Chapter 2: Prologue: Maria Torres
It is already 6pm and I am still in streets, sitting in a bench with my laugages, in my pajamas. Because the landlord of where I was boarding kick me for accusation which, probably half-true that came from me. He is Chineses, he believes in bad luck. And so do was my family that believed in curses.
"Can this day wouldn't be over!" I shouted.
And the rain fall down, just like that.
Fck, my family is really right of me being a curse. Then why am I fcking still alive then? Gosh, why didn't I was in my brother's situation.
"Ah!" I screamed out the fraustration in my heart.
After few seconds for contemplating, someone rolled with my lauggage. Like, are you freaking kidding me, BAD LUCK?
I ran after it, but I feel sick and hungry. I haven't eaten except for that sandwich someone gave me, because they thought I am homeless, which almost true, anyways.
"Hey! Sht! Stop!"
Maria don't, Maria don't please! It'll just be worse.
Contemplating with myself, try not to put myself in more trouble. I finally saw this two people walking by. Time to ask help, rather face it myself and create things more complicated. I'm telling you, it is so complicated.
"Help! Help! Help Me!"
I came near to them and I panickly asked "I need your help. Someone stole my luggage. He went that way." Pointing at the opposite turn. Yeah, the theif is on the other way of this strangers, but they are the only people I could ask help with.
But you know what happened, I feel my bad luck or curse or whatever it is already cut-off. Because even this two strangers is on the other way, and it's raining and dark, yet they run incredibly quick to help me out. Yeah, so quick that I couldn't catch up with them.
We stoped on the otherside of the path, and fortunately they caught my theif. The big guy is chocking him real bad to his big arms. We are all panting and wet, because of the freaking rain.
The rain starts to weakened, and I start to feel weak with it too.
"I believe this is yours." the lady returned my red laugage. It is important to me, because A. all my things are in here, B. it is sentimental, C. this is only my stuff. I mean wtf, right?
"T-thank you." I said. I don't know if she heard it, because I feel like dying right now. After all that I've been through today. I just wanna, sleep!
But where, Maria? Where?
"So what do you wanna do with this?" the man asked me still strangling the theif.
"You are not gonna kill him?" I asked.
"Is that a question or a favor?" he asked back.
"I have fair share of witnessing death, please I know he robbed me, but don't. Not that I am the cause."
"Be thankful the little lady is kind, or probably traumatize or what so ever, because I will not double think to dispose you. I have faced a lot more shttier than you." he said to the theif. Wow, nice diagnosis. He is almost right.
Wait, dispose you? Faced a lot shttier? What kind of line is that?
The rain has stopped.
He signaled the lady to do something, but I don't understand it. And then the lady said to the theif "I heard a rumor, that you will walk out of this and leave the young lady alone." I was surprised when the theif walk away just like it.
W-what?
What the hell is going on?
I don't know if this is because of my tireness or what is going on is strange, strange like me. For the first time in years, I finally witness something weird like mine. The big guy that almost killed the theif, the lady rumored the theif and he just left. Like? You can see how weird this is, right?
"Are you alright?" the lady asked. I didn't responed by word, because after that I passed out.
For sure things gonna be a lot weirder than ever after this.
It is already the other day, I guess. The sun is shining bright to this window pane infront of me.
I am in heavy pain. I am burning like kettle in the morning. Speaking of kettle, I'm gonna need a coffee, and porridge if possible. I'm sick...
Ahhhhhh! I am enduring the pain just to woke up and see what did happen.
I opened my eyes as I went up from being laydown... Where the hell am I?
I rubbed my eye and turn a little side aways and then "Oh, finally you're awake." fck! that surprised me.
Who is this? Or what is she? She looks like a human, but she feels like a mannequin. She also smile creepily, ugh, no offense, tho. She is pretty, but yeah creepy. This ain't a human for sure.
Yeah, when I said to myself things is gonna get weird. It is gonna get weird.
"Wha-?" I said as I came nearby her and try na hold her face. Yeah, she is a mannequin, I mean a robot of some kind.
She took my hands saying "Hi, I'm Grace. I'll be assisting you until you are all well." Robot, robot, omg! What kind of place is this? Why it has a robot nurse? This certainly don't look like a hospital, or is this really how hospital looks in America? Gosh, strange... Well, yeah, I fit in.
"Ah!" My adrenaline is like over the top. I took my slippers and jumped out of where I was laying. As if I could defend myself with the thing that blinked right in front of me.
And slowly, the room was filled with other people. And I am only familiar with two out of all those faces.
"Ahh..." I twist my neck and turn my shoulder. I still have the body pain.
"Hey, kid calm down they are not gonna hurt you." the robot said, or Grace, whatever.
"That's a half true." the man said behind me.
Mal-. No, sht Maria. Focus, your brother needs you probably soon.
I am shaking, I am scared of them, and shocked at the same time. But I don't wanna weaken my gaurd. I don't know what they are capable of and so are them to me. "Don't lie to me, I only wanna know the truth!" Well hippocrite here we go. "Who the hell are you? Where the hell am I?" I finally asked.
"Hey, we're not gonna hurt you." the lady who helped last night said.
Okay, hopefully that's true. They saved me last night. And even though I didn't ask for more rescue. I am here, well sick, but being taken care of.
"But that doesn't answers my question." my strong anxious a** made me say that sht. Fck, I can't calm down till, I am not gonna get my answers.
"You rumored the guy last night, how- how is it possible?" I added a fcking question. You know, I also hate myself, I am gonna get into nowhere coz of this I swear. I am spiraling, please let me process!
"I'll let you fill in, but please little miss calm down." and that doesn't calm me.
"I heard a rumor, that you calm yourself down and started listening to us." Oh, so there it goes. It is like a command that I couldn't fight. My nerves stop from making me shiver and I return myself to the cozy position. And started paying attention, even no one is still speaking around.
It is like my controls, but I have time limit and I just make people imagine things, and consequence or return. I don't know... told ya, COMPLICATED. Let me fill you in too soon. But for now I need to be fill in with this.
"Okay, now, fill me for what the hell I needed to know!" I said as I settled down back to this long chair.
She took a deep breath and say "Well, little missy you are in... The Umbrella Academy."
"Is this a school?" I asked.
"Well yes, but actually no." the other man said.
"No, actually, it is..-" she stopped. Why? Why is it hard for her to explain what kind of place is this if she lives here. "I can't do this." then she back out.
"Where actually am I?" I repeated.
"Our house?" the big guy said.
"Training camp." the only other lady said. Is she younger to them? She is small.
Omg, Maria! The hippocrisy is overloaded! You are only 4'9" so, please at the age of 25.
"Torture chamber." the guy with a damn bunch of knives said.
Wooh, he's scary, and probably stubborn. But not as stubborn as the one in the back.
You deserve an eye roll dude. He needs to chill staring at me with those stout eyes.
Okay, I am being a hippocrite again. I am Asian, probably he is too, well not just probably. Okay, move on please...
"That's a good one." the guy who talked lately said and then chuckled after.
Gosh, he is full humor and side opinions.
The man who blinked right infront of me brushed up and started talking. "Okay, I am gonna give you a short and simple introduction to what place you ended up. You are in the umbrella academy, this is the place where we are all shaped and grew up. Well, as for them." point to other people in the room. "You are not in the typical place to end up with. You are in an extraordinary place, with extraordinary people."
"Extraordinary, how?" instead of being stranged out, I am more curious. Maybe, this is my place!
They all looked to each other after I brought that up.
I crossed my arms and raised one of brows, higher.
"Well, I have super strength." the big guy said. That's why he almost choked the theif to death last night.
I flinch when, the stubborn guy throw a knife across the room, hitting real center of wtf is that display is. I can't tell, I barely knew things on this country. I'm new, remember?
"Well, you have seen what can I do." the lady who is with me last night.
"Oh, me? I can commune with dead people and also materialize them. And I can't show that right now, you better wait for the right time if you wanna witness such a thing."
"Well, I'll be fine even not seeing those. I am scared of ghost anyways."
"Well, you've seen already what I can do. I fell I don't have to explain it. Just an addition, tho. I also, could time travel." then she smiled and showed the deep dimples.
Damn... MARIA! Focus!
"You don't wanna see what I can do." the Asian guy said and then he turned around and now he is in my front view.
"Oh, I swear you don't wanna see tentacles that could rip you in half." the guy that could commune to the dead said.
Yeah, I am kind the right to the side opinion stuff. And I'll admit, I like the way he speaks about it. I mean it is crazy, but full of humor so, it doesn't look that scary at all. Well, as of now that I don't see it.
The Asian guy look to him, and probably give him a sharp eye, because after it his eye is down like a begging puppy.
IF THIS GUY IS MY BROTHER, I probably already hit him with my books. He's attitude that I can feel is... unreasonably, BAD.
The last lady and the only other lady in the room haven't spoke, yet. So, I looked at her.
Oh, she seems to be real silent, unlike the other noisy guy.
"Mine? You also don't wanna see it. It is just-. Hmm... all about sound waves." she said awkwardly.
"You do play that." I asked her, because I noticed her instrument case.
"Ah, yes." she replied.
So that I know everybody extraordinariness, as if that word exists. What's next? Should I tell them mine?
"And you..?" the guys who explained stuff to me clearly, asked.
"Ah, me. My name is Maria T-," I shouldn't give this guys my full name. They just need to better know my name is Maria.
"I am a foreign worker here, I am new to America. Two weeks I guess. When I was 15 I was transfered in Spain and live with a foster family. I am really a Filipina. I was far away from my real family for a decade already. I am banned to see my brother, because of that thing I did 10 years ago." this is my first time explaining myself for reals. But why am I so sad? So down...
"What is it?" the lady that could rumor asked.
"It is hard to explain, but it is also something not a typical person could do."
"Not typical, in what way?" the guy that blinks returned my follow up question earlier. Okay...
"I think I have over used my cursed upon his mind, now he is in a mental institution. Everyone blamed me for that, and cursed me even more. They shipped me away, and seperate me from him."
"Five years, ago. I came to sneak and visit him, but he shut me out more than ever. I was scarred so much, I also lose myself and discontinue my way to college. I decided to work, and I just left my foster family after 10 years being with them." I continued.
"That's so sad, well you are not the only one to lose a brother in a worst way." the side opinion guy talks again, and received another sharp look with the Asian one, once more.
"Yes, it is... But I am a grown little lady now. And I have to stand on my own, find myself and my worth. A place that will accept me for what even curse I am carrying on."
"When you are talking about this curse, what is it really specifically." the lady that plays instrument asked.
"I don't really know how it works well, but it mostly doesn't bring something good. I-I... I could make people imagine things and make it feel realistic. It is only inside their minds, that's why others couldn't see it. It only last for few moments, because I do get so tired easily everytime I use it. My nose also bleeds and, something in the real world would happen after it."
"Like what?" the big guy asked.
"Either a another real curse or blessing. It is like an unpredictable karma whenever I used it. But it is mostly bad and troubles. That's why I was kicked out of my temporary shelter even I am still finding for a permanent job."
"And then what job are you looking for?" I was stunned by that and so as everyone.
Shoot, maybe he is their head here or something. With that wardrobe and monocle. I am hundred percent sure with that guess.
I stood and bow my head saying... "Hmm... Hopefully domestic helper, because that's the only thing I am good at."
"But you know what, since you know what I'll be bringing a lot more trouble. I am just gonna leave and return if I have already earned the payment for what first trouble I have caused here. I am really sorry for the inconvinience." I continued as I was collecting my stuff to leave.
"Who says you are leaving?" there a lot of ways to say that, but okay he is is like this and pretty much 30% vibe of this place is. Okay, strange, yet understandable.
I stop what I was doing, and my head is down. I can't look at him, I am ten times more terrified of him.
"If you want to payback to all the inconvince you brought here, you are gonna stay and work for it."
"Uh... really? I mean, what about the troubles I could brought in?" I finally turn my head up.
"Then, it could be possibly endless."
Oh, yes and no, please
"What?" the Asian guy's second demotion.
Chill out dude, it is like, I like it a 100%, psh!
"I could work out of my guilt, I grew up with it, I am immune. But I mean the physical or any major damage along with me. I don't think everyone would want to face that daily."
"Young lady, you are not the only extraordinary variable here. Everyone on this room is. Some better than you, some is... you will be better than if you know how to control your ability. Bring troubles, if that's what you can't handle. The Umbrella Academy, is made for that matters. And you are the one to mostly suffer to your incompentencies in every end of the day."
*scoffs* Really? My incompentencies? That's way too harsh. What he really wants to say to me and my ability?
Well, ability is better term, than a curse. I never thought of that. I'll take that a minus point to his savageness upon me.
"So, that's just it? I'm hired?" he didn't replied, and just left the room.
"I'll lead you to your new room." Grace the robot said. She smiled at me and take off the tray she used while treating me.
"Oh, well welcome to the family. Do you want to be hug?" the lady could rumor said. She looks affectionate, especially for a figure like me.
"Ah, no thanks. I am still sick. I don't want to spread it more. I have already brought enough troubles."
That's not true isn't it? You are just not ready for yourself to be part of a group or family, or whatever clan this is you have entered.
It is strange that they like me here, except for this one guys, jeez!
"Hey, I haven't gotten any names?"
"Oh, yeah right. We just introduced our powers, but not ourselves."
Gosh, I am jealous that they call it powers. I am already 25, but for years I've been a carrying is a curse. And it is so heavy in my heart, and I don't know to surpress it.
Maybe that old man means is that, my ability is gonna be burden for everyone around, but mostly for my own. Because I am living with it, even I am immune. I still need to learn control it or it'll control me, which damn happen for years, until now. Gosh, why do I have to land in a strange place before I realized this?
Anyways, they started to introduce theirselves. "My name Allison, That's Luther, Diego, Vanya, Klaus, Ben, and...-" she what cut off with that guys that teleports, whatever.
"Five..." then he offered a hand shake.
"What, like the number?" I asked.
"Yep, like the number." and then I shook his hands.
"You are hot." he said.
"Yeah, certainly you too." fck!
Not that kind of hot, Maria! You got a fever!
"M-maybe it is really me, I really feel sick. I am already 24 hours not eating and then rain poured, because I've been not under a roof for that long. So... yeah, I'm sick as hell, right now."
Good segway, keep it going and don't be distracted to off your gaurd.
"Do you need anything?" is this Vanya, the silent one, asked me.
"I-i should be asking you that, you are all my boss right now." I replied.
My independent a** denies everything, not unless in situations like last night. This what you get for being trap in the woods for 5 straight years for a young age.
"It's fine, you are the one who needs help at this point."
"I'm fine I just need more rest, sorry I feel I couldn't really start my day today." clutching my head. It is freaking in pain.
"Understandable don't worry, you look like dying last night." Luther, the big guy said.
"Do I look that worse?"
"That's why we brought you here." Allison said, as she is now beside me and brushed my hair, then stare with that caring. Ah, this is my first time for long years to see that kind if eyes again.
"Thanks."
"Your room is already ready. Lunch table is now on place. You can all go to the dinner table now. I'll just settle her to her room." Grace said as she entered the room again.
"Thank you."
Everyone is on their way leaving the room, and so I stand on my seat collecting the blanket that keeping me warm. And as I move to leave, I was shocked by...
"Jeez, what is wrong with you? Don't startle to me like that." the emo Asian guy is too close behind me. Sheeez!
"Whatever are you planning here, it is not gonna work. I have bad sense with you and I won't keep my eye shut minding your bad business."
"Okay, though guy!" that's a good impression, cool! I am getting the hang of their figures here. "I am not here to get on your way, ruin anyones bussiness, nor to defeat all of you. The biggest monster I have face and I want to finish is the monster inside me. So if you are fearing I would get in your way and ruin your lives, I will never do that, because this is the only place where I am not different! Why would I like something bad to happen here?"
"You are strange, for all the place you'll end up, why here?"
"Yeah, same question, don't worry."
"You are strange."
"Oh, really am I? Isn't it supposed to be normal to you, like how the others do treat me?"
" And oh, don't worry, feel free to hate me all you want. I won't care, I'm used to it. I'll just do my job and live my extraordinary life with the most strange mansion existed to this place. I still promise to get out of your way and prove that your senses is wrong. Because I believe the biggest comeback is my own success to my own goal, and that's controlling my monster."
"알았어, 언녕!" then I smiled sarcastically heavy on him and stomp out of the room.
[ROM: ARASSO, ANNYEONG!
TRANS: OKAY, BYE!]
Why that guys is on fire with me, at the same time, for a lot of people why him! Please, oh my gosh!
Maybe, bec-.
No, Maria, impossible. Maybe they are a like, but too far from home you young lady. Just focus to your new work and anew life.
Grace was inside of the room and pampering the pillows and the bed.
"Here is your room." she stood up of the bed and welcome me inside the room.
"Thank you... so much, for everything." and then I looked at her.
"No problem, that's what I am program to do. So if you need anything, just find me." she is smiling a lot. It's contangious and now I am liking it.
"For real, thank you, a lot." I couldn't just stop thanking her, and probably the others. Come on! I am that girl came from nowhere, and big burden in your life, but still accepted to be in someone's home. I have never been treated like this. I know some of them were stubborn, but maybe that's their attitude, and it is normal for a person to be like that, even it is unreasonable. I have faced a lot of crap like it, but they are better, because they are like me and they understand me. It is just-, I am flattered.
"I'll send your lunch later on, now take a rest." she came back inside and tuck me in. Even, if she don't have to.
And Grace... I know she is programmed for this, but she is more likely better than real. Yeah, maybe I am saying this, because I barely had my mom at me, and I can't blame the hectic sched of my foster mother. I just adore this mother figure, even if I had it for the first time in a robot.
Then she left me, and closed the door.
Yeah, I thought I am the only strange person to live in this world. My Kuya Malcom was right, the world isn't just about me. There is more to it, I just haven't known them.
지연's Note: Hi, it's your writer. Welcome to the story. Sorry having a blank slate with my OC. I just want to express her innocence with The Umbrella Academy. I know things is a bit differ here. I hope you have read my first batch of note above this. And I promise to make a redirectory after this part, so you'll be fill in. ♡
And IK she had a lot of thoughts to herself, that is intended. I'll explain that to the redirectory.
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