Athena Chapter 5.

I was in the a toilet stall buttoning up my shirt and replacing my ribbon when I thought I would ask Midnight a question that no one wanted to answer.

"Midnight.. What does it mean to be mates and being marked mean?" I asked with a hint of curiosity in my voice.

"My dear girl. That is something we all need to have a talk about, but I can at least let you know that at the moment you have a temporary mark" she said to me, it was the first time I had heard her speak and her voice was just as naughty and playful as I thought it would be.

I left the toilet stall and saw myself in the mirror for the first time in 3 years. Wow, I had changed so much. I knew that my hair had gone from being brown to a violet but did not notice that it had streaks of red, green, blue and white through it. My eyes had gone from being green to a purple. I still had my freckles but I had fluffy cat ears on my head. I knew that my ears had moved but didn't realise how fluffy they were or how they seemed to just look right on top of my head. I snapped myself away from the mirror and looked at Midnight.

"Temporary mark?" I said and now even more confused.

"All in good time my dear. We should head back" she said to me.

We walked back into the office and everyone started to go back to their seats. A cup of tea was sitting at where my chair was and I was grateful for whoever had put that there for me. I took a sip of the tea and thanked them for it.

I was still a bit shocked at how different I looked but decided that I might have time later to think on this. I wanted to get this part over with, it wasn't going to be easy easier than earlier, in fact I knew it was going to be harder and the thought of Deku's face showing that much hurt again was going to be heartbreaking.

I noticed that before I started to talk that Inko was now sat on one side of Deku and Shoto was still sat on the other, she was holding his hand. I thought they must know each other and just brushed it off.

I took a deep breath and continued with my story.

I had woken up from feeling cold and noticed that I was in a dark room, there were no lights and it was hard to see. I was lying on what felt to be concrete and to my sudden realisation I was naked. I went to sit up only to feel pain in my entire body, a headache like I never had before and fear. I tried to think back to what had happened and a flash of my brother disowning me, my friends shunning me and being taken away by the authorities all came back. I must be in a holding pen but why was I naked, what had they done to me already.

I heard footsteps outside and the lock on the door being opened. The door opened to a bright light and I could not see anything, it took a few minutes before my eyes accustom to the light and once again was meet with the men in black uniforms. I tried to cover myself with my hands but they grabbed my arms and just pulled me up to a standing position. Chuffs were placed on my wrists and around my neck before they started to drag me down to hallway. We must of past 8 or 9 other rooms that had massive doors like the room I must of been kept in. They only stopped once we reached a room with observation windows and bars. They threw me into the room and the cuff around my neck caught almost choking me. I was now coughing but I could see that this made them happy. Pain was their pleasure and dread fell over me instantly. They removed the cuffs and walked out or the room and locked the door behind them, this time I was under bright lights, windows and bars all around me and what looked like more men but with guns and other weapons.

A high pitch noise came over a speaker system followed by a man's voice.

"Tell me your name, age and where you live? Cooperate and you will not get hurt, don't and the men with guns and weapons will help"

I did nothing more but tell them what they wanted. I didn't want to feel pain. I just wanted to get out of here and fast.

"My name is Athena Kowari, I just turned 13 and I live in a village called Dean's" I said in a shaky voice.

"Good Athena. Now do you understand why you are here?" he asked again.

"No...I don't" I replied in a shaky voice, now starting to cry.

Suddenly I had pain across my whole body, a scream left my throat and I fell to the floor.

"Stand up!" the man's voice said over the speaker. I tried to but the pain was unbearable and I could see blood coming from my shoulder. Another dose of pain was given to me for not standing up quickly enough. I pushed myself to stand so they couldn't do it again.

"Do you know why you are here?" The man's voice said again.

"I don't! All I know was that I was having lunch then I was small and then naked. My brother disowned me" I said through the pain in my body.

A video came on in the room, it was of the school rooftop and me sitting having lunch with Emma and Jack. It showed how I had tranformed into a bird then back into my human self. I couldn't believe what I had just watched, was that really me.

Pain shot through the back of my knee and I fell once again, but stood up right away so as to not be shot once more. I was starting to feel drowsy from the pain and form the blood loss.

"This is you, is it not?" The man asked.

"That is me but, I don't know how it happened" I said to the man who was also now smirking.

"Don't worry, you will" he said. The moment he finished talking I was stabbed in each arm and leg and pinned in place. Long cables lead from the spikes in my body to the walls and currently of low level electricity flowed through each limb. The electrical voltage was built up until I passed out.

This went on for days, I was healed by their version of recovery girl but he enjoyed making it hurt and got a sick pleasure out of it. I was hurt, healed, hurt, healed, hurt. They had tried so many things to get me to activate my power but I couldn't get it to. Drowning, electrocution, burning, freezing, slicing, stabbing, shooting, beating, dehydration and starvation were some of them. Until one day about 2 weeks after they had first taken me. I was mentally, physically and emotionally broken by this point with scars, wounds and bruises of various colours all over. It was time to go back into the observation room or as I had now named it the 'power room'. The spikes one again went through my limbs and I wondered what they had planned to do to me today. That days had to be the worst, I could cope with the rest but that day was a day I wished I had died or they had killed me.

"My men are bored and we don't get pretty little things like you often" the man said over the speaker, "Today I will let them play with a rare beauty". With this the men in the room advance towards me, the fear sinking in. One of the men closest to me reached out his hand and grabbed my chin, forcing it into a hold, I tried to shake my head free but could feel another man behind me, his hands now holding the back of my head. The man at the front was now forcing a kiss on my lips and was trying to get his tongue in my mouth. He bit my lower lip so I would open my mouth and pushed his tongue in, it going around my mouth like it was searching for something. His other hand was now running down my neck and towards my breast, he grabbed one and squeezed hard, so hard a scream came out into my mouth but was muffled by his mouth on mine. Tears were falling down my eyes but this only seemed to make them enjoy it more. I could hear rustling of what sounded like clothes being removed but couldn't look for the man at the front was still searching my mouth. The man's behind me hands were now tracing my body and I felt a hard, warm rod between my butt cheeks. My mind was brought back to the moment and I wanted to escape before this got any further, Please let me activate my power, anything to help me.

The next things I know was both the men were on the floor, covered in scratched and bite marks. I looked at my hands and realised they had been transformed in the paws with blood on them. I had done it, finally I had managed to activate it. The pain in my arms and limbs were now also gone and I felt strong and powerful.

"Well done Athena, you look magnificent in your tiger form" the man said over the speaker and played me back the video of my change.

Tiger form, had I managed to change into a tiger and take out theses two men who were about to violate me. I felt tired from lack of food and the adrenaline from the change had started to leave me. I was then one again back into my human form, no longer in pain and all my wounds had healed into scars.

It was time to show the office full of people what I had been hiding under my clothes. I look Deku and notice he is pale beyond belief, he catches my looking at him and looks right into my purple eyes. I let out a small smile and start to remove my blazer and bow.

"Athena. What.. what are you doing?" Deku asks me in a shaky and surprised voice.

I just continue by unbuttoning my shirt and undoing my skirt. As my clothes fall the floor the room goes quite and shock is once again on everyone's faces. I stood there in a small black top to cover my breast and small black shorts to cover my female area. I hold out my arms and they see all the scars covering my body. I slowly turn around so they can see my back and show them the brand that I had been given. The brand had been burnt into the top of my left arm and was a tiger face.

Inko didn't know where to look and was trying to hold a now growling and angry Deku. Shoto was also trying to stop him.

"My face was too pretty to be hurt so my body got it all" I said to everyone in the room, a small tear in my eye.

"What is that on your left arm?" Nezu said, he had been quite for a long time.

"That is my brand. Everyone who has powers are marked with a brand to show the world what they are. They are burnt into your skin over and over again until it cannot be removed, even changing to animal form could not remove it. It is also to show what your power can do, that is why they chose a tiger's face for mine" I said to answer the question. I start to get dressed again and the room begins to talk to each other about how horrible it must of been for me , but the only person I wanted to make sure was ok was Deku. He was still being held by Shoto and Inko and still growling. All Might come over to him and spoke to him but I couldn't catch a word of it over the others. Whatever All Might said seemed to of calmed him down as he was no longer growling or needed to be held in place. He just stood up and walk towards me, quietly he reached me and placed his arms around me into a hug, I could feel warm drops against my shoulder through my shirt and his breath on my neck. He held me for what appeared to be an age before he let go and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were red and wet, he run his hands down my arms and held my hands before giving them a squeeze and walking back to his chair. Shoto was once again giving me looks of displeasure at what had happened just then with Deku but I still needed to tell them more.

I sat back down and took another sip of my tea before carrying on. Throwing my mind back to the past and of the memory I had.

The men on the speaker decided that I would be useful to all the men of the world who had urges or who wanted to hurt animals and it wasn't too long before I was taken back to my room and told to dress. I had been given my uniform to change into and was lead to an area to wait. I must of been in the waiting room for a few hours before I meet Enji and Toshinori. I had been sold to them as a slave and was being moved to a location for sexual and violent acts, but this was not before they tried the 'good' they had just brought.