Terra kept running and running but she didn't move. It was as if her feet were planted on the ground.
"You're weak." Said a voice that had no face to match.
"Stop it! You can't hurt me anymore!" Terra exclaimed. She turned franticly trying to find the face that belonged this familiar voice. But all Terra could see was darkness.
"You'll never fit in with normal people. You're different and no one will love you."
This time the dark voice spoke it seemed closer. Terra whipped herself around and tried to throw a rock, but her powers… they weren't there.
"You were strong, you were on top of the world. And you gave it up to save people who hurt and betrayed you." The voice was right behind her now.
"STOP! Just stop! I had to! They were my friends!" Terra screamed on the verge of tears.
"They aren't your friends Terra. You have no friends. You are weak and always will be," said the voice.
Terra started to cry. She couldn't take it anymore, she tried running again, but she still wouldn't move. She tried throwing a rock again, but no luck. Feeling the crush of defeat, she threw herself on the ground and just cried.
"You should have stayed with me Terra," said the voice. But now the man the voice belonged to decided to step out of the shadows and face the crying girl that was sitting before him.
Slade.
Slade knelt down beside her and whispered in her ear. "If you weren't so weak, you would be the ruler of this pathetic city. It would be at our mercy, and the people who betrayed you would not be here."
Terra couldn't take the pain. She looked at Slade's orange and black mask, and punched the middle of it where a nose should've have been.
Slade didn't move. He just chuckled, "Still the feisty little brat I see. You haven't changed a bit Terra." He lifted his hand to Terra's face and put her silver butterfly pin into her hair pulling it back from her dark blue eyes.
"You're still a rock with rough edges, but with my help, I can make you shine." He said with the slightest sound of kindness in his voice.
Terra clenched her fists and punched Slade as hard as she could. He fell back with one hand on his face. Terra ran past him in an attempt at freedom, but he grasped her wrist and threw her on the ground.
"You ungrateful little BRAT!" He spat at her face. "YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE ME! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I CONTROL YOU! YOU CAN NEVER GET AWAY!"
Terra was shaking with fear. She knew what Slade could do when he's mad.
With his fists clenched in front of him, he punched Terra right in the gut and she fell…and fell…and fell.
"NO! HELP! BEAST BOY, RAVEN, SLADE ANYONE!" Terra screamed at the darkness above her.
She landed with a thud. She looked around; she was in a room full of mirrors. Still looking for anyone, she stood. This place seemed so familiar…but how?
"You're right Terra. You don't have any friends," said a voice that seemed too familiar.
A depressed Beast Boy walked out of the shadows. Terra was so happy to finally see a friendly face. She ran towards him and threw her arms around him…but it was like he wasn't even there because she fell back to the ground. This time when she looked up, she was in a room with a floor that seemed like it was made of mud.
"HOW COULD YOU!" yelled a girl from the mud. It was Raven.
"WE GAVE YOU EVERYTHING THING! WE TOOK YOU IN! AND YOU STILL TREATED US LIKE DIRT!" she exclaimed rising from the mud. Her big, dark eyes turned into four blood red holes in her head. Without warning things starting flying toward where Terra was standing.
"YOU LIED TO US, AND WE TRUSTED YOU! YOU WERE OUR FRIEND! YOU WERE A TEEN TITAN!" Raven screamed getting closer to her target.
Raven lifted one arm and thrust it toward Terra, which made a chunk of the floor fly up and right at Terra. Terra squeezed her eyes shut and waited for the pain to take over her body…but nothing happened.
She opened her eyes and blinked. She was in a large space with lava covering most of the floor. She looked around for an exit but only found a disappointed Beast Boy and Raven standing next to Slade.
"You have no friends Terra," they chanted.
"YOU'RE ALL WORNG!" Terra screamed. She had to get out of here. The lava was almost to the corner where she was cowering. She looked back to where the trio was standing. But they weren't there. Now they were floating a few feet in front of her, just high enough from the ground so that the lava couldn't touch them.
"I trusted you, and you betrayed me." They chanted.
"PLEASE! HELP ME!" the lava was only about a yard away from her feet.
She looked to where they where they were floating. They only stared at her. Then Slade vanished. Then Raven. All that was left was Beast Boy.
"BEAST BOY! PLEASE I'M SORRY FOR TELLING ALL THESE LIES! I DIDN'T MEAN TO BETRAY YOU! PLEASE IF YOU DON'T HELP ME I'LL DIE!" she yelled at the frowning Beast Boy. She was sobbing now. "PLEASE BEAST BOY! HELP ME!"
Beast boy just closed his eyes and looked away, and then he vanished too.
And it was too late the lava was rising like a wave and crashed into the wall where she was standing.
"NO! HELP!" she screamed. But when she opened her eyes there was no lava. She was gasping and sweat ran down her face, which was followed by tears. It was just a dream. Terra rested her hands on her forehead and was going to try to catch her breath, but something stopped her from moving.
Fear washed over her when her fingers ran into something smooth and cold. She took the object off of her forehead and held it up to her lamp.
In her hand was a small silver butterfly pin.