A/N: Okay, since most of you guys decided not to review thisstory, I've decided to stop writingit for some time. At least, until I get more reviews. I know that a lot of you are reading this story and believe me that the only happiness I get out of it is reading your reviews. So please, be so kind and review. I don't care about the number of reviews, but about the number of people reading and reviewing this. If you review I'll continue, if not then I'll delete the entire story (I'm not kidding!). You have one week from the time this is uploaded.

P.S.: Sorry to RoseMage, AnimationWickedRaven and Firenze2000 who are the coolest folks around here. All my luv and thx to you, hope you understand.

Disclaimer: Same as in chapter 6.

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Chapter 7

Terra was shocked as the darkling leaned closer to her. She looked in his black eyes and couldn't see anything. It was as if his eyes would have been covered with black ink behind which there was constant night. It reflected the state of his soul.

"Terra, listen to me! I know how you feel. I know you want to get away from all the pain in your life. I know you want to be loved. Believe me, I really know how you feel. Once I felt the same way." he said. His voice lost its chilling edge. He had a normal voice, as any other teenage boy. Terra suddenly felt some sort of attraction towards him, but decided not to think about it.

"What do you mean?" she asked him.

"You know, I haven't been always a demon. I was a normal boy. But I had a very sad life. I was an outcast, never loved, and never cared for. And the only thing I've ever wanted was someone to love me. I even tried suicide. And then I got an offer from a demon. He offered me to take away all my sorrow, so I wouldn't feel sad anymore. He promised to give me power, confidence and…love." Shade's voice got somehow weaker. It seemed as if he wanted to cry, but since his eyes were completely black it was impossible to tell. Terra just listened silently, not really knowing what to think about the sudden confession of the demon.

"I accepted. I threw my soul in his hands. And he fulfilled his promises. He stripped away all the love from me, all the happiness and joy I've ever felt. He only left the feelings that were required to power my new demonic soul: hatred, anger, frustration. And since I couldn't feel anything else besides these I didn't feel sad anymore. He showed me the meaningless separation of the 'good' and 'bad' in our lives. He made free, so I could do anything I want and never feel remorse." he took Terra's hand into his own hands and placed a small kiss on the surprised girls hand.

"And what does this have to do with me?" she finally asked him. He smiled at her, like the parents do when a naïve child asks them some simple question.

"Terra, I offer you the same path I chose. I offer you to join me and together we can live freely, without anyone asking us. I offer you…myself and my love." Shade explained. Terra didn't know what to say, it was too much for her to accept.

"And what do I have to do for this?" she finally asked. Shade released her hand and looked at her seriously.

"You only have to be absolutely sure that you want to do this. There will be no way back! You sure?" he asked her. Terra just nodded.

"Okay, let's do this!" Shade said and he removed his black cloak. He was still wearing those same black clothes that looked like they were shadows. He suddenly pulled down a black glove from one of his hand and then from the other one. Terra was surprised to. Partly because she didn't even know that he was wearing gloves. Now she realized that black clothes covered the entire body of the demon. And she was surprised partly because the boy's hands were absolutely normal. She had expected some claws or deformed hands that would clearly show the demonic side, but nothing like that was seen. The only thing that was out of normal was that his hands were absolutely pale. It even seemed as if they had grayish colour.

"Grab my hands." he said quietly. Terra hesitated for a moment and then quickly grabbed his hands. She was immediately filled with the boy's hatred. She could never imagine, that so much anger could be held in someone's soul. Terra's body was shaking as her feelings were killed within her and became replaced by his demonic presence. After a few seconds she finally released her grasp and fell on the ground unconscious. Shade stood up and looked at the blonde teen. He pulled his gloves back on his hands.

"You're so easy to manipulate! Well, so long my darling. Nice dreams." he said with a malicious voice and then went back into the shadowy cave.

Same day, late in the evening

Terra finally woke up. She immediately stood up with an unusual ease, as if she would have just levitated on her feet. She looked around and was amazed at what could she see. Everything around her seemed to be alive, every shadow moving, the stars outside swirling around. She ran out of the cave and looked around. She was alone in the desert.

"Shade! Where are you?" she yelled as loud as she could. In the next moment she heard a step behind her and she turned around to see him. But he didn't see Shade as before. It seemed as if he would be surrounded by a silvery glow and had huge, black-feathered wings on his back. He came closer to her.

"Well, what do you think? Do you like it so far?" he asked her. She smiled at him happily and nodded.

"Well, your image has changed as well. Effects of the change I'm afraid, but I think you might actually like your new…style." he said and with a single movement of his hand and large black cloud appeared next to him, it's surface slowly got smooth and formed a mirror. Terra looked into the mirror and became absolutely shocked. She had the same dead black eyes as Shade and was dressed in black. Even her blonde hair had some black strands now. Soon she realized that she did like this new colour and enjoyed the darkness.

"And what about my powers?" she asked. The mirror disappeared and she looked at Shade.

"All your powers remained the same. They just got more powerful. I've started that process within you since the first time we met. And now that you've become a demon like me your powers have finally reached their maximum. You no longer have to fear losing control of them. And I can assure you that we will soon use your new powers to avenge ourselves. And this time no one will be able to stop us." Shade explained proudly. Terra was happy to be a part of this. She finally felt free, free of all restrictions, expectations. She was perfect and wasanxious to show the Teen Titans how wrong they were about her. She wasn't dangerous. She was deadly.

Some days later

The Titans were out in the town in the local pizzeria. They wanted to take a rest from the search for Terra. She seemed to disappear, no trace was found. They've looked for her at every imaginable place in the town. Starfire and Beast Boy even went to look for her in the desert but couldn't find anything except for an empty cave.

"Ooookay, so what pizza should we order?" Cyborg asked while reading the menu.

"Vegetarian, of course!" Beast Boy answered instantly.

"NO WAY! YOU'VE CHOSEN THE PIZZA LAST TIME, NOW IT'S RAVEN'S TURN!" Cyborg shouted at the green changeling. He didn't understand how could BB never eat meat. He hoped that at least Raven would support his idea.

"I don't care what kind of pizza it'll be." she said calmly. Cyborg turned to Robin and Starfire, hoping to find someone who would accept a pizza with meat on it. Unfortunately for him the pair was kissing passionately, so he couldn't get any answer from them.

"Damn, it's difficult to speak with these guys since they're going out." he thought as he looked at the two pairs around him.

"Okay BB, we'll have a vegetarian pizza. But this it the last time!" he finally surrendered.

"Sweet!" Beast Boy jumped up a bit from his seat, celebrating his 'victory' over his friend.

After they finally got their pizza everyone started eating. They were talking about training, new upgrades for the tower and stuff like that, never mentioning Terra. They didn't want to be reminded of her. Although she had been their enemy before she was their friend once. And they were sad to see where did she get in her life. Attempting suicide and then her escape.

Suddenly a violent earthquake shook the earth and the Titans immediately jumped up from their seats.

"What the hell is this? An earthquake?" Cyborg asked.

"Titans, back to the tower! We have to find out what's happening!" Robin commanded. Starfire lifted him into the air and Beast Boy, who had transformed into a pterodactyl picked up Cyborg. They flew back to the tower. Fortunately because of the many structural upgrades the Tower was able to withstand even the strongest of the earthquakes without any damage. The Titans ran into the common room and looked at the screen. It showed the exact place of the epicenter. It was far out in the desert. But the strange thing was, that it wasn't under the surface. It was on the surface. Everyone knew what did this mean.

"Terra." Raven said the obvious. The Titans immediately went down into the garage and sat into the T-car. They drove offin the direction of the epicenter. Once again they went to confront their former friend. However no one knew how much she had changed since their last meeting.

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A/N: So, this was Chapter 7. Once again, I ask you to review. I don't ask you to write long reviews, simple reviews are accepted as well (e.g.: "nice", "boring", "die, bastard"). Well, I hope many of you will review, so I won't have to delete this. So long, and please…don't ignore this.