Chapter one: Luna
It has been two months since The Umbrella Academy had stopped the apocalypse, and two months since the Hargreeves children started fighting crime together agin with a "new" addition to the team, Vanya.
"Who's on patrol today?" Luther asked his siblings as they sat in the seating area. Luther looked to everyone who were looking at everyone else, but no one stepped up. "Okay..." Luther said "Who went last time?"
Diego raised his hand "I did" he said. Everyone looked to Klaus who was playing with his fingernail while looking around at nothing in particular. After a moment he realized everyone was looking at him. He groaned "Fine. I need to take my mind off... things anyway"" he sighed. He got up, grabbed the earpiece off the table and put it in his ear.
"It won't be that bad" Ben's ghost said as he followed Klaus up the stairs to his room. Klaus put on his brightly coloured palm tree tank top and black leggings with criss-cross patterns on the sides. "Do you where anything else?" Ben asked leaning on the door. Klaus looked at him and sighed. "Fine"
In about two minutes he was wearing a mustard-coloured tank top and torn army jacket but didn't change his leggings. Klaus looked to Ben with his arms crossed to see if he would let him go. "Good enough" Ben sighed. They walked back downstairs and gave a quick wave goodbye before walking out the front door. "Klaus, can you hear me?" Luther's voice came over the earpiece. Klaus put his finger on the microphone button before speaking. "Yes Luther" He sighed. "it's been working the past two months, it's not like it broke while it was sitting on the table." He removed his finger from the button while he waited for a response. "Fair enough, just making sure."
AS they followed the route Luther had made for patrol, Klaus and Ben came across an apartment building with police cars and officers in front of it. A man with torn clothes staggered out of the building and limped over to one of the police officers and pointed to a window. Klaus followed where he was pointing to a window on the second floor. "Wait a second" Ben said suddenly. Klaus looked at him. "What?" he asked. "Isn't this the abandoned building?" He's right.
Klaus presses the microphone button on his earpiece. "Hey Luther?" He said. "Found something?" Luther said. "Yeah, do you remember that abandoned apartment building?" He waited for a response. "Yeah...?" Luther said. "Well," Klaus said. "There are police in front of it, and there's a window they keep pointing to." He waited for Luther to respond.
"On our way" Luther said. Klaus waited for his siblings to space-jump courtesy of Five's powers. Once they did Luther broke away from the circa;e and walked to the nearest officer. He tapped his shoulder to get his attention. "What's going on here?" Luther asked. "There's a woman up there with powers like you guys" The officer said nodding to the others.
Diego stepped forward. "Is she dangerous?" He asked. The officer searched for words. "Yes and no" he said. "What do you mean?" Luther asked. "She is a very nice girl, but she has problems with controlling her powers and some people who go up there to help her either come back out unsuccessful, injured, or they don't come out at all"
Luther turned to the rest of his family, he didn't want anyone to get hurt. "Okay" he said. "we'll have three go up, I'll go up and who's coming with me?" he said. "Luther " Diego said. "Don't you think that you'll be a little too intimidating?" He asked. "What?" Luther said. "Yeah Luther" Klaus butted in. "When the dead were screaming at me when we were thirteen I don't think I would like to see a man of your build." He said gesturing to Luther's large build. "Fine" Luther sighed. "then who's going to go up?" He asked.
"I'll go" Five volunteered. "Me too" Vanya said. "I guess I'll go" Klaus said. It sounded more like a question then actually volunteering. "Alright" Luther said. "Good luck"
The group 5-7 (including Ben) went into the building, they found the stairs and climbed to the second floor. They walked down the hallway to the correct door. Five put his ear to the door for a moment. "I have good news and bad news" He said after a moment. "What's the good news?" Vanya asked. "It seems to be calm in there" he said. "And the bad news?" Klaus said. "I hear fire" Five said.
They all look at each other. "I didn't see any fire through the window" Klaus said. "I don't smell smoke." Vanya added. "Well," Five said grabbing the doorknob "let's see for ourselves" He slowly opened the door.
Inside, the room had furniture everywhere. Chairs and a sofa was flipped, and a TV was smashed on the floor. Some things were on fire but it didn't produce sparks, smoke, and it didn't spread. They heard sobbing coming from another room. They turned around a corner into another room. "Holy shit" Klaus and Ben said at the same time. There was a woman curled up in the corner sobbing into her hands. Her black hair was messy and tangled and her light skin was cut and bleeding in a few places on her arms and legs.
But Klaus saw over thirty dead people surrounding her. He hoped that the girl couldn't see the dead. The woman looked up and saw them standing across the room from her. "You should"t be here" She cried, her voice hoarse from crying. Vanya walked across the room and crouched a few feet away from her. "Hey" she said softly. The girl shrank back from her. "My name is Vanya, that's Klaus" She said pointing to Klaus who couldn't tear his eyes away from the ghosts. "and that's Five" She said pointing to Five who gave a small sympathetic smile. Vanya turned back to the girl. "What's yours?"
"L-Luna" she stammered. "You should go." she said. "I don't want to hurt you" a tear rolled down her cheek. "I've hurt so many people who only tried to help. I didn't mean to" She looked at the ground. "Hey" Five said softly. "Is your birthday October first?" he asked. "Yes, I am one of those children. And you guys are too" Luna said. "and Klaus." Klaus finally looked away from the spirits and into Luna's blue eyes. "I can see them"
"That's your power?" Klaus asked. "I have twenty-nine" Luna said sadly. She shook her head to compose herself. "You should go" When no one moved she said, "Please, I don't want to hurt you." She looked into Vanya's eyes with her own pleading ones. "We can help you" Vanya said "Five can jump through space and time. "I can convert sound into energy. Our brother can hold his breath for hours and control where his projectiles, mainly knives land. And our brother Ben-" Her voice broke on his name. She cleared her throat. "He could summon tentacles out of his abdomen." Luna looked to Ben who was standing next to Klaus. He gave an awkward smile and small wave. Luna half-smiled back. "We can help you control your powers so you won't hurt anyone or yourself."
Luna started thinking about it. "Will you come with us?" Vanya said offering her hand to her. Luna hesitated before gingerly placing her hand in Vanya's. When they made contact a small spark of electricity shocked Vanya. She shook her hand out with a quiet "Ouch" but she offered her hand again. This time it didn't shock her.
They led her out of the building. Luna squinted at the bright sun that she hadn't seen in about a year. She saw the police looking at her with wide eyes and open mouths. As they walked by Luna felt small under their gazes.
Vanya, Five, and Klaus led her to a group of three consisting of a very large and muscular man, a man wearing nothing but black with knives strapped to his chest and thighs, and a woman with partially bleached hair and a long scar on her throat.
"Guys" Vanya said "This is Luther, Diego, and Allison" Luther gave a small smile and finger wave. Diego studied her with a blank face, and Allison smiled with warm eyes. Luna couldn't help but smile back.
"We're going to take her back to the academy to help her control her powers." Five said. "Apparently she has twenty-nine" The others looked at her with wide eyes. Luther cleared his throat. "well then" he said "Let's get going"