Avengers X Eternals

Thena

When Thena awoke she had no clue where she was, she was standing in a public building of some kind. It looked reminiscently of a bank. Although more up fashion, with individual booths and glass separating the employees from the customers. The walls were made out of a harsh unforgiving stone with high domed ceilings that let in the natural sunlight.

The sun directly above her revealed that it was high noon, indicating that either no time had passed, or close to twenty-four hours. She silently swore to herself, her condition was getting worse. It started out as just seconds, or minutes, but it had never been a day before.

She looked around herself more, in part for Gilgamesh, and in part for something to tell her where she was before she hurt someone. The last thought stopped in her head, human bodies were scattered around her. Blood was splattered on every wall and pooling on the floor around her feet. Just to the left of her right foot was a woman without the top of her head.

What Thena had was flashes of what had happened, humans called them photographs. One where she was sitting under her normal tree painting, another Gilgamesh stood between her and a black van, a third when she was running through the desert trying to catch up to a helicopter, and a final one where she was running through the streets chasing down a black van.

She tried desperately to link together what happened to Gilgamesh, but she had nothing. In a flurry of emotion, Thena dropped her shields and weapons and fell to her knees. She didn't shed a tear; warriors didn't cry but the uncertainty cut like a dagger through her heart. For all she knew she'd killed her friend. The only person that had protected her all these centuries. Yet she had no way back, she wasn't sure which direction she'd run, and even where they had made camp.

The only thing she knew for sure was that Arishem had instructed them to not intervene in human conflicts, which she'd already blown out of the deep space. Before any more humans could glimpse her, Thena grabbed a jacket from the back of one of the bank teller chairs and pulled the hood over her head. Out the front doors, she could see people beginning to gather, and point towards the building.

She ran in the opposite direction, stumbled upon an exit door down a long hallway, and threw it open. Outside the door, she came to a back alley. Long stone walls built up on three sides of her and another gave a small peak at the fresh foods market across from the bank. Humans were over there too, looking at her with sideways stares.

Before they could get an opinion of her she scaled the tallest alley building, a measly eight stories, and stood at the top of it. Immediately being hit by the salty air, Thena turned and saw the harbor. Most of the boats docked were small and medium-sized fishing boats. But docked towards the far side was a cargo ship preparing to leave port.

All Thena knew was that she had to leave.