(A/n: Yeah, so I know the last story was kind of generic and uncreative, but I'm trying to get better! ^_^ But, I would like to thank fireflight33 because they are amazing and told me they were expecting me to update soon which made my day and motivated me to keep writing (and I'll admit I am not entirely sure where I'm going with this. Lol) but even if you are my only reader, fireflight33, I'll keep writing, just for you! ^_^ YAY! Lol. Oh, the only reason my genres are general and romance is because I didn't really know what to put. Anyways, on with my madness!)
Third person; Battle in Jump City
The Titans scattered as an enormous bolder crushed the table they had just been sitting at. The five defenders of Jump City flew out of the diner to find a paralyzing site. Standing atop a bolder, was a villain they had never seen, but next to him was what had stopped the heroes in their tracks.
A skeletally thin (1), gray skinned corpse of what had once been a great ally, and a great terror to the Teen Titans. Her hands were raised sickeningly above her head like a marionettes, holding up the bolder she and the unknown villain we standing on. Her once yellow energy was now red, along with her glowing eyes. Her hair was now lanky, and dull gray, instead of it's original, beautiful, flowing blonde. Her head rested horrifically on her shoulder, her knees angled in. It was a truly grotesque picture.
"Terra…" Beast Boy whispered.
"What have you done?!?" Raven yelled, the fury showing clearly in her eyes.
"You might want to get control of yourself, young demon. We've all seen what happens when you loose control…as this young girl often did," the unknown man said, gesturing towards (what was once) Terra. The man himself wore an all black suit, nothing really distinct, except what appeared to be a full face gas mask. The mask made his voice sound very eerie when he spoke, and they could constantly hear his breathing.
"You will not speak of our dear friend Terra, of whom you know nothing about!" Starfire yelled, her eyes glowing green, along with her hands.
"Hush, you naïve girl. I know more about your 'dear friends Terra' than you ever did," the mad-man claimed. "I know how much you really disgusted her, shape-shifter, how much you truly annoyed her," he directed at Beast Boy.
"What did you do to her?" The changeling asked, annunciating each word carefully, ignoring the man's remark.
"I re-animated her. Charming curse really. Rather useful. See, she has no control of herself, at all, yet she understands everything that's going on, and remembers each and everyone of you," they all gasped, except Raven. " But the catcher is, you can't undo the curse…you can only end it. Necromancy is a specialty of mine, if you will."
"You're despicable, and we will bring you down!" Robin yelled. Cyborg's arm made it's usual whirring sound as it changed into his sonic-cannon, and he took aim at the sicko. Raven's hands were alight with black flame, and her eyes began to glow white with her fury. Robin took out three exploding disks from his belt, and pulled his arm back ready to fling them. Starfire's lips parted to reveal her clenched teeth, and she leaned forward, ready to attack. But Beast Boy just stood there, staring at his lost lover. A solitary tear slipped down his cheek. Terra's mouth opened and her voice came out, odd and distorted (2).
"What's the matter, BB?" it obviously wasn't her talking. The masked freak let out a hair raising cackle. Beast Boy responded with a primal howl of anguish and fury, and he changed into a lion, his yell turning into a magnificent roar.
"Titans, GO!" Robin shouted, anger clear in his tone. Cyborg's cannon hit it's mark, Robin threw all three explosives, and both girls let out terrible screams as they hit the villain with a barrage of their powers. Beast Boy stood there, waiting. As the smoke cleared a wall of rock became visible. The wall sank back into the ground, and there stood both Terra and the other man.
"That's it? That's all the mighty Titans can dish out? Jeez, I thought seeing your old teammate's dead body alone would be enough to bring all of Hell's fury. Well…that's disappointing. I guess I'll just have to kill you without the fun of a good fight," and without moving, he made Terra's body bend the earth beneath them. The Titans reacted swiftly and aimed all their attacks at the masked evil-doer. He jumped, side stepped, ducked, and maneuvered to avoid everything they threw at him, all the while Terra was flinging all her attacks at them. The unnamed villain started chuckling. "This is amusing. You're wasting your time and efforts."
Suddenly, a wave of earth lifted from behind the team, collapsing on top of four of them. Raven had narrowly avoided the wall of death. Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire were all trapped under the rock from the shoulders down, their faces masks of sheer agony. The boys were all unconscious from the pain, but Starfire was still awake by a thread.
"Raven…help," she choked out faintly. The psychopath looked at his puppet, "Crush them."
Her fists closed as the earth pressed down even harder on the other four Titans.
"NO!" Raven screamed, her white eyes multiplied and turned red, and she flung her soul self at the dead girl she once called her friend. Terra fell to her knees, and the slab of earth on the other four Titans flew into the air, releasing them. They woke gasping for air.
Raven tore through Terra's mind, looking for her. She came across an unconscious (living) Terra.
"Terra! Terra, wake up!" the blonde's eyes started to flutter, and then opened wide taking in Raven's all black form, her hood down.
"Raven?" she asked thoroughly puzzled.
"If you have anything to say to me or any of the others, say it now."
Outside of Terra's mind, the other four Titans watched as their once beloved friend rose from the ground, stood tall, and looked down at them from her perch on top of a huge bolder. The rock lowered to the ground, but she did not step towards the Titans, nor did they step to her.
"I love all of you. And I'm sorry for all the things I've done," Beast Boy started to interrupt her, but she merely raised her hand, silencing him. "I don't have long. I'll miss all of you, for the rest of eternity, and know that I'll never forget you. Bury me in all my favorite colors, my sisters and my brothers," she said, taking on an eerie tone, looking at Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin. "No, I will not kiss you," she said to Beast Boy. "'Cause the hardest part of this is leaving you. Now turn away, 'Cause I'm awful just to see."
"Terra…" Beast Boy whispered once again, reaching out to her. She stepped back.
"Raven says it's time for me to go. Remember that I'll always love you. Good Bye."
"No, Terra, NO! Come back to us!" Beast Boy said, rushing forward, trying to grab onto her, but Raven's energy blocked him.
"I'm sorry Beast Boy, I can't. I have to go now."
"Good Bye, Terra," the other Titans whispered in unison.
"Terra, Terra, I love you, I always will! Terra, Don't leave me!"
"I love you too, Beast Boy. But you have to let me go. Look away," Beast Boy collapsed and started to sob, but he looked up at his dead lover. "Beast Boy, look away. All of you. Look away." Cyborg came forward and took hold of Beast Boy, turning him around so he could see the dead girl. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all closed their eyes.
Back in Terra's mind, Terra returned to where Raven was.
"Okay, I'm ready to go. But, Raven, everything I said to them, I was saying to you too. I love you, and I will always remember you. Thank You," Raven was taken aback for a second, but recovered quickly.
"You're welcome, Terra. And I'm sorry. Now, sleep," Raven said, placing her hand on Terra's shoulder. The other Titans may not have been able to see, but they could still hear as Terra's dead, unanimated body hit the ground, and they flinched. A terrakinetic backlash (3) caused a circular wave of earth, originating from where Terra body lay, to slam into the nearest building, causing them to topple over. The other Titans opened their eyes at the sound looking around at all the destruction .They had completely forgotten the masked man. Raven's soul flew back into her limp body, which was lying on the ground, a few feet from Terra's. She opened her eyes with a gasp. The masked man was standing above her.
"Very good, demon, very good. I'll be seeing you," he said making to leave.
"No! No you won't!" Raven said, Hell's fury in her voice, her eyes turning red and multiplying again. She grabbed the man's ankle (the first time any of them had successfully touched him) and slammed his body into the ground. Her powers broke the man's mask and he started gasping horribly, as if the air was full of mustard gas. She stood over him and looked into the black circles where his eyes should have been and her soul self left her again, and her body was about to topple over onto the fiend, but Robin caught her.
She raced through his mind, images of war flying by as she looked for him. She found him, standing in a barren field full of dead bodies.
"What are you going to do, demon? Kill me? I'm already in Hell!" he yelled.
"You don't know Hell…yet," she said. She thrust her arm out, a single blade of her dark energy connecting with the man's neck.
His head fell from his shoulders to the ground, his body following suit. Raven's soul escaped the man's body and returned to her own, her eyes returning to normal, and her breathing labored. She looked down at the man's body. His head lay severed from his neck. She looked over at Terra, blood was pouring from her mouth. Raven fell to the ground and started sobbing, seeing what she had done. She looked over at Beast Boy who was standing over Terra's corpse, crying silently. Raven threw her arms around his neck, and he didn't hesitate to wrap his tightly around her.
"I'm so, so sorry, Beast Boy!" she sobbed. He started shaking more violently with sobs and they both collapsed, onto the ground, crying so hard if physically hurt. "I didn't want to, I didn't! But there wasn't any other way. She had to go! I'm so sorry!" He pulled back and looked at her, his sobs subsiding for a moment. She looked at him, tears simply flowing from her eyes.
"You 'didn't want to'? You didn't want to do what, Raven?" he asked, his tone edging towards angry realization. He looked over at the dead villain and then over to Terra's face, blood still flowing from her mouth.
"Beast Boy, I…" Raven started, but didn't know what to say.
"You killed her!" he shouted, pushing the empath away from him.
"Beast Boy, no-" she said, stung, but he interrupted her.
"No, you could have found a way! You could have! You always hated Terra, were always jealous of her! You wanted to finish the job! You could have saved her!" he yelled, and with that he transformed back into the lion, flung his claws at her, striking her in the face, then took flight as an eagle.
"Raven!" Robin yelled, flinging himself to the ground. He turned Raven over. She had four, long gouges that ran diagonally down her left cheek. Her eyes were wide with fear and shock, tears still streamed from them. Tears and blood mingled on her cheek, and over flowed on to her uniform. The Boy Wonder pulled her into his lap. "Raven?" he asked gently. She looked up at him, as if she had just noticed him.
"I…I didn't want to, Robin…but I had to…I didn't kill her though, I just rested her soul…but I had to…I had to make it to where her body could never be risen again, " she said weakly.
"What does that mean?" he asked her.
"I had to damage her body so badly, that it could never function properly again…but I didn't want to, Robin! I didn't!" she yell/sobbed, and buried her face in his chest and began sobbing ferociously.
"Of course you didn't, of course," he said, trying to console her. Starfire and Cyborg were still standing behind the two on the ground. "Star, Cy. Can you move Terra's body? Take her to a morgue downtown."
"NO!" Raven screeched, throwing her arm in Terra's direction, a black shield forming around the girls body, hiding her from view. "No," Raven said again, more calmly. She started to regain more control of herself. "No, I'll do it." Robin looked up at her, as she had stood up.
"Raven, are you sure you're okay?"
"No, but I'm in control, that's all that matters, isn't it."
"Raven, we can take the body, you don't have too," Cyborg said in a gentle tone.
"No…that…would end badly," was all she said. The three of them looked at her curiously. "The way her body has been damaged…it's…kind of a mess," she said, looking at the ground.
"What…What was done to Terra?" Starfire asked.
"I…I made her heart explode," Raven choked out. Starfire, and Cyborg looked at each other, horrified. "I only did what I had too." Raven said, more to herself than the others. She looked over at the headless corpse still on the ground. "Him…I killed him. He wasn't exactly dead, but I made sure he will be from now on." While she was looking at the man, a black portal opened in the ground beneath him and his body vanished.
"Where did you send him?" Robin asked.
"That wasn't me…"
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(1) Even thinner than before! O_O
(2)This was the masked man controlling her, which he does with his mind.
(3)The mental backlash that was caused by Terra's death, because it was a slow, gruesome, and delayed one. For example, if Raven were to die, her powers would be released from her mind and reek havoc…probably. Terrakinetic also means 'the ability to control earth', it's not a silly pun.
One more thing, I've decided to name each chapter after a song I was listening to while I wrote it. I wonder if you can tell me who they're by? ^_^
p.s, sorry this one is shorter than the other one. I was going to add more, but I need to get some sleep, so I left it hanging.