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Teen Titans: Alpha
The nightmare
After breakfast, Phoenix proceeded to her room to get dressed; upon arriving at her room she checked the computer upon her silver and birch desk. No more word from Dad. Should she be worried? 'No, don't be stupid, everything is fine.'
She paced her room silently before getting washed and dressed, pulling on her usual outfit of her usual snug-fitting scarlet t-shirt that stopped just before her mid-riff. She covered her arms in a pair of scarlet 'gloves', though they cut short, ending at the wrist with a simple loop around her thumb, reaching past her elbow to her mid-upper arm. She pulled on a pair of jet black 'shorts' which stopped a couple of inches before her boots, then she covered these with her usual short skirt, in scarlet to match her t-shirt, which reached to her mid-thigh, stopping short so her shorts could still be seen. She searched for her knee-high jet black boots with the silver rim at the top and the flat grey soles. As she continued to think she half-heartedly draped a silver utility belt around her waist.
She sat down at her desk and began brushing her hair as she looked into the mirror, the mask she had inherited from her father hiding her eyes. She hated to admit it, but for once she was afraid and worried.
She hadn't had much sleep and had done some early morning training even before Taiyou had decided he could no longer sleep. After her nightmare who could blame her?
It was dark, there was smoke everywhere, like dust causing a haze and the person she was facing was no more than a fuzzy black outline, a shadow. There was a crazed laughing. A manacle laugh that sounded so familiar. She knew that laugh, it made her stomach flip over, made her fear the worst.
"He is gone Phoenix. He is gone." It continued laughing and Phoenix screamed,
"NO!"
She'd woken up then. She'd been shaking and her breathing had been harsh, no matter how hard she'd tried she couldn't go back off to sleep.
She looked at her reflection, staring at it for a short while before she heard a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" She asked quietly, but clearly, tearing her eyes away from the mirror.
"It's me, Taiyou." The boy said from outside, having gotten changed into his trademark dark red suite with an orange and gold flame on the front, just beneath his shoulder on the left side covering, the suite covered him right from his neck to his ankles and wrists and somehow made him look like an overgrown flame, his boots added to the effect because they were orange and yellow. Phoenix got up, put her hairbrush down and walked to the door. It slid open and she forced a small smile.
"Its ok, I'm coming now."
"Actually, I wanted to see if you were ok, you were really quiet at breakfast this morning, I just wondered if something was wrong." Taiyou looked concerned and Phoenix did the best she could to hide how she really felt, how scared she had been this morning and how she still felt a little shaky. She was glad she always wore a mask, because it made times like these easier, her eyes could not betray how she felt if they were hidden.
"I'm fine. I just got a message from my Dad the other day. It's been playing on my mind a bit, that's all. I've been meaning to go and see my Mom and Dad for ages." It wasn't completely a lie, but it wasn't completely the truth either.
"Oh, ok, well are you coming to the main room, Zeru says he wants a re-match with Li and he wants as many witnesses for when he wins. That's if he ever does."
"Err. Ok, yeah." But then the siren went off, the siren that always meant trouble. The pair looked at each other, wondering who it could possibly be this time before racing up the hall.
