After her parent's funeral King Thor her uncle had decreed that the rest of the nine realms would be cut from Earth permanently. No one was allowed to go to Earth ever again, not even her Aunt Queen Jane, Erik Selvig, or Darcy Lewis. Rhea couldn't accept that though, she had to save the rest of her family and avenge her parents who had fallen in battle protecting the X Mansion in one of the first battles allowing many of them to get away.
The Avengers and the new SHIELD were next to fall as they tried to protect the mutants leaving her to her Uncle who fled back to Asgard to protect her, but at the age of six she knew she had to return to Midgard, her home, the call of destiny was too strong for her to ignore.
She wore a black double layered hooded poncho with the top layer reaching her elbows and the bottom layer reaching her knees with a high collar, her arms to sticking out from under the top layer, a pair of galaxy colored tights, a black long tight sleeved shirt with the sleeves tucking into a pair of wrist high fingerless backless gloves, and black ankle high cuffed boots.
She made her way through the halls of the palace her hood helping her to hide in the shadows as she avoided the guards that patrolled the hall. She ducked behind a pillar glancing around, a large book clutched to her chest. She ran into the gardens straight at the wall using her magic to propel her over it landing softly on the other side.
"There she is!" Fandral called out and sent her scrambling.
"We must stop her!" Volstagg said and ordered the guards forward. Even though he didn't make a noise she knew that Hogun was nearby, ever the silent one.
"Stay away!" Rhea called out. "Ventus!" She yelled pointing her hand at some of the guards pushing them back with a gust of wind giving her a lead. "Leave me alone!"
"Princess come back!" Sif yelled, but Rhea just pushed herself faster until she made it to the ships. Throwing her book down she grabbed the steering mechanism sending the ship forward. "Nebula!" Rhea waved her hand causing a great fog to envelope herself and anyone who followed her, only she could see through it. "That should work."
"Rhea!" Her Uncle called out causing her heart to jolt painfully. "Rhea come home, if you do this I cannot follow nor bring you back."
"I am sorry Uncle, but this is the only way. Destiny calls me and it cannot be ignored." Rhea concentrated so that her voice would be carried to Thor without him being able to find her.
"This will not bring you parents back." Thor said as he soared above the fog.
"I know, but it will save the rest of my family." Rhea replied. "I love you Uncle as well as Aunt Jane, Uncle Erik, and Aunt Darcy, but you are all safe, I need to go where I am needed, I'm sorry uncle."
She gripped her blue green oval jewel that hung around her neck from a black chain to the center of her chest, holographic pictures of her family both blood and extended kept inside by magic. Engraved on the front was a silver dove entwined with a golden serpent. Before her uncle could speak again she sped up the ship through the crevice in one of the rock out cropping's coming out of the water.
"Patefacio!" Rhea reached out mentally commanding the portal to take her to Earth just before she went in sparks flying around her becoming like a blazing comet as she shot out of the portal. She knew in that instance that she was right to come here because the scene before her was truly horrible in every sense of the word.
She raced the ship forward shooting down three sentinels with the ships weapons that were attacking a very familiar metal encased man who stood with another familiar man covered in ice. She whipped the ship around as the sentinels repaired themselves and sped up to ramming speed. She grabbed her book and flipped backwards out of the ship at the same time thrusting her hand forward.
"Take this! Ignis!" Rhea screamed and fire enveloped the ship exploding as soon as it hit the sentinels. She landed in a crouched position in front of Peter and Bobby who looked down at the small figure in shock. Rhea whirled around with a bright smile throwing her hood back. "Uncle Peter, Uncle Bobby, I found you!"
"Rhea?!" The two males yelped in shock.
"One and only." Rhea replied with a flourishing bow. "We should run now before more show up."
Shaking off the shock Peter scooped her up and they ran.
"What are you doing here?" Peter asked her as they ran.
"I came to help." Rhea replied.
"Thor must be having a conniption." Bobby said. "Will he be coming back to get you?"
"He can't, the Earth is completely cut off from the rest of the world tree." Rhea shook her head as the black bird swooped down over them and landed in front of them. They barely paused in their stride before running into the opening, the ship taking off into the air. Peter sat her down and she was instantly set upon by Storm and Logan.
"What is she doing here?" Logan demanded.
"She just popped out of a portal and saved us from three sentinels." Bobby replied with a shrug.
"I had to come, to help." Rhea said as she sat her book on one of the seats and started to flip through it.
"Rhea, it's not safe here for you." Storm said as she kneeled down to Rhea's eye level. Rhea barely glanced at her, letting out an annoyed sigh.
"Just because I'm young does not mean that I am stupid." Rhea said still going through her book. "I know what I'm doing or I wouldn't be doing it."
"Rhea." Charles said as he came to the back of the ship waving the other back. Logan went to the cockpit with Storm as Bobby and Peter went off to take care of their wounds. "You should have stayed in Asgard."
"I couldn't, this is where I'm supposed to be." Rhea said sternly meeting his gaze evenly. It often astounded him how the small girl could be so young yet seem so old, but after the loss of her parents, right in front of her to make it worse, she seemed to have aged far beyond her age. "And I know you think that because I'm young I can't help, but I can fix that now."
"What do you mean fix it?" Erik asked as he walked up to them. Rhea smirked reminding them very much of her father Loki before she turned to the book and started to speak.
'Et clamor meus ad accelerare cursum mihi prospera , animo matura aetate corpus meum.' Little Rhea chanted as she held her hands over a large book. ('I call upon time to speed my journey, mature my mind age my body.')
The book burned up transforming into an iridescent multi-colored light that streamed around Rhea incasing her in a cocoon of energy before disbursing softly to reveal a young woman. The other came to the back to see what was going on starring in shock at the older Rhea.
She was '5,5' with black messy pixie cut hair, porcelain colored skin, a softly angular face, full dusty rose colored lips that always seemed to be smirking, high cheek bones, straight-edged shaped nose, and emerald green eyes with silver flecks that danced with mischief framed by thick black lashes.
She was wearing a black sweetheart halter top sleeveless backless cat suit with a black low hanging belt that tucked into knee high black heelless boots, an empire waist length long sleeved black leather jacket closed at the bottom, and a pair of black wrist length fingerless backless gloves all with dark green piping.
Over her left eye extending to encompass it was a blue green open triad pinstripe tattoo meaning magical inspiration that glowed in the dark the same way as it showed in the light.
"Rhea." Charles said softly, his eyes sad.
"What happened?" Storm asked in shock.
"I used the last of my father's magic stored in his book to age myself to twenty one both physically and mentally." Rhea replied looking over her new body in interest. "I'm down to only my magic, should be enough."
"You gave up your childhood." Charles said confirming to everyone that this was Rhea.
"No, I lost that the day my parents were taken from me and my world began to burn." Rhea replied her hands curled into fists. "But now I can do something, I can help fight and try to make sure that no more die. There is no going back for me now, even if I wanted to."
