Asgardians {Godsiblings x SisterReader} (Marvel)

Chapter 29

(Y/n) P.O.V.

I'm woken again by Mantis. "My brother is gone, isn't he?" I verify. She nods. None of the other Guardians are around, which make me feel more relaxed. "You feel...grief. Anger. Fear." She lists. I nod unsurely. "I do. How did you know that?" She fidgets with her hands. "I can feel things. Your pain comes to me in powerful waves. It hurts." Her antennae flash and she's crying. "Um..don't..don't cry. Im sorry, I can't really turn it off. Maybe...there's something more pleasant you can focus on?"

She nods, and pauses for a moment. Her antennae flash again, and now she's stopped crying. She looks peaceful now. "Love..." She tells me. "It's strong. Familial love and romantic." I chuckle uncomfortably. "Well, all other emotions are a result of love, aren't they? You don't grieve over something you don't love. You don't fear unless you have something to lose." She nods in understanding. "I have a lot to lose." She admits. "I haven't got much...but I have enough to keep fighting."

()()()()()()

Quill had taken us to Knowhere, and we had snuck into the Collector's treasure room. However, we had to hide, as Thanos was already there. "I don't have it."

"Everyone in the Galaxy knows you'd sell your own brother if you thought it would add the slightest trinket to your pathetic collection." Quill stops, and holds up a fist meaning 'halt,' but we all sneak past him. "I know you have the Reality Stone, Tivan. Giving it to me will spare you a great deal of suffering." Thanos places his foot in the middle of the Collector's chest. "I told you. I sold it. Why would I lie?"

"I imagine it's like breathing for you." I grind my teeth, and clench my hand. "Like suicide." The Collector agrees. "So you do understand. Not even you would surrender something so precious."

"I didn't know what it was."

"Then you're more of a fool than I took you for. Last chance, charlatan. Where's the Stone?" Drax speaks from beside me. "Today..." Quill seems to understand where he's going with this. "Drax. Drax." He's ignored. "...He pays for the deaths of my wife and daughter." I can't help but feel sympathy for him. He too had lost to the Mad Titan. "Drax, wait!" Quail whisper yells. Drax draws his long dagger from his leg scabbard. "Not yet, not yet, not yet." Drax heads towards Thanos. Quill hurries as quietly as possible to catch up, so I grab the large man.

"He doesn't have the Stone yet. We get it, and then we can stop him. We have to get the Stone first. Yeah." Quail reiterates. "No. No. For Ovette. For Camaria." Quill and I both struggle to keep Drax back. Mantis puts her hand on the back of Drax's head. "Sleep." He immediately falls asleep, and I think it'll be okay until his body hitting the ground causes a loud crash. We all panic and hide. "Okay. Gamora, Mantis, you go right. I'm..." Gamora ignores Quill, and moves towards Thanos. "The other right!"

Gamora leaps on Thanos from a stack of boxes, swinging her sword at him. He snaps the sword-blade in half, and Gamora stabs him in the throat with the stub, his lower jaw sagging and himself letting out a hoarse groan, then he is stabbed in the chest. "Why you? Daughter..." He holds his hand out to her, blood pooling out from his neck, before collapsing completely. Gamora breaks down sobbing, but I only feel nothing but triumph.  "That was quick." The Collector starts clapping after we've revealed ourselves.
"Magnificent! Magnificent! Magnificent!"

Thanos' disembodied voice fills the room. Chills run up my spine as I realize we've been tricked. "Is it sadness I sense in you, daughter? In my heart, I knew you still cared." Everything in the room diseappears, and is destroyed or on fire. "But one ever knows for sure. Reality is often disappointing. That is, it was. Now..." He lifts his hand to show off the red Reality Stone. "Reality can be whatever I want."

"You knew I'd come." Gamora realizes. "I counted on it. There's something we need to discuss, little one." Gamora hesitates for a beat, then reaches for her broken sword. Thanos grabs her by the back of the neck and swings her around in front of him. "No!"