Rose walked up the sidewalk, heading towards Stark Tower. Her hands were clamming up and she was sweating. This is my first big prank, I can't botch this one up, she told herself. As she walked into the tower, she fingered the little button in her pocket. When the AI asked her who she was, she pressed the button to deactivate him. Hairs stood up on the back of her neck and she whipped around, expecting to find someone standing there. Seeing no one, she turned and continued. As she entered the elevator, she let out a sigh of relief. She was halfway through. She climbed up the stairs, half expecting police officers to jump out. None came. She was glad that she took her meds before this.
When she reached the floor she knew held Tony Stark's precious suit, She held her breath. When she pushed open the door, the guy who tried to take over New York was standing there. Vaguely wondering why he wasn't in handcuffs, she feigned shrugging past him only to turn around and hit his calf. It brought him to his knees. She turned around and kicked him where the sun don't shine. He crumpled to the floor, moaning.
"That, was for New York" She said, pulling her shades off and spitting on him. She looked at the cameras, wanting them to get a good look at her. She told herself she didn't have anything else to live for anyway.
She made her way to the back of the room where the suits were. She opened the closest one, pushing the reset button that was behind the panel, walking away . It would take a while. She walked to the bathroom pulling the dye out of her pocket. She grabbed the shampoo and put a few drops of green dye in it, shaking it up.
"Miss Rose, the reset is complete." The suit said. Great, now I can get out of here, she thought. As she was getting into the suit, She noticed a glass display case. Inside was her family heirloom, a bow carved out of ivory. She smashed the glass, grabbing the arrows along with the bow.
"Give it back to me' my ass" She said to herself. She entered the suit, the metal closing around her. She hated small spaces, and this is certainly a small space. The bow barely fit inside the suit alone, with her being inside made it even tighter. Loki was slowly getting up, staring at her with wide eyes.
"Toodles" She waved my iron clad fingers at him. Still nervous, Her feet slowly lifted off the ground, testing the balance of the jet propulsion. Getting used to it took a minute, but once she did, she went to the roof. She arranged the suit in the famous 'Thinker' pose and stuck her namesake in its hand.
"Shit….. I didn't think this one through" Rose muttered to the empty air. She closed her eyes, recalling something her grandmother taught her,
"Whenever you're in a situation where you don't want to hurt anyone, or be hurt say these words: Fem Zii Gron" The words echoed in her mind. Her grandmother's form had faded out of existence, a ghostly mist in her place.
"FEM ZII GRON" She shouted. Doubts kept running through her head and she second guessed herself. Rose watched in wonder and horror as ghostly mist rolled off of her hand. Grabbing the bow and arrows she stood at the edge of the roof staring down at the ground far below. Voices approached the roof.
"Stop!" One of the men shouted as he approached the ghostly figure.
"I don't have anything to live for, Right?" She jumped, flipping through the air. She bit the inside of her cheek, bracing herself for impact. All feelings of falling were lost as she gently drifted down. When she opened her eyes, a crowd was gathered around her.
"Let's all give a round of applause to Tony Stark's latest prank" Rose shouted to the crowd. The all applauded, with amazed looks on their faces. She walked off, fading into the crowd.
When she got home, Rose flicked through the channels. Her face was all over the news, the girl who jumped off the Avengers tower. The name Avengers tower didn't sit well with her. I mean having all six avengers live together? Not her idea of fun. Bored and hungry, she popped some chicken nuggets in the oven and sat down on the computer. She wanted to see their reactions to what happened. She ran the self-created program to hack JARVIS. She watched the footage nibbling on the chicken nuggets.
She walked out the back door, locking it behind her. When she turned around, a man in hoodie was approaching her. She lifted her hands in defense only to feel a gloved hand wrap around her mouth. She was roughly blindfolded and gagged. She felt metal clasp her hands, preventing her from fighting back. He head made contact with the wooden door, the lock breaking. The rough hands jostled her through the doorway. Feeling completely vulnerable was something that hadn't happened to her in a while.
The blindfold was torn off and she found herself in her living room. The gritty tile dug into her knees leaving man pushed his hoodie back, revealing yellow eyes and peeling skin. His face was covered in peeling black scales. His face was one of the monsters you think about before you go to bed. She let loose a scream through her gag, but it came out like a moan.
He watched the footage again, outraged. How could a mortal, a girl one at that, bring him to his knees!? Her eyes had made him falter. Those eyes had bored into him at one point. One of them was a bright blue, the other, hunter green. He struggled to remember where he had seen them before.
"Always the tower, Why the tower!" Tony yelled at the group.
"Why did she do it?" the one known as Steve asked. They all lived at the tower, excepting Thor and him. They had duties in Asgard. Well, Thor did.
"She wanted attention, or she thought that she had nothing else to live for." Banner said.
"How did she fall from that height and not die? On the footage, she looked like a ghost" Natasha said.
"JARVIS search the name Rose and run facial recognition." Tony said
"Rose Sverrirsdaughter, Female, 21,5'2, black hair , Parent, deceased, the other missing. One sibling, deceased, Education: High School. Has been rotated in and out of several foster homes due to severe depression and violence" The voice said, shutting down. He remembered the name Sverrir from somewhere but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. "She now lives with her roommate Airel Augustine."
Loki looked at the picture of the girl he saw earlier. She looked sad, with nothing left to live for. Her eyes were green. He thought back to the way her eyes had looked, demonic and had a blue glow about them.
"When was this picture taken?" Loki asked
"This picture was taken a few weeks before the Chitauri attack"
"Does she take any medication?" Clint asked "And where does she live?"
"Rose lives in an apartment over on the other side of town" The AI known as Jarvis responded.
"Pull up a more recent picture of her." Loki asked "Compare her eyes on the new one to the old one."
The two pictures came up side by side. There were startled gasps and glares from all sides of the room.
"Holy Mother of God" Steve whispered. "She's being controlled" They all looked to Loki. He put his hands up.
"Never seen her before" he lied. He had seen those eyes before. Staring up at him with a pleading look. He shook the memory away. "She's waging a war inside of her, See, only one of her eyes is blue. She's fighting it." He pointed to the newer picture.
"When she isn't being controlled, she could be a valuable addition to the team." Bruce said.
"Well, let's go pay her a visit." Tony said, walking to the elevators. "You guys coming?"
When they arrived at the apartment, they found the apartment a mess, all of her stuff strewn everywhere. It was a smaller apartment, two bedroom one bath. In one corner, there was an elaborate tangle of wires and computers.
"There's a note" Clint said, reaching for the scrap of paper in the middle of the room. "It's for you, Thor."
"Brother, you might want to come here." Thor said, examining the note. When he looked at the note, he paled.
"What does it say?" Natasha asked.
"Dragons. The last dragon, Rüknaar, thinks that this mortal is a Dovah." He said.
They explored the apartment, examining every corner of the apartment. They found anti depressants and sleeping pills in the medicine cabinet. They regrouped in the living room. Clint was missing.
"Hey, guys come check this out." Clint called from the bedroom. Clint was staring at the room. It had gruesome paintings all over the walls and floor. Some of them were on canvases. It showed the tip of a arrow pointed at people she obviously cared about. The people were painted with great detail, showing their pleading faces. The one that was the most gruesome was a arrow protruding out of a small boy's neck, blood seeping out of his mouth.
"Oh my god" Bruce whispered. A tinge of green spread through his furrowed brow.
Loki walked over to a pile of canvases in the corner face down. He picked one up, flipping it over. It showed a picture of a blurred doorway, a gold and green blur of a figure. There was a glowing blue light in the figures hand. He realized that this was him.
"Umm, Loki, I'm pretty sure that's you…." Tony said "You lied"
"I swear, if I did meet her I don't remember." Loki said
"WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING IN THAT ROOM" A girl walked in "Your not supposed to be in here." she stopped yelling as soon as she realized who was there
"Hey Girl, when's the last time you saw Rose?" Tony said
"Right before I left to go to the store. She was on the computer, watching you guys flip. I knew you would catch her eventually I told her to stop" she babbled her eyes wide.
"We think she's been kidnapped." Steve said, coming out of a trance.
"Why are we not supposed to be in here?" Asked Tony, blatantly ignoring Steve's
"After she painted these" She gestured to the walls. "She stopped painting all together. She wanted to burn all the canvases and cover the walls in black, but I told her to just lock the room up and never go in it again. Sometimes, when she thought I was asleep, she would sit in here and cry her eyes out."
He noticed his bow propped up in the corner. It had been his when he was younger, to protect himself from the dragons. He grabbed it, remembering she had took it. When his fingers made contact, he felt like he was falling from the Bifrost again. He sank to his knees, moaning.
"No, No, don't hurt me, I'm not a dragon. Please, I'll give you whatever you want! Please, please, please stop, make them stop!" A voice begged. He searched wildly around for the source.
"All I want is to marry you" a raspy voice said.
"Yes, YES PLEASE I'm begging you, stop, please, stop….stop hurting them" The voice faded away.
"Loki? Brother?" Thor said rushing up to him. Loki looked at Thor, his eyes wide and his lip quivering. "What is it? What happened?
"What happened to him? Why is that guy who tried to take over New York here?" The girl babbled.
"She agreed to marry him. We have to stop that ceremony. He was torturing her somehow, forcing her to say yes" He said, still scanning the room. The people's eyes stared at him, blaming him. "Lets get out of here" Loki said, eyeing the walls.
"For once, I actually agree with Reindeer Games." Tony said, walking out of the room. Everyone followed, including Loki. He was shaken, eyes looking around wildly.
Rose watched helplessly as her best friend was beaten to a pulp. Tears streamed down her face, blurring the image.
"Stop, stop please, please….don't hurt her PLEASE, PLEASE STOP STOP HURTING HER! I already told you I would marry you!" Rose screamed at him. He was holding Airel by the hair two feet off the ground. She was screaming, locks of her hair being torn out. The screams tore at Rose's ears.
"This is all your fault! If only you had embraced the dragon inside of you!" Her grandmother told her beside her.
"Gr-randma? I thought you were dead?!" She said, the tears freely falling.
"You are a Monster. You are the one that all the realms fear." Her grandma said to her. "Do you not enjoy her pain? Do you not feel power from it? Just like you did when you killed us" She said, gesturing to her family around her.
"No I- I dint kill you, I - I love you.. I would never do that….No" She protested eyes wide.
"Did you not kill your little brother and enjoy it? Well I can't really blame you, Someone was forcing you to do it, But you still enjoyed it, did you not?" She asked, strolling off, the rest of her family following.
"No, No…Don't leave, No!" She screamed.
"The ceremony has to be performed on a full moon. That is two weeks away." The raspy voice said. "Two weeks."
Rose collapsed to the floor, the chains rattling. It had taken all of her strength just to lift them. She sank, the dogs approaching her. She bared her teeth, almost growling at them. They advanced, oblivious to her efforts to ward them off. Their jaws clamped down on her legs, leaving large wounds. The pain was unbearable, and she moaned as the darkness consumed her. She would take night terrors over this any day.
The light pushed against her eyes, forcing her to wake up. Her eyes were met by yellow ones. The beast caressed her cheek with his claws, making her flinch back. He hissed through his teeth, coming closer.
"Do you miss your family?... Are they alive? Did you kill them?" He asked, yanking on the chains that held her, bringing her closer to him. She spat in his face.
"Just because I'm marrying you, doesn't mean I have to like you" She said, pulling away.
"And just because I'm marrying you, doesn't mean I have to treat you well!" He exclaimed, unlocking her chains from the wall and dragging her across the room. This went on until her arms felt like they were being pulled out of their sockets. "Bring her family in" He said.
Her family members filed in, chains rattling. Her mother was leading them in the room. Her grandmother was hunched over, the weight of the chains dragging her down.
"Why? Why did you do this to us? Why do you let us be chained up?! YOU COULD HAVE SAVED US!" Her little brother shouted at her. Tears streamed down her face. She was at a loss for words. She remembered aiming the arrow at her little brother's throat, him coughing up blood. She fell to the ground whimpering. Spots appeared in her vision and she struggled to clear them.
"The wedding is tomorrow." The raspy voice said. She had been there for two weeks, and it was the longest two weeks of her life. She had been tortured, bloodied and bruised. The man always kept the light on, forcing her to watch as he inflicted pain on her family. She never knew when it was night or day. She had no idea what time it was. It was maddening. She was fed meager scraps, and most of the time the dogs got to them first. Her clothes had been shred into tatters, barely covering her.
She heard the door open. She looked up, expecting to find the beast looking at her. Instead, she saw a red and blue blur. The blur unchained her and Rose was lifted, barely conscious. They walked through the industrial warehouse earning stares from the workers. They had no idea what had went on down in the basements. She flinched as the sun pounded at her eyes.
"You're gonna be fine, Kid." She heard someone say as she closed her eyes slowly.
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