I woke up slowly, my eyes trying to adjust to the light and the white walls, wait?! White walls? I shot up and instantly regretted it as pain shot through my left arm, well paw as I noticed that I was in my wolf form. Then I remembered last night, at least I think that it was last night, I had no idea how long I had been out and I figured that I was either at SHIELD now or at STARK tower. I sat down at looked around slowly, taking in the room, around me were just white walls, a door and there was one window, but it was a one-way mirror. The door was locked from the outside by the looks of it. I noticed that I had a metal collar around my neck on which they had attached a chain which was stuck to the middle of the floor. I had about two meters (6.5 feet) of walking space. I knew that I could easily rip myself free and be out of the room in seconds, if I needed to I would even go through the window, but I wondered what their plan was. So I decided to stick around for the while, I could go whenever I wanted to. Then I checked myself out and saw that they had attended to my cuts; the large gash even had a bandage around it. By the smell of it, it wasn't that old, so it had probably only been last night that I had been taken. However I had no idea what time it was so I still didn't know how long I had been out.
I was starting to get impatient, wanting to get answers to at least a few of my questions and as if on cue the door opened and three men walked in. I instantly recognized them; the one with the patch who had an aura of authority around him was Nick Fury, the boss of SHIELD. Next we had Mr. Tony Stark himself; wearing sunglasses as usual, even though in this case it wasn't even such a bad idea. The lights were really bright in this room. And lastly there was a man in a lab coat, obviously a scientist. My first reaction was to flinch away, but then I recognized him as Bruce Banner. How did I know all these people, well very simple, my parents had always been interested in the avengers and SHIELD so you pick some things up. But I wasn't going to be the one to speak first, I might not even speak at all, for all they know, I was just a wolf, a highly trained one at that, but still just an animal.
I heard sounds behind the glass, multiple footsteps. I heard the soft whispering of them, sounded like a few men and a woman. From what I could hear it sounded like the avengers, but it was really hard to tell because the sound was too soft. Even with enhanced hearing it is hard to hear in a soundproof room.
I was waiting for Fury or Stark to start speaking, surprisingly Mr. Banner was the one who spoke first: "Hello there uhm… wolf, you must be hungry, right?"
Now that he mentioned it I was indeed hungry and my stomach started to growl. Funny that when you think about food you get hungry.
Mr. Banner chuckled quietly and set a bowl of food in front of me, followed by a bowl of water. I looked at them suspiciously, I didn't trust them, they could have put anything in that food. But, then again, they were the avengers we are speaking about, they wouldn't poison a dog, or wolf at that, and since I was just really hungry I decided to take my chances and started eating slowly.
Then Fury spoke up: "Wolf, we have been trying to keep an eye on you since you saved Agent Barton, but we couldn't find you other than when you showed up on your own initiative. We know little about you, I don't even know if you can understand me, if not than this conversation never happened." I inwardly smiled at that comment, of course Fury would want to keep his pride up and not be laughed at if it turned out that he had just been talking to a wolf, but didn't change my posture for them to see, I wasn't about to let them know that I understood them. I just continued eating as if nothing had been said, occasionally glancing at the three.
"Actually, Patchy," Mr. Stark said, "we do know that, She saved a little kid from a building yesterday and the mother of that child told me that the wolf could understand her and that I had to thank her when I saw her again. But what is more interesting is what her son said. Her son said that: "the wolf" found him as a human and actually changed her appearance to that of a wolf, so that they could get out of the building."
I was dumbstruck, I had thought that it would go noticed that a girl had gone into the building and that a wolf had come out, but I had never even thought about the possibility that that kid would be my downfall. I didn't have any regrets though; at least the child was safe.
Mr. Stark however wasn't done talking yet: "So miss wolfie, show us your human self, will ya. I have a bet with Capsicle that you were more than just a wolf." I was slightly offended by that and huffed, but I decided that they knew what I was so I changed back into my human self. All three men gasped. I smirked; I never thought I would get such a reaction out of Mr. Billionaire. I just decided to go with the flow. "Nice to meet you all," I said, "I am Accalia."
Mr. Stark was the first to recover; he looked right at the glass and said: "Pay up time, Spangles. And by the way I am Tony Stark," he said turning his gaze to me now, "but you probably already knew that." With a confident smile he walked out. Then Fury spoke: "Well, Accalia, I am director Fury, the head of SHIELD." I knew what SHIELD was, so he didn't need to explain it to me, but it didn't look like he was going to do that anyway.
"Since we don't know anything about you, we are going to keep an eye on you. It means that you are going to live here for the while, until we have decided what to do with you." With that he walked out as well. I looked at Mr. Banner, who was watching me with a nervous smile. "Well I guess that leaves me to show you around right? Follow me. I am Bruce Banner by the way" I replied: "I would love to follow you Mr. Banner, but I am kinda still chained to the floor." "Oh right, I forgot about that" he answered with a sheepish smile; he got a key from one of his pockets and took the collar off me. "There you go, oh and please call me Bruce." "Thanks Bruce" I said with a warm smile.
He started walking towards the door and was motioning for me to follow him. I couldn't help but think how weird this was; great job Accalia looks like you've gotten yourself into a worse situation than ever before, SHIELD is onto you now and it appears that you are going to live with the avengers now. Done with mentally scolding myself I followed Bruce out the door.
As you can see the next chapter is up. Sorry that it took so long, school was busy and I got sick.
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