Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original Sky High characters or the Phillip Pullman His Dark Materials ideas that inspired my own character and her powers.

Chapter 1: Looking Back

He never knew who she was and she never cared about his existence either so how is it that two unknown souls ever got to know each other? This would be an enigma to her for even in her older years she would always ponder that question.

Aurora still remembered her first day at Sky High. She remembered barely eating her breakfast due to her nerves about power placement. She knew that she would be placed into hero if she truly showed her powers but she somehow feared her ability to control her powers. This fear was due to the fact that her mother had once been a well known villain, the infamous Reflector, but to her family Lucia Waters. The weird thing about her family was that both her parents had lied to each other throughout both their courtship and their marriage, and this meant that they didn't know about their super powers. To make the situation more awkward, her parents were enemies and when her father had finally captured and unmasked the great Reflector he felt the strong shock of deception and a strange pain in his heart. At that moment he pulled off his mask in the hopes of seeing remorse in the eyes of his beloved but for some odd reason their love wasn't enough to fight off the hate that had accumulated over the years. She had stared at him with accusing eyes as she was carried away to villain prison hands and feet wrapped in chains which disabled her powers, sadly hate was also present in her eyes. That night her father had come home silent and when he tucked her into bed he explained what had happened with tears in his eyes. Though not fully conscious yet, she had come to understand that her mother would never return to them…. She was only seven when that happened.

At the age of ten she began to develop her powers. First came those of her father, he was healer who was able to heal by absorbing the energy received from an attack. This power was useful in both a series of long and short attacks even though the short attacks took longer. If the powers were absorbed enough he heal others as well. He of course had given up both his title as hero and his superpowers after the trauma caused by Lucia. He fully dedicated himself to being a doctor both day and night and had also initially refused to let his daughter go to Sky High when she came of age. When she turned 11 she acquired her mother's powers. Lucia Waters's powers were a bit more complex to understand though they also included the absorption of other supers powers. According to both Plato and Socrates, all humans have a daemon which forms part of their soul and acts as a form of conscious. Lucia Waters could see a person's daemon shaped as an animal, absorb the energy when she was attacked and send the daemons energy back to the person with the affect of having her opponent completely drained and knocked out. Aurora had discovered this particular power when she started seeing a shape that turned into any kind of animal it wished. This shape was male and had told her his name was Aesterphillus and they quickly became close. When she told her father he was shocked but nonetheless he told her that this power had been her mothers. Aurora had missed her mother terribly and in an effort to become closer to her she began to play around with her powers. She started to realize that whenever she stared at someone's daemon long enough she would enter a type of trance like state. She liked this state because it seemed to relax her but one day she able to fully see the effects of this power even though Aester had advised her not to.

She had walking around the park near her house when suddenly her school enemy and her friends came along and started bothering her. At one point, though she could never remember how it had happened, she stared at the girl's daemon which momentarily was shaped as a hyena long enough to feel fully energized. Losing concentration, she let go of this energy and had knocked the girl out completely. The girl's friends had screamed and adults soon started entering the scene giving her accusatory glares. The only thing Aurora could think about though was that specific feeling of elation and triumph she had felt when she had absorbed part of the girls "soul". This feeling had momentarily excited her but she soon realized how dangerous it was and as she grew older she realized that this specific feeling of elation and triumph was what had brought her mother to her destiny as a villain. She therefore proposed to herself to avoid using that specific power and her father had agreed. For this particular reason as she sitting on the bus on her way to Sky High she had resolved to lie and be a sidekick.