HEY GUYS! I'm taking on the 100 theme challenge in drawing and poetry, and I came up with this poem for INTRODUCTION #1. It's about Terra. I didn't mean for it to be, but then it just started coming out as Terra's life, so read this, and comment on what you think.
Hello there, you may not know me, but soon you will see,
Exactly what it's like just to be me.
Destruction and peril wherever I go,
Causing nothing but misery and helpings of woe.
I felt lost running all alone,
But then I met you and found a new home.
You were my friend and we grew very close,
But I betrayed you and now the real me shows.
I hurt and showed hatred to the entire town,
Everything that was bright is now grey, black, and brown.
Soon I realized that I was wrong,
And set everything back to where it belonged.
I saved everyone and hugged you good-bye,
I watched leave and tried not to cry.
You were my friend and I loved you a lot,
I'm sorry I lied and you were caught in the plot.
Now I'm a school girl and my powers are gone,
But you saw me and knew something was wrong.
You found me and were determined to find out the truth,
But I lied to you and said that you had no proof.
I lied all along and now I am sad,
Because I miss you and the life that I had.
Sorry for wasting a minute of your life I just need a Titan's fans opinion. O.o
Thank you grlwithapen for being a wonderful beta!
And now without any more things to say, here is the next chapter of Titan Reborn! ENJOY AND COMMENT!
Beast Boy was sitting on his cot and Raven was sitting on the ledge of the window looking at Titan's Tower. He thought that his first day of High school went perfectly! He made a few new friends, ate a healthy vegan lunch, and became closer to Terra as Logan.
"So," Beast Boy began. "When should we tell Terra that it's us?"
Raven sighed and pulled her knees to her chest so she could rest her chin on top. Her emerald eyes sparkled in the light of the sun. "I say…never. I'm having too much of a good time, telling Terra would only ruin everything I've done and the relationships I've made."
Beast Boy felt as though someone had punched him in the gut. "How can you say that?"
"It's pretty easy actually." Raven said turning back to the window. "I'm still having second thoughts about bringing Terra back into the group, plus it seems like she's really happy here."
Beast Boy could understand that because he was having fun too. It was nice just to be a normal kid and not worry about saving the entire city with his superpowers. Instead he only had to worry about his homework and making sure Terra doesn't know that it's really him until the time is right.
"Well, fine. But Terra invited us to hang out at her house this weekend while her parents are looking at houses in New York." Beast Boy said trying to get Raven to think that they should tell Terra.
"Wait, why are they going to look at houses?" Raven said letting go of her knees.
"Because her dad got a promotion and they're moving in about a month." Beast Boy said looking at the floor.
"Oh," Raven said standing up and walking over to Beast Boy. "Well then when do you think we should tell her?"
Beast Boy thought about this for a long moment. "I think that I should be the one to tell her, and I think I should when she fully trusts us, but we can't do it for a while because we still have a month…so we should tell her in about a week or two."
"Works for me." Raven said walking over to the door and opening it only to run into Amanda and Terra.
"Hey guys." They both said at the same time.
Terra smiled when Logan's face lit up when the door open and Amanda and herself were standing in the door way. He ran over and tackled Terra in a hug. She was so surprised that she almost fell over, but when she looked over Logan's shoulder she saw Amanda looking at them with sad eyes. Terra could tell from the moment that Miss Jackie introduced them that she was a kind girl, but seeing her looking at them like this gave her a small jealous vibe. She let go of Logan and walked into the room.
"This was my old room." Terra said smiling and taking in the familiar space. She walked to the window and sighed. "The view was my favorite part."
"Mine too." Paige and Logan said at the same time.
Terra turned to see Amanda blushing as Logan started talking to her. Her body shook with jealousy seeing Logan talk to Amanda and seeing her blush. But why should she? She just met Logan they were just friends.
"Hey, so I just came over to work and Miss Jackie told me that I could take the night off, so I thought I'd hangout with my new friends."
"That's a great idea; maybe later we can go for walk too! But what time do you have to leave?" Logan said walking away from Amanda who was now talking to Paige.
"I have plenty of time; I'll tell you when I have to leave." Terra said reassuringly.
They stayed in the room and talked for the next five minutes until they were interrupted by Miss Jackie knocking on the door telling them it was time for dinner.
Terra walked down the hallway side by side with Logan talking about the type of music they liked. But behind them she could hear sad whispers from Amanda. When they reached the dining hall they waited in line until Miss Jackie walked over with two trays.
"Here you go, I have an entire stock of food for you two now, and I hope you like what I picked." Miss Jackie said handing them the trays and giving them a warm smile.
"It looks great!" Amanda said. "Hey we'll save you guys a seat."
With that Logan walked away with Amanda to a table in the corner.
"What was that all about?" Terra said to Paige. "Amanda keeps acting weird around me."
"It's not like she doesn't have a reason to." Paige said reaching for her food.
"What do you mean?" Terra said taking hers and thanking Debra from behind the table.
"It's kind of obvious that my brother has a tiny crush on you, and she's a little upset because she has taking a liking to my brother."
"Oh," Terra said blushing realizing all that Paige was saying is true.
They reached the table and dropped the subject and began talking about Murakami. "So what do you guys think of your teachers?" Terra said eyeing Logan's food. It was all vegetables and some gloppy white stuff. "And a follow up question; what's that white stuff?"
Logan's eyes followed Terra's to the glop. "Oh, that's just tofu. I'm a vegan."
Terra had a flashback of when Beast Boy was trying to get her to eat tofu and he started chasing her around the tower holding the cube of tofu in his hands. Terra couldn't help but giggle.
"What's so funny about tofu?" Logan said taking a bite.
"Oh, nothing" Terra said shaping her mashed potatoes into a volcano. "It just reminded me of an old friend."
Logan dropped his spoon which fell to the floor with a loud clank making everyone at the table stop what they were doing and stare at him.
"What's wrong?" Amanda said.
"Umm…nothing. Hey Terra do you want to take that walk now?" Logan said with what looked like a forced smile.
"How about we finish our dinner?" Terra said reaching for her spoon only to be stopped by Logan's hand.
"No." Logan said with the same expression. "Let's go now; I want to talk to you."
"Umm Ok." Terra said feeling a little creeped out by Logan's sudden attack.
They got up, threw out the food they didn't eat, told Miss Jackie they were going for a walk, and left.
Beast Boy knew that when Terra said that the tofu reminded her of an old friend, he knew that she was talking about him. This gave him such a drive to tell her about it really being him he just didn't know how to approach the subject.
"So what was your past like Terra?" Beast Boy said walking around the corner next to Terra.
"Well…I don't like to talk about it." Terra said. "Plus I can barely remember. The only thing I know is that I had some amazing friends and a wonderful family, but I had an accident…and then it goes fuzzy. After that Miss Jackie found me hurt on the street and took me in at the orphanage. I stayed there for two months before being adopted. And now here I am."
Beast Boy was sad that she was lying. She had such a wonderful life at Titans Tower.
"Terra, I know what you've been through. When I lost my family, I felt like I lost my reason in life." He said stopping and looking at Terra. "But then I met someone who changed my life. I loved them so much, they were my everything. They were a little confused and I tried to help them, it didn't really work but I never gave up. Then that person left and my world crumbled to pieces again."
Terra stopped next to Beast Boy and hugged him. "Logan I'm so sorry that this person did that to you. My life was like that for a little while too, but then I got adopted and everything changed."
She let go of him and Beast Boy's body didn't want her to so he grabbed her and hugged her again, and she hugged back. Soon enough he started crying.
"Terra, my life has been so hard and I miss them so much, I want them back in my life!" He said letting go of her and holding her at arms length.
Terra's eyes were soon filled with tears that spilled over and rolled down her cheeks. "Logan…"
He didn't let her finish the sentence. "My life didn't have a meaning…but then I found you."
He was putting all of his past into his words but it didn't feel like it was enough. "Terra, I just met you but I just want to say you're the closest thing to a best friend I've ever had."
Terra smiled and hugged Beast Boy one last time. His shirt soon became wet with her tears. "Terra, I don't mean to make you cry."
"It's alright, Logan." Terra said letting go of him and smiling.
Beast Boy hated seeing her cry. He wiped the tears off of her cheeks and looked deep into her blue eyes. He felt himself lean closer to her and saw that she was smiling. "Logan, I want to return the compliments by saying you too are the closest thing I've had to a best friend."
Beast Boy felt himself smile and move a little closer to Terra. "Terra…"
Then he felt his lips touch hers gently only to be embraced warmly by Terra rapping her arms around his neck. He couldn't help but feel accomplished, he'd wanted to get the courage to do this for such a long time, and now he has finally done it.
Terra broke the kiss and blushed. She quickly let go of his neck and blushed even more. "Logan…"
Only then had he realized that he just made everything awkward now. "Terra. I'm so sorry. I…I mean…"
"It's alright." Terra said looking back at the direction they were walking in. "My house isn't too far from here, and it's starting to get dark. I should be leaving now."
"Do you really have to go?" Beast Boy said feeling a blush scurry across his cheeks.
"No," Terra said backing away from him. "But I feel like I need to."
"Oh…alright," He said backing up the other way. "See you in school?"
"Yeah." Terra said turning and running away.
"Good bye Terra." Beast Boy whispered.
He walked away wanting to punch himself for being so stupid and kissing her like that. Now it's awkward between them and he has t work to gain her trust again.
When he reached the orphanage he looked in the window to see Raven and Amanda still sitting at the table. Their food was gone and was replaced with books. They were just talking and reading like normal people should.
He sighed and walked past the orphanage to a bus stop. Once the bus he sat in the back and let the bus driver drive for an hour without noticing he was still there.
"Hey kid," He said in a gruff tone. "Are you planning on going somewhere?"
Beast Boy was shocked by the booming volume of his voice. "Yeah…do you know where BEN'S is?"
The bus driver smiled. "Of course I do! It's my favorite place to get pie!"
"Can you drive me there? I could really use an apple pie right about now." Beast Boy said looking back out the window at the starry sky.
"I would kid," He said. "But it's starting to get pretty late; shouldn't you be home or something?"
Beast Boy sighed and walked to the front of the bus. "Yeah I guess you're right. My sister is probably worried about where I am." He walked off the bus. "Thanks for putting up with me for an hour."
He walked down the sidewalk only to find the orphanage with a shadow standing out front.
"Logan?" the voice said. "Is that you?"
Beast Boy walked into the light of the door way to find Amanda sitting with the door open.
"Amanda?" He said looking down. "What are you doing out here?"
Amanda stood up, dusted off her dress, and blushed. "Your sister and I were getting pretty worried, but she got tired so she went to bed. I told her that I would wake her up when you came home."
Beast Boy smiled. "Thanks for waiting up. But I have to go to my room and think some things through."
"Oh… alright," Amanda said walking over to hug him. "I'm just glad you're safe. Good night."
With that she ran up the stairs leaving Beast Boy behind to walk up alone.
Terra lay in bed looking at the shadows on the wall, trying to make sense of all that happened today. She met Amanda, learned Amanda likes Logan, found out that Logan is a vegan, and received a kiss from a highly attractive boy.
Terra sighed and tears welded up in her eyes. She wanted to kick herself for kissing him back because now it's awkward between them and she led him on, but the bad thing is she liked the kiss and she thinks she likes Logan.
She was interrupted by three tiny, soundless knocks from her door. Terra quickly wiped her tears away and stood up to answer.
Outside her door was Grace holding her little black bunny. "Raven can't sleep and it's making me stay up."
Terra laughed. "Grace, animals like Raven are nocturnal; it means they sleep during the day and are awake at night."
Grace contemplated this, then ran over to Terra's bed and settled under the covers. "Well I think that if Raven hears the story that you always tell me to go to sleep, that she'll fall asleep."
Terra smiled at Grace picked her up and walked back to Grace's room to put her under the covers. "Before I start the story you have to promise me something." Terra said pulling the covers over Grace.
"Alright," Grace began. "What do I do?"
"First we have to put Raven back in her home, part of why she can't sleep is because there's a little girl two feet away from her that is making her stay awake because she is awake." Terra said holding her hands out to take the little bunny.
"Alright," Grace said holding the bunny up to her face. "But you have to promise me Raven, that you'll fall asleep. Ok?"
The tiny bunny only let out a small sigh in response. Grace took this as a good thing and handed Raven to Terra who put her back in her cage in the corner.
"Ok," Terra said. "You ready for me to start?"
"Not yet," Grace said. "Mommy always gets me a small glass of warm milk before she starts any stories…so I was wondering…"
"If I could get you some warm milk?" Terra said walking over to the door to fulfill the request.
"No please don't! Warm milk is nasty! Can I please have a cup of cold water?" Grace said looking up at Terra with big, brown, puppy pout eyes.
Terra sighed. "Alright, but when I come back I'm telling you the story."
"Good." Grace said pulling the covers over her head and burrowing underneath them.
Terra walked downstairs to the kitchen, grabbed Grace's favorite drinking glass and filled it half way with water. Once she was back up stairs, she heard peaceful snores coming from Grace's room. She walked in to find Grace fast asleep; so she kissed the top of her head, left the water on a night stand holding her lamp, and walked out quietly to her room.
Terra walked in and closed the door behind her then looked at the clock. It was already 11:00. She was going to get a detention sometime tomorrow for sleeping while her teachers are talking. But when she crawled under the covers, she found out she couldn't sleep either. So, she began to recite the story she was going to tell Grace in her head.
Once upon a time, there was a girl. The girl was an outsider, and went from city to city only to cause trouble and pain. The girl didn't mean to, but when she was little a witch cursed her with powers that she couldn't control. Then one day, she was being chased by an evil creature, and she used her powers to stop it. When she looked away from the creature, she found five other people standing at the top of the cliffs. She used her powers to control the rocks to get her to their level. She lied to them and told them that she was a superhero. She spent the rest of the week living in their beautiful castle and helping them stop evil. Then one night when she couldn't sleep, she went out to the rocky shore outside of the castle to realize that she had been followed by the youngest boy in the group. She didn't know it, but when he was young he too had been cursed with strange powers. They talked until he found out that she couldn't control her powers, he promised that he would never tell and they went back in to get some rest.
The next day however, her powers lost control when an evil wizard was taunting her. She didn't know what to do but then she heard someone calling her name. She looked down to see the young boy holding onto her hand. She reached for the other, and he hugged her and calmed her down enough that her powers weren't losing control anymore. She knew then that she loved the boy.
She stayed at the castle for a few more days before deciding that she should leave before she loses control of her powers again and hurt them. But then the leader of the group asked her to stay in the castle forever with them, and said that they could help her with her powers. Unaware that the young boy didn't break his promise by telling him that she couldn't control her powers, she ran away in shame. She ran for days until she knew that she was far enough from the castle to not hurt them. She walked alone until the evil wizard found her and told her that he could help control her powers. Foolishly, she agreed. She practiced her skills for the next few weeks under the wizard's watch until she had full control over them. Once the wizard thought she was ready, he said in repayment for helping you control your curse, you must help me take control of the castle and the land they protect. She felt gratitude towards the wizard for helping her, so she agreed.
She went back to the castle and became part of their group, and became closer to the young boy. The young boy asked her to go have fun with him at a carnival and she found that it was a great way to get her mind off things, so they went to a carnival not too far from the castle. Once there, they played games and rode rides, and ended the night in a room full of mirrors. There she confessed to the boy that she was working for the evil wizard and that he was going to take over the land and the castle. Feeling foolish for trusting the girl, he left her to go and protect the kingdom and the castle that protected it.
The next time she saw the five people she was fighting them as a warrior for the wizard. She defeated each of the people one by one and took control of the city. Then when she began to regret what she had done, her friends came back and helped her over throw the evil wizard. But when they did, the wizard put a spell over his hideout to explode when he had been concurred. The girl knew that her powers were the only thing that could stop it, so she said good bye to the young boy and the rest f the group and sacrificed herself to save the kingdom. The team watched as she controlled the curse and saved them all.
But to much sadness, the girl was turned to stone from the curse. The group felt much grief and they tried everything they could to get her back to normal, but nothing worked. They had given up, but not the young boy he knew something was still there.
Feeling her eyelids starting to droop, she closed them and began to sleep peacefully dreaming of the young boy how never gave up on her.
Beast Boy was still kicking himself for what he did, and he couldn't think of a way to resolve it without telling Terra it was him. Feeling lost, he reached under his cot and pulled out the heart shaped box that he planned on giving back to Terra. He opened it and saw the shadow of his reflection, but he felt grief because it wasn't him in the mirror, the real Beast Boy was being hidden by a high tech necklace.
"This isn't me…" Beast Boy sighed and looked at the bottom of the box because he noticed something that wasn't there when he made it. "What the…?"
In cursive, sparkling, red letters the bottom of the box read… TERRA. A TEEN TITAN. A TRUE FRIEND.
Beast Boy was slightly confused because this wasn't there when he gave it to Raven to fix, so does that mean that Raven did something to make it say that? He was going to find out right away.
He stood off of his bed and grabbed a blanket to put around his shoulders, and walked to Raven's room. He knocked on the door before opening it. He looked in the dark room and saw that Amanda was fast asleep, and Raven was sitting up in her bed looking at him with dark eyes.
"Couldn't sleep?" Raven said walking over to him and pushing him out of the room and turning out the light so that Amanda wouldn't wake up.
"Kind of," Beast Boy began. "Can you come into my room? I need to get something…well two something's figured out."
Raven did as she was told and followed Beast Boy back to his room and closed the door. He walked over to his bed where the heart was sitting, picked it up and held it out for Raven to hold. Once she was holding it, Beast Boy opened the lid. "Did you put that there?"
Raven's tan cheeks faintly blushed. "Yes, I thought that it was a good way of saying sorry for everything."
Beast Boy took the box back gently in his hands. "Well, apology accepted." He put the heart back underneath his cot. "That takes care of the first thing, now for the story."
"Joy." Raven said sarcastically. "Should I go get some popcorn?"
Beast Boy rolled his eyes at her. "Oh, ha ha. Now will you listen please? What I did totally screwed up what we were trying to do."
Raven grew serious. "You didn't tell her it was us did you?"
"No, I was going to but I did something else." Beast Boy said rubbing the back of his neck feeling stupid. Raven sat down on the cot and had an expression on her face like she was ready for the worst.
"Alright, so Terra and I went for a walk. And after a while I got a little too emotional. I said that I knew what she was going through and that my life was like hers, but then I met someone who made my life worthwhile again and said that she left; and that my life fell apart again. I hugged her and then she started crying, and I apologized and I…I…" Beast Boy hesitated to say the rest because he was afraid of the way Raven would react.
"Yes?" Raven said. "What did you do?"
"I couldn't control myself, I kissed her…and she kissed me back. But then when she pulled out of the kiss she was blushing and said she had to get home. I asked her if she had to, and she said no but she felt like she needed to and then she turned and ran away." Beast Boy closed his eyes when he finished and waited for Raven to start yelling, but she was quiet. He opened his eyes only to be hit in the face by his pillow thrown from Raven's hands.
"Why did you do that!" Raven almost shouted. "Not only did you kiss her, but you told her about your past when she was in it. Terra's smart Beast Boy, if she puts the pieces of the puzzle together, she could figure out it was us; plus she found out you were a vegan! Did you see her face? She was thinking of you when she said it reminded me of an old friend, so she's already thinking about you…" Raven paused to catch her breath than began again. "SHE COULD FIGURE OUT IT'S US!"
Beast Boy felt so stupid. "Raven I'm sorry; my emotions went out of control. I didn't mean to. Is there anything we can do to fix it?"
Raven stood and started pacing the room. "We might be able to figure something out, but you have to find out if we're still welcomed at her house this weekend. Until then, I'm going to let you figure out this mess because I'm tired."
Raven walked out of the room and closed the door with a loud slam that made Beast Boy flinch.
Beast Boy threw his arms up and shouted to no one in particular. "WHY ARE GIRLS SO WEIRD!"
