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Butterfly of the Sky

Chapter Two:

Secrets Revealed

"All right Terra!" shouted Beast boy after they had forced her to sit down. The Titans were circling her with vicious glares, reminding her of the familiar punishments because of her powers back on Lianna. She looked down like a lost puppy.

"Why didn't you tell us your past?" Robin asked. "I thought we were your friends."

"Even though you betrayed us, tried to annihilate us," Raven added. Robin gave her a look and she quieted.

"Well what was I suppose to tell you?!" Terra yelled back, gaining a little bit of defense from their death-glares. "That I was the ultimate weapon of destruction for Lianna? That I ran away because my powers almost killed my only sister? I'm sure that would bring up an interesting table conversation!"

"No, but your suppose to trust us, Terra," Beast boy answered, making Terra look down again.

"We could have protected you better if we'd known," Starfire replied. Terra got up.

"I don't need your protection. I'm a big girl, I can handle myself," she snapped, and then walked out. Raven locked her hold on Terra, and Terra struggled to move.

"Sorry, but so long as those two freaks are here, your under our imprisonment," Robin replied. "So why don't you calm down, and tell us the whole story, alright?"

Raven set her down on the couch and Terra sighed, drawing her knees to her chest, resting her chin on the top of them.

"Alright…it happened about six years ago," Terra began.

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"Tag!" Jeru exclaimed, freezing his sister's arm. She giggled and broke it off, getting on a boulder. She flew over Jeru and just about tagged him, but she fell down and rolled off, gritting her teeth in pain. "You know you shouldn't do that Tressa. At least not until you gain full control of your powers."

"It was nothing," Tressa assured getting up. Her mother walked outside dressed in a beautiful golden dress and a silver veil. Underneath the veil was a face too young to be the mother of 17 children. On her forehead was a sapphire gem, showing off her royalty. Tressa couldn't wait to have one for her own.

The politics in Lianna was very different from Earth or any other kingdom. Instead of the first-born boy to be ruler, they chose a girl, for, while men were the born fighters, when in war: women were out for blood. Tressa was the only girl in her family up until Manna, their five-year-old baby sister. Tressa cared for her like a mother, not even recognizing the political tension that could arise from them.

"Be careful, you two," their mother said in a calming voice. It was so alluring that she could not go out into the battlefield incase she called for help. Then every man would rush forward to help her. She left the battlefield to her husband, but she had all the strategies made.

"We will Mother," Tressa answered. Jeru nudged her when their mother passed, and Tressa nodded.

They ran off inside the palace and went inside to the meditation room. There were four crystals circling around the room. One crystal was blue, one was red, one was white, and one was green.

"So which one is which?" Tressa asked, gazing at the auras circling around them. They gave off different colors behind them. The green crystal's aura was yellow, the blue crystal's aura was orange, the white one had a pink aura, and the red one's aura was purple. Her brother pointed to the green one.

"That one is yours," Jeru whispered. Tressa went up to it and Jeru followed her. "You sure you wanna do this? I mean you can barely control your powers now."

"I just can't hold a bolder bigger than my body. But with these new powers, my strength should expand," Tressa replied. She touched it and the power leaked into her mind, her soul, and her body, her very being. She welcomed the power with greed and slowly the crystal's aura and color disappeared until it was clear and empty.

"How does it feel?" Jeru asked, about to touch the blue crystal.

"Wonderful," Tressa replied. Suddenly she heard guards walking down. Jeru ran off into the shadows and Tressa eyed the red crystal. It turned into a butterfly hairclip, so suddenly, it was shocking. She grabbed the hairclip and stuffed it in her hair, then ran off with her brother.

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Years later Tressa was playing in the fields with her sister, before the war between Azarath and Lianna. Manna threw the ball towards Tressa and Tressa threw it back.

"Where did you get that hairclip, Tressa?" Manna asked, now noticing the butterfly clip. She had her own desire for it.

Tressa shrugged. Suddenly a shadow appeared overhead of them. Manna ran beside her sister and they looked up. It was the Azarath ship. Tressa's fear overtook her and suddenly the ground rumbled. Manna pushed Tressa to make her stop, but it only angered her more. Pieces of rock shot at her and Manna barely dodged them. One hit her in the back, sharp as a knife. Manna screamed in pain and began running home as boulders followed her. Tressa looked up at the Azarath ship and the earth reached up swallowing it. When she realized what was happening, it was too late. She ran, and ran until she couldn't run anymore. She found herself on earth where she renamed herself, Terra.

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The titans glanced at her and Cyborg was the first to speak. "What was in that hairclip?" he asked. Terra looked up at him.

"The power of fire," she replied. "That was the power I was destined for, not earth. The whole boulder-flying thing was because the magma exploded underneath it, sending it in the air. That's why I never stayed up for more than five seconds when I was little."

"That explains why you couldn't control your powers in the beginning," Raven replied, looking out. "It was never your power, so you didn't have any right to control it."

"I know," Terra replied, looking down.

"So, they really didn't want you. They wanted the power of the crystal," Robin concluded. "The one that was never yours."

"That's right bird-brain. And we intend to take both the powers back."

To be continued…

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