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Stone Prison

By: Demonabyss

Chapter 20: Remembrances

The situation has changed and we must reconsider our tactics. (Cunning)

The odds have shifted greatly; this does not bode well. (Wisdom)

This wouldn't have happened if the League had come, idiots. (Deception)

It matters not we have a mission to fulfill. (Honor)

Don't worry it'll all be okay. (Happiness)

Whatever; wake me if you need me. (Laziness)

We failed! Now Trigon will kill Terra! (Fear)

Better dead then trapped in stone again. Oh god, the silence. (Loneliness)

It's all right everything will be fine. (Kindness)

Terra will be fine and so will Terra's friends. (Love)

I hope so. If they survive, can I play with them? Raven's nice. (Lust)

I told you before no! Anyways we have bigger problems. (Survival)

Indeed, Terra's existence will not end like this. (Faith)

We'll take down Trigon and Slade! Who's with me? (Courage)

Trigon is here? That's it, we're done, game over! (Despair)

It's not game over. We have come this far and we'll go far further. (Pride)

Yes, we will rip them all apart. Revenge will be ours! (Rage)

We still are able to save the world. (Light)

Or assure it of its destruction. (Darkness)

(Normal POV)

Raven stared at the child like emotion as she placed a hand on the crystal obelisk. She smiled widely while Raven had no idea what to do. On one hand, she could learn everything about Terra but on the other, it would make her no better then her father who violated her mind often. There was also that matter that Terra's Hope was practically showing her this, but was it with or without Terra's knowledge and or permission? Raven had no clue what to do.

Hope just smiled as an image started to appear on the obelisk like it was a flat screen TV. "I know, let's look at when Terra was little, she was so cute," the child emotion said cheerfully.

Raven watched as an image of Terra's childhood appeared. In it appeared a castle, a real one, in a lush countryside. The image moved towards the inside of the castle where a man, a woman, and a young girl. The young girl looked no older then four or five and looked just like Hope did with two exceptions, one was she was in drab browns and two her eyes were filled with tears. The woman and man were dressed in regal royal type clothes and were looking disdainfully at the girl. "Tara, what have we told you about being in the castle?" the man said coldly to the girl.

"But daddy …" the girl started but was cut off when the man hit her, hard. She was knocked into the wall with a sickening crunch sound. Raven gasped, barely able to restrain herself from crashing through the obelisk and throwing the man into the wall herself.

"I told you before that you are not my daughter! You are an abomination and a disgrace to Markovia and to the Markov family. You are nothing and remain nothing. Your life will end alone and in the gutter. You are worthless to the world and make no difference. How a creature with no destiny and no purpose like you could exist is beyond me," he said cruelly while ignoring the girl's tears. He then walked away leaving the sobbing girl with the woman who had remained calm and cold to the whole scene.

"Mommy …" the girl sobbed but received no warmth or kindness from the woman. She turned coldly away from the child.

"Do not refer to me as that. I may regrettably be your parent, but that does not mean I have to be your mother. You know you are forbidden from the castle. Guards! Take this unnatural disgrace from my sight and make sure it does not enter the castle again," the woman said coldly. Armored men came, grabbed the child, and carried her out while she screamed and cried for her mother who remained cold.

Raven watched, but was barely able to. Once the memory faded, she turned to Hope, who was now looking solemnly at the crystal obelisk. "Who were those people and what was that about?" Raven asked, barely able to restrain her own anger and sadness at what she just saw.

Hope sighed. "Those were Terra's parents. Well technically her mother and her husband, the King and Queen of Markovia," Hope explained.

Raven was stunned. Terra was the daughter of Queen? Didn't that make her a princess by default? Then why had she been traveling so much, even with her power control problem? Raven then realized the implication that Hope had just made. "You mean she's not the King's daughter?"

Hope shook her head sadly. "No, she's a bastard child of the Queen's. They never wanted her and they didn't abort her as it was outlawed in their country. Her real father was never revealed, at least to her and after awhile she never bothered to find out. No one in the country knew about her as per the King and Queen's orders. To everyone, she was labeled a freak and outcast and thus treated as one by everyone in the country, with one exception. Her brother," Hope said as she brought forth another memory.

This memory showed the same younger form of Terra. This time it was in what looked like the kitchens looking for something to eat. However, a young boy, looking about a few years older with the same blue eyes as her but with much darker blonde hair, soon joined her. "Brion, why do they hate me?" she asked as the boy hugged her gently.

"It's okay, sis, its okay. I promise, I'll always be there to take care of you," he said quietly as he held the sobbing child. "Here, wanna fly again?" he asked cheerfully. The sobbing girl wiped her eyes and nodded. Brion smiled and his hands started to glow an orange color. The young Terra started to float around the room as if she were flying. The scene faded with Terra laughing.

Hope however didn't look any more cheerful. "Despite what you just saw, he was not the wonderful brother Terra thought him to be. You see the rulers of Markovia wanted their heirs to be able to defend their country from any threat, including superhuman. Therefore, they had a scientist alter the genes of the Queen so that her offspring would have powers. Brion's powers came in when he was eight. Terra's came in earlier. That's when all hell broke loose. I'll show you what I mean," she said as she brought up another memory.

The image showed the same Terra, as before, only this time the scene was much different. It showed a destroyed town. Completely decimated and destroyed. It looked eerily similar to the upheaval sights, only on a smaller scale. It showed the younger version of Terra, tears filling her eyes and fear written on her face. Before her stands a mob of people, all of who were out for blood, Terra's blood. In the front were the King, the Queen, and Prince Brion. The Queen looked horrified, the King looked out raged, and Brion was even worse. In the background of the memory, were the cries of the people calling her a monster and calling out for her blood, the Queen asking why she did such a thing, and the King yelling at her for having such power. However, in the memory all that faded away to silence as Brion's voice came through, quiet but deadly. "How could you Tara? How could you kill innocent people with your power?" he asked coldly.

The young Terra hiccupped as she tried to speak through her tears extremely upset for what she had just done. And who wouldn't be? She was a five and a half year old girl who had just caused an upheaval in her own hometown, killing a good number of people. Despite the fact that all of them treated her like slime, she never wanted to kill any of them. "I'm (hic) I'm sorry! It was (hic) an (hic) accident! I didn't mean it!" she cried out. Her cries had no effect on her brother or the crowd.

"You're a murder! You killed innocent people! How could you!" he screamed at her. This seemed to enrage the crowd even more. He then attacked with force blasts from his hands. Out of reflex, the young Terra brought up a wall of rock. She immediately took to the air on a rock with people shooting at her. She flew away, tears falling like small diamonds.

The memory faded away as Hope watched Raven carefully. The Goth stared at the scene, a tear rolling down her cheek. 'How? How could anyone be so cruel to a little girl? It wasn't her fault she didn't have control. He promised her. He promised that he'd always take care of her,' she thought as the scene faded. The half demon had thought her father was bad and one of a kind, but this blew that notion right out of the water.

Hope shook her head sadly. "It gets worse. This was not an isolated incident," she said softly. Raven stared at this girl like emotion. Her voice didn't sound like a child's anymore. It sounded like a fully-grown woman's, a woman who had been through far too much in her lifetime. "What happened with Brion happened again and again with each and every town Terra traveled to. She would befriend the people there, help them, her powers would kill someone, and she'd be run out of town with people out to kill her. It has been like this as she traveled from place to place on her own for the past twelve years," Hope stated sadly, "and she had to watch helpless as her own powers did it every single time."

Raven stared hard at the obelisk of crystal and the little ragged girl next to it. Raven knew now what Terra had been dealing with her whole life. It wasn't that much different from her "fate". She had been predicted to bring about the end of the world and end so many people's lives. Terra had actually felt that pain first hand. It seemed that what Raven had said to Beast Boy was far truer then even she knew at the time. Terra and she were far more similar then anyone knew. It was no wonder Terra was so paranoid, distrusting, and deceptive. Living like that for years would screw up anyone, just as living with the destiny of the apocalypse over your head would. "What about when she met the Titans and Slade?" Raven asked the first of two questions that had been bothering her ever since it was first discovered that Terra was alive again.

Hope sighed again, as if expecting this. "That was a turning point. At that time, Terra had long renounced her original name and went by the name that symbolized her powers and her traveling lifestyle. When she met you, she'd figured your group would be different since you all were "unique" like her. However, Slade manipulated her, offering her the one thing that she lacked that had made her life hell, control. When Beast Boy apparently spilled her secret after she had made him promise not to tell anyone, thus breaking it like her brother did, she ran away BEFORE she would kill someone. The fact that you never came after her, even though you traveled all over the galaxy for Starfire, when she was only a few miles outside the city only added to it all. Slade then appeared and offered to make her his apprentice," Hope explained sadly.

"Did she?" Raven asked. She wanted to know Terra's side to this story. What had really happened to her through out that whole ordeal? Raven desperately wanted to know.

Hope smiled sadly at the question. "No, she didn't. Considering what she had been through, this wasn't the first time someone had offered her control. However, Slade was the first one who actually seemed to be able to deliver. So she cut him a deal, one that Honor would force us to keep as long he kept his end of the deal. It was simple Terra would allow him to train her for however long it took to get control of her powers up to six months. If there was no improvement at all after that time, then she would simply leave and they'd go their separate ways. If there were improvement, then she'd stay for however long it took to gain control. In return, she'd serve him as a soldier or special agent for an exactly equal amount of time. It took three months for Terra to gain full control and so she was obligated to serve him for three months. After which they'd go their separate ways. Slade kept the offer of apprenticeship open through out the whole thing though she never accepted it," Hope explained.

Raven was piecing it all together. So she really had been a spy for Slade. She didn't betray the Titans because she was never truly with them in the first place. "But why did she become his apprentice after those three months?" she asked. Then another thought crossed her mind. "And why aren't you bringing up any more memories?"

Hope sighed. "If I bring up too many memories, the others will know and be royally pissed at what I'm doing. In any case, you can blame Beast Boy for changing Terra's mind. She had brought him on a "date" of sorts on the last night of her servitude, the same night the robots attacked. She knew they wouldn't be able to take you out, mostly because while Terra fed Slade information like she was obligated to, she didn't give him ALL of it. He had told her to send him information, but he never said to send it all. That night at midnight, when her servitude was officially over, she was planning to spill her guts to Beast Boy about everything. If she could convince him, the one who seemed to like her the most, then she'd have a better chance on convincing the rest of you. However, Slade appeared and after a few words from him, Beast Boy broke his promise to be her friend always and as you've seen, she takes promises very seriously. He turned on her and thus that spurned her decision to become Slade's apprentice. After years of running, a place to belong, even with a criminal, looked pretty good," Hope explained.

Raven nodded in understanding. Without Beast Boy's support, what hope did Terra have in convincing the ever Slade paranoid Robin or herself who had never fully trusted her to begin with? That answered most of her questions except for one. "During the fights where she took us on individually, why did she let us live?" Raven asked. If Terra truly hated them and was trained/controlled by Slade, then there was no way for them to have survived, unless she had spared them against Slade's orders. The question was why.

Hope chuckled humorlessly again before answering. "I was wondering if any of you noticed. Well, do you remember the fight against the titans when she created those rock creatures?" Raven nodded and remembered that Terra had seemed as surprised as they had been. "Well that wasn't her doing, it was Slade's. When that happened Terra quickly realized that Slade could control her and her power like a puppet if he wanted. So she devised a plan to take out Slade. All she needed to do was get him alone underground where she could take him. To do that, she needed a distraction for his robots and those three overgrown idiots."

Raven nodded. "Terra let us live so that we could be the distraction. Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were all swallowed into the ground where she could've easily crushed them, yet they were all in a cave where they could meet up easily. Starfire can survive in cold space and has the greatest strength of the team. A simple boulder could not take her down. As for me, she left an air bubble for me in the mud and dropped me into the same cave as Robin and the others," Raven stated as she figured it all out. Hope only nodded, confirming her suspicions.

"However, it didn't go quite as planned. Beast Boy interfered when Terra was gauging how much control he really had. She had to hold back her own will until she was sure he was safe. When the other Titans came, she unleashed everything she had on him and thus trapped herself in the volcano. The rest you know," Hope summarized then end of the story.

Raven stared hard at the emotion. She had one last question for the child like entity. "Why are you telling me all this? What does Terra have to gain and why won't the other emotions like it if they find out?" Raven asked cautiously. She knew from personal experience that when a single emotion acted on its own it was usually against the conscious wishes of the owner, but it was also often with the unconscious wishes of them as well.

"Because, I want you to be Terra's friend. I've never been able to tell anyone what I've told you because I have to get through the others to do it and I'm not strong enough for that. Survival usually beats the snot outta me if I even suggest it. However, since I have direct access to you, this is probably the only chance I'll get to tell anyone this. I want so badly for someone to be able to understand," Hope explained as her voice returned to its normal child like form. Before Raven could say anything however, Hope looked up as if hearing something. "Looks like we're out of time. The others are summoning you and me. It seems as if the Titans and Terra have failed to protect your body from Trigon. We must leave!" With that Hope raised hand to the ceiling, which instantly responded by coming down and surrounding the two of them, carrying them away to join the other nineteen emotions of Terra.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What will happen to Raven now that her body is gone?

What happened to Terra?

How will she react to Raven knowing her past?

What happened to the Titans?

Will they beat Trigon?