[She's reduced to a wreck as the lava approaches. Whether it's her feelings or the horrible flashes of memory that have started reappearing since she had first stepped foot on the mountain that's leading to her the pressure in her head and her chest, both are causing her to break down as she's dragged away from danger and from her boyfriend. Appealing to Beast Boy's friend will not save him, and even if he did oblige her there was no guarantee she could even do anything to rescue him, as close as he was to the lava.
There is nothing she can do.
Her fingers on her other hand clench in frustration. Why couldn't she use her powers? If she was really Terra, she would be able to control the earth they stood on! She could save everyone, save herself, save Beast Boy, the most important person in her life. Where was this power that she used to dominate the earth, to both help and hurt, to protect and destroy?
The tightness inside her intensifies till bursting point, and it is nearly suffocating. What she originally wrote off as ash and smoke making it difficult to breath turns out to be something else; that compression inside her, a build up of emotions and something else...
Blood turns to earth. Bones to stone. Flesh to rock. Her lungs conquered and transformed into the very earth she had commanded. The fear she felt as the heat that pressed against her faded into an unwelcome numbness. The pain in her own heart as the metamorphosis spread upwards from her feet and enclosing around her heart and right before that final heart beat she hears nothing but the roaring of earth and lava all around her...
And one toothy smile, an outstretched hand and a voice calling her name.
"Terra!"
Her eyes flash open, filled with a yellow glow that had not been seen for at least a year. Like a dam burst open her long dormant power, squashed by her own fears, insecurities, and guilt, floods out from within. The brilliant yellow light that seems to emanates from her very being shines bright, and her senses are suddenly assailed; the earth beneath her responds when her one hand snaps out and with one enraged scream Terra pulls. The earth explodes beneath her feet and she lashes out, willing it to slam against the incoming lava to protect Beast Boy.]
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There is nothing she can do.
Her fingers on her other hand clench in frustration. Why couldn't she use her powers? If she was really Terra, she would be able to control the earth they stood on! She could save everyone, save herself, save Beast Boy, the most important person in her life. Where was this power that she used to dominate the earth, to both help and hurt, to protect and destroy?
The tightness inside her intensifies till bursting point, and it is nearly suffocating. What she originally wrote off as ash and smoke making it difficult to breath turns out to be something else; that compression inside her, a build up of emotions and something else...
Blood turns to earth. Bones to stone. Flesh to rock. Her lungs conquered and transformed into the very earth she had commanded. The fear she felt as the heat that pressed against her faded into an unwelcome numbness. The pain in her own heart as the metamorphosis spread upwards from her feet and enclosing around her heart and right before that final heart beat she hears nothing but the roaring of earth and lava all around her...
And one toothy smile, an outstretched hand and a voice calling her name.
"Terra!"
Her eyes flash open, filled with a yellow glow that had not been seen for at least a year. Like a dam burst open her long dormant power, squashed by her own fears, insecurities, and guilt, floods out from within. The brilliant yellow light that seems to emanates from her very being shines bright, and her senses are suddenly assailed; the earth beneath her responds when her one hand snaps out and with one enraged scream Terra pulls. The earth explodes beneath her feet and she lashes out, willing it to slam against the incoming lava to protect Beast Boy.]