Spider
"Huaaahhh!" yelled a voice.
Starfire jumped up from her bed, her Teen Scene Magazine temporarily forgotten.
Flying down the hallway, she traced the yell to Cyborg's room.
She slid open the door, bracing herself for whatever horror managed to scare her brave friend.
She scanned the room for psychotic villains, oozing monsters, robot commandos, or some other cause of fear, but saw nothing. Nothing besides Cyborg prepared to crush something under his foot.
As realization set in, she rushed over and grabbed his foot just as it was about to make contact with the ground.
"Star, what're you doing?!" he yelled in shock.
"What were you thinking?!" she shrieked indignantly as she scooped up the tiny arachnid, "How could you attempt to harm this innocent creature?!"
Cyborg stared in disbelief as his alien friend stood there stroking a spider.
"Innocent creature?! You gotta be jokin me! It's just a spider!" he exclaimed.
"It may be a spider, but it is also a living creature! You have no right to shorten its life simply because you fear it!" she responded.
"I'm not scared of them…I just don't like them…" muttered Cyborg.
"It does not matter. You still should not harm it," insisted Starfire.
Cyborg opened his mouth to argue, but quickly closed it as he realized it would be pointless. When Starfire got an idea in her head, there was no changing it.
With a satisfied smile on her face, Starfire left, spider still in hand.
