We stepped into the living room where we found Robin playing a video game on a humongous TV with a cyborg type dude, and where we saw a tall girl with red hair taking out blue-colored mold out of a refrigerator.

I really hope she's not going to eat that," I whispered to Raven as we watched the girl take out even more of the hideous blue junk. I really hope she doesn't eat that, it's disgusting! I thought to myself, scrunching up my nose a little.

"Well, you never know what Starfire's going to do," Raven answered as we both walked up to the girl named Starfire. "Starfire, this is Shadow, my sister," Raven said, introducing me to the now floating Starfire. "She'll probably be with us for a while."

ight after Raven said that, I saw Starfire's bright green eyes light up with happiness. "Welcome new friend!" Starfire said, floating over to me and giving me a rib cracking hug.

Thanks. . . Starfire," I said with difficulty as I tried to worm out of Starfire's lung crushing arms, and I happened to succeed. "Whew, I can breathe."

"So Starfire," my sister tuned in, "are you cleaning out the refrigerator again?"

Starfire nodded and said, " Yes, this fuzzy blue stuff is contaminating all of our food." Then Starfire picked up a pile of blue furry mold off of the counter and gave us a close up of the disgusting stuff.

"Ugh, get it away from me, Starfire," I cried, pushing the handful of blue goop away from me with my right hand, and pinching my nose with my left, "it smells like sour milk and moldy cheese!"

Raven looked down at me with her emotionless expression and said, "Shadow, I thought you liked sour milk and moldy cheese."

I glared at my sister. I always hated it went she made remarks like that. Yet, I also thought they were pretty funny. "How rude!"

"Anyway," Raven continued, "I'll introduce you to Cyborg,"

"Let me guess, he's that 'cyborg' dude sitting on the couch next to Robin, right?"

Raven nodded.

Raven and I walked over to the humungo TV and stood in front of it. I thought this was pretty funny 'cause Robin and Cyborg just ignored us and moved so that they could see around us.

"Typical," Raven droned, "This game has hypnotized them. The only way we can get their attention is if we turned the game off."

I smiled at Raven, and she smiled back. I turned around to face the TV, crouched down, and took out the game from it's fist sized slot. Raven stood in front of the boys and took away their controllers with her telepathy. I seriously started laughing when I saw Robin's and Cyborg's faces. They were practically frozen in fear. Yeah, fear of losing their chance of winning the game.

"Really guys," Raven said, looking down at Robin and Cyborg, her arms crossed. "You two are pathetic."

"Hey, I almost made it past Robin!" Cyborg said, finally unfreezing himself.

"Yeah, and I almost blocked Cyborg!" Robin tuned in after his very short 'statue moment'.

"Too bad," Raven and I synchronized.

Both Cyborg and Robin pouted and glared angrily at us until Cyborg spoke up.

"Well, now's a good opportunity for some food."

"Yeah," Robin said, joining Cyborg as they both got up and started stalking over to the kitchen counter where Starfire had her collection of refrigerator mold pilled up like a small, blue mountain. Both Robin and Cyborg gazed momentarily at the little moldy mountain until Robin said slowly, "Or maybe we could just go out for pizza. . ."

Raven gently placed the captive videogame controllers back onto the coffee table at the same exact time Beast Boy came striding into the room and asked, "We goin' out for pizza?"

Cyborg looked up from the pile of mold on top of the counter and said, "Yeah, we have no more food left in the fridge, other than weird looking blue mold. And less you'd like to eat it, of course." Cyborg added the last sentence with an evil little smile that made me muffle a laugh as I imagined Beast Boy eating that blue goo.

"Ha ha, very funny," Beast Boy said, frowning a bit as he came down the steps to face Cyborg and the rest of the Titans (not including me, I'm not technically a Titan yet. Probably just a visitor. . .for now).

"So it's settled then?" Robin asked, looking around at each of our odd, strange selves. "We're all going for pizza?"

"Yeah!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "I'm starving!"

Robin nodded and then turned is masked eyes upon me.

"Shadow?" he asked, wondering whether I was going to come or not.

I nodded, feeling very small at the moment 'cause everyone was looking at me. I always got nervous if more than two people were looking or staring at me.

Robin nodded again as he turned to follow Beast Boy out of the room who was chanting, "Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!" and doing this weird little marching thing out of the sliding door.

I was the last one out of the room behind Raven, feeling a slight sense that someone was watching me. I turned around to see if there was any dark form leering behind me. But all I could see were the white capped waves of the harbor moving gently in the summer breeze, splashing against the rocky shores of the city. I sighed and reassured myself that my sixth sense was absolutely wrong. That there had never been anyone behind. That it was just my very active imagination playing tricks on me.

There was no one there, I thought, kneading my temple with the heel of my palm. No one.

"Are you okay?"

I didn't realize Raven came back to see why I wasn't with them. I guess she was worried or something.

"Yeah," I answered, removing my hand from my forehead. "I just thought I saw something. But I'm okay."

Raven looked at me with slightly worried eyes. "Well, we'd better catch up to the others. They wouldn't be too happy if we were late."

I smiled up at my seemingly emotionless sister and nodded, agreeing that empty stomachs can't wait forever. I followed her out of the room, only glancing back once to see my transparent shadow sprawled out across the blood red carpet, absorbing the last rays of sunlight seeping in through the large paneled window. Then, escaping into the hallway after Raven.