Chapter 7: Skeleton in the Closet
Lori's POV
Within the week I joined, the Titans introduced me to their life and I was able to take down my first villain; Plasmas, his name was. But I wanted to find Terra.
"Beast Boy," I walked up to the green teen, who was making tofu bacon, "Can you help me?"
"Sure Lori. What's up" Beast Boy answered setting down the plate of bacon and popped one in his mouth,
I also picked one up and popped it in my mouth. It was extremely chewy. It wasn't good, but wasn't bad either.
"I want your help finding Terra."
Beast Boy began to choke on his bacon. I jumped up and slapped his back. The bacon skyrocketed out his mouth and landed on the table.
"You think I haven't ? I always wanted to get her back. I always was trying to get her back!" Beast Boy's face twisted in sadness and rage.
"Sorry, B.B. I didn't try to make you upset."
"That's okay," he murmured quietly and turned his back on me. Clearly, my sister was a subject that he did not want to talk about. But I had to know. The truth; all of it.
"Can you tell me about her stay her?"
"You're not going to drop the subject, are you," he whispered quietly. I shook my head, even though I knew he wouldn't be able to see me. He took a deep breath and turned in my direction. Pain was written all over his face and a single tear was welled up in his eye, "Well, it began on ordinary Tuesday. Around noon, we got a notice that a notice that a girl was in trouble on the outside of town. It showed a twelve year old girl was being chases by a gigantic scorpion. We got there and as soon as we were about to help, the girl's eye became yellow and lifted up weathered rock bridge that was towering above her and let if fall on top of the scorpion, killing it. We, of course, invited her to stay with us. We later then invited her to join. But she couldn't control all of her powers. She confided this secret to me and I promised that I wouldn't tell anyone. Robin then figured it out after a battle with a madman named Slade and she left the Titans believing I had broken her promise."
"But…"
Beast Boy sighed heavily, "But she came back, little did we know to spy. After leaving us, she went to that madman, Slade, and joined him. She finally showed her true colors after disabling out security alarm and coaxing me away from the tower. Slade's minions then assaulted our tower. Slade then attacked us at an abandoned fairground and Terra admitted her part. She asked if she could still be my friend but I told her 'you have no friends' and left. A few months later, she was then ordered by Slade to annihilate us. She tried to drown Raven, threw Cyborg and I down a hole and closed it, hit Star with a boulder and knocked her off the edge of a cliff and tried to crush Robin with a boulder. We all ended in a large cave underground and led a secondary assault on Terra. I finally convinced her that she was doing wrong and then tried to defeat Slade. Slade knocked her unconscious and picked her up by her collar. Terra's eyes then became yellow and her hair started to fly. In this loud commanding voice she yelled, 'You can't control me anymore!' and caused a volcano to erupt in her anger. Slade fell in the lava." Beast Boy ended quietly. "A year later, Slade returned, but Raven can tell you about that."
"A volcano? Terra never did that before!" I commented genuinely impressed.
"Anyway, the Titans needed to retreat. I tried to persuade Terra to come with us, but she had to stay in order to stop the eruption. To save the city, she turned to stone."
As soon as her finished telling this I felt tears roll down my face. My poor sister trapped in stone! Beast Boy saw my tears and hugged me. Not one of Star's bone-crushing hugs but a nice gentle hug. He had to have experienced anguish from telling and experiencing this treachery of my sister.
"Anyway, the Titans returned to our normal lives. Eighteen months later we went on a little "business trip" and returned to Jump City six months later. While we were walking through the city, a new villain approached us. This new villain we called Mimic, because he could turn into any substance. While fighting him, I thought I saw Terra. A cloud of smoke then surrounded her and she was gone. I went down to Terra's shrine and realized she was not there. I spent the next few days searching Terra's favorite places to hide. I finally saw her at a boarding school. She pretended to not know me, but finally she told me 'the girl you want me to be is just a memory'. She didn't want to be a Titan anymore."
"Perhaps I can change her mind," I smiled. "Please take me to this boarding school."
"I'd like to, but they cracked down on security. No one can get into the school, unless you're a student or teacher."
"Then I'll enroll myself there."
How do you think school will be for Vi in California? I've read that some schools go year-round. Marukami is one of them.
I apologize for not updating faithfully. I am currently in college and it's been difficult to stay faithful to FanFiction while I am busy completeing Physics homework. This chapter is dedicated to KeeshondLover who has been on my case to update this.
