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Thanks moon-dragon91011 I'm glad you liked the last chapter. I know what you mean about Leo, I felt so mean! But, life's unfair, even in the Titans universe. Anyway, you wanted me to update, so here I go, the second chapter in Zeru's story :)
Teen Titans: The Alpha Five
Zeru – Part 2
"I'm sorry Zeru, carry on." Phoenix said and Zeru 'humphed' before continuing.
Zeru continued to think for a moment before a small hand waved in front of his face.
"Hello? Earth to Ze-ru?" Phoenix said, still unsure about pronouncing his name. Zeru looked at her and smiled, taking a piece of paper that had been left on the sofa and making a pair of wings, to which Phoenix smiled at. They continued to play for a while and things were quite normal, that was until Zeru got so into the game that instead of actually just waving the car through the air like an aeroplane, he flew up with it, narrowly missing the ceiling.
Phoenix gasped.
"You can fly!" Zeru however wasn't so overjoyed. It was flying that got him into such a mess and just as he was about to come down, the black and scarlet streaked haired girl was smiling at him, as she hovered in front of him… Wait! Hovered?
"I can fly too." Phoenix smiled as they both drifted slowly to the floor. It was fair enough to say that Zeru had been as awe struck as Phoenix had been moments before.
"I didn't think anyone else could – you know -" He flapped his arms like a bird because he was still so surprised and Phoenix giggled.
"I did, but I didn't think you could. My mommy can fly too, but my daddy can't." Zeru nodded, still a little dazed, but he felt more like talking now that he knew Phoenix wasn't 'normal' well normal as in the sense of that she could fly. He hated using such a term but drastic times call for drastic measures and he couldn't think of another way to phrase it.
"I bet you couldn't find a better way to phrase it now either." Isis muttered and Zeru scowled.
"I was nine give me a break!"
"Did I really use to call mom and dad 'mommy' and 'daddy'?" Phoenix asked and Zeru nodded.
"All the time." Phoenix blushed slightly, where as she thought it was embarrassing to be reminded of how young and childish she had been, other anonymous Titans in the Tower thought it was actually rather cute ((cough-Taiyou-cough)).
"Anyway-" Zeru began again and the Titans became quiet once more.
Zeru looked at Phoenix properly for the first time. She looked normal enough, black hair with red streaks, a slightly tanned complexion-
"You did not know the word 'complexion' when you were nine years old." Phoenix replied flatly and Zeru stuck his tongue out.
"But I do now." Phoenix rolled her eyes as he carried on.
- Simple enough clothes, though he thought it strange that she wore a pair of black peddle pushers under her little red dress -
"Well I didn't want to flash anyone when I flew did I?" Phoenix muttered, Zeru glared. "Sorry." Phoenix muttered and Zeru carried on again.
The only thing that could be considered 'abnormal' was the fact that she was wearing a mask. He titled his head curiously.
"Why d'you wear a mask?" He asked.
"So even then you had all the tact and subtlety of a rhino in a china shop." Isis smirked and Zeru got extremely miffed.
"Can I please get on with my story!" All the Titans looked at each other and Taiyou just nodded.
"Go on Ze."
"Thank you!" He said in an exasperated tone.
He noticed that Phoenix's smile had faded slightly as she touched the mask that hid her eyes, before fixing it slightly.
"It makes me feel safe." She said quietly, leaving it at that. There was an awkward silence for a moment until Phoenix finally found her true voice again.
"Why are you here anyway? What did the big policeman want? Oooooo have you been in trouble?"
Phoenix rose a brow at this, trying to remember if she had actually said that, but figured that Zeru had received so many interruptions in the past paragraph or so that it was best not to say anything.
Zeru bit his lip before answering.
"The police didn't know what to do with me. My parents are, well my parents are dead and they kind of caught me sleeping in the park. I may have… accidentally wrecked the canteen at the police station and they figured I'd be safest here." Phoenix looked saddened for a moment.
"I'm sorry." Zeru shrugged.
"Don't be, you didn't know right? Besides, I've always got them, in here-" Zeru pointed at his head, "So I don't have to be upset, because they're not really gone are they? If that makes sense."
"You did not sound that wise when you were nine years old." Isis said disbelievingly but Phoenix answered her.
"Nope, that bit's definitely true." Zeru nodded, raising his head in a proud way that made Isis roll her eyes once more before he carried on.
Phoenix nodded, then added, "Kind of." And smiled once more. Then she grinned. "What did you mean you 'accidentally' wrecked the canteen?" Zeru bit his lip.
"I kind of… Sneezed and blew half of the canteen away to the other side of the room…" Phoenix giggled. Zeru felt slightly hurt until she added that she thought this was funny and he grinned.
The Titans were all laughing at this, even Isis had managed a chuckle. Zeru playfully scowled at this.
"Great, the one time I manage to make all of you guys laugh is completely by accident!" Zeru grumbled, though for some reason he didn't mind that they were laughing, in fact it felt rather good.
"We're sorry Ze, but the fact is, I can actually picture that!" Taiyou said before laughing again and Li nodded.
"Totally!" Isis was still chuckling, until Zeru looked at her and she managed to stifle it almost instantaneously. He'd never let it go if he caught her laughing at him, he would see it as the biggest accomplishment of his life. She noticed that he was smiling at her and she thought that he might have actually caught her, thinking something along the lines of 'Oh crud.' but he took her by surprise and didn't leap upon the chance to gloat, merely smiled at her for another moment and turned back to the other Titans, hitting Li with a pillow from the sofa to get him to shut up so that he could continue. Isis rose a brow at this, thinking how completely unlike Zeru it was before brushing the thought away, it's not like it was that important after all now was it?
Well, there's the end of chapter two. :) I laughed writing this chapter, I just love writing the interuptions, in fact more interesting than the main plot lol. Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, though next chapter will probably be a lot more serious, just to let you know. I promise I'll update soon, so go review:)
