Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans I do however own Pyra… sort of….
Ok now that that's out of the way, Pyra joined the Titans shortly after Slade came back; she has the power of fire, obviously, and is very drawn to Beast Boy.
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Pyra snuck up to the main room. 'I'm glad that I have training in this,' she thought as she quietly melted the screws off of the air vent just outside of the main room. There was no sound, so she quickly entered the oversized duct and began crawling through the ventilation system until she counted to five. She had come across a vent that hovered just over the semi-circle couch that just happened to be where the Titans were having their meeting.
"Dude, I don't know…What if she's like... you know…" Cyborg said at a complete loss for words.
"Like what?" Raven said in her not-so-emotionless voice, "That she could be just like Terra?"
Beast Boy hadn't said anything during the entire meeting even though he was one of the witnesses that had seen Gizmo tearing up the jewelry store; he just sat there with his head in his hands, staring at nothing but his shoes. It was as if it was illegal for him not to, or at least he felt that way.
"I do not think that friend Pyra should be living with us any longer!" Starfire shouted.
"Alright, I think we should take a vote." Robin said in his I'm-the-leader-so-nobody-argue-with-me voice. "Okay," he continued, "whoever votes for Pyra to stay, raise your hand."
Beast Boy's and Cyborg's hand went up.
"Now, I'm taking it that you two," he pointed to Starfire and Raven, "don't want Pyra around anymore."
Starfire shook her head. "I just do not… I mean I do want…. Oh, I do not know!"
"It's okay, Star, you don't have to vote now." Robin said gently.
"Kiss up!" Cyborg said between coughs.
Robin gave him the death glare and continued, "Now who votes she gets the boot?"
He and Raven raised their hands.
"Great, now we have a tie!" Cyborg yelled throwing his hands up.
"I do not understand… if I have not voted yet how could we have a tie?" Starfire asked innocently.
Nobody answered Starfire; they were all looking up at the heating vent.
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"I just don't understand! We need to know everything about your past, and now!" Robin yelled, throwing his hands up.
On the couch sat a tearful Pyra. She had been crying for the last hour as she was being interrogated by Robin.
"I'm telling you, all I can remember is meeting you guys, before then I was working at the karaoke bar, then nothing!" Pyra said, tears still streaming down her face. But, she could remember; she just didn't want to tell them.
"God, Pyra, why didn't you just tell us that you used to work for Slade when we first interviewed you for the job?" Robin yelled, everyone else had gone to get pizza, but the ever-persistent Robin wasn't giving up until he found out everything.
Pyra opened her mouth to speak, but Robin cut her off, "Don't answer that. Listen," he said softening up, "we just--we had this friend who we let in as a part of our team. Everything was going great, up until one night. She gave Slade every code to get into our tower, and then she took Beast Boy and rode off into the night. Four hundred robots got into the tower that night. Four hundred deadly robots! We almost didn't make it…"
Pyra gasped, "W-what happened?"
"She left us, went to Slade full time. A few weeks later we saw her again. She was so powerful we thought we had finally met our match. But then, miraculously, we all met up in the same tunnel beneath the city. It was the oddest thing I have ever seen; well, except for Tameran, but that's beside the point. I need you to tell me everything that happened the day you met us. Sometimes that'll help people remember things."
Pyra, "Ok, it was around eight thirty, I was waiting tables for all for these all drunk dudes. Even though I'm not twenty-one yet, I was still serving alcohol, which was kinda funny because one day on my first day on the job there was a surprise inspection, and if they caught me then the bar and everyone else was out of the job. So I had to seduce the guy into believing--" Robin cleared his throat rather loudly. "Right, so anyway, my friends that worked there dared me to go up to the altar and sing during my break. Of course, I agreed; I can't refuse a dare. Well, I got up there in my skimpy little waitress outfit when stupid Kevin - you know, the one that caught me - had to get up there and make an announcement that I was singing. I didn't even know what song I was going to sing! But then the music started and I just got the music flowing though my body, it was an amazing feeling. But then I heard one of the guys say, 'Hey it's them,' and frankly, I didn't know who he meant until I looked up. And there was all of you. Then one of you," she suddenly paused, looking out into space.
"Pyra?" Robin said waving a hand in front of her face, "Are you okay?"
Pyra blushed deeply and said, "Yes.
"So anyway one of you looked at me, and I just collapsed."
"And?"
"And what? That's all that happened there."
"What about when you woke up?"
"Oh right, that.
"Well, it was about an hour later, and as soon as I sat up, I felt a wave of coldness run through me, so I started to reheat myself. And that's when Raven said, 'Why is she glowing red?' so I had to friggin' explain to you guys about my powers, then you interviewed me, then I came and lived here and fought crime with you guys and that's it!" In the distance Robin heard the smoke alarm going off. He looked at Pyra quizzically.
But Pyra appeared to be discombobulated. "Wasn't me."
Just then the Titans security center started going off, "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"
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Well there's the second chapter, 1008 words! Hooray! Anyways, I hope that this cleared up some of the confusion about Pyra's past, the Titans didn't know that she worked for Slade, if she did because I'm not saying she did but I'm also not saying that she didn't either, SHE MIGHT HAVE OKAY? Sorry got a little frustrated there. Remember to review (but I'm not saying you have to this time!)