Location: Spirit Club Training Arena — a massive elemental battlefield with glowing targets, shifting platforms, and floating runes. Roboto, floating above, wears a holographic coach's whistle.
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🤖 Roboto (excitedly spinning):
> "Welcome, my radiant rookies!
Today — your first official training!
Dodge. Blast. Protect. Trust.
You'll need all of it… eventually.
So! Let's see how much of a disaster you currently are."
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The six spirit warriors take their positions, still masked, still strangers, still unsure.
🌊 Star Blue (grinning):
> "This is gonna be fun."
🌿 Star Gold (Tina):
> "Or catastrophic."
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The battle dummies activate.
Flames shoot, platforms shift, ice tiles crackle underfoot — a simulated chaos zone.
The team splits instinctively:
Cat Rock attempts a rock wall — it rises, then collapses.
Star Gold summons vines — but they tangle around her own legs.
Star Shine tries to create a beam — it flickers and then bursts in sparks.
Star Blue blasts water — but misfires and soaks Star Snow.
Star Snow freezes a moving dummy — but slips on her own ice patch.
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> It's messy. No coordination. Lots of yelling and tripping.
❄️ Star Snow (annoyed):
> "Ugh! Get your water in control, Blue!"
🌊 Star Blue:
> "Maybe try not freezing everything like Elsa's basement!"
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Except one.
At the center, composed, focused, silent —
Starfire moves with elegance and intensity.
> She slides between attacks, summons a controlled arc of fire, and hits three targets in one breath.
> A fire circle forms beneath her — rising in a slow, spinning vortex — like a dance with flame.
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🤖 Roboto (awed, softly):
> "...Whoa."
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The others pause for a second — all eyes land on Starfire.
🌿 Star Gold (whispers):
> "Okay… who is she?"
🪨 Cat Rock (low tone):
> "She's good… scary good."
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But Starfire says nothing. Just breathes. Calm. Unshaken.
She looks at her bracelet, almost like she's trying not to stand out — but the fire responds to her naturally.
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Suddenly —
BOOM.
An alarm rings. A red beam shoots across the ceiling.
> The laughter, the panic, the awkwardness — all stops.
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🤖 Roboto (dead serious now):
> "Training ends. Emergency detected.
Sector: Flame Valley.
Unknown threat. Civilian spirits in danger.
Team — it's your time."
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The warriors stare at each other.
Still unsure.
Still imperfect.
Still barely a team.
But a fire has been lit.
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🔥 Starfire (voice firm, leading):
> "Let's go."
> No hesitation. No fear.
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The rest follow. Their bracelets glow in sync —
Portals flash — and the six vanish into the unknown.
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One figure watches the training feed in the shadows of another realm.
A slow voice mutters:
> "So… the fire awakens first."