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CHAPTER 3: Near Death
Terra decided to take the stairs. Only because she needed the exercise and she wanted more time to play with her UN fun thoughts. She wanted to think of what to say to the titans. Would they reject her? Or would they give her another chance? They gave her 3 chances already, would they really give her a 4th? She knew that BB already cared about her seeing as he stood up for her. But what would the other teens think of her.
She carefully made her way down the stairs and realized it was a bad idea. It was a long way down, floors and floors of walking. But right now she couldn't care less. She wanted to think. She was on the 9th floor. She had to get to the 1st floor.
Every step she took felt like an eternity and her feet felt like they were filled with led.
By the time she had reached the 5th floor she was exhausted! Her legs began to grow a little numb and her knees soon began to buckle up, but she kept going.
"Okay Terra, next time you take the elevator!" She told herself.
When she reached the 3rd floor she was about to collapse for now she couldn't even find her legs. She had reached the corner of the staircase when she collapsed. She began to scold herself.
"NEXT TIME USE YOUR FULLY FUNCTIONAL BRAIN TO GET DOWN STAIRS! Like I don't know maybe I should use, THE ELEVATOR! She sternly yelled to herself. (But not too loud for every one to hear.)
She got up and shook her from the frustration. She started her way again and finally reached the 1st floor. She was relieved. She didn't want to sit down though. She wanted to go find the Beast Boy and others. The living room was a toxic silence. So toxic, she thought that there wasn't a cure for it at the present time.
She glanced over at the kitchen to find all of the titans talking with a very serious tone. She could hear words like Traitor, Earth demon, no trust, x friend, hate her, and…kill her.
Most of those harsh words were coming from Raven. Terra thought she heard Beast Boy standing up for her again, but her mind was on other things. She stood there for a couple of minutes. She was afraid to go over there in they're state of emotion.
Then Beast Boy caught sight of Terra standing in the living room, waiting for a sigh to come over. He thought for a minute. 'If she comes over here then emotions will be treading high, but if she doesn't then she'll never have a chance to say sorry.' He thought.
Raven was saying, "I'm going to kill her, I've been lied to many times in my life and she went to far, she must be gone."
"Now Raven be reasonable. She was a little insecure at the time of Slade. maybe she's changed. Robin suggested.
"A LITTLE INSECURE? Try a lot insecure. Raven corrected
"Raven chill, okay? People screw up sometimes, she was just the same as the rest of us." Cyborg countered.
"Dude, she's not the same as the rest of us…we're all different." Beast Boy said sounding a little offended
"Yah she's different, because she doesn't have a brain to make her own choices!" Raven protested.
"DUDE! She so has a brain." Beast Boy screeched.
"Then why didn't she use it?" Raven asked harshly.
Beast Boy was about to answer, but he couldn't. He didn't know the answer to that. He knew that he knew the answer; it was just lost some where in the back of his head. Beast Boy remained silent. He lost the to the prosecutor.
"I thought so! And Beast Boy…you would make a very crappy lawyer." Raven added.
Starfire wasn't going to butt in; she didn't want to come in between friends.
Terra still stood there with a frightened expression. Because of Beast Boy standing up for her was something she wished that he wouldn't do.
'Why does he continue to stand up for a worthless person like me? He should be on their side, not mine. I broke his heart!' She thought to herself.
"I'm going to kill her!" Raven exclaimed
"OH, NO YOUR NOT!" Beast Boy yelled with fury.
"Watch me!" Raven sassed. She turned around to where Terra stood. Raven summoned her power with her well-known magic words.
"Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos!" She cried. Suddenly a chair flew up from it's standing place. She aimed carefully making sure to hit her breathing target. And chunked it at Terra.
At first no one could think. Beast Boy was stapled to the floor and couldn't move. He couldn't get his brain to process to what was going on. It was a good thing that Terra thought faster.
AAH! Terra screamed. Her eyes turned into yellow jades of power. And her gloved hands became a lemony yellow. Then a large rock came crashing through the window. As the chair got within 2 inches, Terra used the boulder for a shield. The chair lay on the floor and Terra put her boulder down. But that was a mistake.
Raven then ripped the counter from it's ground. And set it straight for Terra.
Everyone was frozen in his or her positions; they were too astounded to move.
Beast Boy watched the horror. One of his friends was trying to kill the one he loved. He couldn't move, until his love triggered his brain to think fast.
The counter was heading to Terra at full force. She couldn't move. Her feet were full of fear.
Beast Boy turned into a ram and ran as fast as his hooves would go. His adrenalin kicked in for Terra. He didn't want her to be killed. He had a flame of love reserved in his heart for her. And if she were killed, the flame would be burnt out.
Raven was concentrating on killing the person she hated. She just wanted her out of her life.
But suddenly She felt something hard and cold jab her in the side. The power of the hit forced her to the ground, making her lose concentration.
The counter dropped down in front of Terra, losing it's black coloring. She felt back onto the floor, from the stunning attack. The pupil in her eye had shrunken and her breaths became heavy and short. She sat up to find the others dumfounded. She couldn't think. She was robbed of thought, by the small battle.
Beast Boy turned back into human form and rushed over to Terra's side.
"Terra, are you okay?" He asked in concern.
At his words, she clicked back to her depressing reality. "Yah, I think so…She assured.
He grabbed her by the arm and helped her up. She slowly rose from the ground.
As Terra was getting up, Raven got up and had a hurt and angry expression on her face. Her violet eyes burned with fires of passionate frustration. Her skin remained pale, but had a tint of red at the face.
Everything went silent. It was 10 times more toxic than before, when Terra had entered the living room. So toxic…it seemed as if every one were dieing a slow and painful death. And Raven's glare was just as venomous to the eyes.
"Beast Boy…you betray me? If you're going to protect that living sin, then you're just as bad as the earth demon!" Raven exclaimed. "If I were you I would kill her now and end her pathetic life." Raven suggested.
"Well, that's you Raven! And if I were you, I would SHUT UP AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS ROOM! Why don't you just go cuddle up with one of your old crappy books, before things get ugly up in this joint!" Beast Boy suggested.
"It's already ugly in this room and all of the ugly things in this room are coming from that…that…hhhhmmmffff. She blocked out her harsh words.
Before any thing else could be said, Raven seeped through the floor as a black raven. And that's when every thing became an eerie cold chilling silence.
Beast Boy thought he heard a soft sob from Terra, but when he looked over her expression was solemn and serious. And he could tell that she was retaining salted tears of misunderstanding frustration. But she didn't let one escape her ocean blue eyes.
"Terra…are you okay?" He asked with sheer concern.
But she didn't answer…she was once again, lost in thought!
