Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans I do however own Pyra… sort of….
Excuse for not updating: My computer's being ridiculous, so blame it not me!
'Heh, I hope I don't get my eyebrows singed off, again…' Beast Boy thought as he roamed the halls of Titans Tower, 'Well I guess she did sorta save me from being squashed by Mammoth, but only because he laughed until he collapsed, later that day, but it's not like she knew that was going to happen…' "Or maybe she did." he said aloud, stopping to look around his surroundings. He had left the main room, not five minutes ago, and he was already lost. The changeling heaved a sigh, 'I'll never get used to living in a huge tower like this…' he went down several more halls, until he came to an elevator, 'Now which floor is her room on again?' In his absent-mindedness he pushed the wrong button, and the changeling found himself even more lost than he was before.
"Oh great, this day just keeps getting better and better…" he said to no one in particular as he gently touched his elbow where he had gotten some nasty burns from the earlier battle. He kept walking down halls until he heard a small crunch come from under his foot. "Huh?" he said leaning down and picking up what he had stepped on.
It was a picture, and not just any picture; it was a picture of it. He quickly threw the picture down, turned on his heel and walked straight back to the elevator. He soon found his mind wandering, as he began to think about Pyra…
It had been Pyra's first night as a Titan, so they had gone to the pier to celebrate. Robin had said that it was going to be a team night, but soon the boy wonder found himself leading Starfire away from the group to get some alone time with her. The other Titans were used to this, it happened every single time they went somewhere. Not long after the two 'love-birds', as Cyborg called them, had left, Pyra began getting hit on like she was the last girl on earth. It might have been the fact that she was with the Titans, and all those boys were so shallow that they only wanted to go out with her because she was considered 'famous' for even getting to walk with them, or it could have been that not one of those guys had had a date in years, but Beast Boy was willing to bet money that it was the fact that Pyra had looked gorgeous that night.
It wasn't just her clothes (or the fact that she looked like she had gone shopping in the children's department), but her eyes and her hair were just so pretty when she didn't have make-up or hair accessories in. Pyra had the most gorgeous deep cherry brown hair: It was a mixture of brunette, midnight and mahogany, and it was natural to boot. Her eyes were a beautiful deep sable that night. The changeling had heard Raven talking about how some people's eyes change color depending on how they're feeling, but he'd never actually seen it, or believed it for that matter, until he met Pyra. He had only seen her eyes in two different shades, deep sable (and he had only seen her eyes like that a few times) and her usual caramel. That night at the carnival, Pyra had almost been enough to fill the void that it had left. Almost. But nothing ever was, and the small green elf doubted there ever would be.
They rode rides, and he got to know Pyra, or rather at that time, Rachael; Pyra was a nickname that the people at the bar called her. That was her real name, Rachael, and only Beast Boy and Cyborg knew it (and Cyborg only knew it because he was eavesdropping on Beast Boy and Pyra talking). Beast Boy had discovered that the two of them had so much in common that night; Pyra's love for tofu had him liking her from the start. She loved the Mega Monkeys series almost as much as Beast Boy did, although they did get into an argument over which one was the best. And unlike the rest of the Titans, Pyra actually took him seriously. She knew he was a jokester, but still knew when he was being serious. It was the weirdest thing, she was more polite to Beast Boy than Raven ever was, and she wasn't his girlfriend.
Then the night had come to a close. As the Titans turned for home, they stopped a robbery on the way. They were just some two-bit criminals robbing the bank, but Pyra stopped them by giving them some third-degree burns on their legs. Beast Boy thought it was cool, but Cyborg went all out, making a mountain out of a molehill. He made them stop for doughnuts, and then when they got home, he made waffles! All for a silly little thing like stopping a robbery!
Pyra had slept in the guest room that night, not on the couch. It had taken them a week to get her bedroom done, and she never once complained. She was a very well mannered young lady - or so they thought. That was the week Cyborg stole the remote from her, after she had been literally forced by Starfire to watch The World of Mouth Fungi and she had melted his butt to the door to the main room. Beast Boy had found it hilarious, but the others found it rude. It took them a week until they found the funny side to it, but at least they came around. And then, it was like Pyra was always there, had always been there. Like she was an original part of the Titans. And just when things were starting to look on the up-and-up, Gizmo had to go and blurt that stupid lie, 'Slade's old lackey'. How would he know anyway?
Suddenly, the changeling was thrust out of his thoughts when he heard the elevator ding. He slowly walked out of the elevator, and after making sure it was the right floor, made his way to Pyra's room and knocked on the door.
A cliffhanger, how so, expected. So what is this it thing? How did Gizmo know if Pyra was Slade's apprentice? Am I ever going to make my chapters longer? When am I going to update next? It's a mystery to me folks!