Chapter 3

Sparrow's POV:

As soon as the door was shut, I made my way over to my bed to start cleaning.
"What happened to not caring about what others think about our room?" Stinger questioned, a smirk plastered on her face.
"Ugh, well as much as I hate to admit it Nightstar is...is right." The word tasted sour coming out of my mouth. Although, I respect Nightstar as a person, she will never really be my leader. We think way too differently and besides always disagreeing, I really don't need a leader. I'm my own leader, my own alpha. Only Crow and my dad know this. If word got out, I could lose my position on the team. Plus, I don't see my feelings being shared by anyone else, not even Stinger. "I wasn't going to let her push us around, but this room looks like a tornado blew through. If either of our mom's sees this mess..." I didn't need to finish the last part. We both shuddered at the memory of last time our mothers saw our rooms this dirty.
"I guess you're right, but why did you have to make such a big fuss at Nightstar? She was only trying to help." Stinger stated as she too started cleaning her half of the room.
"Because she wasn't helping, she was controlling. There's a big difference."
"But isn't her job as leader to control us?"
"No!" I growled. "A good leader guides, a bad leader controls." There was long pause after that. We continued cleaning until Stinger finally broke the silence.
"So you think Nightstar is a bad leader?" Oh crap, I thought.
"She's not a bad leader; she just needs to know when enough is enough."
"Sounds like someone else I know." Stinger mumbled as she went back to cleaning her half of the room. I just rolled my eyes and continued cleaning while deep in thought.
"Man that was close! I need to be more careful about what I say." I told myself.
"But she's are best friend, we can trust her!" Happy (one of my many emonticlones) said.
"Did you see the look on her face? A secret is a secret for a reason." Knowledge pointed out.
"I say we just come out with it! Challenge Nightstar already and we wouldn't have to worry about holding back our true feelings. We're an Alpha, darn it!" Brave growled.
"We can't simply give in to our animal urges. We're a human, a hero! Not an animal." Replied Wisdom.
"Technically we are both." Stated Knowledge. I mentally rolled my eyes and finished cleaning the room. Once Stinger and I were satisfied we made our way to the main room. The main room is where the living room and kitchen are. As we approached the main room I could already smell the freshly made waffles. Upon entering I saw Nightstar and Darkstar already digging in. Darkstar looked up from his plate and sent us a grin. "Hey girls! Breakfast is on the counter. Complements of yours truly." Darkstar joked while gesturing from the food on the counter to himself. I sent him a large grin and ran over to the counter. I started brewing my favorite flavor tea, and then piled some waffles onto a plate. With my cup of tea in one hand and my plate of waffles in the other I made my way over to my spot at the table, which is in between Darkstar and, when he's here, my brother. Stinger followed me to the table and sat in her usual spot across from me and next to Nightstar, who was sitting next to her brother. The only one of us missing, as usual, was my brother. "Hey Darkstar what time is it?" I asked. Darkstar pulled out his communicator and replied, "8:10. He's ten minutes late." Darkstar always seemed to read my mind. As if on cue, Crow walked in, book in hand.
"Hey there bro! Darkstar made our favorite, waffles!" I shouted towards him, sending him a friendly smile. He returned the smile and thanked me. The team and I made some small talk while Crow made his breakfast, waffles and tea. Once he sat down next to Stinger and me, Nightstar made an announcement. "So now that the team is all here I just wanted to remind you all that our parents should be here in about less than two hours. So after breakfast we will take a five minute break to clean the kitchen and then we will reconvene in the gym for training." A set of loud groans followed her announcement. "Of course!" I thought to myself. "Our parents come for a visit and all she wants to do is train.
"Leave her alone Marie. She only wants to impress our parents." A monotone voice replied back to me in my head.
"Get out of my head Mark!" I mentally scolded. Being magical twins gives us the power to communicate telepathically. We can only use this power with those we share blood and magic with. So those only leave us, our mother, and are kid sister. I guess my scolding didn't work because Mark (Crow's real name) kept on going.
"I'm only trying to calm you down. Have you meditated yet?"
"No mom, I haven't meditated yet. I've been kind of busy following drama queen's orders."
"Ahh, so you did clean your room after all."
"How did you-"
"Nightstar told me."
"Great! Now she has you on her side too!"
"I'm not taking sides. I'm only looking out for everyone's best interest."
"Whatever, mom."
"Call me mom all you want. It doesn't bother me when you compare me to one of the most powerful Titans of all time." I mentally roll my eyes at that one.

"Wow! Who knew you were such a big Raven fan?" I reply sarcastically.
"Maybe after breakfast you should spend some time meditating. I'm sure Nightstar will let you if you ask nicely."
"I don't need to ask anyone if and when I can do stuff. And besides, I don't need to meditate every day. I'm fine."
"Don't lie to me. We both know what you're really feeling. I can taste the primal anger coming from you."
"Nothing a little training can't help."
"Whatever you say, but when mom and dad get here they'll be all over you. Don't say I didn't warn ya."