Breeze looked up from her slow game of cards at the clock. 9:13pm it said. She dropped the cards that she was holding and left the room.
"Where are you going?" Black Ice looked up over his book.
"Bed. I'm tired, and its getting dark," She said, looking at the two lamps they were using. Other than that, the room was dark.
"Hm." He looked back down at his book.
"You're really boring, Icy. Speak more. Then you wouldn't be so strange."
"Who are you calling strange?" Icy jumped onto his feet, taking on a fighting stance, and dropping his book to the floor. Yet again.
"Oh no! Hes going to use his knowledge on me!" Blizzard waved his arms about madly.
"Oh, shut up, Blizzard. We all know that you really just wish you were smarter than me."
"Oh, yeah, I really wanna be a mega geek."
Black Ice slumped down, sighing. He knew that nothing would be gained from fighting. Unless it was a war. Wars were different, as tactics were vital.
Breeze heard the boys settle down and got into bed. It was no use trying to get to sleep when they were arguing in the next room. She kicked the sheet off and lay in her baggy shirt she bought in the boys section, spread across the bed. It was snowing outside, but she didnt feel the cold. She only ever felt warm. Tonight she was far too warm. She tossed and turned, but she couldn't get to sleep. She tried to count sheep. That didnt work. It never really had for her, but it was still worth a shot. Hours passed. She started to examine the ceiling. White. Bumpy. This was going nowhere. She got up to have a midnight snack, perhaps an ice lolly. Cold, fruity, juicy, and cold. Cold like her. Her favourite word: Cold. Even before she went off to the lab, it was her favourite word. She paced the kitchen, looking at everything. This is so boring its driving me to insanity, she thought. Insanity. Her bothers could drive her to insanity sometimes...
There was a drilling sound outside. Then a clatter, like a bin being tipped over.
"What was that?" Breeze started, and looked up at the clock. 12:23am it read. What was that, at this time in the morning? She looked out the window at a man holding a drill standing by the hole in the wall across the road. That was their money stash. They needed that stuff to pay the bills.
Breeze ran to Black Ice's room. If anyone knew what to do, it was him. He built the thing, after all. She knocked at his bedroom door. "Icy! Icy, wake up! Icy!" She started to hammer the door urgently.
A few moments passed and shuffling could be heard behind the door, until Icy opened it slowly, yawning. "What is it? Calm down, Breeze. Question. What time is it?"
"I can't remember. Follow me!" She ran to the kitchen window, dragging Icy who nearly tripped several times.
"Woah, slow down! What do you want?"
Breeze glared at him urgently. "Open your eyes! Someone's broken into our money mahoosey!"
"Get Blizzard!"
Breeze ran up to Blizzards room and knocked on the door. "Blizzard! Blizzard, wake up! Blizzard!" She started hammering urgently on his door.
Blizzard opened the door slowly, yawning. "What? I'm tired! Let me go back to sleep, I know it's winter, and it's supposed to be dark, but I can tell-"
Breeze groaned and ran down to the kitchen pulling him.
"Breeze, stop, slow down! What do you want? Icy, is this a joke?"
Black Ice glared at him urgently. "Our money is being stolen as we speak. We have to do something."
"Well, whatever's going on here, I dont want to be involved." He turned to leave, but Breeze grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back.
"Whoopie. Guess what? I don't care. What are we supposed to do?" Blizzard crossed his arms.
"Go save the city?" Icy looked up at Breeze. "Well, we should at least go stop him."
"Yeah, but that would mean showing the street and possibly the entire city that we freeze people. And no doubt you're gonna pull out your wings, too."
"Come on! He'll be gone soon! We wont have any money! We will be homeless! Dont you want freedom?" Icy punched the air with his fist.
"Yeah!" Breeze punched the air too.
"Oh, geez." Blizzard looked at them both, voting for freedom, and fame. The fame part was what was holding him back. He didnt want to see them both at risk and fight the man outside alone, without him. But he didnt want to be known as a freak worldwide either. He looked at their faces, and for once spoke seriously. "Okay... But, if anything bad happens, I'm moving to Alaska to escape the publicity."
"Woohoo!" Breeze and Icy high fived in celebration and began to dance around the room madly. They were mad, but they were a real family, a team, each member looking out for the other, and Breeze loved her family. Blizzerd was about to join in when he remembered the man outside.
"Guys!" He looked out of the window at the defaced money hidey hole- but there was nobody there. "GUYS!"
"Oh, right...lets GO!" Breeze ran to the door with her brothers and stopped. She closed her eyes. Did she really want to do this? Of course she did!
Breeze opened her eyes and squeezed Blizzards hand. They looked into each others eyes.
Breeze sighed. "Let's go?"
"Alright. Bring it on!"
She looked back at her old house. She closed her eyes again and spread her wings out wide, proud. This must have been the best feeling she would ever feel, holding her brothers hand, about to fly away. A free spirit about to stop a real crime! A wide smile spread across her face. They flew up fast into the air. Feeling the wind run though her hair, past her wings, engulfing her face. It was incredible. She flew up and up, not a care in the world, almost forgetting about the task at hand. Blizzard let go, and Breeze snapped out of her trance. "What?" She looked around at the darkness, just making out a figure flying ahead of her. "Wait up!" She flew fast to catch up.
Blizzard slowed down. "This is it," He said as they were neck and neck, plunging towards the man, who was running away.
"This is it," She repeated. She realised that although she was pulling off a great plunge, she had never practised stopping herself afterwards. She realised the road was inches from her face. She flinched but only felt someone grabbing her. The sudden stop made her dizzy. The person was also holding her brother. "Huh?" She looked up at the person holding her. She didnt know who the girl was, she had green eyes, completely green, and long crimson hair. Breeze blew some of it out of her face. "Who..."
The girl released them both, and Breeze realised that the girls arms were frozen. "Blizzard! What did you do?"
"Me? I wasn't even cold!" Blizzard looked around. "Wheres Icy?" He ran off.
Breeze looked up at the girl. "Ah! Uh, um, sorry! Um..."
The girl smashed the ice off and looked up at Breeze. "I am Starfire, do not worry about it. I have been frozen many times before." She shivered.
"Uh, are you sure? Um..." Breeze noticed th girl still had some flecks of ice on her purple top and mini-skirt. "You're okay?"
"Yes. Just a little chilly."
"Thanks!"
"You are welcome. We had better find your friend." She ran off.
Breeze followed her and watched as Starfire took off and began to fly. This was strange, was this it dream? Breeze took off and followed Starfire. Who ever this girl was, Breeze realized that she wasn't the only abnormal person around these parts like she had first thought. Right she was, because when they found Icy and Blizzard there were more people there, a green boy, a boy with jet black hair and a yellow cape, a half-robotic man and a girl in a dark blue cloak.
"We've lost him." The boy in the cape looked like he was talking to Starfire. "We chased him down to this alley here, then he disappeared and left this." The boy held up a large sack, Icy looked at it adoringly, all that money, it was his... Yes, all his. He looked around at everyone, the girl in the purple with the red hair appeared to be admiring the boy holding the sack, the robo-man was looking at the floor in the alleyway, touching some strange codes into his arm. The girl in the cape was looking around, she then closed her eyes and held out her hand.
There was a loud crash.
"Hey, what the heck?" Icy jumped and turned to see an overturned wheelie bin. He turned back around to the suspected person, the cloaked girl, and glared. "You're gonna wake someone up like that! Who do you think you are, anyway?"
Blizzard looked at his brother yelling at the cloaked, emotionless girl. If anything, Icy's rant was only amusing the expressionless girl. Icy wasn't really mad, he was just annoyed. Here these people were who had special powers, and who caught their bad guy, the only bad guy they had ever wanted to take down. Blizzerd rolled his eyes, he just needed common sense sometimes before he started getting angry.
Blizzard frowned and then looked up at the 'abnormals', and wondered where they lived every day. Did they actually do this everyday? Fight crime? They must think that his family were so different from their superior selves. Suddenly he felt rage build up inside him. "Who are you?" he demanded, stomping his foot onto the ground.
"I'm Beast boy! Who're you?" The green guy said, smiling.
"Stop being such a wimp, BB!" The robo-man poked Beast boy on the arm. "I'm Cyborg."
"I am Starfire," said the girl in the purple clothes. "Its a pleasure to meet you." That girl had such a warm smile and she was very beautiful... No! Stop! Blizzard shook his head rapidly, he was so not falling in love! He was just, uh, describing her! Yes. Not falling in love. That would be girly.
"I'm Robin, we're all a group. We call ourselves the Teen Titans." The dude with the cape should really get a new one, Blizzard thought in disgust. Plus the purple clothed girl seems to like him, how could you like a guy who wore yellow? Bleh! The yellow caped 'Robin', continued: "Thats Raven..." They all turned to see the cloaked girl apparently holding Icy in the air with psychic powers as he ranted on about nothing in particular.
Robin looked at Raven, and the new guy struggling out of her wrath. For goodness's sake, what a terrible impression on these kids. But anyway, first impressions did matter, and this wasn't the right one at all. "Uh, how about you come see our home?" He tried to distract them, apparently it worked because Raven dropped the boy, and the new kids were watching him thoughtfully.
Breeze looked at all the smiling faces and felt comfort... This wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, and if they were just posing and really a threat to them, she had her inheritance, and she could go with her brothers to Alaska to escape the publicity and raging scientists. At that moment, Breeze was sure she felt a feeling that she was being watched, but everyone was looking away. Maybe it was just that she was making new friends? Not that she would know, having lost all memory of what friends were like.
