A Broken Crown

Chapter Five- Training Part One

The chapter image is the face claim for Alex.

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We were in the car on the way back to the tower. Something about Natasha made me want to open up to her. She seemed to be everything that I ever wanted in a sister.

Natasha said, "Hey we never got properly introduced. I'm Natasha."

She held out her hand and I shook it.

I said, "Nice to meet you Natasha I'm Alex."

Natasha said, "Alex I want you to know that if you ever need someone to talk to I'm here for you."

I said, "We have more in common than you think, so I'll keep that in mind."

The rest of the trip back to the tower passed by in silence. The silence was welcome because it gave me a chance to process all the new information. It hadn't hit me until that moment just how much I'd lost. I started crying. Natasha looked over at me concerned.

Natasha said, "What's wrong?"

I said, "With all the chaos of the past five years, I haven't been able to process everything that's happened to me. I was too focused on just living to see the next day to really comprehend what had happened. Now that things have calmed down everything has started to hit me all at once."

Natasha said, "Like I said if you need to talk I'm here for you."

Natasha said, "Besides you and I both know there are some girl things that boys can't really understand. If you know what I mean." 

That made me laugh. The look on Natasha's face said that laughter was what she was aiming for. She had wanted to lighten up the mood and it worked. I was still laughing a minute later when we pulled back into the tower garage. Natasha and I grabbed the bags and brought them back to my room. 

Natasha said, "Now let's go train. The boys are eager to see what you can do."

I nodded and said, "Lead the way."

Natasha and I walked to what I assumed to be the Avenger's training area. The room was huge. I was amazed. The rest of the team was already there waiting for us.

Tony said, "You like it?"

I said, "This place is amazing."

Tony said, "So what can you do?"

I said, "Well to start of my people are different than humans. We are much stronger, faster, smarter, and enhanced in every other physical quality than humans. Then there are more abilities that are possessed only by the queen. Now I am not very good with these abilities yet. The reason being that the abilities are possessed by the current queen. Only when the current queen dies does the heir come into those abilities. So I have not had much time to practice them. Those abilities are simplestly described as matter manipulation. Basically I will have total control over matter down to the atomic level. Once I have mastered this I will be able to use it to move objects like telekinesis, change objects into other objects, make myself intangible, walk through walls, among other things. As of right now the only thing I can really do is create an energy blast like you experienced earlier. I do that by taking the energy from the matter around me and sending it outwards like a shock wave. Well there is one ability of a queen that an heir always possesses."

Clint asked, "What is that?"

I said, "Well it will be easier to show you than to tell you."

I looked up. The ceiling was just high enough for me to do something I had not done in a while. I shrugged off my jacket and tossed it away. Right now I was glad I had remembered to cut two slits into the back of my shirt. Natasha had looked at me weird, but let me do it anyway. I moved and made sure I had about five feet of space on all sides. With a shrug of my shoulders I unfurled my wings gently guiding them through the slits in the shirt. Once they were fully extended my thirteen foot wingspan was on full display. The Avengers were in awe of my wings. Well my wings did look kind of cool I guess. My feathers were light grey on the top of my wings and dark grey on the bottom. The feathers darkened the farther down the wing they were. 

I let out a sigh. It felt so good to unfurl my wings after keeping them folded inside my back for so long. I took a running start and leaped into the air. My wings propelled me up into the air. The wind felt so great running through my feathers. After a few circles around the room I dived down for a landing. When I landed I folded my wings so they were laying against my back like a cloak instead of folding back into my skin.

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Ooh a cliffhanger. So how do you think the Avenger's will react to her wings? As always please vote and leave comments. Author Out.