Seeing Red.

Terra awoke in a bed she'd never seen before. She looked around and startled herself. Terra tried to get up but was in just enough pain to want to stay down. She looked around the room. There was a giant barn door which enabled her to see through and see a bar to the side of the room furthest to her. She saw a little living room set up. With a couch and a table in the middle.

Terra: Hello? Someone here?

A person walked into the room. He was looking very tired.

???: Your awake.

Terra tried to attack the person in front of her. He was a man with some circular glasses. He easily restrained her.

???: Hey, listen. I'm not going to hurt you.

Terra: Then who are you?

???: I'm Matthew Murdock. Just call me Matt.

???: Oh, hi Terra.

Terra: Hey...I know you. You're Miss Los. You saved me.

Matt looked over to Krilla. She nodded slightly. Matt left the room.

Krilla: You were betrayed, huh? By Stick? I shouldn't have left you there. I'm sorry Terra.

Terra: ...How do you even know that Stick exists?

Krilla: Matt was one of Stick's pupils.

Terra: Oh.

Matt walked back into the room.

Matt: Here's why you could trust us. Look.

Matt took a mask out of a bag. It was red and had horns.

Terra: Wait, Wait. WAIT. You're The Devil of Hell's Kitchen?!

Matt: How do you even know about the Devil of Hell's Kitchen?

Terra: Stick told us all about you in the Chaste. Wait, you're actually blind? You don't seem blind.

Matt: I am but I "see" through echolocation. I can hear and feel everything around me. Even your heartbeat.

Terra: That's creepy...

Matt: I get that a lot. Either Way. We'll let you go wherever you want. You can go to whatever state, town. Anywhere.

Terra: Why are you doing this?

Krilla: Stick will come after you. I should've left you somewhere else.

Terra: You don't need to keep saying that.

Krilla: I've been keeping an eye on you though. Making sure you're safe. I brought you here as a matter of fact.

Terra: You saved my life...again.

Krilla: Yeah I know. I'm awesome.

Matt: What was your relationship with the Chaste? You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

Terra: I knew I was part of the Chaste from the beginning. But I didn't really know the full gravity of the situation. I always wanted to go off and be my own person though. But I didn't feel like I could go anywhere without Stick getting angry.

Krilla: There's always a motive. So it's kinda half your fault. You are still naive. Even with years of training under the most cynical person in the world.

Terra: I don't like to call it being naive. Optimistic.

Krilla: You still have got learning to do.

Matt: You have a good heart. With all the corruption in the world there has to be a little bit of light. Since I took down Fisk there hasn't been much to fight against. And if there is then other heroes take them down. It's kind of been peaceful here. You could stay here for a little while to decide on what to do.

Terra: No...I know where I wanna go.

Krilla: That's quick. Where too?

Terra: Back to my village.

Matt: Your village? Why?

Terra: It was destroyed. But I need to go back and find the culprit. I know who he is.

Matt: I am sorry for that Terra. But you should just move on rather than take him down.

Terra: No, I need too! He's taking down even more towns. Torturing people. I've seen his face. I need to find him.

Matt: Well if you insist. Do you have any idea about who he is?

Terra: Dark skin, prosthetic arm. He had a belt that said R on it. Maybe it means something. I'll walk all the way back if I have too. Those words of his, they kept me going when I felt like giving up in Stick's trials. It motivated me to gain the strength to take him down and make my family proud.

Krilla: Well you're not going to back down so I suppose we can take you back there.

Matt: I like your motivation kid. Keep it up. We'll take you back there.

Terra: Thank you.

Terra went to get up but fell back down.

Terra: Shit.

Matt: Haha. You should stay here for a bit. You can't go and survive in the woods with that bad of a stab wound.

Terra: Yeah, I know.

Krilla: Don't forget. Stick is in your same area. Don't think that he isn't going to send his students after you.

Terra: I'm pretty positive he left. The hand and Beck's soldiers attacked. That's where Stick got mad and almost killed me.

Matt: Okay. We'll take you there on one of my friends private jets.

Terra: A private jet? Like a type of plane?

Matt: Oh yeah, you haven't even come into contact with the outside world in however many years. Don't worry. You'll like it. But you should stay here for a day or two. You need to heal.

Terra: Ugh, alright.

Matt: I'll talk to my friend about this private jet.

Terra looked over at Krilla.

Terra: Is Matt rich or something?

Krilla: No. But he has rich friends.

Terra: Hey, thanks again for saving me. I would've been dead double times over if it wasn't for you.

Krilla: Let's just not make it a third. I'll let you get some sleep.

Terra laid all the way down on the bed. She hoped she wasn't being too much of a burden. She felt something sharp lightly stabbing into her leg. She pulled up the object. It was her spear. She threw it off the bed and to her side. She drifted off to sleep.

- - - - - - - -

Terra was in a field of tall grass. She looked around, seeing a lone house in the woods. With vibrant wood that looked very inviting. She was drawn to the house. She opened the door and walked in. She saw someone on a chair. Looking closely at a newspaper.

Terra: Hello…?

They put down the newspaper. It was Stick. In her grandpa's chair.

Stick: Your training is over…

Terra: What the...You aren't grandfather...

Stick: Shut it. I never was. I'm not dead. I'm not defenseless like they were.

Terra: Shut up! He had an army!

Stick walked closer to Terra. Terra backed up. Stick had Terra's spear. He swept her off her feet.

Stick: Work on the stance kid.

There was a warm fireplace behind Terra. A man materialized out of the fire. It was Beck. Terra jumped back in fear. The fireplace grew and the building began to burn to the ground.

Stick: Your life. It's burning to the ground. You gonna let that continue to happen?

Terra ran up the stairs and up into the attic. She was able to find her way out on top of the house through a window. Stick climbed out on top of the house. Face to face with Terra.

Terra: STOP FOLLOWING ME!

Stick: Your sins will never stop following you. Your past holds on until you let it go.

The fire was getting more intense. She had no choice but to try and jump off the building. Terra turned but she ran into Beck.

Beck: Pitiful.

Terra threw a punch at Beck but it went through him. He began to rise above Terra.

Stick: Shhhh. Listen Terrie.

Stick took Terra's own spear and stabbed it through her stomach. She fell off the house with her own spear stabbed into her. She landed face first on the cold hard floor of Matt's bedroom. With her spear under her, on her stomach. Terra looked around. She sighed.

Terra: Just a dream. Just a dream.

Terra climbed up onto the bed. Her wound was now throbbing. She rolled over and grabbed the Artemis book.

Krilla came in.

Krilla: That book...you still have it?

Terra: Oh. yeah. I've been trying to figure out these spells for a while. Step back. I'm going to try something. Doe ocki minos!

A beam shot up from the book and hit the ceiling. A picture of a huge jail was burnt onto the top of the cavern.

Terra: What the...What is this?

Krilla: Woah. That's a mutant and meta jail. Those places are terrible.

Terra: There's not even a roof! Those people are just getting rained on.

Krilla: That shouldn't be your first worry. They go to places they think have too many metas and round them up. The MFI sometimes just locks up random metas and mutants.

Terra: Does this spell mean I'll go there?

Krilla: Maybe. Try another.

Terra: Rekuka Suld!

A shield went around Terra.

Terra: Woah.

Krilla: That's a shield.

Terra: Try hitting me.

Krilla threw a kick at Terra. Only cracking the shield.

Terra: This thing is powerful! And I think it must be connected to my armor.

Krilla: Why?

Terra: I mean, there's so many times I could've lost the book. And it stayed with me. Plus it's the Artemis book.

Krilla: Hmm. These spells are decent. But it's like it's missing offensive spells.

Terra: Yeah. But maybe the armor is the offense. I'm the offense!

Krilla: Let's go with that. Like a sword. An extension of yourself.

Terra: Yeah. Your sword isn't normal though. Isn't it?

Krilla: Right. It is a Soul Blade. Every soul I take I become stronger.

Terra: A soul blade? Woah.

Krilla: You should meet my son one day. I bet you'd like each other.

Terra: Oh yeah, you do have a son. Where is he?

Krilla: I'm an assassin. I kill as a job. I feel bad I have to leave him behind so much.

Terra: Ugh.

Krilla: I don't kill because I love it kid. I was bred into this. And I'm not going to give up on something I'm that good at.

Terra: I get it.

Krilla: But my son-Leon. He will never kill. I will not raise him like that.

Terra yawned.

Krilla: Still tired?

Terra: Yeah actually.

Krilla: Must be the wound.

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Terra stumbled to her feet. She almost fell. She stood still for about a minute. Letting herself feel the feeling of finally being able to stand. She slowly walked into the living room. Nobody was home but Terra was starving.

Terra: I guess a little bite to eat wouldn't hurt.

Terra went over to the fridge and opened it quietly. Like she was commiting a crime. Even though nobody was home. She looked around quietly and spotted some milk.

Terra: He's gotta have something…

Terra opened a couple cabinets. Glasses, Plates, and finally a cabinet with one type of cereal in it. Captain Crunch ™ .

Terra had to deal with the plain wrath that was All-Bran while at Stick's. Another trial to test your immunity. Terra poured the cereal followed by the milk. She sat down and began to eat quickly. She looked around the room and spotted a box looking thing. It was black, had a screen and was relatively flat. It looked quite advanced. Even though the whole room itself looked advanced. She wondered what she was missing all those years. All she had at home was books and lots of games that she played with the other kids at her village. All gone. The thoughts of the massive fires came back to her mind. She quickly brought her mind away from the village. Had her life even had a purpose? No. Her purpose was to defeat Beck. Maybe it was fate. Terra was snapped out of it when she heard the door click open.

Matt: Robbing a blind man?

Terra: N-no! S-sorry I was just-

Matt: Don't worry. Besides. I could hear you got up. You took a really hard dive off the bed.

Terra: Yeah. I had a nightmare. Also, that's still really creepy.

Matt: I get that a lot. What kind of nightmare?

Terra: Oh nothing. The falling off my bed kind.

Matt: If you say so. But that was a lie.

Terra: Wait, you can detect lies?

Matt: I can hear your heartbeat.

Terra: Even more creepy…

Matt: You're trying to change the subject.

Terra: I-

Matt: It's okay. I understand it's hard to trust someone you just met. Especially after being betrayed by someone you saw as a father figure. As a matter of fact. Stick did the same to me.

Terra: Really? I'm sorry. It's just hard. I have no family to go to.

Matt: I'm sorry. Krilla's parents were assassinated when she was a child. I'm just saying, you aren't the only one to feel the pain. This might be sensitive, but are you an orphan?

Terra: …no.

Matt: No? So you do still have family?

Terra: I do.

Matt: Not close?

Terra: I never want to see her again.

Matt: I understand. We both wanted Stick to be a father figure. With the loss of ours. He wanted us to be part of his army. You cross him, it could result in death. It looks like it did.

Terra: I hope he's gone when I get back…

Matt: Don't forget Stick. He trained you. The way I see it, he was a great sensei and mentor. Nothing more, nothing less. It's over. You have a life to live.

Terra: …thanks.

Terra tried to avoid talking by eating her cereal.

Matt: Don't forget. You have to live somewhere in the woods. By yourself. Do you even know where you lived?

Terra: The woods.

Matt: haha no. I mean what was the place you lived called?

Terra: Something like the white mountains. It's in a place called New Hamster or something.

Matt chuckled.

Matt: New Hampshire.

Terra: Yeah! It doesn't really seem like a mountain though. We lived in a really small town.

Matt: Good thing I know Krilla. She found you. If it wasn't for her, then it wouldn't have been pretty. Especially with the things that live over there.

Terra: There's legends that beasts live there. I lived in the woods for a while and Stick always warned us about what might be out there.

Matt: Be careful.

Matt thought to himself for a couple seconds. While Terra drank the milk left in the bowl and then put it away in the dishwasher.

Matt: Wait here for a minute.

Matt walked into his room, on the way he turned on the TV. There was a man in a tuxedo next to a diagram or map of some sort.

Terra: What the hell…

The man was moving his lips but Terra could barely hear the sound. Terra went closer to the TV, she was captured by the man standing on the US.

Terra: How does he do that?

Matt walked out.

Matt: Don't look too close at the TV. You'll go blind.

Terra: HOW CAN YOU EVEN TELL I'M HERE?

Matt: I could tell by your heartbeat among other things. Like your breath.

Terra: Ugh. Also, can I turn up the..What did you call it? A TV? Why do you have it so quiet?

Matt: It's more like background noise. I can hear it perfectly right now.

Terra: What was that guy doing on it anyway?

Matt smiled.

Matt: That was a weatherman. He tells you what the weather will be like.

Terra: Is he a type of god?

Matt: Definitely not. He's a human. Just like me and you.

Terra: Then why was he in front of America?

Matt: That's a green screen. It projects pictures of things behind you so it looks like you're there.

Terra was clearly confused.

Terra: I think I get it.

Matt: I have something for you.

Matt took out a small flip phone. He handed it to Terra. She flipped it up. Seeing numbers, and a small screen.

Matt: This is something you can use to contact me. Here, I'll put Krilla's contact in there.

Matt took the phone back and pressed the numbers on it. He gave it back to her.

Matt: You can use this to call me, Krilla and any others whose numbers you get. If you need help. We will be there. I recommend calling Krilla though.

Terra: Thank you. I appreciate it.

Matt: It's my pleasure.

- - - - - - - -

Terra entered a plane. There were big letters on it that read "RAND." Matt bid her farewell. Krilla entered the plane with her. Krilla showed her what it was like to watch a movie. Terra picked out the movie "Mr. Untouchable: New Beginnings." Terra was amazed by the experience. Krilla had already seen it before but was entertained by Terra's amazement.

Krilla: Believe it or not, Mr. Untouchable is or was a real guy.

Terra: Really?! Aren't movies like that fake?

Krilla: No. Not always. At Least not in this world. There are people with special powers, you know that right?

Terra: Never seen one. Besides Matt.

Krilla: Well there are. But they are scarce nowadays.

Terra: Krilla. Why were you in the White Mountains?

Krilla: I was scouting. Planning on killing Beck.

Terra: You were going to kill Beck?

Krilla: You saw his metal arm. Right?

Terra: Yeah.

Krilla: That was me. But I owed Carl a debt. So I saved you.

Terra: Thank you again.

The plane touched down on the ground. They were on a highway which was cleared of all cars. Krilla walked Terra off the plane.

Krilla: You'd got a long climb ahead of you.

Terra: That's the easy part. The hard part starts when I get home.

Krilla: Well, I wish you the best of luck.

Terra: Where will you go?

Krilla: I have my own agenda. I'm going to do some scouting on my own. If you want to take Beck down. I'll be there.

Terra: Hey, thanks. For everything.

Krilla: My pleasure.

Terra walked away towards the white mountains. A long climb ahead of her.