Teen Titans: "Fading" (Part 3)
Beast boy- Never go against a huge squid unless you want your awesome, BRAND NEW clothes, stained with ink! "Ah!" I look at my shirt. "My clothes, my life, no wait… video games are my life, but my clothes!"
"Beast boy, snap out of it!" yells Robin as he throws a boomerang at an oncoming tentacle.
Cyborg blasts another tentacle, "Yeah, BB, come on we need you!"
"But," I sniffle.
"I'll get that stain out, but only if you fight!" says Aqualad as he comes towards the squid on a wave.
Immediately my motivation comes back. "Okay!" I cheer as I run toward the squid. I change into a lion and quickly start running up one of the squid's tentacles. When I was about to reach the top, the squid shakes me off and I land onto the deck of the ship. My lion form vanishes as I look up to see a familiar face. It was the girl that had amnesia, what was she doing here?
"Are you okay?" she asks me.
I ignore her question and stand up. "Stay back, this place is dangerous."
She laughs. "What, now you're trying to act cool after you get your butt kicked?"
My face turns red. "I didn't get my butt kicked!" I yell.
"Sure, sure," she looks at the squid. "Can you change into anything that can breathe fire?"
"Why?" I ask.
She looks at me. "Because that squid is metal, fire melts metal, isn't that obvious?"
"No, I can't turn into anything that can breathe fire," I shrug. "I wish I could."
She sighs and pulls down her gray cap some more. "Guess I have to then."
"Have to, what?" I ask, but she had already started running towards the squid. "Are you crazy? It will kill you, you idiot!"
She was nearing the squid; it didn't notice her because it was too busy fighting the Titans. She jumped onto one of its moving tentacles like I had done. She will just be thrown away like I had been. The squid moves its tentacles, trying to shake her off, but she was still running up it. I stare in amazement as she nears the top. Everyone else had noticed her now. She pushed herself off of the squid's tentacle, as she flew past the squid's face she held out her hands. "See you," she said to the squid. Then lava engulfed the whole entire squid, it shrieked in pain as it melted into the ocean. She landed onto the ship's deck; not even a scratch on her.
"How did you-." I ask.
"Next time, you people should clean up." she said, than she disappears in a flash of light.
"Dude, who was that," asks Cyborg.
"Beast Boy, do you know her?" questions Aqualad.
"Not really, but now I want to." I say.
"So, you don't know her at all?" Robin asks me while typing on the super computer. "Do you at least know her name?"
"No, the only thing I know about her is that she has amnesia." I shrug from the couch.
"That's helpful," says Raven as she searches through the security camera from the boat. She closes her laptop and gives a long sigh. "Someone got on before me and erased everything."
"How do you know that?" asks Cyborg.
Raven turns the laptop over to where everyone can see it and opens it up. "This," on the screen was a happy face with a word bubble that said. 'Too slow!' She abruptly closed it, clearly angry.
"Hah!" laughs Cyborg.
"Dude, that's hilarious!" I add.
Raven was about to throw the laptop at them when Aqualad put his hand on it, keeping her from lifting it up. "Anger is a weakness." he says to her with a smile.
"Hey, wait a second, I think I've got something!" says Robin from the keyboard of the super computer.
"What is it?" asks Starfire as she appears behind him.
Robin opens up the screen so that everyone can see. "A chat." he says as the same smiley face Raven's laptop just had, pops up on the super computer's monitor. 'Yo.' said the word bubble.
"Ooh!" I wish to type something back!" begs Starfire.
"Let me see." I run to the keyboard, before Robin could get me away I type. "Are you the amnesia girl?"
'Nope.' replies the smiley face immediately.
I become puzzled. "Then who are you?" I type.
'My name is nothing worth remembering.' says the smiley face.
Immediately Raven and Aqualad jump to the keyboard. "Purple?" they type.
"Who the heck is Purple?" I laugh, but then I shut up when the smiley face replies.
'Bingo!'
"I thought she was weird." says Aqualad as he watches Raven type another message.
"What do you want?" types Raven.
The smiley face takes a while to reply. 'The Titans are a nuisance to our mission. Stop getting in our way; if you do get in our way again we'll kill you.'
Aqualad types "Stop typing and turn on a video or something."
The smiley face disappears and the Purple girl appears on the screen. "Fine, fine." she says with a bored tone to her voice.
"Hey." comes another voice. The Purple girl turns to see another girl.
"Amnesia girl!" I point out.
She ignores me. "Why are you talking to the weaklings?"
"We are not weaklings!" yells Robin.
Finally the amnesia girl gives her attention to us. "You guys can't even get rid of a silly squid.
"Silly!" laughs Cyborg. "That thing was hardly funny!"
"Annoying," says the amnesia girl.
The Purple girl laughs. "Sorry, her attitudes change." Her eyes seemed sad and distant, but then she reverts back to her old self. "Just stay out of our way and we won't kill you." Then the screen turns black.
"Kill us?' asks Aqualad while laughing. The screen was black but the sound was still on. Slowly the Titans listened in.
"Niveus is cooped up in his room." says a voice that belonged to the amnesia girl. "He's depressed about losing against Slade."
"He'll get over it eventually." says the Purple girl's voice.
"Why did you threaten the Titans?" asks the amnesia girl.
"Because, the closer you are to them, the more you will remember." sighs the Purple girl.
"That's a bad thing?" questions the amnesia girl.
"I don't really know, just keep on that cap and stay in the shadows." orders the Purple girl.
"Boring, I want to track down Slade and get rid of him." says the amnesia girl sadly. They both laugh. "How long will that last?"
"It doesn't matter; we have nowhere else to go. After all Slade-." she pauses. "Crap, I left the speakers on!"
"Hah!" laughs the amnesia girl. Then the sound disappears.
Niveus- When someone is asleep they obviously are having a dream; whether worth remembering or not. I was on the back door steps of my family's old house. I was younger, maybe below ten; it's too annoying to try to remember. "Hey," says my older brother; he was standing a step above me, a basketball in his hands. "Let's go and play."
"I don't want to," I say as I rub my eyes, trying to hide my tears from my brother. He would only think they were childish.
"Just shut up and come play with!" orders my brother.
"No! The other kids will just make fun of me!" I scream. "They call me a freak! I don't like it!"
"You're no freak, you're just special." coos my brother with a pat on my back.
"That's the same thing!" I say, my tears coming back.
My brother sighs and stands in front of me. "Listen; if you come with me I'll protect you. Now will you come?"
"If you protect me, like a super hero?" my eyes light up.
He smiles, "Yeah, like a superhero. I'll protect you."
The last thing I remember is me turning into the me of now. "Liar." I say to him. Then his smile fades.
"What happened to you?" asks Terra as she looks at me, my hair sticking up like upside down icicles. "If I wasn't looking closer I would not have notice that your hair is sticking up more than usual!"
"I took a well deserved nap." I answer while walking over to the couch and sitting down.
Aura sits down beside me and skims me over. "And what part of it was well deserved?"
"Unless, getting your butt kicked by Slade is well deserved." jokes Terra.
"Just shut up." I groan while touching my forehead. "I have a headache."
"Then more the reason for us to not shut up." answers Terra with a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "After all, you look like crap so why not have you also feel like crap."
"I'm going back to bed." I say groggily as I trudge back to my room.
"Hope you feel better!" yells Aura over to me.
"I hope so to." Then I go into my room.
Terra- "What is a matter with him?" I ask Aura once Niveus disappeared inside his room.
"He's just having a bad day." says Aura; her eyes glazed over in sympathy for Niveus and his so called headache. She notices me looking at her and gives her usual small smile. "Don't worry; he'll be fine when his headache leaves."
"When will that be?" I ask. Aura only shrugs and walks away. "Ok then."
Since Aura and Niveus are both gone, I decided to go for a walk. In some unconscious way I wandered over to the ocean. I sat down on the sand and allowed my eyes to wander off on the crashing waves. I heard some sand scrunch beneath someone's feet, but I did not bother to look back. "Funny thing, the ocean," began a boy behind me. "Its tossing waves of so much power makes the onlooker feel calm, when the ocean is angry and has raging waves; one still feels so calm."
"Because one goes to the ocean to run away from stress," I answer; till looking at the ocean. For some reason I do not feel calm.
"What are you running away from?" asks the boy, his voice even closer to me than before.
I finally turn back to see the boy. He was at least two years older than me; his bare feet resting on the sand, light jeans rolled up on the ankles; as if to dodge an oncoming tide, then a simple t-shirt. He looks at me with silver eyes, and pure silver hair resting on top of his head. "I'm running away from-." I begin.
"Me," finishes the boy, a plain smile on his face.
I do not answer him. He laughs and then walks away, disappearing beyond the sand. "Yes," I finally say, but he was already gone.