If you want to hear Daliri just e-mail me. doesn't want to let me post the link for some reason...
This song ROCKS please, please, please listen to it. That's the song that inspired the whole fic! You may not understand it, but try and enjoy it anyway!
Terra centric fic but all the Titans will be around. If you don't like Terra, I don't care. If you send me a review saying how much Terra sucks and that she should die for no good reason, you must be an angry 12 year old upset because Terra got Beast Boy.
Flaming BBRae fans that hate Terra because she got Beast Boy, puh-leeze, get over yourselves. I get tired of seeing reviews that say Terra and CyRae sucks.
For everyone else, enjoy the story! Terra's adorable!
This is for all Terra fans!
Daliri
Marami ang nagsabi
Daliri mo'y may labi
Kung minsan sinasabi
Ang hawak mo ay sungkit
Ang init nang 'yong kapit
Tuloy-tuloy ang higpit
Nawawala ang alaala
Nawawala ang sakit
'Di mo na maalala
Kung saan ka pupunta
'Di mo na makilala ang iyong…
Kung minsan may nagsabi
Ang puso mo ay itim
Halik ng buwan sa hangin
Sabik sa mga salarain
Saan ka hahanapin?
Kailan ako titikim?
Nawawala ang alaala
Nawawala ang sakit
-----Daliri, KJWAN
I. Kamatayan
…
The sun shone brightly on three girls as they walked through the park. White, fluffy clouds were against the blue skies and its beauty seemed almost unreal. Youths and adults alike were happily enjoying their day as they lay on the green grass and stared at the sky, picnicked, and played sports.
There were three other girls that were sitting far from the laughter and chatter. Under the shade of a tall tree they huddled together spoke and quietly laughed. All three of them seemed like any other girl you would see in the park.
The girl that sat in between the two others had an unearthly beauty that you couldn't find anywhere else on this planet. She had long, red hair- no doubt she was the oldest since her appearance seemed more mature with her full body and she was taller than the other two girls, she wore a sleeveless pink dress and a hat that matched her clothing. On her left was a girl that was silent most of the time and rarely laughed, but she seemed to be enjoying now. She seemed more solemn than the other two, but even so she had a smile on her face now. Seemingly dyed violet hair adorned her head and a chakra was placed on her forehead. Her light blue dress had a pleasant effect on her pale skin and it gave her a rather sweet and innocent look. She brought a hand up and shielded her face as a flash of artificial hit them.
"You guys are so adorable," said the girl that had stood up and snapped a picture of them with a camera that hung by a strap around her neck. "Especially you, Raven, I thought the day you wore a dress would be the day that all hell would break loose. I guess I was wrong."
The girl giggled and brushed back the hair that fell over her face. She was obviously the youngest among them, with her smaller build and long, thin legs. Golden fell over her shoulders and she watched them with happy large eyes. She wore a striped white and blue t-shirt and blue shorts.
Raven glared dangerously at her and said monotonously, "Keep talking like that Terra, and this will be the day all hell will break loose."
Terra laughed nervously at the threat and snapped another picture of Raven's now agitated face.
It was like a dream really, that Terra was laughing and talking with them. She never expected or thought that it would be possible to be with her friends again.
It had been at least a year since the shock happened. It had been over a year when Slade used her. She had been a statue for a year, and it her life now seemed like some kind of dream to her, after all she had only been up and moving again for a couple of months.
"Come now Friend Raven, we should be happy and celebrating now that Friend Terra is back. What a joyous time it is that our friend who once was gone is now back again!" Starfire stood up and threw her hands in the air; she ran over to Terra and grabbed her hands. Starfire twirled her happily around, both of the girls were giggling with glee while Raven watched them with an amused smile on her face. The girls twirled over to Raven and fell beside her. Starfire shook her index finger at Raven. "No threats today Friend Raven, just laughter and happiness for all."
Starfire placed her head upon Raven's thigh and wrapped her arms around her waist. "Let's enjoy what we have now, for I fear that times like this will be taken from us once more."
Terra smiled softly and rested her head on Raven's other thigh; she leaned her head forward and pressed her forehead against Starfire's. "Don't worry Star, this won't be taken away from us. Not now, not ever."
Raven gave a tiny smile as she stared down at the two girls; they looked like sleeping children with their eyes closed and their heads on the blue fabric of her dress. The wind blew and brushed through Raven's hair, caressing her cheeks and sending a slight chill through Terra. Raven put her arms around the two girls and leaned against the tree behind her. She brought a hand to Terra's face and tenderly brushed the strands of hair from her cheek.
A tiny laugh escaped Terra's lips and she opened her eyes. She stared up and Raven with twinkling eyes. Raven gave her a questioning look but Terra just shook her head. "This is weird, you know, nice…but weird."
Raven raised an eyebrow but remained silent, Terra continued, "I mean, we never got to do this before, when…you know...we never spent much time with each other. We hardly even spoke, I spoke to Starfire, but we never spoke like…this. And Raven, we never exactly had any…friendly conversations."
Raven shrugged and unconsciously ran a finger along Terra's shoulder. "I guess you're right, now that I think of it."
"And," Terra added, "Raven actually seems to be hugging us. That's not something she'd do, to us anyways. I just know she loves to hug Cyborg."
Raven's finger came to abrupt stop, her cheeks were tinged with a slight pink and she glared at Terra again. "You prefer I choke you?"
Terra shook her head and waved her arms frantically. "No, no, no! I like your hugs! Hugs are a bazillion times better than death!"
Raven looked like she was about to kill, but Starfire saved Terra.
"Then let us rejoice our happiness!" Starfire said and stood up, grabbed their hands, and hauled them up. "Let us eat ice cream!"
Terra laughed and linked her arm with Starfire's and Raven shrugged and walked beside Starfire with her arms crossed. They walked around the park and eventually came across an ice cream man peddling along a cart of frozen goodies along.
"What a coincidence," Raven muttered.
Starfire ran to the ice cream man and said cheerfully, "We wish to purchase some of your frozen goods."
The man happily tipped his cap with a printed ice cream cone in greeting. "Well, Little Lady, what wouldya like?"
"Mustard flavored ice cream, please!" Starfire chirped.
The man gave her a confused look and said, "What?"
"I wish to purchase mustard flavored ice cream, please," Starfire repeated.
The man still looked as confused as ever, Terra smiled and shook her head, she leaned over to Starfire and whispered, "Uh…Star, they don't have any mustard flavored ice cream…"
"They don't?" asked Starfire in a rather surprised tone.
Terra smiled awkwardly at the ice cream man. "She'll have strawberry."
"Cookies and Cream," came Raven's order.
"Choco-late for me!" Terra exclaimed as the ice cream cones were handed out.
Starfire licked happily at her cone as they left, Terra politely waved goodbye and said her thanks to the ice cream man.
"Not as good as mustard, but pleasing to my tastes," Starfire said as they walked and she swirled her tongue around the top of her ice cream.
Terra smiled at Starfire and viewed the park as they strolled. She spotted a lake not too far from them, turning her head to Starfire once more she said, "You guys wanna keep walking? I'm going to sit by the lake for a while, you know, enjoy the view and stuff. I really missed the sites…"
Starfire nodded and gave a smile of understanding. "We will accompany you soon, Friend Terra."
Raven gave her a small wave. "See ya."
Terra waved to them and ran to the lake. Looking around first, she sat down far away from the vociferous groups. As she licked her ice cream she watched people row their boats on the crystal lake, a boy on a skateboard almost hit her as he glided by. Terra gave an irritated look, thinking that she should go over to the boy and give him a piece of her mind but decided otherwise.
Terra suddenly got a flashback of when she was still just a big rock, she thought she wasn't supposed to remember anything from then, but she did. And most of the memories weren't pretty.
…
Standing there, arms outstretched as if waiting for someone to hold her, eyes wide like she was surprised, and hair all over and messy. Always just standing, motionless, breathless, and thoughtless, but she could see. Even if she didn't want to see she couldn't close her eyes.
There were people around her, talking and talking and laughing and laughing. Everyday. Every horrible frigging day. Her site was opened to the public, so citizens and tourists could come and pay their respects to the 'Brave and Loyal Titan'. And she hated it. She freaking hated it.
Even if she didn't want to think, feel, or even admit it she hated the Titans. She hated the Titans for opening her spot the public. Did they even know what people were doing to her when the Titans weren't around?
Well, you'll find out.
Today, a bunch of jerks with skateboards were skating around her spot. They even grinded their skateboards against her statue body, on her poor chipped feet that were already crumbling away. She freaking hated these people, too.
There was a girl with these jerks. She wore a pink miniskirt and platforms; her hair was black with a very bad kind of brown hair dye. Her shirt was as pink as everything else on her. The outfit would have looked good, if only her legs weren't so skinny with lots of black spots on it and if only her skin wasn't so dark. Pink clothes against dark skin and dark, skinny, spotted legs weren't a good couple. It was downright ridiculous looking.
"Jooooohn," She said, prolonging the syllable and giving her words an irritating sound, "gib me an marker."
Shit.
Her English was crap.
John tossed a marker to her she fumbled it though and it fell to the ground. She bent over and picked the marker up, looking at it in disgust as she wiped it with her hand. "Yuck, it fell. Germs."
She stood up and wrote on Terra's arm 'Christine is so beautiful' and a drawing of a heart was next to the words.
"Give me that," John said and yanked the marker away from Christine. He put his tongue in between his teeth and wrote 'FUCK' on Terra's forehead.
Their friends started laughing and wrote a bunch of other swear words and obscenities on her body. They had fun vandalizing.
The Titans' were shocked and angry the next time they came, especially Beast Boy. It took them a week and a half to scrub the swear words off her body. The Titans tolerated this the first time, but more people came back and vandalized some more.
And to Terra's delight, the Titans banned all publicity to her spot.
…
Terra's memory faded away when she felt something cold on her lap, when she looked down she realized that her ice cream melted and fell on her shorts. She stood up and the ice cream fell on the ground, she wiped what was left of the ice cream off her shorts and moved to a different spot, throwing the ice cream cone in a trash can before sitting down.
She stared at her hand and closed it, then opened it again. She hated the stickiness but tried to ignore it and placed her sticky hands at her side. She stared at the lake and in time forgot the icky sticky feeling on her hands.
The people on the boats were happily paddling away, laughing and goofing around, splashing water on each other. Terra could see a black, hairy ball hitting one of the boats.
Terra furrowed her eyebrows and squinted her eyes at the black ball that was rising; black stringy threads seemed to be spreading around the ball. It was hitting against the moving boat and then it started to float closer to Terra.
Terra didn't need to strain her eyes any more. She could clearly see what the ball actually was.
It was a head.
And the rest of its body rose to the surface.
"Oh—God…" she gasped.
Terra covered her mouth with her hands and she screamed.
A girl on one of the rowboats spotted the body, shrieked, and pointed at it.
Everyone started screaming.
Starfire and Raven suddenly came running to the direction of the screaming and they saw Terra standing as still as a statue, looking shocked and petrified with her hand covering her mouth.
AN: Daliri means finger. This will be updated, not sure when the next update will be though. Please R&R. Constructive criticism is welcome. NO flames saying that Terra sucks and has nothing to do with the story and no flames full of un-educational shit that says how much you hate Terra. They will be laughed at and you'll look like a complete idiot.
I might add the translation of the song at the last chapter.
R 'n R. Because Review make me heppay.
