A/N-I can do time travel! Whoopee! Yahoo! The rest of the story takes place during the Elektra movie, although it's still from Abby's POV. If you want it from Elektra's point of view you have to watch the movie. I did make some changes, for the better, though, so don't assume that it's all the same. I doubt any of the dialogue will be 100 accurate. BTW, This part of the story starts when The Hand attacks Abby's house so don't get mad at me if your favorite part of the movie is at the beginning. This is where the action starts.
It was raining outside, and that's the best thing in the world. I've always been fascinated by rain. Okay, maybe rain is an understatement. It was pouring down rain, thunder and lighting spitting through the sky at random moments. I was trying to watch TV for a lack of something better to do, but the rain kept cutting it out. It probably didn't help that I live on an island, either.
"Abby, I'm going to get some sand from the garage, can you tape the windows?" Dad asked. He threw the roll of duct tape on the table I was eating my chips on. "Now?"
"Okay, okay," I said, turning off the TV. I grabbed the tape and walked over to the window. I think I see someone wearing all black walking toward our house, but it's hard to tell because of the rain. It's just my imagination getting the better of me, I reassured myself. The Hand cannot possibly find us here. Dad had chosen to live here because it was so remote.
I know it's them though, when I see close to one hundred of them surrounding our house. "Dad?" I called slowly, as if they could hear me. No answer. "Dad?" I called a little louder. Suddenly I hear the door bust open and Dad walks in followed by Elektra.
"Elektra!" I shouted. I ran over to her and gave her a hug.
"Abby, I need to talk to your dad alone," Elektra said, returning my hug.
"But I'm scared," I said. "It's The Hand."
"Is she serious?" Dad asked Elektra. "Is The Hand really out there?"
Elektra nodded gloomily. "Abby, I need to talk to your dad."
I walked into the next room, close enough that I could hear what they were saying.
"Who are you?" Elektra asked Dad. "Don't lie to me. They won't only kill you, they'll kill Abby too."
I stopped listening. What did Elektra know? Back in Baltimore The Hand had plenty of opportunities to kill me. Kirigi himself even wouldn't kill me even when I told him to. If they wouldn't kill me then, then when? The next thing I knew, there was a loud crash and Elektra was shoving me and Dad into the bathroom while she went to go fight The Hand.
"Dad," I said quickly when we were in the bathroom, "they're not going to kill me. I don't know about you but they're not going to kill me."
"Abs, that was back in Baltimore. How do you know things haven't changed? You're still the Treasure and a threat to these people when you deny them." He looked at me seriously. "Abby, we can't win against these people. It's impossible. It just, it can't happen. The only way is if we trust Elektra."
"Dad, if you want to trust her, don't lie to her," I said. Elektra burst into the bathroom.
"We have to go! Now!" Elektra said. She pulled us out of the house and in the yard, where we met up with the most powerful Hand members. I recognized Kirigi, Tattoo, and the big man from Baltimore, but the other ones were unrecognizable.
"Thank you Elektra, but we'll take it from here," Kirigi said. He turned to face me. "Good job finding a hiding spot, Treasure," he said. "It's time to go now. Come on."
A roll of thunder sounded through the sky and all of a sudden I became conscious of how wet I was. I knew Kirigi expected me to go with him, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The woman with dark brown hair rolled her eyes, but Tattoo nudged her. "Typhoid! Stop it!"
"Listen to Tattoo, Typhoid," Kirigi said. "Treasure! We have to go, now."
"Kirigi, I need more time!" I shouted through the rain. "I know what I said back in Baltimore and I'll stand by it, but I'm thirteen years old. I need more time to live my life!"
"How much more time could you possibly ask for? If you want to spend the rest of your life cooped up on this island, then so be it. I won't ever darken your doorway again!" Kirigi shouted at me.
"The Hand isn't that hard to locate," I shouted. "I'll come find you when I'm ready."
Kirigi walked over to me and grabbed my upper arm. "That's not good enough and you know it! You're either coming now or never! I'm not afraid to kill you this time. I'm not supposed to be here right now. Be lucky I am, though. The man sent to come get you will kill you straight off. He says he doesn't trust you, but he doesn't know what I do. Do you want me to tell your father and Elektra our secret?"
"NO!" I screamed, even though Kirigi was now right next to me. "Please don't! Oh God, don't. Please! I'm begging you, don't. Please."
"Come now, then, and it will remain a secret."
"Abby, what's he talking about?" Dad asked me. I was glad it was raining so hard, because that meant I couldn't distinguish tears from raindrops. More than anything in the world I didn't want Kirigi to tell Dad about my dark side. After all these years that I've worked so hard to keep its urges to a minimum, all of it could be wasted.
"Can't you come back for me later?" I asked Kirigi, ignoring Dad. I could explain to him about the secret without telling it to him later.
"No, I can't Treasure," Kirigi said. "I've waited long enough."
"Whose fault is that?" I asked him. "I would've given the world to follow you off my property that day, but you told me to run away. Now I need reassurance that it's me you want, not just my power." I wriggled out of Kirigi's grip and ran away from him again, although this time I hoped that he wouldn't follow.
The next morning, Dad, Elektra, and I drove over to someplace I had never been before. Elektra said that she knew someone who could protect us from The Hand. I wanted that protection badly, too. The Hand was something that was starting to make me really paranoid, and I was ready for them to go away. Elektra walked over to an old man who seemed to be a good friend of hers, while Dad gave me a dollar to go play pinball at a fifty-cent pinball machine. It put me in a very bad mood, but I tried to keep a half-ear out for any important information. I heard something about a down payment on Elektra's sins, and the ball dropped. I turned toward where Dad, Elektra, and that old guy were standing. I saw Elektra try to attack the old man and he took her down with ease. I was amazed. I had seen Elektra fight, and she was good. She was better than good; she was the best. Her abilities were unstoppable. If only I could convince myself that that was really true.
Elektra angrily stomped into the elevator, and I rushed down the stairs to meet her in the parking lot. "What're we going to do?" I asked Elektra, not caring if she was in a bad mood. She still had our best interests at heart.
"You have to run," Elektra said. "As far as you can as fast as you can. Change your name, change your appearance. Go anywhere; Africa, Asia, South America, and—" She stopped short. "Get in the truck. Get in the truck!" Elektra grabbed my upper arm and pulled me toward her truck, Dad following close behind. I saw an eagle flying next to us, and I couldn't help but think that I had seen it somewhere. Don't all eagles look the same, though?
Elektra drove us to a house that resembled a mansion, but in a more humble way. We got out and a man carrying a rifle came out to meet us. "Hi," I said to him. "I'm, Abby."
"Hi Abby," he said in a nervous voice. "I'm…wondering what you're doing here. Make yourselves at home." As Dad and I walked toward the house, I heard Elektra say, "Sorry to drag you into this McCabe." He said something in reply, but I was too far away to hear what it was.
The next day, The Hand struck again. We followed Elektra into an orchard behind McCabe's house, and as we were running, I saw Kirigi and his army walking into the house. My heart leapt into my throat, but I didn't stop. The last thing in the world I wanted to do at this moment was be within one hundred yards of Kirigi. I had a feeling that if he caught me this time, he wasn't going to let me go. I had been lucky once, but Kirigi was smart enough to know that he had been too easy on me.
We figured out that we were being followed when that big guy that had been the start of this whole mess chased Elektra up a tree. Eventually, she got the tree to come down on top of him, and she killed him. There was a green dust pile that rose around where he had fallen, and I felt satisfied, almost as though his death could take back the past. I knew it couldn't, but I embraced that feeling. It gave me something to cling to. As I was running, I realized that I was being chased. I turned around and saw a wolf chasing after me. I didn't have a choice. I pulled the chain off my wrist and whipped it at him. He coiled and I hit him again, making him run. When he ran I saw that Elektra had been watching the whole thing.
"Why didn't you tell me?" she asked. "Why didn't you?"
I shrugged. "I don't know."
Before I knew what was happening, that woman named Typhoid came up and kissed Elektra, sucking the energy out of her. I could see her face becoming scaly, and she was losing life fast. She fell into a pile of leaves. I knew she was still alive, but only barely. Typhoid turned on me. I was feeling on top of the world with my chain, so I whipped it toward her, but when Kirigi appeared out of thin air next to Typhoid and caught it, I knew that life as I knew it was over.
