Chapter Five:
Save Me.

"Why are you doing this to him?!" Terra yelled in pained rage.

"Why do you pity him?" Tara sneered back.

"Because I love him, danm it!" Terra screamed.

Tara snorted with distaist. "Love, its over rated. What good ever comes of it? Nothing! All it ever brings is pain and betrayel. Its a dirty trick our hearts play on us that stings and cuts us up into soft little whimps. Trust me, your better off without it." She looked around the quiet neighborhood as she cut off the conection with Terra. Everything was so quiet, so peaceful... too bad.

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The punching bag was swinging once more with every confused punch. The loud sound filled the room, and anyone could tell the attacked was both hurt and beyond confused. Frustration seemed to fuel the attacks, as the banging sound grew louder by the second.

Beast Boy stopped for a moment as sweat dropped down the side of his face, leaving a sticky trail. He was still trying to sort everything out.. but nothing made sense. With another furisous scream he slashed the bag with sudden claws, leaving three torn streaks into the side then left for his own room. That night however, was haunted by pleas and crys for help. The dream seemed so real as Beast Boy tossed and turned under the covers.

"Please... Beast Boy..." Terra sobbed. She was on her knees and had her head tilted down so that her long hair covered her face. Everything around them was black and empty.

"Terra, whats going on?" He asked

Terra looked up at him with a sober face, her hair parted slowly and formed a curtain around her tear stained face. "I- I can't fight her... I can't control it anymore."

Beast Boy bent down and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Who?" He demanded softly. But Terra snatched him in a tight hug and buried her face into his neck.

"Save me..."

The blairing alarm woke Beast Boy and made him shoot up from bed. He quickly casted gazes around his room then punched his matress with frustration before climbing down and getting dressed. Soon the changling was running down the hall to meet the others in the rec room. Starfire zipped past him with her alien speed, Beast Boy grunted before morpthing into a greyhound and running to catch up.

The Titans stood around the large computer screen, all of them stiffling yawns and rubbing their eyes. Beast Boy looked to the clock, no wonder- its red numbers blinked "5:00 AM" in proud red numbers. Swallowing his yawn, the teenager looked back to the screen. It was taking forever for it to show who was making trouble this early in the morning, and tension filled the room. He could sense the tight feeling that floated around them- and Beast Boy knew why. Everyone was afraid of seeing a blue eyed face on the screen, becuase trouble was trouble- and it would need to be stopped.

Finally, the screen blinked the location of the comotion. But it was worse, and Beast Boy heard Starfire give a shrill gasp, while the others tightened their jaws and gave each other shadowed looks. His green eyes stayed on the screen however, stairing at the two faces that where located downtown. His throat became tight and his mind clouded.

"Are you coming?" Robin's voice seemed to hang cold in the tensed room, but Beast Boy looked to his leader and nodded slowly. Getting a grim, but understanding nodd from his leader.

"Titans! Move out!" Robin ordered.

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The once paved road was broken into hundereds of crumbled pieces, coming in all shapes and sizes. Buildings where dented and twisted into broken forms, and cars laid scattered upside down in every direction. The street lights above flickered with dim light, giving off buzzing noises to anouce that they where close to dieing. Pools of blood indicated to what had happened- a battle. Bloody prints could be seen on everything, the cars and broken earth. Them too coming in all shapes and sizes. Boot prints painted with sticky crimson seemed to paint the earth as well, most in one small size. A few people laid moaning against buildings and behind cars, waiting for help, but they where ignored by the once hero who lurked in the darker shadows.

Slade was thrown aside like a rag doll, bouncing off the pavement and flying into a chunk of pavement with a loud crack. The masked man groaned as he slowly picked himself up, but searing hot pain started to vibrate through his entire body. Neatless to say, things hadn't gone the way he had planned them to. He had come hoping for another allience if what he heard about Terra's little 'earthquake' had been true. Insted he had gottin' a welcome party with the earth itself, thus why he was able to whipe blood from just about every part of his body. Slade looked over to the shadows with slanted eyes when two yellow ones showne through.

"You know Slade." The voice said with such a casual tone, you'd think this was a friendly meeting as Tara stepped out with another twisted smirk. "For being a 'evil master mind,' your pretty dumb." She lifted her hand in a fluid grace before the earth shot up from under him, throwing Slade into another slanted piece of rocky earth. She watched him slide down the earth wall with slanted eyebrows. Slade laid there for a moment, trying to recall his strength, but Tara beat him to it and flung him aside again.

"You hate feeling beatin' down, don't you?" She hissed as her entire look changed into a spiteful look that scowled her face with rage and betrayel. Tara walked closer, her old work boots pattering softly. "You hate thinking you would get help- but getting this insted, don't you?" With her words Slade was thrown into a car that tried to give off a car alarm with no luck. Tara walked closer yet again and bent down, resting her arms on her knees as she stuided the wounded villian. But her face was cold and hard, not giving sympathy to him.

"You don't honestly think I forgot about what you did to us?" Again, Tara's voice changed, this time into a sweet sing song sound. "Promiss's of help, but only beating us? Oh yeah, what you did helped, time to return the favor." Her last words hissed coldly before Slade was again thrown into the air. "Terra never had the guts to do anything back." She raged as she stormed closer. "She wasn't the one who destortyed you in that cave, I was. So if you think you can just walk back in and talk her into helping you." Tara bent down and staired Slade in the eyes. She could feel the fear vibrate from him, she could sense the pain she was causing him, and she soaked it up. Her voice turned into a cold hissy whisper, but her eyes looked sweet and innocent. "Then guess what." She leaned closer and hissed. "Terra's not here anymore." Her grin twisted once more into a demonish look.

Slade threw his fist at Tara with sudden power, but his hand was smacked aside with a light pole. He recoiled his hand and nursed it under his other one, having to clence his teeth to keep from howling in pain. His mind thought quickly as he staired into Tara's cold and menceing eyes. He needed a new plan- THAT was for sure. Calming himself, Slade spoke with his usual tone. "So then, you think you can stand up to the Titan's all by yourself?"

Tara seened to try and laugh, but the sound never came out as her grin was twisted back and forth. "You and I both know they have a soft spot." She hissed with demonic excitment.

Slade kept himself cool, ignoring the slaps of pain that ran through every part of his body. He concintraited on the current issue, using his best weapon- speech. "Soft spots can heal easily, more so when its for a traitor." Slade watched as her eyes caught on yellow fire with a sudden flash. "Even if they still do, I know deep down you want them- all of them- to suffer like you. You want them to bleed, and you want to watch." He ended his words in a stinging hiss, that made Tara raise her eyebrow to him

Tara stuided his face, her tinted eyes looking over every inch. But she wasn't tricked, and the yellow color grew deeper to show her anger. "Your right." She said with a cold tint to her voice. "But I don't need your help." She was ready to finesh him off when both of their attention was drawn to where the sound of footsteps came from. Tara looked over, and looking at them with confused faces was five teenagers.

Alrighty, how was it? I was trying to capture the whole alter ego thing here, giving Tara more of a backround. The next chapter is going to have the battle scene in it- I was going to put it in this one, but I was holding up the update for too long xD

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Preview from the Next Chapter:

Chapter Six:
Broken Halo.

Four Titans rushed foward, but one stayed behind and watched with whide green eyes. He watched as controled earth was flung up from its resting place and at his friends, and watched as mulitple green and blue lasers where fired at the geomancer. Bird-a-rangs screamed in the air along with the starbolts and sonic cannons as they flew towards Tara, but she found a way to dodge every attack, or block it. Shadow hands tried to hold her in their grasps, but their masters where soon thrown aside by the very earth from under her.