Training

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In his light sleep, Element heard footsteps coming towards him, guessing that it was morning, he thought it was Cyborg coming to wake him.

"I'm up, I'm up," he said sleepily as he sat up, "don't poke me."

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Raven said as she walked over to Element.

"Oh, thank god, I thought you were Cyborg, he woke me yesterday by poking me, it hurt a little," he said this while rubbing his shoulder, "guess he forgets his own strength sometimes."

"I told the others that I'd wake you from now on, so that we can meditate together in the morning."

"Thanks, but can I get some herbal tea first? I need something to help me fully wake me up."

"I already got it for you, I guess you and me think a little alike." She handed him a cup of the ever so calming tea.

"Aah, that hit the spot, so, shall we start?"

"Yes, come on."

As they walked Element started to make small talk, "So, where do you meditate in the morning?"

"I decided to keep meditating on the roof, the sunrise is definitely not as beautiful and calming as sunset, but it's better than nothing."

They made a turn and came onto the stairs for getting onto the roof. Once there, they settled on the edge facing the sunrise and started their chant. A few hours later they both stopped, heading back inside. This time Raven was the first to start the small talk.

"We're going to do some training about now, do you..."

"Don't worry, Cyborg asked me yesterday, I already said yes, let's go."

"Why can't he and Beast Boy learn to keep their mouths shut, we discussed on asking you today."

"Don't be too hard on him, he was just eager, I probably would have done the same. Now, if Beast Boy asked, you could kick his ass and I'd just turn a cheek, even I see how often he does this kind of stuff." He let out a little laugh, while next to him Raven just made a little smile. "You know, there's something that I want to ask you."

"Hmm?"

"Why don't you show a lot of emotion?"

"I might lose control, there's a part of me that takes control of me when I don't watch my emotions. It's happened before when I've got really angry, it's the main reason why I meditate, if I let my emotions out, well, I can't exactly explain."

He thought about this as they got outside to the training grounds/obstacle course. Robin was at the start of it with Cyborg at the controls of the course, both doing the configurations and trying to keep Beast Boy from destroying the thing. Starfire was on the outskirts, watching everything that was happening, suddenly flying over to Raven and Element as they got there.

"Friend Raven, when do we get to start the training of our skills through the course of obstacles?"

"How should I know, ask Robin."

"Both he and Cyborg forbade me from talking to them, I don't understand why, though."

Raven rolled her eyes, "You're right, Starfire, it's a real puzzler."

Starfire nodded her head, unaware of Raven's sarcasm. Leaving Raven, Element headed down to where Robin was waving to him. "Hey Robin, how's it going?"

"Great, great, I can't wait to get started, what do you think of the course?"

"It looks, let me think, challenging, interesting, complicated, and some other stuff I can't put to words."

"That's what I was going for."

"Really?" He took a step back, "So, who's going first?"

"I was wondering if you would like to."

"Okay, just explain to me the directions that I'll need to take."

"Don't worry, I'm sure that you'll figure it out."

"Yeah, one question, first, how accurate exactly are those lasers?"

"Almost as accurate as they can be."

"Okay," he stretched the word out a little, "go tell everyone that I'm going to start, but don't start until you know I'm starting, I need to do a little thing first."

"How will we know when you're done?"

"Oh, you'll know."

"Okay."

Element waited for Robin to join with the other Titans. After that, he suddenly held his hands out to the sides. Two ball of white energy, about palm sized, appeared in each hand. His arms did a little bit of complicated weaving, finally, he shouted out. "Light-force style, dragon armor!" At the same time he said that, he slammed his palms together, the two orbs colliding, and there was a blinding flash of light.

The Titans watching shielded their eyes, once it was over, they looked down to where Element was standing. He was still standing there, but instead of his normal clothes, he had on a suit of bright, white armor, obviously made out of his light energy. It was different from regular armor, though, it was sort of dragonish, and the helmet was shaped like a dragon's head, with no armor shielding his face. But the most obvious thing that caught their attention was the pair of metal dragon wings on his back.

With mouth hanging open, Cyborg pushed the button to start, not even looking at it. Suddenly, the laser cannons at the start of the course swiveled about to face Element, firing at a blinding rate.

Element shot forward, dodging a lot of the shots while still a lot hit him. Fortunately, all the ones that hit just glanced off of his armor, Element looked at the things bitterly. "This is getting a little annoying, dragon sword!" Suddenly a sword of pure white energy appeared in his right hand, the hilt of witch was shaped like a dragon (of course). He slashed the sword a few times, and suddenly all of the laser cannons had a chunk of them cut off.

Still running, the ground underneath his feet suddenly disappeared into about a three foot hole. He guessed that this next part was just littered with them so decided to just fly through it. In the next part of the course, while still flying, he almost ran into a pillar of metal that erupted right in front of him. He slashed at it, cutting it right in half. After that, he landed on the ground and started to run, seeing no need to fly. He cut at almost every pillar that rose, until a giant metal wall appeared, he guessed that after that he had to turn.

He ran a little more cautiously in the next part, since the space was completely flat. Suddenly many turrets erupted from the ground, shooting balls of laser energy at him. Good thing that I'm wearing my armor like before, cause if I wasn't, I'd be toast. Too bad I can't cut these thins like before, they're too grounded, wait, I've got an idea. Suddenly he thrust his arms up, and a storm of fireballs launched themselves at the turrets, turning them into a pile of smoking debris.

At the sides of the next field, five foot high poles erupted from the ground. Each of them shot out a laser beam, moving it up and down. Definitely don't need to destroy these, just a basic operation of jumping and ducking the lasers. He easily got through that course with not a scratch on his armor. I must be at the end, I don't see any more courses. With a shake of the ground, five ten foot high, two feet thick pillars rose from the ground, each sporting a lot of cannons on it. It literally showered the ground with laser fire, making it almost impassable for Element.

What am I going to do here? They're too thick to cut, and one of those lasers might hit my face. There's only one thing I can think of to pass this thing.

With his face covered, Element jumped right into the middle of them, continuously getting pounded by the lasers. Suddenly he plunged his sword into the ground, shouting to the heavens.

"PYRO DRAGONS!"

Suddenly five dragon heads erupted from the ground, each of them made out of the light energy and each as tall and thick as the pillars (that includes the long necks). Each of them launched themselves at the pillars like a giant energy beam, destroying the pillars in the progress. With the pillars gone and the dragons faded, Element took the final steps to the finish line. He plunged his sword into the ground one last time and all of the armor and the sword disappeared like smoke getting hit by a gust of wind, with him standing there in his regular ensemble.

The rest of the Titans ran over to him, completely in awe, Cyorg got to him first. "Yo, man, what the hell was THAT"

"You mean the armor? A little thing I like to call light-force style, I take the light energy from combining the elements and make a kind of, "ensemble," that goes over me. I make different ones from many different ideas I get, inspiration usually hits me by maybe something I read or watch on TV. But the dragon armor is just a cool idea that I made up myself."

"Well, whatever it is it is sweet, man."

"Yeah, I know, oh, one more thing, you guys might need to get a new obstacle course."


Personally, I think that this is my best chapter yet, how about you guys?Hope you guys like this chapter, what do you think of the light-force style? Personally, I think that it's one of my greatest ideas ever, next to Element, of course. So, don't forget, read and review.