Chapter 1 - New Beginnings and Bad Luck

"We're moving to Manhattan. Here Hydra will have a hard time finding you two, with the threat of the Avengers, and Shield hanging around all the time. Plus, making new friends can't be that hard, you just have to be uhm..." A man in his mid thirties said as he looked through the rearview mirror, watching the polar opposite sisters look out the window, both with a frown and a glare on their face. Eyes blank as they gazed out the window. A sure sign that they were conversing in their head.

Sighing Luca knew he wouldn't get through to the girls anytime soon, but they would come around, they always did every time they moved. They had finally gotten used to the last town, but a mishap happened and caused Hydra to catch wind of them. Quickly without even giving the girl's time to say goodbye to their friends, they had packed up and left. Leaving the teens angry and frustrated with their position in life, both clearly wishing desperately to be normal.

'Maybe this time will be better… Zacharus I wish you were still here, the girls need stability, and I barely count. They thought of you as a father, why did you have to go and get murdered?' Luca thought as he continued to drive, giving the teens some space to cope.

'This constant moving is getting annoying…'

'We don't exactly have much of a choice… we shouldn't be angry with Luca it's not his fault.'

'I know. It's mine. I'm sorry Norra, I got surprised and…'

'And you went berserk I know I was there, though you weren't the only one who used her power that night. If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure I threw a couple of pots and pans at the burglar.'

'But why did he have to pick our apartment! And why was he stupid enough to sneak in when we were still home!? I mean really, how dumb is he!?'

'Really dumb and unlucky. What happened is the past, besides look at the bright side, now we can at least make a better impression in the new school than the last one.'

'If another pervert tries to cop a feel on either one of us again I will not hesitate to punch his light outs.'

'You're going to make yourself a social outcast again. Besides he said it was an accident.'

' And you believed him?! He was obviously lying! And I don't care If I end up being a social outcast I never cared for that stuff anyways. It's all just annoying to me.'

'Can't you at least try making a friend?'

'I don't need friends I have you.'

'As sweet as that is, I worry about you…'

'Don't that's my line, so where are we going? I kinda zoned Luca out earlier when he tried to talk to us… '

' … you're an idiot and smooth move at trying to change the topic. And its Manhattan, home of shield and the avengers. Luca thinks Hydra will stay away from there cuz of them.'

'I doubt it'

'This time will be different I can feel it!'

'Sometimes you're way too peppy it hurts…' Cierra thought, making fake pained noises in her mind.

'Oh shut up, you're just too pessimistic' Norra thought as she crossed her arms in annoyance.

"Ha, but it suits you sis. You wouldn't be you without being so happy." Cierra said as she turned to her sister, eyes twinkling in amusement as she shot her sister a rare smile reserved only for her and Zacharus.

"And you wouldn't be you if you weren't so grumpy" Norra said as she uncrossed her arms and smiled, grabbing Cierra's hand, entwining their identical fingers together. The tanned skin of Norra clashing with the somewhat pale complexion of her sister.

"Ok so what do you think of your new home girls?" Lucas said arms wide open, smiling, proud of the home he had chosen.

"It was a great deal! and it's really spacious. This way both of you can have your own room, right next to each other of course, I get my own, and we'll still have a room left over! Plus the kitchen is great for you Cierra and the back yard is really big so you can grow another garden Norra " Lucas said walking around the house, pointing in different directions, obviously trying to make the most of things for the girl's sake

"It is better that that dingy apartment we were living in before"Cierra said with a smirk.

"And waay better than the small home before that!" Norra continued, with a matching smirk on her face.

"Ouch you two wound me" Lucas said with a fake hurt expression, "You two are horrible, go unpack, while I cry my sorrows away" He said in an overly dramatic voice.

"Ha! Ok Luca!" Both girls said in sync, grabbing their boxes and going to their rooms, neither actually planning on unpacking anytime soon.

'So where should we go first?'

'Hmm I don't know. how about we go around the block and work our way from there?'

'Sounds like a plan' Cierra thought, as she entered her new room with Norra right behind her. Conveniently both Cierra and Norra had a window view of their back yard, and coincidently an easy escape once they jumped out the window and hopped over the fence

"Manhattan's pretty big" Norra said walking around and looking up at the sky scrapers.

"Not to mention loud and really busy" Cierra said, looking at the huge version of on the big screen bad mouthing someone named spider man, scowling when another pedestrian bumped into her.

"Hey I know let's go find the park." Norra said pulling at Cierra by the hand, looking at the mini map of Manhattan on her phone.

'We've been walking for hours it's gonna be getting dark soon~'

'Then we better hurry up! Besides if it does get dark you could always teleport us home using your shadows, it'll be too dark for anyone to see you anyway. Please~' Norra thought with wide eyes.

"Fine" Cierra said with a sigh, she was no match for Norra's puppy eyes.

'I'm glad we came to the park this is really nice' Cierra thought with a smile, completely relaxed, lying on the grass, shaded by the large tree next to her.

Norra, near her but in the warm setting sunlight, was healing the plants around them,with a smile, causing flowers to bloom. 'Yea this is really great. See I knew you would enjoy it here.'

'You know me so well'

'Yeah well I have known you all my life, I-'

Suddenly a guy in a green and yellow suit flew past them, landing in a heap on the ground, breaking many of the flowers Norra had healed.

"Ahhh!" he screamed, holding onto his clearly dislocated arm.

'Hey the flowers… ' Cierra thought in annoyance, feeling sympathetic but unimpressed as she looked at the guy. She had had many dislocated limbs thanks to Luca's harsh training sessions, a dislocated arm was easily fixable.

'The guy's hurt and all you think about are the flowers?! and why is he wearing a spandex costume? Maybe I should heal hi-'

'NO! That would risk exposure or having to move again!' Cierra thought, sitting up from her prone position, glaring at her sister.

'He clearly needs help I''m not gonna stand by and see him suffer in pain...Just cover me okay?'

'... Just pop back his arm if you're so worried about him and heal him a bit, but not too much to the point where your power is obvious. I'll cover you' Cierra thought as she got up and surrounded herself with shadows, powers at ready incase Norra needed help.

Norra approached the guy moaning in pain, who's eyes widened in surprise and worry, as he said through gritted teeth "you need to go it's not safe here!"

"shh it's okay I'm here to help just stay still" Norra said as she kneeled down to observe the damage as she tenderly grabbed his dislocated shoulder.

"Ok on the count of three, 1, 3!" Norra said as she popped the bone back in place and quickly used her powers to numb the pain and, against her better judgement, fully healed his arm.

"What happened to three? And what did you just do?" The man said in surprise, having scrunched his eyes closed in preparation to the pain, but was now examining his arm, which no matter how he moved it, gave him no pain.

'You healed it completely didn't you!' Cierra thought angrily, as she eyed the two from the shadows of a nearby tree.

'Err.. perhaps?' Norra thought, wincing as she felt her sister's annoyance and anger flare through their telepathic link

"There you're all okay now, so I'm just going to go now..." Norra said, standing up to leave but stopping as the man quickly stood and grabbed her arm.

'Oh Cierra is not liking this…' Norra thought as she felt her sister's anger beginning to rise.

'Calm down he's not doing anything!'

"Thank you kind stranger for helping me" the man said with a bow, "but you need to leave it's not safe here " the man said standing full height and releasing her arm.

'See perfect gentleman, no need to get so protective' she sarcastically thought to her sister with the hint of annoyance

"What do you mean? Me and my sister are the only ones here-"

While Cierra had been focused on the pair, and the pair occupied with each other, neither of the three noticed, waves of Oc bots coming at the pair.

While Iron fist was preoccupied protecting Norra, Norra acting like a normal human, and Cierra protecting herself, neither could stop one of the Octopus pods grabbing Norra and dragging her to Doc Oc himself, who had gotten near them while they were preoccupied.

"Ah a hostage has wandered into my grasp, how convenient" Doctor Octavius said as he looked at the struggling girl held down by the Oc bot.

While Octavius had been saying this the rest of the team, who had been preoccupied fighting Lizard showed up.

"Let her go Octavius, she has nothing to do with this!" Spiderman said as he landed, the rest of the team in formation behind him.

"Or what? Are you really going to risk the life of an innocent to capture me?" Octavius said smugly as he brought the girl nearer to him and turned one of his tentacle arms into a drill; bringing it close to her face, just shy of touching her

As Norra squirmed in fear at the deadly weapon near her face, she could feel the telepathic link go deadly silent. 'Aaand there goes her control…'

Something that only happened whenever one of the twins was in danger.

"How dare you touch my sister!" Cierra said with a growl, eyes completely engulfed by pitch black, as she left the dark shadows of the tree and approached, black shadow tendrils waving wildly around her, causing the young heroes to back away from the angered girl and stare in awe.

"LET HER GO!" Cierra yelled, as she used the shadows created from the sunset to quickly wrap around Doctor Octopus, breaking his mechanical arms and throwing him the ground, while destroying the Oc bot and gently catching Norra; placing her safely on the ground, away from where Octavius had landed.

With Norra safe and sound, Cierra released her shadows, falling onto her knees in relief and exertion from using so many shadows at once. Her relief was short lived as a creature growled from behind her, and grabbed her by the neck, choking her.

"CIERRA!" Norra shouted as her eyes began to glow green. Using her telekinetic power she grabbed the lizard, forced him to release his grip on her sister, and threw it to the side with so much force it broke through multiple trees before landing on the ground unconscious. Not caring about whether she had hurt it or the fact that she might have overexerted her telepathic abilities, she ran to her sister's side who was still trying to catch her breath.

"Are you ok?" Norra said, hand going to heal her sister's throat.

'Stop, you're already tired as it is, heal it later.' Cierra thought, as she stopped Norra's hand.

As Cierra grabbed her sore throat, she looked up at the young heroes who stood staring, speechless at the pair, locking eyes with the wide eyed spiderman, she glared, before opening a shadow portal under her and her sister,transporting them both safely away to a few blocks from there new home. All the while cursing herself for letting Norra convince her to go to the park.

'We can't tell Luca' Norra thought as the pair walked down a sidewalk, in the direction of their home.

'They saw our powers Norra, we have to tell him.' Cierra thought as she walked a little ahead of her sister's, hand tightly holding onto Norra's hand.

'It was already really dark when all that happened, I bet they didn't really get a good look at our faces!' Norra said, pulling at her sister, stopping her from walking ahead.

'YOU WERE RIGHT STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THAT MAN YOU HEALED ! OF COURSE HE SAW YOU FACE! And incase you forgot, YOUR FACE IS MY FACE!' Cierra thought yelled, while pointing to her face.

'he-He was probably delusional from the pain! Please, for me?' Norra thought with pleading eyes.

'You healed him so he wouldn't be in pain remember?' Cierra thought with a deadpanned face and a hand on her hip, her sister would have to try better than that to convince her, even with her puppy dog eyes on.

'We haven't even unpacked, or been here a whole day and we already messed up. It would crush Luca, we can't do that to him he deserves a normal life too… ' Norra thought, as she looked down guiltily, eyes watering as they neared their home.

As the pair stood in front of their new home,Cierra, looked conflicted as she looked back at her sister and the new home.

'You should heal us, we can't come in looking like this.' Cierra thought with a sigh, as she pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Yes thank you, thank you!" Norra shouted, hugging her sister from her neck while healing her and herself. The joy giving her enough power to heal, even though she was exhausted.

As they entered their home, Luca was busy talking to an older lady on the couch "Ah just the people I was looking for! This is our neighbor Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Parker these are my nieces Norra and Cierra." Luca said standing up and grabbing the girls each in a side hug.

"Mrs. Parker told me she has a nephew named Peter he's just about your ages and she agreed to make- ah I mean tell her nephew to show you two around your new school. I signed you up today and you should be starting straight away, tomorrow. So go to sleep early alright?" Luca said smiling, at the two, not caring how awkward it would probably be for the girls to make a guy show them around the campus against his will.

'At least now they'll probably make a friend… Well at least Norra anyway." Luca thought, as he ignored the intense death glare Cierra was sending his way. After three years of enduring her glare he had grown immune to it. Norra on the other hand was already conversing with Mrs. Parker, making fast friends with the older lady.

" would you like to stay and join us for dinner? My niece here, Cierra, is a great cook and she would love to make us a great dinner. " Luca said showing off one of his dazzling smiles he liked to use to impress others while he hugged

"I'd love to Mr. Silas but I can't. I have to be leaving to make sure my nephew comes home safely, you guys have a wonderful night, it was very nice meeting you ." She said as she shook the girl's hands and headed to the door, Luca quickly going to open the door for her.

As the door closed, Luca could feel twin pair of glares boring into the back of his head.

"So what's this about having-"Norra said, cutting of.

"Her nephew show us around?" Cierra said, finishing her sister's sentence. Finishing each other's sentences where their favorite pastime when it came to making Luca feel intimidated.

Turning to look at the girls, Luca couldn't help but notice how alike they looked at the moment. Both girls stood next to each other, arms crossed and hips cocked toward the each other. It was like seeing a mirror image of the other, the only differences were their skin/hair/eye tone, but their faces where exactly the same. Both equally beautiful. 'Zacharus would be so proud to see his girls' so grown up.'

The girls, noticing the sentimental look Luca was giving them, looked at each other one thought running through their mind. 'Whats wrong with him?'

"Are you okay, Luca?" Norra said, as she stepped closer to the man whom they regarded as a close uncle.

Luca could only beam with pride as he stared at the two most important people in his life, feeling nothing but nostalgia. Just as quickly as it came over him he snapped out of it.

"I'm fine, you girls should go to bed soon, eat some cereal or something, you're gonna have a busy day tomorrow, you'll need your energy."

'Umm okkayy?' Norra thought to her sister sounding uncertain as her uncle's weird episode ended.

'I'm sure he's fine he probably just needs some space. He's right though, we should get some food and rest we've had quite a day, just go with it I guess.'

"Okay Luca we'll see you tomorrow I guess." Norra said, as she walked to the kitchen to find something for her and Cierra to eat.

"Goodnight dear ones." Luca said before walking away towards his room.

"Yes goodnight dear uncle." Cierra said in a forced light tone, trying to make things less weird, as she quickly followed her sister's example and escaped to the kitchen.

As they both ate cereal a question popped into Cierra's head causing her to freeze.

'At what time does school even start?'

'no idea…go ask Luca'

'He could already be asleep, I don't want to wake him. What time should we get up?'

'let's just get up early around six-ish should be fine'

'eww… thats too early'

'too bad'

As they both finished their breakfast and walked up the stairs to their rooms, both sisters stopped in front of their doors. They both stood there for a moment before heading to there rooms.

'Well this has been one hell of a day.'

'Agreed,'

'Good night Norra'

'Goodnight Cierra'

Crawling under the covers, both girls quickly fell asleep.