Chapter 2

When I woke up the sun was shining through my open window. I had forgotten that today was my first day of school. I got up and got ready for school, pulling on a black and white tee-shirt and skinny jeans. I threw on a hoodie and my black converse and headed out the door after writing a quick note to mum telling her that I was on my way to school. After waiting in the elevator as it went up and down, I finally reached the bottom level. I walked out into the chilly Manhattan air, only to see some people start to follow me. They were wearing black, so I started walking faster, looking behind them to see all six of them start walking faster. I started running and the guy who I assumed was the leader run ahead of me and blocked my path. I stopped short and tried turning back, but his buddies were right behind me. I gave up and just raised my hand.

"Ooh I am so scared because you raised your hand. Are you sure you wanna play girl?" I slowly clenched my hand into a fist and watched him double over in pain. I turned to the other five guys and gave them a challenging look. One rushed up to me and I raised some of the water and made myself a shield due to my crystallizing power and started to battle the crooks. If they were picking on a 14 year old girl at seven in the morning, then something was wrong with them. I took down each of the men before throwing away my makeshift shield. What I didn't see was Tony Stark watching from above.

Tony's POV

I was making my usual runs over Manhattan when JARVIS alerted me of activity below. I looked down to see a girl fighting a bunch of thugs. Out of the blue, she made a shield out of a strange material and charged the thugs. They tried fighting back and she overpowered them. She left them on the ground in pain and walked away, leaving the shield.

"JARVIS? Scan the material for me." I dropped down and picked up the shield.

~Sir, the material is water. ~

"Water? How is this water? The only solid form of water is ice right?"

~It seems you have found a girl with powers over water. ~

"Call Director Fury. Now." The phone rang a couple of times before Fury answered.

"What do you want Stark?"

"We have a problem Fury. Meet me at my tower. I have something for you to see."

"Why now Stark?"

"Well, unless you want it to go away before you can see it."

"Fine, Stark I'll be there in five minutes. This had better not be a joke." He hung up the phone. I quickly flew back to the tower, where I still hadn't gotten around to fixing everything that was damaged during the invasion. I landed and let my suit get taken off and put away. I gripped the shield and went inside. I was greeted by my girlfriend Pepper.

"Why are you back so early? And what in the world are you holding?"

"I have to show this to Fury. A girl was in an alley fighting with it. I asked JARVIS to scan the material and its water." I explained quickly. I pushed past her and went to the meeting rooms on the first floor. Director Fury was already there waiting.

"Now what was so important you had to show me?" He asked. I quietly pushed the shield to him, and watched him look at it. "What's up with this?"

"Feel it, it's not glass." I pointed out.

"Yes I see that. Where did you find it?"

"I didn't. A girl was attacked by some thugs in an alley, and she created it. After she left, I asked JARVIS to scan the material, and its water."

"Hardened water? Are you trying to play me here?"

"No sir, I was just saying that she has powers. Most likely over water."I put the shield into the crook of my arm, leaving the meeting room. I walked into the elevator and went to my workshop. I pulled up the security from across the street and watched her walk out from an apartment building before being chased by the thugs. I got a clear shot of her face when she turned to look at the other guys. I cropped her face and ran it through a facial recognition and none came up, so I switched to a world one and it came up with Cameron Marie Hayes, a fourteen year old girl from Australia. She recently moved to Manhattan from The Gold Coast. She had a clean record, and lived with her mom all her life. She how did she get the powers? I wondered. She's fourteen and most likely was going to school.

"JARVIS scan her name in any of the nearby schools." After a while a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt High came up. She was in HIGH school? Must be an Australia thing. I started planning on catching her after school, which ended at 3:27. I had to wait over 8 hours to talk to her.

Cammie's POV

The school day passed by uneventfully, because no one wanted to be friends with the new girl. As I walked out the door of the school at 3:30, I was greeted by a horrible sight. Standing in front of me was Tony Stark, the man I despised due to his actions. I rolled my eyes and tried to walk away.

"Cameron, wait I need to speak with you. It's about what you did this morning." I mentally cursed myself for not being more careful.

"Why should I tell you what I did?"

"You should tell me because you have caught the attention of me and my boss. We want to know what you are."

"So now you want to experiment me? This is exactly what I wanted to avoid!" I stomped away, not caring if Tony followed me. Right then it started drizzling, I cursed and run to the ocean. I quickly dove in and felt the amazing feeling of the transformation. I swam under the dock and waited. I saw Tony Stark run to the water's edge and look for me. He took out his phone and called someone, and after a few minutes, a sleek black car pulled up. A man with an eye patch over his left eye exited the car and walked over to Tony. They had a quick conversation, and the new man searched the water. I quickly ducked back under the water when his eyes looked where I was. When I looked back, they both were gone. I quickly went onto the land and dried myself off. I turned around to see the man and Tony. I tried to turn around but Tony got in my way.

"What do you want?" I snapped, my accent slipping in.

"I am Nick Fury; I have come to see what Tony has been talking about." That's when the rain came back. I groaned and ran back to the water. I dove in only to see Tony dive in after. It was too late to hide myself. He saw me, and swam back up to the surface. He quickly got out of the water and ran back to Mr. Fury. He muttered something and I got back out and dried off.

"You're a mermaid." Was all he said.