(( Chapter 3 ))

Breakfast Breakout

The sky over the Tower began to turn into a swirl of reds and oranges. Starfire loved sitting up on the roof watching the sky. She enjoyed every moment of it and its beautiful colors. It was so peaceful and quiet, she now understood while Raven also enjoyed meditating up here.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

Starfire turned around to see Robin, she smiled at his arrival.

"Yes, it marvelous."

Robin loved Starfire's smile, it was so full of joy and happiness... she didn't have an angry bone in her body. (that shows how clueless Robin is...)

"What are doing up here all alone?"

"I was just... observing the clouds..."

Starfire paused a moment and watched the clouds start to ever so slowly move. She could hear Robin gently breathing behind her; she began to remember how she loved spending time with him and how he was always teaching her new and different things about Earth. Coming from another planet and learning to live in a whole new different and strange one was hard but with all her friends she was always so happy and smiled every chance she got... and now, it suddenly seemed as though some one had stolen her smile and thrown it into a never ending black hole.

"I'm getting kind of hungry... wanna head downstairs for breakfast?"

Starfire agreed with a small smile and followed Robin down the stairs and to the kitchen where Cyborg and BeastBoy were having their usual fight that they had almost every morning; real eggs, or tofu eggs...

"Come on Cyborg! You haven't even tasted tofu before, how could you not like it?!"

"Ummm, 'cause there's no meat in it!"

"Yea well how about I take that meat and shove it up your-"

"Friends please! No more mean talking!" Said Starfire sitting down next to Raven who had her head buried in a new book.

BeastBoy and Cyborg eyed each other then turned and folded their arms across their chests.

"I'm not eating meat!" yelled BeastBoy.

"Well I'm not eating fake meat!" yelled Cyborg.

"Then what are we gonna eat for breakfast?!"

The room went silent as Raven snapped her book shut with a 'thud'. "Simple, BeastBoy makes tofu eggs and Cyborg makes regular eggs."

At first BeastBoy and Cyborg just looked at each other, then after a minute or so they each grinned happily and ran to the fridge...then began a new fight of who was going to get to cook first and who was going to get to be the first one in the fridge.

"...I don't think we'll ever get to eat..." sighed Robin.

Starfire turned toward Robin with curiosity in her alien green eyes.

"Why will we not get to eat?" she asked.

"Well how those guys are going at it I'd say it's probably going to take at least an hour before they even have the ingredients out of the fridge."

Raven raised an eyebrow. "...um, how about we just go out to eat?"

Starfire peered over at the squabbling robot and arguing changeling. She took a deep breath and walked over to them, behind her she heard Raven mutter, "...better grab a helmet..."

"Please friends, if you would just..."

"CARNIVORE!" snapped BeastBoy pushing Cyborg away which made him crash into the counter and fall onto the other side.

Not being one to take a battle sitting down, Cyborg's right arm formed into his canon.

"Oh you're in trouble now little man..." He aimed it at BeastBoy who was now racing toward the fridge. "

"...Ooooh BB..." he sang, BeastBoy turned around to see who had 'sang' his name... and just as he did so Cyborg directed his cannon and blasted, a glowing light blue bolt came shooting out toward BeastBoy but at the last minute Starfire pushed BeastBoy out of the way and was hit by the cannon's bolt... sending her with a very powerful push into the wall and fall onto the floor.

BeastBoy froze; his mouth on the floor.

"DUDE! That could've been me!! Cyborg how could-"

"...My arm... it is 'tingling'....why do I feel so... so... 'angered'?" Starfire thought over BeastBoy's yells.

Starfire felt an odd pulse in her hands... and in the pit of her stomach she felt anger... real pure, hating, anger...

Without realizing what was happening Starfire pulled herself off the floor and raised her right hand toward Cyborg who was standing shocked back at the counter. At first the other Titans didn't understand what Starfire was doing but within two seconds Starfire's hand become surrounded by a lime green glow. (She had fired up her star bolt)... then oddly, the lime green that everyone (including Starfire) were so used to faded into a bright devilish red...

"Star I'm sorry, are you ok-" started Cyborg but was stopped as soon as he (and everyone else of course too...) noticed Starfire's eyes begin to change into the same color of red that was glowing around her hand.

Starfire balled her hand into a fist and threw a red star bolt with all her energey toward Cyborg... it hit him hard in the chest and sent him flying backward into the wall.

After she threw the star bolt the redness in both her hand and eyes went away and she just stared at shock at what had just happened.

Robin was the only one that took his eyes off Cyborg (Raven and BeastBoy just stood there, mouths WIDE open and their eyes just as big.)

"Starfire are you... okay?"

Tears started to form in her eyes, without speaking she took off (flying) as fast as she could down the long endless halls... but instead of going into her room she flew up onto the roof where the sky had already changed in the short period she was away from beautiful reds and oranges to a dark pool of black... Starfire fell to the ground...

"I am a bad friend... I have hurt Cyborg..."

With tear stained cheeks she looked up at the sky... and all the black... all the darkness... as it began to rain.