It never ceased to amaze Alexandra Harriet Potter that a world that was supposed to be full of magic, wonder, and excitement can be such a dreary and depressing press. It was a world that in theory would be a lot better than what she was leaving behind.
Theories and results were too different things. She made her way outside of the country. There were no affairs to get in order because everyone thought that she was dead.
Smallville, that was the place. The pictures she saw of it….well they might have been slightly dated. It was the corn capital of the world at one time but it had been replaced with other distinctions. The meteor capital of the world was one of them.
A trip into the library indicated that there was a meteor shower that took place in the autumn of 1989, nearly nine years ago. Alex frowned as she flipped through the newspaper reports. There was these green meteor rocks that fell from space. The government might have kept a lid on it and there were whispers that something was removed from a filed.
Alex teleported into a flash and she stopped in the field. There were scorch marks where she stood but they were subtle. The redhead witch held her hand, tracing the area, and went back in her head what happened. A ship, along with several meteor rocks, landed on the ground. It was a huge boom when it did.
'I don't like this,' Alex thought and that was the honest truth. She did not like this. The redhead took half of a step forward and shuddered.
There was something in the offing that was nearby. Alexandra Harriet Potter could sense that something else landed nearby.
It was a matter of where it landed.
She scanned the area and saw that there was a dam area not too far away from here. It was closed off and she could see hundreds of the mysterious glowing rocks. They were green and there was something at the bottom of the lake.
Alex stepped down, placing her hand and closed her eyes.
She could sense something or someone calling out for her.
The meteors that landed onto the ground tainted the Earth and the water. It was not enough to kill someone but it could have serious ramifications. Alex did a few purifying spells and removed what she could of the rocks down in the bank.
She could see a glint of something that was buried underneath some debris. No one had come down here, it was obviously forgotten.
Alex rolled up her pant legs, lowering herself into the water. The redhead shook her head, shuddering immediately.
"Wow," she whispered, pressing her hand over the ship, touching it. The surface was cool to the touch, almost without a blemish. It was smooth, not rough, and it was extremely cold but not the point where it was frigid. She could hear the hum of a motor and there was something active within the ship.
Dare she break it open when she was in the water?
Alexandra Harriet Potter was curious, she was not one thing however, and that was a fool. She knew that she would be sighted down her by workers at that plant, should they look outside. Anti-eavesdropping spells blocked a lot of their nosiness.
Alex had no idea where to take the ship but she knew that she could not leave it there, especially when there was someone inside it. Touching the ship, she teleported herself, the ship, and the occupants out of harm's way.
It was only then when she could figure out what was in the ship.
The technology could only be alien.
Alex thought this as she looked at the ship and being in magicland for the past seven years had made normal technology pretty alien to her as well. That being said, she was around enough technology to understand that this was not of Earth make.
The hum of the ship indicated that the components still worked. It had laid at the bottom of the dam, dormant for the past nine years.
Did something land in the field and was removed or was that rumor mongering?
Magic space was a wonderful thing and with a few charms, Alex expanded a magical tent, putting a cloaking field around it. It allowed her to work with this ship. She stared at it, there was no distinct openings in it.
She did not think that blasting it with magic would be a prudent idea. Given the most obvious consequence would be the collapse of time and space, she decided against this point.
'Okay, let's think this thing through,' she thought as she once again traced the outline of the ship.
She closed her eyes and once again in her mind's eye, she saw the same gorgeous blonde from the dreams.
The tempered redhead pulled herself out of the vision and she was struck by a strange impulse. The blonde was in the ship, the blonde called out for her. That being the case, she was lead to lift the ship.
'Okay, if you're in there, give me a sigh,' Alex thought as the rune on her body started to glow the closer that she got to the ship.
Now she was interested and a bit disturbed. The emerald eyed witch wondered how closely these runes were tied into what was happening before her.
The ship clicked and now Alex stood there. She wondered if she should let nature take its course or break the ship open.
Seconds turned into minutes as another click of the ship opened and systems booted up. A blinding light struck Alex in the eye and brought her back.
"Hello?" Alex asked, nervously waving her hand around the area of the ship. Once again, there was nothing and she wondered…
CLICK.
CLICK.
CLICK.
The ship burst open and Alex was nearly blown off of her feet. She exited the ship and she was gorgeous.
Golden blonde hair hung down past her angelic face. Her soft lips caused stirrings in the pit of the redhead female's stomach. Her robes snugly fit a beautiful lithe frame with a perfect rack, a flat stomach, nice hips, and long legs. Her eyes slowly opened and revealed a pair of deep blue eyes.
"Where….where am I?"
She said this in a voice where there was a slight hint of hostility and Alex braced herself with a fight. There was no indication how powerful this one might have been.
"You're safe….outside of the ship."
The blonde's eyes snapped towards the redhead. Recognition dawned in her eyes.
"I had a dream about you when I was asleep, it's the only thing that I remember," she whispered, her voice gaining strength the more she was used to the light. Shivers went down her spine. "The ship…..am I on Earth?"
"Yes, you're on Earth," Alex confirmed. With that next movement, she said the obvious statement. "You're not from around here, are you?"
"My name is Kara Zor-El, I am a survivor of the planet Krypton."
Alex's expression was one of shock and dismay. This seemed to be a bit too open of a revelation for someone who just met her. The redhead would not allow such a revelation never the less.
"You don't believe me, do you?"
Kara mistaken Alex's look for one of disbelief and confusion.
"Why do you trust me?"
"Isn't it obvious?' Kara asked as she looked at Alex, with widened blue eyes. "I think that I've been inside your head longer than you think."
"Okay, so that's creepy….."
"You have it's mark," Kara whispered excitedly and now Alex was intrigued. At least she was beginning to get to the bottom of this entire mess. At least the redhead witch could figure out more of these things. "That mark being the mark of the Deathbird."
Alex looked intrigued but at the same time, she was not too intrigued. She was not being told anything that she did not all already know.
"There is a legend that the person who has the mark would be a harbinger of great power. My mother….she told me about it. You're worshipped in some circles."
"Nothing new," Alex said to the blonde. "So what happened to Krypton…."
"There was a seeping green death….I only remember bits and pieces about it," Kara said, her eyes wide as she spoke. "There was something in the core of the planet that poisoned us, and the pressure built up. My uncle…..he tried to warn them but he didn't listen to them. They refused to believe something was wrong until it was too late. Even my father tried to warn them…and….they never agreed on anything."
It was a story as old as time itself. A government not realizing that there was a problem, at least until the moment where it was too late.
"All of them are gone," Kara whispered and Alex motioned for her to sit down.
"I understand," Alex said, her eyes not showing any emotion. Kara felt a chill as she looked her in the green eyes.
"You don't….."
"I have lost so much that I've become disconnected, numb," Alex said as she brushed her hair out of her eyes. "I know it sounds bad and I feel awful even thinking that way….."
"They all died at your feet, their blood poured down onto the ground," Kara said. She recalled the screams as her ship blasted off of the planet. "I doubt he made it."
"Who made it?"
"My cousin….Kal-El….I don't think that he made it," Kara whispered to him. "He was only a baby when he was sent off and I was supposed to protect him but….how long was I in that ship?"
"Nine years."
Kara nodded, she figured that much. Dare she hope that he was out there?
"Nine years, not a second passed for me, I went into the ship at sixteen, I arrived here at nineteen where I went into stasis," the blond repeated as she shifted her weight and lazily laid her head down on Alex's head.
"There was another ship that came here, or that's the rumor. It was removed."
"Well if it was removed, I'm not sure that the right person found it," Kara said as she swallowed a lump in her throat. She did not want to tell this girl that she had been dreaming about her ever since she was on Krypton. Things like that would freak people out normally. "You can tell me if he's alive or not, can't you?"
Alex's expression turned gobsmacked. "I beg your pardon?"
"I mean….seriously, you know whether or not he's alive," Kara said, deciding to explain it to her. "Granted, I'm not sure all legends are true but….couldn't his one be? Couldn't you try?"
"You better slow down and breathe because I'm really lost."
Kara slowed down, the blonde breathed, and she tried once again. "Well you have the power to see if people who are dead are….well if they are."
"News to me," Alex said. It took her a bit to process that one but with the strangeness that went around her, she was not surprised.
That being said, how was she going to enact this power? She had to do something.
"I'll see what I can do," she added and Kara nodded, instinctively grabbing onto her hand. She felt that it was soft and warm to the touch.
Alex felt stupid but she closed her eyes. She allowed the power of the Hallows to flow within her and her heart to start beating.
'Okay Kal-El, where are you?' Alex thought as she tried to lock onto this one person. Alive or dead, she had no idea where he was.
"Anything?" Kara asked but this girl was in a deep trance. The blonde teenager could tell that something was entirely wrong.
Alex could see a little boy being placed on the rocket ship by his parents and the flight towards Krypton. Then there was nothing but an explosion. There was something that landed on that field that day.
She saw something but an external force blocked her.
"I can't reach him," the redhead said as she pulled things out.
"You can't?"
"I'm not sure what it means, this is all new territory," Alex said and she cupped the blonde's chin, forcing her to stare in her the eyes. "Look, I know you might think that I have all of the answers, but I'm normal….."
"No, you're not," Kara persisted. "You're no more normal than I am, both of us have extraordinary powers. The two of us can build a brand new world where we can flourish."
"We can?"
"Yes we can," Kara said with a bright smile that caused some of the frosty layers around Alex's heart to thaw but she had a lot of healing to go. "You have power….we can solve this and if he's gone….well that's just something that we have to live with."
Kara was not going to say this but if he was worse than gone, if he got picked up by the wrong person, then there was going to be a huge problem.
Alex was not afraid, she did not fear the unknown, but there was true terror that welled up inside her about the fact that she could let someone down again.
"He's….."
Alex went into a trance and Kara got really scared. No matter what she could do, she could not break her out.
The blonde was at a loss for words, she knew no one on this planet. She only had basic knowledge of the people of Earth that was a decade out of date.
"Please….I'm sorry if I pushed you to do something that you shouldn't have!" Kara yelled as she grabbed Alex's shoulders and started to shake her.
"Kara calm down, I'm here," Alex whispered and Kara relaxed, only momentarily. "He made it to Earth….I know that much but….."
"He's fine?" Kara asked.
"He's alive," Alex confirmed and Kara wondered what she meant by that. "He's…..I don't know, I just see flashes. If he was dead, I would know it."
"That's….that's good," Kara said in a tentative voice and Alex placed her hand upon the blonde's. "Don't….don't do anything that you're not comfortable with. I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, it's not worth it,' Alex muttered but she had more questions and she was going to piece things together, slowly.
To Be Continued.
