I can't believe I'm posting a second chapter today. Well I've gotten a few good reviews about the revelations I made in the previous chapter, so thank you to each and everyone of you that have reviewed so far. All mistakes are my own.

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"Today marks the 6 month anniversary of Tony Starks disappearance. Today is also his 14th birthday. Despite the valiant efforts of both police and F.B.I. task forces, they are no close to finding Tony, than they were 6 months ago. Speculations have been made that Howard and Maria Stark are somehow involved in their only son's disappearance, and today they are hosting a press conference to dispel such rumors. We are now reporting love from said press conference...Mr. Stark, why do you say about the rumors of you being involved in the disappearance of your son?" the reporter asked bluntly.

"I was not, nor am involved in my son's disappearance." Howard Stark answered emotionally.

"Mrs. Stark, if Tony was being allowed to watch this press conference today, on his birthday, what would you say to him?" the reporter asked the supposedly grieving mother.

"No comment!" Howard yelled

"I would tell him to stay strong, and that I love him." Maria said with the poise of an actor.

"Maria! I said no comment!" Howard yelled at her.

"Mr. Stark, what do you have to say about your weapons being involved in illegal weapons trade and in the hands of our enemies?" the reporter asked trying to break up the domestic dispute.

"No comment!"

Jarvis shut off the news. In the last six months the various national news stations had been displaying coverage over Tony's kidnapping, and Howard and Maria deserved Grammy's for the show they were putting on. Jarvis was quite sick of it. The last 6 months had been hectic for him. He and the other agents were following every lead they had trying to find Tony before his captors could use his powers and skills for ill use. The MI6 agents had teamed up with Charles Xavier multiple times to see if Tony's signature had shown up. Every mutant had a unique signature and Charles kept telling them that although Tony had a fairly strong signature, that apparently was getting stronger with each visit, he couldn't pinpoint it due to it being shielded somehow. Jarvis didn't like the visits with Charles very much, because frankly the man in the wheelchair have him the creeps. How he had guessed his first name, which he never revealed to anyone, by just hearing his voice on the telephone, Jarvis would never know.

The MI6 agents were also busy investigating the mysterious stark weapons that kept ending up in the enemies hands, due to Jarvis still assigned to the case. Howards starks behavior kept getting more and more risque after Tony disappeared, and neither the American or British governments liked it. Jarvis was overworked, but he would not rest until Tony had shown up, alive and well or otherwise. Jarvis prayed that Tony would show up before his fifteenth birthday, because he didn't know how much more of this madness he could take.


Tony had matured a lot in the nine months that he had been with the Dolofóni. If someone had compared Samael to Tony Stark they would find very little similarities. Sure they both had intelligence and a personality that shined brighter than any star, but Tony Stark had been weak, skinny, emotionless and soft spoken, whereas Samael was confident, strong, as muscular as any 14 year could be, and happy.

Tony had quickly risen through the ranks and was each of his teacher's favorite student. In the time that he had been with the Dolofóni he had mastered sword fighting, archery, and 5 forms of Martial arts. He had picked up four new languages in the time he had been there and now was fluent in 7 including, Italian,German, Russian ,French, Mandarin, and Arabic. Sure he still needed to mature a bit, he was also a master prankster, but he was young. He performed every task given to him and emerged with a smile on his face. Of course there were rumors going around that he wasn't human, due to his fast mastery on difficult tasks, but most dispelled said rumors based on his geniusness. Tony could now shoot any target with a gun within 500 yards and was improving every day. He was even dabbling in blacksmithery because his talent for engineering and making things never left him. Before he was being forced to make crude explosives for his father, but now he was forging beautiful pieces of art that everyone admired, even if you were facing the receiving end of the weapon.

The elders had a bet going around that Tony would receive his hawk mask before he turned 15. Some of the elders were thinking he would be promoted in a few months while others said in a half a year. Tony had also started to collect a group of high level assassins, who all wished that they could be Tony's mentor during his years as a hawk.

Tony was excited for today, because not only was today his 14th birthday, it was also the day of a cub tournament. Tony had been honing his skills for weeks in anticipation. The tournament was set up bracket style, since there was only 32 cubs at anytime. The rewards for the top 4 finalists was a trip to the nearest city for a movie and they went for a minor shopping trip, the winner got $50, 2nd got $25 and 3rd and 4th got $15. It wasn't a lot but it sure was a break from their day to day lives. Out of all the things Tony had left behind the thing he missed most was pizza. So he was planning on winning the tournament.

They were all gathered in the large gym and paired off. There were a few simple rules which were you can use any combination of martial arts moves, and fight fair which means no biting, hair pulling, or kicking between the belt and knees. Each match lasted 3 rounds and you got the other person out If you got the person on the ground for 10 seconds. Then the winner moved on.

Tony's first opponent was Koen, since they were now about the same size, after Tony bulked up. They went to the middle of the mat and bowed to each other. Then the fight began. Tony won the first round by flipping Koen over his shoulder and pinning him to the ground. Koen won the second by tripping Tony, who wasn't watching Koen's feet. Then Tony won the final round by landing a perfect roundhouse kick to Koen's jaw, not hard enough to break it but effective in knocking him down. They got up and shook hands.

"Nice kick. " Koen said nursing his jaw.

"Thanks, I'm sorry about the bruise you'll get later." Tony said apologetically.

"No, problem. Make sure you buy me something nice with the prize money." Koen chuckled. Tony knew exactly what he was going to get for each of his clan mates if, no when , he won.

In the second match he faced a tall muscular girl who was a year older than him. He didn't know her very well, but recognized her face from one of his advanced fighting lessons, and he knew her speciality was kicks to the face, due to her long legs. Tony anticipated most of her kicks, ducking just before they landed, but did receive a nasty one to the face that broke his nose and got him out in the second round. Yet he managed to finish strong, despite having difficulty breathing due to the nose, and managed to knock her out with a strong punch to the jaw. She was only out for a few seconds, and when they shook hands, they did it with no hard feelings. After the fight Tony got his nose set and got ready for the third round.

The third match was surprisingly easier. He faced another girl who was fast on her feet, but didn't have much strength in her punches or kicks. He managed to pin her to the ground, and in the second he knocked her breath out by kneeing her in the stomach. Even though he won the match she did land a pretty good blow to his eye, and he knew tomorrow he would be sporting a black eye along with the broken nose.

He was in the fourth match, the semi-finals. In this round he was facing Duncan, the last of his clan mates left in the tournament. Now Duncan both outweighed him and was about 4 inches taller than Tony, and Tony knew that his ability would work the best for him, because Duncan was a brute and not very fast on his feet. In order to win this match he would have to tire Duncan out before getting him down. In the first round he was moving so fast, delivering quick hand here and there, that Duncan had trouble aiming his punches. Tony managed to deliver a set of 5 successive punches to Duncan's jaw and before Duncan knew what was happening he was on the ground. In the second round Tony used a Muay Thai kick to Duncans chest knocking him to the ground, but not before Duncan gave him a pretty strong punch to the jaw, that was sure to leave a bruise similar to the one he gave Koen earlier.

In the final match Tony was put up against a boy who was even larger than Duncan, but quicker on his feet. Tony knew that he wasn't going to last long with the big guy, but he knew he was going to put up the best fight he could. Tony and the giant circled each other, and then the fight was on. Tony managed to get in a few good punches and kicks, but In the end he didn't see the knee come up to his jaw. The next thing Tony knew was that he was laying on the ground with the ref and medic looking down to him.

"Are you okay, Samael?" the medic asked. Tony nodded, then the medic helped him get up. And guided him to the middle of the gym.

"Here are your champions. In first place, Goliath, from the cougar clan. In second place, Samael, from the bear clan. In third place, Alaihi, from the fox clan. And in fourth place, duncan, also from the bear clan. Since two champions are from the bear clan, the bear clan will receive an extra serving of dessert tonight," this brought a loud cheer from the beaten up clan. " Now go hit the showers!" Elder Fane announced with a smile. After everyone left the medic guided Tony, who was still jumbled up , to the healers station. It was ruled that Tony had a minor concussion, and Tony was given a few pain pills, and then, when the dizziness subsided, released to go to the showers.

Everyone was tired from the fights, so after dinner each cub went to their dorms and promptly went to bed.

The next day, the four champions,in their glorified bruises, along with Elders Fane and Atheni, arguably the two most easy going elders, went to the nearest city. The champs weren't allowed to know the name of the town, all they knew was that it took about two hours to reach the city. When they reached the city, they went to a pizza place, where they literally stuffed their faces with the greasy manna from heaven, Tony had about 12 pieces himself, then went shopping. Tony and Duncan looked their cash and bought junk food for their entire clan. Then they went to movies and saw the latest action movie. With the combination of the tiredness and soreness from the day before, stomachs overfilled with pizza, and comfy seats each champion fell asleep 30 minutes into the movie. Then they began their long journey home, where they all fell asleep again. Overall it was a fantastic day. But little to both Tony's and the group's knowledge, The events of the day were caught on the cameras of multiple cell phones, for even though Tony had changed a lot in the past 9 months he was still an easily recognized figure.


"This just in... A series of videos caught on the cameras of multiple shoppers in Boulder, Colorado, have surfaced. The videos seemed to have caught the images of four adolescents and two adults going about their days in Boulder, and one of the adolescents appears to be the long lost genius, Tony Stark. Now the video shows that the adolescents have multiple bruises and contusions marking their bodies, so could they all be kidnap victims? And who are the two adults? The Captors? If you have any information on the people featured in these videos please call The hotline featured below."

Jarvis hit the pause button just as the screen showed an enlarged picture of the boy. He pondered the picture closely and gasped as he realized that it was his ward.

"We found him." He said as tears of joy went down his face.


I know this Chapter is a little bit slow, But how did you like it? Tell me in the review section.