Chapter Three.

Slowly the Titan's moved into the large dance room, their eyes wide as they watched several other teenagers move rhythmically against each other's bodies. Stormfist smiled to Robin, who was about to ask her if the club seemed okay to her. He blushed instead as she moved alone, into the deep of the dancing crowd.

Turning back, she glanced at the Titans, and waved them to come with her. After realizing many of them were too shocked to move she returned to her party, hands on her hips, "You brought me here and you aren't going to dance?" A false frown appeared on her face and she observed the pleading faces of the group. In what seemed like a flash of thought, she grabbed Cyborg and Starfire, dragging them into the massive crowd behind her. "Are you coming?" She asked the others as they moved away.

"I'm coming!", shouted Beastboy, and then pushed himself through the crowd to join his other friends.

"I'm going to go find a table and read", grumbled Raven.

"I'll follow you", replied Robin, drawing his eyes away from his dancing friends.

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The four dancing Titans laughed and danced for what seemed like hours to Robin. "I wish I could just dance like that", he thought, letting out a sigh. "Maybe they wouldn't notice I have two left feet."

"Robin, you should go out and dance with them," said Raven with a tinge of concern in her voice, "You don't have to sit around watching after me."

Robin looked at her with a smirk on his face. "I wish that was the case, Raven, but the fact is..."

"What?", asked Raven, her full attention on him.

"...is that I can't dance", replied the dark-haired teen.

"And you think that Beastboy and Starfire can?"

Robin laughed and watched his friends on the dance floor, jumping and shaking around. He laughed harder as Starfire knocked Cyborg into Beastboy, leading both boys half into a booty-bump with one another, which resulted in two very shocked faces and the scurrying away from one another. He then noticed Stormfist dancing, her movements interchanging from lucid to wild as the music that blared on the speakers above and around them. "She's pretty good at this", he thought.

Then he saw her eyes meet his. Quickly moving his attention back to Raven as an attempt to playoff being caught staring, Robin watched though the corner of his eyes as Stormfist leaned over to Cyborg, who began to laugh and shake his head in approval of whatever she proposed.

"She caught us staring", he heard Raven say softly.

"Yeah", he replied, "I wonder what she's up to."

"She's going up to the dj now."

"I see her", Robin stated simply, fear beginning to rise in his veins.

"She's asking him something, he's smiling and looking this way", Raven described. "He's changing records now..."

"Err...", was all Robin could say, his head turning to watch Stormfist as the music changed into a song that sounded more seductive and dark than he had ever heard in his life. The girl smiled and shook hands with the dj, and then stepped down the stairs towards the watching couple.

"What is she about to do?", asked Raven, her eyes growing wide.

"I think she's about to repeat her invitation for us to come dance, Raven", explained Robin, his hands shaking.

The girl crept towards them, and Raven observed her other friends watching them from a distance, half their attention on Stormfist as she moved like silk through the people. Her attention was only on the two, and as she reached them, Raven saw a smirk grow on her face.

"Wha-what are you planning? I don't want to dance", said a now shaken Raven to the smiling girl. When the girl did not reply but instead came closer to the side of her face, Raven's eyes grew large, her dancing friends had returned to dancing.

"Come dance, Raven...", the girls voice was smooth as she spoke in the young girl's ear. "I promise I won't bite." Slowly the girl took Raven's hand and held it as she moved off the chair. Then approaching the shocked Robin, she said nothing, and just took his hand, her smirk turning into a seductive smile. The thought of disagreeing with the girls silent demand never crossed his mind as she guided them into the crowd.

Robin observed the strange phenomenon of people parting as she moved them closer to their friends. "She seems to control the floor", he said to Raven, but he noticed that she wasn't paying attention to him. Her eyes were straight forward, but her hand had not left Stormfist's.

As they finally grouped up with their friends, Robin was shocked as Starfire began to dance as a smoothly as Stormfist had been prior. Then he notice Stormfist, her arms draped over Beastboy, her movements more adult than he could believe. He noticed Beastboy's eyes too, they were glued on the girl's body. Slowly she drifted away from him and on to Raven.

Raven was startled. Just a moment ago, she was dancing with Cyborg, who was apparently an expert at dancing. But now...now she was dancing with a girl her age in a manner she wouldn't have thought appropriate, but for some reason, her body didn't mind. The girl moved her head to Raven's ear again, "I know you and Robin would like this darker music", she said as smoothly as she had spoken before, and then drifted on to dance with Starfire and Robin.

The young boy was to embarrased for words. In front of him, Starfire was smiling, her movements still as smooth as they had been when he they had began. Behind him now was the new girl, and she had pressed into him just lightly, but enough for the boy to feel a blush come across his cheeks. "This is too wild for me", he thought, "But this is just...so hot." He saw that Starfire was moving in close to him, and the new girl had moved back to Beastboy. "She's the reason we came out here..."

The song was beginning to end, but Robin couldn't notice, his attention was back on Starfire, who had proven his and Raven's observations wrong.

Beastboy's eyes drooped in the simple pleasure of having a girl so near him on the dance floor. "I didn't know I could dance", he explained to the girl, as she smiled at him.

She began to explain, "If you can fight, you can dance, it's all the same." Her hands moved up to his neck and sent shivers down his spine as she trailed them down his back slowly. "The movements you are making now," she continued, "are movements that can seen as simple fighting moves. The only difference in them is the time we take to decide when to make the moves."

Beastboy smiled. He had never thought of fighting like this, but she saw that he was correct. He insinctivly pulled her closer to him, and then jumped back in shock as he noticed. Blushing, he looked at the ground, but Stormfist put her right hand under his chin and pulled his gaze back up to face her. "Do you look down when you face an opponent?", she asked, a hint of disapproval in her voice.

"No...", was his reply.

Stormfist smiled at him.

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Back at the Titan Tower, feelings were high-spirited. Beastboy, trying to play off his obvious stare by holding on to the tv remote now affectionly watched as Starfire braided Stormfist's hair, of which was reading a copy of Frankenstein had lent to her. Cyborg and Robin talked over some coffee, and Raven sat with them, quiet sipping some tea.

Starfire yawned softly and then smiled at the back of her new friend's head, working midway in one of the several braids on the girl's head. "New friend Stormfist, where did you learn to 'bust a groove'-as I think Earthlings call it?"

The girl smiled as she closed the book, placing a small bookmark between the pages she was reading. "I don't really know, Starfire", the girl confessed. "But as a young girl, I was always drawn to dance whenever I heard music. My grandmother, when I was younger, would clap and sing for me if we were outside and without a radio. My existence has always been with some sort of music about it that I think it was just natural for me to dance. I, like I told Beastboy, "she said smiling to the green-skinned boy, making him smile sheepishly, "find that dance and combat are very similar."

"Oh, yes, this is true!", exclaimed Starfire, "On Tamarean, most of the women are taught sacred moves only women of my people can know. They are composed into dances which closely resemble many of our war defenses and fighting stances."

"Awesome", replied Stormfist, drawing her knees up to her chest, smiling as she caught Beastboy staring.