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Chapter 1: The Beginning
Kara Marks walked tiredly from her high school. Another day finished, she thought. Only two and a half more years to go. Two and a half more years until she could finally begin her life and leave her foster family.
They weren't really so bad, John and Emma. They kept her fed, clothed, sheltered, and they were even kind to her. They were in no way abusive, but they didn't love her. Just as she couldn't love them.
Although she was in no way satisfied with her situation, Kara was a model foster child. She didn't smoke, drink, do drugs, have sex, or attend or host unsanctioned parties. She barely even argued with her foster parents. The only slightly misbehavioral thing she did was sneak out of the house at night. Even then, it was only to make her way onto the roof, watch the stars and just wonder… but she didn't think that really counted. She didn't see the point in acting out. John and Emma were decent to her, why would she take the chance of being booted to the next foster home?
However, none of that stopped her from wanting to leave them and start her own life. She didn't even know what she wanted to do with it, she just wanted out. Out of the constant mask of passive affection she kept up to John and Emma. Maybe, if she studied hard enough, she could get into an Ivy League college. Maybe she wouldn't even go to college; maybe she would join the Peace Corps. or something else clichéd. The world was full of possibilities. Kara would find one that suited her.
Kara walked on, content to hang her head and allow herself to brood before reaching her house. But the Universe simply didn't want that to happen.
The darkening clouds and faint sound of thunder made Kara stop and look up. There wasn't supposed to be a storm today. The sky had been clear and blue just ten seconds before she was sure.
The sky blackened even further until it was quite a dark gray color.
The storm clouds moved across the dark sky faster than any clouds she'd ever seen before. Almost to the speed of an experienced runner.
She could hear distant thunder coming closer with each loud boom!
Flashes of lightning pealed out of the clouds.
Kara stared, dazedly at the clouds. What was this, some kind of freak storm?
A bolt of strange red lightning came straight for her. She felt a burning sensation on her chest before she felt no more.
Kara became aware of distant voices. Was she dead? Would she be hearing voices if she were?
She slowly opened her eyes and blinked a few times to focus them. A sterile looking room greeted her. Well, that was familiar enough. A hospital. Splendid.
"Are you sure she'll be okay?" Now she recognized the voice. That must be Emma, and she supposed that she was talking to a doctor. They sounded close enough to be right outside her room.
"Her vitals are stable. She's sure to have a clean recovery. She suffered a little bruising and a minor concussion from her fall but a day or two of rest should get rid of that. If you'd like to step inside, she should be waking up now." The doctor said, the voice distinctly male.
Minor bruising? She was by lightning. Surely, the doctor had found the burns. She reached down to her chest to find them herself but there was nothing there. Kara's brow furrowed in denial. She remembered being struck. She was sure she would never forget the pain of that burn
She heard the click of the doorknob and then the swing of the door as it opened. Emma, the supposed doctor, and John walked through the door, and Emma rushed to her as soon as she saw that Kara was awake.
" Kara! What happened? Are you okay?" The frantic edge in Emma's voice comforted Kara a little; she didn't often have people to care about her well-being.
"I'm fine, I think. Thank you for coming, Emma," she said. "I'm not sure what happened. I don't even remember passing out or feeling anything strange beforehand." The lie surprised her; she hadn't expected that she wouldn't want to tell people about the incident. But she felt a sense of insecurity about telling, now that she thought about it.
"Perhaps it was the shock," John said.
"What shock?"
"From that freak storm," John explained. "The only confirmed lightning strike happened little more then a hundred feet from you. The EMT's saw the scorch marks on the ground. Pretty big ones, they said. You must have fainted from the shock."
"I guess," Kara said, noncommittally. How did the scorch marks get so far from her? Had it thrown her back when it struck her? No, the angle was wrong. The lightning came straight down from the sky and struck her in the chest. At most, it might have thrown her back a few feet, but most likely she just toppled to the ground.
From there, the doctor reiterated her injuries, but Kara was too lost in her thoughts to tell him that she already heard him. The doctor cleared her to leave, she signed out, and headed back to her house with John and Emma.
The next day, she was back in school and ready to believe that it had all been a dream, and she had passed out from hunger, or something. She'd breakfast that day because she was late for school, and lunch because she was studying for a Geometry test in the library. Natural causes and the imagination at work.
That's when the monsters found her. They stalked down the hallway straight for her. She took one look at them and ran for the forest outside her school.
A few hours later, Kara awoke to the sight of a large man staring down at her.
A/N: Hi! Here's the first chapter. I know it's kind of dry. I hate doing set up chapters. Anyway, Thor is coming in the next chapter and quite a lot of him, I promise. I might not update very soon, though, because I want to work on the story some more. Work out the finer points.
I have more news. To all the Darkest Powers fans reading this. I'm planning on re-starting it. I read it over just last night and found it to be rather silly. So, I'm rebooting it, I'll have to redo some of the scenes, seeing as I wrote it before the Reckoning came out. So, Tori and Simon kissing: not gonna happen. I might still keep Andrew evil since he was in the series.
Please R&R!