Here came another normal morning. The Titans Tower was now filled with noises and warmth of gathering of friends at about 7:00 a.m. Only one thing is different, there were no fights on meat or tofu for breakfast.

If Cyborg or Beastboy was not cooking breakfast, there only left two choices: 1. Starfire wanted to cook her alien food and the Titans were out for pizza in order to escape the poisoned food. 2. They were fighting crime. However this time, it was none of the above reasons.

Rainbow had begged Cyborg an entire evening to let her cook their breakfast for once. He knew exactly what she would cook and was afraid that the others would think that she was as weird as Starfire.

It was lucky that the dishes were more normal than what he had thought. On the table, there were hills of Chinese style buns and some bamboo steam pot. The object that scared the Titans most were the bowls of black liquid.

"Friend Rain, is this the juice of Sculpour Fruit?" Starfire's eyes were full of expectation.

"Um…Excuse me? What's the fruit again?" Rainbow asked as she put down a large pot of the black liquid.

"Sculpour Fruit, the Tamaranerean fruit use to celebrate the coming of spring." She explained.

"She came from another planet." Cyborg explained while Rainbow looked extremely curious.

He whispered, "Most of that planet's food is poisons."

Rainbow chuckled and answered, "Nope, Star. It is only soup. My mother…"

She paused and continued, "My mother taught me that. The Chinese doctors say that this soup decreases the 'FIRE' in your body so you can have better skin and less acnes."

"If it reduces the 'FIRE' in our body, then can my starblots work?" she sounded nervous and scared.

"I think yes, it could not be possible that it will probably disturb your power. I have this soup for years and my power still works."

Raven and Robin entered the room. They came to pick up the others to have the practice and check out Rainbow's real power.

"Where is Beastboy?" Robin immediately noticed the missing person.

"The turtle is always the last one to be awaked." Raven answered.

They moved to the dinning table.

"What's for today, cook?" Robin asked as the food was strange to him, especially the soup.

"Steam buns of Beijing with some tradition Guangdong dim sum. Guess what the soup is." She did not answer the key of the question.

"Sculpour Fruit juice, this is still my guess." Starfire protested.

"Coffee. No, too dark for it. Soya sauce?" Robin paused himself; do you think that someone would actually DRINK soya sauce?

"Don't tell me that this is oil." Cyborg took one step backwards.

"Ink." Raven answered simply without looking up from her bowl.

Rainbow rubbed her head and stirred the pot. She did this just to make sure that the pot had not been replaced from any of the above thing. If yes, that was just too horrible.

"Nope, it was none of the above." She said while stirring it for the very last time.

She continued, "It is a soup cooked with carrot, sweet corn and…"

"Then how come it is black?!" Cyborg retorted.

"Let me finish." She was obviously angry. "the last ingredient is '龜板'."

She covered her mouth as she heard herself spoke another language.

"Is that a Chinese word?" Robin looked as curious as when he heard Starfire first spoke Tamaranerean.

Rainbow blushed and said shyly, "I am from Guangdong, China. That was my mother language, Cantonese."

"Yeah, the word '龜板' means a kind of Chinese medicine. It is the bottom shell of a turtle."

The other four shows the same emotion, scared. They stayed silent for half a minute.

"Beastboy!" Raven shouted worriedly and ran straightly towards the door.

"Where did you get it and is the shell in a deep green color?" Robin was also afraid that she had cooked their green friend.

"In the store, of course. Do you think that a dry turtle shell is green?"

The Titans gave out a relaxing sigh as Raven dragged in a green sleeping cat.

Beastboy jumped up and morphed back into his human form.

"What's for breakfast today, Tofu right?"

He walked over to the table and had a big taste of the soup.

"Sweet. I like this. What is it?" His eyes must have some tremendous problem as he could neglect the color.

I hope you could still remember that Beastboy was a vegetarian.

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The Titans decided not to tell Beastboy the truth. We all know how he would react. Some times, lies are acceptable.

So, it came to the time of the combat practice. The scene remembered the Titans the memories of Terra. Cyborg had set up new equipment for Rainbow. He, Beastboy and Starfire were cheering for her. Robin and Raven were taking record and controlling the training machine.

"Can I really do it?" Rainbow murmured.

"Rain, try your best." Cyborg went up and comforted her, "It doesn't matter if you actually can't. You only require more training and it will be alright. Remember how Te…" He paused as he remembered Rainbow did not know anything about Terra.

"Who?" She showed a curious look.

"Some one you don't know."

"Rainbow, be ready. I count down from ten." Robin yelled.

"Good luck, friend." Starfire waved her hand at her friend as Rainbow tied up her hair again.

"Three, two, ONE."

At the mean time, three giant fists popped up from the ground.

"Do I break them or only reach the finishing line?"

"Break them would be better." Cyborg yelled.

"That's easy."

She walked to the side of one of the fists. She pretend to press a button and the fist stopped moving. Then a few more fists popped up and she finished them by the same way.

Some electronic snakes flew out from no where and wrapped around her. She could not move and decided to finish them. She made a furious look and stared at the electronic snakes' eyes. The snakes seemed to be bitten by another snake and it fell down immediately.

More and more electronic stuff popped up and Rainbow defeated them in very strange ways. Like using invisible swords, block them by invisible walls, killing them by different scripts.

Soon she reached the finishing line. There was no cheering at all; the Titans were still thinking of the odd ways that she had use a minute ago.

"Hello! I'm back!" Rainbow yelled and the Titans got back their souls. Robin stopped the timer. 1:40, it read.

"You have broken a new record! Hurray!" Cyborg broke the silence.

"Yeah you broke Te…" Beastboy paused, "Another Titan's record."

After training, the Titans broke in to groups and continued their activities. Starfire cooked her Tamaranerean food for the others, Beastboy went out to the town, Raven read a book about healing spells and Robin continued working with his weapon.

"So, are we left out, Vic?" Rainbow asked.

Cyborg gave her an I-don't-know look.

"Why don't we go out? I guess that would be fun."

The Raven and Robin turned to see what was happening.

"Yeah, sure." Cyborg agreed as he stared at the "pudding" thing on the table.

He continued, "I don't want to die so soon."

Minutes later they were on the way towards the town. Starfire finally found out the missing of Cyborg and Rainbow.

"Friend Rain and Cyborg are out, right?" She asked Robin.

He nodded for reply as Raven started walking away.

"Then there left more Rouphma pudding for us three." She could not realize Raven's absence.

Yeah, Robin was in trouble again and again and again.

"Raven! Where are you taking my electronic disc?" Robin had had a habit of lying recently.

Just as he ran out the room, he found Raven right in front of the door.

"Robin, I had two questions to ask you."

"Okay."

"First, are you going to keep this on and on and use me as a tool to leave Starfire's food?"

He chuckled. "Okay. This is the only and last time."

"Second, do you think that Rainbow's behavior is strange? I feel that she is really like…Terra."

They started walking as they feel that Star would come out at any minute.

"I don't know. Maybe you are right. We would try the best to prevent that. And if that happened, we would stop her, like we had done before."

"Is that safe indeed? I still remember how Beastboy had reacted when Terra betrayed us. I don't want to see our big brother being that upset."

"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

Meanwhile, the two of the Titans were at the mall. If it wasn't the tiring Friday, the Titans would not be able to have a minute of quiet. Rainbow and Cyborg were at a café, chatting.

"Vic, how were the days of being a Titan?"

"I don't know how to tell you. I guess is fun, happy and meaningful."

"Did you enjoy it?"

"It is much better than school. But I guess if I had not had the accident, I would not become a Titan."

"The others didn't mind that, at all?" She stared at his chocolate eyes.

"I thought that they would mind at first, but I was wrong. I remembered when I first showed my face to one of them, that was Beastboy. He was surprised and said I was like Robotman 2.0 and was cool. I had never expected something like that. He became my very best friend in the Titans."

"I was a little afraid when I first meet you again. However, I am sure that you are still the Victor Stone that I used to know even you looked different."

"Everyone had a different past. As you know, Starfire is from another planet, Raven is from Azarath, Robin is Batman's sidekick, and Beastboy is from the Doom Patrol. That is what makes every person different and life fun."

"They are not something wrong. If someone has some secrets that are really not usual and maybe would affect everyone's present and future, would that be acceptable?"

"It isn't something guilty. You know, Raven had been told that she is the portal for her evil father to come to the Earth. She needed to keep her evil self under control by meditation and that was hard to have not a single emotion. She fulfilled her destiny and became the portal in order to save us. At last, she overcame this."

Rainbow played with the straw of her iced chocolate. Cyborg's word flew all over her mind,

"Why did you ask those things?"

"Nope. Nothing is wrong. I…just wanted to know."

Cyborg raised one eyebrow, "Really?"

She looked up from her glass. Tears seemed to be formed within seconds.

"Do you trust me?" she asked.

He gave her a surprise look, "Who else can I trust if I don't trust you?"

"Even if you knew something bad about me, would you still be my friend?"

"How could you be bad?"

They broke into a loud laughter and leave the store.

"How was the school after I left?"

"There were not huge changes. Mr. Burke still run the school and Mrs. Johnson's lessons were still as boring as ever."

Cyborg gave out a smile.

"The only thing that changed was we have the greatest athlete missing and they lost in the first football match of the inter-school competition."

"WHAT??!!" Cyborg yelled so loud that even Argent heard it in England.

Rainbow released a laugh and could not stop in minutes.

They were in a DJ store minutes later. A Cantonese radio show was playing loud. The radio show to Cyborg was a mumble speech. He had spent minutes to figure was it Cantonese or Italian or any other language. The show seemed to be funny as Rainbow and the shop keeper kept on laughing violently. They suddenly kept quite.

"Listen! Here comes my favorite song." Rainbow told Cyborg excitedly.

錯失太易 愛得太遲
我怎想到 她忍不到那日子
盲目地發奮 忙忙忙從來未知
幸福會掠過 再也沒法說鍾意

Translation:

It is too easy to lose It is too late to love

How could I know That she can not wait till that day (Breaking up)

Worked blindingly Busy and busy, but I had never known

Fortune would pass away There are no ways for me to tell you that, I love you

縱不信運 你不過是人
理想很遠 愛於咫尺卻在等
來日別操心 趁你有能力開心
世界有太多東西發生
不要等到天上俯瞰

Translation:

Even though you don't believe in fate You are only human

Career is far away Love is in front of you but it had to wait

Don't worry any more You still have the opportunity to be happy

There are too many things happening in the world

Don't wait till watching them above the sky (in haven)

"What does it tell? I can't even understand a word." Cyborg asked when the music faded totally.

"Detail or summary?"

"Summary."

"Love before it is too late."

Their eyes met. Their spirit contacted. Their joy shared.

"I would never miss it." Cyborg promised the girl in front of him. The gap between their face reduced and reduced. Just before they met,

BANG!

A pile of CDs fell onto them. They didn't respond anything but laughed. This is reality, there is always something disturbing the beautiful moment.

"Let's go home." Cyborg lent her his hand.

"Home?" Rainbow murmured.

"The Titans Tower, of course."

"Sure." She took his hand as they walked home.

Although they had not noticed, there was something following them.

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I hope that you would enjoy this chapter. This is my longest chapter I had ever wrote (Hurray!). And I hope that the Chinese won't disturb you much.

The song is named "愛得太遲", sung by Leo Ku. This is a very nice song (I don't own it of course). Please review.