Chapter 7
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Winn ran to the art rooms, he was going to try and convince her to come with them, "Kara" he called out as he ran into the art room.
Kara already had her earphones in and was working on her art project which was a painting on a large canvas.
Winn put his hand on her shoulder to grab her attention, "Yo Kara" he tried again, Kara pulled out her earphones and whipper her head around to see Winn standing there.
"Hey Winn, did you forget something?" Kara asked with curiosity, she put the paint brush down and swinged on her chair to face her body at Winn.
Winn looked at the large canvas and noticed that it was an outline of Lena's face, "Is that Lena?" he asked with a smug smile.
Kara blushed with embarrassment and nodded her head, the canvas was a portrait of Lena. Her face was detailed and perplexed, the painting of Lena showed people a different side of her. It showed people exactly who Lena was.
The background was a mixture of dark colours, swirling together in the most hypnotic way, but as the colour was swirling and mixing together, it never touched Lena's face.
"Holy crap that's… beautiful" Winn commented, he was completely awe struck. Kara's art never ceased to amaze him. All of her drawings held so much emotions. Winn knew that Kara wasn't the best at expressing her feelings through her words, but he was able to understand what she was feeling through her art.
Kara couldn't stop her face from blushing, she fiddled with glasses and let out a nervous chuckle, "Don't tell Lena, I want it to be a surprise"
"So, this is what you have been doing since Lionel fell into a coma" Winn muttered
Kara nodded her head, she stood up and walked to her bag, grabbing the 20 paged report out and showing it to Winn. When Winn and Lena went to the hospital after school, she had been doing her Major Project for art.
Winn took the report and flicked through it, "You've been researching heart attacks and comas… why?"
"I wanted to help" Kara muttered sadly
"Is this why you haven't been coming to the hospital?" Kara nodded her head sadly, Winn finally understood why Kara have been skipping out on the visits.
"Kara" he said softly, he put the report down and held Kara's hand in his, "This isn't something that you can fix, nobody can fix this"
Kara knew this already, a small part of her wanted to remain naïve and oblivious to this fact, but she couldn't, not anymore, "I know" she whispered. Alex had tried to explain to her, numerous times, that this was a part of human life.
"Come today" Winn asked, "We can go to the hospital and then come back in time for Alex's big game"
Kara didn't know why she felt nervous about going, "But… how do I help?"
"Being there for her, is enough" Winn had seen the way Kara comforted Lena, it was different. It was as if Lena could drop all of her walls.
Kara shook her head, being there sometimes wasn't enough. Her parents, her siblings, were always there for her, yet her planet still exploded, her people still died.
"Is she mad at me?" She asked, Winn could tell by the soft tone in her voice, that she was afraid of the answer.
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Winn asked, he pulled on Kara's hand and guided her to the room, "Come with us". Kara was hesitant, but she allowed Winn to drag her outside.
"Where is she?" Kara asked, she was standing outside, Lena was no-where in sight.
Winn furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "She was right here", Kara started to feel anxious. Something was wrong, she could feel it.
"Winn" Kara couldn't stop the anxiety from leaving her body, her heart started to beat faster, "Where is she?" She repeated her question again.
Winn picked up on her quickened breathing, "I'm sure she's fine. She probably just went back inside to collect something"
Kara shook her head, "No" she said firmly, "There is something wrong"
"Kara, calm down" Winn said calmly
"NO!" Kara shouted, "There is something wrong, I can feel it". She couldn't explain it, but she knew that there was something wrong. Lena was missing, and she couldn't help but feel like it was her fault.
Winn was surprised by the fear in Kara's voice. She was the happiest person that he knew, she always appreciated everyone around her including the environment. She rarely displayed any negative emotion or anything that indicated that she was broken.
"Look, I will track her phone" he replied calmly, "I will prove to you that she is still in the school"
Kara nodded her head anxiously and followed Winn to the club room where he had left his laptop. Kara was pacing up and down while Winn was typing in Lena's serial number to find her location.
"I got it" Winn said, Kara stopped pacing back and forthing. She looked over Winn's shoulder, "Oh, that's… that's not the school"
"Where is she Winn?" Kara's voice was frantic at this point, she could feel her body shaking as she looked at the screen that indicated Lena was missing.
Winn started to type on his keyboard, "Her phone is signalling from a abandoned ware house which is 40 minutes away" He stated with confusion, it was humanly impossible for Lena to make that trip.
"Give me the location" Kara said firmly, Winn was about to but then he realised what Kara was going to do.
"No" He said, he wasn't going to give Kara the location when he knew that she would go there on her own, "Not alone you won't"
"Winn, I don't have time for this. She could be hurt right not" Kara argued, Winn was almost afraid of her, her anger was never directed at him. But he knew deep down that Kara's anger wasn't directed at him.
"You think I don't know that?" He retaliated, matching her anger, "You're going to get yourself hurt if you go there by yourself. We don't even know if she's in trouble or not, it could've been Lex or her mother"
"Why would they take her to an abandoned warehouse?" She shouted with frustration, she tried to control her breathing, "Winn, please give me the location"
Winn almost cracked under her intense stare, her eyes were begging for him to listen to her. Her eyes were swirling in a mist of blue, this was the first time he acknowledged that she was truly broken, "I can't" he couldn't do it, "I will call the police and they will go and get her"
Kara couldn't take it anymore, she slammed her fist on the metal table leaving a dent in it. Winn jumped out of his chair in fear and surprise, how the hell did Kara do that?
"They won't get to her in time" Kara couldn't care less about the dent that she made in the metal table, she only cared about one thing at this moment, Lena.
Winn gulped the saliva in his mouth nervously, he opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out.
Kara noticed the look in Winn's eye, fear. Her anger suddenly washed away and was now replaced with guilt. She didn't mean to scare him, her heart was breaking at the fear that shined in his eye.
Winn didn't know what he was feeling, Kara had just made a dent in a metal table, no one could do that unless they were a… "OMG YOU ARE A META-HUMAN" he shouted. The fear that he was once feeling suddenly disappeared and he was now jumping with excitement.
Kara was not expecting this kind of response, she expected him hate her, to despise who she was… for being different. But instead Winn was smiling with excitement, "I knew that the meta-human theory was true. So, is that your ability? Super strength?"
"Winn" Kara broke him out of his little fan boy phase, "I promise you, I will explain everything when I get back, but I need the address"
Winn nodded his head and gave her the location, Kara wasn't sure if she should hug Winn or not. She wasn't sure if he feared her powers, just like she did.
She gave him a small smile before leaving the room, Winn bit his lip, trying to comprehend what just happened.
He shook his head and quickly ran outside where Kara was, "Kara wait" He called out, Kara stopped running and turned around, she wasn't expecting Winn to embrace her so tightly, "Just know… I don't care if you're different"
Tears started to glisten in her eyes, she didn't realise how much she had wanted to hear those words. She returned the hug and nodded her head, "Thank you", she whispered. She couldn't have asked for a better best friend.
She pulled out of the hug and wiped the tear away, "Want to see something cool?" She asked with a small smirk. Before Winn could answer, Kara bent down and jumped into the air. Shooting into the sky like a speeding bullet.
He watched Kara fly through the air at an impressive school, "Holy shit" he muttered, "That is awesome"
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Kara flew through the air faster than she had ever flown before. She missed the feeling of adrenaline when she flew through the air.
It took her less than 5 minutes to fly to the abandoned warehouse, she was still floating in the air, trying to inspect the place. She took off her lead glasses and held it in her palm, she used her x-ray vision to scan the area and that's when she was her.
Lena's hands were cuffed from behind, she noticed that the kidnapper didn't have a human skeleton.
The non-human thing that had a physiology of a lizard, slowly approached Lena, Kara didn't hesitate to crash through the roof.
She flew through the roof and landed between the Lizard and Lena, creating a safe distance between the 2, the Lizard jumped away from Lena at a inhumane speed.
Lena didn't know what just happened, one second she was asking the Lizard about who wanted her kidnapped, and then suddenly, something crashed through the roof.
Something? No… someone.
She didn't need to see the face, she already knew who it was, "Kara" she muttered under her breath.
So many feelings rushed through her body, confusion was present as to how Kara flew through the roof but the most dominant feelings were, Hope. Happiness and Courage.
Just knowing Kara was here with her, brought all of these feelings forward. Lena didn't know that her heart was capable of feeling these emotions so abruptly.
It was as if time had slowed down, Kara was here, standing in front of her without her glasses on. Somehow, Kara looked different, she wasn't sure how to describe it but… she knew one thing, Kara found her. She wasn't alone anymore.
"Lena, are you okay?" Kara asked with concern bashing through her voice. She turned her back on the creature and super-sped behind Lena, she easily broke the hand cuffs with her bare hands.
"I-im fine" Lena stuttered, she tried to stand up but her legs were shaky, Kara wrapped her arm around Lena's waist in order to steady her. Kara just broke the metal cuffs with her own hand, and she also flew through the roof. Lena was trying to comprehend these facts but the Lizard in the room wasn't helping.
"You" The reptile pointed at Kara who was supporting Lena, "W-Who are you?"
Kara clenched her jaw, she could tell that this creature was an alien, but where from?
"I should be asking you that" Kara replied angrily, this alien, kidnapped her best friend, and no-one gets away with that. Lena could feel Kara's body shaking with anger, this was a sight to see.
Kara never got this angry, and even if she did, she hid it. To see Kara shaking with anger was… new. This was a new side to Kara that Lena was never exposed to.
The reptile sniffed the air, "You are not human", he muttered, crawling closer and closer to them, Lena felt Kara's hand tighten around her waist. She looked up in time to see Kara flinch. Lena didn't know how to feel about this, it was still hard to process everything that was happening.
"You're not either" Kara stated firmly, she could hear Lena's heart beating at a faster pace as she confirmed that she wasn't a human, "Where are you from?"
"The Planet Lumeria" he hissed, Kara's eyes widened at this, she knew of their kind. They were known for their poisonous tongue and the way they used their scales as throwing knives, which was also dipped in poison.
Kara suddenly transitioned her arm to Lena's shoulders and gently moved her back so she could inspect her full body.
"Did he touch you?" Kara asked with urgency, their skin was lethal to the human race. One touch could kill them in a matter of hours. Lena was panicking at the urgent tone in Kara's voice.
"N-No, I'm fine. He didn't touch me" Lena replied honestly, "What's wrong?", she wasn't sure why Kara had turn frantic from the mention of his home planet.
"You know of my kind? Well then, you know how lethal my poison is to the humans. My poison may not kill you, but it can certainly harm you. Alien or not" He replied, he was way too close for Kara's liking, "Give her to me, and I will let you go unscathed"
"She isn't yours to take" Kara's eyes flickered for a split second with anger. That split second was enough for Lena to see how much pain, anger, sadness… guilt, she bore within the depths of her soul.
Kara rarely got anger, and even when she did, she still managed to control it, but this was different. It was as if Kara wasn't trying so hard to hide her anger.
Lena finally understood that Kara Danvers, wasn't the naïve, innocent, beautiful girl who needed to be protected from all the bad things in the world because she was already exposed to that darkness.
The Lumerian shot them a crazy smile and licked his lips with his long tongue, "Oh" he hissed, "But she is"
He suddenly shot his tongue out, aiming for Lena's chest but Kara instinctively pushed Lena behind her back and lifted her arm up in an attempt to stop the disgusting tongue from reaching them.
But the Lumerian reacted quickly, instead he wrapped his tongue around Kara's wrist and let out a small laugh as he heard the alien girl scream in pain.
Kara almost forgot what physical pain felt like, but the poisonous tongue that wrapped itself around her wrist, reminded her that physical pain sucked like hell.
"Let go off her!" Lena shouted with as much anger as she could muster. Kara screaming in pain sounded foreign to her. She wanted to kill the bastard who made her gir- best friend scream in pain
Kara looked back at Lena despite the pain in her wrist and gave her a small smile, trying to reassure her friend.
Lena didn't know how Kara could that, smile through the pain.
She looked back at the Lumerian and decided that she couldn't focus on the pain in her wrist, so instead, she grabbed onto the Lumerian's tongue with her bare palms, and tugged on it.
Hard enough for the Lumerian to fall forward, Kara used her spare hand to punch the Lumerian in the face as he started to fall from the tug of his tongue.
His tongue, out of reflex, retreated back into his mouth. He stumbled a few feet back, Kara instantly regretted holding back her strength when she saw him peel off his scales.
"Oh, that is disgusting" Kara muttered, she had never seen it up close but now she wished she didn't, "Lena, you need to get out of here. If that scale cuts you, even a little bit, it will kill you"
No way in hell was Lena going to leave Kara alone, she didn't care if Kara was an alien or not. Kara wasn't invulnerable to this alien's poison, and Kara's bleeding and burning hand was evidence of that, "I'm not leaving you not when you can get hurt"
This was the first time Kara truly hated Lena's stubbornness, she turned her back on the creature and face Lena. She stared at Lena's green hypnotic eyes and tried to make her understand, "I can't lose you too" she whispered.
'Damn those ocean blue eyes' Lena thought to herself, all of her conviction crumbled to the earth when she looked into those deep blue eyes. So much pain and suffering in those eyes.
Lena wasn't afraid of death or pain, she would gladly stand her ground if it meant keeping Kara safe. But the way Kara looked at her, with absolute fear of losing her, made her realise that if she got hurt or died, Kara would instantly blame herself and she couldn't do that to Kara.
She nodded her head, "Kick his alien ass" she muttered before running out of the abandoned ware house, she didn't know what the fuck she was going to do now.
The Lumerian had a pile of scales in his palm, "I can tell you're fast, but just how fast are you?" He asked as he started throwing the scales at an exceptional speed towards Kara.
Kara was able to dodge the small scales to a certain extent. One of the scales cut her torso, causing Kara to flinch in pain. She suddenly had enough of dodging the scales and tried to use her heat vision again.
Her eyes lit up, the swirling light within her eyes gradually grew brighter and brighter. There was no time for hesitation, she shot the beams out of her eyes and aimed for his chest.
The Lumerian felt a burning sensation on his chest that threw him into the wall. Kara suddenly stopped her heat vision out of fear of hurting him.
The Lumerian groaned in pain and tried to stand up, "Speak your native language" he gritted through his teeth, Kara tilted her head in response, why did he want her to speak Kryptonian?
Either way, she wasn't going to speak it, so she stayed quiet. The Lumerian stood up unsteadily, he managed to lean on the wall for support, "SPEAK" he spat angrily.
"I will not speak my language to someone of the likes of you" Kara replied.
"You are just like them" He shouted, he then started to speak in his own language, in which Kara understood because she had learnt it back on Krypton.
"The Kryptonians believed that they were a superior race and look at them now. Your whole world is gone because of your incompetence. Millions of people burned by the flames of Rao so why did you survive? You should've died with your people, at least then you would be making amends for your sins" Kara saw the flash of anger in his eyes and knew what he was going to do.
But before he had time to extend his tongue, Lena hit him over the head with metal pole, hard, "I do not appreciate being kidnapped in the middle of a car park" she spat, "And the next time you touch my friend, I will shove this pole up your alien ass"
Kara looked at Lena with shock, she was not expecting Lena to come back with a metal pole to knock the Lumerian out while also threatening him.
Before Kara could thank her, she could hear something in the distance. It sounded like cars… maybe vans and she could hear multiple heart beats in the distance.
No-one can see her here, if they did than her family, her friends, will all be danger.
She took one last look at the Lumerian, "I should've" she muttered in Kryptonian before grabbing Lena's hand and running away from the ware house before the vans got here.
