At first, I thought the others would never forgive me. But after a couple
weeks of promising Starfire I wouldn't run away again, things seemed to be
back to normal. Even Beastboy and I made up. Although I called Ivan and
told him it was over, Beastboy was right I guess. It wasn't love, although
I wished it had been.
I smiled as I listened to the cheerful clunking sound of cereal being poured into a big bowl. I watched the brightly colored Titan-o fall into the already overfilling bowl. BB walked into the kitchen yawning and rubbing the sleepiness from his eyes. I smiled as his eyes widened at the table. I had eight bowls of cereal on the table.
"Good LORD!! You aren't going to eat all that! Are you?"
"NO!" I replied sticking my tongue out at him, "I'm watching my figure." He smirked. I returned to my cereal. At last, the last bit of cereal fell into the overflowing bowl, and the prize fell out with it. I snatched it up, and tore off the plastic wrap.
"Awww, look BB! It's BB!" I showed him the green toy of himself. He looked at it and started laughing,
"What are you talking about? I am soooo much hotter than that!"
"Right, mmhum, just keep tellin' yourself that." He lightly punched my arm.
"Ohh! Beastboy look!" I pulled out my collection of Titan-os prizes. "I've got three Cyborgs, one Starfire, seven BBs, two Robins, and five Ravens, but no Naomis!" I wailed. I reached over and grabbed another box of the cereal, and ripped the top off. Beastboy laughed as I started pouring the cereal into another bowl.
"You know," Beastboy said grinning, "You can just send $4.50 plus shipping and handling and 6 proofs of purchase in a stamped envelope addressed to PO box, Gothem 395, and they send you the six pose able Teen Titan Action Figures in 6-8 weeks."
"How do you know that?" I asked amazed. He shrugged,
"It says right here on the side of the box." I looked around the table,
"So than why so I have all this cereal out?"
"I don't know, why do you have all this cereal out?"
"I already told you! I'm collecting!"
"Yes, but you can just send away for them."
"Yes, so if I can do that, why do I have all this cereal out?"
"I don't know, why do you?"
"I TOLD YOU!! I'M COLLECTING!" I exclaimed pretending to be upset. His green eyes met my blue ones and we started busting up laughing. But it wasn't really that funny, we were just relived to be friends again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Humming cheerfully I thumbed through our mail. I laid upside down on our red sofa and looked for an interesting letter. And by interesting, I mean a letter for me.
Then a scarlet envelope slipped through my fingers and fluttered to the floor. I up righted myself and picked it up. The address was stamped on the front in gold letters, and it was addressed to THE TEEN TITANS. I opened the letter and let my eyes scan the formal writing.
"What is that?" Star asked from behind me.
"I don't know, but it must be important, because were not just invited, we are corgely invited. Invited to... to the Tri-annual Gothems Society of Aristocratic Ball and Banquet."
"Oh NO!" Star gasped.
"What?" I asked bewildered by her horror.
"TITANS! EMERGANCEY!"
"What?!?" Everyone exploded into the living room to see the emergency.
"Starfire! What is it?!?" Robin asked out of breath.
"Look," she said in a small voice as she snatched the letter from my hand. Everyone took turns reading, and they all that the same reaction.
"Oh nooo." BB moaned covering his face.
"It seems like we JUST when to one!" Cy said disbelievingly.
"I refuse to go, it's pointless," Raven announced.
"We have to go," Robin said grimly, "Its good for our image. It's expected."
"WHAT?!?!" I cried getting frustrated.
"It's a ball the mayor host three times a year," Robin replied glancing up at me, "Its where all the rich and powerful people of Gothem go to discuss the solutions to the towns safety problems."
"I thought that's what we were for," I said confusedly.
"Yeah that's the point; the mayor likes to show us off as his little "pets", first he goes into excruciating detail about how unsafe the world is, then tada! The Teen Titans save the day!"
"Oh."
Robin looked at me, "You need a formal dress," he said simply. Well duh wonder boy, it is a ball. I elbowed Star,
"Starfire and I can to to The Feather this afternoon, for mission formal dress."
"Affirmative!" Star agreed, happy that we were going out. I glanced up at a clock,
"Or... we might as well go now," I decided. "We can get coffee and a bagel there."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" How about this one?" I asked Star. I emerged from the changing stall. I was wearing a tight pink halter topped dress that hugged my body all the way down to my legs. It had a slit on the side that when from the bottom of the dress that reached up to my thighs. Starfire scrunched up her nose and shook her head.
"Oh! How about this one!" After a few moments of changing, I emerged once more, this time wearing a purple opened back dress. It was a bit shorter than the other one, and went down to about my knees. I didn't even need Stars horrified look to tell that this dress should be burned.
"I'm running out of options." I mumbled.
"HELLO LADIES!!" My head snapped around to face a The Feathers sales clerk. She had extremely wide eyes that a permanently insane grin plastered to her face, which showed all her teeth at once.
"CAN I HELP YOU FIND ANYTHING TODAY?" she asked getting right in my face. "CAUSE THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!! TO HELP!! ITS MY JOB!!" she proved it by pointing to her name tag.
"Yes, I can see..." I said backing away cautiously from her. I narrowed it down to two possibilities, this lady was either an escaped mentally patient that was going to grab an ax and hack us into tiny pieces, or she was a frustrated women going through a mid life crises, and has had too many espressos at the coffee shop.
"We are on mission formal dress," Star informed her.
"ALLOW ME TO HELP!" she reached out of the changing rooms and randomly plucked a dress off a nearby rack.
"No thank-"Then I stopped. I reached out and took the dress from her. It was a powdered blue off the shoulders dress that was tight at the top, than at the wait, it flowed out to the ground. I didn't even need to try it on.
"You are a genius," I told the lady.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"WOW! I can't believe we have never eaten here before!" I whispered to Star. We had decided to ditch eating at The Feather and went to La Peri Morales. A VERY fancy French restaurant. The room was so pretty! The chandlers cast a soft honey glow light from the high ceiling, and the walls were painted to look like a French palace. I picked up La menu and scanned my eyes over the choices. I looked up to Starfire,
"Should I-"but I never finished the question. Our communicators when off at the same time. Star flipped hers open first and I rushed behind her chair to see what was up. The entire restaurant went quiet, hoping to overhear something interesting. Robins face filled the screen.
"Whets up?" I asked frowning.
"We just got a call from the police station," Robin said officially, "There a crime in progress at a local supermarket. A witness describes it to have just "iced over." I felt the hair on the back of my neck prickle. I closed my eyes and murmured some choice words under my breath. Robin smirked,
"Friend of yours?" I glared at him in response. "Well, the rest of the team is on there way, I'll send you the coordinates." His face flicked off the screen, and was replaced by a map of Gothem. A little red blinking dot symbolized where the market was.
"Star! Let's go kick some Ice ass!" Then the whole restaurant broke into applause.
"But, we haven't done anything yet." Star said confusedly.
"Yet being the key word here," I said. I couldn't wait to strangle that bastard. Star jumped to her feet and we raced to the door. One outside, we followed the coordinates to the seen of the crime.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
We flew silently to the coordinating Robin had given us. We looked down to see Cyborg and Beastboy waving at us from below. Star landed on the pavement besides the building smoothly while I landed with a bump. I saw Robin and Raven questioning a group of distraught customers.
"Don't worry madam," Robin comforted a little old lady who had been doing her shopping when The Pack had decided to have fun with the store, "We've got it under control." I turned and looked at The Super Savers All In On Mart.
Ice had defiantly been here, it was more if a block of ice that a store now. It was completely frozen on the outside, except for one door leading in. I glanced in; it was a maze, completely made of ice. It was a challenge.
"It's a trap," BB said immediately as the team assembled in front of the door.
"Of course it's a trap," I said rolling my eyes, "Ices little plan is that we go in. Then get split up. And then he supposedly "gets us." I knew Ice better than the rest of the team, so I took charge.
"Ices ice powers are not that strong; it takes him a few seconds to form the ice, so the key is to surprise him here. Stealth is out upper hand here. That means no sonic blasts, or breaking of ice, that could lead a tail to one of us. This is a capture mission, find the gang members and bring them straight out here." I glanced to everyone. They nodded.
"Titans! GO!" And with that, we entered the tunnels of ice.
"Split up!" I commanded and we all entered our own ice tunnel. "And remember, no ice breaking unless it is absolutely necessary."
I entered the labyrinth. The floors of the caves were slippery with ice, so I gently floated above the ground. For some reason, the lights were still working; Ice had made special care to ice around them apparently. The tunnels were iced over aisles, if you looked through the glassy ice, you could still see the products on the shelves. I ran my finger over the slippery wall as I glided on. I shivered with the thrill of the hunt.
My heart pounded in my ears, I smiled confidently. Things would be different this time. This time I was the cat, and Ice was the mouse. All I had to do was track down the mouse in his labyrinth. I felt the adrenalin sweep through my veins.
I turned left, then right. Left, right, right, right, opps! dead end, left right.
After a long while of searching, I saw an escalator leading into the second story of the All in one Mart.
The escalator had been completely frozen cover, creating a slippery ramp. The upstairs was completely dark. He must be up there. I shivered, partly because of the anticipation, partly because of the cold. I glided up the ramp and smiled as I entered the dark tunnel.
StArRy- what it tell ya? We haven't seen the last of Ice. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR NICE REVIEWS!! And I would like to announce that the anime kid and chaos girl are witting a TT fict as well, so everyone better read it when the post it. Or else.
I smiled as I listened to the cheerful clunking sound of cereal being poured into a big bowl. I watched the brightly colored Titan-o fall into the already overfilling bowl. BB walked into the kitchen yawning and rubbing the sleepiness from his eyes. I smiled as his eyes widened at the table. I had eight bowls of cereal on the table.
"Good LORD!! You aren't going to eat all that! Are you?"
"NO!" I replied sticking my tongue out at him, "I'm watching my figure." He smirked. I returned to my cereal. At last, the last bit of cereal fell into the overflowing bowl, and the prize fell out with it. I snatched it up, and tore off the plastic wrap.
"Awww, look BB! It's BB!" I showed him the green toy of himself. He looked at it and started laughing,
"What are you talking about? I am soooo much hotter than that!"
"Right, mmhum, just keep tellin' yourself that." He lightly punched my arm.
"Ohh! Beastboy look!" I pulled out my collection of Titan-os prizes. "I've got three Cyborgs, one Starfire, seven BBs, two Robins, and five Ravens, but no Naomis!" I wailed. I reached over and grabbed another box of the cereal, and ripped the top off. Beastboy laughed as I started pouring the cereal into another bowl.
"You know," Beastboy said grinning, "You can just send $4.50 plus shipping and handling and 6 proofs of purchase in a stamped envelope addressed to PO box, Gothem 395, and they send you the six pose able Teen Titan Action Figures in 6-8 weeks."
"How do you know that?" I asked amazed. He shrugged,
"It says right here on the side of the box." I looked around the table,
"So than why so I have all this cereal out?"
"I don't know, why do you have all this cereal out?"
"I already told you! I'm collecting!"
"Yes, but you can just send away for them."
"Yes, so if I can do that, why do I have all this cereal out?"
"I don't know, why do you?"
"I TOLD YOU!! I'M COLLECTING!" I exclaimed pretending to be upset. His green eyes met my blue ones and we started busting up laughing. But it wasn't really that funny, we were just relived to be friends again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Humming cheerfully I thumbed through our mail. I laid upside down on our red sofa and looked for an interesting letter. And by interesting, I mean a letter for me.
Then a scarlet envelope slipped through my fingers and fluttered to the floor. I up righted myself and picked it up. The address was stamped on the front in gold letters, and it was addressed to THE TEEN TITANS. I opened the letter and let my eyes scan the formal writing.
"What is that?" Star asked from behind me.
"I don't know, but it must be important, because were not just invited, we are corgely invited. Invited to... to the Tri-annual Gothems Society of Aristocratic Ball and Banquet."
"Oh NO!" Star gasped.
"What?" I asked bewildered by her horror.
"TITANS! EMERGANCEY!"
"What?!?" Everyone exploded into the living room to see the emergency.
"Starfire! What is it?!?" Robin asked out of breath.
"Look," she said in a small voice as she snatched the letter from my hand. Everyone took turns reading, and they all that the same reaction.
"Oh nooo." BB moaned covering his face.
"It seems like we JUST when to one!" Cy said disbelievingly.
"I refuse to go, it's pointless," Raven announced.
"We have to go," Robin said grimly, "Its good for our image. It's expected."
"WHAT?!?!" I cried getting frustrated.
"It's a ball the mayor host three times a year," Robin replied glancing up at me, "Its where all the rich and powerful people of Gothem go to discuss the solutions to the towns safety problems."
"I thought that's what we were for," I said confusedly.
"Yeah that's the point; the mayor likes to show us off as his little "pets", first he goes into excruciating detail about how unsafe the world is, then tada! The Teen Titans save the day!"
"Oh."
Robin looked at me, "You need a formal dress," he said simply. Well duh wonder boy, it is a ball. I elbowed Star,
"Starfire and I can to to The Feather this afternoon, for mission formal dress."
"Affirmative!" Star agreed, happy that we were going out. I glanced up at a clock,
"Or... we might as well go now," I decided. "We can get coffee and a bagel there."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" How about this one?" I asked Star. I emerged from the changing stall. I was wearing a tight pink halter topped dress that hugged my body all the way down to my legs. It had a slit on the side that when from the bottom of the dress that reached up to my thighs. Starfire scrunched up her nose and shook her head.
"Oh! How about this one!" After a few moments of changing, I emerged once more, this time wearing a purple opened back dress. It was a bit shorter than the other one, and went down to about my knees. I didn't even need Stars horrified look to tell that this dress should be burned.
"I'm running out of options." I mumbled.
"HELLO LADIES!!" My head snapped around to face a The Feathers sales clerk. She had extremely wide eyes that a permanently insane grin plastered to her face, which showed all her teeth at once.
"CAN I HELP YOU FIND ANYTHING TODAY?" she asked getting right in my face. "CAUSE THAT'S WHY I'M HERE!! TO HELP!! ITS MY JOB!!" she proved it by pointing to her name tag.
"Yes, I can see..." I said backing away cautiously from her. I narrowed it down to two possibilities, this lady was either an escaped mentally patient that was going to grab an ax and hack us into tiny pieces, or she was a frustrated women going through a mid life crises, and has had too many espressos at the coffee shop.
"We are on mission formal dress," Star informed her.
"ALLOW ME TO HELP!" she reached out of the changing rooms and randomly plucked a dress off a nearby rack.
"No thank-"Then I stopped. I reached out and took the dress from her. It was a powdered blue off the shoulders dress that was tight at the top, than at the wait, it flowed out to the ground. I didn't even need to try it on.
"You are a genius," I told the lady.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"WOW! I can't believe we have never eaten here before!" I whispered to Star. We had decided to ditch eating at The Feather and went to La Peri Morales. A VERY fancy French restaurant. The room was so pretty! The chandlers cast a soft honey glow light from the high ceiling, and the walls were painted to look like a French palace. I picked up La menu and scanned my eyes over the choices. I looked up to Starfire,
"Should I-"but I never finished the question. Our communicators when off at the same time. Star flipped hers open first and I rushed behind her chair to see what was up. The entire restaurant went quiet, hoping to overhear something interesting. Robins face filled the screen.
"Whets up?" I asked frowning.
"We just got a call from the police station," Robin said officially, "There a crime in progress at a local supermarket. A witness describes it to have just "iced over." I felt the hair on the back of my neck prickle. I closed my eyes and murmured some choice words under my breath. Robin smirked,
"Friend of yours?" I glared at him in response. "Well, the rest of the team is on there way, I'll send you the coordinates." His face flicked off the screen, and was replaced by a map of Gothem. A little red blinking dot symbolized where the market was.
"Star! Let's go kick some Ice ass!" Then the whole restaurant broke into applause.
"But, we haven't done anything yet." Star said confusedly.
"Yet being the key word here," I said. I couldn't wait to strangle that bastard. Star jumped to her feet and we raced to the door. One outside, we followed the coordinates to the seen of the crime.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
We flew silently to the coordinating Robin had given us. We looked down to see Cyborg and Beastboy waving at us from below. Star landed on the pavement besides the building smoothly while I landed with a bump. I saw Robin and Raven questioning a group of distraught customers.
"Don't worry madam," Robin comforted a little old lady who had been doing her shopping when The Pack had decided to have fun with the store, "We've got it under control." I turned and looked at The Super Savers All In On Mart.
Ice had defiantly been here, it was more if a block of ice that a store now. It was completely frozen on the outside, except for one door leading in. I glanced in; it was a maze, completely made of ice. It was a challenge.
"It's a trap," BB said immediately as the team assembled in front of the door.
"Of course it's a trap," I said rolling my eyes, "Ices little plan is that we go in. Then get split up. And then he supposedly "gets us." I knew Ice better than the rest of the team, so I took charge.
"Ices ice powers are not that strong; it takes him a few seconds to form the ice, so the key is to surprise him here. Stealth is out upper hand here. That means no sonic blasts, or breaking of ice, that could lead a tail to one of us. This is a capture mission, find the gang members and bring them straight out here." I glanced to everyone. They nodded.
"Titans! GO!" And with that, we entered the tunnels of ice.
"Split up!" I commanded and we all entered our own ice tunnel. "And remember, no ice breaking unless it is absolutely necessary."
I entered the labyrinth. The floors of the caves were slippery with ice, so I gently floated above the ground. For some reason, the lights were still working; Ice had made special care to ice around them apparently. The tunnels were iced over aisles, if you looked through the glassy ice, you could still see the products on the shelves. I ran my finger over the slippery wall as I glided on. I shivered with the thrill of the hunt.
My heart pounded in my ears, I smiled confidently. Things would be different this time. This time I was the cat, and Ice was the mouse. All I had to do was track down the mouse in his labyrinth. I felt the adrenalin sweep through my veins.
I turned left, then right. Left, right, right, right, opps! dead end, left right.
After a long while of searching, I saw an escalator leading into the second story of the All in one Mart.
The escalator had been completely frozen cover, creating a slippery ramp. The upstairs was completely dark. He must be up there. I shivered, partly because of the anticipation, partly because of the cold. I glided up the ramp and smiled as I entered the dark tunnel.
StArRy- what it tell ya? We haven't seen the last of Ice. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR NICE REVIEWS!! And I would like to announce that the anime kid and chaos girl are witting a TT fict as well, so everyone better read it when the post it. Or else.