Hey everybody! I thought of this one- shot while I was watching a bunch of cinnamon challenge videos. I don't recommend you do it, though! Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters below.
Wally was propping his chin up with the palm of his hand as he was randomly flipping through channels. The team hadn't had a mission in a week and complete boredom was taking its toll on him. Kaldur was reading a James Patterson book, Conner was staring at M'Gann while she made cookies, Robin was doing his usual Robin thing and Artemis was talking with Zatanna about some random movie she saw.
After a few minutes of channel surfing, Wally throw the remote down on the ground and groaned loudly.
"Ugh! I'm sooo bored!" Wally yelled, as he let his head hit the back of the couch.
"Then leave, Baywatch." Artemis said, annoyed at his sudden outburst.
He glared at her and crossed his arms over his chest. He turned and saw a magazine on the table with a picture of a woman with bleach blond hair and crystal blue eyes on the cover. KF's eyes nearly bulged out of his head. One of the Leaguer's must've left it here by mistake. Probably Ollie. He quickly picked it up and stared flipping through the pages to try and find another picture of her. After a few seconds, he found her picture under a title that said, How to Get the Perfect Body in 10 Easy Steps.
"I already have the perfect body, babe." Wally muttered, hypnotized by her photo.
As his eyes quickly skimmed the page, he noticed a small article at the bottom of the page. Wally smile grew bigger and bigger with each other. After he was done, he shot up off the couch, startling everyone in the room.
"I know what we should do!" Wally yelled.
"For the last time Baywatch, we're not watching Burlesque." Artemis said, annoyed.
"A, that's a good movie and B, I wasn't going to say that."
"What were you going to suggest?" Aqualad asked, closing his book.
"We should totally do the Cinnamon Challenge."
Conner, Kaldur and M'Gann looked at each other confused.
"What's the Cinnamon Challenge?" M'Gann asked, placing a tray of cookies on the counter.
"It's really simple. All you have to do is eat a spoonful of cinnamon. The first one to do it wins."
"Oh well I guess I'll play."
"Me too." Zee said, quickly.
"I got nothing else do to." Conner said, standing up.
"Count me in!" Robin yelled, jumping down from the ceiling and giving everyone a heart attack.
"I shall play as well." Kaldur said, quickly recovering.
Wally turned and stared at Artemis along with the rest of the team.
"What?"
"Aren't you going to play?" M'Gann asked.
"No, it's stupid." Artemis said.
"Come on Artemis. It'll be fun." Zee begged.
Artemis shook her head and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Come on guys. She's obviously too scared to play." Wally said, with a huge smirk on his face.
Artemis turned to him sharply and gave him a glare that could almost revile Batman's.
"I'm not scared!"
"Oh, poor little Arty's afraid that she's going to lose to the Wall-man."
The archer clenched her fists and shot up from her seat at the table. She grabbed the speedster by his collar and forced him back to the wall.
"I'm not scared and I know for a fact that I can beat you!" she yelled, in his face.
"Then let's up the ante. The first person to swallow the cinnamon gets waited on hand and foot by the losers." Wally explained, with his smirk growing bigger with each word.
"You're so on."
Artemis released the speedster from her grip and they started to set up for the challenge. M'Gann grabbed the cinnamon and 7 spoons from the cabinet while Conner placed chairs around the table. After they finished, everyone took their spots at the table. The cinnamon was passed around the table and everyone filled their spoons with cinnamon.
"Now remember. The first person to shallow the cinnamon wins. If you spit it out, you automatically lose. On the count of 3. 1.….2.…..3!"
With that everyone put the reddish brown substance in their mouths. It only took 5 seconds for them to feel the spice's effects. M'Gann was the first one to spit it out. She started coughing violently and the cinnamon started coming out of her mouth in puffs of smoke. The martain clutched her throat as she tried to breathe, but found it was impossible. The next person was Kaldur. As soon as it entered his mouth, all of the moisture left his mouth. The cinnamon was like liquid lava on his tongue. He coughed violently as some of it went down his throat. His eyes turned a bright red and he felt a prickle of tears in his eyes. Kaldur quickly ran to the sink to wash out his mouth.
Zatanna tried her best to swallow the spice, but her mouth felt like it was on fire. She feel to her knees and started gagging up the substance. She started screaming as the spice burned her entire mouth and throat. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed the large cartoon of milk in the fridge. She drank it all in less than 10 seconds. Conner started gagging more violently than the others because he poured it down his throat with swallowing. The spice coated his throat and sucked all the moisture out of his throat. The clone had tears running down his face as it burned his eyes. By now, he was on his hands and knees trying to get the substance out of his throat.
Now only three team members remained. Robin, Artemis and KF. Robin felt like he just put hot rocks in his mouth, but he refused to spit it out. He swallowed a little bit and immediately gagged and feel off of his stool. The Boy Wonder could handle many things, but the cinnamon challenge was not one of them. He grabbed a water bottle from his utility belt and downed it quickly. Even after he drank up the water, he found himself on his hands and knees gagging. Dick almost sounded like he was dying.
Only two teammates remained. Both of them felt like they were dying, but their pride wouldn't let them cave. Artemis had tears in her eyes and had a light sheen of sweat over her body. Wally was holding it in his mouth and was watching for the right moment to swallow it. After what seemed like forever, the two heroes caved at the same time. Both were gagging and coughing like crazy. Artemis was screaming from the pain and extreme heat that was coming from her mouth. She ran to a trash can and started throwing up like crazy. Wally zoomed over to the sink and pushed Kaldur out of the way. He then started trying to clean his mouth out with water. As he coughed, the speedster sounded like he was being tortured. Wally's eyes were watering like crazy and he grabbed his throat as he tried to breathe.
The team didn't even notice the zeta beam go off until they saw their mentors at their sides with concerned looks on their faces.
"What happened?!" Zatara asked, trying to get Zee to stop throwing up.
"Ci (cough) nna (cough) cinnamon (cough) cha( cough) challenge." Wally said, trying to breathe normally.
Batman shook his head as while he was patting Robin's back.
"Teenagers."
Please review! Remember, never do this! =)
