Chang'e °Pietro Maximoff

Chapter 6

The Avengers were now sitting the jet.
Not a word was said.
Everyone felt horrible after the events of Wakanda. The worst being Bruce and Rava.
Rava was sitting behind Clint looking ahead into the clouds before breaking the silence.
"Clint, were are we going?"
The archer smiled at her slightly before replying.
"Somewhere safe, Rava. Somewhere safe."
This gave the girl a better feeling.
She still felt guilty for what she did to Bruce. Or well she just felt guilty for everything she has ever done. Images of Jooheon kept haunting her.

Looking back outside the window Rava saw a farm.
"What's this?" she smiled slightly.
Clint replied with a big smile on his face.
"Home... But don't tell the rest yet."

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The team of Avengers walked inside the little house when a woman appeared. Rava's eyes immediatly lit up when she saw that the woman was pregnant.

"Hi, company. Sorry we didn't call ahead."

The two embraced eachother lovingly.
Something that made Rava smile brightly. Hoping she would have something like that one day.

Tony didn't believe what he was seeing. "This has to be an agent of some kind."
Everyone looied at him with a look as if they were saying 'Really?'
Rava snorted before replying.
"Nah, i think it's all real."

The archer slung his arm over the woman next to known as Laura Barton before turning towards the rest of the team.
"Gentlemen, this is Laura."
The woman waved awkwardly before speaking. "I know all of your names."
The woman turned to look at the young Avenger with a big smile. "Especially yours."
The girl's eyes grew big not knowing what it meant.
The woman saw the discomfort on the girl's face. "Clint has told me alot of things about you... Good things ofcourse." the woman leaned over and whispered something in her ear.
"He would tell the children bedtime stories about you. They are their favourite stories."
The girl smiled at this. People tell stories about her.

The girl heard Clint speak again.
"Uh oh. Incoming."
Two children began running towards the archer immediatly embracing the man in a hug. "Hi, sweetheart. Hey, buddy."

"These are... smaller agents." the young hero turned back to look at the billionaire genius. "Shut up, Tony!"

The children were busy with Natasha when Steve spoke up. Being the gentleman as ever.
"Sorry for barging in on you.. We would have called ahead but we were busy not knowing you excisted."
Some people are such idiots the girl thought. "Cap, you don't say things like that!"
She couldn't believe she had to teach her dad manners.

The girl looked at Thor who had just stepped on a toy. He shoved the now broken toy under some furniture with the most guilty look on his face. The god turned and saw that Rava had seen him broke the toy. His eyes grew big. The girl smiled at him and put a finger on her lips as if saying 'I won't tell a soul'.

Clint began to explain.
"Yeah Fury helped me set this up when i joined and ket it off the records. And i would like to keep it that way. I figured it was a good place to lay low."

The two children looked at the bender with big eyes. It was the great hero of their bedtime stories.
In the meantime Nat was talking to Laura.
"So how's little Natasha?"
The pregnant woman grimaced playfully before replying.
"She is uhmm Nathaniel."
The red hair crouched down until she faced Laura's belly.
"Traitor."

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The Avengers were spread all over the house.
The girl was walking in the living room until the two children walked to her. The moongirl was looking out the window so one of the children tapped her leg. The girl looked down with a smiled on her face.
"Hello, who are you?"
The girl crouched down so she was facing the children.
"Lila and he is Cooper."
The girl smiled loving the precense of children.
The little girl took the young Avenger's hand and pulled her towards her room.
The two children began to climb into their beds.

The bender stood awkwardly in the doorway not knowing why she was in their bedroom.
"We need a bedtime story." the boy spoke up. Hearing this the girl smiled and immediatly walked towards the children in their beds.

"Well what do you wanna hear?"
The kids looked at eachother before looking back at her with a big smile.
"The moon! The moon!"

The girl tried to think of a good story about the moon or the moongodess.
She smiled thinking about a story.

Flashback
The supersoldier carried the ten year old girl through the halls of SHIELD.
It had been a week since he rescued the girl from the airtemple and now they were finally back at SHIELD.
The old man opened the door of his bedroom in the building.
He layed her in his bed. He was the only one that the girl allowed to come near her. She trusted him. Only him.
"So uhmm... Do you want me to tell you a bedtime story?"
The girl shook her head.
The man thought for a second. He wanted the girl to talk to him. Since he took her with him she hadn't spoke a word.
"Do you know a story? You see i need a bedtime story before i go to sleep."
The man smiled down at her.
The little girl smiled at him and nodded excited at him.
"May i?" Steve gestured to the place next to hear.
"Yes, sir."
She spoke the first words since he met her.
He smiled and sat next to the kid.
She started telling the story of the moongodess and her children..

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The girl began to tell the story of the moongodess and her children. Just like the night with her adoptive father. The first night she spoke even a single word to him.

"There once was a godess.
This godess used to live in China bit sadly she had to escape and leave her husband behind.
Now she lives on the moon."

She was interrupted by the small Barton. "What's her name?"
The young Avenger giggled before replying.

"I was about to tell you that. Patience, my child. Her name was Chang'e. She is the godess of the moon and.. Well, she is my mother."
The children gasped in excitement knowing the daughter of a godess was sitting infront of them.

"You see since she became the moongodess she gave the world moonchildren in exchange for the gifts she received from the people.
The first child was given to the world thousands of years ago.
And everytime the child died a new one was born.
This happened everytime a child died.
And did you know that every child had special powers?"

The children smiled and began to tell the four powers of the moonchildren.
"Water, earth, fire and air."

The girl clapped in her hands before turning back to the story.

"Well you see i'm the moonchild now.
But i can talk with the past moonchildren. I can speak with them through meditation. When i meditate i enter the spirit world. In here all the people who have died live here. And the moonchildren live here together around one place. The spirit oasis.
But there is also another way to contact the past moonchildren.
This is the moonstate. When you enter the state you receive all the powers and knowledge of not only the past moonchildren but also the moongodess herself. The moongodess will always be your protector. And did you..."

The girl was about to speak further but saw that the little Bartons were fast asleep. She smiled and layed the blankets over the children.
"Goodnight little Qínlèi."
(Qínlèi means birds)

The girl closed the doorway behind her and walked towards her room.
The girl had a restless night filled with nightmares about her past.
In the middle of her nightmare she heard a female voice with a sokovian accent.
"We were wrong. I'm sorry. Ultron's evolving so look out."