my limit. I need to end this fast…

Fast, from the way I got hit square in the face by someone, I'm guessing that things really did end pretty fast. We fell to the ground below. The girl that had run into me in midair was flat on the ground right beside me. "Ouch," she winced as she got up. She looked at me with her long brown hair strummed down her face, her blue eyes looking as tired as mine. "Sorry about that," She pointed to the roof of a building up ahead. "I was trying to jump from roof to roof."

"What idiot would want to try to do that?" I yelled. She shrugged her shoulders. Before I could interrogate my attacker more, the minions seemed to have been doubled.

"No way!" she seemed angry. "They've doubled, I had at least twelve more to go, but now there's fifty plus!"

"You're being chased to?" I asked. She gave me a small smile, like she thought I knew the answer.

"You must really stink at getting rid of these guys." she stood up from the floor and brushed off her jean shorts.

"Hey, it's not my fault! They've been chasing me for three months!" I yell.

She looks distantly away from me. "So," she whispers. Quickly she gets out of her trance and charges toward the minions. I did not want to be left behind so I charged as well.

The first minion closed in on her, she down kicked it from the head and it split in two. "Whoa," She glances toward me, probably wondering why I had just said 'Whoa,". I shy away from her by knocking three minions away with some rocks.

An elbow to the side, a kick to the heel, and kick to the 'ouch' later, only thirteen remained. I watched her as she did an upper-cut on the first, a spin kick on the second, a smash kick to the head on the third… I trailed off looking somewhere else, the second I turn back to the fight the minions were all defeated. She was brushing off her hands and kicking on the minion's heads to see if any of them were still alive. "Down and out," she said as she turned to face me. "You're alright for a beginner."

"I'm no beginner; I've been a threat to everything, even my own friends!" I did not like that she called me a 'beginner'; it angered me because only a year ago I was solid rock after saving my friends and their city from a volcanic eruption.

She laughed and walked up to me. She held out her hand, "My names Aura, and yours?"

"Terra," I grumble.

She paused, and almost put down here hand, like she remembered something about my name. "Nice…to meet you." she stammered. Quickly she turned away from me.

"What?" I ask. "Is my name poisonous or something?"

She looked back at me and only gave a small smile. "I remember hearing about you a while ago, that's all."

I stare at her, a bleak expression written all over my face. "Huh,"

"I need to go, before more come." she gives a glance to the pile of minions.

"Sure," I say.

She gives me another small smile. "If you get caught, don't expect to come out like last time."

"Last time," I inch closer to her, wanting to hear more.

"You turned into stone, right?" she said, and then she walked away; into the deeper dark of the alley's maze.

"But, I never told you that." I said, but she was already too far away to hear me. Even more distant then when I first met her, "Aura," how does she know so much about me?"