BACKGROUND
As all young children, Mindy had a normal childhood. Going
to school, playing with friends and doing all the things a child does. She
was your normal little kid till the age of 12.
At age 12 her back and upper shoulders grew
malformations. Mindy was able to hide it for a few weeks under baggy and
lose shirts. When her parents found out about the growths they took her to
a doctor and discovered that the grows these the forming stages of wings.
Mindy went through a short period of jokes from her peers
as her wings were forming. After they finished and she had actual wings she
was a target of awe from her peers
Mindy's parents managed to contact REDHAWK, A winged
hero from a neighboring city, they hoped would be able to mentor their
daughter.. After many letters, Redhawk and the hero team he belonged to had
Mindy and her family come visit.
After meeting with the Corman's, Redhawk decided to take
Mindy as a student to learn to cope with being a winged teen and the team
took Mindy on as an unofficial team mascot.
The Corman's moved to the new city and Mindy almost moved
into the heroes base.
Redhawk taught Mindy how to cope and how to fly, It was
also discovered that Mind could Generate and manipulate light and photonic
energy manipulating powers.
By the age of 17 Mindy went with Redhawk when he continued
his hero career after the team dissolved. (One member lost interest in the
hero business and one lost her powers) and became his sidekick DOVE.
Mindy had an active life and Redhawk's sidekick and also
became a media darling. This lasted till Redhawk and Dove fought with
Shade. A dark force based villain. Shade was about to hit a dazed Redhawk
with one of his bolts when Dove pushed him out of the way. The result was
Redhawk recovered but Dove was gone.
NOTE: She was sucked into a dark dimension.
Result was Shade in the hospital, Redhawk retired, and
Mindy/Dove had a very public and media intense memorial.
After pushing Redhawk out of the way of Shade’s bolt, everything
literally went black. Mindy lost all senses except the sense that she was
falling.
There was nothing she could do to help her plight. No breeze to catch so she
could glide, nothing for her to grab on to. Nothing until she landed on
solid ground with a painful crash and the knowledge that her wing was
damaged.
She found herself in some woods. The sun seemed to be out but everything was
a shade of dark gray.
A man, if you can call it a man, came riding something that looked like a
black unicorn with red glowing eyes and flames coming from its hooves rode
up to her. The creature and its companions were circling around Mindy
talking in some language that she has never heard before.
As Mindy was trying to make her way away from these being she had a net
thrown around her and was being dragged out of the woods. Out of the woods
and to a castle. Not one of those Camelot type castles but those horror
movie ones.
Mindy was dragged into a great hall where an even larger creature was
sitting on a throne. As the creature on the throne was talking to the things
that captured her in that weird language, a thin mockery of these creatures
came up to her and poked and prodded her. He was examining her like some lab
rat.
The thin thing then bent down, reaching through the net he grabbed and
handful of feathers from her damaged wing and pulled. Mindy did not want to
give these things the satisfaction of knowing they hurt her but pulling out
those feathers hurt. She gave a sharp loud cry.
The little creature sitting on the steps to the throne made a disturbing
giggling sound and clapped. She then tuned in a pleading voice talked to the
seated creature.
The seated creature gave the little thing a disturbing looking smile and
nodded. Mindy did not understand one word of this but she knew this was not
good. She also discovered that she was unable to use her light powers here.
She was in trouble.
Mindy was dragged up stairs into and through a bedroom of some sort. Into
some hellish looking play room. A pitiful looking animal that was chained to
the wall was dragged out and she took its place chained to the wall.
Mindy has spent an unknown length of time chained to the wall as this thing
took pleasure in hurting her in every way imaginable and then some. Time,
Hope, even her own identity lost meaning. All she was some toy for this
little creature.
By the time Mindy accepted the tortures and no longer made those pain filled
sounds that this ‘child’ seemed to crave, the ‘child’ came back but this
time with the thin looking creature she met a long time ago.
He, Mindy assumed it was a he, showed the child a crystal. He walked over to
the only window in the cell. As the dark sun shone into the cell and through
the crystal a black ray emanated from it. He twisted the crystal till the
beam bathed her and its light. And she again made those pain filled sounds
the child liked.
When the light no longer bather her, Mindy found some of her feathers have
turned black.
Over time more and more bathing in black light has ended with all her
platinum blond hair and feathers turning black.
When the child lost interest Mindy was thrown into the arena so her last
moments would be to entertain these sick creatures.
It seems that She retained the muscle memory of all the training she had and
the not caring if she lived or died as long as she took as many of the
creatures with her, she survived.
In fact she became a constant contender in the arena.
During one fight a nimbus formed in the arena, peering into the nimbus a
memory sparked in Mindy. And she dove into it.
On the other side of the nimbus she was in a bright world, A group of
colorfully dressed people that looked a lot more like her that the creatures
she spent her life with were fighting some black clad person who seemed to
be moving the nimbus around.
Mindy surprised everybody with her sudden appearance through the nimbus and
even more surprised when she threw the black clad person through the nimbus.
She then did the only thing she could do. She collapsed. She was home.
