The attack had started on Brooklyn during the early hours of the morning, Amberley racing to the battlements where already the guards were trying to hold the city walls.
"You shouldn't be up here my queen!" One yelled as they ducked from the incoming stones and arrows that were being launched by catapults from outside the city walls. The large rocks slamming into the castles walls, dust and stone crumbling slightly.
"I will go where I please - are the vats of tar ready?"
Another nodded. "When would you have us tip them over the walls?"
"When they get close enough to breaking the doors down, the archers will send lit arrows down to burn them. Do not waste your arrows, let them waste theirs instead".
The guard looked at her. "You would be safer in the hall with the people..."
"I lost a battle against my husband , I will not lose one for him". Amberley stated firmly. "You heed my instructions, that's an order. Let them shoot, let them try to batter down our walls, but they will only get so far before we can strike. This is our city!"
She ducked as arrows fell like rain over them, one of the guards shielding her. The loud thuds of the battering ram smashing against wood. They would be through soon enough, and then the battle would really begin.
"What's that?" One of the guards yelled as he pointed to where another large group of soldiers were now marching. "More of Thanos's men?"
Amberley smiled. "That would be the Dora Milaje...and believe me they shall make a meal of anyone who stands in their way...
Another thud followed by a crack sounded, screams and yells beginning. "Release the tar and fire your arrows! Do not fall back unless I say so!" She yelled her command, the vats of hot tar now being tipped onto the chitauri below and set alight.
Pulling her sword from her belt, Amberley headed back into the castle, the booms sounding, dust falling from where stone was being hit.
She looked up and around as more dust began to fall, part of the ceiling crumbling in. Yells were coming from outside the courtyard, flaming torches bobbing around.
The chitauri were here within the walls, and now the anger rose within her.
"Just like my husband, you picked the wrong woman to deal with in battle".
**
The battle was raging.
The grass stained with red, no blade left unsoaked.
The mists that Wanda had created had worked perfectly when launching an attack, but now it was well and truly under way, Steve was watching soldiers fall to the ground around him, the slaughter on both sides worse than he could have anticipated, and now before him rose the dragon of purple who had bided his time for so long - and all for this moment.
To kill him.
"So you'd rather fight like the pathetic cursed being you are instead of a man!" He yelled, seeing the dragon disappear down to the grass and take human form as the mists cleared.
"If you hand over the witch? I'll have no need to kill you". Thanos told him.
Steve shook his head. "No can do. You may have thought she'd fight for you? But it's not happening. She's with us".
Immediately Thanos was in front of him, "You could save your Queen, your sons, just give her to me and this can all end". He stopped, now noting the glint of something around Steve's neck. "I'll take that too".
"No".
"Guess I'll be taking it from your corpse then!" Thanos now said, "You want me to fight like a man? Then I will, but the last thing you see will be my face telling you I told you so..." Now launching his attack.
Steve dodged, the clash of metal sounding as they began to fight. Thanos's strikes hit his shield, the sparks flying off the vibranium. He had the upper hand, stronger than he was due to the cursed blood that ran through his veins.
With a punch to the head, Thanos sent Steve flying back onto the grass, coming to stand over him and ripping the amulet from around the King's neck. "Thank you sire...with this? I have what I need to finally rid myself of this damn curse".
Steve blearily noted the same stone that Strange had worn on his visit, and instantly knew the fate of the man. "Go on then, but what do you expect to achieve after?"
"You won't know, because you'll already be dead..." Raising his sword, Thanos now brought it down upon Steve, the King too weak to raise his shield in defence.
Chuckling to himself, Thanos began to make his way back now holding the amulet high to admire it.
A 'whoosh' sounded as something spiralled past his head, now seeing the shield before a blast of bright light ricocheted off of it, then hitting the amulet that Thanos still had held high. It cracked before the yet another bright light began to engulf the enemy, who then was consumed by it, chitauri soldiers beginning to turn to dust.
As the light faded, the amulet fell to the grass, dust flying around as everyone began to realise what had happened.
Wanda's hands lowered themselves, the danger now eliminated, summoning the amulet back to her, before looking at her King who was stood by her side. His shield now returning to his hand while the blood from his wound soaking through the chain mail.
"Thought you said I wouldn't die..." Steve looked to her, hand covered in blood from the wound Thanos had dealt.
"You won't...but you saw the plan through, took the blow you needed and still defeated Thanos".
"No thanks to you". He smiled, now looking down at his blooded hand. "Think you could patch me up?"
Wanda placed her hand over the area and uttered a few words, the wound now healing beneath the chain mail.
Steve looked around, seeing the men now looking at him and waiting for their instruction.
Time to go home.
Home to his love, his Amberley...
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Wildflower (King!SteveRogers AU)
Fanfic"It's a game...a dangerous one at that" When her father Phillip, Jarl of Wisconsin, dies in battle, his daughter Amberley is imprisoned, awaiting to suffer the same fate. Execution. However her captor, The High King of Brooklyn, Steven Rogers has ot...
