Chapter Six: On the Road Again

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I'm sorry this is late; I was doing so well for a while…

So, I guess you want your story now.

Lauren gathered up some of her stuff in her turquoise blue felt purse. The purse was, of course, turquoise blue felt, and pulled together with white thread. The purse was fairly big, but not very big. In between, you know? Lauren had changed out of her kakis and purple tank, the fabric was itchy. She now had a spaghetti strap turquoise tank and light jeans with a white hoodie.

It had been a week sense the meeting of Terra in the cave, and where going to leave for Leap City the next day. Lauren liked to plan ahead, so she was packing now. The trip to Leap City didn't need a big messenger bag full of stuff, so Lauren had picked out her largest purse instead.

The Titans had let her sleep in Terra's room, sense no one used it anymore. Terra's style was totally different then Lauren's, so the room was completely different then if Lauren was to decorate it.

Take the dresser, for example. Lauren would of put a jewelry box, nail polish, a cute stuffed animal (problem a kitten, bunny, or puppy), and a picture of Terra and herself. Terra had it with different rock samples with different colored stickers on them, her Teen Titans badge, a brush, and a picture of herself and Lauren. That was the only thing the same about them.

There was a quiet nock on the door.

"Come in!" Lauren said, looking at her portable brush and her regular one, trying to decide witch one to take.

Starfire walked in, gazing at the walls.

"Oh, hi Starfire." Lauren smiled at Starfire, Starfile smiled back.

Starfire came and sat down on Terra's bed. (I had trouble with this sentence. I it is really Terra's bed, but Lauren is sleeping in it. I put Terra's bed because my new favorite letter is T. It was L). Her eyes wandered around the room again, and then looked solemnly at Lauren.

Lauren desisted on the real one. "So," she placed the brush in her purse and faced Starfire, "what brings you to Terra's and my room."

"I'm sorry about what happened to your sister," she shook her head, "It was hard for us because she was our friend, but it must be harder for you, being her sister."

Lauren sighed, "I'm sorry, too." She looked at her shoes, "in fact, I'm heart broken. But I know that I have to do this, keep on going, no matter how much it hurts. I'm not sure that I can, but I will try."

Starfire, looked at Lauren, "You sound just like Terra."

Lauren laughed, "I am as far as you can be from Terra. In fact, if she wasn't my identical twin, you could never guess we where related. I just know what I have to do, and I try my hardest to do it. My hardest is never enough, though," she squinted, tying to hold back tears "I'll never be able to save her. It wasn't before, it won't be ever!" She started bawling

Starfire put an arm around Lauren (you know, the way you comfort a friend?) and said, "You'll be able to. You are related to Lauren, yes? You can. Robin once told me that doubt is man's greatest weakness. Even though it is men, I'm sure it applies to women, too. He also said that you can do anything if you believe. Your situation is a perfect example of that. You can do it if you think you can"

She smiled. "The Titans want to talk to you in the living room. Are you ready?"

"Yeh, almost."

Starfire smiled and left. She closed the door on her way out.

"Well," Lauren said once the door was fully closed, "she probably thinks I'm the biggest wimp in the world. Most likely I am, but a I would like to have a good image with superhero's."

She looked in her purse and made sure she had everything. She did. Well, almost everything.

From a deep pocket in her messenger bag, she got a Swiss army knife. She had desisted last night that it would be good to bring it. She had packed it in her messenger bag in the first place for getting soup cans open. Now, she was sure it would serve a much different role. The thing waiting at dock 11 seemed to be really tough, so a Swiss army knife would be necessary. But hopefully not used.

As soon as everything was ready, she went down to the living room, all the Titans were whispering quietly on the couch, but as soon as Lauren entered the room, they stopped.

"Um, Hi! Sorry I took a while; I was packing for Leap City.

"That's okay." Robin, said

There was silence for a second. Lauren bit the side of her cheek. She did that when she was nervous.

"So, what did you want me for?" the Titans never really went out of their way to talk to her. Just Starefire.

"We have never seen what you can do," Robin said frankly, "we want to know if your powers are like Terra's or not."

"Okay," said Lauren. To tell you the truth, she didn't even know what she could do. Oh well she shrugged; I guess I'll find out now.

They all headed out to the course. Lauren didn't see anything that looked like a practice course, but there must have been some hidden meaning.

"Lauren, stand right there," Beast Boy, pointed to the red X on the ground. Lauren took off her hoodie and folded it around her purse, and places it all gingerly on the ground by the panels that the Teen Titans sat at. Then she stood directly on the X.

"Ready, set, go!"

Right on cue, giant metal bars sprouted out of the ground.

Now what? Will they stare at me to death?

Then, flying disks sped out of the mouths.

Well, that explains my later question.

The disks flew at her at high speed. She dodged (back at Narasville, she and Terra were best at doge ball their school. Put them together and they were unbeatable.) And blew a strong wind current at them, blowing off their tops so that it stopped shooting disks.

She assumed that she had to go to the line that said finish on it, so she started running.

Then, those giant gateways that go up and down randomly sprouted up in the same fashion as the shooter things.

Lauren had a good rhythm, do she just listened for the pattern. Up, down. Up up down. up down, down up. Up, down. Up up down…

Keeping the pattern in her head, the moved through them easily.

This is way too easy.

She was getting closer to the finish line, when suddenly, the ground beneath her disappeared.

She was falling, the wind rushing trough her hair.

What should I do?

Lauren was fresh out of ideas. At the bottom was a pool of water, and Lauren was terrified of large bodies of water.

Finally, that sensible voice in the back of her head kicked in.

Girl, can you fly or not?

Oh, right.

She floated up out of the ditch, and then landed on the ground. She was super close to the finish line now, so she ran.

Then, when she was about two yards from the line, a massive swarm of robots came. She tried flying over them, they could fly too. She tried a wind current. It blew them off track a little, but they kept on coming.

Think…think…think… got it!

She made a colossal cloud over all the robots, and then a rainstorm started. Sense they were robots, they fried.

Lauren flew gracefully over the static mess, and landed on the finish line.

The Titans started clapping, and Lauren did an overdone bow.

(I'm sorry, that really sucked. Try to imagine it. I'm horrible with action sense.)

"Well done, friend!" Starfire clapped her ands and floated with glee. "That was marvelous!"

"Good, Lauren." Robin said. "But I'm still kind of unsure what you can do."

"I control the sky and wind. Weather, really. And withstanding wind. And flying." She shrugged. "That's it, really."

They all went back inside. It seemed like after you made the crash course, you where officially an unofficial member of the Teen Titans. They treated her like they treated Terra, a friend.

At the end of the day Lauren changed into her flannel PJ's and brushed her teeth. Just before she got into bed, she walked over the dresser and looked at the picture. It was of Terra and Lauren on the swings. Lauren was pushing both of them with wind, so they were going really high. Lauren smiled. She looked just like the Lauren in the photo. Shy, quiet, but fun loving and caring.

She flopped onto the bed and listened to the waves of the ocean (you could hear it form the tower.

"On the road again, I can't wait to get on the road again."

That's all! I'm going to be bad and stop there, yay me!

Now, to my reviewers, I love you all!

Chapter one:

Serve the Abbalah: as for your first statement, if you hat OC's, why did you read my story? Ah, well. Next time I make a story just for you (this is not it) and not for the 500 (I don't know exactly how much) other people that like OC's, I will be sure not to put any in!

For your second statement, we can compromise! She has a brother AND a twin sister! Happy?

Chapter Four:

Reggie Tuesday: Thank you! I'm only here to help!

Chapter Five:

Reggie Tuesday: those darn trumpets never leave a person alone, do they?

Teen Titan True Friend: thanks! I do to!

Hermione and Terra's Twin 16: Yay! Does odd dance

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