This is one of those chapters that doesn't have big drama or a huge cliffhanger or anything, but I had to do it. Lot's of little details and social interactions I wanted, like the one at the end of the chapter. Anyway, I think it's still kind of funny...I sometimes wonder if people find some of my chapters boring. If so tell me which kinds of scenes or things in the chapter you would like to see more or less of, I'll see what I can do, plus I might find some fun ideas! :D

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"Hey…why's Julia so…upset?" Robin asked cautiously to Fade.

"I'M FINE!!" Julia yelled at them, pacing back and forth angrily. Fade sighed.

"It's a long story about her and this falling out with her and Kavi and-"

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS FADE!!" Julia yelled again. Kavi walked up to stand next to Robin and Fade.

"She's still angry at me." He muttered, although he seemed more amused than hurt.

"She's still sore from the break-up." Nikkos added quietly. Emerald nodded in agreement.

"Technically…" Kavi began slowly, as Julia's death glare bored into the others, "we were never together."

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Must get out of binds. Must get out of binds. Must get out of binds. Must get out of binds. Must get out of binds. Must get out of binds. DAMNIT THE STUPID BINDS!!

Diana was frustrated beyond all belief, the stupid titans where good with knots, and she was pretty sure that they had no plans to let her out any time soon. But she had to think of something, who was in this group again? She surveyed the others. She vaguely recognized a few of them, but not a by a lot, and they certainly wouldn't recognize her. But she did notice that one was very young, her name had something to do with nighttime or the moon or something. She was in a very sullen mood but Diana figured that she'd be easiest, besides, she was the one guarding her right now.

So Diana quietly edged herself as much as she could over to the small girl, and tried to speak, her voice came out as muffled cries. But the girl looked down at her. Diana gave her a pleading look, and the girl thought and moment, before slowly removing Diana's gag. Diana flashed her a grin.

"I'm Diana." She introduced.

"I'm Luna."

"Listen…I know that I kind of came off bad there when I attacked Kavi…but see, I'm his…I'm his bodyguard sort of…" Diana explained. Luna looked unconvinced.

"Really! I mean, you know…a bodyguard doesn't usually attack the person they're supposed to be guarding but…just, that little fricking royal annoyance is always running away!!" Diana cursed, she was getting fairly worked up. Luna laughed a little at Diana's anger, and Diana smiled at her. Luna stood up and patted Diana on the head.

"I'd love to let you out, but I can't! I'll give Robin's team a call, maybe talk to him and Kavi, maybe even Julia, she sort of seemed like she might know you. 'Kay?" Luna giggled, skipping off. Diana sighed, like she really had a choice, oh well, at least Luna had forgotten to put the gag back in.



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Okay, so what was she going to do now? Terra couldn't even begin to wonder, Slade was well, she had no idea where Slade was, and she had sort of lost the Titans…not that she was that excited to be stalking her ex-boyfriend and former friends/roommates. Still...being alone in the middle of nowhere, when she had no idea how to navigate this place, was even more depressing.

And if all else failed, she could have called the titans, but she had left her communicator behind when she left the tower. But suddenly, she remembered her wristband that Diana had given her. Terra held up her arm to examine the multiple buttons and dials on the wristband. Could there be…a phone on this thing? Terra tried to decipher if anything on the wristband resembled something that may be found on a phone. She found nothing. So she decided to guess.

She pressed one of the buttons and turned two of the dials. A small holographic screen (like Kavi's) popped up and Terra jumped up, surprised. But she was more intrigued than scared. Terra observed the screen, she could see the small pictures with headings, she noticed…internet…music…ah! Phonebook! She lifted her hand, unsure of what to do, and tapped the picture of the telephone. Immediately, the screen changed, an extremely long list appeared, Terra's eyes widened. She didn't recognize any of these names, and she could only see the A's and part of the B's of the list of people. The wristband looked brand new! How could it possibly have so many numbers?

Without thinking, she tapped the 'call' button without selecting a name. A small box showed up, with numbers on the screen so she could dial. Well, Diana had given her the wristband, who knew; maybe the first speed dial would be her? She tapped the 1, and hoped for the best.

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Rrrrrrrrrrring. Rrrrrrrrrrring. Rrrrrrrrrrring. Rrrrrrrrrrring.

"Hm?" Kavi paused and opened up his screen.

"Who's calling you?" Fade inquired, sitting down beside him. Nikkos and Emerald where quietly sitting, not talking, and somehow not feeling awkward. Robin was talking to a still somewhat grumpy Julia.

"Let's see." Kavi replied. Pressing the 'answer' button on his screen. Terra's face popped up, filling up the 8x11 inch screen.

"Terra!" Fade gasped. The others immediately jumped up and ran over, crowding around Kavi and his screen. Terra looked just as surprised as they did, and she leaned back slightly, blushing.

"I-I…I didn't know who this called!" she stuttered nervously.

"How did you get video phone?" Kavi asked curiously, the only one not in complete awe by the situation.



"Oh…oh, I…D-Diana gave it to me, you're…you're Kavi, right?" Terra asked, still sort of out of it. Kavi nodded.

"You called me?" Kavi continued.

"Well, um, see, I just pressed speed dial 1, I was actually hoping to talk to Diana…" Terra trailed off, "Actually, why are you speed dial 1?" she asked.

"Beats me, it's your phonebook."

"What?"

"Nothing, Diana's not here though, she's with…" he thought a moment, "Amp's group." Terra was confused.

"You mean…you're not all there?"

"No, we split into groups." Kavi replied. Robin gave Kavi a look, obviously reminding him to stop revealing parts of their plan, "But…now that I think of it, how do you even know Diana?"

"Well…I ran into her and…she needed help finding you…and it's a long story but I ended up stranded here…"

"Hey, press the tiny red button." Kavi told her, Terra gave him a confused look and pressed the button on her wristband. Kavi's goggles started beeping. Kavi quickly reached up and pulled Terra's picture to the side of the screen, shrinking it partly in the process and pulled up a map of Jericho's land, with a small blinking red dot on the map.

"And that's Terra." Kavi told them.

"A tracking device." Robin nodded approvingly.

"From the looks of it," Kavi began, examining the map, "You're closest to Group 1, or Amp's group. I'll send you some directions to their campsite; that should pop up on your screen, then we'll call and tell them that you're coming." Kavi explained. Terra nodded slowly.

"Hey…um…that group, is…"

"Beast Boy's in Group 2." Kavi replied, already guessing her question. Terra smiled gratefully at him.

"Okay." She nodded again. Kavi quickly sent her the directions, and closed the screen.

"So…why are we sending her to one of our groups?" Emerald asked sarcastically.

"Well, we can't just leave her out there, I mean, Terra has the survival skills to be by herself, but if Slade and his little cronies got to her she wouldn't be able to handle it." Fade told him, answering him anyway, "Besides, Kavi wouldn't ever want anything to happen to her."



"Hey, I've got another call." Kavi announced as the ringing sound was heard again.

"Is your dad again?" Nikkos asked.

"He usually calls at least twice a day, maybe you answer one of these times." Emerald suggested.

Kavi shrugged, "I'm not really in the mood to be yelled at for 6 ½ hours."

"Right of course, convenience over the supposedly 'important' people in your life." Julia muttered darkly.

"Sarcastic comments under your breath instead of talking with the person." Kavi replied.

"Oh wow! Look at that! Its sit in your own corner and not talk to anybody else time!!" Fade exclaimed.

"But-" Emerald began before being cut off by Fade again.

"GO!!" Everyone scurried off, somewhat eager to obey Fade's spastic efforts to stop the inevitable fight between Julia and Kavi, who, by the way, had to be a little forcibly separated from each other. Everyone was tense and upset for the rest of the night.

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"Shouldn't we help her?!" Taylor exclaimed, watching as Gemini lost it all over the floor.

"She does this all the time." Rikki replied, shrugging.

"When Amp had asthma attacks all the time we still helped him!!" Taylor told her.

"Not anymore." Rikki muttered. Thorn took a step toward Gemini, and stood silently as vines grew out from him, producing a large yellow Amazonian flower. The flower faced Gemini, and the pollen began drifting from the flower, flowing into the air space around Gemini, who promptly passed out, and the writhing stopped. Taylor's eyes widened.

"Sleeping gas?" he said, amazed. Rikki nodded.

"He has a few other pollen gases too." She told him, uninterested in the happenings around her. Taylor watched as Rikki and Thorn moved Gemini off to the side, even when asleep, she looked restless.

"Junior's clone." He thought aloud.

"They're more like siblings really," Rikki said slowly, "I mean…same parents, same DNA, but different personalities and appearances."

"But didn't Slade use Junior's DNA to make Gemini?" Taylor inquired.

"Technically, but it was more pulling apart Junior's DNA to get his and Blackfire's to make someone new, otherwise it would have been an exact clone. So, Gemini is a clone, but barely, and besides, I've 

seen them together, they're like brother and sister, and very separate people; they've never treated each other like an extension of each other." Rikki explained.

"You're talkative today." Taylor commented. Rikki suddenly stood up straight and blushed.

"Don't get used to it, I'm just telling you so you know!" She told him rather aggressively, and she walked away. Taylor watched her leave, wondering why she had left if she was going to miss them so much.

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"Breakfast!" Fiery called. The others gathered around her and the fire.

"But you're a horrible cook, I've had your pancakes." Metallic told her. Fiery stuck out her tongue.

"Kole helped me this time!" she whined. Kole and Fiery served everyone breakfast, and they quietly ate the food. But Selena stood up when her communicator beeped. She flipped it open to see Julia's face.

"Hey, I'm calling to check in, also…Terra's here, she'll be joining Amp's group." Julia told her quickly. Everyone else was there in a flash, and questions flitted around with Julia anxiously trying to explain.

"Guys! Guys! GUYS!" Julia screeched, silence finally falling on the group.

"If you just stay quiet I'll explain everything that we know so far!" Julia told them. It was silent.

"How is she?" Beast Boy asked quietly. 6 pairs of eyes snapped up to look at him, and Julia gave him a small smile.

"She's better."

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"How long until she gets here?" Sid asked. Amp shrugged.

"Fade only called like 5 minutes ago so I'm guessing it'll be a while." He replied.

"Perhaps she will be happy to see us?" Starfire wondered hopefully.

"Why is she out here in the first place?" Nova asked.

"Weren't you listening Nova?" Sid sighed, "That girl over there brought her."

"I think her name's Dana or something." Amp thought aloud.

"It's Diana." Luna corrected. Diana was sitting to the side of the group, silently cursing them for forgetting that she was right there. Of course she couldn't say anything though, stupid Nova stuck the gag back in not too long ago, but Terra coming was good news, maybe she could help to convince the others to let her out of her binds. She wasn't the least bit surprised that Kavi hadn't told the others to let her go, he was a little brat.



So they waited for hours, the others had begun scouting the land, but Amp's group had to stay put until Terra arrived. And they were bored out of their minds.

"Take me with you." Sid whispered to her communicator. Junior raised an eyebrow.

"You're supposed to be waiting for Terra with Amp's group." He told her. Sid shook her head.

"I'm so bored I could kill something! You have to get me out of here and away from Amp's group!!"

"Amp's your brother, shouldn't you be…you know, supporting him or whatever?" Junior asked.

"I've supported him for hours and hours and hours and I just can't take it anymore!!" Sid growled.

"You know what…I'm going to have to call you back; we're going to start moving again." Junior told her.

"Don't you leave me!!" Sid begged.

"I'll talk to you later Sid, love you, bye."

"Okay by-wait what did you say?!" Sid exclaimed. Junior paused a second, and he turned red.

"Uh, I-nothing bye!" and he hung up on her. Sid stared at the blank screen for a second before closing the communicator and walking off.

"Like I won't see him later." She laughed to herself.

"Hey! Look at that dot in the distance!" Luna called.

"That must be Terra." Amp guessed, the dot slowly getting closer. The dot spotted them and waved. A chunk of the ground 3 times the size of the dot jumped up, the dot jumped onto the chunk and was suddenly moving towards them much faster, before they knew it, Terra was standing in front of them, and a loud crash was heard as the rock was thrown to the side.

"Hey guys." She greeted, oddly casual. But then she spotted Luna, and quickly scanned the area around them, "Where's your brother?" she asked curiously. Luna's face fell and she ran over and buried her face in Amp's shirt and started screaming. Terra jumped back and quickly began apologizing and waving her hands.

"Okay, somebody call Emerald!" Amp called. Nova sighed flipped open his communicator.

"Terra!! I have missed you so much!!" Starfire giggled, breaking Terra in half via hug.

"You're hurting her mom." Nova told her nonchalantly, "Oh, and I've got Emerald for you Luna." Luna attacked the communicator, sobbing to her brother. Everyone turned around when they heard a loud muffled yelling, it was Diana. Terra gasped and rushed over to her friend, pulling the gag out of her mouth.

"Diana!" She exclaimed happily. Amp walked over and kneeled down next to Terra.



"Is she safe?" he inquired. Terra nodded.

"Yeah, earlier I was helping her find somebody named Kavi, I think it was that kid I called earlier?" Terra shrugged. Amp nodded.

"Alright, Nova, can you untie her? And Sid, you call Robin and tell him that we're letting her go." Amp told them. Sid whacked her brother on the arm.

"You got it!" she agreed. Amp cringed.

"You hit hard Sid!!" he yelled.

"Stop being such a sissy," Nova told him as he undid Diana's binds. Amp rolled his eyes as he rubbed his sore arm.

"Whatever, I'm not the one who plays tea party with his younger sister and Mrs. Fluffington Cuddly Fuzz III." Amp murmured. Nova jumped up and poked Amp rather violently in the chest while he yelled.

"Hey! That was one time and I was babysitting and I was only 9!!" There was a long silence.

"Fiery said you wore a feathered hat and let her call you Miss Norington." Amp grinned. Nova glared at him, but was so angry he couldn't think of anything exact to say, so he stuttered angrily under his breath. Everyone laughed. It took a few awkward minutes, but soon everyone was settled, and talking, ready to start scouting in the next 15 minutes, with the exceptions of Terra, Diana and Luna. Terra and Diana where sitting by themselves, speaking about the last couple of days, and Luna was still talking to Emerald, though she was slightly calmer.

"Don't you miss me? You never call." Luna asked. Emerald refused to look her in the eye and shrugged. Luna's depression ended and she glared at him.

"Can't you ever just admit that you care about anybody?" Luna inquired angrily. Emerald slouched somewhat nervously. Luna's glare intensified.

"I just want you to call once in a while, is that so bad?" Luna groaned.

"Uh oh." Sid murmured, the others turned, caught by the disagreement. Sure, the twins fought a lot, but just regular sibling rivalry, never a real fight before.

"Well for one thing, there's never a reason to call." Emerald shrugged. Luna looked as though he had struck her, he quickly tried to save the situation.

"I just mean…you know, there hasn't been an emergency or anything and plus, Luna, you call enough for the both of us."

"Well then maybe I should just stop calling you! You insensitive meanie!" (Remember, they're 10, 'meanie' is a pretty bad insult to them)



"I'm not insensi-"

"Yes you are!"

"Well you're clingy and shrill!"

"Unfeeling and cruel!"

"Annoying and idiotic!" After that last one, Luna sucked in her breath and Emerald paused, oops, he'd gone too far.

"FINE!!" she yelled, and she hung up on him and threw the communicator into the cliff, it barely survived. Nova picked it up.

"She has her own and yet she ruins mine." He muttered. But he stopped, realizing that Luna was upset enough.

"Wow, the twins' first fight," Nova murmured to Amp. Amp nodded.

"Next time we split up, I say we duct tape the two together."

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No one can really tell but this chapter is about a page longer than what I usually do. Just a little thing I keep track of. I'm very...not organized but I like things a certain way. Most chapter's, I write about 6 1/2 pages. Why this is important I don't know. Uh...one of my brother's just had a birthday? Once more I wonder if anyone reads these little paragraphs from the author? Perhaps I'll never know...