A Hero's Heart

She moved before she could think. Right as she lunged forward the shooter noticed her. It was a teenager, he looked between her brothers and her. Out of shock he fired three times. She bit back her scream and tackled the boy. He fired two more times before she wrestled the gun out of his grip and kicked it away. She then pinned the male down. Panting, she held him in place, until the police came. The moment they got there she looked at them, then shot up to her feet, ignoring the wounds in her shoulder and torso. She ignored the warm liquid dripping from three bullet wounds in her torso and the two in her shoulder. All barely missing her chest. But the blood flowed like rivers from her wounds.

She ran into the bathroom, calling out to her brother. He came out but froze at the sight of his elder sister. His eyes red from silently crying once again began to flow with tears. He let out a choked sob. The older female lunged forward. Engulfing her younger brother into a tight hug. But then her knees buckled. She fell but her brother caught her. He began to drag her out of the bathroom. Calling out for help, holding hope despite knowing she was already fading. Realizing the adults can't help. He dropped down, placing his sister's head into his lap and cried as the woman who raised him began to fade away. The kind light that was once in her eyes began to fade away. Her breathing began to slow. Her eyes began to close. He just cried even harder as she died in his arms. The policemen cried with the boy as they restrained the shooter. In the end there was one death.

In a different world. In a different reality. In a world where superhuman powers exist a girl shouldn't have been born. A girl who will one day hold extraordinary powers. A girl who could either destroy the world or save it. A girl who shouldn't exist. Should not, yet does know. A girl who may just be the last hope of this world. Will she be the hero this world needs? Or will her presence help with its downfall?