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Teen Titans: The Alpha Five

Mind Games – Part 2

As Phoenix came too she found that she was in her room, awaking groggily on her bed. As the memories of the afternoon flooded back to her she held her head, resisting the urge to scream out her pain. Instead, she shook, before falling forwards onto the covers and weeping, no sobbing, her balled fists curling around the sheets, gripping them so hard her knuckles turned white underneath her gloves.

How could this have happened? How could she have let it happen? She raised her head, her fingers clawing at her eyes in despair, before the glistening of the glass in a photo frame caught her eye through her fingers. She got up shakily, walking to the shelf upon which the photo stood. It was a simple enough picture, the five of them, standing around and laughing. It had been taken at the summer carnival at the Academy. Isis was clutching a gigantic panda stuffed animal that Zeru had won her, he looked rather proud of himself as he stood next to her, a big grin on his face as Li hugged them both round the shoulders, the three of them laughing together, yes even Isis. But the portion of the picture that had caught her eye the most was the two standing next to them. She and Taiyou stood, she was smiling happily as she rested her head on Taiyou's shoulder as he grinned at the camera.

She remembered how happy that day had been, how they'd all laughed, how she'd smiled, how she felt whole as she stood beside Taiyou, her head resting on his shoulder. She smiled, but then she thought how she'd never feel whole again, how she'd never see him smile, how she'd never hear his voice, never see him again. She'd never be able to tell him that she loved him, never find out if he felt the same, no, she'd never feel whole.

"Taiyou…" She whispered, tears running silently down her face as she fell to her knees, the photograph clutched to her heart as she wept.

It felt like he'd walked for days, but in truth it had been just a few hours, though the midday heat was fierce and the discovery that he could control fire and heat had not been a welcome one at first. He had to learn how to control it and after a while had managed to lower the fire with in him to a degree that wouldn't cause him to pass out from heat exhaustion.

He racked his mind for an inkling of who he was, what had happened to him, where had he come from, but his mind did not betray anything and it served to do nothing but give him a headache with a large side order of disappointment.

After a while he came across a café of some sort, and walked in. The patrons barely gave him a glance as he headed for the toilets. In an effort to clean himself up he washed his cuts and dried them with tissue paper, before washing his face more thoroughly. As he stared at his reflection in the mirror he could've sworn for a brief moment that he saw a black and white mask flash in front of his eyes before disappearing once more. He shook his head, splashing his face with more water as the image slipped to the back of his mind once more.

"Any luck yet Li?" Zeru asked once more and Li shook his head.

"It's a long shot anyway. The water's probably fried his communicator." They didn't know why they had decided to keep searching for Taiyou. It had been almost a week now, and the police had declared that it was most likely that he was dead, but perhaps it was their strong bond of loyalty and friendship that kept them searching for their missing member.

"Keep trying anyway." Isis said sadly, her icy tone had become a lot softer lately, but it was only due to the fact that a more dull and saddened tone had taken its place. Zeru barely lifted off the ground anymore; he walked everywhere and hadn't cracked a joke since before their mission. Li had taken to trying to lock onto Taiyou's communicator signal and only took breaks when absolutely necessary. Phoenix however barely came out of her room. The Titans hadn't seen much of her for days and each day when they tried to coax her out of her room that got the same, simple reply – "No. Go away."

They'd given up on trying to coax her out now. They left food by her door in case she got hungry, but it was barely touched, perhaps a few mouthfuls at best, nothing more and the past few days the food hadn't been touched at all. This had aroused the suspicion of the rest of the Titans and Isis was sent to her room yet again to try and talk to her.

"Phoe? Phoe are you ok? You have to eat something, Taiyou wouldn't have wanted you to starve yourself to death." When she didn't get a reply she got worried and keyed in the emergency override code, only to find Phoenix's room empty. She ran back to the common room where the boys turned to look at her.

"Guys, Phoe's gone."

"We didn't even check up on her." Zeru said as they clambered into the T-Car.

"She could've gone days ago. We haven't spoken to her in days, no wonder the food we've left her hasn't been touched." Isis said, her voice quiet and concerned.

"Don't worry, we'll find her." Li said calmly, trying to reassure himself more than anyone. Zeru and Isis could only hope that he was right.

After days of searching, Phoenix came upon what she hoped was the place in which she'd find Taiyou. She'd grieved at first, but something had begun to burn within her, making her search for him and leave the Tower, it burnt so strongly and she got so caught up in it that she had forgotten to tell the other Titans.

But right now, she was too focussed on the doors in front of her to care. She stepped into the diner and sat at the long table in the middle.

"Can I take your order?" The bored waitress asked, Phoenix replied absentmindedly.

"A glass of water please. Oh and a ham sandwich please, can I have brown bread?" She said quietly and the waitress nodded, before stalking off leaving Phoenix to mull over what exactly she was doing.

She was sure that something had to be wrong, Taiyou would've come straight back to the Tower if he was ok, thus he could not be ok.

"Hey Leo! One ham sandwich when you're ready." Something about that sentence caught Phoenix's attention. 'Leo? Wait, Tae's brother's name was Leo… It can't be…'

Poor Phoenix... Ooooooo is it Taiyou? Find out next chapter.