Hey everyone again! I know I should be finishing "I still love you", but I just got pure inspiration for this new story! Yay! Go inspiration! I am also going to post another story in like a week, too. So, come back soon!
Anyway, here is "I'm Back!" I hope you enjoy…and don't forget to review me when you're done! Flames are accepted…but they hurt my feeling…(tears).
My story is sort of Terra bashing, but not that much. And yes, it does take place in the future (we'll get into details about that later), so the titans are all about 38-40 years old.
And the beginning of this chapter doesn't seem to have anything to do with Teen Titans, but just stick with the story…it will make sense, OK? OK.
I'm Back!
Prologue: Graveyard (Man, I need to take 'how to write titles for stories' classes, because my titles suck.)
Joe Maxwell sighed as he lit another cigarette and tried to relax on his stiff chair. Man, he hated his job. Working the night shift at a large graveyard near Jump City, California, was definitely NOT what he had planned on doing for a living. He had planned on being a banker, or car dealer, or some other nice job. What had gone wrong?Maxwell sent a jealous glare at a nearby Dairy Queen, open late, which he could barely see through all the fog and trees in the graveyard. And why couldn't he at least have gotten a job at that nice Dairy Queen, instead of working here, at a creepy graveyard, full of dead people?
Actually, not all dead. As if on cue, his small, beady eyes caught onto a large gravestone, quite a distance from Maxwell's office, on a small hill. Actually, the gravestone. Terra's gravestone, to be exact. Maxwell quickly averted his eyes from the gravestone, shivering. Terra's gravestone freaked him out so much.
I mean, who wouldn't be frightend of it…Terra was—almost 25 years ago—one of the famous Teen Titans. But she had betrayed them all with her earth-shaking powers and helped an evil mastermind—Slade, Maxwell believed his name was—take over Jump City.
Experts aren't exactly sure about what happened next, but it is strongly believed that the Titans eventually defeated Terra and Slade, and somehow, Terra became encased into a statue from an eruption of a nearby volcano. And ever since then, her supposedly lifeless body has stood in the Jump City graveyard.
But no matter what anyone said, Maxwell had this creepy gut feeling that Terra was alive, and someday would break free of her rocky tomb and take over the city once again.
Suddenly, Maxwell's thoughts were interrupted by a loud rumbling noise. Maxwell zoomed back into reality when he saw his Corona beer bottle rattle off his desk and onto the floor.
Maxwell gasped. It was the beginning of an earthquake.
Earthquakes were not uncommon in Southern California, but it was uncommon to have them occur in this particular region until summertime. Currently, it was late March.
After he ducked under his cheap, wooden desk, the earthquake was unleashed, knocking the poor man into the wall. Glass was shattered. The ground seemed to split in two. Yet, just as Maxwell prepared to die, everything stopped. And just like that, the earthquake was over.
Maxwell shakily got to his feet and brushed himself off.
Man! That was one intense earthquake. He decided to call the neighboring Dairy Queen down the street to see if they were ok.
He picked up his Nokia cell phone and dialed.
"Hello, this is Mary from Dairy Queen. How can I help you?"
That was strange. Maxwell had expected that this Mary person would be in pieces, screaming into the phone, "HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME! I'VE JUST BEEN CAUGHT IN AN EARTHQUAKE!"
"Well," he began uncertainly, "I was wondering if everything's okay over at Dairy Queen, or if I should come over and help you clean up."
"Clean up what?" Her preppy, high voice chirped in reply. "We're just fine over here. Why do you ask?"
"PROBABLY BECAUSE WE JUST WERE IN A HUGE EARTHQUAKE!" He cried into the phone. He suspected that Mary was a ditzy blonde, but not this ditzy!
"Well, sir, there was no earthquake where we work just now. Where are you calling from?"
"RIGHT DOWN THE STREET!" He screamed. "AND MY OFFICE HAS JUST BEEN TORN APART BY AN EARTHQUAKE!"
Silence. Mary seemed to be pondering what he had just said—or screamed, for that matter.
"Well, sir, there is nothing I can do for you. There was no earthquake here. Sorry, but I have to get back to my job now. Goodbye."
"But-" she hung up. Maxwell cursed and peered through the shattered window and discovered that the Dairy Queen was just fine, just as Mary said. What was going on?
After trying to piece back his office together, Maxwell grabbed a flashlight and opened his screen door. It was his duty to patrol the grounds and see if any gravestones were wrecked, so he figured he should just do it now and get it over with.
After patrolling for about 20 minutes, up and down the gravesites, Maxwell hadn't found any broken graves, but he had found this peculiar crevasse in the earth that went off into the mist. Maxwell shivered and pulled his hood over his head as he began making his way into the mist to see where it led.
Finally, he reached the end of the crevasse line, and what he found there freaked him out so badly that he dropped the flashlight and tore off for the safety of his little office, where he began signing paperwork for his resignation. About a week later, he began working at the local Dairy Queen down the street, never to return to this graveyard. But I doubt that anyone cares what happens to Maxwell, because this story wasn't about Joe Maxwell. It's about someone else. (No duh.)
What he had-or hadn't-seen at the end of the crevasse had confirmed Joe Maxwell's worst fears. Terra's gravestone was gone. And in it's place lay a sprawled out teenage girl in silver armor.
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Everything was blurry. So blurry… and dark, too. Terra shook her head pitifully and tried to stand. But her legs wouldn't move.
Closing her eyes in pain, Terra rolled over on her stomach and tried to regain her strength.
Why was she here? Why couldn't she see? What was going on? Terra couldn't remember anything at all.
After about 5 minutes, Terra shakily got to her feet, only to be temporarily blinded by the glare of a flashlight, which was lying on the damp grass.
Squinting, Terra began to read the inscription that the flashlight had illuminated.
Her vision became clearer, and Terra read the words, "Terra, a Teen Titan. A True Friend." Teen…Titan… Terra's eyes grew huge as memories began to flood into her. (A/N: Remember in Finding Nemo, when Dory read the word "Sydney", she remembered about Nemo and all of her crazy adventures? It's like that, except the memories are about the Titans, not sharks and dive masks and all that.)
Meeting the Titans. Becoming Slade's apprentice. Betraying them all when she attacked the city. And going out with Beast boy…BEASTBOY!
Terra gasped. She had remembered the look of hurt and sadness in the shape shifter's eyes when she had become Slade's apprentice. She had never meant to hurt him…but because of her, he had been wounded and miserable.
She had to find him, and set things right with him. And tell him her real feelings for him.
With that, she grabbed the flashlight and tore off into the woods and out of the graveyard.
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Okay, there you go! I hope it wasn't that bad of a chapter. I am really excited to do the first real chapter, because then I get to have Robin and Starfire's, and Beastboy (He's going to go by his real name, Garfield) and Raven's kids come into the story. (I don't really like Cyborg, so he doesn't get any kids. He just gets a wife.) (And anyway, how could a robot have kids?) (Who knows.)
Hope you all had a happy Christmas and a merry New Year.
I did…I got the Napoleon Dynamite DVD!!!!!! Yayayayyayaya! Plus, I went to Mexico!!! YYYYayayayayaya!
But I doubt that you really care about any of that…