I am really sorry it took me so long to update! But my computer had a virus type thingy that caused loading to take forever, then when it would be done updating it would say "error can't process information" or something like that.
So anyway I hope you like this chapter. The stuff in italics is the voice that haunts Terra, and the stuff in bold italics are memories or flashbacks. And I know that 16 brothers and sisters is a lot, but that's how most foster homes are (I should know, I live near a foster home, and they have 15 kids!)
And I would like to take this time to thank all of my reviewers so far. And once again, sorry for taking so long to update.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.
Breakdown
Terra decided to go outside after a while. She sat on the swing that was in the yard. She lightly swung back and forth with her feet dragging softly against the ground. She loved being outside. She didn't know what it was about it, but she loved it. She looked up at the clear blue sky. There were only a couple small clouds in sight. Just as she was taking in the earth's beauty Megan burst out into the yard with two other girls.
"What do want now Megan?" Terra asked, knowing that they were looking for her. Megan went up to Terra and scowled.
"You're in my swing brat." she hissed. The other two girls just gave Terra dirty looks.
"Last time I checked this was everybody's swing, and besides there are others over there." Terra said while pointing to some swings that looked older and smaller than the one she was on.
"If you don't get out of her swing now we will have to make you." one of the girls said. She had long black hair and brown eyes.
"Like I'm scared of you Alison." Terra said to the girl who had just threatened her. The other girl stepped up. She had red hair with greenish blueish eyes.
"You may be family now Terra, but you need to know where you fall on the food chain." Megan said. The two girls then went and pushed Terra off the swing. Terra was getting really angry but contained her anger. Then Megan went and sat down on the swing.
"Hmm, not as comfy as I expected." she said a little disappointed. Then she got off. Terra looked at her with disgust.
"You didn't really want it did you?" she hissed more than asked. Megan just smirked maliciously.
"Why do you have to be so mean to everyone, and we are even your family." Terra said stepping forward. Megan advanced to Terra and sized her up.
"One, people were never nice to me. And two, these people aren't my real family." Megan said.
"So, we're your family now, you should treat us like it!" Terra yelled, anger brewing more and more.
"What do you know about anything or even having a family for that matter. You can't even remember who you are, let alone who your real family was. How can you possibly know what it's like to loose everything and everyone you ever cared about. For all you know your family is off having a great life with out you. Face it Terra your not even wanted or they would be looking for you." Megan spited. The other two girls stood by Megan and were glaring at Terra. Then they went over and shoved Terra down. Terra fell to her hands and knees. Her hair fell in front of her face. She felt like crying and killing at the same time. What was this feeling, this power, this energy welling up inside her.
"Oh, poor me, I have no memory and I can't remember anything. And I have scary dreams, oh what will I ever do?" Megan mocked. The other girls laughed as Megan did.
"Shut up. I'm warning you." Terra said hoarsely, anger growing with in her, as she was still on the ground with her hair still in front of her face.
"Ha, you think you can threaten us?" Megan expressed while laughing a bit. Just then Bethany walked into the yard.
"What are you guys doing?" she said as she saw Terra on the ground. She tried to run over to Terra but Alison held her back.
"Stop squirming pip squeak." Alison said while holding her back. Megan brought her attention back to Terra.
"Now I think it is time you learned who's at the top here." Megan told Terra. She and the girl with red hair went over to Terra. Megan bent down so only Terra could hear what she was going to say.
"Time you got what was coming to you brat." she was just about to kick Terra, seeing as how Terra couldn't really do much about it since she was on the ground still. But she stopped and put her foot back down and tried to stabilize herself as the ground started to crack and shake violently.
"Beastboy now!" Robin yelled to his teammate as they were battling a villain. Which villain you ask, well none other than the persistent yet annoying Dr. Light. Beastboy changed into a stegosaurs and wacked Dr. Light with his huge tail. Dr. Light went flying into a building.
"You can't stop me that easily Titans!" he yelled as he got up.
"Raven I am getting really tired of this guy." Cyborg said to his dark friend. She nodded and then disappeared. She reappeared in front of Dr. Light as a huge black raven made of black energy emerged from the ground with her. She then wrapped her black energy around him and drew him closer. Raven then gave a look that said, 'You really want to go back?'.
"I'll give up now." he said while getting down on his knees. Raven smirked a bit and went back to her team.
"Good going Rav-" Robin began but stopped when the ground began to shake. They all looked at Dr. Light.
"I didn't do it." he said still on the ground cowering in fear of Raven. Starfire then came up to Robin.
"Do you think it could be a quake of the earth." she asked. Cyborg then came forward.
"No, it's too strong to be a actual earth quake, and the patterns aren't normal. Something or someone is causing this." he said. Then the ground shook with such force that they all fell over.
"It can't be." Beastboy said to himself as he stood up.
"Cyborg can you track where the cause of the earthquakes is?" Robin asked.
"Yeah, I am getting a reading of huge energy levels five kilometers north." Cyborg told Robin. Robin nodded and took off. The others followed but Beastboy hesitated for a second. 'It couldn't be her, can it?' he thought to himself. Then he joined up with the others.
When they arrived at the source of all the earthquakes, they saw in front of them a white house. They could hear screaming from within the collapsing house.
"There's people inside, get them out as soon as possible." Robin commanded, but before any of them could do anything they heard a bone chilling scream and the ground began to open wider and shake more and more. The house began to crumble as it succumbed to the earth's shaking.
"Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, get inside and dig out as many survivors as you can. Beastboy come with me, we need to find what's causing all this." Robin ordered. Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg quickly went to the remains of the house and started to search for survivors. Robin ran to back of the house and Beastboy followed.
Terra was still on her hands and knees. Her hair hid one side of her face. 'This power, what is it? There's so much...can't control it.' she thought as she took deep breathes. Megan was on ground holding onto a pole that was once a part of a swing set. Alison and the other girl were gone now, they had ran down the street when the shaking began. Bethany was trying very hard to reach Terra but kept stumbling and falling over with each shake and rumble of the earth.
"Terra, whatever you're doing stop it!"Megan screamed. Terra then looked up at Megan. Megan was petrified, she couldn't move or say anything. For when Terra looked at her, Terra's eyes were no longer the normal mixture of blues that she was so a custom to, but rather they were a fierce golden color that shown with the intensity of the sun itself. Terra stood slowly from where she was. She wouldn't tear her gaze away from Megan. A golden glow began to emit around Terra.
"Terra please stop, you're scaring me." Bethany sobbed as she fell to the ground. Terra shook her head when she heard Bethany's cry.
"I'm...sorry" Terra sobbed as she could feel the power grow with in her. Finally she couldn't hold it in any more. She let out one last scream. The yellow glow grew and shot up into the air in a cylindrical form. Terra began to leave the ground and float upward. The power was too much for her to contain. Then Terra heard the voice again.
See, you cause nothing but pain, bring only destruction. Why would you want to live to only cause so much death and grief?
Tears started to form in her eyes as she continued upward. Rocks and huge boulders began to fly around. Crashing into and destroying anything that came in their path.
Bethany tried to get up and run, but as she was stumbling her eyes widened as she saw an oncoming boulder heading right for her. She couldn't move, her legs were like jelly. She screamed out in panic.
Robin and Beastboy arrived in the yard, or what used to be a yard. Robin saw the yellow glow and couldn't believe his eyes. He looked over at Beastboy. All Beastboy could do was stand there, he had a look on his face like he had just seen a ghost. Suddenly Robin heard a scream. He looked at the source and saw a young girl about to get hit by a boulder. Robin took quick action a drew out some exploding disks to destroy the rock. The rock was coming closer and closer to the girl. He threw the disks at the rock, but was too late.
The boulder crashed into Bethany, knocking her back into a tree. The rock stayed on top of her. She wasn't moving. Robin ran over to the girl.
"Beastboy, stop her! No matter what it takes!" he yelled as he was trying to get the rock off the young girl. Beastboy snapped out of his trance. 'No matter what it takes? What does he want me to do?' he thought.
Robin got the rock off the girl. He sat her upright and checked for a pulse. He felt nothing. Robin then without thinking did CPR on the young girl.
"Come on." he said softly as he checked for a pulse again. Still nothing. Robin tried one last time to bring this girl back, but he still had the same result as before. Robin put his head in his hands.
"I'm sorry." he said to the girl, even though he knew she couldn't hear him anymore. Suddenly his communicator rang. He opened it and he saw Raven on the other end.
"Robin we've saved everyone we can. There's eight injured. And five are..." Raven trailed off.
"Dead?" he finished for her. She shook her head. Robin sighed.
"There's a girl here who's dead also." he said.
" Robin, the parents of these children...they were two out of the five who are dead." she told her leader. Robin shook his head.
"Raven once you have tended to the wounded come over here, we need your help." he said to her. Raven nodded. Then she turned off her communicator and Robin did the same. Robin undid his cape and put it over Bethany.
Beastboy had turned into a hawk and had been trying to get to Terra, but the swirling rocks and boulders were hard to get by. He landed and turned back into his human form. He turned into a gopher soon afterward. He started digging under the ground. 'Hopefully this will work like last time.' he thought as he was burrowing in the ground.
Raven and the others arrived where Robin and Beastboy was. Starfire gasped and put her hands up to chest when she saw the rocks flying everywhere and a blonde girl in the center of it all.
"It can not be friend Terra, can it?" she said to Cyborg and Raven.
"I don't know Star, but we need to find a way to stop her." Cyborg answered her. Raven just stepped to where Robin was.
"Robin, where's Beastboy?" she asked him. Robin turned to her.
"He's trying to stop Terra." he said while standing up and walking over to the others.
Beastboy finally reached the surface of the ground. He crawled out of the ground and turned back to his human form. He saw that Raven and the others were now here.
"Raven! See if you can stop some of these rocks long enough for me to get up to her!" he yelled at the top of his lungs so Raven would hear him. Raven looked over at Beastboy when he called her. When she knew what to do she floated up in the air.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she chanted, and as she did some of the bigger boulders stopped in mid air as a black aura surrounded it.
'Ok this is my chance.' Beastboy thought as he jumped onto a flying rock, then he leapt to another and another until he was where Terra was. She was holding her head and was curled up in a ball. He could tell she was crying.
"Terra! Terra, you have to stop this." he said while still on the flying rock. She hesitantly looked up at the person that was calling to her.
"Help me, please." she pleaded. Although she didn't know him she just wanted anyone to help her. He leapt off the rock and held onto her. Suddenly he noticed she gasped and her eyes shot open. 'What's going on with her?'
"Terra! Terra!"
Beastboy jumps toward her and is nearly swept away by the force of the whirling rocks and dust storm. Only a one-handed grip on Terras shoulder keeps him from crashing into the ceiling. The grab shakes Terra out of the fit, and she fully realizes how much danger he is in. His free hand and one of hers inch slowly toward each other and take hold for dear life.
"Its okay, Terra. Im here." She falls sobbing into his arms. "Im here."
Terra snaps out of her flashback and looks at the green boy who is trying to help her. She starts to calm down and the rocks fall and the wind stops. She and Beastboy slowly float back down to the earth. When they reach solid ground Terra stumbles and Beastboy catches her. The others rush over to the two.
"Thank you, whoever you are." Terra whispers weakly. Then she falls over and her world becomes black from exhaustion.
"Terra!" Beastboy panicked as he tries to wake her up.
"We'll take her back to the medical room." Robin orders bluntly. Cyborg picked up the unconscious blond girl and carried her back to the T-car.
'How is she alive? Was this all a plan to get to us again? How can we trust her again?' these thoughts ran through Raven's head as she flew home.
Ok, so that's chapter two. Sorry if the ending sucks, but I couldn't find a way to end the chapter so I guess I came up with that. So please read and review. Oh and another thing, just incase you couldn't realize it, but when that stuff in italicsis a memory that terra has suddenly. And it's during the episode 'Terra'. You all probably all know this, but I am just making sure nobody gets lost or left behind.
-Randomgirl-
