𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐍

Chapter 12

It feels like my heart is being ripped out of my chest. The only reason why it isn't, is because of my abilities. Because of the power that runs through my veins. The sky of the Soul Stone is a deep orange and is thick with clouds of the same colour. For all I know, the sky itself could be blue, but I can't tell because of the fluffy pillows that engulf it.

I do a three-sixty degree turn and see a small shack, old but modern. I start to walk towards it when I realise that the ground is shallow water, orange from the reflection of the sky, and it only goes up to my ankles. I turn my attention back to the shack and start to jog towards it. I stop in front of the door and put my ear up against it, trying to hear if anything is in there. I hear nothing.

I step away from the door and frown. I reach for the handle and try to open the door, but it won't budge. In frustration I kick it and it comes right off its hinges. What I see inside makes me gasp. Zillions of people and aliens are sitting, standing, walking around or punching walls. Majority of the people are hunched over and nearly everyone is crying. I look outside again and see a tiny shack that would never fit this many people. It must be an illusion. 

I step inside and everyone looks at me. Some gasp, some cry even more, but then I see hundreds of people walking towards me with their arms outstretched. They try to hug me, but they go right through me. All I do, is stand there in shock receiving stares of confusion from everyone else. 

"How did you do that?" Someone asks me. 

"She's one of them!" Another shouts.

"She's one of the aliens!"

"She's in a disguise!" People continuously shout at me as to why they can't touch me or why I can't touch them. My ears drums are filled with screaming and panic and I slap my hands over them to try and drown out the sound. It doesn't work.

"STOP!" I finally shout with all my might. The screaming and shouting dies down slowly once everyone hears me. "I am not one of "the aliens", nor am I one of Thanos', I am Ivy Infinity, and I have come here to rescue you on behalf of the Avengers." 

Then everyone starts cheering and applauding. Is this what it feels like to be a hero? I start to smile uncontrollably as more people start to cheer for me. 

"EVERYONE SHUT UP" I hear someone from the crowd yell. Everyone immediately goes quiet and a short boy exits the crowd. He is wearing a shiny suit with a spider on the front and back. Spider-Man. My heart does a little jump for Ned. He walks towards me quickly and his helmet retracts into his suit, revealing his face.

"You know the Avengers?" He asks getting closer to me before stopping. I can see his eyes are red and raw from crying. You can definitely tell that he's only sixteen. I nod my head at him and he smiles showing a perfectly straight row of teeth. He starts to laugh happily and he does a backflip in front of me. I smile along with him as he then goes on to do a little happy dance.

"I would hug you but, I think my soul has been taken away from me" I hear a voice come from beside me. I turn my head to see a man with short brown hair cut into a bob, greasy might I say, and a metal arm. It's The Winter Soldier. 

"Bucky," I say smiling knowing how happy Steve will be to see him. 

"How do you know me?" 

"Steve told me all about you" I say truthfully. He smiles as a tear rolls down his cheek. 

"Are you an Avenger?" A girl with a thick Russian accent says in front of me.

"Um, I kinda only joined like, yesterday," she nods her head and a tear slips down her cheek as well. "But I am here to help. I have the potential to join the Avengers, I just don't want to be known around the world. What's your name?" I ask her.

"Wanda. Wanda Maximoff" I nod my head as the name rings a bell. That's right, she has telekinetic powers and more and she got them from the Mind Stone. Another man walks out in front of me and I recognise him as The Falcon. He looks as if he is about to say something but instead his eyes widen in fear as he looks past me. I frown at him and then I hear multiple screams from other people clearly looking to where Sam is.

I turn around and see Thanos walking towards the shack with a very angry expression on his face. I gasp in fear and realise that if he's here, then the Avengers have been defeated. For some strange reason I feel the urge to cry. I begin to worry. For the Avengers, yes, but strangely, for Loki. Why am I feeling this?

I snap back into reality as Thanos shoots a blast of energy towards us and I quickly create an invisible shield that blocks it and sends the energy bouncing off and racing back towards Thanos. He doesn't realise quick enough and gets blasted, causing him to fly back nearly two-hundred metres. I take down the shield and walk outside the shack.

"Where are you going? You're going to get killed!" I hear Spider-Man say behind me. I create the shield again before replying to him.

"I'm not going to die Peter, I'm an Infinity God" I say while smirking. I see Peter's mouth hang open, speechless. I turn around again and start to walk towards Thanos, taking my time. He is still lying down on the ground in pain from the blast. I start running towards him, taking this as my chance to defeat him. 

He gets up as I reach him and I uppercut him sending him flying up into the sky, then I use my Space powers to bring him back down to the ground forcefully. I hear him groan in pain. I take a step towards him and hold out my hands, ready to obliterate him.

"I've grown weak," he says making me stop what I'm doing, but I don't lower my hands. He looks up at me seeing my expression and he continues. "Once I snapped my fingers I felt all the power drain from me."

"From you or the Stones?" I ask, still not lowering my hands. I look down at them and realise that my palms have gotten wider. Defensive nature I guess.

"No, they've taken my power from me."

"So are you dying? Because if you were that'd be great" I say with no emotion. Thanos chuckles deeply making me take a step closer to him.

"Oh, Ivy, you never were one to give up," he looks at me standing up now. I know I should be obliterating him right now, but something's telling me not to. "Only when it comes to the weapon," my eyes widen in fear and I start walking backwards. 

"I'll do you a favour, I'll take the weapon and then you won't have to kill yourself again to protect your beloved mortals." There it is again. The thing about me killing myself. I stand there in shock and Thanos walks towards me quickly. I'm stuck. I can't move. I can't feel my legs and I feel as if I'm going to pass out. How does he know about the weapon? And what on Earth does he mean?

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OH MY GOODNESS ME. I'M SO SORRY. I haven't updated in forever. I've had massive writers block and I didn't know how to start this chapter for ages. But it came to me so it's all good. I'll try and publish more often but school has just started again where I live and I'm actually gonna try and listen in class this term and do my work cuz I didn't do very well last term (also if you're confused about what a term is look it up cuz I'm not explaining it).

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