Hoax // Benjen Stark

5. Wong

''What is she doing?' Wong asked as wanda stared down at them.

'Trying to find a weak spot.' Stephen told him.

'Sorcerers fortify your minds!' Wong called out

But wanda was strong and she had vengeance and wrath on her side. Infiltrating their minds was hard but not impossible. For not all sorcerers were quite as experienced.

'Run.' wanda whispered to a weak minded sorcerer and he lost his shield running bumping into every sorcerer, breaking their concentration and the shield came crumbling down.

'you want Donna, you're going to have to go through me.' Stephen said as Wanda had destroyed their forces leaving a burning pile of rubble behind her that once used to be a fortress of kamar Taj.

'Fine.' Wanda said walking forward but as she did Stephen trapped her in a mirror dimension.

'How long do you think that's gonna hold her for?' Donna questioned when Stephen got to them.

'kamar Taj has fallen' Wong told them.

'No shit Sherlock.' Donna spat, "What you don't have sherlock Holmes in this universe?" she added as Stephen went to make a portal but his sling ring snapped into nothing.

'That was quicker than I thought.' Donna said as the door slammed shut sorcerers were pulled through puddles of water within the sanctum.

'Reflections. She's using reflections! cover them all!' Stephen demanded so they went around covering all the puddles of water is all the mirrors all the reflections but there were many reflections.

Donna screamed out splashing at a puddle when she saw Wanda's reflection.

"Stephen!" Donna shouted stumbling back. Wanda broke through a gong her body morphed and broken but healing quickly as she stood up.

'Wanda you have no children.' Stephen reminded her 'they do not exist.'

'But they do.' Wanda assured him. 'They do... in every other universe.' Wanda brought up little visions was her children from other universes. "Every Night, The Same Dream, And Every Morning, The Same Nightmare."

Stephen, and wong shot out defenses against her but she blocked them easily enough. Wanda tried to grab Donna. But Donna was scared a portal was forming behind her. Wanda shot at her but Stephen jumped forward blocking Donna, falling through the portal it closed behind them

'NO!" wanda barked, her gaze turned to a dazed wong. Fury in her eyes she took threatening steps towards him. She was going to get Donna Strange. If it was the last thing she did.

Falling through different universes was always a struggle. Donna didn't know how to control it. She usually was able to open the portals when she was scared but she didn't know how to get back or how to stop. They were tumbling and tumbling through the worlds, Donna and Stephen held tight to each other as they fell before landing on the cold hard ground. A flurry of white snow around them.

'We were cartoons and paint at one point right?' Stephen questioned once they stopped falling. They had landed in the snow.  Stephen was out of breath and felt sick, his head spinning.

'You saved me...' Donna said looking to Stephen. The last Stephen she met tried to kill her, perhaps this one was different. Perhaps this stephen was more like her brother.

'i hope so' stephen answered.

'You didnt puke.' Donna noted looking to stephen.

'Not my first weird trip.' stephen told her but as soon as the words left his mouth he felt a wave of nausea wash over him. Wiping at his lip he noted his cloak had a hole from where wanda shot at them.

'Get us back.' Stephen told her.

'I cant.' Donna told him.

'get us back, wanda is there and she is tormenting my friends. We need to stop her.' Stephen told her sternly.

'I cant control it.' Donna told him again their voices echoing in the vast emptiness

'You must be able to control i could do a better...' stephen declared and donna took a step back, fear in her eyes. 'sorry.' Stephen said turning around to see where they had landed.  'What about another you?' Stephen pondered. 'maybe she would know how to control her abilities and she could help us?'

'Im the only me now. There are no other mes.'  Donna told him.

'How do you know that?' Stephen questioned.

''They all died. Falling through the ice. My stephen saved me. Since then...'' donna hesitated 'I never dream after that.'