Hi everyone! I got the new chapter for Star Ray up early! I was going to wait until Saturday to put the new chapter up but I decided that there was no harm at uploading a new chapter tonight. NOTE that I will not always do this! The only reason I'm uploading on a Tuesday night is because I'm excited to share with all of you a part of Calliope's past. This might shed a little light on her current personality so hopefully you all like it. It is on the short side but I promise to make up for it in the next few chapters. Once again I don't own Marvel only my OC's.

Memories/past Present time

"Calliope wake up! CALLIOPE!" someone was screaming my name but who was it? I definitely knew them, but I couldn't put a face to the voice I was hearing. I don't have any friends so the list isn't very long on who it could be. " Calliope you have to wake up. Come on, kid!" It was definitely a male and he sounded pretty desperate, maybe I should wake up and reassure him that I was alright. Wait a minute, why was I asleep in the first place? I don't remember falling asleep recently, and wasn't I supposed to do something important? Did I forget to make dinner again? That's when it hit me.

"NOOO!" I screamed as I bolted upright trying to get back to my feet. I needed to help him! He's not okay and I have to help him before they try to kill him.

"Woah kid take it easy." Someone told me as they gently put their hands on my shoulders trying to calm me down and keep me from getting up. "Don't get up so fast you got hit pretty hard."

I looked around and noticed that I was still in Aardwolf's warehouse, but I couldn't find Christopher anywhere the only one by my side was Clint. I needed to warn Clint about what happened maybe he could help me save him. "Clint he's gone!"

"What do you mean? That monster, yeah I know, by the way where did that thing come from and where's your boyfriend?"

"No Clint you don't understand that thing was Christopher!" I was freaking out I didn't know what to do any more at this point. This was not how we expected the mission to turn out. I should have never agreed to do this I'm only 16 years old, I'm a teenager, not a superhero. I'm supposed to be at my job not here saving the world from some psycho wanna be mutant gangster. I don't know what to do anymore and I'm panicking

"What? Kid you're not making any sense. Okay, I need you to calm down, I can't help you unless you calm down and explain to me what happened. Okay, Calliope calm down." He brought me in closer as he tried to calm me down. Normally in a situation like this ordinary people would focus on their breathing, but since I don't need air I'm at a disadvantage. I had nothing to focus on to calm down, but I needed to at least try because if I didn't then I couldn't do anything for Christopher, and he needed me now more than ever.

"Okay, I'm okay, or at least as much as I can at the moment." I stuttered, still, a little rattled by today's events.

"Alright, do you want to explain what happened then because I just had to shoot a couple of arrows at a monster who didn't seem fazed by me in the least bit."

"That's what I'm trying to explain to you, that was Christopher." Clint looked at me urging me to continue and explain what happened here. "Okay so after you got knocked unconscious, Christopher and I went in to attack Aardwolf and his goons. It took some time but we did it, but that's when we found the bomb. Aardwolf was going to detonate the bomb and turn everyone into monsters, and then-" I couldn't finish the story. I shut my eyes as tightly as I could just to forget about what just happen. Maybe if I tried hard enough I would wake up and this will all be a nightmare and I could continue with my life. I knew it wasn't possible, but what else could I possibly do at a time like this.

"Kid, what happened?" Clint asked softly

"There was no time left. If we had waited any longer you would all be dead or worse. You would end up like us, or Aardwolf. I came up with the idea to absorb the radiation because we could handle the exposure to it, but I have never absorbed this much radiation before. Christopher said that he would do it since he had done it before, but that's when it all went wrong." I put my head into my hands as a sob came out "He managed to do it. He absorbed all the radiation but then he started to seize. I tried to help him but it was too late, and he mutated right in front of me. I tried to talk to him and make sure if he was okay but…. that's when he started to hit me. I didn't know how to react to what was happening so I just froze. The last thing I remember is getting blasted through the wall."

"That's when I woke up actually," Clint told me "He was going to keep coming after you. He was looking for your body even after you got knocked unconscious, and I think if I hadn't had stopped him… he would have killed you. I distracted him for as long as I could and threw him off your scent, but the only way to do that was to send a few explosive's at his feet. The floor broke apart from underneath him and he fell into the sewers and that's when I lost him."

"He was looking for me?" I asked him

"Yeah but kid I don't think you should be happy about that. He obviously wasn't in his right state of mind he was still trying to kill you."

"No, Clint you don't understand!" I yelled at him "What I meant was that he kept looking for me even when he was clearly unstable." Clint just stared at me confused about where I was going with this. "If he was looking for me, someone who he loves and even tried to kill me, who else will he look for in this state and try to kill? Let me remind you he doesn't like you guy in the very least!"

"We need to find him and fast! Can you track him?"

"It's not that easy he changed completely. Before I could because I had spent so many years with him and I knew what the radiation that ran through his veins felt like but that's not the case here. His chemical and biological makeup is different now the type of radiation running through him is different now, I can't track it anymore." I explained to Clint but before anything else could be said, Clint paused and answered his Comm set.

"What? Hill I can't hear you?", Hill why was she calling? Whatever the case was it must have meant bad news because Clint went rigid and all the color from his face had drained. "Hold him off for as long as you can we're on our way. Okay, kid, we need to move now!" He said as he started to run to where we had left the car.

I flew to keep up with him "You said him just now does that mean they found him? Where are they?" Clint kept running as we left the warehouse, ignoring my questions. "Clint, what happened?"

Something was off I could tell that much. Why was Clint ignoring my questions and why does he refuse to look at me. This whole day has been off and I couldn't understand why everything kept going downhill. First S.H.I.E.L.D. decides to move my sister to a safe house without giving us a proper reason about why they were moving her, then they chose to keep some sort of file from us (because it had nothing to do with this assignment), and now Clint won't tell me what was happening. I can't take it anymore they were making my anxiety rise with all the secrets they surround themselves' with. "Clint tell me what happened! I can't help if I don't know what's happening!

I noticed he slowed down only slightly to respond to my question, but I could tell he didn't want to say anything. "He's at the safe house."

I stopped moving completely as he told me this. He's at the safe house and from the sound of it he was attacking it, but what made my heart stop was the fact that Cristina was at the safe house and was now in danger. Without another word, I flew off leaving Clint behind. He would catch up eventually, but I needed to get to Cristina, my sister didn't have any powers she couldn't defend herself as I could. She was lucky enough to escape the experiments but now that left her at a disadvantage compared to the rest of us. I just needed to hurry up and get to her. The safe house we were operating in was on the other side of town, so If I hurried I could save my sister and get her to our apartment then come back and try to help Christopher before they hurt him.

Everything was a blur as I hurried to my sisters' location, but by the time I got there, it was too late. I couldn't even process what I was seeing in front of me. I saw the building half destroyed as Agents from S.H.I.E.L.D. tried to take Christopher down without getting killed themselves. Civilians were running everywhere trying to get away from the situation, but I didn't care about them or anyone else for that matter. They weren't important to me, their lives didn't mean anything to me in the slightest. All I cared about was saving my baby sister, but I was too late. Why-

I woke up startled by what I had just dreamt of as tears streamed down my face. I hated those memories so much but I knew deep down that they will never leave me. That day will haunt me until the day I die and I deserve that after what happened and how I had failed them. I sat there holding myself trying to forget that awful dream that plagued me every night since the day I had lost them. No, it wasn't a dream…. it was a nightmare, I thought to myself. Nothing that awful could ever be considered a dream. Dreams were beautiful and exciting events that you hope one day will become reality, this was the opposite of that. I sat there lost in thought trying desperately to forget the moment my life fell apart before my very eyes. I could still remember the amount of blood that we all shed that day. I could still feel it running across my skin as if I was still holding her in my arms.

Sometime later I get notified that Loki was in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and that they were on their way back to the helicarrier. The only downside to this is that we still have no sign of where Clint went. What we do have is basically a group of man-children who have fought over Loki like he is a toy. Men I swear. Well, what should I expect when I'm told that Thor and Stark have just joined in on the search for the tesseract.

Hi again I hope all of you like this weeks chapter! No, that doesn't mean I won't post this Saturday I won't make you guys wait. Feel free to send me a message if you have a question and leave a review. If you notice any mistakes please let me know right away! I can't improve the story if no one tells me that something is wrong and I want to make sure all of you enjoy the story.