"Okay," Lesley said the next afternoon at her house. "We really need to be careful."
"I agree," Sarah said, nodding. "I think we should stop playing with the dolls for now." She looked longingly at the Teen Titan minis at her feet. "Do you think we have to stop playing dolls for the rest of our life?" Sarah asked.
"No," Lesley said. "We can play with dolls that aren't made after someone," But Lesley did not look at all happy. Neither did Sarah. They both enjoyed playing with the dolls. But they knew that if thay wanted to keep these things from happening, they would need to stop playing with them.
"I guess so," Sarah said, still looking disapointed. She glanced at the plastic green box in the corner. It held an assortment of different dolls.
"Maybe we can dress them up to look like the Titans?" Sarah suggested. But they both were silent, knowing that this would not be the same.
Finally, Lesley broke the silence. "I feel kind of guilty," she said in a downhearted tone. Sarah nodded in agreement. They were the reason the Titans were screwing up. The reason they felt so embarassed.
"Maybe we should tell them," Sarah said. Lesley thought about this for a moment.
"Yeah," she finally responded. "That might be a good idea! We can tell my Mom we're going back to your house." She hopped to her feet and ran to get her backpack.
"What are you doing?" Sarah asked, getting up and following Lesley to the kitchen.
"I'm getting ready to go," Lesley said, pulling out two apples from the fridge and tossing them into her backpack. "We should bring some snacks incase we get hungry." She reached for a pack of cookies in a cupboard, then sat the bag on the counter. She then found some bottles of water in the fridge and put them in, too.
"Maybe we should bring the Titan dolls, too," Sarah said. "We could give them to them." Lesley stopped rumaging through the kitchen and gave another look of interest.
"That would be good," she said, rushing to her room and picking up the dolls from the floor then heading for the hall. But she stopped suddenly in her tracks. She felt a bit hesitant going to Titans Tower. They were the coolest. They were superheroes. It was hard to beleive they were going to meet them, without any disaster to worry about. Except for thiers...
"Whats wrong?" Sarah asked, noticing Lesley's worried face.
"I guess I wanted to meet the Titans- um... I mean without anything needing to be saved- just to do that." She took a deep breath. " Meet them. Not to tell them that we're the reason for all thier trouble."
"I'm sure they'll understand that we didn't mean to do this on purpose," Sarah said soothingly, walking over to Lesley and putting a hand on her shoulder. She slid her hand down to Lesley's, and started tugging on it. "Come on," Sarah said. "Lets go,"
IN FRONT OF TITANS TOWER
"Just stay calm," Sarah said to her friend, ringing the doorbell. "We can do this."
"But how are we going to explain our powers when we don't even know ourselves?" Lesley asked, making Sarah's statment sound stupid.
"Um..."
"CREAK!" They heard the sound of the giant metal door opening, and watched anxiously as it swung before them. Lesley's heart was pounding. Sarah's mind was racing. Both were hoping they could do this.
"Uh, hi," Robin's face had appeared in front of them with a look of utter embarassment. "What can I help you with?" He faked a smile.
"Um..." Sarah muttered again. She looked at Lesley. What was she going to say? Tell them that they just found out that they had voodoo powers? And thats why all these mysterious things were happening?
Robin looked at them eagerly. "Yes?" he said.
"Um... We wanted to know if we could see what Titans Tower looks like on the inside!" Sarah blurted out, feeling more nervous then ever. Lesley slapped her hand on her forhead and sighed.
"Okay..." Robin said, stepping back and letting them in. The two girls walked inside to find the rest of the sad group. Not even Starfire seemed to truly smile. But she flew down to greet them.
"Hello, friends," she said downheartedly. "What causes this unexpected ocasion?" Lesley and Sarah smiled, though they didn't feel like it.
"We wanted to... We wanted to..." Sarah started.
"We wanted to see what Titans Tower looked like, for real," Lesley finished, smiling as sweetly as her heart would let.
"Oh," Starfire said flying back. "We will show you." She started for the hall and led them to her room.
"This is mine," she said. After Starfire's, Cyborg's, and Beast Boy's rooms were shown- Raven didn't allow them into hers- , Robin took them to his.
It was dark inside, and the walls were adorned with newspaper clippings, wanted posters, and various pictures of different people. There was a small bed in the corner, and a desk held a number of trophies from the villains they had defeated. And another table had a chemistry set on it.
"And thats the end of our tour," Robin said miserably. Lesley knew that now was the time to start explaining.
Lesley looked at Sarah and both nodded. "Uh... Robin?"
"Yes?" he said.
"We wanted to tell you something," Lesley took off her backpack underneath the chemistry set's table, and laid it on the ground. Sarah crouched down and started pulling out the Beast Boy doll. But when she got up...
"Ouch!" She had gotten up, forgetting the table was there and had knocked it over, liquid flying everywhere. She got covered in a red goo, and the Beast Boy doll started to slowly vanish. "What is this stuff!" Sarah said in a panicky voice. She knew that whatever got on the doll would get on...
"Guys!" Beast Boy shouted, for he too was disappearing.
"Thats my vanishing formula!" Robin replied stupidly, amazed by the fact that Beast Boy was disappearing as the doll did.
"Uh! Guys! HELP ME!" Beast Boy's whole body was gone, now, and his face was the only thing able to see.
Lesley glanced at Sarah who looked like she was about to cry. "Woah!" Robin said, now looking confusedly at the doll, and then back at Beast Boy.
"We think we have voodoo powers!"
Sorry! But I had to stop there! By the way, wothlessdeath, your suggestion doesn't bother me at all! It helps me alot. Thanks! Jennifer