Dont own tt.
A church clock bell sounded, announcing midnight.
Down at Gotham City Jail, a girl about sixteen woke up with a start. Her soft-brown eyes were wide and dry. Her head ached from crying all night. She remembered the previous day all so well…
She felt the cold hand cuffs snap onto her wrist. Robin said, "I'm sorry, Phoenix, but you are under arrest."
Phoenix choked on tears. She was saving the world and was going to jail for it! True, stealing the artifacts was wrong, but with her father, the great demon Trigon, in charge of azarath, she had to get the most powerful-and valuable-artifacts way from his grasp.
The other Titans (Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire) came in to see who was sobbing. They all stopped short when hey saw the cuffs.
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Shrieked a very hysterical Phoenix. "I JUST SAVED THE UNIVERSE!!!!"
"By Stealing?" Robin asked. "That was a crime!"
Her shriek was more of a high-pitched scream as she said, "IT DOESNT MATTER THAT I STOLE!!!! I HAD TO!!!! WHY WONT YOU LISTEN TO REASON!?"
"The only reasoning I understand is that you stole! You are going to jail!"
"Wait dudes!" Beast Boy cried. "That's not fair!"
"What's not fair, Beast Boy?" Robin asked.
"Throwing her in bars without a trial!" Cyborg answered, outraged.
"Robin, should we not reconsider? She was trying to do good. Is that not enough to NOT keep her from jail?" Starfire asked, timidly.
Raven was quiet. Her little sister was going to jail because she was trying to save everyone? This is not right, Raven. You know it. Defend your sister! You know she speaks truth! Raven tried to speak. All that came out was a croak, and she shut her mouth before she began to cry.
Robin was arguing with Cyborg and Beast Boy and Starfire.
"SHE WAS TRYING TO SAVE US!!!!!!!!"
"THAT DOESNT MATTER, BEAST BOY!"
"But she was-"
"JUST SHUT UP! STARFIRE, CYBORG, AND BEAST BOY, JUST SHUT YOUR TRAPS!!!!!!!!!"
Phoenix, meanwhile, fell to her knees sobbing. "He doesn't understand." She half choked, half whispered.
Raven crouched down to join her sister. "I will try to bail you out, Phoenix. Somehow, you will be free."
Robin finally shoved Phoenix thru the police car door. She sadly watched the Titans Tower Isle, along with her friends, shrink away from her.
Phoenix sighed. It was cold in Cell 5. She remembered a song from her favorite song and book. If Only, from Holes.
"If Only, if only, the woodpecker sighs:
The bark on the trees was as soft as the skies.
As the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moo-oo-oon, if only, if only."
It was a sweet song. It cheered her up a bit. She looked out of her barred window.
A voice sang into Phoenix's heart:
If only, if only, the firebird cries that wind would take me as high as the skies. So desperate, so lovely, and ever so lonely. She sings to the sun, If only if only.
"The voice of Devan! There is hope!" Phoenix cried. Devan was a fire sorceress who trained Phoenix.
"Hope? What is hope? Is 'hope' even real?" A voice from the neighboring cell asked.
"What is 'real'?" She snapped back. She opened the small door on the side that revealed a large window. A forlorn-looking Goth in black rags stared back at her.
The Goth girl smiled, revealing fangs. "Oooh, you're good."
"I've had my practice on a piece of guacamole. His name is-" But she stopped. Thinking of Beast Boy led to the Titans, a subject she definitely wanted to avoid.
Ms. Goth Girl smiled again. "Yeah, yeah, I know your story. Name's Rachel."
"Phoenix."
at Titans Tower:
Robin tossed and turned. the same female voice haunted him: "Birds should not be in cages!" And the fire... always fire. A woman with reddish-blonde hair and white-and-red robes. A halo. A firebird copped up in a cage. Every night.
Gotham City Jail, 6am:
"Hey!"
"Wha-?!" Phoenix bolted up.
The speaker was a burly Policeman with a stern expression. "You got a visitor. 30 minutes!"
Raven came through the door. Phoenix ran into her arms. "Raven! oh, I'm sorry." She shrank back onto her bed.
"It's okay. I'll let it slide-this time!" Raven handed her a wallet. Phoenix opened it.
"One Hundred green ones!" Phoenix cried. "So fast!"
"I've been saving. Only four hundred more, and you'll be free!" raven then handed her a small package. it was Phoenix's boom box and c.d.'s.
"Thanks."
"No prob-"
"Times up, you two! Girl you got another visitor. THIRTY MINUTES!!!!!!"
The next visitor was Devan. "FiraBrin, him cime ses uyo."
Phoenix smiled. "yes, you also." Devan had spoken the Vetchan Language: FireBird, how nice to see you.
Devan sat down. 'There is something you must know. Raven is not your sister."
another cliffie-don't we hate them?