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Earthshine
Chapter Five: Temptations
"Titans go!"
The Titans sprung into action, chasing after the speeding car. Two armed men had robbed a bank, stolen a car and now were driving at top speed down the street. A little boy was in the back seat, screaming for help. Unfortunately, they had gotten a head start, and were leaving the Titans in the dust.
Beast Boy transformed into a cheetah and ran at breakneck speed, closing the gap between them considerably before falling back, panting hard. The others soon caught up with him.
"I do not think we will be able to catch them," said Starfire.
"Man, if only I had brought the T-Car we would have had them by now!" yelled Cyborg.
"It's too late for that now; we'll just have to keep following them," Robin sighed. The car was still slightly visible on the horizon. "C'mon."
Terra was walking down the sidewalk when a car suddenly sped past her. "What the heck?" She looked down the street and saw the Teen Titans trying in vain to catch up.
They won't be able to reach them in time.
Her eyes and hands glowed yellow, and the ground in front of the car split and cracked open, leaving a hole just wide enough to make a car get stuck. The car screeched to a shaky halt right in front of it. By now the Titans had caught up, and Terra was no where to be seen.
"Dude, what the heck happened back there?" asked Beast Boy after they had talked to the police officers (who were now taking the men to jail and escorting the boy to his parents).
"Earthquake?" asked Cyborg.
"Maybe the crack had been there before." Robin doubted that an earthquake had suddenly appeared, helping them catch the bad guys. "Oh well, let's go home and get some lunch. What do you guys want?"
"PIZZA!" yelled Beast Boy and Cyborg together.
Robin sweatdropped. "I'm sorry I asked."
Terra walked into her room, mentally kicking herself.
Why did I do that? I didn't have to. They're the Teen Titans, they don't need help, especially my help. Idiot! They could have figured out it was me. They could have found me out.
Terra flopped on her bed in annoyance. But is that really such a bad thing? She again felt the temptation to go back to them, to talk to them. She wanted to let them know that she was alright.
Would they even care?
Later that afternoon, Terra was sitting on a bench in the park, feeding the blackbirds. She had come here to get the Teen Titans off of her mind. But they wouldn't go away. Terra sighed and stood up, when one of the blackbirds flew up and hovered in front of her.
There was something about it that Terra couldn't quite put her finger on. It wasn't a normal bird. It stared at her with cold eyes and dropped something on the ground in front of her, and flew away.
Terra picked the thing up, and found that it was a note. She opened it up and read it, gasping with shock. The note read:
Meet me here at 8. I won't tell the others.
The handwriting was sloppy and big. Definitely Beast Boy's. They had figured her out, or at least Beast Boy did. Terra didn't know whether to feel relieved or scared. Either way, she would be here to meet him.
Terra was waiting at the same place at 8 o'clock. She was nervous, and fidgeted a lot.
"I'd expected you to be crawling back to Titans Tower by now, but I guess I judged you wrong."
The hair on the back of Terra's neck stood on end when she heard the voice the had never wanted to hear again.
Bum Bum Bum! Cliffhanger!
