I woke up and looked at my alarm clock and saw that it was half past six. Still a little early, but I was used to getting up early so I decided to get up. I walked into the living room to see that I wasn't even the first one up. "Morning" Steve said. "Good morning Accalia" spoke Nat. I greeted them back and then took a seat. "Would you like some pancakes Accalia? I was just about to make some." Steve said while walking to the kitchen. "Yes please, that would be great!" I answered. Nat, Steve and me ate the pancakes after that and Steve then continued to bake a whole bunch more for the others. Clint walked in not much later. "I knew it, I smelled pancakes." He said. He got a plate and put four pancakes on there, put toppings on them, then he walked to me ruffled my hair, sat next to me with a "morning kid" and then stuffed a pancake in his mouth. "You have no manners at all do you?" Nat asked. He shrugged and went for his next pancake. We talked a little while and then I thought about what I was gonna do today.

I suddenly remembered Dusty, I hadn't seen him in a while, I was gonna visit him again. I looked at the time. Eight o'clock, yeah I could go to him now. I got up and said: "I'm gonna meet a friend of mine, I'll be back in a while." "Wait a second." Steve said. "You're still hurt, you're not going alone." "You can come if you want" I said. "Can we come too?" Clint asked. "Of course" I answered. So the four of us stepped in the elevator. "Who is this friend?" Clint asked, ever curious. "You'll see" I smiled mysteriously. I wasn't gonna spoil the fun yet. We arrived at the alley. "Uhm you sure your friend lives here Accalia?" Nat asked. "Yeah, positive" I answered. I then turned wolf and said in dog/wolf language: "Hey Dusty, you there?" A black shape appeared not a second later at my side. "Accalia you're back!" He exclaimed happily, tail wagging wildly. "It's good to see you again too Dusty" I replied. "Hey Dusty, I brought some human friends, you don't mind, do you? I asked him. He answered: "Those people behind you? No of course not, I'd love to meet some friends of yours." I turned to Steve, Nat and Clint: "guys, this is my friend Dusty, he's young but very friendly and playful, I was thinking that we could all go to the park together? I asked them. "Yeah sure," Nat replied "though I must say that I was quite surprised with Dusty, I wasn't expecting a dog." One by one they all approached Dusty and greeted him, letting him smell them and them petting Dusty a few times.

After the introductions we went to the park and played there for an hour or two, even though I wasn't able to move as freely as I wanted, thanks to my wounds. "It's almost eleven now," Steve said after a while, "maybe we should go back sometime soon." We all agreed and after saying goodbye to Dusty we went back to the tower. Back at the tower, everyone had awoken by now. "Hello there friends, where have you been?" Thor asked. I told them about Dusty and what we had done. "He sounds like a nice dog, why don't you ask him to come live with us? I wouldn't mind a pet." Tony said. I shook my head: "he doesn't want to, he says he's happy with the way he lives now." We then ate and after that we decided to relax a little until JARVIS broke our nice and quiet afternoon.

"Sir, director Fury is on the phone." Jarvis said. "Put him through J." Tony answered. "Good afternoon avengers, I called because of Accalia, is she with you right now?" "Yes she's sitting next to me." Steve answered. "Good" Fury said, "Accalia has been with you for about a week now so I want to discuss the progress on her and what is going to happen next with regard to her. I expect you on the helicarrier as soon as possible, bring Accalia." With that Fury ended the call. "Well, let's go then." Steve said. We walked to the elevator and like last time it was never gonna fit. This time though, Nat, Thor and Steve willingly chose the stairs. We arrived at the garage and I couldn't believe my eyes.

There were so many expensive cars! "Which one is yours?" I asked Tony. He grinned, "all of them." Then he continued "so which one do you want to go with?" I looked at him incredulously, then he nodded and I was off, running to the cars and looking at all of them. "This one." I said after about a minute. It was a red Lamborghini. "Sure" Tony said. Tony and I got in. "what about the others?" I asked him. "They will be fine, they can pick any car they like, though Steve will most likely take his own bike." The ride was awesome, though something was nagging in my mind. "Tony," I said, "what did Fury mean with "we'll discuss what happens next"?" "Don't worry about it kid, it'll be alright, we'll all make sure of that. And would you look at that, we have arrived." He said. We stopped in what looked like a haven. "What are we doing here?" I asked. "Changing transportation." Tony said. I wanted to ask something else, but then Clint and Nat pulled up. We waited until the others had arrived too and I then followed them into a giant storage.

Inside stood a jet. "Wow, are we even allowed to use that?" I asked. "It's Tony's" Bruce said, "so yeah." We got inside and I took a seat next to Thor. The flight wasn't very long and soon I began to see the helicarrier. I had read some things about the ship, but seeing it was a completely different thing. We got off the jet and walked through a hallway. "What do you think Accalia?" Clint asked. "This place is incredible!" I said while admiring everything I could see. I heard footsteps coming closer and not much later Fury came into view. "Avengers, finally made it I see. And Accalia, good to see you here." He said while sizing me up. "Thank you director, good to see you too." I responded. "At least she's polite, you could learn a few things from her Stark, follow me." With that he turned around, not even looking back to check if we were following. We followed nevertheless and we ended up in what looked like a meeting room. Fury was the first to talk "Alright you know why we are here so let's get straight to it. Accalia has been living with you for a few days now." He said, addressing the avengers. What do you think of her? "She's a very nice person." Nat said. The others all said similar things. "Alright" Fury said, then he turned to me.

"Do you trust them?" He asked. "Yes sir I do" I confirmed. "Do you have any family and do you know how to fight?" He continued. "No sir, none of my relatives are alive anymore and yes I do know how to fight." "You know, all of this information was in the file that I mailed you patchy." Tony remarked. Fury answered: "Yes, but last time I opened an e-mail of yours, all of my staff had to type the words: "Tony is the best person on this entire planet" at the same time to get my computers working again." Tony laughed at that "good times." Fury then turned to me once more "change into your wolf form." I did as he asked. He watched me for a second and then said "change back." Once again I did just that. "Thank you" he said finally. "I'm gonna talk in private to the avengers now about what is going to happen next, you can wait outside, there is a chair there." I nodded at him and then left the room.

I noticed the chair and sat down. I wanted to know what they were saying so I focused my attention to the closed door and started eavesdropping, I knew that I shouldn't, but it wasn't like I could turn my ears off or something. "So what do you really think of her?" Fury said. What a weird question I thought, he had already asked that a few minutes ago, was he really expecting them to give different answers now? Even if he was expecting that, it didn't happen, they said the same things as they had said before. A sound to my left caught my attention and I immediately focused on that, forgetting about the meeting for a second. I sniffed the air and smelled what I think was a person. The sounds were coming closer and I expected to see someone appear any second, but it never happened. The sound seemed to go in the direction of a hallway that was three meters to my left. I went after it to investigate. I ran after the sound, when it suddenly stopped. I relied on my nose from now on and came to a stop at a dead end. The smell was obviously there and I also heard breathing sounds, the problem was that I didn't see anything. I changed into my wolf, maybe I could smell something as a wolf that I wasn't able to smell in my human form. As soon as I changed I heard a gasp and the next moment a girl was standing in front of me. She was very young, I think around thirteen or something.

"How did you do that?" she asked. I turned human again. "I could ask you the same" I said. She looked at me with mistrust so I decided to keep talking: "but to answer your question, my parents were scientists and one day a lot of fluids from their laboratory fell on me and since that day I can turn into a wolf. I started looking around thinking of what I should do now when she suddenly said: "that is really cool." I looked at her and she had a grin on her face. "As you might have noticed I can turn invisible and I was born with it. She said. "The name's Jade" she then said while extending a hand. I shook her hand, "Accalia, nice to meet you." "Why are you here?" she asked me. "The avengers brought me here," I told her, "Fury and the avengers are discussing what is gonna happen to me now and I was told to wait outside, then I heard you and decided to follow you and here I am." "Wow, the avengers found you? She asked. I nodded. "Cool" she said, "all I got were some stupid SHIELD agents. I wanted to ask her what she meant with that when I heard footsteps coming our way.

"Oh no" Jade said when she heard them too, "come on this way." She pulled me out of the dead end and we ran through the hallways. "Wait" I said while running "why are we running from them?" She ignored me and when I asked again she pulled me into another hallway and told me to be quiet. I heard the footsteps coming closer, before they passed us by and became softer until they were gone. "What was that all about?" I said. "What do you mean?" she said, "we're trying to escape of course and those are agents trying to chase us." "Wait why are you trying to escape?" I asked. "Because I am sick of this place, the agents brought me here, took me away from my family, with the promise to take good care of me. Since then I have been here, I always have at least one agent watching me, they often ask me to do experiments even though they don't do them if I don't want to and I haven't seen my family since I was brought here." She said. But it's the same with you right? I mean you were even brought here by the avengers." "No" I said, "the avengers did sort of capture me, but since then we became friends, they are sort of my family now. I came here out of free will." I said. I heard the footsteps again.

"They are coming." I said. She pulled me along again until we came to another dead end. "What do we do now?" She asked me. "Get behind me," I said, "I'll make sure nothing happens to you." The footsteps came closer, until I could see them, two SHIELD agents. "Sir, we found her" one of them said into an earpiece. More footsteps came our way and then there were seven SHIELD agents. "Jade" one of them said "how many times have I told you not to run off, and what is this, did you make a new friend?" Jade cowered behind me. "Leave her alone!" I said while standing protectively in front of her. Without warning he grabbed his gun, the other six following his example. Out of instinct I turned wolf and growled at them harshly, warning them to stay back. The leader didn't even look surprised. "What is this Jade, your new friend is a freak like you? I'm getting sick of you Jade, all you do is complain and now I even got to take care of this mutt." I growled even harder. "Fortunately for you, Jade, I have orders to not harm you," he then aimed the gun at me, "but I can't say the same for you little wolf buddy here." "Stand down agents!" I suddenly heard from behind the SHIELD agents. I looked up and saw Fury with all the avengers. I had been so focused on the agents that I hadn't even heard them coming. All agents put their weapons away immediately, save for the leader. "Weapons down! That means you too captain Ben." Fury said. "But sir, this, this…" he looked at me "thing could be dangerous it might be better to put it down." Tony took a few steps forward then: "if you don't put that gun down RIGHT NOW I'll make sure to put you in the deepest hole ever so that nobody will find you again, EVER!" Ben immediately lowered his gun. "Of course mister Stark." I turned human once again now that the threat was gone.

"What were you thinking Accalia, you could have gotten yourself hurt!" Bruce shouted. I looked at the ground. "Captain Ben, for not following orders you have been stripped of you captain's title and will have to go through the whole training program again." Ben and the other SHIELD agents left after that. "Accalia, Jade! Follow me." Fury said. I followed him and so did Jade. I passed the avengers and kept my head down, even though I could feel their gazes on me. The avengers were about to follow when Fury said "just them." We followed Fury into a room that looked like his office. He sat on a large chair in front of what I assumed was his desk and pointed to two chairs for us to sit on.

"Explain" he simply said. I explained everything from the moment that I went to sit on the chair and heard the sound until the moment that they came. "I didn't mean to cause Accalia any trouble sir" Jade said as soon as I finished explaining, "I'll go back to my room now." "Wait" I told Jade, "if I may sir?" I asked Fury. He nodded. "Jade tried to escape today and as she said other times, because she doesn't like it here right now. Give her a bit more freedom. Don't put an agent on her 24/7 and let her go to her family every 2 days. I'm sure that she will cooperate if you agree and then she will turn out to be a great asset to SHIELD and even a great agent somewhere in the future" I finished. "Is it true that if I give you these things, you'll cooperate?" Fury asked. "Yes sir, I really want to become an agent and help SHIELD, but I also want to see my family and live a bit of a life outside of SHIELD" Jade answered. "Then we have a deal" Fury said while shaking Jade's hand, "you can go now Jade, I will make sure everything will be arranged and tomorrow you can go to your family, so you might want to start packing." "Thank you sir" Jade said happily and she quickly raced out of the room.

"So," Fury turned to me, "that was not very smart, standing in front of Jade like that earlier, you could have easily been shot." I said: "She was a young girl and needed protection so I did what I felt was right, I would do it again without hesitation sir." "You have courage and a good heart Accalia," Fury said, "I was thinking about making you a SHIELD agent on the helicarrier, but I think I know something better." He stood up and walked in front of me. "Accalia, how would you like to be an avenger?" "Me sir, you sure?" I asked. "Yes, even though you would make a fine agent, I think you would be better suited as an avenger, the avengers like you a lot and you like them equally back, they will take good care of you and with your powers, you would be a great help to them. So what do you say Accalia?" "I would be honored to be an avenger sir." I answered. "Then it is settled, I'll take care of everything, you may go to the avengers now and tell them the news." I thanked him and then walked out of the room and towards the avengers.

I walked back to them to see them waiting for me, they did not look happy. "Accalia" Nat said once I had reached them, "do you have any idea how worried we were?" I looked down. Thor continued "what if we would have been any later, he had a gun pointed at you." "You can't just go running of somewhere, we are very disappointed in you" Tony said. Steve continued: "We thought that we could leave you alone for a short while, but I guess…" I heard quick footsteps coming my way and stopped listening to Steve, suddenly I was lying on the ground with weight on my body so I couldn't get up. Not a second later Jade became visible. "I thought you were already off, I ran as hard as I could, I wanted to say thank you!" she said while hugging me. I hugged her back and said: "no problem Jade, anytime and I mean that." "They gave me new supervisors, one is a lady named Maria Hill and another is named Frank Freyson and they are really nice to me, I already like them a lot and I already started packing, but I still need to pack a lot of stuff too, so I'm gonna go now, thanks again Accalia." Jade got up and looked at me one last time. "When I grow up I wanna be just like you Accalia" she said and then she was off.

I got up from the floor and looked at the avengers who weren't looking angry anymore. "I'm sorry guys," I said, "I didn't mean to cause any trouble, but I heard a sound and then Jade ran off and pulled me along, so I didn't have much choice, although I would do it all again if I had to, but I really am sorry." "We are sorry too," Clint said, "I guess we just kind of overreacted when you weren't in the seat and we were all worried about you and then we find you at the end of a gun, but the things we said weren't right and we are sorry." They all nodded. "You did the right thing Accalia, you protected that girl, but we thought that something really bad had happened to you." Bruce said. "Just give us a heads up next time kid, will ya?" Tony said. "I promise" I answered. "Let's go home" Thor said. Everyone agreed.

Once we were back home, we settled on the couches. "About the talk we had with Fury, Accalia" Tony began. The others all looked sad now, for some reason. "I'm sorry but Fury wants to turn you into an agent so that means that you can't stay with us any longer." "Don't worry Tony" I said, "I talked with Fury when Jade and I had to follow him and I'm not going to be an agent anymore, I'm going to be an AVENGER!" "What?!" They said in unison. "That is amazing!" Clint said, "that means you can stay." They were all really happy and we had a great time until late that day before we decided to call it a day. And as soon as I lay in my bed I fell asleep thinking that I couldn't possibly be happier right now and that this was the best moment in my life.

Well guys, it's been a long time again. I have no idea when I will be able to update again, but at least I can update again now. As usual enjoy and of course I don't own the avengers, just accalia, dusty and jade