The New Avenger

The New Avenger (The Whole Thing)

PROLOGUE

I heard screams. It sounded like children's screams.

I was scouring the streets and dark alleyways for food. You see, I was homeless, so of course I was kind of hungry. If scavenging didn't work I had other ways of getting a meal...

I followed the screams and came to a dead-end were two children, a younger brother sheltered beneath his elder sister I presumed, both cowering in the shadow of a middle-aged man, his back to me, inching the children against the wall at the end.

The older sister had a frightened but determined look, I liked that. Reminded me of myself when I was her age, about seven she looked, and her brother about five.

I leapt – yes, leapt – over the man and in front of the children blocking the man's path. When he saw himself reflected in my yellow eyes he blanched. I bet he'd never even seen a wolf before. Bastard.

I growled at him fiercely and he drew a gun from his jacket. He was quivering with fear and his eyes darted madly around, searching for an exit, but he knew at least that he could never outrun a wolf, even an adolescent. A much louder growl ripped through my throat, and in his fear he fired a shot. It caught me straight in the chest. Another few shots. I flinched, but I doubt he noticed. Blood now seeped through my beautiful black fur, dying the streaks of white red. He ran away screaming, and I turned to the children who had been too shocked to move. I spoke to them in a husky voice.

"I will not hurt you, please do not fear me." I said. "If you wish me to escort you home I can, if you want me to be a human again just ask me it-"

I was cut off immediately as the small boy broke free from his sister's clutches and wrapped his tiny hands around my chest.

"You're warm." Was all he said.

The sister smiled at me gratefully then broke into tears and hugged me also, glad and grateful for what I had done.

I changed back into a human and hugged them back.

"You're very welcome," I said.

The sister told me they could find their own way back, and that she and her brother wouldn't have to be worried all the time about that man. She said, "Thank you."

And walked off.

Smiling, I started to walk back to the main road, but the first step I took I collapsed on the floor breathing heavily. Blood soaked my shirt, and I realised how precarious my life was at the moment. Before I could think anymore, my eyes rolled backwards and my world went black.

CHAPTER 1

"Hello? Wakey wakey? You still alive? Geez, she's been out for three days! I wonder if she's in a coma or something."

My eyelids fluttered open.

"Hey gorgeous! She's not dead!"

I was staring at a handsome man with short blond hair and pale blue eyes. He had an amazing smile on his face.

I tried to sit up in fright but my chest ached terribly so I laid still.

"Wh-where am I?" I asked my breath shuddering with fear. I'd been in this situation before, and I didn't like the outcome.

"You're in the infirmary of S.H.IE.L.D., in a big airship in the sky, beautiful," he replied smiling wider. "You have multiple bullet holes in your chest, but the immediate dangers are gone." He told me.