Sacrfice

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"No, mom please, no, please!"  I howled  and shook against her magical bindings.
"NO YOUR KILLING HER PLEASE!" My throat was raw from my screams, like a blade had been dragged down my insides. "STOP YOUR KILLING HER, STOP!"
I sobbed in anguish as I watched America seize in pain. She wasn't just be killing, she was being tortured. And with every cell of magic that was drained from her, the agony increased. Her screams tore me apart, so much so that I didn't even realize the physical pain I was in. Blood ozzed from my head, my body bruised in more places than one. And my own mothers magic blistered my skin, burning me to the very core.
Americas scream intensified and something me broke. Energy burst from my fingertips and I ripped myself from her magic. It was violent and it hurt, like a rake was scrambling my insides, but I was free. My mother momentarily stopped on America and glared at me with bloodthirsty eyes. Then I felt it, the sensation of life being torn from me. I heard screams erupt in the colosseum and it took me a moment to recognize them as my own. I then understood how America felt, as my power to was being drained from my core.
America cried out weakly for Wanda to stop but she would not relent.  At that moment I feared we might both die.
Then by some miracle it stopped. Wong appeared along with what I could only recognize as the dead corpse of 838 Strange. In my mothers moment of distraction I regained control and blasted her backwards. Stephen fought her and I ran to Americas side. My body howled in protest but I only cared about saving her.
"America." I cried, "America im so sorry, but I'm going to fix this okay."
"It's too late." She whispered gazing past me. I saw Wanda begin to break free of Stephens demons.
"Strange," Wong yelled, "you have to take Americas power. There's no other way."
"This is the only way." I heard him say. America dropped to the ground and I held her.
"Come near her and I will kill you myself." I screamed. We'd come to far for Stephen to be the one to end her life.
"Lorna it's okay." She cried, "You have to let me go."
"'No," I sobbed, "He's wrong America they're all wrong. I've seen what you can do, and I believe in you. Just like you believed in me."
"Lorna..." she put her hand against my check, my face was damp with tears but she didn't seem to care, "He has to take it, buts it's alright, I understand now."
Strange watched us and softened.
"No."
I looked at him with wide eyes, begging him to say what I wanted him too.
"Lorna is right. You need to trust yourself, trust your power. That's how we stop her."
"But I can't control it..." she shuddered.
"Yes you can." Strange said, "You have been all along. Every time you opened a portal, you sent us exactly where we needed to go."
"What about the first time?" She trembled. I knew she was referring to what happened to her parents, "Even that led you to this moment...when your gonna kick that witches ass."
I smiled and squeezed her hand tight.
"You can do this." I promised, "But you don't have to alone. You are my first friend America Chavez...my best friend, and I'm never going to let you go into a fight alone."
She nodded with determination and closed her fist. We rose together and united.
"You go front I go back ." I told her, "We've got this."
My mom shot strange down and I nodded to America, I was done playing nice. I restrained my mother with my power and America let out a scream. She jumped of the platform she'd earlier been forced onto and punched my mom straight in the face. Her portals rippled outwards and she looked at me in shock, my mom who clearly hadn't expected her power looked scared. "Uh huh." America said smirking.
"Mm-mmm." My mother started to taunt her but America punched her again, and again, portal after portal into the multiverse until she on the edge of a volcano in some sort of dark stormy reality. America went in for last punch but Wanda stopped her. I reached out my hand but she blasted me back.
"I can't beat you." America realized, "so I'll give you what you want."
She punched my mother one last time and sent us all flying into a new universe. Wanda grabbed America by the throat and forced her to her knees, I ran forward but with her other hand she caught me by the neck. The two of us gasped breathlessly for air and my mother choked the life out of us. But then I realized where we were, a house I knew all to well.
I looked to the side as my moms hand lossened around my neck. "Billy, Tommy...Lorna." She gasped all while making me and America turn blue.
They let out a horrible screams for their mother.
"Mommmyyyyyy!"
"It's a witch?!"
Wanda rounded on us and squeezed impossibly tight around Americas throat, "What have you done!?" She seethed, practically breathing fire.
Other Wanda ran down the stairs and embraced her children.
"No!" My mom dropped her hold on America and I.
"I'm you mother!" She yelled blasting furniture aside. "Get away from them!"
She flung other Wanda across the room, knocking her unconscious. I ran forward to try and save her but Wanda forced me back onto my knees, her power ripping through my body as I screeched. I looked into the eyes of my other self, she shared the same horrified expression.
"Mom!" other me screamed, she ran to help her mother while the boys threw things at my Wanda.
"Get away from our mom." Billy screamed, "Get out of our house," Tommy yelled.
"Wait stop please!" I heard my mom say although I was slowly losing focus. Her magic felt like it was digging into my skin, scorching it in sink with the ringing in my ears.
"Please, stop." She begged them as the on salt of toy throwing continued
"STOP IT!" She screeched at them finally. I could see there faces crumble and tears course down there checks. They hid behind the staircase railing and other me ran over.
"Please stop," she begged, "please not my brothers, don't hurt them."
"Mom!" I cried through my agony, "Don't."
She didn't listen to me, kneeling down in front of them. "Please don't hurt us." They whimpered. "Please."
"I would never hurt you." She whispered back. Her accent thick through her heartache.
I let out a broken cry of pain as I tried to free myself from her power. Other me and her brothers watched me with a petrified sense of pity.
"I would never hurt anyone." My mother said. "I'm not a monster...im not-"
He voice broke as other Wanda groaned in pain. I sobbed helplessly in my place.
"Im not..." she whispered to herself, but I could feel it click in place. Tears courses down her checks, her magic lost its grip on me. The gravity of all she'd done came crashing down on her like a title wave.
I collapsed and America ran to my side.
"It's okay," she said shakily, "your gonna be okay." She tried pulling me out of the portal but I was to week to move.
My mom sunk to her knees and cried. Other Wanda walked up to her and put a hand on her cheek. The only person to comfort Wanda, was Wanda herself.
"Know that they'll be loved." She said, and suddenly I broke.
My mother only ever wanted us back, but what she'd done to me and so many others in her pursuit...The memories alone were enough to make me want to shrivel up and die.
I looked into the eyes of my own variant, glossy with tears. She was loved...she was safe. And that would have to be enough. Because knowing that somewhere in some universe I had a family was better then facing the truth. That I didn't have one at all. That my mother both created and destroyed us and nothing would ever be the same.
America helped me out of the portal and closed it.
My mother cried on the ground before floating up with determination.
The colosseum began to rumble and I realized she was destroying it with her power.
"Mom!" I yelled, "Mom what are you doing?"
"I'm sorry Lorna." She said looking into my eyes, "For everything."
I realized what she planned to do and another awful truth came crashing down upon me. There was nothing I could do to stop her.
She was finally seeing sense, but at what cost.
"We have to go, now." America said creating a portal. She tired to pull me but I wouldn't budge.
"No! I won't leave her!"
After all this time I'd spent fighting her, the concept of really losing my mother had never sunk in. And I wasn't sure I could live without her.
"Lorna please," America begged, "this place is falling to peices. If we don't go now we'll die."
"NO!" I screamed, "Nooooo!"
"I have to do the right thing." My mother cried, "I don't expect you to forgive me...but know that I love you."
"Please don't leave me," I wept, "please mom, I don't wanna be alone."
She shook her head and smiled through her tears.
"But you won't be alone... you will carry me with you."
"No." I yelled furiously, "If you leave me now I'll hate you. I'll hate you and I'll never forgive you for this."
"That's alright." She said as rocks tumbled and ash fell, "I love you, Lorna. Always..."
America and Wong pulled me towards the portal. I fought them with the strength I had but I knew there was only one thing left to say.
"I love you too." I cried, and then America pulled me through the portal.

Alright so that was cringy as hell but I tried, I think I'll do one last chapter or maybe two.

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