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Warning: This chapter contains Olivia's very morbid past!

Chapter 7: Reasoning Behind the Madness

(Olivia POV)

Everyone was waiting for Fury and me to enter the poker room. I was stalling to my best of abilities say things like I need to use the restroom and get myself prepared for long the long talk coming up. All these years of trying my best to ignore my past and here I was going to have to tell them just so I could only hope to be forgiven for being the monster that I am.

After I had got the courage to finally walk into the poker I was greeted by various "What took you so long", and the worst one coming from Tony. "What do you mean you lied to us?" Everyone was in here. They had Fury, all the Avengers, and all of the Eternals. The poker room was beginning to make me feel claustrophobic. I ignored this and walked over to the Smoke-o-matic. The machine is used in various places like bars and bingo halls to help get rid of the offensive smoke in the air. After flipping the switch I set down my water bottle and lit a cigarette waiting for Fury to begin asking questions. All the while my emotionless and cold attitude remained frozen to me.

My voice betrayed my cold demeanor when I croaked out, "Where do you want to start?" My voice was shaky at its best.

"Let's start by your real name." Said Fury.

"Nyx Leondoter of Eriften Plains" I said with courage. There is no point in hiding the fact that I am scared but I will be damned for them to think me weak. Trying to reassure myself that all will be fine. It's just my past. It's called the past for a reason.

"How old are you?"

"657" A few gasps were heard around the room. Apparently not everyone knew I was "Immortal"

"For personal issues such as driver licenses, benefits, etc. we will just say you are 24" stated Fury as he began to right in the notepad he brought with him.

"What are you implying about with personal issues?"

"You need valid information on yourself no matter where you go here. I would assume that Mr. Stark would have informed you of that. On behalf of shield we are going to help you become a registered citizen."

I simply nodded.

"What happened the night that you blew up my District?"

"I tried so hard to not hurt any of you." I started before I was cut off from Fury. "Yes, well you did."

I sighed and rubbed an exasperated hand through my hair, "If you want to know my story I suggest you not cut me off. It is really difficult to tell you these things because I know when you do you will think me nothing but a monster. So please Director Fury with all due respect, shut the fuck up and give me the same respect I give you when you are talking."

Fury grunted his agreement before I began again.

"As I was saying, I never meant to hurt any of you. You see, I have a primal side, an animal side. After they finished putting metal on my right leg I couldn't handle it any longer. The pain was so unbearable that I released my pint-up emotions in the form of an explosion. After the explosion I shape shifted into one of your shield employees. Once I was off the base I turned back to myself where Mr. Stark found me. He was going to bring me back until I practically begged and pleaded him not to do so. Then he decided to take me in, teach me English, and treat me like the sister he never had."

"You have an animal side? Is it like Dr. Banners Hulk?"

"No, unlike Dr. Banner he has very little control. I have full control."

"What is this animal? The She-beast I saw in the Experimenting room?"

"Yes, But I was weak due to the sunlight," I started to get defensive. "Where I come from there is no light. If you see the light you better run because you are about to be someones dinner. When I came here my body was not used to the sunlight and it hurt me. Dr. Banner has been doing a good job at helping me." I never looked over to see Dr. Banners or Tony's face. I couldn't handle to see their disappointment.

"You know squirt I am beginning to wonder why you even lied. This isn't that bad." He walked over and put his hand on my shoulders.

"That's because this is just the basics." I looked to him with a very bored expression.

Fury cleared his throat gaining my full attention again. "So you can now walk in the sunlight without getting hurt?"

"For the most part but after about 30 minutes I begin to burn. My time is slowly improving."

"Good, good. Now, When you landed here you were in an escape pod designed by Nasa."

"Correct"

"Why naked?"

"Eriften Plains? There is no such thing as clothes. They don't have these flimsy garments. They wear armor or nothings at all. The surface of Eriften is so hot that materials like this would be burnt within a few hours."

"Explain the pod"

"I would seem that your Nasa crew got sucked into the wormhole leading to the 10th realm -"

I was cut off by Thor.

"That is impossible. There is no such thing as a 10th realm. If there was I would surely know about it!"

"Calling me a liar?" Unintentionally my eyes flashed black. My inner animal was getting really annoyed. She knew that the worst parts of my story were getting ready to come out.

"No my fair maiden,I would nev-"

"Well there is such thing as the 10th realm. Just because you have never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist."

"My father helped create the 9 realms! I am sure he would have told us about it!"

"Inside voice please Thor" Stated Tony.

"Thanos created the 10th realm." I said emotionless. Thor finally silenced. Looking like a fish out of water he pushed himself back down into his chair.

"As I was saying before I was rudely cut off again; Your Nasa crew got sucked into a wormhole leading to the Eriften Plains where they were pulled into Eriftens gravitational pull where they crash landed and..." My voice got stuck in throat. This was not what I wanted to do. I stood from my chair, feverishly running my hands throw my hair.

"Well?" said Fury.

"She told me the animals on the planet got to them." Tony said for me.

"Tony that was a lie." I said casting my eyes down. Tony looked at me threw squinting eyes.

"Well then tell us. You are currently with the biggest band of misfits and a very rich man. You have nothing to worry about." Said Tony.

"We wont think of you any different. Who ever you were in your past in not who you are now." reassured Banner.

"I ate them."

Silence.

Tony busted out in laughter followed by a few other people."You ate them! You have got to be joking. I see potential in every which way I wouldn't think you a cannibal, Olivia. Hahahaha!"

"On my planet its not considered cannibalism, its survival." Tony beaming grin immediately fell.

"Let me start from the beginning." I sat down in my chair looking across to all the horrified faces. I knew this would happen. They were judging me. After my little interview they would never look at me the same and give me over to Fury to create me into an even bigger monster than I already am. I intertwined my fingers and rested my chin on it trying my best not to break down. Breaking down was for the weak. I am not weak. I started to sing the song that was in the background in an even bigger attempt to calm myself.

"That I should 've bought you flowers
And held your hand
Should 've gave you all my hours
When I had the chance
Take you to every party
Cause all you wanted to do was dance
Now my baby's dancing
But she's dancing with another man"

I finished with a sigh thanking god they were being patient to hear my story.

"Sorry singing calms my nerves." Fury nodded in an understanding manner. I lit another cigarette and let my story roll from my tongue as if I were talking to a mother like figure. My cold demeanor dropped leaving me feeling and looking very tired.

"Well, on the Eriften Plains they have a huge assortment of creatures there. I am the product the king of the Burneseta and the queen of the Evolopes, that was raised by Grodations. My Father's name is Leon Philterson. He was a very cruel ruler but nothing compared to my mother, Clastica Tryalcdoter.

An Evolope I have come to learn is something like your idea of a mythological siren. They will kill you beauty and grace faster than you could blink your eyes. They have a very... interesting singing voice that will hypnotize you. They can sense your emotions and when they get mad, they have these tribal tattoos much to my appearance now, they glow when one becomes infuriated and it emits explosions. It all depends on the element of the Evolope as to what the explosion will do. They are also telepathic and have the ability to fly. A Burneseta is pretty much what you saw when you first saw me, Tony. Black hair, Black eyes, Black skin, Ram horns, and when mad can create a rather interesting light show."

"Does everything glow there?" Asked Tony incredulously.

"Haha, pretty much. It's natures only warning. The creatures are so trained in stealth its unreal." I grinned at Tony. "So that's why when I said if you see light, you better run."

"But it is nothing compared to the Grodations" Loki spoke up. My eyes peered up at him. Hoping he would take the rains of the story for a moment while I catch my breath. He must know of the 10th realm which would comfort me a lot if he would be considered my new ally. But instead of taking over the story he replied with this:

"What do you mean by you were raised by the Grodations?" He inquired raising his eyebrows clearly interested in my story. I sighed.

"Have any of you watched the movie 300?" I waited for replies but to my dismay they still had a few people that never watched it. "In the movie they have an endless pit in which they kicked the messenger of the Persians in because the man was bringing news of a possible war. Well the Evolopes have a similar pit called The Depth and they would throw there undesirables in there. I was an undesirable. I was a mix breed. You see the King of the Evolopes, Tigeraious Cruletson, couldn't bear children. So, he basically whored my mother out to anyone worthy of bearing royal children. You can just about imagine what one had to go through to bed my mother. Well my father Leon was secretly in love with my mother. When he heard of Tigeraious throwing my mother around like a prostitute he went undercover for a year, shifting into the appearance of an Evolope, gaining Tigeraious trust. When he finally had all his unconditional trust he bedded my mother and thus I was conceived. Well 3 months later I was born and Tigeraious was pissed. He-"

"Wait, wait, wait!" said Hawkeye. I looked up to him and raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"

"3 months?" He looked gobsmacked. "3 months to have a baby? That's shocking."

"What's more shocking is the fact that you are more entranced with the fact that it only took her 3 months to have me than the true outline of the story." I finished with a glare.

"Anyway, back to what I was saying before being interrupted for the 3rd time!" I let out an annoyed sigh. Rubbing my face I continued. " Okay, Tigeraious was mad. He wanted to know why his beautiful little Evolope had horns. My mother couldn't stop him from reading her mind in time. Needless to say a fight broke out and my mother and me was thrown into the Depth. Clastica shielded me from most of the drop but I was still nearly dead. I was only a few hours born and thrown into The Depth!" I pounded my fists into the table breaking it. Rage written all over my face. My eyes began glowing and I felt my animal come out. I transformed in front of them and began to rant.

"I was sentenced to death before I was born! And why?! HAHAHA I'll tell you why." My eyes began so shimmer and the tips of my hair and the tattoos on my skin began to glow. My voice dropped down deathly low while my face may be cast down but my eyes were looking up, just as one would do stalking their prey. "The Evolopes are the cruelest, foulest, and egotistical pieces of shit to every roam this universe. I ate their children for breakfast and didn't think twice about it!" I flipped the poker table causing them to back into the wall with their weapons drawn. Upon seeing this I knew I was pushing my luck and began to calm down. Regaining my composure I sat back down in my seat. I was still too mad to shift down so I just sighed bringing back my tired face.

"My apologies. Tony... I-I'll by you a new table." I was still shaky. These memories were never meant to resurface. Fury was the first to snap out of it. "Continue." His words were hard as if he was daring me to push his buttons more.

I sighed. " The Depth has tunnels. The tunnels led to caverns out of the pit should you survive the fall. But the odds of serving the fall are 754/1. So needless to say the caverns were never used unless used by the Grodations." I motioned towards Loki to let him know thatwe entered the part of the conversation that he was interested in hearing. He nodded in my direction. He was absolutely beaming at the destruction I just caused. "The Grodations are 8 legged creatures resembling cross between a wolf and a spider with 3 eyes. 2 are typically red while the one in the center was yellow. The two red eyes allowed them to see in the dark the yellow eye is a thermal sensor. They can see the heat your body gives off for miles away. Not to mention they can teleport."

"Amazing" Hogun uttered. From what I heard from Thor he doesn't talk much so hearing something out of him was surprising.

"The Alpha of the Grodations found me near death and took me in as his own gither."

"Excuse me miss." Steve butted in.

"Yes?" I looked at him. No hostility just tired eyes.

"What is a gither?" He implied scrunching up his face to show his confusion and utter detest for whatever creature this.

"Oh, sorry, it's my language. A Gither is like a cub or baby." I chuckled.

"Oh" he resumed his awkward position against the wall. I noticed no one was standing because the table tumbled over half the chairs. I stood and began picking up my mess.

"Well, the Grodations took me in and I have been an animal ever since. I didn't know what I was doing was cannibalism when I ate your Nasa crew. I was raised on survival of the fittest. I never had the pleasures of having a family, going to school, or having all these nice toys and trinkets. I grew up in a cave with these horribly ugly monsters, trying to survive one day at a time. The language I speak isn't even Evolope or Burneseta. I speak Grodation. I never learned any other language. Haha, I never even learned to walk on 2 legs until I came here." I began to pick up the poker chip pieces. "I am an animal in a princesses body. Nothing more, Nothing less. And before you try to say that I am not, or even if you already think that I am a monster, I just want you to know that everyone I killed, I had a reason and I do not feel any remorse. Not now, not ever. I am just a cold-hearted beast that found her way into an escape pod and came into civilization."

After everything was back into place, Fury, Nick, Loki, Tony, and Dr. Banner found the will to sit back down at the busted up poker table. "Anything else?"

"Yes I have a few simple questions I would like for you to answer with an easy yes or no somewill require a little discussion." Stated Fury while gesturing to his notepad he had been taking notes on.

"Lay it on me." I kicked up my feet on the poker table and rested my hands behind my horns. The tips of my hair and my tattoos finally shimmered down from a deep red to a soft and kind blue. I would be able to change back soon.

"When you killed the men you got on the ship and what happened?"

"I crawled in, I guess I must have hit a button and it sent me here."He wrote in his note pad.

"What happened to Tigeraious?"

"Dead. I killed him."

"Is there any planetary threat?"

"No... Well not unless the Grodations find a way to teleport Millions of light-years away."

"They would come looking for you?"

"Highly improbable."

"What happened to Leon?"

"He rules the Burneseta believing me to be dead."

"Why hide?" I hesitated. Why did I hide? Was I really hiding?

"I-I don't think I am hiding..."I contorted my face to one of serious thinking. " I guess he was never around to begin with and beings I had to fight everyday of my life it just seemed like a waste of time. I mean... He wasnt around when I needed him most so I felt no need to look for him."

"You have superpowers that consist of: Exploding, shape-shifting, telepathy, siren's song, night vision, your a pyro, thermal vision, and you can fly anything else?"

"I do not have thermal vision. That is strictly for Grodations. Everything else yes. I can also turn invisible, super-strength, and spikes."

"Okay, spikes what is spikes?"

I held out my hand, my eyes glowed, and a jagged rock type shot from my hand into the wall. Natasha went over to the wall to further inspect it. "It's a dart..." Looking baffled she turned to me and said, "You are just full of tricks aren't you?"

"Yup and my 5 senses are really strong, so strong that I can feel and smell other peoples emotions. Other than that, well thats about it" I said clapping my hands together.

"Do you know your birthday?"

"No"

"Would you subject to a check up? No expirements. No straps. Just an average check up every human being does here?"

"You should find that Dr. Banner has done an amazing job at keeping my check up records but should you need to do them yourself I will, yes."

"Do you want to go back to the Eriften Plains?"

"Haha, I dont know. They both have the same amount of pros and cons."

"Any bothers or sisters?"

"I don't know." Fury raised his eyebrows.

"Would you kill again?" At this people leaned in just in case they lost a word.

"If they give me a reason to yes. I have already told you I have not killed without a reason."

Sighing he said, " This will be my last question for now. I understand that you lied to everyone to save yourself from being tested on and blew up District 4 twice. These are forgiven, but I need to know now. How can we trust you now?"

I returned Fury's sigh with my tired one. "Fury you ought to know more than anyone; trust isnt given it's earned. I know that now most of you are skeptical to the idea of me now. I can smell it so don't try to lie. But all I can do to help me now is by saying: you can't trust me but at the same time you can. This next line came from a movie and I will use this quote to my advantage. 'Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.' So at this time, no, you can't trust me to not lie and try to protect myself, but you can trust me to be myself."

I now had everyone in this room looking at me with the biggest WTF faces I have ever seen. Of course I spoke in a riddle. This seemed to get Fury a bit pissed.

"Olivia... Can. We. Trust. You.?" butted in a rather annoyed Black Widow.

I waited a moment before saying. "Yes."

Fury spoke words I thought I would never hear. "Ms. Olivia Neveah, I will see you this afternoon where shield will put you into out database as a registered citizen of the United Stated of America. I hope Mr. Stark here Has taught you how to drive because you will be need a license for just about everything." He grabbed his coat and other belongings and began stuffing them in the places they belong.

"Yes he has but if you don't mind me asking when will you come back this afternoon?" looking up to him beings I didn't move. I turned back to my human-ish looking form.

"2:00 if that is okay for you."

"Umm I don't know..." I said looking unsure. I looked towards Tony. "If Tony would still want me here then I have work tonight and I will need some sleep, but if he doesn't I have no where to go and i-"

Tony cut me off "Olive, you will always have a place here. You are too beautiful...well... I dont know about this form. It's pretty but really intimidating. Anyways, your too pretty, and sweet. You may have had a bad past, but you did what you had to do in order to survive. If I would say so myself I think you have reformed well."

I froze as a single silent tear flowed down my face. Acceptance.

"Thank you." I whispered.

Fury smiled that horrible smile. Not meaning to be intimidating, just trying to give a humble smile at the brother and sister like couple sitting before him. "Tomorrow. Same time. Preferably not a place so cramped." And with that he left.