Athena Chapter 4.

I started to tell them of my past and of the world I came from. I expect people to comment and ask questions throughout and prepare myself for these. This is going to be hard, it had been a long time since I thought back to where this all started.

I take a deep breath and start, all eyes on me and silence fills the room.

"My name is Athena, I lost the right to my last name when I was 13 years old. I'm 16 years old and have only known pain, torture and fear for the last 3 years of my life" I said to the room.

The place that I came from is similar to the one that we are in now. There are no monsters or aliens, only people. People with fears of the unknown and what they don't understand.

I remember growing up in a small 3 bedroom cottage in the countryside, we had our own vegetable patch and looked over to a small pond on the opposite side of the road. Our house was one of many in the village which was called Deans. I lived with my older brother, he was around 17 years old the last time I saw him and had jet black hair in a weird crew cut and brown eyes, he looked more like my mother than I did. My mother had blonde hair and brown eyes, she worked as a manger of a local cleaning company. My father had jet black hair much like my brother and brown eyes also, he worked as a handyman for the village and was often called upon to mend fences and walls that had been damaged by the weather. We had two small mongrel dogs called Kyoto and Rigsby which I adored and miss greatly.

It was around the age of 6 that I first leant of powers or quirks as you call them. Someone's son a few villages over had developed a destructive power and accidently blew up a shed. The authorises were very strict when it comes to powers as only 5% of the world's population had them. The boy was captured by the authorises and no one heard from him again. It wasn't until we had a class at school about the powers that I became frightened of them. I never wanted to have one.

Our teacher explained about them and I remember her words even to this day.

"Powers are given to the most evil of people of this world. They develop at the age of 13 and anyone who has them loses all rights to their family, friends and life" I said, looking up at the people in the room and seeing Inko, Deku and Shoto looking shocked.

"What exactly does that mean?" boomed Endeavour.

I look at him and give him a look of utter distain. "It means you lose your family, your family disowns you, you lose the right to have a last name. Your friends are all scared of you and shun you. You have to go to the authorises where they test you and if they can't use you they kill you" I said with a trembling yet angry voice. This time I could hear the shock in the room.

"Please continue, I am sorry you are having to remember all this" Nezu says in a calm voice.

I continue my story. Fighting the urge to cry and run away. I said I would tell them. Deku looked at me with such a sad and angry face that I couldn't look at him for the pain it gave me.

The day everything changed for me was two days after my 13th birthday. It had been a normal school week and I was only my way to the local High School in the uniform you see me wearing now. It was a chilly Wednesday morning and we needed to wear hats and scarf's to stop from freezing on the walk to school. Me and my brother both went to the same high school, he looked good in his uniform but wished he knew how to tie his tie by now, I used to tease him every morning when he came to me to do it for him. A small smile spread across my face as I remember this nice memory of me and my brother. It was the last nice memory I had of him.

We had left the house and walked to school where I meet with some of my friends. Emma was the first to come over to me and gave me a huge hug. "Damn girl your hair is so long and such a pretty brown colour, your making me jealous" she said as she touched my hair. I must of forgotten to put it into a ponytail before leaving the house this morning. "Don't forgot them green eyes and cute brown freckles" my other friend Jack called out from the classroom door. I flushed as he entered from his statement. "Damn it Jack, why do you always embarrass me like that" I screeched across the classroom to laughter from everyone else in the class. We took our seats and I started to feel hot, like a fever was rising in me. The world started to spin but I somehow managed to make it until lunch time. There was pain in every part of my body and I thought that maybe I had caught a cold and was just feeling off. Little did I know at the time what it meant.

Me and my friends always had lunch on the rooftop of the school. The view was of the local cemetery and our school fields around it. We sat at our usual bench and everyone got out their lunches. I felt nauseous and decided that I was just going to have a drink today. I saw a bird fly next to us and watched it for a while. I could her Jack and Emma chatting and arguing about their lunch as they always do before a massive scream was let out of Emma.

Emma and Jack was up and backing away from me, their faces so frightened. I looked to see what they were scared off but could only see the vastness of the floor around me and some white, grey and navy fabric. I went to walk over to them before I realised that I was no longer a person but a bird. How had this happened? I thought to myself, scared out of my mind. I had only been thinking of the bird I saw and now I was one. This must be from the fever. It sadly was not. Maybe no one apart from Emma and Jack had seen this happen. That was wishful thinking as a lot of people used the roof for lunch and nearly half of my year had seen what happened.

I was so panicked that I was suddenly sitting on the cold ground, naked, my hair in a mess and Emma and Jack were looking at me like they had seen a ghost. "Oh no..... please no. I'm not evil" I said out loud. I quickly grabbed my clothes and start dressing, by the time I was dressed my brother and my homeroom teacher were standing in front of me. Jack had run to get him and explained what he just saw.

"Brother, am I evil?.... Why did this happen to me?" I asked him in a shaking voice, tears falling from my face.

"Get away from me you evil and wicked person, I have no sister. Never come home I will tell mother and father. If you come home even once I will kill you myself" His voice trailed off as he left with both Emma and Jack. My teacher came over to me and told me that he had called the authorities to come and collect me. I knew in this instance I was screwed but was still in shock. I just followed my teacher to my homeroom to collect my bag and to wait for the authorities to collect me. It felt like an age had passed before the doors opened to men wearing black uniforms and holding what appeared to be electrical weapons. I cried the moment I saw them and thought they were going to kill me on the spot. my knees weak. They screamed at me to stand, I feel to the floor and the next thing I felt was a jolt of electricity hit me and the world went black.

I chocked these words out to the office full of people and feel my hands become unbounded. I looked up to Eraser Head who just handed me a tissue. He must of been hit by what I said. I looked at the room and saw Deku stating at me, tears streaking his face. Shoto was pale but didn't let my words cause him to cry like it had done to Deku. I didn't know what to say to them. I thought I should let them recover from the shock but this was the nice part, if they were this affected by this then how were they going to cope with what was next. I could only think of what Deku must think of me and how he must be feeling. I felt a sharp pain in my chest and the back of my neck burnt like it was on fire. I took a sharp breath in from the pain in my neck.

"Is that all?" boomed Endeavour to me.

"That is only the beginning" I said in a pained voice to the office of pale and upset people.

"Let's take a break and continue afterwards" Nezu said to the room. I saw Recovery Girl come to check me as she could see the pain. I asked her a favour and she agreed to help me out.

10 minutes later she returned with what I asked for, I asked Midnight if I could use the bathroom, she agreed and left the room with me.