The Beginning

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Shelby enjoyed watching him fight; when he fought he did not show his emotion he did not show what his next move would be, he was like Ice.

Laura nudged "Shelby have you been listening to anything that I have been saying"

"No" replied Shelby eyes still glued to the fight. Otto and Wing were sparing well if you could call it sparring, more wing beating Otto up.

"Ok, I surrender" Otto cried as wing took his leg out from underneath him with a smooth kick.

"Are you ok my friend" Wing pulled him to his feet

"I have had better days" Laughed Otto. The girls walked over

"That was very one sided" Laura said

"Yeah you should go easy on him big guy" Shelby smiled poking Wing in the stomach playfully "he is only little" The girls laughed, Otto scowled and even Wing smiled. They walked towards the door way of the training arena it was nearly the end of their free period and if they were for their next lesson they might as well crawl under a rock and die. Grapple training with Colonel Francisco was not something you were late for. Shelby and Wing were in the midst of an ongoing battle in this lesson Wing was winning at the moment but there was never a certain winner.

There were rumours that the new intakes were here today, it was the first day of the New Year. All four of the group remember their "recruitment", and were expecting lots of lost faces in the corridors for the next week. Shelby's black box began emitting a high pitched beeping sound.

"What the hell have I done now?" Shelby opened her black box as she said this hive minds blue holographic face appeared

"Miss Trinity, Dr. Nero wishes to see you in his office immediately" Hive mind said calmly.

"Ok I will be right there" Shelby said with a sigh "see you lot in a bit, looks like I am out of grapple training"

"You might be out of a lot more in the end" Otto laughed

"See you" wing said with a slight smile.

"K" Shelby looked at each of them her gaze lingering on wings features then she turned quickly to walk the opposite way towards Dr. Nero's office. She was mad to think anything could happen between her and wing, he was Mr. no emotion. She turned her thoughts to why she had been summoned she didn't remember and plots or schemes she had been part of that could of got the attention of the head master and she knew he wouldn't just be calling her in there for a chat.

When she arrived at the tall oak door which was set in the granite walls she spotted a girl in the waiting area her uniform look strange on her and she had her head in her hands, her fingers griping her blond hair which was similar to Shelby's. Shelby decided that she was one of the first years she seemed blissfully unaware that Shelby was there so Shelby ignored the voice in her head telling her to ask the girl what was wrong and knocked loudly on Dr. Nero's door.

"Enter" boomed Nero's voice from inside the office. Shelby stepped inside and shut the door. The office was large and spacious Shelby had not been in here many times but that was more times than most, for a school for villainy the teachers took a very dim view on misbehavers. In the middle of the room was a large desk with several desktop screens on it they were all facing Nero who sat in a high backed leather chair behind the desk.

"Miss Trinity, thank you for coming here at such short notice, please take a seat." The expression on Nero's face was one of complete calm and gave nothing away to reason for Shelby's visit. Shelby sat at one of the two leather chairs which were on the other side of the desk to Nero.

"Am I in trouble" the last thing Shelby needed now was trouble.

"No not that I know of I have asked you here to ask about your past life before you came to H.I.V.E." Nero's voice was completely void of emotion as if what he said was completely normal. Shelby sat a little straighter in her seat than before

"What's there to know I was only a world renound super thief called the Wraith. Any way you said yourself the day we came here that our old lives were over and H.I.V.E. was our home now." Shelby said this with a lack of emotion that wing would be proud of. There were certain things and people in Shelby's past that she would sooner keep from Dr. Nero but she could see that he was going to get the truth no matter what, however, that didn't mean she had to give it easily.

"Now is not the time for humour Miss Trinity I would advise that you answer my questions without delay or I could get annoyed and you wouldn't like that." That was as close as Dr. Nero got to a threat and Shelby knew only idiots and crazy people didn't take head of Nero's threats.

"What would you like to know about my past" Shelby asked cautiously. She hoped it would be a question about her past profession that she could explain. Family and friends were more difficult she hardly remembered her old friends she was a very popular girl at her old school with the best clothes. Her family were what you would call nice people her dad had spoiled her rotten and her mother had been more interested in shopping than her children but then she was just like Shelby, the only time they spent together was when her mother invited her along.

Nero stared Shelby straight in the eyes "Do you have a sister called Ellen, who turned has recently turned 12" He said quietly. Shelby's mind shot back to the corridor before she had come in, the girl who had sat the hair which looked similar to Shelby's hair

"No" was the only word that she could say

thank you for reading my first fan fic i will try and upload every week constructive reviews please iam new at this :)