DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE TEEN TITANS

NOTES: Well, it seems that I lost some readers after chapter 6...mebbe it's cause the day I posted chapter 7 everyone else seemed to update as well. anyway, here's the last chapter, I hope y'all enjoy it! and I'll do all the review thanks thingies later on, probably on monday.

Chapter 8

Oblivion

Early in the morning, Terra awoke from her sleeping place on the edge of the island. It was bitterly cold, and Terra was able to see her breath. She stood up and looked around, seeing that the island was covered in a thin sheet of ice. Shuddering in the cold, Terra starts some light exercises to warm up. After a few minutes of fast moving, Terra uses her powers to lift a small section of the island and jumped on, moving it towards the city, her eyes showing pure determination. It was time to find Riker.

Riker watched from a rooftop a few miles away, his sharp eyesight following Terra's every move. Smiling, Riker cracks his knuckles and leaps down the eight-story building, landing gracefully on the ground below. Standing tall, Riker stares in the direction of where Terra was heading and took off in a sprint towards her position.

Terra looked in every direction, looking for some sign of Riker. All she saw was destruction from the bomb that had destroyed the body of Cyborg. Many bodies of Jump City's population still littered the city streets, most were burned up skeletons, though few still showed blackened skin hanging off the bones, which were being eaten by rats and other scavenger-type animals. Terra stopped the boulder she was on suddenly when she heard footsteps. The sound echoed off the buildings all around her, masking the true point of origin from her. Terra whirled around several times, glancing in every direction until she saw Him. As Terra watched in front of her, a tall man walked calmly towards her, dressed in jet-black armor and wearing an evil smile.

"You're Riker." It wasn't a question.

"And you must be Terra. I bet you're wondering how you got out of your stone prison." Riker said mysteriously.

Terra stared at Riker, thousands of questions raced through her mind.

"Does he know how I got out? How does he know about me in the first place?"

"I know all about you Terra. I know everything about all of the late Titans. Learning about your enemy is part of the joy I find in killing." Riker said, all the while with an evil smile on his face.

"Yeah? Well I'll bet you didn't know this!"

Terra shot her arms in the air and a piece of the road shot up where Riker was standing. Except, he wasn't standing there anymore. Terra looked around wildly, trying to find out where Riker had disappeared to. She heard a chilling, raspy voice from behind her.

"To slow."

Terra was knocked off her boulder by a fierce blow to the back of the head. She landed hard on the ground below, her head smacking into the ground with a sickening crack. Terra instantly saw red as she struggled to her feet. She heard Riker land hard on the ground next to her.

"It must be hard for you, girl. Knowing that all of your friends are now dead. You should have heard them scream. It was wonderful." Riker taunted. "Especially Beastboy. He was the first one that I killed. You know, looking back at it, I realize he screamed like a coward."

Terra grunted in pain and anger as she slowly got to her feet, her head pounding hard. She turned and faced Riker, her face contorted with pain and anger. A yellow aura seemed to shine around her entire body.

"SHUT UP!" Terra bellowed, her body now shaking with anger.

Terra let out a pained howl and lifted a huge section of the road into the air and threw it at Riker. Riker calmly used his own powers and summoned the elements from around him and shot the road boulder, sending pieces of the huge boulder raining down all around the two combatants. Terra used her powers to cover herself with another section of the road, while Riker calmly stood there and moved when necessary. When the storm of boulders stopped, Terra moved cautiously out of her shelter and looked around. She was surprised to see Riker still standing in the same spot.

"Good try, girl. But unfortunately for you, it wasn't good enough." Riker said, as he reached behind his back and pulled out a bloodstained serrated combat knife.

"I used this knife to torture and kill Raven, you know. It brought me pure joy hearing her scream."

Terra stared at the knife, a look of intensity beginning to form on her face. As she was about to use her powers again, Riker charged, the blood-covered knife glittering in the morning sun. Terra's eyes widened in surprise as Riker's sudden charge caught her off guard, allowing him to reach her and plunge the knife into her stomach, the blade tearing into her stomach lining and exiting out her back, a piece of stomach and skin hanging off the eighteen inch blade. Riker took a step back and placed his foot on Terra's chest and pushed. Hard. More of Terra's stomach and skin came off her body as the knife was brutally extracted from her.

Terra gasped in pain and held her hands to the open wound. As she did, another pain blazed through the wound, and she felt the blood stop flowing through both sides of the wound. She lifted her hands and looked at it. Instead of it being open and bleeding, it was now cauterized.

"Do you like that? I am able to send my powers through my weapons. As you can see, fire is my specialty. It has cauterized you wounds so I can play with you some more." Riker explained.

Terra stared hard at Riker, the pain was still very intense, and it hurt to move. Still, Terra stood tall and summoned her powers once again, this time lifting small rocks from the already torn up road. Using her powers, she cut them down into small, pointy arrows. She turned the sharp ends towards Riker and hurls them towards his grinning form. Riker dodges them easily, but fails to see them coming back towards him. Terra had once again used her powers and brought them back around. Three of the pointed rocks hit Riker in the back; one of them went all the way through, exiting out the side of his stomach, spraying the area with his blood. Riker cried out in pain and clutched his side, falling to his knees

"H…hurts, don't it?" Terra said panting, sweat covering her face.

Riker groaned in pain and slowly got to his feet, his face contorted with anger and pain.

"You'll pay for that, girl." He said in his raspy voice.

Putting his hands to the wound, he quickly cauterized it. Turning his attention back to Terra, he narrowly dodged another sharp rock, which Terra had sent towards his head. Not waiting for him to respond, Terra charged, leaping into the air and landing a hard jump kick to the side of Riker's head. Riker shot back and landed hard on the ground not moving. Terra stood triumphantly over his body and smiled. She had avenged her friends' death, or so she thought. A heavily muscled arm shot up and grabbed Terra around the neck, pulling her down to the ground. Terra's eyes grew wide with fear as she saw the rage and bloodlust in Riker's eyes, as he slowly tightened his grip around her neck, choking her.

Instead of panicking, Terra plunged her right hand into Riker's right eye, gouging out the unprotected eyeball and squishing it in her hand. Riker's bellowed in pain, throwing Terra away from his body and clutching his right eye socket. Terra got to her feet, gasping for air. She saw Riker rolling on the ground and holding his head. She saw her chance to strike. The familiar yellow aura surrounded her body and Terra closed her eyes, concentrating hard on what she was about to do. She carefully lifted a section of the city street, eight feet long, five feet wide and six feet thick. She carefully carved out the center of the large block into twelve six-foot long spikes and moved the spike-block over Riker's body. By now, Riker was struggling to his knees, obviously in tremendous pain. Riker looked up as he saw a large shadow on the ground covering him. He saw the huge spikes looming over him.

"This will be your tomb, Riker. You shall pay for what you did to my fri-" Terra began.

Riker used his powers to drag Terra towards him, holding her close to him.

"If I shall die, so will you." Riker said, looking Terra in the eyes, seeing her fear at what was about to happen.

Riker grabbed Terra around her neck again and slowly started to squeeze. Terra realized that she would lose consciousness and lose control over to hovering tomb of spikes, as it would come crashing down on the two of them. Terra tried to move the tomb, but was failing, as black spots began to dot her eyes, and her breath came in ragged bursts which were being cut off more and more each second. She realized that there was no way she could get the tomb out of the way in time and instead began to try and bring it closer over her and Riker's heads. Terra gave one last struggled gasp of breath and blacked out. The yellow aura around the tomb disappeared and it hung in the air for just a second before crashing down onto both of the fighters, a sickening meaty squish was heard as it came down on the two, blood shooting up into the air and covering the street and tomb.

Hours pass by, then a few days. The dust around Jump City had finally settled, though none of the previous population was coming back. The place where Terra and Riker had been crushed was now covered in dry blood and dirt. Throughout the abandoned city, footsteps could be heard. Footsteps of several people. The footsteps stopped a few yards away from Terra and Rikers final resting-place.

"It's over…we were too late." Came the voice of a woman.

"But the kid beat him, didn't she? Something we couldn't do all those years ago…" A man's voice answered.

"Yeah, she did. He's not coming back this time. Unfortunately for us though, neither are the Titans. They aren't coming back and it feels as if it's all my fault. I didn't work fast enough to gather you all. I should have stayed and fought." A different male voice put in.

"Bruce…it's not your fault at all. We cannot blame ourselves for things we could not control." The same woman's voice said.

"It is nobodies fault, as Diane said. Come Bruce, we should begin the clean up. We'll build the Titan's graves properly first."

"Y…yes. We'll do that first, Clark." Bruce responded. "We'll build them on Titan's Island, today." Bruce said, a tear falling from his eye.

The members of the Justice League stood staring at the rock tomb of Terra and Riker as the sun slowly rose over the city, giving birth to a new day.

END