Edit: I gave Zauriel lines in Latin that I used the Google Translator to get. It should work in reverse if you want to find out what he's saying.


I'm bored.

Being frozen in a rock form can do that to you.

I've sung all the songs I can remember a thousand times over in my head and tried to solve as many riddles as I can, though some have still admittedly stumped me.

Oh, I guess I should at least tell you my name before I go into a long winded rant on how much the quality of my life has dropped.

Terra, my name is Terra. Well at least that's the name I use most of the time. My real name is Tara Markov, but I haven't gone by that in ages, so for the time being, just call me Terra.

I suppose you might have heard of me, maybe not. On the off chance that you haven't I'll tell you a bit about the important parts of my life right now. See, I have these powers that allow me to manipulate Earth, rocks, soil, all that jazz. Some people call it Earthbending, others call me a Geomancer. Some people would call me a tragic hero, others a criminal who loves nothing more than stabbing people in the back. Fact is, I'm just me, a girl with a lot of problems.

I got to a city call Jump City, nice place on the West Coast, and there I met the Teen Titans. I got to know them a bit but I especially started to like a guy called Beast Boy. Okay I admit it I had a crush on him, but best thing was I knew he had a crush back (he's about as adept at hiding his emotions as . . . as . . . okay I can't think of good comparison, sue me!)

But I had a problem; I had a lot of trouble controlling my powers. Beast Boy found out, and he promised not to tell. Anyway we went on a mission and I met a guy called Slade. The Titans had told me he was a villain, but he talked like he wanted to help me, he promised he could teach me to control my powers. I didn't know what to think and almost lost control, but Beast Boy saved me. Later Robin (he's the leader, wonder why he left Batman?) tried to recruit me and said I'd have to train to control my powers. I got angry at BB and left. In retrospect I really should've expected that kind of mental competence from the Dark Knight's Protégé, just another in a long line of my mistakes.

Slade found me easy prey and reeled me in quick as lighting. He taught me and it worked. But it had a heavy price, I was to be his apprentice and I was to betray the Teen Titans. I went back and they accepted me. They trusted me eventually, even mean old Raven. Okay Raven wasn't mean, just suspicious, and with good reason.

I tried to explain everything to BB the night the betrayal took place but he just brushed me off. I suppose I should've expected it, but in my heartbreak and my anger I let myself get taken by Slade again and this time I willingly began to pursue revenge against the Titans and more importantly against the boy who'd broken my heart.

I don't know what I became during that time, all I know is that it was the darkest point of my life, I was a monster and all I care about was killing the Titans and serving Slade. I think I lost my love for BB somewhere in there. I don't know. I don't know if I love him or just think of him as my best friend now. I hope he's having a nice life without me, hope he's got a girlfriend, maybe Raven (c'mon Raven, you may be good but you're not that good, you like him).

Anyway, when Slade and I began our conquest it was a walk in the park to take over Jump City. My friends couldn't fight me effectively because they couldn't stop thinking of me as a friend who was lost. I "killed" them easily. Robin was the one who made me think the most, he offered me a chance to get out, but I was stupid and ignored him, telling myself he was the one who made me leave, it was all his fault after all.

After the Titans were gone, the Jump City population ran. The city was deserted. Slade and I built up forces for the Justice League's inevitable counterattack.

But while out on patrol I was suddenly attacked by the Titans I'd apparently failed to kill. I was scared of them for the first time in my life. I knew with an awful certainty that they would never hold back on me again. I hightailed it back to Slade but instead of helping me he began beating me. I tried to leave him, but he had put a suit on me earlier, a suit he now revealed that he could control my body through.

Beast Boy found me again and we fought, I unwillingly. I didn't even fight Slade's control. I tried to excuse my behavior to BB, saying that I didn't have a choice, but he told me the truth straight to my face, I always had a choice, I just made the wrong one. I began fighting Slade's control and to my great surprise found I could break free. Slade and I fought and my powers blasted a pillar we were standing on apart.

It activated a volcano and I realized that this was the price for all of my wrong choices, I had to stop it, I had to sacrifice myself. I said a tearful goodbye to Beast Boy and used my powers more than I had ever before.

And that's how I became like I am now, a statue. But I'm completely aware of my surroundings, just unable to move, talk, breath, or anything else a normal person does. I watched my friends set up a pedestal to honor me and say there goodbyes, I said some too, even though they couldn't hear me. And now I'm all alone.

Thanks for listening to my story, it entertained me for awhile. Now I'm gonna go back to being bored again, I have a whole eternity of it to look forward to assumedly. Visit me sometime or another.

I'm sounding like Raven; maybe today I'll get a change for the better.

. . . Yeah right . . .


The cave was the same as ever, dark, dry, and dusty. The statue of the girl remained undisturbed. The cave was a taboo to pretty much everyone. Nobody could know that the girl named Terra watched whoever came into the cave; she had nothing better to do. All she had to herself was grief and loneliness.

Suddenly footsteps could be heard and the girl became alert. Someone was walking towards her. She saw that whoever it was was tall, taller than most men. But the strangest thing was that two shadows stuck out behind it like wings, Hawkman from the League perhaps. Maybe the League had come to take her away to study her.

But as the thing came closer suddenly a light shone from it and if she could've, Terra would've gasped. The creature had grayish-white skin with golden lines running around his whole body in patterns. His wings were white as well and were enormous. He wore a helmet that covered much of his head and wore a breastplate painted predominantly gold with a white sword inverted so that it served doubly as a cross.

It was Zauriel, a member of the League. But even more well known for was the fact that this member was an Angel, a literal angel. Then the thought struck Terra that perhaps he had come to punish her for her misdeeds.

But Zauriel looked calmly at her and smiled a deep kind smile. The glow in and around him lit up the cavern with a white light as he surveyed the girl before him. Then he said in a soft and humble voice "don't be afraid, I'm not here to punish you or anything like that."

He then held up his hand and held it out at Terra. He said something in a strange language, maybe Latin, and his hand glowed.

"Terra, in virtute tua libera me a facie lapis carcerem."

A small piece of stone flaked off of Terra. She instinctively tried to reach over to feel it and to her wonder she found she could and chunk after chunk flaked off like she was molting or something. Then she suddenly felt a pain in her lungs and she sucked in a breath of air. Terra fell to her knees and realized with a thrill of excitement that she was human again, she wasn't stone anymore. She suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder and she saw Zauriel was offering to help her up. She took his hand and stood up, trying to get steady on her feet.

After she got steady she asked "why are you here? Does the League want me?"

"No, it is on my master's bidding I have come."

"You're masters but wouldn't that be God."

"The Presence" yes, he has great interest in you."

Terra didn't know what to think, she had never been particularly religious.

"What does he want?"

"Terra, you have made many mistakes" Zauriel began in a commanding tone "you have betrayed your friends and caused endless amounts of hurt. You have tried to make amends but you are yet incomplete. You carry the scars of your actions still and I come bearing a proposition."

"What proposition?" asked Terra suspiciously.

"I would give you another chance, a chance to do the right thing. A chance to make up for your misdeeds and a chance to find release from all your pain and guilt."

Terra looked at him with a confused look "what makes you think I need some sort of redemption quest.?"

"Are you not guilt-stricken over your actions?" the Angel inquired.

Terra looked away, yes, of course, how could she not be full up with guilt at all her actions, all she longed for was release from it.

Zauriel nodded "yes I see it in your heart. You have not forgiven yourself and are miserable. You will continue to be miserable until you can come to terms with your life. I offer you a chance to do this. To make a difference and to choose rightly for once."

Terra looked at him, could he even lie if he was an Angel? Even if he could she didn't really get the feeling that he had any sort of ulterior motive to trying to get her to take this deal. He seemed to sincerely care about her.

"Okay, what's this deal."

Zauriel smiled as he gazed down at her with the wisdom of many millenia, "I will bring you to a place were a hero is needed, where many people need you. It will not be easy, but as many have said "the greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."

Seeing Terra's look he said "fear not, I shall help you start and shall provide advice. And once I see that you have completed the task I shall consult with you about returning to your friends. Be warned however, the choices you shall make will be yours and I shall not always be able to help you."

Terra nodded, she wasn't sure what was going to happen, but she wanted to get it over with. If it was painful she would deal with it, anything to relieve her of her guilt.

Zauriel drew a sword which flames flickered on. He drew a circle around them both and then stabbed his sword down into the middle of the circle. Then he began chanting in that same strange language.

"Praesentia, mitte nos in mundo elegi. Me duce haec puella de semet ipsa ab iniuria tueri me. Sit autem discite dimittere ipsam proficere. Sit rursus fieri, virum."

The circle began glowing white and it lit up the cave walls, making them appear white too. Terra closed her eyes as the brightness increased and suddenly felt as if she was floating.

Then the glow died, but in the wake of it, where the two had been, there was just a circle drawn in the dirt and the indentation mark of a sword. All that was left to suggest that the cave had ever been visited by man was a plaque on a pedestal reading, Terra, a Teen Titan, A True Friend.


I got this idea just tonight that Terra would be offered a redemption by someone and flew into a writing frenzy. Please drop a review. I don't even know if I should publish this with so many other fics unfinished but I'm doing it anyway. I hope you like it.

Good Day and God Bless :)

Sincerely, LordGodsServant