Hey people! Ok, this is my first WG FF. So go easy on me. Disclaimer, don't own, don't own…except my OC that I do own.

"Okay mom, I'm taking Brownie on a walk!" a young girl of around six yelled into her house as she zipped up her coat and entered the brisk fall air.

"Okay, be careful honey!" the mother yelled back. The young girl closed the door behind her and walked down the sidewalk with her chocolate lab puppy. The little girl fixed the hat covering her shoulder-length light brown hair with dirty blonde highlights so it would better warm her ears. Her green eyes shone with excitement as she took her first walk with her new puppy, which she had received for her recent birthday.

"Hey April! What's up?" Her friend called to her as she drew on her driveway with chalk, along with her siblings.

"Hey Cathy!" April waved as she continued down the street. Cathy was one of her closest friends, but often had to look after her younger siblings; today being one of those times.

A few houses later, April came to an old abandoned house. She'd passed it a few times before in her life, but had never considered entering it. Today seemed different. She had a newer curiosity for the house, and lately more and more wanted to know what resided inside. She stood outside the old house for a moment, pondering whether to go in or not. After a few minutes, she decided to go inside.

"Come on, Brownie!" April came up to the door and paused a moment before listening to the squeak of the door as she opened it. She stepped inside and heard the floors creak under her feet.

"April Lewis, you are not afraid to go inside…" she muttered to herself. She looked around as she shut the door behind her. There were old, black-and-white photographs of a man standing next to some weird machinery.

Then she caught a greenish glow from the corner of her eye. She turned her head to see that there was a door, glowing green behind it. She approached it slowly. She was beyond scared to open the door and see what was inside, but she did anyways. There was a flight of stairs leading to some sort of a basement. When she came to the bottom of the stairs, she saw a bookshelf. The glow was coming from behind it.

"Maybe if I start pulling books it'll lead me to a secret lair or something," she told herself aloud, having seen it on TV numerous times. She started to randomly pull books from their places; nothing seemed to work. She stepped back and surveyed the shelf.

She looked into the bookshelf once more. Then she saw something that caught her eye; one book was out of order, and that bothered her. She took it out to dust it off, but before she had time to do so, the floor disappeared from below her.

Suddenly, there was a bright flash of light, and when she awoke something wasn't right. This was just an old abandoned house, why would a whole hidden room be in it?

She looked around. It seemed to be some sort of old scientist's laboratory. There was machinery she had never seen or even dreamt about before everywhere. Was this guy some kind of TV-stereotype mad scientist or something?

Then she saw a glass, cylindrical container. She slowly walked over to it. There was a small lion cub with a flower in its mouth levitating in the center, made entirely of crystal. It was almost as if it was what was glowing...

Suddenly, with her hand dropped to her side, she felt a cold tongue brush against her fingers. She looked down to see Brownie licking her hand.

"Cut it out, Brownie!" April whipped her hand up out of reach of the puppy and pressed her wet hand against the glass; then everything went dark as she screamed loudly in pain.

~…~

"Honey, what's that on your hand?" April's mother asked as April walked back inside her house. As April took Brownie's leash off and set it on the counter, she examined her hand. There was a large scar in the shape the same as the crystal figure back in the laboratory in the abandoned house.

"This? I have no idea, I just noticed it actually." April explained.

"Well does it hurt?" April's mom rubbed her fingers over the strange marking.

"Ouch!" April whipped her hand away.

"Only when it's touched, hmm?" April's mom said.

"Look, mom it's fine for now. I'm going to go to my room." April walked to her room, Brownie following behind her.

"Hey, hey April, let's play fetch! I wanna fetch!" April heard a strange new voice from behind her. She looked behind her to see Brownie smiling up at her.

"What? Who was that?" She asked.

"It's me, Brownie!" the voice chirped back.

"What? That's not possible, dogs don't talk." April said.

"Then how do you understand me?"

~…~

April looked at the mysterious scar with concern as she scratched her neck on her way to school.

"Hey, guys, what's up?" April greeted her friends as she continued to scratch at her neck and chin wildly.

"April, are you okay?" One of her friends asked.

"No, it's terrible; I've been so itchy all day!" April complained.

"Maybe it's a rash." Another friend suggested.

"Does it look red here?" April asked, removing her hand from the area. Her friends shook their heads.

"Looks okay to me." One friend said.

"This is so weird!" April whined, "I'll see you guys in class..." April sighed as she scratched more and walked off. Her friends worried. April, however, walked into her elementary school only to find all the kids stare at her a moment, then: either laugh to their friends, walked away creeped out and disgusted, or plain ran away from her. April was worried. Was there something wrong with her? She automatically ran into the bathroom and checked the mirror. There was HAIR growing from her neck, in the very same area she'd been itching all morning. Even more bizarre, it felt like animal fur. April proceeded to freak out.

~Five years later~

"U-uhh, yeah mom that's great and all, but I have to go, uhh, to Cathy's! I said I'd go over there to play." April quickly lied. She rushed out the door and in a hurry, was circled by wind and jungle-forest vines that transformed her into her super heroine alter-ego, Animalia. She flew downtown in a rush to fight crime.

"Negagloom, drop that ray gun!" Animalia demanded of the villain.

"Try and stop me, Animalia, but your attempts will fail!" Negagloom cackled.

"Oh yeah?" Animalia crossed her arms.

"Look, in the sky! A plane in peril!" he pointed to the sky. Animalia flew into the sky to save the plane and its inhibitors, only to find there was no plane.

"What the heck? You tricked me!" Animalia lowered herself to the ground, but felt something hard on her feet. Suddenly, she went flying out of control. Her last glimpse of her city was caught as she saw Negagloom waving with a dark smile painted onto his face.

~…~

"Hey, are you okay? Come on, wake up little critter." April heard a voice poking at her. She noticed that her hand wasn't a hand, it was a wing. She suddenly stood and turned back to a human, startling the onlookers.

"What the heck? Where am I?" She asked.

"Fair City, who are you?" a young girl in red and yellow clothing explained curiously.

"I'm Animalia, the superhero that protects Bridgetown. I guess Negagloom's force field sent me flying…" April said.

"Negagloom?" the girl asked. The crowd seemed somewhat interested but somewhat bored.

"Another superhero?" she asked.

"Another?" April asked.

"I'm Wordgirl, I'm the superhero that protects the city." She explained.

"Well, in that case, I guess I have a few questions to ask you…"

If this was a short chapter, sorry. How'd I do so far? Constructive criticism? Review?