Chapter 14 Bond Between Stars

"Woah," Starfire said. She studied her interdimensional double, completely taken aback. She was so tall. So…curvaceous. So…beautiful. Seriously, Starfire herself didn't think she looked that bad. As matter of fact, she often considered herself to be on the prettier side of on the appearance spectrum, possibly the prettiest person in Jump City and definitely the prettiest member of the Teen Titans. But this Starfire? She put her to shame.

"You…you are the gorgeous!" Starfire exclaimed.

Starfire blushed, the redness blending in with the natural orange of her skin. "Thank you." Her eyes twinkled. "You are quite the good looking yourself."

That one compliment was enough to send Starfire over the moon. "Why the thank you!" She leapt into the air and did a series of twirls. She laughed and whooped as she did, the action causing her to feel happier and happier.

"That appears to be the fun!" Starfire said. She rose into the air, doing twirls right alongside her double. The laughter of the two Starfires carried throughout the room, bringing the general vibe of the place up by one hundred and ten percent. They were like whirlygigs, or pinwheels. Very happy and very pretty pinwheels.

When she finally stopped, Starfire felt more than a little dizzy. She floated back down to the ground, the room spinning almost as quickly as she did. "That…" she did her best to get her breathing back under control. "That was the fun."

"Oh yes, indeed!" Starfire said as she floated back down to the floor. "It was most delightful." She chuckled. "I should do the considering of doing the twirling around more often."

"Oh, you definitely should! Just be the wary; you will experience the dizziness."

"Oh, I am definitely doing the believing of that statement." Starfire put her hand to her head. "The room moves like the quake of earth."

So, both Starfires stood in place, both trying to overcome their bouts of dizziness. When they did, Starfire looked at her double with excitement in her expression and curiosity in her body language.

"So. You are the Starfire of your Earth?"

"Oh the yes. I am the only Tamaranean on the planet I call my second home."

Starfire gasped. "I am that too!"

Starfire smiled. "That is the cool! That means you get it; you know what it is the like."

"Yes yes, yes! I know all about it!" She rubbed her forearm. "I will do the admitting; it gets lonely. But my friends help me feel welcomed. Well, my friends and my Silky."

Starfire's eyes lit up. "No way! You have a Silky?"

"I do! And he is the cutest little Bungorf my eyes have ever seen." Starfire gasped. "Wait. Do you have the Silky too?!"

"Oh the yes!" Starfire reached into her pocket and pulled out a locket. She opened it up and showed it to Starfire, who felt a new spike of joy in her heart as she looked at her counterpart's pet. "He is the sweetest thing. He is my little Bungorf too."

"That is the incredible!" Starfire said. She looked into her double's twinkling, excited eyes. "We have so much in the common!"

"We do indeed!" Starfire leaned forward. "Now I am the curious. How much of the Earth food do you consume?"

Starfire grinned. "As much as will fit in my nine stomachs," she proclaimed proudly with her hands on her hips.

Starfire gasped and clapped her hands. "I am the same! I am exactly the same!" She bounced up and down. "Is your…does your favorite Earth food happen to be mustard by any chance?"

"Of the course!" Starfire rose into the air. "It is most delicious!"

"I know! All the other Titans find it weird that I like it so much. You should have seen Cyborg's face when I put it on my cake of the birthday!"

"You put mustard on your birthday cake?" Starfire smiled. "I now have to do the trying of that! That sounds delicious!"

"Oh, it is!" Starfire's smile was so bright that it made actual stars appear dim. "This is the crazy! We could be the sisters!"

Starfire gasped. "Yes! Oh the yes! I think we would make the much better sisters to each other than…"

"Blackfire?"

Starfire seized up. "Oh, yes." Her face fell. "Blackfire is not the nice."

"I know. She is a complete and total florfka. One time, she tried to frame me for stealing a Sentari Moon Diamond. I almost got put into the prison by the Sentari police."

Starfire snickered. "Just be the thankful that you almost got put into the prison. I actually ended up in the prison thanks to my sister. Sure, I managed to become the super ripped while I was in there, but…" she sniffled. "It was not the fun."

Starfire's lip trembled. "Hey." She put her hand on Starfire's shoulder. "It is the alright. I get it; Blackfire can be a little…unpleasant." She smiled. "But that doesn't mean we don't love her."

Now it was Starfire's turn to smile. "Exactly."

Starfire gave her double a look that was so sweet it could cause diabetes. "You are the very nice person, Starfire. I am glad that I got the chance to do the meeting of you."

"I am the happy that I met you. This may be the very first time you and I have ever had the encounter…but I really do the believing that you are a good sister to me."

Starfire grinned. "I guess I am the sister from the other Earth."

Starfire grinned right back. "Exactly."

"Titans, to your positions!" The Master of Games called out from the arena.

Both Starfires blinked before giving each other saddened looks. "Oh. Right," Starfire said. "We need to do the fighting now."

"The yes. It is the shame; really is the shame." Starfire patted her double on the back. "Well…I wish you good luck out there. I hope you emerge victorious."

"No,' Starfire said. "I wish you the good luck and hope you emerge victorious."