Hey everyone, sorry I didn't update before, but I've been busy this week, and plus all these flames are starting to piss me off and keep me from updating. But anyways, here is Part 20, hope you all like it, and please remember to review!
Disclaimer: Still don't own them, but I do own Sam (I probably should have put that in before…..)
Part 20: Pinkfire
"Friends, I would like you to meet my –as you say– cousin, Pinkfire." Starfire said joyously.
"Hello friends of cousin Starfire!" the mini Tamarian said in a bubbly voice. The Titans immediately fell in love with the little girl, and all crowded around her, well, all the Titans except for Sam who sat down on her bean bag and pulled out her MP3.
'Well this should be interesting.' She thought, and turned on the music.
All of the Titans were playing with Pinkfire, making sure that she was happy and never got bored, which would have been very hard to do, as she had been jumping, flying, skipping and running around the tower ever since she got there.
"Hey Pinkfire, do you wanna play the game-station?" Beast boy asked, dangling one of the controllers in front of her face, her eyes followed the movement of it, and she nodded her head vigorously.
"Cool, come on, you can pick the game." Beast Boy replied, jumping onto the lounge.
"Friend Beast Boy, are you sure Pinkfire should play the game of station? I have seen the games that you and friend Cyborg play, they are quite…violent, do you think it wise to have such a young playing these?" Starfire asked nervously,
"Don't worry about it Star, I hid all the violent ones when you brought Pinkfire in, the only ones left are things like Happy Rabbit and stuff like that, perfect for little kids." Beast Boy told her.
"Oh wonderful!" Starfire exclaimed, and stood behind the lounge to watch them play.
After around three hours of playing the game-station, Pinkfire finally got sick of it.
"Excuse me friend of Starfire, what is your name?" Pinkfire asked Sam, who had been sitting on her beanbag sketching and listening to music all morning. Sam looked up from her drawing with a surprised look on her face. Taking out one of her earphones, she asked;
"What?"
"What is your name?" Pinkfire repeated, smiling cheerfully.
"Sam?" She replied, not sure why the hyper little pink thing wanted to know her name,
"My name is Pinkfire, it's a pleasure to meet you." Pinkfire introduced herself and held her hand out to Sam, who just stared from the little Tamrian's hand, to her face with a confused look on her face.
"Yeah, nice to meet you too. Now why don't you go bug Raven, I'm sure she'd enjoy some company." Sam said, and looked over at Raven who was covered in some sort of weird goo that Pinkfire had attempted to cook with Raven, but it had exploded before anyone could try it (much to everyone's relief).
"Oh come on Sam, why don't you play with her for a while, I'm sure she'd enjoy that." Robin said,
"No, I don't do little kids." Sam replied
"Oh come on, you can't say no to this face." Cyborg said, holding up the little girl, who had an absolutely adorable look on her face.
"No." Sam replied flatly.
"But Sam, you have to, you don't want her to feel neglected do you?" Robin asked, in a sweet little kid's voice.
"No, actually, I don't want her to feel neglected, but she has you five doting over her, so I'm sure she won't be feeling neglected any time soon." Sam replied
"Please friend Sam, play with Pinkfire, I'm sure she would enjoy it greatly." Starfire said.
"Yeah come on Sam, just play with her, who knows, you might even have fun." Beast Boy said.
"ALRIGHT!" Sam yelled,
"You want me to play with the little brat? I will. I'll tell her a nice story." She said,
"Yay! Story!" Pinkfire cried happily.
"Yep, come here and sit in front of me and I'll tell you a story called 'Grab, Grab, Scrape'." Sam said, Pinkfire came and sat down in front of her, waiting expectantly.
"Alright, this is a true story, and it happened only a few years ago. Once, there was a little girl who was about your age, she lived in a big house with her mum and dad. Now her house was a very old one, so they had wooden floorboards, and there were nails in the floorboards keeping them down." Sam started,
"One day, when the girl was 6, her dad died, then, a few years later, the little girl got a disease in her legs, and she had to get them cut off. Now back then, people didn't have wheelchairs, so to get around the house, the girl would have to drag herself, and the noise she made was grab, grab, scrape.
When the girl was around 17, her mother died, so the girl just lived in the house all by herself. One day she was going into the kitchen, making the usual sound; grab, grab, scrape, but she didn't notice that a very large nail was sticking up out of the floorboards, so the girl scraped over the nail, and killed herself." Sam went on
"Hold it, are you sure it's safe to tell this story to a little kid?" Cyborg interrupted,
"Yeah, it's perfectly fine." Sam replied, and then went on with the story.
"Well, about ten years after the girl had died, her house was finally sold. A young couple who had just gotten married moved in. When they bought the house, the real estate agent said; 'There used to be a girl who lived here who accidentally killed herself, and people say that you can here her at night, going grab, grab, scrape.' The young couple just laughed and replied; 'We don't believe in ghosts.' That night, around midnight, the couple awoke, and heard outside their room grab, grab, scrape. They were extremely scared, and moved out straight away.
Around three months later, and old lady moved into the house, and the real estate agent said; 'There used to be a girl who lived here who accidentally killed herself, and people say that you can here her at night, going grab, grab, scrape. One couple has already moved out after hearing her.' The old lady just laughed and said 'I don't believe in ghosts.' That night at around midnight, the old lady awoke, and heard grab, grab, scrape. She was so scared that she had a heart attack and died.
Three years later, a young woman moved into the house. The real estate agent told her the same story, and she told him that she didn't believe in ghosts. That night, she woke up at around midnight and heard; grab, grab, scrape. The young woman just thought that it was her imagination, and went back to sleep. Three months later, the woman had settled in, and hadn't heard any noises since the first night. But then one night, she woke up at around midnight and heard; grab, grab, scrape, grab, grab, scrape. Once again, she thought it was only her imagination, and went back to sleep. She woke up an hour later, and heard it again, grab, grab, scrape, grab, grab, scrape. Only this time, it was faster. By now the woman, was a little scared, but she still thought that she was only imagining it, so she went back to sleep. And hour later, she woke up again, this time the noise was faster, and closer to her room, grab, grab, scrape, grab, grab, scrape, grab, grab, scrape, grab, grab, scrape. Now the woman was terrified, but she didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, her door opened, and there in the doorway, was the girl who had been killed, she dragged her body over to the bed, and climbed up. When she was on the bed, the young woman saw that she was holding two rusty nails in her hand, she brought them up and–"
"Ok then, I think that's enough of that story." Robin said butting in, just before Sam got to the good part.
"Aww, I was just about to tell her how it ended, can't I finish my story?" Sam asked,
"NO!" All the Titans yelled at once. Beast Boy picked Pinkfire up (who's eyes were wide in either shock or horror, no one could really tell), and moved her away from Sam.
"Ok, who agrees that Sam isn't allowed near Pinkfire anymore?" Robin asked, all the Titans raised their hands.
"Good. Sam, you're not allowed near Pinkfire anymore." Robin told Sam.
"Why not? You told me to spend time with her, and I did; now you won't let me finish my story." Sam said, with a somewhat satanic smile on her face.
"I don't care, you're not allowed near her." Robin repeated,
"Alright then, suit yourself." She replied, and turned her music back on.
"Cousin Pinkfire, are you alright?" Starfire asked her little cousin,
"Are you traumatized in any way from the telling of the horrific story?" She asked,
"No, I am perfectly alright, and I found that story quite interesting, please, does anyone know how it ends?" Pinkfire asked. Everyone's jaws dropped to the ground.
'Wow, maybe she's not so bad after all, if she liked the story.' Sam thought.
"Ahh, no I don't think anyone knows how it ends." Raven told the little girl, who suddenly scared everyone a little bit.
"Oh well." Pinkfire shrugged, and then started to skip around the tower again.
'Or maybe not, I still don't see how anyone can have that much energy.' Sam thought again.
Around three hours later, Pinkfire's energy had just about run out, and when she asked for her favourite food (Gorkozen pie), she was devastated to find that the Titans didn't have any. So for the last five minutes, she had been crying unstoppably.
"Dude, make it stop!" Beast Boy yelled,
"Yeah man, where's her off switch?" Cyborg asked.
"I am sorry friends, but young Tamaran's, when told that they cannot have their favourite dish, do cry, and there is no way to stop them until they are given the food, or their voice runs out." Starfire explained.
"Great, we've got a hungry alien, who seems to have a limitless supply of vocal chords." Raven said.
Ten minutes later, Sam couldn't block out the noise anymore, no matter how loud her music is.
"SHUT UP!" She yelled, when that didn't work, she said exasperatedly to Cyborg;
"Give her to me."
"Uhh, are you sure that's a good idea?" Cyborg asked, holding Pinkfire away from Sam.
"Well if you want her to keep crying, no. But if you want her to stop like I do, then yes." Sam replied irritated. Cyborg looked from Sam, to the little girl, to the other Titans, to Sam again, and then reluctantly handed Pinkfire over to Sam, who held the little girl for a minute, and whispered something in her ear. The girl immediately stopped crying.
"How'd you do that!" Cyborg asked,
"A little trick I know." Sam replied, and started tickling Pinkfire, who laughed happily.
"Well…at least she's not crying anymore. That's good…I think…" Robin said, the Titans were shocked at the sight in front of them, not only had Sam managed to stop Pinkfire from crying in less than a minute, but now she was playing with her like they were best friends, throwing her over her shoulder and chasing her around.
"Is anyone else scared?" Beast Boy asked, the Titans all nodded their heads in unison,
"Ok, just so long as I'm not the only one." He added.
"Hey Pinkfire, come with me, I've got something I wanna show you." Sam said, and took Pinkfire's hand. She started to lead her out of the TV room, when Robin called out to her;
"Where are you taking her?"
"Up to my room, I want to show her something." Sam replied, raising an eyebrow,
"Why? Where'd you think I was gonna take her?" She asked,
"I don't know, but five minutes ago, you were saying that you hate little kids, and now you're playing with her like you've been best friends for years." Robin said,
"Yeah, well that was before I found out that she could bug you, and that she actually had a pretty loud voice." Sam replied, and then led Pinkfire out of the TV room.
"Why are we going to your room friend Sam?" Pinkfire asked,
"Because, I wanna show you something." Sam replied,
"And you don't have to call me friend Sam, just Sam is fine." She added.
"Ok then…Sam." Pinkfire replied.
When they got up to Sam's room, Pinkfire sat on her bed, while Sam walked into her wardrobe. A minute later, she walked out holding some clothes.
"Ok Pinkfire, I'm going to give you a little bit of a make-over." Sam said, laying the clothes out on her bed.
"What is this 'make-over' you speak of?" Pinkfire asked innocently.
"A make-over is when you change how you look for a little while, just to see what people think. But with you, I think I might have to add something else in. I'm going to teach you some earth sayings and let you listen to some really good music." Sam told her.
"Oh that will be wonderful!" Pinkfire cried happily,
"Yeah, well first things first, you need a new outfit. You look exactly like Starfire, except in a miniature form, so I'm going to give you a new look. What do you think about this top?" Sam asked holding up a black top with off-shoulder sleeves and a red skull and cross bone on it.
"I have never seen such a top. Tell me; is this some form of earth 'fashion'?" Pinkfire asked,
"Not exactly, it's more like something that people who don't like fashion wear." Sam replied,
"But do you like it?" She asked again,
"Yes, it looks quite interesting." Pinkfire answered.
"Cool, alright now then. What are you gonna wear on the bottom. I know you guys like wearing skirts, but I don't think I actually own any…" Sam said, looking through the pile of clothes,
"AHAH! Here we go!" Sam yelled, pulling out a pair of khaki coloured combat ¾ pants from the bottom of the pile.
"Do you like them?" She asked,
"I have never before seen such an item of clothing." Pinkfire replied
"Whoa, dude what do you wear on your planet?" Sam asked amazed,
"This is the most common outfit found on my planet, but on special ceremonious occasions, we do have a different outfit." Pinkfire replied.
"Alright then, well I'm going to get you into some clothes that you probably won't know, but don't worry, you'll look great." Sam said, and proceeded to give Pinkfire a make-over.
An hour later, Sam and Starfire emerged from Sam's room, they made their way back down to the TV room, where the boys were once again playing video games, and Raven and Starfire were meditating by the window.
"Ok Pinkfire, you stay here until I call you in, got it?" Sam asked,
"Yep." Pinkfire replied. Walking into the room, Sam cleared her throat, over the noise of the video games though, she wasn't heard, she tried again and when it didn't work, she shrugged her shoulders and yelled;
"OI!" The room immediately went silent.
"Thankyou" Sam said before going on,
"In the past hour, I have given Pinkfire a complete make-over, which I think you will all find quite different to what you're used to from a Tamarian, so without further ado, I give you Pinkfire!" She called, and in came Pinkfire.
She was wearing the skull and cross bone t-shirt with the khaki pants. On the pants were a few chains and a spiked belt. Around her wrists were some black leather straps with designs on them and some black jelly bangles. Around her neck was a red tie that was hanging down loosely. Her hair had been pulled up into a high pony, with some random plaits all through it as well as some dark blue streaks.
"Yo dudes, sup?" Pinkfire said,
"Sam, what the hell did you do to her?" Cyborg asked,
"I gave her a make over and taught her how to speak like someone from earth." Sam replied.
"Why?" Robin asked
"Coz I was bored and it's something fun to do. Plus if you don't start out young with these things, you never know what might happen to the kids when they get older." Sam told him.
"Start young with what exactly?" Raven asked,
"Being a punk, listening to rock and hardcore, just the usual." Sam replied.
"What? You're going to turn Star's cousin into a punk?" Cyborg shouted,
"Not going to, have." Sam corrected him.
"Dude, how'd you do that?" Beast boy asked,
"Easy, I gave her clothes to put on and put her up." Sam replied.
"No, not that, that!" Beast Boy said, and pointed at Pinkfire who was head banging to music.
"Oh, I was playing System Of A Down, and she liked the music, so I taught her how to dance to it properly, she's a natural at it." Sam said.
"Friend Sam, I believe I should thank you for spending time with my cousin; she seems to have enjoyed your company, even if the make-over you gave her is quite……different." Starfire said.
"No problem, it was fun, and I'm pretty sure she likes it." Sam replied, looking over at the little non-pink thing that had now started to floor punch.
Half an hour later, Starfire came into the TV room where the boys were playing game-station, Raven was reading, and Sam was teaching Pinkfire some more 'earth talk'.
"Friends, I am sad to say that it is time for cousin Pinkfire to go back to Tamaran." Starfire said.
"Aww, no fair, why does she only get to stay for the day?" Beast Boy asked
"My Aunt had plans made for today and was unable to take cousin Pinkfire with her, so she asked if I may be able to watch over her for the day." Starfire explained.
"Well that sucks; I was just starting to like the little brat." Sam said, standing up.
"Do not worry, I am sure that cousin Pinkfire will be able to come and stay again some other time." Starfire said.
After all the goodbyes were said, Starfire took Pinkfire back out to the spaceship that she had come in, and sent her home.
"Well, that was an amusing day. Who would've thought that Sam liked little kids?" Beast Boy said,
"Yeah, guess there's more to her than what there seems." Cyborg replied nonchalantly, more focused on his game than what he had said, but his comment had started Raven thinking;
'He's right, there is more to Sam than what we know, and I intend to find out what that is.'
Well, that was Part 20, I hope everyone liked it please review! Oh yes, unless you are a flamer, or are thinking of flaming me, you don't have to read the message below.
A MESSAGE TO ALL FLAMERS/POTENTIAL FLAMERS: STOP FUCKING FLAMING ME! No, these flames do not offend or hurt me in any way; they just piss me off because none of you ever have anything original to say in your flames. Ok, I realise you don't like the fact that I'm a goth punk, too bad. And just to let you know, I NEVER said that you had to be goth to be wiccan, and I never said you had to be wiccan to be goth, so I have no idea where the hell you got that idea from. Oh yeah, and to you people who tell me to get a life, I do have a life, and I obviously have more of a life than you, because I don't spend my time sending flames to someone that are all basically the same. One more thing, I DO NOT, AND NEVER WILL TAKE DRUGS! So don't ever go and tell me to take drugs, you fuckers don't even know the first thing about me, so don't just straight away assume that coz I'm goth, that I take them. And just to let you know, barely any goths actually take drugs, they might over in America, but here in Australia, close to none do them. So from now on, IF YOU'RE GOING TO FLAME ME, COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL FUCKING IDEA!
Ok, now that that's over and done with, on to review replies!
Robinisawesome: Yes, it was another Starfire; I think one is enough for anybody. Hope you liked how it went. Thanks for the review!
Terra Rock: I'm glad you liked the STOP sign thing, same with your friends. Thanks for the review!
Fjord Cannon: HAHA, hitting Beast Boy with a stale loaf of bread, funny. Do you mind if I use that? (I'm not sure if I definitely will, but I might, so do you mind?) Well seeing as you love POTC (I do too, Johnny Depp is HOT) I'll put some more of them in just for you. Yay cookies! Thank you! Hmm…what can I give you? I got it! hands you cake. Thanks for the review!
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Ok, now to my favourite part of each chapter, (other than the story), QUOTES! And this week, I have more from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Barbossa: So what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?
Jack Sparrow: Or you could surrender.
Mullroy: What's your purpose in Port Royal, Mr. Smith?
Murtogg: Yeah, and no lies.
Jack Sparrow: Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.
Murtogg: I said no lies.
Mullroy: I think he's telling the truth.
Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us.
Jack Sparrow: Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.
Jack Sparrow: No. Not good. Stop. Not good. What are you doing? You've burned all the food, the shade, the RUM.
Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone.
Jack Sparrow: Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth: One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me; do you really think that there is EVEN the slightest chance that they won't see it?
Jack Sparrow: But why is the rum gone?
Jack Sparrow: One question about your business, boy, or there's no use going: This girl... how far are you willing to go to save her?
Will Turner: I'd die for her.
Jack Sparrow: Oh good. No worries then.
Well, hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and please remember to review!
Later, BlackGothFaerie