Starfire's First Day in Training as Captian
Two days later, I still couldn't stand the thought of being catian in Robin's place. Cyborg was the one who finally convinced me to start ating like captian. "Star, for Robin's sake, and the team's, you had better start acting like the captian Robin appointed you to be. You need to keep the team in shape, especially Beast Boy. He needs to excercise all of the video game playing off. Robin and missions was the only thing that kept him from getting a little chubby. Raven hasn't been social at all. You need to stop moping. And I need to stop seeing my teammates fall apart like this."
Robin should have appointed Cyborg. He always wanted to be the leader, whether he told us it or not, you could tell by the way he would look at Robin at times. He deserved to be captian, and knew more about it sometimes than Robin could. I still do not understand why he chose ME over the other members. I nodded to him and asked him if he would please get the team to assemble in the main room. Cyborg just said a simple "sure." before leaving my room, leaving me alone once more to the picture of me and Robin at the fair. A single teardrop slid down my cheek, hit the picture, and I flew off to the main room.
I sighed as I heard the chatter of the other Titans in the Main Room. "By their voices, they are all there." I concluded to myself. I took a deep breath in and opened the door. The Titans suddenly fell quiet as they watched me. I cleared my throat loudly and said, as sincerely as I possibly could without crying in front of my team, my friends. "I know I haven't really been acting like the captian. But, truth be told, Robin appointed me and I should respect his wishes. Since it is too late to practice now, tomorrow, bright and early, say about twelve, we will begin to practice on the outside course and then we will go into the Gym . I think we all could use a lot of practice, since we have lost so much time by my moping. I think I need to sleep now... I am sorry I haven't been acting like a true captian for you guys. I truly am." I said, trying to keep myself from crying, but still ended up shaking violently with emotion.
The Titans rushed to my side, and Cyborg said anxiously,"Starfire! Starfire! Are you alright!" He grabbed me tightly, then he loosened me in his arms as the shaking grew less rough. I nodded lightly and said,"Yes, I must really go to bed..." "Fine, but I want you to spend the night in the Infirmary. I don't want you to get hurt. If no bad signals come up, you can just go ahead and join us in the practice. BUT, if you aren't feeling better, it would be best for me to lead the Titans in the practice." I knew there was no arguing with Cyborg, especially when he was acting like this. My eyes slowly droped,a nd I fell into a rather unusually dreamless sleep.
I awoke the next day at about six in the morning. I yawned, stretched, and smiled. But, I was surronded by the unfamilar sight of the Infirmary.I sighed and remembered the fit I had had the night before. It only happens when a Tameranean is under extreme distress... I thought about just getting up, but last time someone did that, Cyborg had a fit. And, as if on cue (a phrase Robin told me...), he walked into the room. "Morning Star." "Glorious morning, friend." Our usual conversation in the morning. He looked at my signs, I think that were my temperature, my blood pressure, my heart rate, and many other things I had no clue about. He nodded and said,"Get something to eat before we start training. Something REALLY filling."
I nodded as he pulled off the various sensors he put on me. I got up and left the room to go get something to eat, perhaps some leftover pizza from the nightthat Cyborg ate sooo much he nearly overloaded. I giggled to myself, and reached for the pizza was in the fridge. I took a plate of it, and deciding never to use the microwave since another incident, I think I put a bottle of mustard in it after Beast Boy said the microwave was for making stuff taste better. So I flicked a small starbolt at the bottom of the plate that had the pizza on it, which warmed it quite well. I munched at it lightly, without much thought... except of Robin.
It took almost until ten for the other Titans to wake up. I smiled at them and gave them my usually greeting, trying to act normally, though I think they could see the sadness behind my normally happy face. Everyone ate, and then eventually, we headed outside to begin practice. I decided then and there that while I was practicing myself, I would use a new system for practicing... a system I had been thinking about for a little bit, and revised while Robin was still captian. Eventually, I was going to tell him, but, it just never came up...
Beast Boy did an hand to hand (or.. paw... or others?) course (we were going on weakness, and we weren't going to be running the same courses), and he swiftly changed from animal to animal and fought the enemies. I noticed he was getting hit more by the enemies because he was just keeping his feet flat on the ground, and not trying to dodge the attacks. "Beast Boy, could you try to move around a bit more? You might get hit less." I noted aloud. He nodded, and began moving around more while fighting. He didnt get hit much after that, and I knew he would further inprove it later on.
Raven did a flying course. She had to dodge different attacks and different different obstacles. She did pretty good, but somehow, her attention kept flatering again and again. I was wondering aobout something, and I noticed a certain tiredness in her eyes. "Friend Raven, are you feeling tired?" I asked. " I couldn't put a book down last night. I guess i am tired." "Friend Raven, maybe it would be best if you stop reaading half an hour from the time you go to bed? Maybe then you can sleep better..." I requested shyly. "Yeah, Starfire, good idea..." she replied with a nod.
Cyborg had to do a target practice course. He hit most of the targets, in fact he didn't miss a single one, until his power began getting to low. "Friend Cyborg, try hitting more than one target and once. It may help conserve power, and would be faster. Also, try not to rely so much on the sonic cannon." I said, this time, less shyly since I knew that the others actually worked. He nodded, and the second time through the course, he went through it without losing as much power. He gave me a reasurring smile as I began my task of agility.
I had dodged most of the the things that came hurling at me, and even destroyed some of them instead of having to just dodge them. After the practice was over, since, for the most part, we still needed excercise but we had pretty much perfected the courses, I had a different great idea. "Friends? How about we go to the place were we played laser-tag on Beast Boy's birthday? I rather enjoyed it, and it was a lot of fun to do. Besides, we coud all use the break, and the town seems quiet now." "Sounds great!" exclaimed Beast Boy and Cyborg at the same time. They both turned to Raven at the same time, and she shurgged and said,"Sounds alright to me." "Alright! Everyone, to the T Car!" said Cyborg happily. I nodded and everyone went outside to the garage to the car for some fun, excitement, and excercise.