Series Title: Creation
(NOTE: Yes this is PART FOUR! R and R, please!)
PART FOUR:
SECTION ONE: DREAM SEQUENCE
(This is probably the only part of this story that will be rated PG13 because of the graphic nature. If you get queasy or whatever, please, feel free to skip directly to section two!)
I open my eyes to the dark room with Master sitting in his chair. I rise up and sit on the edge of the table. I know what is coming.
"Let us test her… to see what she can do." Only this time I do not black out. I see everything as it happened. I change into my wolf body and attack. There are three of them. All shall die.
They try to run. I catch the first and see the look of horror on his face as I sink my fangs into his vulnerable throat. I taste his warm blood gush into my mouth and run down my snout. Then I begin to rip and tear through his flesh as he gurgles a scream.
I leave him to die in a pool of his own blood, and hunt down the next one. This is a woman. She cowers in a corner. I stalk her around the room until making up my mind to lunge for her throat. However, she throws me against the wall. But not without leaving a long gash that bleeds profusely from her shoulder down to her hand. She makes for the door as I leap onto her back to bring her down. Nothing can stop me now.
Once she is dead, I sniff out the third. He is attempting to knock down the locked door. He pulls frantically at the knob. He lets out a sob as he sees my approach. Then I pounce on him. Unlike the others, he puts up more of fight. The adrenaline rushes through my body as I devour his flesh. It takes me a while to find his throat. And when I do, I hold on tight. His body jerks and thrashes until suddenly, it stops. He is dead. I let out a savage howl over the body of the dead man with blood running through my black coat-Then I scream.
SECTION TWO: QUESTIONS
The Titans stared at the wide-eyed girl looking frantically around her containment chamber for a way out. She finally noticed them staring at her and glared through the glass. Her eyes glowed yellow as she placed a hand next to the glass and tried to put her hand through the wall.
"Sorry, Ria. When Cyborg builds it, nobody breaks out." The girl just glared even more intensely.
Robin then spoke curtly into a microphone so that the girl could hear, "Who are you and why are you working for Slade?"
"Why should I tell you?" She shot back. Robin's eyes narrowed in irritation.
Beastboy grabbed the microphone from Robin and said, "What he means is—
Raven interrupted, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"Yes. We would very much like to know and understand so that we may make amends."
"Never."
"But why? Do you not wish to be our friend?"
"Because you could never understand."
"What would we not understand?" Ria remained silent.
"We wish to—
"No!"
"But—
"Leave me alone."
"Let me handle this. Sometimes I feel the same way." Raven took the microphone from Starfire, "Whoever you are…we know what you've done."
"How would you know?"
"I don't know how to explain it to you."
"Try me."
"I read your dream."
"WHAT! How dare you enter the sanctity of my mind!" The girl jumped to the glass, and surprisingly, it held. Raven just handed the microphone back to Robin.
"Tell us what Slade is planning."
"I do not know."
"Yes you DO!"
"I DO NOT!" Silence.
"Robin." Starfire placed her hand on Robin's shoulder to restrain him. "Perhaps she does not wish to tell us." Robin let out a frustrated sigh and turned the microphone off.
SECTION THREE: WHY ME?
Why must they question me! I hate them! Especially the one called Raven. She entered my dream? Then again I was unconscious, I could not defend myself. But still!…
I spoke the truth to them. I do not know what my Master is planning. He never tells me. He thinks I am ignorant. So do each of the Titans. Why must these things happen to me?
SECTION FOUR: SIMILAR
What was it that drew him to Ria? Maybe it was because she was similar to Terra. No, she couldn't be. No one could be like Terra to him. Then again…
Maybe it was because she was part animal, like him. He related to her in a weird sort of way. She was a captive, like he felt sometimes. He understood how she must feel, locked up like a…he couldn't even think about it. He wanted so much to help her. To free her. From Slade and the evil she was caught up in. Just like Terra…
SECTION FIVE: FRUSTRATION
Robin was frustrated. He paced around and around his room. Then he heard a knock at his door. "Robin?" It was Starfire. He opened his door with a push of a button. Starfire stepped back a pace at the look on his face. "Sorry, Star. I'm just…frustrated."
"Frustrated? What is this frustrated?" Starfire looked puzzled at this new word.
"It's when…well…it's hard to explain."
"Oh…Then, you are well?"
"Yeah."
"Good…You are sure?"
"Yes, Starfire. I'm fine."
"You don't look fine to me." Raven said from behind Starfire. She had been listening. Raven could always tell someone's emotions even though she never showed her own.
"I'm just having trouble dealing with her attitude, is all."
"Oh. Is that what is wrong?" Robin had almost forgotten Star was there. But, sometimes it was hard to forget about her. Robin did not respond, he just walked back into his room and closed the door. He needed to think some more.
SECTION SIX: SORROW
Cyborg was watching Ria over the security cameras in the living room. His eyes followed her back and forth across the screen until she settled down in one corner of the chamber. Her wolf form was black, just like her ears and tail when in human form. He saw the tiny movement of Ria setting her head down on the floor of the chamber. She seemed very sad. That's when Beastboy appeared beside him.
"How's she doing?" He asked.
"So far so good." Although he knew it wasn't true. They watched in silence as Ria lifted her head back and gave a howl that they could hear over the loudspeaker.
"She is grieving, yes?" Beastboy and Cyborg turned to see Starfire standing behind them listening to the howling. "On my planet, such a sound would mean someone has - passed on. What troubles her?"
"I don't know, Star. I don't know." Beastboy responded. After a moment's silence, Beastboy said, "I'm going to talk to her," and left the room with Cyborg and Starfire looking after him worriedly.
SECTION SEVEN: DANCES WITH WOLVES
I did not look at him, I only heard him speak to me, "Ria?" I do not respond. I do not want to talk them. I glance over out of the corner of my eye and see the green boy. What did the Titans call him? Boybeast, or Beastboy? "Why did you do it?" I give a small snort in reply. I have no idea what he is talking about. "Why did you kill those people?"
"I do not wish to talk to you or to anyone else."
He paid no heed to my statement. "Is it because of Slade?" I am silent. "It is, isn't it? He made you do it." Still, I am silent. "Please, Ria. I just want to talk." No response. "You don't have to let him tell you what to do. You can be free. You can be yourself. You don't need him. And you don't need to—
I silence him before he finishes his sentence. "I will not listen to this!" I lunge at the glass facing him. I growl. He opens his mouth to speak more but I stop him, "I do not trust you nor do I trust—
"Him? You don't trust him, do you?"
I do not respond. To control my anger, I turn away. I lay down again, facing away from him. "You and me. We're the same. We both can change shape. I understand—
"No, you do not. You never could and neither could any of your friends."
"Yes, I can."
"You do not have to deal with the agony of what I have gone through." He is silent. He does not know what to say as this sinks in.
"All I know is that you can fight this. What he's doing to you, you know. You don't have to take it." I do not respond to this. After a while, it is quiet. I pick my head up to turn around. He is gone.
- COMMENT TIME! I know part four seems long, but it really isn't. Some of the sections are just shorter. There is more dialogue in this part. I wonder how Ria will take the advice Beastboy gives her? I can't tell you that! So please don't ask! You just have to wait for part five!