I do not own the Teen Titans or anything related to them, however I do own this story and all of the non-original characters except for Isis, who I have been given permission to use by a friend of mine and all are copywrited. This means you can not copy the story or any of the characters or use them without permission from their original owners. Check out the mini-fics by my friend, Starfire Fury, called Teen Titans: Alpha Humor, they're mini-fics about these characters and they're really good and absolutely hilarious, so go read them!
Teen Titans: The Alpha Five: Undercover admission
They do what!
Isis wasn't the only one who was having a less than easy time; Phoenix has arrived in the Drama Studio, which was packed with students all nervously awaiting their auditions. Yet again she felt the familiar sensation that people were looking at her, their gazes following her as she walked in and sat in her chair, the familiar whisperings of who she was. It was almost an exact flashback to her years at the Academy, well the first few at least. Perhaps she would've freaked out if she hadn't already experienced this, but all the same it was a little unsettling.
A young girl was walking around taking notes and handing out scripts and song lyrics and music, she wasn't to tall, but her thin appearance made her look more 'gangly' and her reddish brown hair fell to her waist.
"Miss Grayson is it?"
"Yes that's right."
"You're up in three turns time, here's your music and song words and your script, Mr Knightley already has you earmarked for the starring role anyway, well one of the four."
"One of the four?"
"That's right, there are four main characters, but the one you're going for is the main protagonist." Somehow this information didn't have the desired effect on Phoenix as, instead of filling her with excitement it filled her with fear and nerves.
"Sarah, are you alright?" Phoenix looked up to see Dana, Zeru, Taiyou, Isis, Louisa and Alice looking down at her.
"Yeah, I'm ok. What're you guys doing here?" Alice grinned.
"To audition silly!"
"To stalk Mr Knightley more like." Dana muttered, thankfully Alice didn't hear her. This jogged Phoenix's memory, Zeru had to audition, as did Taiyou and Isis, it had all been in their letters and persona profiles.
"How was cheerleading tryouts?" Phoenix asked Isis, who was still torn up by how much she'd enjoyed herself.
"What do you expect?" Isis managed to cover up her enjoyment rather well to Isis, but Alice and Louisa were gushing.
"She was amazing! I saw her while I was waiting for Louisa to try out for the swim team she was fantastic! Meesha's still mad."
"Meesha?" Phoenix asked and Isis winked.
"Cheerleading captain."
"Isabelle managed to bruise her nose with her hair!" Louisa grinned, obviously impressed. Phoenix didn't look so happy.
"What about our cover?" She whispered in Isis ear and Isis shrugged.
"Everyone's really impressed, apparently she had it coming and besides, she totally deserved it."
"You sound like a cheerleader." Isis glowered.
"Don't insult me. Besides, how would you know? You haven't been to a school before either." Phoenix was about to reply again when the girl from before called out from by Mr Knightley's desk,
"Sarah Grayson make your way to the stage please." Phoenix looked up, suddenly feeling very nauseous. She caught Taiyou's eyes for a moment and swore she felt a blush rise to her cheeks, but for some reason, she couldn't explain, her face hardened and her eyes turned into a steely glare.
"Good luck Sarah!" Dana beamed.
"Yeah Good Luck, you'll be great I'm sure!" Alice grinned. She'd barely had time to skim-read the section of script and the song words she'd been given as she made her way gingerly to the stage, but with her head held high.
"Miss Grayson, could you please sing the song in front of you? The one entitled: 'In my heart of hearts' thank you." Mr Knightley smiled as Phoenix looked over the notes. It wasn't a song she was familiar with and at the bottom she saw why, it had been written by a student, specifically for the play. The notes were complicated and Phoenix felt those nerves rise up to her throat as she read the words once more. She noticed even more as she re-read them that they struck a cord with her and her friends, as if someone knew them all intimately, or at least the three in the room as the song seemed to apply to them.
However, when the music took over, her worries melted away and as she got into the tune, the words became easy to sing.
As she finished there was stunned silence, especially from Isis, Zeru and Taiyou, as they stood there motionless, before the room burst into tremendous applause.
"Sir is this supposed to be a solo because it sounds like it's supposed to be four people." Phoenix asked as Mr Knightley beamed.
"It's a group song, for the finale of the play, I wanted to challenge you by making you sing a range of different notes, but you did well. You're perfect for the main role." Phoenix breathed a sigh of relief, only now realising that if she'd bombed, not only would she be highly embarrassed, but also her cover, as well as that of the others might be blown. "Here's your script and your song lyrics. Welcome to the show Miss Grayson, or as I should call you, Miss Elizabeth Adamson." Phoenix smiled gratefully, full of relief and feeling as if her knees were about to give way. Somehow she managed to stagger over to her friends once more.
"You were awesome Sarah!" Alice grinned as Phoenix collapsed into a chair. They were all holding scripts now and the young girl from before was hanging around.
"Um, I'm sorry to ask this of you Miss Grayson, but could you please help us by reading your part opposite the hopefuls for the part of Mr Nash? Mr Knightley wants to see how well the pairings match up." Phoenix sighed and nodded.
"Do you mind if I just get my breath back?" Phoenix asked and the girl shook her head.
"Not at all." She was just about to walk away when Phoenix asked her for her name. "Oh I'm Zoë, thanks again Miss."
"Its Sarah. You can call me Sarah you know."
"Sorry, Sarah." And with that Zoë walked away with a smile on her face to help Mr Knightley.
The auditions went smoothly, Alice was signed up for the part of Rose Adamson, who turned out to be one of Phoenix's sisters in the play. Louisa was signed up as one of the wealthy people who would be seen as dancers in the ball scene, which she was even happier with when they got to see the dresses they would be wearing. Dana got signed up for the part of Isabella Adamson, another of Phoenix's character's younger sisters.
The true highlights however were the auditions for Isis, Zeru and Taiyou. In a cringe worthy scene for Isis and Zeru, they had to audition for the parts of two of the other starring roles of the three secondary protagonists, and, to add to their horror, the characters they were assigned to, Josephine Hardy and Fitzwilliam Fairfax, fell in love during the play.
"Someone back at the Academy is so going to pay for this." Isis muttered to Phoenix as she came away from the role assigning table, Zeru was looking incredibly pale and was for once, lost for words.
Phoenix once again was on stage, this time opposite Taiyou who Mr Knightley was auditioning for the part of Mr Nash as well as all the other hopefuls. Taiyou was the last of them all and Phoenix couldn't help but glare at him. Taiyou glared back and to both of their delight, they found Mr Knightley had asked them to read through one particular scene where both characters were in the heat of an argument.
What they didn't realise was that it was because they were passionately in love with one another… Oh oh…
Once they had finished, they were both breathing heavily due to the passion in which they had gotten into their parts. Mr Knightley was on his feet in applause and so was the rest of the hall, all but Isis and Zeru who looked at each other nervously.
"I think we've found our Mr Nash!" All of the other Mr Nash hopefuls looked very disappointed.
With the auditions over the group walked back to the dormitories before tidying themselves up for dinner. Li met Taiyou and Zeru with Bruce and Carson before the boys said their goodbyes and the two halves of their group separated.
"You're so lucky Sarah." Alice said once the boys had gone and they were treading the stairs up to their floor.
"Why's that?" Phoenix asked as Isis continued to seethe.
"Didn't you read the whole script? Elizabeth and Mr Nash kiss at the end of the play!"
"They do WHAT!" Phoenix gasped and Isis began to grin evilly.
"Um, Tae…" Zeru spoke nervously as Tae turned.
"What is it Zack?" Taiyou asked as he looked at the page Zeru was pointing at, Li, Carson and Bruce decided to look over Zeru's shoulder too.
"Oh… my… God…" Li muttered, beginning to grin nervously.
"Elizabeth Adamson and James Nash kiss…" Bruce read.
"Alright Taiyou!" Carson cheered. Taiyou's eyes were still wide from the words he'd read.
"They do WHAT!"
Wow guys, sprry it took so long to update these. I've been stuck for so long and then I suddenly had some inspiration. Anyway, dunno what's going to be next chapter so stay tuned to find out:D