Hello again, my lovelies! I am here again, bringing you a very eventful chapter! But I have to say, the lack of reviews has saddened me :( Reviews help me know what's good and not so good about my story. Though I ADORE good reviews, I also get constructive criticism, which I love too! Sp please, review whether it's a nice comment, or constructive criticism, please REVIEW.

Who knows...maybe I'll write the sequel faster with more reviews...hmm? :)

But...on a happier note, thank you to those who did review!

Golden Eagle 603: You literally opened my eyes! I never really noticed how much I wasn't using Ayela's power. She could've used it more, but I guess I just didn't want it to look like she was constantly practicing using her power when she's already done that for most of her young life. But you're right and I am definitely taking this into consideration! Thank you for your review!

grapejuice101: ME TOO! It was so sad to write the Ayela/Julian goodbye, I could feel the tears in my eyes!

*Just edited Author's Notes!

ENJOY CHAPPIE NINE! :D

Chapter 9: A Whole New World

Zack Lewis was stargazing. A little lame for a ten year old maybe, but he was always interested in the stars. The sky. The universe. He was a full believer in more. His curiosity exploded from his mind. What else was out there? How many planets like Earth were hidden in our big universe? There was no way Earth was the only world with life.

Little did he know his life was about to change.

Looking out into the dark night sky, he saw something bright illuminate, colors like an aurora.

"What the…" He muttered to himself. Why would an aurora appear in the middle of the desert?

That wasn't supposed to happen, he thought.

Zack watched as it got bigger…and bigger! Until the luminescent aurora hit the ground like a tornado! The tornado span at unbelievable speed, mixing with the dirt and wind as the blue light seemed to appear like a lightning storm. After a couple moments, the tornado disappeared, as if it was never there.* (Look below)

"Whoa." Zack muttered enthusiastically. He grabbed his nearest sweater, ran down the stairs and opened his front door.

"Hold it." Zack huffed and turned to see his older sister Cassie, her arms crossed in front of her chest.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked him.

"Uh…out." He said bluntly.

"Yeah, right. It's almost eleven at night. You're not going anywhere."

"Come on Cas, I might have just witnessed a new discovery."He begged.

"Still not going out." She said, walking up the stairs. Zack groaned in frustration and looked back at the door.

Well, his sister was upstairs.

He stepped slowly and quietly up to the door. He turned the door knob as silently as he could, opened the door and shut it just as silent. He ran to get his bike and rode as fast as he could to the crash site. Could it be? Had he actually witnessed aliens landing?

About ten minutes later, he arrived in the middle of the desert, the exact spot where the tornado had crashed, inhaling the dust and dirt that was still lingering in the air. Zack observed the crash spot. As the dust faded, he noticed two bodies lying on the ground. One was a young boy, looked around his age, maybe younger. The next was a woman, looked around Cassie's age. He looked to the boy again and knelt down closer to his face. He was still breathing!

He ran to the girl and did the same; breathing! But both were unconscious. They didn't look like aliens. But how did they get here?

And where did they come from?

"Grandma! Cassie! Come quick!" Zack said, running back into the house.

"Where the hell have you been? I told you not to go out!" Cassie yelled.

"Forget all that, you gotta help me! These two-in the desert- they need help!"

"Wait slow down Speedy Gonzales! Who are you talking about?" His sister asked confusedly.

"What in the world is going on here?" Zack's grandma Adele asked, coming down the stairs.

"That's what I wanna know." Cassie said, turning back to Zack.

"Look, I can explain later, but you gotta help!" Zack pulled on his sister's arm.

"Cassie, call Adam and go check it out." Cassie looked at her grandmother, eyes widened.

"Gran, you're not actually believing this?"

"I am. Now if Zack is lying, he'll be punished later. But for now, humor me and go."

"Yes Gran." Cassie sighed. She took out her phone and quickly called Adam.

"Hello?" a hoarse voice said from the other side of the phone.

"Hey Adam,"

"Cas?"

"Yeah, sorry to wake you, but I need a favor…"

**AOA**

After a few minutes of explaining to Adam, they all drove to the crash site.

"Okay, Zack if you're lying, I swear I will kill you." Cassie threatened.

"I'm not I swear." Zack said.

"What do you think it is?" Adam asked her.

"Aliens?"he teased. Cassie rolled her eyes and sighed.

"I don't know what it is, I just wanna find out and go back home." Cassie said. When they arrived to the spot they saw a huge symbol embedded into the dirt, two bodies lied in the symbol a few feet away from each other.*(Look below)

The three slowly got out of the car.

"Wow, you sure as hell weren't lying." Adam knelt down to the girl and looked her over. Sure didn't look alien; she looked just as human as he was. But her clothes looked…foreign, like she had come from a different country or something. Not to mention…she was a looker.

"Who are they? How did they even get here?" Cassie wondered.

"Aliens…" Zack sang under his breath.

"Shut up Zack!" She turned to Adam.

"Well, what do we do now?" Cassie asked him. Adam shrugged.

"Guess we'll have to take them with us."

"Wait…what?"

"Well we can't just leave them here-

"But we don't know who they are, what they do! They could be robbers, or- or murderers!"

"Yeah Cas, this kid looks like one hell of a murderer." Adam spoke sarcastically. She frowned, while Adam picked up the girl carefully without waking her. Cassie did the same with the little boy. As he picked her up, a bag fell off of her back. Zack snatched it up, looking at the strange markings on the bag. Three swirls. What did that mean? They sat them together in the backseat while Cassie and Zack sat further in the back. When they arrived back at the house, Adele had told them to sit the girl in the guest room and put the boy in Zack's. All they could now…is wait.

**AOA**

"I. Will. Break. You."

"You two need to get out of here!"

"I've always loved you."

"Go Ayela!"

Ayela awoke with a loud scream. All the memories of the night before flooded through her mind in her dreams. She began hyperventilating when she noticed where she was.

In an unfamiliar bed.

This wasn't Asgard. Where in the world was she?

And where was Micah?

"She's awake! She's awake!" Her head quickly turned to the room door to see a young brown haired boy. He ran to her bedside.

"Are you an alien?" the boy asked.

"What? Who are you?" She asked him.

"Your accent. You're not an alien, you're just British." He said, sounding disappointed. Ayela gave him a confused look.

"What is this place? What realm is this?" She spoke, panicking.

"Uh, realm?"

"Yes! Elfheim? Nilfheim?" Zack stared at Ayela as if she had grown two heads.

"Well-uh, we're in Bakersfield…" Ayela's eyebrow rose.

"It's in California…which is in the United States… on Planet Earth…" He explained when she kept looking at him in confusion.

"Earth? I'm on Midgard?"

"Midgard?" Zack asked her. "Is that what aliens call Earth?"

"Alien? Why do you keep calling me that?"

"Zack, stop bothering her!" His grandmother said.

"Yes, Gran." Adele Lewis walked into the room, sitting on a chair next to the bed with the frightened teen.

"Hello, dear. No need to be afraid. My name is Adele. Please forgive my grandson for bothering you with questions. But, he did find you out there in the middle of nowhere…"

"In the middle of- Micah, where's Micah?" Ayela panicked.

"Relax, dear. Your brother is still asleep in Zack's room." Ayela sighed in relief.

"I'm sorry, I'm being awfully rude aren't I? Thank you for helping us. My name is Ayela." The princess introduced herself.

"Ayela, well that's a pretty name."

"She's awake?" Ayela again turned to the door, and saw a girl about her age with a boy who looked a couple years older.

"Yes, we were just introducing ourselves. Cassie, this is Ayela. Ayela, this is my granddaughter Cassandra."

"It's Cassie, nice to meet you." She held out her hand for Ayela. Ayela looked at her hand for a moment, but figured that this was a Migardian gesture. She connected her hand with Cassie's, and Cassie shook it.

"This is my friend, Adam. He's the one who got you here."

"Hi, nice to meet you Ayela." He held out his hand as well, and Ayela shook it, easily learning the Midgard introduction ritual.

"Pleasure. Thank you for helping me." Adam smiled.

"Why were you in the middle of nowhere?" He asked her curiously.

"I…don't know."

"Well…where are you from?"

"I…you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Are you from the U.K.?"

The U.K.? Ayela thought to herself.

"Umm…no?"

"She doesn't know anything. She didn't even know what planet she was on." Zack muttered to Cassie, Gran and Adam quietly.

"That's because I'm not from Midgard." Ayela spoke loudly, showing them that she could hear him.

"Midgard?" Cassie asked.

"She calls Earth Midgard." Zack muttered again and Cassie muttered an 'oh.'

"So…you are an alien?" Zack asked excitedly.

"No, I'm an Adranian." Four pairs of eyes widened at the strange girl.

"I'm sorry what?" Claire asked, finally speaking up.

"Do you Midgardians know nothing?" Ayela asked, annoyed at the mortals' naivety. The four of them continued to give her an 'explain' look and she sighed heavily. She would have to tell them the whole story.

"I suppose I should start from the very beginning. Out in the universe, there are nine realms. I'm from Adranus, the fire realm. I was born with the power of fire. My parents were king and queen of the realm." The four were stunned. Not only was this girl telling them that she was, basically, an alien, but she was also telling them that she and her younger brother were royalty!

"Wait wait wait, so what you're saying is, you're from another world, or realm, and you and your brother were the crown prince and princess?" Cassie asked. Ayela nodded.

"Wow, I'm in the same room with a princess…cool." Adam said to himself.

"Um will you excuse us for a moment?" Ayela nodded and the four left out the door.

"Okay, this girl obviously escaped from some sort of mental asylum or something." Cassie said to them.

"Cassie, don't be rude!" The old woman slapped the teen's arm.

"Come on Grams, you're actually believing her story? This girl is crazy!"

"Well I believe her…" Zack said.

"Oh please, you thought our neighbor was a vampire!"

"He's creepy, only came out at night, it was suspicious!" He argued.

"That's enough you two!" Adele whispered harshly.

"Sorry Grams." The siblings said.

"Adam, do you believe this?" Cassie asked her friend.

"Well…"

"Adam!"

"Why not? It's not like her story is that unbelievable-

"She said she's a princess from some faraway realm!"

"Okay but she can't be making this stuff up. Her story is too…well written, everything she explains has another back story!"

"You know what? Fine, if you guys want to believe her, we'll just need to get more information." Cassie walked back into the room, the other three followed behind her.

"Okay, why…why are you here? I mean, why aren't you…home?" Cassie questioned. Ayela clenched her jaw in sadness, looking down and her hands.

"My realm was under a surprise attack by an unknown force. My father wanted Micah and I to be safe until war was over. The portal was supposed to take us to Asgard, but Julian must have turned the dial to the wrong spot."

"Asgard's real?" Zack asked amazed.

"Yes. I visited there every summer to spend time with my friends Thor and Loki."

"You were friends with the gods of thunder and mischief?" Zack questioned, enthralled with her tale.

"Yes, they're my closest friends."

"Cool." Zack commented. Cassie rolled her eyes at her little brother. This girl was getting everyone into her very unbelievable story, all except her.

"So you said you had the power of fire. What does that mean exactly?" Cassie waited for yet another explanation.

"I was born with the ability to control fire. Fire was born in my veins, I am a Firebender. One of the last."

Aha! Cassie thought. Time for proof…

"Can you…show us?" Ayela nodded and held out her hand.

"You may want to take a few steps back." The four did as they were told. Ayela then closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting the fire in her bloodstream explode in her palm. Before she knew it, her entire hand was engulfed in cerulean flames. The family was shocked. More than before. She actually had proof; cold…hard proof that she indeed was not from this world.

"I think I believe you now." Cassie said, staring hard at Ayela's burning hand.

"Extraordinary." Grandma Adele muttered.

"Wow, she has pyrokinesis! That is so awesome!" Zack yelled in excitement.

"Is that what they call it here on Midgard?" Ayela asked Zack.

"Well, um- sort of. But it's not real here; I've just read in comics."

"Comics?" She asked curiously.

"Uh, it's a sort of…book." Ayela understood and nodded.

"Alright, you three. No more questioning our guest. I'm sure she'd like to freshen up. Cassie, let Ayela borrow your clothes and show her the bathroom."

"Sure Gran. Come to my room and I'll give you something to wear." Ayela nodded, got out of the bed and followed her.

"Thank you."

After a bit of difficulty with using the shower, Ayela finally washed up and felt as clean as ever. She walked back into Cassie's room, a white towel wrapped around her body. Cassie handed Ayela what looked to be a small fabric with two holes. Ayela looked at it like it was…well alien.

**AOA**

"What…are these?" She asked Cassie.

"Um, they're panties."

"Panties?" Ayela stretched the word out, trying it on her tongue.

"Well…underwear. They go on your…you wear them around… um don't girls wear them where you're from?"

"No. I've never seen anything like this."

"Oh…you guys go commando…"

"Commando?" Ayela asked curiously.

Wow…she's like a little kid who wants to know everything… Cassie thought to herself.

"It's when you don't wear underwear."

"Oh…then yes we do." Ayela said happily. Cassie laughed, as she showed Ayela a Victoria's Secret catalogue to teach her how they were worn.

"See, it's to protect your…woman parts." Cassie explained.

"I see…" Staring at the picture, Ayela took the pair of underwear and put them on correctly. Cassie nodded and also used the catalogue to show her how to wear a bra. She eventually picked out a pair of light blue jeans with a white tank, which thankfully, Ayela knew how to put on.

"Midgardian clothes are so… simple." Ayela spoke to herself in the mirror. "Thank you again for the clothes."

"Oh no problem. Are you ready to see your brother?" Ayela nodded. Suddenly, Ayela felt a surge of pain come from her head. She groaned loudly and fell to the floor, passing out.

"Ayela! Ayela! Oh my God, Adam! Adam, come quick!" Cassie ran to her side, panicking.

"What's-oh my God, what's wrong with Ayela?" Adam walked in with a gasp.

"I-I don't know. We were just about to go to Zack's room to see her brother and then she fell!"

"You guys help! Ayela's brother Micah, we were talking and then he-he just passed out!" Zack exclaimed to the older teens.

Ayela's mind was flooded yet again, not with past memories but current ones.

Her kingdom was unfamiliar.

No more color filled the once beautiful realm. The grass was dead and burned to ashes; the sky was dark and dim. Adranus was nothing but destruction. Dark smoke was everywhere, and the streets were filled with dead bodies and debris from the castle walls. In the castle, Ayela saw visions of many dead soldiers; her parents lied on the ground together. Her last vision was of her best friend. Julian lied on the ground badly wounded near her room door. A teardrop trailed down his face before he took his last breath, and the life disappeared from his eyes.

Ayela gasped awake and saw all the faces circled around her. She looked down at her Adranian bracelet; the symbolic triskele charm, which was supposed to be glowing, had stopped and was now dark and unlit.

"No! No…" She said, tears coming down her eyes. Her worst nightmares had come true.

"Are you okay?"

"No. Adranus, it's gone."

**AOA**

Phil Coulson walked through the halls of S.H.I.E.L.D. to the main room, where his boss was waiting for him.

"Sir, we've located the subjects. They're at a home not very far away from the crash site."

"Excellent work Agent Coulson. Where are you headed?"

"45654 Lima Drive, Bakersfield, California."

*The description was how it appeared in the movie Thor when Thor was banished to Earth!

OCs:

Adam: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Cassie: Megan Fox

Zack: young Josh Hutcherson

YEPP, I finally brought in a bit of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Ayela's on EARTH! Just about a couple more chapters till we reach the end of AOA! Then, we can get to the AVENGERS! And I can't wait to start writing for the movie...and Ayela will get to see the evil Loki! Wonder what she'll think of that!

I already have a choice for which Avenger will steal Ayela's heart, whoever guesses first will get a little peek into next chapter!

FYI, I have no idea if past cultures wore underwear...so...yeah...

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