Woodland Princess Ch.9: Memories

Woodland Princess Ch.9: Memories

Ch.8 Ch.10

Lord Elrond had led Raerthar and I back to Rivendell. When we got there Raerthar and I both stared at the overview of it.

I was remembering how my father would sometimes send me here if he needed alone time to think, or if he found himself incapable of keeping me safe from a threat against his kingdom.

I now started to realize how much I missed my father, even though he seemed cold, he was quite caring and made sure we did what was right. I missed Legolas too, he could be cold like our father but he always was easier to make happy.

Now when I think about it, my father raised us very differently. When Legolas was a kid he had a loving mother and a caring father who always had a soft spot for him, but when I was raised I only knew my mother when I was very young before she died in battle.

After that, father became very cold and reserved, even towards me who he used to spoil with gifts and kindness.

He tried though, he really did, but he usually sent me over here when he couldn't deal with me or when he didn't want to be near me because as he said, "You look too much like your mother."

"I know it's been a while, but I've only ever seen you cry twice. This is the second time." Voiced Lord Elrond from beside me.

I quickly reached up with my hand and wiped it under my eyes.

'I shouldn't be crying, after all I'll see my family after this if my father hasn't banished me for leaving his kingdom unauthorized', I thought to myself before Raerthar began to walk to Rivendell.

Lord Elrond followed close behind, thinking to himself.

'I can read her thoughts as she can read mine, she was thinking about her father and how much she misses him. I always thought she would miss her brother more because he was more affectionate, but it's her father. I really should tell him about her being here, and I will but only after they've been gone for 2 days. That seems reasonable.'

We walk to Rivendell in silence, the guards have slightly encircled around myself and Lord Elrond seeing as we are the royalty in this group. As soon as we arrive the guards move forward and circle my company who stand in the center of the clearing.

Lord Elrond dismounts and greets Mithrandir while he orders a guard to take Raerthar to a stall but then quickly remembers how I said she hates small spaces and tells him to instead release her among the open pastures.

After he has the other elves leave everyone to the dining room he quickly comes over and hugs me. I hug him back, not letting any tears fall from my eyes as I look upon Rivendell.

"Aelsar if you really want to you can just skip the dinner, I remember how you are about eating alone in your room reading your books and writing your stories."

"I think I'll just go to the pasture and hang out with Raerthar. Not really that hungry." I say to Lord Elrond before going to get dinner so I can get back to Raerthar.

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I sat in the pasture, with Raerthar for mainly the rest of the day.

'Aelsar, you should go and feast with the rest of your kin. I'll be fine.' Spoke Raerthar as she was worried on how little I had been eating over the past few days.

'Now it will take awhile for you to get back into the flow of everything here, but you must go and socialize. The only people you've had an actual conversation with is Gandalf and I. You've been mostly quiet after the day Thorin yelled at you during the battle. I know you must be angry but you must go and see your friends. They will be worried about you.' Emphasized Raerthar as she nudged me towards Rivendell from within the pasture.

'Fine. I will go and have dinner with them, but if I don't like it I'm leaving.' Replied Aelsar in an understanding tone.

'Deal.' Replied Raerthar as she then used her magic to place Aelsar on her back, and then galloped towards Rivendell.

We reached the edge of the pasture which had a small walkway of stone and jewels that led out of the stables and towards the dining hall.

I silently slipped off Raerthar's back, saying goodbye and began walking down the path. It led me through a beautiful stone stable with a soft sandy ground.

As I reached the outside I saw the path that led to the dining hall. However I didn't want to disturb anyone or enter the room and gain their attention so I took a secret passageway that only Lord Elrond and I knew about.

The secret passage was hidden behind a tapestry which I simply pushed out of the way and walked through the stone corridor. At the end of the passageway there was a sharp turn and a statue which you simply pushed forward and it moved forward for it to move forward, and out of the way.

Ch.8 Ch.10

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The Elder Maximoff Ch.5: More Than A Confrontation

Ch.4 Ch.6

"Aw junior, you're going to break your old man's heart." We all turn around to see Tony land on the bridge with the avengers behind him, in an defensive stance.

"If I have to." Ultron responds as he steps forward. I disappear into the shadows as only three of them have seen me, and two are nowhere to be seen.

"You don't have to break anything,"Thor stated.

"Clearly you've never made an omelet." Retorts Ultron in a calm yet slightly annoyed voice.

"He beat me by one second." Claims Tony as he looks back at his team.

"Ah this is fine, is what comfortable? Like old times." Questioned Pietro as he walked forward. My siblings have a bone to pick with him but right now I'll focus on Black Widow and Thor as they seem like the biggest threats here.

"This was never my life." States Tony with a hint of remorse in his tone but I pay no attention to it because I'm currently sneaking up behind Thor. My siblings saw me and their eyes had a flash of fear, but it quickly disappeared and they focused once again on Tony with a firm glare.

Thor steps forward explaining how they can still walk away from this, Wanda seemed pretty annoyed at them since she replied in a ticked off voice,

"No we will." While giving them a fake smile.

"I know you've suffered..." I've heard enough,I appear out of the shadows behind him and quickly grow out sharp bones, about 3 inch long razor sharp claws that protrude out of my fingertips with a slight curve, like that of a panther.

Thor, however, hears the creation of my claws as when I shift or grow my bones they sometimes make a cracking noise. He turns to the noise, but is met with the clawing of flesh. I hit his shoulder, my claws left deep gash marks, so I was happy. Thor goes to hit me with his hammer but I'm already gone, the blink of an eye is all it takes for me to disappear through shadow travel.

I reappear next to Wanda and tap her shoulder, but by the jump she gave, she probably didn't hear me next to her.

"Do you have any idea what I could've done if I didn't know it was you Corvina!" Wanda whisper-shouts at me as we travel through the hallways to catch members of the avengers distracted so we can break their minds.

"Yes." I simply responded as I looked up from a ledge to see Iron man and Ultron facing off. I see Captain America or Cap ram into Pietro. I look at Wanda and motion I'm going out to fight, she nods her head and I camouflage myself to look like darkness.

I sneak up behind Cap and create a shadow dimension weapon. I take the shadow dagger and am right behind Cap now, Pietro however looked over at the last second which then caused Cap to roll sideways at the last second, barely missing my dagger. He throws his shield at me and I create a shadow portal, thus making his shield disappear.

"Where's my shield?" He asks in a surprised tone at not having the shield ricochet back to him.

"Oh lets just say somewhere you'll never find." I'm about to attack Cap but I see Clint shooting an arrow at me.

I open a shadow portal above me, and Cap's shield falls into my hand. I held it up just in time to reflect Clint's arrow, however when the arrow made contact with the shield it sent an electrical current through my body. I drop Cap's shield and Shadow travel out of there before they can catch me.

I quickly attempt to heal myself with my primordial darkness manipulation, before going to look for Wanda. I see her about to hex Hawkeye, but he turns around and uses the same electrical shock arrows on Wanda.

I quickly hurry to her, however when Clint sees me he loads another arrow, but this one has a rugged point that is meant to hurt when hitting and leaving their target, meant to tear and snag, and leave a big gash.

I take a step forward and Hawkeye raises the bow, I raise my hands up in a sign of surrender, but he just pulls back on the bow string while aiming it at me.

"One more step and I fire, and I'd rather not hurt a kid." He voices in a calm but stern voice.

"Last time I checked you're already hurting a kid who happens to be my little sister. Now, I'm going to ask you nicely. Give. Her. Back. Now." He looks startled by my voice so I quickly shadow travel Wanda outside so she will be safe from Clint, but not before I brought her to me where I then grabbed the arrow and bit it in the center, causing it to snap in half. I shadow traveled her outside the ship, while I turned into a massive black panther.

Clint looks extremely scared now, I lunge forward at him. He releases his arrow, as it flies forward it hits my shoulder, I roar in pain but charge forward.

Clint's now running for dear life, I jump forward and swipe my long, sharp claws at his legs, successfully slicing through his calves. He falls, so I'm now standing over him. I bite at his neck but he puts his arm in front, so I instead bite his arm other then neck. He lets out a pained scream, but I'm kicked off of him when he pushes his legs up. I transform into a human as I say,

"Bye bird brain.", before I shadow traveled out to where Wanda is sitting.

Ch.4 Ch.6

The Elder Maximoff Ch.7: Seoul

Ch.6 Ch.8

We arrive in Seoul to make Ultron his new body. I shadow travel all of us into her lab so we wouldn't be seen, and then we waited for her to arrive.

It took about 5 minutes after we arrived for her to walk through the door. Ultron quickly says,

"Scream and your entire staff dies." That shut her up real quick. After a few minutes of chatting with her he ordered one of his robots who then stood forward and pushed Loki's scepter against her chest, Her eyes went black and then electrical blue. Ultron brought in the vibranium and Helen got right to work in making an artificial body for Ultron.

Ultron then proceeds to break open the gem in the scepter to then reveal a beautiful glowing gold yellow stone which Ultron then placed in the center of its forehead. Helen then said something about it being a couple of hours for it to be done, but he could now begin the mind downloading process.

As soon as she plugged him into the machine, Wanda and I wanted to understand his mind more since we couldn't see his mind while he was a robot.

We both placed our hands on the cradle, there was nothing but black, then suddenly earth appeared, it was calm. Then an asteroid went speeding towards earth and hit it, causing everyone to be killed in the after wave from it.

I heard Wanda pull her hands away from the cradle quickly and let out a slight cry of distress, but I continued to see what else was in his mind. After the meteorite hit earth the sounds of the millions of innocent people dying could be heard, then silence.

I then saw on earth many metal beings free to take over earth instead. When I released from the cradle Wanda was telling Pietro what she saw and Ultron looked alarmed at her reaction; I looked shocked, anyone could tell.

I stepped back when Ultron tried to reach out to us. I telepathically told Wanda to free Helen of the sceptre's power, seconds later she powered down the cradle.

Ultron sighed in disappointment, but before we could do anything he shot Helen in the chest. Pietro grabbed both of us and ran out of there.

When we got out of there I explained,

"This has gone too far. How about we just forget about this, let's live normal lives. The Avengers will stop Ultron and forget about us sooner or later." Wanda and Pietro both nodded their heads and we set off and disappeared into the crowds of people.

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Clint's POV:

Nick has arrived and given us one of his 'get off your asses and do something' speeches. I throw a dart and hit the bullseye spot on, when Bruce said,

"Has anyone seen Helen Cho?"

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We hurried out to Seoul, Nat and I chose to stay in the quin-jet while the other went in.

"There, it's a trick from the lab." Nat points out. I relay the coordinates through my com to Cap.

I drop Natasha off on her motorcycle, and give her some quick directions on how to catch up with the truck.

Ch.6 Ch.8

The Elder Maximoff Ch.4: Intimidation

Ch.3 Ch.5

"Meet you in the ship Pietro" I said to him before grabbing Wanda and getting ready to travel into the ship via shadow travel.

"You really think you're faster than me?" He questioned in a cocky tone. I simply looked at him.

"I know I'm faster than you." I reply before melting into the shadows with Wanda grasping my arm as I had become a strength for her since our powers are slightly similar.

We reappeared in the hallway outside of Klaus's office, I shrouded the inside of the ship in darkness so no one could see us. I look up to see the blue silver blur of Pietro showing up, disbelief shown on his face.

"Told you I was faster now let's get on with the interrogating." I stated as I pushed open the door, the man looked up at us, he had gun raised and just fired the shot but Pietro quickly took all the bullets out of his gun and lined them up in a neat row and was standing next to us in a split second.

Pietro had his arms crossed as he stared at Klaus with a slightly annoyed yet bored look. Wanda went through the doorway, her eyes flaring red.

"Ah, the enhanced. Strucker's prized pupils." He said smiling as he sat down holding out a bowl of candy.

"Want a candy" he said as he offered it. I shadow traveled behind him, and grabbed three pieces of candy. When he turned around I already reformed between Wanda and Pietro, handing them each a piece while I unwrapped mine and quickly placed it in my mouth. He looked at me in slight surprise. I could tell he wanted to ask who I was but he held his tongue after seeing I was an enhanced well.

"I'm sorry to hear about Strucker," Klaus continued as he put the bowl of candy back down. "but then again he knew what kind of world he was helping create. Human life, not the greatest market." I didn't understand what he was talking about and neither did the twins. Klaus seeing this voiced,

"You didn't know? Is this your first time intimidating someone?" He asked in a rather calm voice." I'm afraid, I'm not that afraid.", Wanda steps forward in front of him and says,

"Everybody's afraid of something."

I ignore the conversation until I see Ultron crash through the window and throw Klaus onto the ground,

"There is no man in charge." He said as he then leaned down, " Let's talk business."

Klaus takes us to a closet or something, and then quickly typed in a code that caused the display to slide down, revealing the vibrancy meaning storage. He gives Ultron the vibranium while rubbing the back of his neck, he's probably uncomfortable seeing as there are three enhanced in the room with a huge robot that can kill a human at any second.

"Upon this rock I will build my church. Vibranium." Ultron tosses the vibranium to Pietro for him to hold.

"You know it came at great personal cost, it's worth billions." Klaus stated as he stared at Ultron. Ultron simply chuckled to himself and paid them through his mind since he is practically every piece of technology there is.

"Now so are you. It's all under your dummy holdings, finance is so weird. But I always say ''keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which." Ultron responded.

Klaus then said "Stark."

The twins looked slightly confused while Ultron said, "What?"

"Stark used to say that to me... You're one of his." continued Klaus.

'Bad move', I thought to myself as I saw a look of rage appear on Ultron's face while he grabbed Klaus's arm and began to heat up his other hand to a dangerous temperature.

"What, I'm not one of Stark's puppets." Wanda uses her magic to hold down Klaus's guard's guns.

"I mean look at me do look like Iron Man, Stark is nothing!" Ultron yelled as he sliced off Klaus's arm. I was about to stop Ultron but was distracted by hearing Iron man's suit.

Ch.3 Ch.5

The Elder Maximoff Ch.9: The Vision

Ch.8 Ch.10

Corvina's POV:

We appeared at the Avengers tower, Steve as we now know him as, leads us through the tower to where Tony and Bruce should be destroying the body but we see them trying to make it.

"I'm going to say this once." Steve nearly yells from beside me, making me jump in surprise.

"How about nunce." Tony retorts.

"Shut it down." Steve responds.

"Nope, not going to happen."

"You don't know what you're doing." Steve tries to reason.

"And you do? They're not in your head?" Bruce asks.

"I know you're angry..." Wanda starts but is interrupted by Bruce,

"No, we're way past that. I could choke the life out of you and never change a shade." Bruce states dangerously at Wanda, who is looking stunned and slightly afraid. I let out a low threatening growl as I take a challenging step forward, while growing fangs and some 7 inch long claws from my knuckles.

"Banner after everything that's happened.." Steve starts.

"That's nothing compared to what's coming." Tony yells. Everyone starts arguing and I'm getting kind of sick of it so I say telepathically

'Hey Pietro, think you can give them a little push?' Pietro looks at me and smirks, then speeds off through the lab, unplugging all the chords they had attached to the cradle. He stopped and threw the last chord down saying,

"No no, go on you were saying?" Pietro says as Tony and Bruce looked confused and then angry. However a bullet quickly shattered the ground and Pietro fell to the bottom floor, Wanda yelled for him while I tried to jump forward to help him, but was held back by Steve.

"I'm rerouting the upload." Tony said as he turned and faced a screen. Steve threw his shield at the technology, so Tony then called on his Iron Man suit hand which he used to shoot Steve.

The rest of his suit slowly formed. Wanda was about to use her magic when Bruce grabbed her from behind and said,

"Go ahead, piss me off."

Then Clint came up from the bottom floor cocking his gun, I quickly transformed into a black panther and smacked the gun out of his hand from the side.

He looks surprised to see a black panther here, but then remembers I can turn into one; and decides that he can't fight me since I'd obviously win. I chase after him for a few seconds then go to help Wanda. I see Steve charge at Tony with a punch, but Tony knocks them both back with one shot from his guns.

I see Wanda hit Bruce with her magic, then Thor appears and jumps onto the cradle, he then proceeds to use his hammer to summon lightning to power it up.

Everyone looks around in shock as Thor powered up the cradle, he stops after a few seconds and then starts to get off the cradle but was a little late and is thrown into the ceiling.

The new being stands up and looks at Thor, he then lunges forward at him to only be thrown through glass, but stops himself when he come to another window. We all come down to see what he will do next, but he simply looks at his reflection in the window. Thor sets his hammer down, and Pietro runs over after recovering.

As this humanoid slowly hovered back towards us he created an outfit of gray to cover him after seeing us wearing clothes.

He looks over at me and looks slightly confused as I am still a black panther and look nothing like the other's, but he eventually turns to Thor after I growl and show my fangs at him.

"I'm sorry, that was..odd. Thank you." He says looking directly at Thor when saying thank you.

"Thor, you helped create this?" Steve questioned in a surprised tone.

"I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life, and at its center is that." Thor says pointing at the stone in the visions head.

"What the gem?" Bruce questions.

"It's the mind stone, it's one of the six infinity stones. The greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capability." Thor continues.

"Then why would you bring it?"questions Steve.

"Because Stark is right."

"Ohhh it's definitely the end times." Bruce says, looking to the side.

"The avengers cannot defeat Ultron," Thor continues. "Not alone."

"Why does your vision sound like Jarvis?" Steve questioned whilst walking forward slightly, shield still at the ready.

"We.. We configured Jarvis's matrix, to create something new." Stark answers.

"I think we've had our fill of new." Steve replies in an exasperated tone.

"You think I am a child of Ultron?",Jarvis voices as he walks around looking at the team curiously.

"You're not?" Steve questions.

"I'm not Ultron, I'm not.. Jarvis either. I am." The vision states looking up.

"I looked in your head, and saw annihilation." Wanda explains while walking up a forwards.

"Look again." The vision states.

"Yah, your seal of approval means jack to me." Clint voices irritatingly, as he walks forwards. I growl at Clint, and lunge at him as I did not like his attitude.

"Corvina stop!" Wanda nearly shouts as she tries to get me off of Clint, as I have him currently pinned to the ground. I finally get off but not before swiping my claws at him, leaving long scratch marks down his arm.

"And who is this? She doesn't seem like the rest of you." Vision states as he walks towards Wanda and I slightly.

"This is our older sister Corvina." Pietro explains.

"Your sister?" Vision questions looking utterly confused.

"Yah she's all good till you piss her off." Clint says painfully while getting up with Steve's help. I simply growl at Clint then transform back into my human form.

"Nice to meet you." I say to Vision before I turn my head towards Thor to continue.

"The stone is the most destructive out of all the stones, and with it on our side.." Thor continued but was cut off by Steve.

"Is it? Is it on our side?" Steve says, bringing up a good point. They all look towards the Vision, awaiting his answer.

Ch.8 Ch.10

Scar's Adopted Brother Ch.2: Fight for Leadership

Ch.1 Ch.3

"If you challenge me, do not be afraid when I kill you."

That was all Shyam said before surging forward at me. I swiftly dodge his attack, slamming my right paw down on top of Shyam's back, causing him to fall to the floor in pain. The shear force of this attack caused a loud snapping sound to be heard as he released a roar of agony. He tried to stand up but wasn't very successful as he just fell to the ground again, only his upper body moving to his commands.

I pin Shyam down with a paw placed over his chest.

" Brother... please, I ask for your mercy." Shyam begged as he stared up at me in fear.

'What a pathetic excuse of a leader, it'll be fun to finally end his stupidity,' I thought as I stared down at his weak, trembling body, my eyes glinting with mischief.

"As you said. Do not be afraid when I kill you." I growled lowly, unsheathing my claws and piercing through Shyam's throat. His death wasn't quick, nor was it long; his desperate gasps for breath were silenced as he bled to death.

I turned and looked at the pride, who in turn looked at me with a new found hope.

"Kerberos, get a scouting group together to find a campsite for us to stay in tonight, I will choose several lionesses to be in a hunting party judging that you all look starved. Also find some herbs to treat any of our wounded or ill." I sternly ordered before going to check on my mother.

"Yes, sir!" Kerberos responded before carrying out his orders. With those orders everyone looked at me in gratitude, my parents gazing at me with adoration and respect.

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That was the start of a new and successful pride, whose leader was challenged by many other strong and large lions; but Crow won each time by using speed, agility, stamina, and strength.

Ch.1 Ch.3