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!
Just another note, you will find in this chapter that there is a reference to an accident in which Li was involved. This refers to the story of how he got his powers, which can bee found under Teen Titans: The Alpha Five. Also, no actual creatures were harmed in the writing of this fan fic and the fictional ones in this story only received minor injuries and I am assured by the fictional vet that they will make full recoveries.
Teen Titans: Alpha
Morana
When Phoenix came back to consciousness she felt a shiver run up her spine, though she wasn't sure if it was due to the freezing temperature of her surroundings or whether it was the evil smirks of her captors. As the full extent of her senses came back to life, she realized that she was tied up at the feet and ankles and that her breath was causing small whisps of fog like steam to twirl in the cold air.
"Welcome to the Morana Room, sister." Phoenix shivered once more, especially when she realized that she was not only tied up, but tied to the insides of a cage, which as she peered trough the bars, she could see was suspended over a pool of water and let's just say it wasn't going to be like a Jacuzzi in there.
She glared at her brother as Ninjari held the EPM gun on her, just to make sure there were no sudden movements.
"So are you going to get on with this and kill me, or what?" Phoenix asked defiantly and Pyro grinned, but it wasn't the sort of grin Phoenix thought she should tangle with, but was that going to stop her doing it anyway? … NAH!
"Patience, dear sister, for the fun is yet to begin."
Li had pushed the T-Car as much as he would allow, though that might not have been too much as he'd become as protective of the vehicle as Cyborg had with it's predecessor. However, they'd gotten there, question was had they gotten there soon enough?
As Isis froze a path across to the small island, Li and Taiyou walked after her, with Zeru flying above, the waters had become rougher than before and they weren't going to trust to luck, no matter how strong they knew Isis could freeze things.
Little did they know that someone was watching them approach…
The girl, Ninjari, was speaking to the tiger that had appeared by her side. Phoenix wasn't able to make out what they were saying, after all she was speaking some weird language, though she didn't have to wait long to find out what the conversation had been about.
"Your Highness, there are people approaching the island. It looks like the rest of the Titans Alpha, sir." Pyro's face lit up – he looked like Christmas had come early. Phoenix's eyes widened beneath her mask. At first she felt relieved that someone was coming for her, but now she felt terrified and furious. She'd warned them not to come, to stay away, what if he hurt them? What if he killed them?
"Excellent…" He looked into Phoenix's eyes, well tried to despite her mask. He could imagine the eyes behind them and it was these that he saw when he looked at her. Phoenix hated it when he looked at her like that. She felt as if her mask wasn't there anymore, it was as if he was tearing down her last line of defense, making her vulnerable – an easy target.
"Ninjari, take care of them… Oh and make sure that they suffer…" Ninari nodded with a malicious grin towards Phoenix.
"Yes, my Lord." With that Ninjari left, leaving her 'Lordship' and Phoenix alone in the frightfully cold room. By now Phoenix had noticed that her brother was wearing a warm jacket over the top of his usual outfit to keep him warm, she, however, had not been considered when the warm clothing had been given out.
"So is this how you're going to kill me then, by freezing me to death?" Her tone was still full of defiant hope, but Pyro would soon be doing his best to crush that.
"Oh don't think it will be that easy, sister dear." Something in his tone suggested that Pyro had something much worse up his sleeve and Phoenix couldn't help but shiver.
"I'm guessing this is the welcoming committee." Zeru asked, as animals began to emerge from the trees the moment they stepped foot on the island. However it wasn't the animals that waere bothering Isis, it was the surprise that she had received at this comment – she didn't think Zeru knew such long words as 'committee'. The animals were soon joined by their leader, Ninjari appeared and roared, causing the animals to attack.
"Spread out!" Taiyou shouted as the Titans split up, each with an animal or two of their own to contend with.
Pyro was watching the show in the Morana room so that Phoenix could see the 'Destruction of her friends' as he'd put it. Phoenix flinched as she saw a large leopard leaping towards the screen, the image of Zeru flying away from the dangerous feline.
As two black panthers circled Isis, Phoenix wanted to scream 'Get out of the way!' but she couldn't seem to find her voice as fear paralyzed her, though relief flowed through her as the two black panthers were blocked by gigantic spires of ice and Isis was safe, for now.
Taiyou was being confronted by Ninjari's most loyal 'pet', a large tiger was glaring at Taiyou, circling him until it lunged for him. Phoenix flinched, though her eyes immediately returned to the screen to see the tiger backing away from Taiyou, as he wafted his hand in front of him, the fire that circled it caused the tiger to back off in fear.
Li was grappling with the boa constrictor. As the snake used all its strength to try and crush Li, Li was using all of the strength he had to pull it off him. It was times like these that Li truly appreciated the accident he'd been in all those years ago. He gritted his teeth and pulled the snake off him, throwing it as far away has he could, which was quite far; it would take the reptile a good while to return.
Ninjari was furious at this and lunged at Li with a dagger that she pulled from her boot, though Zeru managed to swoop away from the leopard, causing the wild cat to lunge for him, thereby colliding with Ninjari and pushing her to the floor, knocking her unconscious due to the impact.
"Thanks Ze." Li breathed, still getting his breath back from the life-squeezing hug that the boa constrictor had given him.
"Don't mention it." Zeru grinned, before helping Taiyou and Isis to back all of the remaining animals into a huddle and imprisoning them in a sold ice cage.
"Bad kitties. Very bad kitties." Zeru muttered gleefully, waving a finger at them as he told them off. Isis smacked him around the back of the head.
"Get a grip, we don't have time for this." He nodded, but looked quite peeved that his fun had been stopped as they ventured inside, leaving the unconscious form of Ninjari in her own icy confinement.
"It looks like your friends are coming for you, I might have underestimated them." Pyro said, though he was still smirking. Phoenix looked at the screen, relieved that they were all still ok, though she couldn't help but think that Pyro had something else in store.
"Take one last look at them sister, because you won't be seeing them again." The screen was shut off, leaving Phoenix to wonder whether her last lifeline, her last shred of hope was coming or not.
Pyro rose to his feet, turning to grin at his sister in a cold blooded, evil way. He pushed a button on the panel that he'd been sitting next to and Phoenix felt the cage jerk slightly, causing her to jump.
"I'm so sorry, dear sister that I won't be here to see your final moments, but I have better things to attend to." He laughed manically before leaving as Phoenix and her cage were slowly lowered into the icy ridden pool that was below her.
She struggled to her feet as best as she could, trying to get away from the freezing depths. She tried to hover as best as she could, but the chains were holding her to the bars and the roof of the cage was too low.
She felt the stabbing cold pains that the icy water caused to her skin, muscles and blood as she felt the water rise around her ankles, seeping through her boots as if they were tissue paper. She yelped slightly at the pain that felt like ice-cold blades, slashing at her nerves.
"HELP! HELP ME! I'M IN HERE! HELP ME!" She screamed, finding her voice once more and screaming with her utter panic and terror. This was it; this was how she was going to die.
"HELP ME!"
Pyro smirked as the Titans approached him at a run, all four of them, poised to attack, it was just that Taiyou had gotten there first. He lunged for Pyro and Pyro was too busy smirking to dodge, thus he found himself pinned to the floor.
"Where is she?" Taiyou growled, as the other three Titans covered him, Pyro however just laughed.
"You do realize she'll be dead by now." Taiyou shook him.
"Where is she?" He asked with a harsh tone and gritted teeth.
"Get off me."
"Where is she?"
"I said get off me." With that, Pyro's eyes glowed green and Taiyou had to quickly roll off of him to avoid being burnt by the intense starbolts sent his way. Li had stepped in front of Isis and Zeru, blocking them from the starbolts as he could withstand the temperatures.
Isis however had had enough. She stepped out from behind Li and before they knew it, ice had encased Pyro and he was now doing a very good impression of a half human-half tameranian ice cube.
Li and Zeru just looked at her dumbfounded.
"Come on." She muttered in her usual icy tones, though these were twined with a furious anger. She'd never met such an annoying person as Pyro in all her life… Well Zeru did come close, but he wasn't a genocidal maniac.
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Ok, so maybe its not as good a cliff hanger as my usual ones, at least I don't think so, but that's why I'm putting it on here right, to get your opinion! Quite an action packed chapter if I do say so myself and the action isn't going to slow down either! Muhahaha. Right, as I said at the beginning, the referral to Li's accident is explained in my ither fic Teen Titans: The Alpha Five, just in case you want to read it and find out what I'm on about as I haven't really had a chance to explain Li's powers.
On another note - read Starfire Fury's fanfics they are so mega ace! Please, please please review because I'm seriously lacking in the review department - first one to do so gets a year's supply of virtual chocolate chip cookies!
So there's only these things left for me to say:
Please review
Please read Starfire Fury's fics
I hope you enjoyed this fic
More to come next chapter!
PS - If anyone can guess what the name: Morana means, they too get a year's supply of virtual cookies.
