Teen Titans: "Ties" (Part 2)

Terra- The cool night air seemed to entrance me towards the docks. The sand that scrunched under my feet; hard yet soft like silk. The waves began to come closer, inching slowly over to the dry sand. Soon the dry sand was engulfed by the waves, and I was just standing there in the midst of it all. Unable to do anything, just like that time…

I woke to the noise of a loud drill. Hard to believe that there was a drilling sound coming from the tunnels. I stand up and stretch my arms and legs. The battle had yesterday where I met Aura was still giving me a headache. I'm hiding in an underground tunnel for crying out loud!

The noise gets closer, almost like the dream I just had. For precautions I poke my head out of the tunnel that I had buried with rock to camouflage it. As I had guessed the noise was coming from a drill, a really big drill, it was at least the size of a house, a huge machine barreling into the ground. What would someone want with a thing like that?

I make a hole through my camouflage and sneak through it. Slowly I creep toward the vessel, making sure to hide my face. Once I reach the vessel my heart skipped a beat. I was leaning against one side of the drill, out of the driver's sight, and someone else was also doing the same thing, and that someone was my weird attacker from yesterday.

Aura gives me her annoying smile as she motions that she's going to pummel the driver. I mouth "Good luck with that"; she gives me a thumbs up. In a second I see her hop onto the drill; she lands on the roof and stays still for a couple of minutes. When she finally moved I felt pretty bad for the guy that bought that drill, because now it has a big hole in it. From the cockpit window I see her shadow do what she motioned to me a minute ago, she was pummeling the driver…

I hear a screech as she hops out of the drill with the unconscious driver in her hands. She drops the driver on the floor and brushes off some dirt on her pants. "Who knew that roofs were this dusty?"

"What the heck did you just do?" I yelled as I pointed to the driver on the ground, a big black eye protruding from his face.

Aura laughs and walks over to me. "Sure he's not one of those goons from yesterday but he is still a bad guy."

"How is he a bad guy?" I ask angrily.

She stares out me and laughs, "Hello, earth to beginner, he's a guy with a drill in the middle of the nowhere making a hole into the city's water supply!"

"Eh," I pause, realizing that I was making a fool of myself.

Aura sighs, "You need to keep your eyes open all times."

"Well," I shoot. "What are you doing here?!?"

"A morning walk." she says as she starts to walk away.

"Hey wait!" I yell to her. I quickly run over to her and start walking as well. "I'm not letting you get away this time!"

The looks down at me, like she was looking at a bug, "Why, what did I do wrong?"

"You keep on disappearing and reappearing, can you teleport or something!" I ask.

She chuckles. "So you're just curious about me? Well, miss beginner, first things first if you want to know me." I close in, waiting to hear what she was about to say. "I'm your enemy, I'm everyone's enemy."

"That makes no sense!" I yell.

She was looking at me with a serious expression. "Think what you want but I'm not going to become your ally."

"What makes you think I want you as my ally?" I stop in my tracks and give her a piercing glare.

"Just leave me alone and you won't get hurt." sighed Aura. She looked up to the sky, her mind distant. "You won't get hurt anymore."

"Do you know me from somewhere?" I ask. "Because the way you talk is like you know who I am."

"You could say that I've heard of you." she shrugs.

"When," I ask. "Like yesterday or the day before?"

Aura ignores my question and starts to walk again. "Don't you have friends that you should return to?"

I paused; it was obvious that she was talking about the Titans. "I'm not wanted there anymore."

She turned sharply and gave me a fierce glare. "Not wanted? How are you not wanted when that green boy tried to bring you back?"

"How do you know about that?"

"You're that one that never benefits in the end, liars never do, understand that and go back to your friends. You will be safer there then here." She ordered.

"Safer? Hey, I can take care of myself!" I argue.

"I know, but he wants the both of us, if he can only get one than his plan will be messed up."

"He, Hold on, you're not saying that you're going to get yourself captured and have me in the protection of the Titans like a little kid?" I list.

She gives me a nod. "Now that you understand you should leave before the goons come again."

"Will you be alright?" I asked this because she was only being mean to me in order to protect me, no other reason.

She gives me another one of her smiles. "The question should be if he will be alright."

At first I never understood what she meant, and I still do. She disappeared in an instant when some light reflected off the drill and got into my eyes. "Weird," I mutter as I shade my face.