A/N Good news! Well, first I'm updating. Happy New Year! We made it through 2012! I'm also half way through Erased. My new story. It has nothing at all to do with my current trilogy. Just a prompt I got from himegirl15. It'll be up soon enough. Also, I went through The Strongest of the Weak and realized that I have millions and millions of mistakes. So, I'm gonna go through it and fix literally everything. Nothing will be changed. It'll just be a better quality story. And one more thing. Every set of books that are sequels of prequels all have a name. What should mine be? For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about I'm talking about like The Twilight Saga, The Caster Chronicles, or The Hunger Games Trilogy. Let me know please! R&R
Disclaimer: I don't own Ultimate Spider Man. Only the characters Katherine and Margret.
CHAPTER8:
"Do you not realize what could have happened?! Every single one of your friends outside that door could've been put on the streets! Next time you decide to pull a stunt like that I'll make sure you never see the inside of this helicarrier again!"
The team had just gotten back to the helicarrier, Danny included. Nick was angry to put it lightly. He was yelling at Danny right now while everyone else stood in the hall. Not that the closed door was helping much.
"Yes, sir," they heard Danny say.
Tentatively, Luke walked in front of the sliding door and walked inside the conference room. Both Iron Fist and Nick sat at the table. The other four members followed.
"But, Danny," Nick said.
"Yes sir?"
"I'm glad you're back."
Everything about the Next Avengers had been explained to him and now he really regretted leaving. If he could go back and change his mind he would, but he cannot.
"So, Katherine," Fury said to the girl, "would you like to explain."
"Uh, yeah." Katherine stood and started to talk.
"You all know the theory about how I survived that fall. I genuinely believe it. I also know that both Ava and Margret are alive. I don't know where they are though. I've been in contact with Ava.
"I haven't seen her. It was a mental thing. This might be a bit hard to swallow, but I did something to her. Nothing bad, but I wasn't supposed to do it.
"I connected my mind with Ava's in a way. I split my powers. That means I'm not as strong as I used to be. Ava has half my powers.
"I gave them to her. I had every intention for her to throw Margret and me off the statue, but I expected her to catch herself in time. I distracted Margret and Ava was going to make sure we both died. That's what I meant when I asked her to kill me. Then the magic net caught us all. It worked on Ava because she essentially had her own chi.
"As time goes on I'll become stronger and she will too. The change shouldn't be affected by the Jade Tiger Amulets either. I've used them before and nothing changed for me. I don't know why they worked for Margret."
"Where are the amulets?" Sam asked.
"Ava has them. Margret does, I mean. When I woke up and started to try to communicate with Ava everything was a jumbled mess. She didn't realize what I had done at first. Now she does. I have access to her thoughts and she has access to mine. We're learning how to block certain things though. It won't be like this forever."
Danny was overjoyed to hear the news. Ava was okay. She was alive. Katherine can essentially talk to her. Hope was returning. He really might see her again.
"She's far away," Katherine said. "At first she wasn't and I could hear pretty much everything. Now, I can't."
"How far?" Danny asked.
"That's the weird thing. I have no idea. It's just fuzzy.
"I have something though. At first, she was scared and confused and I told her about her new powers and what she can do now. Last I heard she was fine. I learned a lot about her," Katherine explained.
"Like what?" Sam asked. The thought that Ava was alive was reassuring that everything could be all right again.
"Ava's a writer. She kept a journal. She always admired the authors she has read. She wishes she could be like them.
"The last thing I got from her was strange. Ava knew it would be the last time we talked for a while. It was a poem. It means something, something she needed to tell me but didn't have enough time to say."
"Do you remember it?" Danny asked.
"Uh, yeah," Katherine said. She pulled a piece of paper out of a file in her bag and read off the text in her curly handwriting.
"She lies in wait for the day you shall come.
Alone in a crowded place of thousands,
Seen,
But never discovered.
The transformation of amethyst has begun.
She lies in wait for the day you shall come.
Silently screaming,
In the land where they never die.
"I've been trying to figure it out for days. So far, I've gathered that it's written in third person. Ava wrote this about herself. She being Ava. I think you is Daniel. The first part could mean she believes she will be found. Hence, she is waiting.
"I think the next part is about a small city, it only has thousands of people but she doesn't say how many 'thousands' is. 'Seen, But never discovered.' is probably a metaphor for something. I'm not sure.
"Then there's the 'transformation of amethyst'. I think Margret is trying to control her. When she was taking control of me I felt different. It's something you can sense.
"She goes on to say 'she lies in wait for the day you shall come.' Again, reiterating she's waiting and still has hope through it all. 'Silently screaming' doesn't make any sense to me. But, the most confusing part is 'In the land where they never die.' It could be a clue to where they are. Are there any cities or places in New York that could maybe reflect this?"
Fury thought for a moment then answered. "Not that I know of."
"Gosh!" Katherine yelled out in frustration. She threw down the piece of paper in her hand against the table using her super speed. The entire table shook at the impact. Katherine pulled her hand away and held back the tears and cries of pain from her most likely broken bone.
Danny walked over to the girl that had been most of his family for years and took her hand in his, healing it.
"You need to calm down," he said. "You always end up getting hurt when you get aggravated. My first example being that you just broke a bone trying to figure out what a poem means. Take a deep breath."
Katherine pulled her hand away from Danny's grasp and flexed her fingers. "Thank you. And I know. But this has to mean something and I'm not gonna give up until I figure out what."
"Right now, you all just take it easy," Nick said. "It's getting late and you all need the rest. Katherine, if you'll come with me, I'll show you where your room is. We can give you something to wear for the night and you can move your things here in the morning."
"Alright. Thank you director Fury."
The group of six walked to the area for the team where their rooms were.
There had always been six rooms surrounding the area. The sixth had always been used for storage. It has been cleared out now and has basic things like a bed, a side table, a dresser, a bookshelf, and an alarm clock. The closet was open and completely empty.
Katherine walked in and set her bag down on the bed. It had only a white fitted sheet and a matching bed sheet. It was a full with two pillows. Both pillow cases were white. The walls were not metal like the rest of the helicarrier. They had drywall and plaster on them, to look more like a bedroom.
"Like I said," Fury started seeing the girl's blank expression, "You can do what you want to it tomorrow. We can paint it whatever color you want. Everyone else did. This is where you'll live until you turn eighteen. After then you have the choice of either staying or moving into your own place in the city. Goodnight." Then the man was gone, leaving the team in the doorway of the blank room.
Katherine walked out of the room, pushing past the boys in her way. She stood back ad scanned the semi-circle of rooms.
Peter closed the door to Katherine's room and the four teens moved out of her way.
Each door had a small plaque with a name on it.
Malince
Parker
Alexander
Cage
Rand
Her eyes stopped on the first door, right before Danny's.
Ayala
Katherine squeezed her eyes shut tight. She stood there for a moment. Then, she opened her eyes and walked to her room. She closed the door behind her, leaving everyone else outside.
"This is all my fault," she thought. "Ava should be out there with them. She shouldn't be missing, at the mercy of my mother. She doesn't deserve this."
Katherine put her head in her hands and began to cry.
"All my fault," she whispered.
