Chapter 10: Renewed freedom- And then there were six....

I woke up the next morning, relieved by the fact that nothing was floating when I opened ny eyes. I guess I had woken up late. I trudged into the kitchen and opened the pantry to look for some good cereal. I quickly selected some Honey Bunches Of Oats, grabbed a bowl, and sat down. I was still pretty much half awake. Robin walked in.

"Your wing should be healed by now. Would you like me to check later?"

I looked up at him and said ,"Sure." Only it sounded like "murrr" because I was saying this through a mouthful of partly-chewed cereal.

After I finished my breakfast, I hopped into the shower, being careful not to get my flight feathers too wet; they weren't very water-resistant. I wrapped a towel around myself and walked down the hallway to my room. I had to hold it pretty low, or my wings would be uncomfortable. Beast Boy and Cyborg were running down the halls playing "stankball ". The "ball" barely missed my just washed head. They froze when they saw me in a towel. I blushed and power-walked back to my room. 'Remind me WHY I agreed to living with three guys again??' I said to myself with a grin.

I slipped on my favorite cargo pants and a long-sleeved shirt. I remembered how icy the sky was, even in the summer. It was funny how I had to ruin so many shirts by punching holes into them. I walked down to the main room, and nobody was there. I walked around. I heard a ball bounce from above. 'Ahhh... the roof!' I climbed the stairs and opened the door that led up to the roof. The titans were up there, as I suspected, playing volleyball. Robin called a time-out and clipped my bandages. I stretched my wing, enjoying the feeling.

"Feel better?" He said with one of his grins.

"You have NO idea. Be right back!"

I ran as hard as I could, using the rectangular shape of the top of the tower as a runway. I felt the air bulge against the bottom of my wings, and force me up just before I reached the edge. I lifted myself up in a tight arc upward, trying to get as high up as I could get as quick as possible. I looked down. The titans looked so tiny from this high up! I made the decision that now was as good of a time as ever to show off. I made myself go straight up, flapping as quickly as I could, then when I felt I had gone high enough, I stayed still and let gravity do the work for me. It made me do this back-wrenching back bend, but it still looked tcool. I fell straight down, then tilted my wings up to do a loop de loop, and headed back to the roof. Once I found the spot I wanted, I flared my wings and settled onto the roof softly; like some bird-of-prey. The titans formed a semi-circle around me after I landed.

"Well. That felt good." I announced with a grin.

Beast Boy tossed me the volleyball and said with a toothy grin, "Nice."

Starfire bounced and clapped like a joyful little cheerleader after a big state tournament victory.

"That was wonderfully fantastic!" She yelped.

It was amazing how that girl NEVER ran out of pep. She would probably be an optimist until the day she died. 'Does she ever run out of adverbs?' I wondered.

"Awesome, little lady!" Cyborg punched me playfully on the shoulder. Only thing was, was that it didn't feel too playful! It was all I could do to not rub it.... didn't want them to think I couldn't take it!

I looked behind me and saw only three or four feathers on the roof, instead of twenty-zillion.

Robin was about to say something when an electric beep rang through the air. Everyone was blinking. 'Ooookayyy..... that would be something to look into....' I thought to myself.

"Titans! Trouble!"

Some villian named "Control Freak" was at a bookstore. When we got there, Robin said, "Control Freak, you can't control...THIS!" as he punched him. Eventually, after an hour or so of fighting, Raven broke his remote control in half, and the police took Control Freak to jail.

Starfire and me got into an interesting conversation about what is in a twinkie, and so I really didn't notice the other titans rushing to get to the tower before me. When Star and I got into the tower, the titans were all there waiting for me. Starfire giggled.

"What's this all about?" I said.

Robin placed a smooth round thing in my hand. When he moved his hand away, though, I could see what it was. It was a communicator!

"Welcome to the team!" He said with a grin.

Cheers and shouts of 'you go girl!' and 'BOO-yah!' were yelled between 'Wonderful!'s were heard. I kinda took everything in partway; I couldn't believe that I had been accepted. My eyes filled.

"You have no idea what this means to me...."

I hugged Robin through my tears. Starfire got a little nervous by that, so I made it short.

We had a movie night that night, and I guess it was Starfire's turn to pick, because we watched a movie called "Froo-Froo The Little Lost Dog". To tell you the truth, it actually wasn't too bad. Raven didn't like it too much, but that's nothing new.

Everyone was tired after the movie from fighting evil books and flying CDs. I, especially went to bed with good dreams.