Chapter Four: ENOUGH WITH VANESSA CARLTON!
Robin glanced at the monitor that was attached to the now unconscious Raven. "Hmm, it appears that she is waking up." He announced to Cyborg and Beastboy. The shapeshifter perked up instantly and jumped up from his chair and running over to Raven's bed as she started stirring from her sleep. Morphing into a kitten (a rather cute one I might add) while in mid-jump, he landed gently on the hospital bed.
Starfire observed all this as she silently stepped into the infirmary, happy to see that her friends were indeed back at the tower, but not wishing to startle them. She smiled as Beastboy started rubbing up against Raven's face like kittens do, purring rather loudly.
"Get…away…from…my face." Raven said dryly, attempting to use her powers to levitate the cat form of Beastboy, but only managing to enshroud the cat in black and ruffle its green fur a bit. "You need to lose weight, fat cat."
Starfire stifled a laugh as Beastboy scowled at Raven's comment.
Obviously, her stifling was not successful because both Beastboy's head snapped in her direction. Taking advantage of his distraction, Raven decided to do things the old fashioned way and used her arm to swat Beastboy off her bed and on to the ground with a 'me-OW!'
Cyborg and Robin turned to see what had caught the green kitten's attention.
"Starfire!" Robin exclaimed as he ran toward her as if to embrace her, though he stopped short, as if suddenly coming to his senses. He blushed slightly before taking the mountain dew from her hands. "Great, we really needed this!" he said before tossing each bottle to a teammate.
"What happened to your communicator? I've been trying to reach you", he whispered to Starfire while the other Titans were busy opening their sodas. With a look of deep concern in his eyes he added, "I.. I was getting very worried about you."
"I am sorry, Robin, I seem to have misplaced it. I was also worried for you all, for when I reached the bank, you were not there and there was a lot of damage. Were we victorious?"
"Unforunately not. The robber proved quite vigilant and got away. But don't worry, we'll catch him another day. And don't worry about your communicator, we can use Cyborg's computer to scan for its GPS signal and retrieve it." Robin reassured the worried princess with a smile.
"Cheers, everyone!" Cyborg proclaimed before popping the lid off of his and started downing it like there was no tomorrow.
Starfire hesitated to join as the others began drinking theirs, not sure if she would like it. Truth be told, she was really rather craving a nice cool glass of mustard if she was to imbibe a yellow beverage at all. She observed as Beastboy and Robin cheered Cyborg on, saying, "CHUG IT! CHUG IT! CHUG IT!" as Cyborg attempted to drink his all at once. Raven just sipped hers, suppressing a laugh as Beastboy tried to make her smile by drinking his through as an elephant through his trunk.
"What's wrong, Star?" Robin asked, noticing that she hadn't even touched hers.
"Oh, I guess that I'm just uncertain as to what consuming your 'dew of the mountain' might be like." the galatican replied.
"Trust me, everything will be fine." Robin replied, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"Okay." She replied with a smile. After all, she did trust Robin, and everyone else seemed to be enjoying it. Without another word she drank all of her mountain dew in one massive gulp, causing all the other titans to stare at her in amazement. She blushed as the others stood gaping at her feat. "Friends… is something… wrong?" she asked, hoping she had not offended them in some way by her ignorance of earthly drinking customs for 'dew of the mountain'. She was about to ask again, as they were still staring in stunned admiration for quite some time and she thought maybe they hadn't heard her, but before she opened her mouth to do so, Beastboy broke the silence.
"All right Starfire!"
"Dude! She chugged that whole thing in less than a second!" Cyborg said, aghast.
"Wow, Star…" Robin gasped, still staring at her in utter surprise.
"Your praise is very… appreciated, I think." Starfire replied, blushing brighter still. Then without warning, the princess let out a resounding burp, causing her to blush all the more.
The titans burst into a fit of laughter over the unexpected sound their graceful native Tamaranian emitted, and even Raven let her surprise show, albeit only in a silent cock of the eyebrow.
"DUDE!" Beastboy exclaimed, "Nice." He added with a grin, while Raven glared at him.
"Now that's what I'm talking about! We're gonna have to have ourselves a burping competition and see who is the burping King! …or Queen… you may just give this reigning champion a run for his money!" Cyborg excited proclaimed.
Suddenly, a wave of nausea swept over Starfire, and her orange complexion paled.
"Star, are you okay?" Robin inquired, rushing to her side.
"I… I need to use the restroom!" she replied before running to the bathroom, only to be stopped short when she fainted in the middle of the floor.
"STARFIRE!" Robin exclaimed.
