2 | arrival to earth

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CHAPTER 2,

ARRIVAL TO EARTH

ARRIVAL TO EARTH

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TIME SET:

Past, 5000 bc
Mesotamia


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REYNA IS ONE of the five Eternals that is ordered to leave the ship and step foot onto planet Earth for the first time ever. Ajak, who is the leader, instructed that they defeat the Deviants attacking human-kind, so she sent all the fighters on the mission. So, Reyna trails beside the others as they made their way over to the village after descending from the Domo (with the use of Phastos' technology).

Up ahead, a man's body can be seen being snatched between the Deviant's razor sharp teeth where he is then dragged into the water — there's no chance that he could've survived this. The young boy stands still in his place with his lips parted in pure horror from what he has just witnessed. Tears only begin to blind his vision and sting in his eyes, threatening to fall. It's because of this, the young boy hardly notices the fact that the Deviant is out of the water and is now stalking towards the young boy with the intention of eating him whole too.

However, Ikaris prevents this from happening; he uses the laser beams, which comes from his eyes, to burn at the Deviants skin and make it stumble back into the water. It screeches while spreading its wings out wide, flapping them up and down with the aim to start flying into the air. But Ikaris only flies forwards where he then diverts its attentions away from the humans as it follows closely behind him. The fight is brought into the air while they both just hover above the deep ocean, throwing attacks towards each other.

The young boy is still frozen in place, feeling fearful about what is happening around him. He's trapped in a trance and is still being blinded by tears, unable to pay any attention to another Deviant attempting to sneak up behind him with snarled teeth. Makkari doesn't hesitate to use her super-speed to race over to the boy and pick him up, placing him on the floor far away for safety reasons. Then, once the woman is certain that the young boy is safe, she speeds around and does this for the rest of the village to ensure that they are safe from harm too.

While Makkari is doing this, Reyna uses the oceans waves and makes it rise up into the air as one large wave. She then sends it crashing back down onto the Deviant to blind it of its senses, which will give them enough time to kill it before it will attack back. Kingo uses this opportunity to shoot energy beams out of his fingers. The Deviant only screeches with each hit that is directed towards it, thrashing around in the water as it fights to regain stability.

Makkari returns from rescuing each of the humans and uses her speed to spray dirt up into the Deviants eyes, temporarily blinding it for a few seconds. This provides Kingo to surge his powers together to then create one spherical energy blast that glows golden yellow. He launches it towards the Deviant where it then screeches in pain from the impact, staggering backwards slightly. Reyna raises her hand into the air before slamming it back down once again as she uses her abilities to break the ground; the edge of the cliff cracks loudly through the air before giving way, which sends the piece of ground falling to the ocean down below with the Deviant on it.

"Good fight." Kingo comments with a grin.

"You too." Reyna replies before turning to the red suited woman beside her. "Nice work."

"Same goes for you." Makkari signs.

Nearby, Gilgamesh can be seen using his enhanced strength to punch a Deviant as a golden glow emits from around the wrist of his armour. This only sends the Deviant staggering backwards and allows Thena to draw her weapons from thin air, also emitting a golden colour that compliments the gold accents of her pure white suit. Thena begins to use her blade to slash and stab at the Deviant, which only causes it to screech loudly in reaction to the pain. The platinum blonde haired woman is swift and agile with each action she takes, careful not to get harmed by the Deviant, but also quick to make successful attacks.

Another forceful punch is thrown to the Deviant by Gilgamesh. Thena uses this to moment of distraction to her advantage and leaps onto the creatures back. It then provides her the opportunity to stab a sword into the Deviants head — she gladly takes this. With each, Thena flips off of the Deviants lifeless body as it crashes down to the ground with deafening thud. Gilgamesh holds his hand out as a kind gesture for the woman to take. Smirking to herself, Thena grabs his hand and strides away from the body.

Ikaris soon returns from his own fight, managing to defeat the Deviant that he had brought into the sky. He makes it just in time too because the Domo has now come into view in the clear blue sky after being removed of its previous invisibility. The remainder of the Eternals can be seen gracefully descending off the ship with their suits clinging onto their bodies and their eyes wandering their surroundings. Once everyone is safely settled on the ground on two feet, Phastos retracts his technology that they were using.

Druig's blue eyes scan the area where he then notices that many of the humans have retrieved spears from their homes. It's evident that they are all afraid and want to show who the land belongs to, not wanting anyone or anything to intervene with the peace that they have maintained. A bright yellow glow replaces the natural blue colour of his eyes while he raises a hand into the air. Druig proceeds to use his ability of mind-control to order the humans to each drop their weapons — they all do.

Reyna finds herself smiling at the sight of the rest of the Eternals. A warm feeling seeps into her heart as she feels like she's at home. The Eternals are always meant to be together, and Reyna wouldn't doubt that for even a second. So, she begins to make her way to where they all stand as Makkari follows right by her side with a smile of her own. The pair walk past Ajak as she gently heals Ikaris of his wound while he then quietly thanks her. But Reyna doesn't pay attention to this and simply finds her place beside Druig.

"Mind-control, huh?" Reyna whispers as she nudges his arm with her elbow. "Pretty cool if you ask me."

"I heard you can control the four elements." Druig states while looking at her. "That's pretty cool too."

"Just don't ever think about using mind-control on me, Druig." Reyna tells him with a grin.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Druig assures.

Reyna turns her attention away from the burnet next to her so that she's now looking ahead once again. A young boy (the same boy from earlier) has stepped forwards amongst the crowd while Sersi slowly walks towards him. Sersi crouches down in front of him as she picks up a small dagger hidden beneath the sand where she uses her power of matter manipulation to transform it to be more effective; instead of the dirty brown, it's replaced by navy blue and golden metal that stands out amongst everything. The dagger rests in the palm of Sersi's hand as the young boy shakily reaches out and grabs ahold of the weapon, curiously inspecting it within his own hands.

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