//------------------------------// // A Tender Moment // Story: My Little Legion: Friendship Is Super // by Dreamgirl //------------------------------// Phantom Girl flew as fast as she could to catch Super Girl, who remained unconscious. She managed to grab her by her cape and carefully lowered her down to safety. Once they were on the ground Phantom Girl began to uncoil the rope and throwing it in the pond (I'm not sure how but from what I've seen on TV when Superman is exposed to kryptonite someone throws it in some water and it doesn't affect him anymore.) She started gently shaking Super Girl trying to wake her up "Super Girl, Super Girl wake up". Super Girl slowly opened her eyes, groaning in pain "Forgot how much kryptonite hurts." sitting up she turned to Phantom Girl and asked "Where did that come from?" "Not sure" Phantom Girl pulled out her communicator "But we better call Cosmic Boy." ☺☺☺ Rokk was patrolling through the halls in the East wing of the castle, and as he passed Princess Cherry's room he heard her screaming bloody murder. He then sprung into action and burst through the doors into her room. Rokk found the princess sitting up in her bed, her face drenched in sweat, she was breathing heavily, and had her hand over her heart. "Princess Cherry are you alright!?" "Yes Cosmic Boy I'm fine, I just had another nightmare." "Another?" Rokk said curiously "They've been occurring ever since my attack. But I can never remember what it was that scared me." Cherry said "Really? That's weird." Rokk was relieved that she wasn't in danger " Well if your okay I'd better get back to my patrol." "Wait" she said stopping him just as he was about to walk out "I'm stilled kind of freaked out, do you think you could stay with me a while?" Rokk turned to look at her with a slight blush on his face, he was flustered and struggled with his words "Um...of...of course princess." He closed the doors and walked back into Cherry's room. Rokk pulled up a chair and sat down about ten feet away from her bed; he could have sat closer but he wanted to give Cherry her space, after all she was getting married. "So um Strong Heart seems like a...swell guy." Rokk said trying to make conversation although he thinking of few other things to call Strong Heart. "Yeah he's okay" the princess said in a less then thrilled tone. "What dose that mean? I mean you must love the guy if your gonna marry him" said Rokk "Well..." Cherry said looking a bit sad He realized what she was getting at and said "You don't love him do you?" "Was it that obvious?" asked Cherry "No, I don't love him it's an arranged marriage. It's funny I always thought Kalia would be the first to marry..." "Kalia?" "She's my older sister, her name means 'Dearly loved'. But she's away at Charm School; she wanted to be a proper princess" Cherry explained "And I guess my mom was getting desperate for grandchildren so she began planning my marriage to Strong Heart. I know her heart is in the right place but... I don't know, I guess I always wanted to be with someone sweet, smart, brave, someone with compassion, someone who say some stuff from his heart about how he feels and stuff. But Strong Heart he's always bossing me around and telling me what to do." "Well... every guy has his faults" Rokk joked With a slight giggle Cherry replied "Yeah I guess, what's yours?" "Oh well I can be kind of pompous." Rokk said "Really?" "Eeyup (I know I know that's Big Mac's thing but I thought it would be funny) when I first got started as a hero I cared more about doing good than just looking good" he stated "But as you got older that changed?" said Cherry Rokk chuckled a bit and then continued "Yeah you could say that all the stuff that comes with being the leader kind of went to my head and made like another version of me, a version that wasn't who I am. You know what I mean?" "I think I do" Cherry said with a nod "It took some time but all the stuff I heard the Legion say about me being a pompous jerk finally came through and I started being myself again." "You know Strong Heart would never say something like that." Cherry said "Yeah, speaking of where is he I haven't seen him around in hours?" Rokk asked "Oh he said he had to go on short journey, he didn't tell me why though but he should be back in a day or two." Rokk had finally realized how someone as wonderful as Princess Cherry could ever marry someone as rude and crude as Prince Strong Heart, an arranged marriage. He began thinking about what she said before, about how she wanted to hear things that came from the heart...he only needed to take one look at her and he could think of a million things to say and that she deserved to hear. And he couldn't stop himself from saying them to her. "Um Princess Cherry..." he began. "Yes Cosmic Boy" Cherry said slightly confused "The stuff you wanted someone to say to you, you know from the heart?..." "Yeah?" "Well was is... you know something like 'When I look at you I have the sudden urge to see if your hair is as soft as it looks' " Cherry was caught off guard and she blushed "Y...yeah that would have been okay." "Or, if he hasn't kissed you yet, something like 'If for one brief moment I could feel your lips against mine I would die a happy man.' " Both Rokk and Cherry blushed a bright shade of red. Rokk continued "And maybe something like 'I would give up everything just to see you smile or look into your beautiful eyes or hear your soft, soothing voice.' and finally maybe 'I wish my time with you could never end, that our lips would be locked together forever, that you'd be in my arms till the end of time.' " "Oh wow that was beautiful." Cherry said flustered "I guess I just got caught up in the moment, but thank you princess." "Um...for the record you can...just call me Cherry." "Okay...Cherry" Rokk said starring deep into her eyes But the magical moment was broken when Rokk's communicator started beeping "Phantom Girl to Cosmic Boy come in," he herd Phantom Girl's voice say. "Phantom Girl what is it?" "Me and Super Girl were attacked, she said she heard something and suddenly a rope made of entirely of kryptonite wrapped around her. She's still a kind of weak, she's regaining her strength but we have no idea where the rope came from." Phantom Girl explained, Rokk heard Cherry gasp. "What's your location?" Rokk asked "We're under the big tree in the castle gardens, by the fish pond." "Got it, Legionnaires rondayvoue at Phantom Girl and Super Girl's coordinates Cosmic Boy out."