❝let's just say, i'm like the bodyguard
of master strange.❞ she casually
explained to the kid. ❝so, you're
like happy hogan? but with magic
powers?❞ the boy asked innocently.
cass...
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TWENTY FOUR | FACE YOUR DESTINY
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THANOS TIGHTENED HIS fingers around her throat, cutting off her air supply. It was as if she was his sole target that it made her think just how much of a threat she was to him. Just as her lungs started to ache and her eyes bulged, she pulled out her dagger and with all her remaining strength, sliced his wrist open. A blast of blue cosmic energy slammed against the hissing Mad Titan, stumbling back from the double attack. This caused him to let go of Cassandra and Vesper dragged her behind a rock, using it as a shield. "You okay, woman?" She asked, panting hard.
Cassandra didn't answer, and only focused on catching her breath. She just almost died, she tried to register that again and again in her mind.
"I knew I should've just cut his hand off!" complained the blonde fighter, looking back at the ensuing brawl between Iron Man and Thanos. "This wouldn't have happened if you and your grey hair templed boyfriend let me do it! Now, do you have a plan b, Miss Morgan Le Fay? Because I have no desire to be murdered by this purple maniac!"
Cassandra released one last breath, and shifted her gaze to the fight occuring behind them. Tony utilized a sword forged from his armor to attempt and finally kill Thanos, but their enemy managed to block the blow and responded by headbutting Iron Man. Fueled by pure rage, the Mad Titan proceeded to use the Power Stone to pulverize an entire moon above Titan. This action spiked a fury that was enough to burn a whole forest, so all-consuming that one may think it can be used as an emotional bludgeon or honed into a sharp tool.
She felt her face flush, her hands becoming fists. Within seconds, her helplessness transformed into barely contained hatred. Never in her life did she want to kill someone with her bare hands.
Well, now she does.
Hurling hails of meteors at them with the use of the Space Stone, taking advantage of Titan's unusually high gravitational pull to make all these projectiles much more rapid, Cassandra rose from her position, the sides of her face streaked with purple lines like the magic inside of her was ready to burst out. As soon as she opened her eyes, they were no longer blue or green, they were purple.
"I do." She snarled, raising her hand. "Kill this son of a bitch."
And with that, wild, purple weaves of arcane magic shot up from the ground and enveloped around Thanos, strangling him like a snake wrapping itself on its victim. Slowly clenching her fist, she intended to crush his bones and bleed him dry. Cassandra's magic lifted her up in the air and bent to her command.
"That's not enough of a plan, but okay, sure!"
The alien retaliated by sending several of the rapidly descending meteors down upon her, but she only thrusted her hands forward, forming a shield that covered her entire being. Then, she sent a trail of blazing mauve fire towards Thanos, which he narrowly dodged. It was then that she was joined by Stephen, floating down with the Cloak of Levitation.
