Son of Thor - New Justice League

Paradise in Peril - Part Two

3rd P.O.V

Cassie walked off the plane, Luke right behind her.

Hyppolita: Cassie I'm glad you're backing home with us even if it's not at a good time.

They both hugged.

Hyppolita: I see you brought your friend with you. I don't understand why the goddesses would ask for your help when Wonder Woman should be able to handle it.

Luke: Maybe the Goddesses had a reason for that Queen, since it's certainly not for nothing if they asked for my help.

He said determined.

Wonder Woman: Luke is right; I won't turn down his help if Themyscira is in danger. The fact that they asked for his help means it's bad.

Hyppolita: All right, follow me then. There's something you should see.

They both followed the Queen and her escort on their way to the city. In the city they passed the gazes of the Amazons who were watching Luke either neutrally or with great displeasure, sometimes even dislike.

They continued on until they reached the Queen's palace, walking up the wide white steps, both sides flanked by statues of Greek gods and goddesses.

The palace was of traditional Greek architecture, large marble columns forming the supporting columns of the building.

Inside, they followed the royal palace until they reached the prison, which lay beneath the building itself.

They passed through the dungeon, passing various cells on the way to their destination, and in one of them Luke spotted Diana Prince, now a prisoner of her people.

They came to a cell which was opened by two guards.

When entered the cell there was a deformed male figure lying on the floor, his skin was thickened, there were horns on his head, his face was not visible and his skin was dark to black.

Wonder Woman.

Cassie asked walking up to it.

Hyppolita: That's the man our patrol found off the shore of the island, we captured and interrogated him, he said his boat sank in a storm and he was shipwrecked.

We didn't really believe his story and put him in a cell.

Thunderer: I see that didn't work out too well.

He walked close to the corpse inspecting it.

Hyppolita: No, we didn't expect him to become this. We were alerted by an alarm in the dungeon overnight. Along with Artemis and a group of Amazons we went there, this is what became of the man. He killed five of our sisters before we could kill him. We wouldn't have known anything about this if the last amazon hadn't given us this with what happened before she died.

The queen handed Cassie a smaller red and black stone which, she inspected in her hand.

Hyppolita: We don't know what it is; all we know is that this stone turned that man into that monster.

Luke walked over to them and Cassie handed it to him. The stone was soft to the touch but after a moment his mind was overwhelmed by the vision.

He found himself on a battlefield on a planet shrouded in darkness, around him soldiers in golden cloaks fought against humanoid looking enemies concealed in white body armor. Their faces could not be seen as everything they had was obscured, they only had eyeholes on their heads. But the soldiers could not be mistaken anywhere since they were Einherjar, the army by which Asgard kept the peace in the Nine Realms. But then a larger deformed figure similar looking to the man in the cell passed over him but then the vision ended and he found himself back where Cassie had called out to him.