Stupid Cupid

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Charlie took another sip of her smoothie before smiling at Kimber. “On a normal day, it’s fine but with all the hearts it’s like a big red reminder saying you’re single.” Then suddenly she was being tackled to the ground by Kimber near the smoothie counter. Having take many falls in her life Charlie managed to hit the ground with out really injuring herself. The same could not be said of her chocolate smoothie as it spilled all over her green blouse and jeans.

Yet her attention wasn’t on the sudden staining of her favorite shirt, but the arrows that were zooming above. Whoa, wait a sec… were those heart shaped arrows? For a moment Charlie wondered if this was some messed up villain’s way of showing holiday spirit. After Kimber quickly left for some pursuit of getting help, Charlie poked her head above the counter to get a good look at what was going on.

“Lets see arrows flying, no screams of pain,” her eyes followed one arrow as it hit someone and dissolved into nothing. “What the…” Charlie stood up leaving the safety of the counter, her curiosity getting the better of her when her eyes landed on an arrow heading her way. She could only hear her own heart beating as she quickly thought of ways to avoid the very sharp and very festive projectile. Many ways came to mind, duck was the first and flying away was the second but the latter involved showing her superpower to everyone in the mall.

Before she could act, there was a shout and a large figure was standing in the line of fire with his arms outstretched. Now instead of staring at an incoming arrow her blue eyes widened as she looked up at a very familiar face and not just because of his celebrity status. She’d met Cyborg once before with some of the other Titans and had a bit of a fan girl moment with her dog Mab.

“Dude!” She snapped back to the panic around them. “Are you okay? Oh my god that arrow must have hit you!” Charlie said feeling a little concerned that she might be the reason for a famous hero to get injured. Suddenly she felt something hit her side, “Ah! I’m hit! I’m—” Then everything went sort of pinkish and when she looked at her savior all those silly love songs she had been hearing all day made sense. No, in fact they paled in comparison to what she was feeling when she looked at Cyborg. Even though she was sure her feet were on the ground, it felt like she was floating.

“…” REALLY!!! You chose now to not work you stupid mouth?! Somehow she managed a rather nervous smile, play it cool Charlie. “Hey Cyborg! You’re looking pretty good today, got a hot date?” She asked and clasped her hands behind her back while singing ‘please say no’ over and over again in her head. Apparently she had forgotten the smoothie that was all over her shirt, but that was Charlie for you, girl with a one tracked mind.

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Amidst the chaos that broke out, Alphy was calmly sipping his expresso in his seat when an arrow struck someone else nearby. At first he didn't believe what he was seeing so he didn't panic, but after he saw people start hanging off of each other he realized that someone was playing cupid. The next victim, sadly, was his coffee cup which splattered all over in one final display of affection for Alphy. "They... my... coffee of brooding." Grabbing his bag he ran towards the rows and rows of shelves that would hopefully block the arrows. He would make them pay for ruining his brooding on Valentines Day.

The shelves and piles of books DID stop them, he almost failed to notice Barbara nearby but thankfully she stood near his favorite section: Comic Books. (Go figure) “Oh, Barb!” The chaos was a better time than any to have a conversation, “I didn't know you went to this bookstore too. Do you know what's going on?” Alphy had no idea who Larry was, why he was playing cupid, or why random people in the mall were becoming suddenly attached to one another. One thing was for sure, he wanted to deal out some love in the form of physical affection via fists.

Nodding to any answer that Barbara gave him, he heard the chaos erupt into MUSICAL pandemonium. Alphy's curiosity got the best of him and the musical dance number caused him to pop his head out for just long enough to watch it. Starfire seemed to have the dancing down, and the music that played throughout (whether he imagined it or not) could use some work, but over all he thought it was comparable to a couple of Broadway shows. Not that he would produce a musical with this song in it just to put it on Broadway, people go to those to see more than just a love story. Absentmindedly Alphy stood up to give her a round of applause and saw an arrow heading right towards Barbara.

“NOOOOOO!” In his mind this was cooler than it actually looked, and played in slow motion as an epic orchestra piece played, but he jumped in front of the tiny red arrow and fell to the floor. After a moment of waiting on oblivion he realized, “I'm...not dead?”

Sitting up from the floor he opened his eyes...staring directly at the beautiful ginger right next to him. Suddenly a whole well of emotions opened up leaving him clueless and trying to sort it out, “I never noticed how pretty Barb is. She's cute with beautiful eyes, nice legs, and oh yeah she's Batgirl. On top of that she's smart and... Oh my god...no no no I'm in love”

Alphy, instead of infatuation with his new found “perfect woman”, froze due to his fear of attachment. He hid his face in his hands, bashfully, before backing away slowly and simultaneously dreading and hoping that she would make a move. “H-happy Singles Awareness Day.”

"YOU'RE SUCH AN IDIOT ALPHY."

[Aly]

Screams and the sound of a stampede broke Barbara's attention from the books on the shelf and diverted it to the chaos outside of the quiet store. Alphy's voice carried from around another bookshelf, but her attention was caught on a small, plump little boy wearing something similar to Robin's uniform, coupled with wings, quiver, and bow and arrows. Crap. Somehow, she knew exactly what Larry was doing. Well, with people randomly stopping outside and running into complete strangers' arms, it didn't take a genius to figure it out. “It's Larry! We've got to stop him.” Her eyes went back to the floating cupid wannabe and the pandemonium around him. Current couples were being ripped apart, usually with enough time between the two to have one completely pissed off at the other for paying attention to someone that was not them.

“He's.... Cupid?” She was confused, but when she looked back to Penumbra, he was shouting and flailing, jumping in front of her. “Wha-?” Her eyes widened in horror as she watched the pink-tinged arrow flying straight at him. She couldn't do anything as he fell onto the floor, actually looking a bit painful. “Are you alright?” She gasped, running to his side as he lay there momentarily. He pulled himself to a sitting position just as Barbara kneeled in front of him. She could plainly see that the arrow was gone. That was odd, but everything with Larry was odd. “Al?” The look he was giving her was just about as odd as the random disappearing arrows. He stood up and backed away from her, face in his hands. Okay, now this was weird. Please tell me he's not... and then he greeted her with the real title of Valentine's day.

She was just standing and opening her mouth to tell him to stop being ridiculous and help her figure out how to stop this madness when something started soaring straight towards her. Her body was turned now so that she was facing Alphonse with a quizzical expression, so she had no idea what she was in for before her vision clouded. It only took a second before her eyes refocused, and they refocused on one thing: Alphy. His silky black hair fell in that perfect way around his face, those green eyes he tried to hide so radiant. How had she not seen this before? With a coy smile, she walked up to him and pulled his hands down from his face, turning her head slightly to the side. “Happy Overlyadvertisedploytogetcouplestospendmoney Day.” She could see his dazzling eyes clearer now, and was lost in them. Nothing else registered around her, just this young man before her.

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The shop was quiet, or at least the world was to Anne, so she missed the havoc going on in the main part of the mall. Anne went to the counter to buy her game, but the man was no where in site. Then a heart shaped arrow shot passed her head and landed in the wall...What the fudge?

Then a very pretty brown haired girl fell at her feet and looked at her, gushing. Anne blushed a little at the attention, the girl was very pretty and the way she looking at her. She was very unsure of what to say or do; right now she wanted to run. Ouch. Anne paused feeling a prick on her skin. There an arrow with a heart shaped head in her arm. She watched it dissolve in her arm before feeling the spell take course.

The small teleporter blinked staring down at the girl. Her heart was picked up the pace as she offered her a hand up, her face burning red. The stunning brown haired creature was a little tall her than her and her eyes were stunning sapphires. "H-Hi I'm A-Anne." She blubbered out, she suddenly felt nervous.

[Silv]

This was wrong. Larry's brows furrowed as he knocked another arrow to fix his mistakes. All he had to do was corner Starfire and Robin and then everything would be perfect.

Color bloomed across the Boy Wonder's face when he locked eyes with Roy. Dick didn't know why he'd never seen it before, the defined archer's arms, the muscular chest, the debonair smile. They had known each other for so long. How had he never seen how incredibly attractive his friend was? And then the other boy was asking if he was here to get him something for Valentines Day. Had he been? Dick couldn't remember. Everything that had been in his brain had taken a vacation upon seeing Roy. And now he was in a headlock getting a noogie.

"I....I...I uh," Dick stammered.

Luckily he was interrupted by an impromptu musical number.

He knew better then to attempt to interrupt someone when they were using music as a way of explaining their heartfelt emotions. That didn't stop the palpable surprise and confusion on his face, however, when he was suddenly grabbed. He was yanked away from Roy, giving his friend a flustered look as he was swept off by another redhead, and pulled into a dance.

Dick wasn't sure what to make of the dance number, but then again, he didn't have a chance to think about it. He was dragged around the mall, pulled this way and that, before ending up dumped into the fountain with a splash. The last Grayson, looking like a disgruntled cat in a bathtub, sat up in the fountain and watched as Starfire finished her musical number by poking herself in the butt with one of the arrows they had been so steadfastly avoiding. As she went starry eyed for the giant, Robin was more worried about whether or not Speedy had seen him get dumped into the fountain. Being used in an impromptu musical dance number was vaguely embarrassing...but nothing compared to ending up in the mall fountain afterwards.

The boy tried to wring some of the water out of his sweatshirt as he stood and clumsily made his way to the edge of the fountain. His sunglasses skewed on his face, and his hair flattened and dripping. Meanwhile, Larry, vanished in a poof of heart shaped clouds vowing that he would find something stronger and save Robin and Starfire's love.

[Elenaphant]

When she said she was hit, a burst of panic ripped through his heart and he'd scream her name in a way that would put Robin to shame, but before the mall could be subject to his thundering cry of anguish Cyborg realized she wasn't hurt. The arrow that struck disappeared like glitter into the air, though glitter may be a bad example because that stuff stuck on you like no tomorrow. Better than okay, he as flattered that the most beautiful girl his eyes had ever beheld thought that he'd have a date--not just a pity date but a hot date. He laughed and rubbed the back of his neck, feeling the heat rise in his cheeks.

Play this cool, Cyborg.

"Who...who me?" Yeah, that was real cool. Women liked assertive, right? Not pansies stumbling over their words! Get your head in the game, man|! "Hah, nah, I um... I mark the check box single these days," he said, and brought a up to clear his throat. "How about you? I mean, guys must have been lining up for a chance to be your valentine today. Left your stash of chocolates at home today?"

That was a joke, kind of. He really hoped she thought that was funny. Then again, she said he looked good today, right? He rarely had 'butterflies' in his stomach, but he was pretty sure she was causing those feelings in him.

[Kenni]

Harper had a scowl the likes of which a less flustered Boy Wonder would’ve praised, as the very Boy was yoinked from the male ginger’s considerably safer clutches into the female’s. He’d just ignored her intro, never thinking for a second that Dick would become such an endangered species, part of her lambasting song narrative, so up until that point he’d been too busy making googly-eyes at Grayson to bother with questioning Starfire’s motives.

“Star, what the Gorka pipes are you even on abou—OOPH!”
Roy suddenly found his tender backside meeting cool floortile courtesy of a hip too legit to quit, and after he finally finished spinning from the sheer force of the alien singer’s spirited solo, he had ridden the escalator 12 whole steps up.

Backwards.

Star’s inner turmoil was soon made slapstick-apparent, as she bullied Harper’s new object of affection for a turn around the chorus and straight on ‘til she dumped him.

Into a cold water fountain.

“To think I was gonna ask you'da droppim'..” muttered a very annoyed Roy, dizzily making a beeline for her deposited dance partner.

And amidst his starry-eyed distractedness resulting from the short-lived gigantic Robin-faced tapestries rolling out in style overhead, through to his indignation at the utter absurdity of the situation in general, not to mention being denied first-dance privileges with the bewildered Birdboy’s alter ego, his stride was sure and full of purpose to make up for the lost time.

Priority number one; attend to poor darling Dickiebird.

Fortunately, this was the mall, and basically anything one needed was generally, easily at-hand.

Dipping into a nearby Bath & Body Works,both Dickitty-cuddling and drying-off were achieved with a simple canary-yellow towelcape purchase. No sooner had he left his money with the disgustingly face-sucking couple of couples at the specialty store’s register, than Harper was swaddling Grayson in gaudily absorbent cotton and lifting him quite Bodily! From the scene of Star’s crime.

Of course, Roy soon replaced Richard's own soggy top, without consultation, with the V-neck off his own back, before the half-drowned teen could so much as sneeze from the cold. Re-shirting his blazer over bare-chest, the satisfied ginger spoke.

“Star oughda take up with this place; she just made their two-for-one deals astounding~. You got the Bath, I get the Body; lemme tell you; it works.” he mused playfully.

Did he mean he got to show his own off, or he got Richie's?

Harper ushered his incognito burrito into a nearby café, past the likes of Alphonse and Babs, where similar confusion, like had happened all over the mall, had struck.

He continued purring, sitting in front of Richard, drying his hair with the procured towel around his shoulders.

“We can get you out’ve those wet clothes as soon as you’re ready, but don’t worry about shoppin’ fer my present anymore, eh? You just gave it to me.”




OoC; Woooo late I'm rully sorry guys. >.> <.< If you guys're still innerested, lemme know! Oth'wise, we could one-off this liddle anecdote. |