Robin's POV:
We had been in Paradise for a whole year and the longer my friends and I stayed, the more we wanted to stay. But somewhere, deep down, I wanted so badly to leave and I was going to tell the others tonight that we were leaving.
Night fall"We're leaving tomorrow?" Beast Boy asked incredulously.
"Yes, Beast Boy, we're leaving," I repeated. "No exceptions."
"But friend Robin, what if Slade is still out there?" Starfire asked.
"It's been a whole year Starfire," Raven said. "He'd had given up by now. Right Robin?"
"Probably."
"It hasn't been a whole year."
"What?" I asked Red X who had been behind us moments before.
"It's been a whole year here, but out there-" Red X said motioning towards the entrance to Paradise. "-It's only been three weeks."
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Out of all the times I've come in and out of here, I've spent thirty years here," Red X said. "But in reality, I've been here for a year."
"Man, are you kidding me?" Cyborg asked.
"Red X doesn't kid around," he answered.
Red X walked away and I believed his words.
Maybe that's why Blood Rain said we should leave.
"Dude, I didn't believe anything that guy said," Beast Boy said. "We too have been here for a year."
"Well no matter how long we've been here, we're leaving tomorrow."
We went to bed and we awoke the next morning and we were going to towards the exit of Paradise.
"I don't think you want to go that way."
"Dude, are you a stalker or something?" Beast Boy asked Red X.
"I know for a fact that two wolves are outside of Paradise kid," Red X said. "They can't get in and they're always out there."
"Do you leave Paradise all the time?" I asked.
"Ever since you five came here, I knew you were hiding from someone," Red X said. So I went to check it out and my theory was correct."
"Do you think you'll be able to help us?" I asked.
Red X turned around and he started walking away.
"Red X works alone."
"Then why are you telling us?"
Red X didn't answer and he was gone.
"Okay, now what?" Beast Boy asked.
"We'll take our chances," I said. "We get as close to the end of the tunnel so that Slade can't see us, but that we can see him, and we'll sneak out."
"You really think that will work?" Raven asked.
"No, I don't," I said. "But that's the only chance we have."
"What about climbing the mountain?"
We looked at Beast Boy strangely and he was looking at us in turn.
"What?"
"I hate to say it, but, Beast Boy has a point," Raven said.
"I do? I mean, yeah, I do," he said sheepishly.
"No way man!" Cyborg yelled. "I am not going to climb this 1500 foot mountain! Uh-uh! No Way! I am not climbing this mountain!"
"I can't believe I'm climbing this 1500 foot mountain."
We were ten feet from the foot of the mountain and Cyborg was the last one coming and I suspected that he was afraid of heights.
"Not scared, are ya Cy?" Beast Boy asked jokingly.
"Me, scared? Of course not."
"Whatever," Raven said.
"It's not that bad Cyborg!" I shouted down to him. "We'll be at the top before you know it!"
4 hours later…
"How much longer?"
I looked up and I estimated about 725 feet left to the top.
"Only 725 feet left!" I shouted down to Cy.
5 more hours later…
"How about-?"
"215!"
"Dude, Cy! We're almost there!" Beast Boy shouted.
Beast Boy wasn't paying attention with what he was doing as he looked down at Cyborg and he tripped over a loose rock. He fell to the ground and he started sliding down the steep side of the mountain. He dug his paws into the ground and he was trying to slow down his descent.
"Beast Boy!" Starfire shouted sounding worried.
He was getting closer to a ledge and I started jumping and sliding down the mountain. Beast Boy was holding onto the ledge and he was desperately trying to hold on.
"Just hold on!" I shouted.
"I'm trying!"
Beast Boy lost his grip on the ledge and he started to fall.
"BEAST BOY!"
"DUDE!"
"Gotcha!"
A black wolf was holding onto Beast Boy's paw and I noticed he had red X's on his fur. I jumped down at the two and Red X helped Beast Boy up.
"Dude, did you just save me?" Beast Boy asked.
"If I didn't, you'd be dead right now kid," Red X said.
"I thought you worked alone?" I asked.
"I do kid," Red X said. "But I steal, not kill. I hate seeing death."
Red X started climbing and Beast Boy and I followed him back to the others.
"If evil wolves can't get into Paradise, how could you?" I asked.
"You have to learn what evil means kid," Red X said. "Some say stealing is bad, but it's not evil."
"How so?" Beast Boy asked.
"I don't like telling wolves what I know about humans, but if there was a bad human that owned a large amount of land and he has supplies for himself, he wouldn't share any with poorer humans," Red X explained. "So a nice human who wants to help the poor humans goes into the bad human's territory and he steals his food and water for the poorer humans. That's why stealing isn't evil."
"So, what's the definition of an evil wolf?" Beast Boy asked.
"An evil wolf would be a killer kid," Red X said. My mind froze at Red X's fact as it penetrated into my brain. "Wolves that kill innocent lives are truly evil. They kill for themselves and no one else."
"Why do you, Slade, Rocco, and Buster kill other wolves Blood Rain?"
"You mean the innocent ones?" Blood Rain asked.
"Yeah."
"Because we have to kill them for ourselves and no one else," Blood Rain answered.
"But why?"
"We have to survive and the only way to do that is to kill the innocent Robin," Blood Rain said. "But I try to avoid killing the innocent wolves."
"We're almost to the top!" Beast Boy shouted making me lose the memory from my mind. "Did you hear that Cy!"
"Sweet freedom!" Cyborg shouted as he ran up the rest of the way.
We made it to the top of the mountain and we could see as far as our eyes would allow. I looked over the edge and there was a lot of snow. I tried to get a closer look to see if Slade was around, but Red X kept me back.
"That would be a nasty fall there kid," he said. "Plus, if Slade or Rocco looked up, they'd see you."
Red X started walking back towards the rest of my friends and I stared at him accusingly.
"X, I never said who Slade and Rocco were," I said. He stopped. "How do you know their names?"
"I heard them say their names," Red X said, but I knew he was lying.
"They don't call each other by their names anymore," I said. "How do you know their names?"
Red X turned his head slightly in my direction and he asked, "Isn't it obvious kid? I've talked to them and they've told me who they were."
"You're going to turn me in aren't you?" I asked. "He promised you something didn't he? Is that why you're helping?" Red X didn't respond. "Answer me X!"
"Yes, kid, that's what I'm going to do," Red X said quickly. "I'm taking you to Slade."
Red X attacked me and he tackled me to the ground. We were wrestling across the ground and we were getting closer to the edge. I kicked X off of me and he flew back towards my friends who were surrounding him. I stood up and I took a few steps towards Red X.
"We will not let you harm friend Robin," Starfire said.
"Yeah," Beast Boy said. "And we won't let you take Robin to Slade either."
Red X was looking at all of us and I knew he was thinking of a way to escape unscathed.
"Last chance X," I said. "Either you go back to Paradise or we attack. What's it going to be?"
Red X stared at me for several seconds and he closed his eyes and he sighed.
"You win kid," Red X said. He started walking back the way we came up. "Take care of yourself out there."
Red X went back down the side of the mountain and he was out of sight.
"Come on," I said. "We have to get to the bottom of the mountain before Red X does."
"Why before him?" Cyborg asked.
"He can leave and get to Slade," I said. "Before he pulled me away from the edge however, I saw that the entrance was sealed off by the snow."
"Then what are we waiting for?" Beast Boy asked. "Let's get off this stupid mountain already."
We found a safe spot to go down and I checked to make sure that Slade or Rocco weren't down there.
"Safest and easiest way down the mountain," I said. "If we hurry, we'll be down in ten hours or a little more."
We started going down the mountain and a few loose rocks fell down the side. There was some snow at the top of the mountain, but there was more at the bottom. I expected there to be more snow at the top and less at the bottom, but when it was the mountain of Paradise, things weren't always normal.
"Do you think Red X was telling the truth about us living in Paradise for three weeks?" Raven asked.
"That's the only thing I believe he said the truth about," I said. "I think that's why Blood Rain didn't want us staying in Paradise. If we stayed we'd have thought we would never die when time was going at a normal pace out here."
"Dude, that really confuses me," Beast Boy said.
"When are you ever not confused?" Raven asked.
"I-Hey!"
"Knock it off you guys," I said. "We're almost-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
"Robin!"
I was falling down the mountain where most of the snow was and I couldn't stop. I caught a glimpse of a part of the mountain ahead of me and I saw that it was leveling out. The only problem was that it was going to end and I would fall off of the mountain… to my death.
I started slowing down and I hit a few rocks that were protruding from the snow and I had a few scratches and bumps from the impact. I stopped a few centimeters away from the edge and my eyes were closed as I was losing consciousness from hitting one of the rocks with my head.
The wind picked up and as if in slow motion, the wind pushed me over the edge and I started falling. But instead of fear, I felt a wave of calmness as I fell faster towards the bottom where I'd surely die.
But then I felt an animal putting their weight into my body and it had me by the scruff of the neck. We landed on a level ground of snow and I tried to get the animal off of me. The weight lifted and the animal helped me to my paws. I looked beside me and it was a female wolf.
"Wh-who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the one who saved your life," the she-wolf said. "That's who I am."
"No, what's your name?"
"Oh, yeah, name's Terra. What's yours?"
Me: Terra? Why Terra? That's probably what all of you are thinking right now huh? Well, Robin had to be saved by someone and Terra was the only one I could think of. Some of you said in your reviews a few chapters back that you didn't think Terra should be in this fic. I wasn't going to add her until I started writing down the part where Robin was falling to his "death" and I thought it would be a good idea to add her in. Sorry for those who can't stand Terra, but it's just the way it has to be.
So, leave a review on your thoughts for this chapter and chapter 13 will be up sometime next week.
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimers apply.
Rocky Wolf, signing off.