AN: SOOO soory for the late chapter! I was doing my school play on friday and I got in really late. I had full intention of uploading chapter six first thing in the morning but then Fanfiction decided that it didn't want to allow me to access my user. But no worries! The chapter is now here and I hope you enjoy it!
Chapter six
"You're half human?" Deadpool asked.
"What? You got a problem with that?" I asked crossing my arms.
"No. Noooo problem here," He said.
"Why do you think I can turn into a Frost Giant?" I asked.
"Is that when you're all big and blue?"
"I thought you knew this," I said. Deadpool shook his head. "Huh... Well it's a relief, I guess. I don't know much about you and you don't know much about me sooo..." I trailed off. I glanced at Hiss, Drakki and Mr. Rhododendron. I had left them all alone all day. I walked over to them in the middle of the living room. I sat down on the floor and they instantly moved to curl around me. Mr. Rhododendron curled and rubbed around me like a normal house cat. Hiss nudged my back so I sat forward as she slithered around. Drakki placed herself beside my legs.
Deadpool watched with mild curiosity.
"What is it?" I asked, stroking my beautiful tiger.
"Why don't they rip your face off?" He asked. "They tried doing that to the Wrecking Crew."
I smiled at them. I ran my hand down the long, warm body of Hiss. "They adore me." I simply said. "I created Hiss first with my power, so she's the oldest and known me the longest. Granted she did try to kill me the first time, but after we got over that little bump, we've been inseparable."
"What do you mean 'kill you the first time'?"
"Back before I properly understood my power, when I was about 17, I used to make paper models. I was doing 3-D art at my first year of sixth form and it was one of the projects I was doing. This was before I could bring stuff out of paper.
"I was basing Hiss off this dragon I had seen in a movie. In my head I thought that dragon as being vicious, cruel and blood thirsty. I poured my heart and soul into making that model. It took me over a week to finish. The careers got annoyed at me because I kept sneaking into the office to steal paper. I was also being extremely anti-social." I laughed at my younger self. "Any way, when I finished the model, I sat back and admired it. It was so cool and I had made it. Then it rustled and came to life."
"Just like that?"
"Just like that," I said. "It was just as I imagined it to be. It was vicious, cruel and bloodthirsty. And it tried to kill me." I said. Hiss whirred her teeth apologetically. "Before it could, I blasted it with my magic, I had only just discovered that too."
"The blue lightning stuff?" Deadpool asked. He thumped down onto the armchair.
"Yeah. The model disintegrated. And I swore to myself that I would never make one ever again. I did make one again, of course. But this time I thought of a dragon that was kind, who would be my friend and protect me. A dragon who had a personality of her own. I had not much of friends at the school, you see. Kids are almost cruel as angry dragons." I said. "So when this model came to life I called her Hissing Soul."
"But this Hiss isn't that one?"
"No," I confirmed. "I kept the paper model Hiss for as long as I could. I left her in my room whenever I had to go to school and I let her out at night.
"One day, about a year one from that alien attack on New York, everything changed. SHIELD had tracked my magic down, because it had been Loki who had attacked New York. I didn't know that I was his daughter then. So SHIELD turned up one day and tired to take away 'for my own good.' I kicked up such a fuss, I started kicking and screaming. Then Hiss burst out of my bedroom window.
"The agents shot her before I realised what was happening. Like before, she disintegrated." I said. "SHIELD took me away for a bit before they realised I was a half alien mutant." I shrugged. "After I moved to moved to America and had mastered most of my magic, I drew Hiss and brought her to life."
"What about the other one?" Deadpool asked excitedly. "And the tiger?"
I sighed and glanced at the clock on my mantle piece. Although I knew Deadpool wouldn't kill me, I kind of didn't want him in my apartment for much more time. I never really brought home friends. Well I didn't really have any friends to bring home"I'm tired." I lied. "I'll tell tomorrow or something, right now I just want to sleep. "
"Aww, but-"
"Sleeep!" I moaned. My creatures moaned along with me. I had interrupted sleeping time and they were getting grouchy.
"Ugh fine!" Deadpool said. "But I'm coming over tomorrow morning."
"My morning is going to be mid-day." I said.
"Morning," He argued.
"Mid-day," I argued back.
"Morning."
"Mid-day."
"Morning."
"Mid-day."
"Morning."
"Morning."
"Mid-day."
"Ok then," I said.
"Wait what? Oh &$%£ what just happened?"
"Out, now." I said and got up.
"Noo, I wanna stay!" He whinnied.
"Noo," I mimicked. "I wanna sleep." I started pushing him towards the door.
"We can sleep together!" He offered. I glared at him and pushed him the final step outside the door.
"No." I said and closed the door.
"Morning!" Deadpool shouted from the other side of the door.
I opened the door, "That's not how you-" I looked at the empty hall way. "Win arguments," I sighed.
I rubbed my eyes. I hadn't got much sleep last night and I was really starting to pay for it. That's what you get for getting home at one o'clock in the morning. I blamed Deadpool. That would my new strategy. If anything went wrong I would blame Deadpool.
I remembered the promise I made to myself a couple of days ago: go to SHIELD, hack a computer, do research. Deadpool currently knew more about me than I did about him at the moment. I might as well do that research now. I had a free day... well a free day until Deadpool tracked me down and forced me to hang out with him and tell him the story about how I came across a tiger. I wondered what would happen if I refused. That was going to be fun.
I got up, got washed and got dressed. I dabbed a bit of concealer under my eyes to hide the dark circles that were starting to form under them. I grabbed the SHIELD security clearance card and went into the kitchen to grab some food.
"Morning dragons, morning tiger." I said.
"Good morning to you." Mr. Rhododendron replied. "I trust you had a good night?"
"Ditch with the pleasantries, Mr. I know you're annoyed with me about last night." I said grabbing some milk from the fridge. I didn't feel like making much, so I was just going to have cereal.
"You interrupted nap time." He grumbled. The dragons growled in agreement.
"Well I'm sorry." I said sarcastically whilst chopping a banana onto my cereal. Living on my own meant I could have all the Cheerio's and crap I was never allowed at the care home. And I wouldn't gain any weight because I had a brutal fitness regime. Fighting bad guys burns calories like you would not believe.
"What are you planning on doing today?" Mr. Rhododendron asked. Not getting up from his spot on the sofa.
"Going to the nearest SHIELD facility and do some research." I said.
"Is it, by any chance, on your new friend?"
"Yes, it's on Deadpool."I confirmed.
"You won't like what you find." Mr. Rhododendron warned quietly.
"I know. I've known that for a while, but I want to know more." I said.
"You're too curious. And you're too stubborn to stop once you've started." The tiger said.
"I blame Loki. It's the Viking god in me. The Vikings were stubborn. Their gods? Even more so." I explained.
I ate the rest of my cereal quietly. I turned to the dragons. "Can you take me to SHIELD?" I asked. Drakki grumbled and got up. Hiss just opened one of her eyes at me but closed it again. "I guess you'll be good here?" I asked her.
"If she's staying, then I'm staying too." Mr. Rhododendron argued.
"Fine, but you'll be staying here for the rest of the day." I said and grabbed my coat and keys.
"We will be fine Ink." He said.
"Fine." I said. Drakki followed me out of the door way. She barely fit; I tried to add a mental note to add a sliding door straight out of the glass side of the living room or something. It would make leaving with a dragon easier.
I got to the building roof and hopped on Drakki. I made sure I was secure with the straps and saddle that she always wore. I patted Drakki on the side of her neck.
"You ready girl?" I asked her. She huffed happily, with her pupils dilated she looked like the cutest thing ever. "Let's go." I braced myself.
Drakki bounded to the edge of the roof. Without missing a beat, she leaped off the edge. We plummeted down the sheer side of the glass fronted building, leaving my stomach behind me. I had forgotten to care about it. As we raced down the side of the building our reflection raced with us. Despite myself I let out a cry of joy. We zoomed closer and closer to the ground. Drakki unfurled her wings and we slowed ever so slightly. I screamed again. I had left my stomach on the roof and it had just suddenly come back to me. Now I cared.
With one big beat of her wings, we turned and shot up. Drakki climbed higher and higher into the sky, her huge bat-like wings clawing her way into the sky. When we were high above the sky line, Drakki straightened slightly, but started spinning downwards. We were angled in a dive, but the ground kept spinning I didn't know which way was up or down. It was like being on the world's biggest, fastest rollercoaster, but better.
We were still falling towards the ground. I held on tightly on to the saddle's handles. Flying with Drakki gave you a super strong stomach, both for turns and tumbles, but also rock hard abs. I had really strong arms and legs as well. It was like the world's best, most fun work out.
Drakki beat her wings one more time and snapped them open. We were gliding forward on the air. We were higher than most of the buildings in this part of New York. I didn't know where exactly, but it didn't matter. Drakki knew this city better than I did.
Up here I could see for miles. I love the view. It was just amazing. I breathed deeply. The air was just so cold up here, and almost clean. I mean this was New York. I had yet to soar with the mountains and glide over miles of forests and seas.
I sat up straight and watched New York. It was already busy and no one seemed to be paying attention to the sky or the girl and her dragon that soared through it. I could hear the car horns, the alarms, the shouts and the police sirens. There was nothing in need of a superhero that I could see. And besides, Spiderman was around. Well I hoped he was around. I hadn't heard from him since we broke up and a few months after that he went on a 5 month hiatus before any one heard anything about him. I was a little disappointed in him. Not just in the way we broke up, but also because of the fact that Spiderman was a born and bred New Yorker. Something pretty substantial must've happened to him to make him give up on his city like that. It was a shame. I liked our little team-ups.
Drakki gave me a lurch to wake me up from my day dreaming. "Sorry, sorry." I said and held on tighter to the saddle. "Are we nearly there yet?" I asked. She huffed and shook her head. She must've seen something that worried her. "Ok, it's ok." I soothed.
BAMF!
"HEY!"
"AH!" I screamed and jumped. Drakki dived left to avoid whatever it was. I looked around. Drakki halted her glide and hovered as best she could with her massive wings.
BAMF! Deadpool appeared in the air before me. "I just wanted-" He started falling almost immediately. I sighed. Deadpool had teleported in the middle of thin air. He was going to force me to hang out with him. And it was before I had done my research.
BAMF! "Can we just-" Deadpool fell again.
I waited.
BAMF! "Can you-" Deadpool fell.
I sighed. I leaned close to Drakki's ear and whispered, "Catch him the next time he teleports up here." She huffed and nodded.
BAMF! "Hey can we- AGH!" Deadpool cried just as Drakki lurched forward to catch him by the arm. Drakki faltered, but kept gliding. She had underestimated how much he would weigh.
"Wow, you're heavy!" I said. Drakki grumbled in agreement.
"That's offensive!" Deadpool shouted from underneath Drakki.
"Hey, Drakki agrees with me!" I said and we glided past several buildings. We were angled down slightly, so we could find a roof to land on. Deadpool made a strange strangling noise every time we came close to a building.
"Let me go now!" Deadpool shouted.
"Wow, you really gotta phrase your answers more carefully." I decided to have a little fun. I patted Drakki and we flew up till we were so close to grazing the clouds.
"Wait! What are you doing?!" Deadpool cried out.
"You heard the man, let him go Drakki." I patted her again. She made a laughing noise and let Deadpool go in the open air.
"Hey this isn't what I SAAAAAID!" He wailed as he fell.
"Good girl! Go fetch!" I said and pointed down. Drakki folded her wings and we shot down to fall beside Deadpool. Drakki turned so I was next to him. He looked like he was sky diving without a parachute, which I guess he was.
"This is quite fun!" I shouted in the wind.
"For you maybe!" Deadpool replied. I laughed as Deadpool started swearing. Drakki turned and grabbed his upper arms with her paws. We levelled out and glided. "You're meeeean!" Deadpool wailed. "Now put me down!"
"Of course!" I shouted and Drakki glided to the roof of a lower building. She hovered before dropping Deadpool on the roof and then landed herself. "Hello!" I said cheerily.
"I now hate you." Deadpool said sulkily.
"Aw, come one it was fun!" I said.
"Normally that's what I do to people." He said.
"What, drop them in mid air?"
"Or kick them off a roof."
I stepped forward, way from the edge. I didn't want to go splat.
I crossed my arms and jerked my chin forward. "How'd you track me down?"
"Well a big black dragon isn't hard to see." Deadpool pointed out.
"True," I agreed, "But I was going somewhere, I thought we agreed to meet up later"
"I thought we agreed morning."
"No, you resorted to a cheap trick to win an argument."
"Yeah, morning." He said stubbornly.
I groaned, "I didn't want to meet up just yet!"
"But since we are..?" Deadpool prompted. He walked over and nudged my elbow.
"Sure." I sighed and hopping onto the edge of the roof. "I guess I could spare a few hours of my day."
"Yay!" Deadpool suddenly grasped me in a bear hug.
"EEKS!" I squeaked. My arms were pinned by my sides and on reflex I shoved my knee up.
"Ohh!" Deadpool groaned and keeled over. "Ouch!"
"Oh, my god!" I said, "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, to..." I took a step backwards. "I'm sorry."
"It's ok." Deadpool said quietly, his voice notably higher.
"I hope I can repay you, I-" Something slammed into me and shoved me off the edge of the building "AHHHH!" I screamed. Strong arms wrapped around my waist and I swung around a building and faced...
Spiderman?
"PETER!" I shouted at him as we swung around another building. He switched which arm he was holding me with every time he had to swing.
"It's ok, I've got you!" He said to me.
"Peter what the hell!?" I shouted at him. I screamed as we veered around a building and onto a roof.
"It's ok, you're safe now." Peter said as we landed. I pushed him away from me.
"Safe from what?" I asked.
"... Deadpool?" He said hesitantly.
"Oh you are an idiot Peter!" I said. "I wasn't being attacked by Deadpool."
Peter yanked off his mask..
"What?" He asked. "Then what was that on the roof?"
"It's a long story." I said.
"Tell me what the hell is happening." Peter told me.
I was at a loss for words. I gestured and opened my mouth but all that came out was "uh, dug, guh..."
"Ink, tell me."
"I don't know, Peter. It's complicated."
"Then un-complicate it," he told me.
"What do you want me to say?" I asked, my voice rising.
"Tell me you weren't hanging out with Deadpool. Do you know what he does, Ink?" He asked me, his voice also rising.
"Yes, I know he does." I said. "Believe me, I know. I guess I just wanted a friend."
"Deadpool? Come on, Ink, he's a mercenary. He's insane! You can't be friends with him!" He shouted.
"Why not?!" I exploded. "I'm lonely, Peter. Ever since we broke up I've been alone!"
"We broke up over mutual differences!"
"You cheated on me with Gwen Stacey!" I shouted.
"You were gone for two months!" We were really going at it now.
"That's no excuse!" I said. "I thought you would be there when I came back, but no!" I shouted. "You had already been out with Gwen Stacey. I knew you two had been together, but I kept my mouth shut."
"I thought you were dead!"
"And you were dating Gwen Stacey!" I said. "I needed you then, but were you there? No you weren't. You were too busy making out with her! Well I hope you two are extremely happy together!" I screamed.
"She's dead Ink! Gwen Stacey is dead!" Peter roared at me.
I stopped. "What?" I asked quietly.
"She is dead and it's my fault." Peter said quietly.
"Is that why you were away for so long?" I asked. Peter nodded. "I'm sorry."
"Man, you two really get at it."
"Oh my freaking god!" I shouted at Deadpool. He was sitting cross legged on the edge of the building. He must've been there for most of the argument.
Peter shot some webs at Deadpool's face and quickly put his mask back on.
"Damn it Spidey! I thought we were friends." Deadpool said and tried to get the webbing off of his mask.
"Deadpool, how much did you hear?" I asked him.
"Well, I could hear it a block away sooo... Everything." He said. "Wait, you dated Spidey?"
I face palmed. "Yes."I said.
"And he cheated on you?!"
"Shut up," Spiderman warned. Deadpool shrugged. He was going to ask me about this later. He stretched and got up.
"Well, all the more for me." He said.
"What?" I asked. Deadpool grabbed me around the waist and pulled me close. "Aw crap." I muttered and the world faded.
BAMF!
