Hey everyone! Sorry for the long wait… I was in a bit of a rut. Anyway!
CHAPTER THIRTEEN! MWHAHAHAHAHA! Sorry bad luck is kind of my thing; I guess I'm like Jinx in a way, minus the cool hair and outfit, and the crazy superpowers.
Anyway, sorry about that ^^. Here's the next chapter! Read, Comment, Enjoy!
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Terra stared at Slade's masked face. "You're lying! These are my friends!" She said turning around to Paige and Logan who were staring at Slade with menacing looks.
"Terra," Paige said in a dull, bleak voice. "Put your sister in your room. You don't want her to get hurt." She avoided Terra's gaze and fished a pink necklace out from under her uniform. Terra looked at Logan to see that he was doing the same but his necklace was blue.
Terra's heart sank. "Grace, I want you to go into my room and lock the door, do NOT come out for any reason." She said sending Grace away. Once she was safely in Terra's room with her bunny, Terra looked back at Slade with rage. Her hands began to glow a golden yellow light but she didn't summon any rocks…yet.
"Why are you here, how did you find me?" Terra screamed at the maniac.
All Slade did was laugh. "I thought you were a smart girl Terra. I was surprised when you never figured it out."
"What the hell do you…" Then the gears in Terra's mind began to turn.
"You really were my favorite student Terra, until these two came along." He said taking a step forward.
"Oh my god…" Terra said finally figuring out. "You're Mr. Dales."
"Good." Slade said. "Now can you figure out the pin? I've seen you fiddling with it during class."
Terra took the pin out of her pocket and stared at it, then it began to glow and the 'S' for Slade glimmered on the surface. Frightened she threw the pin at Slade and stepped back bumping into the bodies of Paige and Logan. She turned around to see them ripping the necklaces off their necks and crushing them in their hands.
Paige's skin slowly got lighter, and her hair shortened to her shoulders. "Terra grab Grace, we have to get out of here."
Terra left to get her sister quickly and returned with Grace in her arms to find Logan on his knees crying and hollering as if he were in pain. Terra turned to Slade who was now only a few feet from the four scared children. "I must say that it was a clever way of disguise. I'm impressed."
"Terra!" Logan shouted with his emerald eyes filled with tears as his ears came to a point and a fang popped out of from his mouth. "You, Grace and Raven get out of here and find a safe place! I'll stay behind and deal with Slade." His skin began to grow a green tint until it covered every inch of his body. His hair began to grow darker, but Terra didn't have time to say anything because someone was pulling her arm to bring her down the stairs. She looked back to see the Boy change into a Bear and maul Slade into the room. She looked at the hand grabbing her arm and found that it belonged to Raven. She dragged Terra out of her house and into the back yard so no would see them.
Once they were in the forest, Terra jerked her arm away from Raven who looked back in surprise. Terra put Grace down and looked at Raven from head to toe. It really was her. She stepped forward, but Terra's blood began to boil and she threw her arm out making a large boulder fly out of the ground and head for Raven. Cleverly, Raven summoned her dark energy and used it to disappear from sight. Terra looked around the trees with tears of rage filling her eyes. Then she shifted her vision to her house where she could hear screams from Beast Boy. Feeling like this was all her fault, she began racing back to her house only to be stopped by Raven who appeared in front of her in her usual dark cloak with her hood on so it cast a shadow on her face.
"He's saving us." Raven said with no emotion. "He's giving us time to get out of here safely. Unless you want all three of us hurt, we better take the chance."
Terra was stilled filled with rage and she just stared at Raven wanting to slap her across the face for doing all this to her. She calmed herself enough to think of the safety of Grace and picked her up. "Raven," Terra said with flames of hate and anger filling her shaky voice. "I'm not leaving him behind! You WILL take Grace back to Titan's Tower and stay there. I will get Beast Boy and we will get back there as soon as we can."
She handed Grace to Raven who said nothing. "I trust you Raven." She said her voice sounding friendly for the sake of her sister. Raven looked at Grace and the bunny she still held in her hands. "Fine. But if you guys aren't at the Tower soon, I'm bringing the other Titans."
Terra just nodded and watched Raven fly away with a crying little girl and out of sight. She let tears fall freely down her face, until she heard an explosion and saw smoke rising from her house.
"NO!" Terra screamed running at top speed. Once she reached her house she saw a giant hole on one side and Slade appeared with an unconscious Beast Boy in his fist.
"Here's a keep sake." Slade said dropping Beast Boy. Terra gasped and ran to catch him. Once he fell into her arms, she collapsed to the ground under his weight and began to cry at the sight. Beast Boy was badly burnt from the explosion and had gashes and cuts that seeped blood through his school uniform. She looked back at the monster that had done this, with sad eyes.
"This is only the beginning Terra." Slade said backing into the flames that now were beginning to consume the house. Once he was out of sight, Terra looked back at the bloody changeling in her hands. She used her hands to make the ground she was sitting on begin to shift and rise into the air. It soared through the air with them on top. She looked back at her house which was blurry from tears. The fire had now covered the house and fire trucks were arriving to try and put it out. She looked back forward and saw Titan's Tower in the distance. She knew that she had no choice; she had to help Beast Boy. She had to take him back to Titans Tower and reveal to the team that she was alive so they could get Beast Boy the attention he needed.
She flew for what seemed like hours until the chunk of land taken from Terra's home touched the rocky shore of the Tower. She climbed off with Beast Boy still in her arms. Even though it was difficult to carry him, she didn't let herself stop until he was back in his home. Once she reached the door, it opened and revealed Raven quickly followed by Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin.
She let tears slide down her cheeks as she held out Beast Boy to his family. Cyborg looked at his green friend with sadness in his eyes. Starfire flew over and grabbed Beast Boy from Terra with tears in her angry green eyes.
"Please we have to help him!" Terra said grabbing Beast Boy's hand before Starfire could get away.
Starfire, and Raven gave her evil looks, but Robin stepped forward and let her inside the tower she once called home.
"Alright," Robin said as the door closed behind her. "Starfire, you and Raven go and help Beast Boy as much as you can, if we can't get the help he needs, take him to a local hospital as soon as possible."
Starfire and Raven flew out of sight with Beast Boy in their care. "I have to go wherever with them! I need to help him!" Terra said chasing after them only to be stopped by Cyborg. She turned around and Robin was looking at her with an unreadable expression because of the mask.
"No." He said flatly. "What you need to do is tell me everything that happened. How they found you, what happened to Beast Boy, and who did it."
Terra nodded as she walked over to the grey sofa and sat down. She took a breath and was about to start the story when something occurred to her.
"Where's my sister?" She said looking at Robin. He looked at Cyborg who nodded and left the room. He then returned a few minutes later with Grace holding his metal hand. She saw Terra and took off at light speed and hugged Terra then began to cry.
"Shh…" Terra said holding the weeping girl. "It's alright, I'm here Grace."
"Raven told us she was your sister, but we couldn't get her to say anything." Cyborg said walking over and handing Grace her baby bunny. "You left this in your sister's room."
"Grace are you alright?" Terra said letting go of her.
"No," Grace said with tears in her eyes. "I saw our house burning."
Terra hugged her sister again when a whole new line of tears came flowing from her eyes. She looked up at Robin who was now whispering to Cyborg. When they caught her looking, Cyborg left the room in the direction Starfire and Raven had fled.
"He's going to help Beast Boy." Robin said taking a seat next to Terra on the couch. "Now I know this is all a little…painful for you right now but I need you to tell me everything that happened."
Terra just looked at him as she let go of her sister. She turned to her sister who was now hugging her bunny.
She sighed. "Grace…I want you to know that the story I would tell you when you couldn't sleep wasn't a story my parents told me when I was little. I lied because I didn't want anything bad to happen to our family, but you have a right to know that the girl from the story is me."
Grace's mouth formed a shocked O and a gasp escaped her lips. When she said nothing, Terra turned back to Robin who was waiting for the story.
"It all started when I walked into the school office and I saw them disguised as new students…"
Raven looked down at Beast Boy in his bloody clothes that Cyborg was removing. "If you guys want to leave, I need to get ALL of his clothes off." He said taking his shirt off to reveal a large gash covering his chest. It was still dripping blood, but they managed to stop it to a point where he wouldn't lose too much.
Starfire and Raven took the hint and walked into the hallway and waited for Cyborg to say it was alright to comeback in and treat his wounds.
"This is all her fault." Raven said trying her best to take hold of her emotions. "If she hadn't come back, Beast Boy wouldn't be hurt."
"I agree, friend." Starfire said pacing the floor. "But even though I do not approve of her actions, Terra had a good reason to stay hidden from our sight."
"I know she had her family, but…" Raven said only to be cut off by Cyborg rushing outside.
"Guys you can come back in, we need to stop the bleeding completely, give him stitches and put his leg in a cast." He said leading them to Beast Boy who was now only wearing shorts.
Cyborg began typing things into the computer next to the bed while Starfire and Raven began gathering materials to help there green friend. Starfire got out a cloth to wrap around his large gash and Raven got out the gauze but before she wrapped it around his leg, she put her hands on his green skin, and tried to heal it as much as she could.
A black light began swirling around the broken bone and Raven felt it start to move in place, but was still broken. She opened her eyes and reached for the gauze never taking her eyes off of the changeling. She began wrapping his leg and re-playing everything that happened in the past week. Cyborg giving them the necklaces, Beast Boy kissing Terra, meeting Miss Jackie and becoming friends with Amanda. Her blood ran cold when she thought of Amanda being alone in the orphanage.
She looked down at Beast Boy's leg to see that she had used up all the gauze and it was now nestled safely in the cloth. She walked over to a cabinet and pulled out an ointment and then walked back to cover it over his cuts. She started rubbing the ointment on his arms and stomach. She then continued with the right side of his body until his cuts were covered. Starfire had finished covering the gash, but blood still seeped through, she placed one hand on the cloth that hide his wound and took and breath she felt his heart beat and opened her eyes to find the blood stopped flowing from the gash.
"That's all we can do." Raven said stepping back from her friend. "We'll have to monitor the readings and wait for him to wake up."
Starfire and Cyborg just nodded. Raven took a seat next Beast Boy's bed and held onto his hand and closed her eyes. Everything flashed before her eyes, the infirmary faded along with Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg. It was like she had a front row seat for the fight.
"Why are you here? Why did you come back for Terra?" Beast Boy yelled at him once he stood from the floor.
Slade walked to him and punched him in the gut, which made him fall to his knees. "You're friend is still one of the strongest people I've ever seen but she will make up for what she did to me."
Beast Boy looked up with rage in his eyes. "YOU WON'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR HER!"He screamed morphing into a bear and attacking him. He managed to throw Slade off guard for a few seconds, but then he countered Beast Boy with a kick across his face followed by another kick into his stomach. The green bear growled in protest and changed into a gorilla which picked Slade up and threw him across the room into a desk which collapsed. He stood holding onto his chest and Beast Boy charged him as a bull and forced him into the wall.
He morphed back to his normal self showing cuts and bruises on his face. "You won't come anywhere near her Slade, or I swear I will kill you."
His eye opened and he punched Beast Boy across the face giving him another bloody spot on his body. He lay limp on the ground just looking at Slade as he pulled something out from behind his back.
"I do not think that you'll get that far Beast Boy. You may love Terra, but she has to pay for what she did." He said pulling out a sphere. He pressed a button and dropped it on the floor next to Beast Boy and he ran out of the room. Beast Boy struggled to kick the bomb across but didn't manage, a loud beep sounded. And he screamed with tears running down his face, "TERRA!"
The bomb went off and drowned out his scream. A fire quickly started and a hole appeared in the wall and Slade walked back into the room. He removed Beast Boy from the pile of rubble that covered his body. Once the largest piece was gone, before giving him his gash across his chest, Slade grabbed him by his neck and walked over to the hole in the wall. He looked down to find Terra. "Here's a keep sake." He said dropping Beast Boy who was caught by a sobbing Terra. "This is only the beginning Terra" And with that, he vanished in the flames which were now covering the house. Terra controlled a rock to take them to the tower and then everything went blurry.
Raven opened her eyes and looked down at Beast Boy feeling sympathy. He was just trying to protect the girl he loved…Terra.
Beast Boy was in a large room that had white walls and no windows. He looked around and found that he was the only one there. He looked down at himself and saw he was in his Doom Patrol uniform, but it was silver and white instead of purple and black. He walked over to the door and opened it to find a stairway. He looked at the top of the stairway and saw a bright, white light. But it was a long climb and there were at least 300 steps. He began the long climb and noticed pictures on the right side of the wall leading up the stairs. The first was a picture of his mother and father holding Beast Boy when he was a baby. It was a picture they kept near them at all times. He climbed the next few stairs and saw the next picture. It was him learning how to walk. His mom was videotaping and his dad was holding his hands so he wouldn't fall. Beast Boy smiled with tears in his eyes. That was only a few years before the accident. He climbed more steps and saw three pictures; one for each birthday before the accident. He was taller in each photo and his parents looked smarter. Feeling like his stomach was full of lead; he walked to the next photo and just stared at it. It was a photo of him with green skin and hair, pointed ears, and a fang. He was frowning, and looking down at the ground, but his parents were behind him smiling and telling him he was special and unique. Tears filling his eyes, he knew what the next picture was. He looked at his younger self dressed in black surrounded by people crying. There were two caskets in front of him.
He still blamed himself for his parents' death. If he had more control over his powers, he could've saved them. He sat down on the steps not wanting to continue. He thought about the rest of his life knowing what each picture would show. But he wanted to reach the top of the stairs, so he got up and put on a brave face. He walked for at least forty steps seeing nothing but blank wall. When he finally did find a picture it was a picture of a pre- teen Beast Boy smiling proudly with the doom patrol standing behind him happily. He felt better; the next few pictures were of them fighting Brother Blood. But the final picture of the Doom Patrol was of Mento telling him to grow up. He walked up the steps and saw the next picture; it was of the day when the Teen Titan's came to be. The next ten pictures were of them fighting crime. Then he came to one that showed him drooling at the sight of Terra. He blushed and walked to the next one, it was when Terra ran away leaving him behind. His heart was heavy because he knew the next picture was when they were one the Ferris Wheel and were about to kiss, but Slade was in the corner of the cart and ruined the moment. He felt anger and frustration when the next picture showed Terra attacking the Titans and saying she had no friends. He kicked the wall in anger and sighed, he wished that Terra hadn't gone to Slade for help. He walked the next few steps and found a picture of Terra hugging him and crying; lava was spewing from the ground in the background. He let tears fall down his cheeks and walked the next steps and found a picture of the Titans putting the flowers on Terra's memorial. He walked away from the pictures that will forever burn in his mind, and walked up the stairs figuring he was only twenty steps away from the top. He saw one picture of all the Titans gathered to defeat the Brain, and he smiled. He felt like a true leader when he froze the Brain.
He smiled and walked a few more steps to find one of him talking to Terra in her school uniform, he was handing her the communicator but she was backing away from him. He walked away hoping to once again forget the sad photo. He then saw the past week fold out in front of eyes through the next four photos. Cyborg giving them the necklace, them talking to Amanda at the orphanage, him kissing Terra, and the three of them, Raven and Terra and himself, being attacked by Slade. He looked at the light two see it was only a few steps away. But there was one more picture, he took a three steps forward and looked at it. It was a mirror, he was looking at himself. His green eyes, skin, and hair standing out against the white on the walls and the brightness of his uniform. He didn't know what to make of it, his life was told before him in a series of photo's and the last one was a mirror image…did this mean it was the end of his life? There was only one way to find out.
He walked into the brightness and stood there for what felt like hours. Then the light began to fade, and his body was filled with pain as the light fade completely to a tiny screen beside his head. He took a good look around him to find that he was back in Titan's Tower in the infirmary.
Terra watched as Grace zipped around the room looking at everything, her eyes filled with wonder. She was now looking at her lava lamp table. She climbed on top and just stared at it as if she were memorized. Terra laughed and lay back on her old bed. She loved how it still smelled like the soil and grass that covered her uniform after missions. She curled up on the covers and started to doze off until Grace came over and started bouncing on the bed.
"This is so much fun!" Grace said smiling. "You should've taken me here sooner!"
Terra laughed and pulled her sister into a hug. "Well I'm glad you like it! We'll have to leave."
Grace let tears flow down her cheeks. "Why?"
"Because when mom and dad get home, we have to figure this all out, we may not be moving to New York anymore…but we won't be living in the same house. The fire burned our house to the ground."
Grace was still sad but she grabbed little Raven and began stroking her ears. "Well I wouldn't mind living here!"
Terra laughed then thought of Beast Boy. He might be awake now. "Grace you stay here and…don't break anything. I'm going to check on Beast Boy." She walked to the door before Grace rushed over and pulled on her arm.
"Can I go too?" She said with a smile.
"No, I'd rather talk to him on my own." Terra said pushing Grace back into the room. "Stay here or I'll ask Cyborg to watch you."
"Alright I'll stay." She said running back and jumping on the bed.
Terra laughed and began walking down the hall to the infirmary. She hoped no one else was there and that he was awake. When she finally reached the infirmary, the door slid open to reveal Beast Boy lying on the bed. His heart beat was being copied by the monitor and he was bandaged everywhere. The sight broke her heart, she felt responsible for this and she just needed to tell Beast Boy that she was sorry.
She walked over and saw that his eyes were closed, so he was either sleeping or still unconscious. She just sat on the chair next to the bed and held his hand. It had bandages covering it, but she could still feel the coldness of his skin.
"Beast Boy," Terra began slightly squeezing his hand. "This is all my fault. I'm so sorry. I should've been more careful the day that you saw me in the city; I should've left the city!"
Terra paused and looked at his face which gave her comfort and sorrow. It was covered with dried blood, bruises, and cuts. "And now you're hurt and it's all my fault. I should've stayed and helped you fight, we could've stopped Slade. But before he left he told me something as I was holding you in my arms, he said to me 'this is only the beginning Terra'. I don't know what that means but I'm scared that the others are going to get hurt." She looked at his face, smiled and kissed his forehead. "I can't let that happen."
She let go of his limp hand and began walking towards the door to talk to the other Titan's about fighting Slade on her own because she was certain that it was Terra he was looking for and she wouldn't allow the others to get hurt. As the door slid open she heard rustling in the bed and looked back to see Beast Boy sitting up staring at her with large, hopeful emerald eyes and smiled.
"Well than I guess we don't have a moment to lose."