Chapter 1: Special
Past all the rock and rubble of Old New York City, she saw curiosity, she saw a playground. She did not see the dangers of passing over to Asgardian territory. Her long black hair was pulled up into a lengthy pony tail, her glistening blue eyes captured all there was to see. Her attire was torn up and unclean, as was her pale skin which was covered in dirt and grim. She wore a red tank top ripped at the bottom revealing part of her flat stomach and accented curves. Her lower torso wore jean pants torn to the thigh and her shoes were nike white ripped soles.
Her friend Margaret was following nervously behind, their parents always told them to stay clear of the Old city. Years ago Loki had succeeded at taking over the world, the humans were enslaved by the Chitauri and very few people ever came across Loki unless they were to die a slow and agonizing death. Passing over the borders was surely one of the worst things Ava had thought of doing.
She had turned eighteen and that meant adulthood, but the world was never the same under Loki's rule. Now the proper age to go exploring would be early forties, if people went exploring at all. Ava vaulted over a fallen lamppost and hopped up onto a rather large chunk of the skyscraper that still towered ahead. She was not born when Loki had taken over, but she was however curious as to what went on in the City before he burned it to the ground.
"U-Um... Ava, I think we should turn around. This place is off limits remember?"
"Yeah, I know." She then hopped down from the rock and began walking around, eyes grazed over the cracks that scattered across the ice smooth road. "But don't you ever wonder what really went on around here. Mom doesn't tell much." Ava shot a flash of green light at one of the cars, it turned from its terrible red and rusty color, straight back into its original form.
"Your mother does however tell you not to use magic." Ava shrugged, crossing her arms.
"What she doesn't know, doesn't kill her." Then Ava was off again, Margaret tripped over a pebble and yelped, he held a hand out, Ava still retreating.
"Wait, don't leave me alone." Margaret pushed herself up and went sprinting over to Ava till she was walking at her side.
"And what about those Avengers, what happened to them?" Margaret bit her bottom lip sucking in a deep breath, her voice was shaky and her lips were trembling.
"My mom told me that talking about them could get us killed." Margaret whispered, Ava snorted shaking her head.
"And who would come to kill us out here? We are alone Margie, calm down a bit."
"I'll try, but what if we get caught?"
"We won't get caught, okay?" Ava wrapped an arm around Margret.
"You know I can't use my powers anywhere when we are at the unit. Why don't we make the most of this visit to the City?"
"What do you mean?" Ava didn't reply and instead silently nudge Margaret onto the sidewalk, she stood at the edge an crouched down placing a hand over the cement. Moments later an icy like substance spread from her fingers to the surrounding cement. It was an open area, no broken down vehicles, or debris filled it's path and it was perfect for what Ava had in mind.
Ava pointed at Margaret's bare dirty feet and she was hoisted up by an inch by ice skates. Ava changed her to shoes to ice skates and then the fun began, Margaret still holding back with a nervous approach. Ava stepped out onto the ice looking back at her friend she skated backwards into a spin.
"Come on Margie. It will be fun."
"What is this?" Ava chuckled and held her hands up in the air pridefully as she made a figure eight.
"It's ice skating, isn't it wonderful?" Ava laughed aloud, her voice booming down the streets in an echo. "I read about it in the Manhattan library."
"What?!" Margaret's eyes flashed wide open. "You have been here before?" Ava stopped with a skid the ice shedding from the surface she waved Margaret's question off as though it was a stupid one.
"I've been here plenty of times. There are so many things you can do here." Margaret did not walk onto the ice, she looked ashamed, ashamed to be Ava's friend. Ava slowly began to frown, her sentiment growing sorrowful. she crossed her arms and sighed.
"I want to have fun. Sitting around and picking up sticks is boring."
"You forget why we are picking up sticks, Ava. Loki ruined this world, there is nothing-" A loud noise erupted from their side, the ice evaporated and the skates disappeared. Ava looked off in the direction of the noise emanating from a pile of rubble and rusty metal, a small pebble rolling down its side until it hit the ground.
Ava felt her breath caught in her throat, she could sense the fumes of danger in the air. She had never felt it before, but now she was and it wasn't safe at all.
"Ava, we should-"
"Shut up." Ava held a hand up silencing Margaret, both the girls stared off with fear at what was on the other side of the pebble. A beam of bright blue light shot from the other side shooting another building and sending a ricochet of bricks to fall down over the girls. Ava held her hands up over head a transparent green shield lighting up above her, this blocking the deadly downfall.
She felt herself weaken throwing the bricks off to the side.
"Run Margaret!" She shouted, her hands held up again making another force field. Chitai leaking up from behind the pile, Margaret went running as fast she could. Their fire merely hitting against the shield, she was weak, only able to maintain simple things, a force field was not one of them. Her vision blurred and blood ran from her nose, she groaned, the shield disappeared and she fell back into a heap on the ground.
She blankly stared up at the blue sky, taking in heavy breaths and feeling herself slowly fall into the abyss of darkness. The last thing she saw before her eyelids closed was a towering figure, all she knew was he was not chitari. Her eyelids snapped shut and her head lazily slumped over to the side and then... She was lost.
