Living in a world of fire and ash
Chapter 1: Arrival
Five ran, he would show his father, would show it the world to what he is able. Balling his fist and awakening his powers he gets ready for the first jump. Everything changes, the sun is at different position, even the season changed, people were walking past him. He jumps again, winter. Snow falls from a grey sky, some of the shops were different, feeling confident about his powers Five jumps again … and stops.
Fire, all around him is fire and ash. Everything, every building is destroyed. First thought is that he had also changed location, like he normally uses his powers for but the street and the structure of the ruins around him are painfully familiar.
He turns around and runs back, passing his neighbourhood, so familiar and so strange at the same time. He arrives at the academy, or better what is left of it. The gate is half standing, carefully he enters the first step. "Vanya? Ben? Dad?" Nothing, no one answers, no noises except for the hungry flames that are looking for another piece of burning material. Five swallows and a tiny voice inside of him tells him he is afraid. Panic grows and all he wants it to return to the morning he had decided breakfast wasn't as important as arguing with his father.
He hadn't notice how exhausted he was after the jumps until he tried to jump back. "Come on." He shouts into a seemingly empty world. It has no use. Accepting his fate to stay here, at least until his power is back to its full capacity Five looks around. A newspaper tells him the date but it is forgotten the second he sees the first human being. An arm sticks out of the debris, the hand is holding onto an eye. He takes it and sees the dust covered face of a blond man. On the next pile of debris lays a man with scars on his face, Five tries to wake him up but there is no use. Right behind him is a woman that could have been sleeping if not for the lack of breathing. Further is another man, wearing a feathery coat but what disturbs Five the most is the fabric free arm that shows the familiar tattoo of the umbrella academy.
Shocked and realizing what and more importantly who he is looking at Five looks at the other three bodies. The one with the open tattoo had to be Klaus, skinny and with the curly hair. The woman has to be Allision, the blond guy was definitive Luther and the fourth one is Diego. Looking around he can´t find Vanya´s or Ben´s bodies but when they are here and dead than the others were most likely too.
A sudden sound let Five jump around and stare with an open mouth at the source of the noise.