Fan Fiction ❯ Phoenix's Rise ❯ Phoenix's Secret Part II ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8

Phoenix's Secret Part 2

A week passed, and the doctors finally decided that Phoenix was strong enough to return to Titan's Tower, but she wasn't allowed to fight or train for a month. “They can't stop me from training!” Phoenix exclaimed indignantly when she was told this news back in the Tower.

“Maybe they can't,” Raven responded “, but we can. If the doctors say you can't train . . .”

“ . . . you won't train without going through us first.” Robin finished.

Phoenix gave a small snort, and then began to laugh uncontrollably . . . and she couldn't tell the Titans what was so funny because she was laughing so hard ( like you didn't figure that out). “I don't get . . . I just got it!” Beast Boy exclaimed.

“Well, what is it?” Cyborg asked impatiently.

“Robin and Raven said that Phoenix couldn't fight or train unless the doctors said so first. That would've been fine, but Robin had to add the `you'll have to go through us first' bit. That meant that Phoenix would've needed to fight us to be able to train!” Beast Boy chuckled.

“H-h-he's right . . .” Phoenix gasped. Robin turned beet red as Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy crack up. Raven gave a half smile.

Robin thought for a second, and spoke again. “Okay, how about this? No training . . . or you clean BB's room.”

Phoenix stopped cold as if she had been told that she was being appointed the new leader of the Titans. “WHAT?!?!? C'mon that's cruel and unusual punishment . . . and that's against the Constitution . . . I'm pretty sure it's the eighth amendment!”

“Then just follow orders, and take it easy.” Raven stated simply.

Phoenix sighed, sank onto the couch, and began to sulk. “Fine, then what'll I do? I can only vegg out for so long . . . and a month is way past my limit.”

“Rookie, vegging out for a month is just a warm-up for me.” Beast Boy yawned, reaching for the remote control.

“If you believe that you are unable to be lazy for a month,” Starfire suggested “, perhaps you can tell us about your large secr . . .” Starfire was abruptly cut off by Robin and Cyborg's hands clapping over her mouth. Star glanced at her two friends, confused.

“That's okay, guys.” Phoenix sighed, and closed her eyes. “It'll be nice to let this out in the open, but I'll say this much in my defense . . . the whole thing was an accident.” Phoenix opened her eyes to see her friends staring intently at her. “Okay, I never really got along with my family . . . I was constantly mad at one person or another. My mom and dad never listened to what I said, and my sisters were little demons, except for when my parents were around, then they were angels.” Phoenix looked at the expressions on the Titan's faces and added. “I mean the demon and angel part as a figure of speech.”

“It was about 1:00 am on Saturday, so my parents didn't care that I was up, and I was super mad. I was watching some cheesy movie . . . and I just kept staring at the TV really hard . . . wishing for it to blow up. Then out of the blue . . . sparks and flames came shooting out, and set our house on fire. Now here's a little note, my mom was totally paranoid, so we had about 30 smoke detectors in our house. Everything was burning . . . and every one of those dang things went off . . . it was so loud . . . but I was the only one who got out of the house.”

Phoenix didn't need to open her eyes to know how her friends were looking at her . . . now they thought of her as a criminal . . . a murderer. She took a deep breath, and continued. “I hid in the woods when the fire fighters came. They searched and searched, and then announced that my entire family . . . including me . . . died in the fire. I stayed around my home town, and everywhere I went, I had people telling me that I looked just like a girl that had died in a fire recently. That's when I started moving from city to city, I didn't want anyone to know about what happened, and then I started to practice with my powers constantly . . . to prevent another accident like that from happening. That's my story until I came here.”

Robin was the first to speak, and break the total silence. “Phoenix, I think we'd better . . .”