Hey! Chapter two, Improved version!

I woke up, blinking because of the bright sunlight flooding through the window. I yawned and sat up, stretching as I did so. Starfire was already awake--doing what, I had no idea. I got up and padded out of her room. It felt a bit odd to be in the Titans Tower, since I wasn't one of them. I was a stranger in their household, but I was grateful for their compassion to share with me something I didn't have.

I walked into the food-filled kitchen and opened up the fridge. I leaned in and opened up a drawer, pulling out a bag of frozen pancakes when a slightly-familiar voice behind the fridge door said, "Hey Ezerra."

Startled, I hit my purple-haired head on a drawer of me. That's right, Ow. I closed the fridge door with my elbow, rubbing my head with one hand and holding my cold breakfast in the other.

"Sorry," apologized none other than the Boy Wonder. "I didn't mean to startle you."

"It's okay. I've always been clumsy," I replied simply.

"Um, about yesterday…" Robin began, not looking at me, a gloved hand running through his spiky black hair.

"It's fine," I said awkwardly.

"Ok, well, I'll be on the roof, doing some combat practice." He turned to go after he said this and added, "You can come watch if you'd like."

He left silently and I heated up some pancakes. I scarfed them down then headed to the roof.

Robin was fighting multiple robotic dummies at a time with little effort. He was good; and I mean, really good. He moved on to a laser field and easily avoided being burned. After watching him admiringly for a bit, I stepped forward and moved everything aside. I placed some lasers in a square, creating an arena.

"Thought you'd join me, huh?" Robin asked, raising an eyebrow beneath his mask.

I nodded and grinned. I thought I saw him give me a half smile but I couldn't be sure. I got into fighting stance, knees slightly bent and I slightly rocked back and forth. Before he could attack, I jumped and spun, sticking my leg out so my foot hit him in the chest. He staggered a bit as I landed in a crouch, one leg out behind me. I spun around and my leg knocked his feet out from under him.

I stood up and got into fighting stance and so did he. I sloppily aimed punches at him a few times, but most of them he blocked. I kneed him in the side causing him to spin and fall on his face. I put a foot on his back and pulled one of his legs over his back for a few moments before jumping away because he almost kicked me in the face with his other leg.

I got back into fighting stance again. He got up and pulled out the nightstick he uses. I tried to take it from him but he held on tight. I held on firmly and pushed it against his chest, pushing him away. Robin, being stronger than me, managed to push it back at me so hard I stumbled back and fell. Before I had a chance to get up, he was already there, and planted a foot on my chest. I turned my head sideways and closed my eyes, as if I was dead. I opened one eye and saw him grin at me quickly.

Maybe instead of my lame joke, it was because he felt sorry for me; I wasn't too good at hand-to-hand combat.

"I lose," I said, removing his foot. I rolled onto my hands and knees and got up. "You're a great fighter, Robin. I'm glad I'm on your side."

I removed the lasers and walked away. I headed back into the tower to find out what the others were doing.

Beast Boy and Cyborg were playing video games in the living room—where else? Cyborg was beating Beast Boy, like he said he would. I walked up behind them.

"May I join you?" I asked.

"Sure," said Cyborg. I grabbed a controller and plopped down beside them as a new race began.

My little black car zoomed past Beast Boy's green one rather quickly, placing me in second. I smiled to myself.

Cyborg commented, "Hey, look Beast Boy, you just got whooped by a girl!"

I resisted the urge to call out, "Sexist much?" Instead, I focused on beating the half-robot. My car was creeping up on Cyborg's and if I hit the nitro at the right time I would……

"Yes!" I shouted as my car beat Cyborg's at the last second.

Cyborg was open-mouthed as Beast Boy said, "Hey look Cyborg, you just got beat by a girl!"

I ignored how sexist that was and giggled. "Didn't I tell you guys I played racing games at the orphanage?"

They both looked at each other, and then me with wide eyes and said, "No."

"Well, you know now!" I said, laughing at the appalled looks on their faces.

"Rematch!" the guys shouted.

"If you really want to be beat again, sure," I said and we raced again. And I won again. Surprise, surprise.

After racing many more rounds which I only lost two of, I got up and walked into the kitchen. I was thirsty and found Raven there, sipping some herbal tea silently. Her face was clouded with thoughts as she slowly drained her warm drink.

"May I have some?" I asked.

"You like herbal tea?" she asked flatly, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah," I replied. "Who doesn't?"

"Everyone else in the tower."

"Oh," I said pouring myself a cup. I drank it quickly.

"Have you seen Starfire?" I asked.

"No." She got up and began walking to her room.

"Where are you going?" I called after her.

"To my room to meditate."

"May I join you?"

"Sure." She replied with a bit of contradicting unwelcomeness in her voice after a pause and I followed her to her room. She opened the door and let me in and then shut it behind us. I saw a dresser and her bed on the opposite wall. I saw a mirror on the dresser. I didn't touch it, since it looked dangerous and it wasn't mine. Knowing only that Raven was a dark, brooding person, the mirror could be powerful as well as something I shouldn't touch.

She sat down in the middle room and levitated there. I floated opposite of her. We murmured the words in unison, "Azarath, metrion, zinthos."

I felt at peace and it felt good to be calm. My soul felt at rest, my entire form blissfully calm. Just me and my thoughts in a sleep-like motionless position. I was able to be within myself, examining my emotions.

After a while Raven stopped meditating. She prodded me on the shoulder and I came out of my trance. I opened my eyes and she said a magic word: "Lunch-time."

I jumped up and headed straight into the kitchen. The smell of good food met my nose and I sat down between Raven and Robin.

"What's for lunch?" I asked.

"The BLTs," Starfire replied, setting the delicious plates of sandwiches on the table.

"Where have you been?" I questioned curiously.

"In my room, feeding my bumgorf, Silkie," She replied simply.

"What?" I gasped, almost choking on the water I had been drinking.

"Long story," said Beast Boy.

After Starfire placed the BLT's on the table, everyone grabbed one. Except Beast Boy who had a disgusted look on his face and was eating a salad.

"How come you're not—oh wait you're a vegetarian," I said, remembering that Beast Boy could turn into a pig. I felt sort of guilty but not enough to keep from eating my bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

"Yep."

We ate and joked and laughed, just like last night's dinner. I began levitating Beast Boy's cup of water over his head, tipping it a bit as if I would pour it on him. Cyborg and I tried really hard to control our laughing but it was funny to see a few drops fall on his head and him wonder where it came from. He freaked as water seemed to spontaneously drip onto his head.

"Titans, trouble!" Robin shouted, startling me so that I flung the drink across the room. It smashed against the wall, littering the floor with shattered glass and soaking it with whatever Beast Boy had been drinking.

"What?! Oh, sorry about the drink." I apologized, dark purple eyes wide at the thought that trouble had come already.

I have added a few more details and such. I'm revising all of my chapters, 1-14. Thanks to all my reviewers who helped me continue to write this story and have stayed with me since the beginning last year and even when it has sucked.

Ezerra