I DON'T OWN THE TEEN TITANS.
I DO OWN THE PLOT OF THIS STORY.
(NOTE: THIS IS DEDICATED TO MY DAD. IT'S ALSO DEDICATED TO HOW DARK AND SAD LIFE WOULD BE IF YOU HAD NOTHING).
IS IT WORTH IT?
"What is this?" Starfire asked herself, almost frightened to death.
She was stunned as she sat silently, staring at the wide screen TV. Blood, screams, weapons blaring, fire spreading like wild animals. It was all too much for her to comprehend. She picked up the TV guide and flick several pages forward. She wanted to know what this horrible program was called. She found the date's page and read the words that were printed.
"Blood soaked guns: A documentary about the bloodiest battles of both world wars (May not be suitable for young or sensitive viewers)."
Starfire never heard about neither and first or second world wars. She never knew Earth-humans could be so evil. But even with fear and horror filled in her heart, she continued to watch the documentary. As she watched, she wondered something. Something so deep, that even though many humans asked it before, no one has ever been able to give a straight 'Yes or No' answer.
"In a world so evil, so full of pain, so unfair and unjust, what's the point of living?"
LATER…
Deep in a dark silent room, almost engulfed in shadow, Raven meditated. Normally the others respected her need to meditate and left her alone to do so, but a gentle knock at her door told Raven that this wasn't going to be a normal day (well, as normal as a day gets when you're a Titan).
She broke her concentration just so that she could say the 'most welcoming words ever'.
"Go away Beast Boy and Cyborg. I don't want to be referee for your 'cool' new sports game."
"Raven." Starfire spoke softly through the door.
Raven recognized whom that voice belonged to.
"Oh, it's you Starfire. In that case…go away Starfire. I don't want to go to the mall with you just so you can try on hundreds of clothes."
"Friend Raven, please. I do not wish to do that right now, I actually need to ask you something."
With her attention grasped, Raven got off the floor and opened the door. An almost teary eyed Starfire stood right in front of her.
The saddest thing to do in life is to kill happiness. Starfire is, or was, a living example of happiness. But after seeing that documentary and having all these questions in her head, the only thing you can say about her now was that she was living.
Starfire spend several minutes explaining what happened. At this point Raven was starting to get worried. This wasn't like Starfire at all. Soon Raven walked over to her bookshelf, pulled out an old thick looking book, and gave it to Starfire.
"This might explain some things. I've never found it useful on my behalf, but I hope it helps you in someway." Raven said.
Starfire read the name that was engraved in the cover.
"THE BIBLE".
A FEW DAYS LATER…
Starfire's room was filled with stacks of books. Mountains of used notepads blocked your view of her bed. And a sea of videos and DVDs covered the ground. But, all these items had something in common. They were all about religion. Books about every faith in the world, notepads of every theory on the afterlife, and videos and DVDs of every documentary about believe ever, covered a once happy, but now frightened, alien. The deeper she went into this fear of hers, and more shocked she became. She had learnt many things while reading, taking down notes, and watching all the information she could get. She learnt about the 'Prophet', the 'Ten Commandments', the meditations patterns of the 'Buddha', the story of 'Muhammad' (the founder of Islam), 'Karma', 'Chi', 'Yin and Yang', 'Genesis', 'The Fall', and 'The Golden Rule'. But with all this information, also came the darker side of humanity. Different races, cultures, and religions had fought against each other for centuries. And for what? Nothing.
The pit that Starfire was falling into was getting bigger and darker. She was beginning to see humans as monsters.
"Is it worth it?" She silently asked herself as she put a huge heavy book down.
"Is it worth staying on a planet filled with such evil? Should I just go now and leave forever?"
In a strange way, Starfire sounded more like she was asking someone, instead of herself. And in an even stranger way, she almost wanted a response from nowhere. But what was the strangest was that she got a response from nowhere.
"No, it's not worth it." A voice called out from the shadows.
IF YOU FIND THIS DEPRESSING, STOP NOW! IT GETS EVEN MORE DEPRESSING! BUT IF YOU LOVE IT SO FAR, KEEP GOING?