A/N: For stopcallingmescary on Tumblr. Prompt: DenNor angst.

And I've been wanting to do a superhero AU for a looooonnnnggg time. Exciting!

Chapter 1: Avianna

Lukas stood atop the roof, gazing down at the city below him, trying to sense any disturbances. It was his usual routine; he was just laid off from his job as a secretary to some asshole in the computer business. He had been doing a good job, but his boss decided to lay him off for the simple reason that he wasn't female. Apparently, he had wanted a secretary with benefits.

In conclusion, Lukas wasn't too disappointed that he was laid off, in the end. He just hoped the poor female that was chosen after him didn't suffer some forced relationship. His savings would keep him well off for awhile, so in the meantime, to combat his anger towards the assholishness that was his ex-boss, Lukas went back into crimefighting.

During his brief stint at community college, he would take online classes by day, study by night, and anytime between go out and fight the jerks of the world. It was only made easier by the fact that he was, in fact, a super-powered mutant, son of two other super-powered mutants who were still unaware that their oldest son had abilities and knew about their double lives.

A slight pulse in his mind brought his attention to a section of the city a mile away. He couldn't quite tell what was happening, but it was large enough to gather a small crowd of onlookers. Quickly going down the fire escape, he got on his motorcycle and rushed to the scene.

It was in an alleyway on a street that ended in construction, so the only people that hung around there tended to be gangsters and the homeless. Parking his bike around the corner, Lukas silently walked up to the scene, where several of the homeless were watching a fight, and stood back in the shadows to watch.

A man, crazy wild hair and a nearly insane looking grin on his face was wielding a real large axe, while the other person across from him, a small, blonde girl simply stood there, a passive look on her face. There were cracks in the ground. The girl, who looked around 17, seemed unharmed, but the wild-haired man had bruises and was favoring his left leg.

"Are you going to attack me again?" The girl said, almost bored sounding. "Clearly your axe isn't as strong as you thought it was." She looked around at all the gathered people. "And you realize there are Normals here?"

The man laughed. "Of course! But they don't care! Who'll believe them anyways." He hefted the axe, which seemed to be glowing slightly and glared right at the girl. "Besides, I promised him I would defeat you."

The girl tipped her head to the side, raising a pale eyebrow. "What a terrible promise. If he asked it of you, then surely he wanted you in the afterlife with him quickly, because I intend to kill you."

Suddenly, she held her hand up, and a large, golden circle with scrawling letters that glowed and shifted appeared, and went straight for the man with the axe. In response, he quickly stabbed the axe's front into it. He seemed strained, as if the circle was pushing against his weapon, but then the axe glowed brighter and the magic circle shattered and disappeared.

The homeless people around Lukas gasped and whispered among themselves. Lukas, however, was amazed. There were superpowered people, out in the open, fighting each other. So far, in his twenty two years of life, he hadn't met any others like him, except for his family, of course.

Now the axe man was running towards the girl, who simply held out her hand towards him again and swiped to the right, a golden circle hitting the man full-force on his left and sending him flying into the brick building at the end of the alley.

"You're an idiot." She commented walking slowly up to the man, who wasn't moving. Lukas crept closer to get a better view. He figured he should interfere before the girl actually killed the man, but his curiosity and fascination at their abilities constrained him for now.

The girl got closer and leaned down, picking up the axe. It had lost it's glow, and looked smaller. She pointed it at the fallen man. "Berwald was an idiot to go up against me. Like you, he was avenging the death of a loved one. But you know that. Just like your brother, you're stupid and impulsive. I told the lot of you to leave me alone." She settled the axe on the ground, still pointing towards his face as he started to move.

"Tino didn't mean t-" She smacked his head with the flat of the axe blade.

"I don't care!" She hissed. "My life was ruined, my parents kicked me out, and I have them hunting me now. Whether he meant it or not doesn't matter." She threw the axe down besides the man, a sudden look of sympathy on her face. "But I do regret their deaths."

She turned and walked towards one of the grungy brick walls and pressed a hand up against it. A golden circle extended out of her hand until it looked large enough for somebody to walk through. Turning back around, her expression hardened. "Don't come after me again, Matthias." She walked through the circle and disappeared, the circle fading out only a second later.

The man, Matthias, sat up and groaned, rubbing his head where the girl smacked him. Scooting over, he grabbed the axe, the glow returning. It suddenly disappeared in a flash of red light and he stood up.

"Shoo." He said tiredly, towards the homeless observers. They grumbled for a bit, but after a few minutes, the only ones left in the alleyway was Lukas and Matthias.

Matthias was now sitting against the brick wall, head resting back against it and his eyes closed.

"Excuse me?" Lukas said cooly towards the man, after stepping further into the alley.

The man groaned and opened his eyes, taking a second to focus on Lukas in front of him.

"Who are you?" He looked him up and down. "Not one of the homeless people. Are you in one of the gangs?"

Lukas shook his head. "I just saw you use...an unusual ability."

Matthias looked confused for a second. "Unusual ability? I guess…if you're not homeless or one of the gangs," He shifted on the ground uncomfortably, rubbing his head. "The are you police or something? I swear, I'm innocent."

"I've never met another person with abilities." Lukas said bluntly. The man likely had a concussion, and kept squinting at him.

"Ah, so you're a freak too?" He laughed weakly.

"Is that what we're called?" Lukas responded. "Who was that girl?"

At that, Matthias paused, fiddling with a shoelace. "Her name was Avianna...she also has powers." He seemed reluctant to say much else, so Lukas dropped it.

"You look like you took a beating." He walked closer to Matthias. "Either I take you to the hospital or I can patch you up at my house." Lukas' powers told him this man wasn't going to harm him and shouldn't be much trouble. Besides, Lukas could defend himself if the other man started going crazy with the axe all of a sudden in his apartment.

Matthias looked startled. "How would I explain all of this to a hospital?" He indicated his various injuries. He then looked back up, questioningly. "You'd be okay helping me."

Lukas shrugged. "Well you won't go to a hospital. And I would like the story of you and that girl as payment." Matthias considered it for a second, and then nodded, accepting Lukas' help to stand up. They then rode together back to Lukas' apartment.

"It all started when Tino met her at his college campus." Matthias started, as he held an ice pack to his head. "Avianna, I mean. She's like, 17, but skipped a grade and got into college early." Lukas sat down on the couch opposite of Matthias, listening. "There was this organization in that city, which is only about 40 miles from here, that employed people with powers to do weird and illegal stuff for them. They had convinced Avianna into it after they saw her use her powers accidentally one day. Anyway, Tino met her in his science class. They were partnered up for a project or something. Long story short, he saw her use her powers once and he went sort of crazy, telling all sorts of people, including one of the informants to the organization she was forced to work for. They have a very strict policy that nobody knows about them, and so they set to hunt down Avianna, seeing her as a risk to their secrecy.

"Even worse, her parents found out about her powers and kicked her out. Accidentally, as I heard it from her, and purposefully, as I heard from Berwald, she killed Tino, who was my brother's boyfriend." He paused, turning the ice pack over and looking down at Lukas' coffee table. "Berwald, my brother, was so angry he went to hunt her down. His powers were like, super freakish strength. In the end, he died too, but I was there. I know she did it on purpose."

As Matthias finished, he looked irritated and angry.

"So," Lukas said carefully. "A teenager murdered your brother and his boyfriend, and she's being hunted by a...criminal organization."

Matthias flinched slightly, but nodded. "Basically."

There was silence for a few minutes. From what Lukas could gather from the story, the girl had her life ruined, but became a murder. Now Matthias was out for total revenge, which would result in his label as a murder, as well. He decided that he would go along with Matthias, who clearly was still going to go after the girl, and make sure he didn't kill her, but make sure she paid somehow.

"I'll help you look for her." Lukas said, startling Matthias.

"What?" The other gave Lukas an incredulous look. "Help me get revenge? Why?"

"No, I'm going to help you look for her. But I won't allow either of you to kill each other. But, she needs to be punished. I can help with that."

Matthias just stared at him for a second, trying to convince himself to argue. "Fine," He finally grumbled. "But she had better get a good punishment."

Lukas nodded. "That's one of my specialties."