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Chapter 8: Ava

Spider-Man grabs me around the waist once more and then shoots a web, pulling us both away from Kraven and into the trees.

Kraven chases after us.

Leaping from branch to branch is nerve-wracking.

Doing this with the amulet would be like being on autopilot, I would know which branch to jump to just by looking. But now, I'm not really as fast as I was with the amulet and it was going to get me caught.

"Tiger, I know you're messed up right now. But, I never studied Tiger Magic 101. I need your help." Spider-Man lands on a branch next to me.

I take a deep breath and pull my mask back and let the cool night air blow across my face. "I can't help against that! I'm nothing without the amulet!"

"I realize I don't know you as I should, Ava. But I know you're not 'nothing.'" Spider-Man bends down beside me. "It took strength and courage to wear that amulet to keep that cat power in check all those years. That probably makes you the strongest person I've ever met. Amulet or not, you're still you. And you always have a plan; just make it a really good one."

Spider-Man stands up and offers me a hand.

I smile and give him my hand, allowing him to pull me to my feet.

I hear Kraven off to the side. He's found us. We both leap off the branch and move on to the next one.

"Your family could have ruled for generations. If only you had unleashed it, you…"

I'm about to see it for the first time, and hopefully the only time; I'm about to see what happens when the amulet is not kept in check.

The amulet itself shifted to become a more rounded and realistic Tiger Head. I've never seen that before.

Kraven's body glowed green the light was nearly blinding. He dropped to his knees and above him appeared a pair of glowing eyes, the same green as the amulet. They were narrow and the pupil was a narrowed sliver, there was no mistaking them as tiger eyes.

They watched me and I could feel it calling to me. I don't know if Spider-Man could see them, but they watched me, I could almost hear it telling me what my next move needed to be.

The eyes blinked only once and then disappeared. I looked back to Kraven to see his skin turn a snow white, a furry snow white and his hands turn into a hybrid human-tiger hand and claw mixture.

His face was almost entirely deformed and changed to that of a tiger.

He looked at me with piercing blue eyes.

"He's all animal now," I mutter, I feel more confident, the amulet has given me my confidence back. "The man is gone."

"Is that good or bad?" Spider-Man asks for clarification.

It's good. It's perfect.

I smirk and look over at the zoo, pulling my mask down over my face.

"Ask me after my 'big plan.'" I tell him calmly.

"This 'plan' involves us surviving right?" Spider-Man asks. He grabs my arm and shoots his web out and swings us away as Kraven leaps down to the branch we were on.

I look back as Kraven follows us in close pursuit.

"Keep him as distracted as you can and web him up," I mutter to him softly. "I'll handle the rest of it."

"Flap your arms!" Spider-Man yells down at me.

"What?" I yell back up. Did he even hear me?

Spider-Man twists midair and launches me away from him and into a storage bin near an enclosure.

I jump out and see Kraven and Spider-Man have landed in a water pool of some sort. I look around and notice the irony. There are two beautiful white tigers in the enclosure.

Spider-Man needs to get out of there, Kraven can control them.

I slip around the back, as Spider-Man distracts Kraven. I just need a few minutes to get behind him.

It looks like he's going to keep him busy and hopefully web him us so that I can get the amulet back.

With Kraven having gone full animal, he's not going to be smart enough to see this coming. And he will not regain his control without having the amulet removed physically from him.

"The play pin is for party animals like us."

"Where's the sophisticated repartee, Kraven? Cat got your tongue?"

"Tiger ventriloquist? That's a weird power."

"Oh, catnip! Ah!"

He's stalling, and as painful as it is to listen to, it sounds like it is working.

"You know, if you added a little more magic to the act I bet you guys would kill in Vegas… uh… bad choice of words."

Agreed Parker… Agreed… I climb up onto the rock structure and look down on the two of them in the enclosure.

"Hey Kraven, you don't wanna eat spiders, they get stuck in your teeth and give you cavities."

"And you're making the jokes?" Spider-Man asks as he jumps up on Kraven's back and rubs the fur on his face to distract him.

The White Tigers in the pin jump for Spider-Man and he quickly webs them up. "Now Tiger!"

I jump down the incline slowly. One I see the webbing holding down Kraven's arms I speed up and rush him.

I only get one shot.

I kick him to the ground and slice through the webbing that held him down before he could get a moment to react.

I can feel the amulet in my hand as I slice through cleanly.

I look up to see one large paw coming right at me. Landing on my stomach and throwing me back.

My feet dig into the ground as I attempt to balance myself and slow down my momentum.

Kraven's on his feet, but the amulet is not around his neck.

I let out a deep breath under my mask as I squeeze the amulet in my hand to assure myself that it is there.

Kraven seems to notice; he looks down and feels for the amulet.

It's going to take a second to wear off… just as I can feel the amulet and the impulses when I'm not touching it; he is still drawing on the power. His connection is fading… that's what matters…

His body glows from the amulet as faint green energy dances around his skin, coming out of him an gathering itself together, trying to find the amulet.

Kraven drops to his knees and I open my clenched fist so that the power of the amulet can find its way back.

I look up to see Spider-Man cornered by the two white tigers. I take a few steps towards them and whistle, calling them off.

"Whoa! Hardcore! Go team Tiger!" Spider-Man cheers nervously.

I bet he's relieved that he won't have to hurt the Tigers to keep himself safe.

I look over at Kraven and take one small step in his direction, then another and another.

"Now who was dumb enough to take the bait?"

"So much power…" Kraven mutters. "How do you…?"

"Control it?" I finish his sentence. "My father taught me as his father taught him. They also taught me when to cut loose.

One tiger by my side growls, they can feel my emotions; they can feed off of that. They both stalk forward. They'll kill Kraven. Not a touch of his blood has to touch my hands. The amulet feeds off of me and channels the anger and the hate into them.

"I don't remember the part of the plan where you get all intense and creepy again." Spider-Man jumps down in front of the tigers that halt before him. He's calm.

"You are so much more than your father." Kraven pipes up. "And you could be greater still if you would let go."

"Dude…" Spider-Man turns half around to look at Kraven. "I'm not exactly a fan, but do yourself a favor and zip it." He cleanly webs Kraven's mouth shut and his arms down

"What are we doing here, Tiger?"

"I'm going to finish it. Finish him. He took my father from me, forever. You don't know how that feels."

"I do actually. Someone important was taken from me too; I lost someone special to me for no reason at all. Just like you, I had an opportunity for revenge. I had the guy who did it cornered, helpless. I could have finished him right there. But I realized, it wouldn't change what happened, worse, I would have become as bad as the creep who took him from me. He always said I could choose what kind of man I wanted to be. I choose to walk away; to be better, to be Spider-Man."

That amulet doesn't define who you are. Neither does the mustache king over here." Spider-Man points to Kraven behind him. "You choose, now. You can be like Kraven or your father. A hunter or a hero."

My SHIELD issued claws retract. "Guess you know me better than I thought. Let's call Fury to pick up the trash." I turn around and start to walk to the cage to get out. I don't want to talk to anyone… I just want to be left alone for a while…

"Don't turn your back on me. I am the hunter, I am Kraven!"

"You want this?" Spider-Man offers.

"We both earned it." I turn around and kick Kraven right in the jaw; it's such a satisfying feeling when my heel connects.

I pull back quickly and Spider-Man follows with a sucker punch to the face.

"SHIELD, White Tiger here. I hope you're ready for some cleanup, Spider-Man made a real mess. "

"Oh, Funny, considering I rocked this one."

"Oh, yeah? Where are the boys?" I ask him coldly.

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