Third Chance

Ronnoco

Chapter I

Back From Stone

Inside a gold-lit cave deep beneath Jump City, Beast Boy could only hold his breath. After so long waiting, Raven had finally found the right spell to bring their friend back to life. He stared in awe at the statue, raised high up on a stone pillar, spreading its arms out wide and strong. "Terra..."

Raven sat down, as calm and casual as if this were just a normal happening of a normal day. She started a small fire in a pitted area of the cave floor, then blew a powder over it, turning the flames a deep violet. She looked up at her green companion, eyes worried, cautious. "Don't get your hopes too high," she warned, "I had to invent half this spell up on my own. I and no one else has ever done this sort of thing before. Successfully, at least..."

Beast Boy glanced down, shedding a bright smile. "I trust you. Don't think about it. Just do it."

"You know, just because you don't think, doesn't mean it works..." Raven joked sarcastically.

"Ha ha. Real funny..." He replied, the slightest hint of nervousness being let out. Staring up at the rocky figure, remembering all the 'good times', he could hardly believe that she could come back, after the year and some he's waited. Such a long time...

"Hey BB, quit dreaming and lets work some magic! Get over here!" Raven called impatiently. "Here." She handed him a small dish, hot from the flames in it. "Monkey up there and do as I say, WHEN, and ONLY WHEN, I say to." The green teen complied, climbing up the base as a spider-monkey, changing back to his neutral form when he got there. "Okay, I'm going to say a spell, at the word 'revivio', sprinkle the powder, fire and all, on her. Then, um, well, I don't entirely know what exactly will happen next, so be prepared for anything. Got that?"

"Mmm hmm!"

Raven took a very deep breath. She was ready, as ready as could be. After extreme meditation, a few visits to her mirror, and practicing the spell's procedure as much as possible, she felt ready for anything. With a dramatic wave of her hands, she began her spell. "Terrisco Azarath, metronomy resesizen Xaphire croutons shaqueille Zinothium!" she glanced up momentarily at Beast boy, who jerked his head forward in a 'and...-?' sort of way, "Revivio Terrzarc!" He tossed the bowl's contents at the statue, and in the dark cloud which resulted, fell over backwards. Only just catching himself, the changeling stood back up, readying for what came next.

The smoke cleared, to reveal Terra's body sway for a moment, before falling off the perch like a rag-doll. Beast Boy was there in an instant, catching the girl he loved.

Raven casually drifted over, looked down at Terra, then frowned. "Hmm, that may pose a problem..."

"What?" the green guy asked perplexed. He looked down into his arms himself. "I don't see anything wrong. What's wrong? She's not a rock anymore..."

"BB, take a closer look..."

Somewhat apprehensive, he looked down again, all he saw was a beautiful teen girl in an apprentice's uniform, resting peacefully against his beating chest- "Hold on, RAE! She's not breathing! She's dead!"

"Told you that would pose a problem..." Raven muttered under her breath.

"But, but you said, said it would bring her back to life and-"

"Well, technically, I said it would bring her back from stone, which it did..."