From Worlds Apart - Marvel FanFiction

-Origin Story-

Why waste time fighting a fight when you know you'll win? It's pointless.

Let me introduce myself. I'm Dakota Fell, just a normal 16-year-old-girl who is a vampire. Of course, not completely normal, but if you took away everything about me that isn't vampire-related, you'd see I am really just a normal young girl: sometimes I wish it could be that way.

I have a twin sister, Leanna. She is more, let's just say 'sinister' than I am, she has less of a light-hearted sense of humour. Well, it's debateable whether she has a sense of humour at all. We were changed very young, at 4 years old, the same day my parents died. I don't like talking about it much, to be honest. The vampire who changed us, Maurice, taught us what we were, that we were fast and strong, and all of our capabilities, until he left us to ourselves when we were 11. However, we soon found out that we were both different. Our unique powers, which vampires would often have, weren't the problem. We still looked like we were ageing. Luckily, not doubly as fast as normal or anything, just like a normal human. That alone was odd, but we didn't shine in sunlight, either. We both later taught ourselves to make it happen at our will, amazed how pretty it really was. These differences don't sound like much, but we were an alien species. Alien to the alien species itself. I don't really think you could be any more alien.

But I didn't let myself become all depressed about it or stuff like that. I tried to live as normal a life as I could, living in the small abandoned cottage in the middle of a forest near our home village. Leanna and I, we did bad things in our early days. We used to spend them, if not in a world of our own at home, hunting down bad people such as murderers and killing them. Leanna was always more brutal with her victims; they would be practically insane before they died if they were dealing with her. Her ability didn't help: she can make you have visions of whatever she wants to see, and can make them appear in the air for everyone to see. If she wants to know something about you, she can retrieve it through a vision.

I, on the other hand, killed quicker. I didn't want to make victims pay any more than they had to: paying with your life is the biggest payment you could receive, let alone having to suffer beforehand. I can manipulate nerves in the body, and I can cause any level of pain in any part of it, though I get backlash from it a little while later, which is why I use it minimally. My mother had always taught us that two wrongs didn't make a right, though being the species that we were made it hard to live by that moral. When I was 13, I decided to give up human blood and drink animal blood instead. I wanted to become immune to reacting to human blood.

Joining SHIELD was the best decision I ever made. Nick Fury was reluctant, but after showing him what I could do, he allowed it. By then, Leanna and I had grown apart. I later got an 'Avengers promotion', as I called it, and became known as the Crimson Shadow. I even got a place to stay at the Avengers building. I had finally earned a purpose. Only Avengers knew what I really was, and my cover story to the public was that I was injected with a similar substance as the Super Soldier Serum; people buy it, fortunately.

Thing started to go downhill after a matter of time, though. The Sokovia Accords caused the Avengers to split in half. I was on Tony's side: those accords were the only way of keeping everything I had. I had befriended Wanda before the disagreement, and I hated fighting against her. I hated fighting against everyone, we all did. Which was why we all held back. At the airport I did meet a few new people, Ant-Man sticks freshly in my mind, which isn't surprising considering the size he grew to, and Spider-Man. The only person whose name I got. I remember asking him, and at first he refused, but I managed to convince him: I told him I wasn't going to go around telling everyone. So he gave in, and told me his name was Peter Parker, in return for my name, since the official name of the Crimson Shadow hadn't been publicly revealed, yet I never saw under his mask.

After, I couldn't find anything much to do. I knew the only thing I had ever wanted to do was to go to school, learn maths and science. It was the only thing left that would make me feel as normal as I could possibly be. I asked Tony, and he said it would be hard. I knew that, of course, I couldn't just prance around at school looking like the Crimson Shadow, but Tony said he could do something about it. At first, I was a little suspicious of what he was going to do, and I still don't know the ins and outs of what he did, but it worked out. Eventually. The only school that would accept me was Midtown High School of Science and Technology.
I was excited until Tony told me it was in Queens. It took just under an hour from the Avengers Facility to Queens as it was. Luckily, being a vampire entailed having immense speed and not sleeping, so getting to and from school was just fine, though I anticipated it would be a little tricky crossing Queensboro bridge without people getting a little suspicious. I decided I would walk across the bridge instead of run, and do it that way.

Preparations were not fun. I was even more disheartened when I found out I literally had to fake my identity. My new name was Ariana Wavers, and she had wavy blond hair, brown eyes and glasses, which I achieved with contacts and a wig that I despised before I even put it on. I did look a lot different though, and I was excited to start.

I felt confident. Besides, I was strong, fast, everything else a vampire was. But I'm not invincible.

It is only so long before even a vampire cracks.