Greek myths are real? Aliens or Monsters chapter 9
Sam was confused, her head was groggy as she tried to recall what had happened. She opened her eyes only to close them again, the room was too bright.
The next time she woke up she was in a clearing, this had her confused but as she looked around she knew she was dreaming. Up ahead of her was a giant purple monster, unlike any she had seen then slowly the dream faded and she was looking down at several stones six in total coming up from the ground in a giant dirt hand when she looked back up she was on a cliff.
"You need to wake up." A voice stated behind her, no not behind her in her head. She turned around and came face to face with her father. She glared at him.
"Where were you? I have been praying for days. What do you want from me? Why am I deaf? What is going on?" She asked but he placed up a hand stopping her from her many more questions.
"You need to wake up." He repeated
"The mortals. The monsters were fighting the mortals. They saw them why?" Sam asked
"Samantha you were scratched, you need to wake up. Get the poison out." Apollo stated placing his hands on her shoulders making him look at her.
"I wasn't."
"Wake up." He stated stepping back as he disappeared she was greeted by darkness, she closed her eyes and when she opened them she was landing with a thump. Looking up she realised she had fallen out of a bed and onto the ground she pulled up her top to reveal a scratch, the same scratch she got from earlier in the week. It had not healed, in fact it looked worse. She felt it within her, the poison. She looked around for her bag, but did not find it the room was white, everything was white. She moved over to a mirror, part of her thought it was a two way mirror but right now she needed to get the poison out of her. She already felt like she was going to throw up so without thinking she punched the mirror, breaking it. She bent down grabbing a piece of glass and once again without too much thought cut over the scratch deep enough it began to bleed. She ignored the burning pain or the initial sting of the cut and focused on trying to expel the poison. She went to cut again when a hand grabbed her arm stopping her, pulling her arms back she was pulled into a tight embrace as she struggled against whomever was holding her she tried kicking out as another person moved over to her, she saw Natalie in her line of sight she was signing at her but Sam was shaking her head she did not have time for this she had to get the poison out. She tried kicking again but the arms were holding her securely even head butting the person did not work. She felt the chest move so knew he was speaking, (yes she managed to turn and see that Captain America was holding her.)
"Get off! Get off! Let me Go! Need to get it out!" Sam shouted or she thought she was shouting a man was beside her and she kicked him but he stepped back, he turned to Natasha and stated something but his face was turned so she couldn't catch it. "Let me go." Sam cried out.
"Sedate her." Natasha stated and because Sam was facing her she could read her lips.
"What no! Don't" She felt a needled insert into her arm and before she could do anything about it she was falling asleep once again.
The next time she woke up her body felt heavy and her mind was still foggy she tried to move but felt a hand on her shoulder making her look up at Natalie she blinked a couple of times trying to sit up.
'Easy, you are still mildly sedated.' She signed at her and it took her a minute to register what she had said.
"Why?" she asked
'We do not want you hurting yourself.' Natalie replied
"Who?" Sam asked as she tried to think of why she would say that.
'My name is Natasha, you are at the Avengers facility.' Natalie…no Natasha replied
"Lied." Sam frowned she was usually really good at telling when people lied to her but with Nat…she could not tell. "Poison?" She asked remembering why they must have thought she hurt herself, she was trying to fight through the drug in her system. Once again she tried sitting up and whacked Natasha's hand away from her when she tried to stop her.
'Stay down or we will have to re-sedate you.' Natasha signed and that took the fight out of Sam, she could not have them sedating her again, she needed to get out of this place.
"Poison." She repeated hoping that Natasha understood the need for her to get up so she could get the poison out.
"We have gotten it out, our doctor figured what you were trying to do. He got the poison out. There were easier ways then cutting yourself like that." Natasha stated and signed Sam looked down at her hand to see that it was bandaged she must have hurt it when she broke the mirror.
"I need to go."
'You need to rest.' Natasha replied
"No, need to go." Sam stated moving on the bed she looked around the room Natasha had said she was at the Avenger's facility. No one else was in the room, as she looked down at herself to assess the damaged only now did she realise she was not in her clothes. "Where are my clothes?"
"They were dirty and bloody." Natasha replied as Sam looked down at the iv line in her hand when she looked up there was another lady in the room, she looked more like a doctor and the man she had tried to kick. "Sam this is Bruce Banner and Dr Cho." Natasha signed before looking at the doctors, Sam followed her line of sight and looked over the doctors.
"She won't remember." Dr Cho stated and this made Sam frown, remember what? As another lady came over to her this time she was fiddling around the iv bag.
"Don't sedate me again." Sam stated she went to reach for the line in her arm but found her body relaxing and before she could say anything she was falling back asleep.
Sam woke up unable to remember what had happened, as she tried to piece together a timeline she moved her hand against the blanket over her, part of her wanted to roll back over and go back to sleep but another part was telling her she was in danger, over the years she had learnt to listen to that part. So she did roll over but made it so she rolled off the bed and into a crouched position as she got her bearings she looked around the room she was in not recognising it. Where was she? The room was empty but she was in clothes that were clearly not her own. Her ring was gone. Technically all her gear was gone, but her ring was her most prized possession. When she turned back around she saw Natalie in the room with two men, both she recognised Tony Stark and Steve Rodgers. Both watching her with caution, she looked from them to the door but Natalie stepped into her line of sight blocking her exit.
'We need to talk.' Natalie signed
'About what?' Sam signed back
"What? You have got to be kidding. Why do you think we want to talk? You fought aliens that's what." Tony stated and Sam was looking at him so could read his lips.
'Aliens?' Sam asked confused only for it to come back to her, the fight outside the school. So many monsters together…she needed to warn the others, they seemed to be mobilising again and that meant nothing good.
"Tony, Dr Cho said her memory would be a little fuzzy. Give her some time." Captain America stated as he did Sam looked away so had no idea if they continued to talk. Monsters had attacked mortals, they were fighting them, not there for her. What did this mean? She needed to contact Chiron maybe he would know, she would also have to warn Percy about the increase of monsters in New York. He was still here going to his high school. She turned back around and went to move for the door but was once again stopped by Natalie who stepped in front of her.
'Who are you?' Sam asked
"My name is Natasha." She replied and Sam seriously wanted to slap herself, she was the Black Widow how did she miss that? "You have some explaining to do."
'You need to forget what you saw, forget about me.' Sam signed and went for the door this time Natasha placed a hand on her arm stopping her. 'I am underage, you have no right to keep me here?'
"You fought aliens, so start talking."
'I do not have to tell you anything.' Sam signed back she was getting frustrated with adults telling her what she needed to do.
"You lied on your high school transcripts, your last name is not Fello it is Greens." Tony stated and Sam looked at him she had gone very tense, what was he getting at. They saw her reaction and Steve and Natasha were looking at her with even more caution.
'It was an alias I wanted to be treated like a normal person.' She signed back she wasn't lying going to school made her feel like a normal girl not a demigod. 'If you hacked into their servers you would also see the letter stating why. They were meant to be confidential.' Sam signed pointing out that he had hacked it and that was illegal.
"So you are enhanced?"
'I am trained in fighting techniques…used it in a movie.' Sam replied, she knew she was a terrible liar so she stuck to truths, half truths.
"In archery and swordsmanship?" Steve asked they could all tell she was being careful with her answers.
'A kid can have hobbies. I do not like sitting still.' Sam signed 'What do you want from me?'
"Those aliens seemed to know you, they seemed to want you dead."
'They also wanted you dead.' Sam pointed out.
"The big thing, called you half-blood." Steve stated and Sam went tense, she had figured the monster had spoken but she had no idea what it had said.
'That is not a nice term.'
"Your mother is listed but you have no mention of a father."
'IS there a question there?'
"Who is your father?" Tony asked
'I do not have to answer these questions, you need to get in contact with my mom.' She signed once she was done her hand moved to her side, she could feel the bandage wrapped around her she looked down as her fingers began to move like she was playing a piano. She knew she was not to reveal anything to them she just had to buy time until she could figure out a way to leave.
Steve looked over at the girl who was doing everything she could to put on a tough act, he could tell she was anxious. He was the one to see her fall off the bed only to end up cutting herself, he ran getting the others attention bursting in the room knocking the shard of mirror out of her hand and holding her in a tight hold, she fought against him and he had to admit she was strong. But the hold she was in she could not get out of unless he let her go. She started shouting to be released and Natasha was trying to sign at her to calm down but she was shaking her head. He was losing his grip as she struggled and Natasha was the one to instruct Bruce into sedating her. He did once she was slumped in his arms he put her back down on the bed so Bruce could get to work. When he saw the scars on her he felt his blood run cold but his attention was on the cut she did to herself it was bleeding but their was black stuff coming from her blood. That had him thinking she was not human, but it was Bruce that informed them that she was poisoned and this was her way of getting the poison out of her system. He stood outside with Natasha, Peter Parker, Clint and Wanda as Bruce worked with Dr Cho fixing her up. Stark had asked to be informed once they were done he was going to do some research.
"You see those scars?" Steve asked them Natasha and Clint were tense, they were the ones he was asking but it was Peter that replied.
"What scars?" he asked, they had agreed that he would not enter the room.
"Bruce is starting a file for her." Clint stated he was watching Natasha she seemed angry.
"She knew how to fight…her style…I did not recognise it." Steve stated he could feel the tension in the room. Bruce came out saying that they were successful handing Natasha the tablet, it had everything he documented on it as she read through it Steve looked over her shoulder, she had 6 scars on her body one looked like a bullet wound but something was different about it.
"That is from an arrow." Clint pointed out seeing the scar. Natasha corrected it before handing it to Steve she then walked off.
"What's going on Mr Rodgers?" Peter asked and Steve had to admit he forgot he was there. That was when Tony came over to them carrying his own tablet. "She will be alright yes?" Peter asked looking around at them.
"She's human." Tony stated then looked down at Peter "Shouldn't you be heading home?" He asked
"Not until I know she will be alright? What is going to happen to her?"
"We have some questions for her, depends on what she says…"
"Tony." Steve called his name getting his attention warning him to be careful with what he said to Peter.
"Huh, oh she will be alright, isn't that right Bruce?"
"She needs to rest, she will be asleep for a few hours. The poison is out of her system…she will be alright." Bruce replied Peter nodded before walking off with Happy who had come to collect him. Steve turned back to Bruce, Tony and Clint.
"What is the plan?" Steve asked
"We let her rest." Bruce stated when Tony went to answer.
"She has answers Bruce." Tony pointed out
"She is 16." Bruce retorted before walking off he needed to talk with Dr Cho. When she woke up and Natasha was talking with her not really getting answers before she ended up falling back asleep, Dr Cho had informed them that she would not remember waking up and her memories will be a little hazy of the last 12 hours. Tony had made a snarky remark at that but they all ignored it. He was once again watching the screen this time with Bucky beside him when he saw that she rolled over but ended up off the bed and in a crouched position. It was time to talk…
When it became clear that she was not going to answer them he ended up placing a hand on Tony's shoulder as he could tell he was getting annoyed. Sam was not looking at them she was looking at her feet her fingers were tapping against her leg, Natasha had informed them that she used to play the piano and this is what she did when she was thinking or bored.
'Come with me.' Natasha stated taking her by the hand and leading her out of the room, Tony began to protest but she ignored him. Sam followed behind she was curious as to what was going on, Natasha led her to the communal room where the others were sitting they all looked at them curious, Sam Wilson and Bucky looked cautious. 'This is my team, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rodgers, Tony Stark, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, Bruce Banner and Clint. You saved them today. Thank you.' Natasha signed at her and Sam looked at her confused. Jarvis was translating what they were signing for those that did not know sign.
'Why are you telling me this?' Sam signed back after looking them over.
'You saved them today, we were having trouble fighting those things…you knew how to fight them. Would you teach us? Tell us how to fight them, if they attack again it is sort of our job to stop them.' Natasha signed at her and Sam once again looked around.
'Pretty lousy job…you choose this life? To fight?' Sam asked and this had them stumped
"Are you saying you are being forced to fight?" Steve asked but she wasn't looking at him so Natasha signed it for her at this she seemed to pull a face, one of pain and conflict.
'Forced? If we do not fight we die. Those aliens you called them…' she stopped signing her eyes going wide and stepping away from them shaking her head. 'I want to go home, good luck with your whole job thing, but you should pray that they do not focus on you. Go back to your innocence and maybe you will survive.' Sam signed she ended up grabbing her hand and started rubbing her fingers. 'I want my mom, I do not want to do this anymore.' She signed Jarvis translated and the room was in silence as they registered what she had said.