See The World

[Kenni]

“More? Already?! Sure thing, Hotlips.” snorted the ginger, marveling at Max’s SPEEDY downing of his piping hot drink without scalding his tongue.

“’Nectar’? That’s cute, Dannyboy. The hummingbird thing can only go so far; that seriously sweet sweetener, or spirits?” Speedy asked, voice lowering near mentioning the alcohol suspicion he had.

”Look, for Reffles’ and Liddle Mouse’s sakes, hopin’ it’s the former.” Reflecto and Iris definitely couldn’t handle their liquor. Despite liking a good drink, neither could Speedy though, which caused him to shake his head less in judgment of what he assumed was Danny’s dangerous drink, and more to clear his head from asking for some ‘nectar’ himself. He sped off, resisting the urge to look back and ask.

Speedy rushed back to Max with more hot chocolate as Raven took a look at the kid’s keyscratch-punked-up arm, feeling bad he’d completely forgotten neglected to tell the empath that her skills were desired. The ashamed archer opted not to mention his indiscretion and bring attention to it. Instead, he made Max the first stop on his hot cocoa run.

Speedy poured the chocolate brew into Max’s outstretched hand, then meandered about offering to top off anyone else’s; that wouldn’t be a problem since Max’s alien throat was the only one immune to third-degree burns of the bunch. The others were taking their time.

”Dude, we’re not asking you to run for public office. This isn’t even an interview! As far as Me the jury sees, the fact you’re even worried about responsibility speaks loads about your’s.”
Danny had already gotten wolfboy a glass of water, so Speedy had left the waterbottle he’d brought over with Ghostdance’s cocoa on the couch beside their lupine guest, as he listened, pretending to understand some parts, and not even bothering with others.

“Magic, spirits, points, portals…talk about a Four Eyes. You just gave ‘foresight’ a whole new meaning my friend.” he said, masking his flabbergasted state in horrible jokes.

”You see into different..planes..of existence, eh? Beabsters and Cy can vouch for this, but Rae knows a liddle bit about alternate dimensions y’see.” After his moment of seriously considering how Lang could explore his theory, the archer grinned and ruined his in-roads.

”At least, she always taking me to another world.”
Moving on.

”Hunh! So you’re Danny Phantom meets Rocky Balto Scooby Doo?” Punching through intangible entities was no joke. Some of Ghostdance’s talk was getting through to the ginger, however; sometimes television really came through. He’d seen a pretty weird anime called Hell Girl a few weeks ago with Beast Boy, with an anguish-faced character sporting a flaming-wheel body and his face there in the middle. Needless to say they’d switched to TMNT when that guy showed up.

“Crazy! You’re like our Homo Magi and Sapphire all rolled into one fluffy whole. I’m not sure how flamey you might get during training sessions, but we’re gonna haffta come up with a way to tie a ponytail...for your whole body. You could light up like a brush fire elsewise!” Speedy tried to think up a fullbody fire-proof hairgel plan, and other methods they could safeguard Lang from burning with, not quite certain or not quite caring if these ‘exhibitions’ even burned or not, being spiritual energy.

More importantly, Speedy’s enthusiasm said he had every intention of accepting Ghostdance to the team and spoke as though he would be starting training with them that very night, even.

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Looking up at Raven Max forced a smile on his face. “Just a scratch. I should be okay. Danny here tends to exaggerate,” Max lied acting as though his injury was nothing. To this Danny just scowled. “Just a scratch my eye! I’m not exaggerating Max! Rae just look at him, you can see he’s hurt real bad. Max, I am only saying this for your own good. I’m worried about you,” huffed Danny. Grumbling, Max looked away from his friend. “I know…” he whispered.

At that very moment the blue cloaked empathy looked ready to take a look at his sore arm. Trusting her he nodded in response to the look she gave him. “Do what is necessary. Anything to get Daniel here to stop worrying about me,” he replied, throwing his best friend a teasing look. In response Danny just shook his head.

Danny’s eyes watched as Zatanna sat next to Ghostdance and sighed. So much for sitting there, he thought glumly to himself. At Speedy’s question though Danny just laughed. “What? This old thing?” he asked innocently holding up his flask. “Why contained within the confines of this here flask is nothing more than a sweet honey like substance known as nectar, ya know the same stuff hummingbirds eat. Definitely not what you’re thinking,” he answered with a snort. “If it is really a problem I will put my gathered nectar inside another container to avoid future confusion. I just stuck it in this here old flask because it is easy to get the nectar out,” Danny further explained, so Speedy would have no more reason to accuse him of drinking.

While Raven tended to his injured arm Ghostdance explained his powers in detail and his eyes lit up when the wolf man mentioned something about bring able to see entities. Grinning he looked over at Danny who by this time had flown over to Ghostdance. “Ah, so in other words you can see invisible things? That’s pretty cool. Ya know Danny here can also see the invisible. Tell him Danny,” urged Max causing the hummingbird boy to turn bright pink in the face. “Uh, actually I don’t really know what Max is talking about. Um will you all kindly excuse me for a minute? I uh I need to go to the water closet…” lied Danny; which was most unusual for the hummingbird boy to do.

Danny just wasn’t the lying type, so if he did ever lie there usually was a good reason for it. And in this case his ability to see on a higher plane embarrassed him since in the past so many people, doctors included dubbed him as a Schizophrenic and Max reminding him of his ‘gift of sight’ was only too painful for the hummingbird boy to bear. He knew Max didn’t mean any harm, but Danny just refused to discuss his ability to see the invisible and Speedy’s immature jokes concerning the ability to see spirits was not helping Danny’s feelings on the matter either. In fact, it took much of Danny’s energy to not waltz up to the unwary archer and punch him in the face. But Danny knew better than to start a needless fight. Normally the archer’s jokes did not bother the normally calm hummingbird boy, but they did this time. Max just looked at Danny funny as the hummingbird boy flew away. “Was it something I said?” asked Max, gazing around the room, frowning.

Alone in the bathroom Danny threw a fit: cussing up a storm in Latin and throwing things around. Items could be heard being thrown against the wall.

[Aly]

Pulling her feet up and folding them beneath her, Zatanna listened as Ghostdance talked. He talked quite a bit, or at least was doing so now, so it made her feel a little better about speaking. However, she wasn't going to bombard him with questions right now. That could save for later.

She turned on the cushin so that she was facing the blue-furred boy and leaned sideways on the back of the couch. "Give him some space, guys. Not everyone wants to be a Titan, though it is pretty great." With a smile, she winked at Ghostdance before looking at Speedy. "You could at leat try not to scare the poor kid away."

She looked back at Ghostdance and bit her lip, trying to hold back the questions, but some just had to escape. "So why are you a wolf? Is that from the magic you were talking about?" More questions threatened to break the dam, but it held now that a couple of questions were out there for the answering. She knew she was talkative and a bit nosy, but she just liked to make sense of the world and what people were doing in it.

ooc; Changed the color of her speech so it's a little easier on the eyes XD

[Bry]

Raven heard everything Ghostdance said, and filed it away in her mind, but her attention was now on Max, who was blowing off his injuries like any teenage hero. She didn't roll her eyes, but she wanted to.

Raven took his arm in her hands, examining it for a moment, and then nodded at Max. "Danny worries for a good reason," she told him. "Hold still for just a moment."

And she began the healing process, draining the pain away from Max and into herself. It was a little surreal, watching the gash in his arm seal itself up neatly, a pink line forming up along the wound, but she was fairly used to it. Within a few minutes, the cut was but a memory and she released the energy at the same time she released Max's arm.

At the same time she caught Speedy's words.

She turned to look at him, an irritated glint in her eyes where just a moment before there'd been a smile. Alternate dimensions were not something she preferred talking about, given her history with them, and she only hoped his harmless little joke would remain such.

Harmless and a joke.

He moved onto another subject quickly enough, though, that she didn't bother getting on his case about it. Ghostdance's powers sounded impressive, she had to admit, and while she wasn't thrilled to be chatting up her own magical lineage, she was certainly intrigued by the idea of having another magical Titan around.

That is, if he conceded and stayed around.

Unlike Danny, who was now storming out of the room.

Raven's eyes followed Danny's flight out, her brow furrowing ever so slightly. The emotion he gave off said he was clearly upset, but about what she could only guess. Was it something Max brought up, as the confused boy was wondering aloud? Or was it something else along the way?

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Ghostdance flickered his ears at Speedy's insistence to join the Titans. The offer had many tempting benefits. The promise of a roof and warm food definitely appealed to him after some many nights on the road. A chance to practice his powers in peace. People at his back.

That one was hard. He wasn't sure if he should or could trust them. Any of them. Sure, they saved the city more than once, but that was their job. He had his job too. His grandfather was murdered by something presumably still out there. Chances are it probably didn't like him much either. If it found out who he was it might just try and kill the rest of his family too, end the line of Wolf-people right then and there.

"Listen, I have things I need to sort out. Personal things. Lemme sleep on it." he said more firmly.

"And I guess... though I suppose Jack London might be a slightly better reference than Balto. And a bit less ghost-y. I tend to be fairly corporeal." he said with a nervous fanged smile. Bringing up a clawed paw he starting clarifying things "Not necessarily the invisible, but the paranormal. I can usually spot a supernatural being in a crowd." he explained holding up a single finger to signify his correction as Danny ran off. Frowning he wondered if he said something wrong.

"Secondly, I'm not really burn-y. It gives off no heat and doesn't actually have the burning properties. If you think about it, divine strength tends to manifest in the form or a bright flamey aura, light, or lightning. I mean the Judeo-Christian God did appear to Moses as a burning bush. 'There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.' to quote." he said rambling it from memory. "Erm, not to say I'm like a god. I don't think I'm anywhere near that power level, just drawing references for my theory." he said, quickly trying to explain himself as he found the carpet increasingly more interesting. He probably shouldn't be explaining what all he could do, but this was the first chance he ever had to talk to anyone about this since learning of his abilities.

When the questions turned to his lupine nature his tail stops in mid wag. "That's a bit complicated. But yeah, it's magic. I guess. It's this whole complicated thing." he said with a sigh. "I mean I'm not actually a wolf. Not really...I think." he really didn't like being pinned down. He still wasn't exactly sure how to classify himself. He knew what he was A Wolf-Person. But what did that mean? He read the myths, he knew his responsibility and powers. But the existential crisis existed. Was he still human? Was he ever human? Did that even matter?

[Kenni]

OoC; Much ‘bliged, Alycchi! xDxD Although I generally just highlight yellowfontz. P; They can hurt (me! ) to your heart’s content c;
p.s. Speedy how you gonn’come up in hee’, be all talkin’ bout FOUREYES quips frunna yo’grrrr’frend, dawg? Dat ain’t tait. –totesmahgoatsmissedthatlastpooost.xD-
p.s.s. DANNY BE FREAKIN’ ON THE WEEKIN’! ‘____’|

Speedy simply sent Danny a warning eye-squint, pointing two fingers at his eyes, then at Danny’s, then repeating the action twice more in rapid succession, resulting in making himself look rather stupid instead of threatening.
He thought he looked imposing though!
It was strange that the boy was fleeing the premises now, but Speedy was too invested in the conversation (or pretending to be--wow, how wolfguy could talk! What did it alll meaaaan?!--he was barely keeping up with all the mubo-jumbo) to think to follow the bothered hummingbird-boy out and follow-up.

Zatanna had a point though; he was being a tad overzealous and overbearing about the guy joining them in no uncertain terms, harping if you will--
...
What was the matter with that?!
He was Roy HARPER, golly-gambit!

"Woah...Bleufort...aaare ye human? Or are ye denser?!" asked Speedy, with his eyes aglow at the way the intelligent boy spouted off memory verse and theory after scientific theory, the ginger awakening slowly to the fact that the shyguy's brain was like a veritable electrorganic encyclopedia of interesting that the team would benefit greatly from having under its employ, if he would just lighten up!

"Seriously, dude. I've only caught abouuut not-enough of all you just told us. You're magical; someun call Pan, Tink'n the Lost Boys, Found-Boy, 'cause you're teachin' my mind to sore!" Pun completely intended, as Speedy held his palms over his ears and chuckled a little, partially to protect himself from any more knowledge-out-pour, and partially to keep his head from feeling as though it were spinning.

"Buuuut, hey. You don't haveta do anymat you don't wanna. It'd sure be a shame to lose out on such fascinating camraderie, mmhmn." Speedy was of course talking about himself Lang losing out on their team's company, not the team losing out on Lang's, but the build-up seemed to be pointing to the prior as if he were bemoaning how much they could benefit from having the wolfguy on their side and in their sights regularly. All this strategy would be his final push for the goal; Zatanna might magically glue his mouth shut or worse if he kept it up.

And realizing his folly with what he'd said about Raven earlier, he wanted to keep the attention on their guest anyway.

Step one: crowd him with compliments.
Step two: make him feel like he had a choice, when really, being together was the only one.
Step three: dance him around the idea of joining himthem, with enough steps set up just prior to form a dance number.

It was a lot like pickin' up a lady, recruiting was, in the ginger's mind.