((Heh, long time since I updated, eh? My usual excuses apply here. :3 Though I wasn't planning on writing another chapter at all for a while. Many thanks go out to Annie for encouraging -cough- forcing -cough- me to read Teen Titans fanfics again and to those two last minute reviewers, remy-moon and eldarranger for giving me that extra shove! All my thanks go out to /all/ my reviewers; you guys make it happen :) And now I give you - however short it may be - Chapter 6, w00t X3
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or any of its characters/ideas/etc.))
Emotions
Chapter 6
"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Raven asked skeptically, eyeing the dense forest with distaste. It didn't seem possible that Beast Boy could have navigated this city of large trees while carrying Terra's heavy, stony remains. Not to mention that she didn't much care for being closed in this place; a strange, reddish mist blanketed the ground, a foreboding foreshadowing if Raven ever saw one.
"Yes. I remember…and I've just got this feeling…" Terra replied distantly as she led Raven and Cyborg deeper into the woods, her blue eyes set determinedly ahead of her.
"Great. You've got a 'feeling'." Raven growled, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring daggers at the back of Terra's head. Oh she'd follow the blonde; she'd deal with her for now. But that didn't mean she had to enjoy it.
"Come on, Rae." Cyborg whispered with a frown. "Give her a little credit."
"Credit for what?" Raven demanded with a slightly outraged look. Yes, Terra was perfect for BB, yes, Terra was everything she wasn't, yes, Terra gave her life for them all. But Raven had her own 'feeling' settling in the pit of her stomach. And the more they followed Terra, the harder it got to control it.
This just wasn't right. Something wrong was going on here.
Terra paused momentarily, wavering where she stood and looking from side to side, before looking back to her fellow Titans. "We're almost there." She assured them with a half-smile.
"Alrighty, let's keep movin' then." Cyborg encouraged with a wide smile. Raven frowned and continued to follow once more.
Beast Boy slithered across the grass, tongue flicking in and out of his mouth to locate everything around him. At the moment, he was a small green gardener snake, and, for probably the first time in his life, he was thinking things over.
Terra was alive! His smooth scaly body gave a small wriggle of mixed emotions. He didn't know what to think. He was mad at…at that witch for not alerting him to Terra's awakening like she said she would, he was excited at the prospect of seeing his friend again, he was sickly proud that he had been strong enough to wreck Jump City like he did…
And then out of the back of his mind he felt a cold numbness; a threatening darkness that he knew he'd forever have to pay for; he'd abandoned the Teen Titans. Beast Boy cringed, though if it was because of that sudden pang of guilt or the car that had suddenly roared down the street in front of him wasn't apparent. This was a loose-loose situation so far if he never found Terra…
Beast Boy glided into the cover of some bushes by the sidewalk, stopping momentarily to give himself a rest. This was far too complicated. His mind was spinning. What if he didn't find Terra? What if that witch had been lying the entire time? What if it was all for nothing and he'd just thrown away his life? What if- a sudden bash on his skull knocked him from his fretting, sending his mind into a dizzy mess. /What the-/ He looked around wobbly, eyes resting unfocused on the culprit; a simple pebble.
/Dude! Go pick on somebody your own size/ He yelled at the rock who promptly refused to respond. Hissing with distaste, he slithered quickly out of the bushes, momentarily startled by what he found outside as well; Cyborg. /Ahh, think snake! Think like a normal everyday little snake/ Beast Boy panicked, hissing probably more then an average snake would in his attempt to 'play snake' as he quickly disappeared into the grass behind his old friend.
/Phew…close call./ He sighed, stopping only to make sure Cyborg still didn't know who he was; he didn't. Determined all the more to keep moving, snake boy urged himself forward, mind focused on finding Terra once more. Only one thing deterred him from his goal; man was he hungry! Where was the tofu when you needed it?
Maybe Beast Boy wasn't quite as hopeless as the Titans were led to believe…
((Well...that was a little happier then the last chapter, neh? X3 -prances about- Don't be shy reviewers! -tempts reviewers with cookies- :D wheee!))