Summary: What happens when your past suddenly comes crawling back to you on one stormy night? Well that's what happens to Robin when they find his old best friend, Luna, standing on their doorstop during a storm. But what does her appearance mean? And what does she want from the Titans?
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Okay here's chapter 7. I think I'm moving pretty fast with these chapters, don't you? Well I still don't know how long this is going to be but it looks like it might turn out to be pretty long. But then again my mind may pull a trick on me and may only turn out to be 10 chapters. Who knows! But for now here's the latest installment in my ever growing story. Thanks to Robinisawesome for your review! In answer to you question; you're just going to have to wait and find out. So now I will not delay you all any longer. Here's chapter seven. Enjoy!
Chapter 7: Training
Robin nodded with a slight smirk on his face and took her by the arm and led her out of the living room. He led her back to the room she had woken up in that morning and pulled her over to the chest-of-drawers. He pulled open a few of them to reveal…
"My clothes. How did you get them? Aren't they supposed to be back at my, um, house?" she asked him, clearly very confused.
Robin shook his head, his lips tilting ever-so slightly upward, surprised at how easily he was getting along with her again after all these years, even though he knew they still had a long way to go to get to the place they had been at before she had left, "No. When I thought about that fact that you could be joining the Titans I decided that you'd have to stay here, so I got someone to go and get all your belongings. Look around the room, don't you recognize some things? We had to leave some of your items there but I'm sure, if you really think you need them, you could go and get them and bring them here, or you could sell them, it's up to you."
Luna looked around the room in shock and, now that it was lighter, she did recognize her own things. The mirror, her beanbag chair, the bag on the dressing table. She walked over to the closet and pulled the double doors open to revel a lot of her other clothes like pants, dresses and skirts. She shut the doors and turned back to Robin with another small smile, but the first real one she had given him in years, "Thankyou for that. It's the first act of humanity I've seen in a while. Things haven't been going smooth for me since…well since everything I knew fell apart."
"I figured. Well I'll let you change and do whatever you need to do before training starts. A word of advice: Don't be late. If you are it'll take Raven longer to trust you then it will now." He walked out of her room and the doors closed with a swish.
She nodded and as soon as she was sure he was gone Luna went over and collapsed on her bed, staring at the ceiling. How is it that things could change so much in such a short amount of time? Sure this had happened to her before, but it had been a change from great to horrible, where this was a change from sucks-to-be-you to wonderful. She was with a friend again, and not just any friend either, her friend. The only real one she'd ever had…on Earth that is. She shook her head trying to get rid of all the memories that still existed from her past life, the one before she had arrived on this small planet.
With a sigh she got up off her bed and raided her closet and drawers for her training outfit. Finding it she bought it out and gave it a shake. True, she hadn't worn it as much as she used to over the past few years but she had worn it occasionally so she knew it fit. She pulled off the clothes she had on and climbed into the new pair, finishing the outfit by putting on weighted wristbands, her combat boots, and fixing her hair so that it finally looked like it was supposed to. With another quick look in the mirror she smirked and walked briskly out the door and out of the tower to the training session.
When Luna finally found it she saw all the other Titans were there and warming up. She realized that she had been the one who had held them up. "Sorry about that, had to find this outfit first before I could put it on, then I got lost. You haven't been waiting long, have you?" she asked then started doing her warm-up stretches.
The Titans stopped what they were doing when they saw her, for the second time that day. All they could do was stare at her, more likely, her outfit. Luna looked down at her clothes with the barest hint of a smile. Maybe she had gone a little overboard but it was what she always wore when she trained. Her midnight blue spandex suit that hugged her body was extremely flexible. With the black, weighted wristbands, brown belt and her black and blue combat boots she knew she must look a sight.
She gave them all a quick smile, "What? Is something wrong with my training outfit? Should I go change into something else?" she asked.
Robin shook his head and he saw the other Titan's do it as well. "No, we have to get started on our training. Next time though wear something different, save that outfit for the real stuff." He said.
Raven only gave Luna an odd stare before going back to meditating. Robin watched as Luna shrugged in agreement then started to do warm-up stretches. He was starting to regret telling her to put on her training clothes; he should've remembered what they consisted of. There was more to the outfit, he knew that, but she only wore it when she was in serious battle. It would give her away easily if she wore it now, that outfit was known all over space by the only race that wore it.
He stopped and motioned for the Titans and Luna to gather around. Then he pressed a button on a pillar that stood next to him and the obstacle course hummed to life. "Right, we all know the drill. You go through this looking for all surprises and try making it through with the quickest time possible. Each Titan will have a different course set, testing their advantages and disadvantages. Luna, you'll be given a random one, so we can see what you can do. Any questions? Good. Cyborg, you're up first." Robin said as he programmed the course to Cyborgs weaknesses and strengths.
Cyborg started to move swiftly through the course and Luna watched, interested. She kept her eye on Cyborg through the whole course, studying and committing to memory all his moves, attacks, everything. She did the same thing with Raven, Beast Boy and Starfire, rarely calling out words of warning and cheering them on. When it was Robin's turn she only watched him occasionally, seeing if he had learnt any new moves. All his other moves she already knew and was imprinted into her memory bank.
Suddenly a prickling in the back of her neck alerted her to the fact that someone was staring at her. Luna turned towards the way the stare was coming from and found herself almost face-to-face with Raven. This girl's got it on for me. Where was she from again? Oh yeah, Azarath. I'll have to be careful of her; she'll find me out for sure. She smiled at Raven curiously, "Anything wrong?"
Raven's eyes narrowed, "No, I was just wondering about your hairstyle. It's from your home planet?" she said motioning to Luna's hair. As soon as she had seen the girl walk out her eyes had been drawn to her hairstyle. It was so familiar, she knew she should recognize it, but the name of the race that had their hair like that kept evading her brain.
Luna's hand shot straight up to her head as she ran her fingers through her hair. She was glad she had fixed it before but now she was regretting it. It would've returned to normal without her help, but not until a while later, and if she was training she wanted it out of her face, but now it looked as if it could be her give-away. Her black hair was now standing straight up, as if she had stuck her fingers into a light socket. There were two brown strands, however, hanging in her face. Her hairstyle had been the same ever since she was born and it would never change. Never growing never changing styles. She loved it.
"Yes it is. Why? Does it bother you?" she replied as politely as she could manage without being sick and shot her a cool but warning stare.
Raven returned the look, "No, I was just thinking about where I've seen hair styles like that before. If it's from your home planet then I guess that would explain. I've never seen a human with hair that unusual like that here."
Luna opened her mouth to reply when Robin called her over saying it was her turn to do the course. She shot Raven a glance that meant she wasn't done with her yet and Raven replied it. Then Luna ran over to Robin was and listened to him explain what the rules of the course were. Basically she had to go through the course defeating all the obstacles in as short a time as possible. But she couldn't blow anything important up, that rule was given to her by a warning glare from Robin, similar to the one she had just given Raven a few seconds ago.
She nodded and got into a ready position at the start of the course, her face filled with concentration and determination. A loud beeping noise rang out, signaling the start of the course, and Luna ran out, following the trail.
She masterfully jumped, dodged, ducked and twirled her way through the course with no problems, until she reached the last obstacle. Ten drones were lined up at the end, programmed to fire random things at her. Luna was bored and decided to kick this last one up a bit as she halted and got into a fighting stance, a cocky smirk on her lips.
The drones turned their attention to her movement and started to hum, her warning that they were about to attack. Suddenly a fire of all assortments of missiles headed towards her. She punched, kicked and smashed all the ones she could reach. Her mind made a quick, unconscious decision before she could fully think it over and she shot up into the air, hovering above the drones.
The instantly fired up at her and she growled, she was quickly tiring of this game. Her patience running thin, she charged her ki up in her palms and shot down three-quarters of the missiles heading towards her. She unleashed her ki around her and the rest of the missiles burnt and fell to the ground in ashes.
"Luna, behind you!" Cyborg yelled up at the girl, helping her out just like she had helped him, his shock temporarily forgotten as 10 sharp boomerangs turned and headed back towards the girl.
Turning around she shot them all out of the air, a triumphant smirk on her face. A whizzing motion reached her ears and she realized that one of the drones was still functioning enough to fire another missile at her. The object was heading towards her fast and she didn't have enough time to turn around and get it before it hit her.
Quickly her brown belt uncurled around her waist and knocked the hurtling projectile out of the air with a single flick. She landed back on the ground and ran to the end of the course. With a proud smirk on her face she turned to face the Titans to gloat, her 'belt' waving behind her, but her smirk dropped off her face as she saw their shocked faces and Robin's hand over his face.
Raven, whose face was contorted in anger and despise, opened her mouth and uttered one word that bought Luna's cocky attitude and entire world crashing around her. "Saiya-jin."
Chapter seven is completed! Oops, busted, that must be what's going through Luna's head at the moment. Did you all pick up on that fact or did it slip by you like it did the other Titans? All questions will be revealed in the next chapter of An Old Friend! REVIEW! Now excuse me while I go and find Vegeta so he can put me out of my misery and patheticness (is that even a word?), I'm starting to talk like the dude in the beginning and end of DBZ! AH!…Vegeta! Where are you!