I apologize beforehand for the spelling errors that might be included.

I do not own any of the Avengers characters… I only own Charmain and Lumina. This is my first fanfiction, so sorry if it's not top notch… I hope you enjoy… and I would always allow reviews, even if they were faults in my way of writing, they would be great for bettering myself!

Chapter 1

A month ago:

Blazing fire was spreading across the classes and hallways of the Hammingson Kindergarten building. It was eight in the morning, though everybody already ran out of their houses and surrounded the front entrance of the flame engulfed building before the fire department arrived. They worked hard and soon everybody was evacuated and safe.

That is when everybody froze. A small child's cry echoed through the top floor window and touched the ears of everybody at ground level around the school. Everyone started to panic, there was one little girl still stuck in the building. The fire was spinning out of control; and they had no way to put it out or to reach the girl.

A sudden loud cry came out of the window and then everything was quiet. One of the women, who recognized the girl's voice, the girl's mother, fell to her knees and started to cry and scream painfully, "Anny? Anny!?"

One of the men came over and set a blanket over the shoulders of the woman, trying to console her.

"Yes mommy?" a small girl covered in black stains, very minor burns on her face and arm came running out the side of the building. There was big grin spread across her face.

"What's wrong mommy?" the girl cupped her mother's face with both hands. Everybody just stared at the girl and her smile started to fade.

"What…?" Her mother started.

"…happened?" the man asked.

The child let go of her mother's face and looked confused. "What happened…?" the girl tilted her head in confusion.

"What happened in there Anny?!" the mother yelled. She grabbed her child's shoulders and shook her lightly.

"She saved me mommy." the little girl turned around and started to point at someone behind her, but there was nobody there. "Where did..?" the girl looked around franticly. Tears started to fall down her face and she ran back the way she came, her mother following behind her soon after.

"Come back lady. My mommy wants to meet you." The girl yelled into the air.

Her mother caught up and crouched down in front of her daughter, "Who do I want to meet dear?" she placed her arms on her daughter's shoulders.

"It's WHAT does Mommy want to meet." The girl corrected her mother, "She was a giant snake, Mommy." The girl stopped crying and smiled.

"A snake!?... 'She'!?" the mother raised her eyebrows surprised.

"She tried to comfort me. She sang me a lullaby." The girl laughed and started to hum the lullaby from 'I'll always be with you'.

"SHE sang to you?" she kept staring at the child in awe.

Deep in the crowd, Lumina stood and listened to the murmurs around her and smiled. Realizing she was originally headed somewhere else and what she just had actually done; she frowned and continued down the road. She occasionally tapped her walking stick to the ground.

Present day:

Now in the present day she was standing, closed eyed, in her doorway. Her one hand resting on the door handle and the other hand on the door frame. Four men were standing on Lumina's porch, staring at her, one of which had a familiar scent.

She was looking to her right, in the direction of the familiar scent, when the man in front of her said, "Sorry ma'am. We were asked to fetch you on our way to the agency."

"Hmmm?" Lumina groaned in disagreement.

"You didn't know that we were…?" A familiar voice to her left mumbled, making her slightly jump in surprise.

"Please ma'am. This way." The man shifted to his left to make room for her to walk.

There was a long pause of silence as she just stood there. She could feel them becoming inpatient with her. "Ma'am?" the man said confused.

"OH! You're serious." Lumina raised her eyebrows sarcastically, "SHIELD is really becoming secretive with their agents for absolutely no reason."

None of the men said a word, having no idea what she was talking about or getting at. Lumina gave an exhausting sigh at their reaction, which was nothing but standing there in silence.

"Fine… I'll go get my walking stick, but as I was saying, don't you think I will need a little bit more than just a 'this way'." Lumina said as she pointed to her closed eyes.

More silence. She let out yet another sigh, "If I couldn't smell ya guys, I would've though you already left thanks to the silence." Lumina opened her eye lids, revealing her shining eye color with no pupil. Her eyes weren't just white-grey, like normal, her eye color contained sharp white lightning lines that all gathers in the middle, where the pupil should have been. She heard a slight gasp from the man in front of her, "Sorry ma'am" he mumbled. She closed her eyes slowly and smiled.

"It's fine. I normally make it a point to keep my eyes closed so people outside won't know, but I had assumed SHIELD would have told the agents beforehand." More silence, "…guess not." She mumbled, "You guys don't talk much, do you?" she turned and headed inside her home.

The Avengers looked at each other. Wandering what the hell Fury was up to.

A few minutes later, Lumina wandered out the door and locked it behind her. She was wearing black leggings, tucked into fluffy black boots and covered in a short black leather skirt. A very large sized black hoodie, obviously too big for her, completing her outfit. She quickly walked past them, walking stick in hand, and scurried down the porch stairs.

"Need help? Thought you needed more than a 'This way'." She heard the familiar voice joke sarcastically. She was still trying to figure out why one sounded familiar and another smelled familiar. Honestly, it was starting to really BUG her. She could hear them start to move down from the porch behind her, the familiar smell waiting for everyone to go first.

"If I needed, or even wanted, your help, I would have showed you my eyes the moment I opened the door. And for the 'this way' remark I made, I was just trying to make a point." She didn't mean to be rude, honest, it's just… SHIELD was starting to irritate her… her and Charmain. But that is a story for later on. She continued to walk toward the area she heard their helicopter land earlier; while she was comfortably resting in front of the television before she was so rudely interrupted.

She was so deep in thought, thinking of what SHIELD wanted from her this time and if she should contact Charmain. She decided on not to contact Charmain, seeing as she was already so busy, probably, and would worry too much. She was too deep in thought; she didn't notice an arrow-head-assassin walking up next to her.

"Where are you headed?" she felt a breath creep up her neck. She yelped and scurried to the side, causing her to fall. "Why am I so clumsy today!?" she yelled to herself in her mind. The familiar voice burst out into laughter, which caused her face to turn cherry-red in embarrassment.

"Even Legolas can create hilarious situation I see." He contained his laughter for just a few second.

"For the last time, it's Clint… or Barton! And that wasn't even intentional" the jerk yelled, Lumina's nickname, not mine.

She was still lying there, cherry-red, not because of embarrassment anymore though, but caused by her furiousness.

"Clint huh?" Lumina hissed, stood up and dusted herself off. Her fists were tightly shut as she walked over to Clint. She stretched back and soon sent Clint flying with one punch. Hearing a thud as he fell backward, she walked to where she fell earlier and picked up her walking stick.

"Well Clint…" she popped her knuckles with an evil grin, "I'm headed toward the helicopter." She again headed to her earlier destination, satisfied that the man with the familiar voice was no longer laughing at her, but his colleague, Clint, who stood up holding his jaw and moving it to relieve the pain. It was official; SHIELD was really making her become even more of a hothead and just won't stop pissing people off.

"Guess that is one way to learn not to sneak up on a blind chick." She heard Clint mumble. She heard he was angered, but could still hear the slight smile in his voice.

Walking over to the helicopter, she remembered where she had heard that familiar voice… Tony Stark. She had heard him a few times on the television. "Why the hell did they put me on the same trip as Iron Man" she wandered to herself, "And who the hell is that familiar smell, still standing at the stairs of our porch."