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Beta: Silver Dog Demon.
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Johnny fell out of the sky some where near a deserted beach, exhausted. The hawk that was flying next to him fell too, shifting into a woman before she hit the sand.
"Oh, thank god! Land!" she said, between gasps for breath.
"It was fun" John said, grinning at her while also breathing heavily.
"I don't want to have that much fun again, ever!" She looked over at him, "How long do you think we were up there?"
He shook his head, using a tree to help him stand, "You," he said,
pointing at her, "need a name."
She looked at over at him, "Thank you, Captain Obvious," she said, "any ideas?"
"How about Sue?" He said, suddenly looking off into the distance.
"Sue?" She said, staggering to her feet, "where the hell did you get that?"
"I think I knew a Sue, once . . ." he muttered, rubbing his face, "So that's a no?"
"That's a no," she looked out over water, clenching and unclenching her hands.
"How about Jane?" he tried again, sitting down on the warm sand. He was totally exhausted, "You know, like Johnny and Jane, Smith?"
She snorted and mock glared at Johnny, then walked over to him, also sitting down, "Try again."
He yawned, "Your turn" he muttered, laying his head on her shoulder, "'m tired"
"All right," she sighed. It was getting dark, the sun sinking below the horizon. But she wasn't tired just yet. Johnny was, though. She'd think about that later.
'Need a name, need a name. . .'
She looked around for inspiration. Her eyes were drawn to the setting sun and the premature moon rise. Then it hit her,
"Call me Luna" She said.
"Mm hm," Johnny mumbled, snuggling closer to her, "g'night."
She rolled her eyes, but settled back against the tree, and closed her eyes. Something was nagging her, something in the back of her head, but she couldn't figure it out. Sleep finally claimed her some hours later, but as she slept on a phrase kept repeating itself inside her head:
'All for theOne.' But for the life of her, she just could not figure out what that could mean for Johnny and herself.
Next morning
Johnny woke up first, blinking several times against the sun. Rubbing his eyes, he looked down at the girl, 'Luna' he remembered. She was still sleeping, her pale skin seemed to glow in the morning light, making her black hair seem darker. Her face looked calm and peaceful, but a slight frown crossed her features.
-Stop staring at me.- Johnny heard in his head. He jumped up, startled and looked around. Looking down at Luna he saw a small smile tugging at her lips. He frowned down at her.
"God, stop doing that!" He said, but after second a thoughtful look crossed his face, "Can I do that?"
-Try.-
"How?"
-Focus on the force you feel inside you, there should be two.-
Johnny closed his eyes and focused on the pressure he'd felt in his head since he'd woken up. It was completely dark but soon he could see a flickering light. Luna was right, there were two. They were tiny flames - a bright, normal looking fire and a silver flame, flickering next to it.
-You're the red one, focus on mine.-
Johnny nodded and obeyed, concentrating on the silver flame.
Luna's eyes snapped open and she clutched her head in pain and groaned. Johnny stopped immediately, falling to his knees as pain raced up his spine and exploded into his skull.
"Aaahhh" he moaned, scrunching up his face, "what the hell . . ."
"Next time don't focus too much," Luna said, rubbing his back,
"pain gone?"
Johnny let out a deep breath as the pain receded, "Yeah, what was that anyway?"
She sighed, as it all clicked in her head, "All for the One." She looked out to the ocean, many thoughts going through her head.
"What? What does that even mean?"
"Not sure," she shook her head, running her fingers through her hair, "but I think, back at the lab, they did something to you, so that you take my weaknesses."
Johnny blinked at her, "You wanna run that by me again?"
"You remember, last night, how you were so tired and passed out once you closed your eyes? I was wired, like I could go for miles," she looked at him, "now I get hurt, and you take the brunt of the pain. You're getting my weaknesses"
"All for the One?" he asked, then realization dawned on him, "I'm number 2. You're number one. What ever they did to me, was to make sure you still functioned"
He collapsed back onto the sand, "There's nothing like feeling special"
Luna looked down, "Sorry," she whispered.
Johnny's hand shot out and rubbed her head affectionately, "It's not your fault," he said, then threw his arm out towards the ocean, "It's those damn Mad Scientist's faults, blame them!"
They sat like that for a while, enjoying each other's company as the sun crawled across the sky.
"God, I'm hungry," Johnny whimpered. Luna looked at him he was pale and
shaking. His stomach was growling too.
"God damn it!" Luna yelled, "You could have told me sooner!" She looked
around, "Don't move," she pointed to him, "I'll be back." She shifted into a beautiful black wolf with amethyst eyes and ran into the forest that bordered the beach.
Johnny simply watched her go and then lay back down on the beach to wait. He had a lot of thinking to do.
The Baxter Building
Sue, in the kitchen, set down a map of the US on the table, "Alright," she said loudly, both Reed and Ben looked her way, "Reed," she pointed to the map, "find him!"
"It's not that easy, Sue," Reed said, sweeping her up in a hug, "I wish it was. Besides, he may have just lost the phone, or burned it."
"Yeah, I'm sure flame-brain is fine," Ben said, "you'd think that if he wasn't we'd know - people wanting money using him as leverage, or something."
Sue shrugged out of Reeds embrace, glaring at them both, "Find Him!"
The boys sighed, knowing far better than to cross Sue at this point.
"I'll get right on that Honey," Reed said, walking over to one of his computers and started to type something. A few minutes later, there were two tiny pings sounding from the computer he was on. They were going off simultaneously. They sounded again and again.
"That's odd" Reed said, typing something.
"If it's not Johnny I don't want to hear about it" Sue said, glaring daggers at her husband.
"What is it, Egghead?" Ben said, walking over to him.
"I'm. . . not sure" Reed said, continuing to type on the keyboard, "there are two unknown energy sources, they're electrical, but they're not on any inhabited island."
"Can you get a closer look?" Ben asked, frowning as best he could.
"I'm trying" Reed said, typing faster.
"I can't believe you two!" Sue yelled, "Johnny's missing, and all you can do is play with your stupid computers!"
Reed stopped typing suddenly, his eyes widened, "Oh, my god," he whispered.
"What is it?' Ben asked. After getting a closer look, he gasped, "Sue, come look at this!"
"No way!" She yelled, glaring at them both, her arms crossed over her chest.
"No really, Sue, you should have a look at this," Reed said, his eyes not leaving the screen.
Sue frowned, not a bit happy that her husband and friend weren't the least bit concerned about her missing brother. But, as always, curiosity won out, and she moved to look at the screen. What she saw stopped her breath in her throat.
"Oh, my god," she said, "it's Johnny!"
With Johnny and Luna
"I didn't know you could cook," Johnny said, licking his fingers.
"Well that makes two off us," Luna laughed, finishing the last of the venison. She got up and moved closer to Johnny, reclining on him and watched the fire dance.
Johnny tensed suddenly, and looked up at the sky. Luna frowned and did the same.
"What is it?"
"We're being watched," Johnny said, his eyes going silver. Luna looked up at the sky, and immediately knew what he was talking about. Her eyes turned silver as well.
Baxter Building
The screen that showed Johnny Storm and a mysterious girl began to go fuzzy, then it skipped and went dark.
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