Guess what.
Just guess.
Go on. Guess.
I DONT OWN THE TEEN TITANS!
Crimson, Celestial, and Adriana waited a beat as the door opened. The sight they saw first was a huge navy blue walls accompanied by strange machines, oversized fans, weights, an olympic sized swimming pool, treadmills, and things that no one on team had never seen before. That and Hammer was trying to strangle Ghost which was more frustrating than anything else since his enormous hands only went through him. Crimson cleared his throat. Hammer immediately stopped.
"For the record Ghost started it," Adriana said quickly in Hammer's defense.
"I didn't do anything," said Ghost with his hands in the air.
"The Olympic pool is Adriana's naturally, the fans are for Celestial, that gravity machine is for our newest member only since none of our bodies are likely to stand that kind of stress, the rest..." Crimson took a moment to think. "Well, I suppose the rest is a free for all." The team separated exploring their new surroundings.
Celestial made sure there was enough room and opened her wings pumping them until she was able to reach the three giant fans. There was a stand for her up there where she could reach the settings. She turned it on and looked watched the fans simulate the wind, creating turbulance and spinning to represent stormy wheather. She raised her brows impressed.
Hammer reached a smaller looking room. There was a window looking in and a few weights were inside. Crimson met him at the opening.
"This room increases the gravity," Crimson said. Unaware of his presence, Hammer flinched in surprise and cursed himself for doing so. Crimson didn't show any sign of suspicion either because he was suppressing it or because he really was taking Celestial's advice and giving Hammer a chance. "Since your strength is immeasureable by our gravity, doubling or quadrupling it should actually propose a challenge for you. You can turn it up or down with this dial here. Be careful to know your limits though. If the gravity gets too strong press the red button that's in there and one of us will turn it off."
"Okay," Hammer said with a nod. "Thank you." Crimson nodded back at him and turned around.
"What about me?" came a voice that was almost a whine. Ghost was watching all the equipment being used. "What am I supposed to do?"
"You are going to train with me, I suppose," Crimson said. Ghost turned around hesitantly to face him.
"Why? What can I learn?" Ghost asked. Crimson shrugged.
"You could learn self defense. The ability to get up close to someone is useless if you don't know what to do when you get to them," Crimson said. Ghost cocked a dark eyebrow.
"Huh?" Crimson stood still. Then suddenly his hand brought down onto Ghost in the space between his neck and shoulder before he even had the chance to turn transparent. Ghost fell over grabbing his shoulder and hissed in pain. "Uncalled for! Man! That was fast! No one's been able to hit me before." Crimson grinned as Ghost pulled himself to his feet.
"I'll take that as a compliment," Crimson said. "Now I'm not so strong, but let's say someone with Hammer's strength was that fast." Ghost frowned.
"I get it. I need to work on it," Ghost said. That's when Crimson was distracted by Celestial's face looking down at him from riding in the faux wind. She smiled proud that he was working well with others. Crimson almost smiled back. "Payback."
Crimson was brought back to reality by Ghost grabbing his arm. Before he could react by pulling Ghost over his shoulder and throwing him into the safety mats Ghost made him phase through the floor. Ghost grinned watching his leader unexpected fall through the floor with a truely horrified expression on his face. Ghost chuckled watching him dangle for a moment.
"Ghost! Bring him back up," Adriana said in warning tone from a frozen block of ice she was balancing on in the pool.
"Oh fine," he said. Ghost picked him up and set him solid on the floor. Crimson was on his back, his panicked panting quickly returning to normal breathing.
"That was quite an experience," Crimson said, his voice seething. "Don't EVER do it again." Any other person would have been frightened by his tone. Ghost however, never knew when to quit. So he chuckled again.
"Alright, fearless leader. You wanted to spar. Let's spar," Ghost said getting to his feet. Crimson's eyes narrowed and a slow menacing grin slid across his face.
"Very well then," Crimson said.
Two hours later Ghost and Crimson were the last to emerge from the training room. Crimson had a somewhat cocky look on his face. He clapped his hands together and faced everyone who was resting on the couch in front of the television.
"We didn't do horribly," he said. "I think I will retire for the night."
No one knew what to say to that.
"Well, um, good night," Celestial said. Adriana leaned over to Hammer.
"I think he was trying to compliment us," Adriana whispered. Crimson moved aside he revealed Ghost standing behind him. The soul fell forward and hit the ground with a thud, exhausted. Crimson shut his bedroom door behind him. Adriana giggled.
"Are you okay?" Celestial asked standing up.
"I think I'm going home to sleep," Ghost said his voice muffled in the carpet. He laid there still for another long moment. "In a second."
"You shouldn't have tested him like that," Adriana said shaking her hand.
"You saw his face. It was funny," Ghost said. He raised his head off the ground if only just barely. Adriana shook her head. "Come on. It was a little funny."
"It was very funny," Adriana finally consented. As she said Ghost finally found the strength to get to his feet. He placed his fists on his hips in a stereotypical hero's stance.
"Then my work here is done!" Ghost said. "Hey guys, should I get a cape?"
"Not if you want to keep hanging out with us," Adriana muttered watching Celestial flip through the channels. Ghost didn't react to the comment.
"Then I'm off!" Ghost said making way for the ladder and phasing through the ceiling to the street above.
It's a bit of a filler, but I'll have plenty of time to think of more ideas when I'm zoning out at work.