In Christmas of '04, while I was rolling headlong into Act Two of the train wreck 'These Black Eyes', I made the decision to write the end-all/be-all of Teen Titans angst fics. I was never a fan of the typical Terra-BB-Raven Triangular emo fests, and somehow I felt that the only way to accept an absurd world where such polynumerous abominations exist would be to Frankestein a putrid wrist-slasher of my own. The result, was 'the six deaths of terra'--not to be confused with Sora's work, the Six Deaths of Alex, which was written much later and far more sexily than this melodramatic Lifetime drivel. For those who care to give a rat's rectum about the plot, this story was written long before Season Five of Teen Titans was aired. So please, if you will, accept a universe where 'Things Change' never transpired. I also would like to take the time to apologize for the conniption fits to be had for my redonkulous use of center-page-alignment and quasi poetic sentence fragments. You have been (castrated) warned.
Original Stats: (First Publish Date: 12.22.04) (Last Publish Date: 12.22.4) (Chapters: 1) (Words: 14, 040) (Reviews: 82)
Terra had it coming. Dayum chicken legs.
"RRRRAAAAUGH!!"
Yellow hands.
Yellow eyes.
Buildings explode into shrapnel from beneath.
Chunks of earth and concrete swirl in the air, branch outwards, and trail the heels of screaming masses in the streets.
Citizens scream and run for their life.
Missiles of hardened dirt explode among them.
Bodies fly and land bloodily on the asphalt.
Robotic henchmen trample over them.
Slade's army stomps after the innocent lives in a phalanx.
They raise pistols high and fire indiscriminately.
Holes form in the backs of men, women, and children in the rear.
Red holes.
Bodies fall to the street like meat rain.
And still, their bodies are pelted by waves of heat and burning rocks.
She floats above the surging panic on a vibrating plateau of stone.
Her arms dangling by her side.
Wrapped in corpse-cloth.
She clenches yellow fists.
She looks up.
A red horizon slashes across her vision.
Then turns cold.
Her eyes turn back to blue and widen.
A belated gasp comes out of her lips.
Her hair rises up.
FLASH!!
Terra stands frozen in stone.
Inside a lonely cavern.
Solitary.
Cold.
Her eyes are clear orbs of smooth granite.
Her mouth hangs open.
It is a strange feeling.
Or can it really be called 'feeling'?
I once thought I knew what this would feel like.
And yet……
I can't seem to come to a stop here.
I can't stop rattling around.
CRAAACK!!
"AAAAUGH!!" Cyborg falls into the crevice of the shattered warehouse floor.
He fires an extended, grappling hand up to clamp onto the broken ledge.
He loses his grip.
He's swallowed in darkness.
FLASH!!
Her shoulders rest as marble effigies of anorexia.
Gangly limbs convulsed outwards.
Still.
Worn slightly at the edges with the archaic heat of some stifled volcano.
I can't see.
And yet.
I know everything that passes in front of me.
I know it's there.
But I can't feel it.
Is this……
Is this what it means to be on the other side?
"STARFIRE!!"
THWACK!!
A huge boulder shatters into the back of the Tamaranian girl.
The breath leaves her as she plummets like a ragdoll.
Sailing into the rocky surf of the bayside below.
Robin screams.
FLASH!!
Her thin arms end in gnarled gloves.
Fingers curling in endless pain.
Trying their vain best to stretch out.
To welcome or to accept.
Stone bandage strands scream out from her limbs in every direction.
I……
I don't know………
Everything……
Everything is gone……
And I almost had it.
"What did we ever do to make you hate us so much?!" Robin growls.
She sneers back. "You were born."
RUMMMMMBLE!!
Robin gasps as stones rise up and pelt the breath out of him.
FLASH!!
Her breasts are hugged by a thin chest plate eating into her skin.
Metal strips fuse into her torso and abdomen.
Like tiny, serrated teeth giggling into her arteries forever.
I never……
I never had it.
Did I?
Did I truly……
Did I truly have anything?
Even when the Titans gave it to me, it wasn't enough.
And Slade……
"Augh!!" Raven struggles.
Gasping.
The four eyes reshaping back into two.
Terra's eyes narrow.
Raven's mouth opens one last time.
Terra clenches her fist….and buries the dark girl in mud.
Bubbles rise to the surface…and disappear.
FLASH!!
Feet melt into the earth.
The toes curled beneath stone boots.
Everything is whole and everything is wanting to be shattered apart.
Her head is tilted to the ceiling.
To a sky hidden by the Earth.
The Earth….
I'm not really here.
I'm not really here.
I'm not………
I'm not real.
"Nnnngh…….," Beast Boy struggles.
A pair of boots settle over him.
He looks up.
He gasps.
"Terra……"
"…………," she glares down.
He reaches for her.
She does nothing.
And Beast Boy falls into blackness…….
FLASH!!
A statue stands in the center of a rocky cavern.
A statue in the shape of a screaming girl.
The Titans gather before her.
They pay their respects.
No……
They lay down a plaque at her feet.
No……please……
'Terra. A Teen Titan. A True Friend.'
Please……Please……
They turn their backs on her.
I'm not real.
They walk away.
I'm not real.
They leave.
I'm not really here.
The statue calls out.
The statue has no voice.
The air has no breath.
It is cold.
It is cold…
It is cold…….
Forever.
Stone.
……the six deaths of terra……