It was a slow day in Jump City; months had passed since the titans visited Tokyo and they were content and happy. Little did they know one tiny phone call could lead to what happens next…

Starfire sat on the sofa watching a "World of Fungus" marathon; she sighed and began to lose interest. With most of our enemies in jail and the police covering the smaller cases, there is not much need for us. X'hal, I wish something exciting would happen. Starfire's thoughts were interrupted by a phone ringing. That is strange, she thought as she when to answer it, no one ever calls the land line. She checked the number on the caller I.D. She didn't recognize it, but answered it anyways.

"Greetings, Titans' Residence. How may I be of assistance?" Starfire said cheerfully, as usual.

"Yes, may I speak to Koriand'r, please?" A girl's voice answered.

"You are speaking to her; may I ask who is calling?" Starfire stated, rather puzzled by who would be calling her, let alone using her Tamaranean name.

"I thought your voice sounded familiar", the voice chuckled, "It is I, Izzand'r, your baby sister."

"Izzand'r, glorious! But how did you end up on earth, dear sister?" Starfire asked, excitement evident in her voice.

"It's a long story. I'll tell it to you when I arrive. That is, if it is okay for me to stay."

"Of course, there is plenty of room in the tower and I am sure Robin will not mind too much."

"Great. I'll come tomorrow morning around ten, okay?"

"Glorious! I shall see you then." Starfire cheered as she hung up the phone to go tell the others. Starfire walked up to Robin's bedroom door and gently tapped the door with her knuckles.

"Come in." His voice sounded slightly drowsy since he had been sleeping in lately.

"Greetings boyfriend Robin, I have some exciting news!" Starfire exclaimed, voice filled with delight.

"What's up, Star?" Robin couldn't help but smile as he spoke; he loved seeing her happy.

"I was doing the wondering if it would be acceptable if my sister Izzand'r stayed here for a little while. Please Robin, it has been quite long since I have seen my little sister." She gave him the puppy eyes, hoping that he would say yes.

"Fine by me Star. So when is she coming?" Robin asked as he moved his arms around her to receive his morning kiss.

She gave him a quick kiss, wishing to proceed with their conversation. "She shall be here tomorrow, around ten." Starfire said quickly, hoping he wouldn't care that it's last minute.

"That's great. I'll get the rest of the team up so we can help with the preparations." Robin said warmly.

"Yes, let us go."

The other Titans weren't as cheerful after they had been woken up, but spirits lifted at the news of a guest. The lack of crime and excitement had even left Raven bored to tears.

"So, who's coming?" Beast boy asked, nearly bursting with excitement.

"My little sister, Izzand'r." Starfire said as she pointed to the picture of a little strawberry blonde girl with sapphire blue irises and a sky blue sclera, as well as a Tamaranean tan. "I have not seen her since she was seven, and that was seven years ago."

"Izsan'dr" Beast boy struggled to pronoun the name, although he usually has problems with Tamaranean name.

"Izzand'r," Starfire corrected, "I believe the English translation is Icefire."

"Icefire is an oxymoron." Raven stated in her usual flat tone.

"Dude, be nice to Star's sister." Beast boy shot a glare at Raven.

"Oxymoron means it is a contradiction, as in it doesn't make sense, for example jumbo shrimp, civil war, Beast boy's intelligence." Raven explained in a flat tone.

"Oh I get no… Hey, I am intelligent, just not in most subjects." Beast Boy exclaimed.

"She got ya good there grass stain" Cyborg laughed.

"Yes, her name is the contradiction, because there was much debate as to whether she was to be born or not." Starfire's eyes saddened as she continued. "Large families among the head family are considered unlucky, especially four or more."

"What's wrong with a large family?" Cyborg asked, bewildered.

"Many previous high rulers' lines died after having too large a family. Siblings became jealous and did the turning against one another. The worst case of this was a family with four children; the younger children teamed up to assassinate their elder sibling. They poisoned her and after she died, they carried her body outside the palace grounds.

The minute they set the body down to bury it , the three siblings pulled laser guns at one another, so filled with their hatred and lust for power, they all shot each other. The King and Queen died that night as well; there are rumors that they died after they looked out their window and saw the three kill one another, and another rumor is they were also killed by the three younger children; no one can be sure. Icefire was the fourth child of a royal family. Therefore, many believe our family will have a similar fate."

"Don't worry Star, everything will be fine." Robin said reassuringly.

Starfire hugged him tightly, clinging to his words, as she even believed her family doomed. Just him saying that made her fill with joy again, as well as more excitement about her sister's visit.

The next day came early. The Titans prepared a feast for the arrival of their guest; about a fourth was Tamaranean food prepared by Starfire and the rest was earth food since even with the guest, the humans outnumbered the Tamaraneans. The table was just set and the home made pizza just finished cooking when the door bell rang.

Starfire pressed the intercom and the button next to it that unlocked the door – since the main entrance was downstairs those were necessary, especially when a certain robot man never keeps his promise to make the elevator move faster so they could get to the door without a ten minute wait. "It is unlocked." Starfire chimed into the intercom and quickly moved to the elevator door so she could hug her sister the minute she saw her.

The elevator doors opened, but the figure standing in the elevator didn't look like the girl in the picture at all. This girl's hair was bleach blonde and looked stiff, and her skin looked ghostly white with a hint of an indigo bruise color in it. The only thing that made this girl look Tamaranean was her eyes and eyebrows, those same sapphire blue eyes with a sky blue backdrop and two little circles above them.

"Greeting sister, it has been too long since we have seen each other." The figure said as she ran up and hugged Starfire.

Starfire was frozen, half from shock and half because the person hugging her was ice cold. "Izzand'r?" Starfire choked out.

"Yes, dear sister?" The figure responded as she let go of Starfire and noticed wide eyes of confusion from everyone in the room. "Oh, I forgot I probably look weird to you. Well you see, shortly after Koriand'r and Komand'r were sent to the Citadel, their people kept their word and things were peaceful, but two years after that they attacked again and kidnapped Ryand'r and I. I believe his name translates to Wildfire, does it not?" She looked to Starfire for confirmation, and then nodded when it was given.

"Anyway, he was kept as a slave while I was sold to some Psions; they said something about continuing an experiment, whatever that meant. The next thing I know they are trying to get my body to absorb liquid nitrogen and other really cold things like that. I nearly froze to death, but I was saved. An earth ship flew by, and one of the crew members saw me being hit with freeze rays and dunked into a bath of liquid helium. They stopped their ship and landed on the Psion ship. Since Psion aren't very good fighters, the whole ship was overtaken.

Unfortunately, I was the only experiment that the Psions didn't kill the minute they were invaded. They crew took me in; actually, I wouldn't have found you without them. To explain why I look like a frozen Tamaranean: in a sense, I am. My body absorbed the cold and now I can shoot these Iceblots, as I call them." Icefire formed a small circular object around her hand that looked just like a starblot, but were sapphire blue and when she threw it at a spot on the wall, it hit, froze over, and shattered like glass. "And my name is Icefire; oh, the irony"

"Oh X'hal." Starfire exclaimed and raced to hug her again, but this time it was a bone crushing Starfire bear hug and Icefire, unlike the humans, enjoyed this and even returned it, finally feeling warm for the first time in ages.

Starfire felt the soft material her sister's shirt was made of. She looked at her sister's back, her head being on Icefire's shoulder, only to see a light blue knit sweater which didn't match the dark navy material in front. "Sister, what is it that you are wearing?"

"Oh, it's an earth invention; it's called a snuggie. It is a blanket with sleeves." Icefire explained. "I'm wearing it because of my exposure to cold things; my body is able to function at lower temperatures than normal, and it is a good thing, considering my body temperate is stuck at 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Therefore, I'm always cold. That would be why I'm wearing sweatpants, a long sleeve shirt, a sweater and a snuggie."

"So, what team saved you?" Robin interjected.

"They go by many names: The Z-team, Titans Europe, The Titan Patrol, Mysteria and the other people, X'hal she's annoying. Unfortunately, none of them are official. Their space craft is called 'To Be Named Later'." Icefire said as she rolled her eyes.

"I've never heard of them. Why are they using the titan brand name when they aren't Titans!" Robin looked P.O.'d; as for the others, they looked confused.

"I didn't know they took it. I can bring them over tomorrow, but let's not let all this food go to waste." Icefire stared at the pizza, hunger apparent in her eyes.

"Ya, let's eat!" Cyborg cheered.

They blissfully enjoyed their brunch, especially Icefire as she saw all of her favorite Tamaranean dishes, and ate every bit as if it was heaven.

"Dudette, what did your team do, starve you or something?" Beast boy watch in amazement as Icefire piled on her seventh helping.

"Well, considering the fact I have to eat more to maintain an internal body heat of 35 degrees, I always eat like I'm starving." Icefire said as she reached for her third slice of cheese cake.

-Three hours later-

"Funny, with all the food we cooked and ordered, I thought we would have enough leftovers to last the rest of the week and still have different food to eat every night, but by the time your sister finished eating there wasn't any food left from our feast at all." Robin held the shock out of his voice the best he could, but even Starfire looked surprised at this new found discovery.

"Where has she gone?" Starfire looked around, just noticing there wasn't any sign of the light skinned Tamaranean in the living room.

"She is unpacking her stuff and calling her team leader to inform her she doesn't have permission to use titan in the team name." Robin said firmly.

-In Icefire's room-

"So they don't have any idea who we are?" A voice responded on a device similar to the Titans' communicator, except without the screen.

"I'm afraid so Azul." Icefire voice softened, she could tell her leader was angry.

"Even mi hermano?" Azul's Spanish accent thickened as anger and disappointment mixed with her voice.

"Yeah, he didn't recognize any of the team names, but Ayme's frère didn't even recognize her superhero name and seemed really angry, wondering why we were using the titan brand name." Icefire continued.

"And Spada and Scudo's meida hermana never knew they existed, let alone her prima Redonna." Azul sounded concerned.

"Maybe you should just come by tomorrow and we'll go in an order of who will least likely make a scene." Icefire said as she thought about her leader's Spanish background, and the way most Spanish speaking people greeted their relatives.

"Great, so I'll finally get to meet mi hermano!" Azul's voice softened, sounding fast and cheery.

"Actually, maybe it would be best if Redonna came first; she is Japanese and also the mellowest. Starfire can speak her native tongue and Redonna is more likely to bow instead of kissing them on the cheeks. In fact, I can guarantee she won't kiss them on the cheeks." Icefire stated, just realizing she just sent herself to Spanish rant ville.

"Que are you saying? That I can't be well reserved? And I thought you said they wanted to meet the leader. Last time I checked that was me." Azul ranted on and on, switching between Spanish and English until finally she was interrupted by Icefire.

"Fine, just remember kissing a person who doesn't know you 's cheeks is considered stalkerish."

"This coming from the girl who kisses strangers in order to speak there language?"

"If there was an option to get rid of that power I would. but there isn't and it's faster than Rosetta Stone, so I'm stuck."

"Whatever. See you mañana porque en la mañana." Her tone was laced with slight annoyance.

"See ya" Icefire said right before hanging up.