I have decided to try something I have seen a lot of here on . I have noticed that many people have partaken of this sort of challenge either of their own design or of another's and it has struck my fancy. I am creating my own "One Sentence Challenge" for myself. I "Googled" a random word generator (creativity games. net) and set it for just one single word that I will then write a single sentence about. I will repeat this 25 times. This is actually quite a challenge for me as I like to be quite descriptive. Hopefully this will help me be more concise in the future. Please let me know what you think.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans… Unfortunately…
1. Commander:
Robin was definitely the leader of the Titans, but when the situation demanded it, such as the time when Robin had been knocked unconscious during a fight with Cinderblock, surprisingly it was Raven who easily fell into the role of commander in his absence.
2. Crispy:
Beast Boy was only a foot away from being crispy fried when he felt a familiar magic surround him and quickly move him away from the large vat of boiling oil, but when Raven sent him a even more familiar glare he smiled his thanks before leaping back into the fray.
3. Contract:
Raven kept it a secret, along with most of her past, that she was in-fact demon enough to form Faustian Contracts, but since she never had any desire to be called upon for such a thing she hid her demon name well and made sure that no one would be able to summon her for one, after all she wasn't a demon as much as she was a Titan.
4. Panther:
Sometimes Raven had to admit that watching Beast Boy lounge about could be quite annoying, but when he purred under her hand while she sat next to him and read in the evening light she had to admit that it wasn't that bad when he was in panther form.
5. Crane
Robin barely avoided the bulldozer that Cinderblock had just thrown his was when he saw the crane looming above him, but just as he realized his danger a pair of strong arms gathered him close to a warm body and he was flying out of harm's way even as he fought a blush at the position Starfire had put them in again.
6. Square
The small squares of chocolate sat innocently on their plate in the center of the table, but Cyborg knew them for the vegan trap they were and steered clear of Beast Boy's milk- and egg-free brownies.
7. Summit:
Raven had been surprised when Robin had asked to join her in meditation, as it was not something he usually asked as he felt it was an intrusion into her personal time, but as they sat together on the summit of Mt. Takao after their grueling mission she felt an aura of peace around them and was glad she could share this with her leader and friend.
8. Crisis:
The Titans faced danger everyday they defended the peace of their city, but they only really felt that they were in a crisis when one the team was injured while performing their duty.
9. Straw:
When Raven opened the fridge to find nothing but meat for the fifth time that month, she decided that that was the final straw for her and that she and Cyborg were going to have a talk about his obsession with meat if she had to hold the T-car hostage to do it.
10. Summer:
Robin watched Starfire fly in loops through the clouds from his position on the Tower's roof; even though he didn't much care for the heat of summer, Starfire loved the warmth of the Earth's sun and celebrated it whenever she could, so Robin watched her with a small smile on his face and let her have fun.
11. Kitten:
Beast Boy purred from his spot next to Raven on the couch, his head resting on her thigh, but Raven couldn't help but feel disappointed that he wasn't in a larger feline form; she really did prefer panthers or tigers over kittens.
12. Tsunami:
When the tsunami hit Japan the Titans could only watch with horror as they viewed the catastrophe through their monitors, and the fact that there was no villain to fight made them feel even more hopeless as they prepared to be part of the relief squad– after all no one could trump Mother Nature.
13. Junk:
Beast Boy looked up curiously as he heard a knock on his door and quickly scrambled to answer it, but when he saw Robin on the other side with a Hazmat suit threatening to clean the changeling's room himself if Beast Boy didn't organize his junk, said teen quickly closed the door and locked it while whistling as though he couldn't hear Robin's yells through the reinforced door of his room.
14. Rash:
Beast Boy was always getting himself into trouble, always acting rashly, but luckily for him he had a whole team of people to come pull him out of whatever mess he got himself into.
15. Turkey:
Robin sighed around his hand as he came upon Beast Boy leading a Vegan protest against the "heinous" crime of having a holiday such as "Turkey Day", otherwise known as Thanksgiving.
16. Lasso:
When Beast Boy came galloping – quite literally– through the living room for the second time while Raven was trying to meditate, the changeling found himself pulled to a stop by a black lasso around his neck and a very peeved half-demoness glaring down at him from her lotus position.
17. Mile:
Running a mile was nothing for the Titans, even Raven who was the least athletic of the team could do it with minimal effort, but when the state workers came around to perform standardized testing running a mile was always required even though all of them would finish in under three minutes, which for some reason always surprised the person that was testing them.
18. Mirror:
Sometimes Beast Boy felt the need to examine himself in the mirror, but as hard as he stared he could no longer see his parents in himself; it seemed that not even his human bone structure was spared from the Sakutia.
19. Egypt:
Raven rubbed her already aching head and tried to keep calm as she explained the facts of life to her green teammate, "We are in Louisiana, not Egypt, Beast Boy, and that means there are alligators, not Nile Crocodiles."
20. Raincoat:
Cyborg sighed again wishing that they had thought to bring raincoats as the Titans walked sullenly away from the park under a layer of Raven's black energy, but looking around at the rest of his team – all bearing the same look of dejection – he couldn't help but smile.
21. Snail:
Starfire had been understandably intrigued by the slimy snail trails that had been left on the Titan's front windows one morning until Beast Boy decided to show her what had made them.
22. Food:
Food was a common reason for debate around the Tower, but there was one thing that all of them agreed on: No one should eat alone.
23. Flashbulb:
Raven didn't know where Beast Boy and Cyborg had found the aged camera with its tilted flashbulb, but she was going to make sure no one ever found it again in this dimension once she was able to catch the two perpetrators of the latest Tower-prank of flashing her as she awoke from her meditation.
24. Exam:
Raven would never admit it, but she had been slightly nervous about the "exam" that Robin had concocted to test the team's cohesion without him leading, but that anxiety was for nothing as the team moved seamlessly together even without Robin, and Robin was surprised that Raven never really seemed to think twice about the fact that they all looked to her for guidance.
25. Tail:
Beast Boy, while being very much a human teenager, was also very much like having a zoo in the Tower, and Cyborg couldn't help but smirk as he watched the lashing tail of the green clouded leopard as he tried to sneak up on Raven as she meditated.
Thank you for reading and I hope that someone found some amusement in this little attempt at something new. Please let me know what you think! If you would also like to try your hand at my challenge feel free to do so. Just let me know, so that I may read it. I would love to find out what others might think of. I might do another of these in the future. It depends on if teh mood strikes me again.
~Orin