What am I? Chapter 9
Luna was in the garden, which Tony had built for her to be therapy for her. She was sitting in the cherry blossom tree. She had her legs tucked against her as she trembled. Loki sat under the tree reading a book, but he read the same page fifteen times. He laid his head against the tree as Luna cried into her knees as she was shaking.
Thor walked to Loki, "How is she holding up?"
Loki looked up at her, "I don't think doing too well. She thought she was mortal, but now finding out that she has powers. Actually she always wondered how she had the powers, but she never knew that is where she had gotten them. She thought she was a mortal with strange powers."
They listen to the gasping cries as she struggled to hold them in. As Loki sighed, "I can't find anything about Earth Dragons."
Odin walked underneath the tree as Luna was listening to the conversations, "They are a hidden race, only to appear every few generations to give birth to a new generation or to be reborn. My father's father meet the very last Earth Dragon as she fell from the sky."
Luna screamed as the memories started coming, Loki rushed up the tree as she started to fall. She fell into blackness as she drifted pass many doors, "Hello."
It is alright, dearie.
Luna jumped, as she looked down a long hallway. A light was shining as she looked to see a throne of thrones. The world shined down on her as she gasped. Loki jolting from his chair as he fell to his back. He groaned as he saw Luna up. Luna was shaking as she held her pounding head. Loki rushed to her as she turned in the bed to lay her feet on the ground. She shivered as she looked at Loki, Loki held onto her as she shivered in his arms.
Luna laid there with Loki as she turned her head to see the calendar, she snorted. It was two months before her birthday, then she realized that it would be her eighteenth birthday. She looked at the sleeping Loki as she softly left the bed. She was walking down to the kitchen, where she saw two men with dark skin eating breakfast. She looked at looking through the cabinets her mind was so scattered.
"Excuse me, ma'am?" Luna shrieked, as a box of cornflakes exploded in her hand. The man that was behind her was covered in cornflakes, he spit out the stray flakes as the other man was laughing his head off.
Luna held a hand to her heart, "Yes."
The man held out the cornflakes dusted hand as "Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, a friend of Tony's."
Luna shook the hand as the other man came up to her, "Sam Wilson, I work with Steve Rogers."
Luna nodded, "Any special talents?"
Rhodes laughed, "Have you heard of the Iron Patriot?"
Sam smiled, "They keep calling me the Falcon."
Luna smiled, as Steve walked in on Sam's left, "On your left."
Sam growled playful, "Not funny, man."
Steve laughed as he turned to see the mess, "Is everything okay?"
Sam snorted laughing, "Rhodes here scared the poor girl that he made her make the box exploded."
"Be glad it was the box and not your friends' head." Sam jumped, cussing a blue streak, as he put a hand to his chest, Loki had appeared behind him, and he pointed to Loki, "Don't do that."
Loki smiled, "Do what breathe."
Luna got a broom as she started to sweep the mess up, "Loki, not this early."
Loki nodded as he flipped his wrist as the flakes on the floor magically went into the trashcan. Luna smiled, "Thank you, dear."
Loki smiled, "Of course, my love."
Luna smiled as she softly took a breath, she put the broom away as she went to the cabinet as she reached for some honey comb. She pulled down a glass white bowl as Loki pulled out the milk for her. Tony was snapping, doing a weird thing with his hands. Luna shook her head as she was eating her cereal, when Tony spotted her, "Ha! Just the girl, I wanted to see."
Luna had a spoon in her mouth, which she tipped it up with her tongue at Tony. Tony frowned, "That wasn't nice."
Luna smiled as she pulled the spoon out of her mouth, "What do you need, Tony? You only do that snapping, clapping thing with your hands, when you are planning or thinking of something."
Tony laughed, as he turned to James, "Am I that bad?"
James snorted as he sipped some coffee, "You do it when you are working on a project."
Luna rolled her eyes as she took another bite as Tony sprung on the balls of his feet, "I would like to get readings on that energy that you released. Jarvis wasn't able to get a complete scan."
Luna swallowed softly, "You were able to get readings."
Tony nodded his head, "Yeah, hello genius here."
Luna bit her lip, "I don't know how to make it come out. I just found out that I am like a phoenix that is reborn over and over again. Mostly since Earth has been created, and that was 4.6 billion years ago."
Tony hummed as he clapped, rubbing his hands together, "Do you want to see them?"
Luna blinked, "You have a nearly complete data."
Tony nodded, "Yeah, that's why I wanted another scan."
Luna put her half – full bowl into the sink as she started jogging after Tony as Loki quickly put his tea down, he ran after her. Tony looked at Loki, "You aren't going to throw me out of a window again, are you?"
Luna stiffen, Loki never told her about that. No wonder he didn't want to be in the Tower all the time. Loki shook his head, "Dr. Banner, when he was the Hulk, knocked the mind spell out of me."
Tony snapped his fingers, "The same way you were controlling Legos."
Luna tilted her head as she looked up at Loki, Loki caught the glare as the door opened. Luna rushed out behind Loki as he dashed out of the elevator, running from a furious Luna, "Mind control! You never told me about that, nor the throwing Tony out of the window. Is that why you never wanted to stay long in the tower with me, because of your actions? That they have forgotten about."
Loki jogged near the cars as Tony was hiding the laughter, "I never wanted you to know of all the evil that I had done."
Luna slapped him, "That doesn't excuse you from not telling me. I have in my many lives reborn, seen greater horrible than what the war that you brought upon my Earth has done."
Luna and Loki blinked at one another, Luna looked scared, and "Why did I say that?"
Tony was laughing, "You started to sound like Shakespeare here."
Luna sighed, "Tony, I am tired. I don't need to deal with anything else."
Tony pulled up an expanding graph, Luna was trying to understand it, "What is this?"
Tony rolled in a wheeling chair like silly little child, as he spun around to look at the graph, "This is the energy that you put out."
Loki was staring in amazement as he watched the levels of power, grow and grow, until it suddenly stopped, and disappeared, "What happened here?"
Tony snorted, "That's where the energy went back into Luna. I am trying to get a reading after it had went inside of her. I even compared different readings. It is the same energy."
Luna blinked, she glared at Tony, growling, "You have been studying me."
Tony shook his head, "I first meet you, when you saved my life from that runaway car. You moved like you saw where the accident were, and where it was safe."
"Tony!" She exclaimed, as Tony held his hands up, "I did it when you moved into the tower. You have always used that energy, but not always in the same form."
Luna was starting to freak out as she moved her hands through her hair as she started pacing back and forth. She was trying to steady her breathing as Loki worried about her from the sidelines. Tony was starting to feel guilty as he looked at one of the charts that was studying Luna now. Tony blinked, "Luna, stop whatever you are doing. You are giving out the energy again."
Luna stopped, turning to Tony in fear, and amazement, when they heard crashing and things dropping. They rushed up the stairs to see that everyone was cleaning up a mess that looked like broken chairs. Sam was shaking parts of the ceiling off of himself, "Why were things floating in the air just now?"
Tony was laughing, "I thought about much."
James looked at Tony very strange, "You know something, don't you?"
Tony snorted, then started laughing, then Bruce looked at Luna, "You know what he is laughing about."
Luna sighed, "Due to saying about the energy that I had expressed as you can say. He has been following the energy signature or my signature. Anytime I do something, like this like with the floating chairs. It has the same energy signature."
Bruce nodded, "Remarkable."
Luna felt like it was a burden, the dreams were coming harder and harder, but she didn't have a sense as to what they mean. She looked at out the window as the rain peppered against the window. She twist on the ball of her foot as she rushed to her closet, she grabbed the long trench coat that was black with a hood. She sighed as she looked down the floors, she inhaled as she leaped off the balcony. She felt the air slap her face, when it started to slow her down as it lifted her to be portrait as it softly slowly landed her on her feet. She tugged the hood down further and buttoning the coat. She quickly speed walk to the trailer park, where she knew two men would be. They always stayed behind, they never left her, even when the circus was doing well.
She was shaking with angry, they knew something. As she walked to the trailer, she remembered that she was twenty miles out of town. She shakily laughed as she realized that she had nearly ran there. She turned to the door, slamming her fist against the door twice nearly denting it. She was furious, as the door was sprung open, as Jogo poked his head out. He blinked his eyes awake as he saw that it was Luna, "Luna, what are you doing here?"
Alexander came out of their bedroom, seeing Luna out in the rain, "Jogo, back up so that she can walk in."
He backed up, which cause him to bump his head. He grunted as he rubbed his head as he stood up, "Hey, sister is everything okay?"
Luna walked to the middle of their living room as she looked at them, "What are Earth dragons?"
Jogo and Alexander (Alex) looked at one another, "Who told you?"
Luna snarled, "Odin, the father of Thor, who is the god of thunder."
They both cringed, well Jogo deeply cringed as Alex barely cringed, "How much do you remember?"
Luna screamed, "A huge throne, dreams that kept running through my head, but there is a power. Tony has said that no matter what power I use, it is the same energy. A huge golden dragon appeared out of me. I don't get what is happening to me. A reborn and reborn phoenix. Am I only that? Who is Luna Silver heart?"
Alex sighed, "You were born from the mother of thy Earth."
Jogo helped Luna to the couch, "We have lived for five thousand years. Our father's before us were her sons. She was born during the Ice Age. She began the new age of man. She wanted new life to begin, so she helped create it. She watched as they grew, her people have the ability to live up to nine thousand years. During World War two, it was a time of destruction. She was getting old. They were moving to a safe home. She was about to leave Japan, when she stopped. She rushed to the shoreline as she had laid an egg there, but there was no life from it, so she let it sink to the bottom of the sea. She didn't think it would hatch. She ran to see a white dragon trying, desperately to walk onto the shoreline. As she rushed to get to the hiding place. The destruction had come. She ran into a camp, and leaped into one of the prison holes as she was safe."
Jogo helped dry Luna off as Alex continued the story, "Our fathers went to check, but they had saw the white dragon was now a crying baby, and golden light was surrounding the baby. It was you. They didn't know what to do, as they were getting old too. They nodded to one another as they killed one another. It reverses the aging, but you still have the memories. We were reborn as their sons. The old woman gave all her powers to her child. We have the memories that can help you."
Luna was shaking as she cried out cracking the glass with the volume. She inhaled swiftly as she howled, "If you were my brother's and protector's, then why did you leave me with that family?"
Jogo and Alex looked at one another, "You have to remember that on your own. We cannot tampered with the Earth Mother Dragon's memories. We can go answer questions."
Luna stood up, slapping them hard on the face that they fell to the floor. She rushed out of the door grabbing her coat as she slammed the hood on her head as she ran letting the trench coat fly behind her. The bare ground underneath her feet as the wind touched her skin whispering. She ran and ran until she leaned against the Avenger's Tower door. Jarvis immediately recognize her, "Miss Luna, are you alright?"
Luna looked at Jarvis, "I am fine. I just found out some hard truths tonight."
Luna heard Jarvis open the door, "Welcome home, Miss Luna."
Luna smiled, "Thank you, Jarvis. That was what I needed tonight."
Jarvis, if he had a face, smiled, "I am glad that I could have been of help."
Luna sank to the floor as she tucked her legs against her, "Does anyone know I am gone?"
Jarvis made a clearing throat noise, "Master Odinson was in a bit of a distress seeing that you had disappeared out of sight. I reassure him that you were visiting your brothers."
Luna shook her head, "That was the truth. How did you know?"
Jarvis made a laugh, "They are the only people who have not bring harm onto you. They are not related to the family that cared for you."
Luna sighed as she laid her head on her knees, when she heard footsteps, she lifted her tear – filled eyes to Loki as he opened his arms. With a mighty howl of a cry, she rushed to his arms as she cried into his chest. They stayed there as she cried her heart out to him. He cried along with her. They walked up the steps as she cling to him as she felt so exhausted. She didn't know if her body could handle all the stress.
Loki cupped her jaw as he wiped away the tear gently from her cheek. Everyone saw the gentleness Loki was giving to Luna. Loki looked up at Thor, "Not a word."
Thor shook his head as he kneeled down beside Luna as she listened to everything, "How do you feel, my lady?"
Luna let another tear fall, "My heart has been stabbed with pain like no other. A betrayal that came a cost, but I cannot understand their reasons. A truth that was hidden from me. I do not understand these dreams that come to me as I wonder what I am. I once thought that I was a normal mortal, but now I don't know."
Everyone looked sorrowful as they listen to Luna. It was a grief that was tearing her away. She had pain that no one else could feel. She didn't know what to do or who to turn to. She was going to be on her own with. As she looked at Loki, she sat up surprising Loki as he looked at her, "Yes, my dear?"
Luna kissed softly on the cheek, and whispering into his ear, "When can we make a wedding date?"
Loki looked at her as he was gapping at her, "You are for sure."
Luna nodded, "We have been taking it slow. If we do after my eighteenth birthday, no one can take over my right to live at the house. I can stay with you."
Loki laughed, as he crouched to her as he looked at her, he pulled out a black box as he kneeled down before in the proper way, "Luna, we are soulmates. We belong to one another, for the fates have foretold our destiny. On Asgard, we said may I be so honorable as to have you in my life for eternity? I know on Midgard it is different, but Luna, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"
Luna nodded as the tears fell from her eyes, but they were happy ones as she accept the ring. She let a tear fall as she looked on her left hand, a beautiful elegant cut diamond was sitting in the base of her engagement ring that looked like vines as it had three stones. She smiled at her ring as she held it up to the air.
They were in the bed looking at the stars as Luna kept looking at the ring. He smiled, as he pulled her hand to his lips. He looked into the blue eyes that he had fallen into love with. Loki turned on his side, switching the light off as they spooned sleeping under the covers. Luna was scared, what she was going to do, but most of all, she wondered.
What am I?
