I'm sorry i know i said that this would be half Dani and half Lio but the story demanded something quite deferent. however i did promise it would be out today and it is! yay! anyway the next chapter will be here soon.
disclaimer: do you honestly think i own this? or do you just think you think i own this?(btw this is a no.)
I woke up the next morning to the sound of Lio's voice. I didn't move at first thinking it was apart of my dream, but Lio gave me a light shove and my eyes flew open.
"hrmm shmama" I murmured groggily. I tried to rub the sleep out of my eyes with no luck.
"The train stopped" Lio said looking a bit worried. I looked at him as if he suddenly grew another head.
"Yeah, Lio, it tends to do that when we get to a station." I growled angrily. I can't believe he woke me up for that. I swatted a hand in his direction and lied back down. "Go back to sleep."
He took hold of both my arms pulling me up again.
"No, I'm mean it stopped. A woman just came in here and said that the train was at its last stop before going back to Durston." He said looking slightly panicked.
"What!?" I said my eyes wide in shock. "Where the hell are we then?!"
"A place called Jump city." He said looking even more panicked.
"Where the hell is that!?" I shouted.
"You're asking me?!" he shouted back.
"Okay, okay let's not panic." I said more to myself than him. " we didn't have a destination in the first place, right? So does it really matter where we are?"
"Guess not," Lio said looking a bit calmer.
"So let's just get a hotel and we'll think about the details in the morning." I said with a sigh.
"Uh, Dani?" Lio said cautiously.
"What, Lio?" I said gathering our stuff.
Lio opened the curtains over the window of our booth and bright light came streaming in. My jaw dropped open.
"It's morning." He said looking almost as tired as I felt. I closed my eyes and lightly banged my head on the plastic window frame.
As I started to bang harder Lio took my hand and pulled me up.
"Come on, sleeping beauty. Let's leave before that horrible woman comes back." But right after he said it a stubby woman came into the doorway. She had short black hair and a horribly big mole over her lip.
"I thought I told you and your girlfriend to leave." The woman said in a heavy accent. from where, i have no clue.
"And I thought I told you she wasn't my girlfriend and that we would leave in a second." Lio said shooting the woman a glare.
"Don't test me boy." The woman said taking a menacing step closer,
"Back at ya, lady."Lio said taking a step to match hers. He gave her the once over. "You are a lady right?"
"Oh, zats it" she said pushing up her sleeves. Lio looked about ready to fight her to. This wasn't good.
"Wait!" I said quickly stepping between them.
"Stay outta this girly. Zis is between me and your boyfriend here" she warned glaring at Lio. Lio rolled his eyes at the threat.
"Not her boyfriend." Lio said with a glaring right back at her.
"Please forgive him! He hasn't gotten much sleep and is just cranky!" I said trying desperately to stop the potential fight. We didn't have time for this.
"I am not!" Lio defended
"Shut up!" I said quickly as I picked up our stuff
With all our stuff in one arm and Lio's hand in the other I exited the room.
"You should listen to your girlfriend boy! Learn to shut that mouth of yours!" the lady shouted from our booth.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Lio shouted over his shoulder one last time before we exited the train.
"Sure looks like it." The woman huffed before going on to see if any other clowns were still on her train.
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"You can't just go around provoking people like that!" I growled at Lio angrily.
"I didn't provoke her! She provoked me." he said still looking peeved.
"What are you? Four?!" I said frustrated. He didn't reply just looked away and sulked as we walked. after a many minutes of painful silence i was beginning to regret yelling at him.
Sighing I looked at the map of jump city we had received from an information desk near the train. Apparently jump city was home to the 'legendary' teen titans but as far as I was concerned there was only one superhero and he was back in Amity Park. I put the map away with a sigh. I couldn't read it at all.
"Want to hear my theory?" Lio said giving me a side glance.
"About what?" I asked glad for both the distraction and the fact that he was talking to me again.
"About why I cant read your mind?" he said. I remembered when he had suddenly asked what I was thinking before and connected the dots.
"sure." I said turning my attention to him. He grinned obviously happy with my answer.
"Okay so you said you ate ectoplasm to try and stable yourself, right? Since you keep decomposing?" he said with a gleam in his eyes.
"Right" I said with a nod. He seemed to be happy talking about this subject and I had to say, I liked it better when he was happy.
"So I'm thinking that maybe one of the ghost's ectoplasm had some weird special components. Maybe that ghost could deflect any mental attacks or something. It wouldn't work on you since you use only physical attacks but maybe you're body absorbed it and it's deflecting me. I mean you said all ectoplasm components are different right? Like DNA?" he asked looking excited. I stared at him for a second.
"What?" he said with a frown.
"You're actually smart." I said slowly smiling
"Gee, thanks" he said rolling his eyes
"No, I mean you're really smart. I kinda thought that when you said all that stuff I couldn't understand before but… you remembered all that from a thirty minute conversation in which I was going a thousand words a minute. That's amazing." I said admiration filling my voice.
"It's not that great really" he said. He took off his hat and ran his fingers through his dark hair. "My brain does it by itself. It's not like it's really me doing it." He said with a shrug. I pouted slightly
"Well I think it's cool" I said folding my arms over my chest. He grinned as he put his cap back on.
"And I think you're easily impressed." He said.
"Whatever. Anyway, continue." I said with a nod urging him to go on.
"Well…" he hesitated shooting an unsure glance at me.
"What?" I asked curios.
"I have one more theory." He said sounding more uncertain by the second.
"Well what is it? Spit it out man!" I said impatiently.
"It's about Vlad" he said quickly.
"Oh…" was all I could say in reply. I wasn't expecting that.
"Yeah. I know that talking about him upsets you so we don't have if you don't want to." He said putting a comforting hand on my arm.
"Why would you think it upset me?" I asked staring hard at the ground.
"Well, you don't usually say his name and when you do you fidget a lot. You didn't look me in the eye once when we talked about him and still won't now. It definitely doesn't seem to me you happy speaking about him." I looked up at him to see his slightly worried expression and smiled.
"Don't worry I'm okay. Plus I'm now curious to hear your theory." I said standing up straighter. He smiled and warmth shot through my body. He dropped his hand and the feeling was gone. Weird.
"Well, I was thinking that maybe when Vlad created you he made some…alterations to your cousin's original DNA. Maybe he added the DNA of someone who was completely immune to mental attacks or something." He finished and I noticed that this theory was a lot shorter then the first. I smiled happy he was thinking about my feelings.
"That makes sense." I said with a nod. "They both make sense." I paused. "So… you wanna test it out?" it took him a moment to figure out what I meant and as soon as he did his expression became stern.
"No." though he only said one word it got the point across much better than I could have with a million.
"Why not?" I whined.
"Because Dani these are only theories. I could be completely wrong! Where would that leave us then?" he said almost shouting.
"You did it on that woman!" I shouted back. As ridiculous as it was I was jealous that this lady got to see his eyes and I didn't. Though he said it was dangerous I wanted to at least see what color they were. Besides if I really was immune I didn't see the harm in it.
"To be honest I didn't really care what happened to that woman! You, on the other hand, I would rather not inflict permanent brain damage!" he sighed angrily." We are not having this discussion."
"but-"
"No!" he interrupted
"I just-"I tried again
"No, no, no!" he said giving me an angry look. It was clear he wasn't going to budge. Sighing I once again crossed my arms.
"Fine!" I said glaring angrily at the air in front of me. We walked in silence for a couple of minutes when suddenly my stomach grumbled. I looked down at it and blushed in embarrassment. Lio looked down at my stomach as well eyebrows furrowed.
"You haven't eaten since yesterday have you?" he asked softly. I shook my head too embarrassed to speak.
"And even then the last thing you ate was ectoplasm…" he looked back up at my face "no wonder you're hungry."
He looked around the streets which where lined with fast food restaurants and business buildings. A few kiosks and many pedestrians filled the streets as well.
"What should we eat?" he asked still searching. I looked around with him when I saw a restaurant that made my mouth water.
"Nasty Burger." I said already heading toward it.
"What" Lio asked as he followed behind me.
"Nasty Burger. They had one back in Amity Park. Heck they have one everywhere and right now I'm craving one nasty burger something fierce." We came in front of the restaurant and my taste buds practically screamed for a Nasty Burger.
I went inside and luckily there was no line. I went up to the front to take my order.
"Hi, how may I help you?" a pretty girl said from behind the counter. She had short blonde hair and a figure to die for but I didn't care at the moment.
"I'd like a Nasty double cheese Burger combo please. With extra Nasty sauce." I took all my will power to keep from drooling on the table.
"Uh… what she said." Lio said looking lost. The pretty girls gaze shifted to him and by the look on her face, she liked what she saw.
"You're girlfriend has quite the appetite doesn't she?" she said raising a perfectly plucked eyebrow. "Is that all?" she said addressing Lio. I glared at her but either she ignored me or was to busy trying to undress Lio with her eyes.
"She's not my girlfriend and don't ask me ask her" Lio said looking around the store and not paying much attention to the girl. The girl frowned, like she had never been ignored before. I couldn't help but smile and the girl glared at me.
"That's all" I said still smiling. The girl went off to get the order. She came back only a few short moments later with two trays carrying are food. I noticed that she had popped a button open on her uniform so she was showing more cleavage. What a slut.
"Here's your order." She said to Lio more than me. Lio looked at her for the first time and smiled. I could see the girl holding her breath.
"Thank you, Samantha" he said picking up both our trays and balancing them on his hands.
"How did you know my name?" she said looking surprised. He smiled again.
"You're name tag." He said. The girl looked down at the red plastic name tag on her chest and blushed. Lio than turned his attention toward me. "You wanna sit outside?"
"sure." I said with a glance at the girl. "Let's go."
We went and got a nice table outside with a good view of the huge tower in the shape of a 'T'.
"Well someone's a bit full of them self." Lio said staring at the tower.
"You sure you can't read my mind?" I said with a grin he smiled back and started to unwrap his burger when something seemed to catch his eye.
"What's this?" he said holding up a napkin.
"It's a napkin." I said remembering for the first time that this was Lio's first time in the real world.
"Does it usually have numbers on it?" he asked turning it over carefully.
"What?" I asked confused. He gave me the napkin and I read it over. My mouth dropped open.
"I can't believe this." I said aloud.
"What?" Lio said peering at the napkin.
"Why am I surprised?" I said rolling my eyes. I took the napkin and crumpled it into a small ball.
"What was it!?" Lio asked as he slowly unraveled the napkin.
"She gave you her number." I said angrily. "Samantha." I spat putting a great amount of verbal venom into that one word.
"Her number?" he asked confused. "I didn't know people outside the institution had them to."
"No not that kind of number, Lio. A cell phone number." I said as I hungrily unwrapped my burger.
"Why did she give it to me?" he asked still not getting it. I bit into my burger and chewed slowly savoring the taste. I wiped away some Nasty sauce that dribbled down my chin and looked up to see Lio looking at me expectantly.
"Because she wants you to call her Lio. She probably wants to date you or something." I said while chewing a large bite of burger.
"Oh…" Lio said a look of understanding on his face. He looked down at his tray and picked up a French fry. He opened his mouth to say something but I beat him to the punch.
"It's a French fry. It's made out of potatoes and that's a burger it made out of, well cows." I laughed as Lio looked at the burger a look of pure disgust on his face.
"Real cows? Like, moo cows?" Lio asked staring at the burger like it was some sort of alien.
"Yes, Lio." I said still chuckling at his reaction. The look on his face said that he sympathized with the cow between the buns.
"You wanna trade my cow for you potatoes?" he asked his eyes not leaving the burger.
"Sure" I said with a giggle. "Give it here." he passed me his burger and I happily traded it with my fries.
He inspected the first French fry and was about to put it into his mouth when I interrupted.
"Wait!" I said I reached into the small paper bag that came with our meal and pulled out some ketchup packets. I opened them and carefully squeezed it on his burger wrapper. I took the fry that he still held half way to his mouth, dipped it into the ketchup, and put it back between his fingers.
"Its ketchup and it's made out of tomatoes, onions, and spices." I said before he could ask. He nodded and finally put the fry in his mouth. Almost as soon as it entered his mouth his face light up. He chewed it slowly and put another fry into his mouth. Then another and another. I laughed as he put about six into his mouth at one time.
"Is it good?" I asked though I already knew he's answer. He nodded as he eagerly put another ten fries into his mouth.
He finished the fries much faster than any person could have thought was possible and looked sadly at box they were once in. I rolled my eyes and dug into my pocket pulling out a five dollar bill.
"You wanna buy more?" I said holding out the money to him. His face lit up like a child on Christmas as he took the money.
"Yes, please" he said getting up.
"Wait!" I stood up and handed him a napkin. "You look like a vampire." He smiled and wiped the ketchup off his face.
"Thanks" he dropped the napkin on the table and went back into nasty burger. Sitting back down in my seat I looked at my almost empty wallet. How the heck where we going to afford a hotel room? Let alone two. I sighed. I was not a math person.
On the bright side, I thought looking over at the ketchup smeared napkin and equally smeared numbers underneath it, she isn't getting called anytime soon.
Mr. Johnson was the proud owner of the biggest (and only) Nasty Burger in jump city and was even more proud to say that he never missed a day. However looking back on the events that happened this particular day, he would have much rather have ruined his perfect record than be in the middle of the weird initiation process that took place that day. The worst part was that he wasn't even having a good day to begin with.
First he was almost late for work this morning because his daughter (who he had decided to give a summer job) needed to fix her makeup. She was trying hard to make it look like she wasn't trying hard. Women were one of the things he would never understand no matter how hard he tried. Anyway, after that Todd, his incompetent new employee, forgot to order buns, so he had to go out and get them. He drove all over the city for two hours before he found the right ones. Then he came back to find his daughter serving the counter looking like a hooker and his restaurant filled with teenagers! He hated teenagers! Even those horrible teen titans! Just wait, one day one of them is going to have a bad hair day or a date they just can't miss and the city will crumble like one those cheap rice cakes. So, to say he was having a bad day was putting it lightly.
After I had yelled at my daughter to put something more appropriate I took over the counter. She told me if an insanely cute guy with black hair and a great butt came by to call her ASAP but I would do no such thing. I would tell him to leave my store and come back when pigs fly. The bell chimed and I put on my greeting face when I saw who I was serving. A teenager. With black hair. he was also topped off with dark sunglasses, a baseball cap, and a tattoo which said LIO. there was no way his daughter was even coming close to that. I was about to tell him to leave. I really was, but then I saw the five dollar bill in his hand crumpled beneath his fingers. He was a customer. Wonder how much he's buying. I put on my game face and gave him a cheery smile.
"How may I help you?" I asked
"I'd like some of those delicious potatoes" the boy said licking his lips.
I blinked once. Then twice.
"You mean the fries?" I asked slowly. He nodded vigorously. You understand why I hate teenagers? Their like the zits on the face of humanity. I forced a smile.
"Would you like a burger with that?"
"You mean a cow? No thanks." The boy said turning slightly green.
"A drink?" I asked
"No thanks. Got one outside." My smile faltered and my eye twitched.
"A straw."
"Nope" he said with a grin "just the potatoes."
Cheap skate I couldn't help thinking as I got him his fries. I turned a round and held them out to him when the door to my restaurant broke open, glass spraying everywhere. My jaw dropped open as I watched a thing made completely out of rock struggle to get into my store. Finally it decided to break off the frames instead and stomped inside roaring. The teenagers in the restaurant ran away screaming but my feet were glued to the ground in shock at what this monster was doing to my store. The only people left were me, and the stupid teenage boy.
The thing stomped over, leaving large craters in the ground. It stopped in front of the counter and roared again sending foul smelling breath into my face. I stood there frozen in fear.
"Hey! Wait your turn!" I looked over to the clearly insane boy who just stood there looking annoyed.
The thing paid no attention to him and went straight for the food instead. Bending over the counter it sucked up all the fries and burgers, wrappers and all. When it was finished with those it looked around searching for more. It spotted the fries in my hand and once again roared loudly in my face. I dropped the fries and, looking strangely like a vacuum, it sucked them off the counter. I looked up to see the boy staring at this in horror and thought that he would run away screaming like all the other teenagers. I was surprised to see that he actually looked …angry. The boy clenched his jaw and glared at the thing. I watched in shock as he shoved it back with a massive punch in the chest and before I had time to blink the thing was flying back in a large arch landing heavily on the floor.
I was surprised my eyes didn't fall out my head, they were bulging more than they ever had in my life.
To top it off a girl came into my restaurant. She had black hair like the boy in front of me, but it was much longer tied into a high pony tail. She had blue eyes and a petit stature and also looked kind of angry.
"What on earth is going on in here!? I heard a crash! Lio did you start I fight or something." She asked angrily
The boy, who I assumed was Lio ( as his arm had said. stupid teenagers and their warped minds), did not answer. He just glared daggers at the creature lying in a large dent in my freshly mopped floor.
The girl followed his gaze and looked at the creature seeming to notice it for the first time, though it practically landed at her feet. She leaned over looking down at the creature.
"Who's rock for brains?" she asked. As soon as the words left her mouth the creature swung a wild punch at her but before its fist even got close to her she performed a large back flip in a perfect semi circle landing gracefully on her feet. That however wasn't the most surprising thing. Half way through the back flip, in mid air, a ring of white light appeared at her waist. Splitting into two, one ring went up her body and the other went down slowly transforming her into what seemed like a totally different person. Her once black hair was snow white, her once blue eyes were neon green and she was in a uniform that looked like it came straight of a comic book. She looked up at the creature and grinned.
"Don't hurt you're self there rocky." She said smugly
The creature let out another giant roar and slowly began getting to its feet, but was stopped by a green blast of energy to the head. Mr. Johnson looked around for the teen titan called Starfire but she was no where in sight. He than looked at the girl and realized who the blast had come from. Her hand had smoke coming from it and she was still smiling.
"No need to get up, rocky." She said her hand still ready to fire.
The boy now jumped over the counter and went to the back of the store. The girl looked as confused as I did as he came back with a hose that should be connected to the sink. It was spraying water but the boy paid no attention to it. He put his thumb over the nozzle and aimed the water at the rock beast. It roared in surprise and anger but the boy paid it no mind. By the look on his face you would have thought he was watering the lawn not a ten foot rock monster. When the monster was now completely soaked and the boy dropped the hose letting it run on the floor creating a large pool of water.
He then proceeded to jump over the counter again and walk out of the store. The monster tries to get up and the girl shoots it with another blast not taking her eyes off the door. Through the broken window I could see the boy looking up at a telephone wire. Then he jumped. Jumped and grabbed the wire. Spark of electricity flew from the ripped wire. He stared at the electricity for a moment, almost admiring it. Then he walks back into the store and looks at the creature for a moment expression unreadable. He drops the wire onto the creatures body and it roars in pain as the electricity flows through it body. I can clearly see as the bolts of electricity travels through its body. The girl and I stare opened mouthed at the struggling creature while the boy has an emotionless expression on his face.
"That's for taking my potatoes." He said angrily. The girl looks at him like he's insane which I am now certain he is.
"All this is because of french fries." She asked stunned.
As the girl proceeded to lecture the boy I stared at the state of my store. If was practically in ruins now. The tables were turned over and the floor looked like it had been run over by a monster truck. I put my face in my hands and groaned. The teenagers continued there bickering and I was sure that my life was over when I voice interrupted my thoughts.
"We'll pay for the repairs to you restaurant, sir." I looked up to see Robin of the teen titans in my door way. The other teen titans were in tow behind him and by the shock on their faces they had all seen the whole encounter.
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p.s: i have nothing against teenagers as i happen to be one.
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