Hey, I don't much to say before the story this time. Think that's good. And now…
Hawkeye's Apprentice
Ch. 3: Found Then Lost
Archeress looked around. Captain America walked over and stood between Black Panther and Iron Man. Thor stood next to the Hulk. And she was next to Hawkeye, who acted like she wasn't even there. Everyone was there. Everyone, but the villains, it was just the Avengers. They were in a warehouse distract. This meant they would have to split-up and search. And risk the others getting ambushed. Iron Man, who had his mask up, looked at her. She quickly looked away. Tony frowned.
"Well, I guess this means, we spilt up and search. Hulk and Thor, you take the South West sector. Wasp and Ant-Man, take the South East. Hawkeye and Archeress, take North East. Cap, Black Panther, and I will take North West." said Tony, and with that everyone took off for the sector.
"Come on, Kid." said Hawkeye, walking toward were they were to search; not bothering to make sure Archeress was even following. Archeress had to hurry to keep up with Hawkeye.
"Don't call me 'Kid'." she said, not looking up at him.
He chuckled, "Why not? You're only fourteen. You are a kid." Archeress was quiet. "That's what I thought."
Twenty warehouses later, the duo were starting to get tired of all the hopeless searching, though both kept quiet for ten more warehouses. Archeress was the first to speak up, "This is useless. I bet the others probably found something by now."
Hawkeye sighed, "You're probably right, Kid."
She glared at him, "Don't Call Me Kid!"
"I'll go contact the others and see what they've found. Kid, why don't you check out that one?" He said completely ignoring her, pointing to the last warehouse of the row.
"Fine," With that Archeress took off to the warehouse, while Hawkeye checked in with the rest of the team.
She glanced in side, unlike most of the warehouses; this one was full of boxes and crates. She stepped in. She carefully looked over the crates. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Maybe they were wrong, maybe know ones here. CRASH!
She ran in the direction of the sound with her bow ready and an arrow notched, ready for whoever was there. She hurried behind a row and found a crate and boxes tipped over. She raised her bow and called out, "COME OUT AND FIGHT!" But to her surprise, she was answered with, "Meow." She turned and saw a black cat with crystal green eyes hiding behind the fallen crate. She lowered her bow and put her arrow back in her quiver.
"A cat? I mistook a cat for a super villain! What the heck is a cat doing in a warehouse anyway! Well, at least no saw that." She turned and headed back to Hawkeye. She found him waiting outside leaning back against the wall of the warehouse she was just in waiting for her.
"Find anything?" He asked, looking at her.
"No, just a stupid cat." She said the second part in what was almost a whisper, looking down.
"What about a cat?" He asked curiously, catching what she said.
Damn, "Oh, nothing. It just knocked over some boxes, nothing to worry about. It's probably just lost," She said quickly, leaving out the part where she though it was a villain to fight, "So, what did you find out?"
Hawkeye looked at her funny, wondering what happen, figuring it was nothing, answered, "Not much. Nobody's found anything. Stark said after you finished your sector meet up at the QuinJets. So what happen in there?"
Why can't you just drop it? "It was nothing, just a cat knocking stuff over. It's probably from around here, nothing to worry about." She relied dismissively, with that she headed to the next warehouse. Hawkeye laggard back for a minute, watching her, curious what happen in there, he shrugged and began to catch up to his student. She probably mistook it for a villain hiding. He chuckled at the thought of her cornering a cat ready to fire and realizing it was just a cat.
"Come On, Hawkeye! Hurry up!" Archeress called now in front of the next warehouse. Hawkeye quickened his pace and seconds later was right next to her, "Finally."
"Let's just hurry this up. The quicker we're done, the quicker we leave." He relied tiredly, beginning to think it was a waste of time. Archeress went in first with Hawkeye right behind. As soon as they entered, they could tell something was off. All the crates and boxes had been pushed off towards the side. What was that? Hawkeye thought, Footsteps? Oh, no! "Archeress, something is wrong. We're going now!" He ordered. Hawkeye turned to run, Archeress behind him, when...
"Well, hello, Archer. Who's your pet?" said a gentle, yet controlling and devise female voice. A shiver went up his spine as Hawkeye realized who it was. Enchantress! He looked at Archeress, who froze when he did. Remain calm, he reminded himself. He turned to face the Asgardian, as did Archeress.
As soon as she turned, she saw what she took to be the Masters of Evil. Standing in the middle, was a blonde woman dressed in green, who she guessed was Enchantress.
"So, what are you doing here, beautiful?" Hawkeye said cockily.
"Arrogant fool," She spat at the archer dressed in purple. She turned toward the younger female archer dressed in blue, Looks to me that Archer got an apprentice. This took her by slight surprise, but showed none. "And who might you be, peasant?"
Archeress stood tall and answered strongly, "The name's Archeress, witch."
Enchantress glared at the mere girl, and yelled, "How Dare You?"
"So, what do you want anyway, witch?" Archeress asked in a firm, yet cocky voice. Hawkeye shoot her a look, but she ignored him.
"You Will Pay, Brat!" She yelled and raised her arms to do something, but before she could do anything, a man dressed in purple from head to toe without an inch of skin showing and sword at his side, who Archeress guessed to be Zemo, spoke up, "No, we need them to alive."
Enchantress lowered her arms and said, "Fine. But let's send them somewhere for safe keeping, somewhere not of Migard."
"That I'll allow," said Zemo. No one else said anything.
Not of Migard? Where's Migard? Where's she going to send us? Archeress couldn't help but think a little fearful. Now would be good time for the rest the Avengers to burst in.
"So, where are you going to send us?" Hawkeye asked, he sounded cocky. "Where could you send us that the rest of the Avengers won't find us?"
"You don't need to be hidden forever, just long enough to weaken the others." Enchantress answered darkly. Then she raised one of her hands with, what Archeress thought look like, a green smoke ring going around it. The duo looked at their feet to find it covering them quickly. Before either could yell, they were gone. "They should enjoy Alfhiem."
His head hurt was the first thing Hawkeye though. Wait, am I awake? He quickly opened his eyes. He was speechless. He knew what Enchantress meant when she said she was going to send them somewhere off Earth. But he expected an Asgardian prison or something. Not the middle of a forest in Alfhiem! He had been to Alfhiem once before what he and the rest of the team had to destroy this weird stones and everyone got sent to some realm and they ended up saving Asgard. Then he remembered, "Archeress!" He looked around franticly. He took off running calling for her. Then, has soon has he reached a clearing he spotted her lying on the ground. He rushed over to her and tried to get her to wake up.
"Archeress! Archeress! Archeress, Wake Up!" He yelled. After a minute, she opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"Hey, Hawkeye, what up?" she asked groggily, she had no idea what had happen.
"Look around." He said, with worry in his voice. She looked around; they were in what looked to be a forest. She tilted her head back and saw stars, swirls of color; it was almost beautiful 'til she realized something much more startling. There was what looked like planets and land masses floating above them. They defiantly weren't on earth anymore.
"Wh-where are we?" She asked in a voice that sounds almost like a squeak, but she didn't care.
Hawkeye sighed, "Welcome to Alfihiem, one of the nine mythical realms."
Well, that's it for now. It's surprising how far this is from my original idea, but I like this one better. I'll try to update soon. Later.
