Hello again everyone! I'm finally back and have written out the next chapter! Hope you all like this one! It deals with returning to see Eitri and Thor and the team learning some surprising things.
0001234: Thanks for your continued support and I wrote something small and subtle at the end as you suggested. Hope you like that!
"We're approaching Nidavellir. Let's hope your dwarf buddy knows how to fix this, Thor." Rocket said as they were getting ready to land back on Nidavellir.
"Do not worry, Rabbit. Eitri is more than just a weapons master, and if anyone knows about this Seventh Stone so we can kill that bastard, it's him." Thor replied as the ship landed not too far from where they landed a couple of weeks ago when he, the Rabbit, and the Tree first sought Eitri out to help him forge a weapon to kill Thanos. Unfortunately for his friends and the universe, he failed, but he had a second chance to make it right. And it was good to see the forge glowing brighter than ever again, at least.
"Who's this friend of yours anyway, Pointbreak?" Tony sarcastically asked as he and the team exited the ship after landing.
"Someone who may just help us fix this, Stark. Though I do I wish I had brought you all to visit here and Asgard before tragedy struck." Thor answered sadly, but quickly recovered as he and the team saw Eitri working on something on a table.
"Thor! Welcome back! I trust that curse was killed by your hand?" Eitri hopefully asked, remembering how he had to watch his people and brother die right before him after making those two gauntlets and double bladed sword for that monster. "You never specified the terms of our agreement." Thanos had mockingly told him after the slaughter and ruining his hands from ever crafting another weapon. Or so he thought.
"Sadly, that bastard was able to escape and wiped out half of all life everywhere because of the Stones." Thor gravely replied.
"Oh this all my fault! I should have never have helped him!" Eitri began to scream out to the sympathetic team.
"Sir, don't blame yourself. Thor told us you were forced to help him and none of us blame you." Steve told Eitri who was beginning to calm down.
"Cap's right. The only person to blame for all of this is Thanos." Tony said, determined to do whatever he could to kill Thanos and bring Peter and everyone else back. And maybe find out how Thanos knew so much about him before this was all over. It's just didn't make any sense Thanos would be so obsessed with him like Tony was with him.
"They're right. Look, I lost my partner and her parents, and I'm gonna do whatever I can to bring them back." Scott said next equally determined as everyone else to take down Thanos.
"I lost all of the people that actually cared about me before I met this team, and I will not stop until Thanos is dead and they're back along with everyone else." Carol said next knowing she would at least be doing this with actual good people who weren't looking to use her or manipulate her like before in her Starforce days.
"My wife and children were killed by this monster, so please tell us what to do to fix this?" Clint asked ready to do his part and start figuring out about how to solve this.
"Buddy, I lost the people that were basically my family, including the Tree. So please tell us what to do." Rocket said to Eitri with look desperation on his face.
"So did I." Nebula said too upset over the Guardians' deaths, especially Gamora.
"Right, look Thor mentioned to us you might know something about a Seventh Infinity Stone? We need all the help we can get. Especially since The Other Guy and I are having problems right now." Bruce explained to Eitri, who along with some others on the team had no idea who The Other Guy was, but Eitri was clearly thinking about his question with much thought.
"Follow me." Eitri commanded as he led to team to a hidden door nearby that led downstairs to a hidden library. Eitri led them to a table and went to grab a book from one of the shelves and brought it back table and opened it open to show the team and told them, "Legend tells us that in the beginning that after the creation of the universe, six elemental crystals were sent across the universe. They were Power, Space, Mind, Reality, Time, and Soul, BUT there were also rumors of a Seventh Stone. Your father heard whispers of this alleged Seventh Stone, Thor, but after he sought it out, he came back and looked like he saw a ghost. After this, he immediately stopped his conquest, and began to write things out of history like the war, your sister, and this Seventh Stone. Despite the wishes of my king, I couldn't help but be curious on what happened to make him change so drastically as he been obsessed with outdoing your grandfather for centuries. So I investigated this privately and discovered in fact, there was indeed a Seventh Stone."
"What?! Where?!" Thor asked, almost in shock the rumors turned out to be true. Despite how hard he tried to cover up the past, more and more of Odin's secrets kept coming to light.
"Yes, please tell us all you know. I can't afford to lose anyone else on this team." Natasha asked much more hopeful there may still be a chance.
"While I was unable to learn its exact location, I was able to learn it belongs to a group known as The Eternals. Ancient beings who stick to the shadows, but are on the side of good. Their exact location also eludes me, but what's left of The Shi'ar Empire after that monster's culling may know more. Their empire is vast and large, but their ruler Lilandra is wise and kind, and maybe be able to assist you as it possible The Shi'ar have crossed paths with The Eternals before."
"And where is this "Lilandra" now?" Rhodey asked confused about everything that was going on.
"If she wasn't culled by that monster, then on The Shi'ar throneworld Chandilar." Answered Eitri.
"I see. Thank you, my friend. Like I told you before, you, I, all of us, together will kill Thanos and make things right." Thor said as he and the team got up from their chairs and began to walk back up the stairs to their ship.
"Before you leave, I received some sort of vision in my head when I was leading all of you downstairs telling me that you and your friends need to go to Hel as there is someone you need to see." Eitri replied to a confused Thor.
"Who?" Thor asked not knowing what to think of that.
"I'm afraid that's all I can tell you, just go there after you leave here and you will have the answers you seek." Eitri told Thor and the team as they were now back outside of their ship.
"I see. Thank you, Eitri. I promise you vengeance will be ours after that bastard is dead." Thor told his friend before departing with the team back on the ship.
"So are we going this "Hel" first, Thor?" Carol asked to Thor as everyone took their seats back on the ship.
"Yes, there is something or someone there I have to see." Answered Thor, not knowing what was going on and or what Eitri meant.
"Got it. By the way, thanks for having my back when I went to scout Thanos' planet. Not use to being a team that genuinely watches each other's backs." Said Carol to Thor as she and Rocket were flying the ship out of Nidavellir and preparing the jump to Hel.
"Oh of course. I've lost far too many friends and family lately, and I don't wish and won't allow to lose anymore. Now are you and Rabbit ready punch in the coordinates to Hel?" Thor asked as Rocket and Carol did just that. Now Thor and the team would see who or what was waiting in the realm of Hel.
Hope everyone enjoyed that! Yes, I'm bringing in The Eternals and The Shi'ar into this story and some surprises next chapter when then visit Hel. Stay tuned!
