Chapter 8.
Hey everyone. Back with another chapter.
This chapter will feature the test and will see Jason and Nyssa teaming up.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, followed and favirouted so far.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avengers, Arrow or anything pertaining to those two fandom's. I only own Jason Stark and any other OC's and worlds you see in this story.
lostinthearrowverse: To answer your questions, imagine Jason being portrayed by Miles Teller. Jason's mother is another OC but she is dead. I know right? Sara is still dead but won't be for long. Lyla is working for ARGUS and Baby Sara hasn't been born yet. And Oliver is dating Laurel.
Now on with the show.
Jason's POV.
I quickly got dressed and followed Nyssa out of my room.
She could probably tell, I didn't sleep well, considering I had bags under my eyes and she looked at me with concern.
"Any chance I could get a cup of coffee before we get started?" I asked her with a hint of sarcasm.
"No but I could offer you some yak buttered tea?" she replied, equally sarcastically.
I just made a face and moved on.
She led me through a maze of corridors until I saw Ra's by the gateway, which was glowing with a bright white light.
"Ah Jason Stark. It is time for the test" Ra's said gleefully.
"What do I do for the test?" I asked nervously.
"You will head to the World Beyond to pass the test there. Nyssa will go with you and guide you" Ra's explained.
"How long will this test take? How long will I be gone? And what happens if I fail the test?" I asked.
"As long as it takes for you to complete the challenges you will be facing. As for how long you'll be gone, time acts differently in the World Beyond. You could be there for a hundred years and yet only 2 seconds will pass here. And for the third question, if you fail, you will be stuck in that realm doing those challenges, over and over and over again for eternity" Ra's explained.
I felt the blood leave my face.
"Enough talk. It's time to go" Ra's said, before I had a chance to think about it, Nyssa grabbed me and yanked me towards the portal. .
When I entered the portal, there was blinding, painful white light.
I closed my eyes from the pain and Nyssa nearly crushed my hand with her iron grip.
The light soon faded.
When I finally opened my eyes again, we were in a misty forest of some sort.
It was a refreshing to be in a forest after being cooped up in that cavern at Ra's called a home.
Just as I was starting to relax a little bit then suddenly something ran in front of me.
It was ghostly white, with waves of white mist leaving its body. It looked like a small deer and it leapt across the forest and bolted.
"What the hell was that?!" I asked in alarm.
"It is a ghost deer" Nyssa explained.
"Okay Nyssa: WTF? What are you not telling me" I asked.
She took a deep breath.
"We are in another dimensional plane of reality. The League discovered a gateway here, and for hundreds of years, we have guarded it against both outsiders, who discovered its location and sought to unleash horrors from that world on ours, as well as preventing creatures from this world from entering our world and wrecking havoc" Nyssa explained.
Well shit.
This was bloody intense.
"Okay. What is this world like?" I asked.
"You'll see" was her reply.
Suddenly, the bushes ruffled and about a hundred spirit deer ran past us in droves.
"That's not normal is it?" I asked in fear.
Nyssa's face was grim.
"No Jason. It is not" she replied as she yanked an arrow out of her quiver.
Sadly, I had no weapons on me so I balled my fists and got into a fighting stance.
"Hang on Nyssa. Is this part of the test?" I asked.
"No it is not" she replied.
Suddenly a giant spider walked out of the bushes.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me" I said in fear.
I had always had arachnophobia since I was a young child.
It had always been an issue for me, and spiders, even tiny ones made me have a panic attack.
I so wish I had put on my brown underwear at this point.
I remained rooted on the spot, sweat dripping from my brow. I was terrified.
Nyssa also paled, but not as much as me.
She slowly backed away and hid behind a nearby large rock.
The spider thankfully hadn't noticed us yet.
I moved slowly and hid with Nyssa.
The spider was as big as a cargo truck, and was white-coloured with a red head and eight eyes.
I just shivered at the sight of it.
This was so not good.
"What the hell is that thing?" I whispered to Nyssa.
"It is a Payk. They are native to this world. But they never venture this far south. For them to be here, something is wrong" she whispered back.
"Looks like a big ass spider to me" I said sarcastically.
"It is a spider" she said, looking at me weirdly.
"Well now that we know what it is, any bug spray around here" I asked.
Nyssa just ignored me and sprung to her feet and fired her arrow.
It hit the spider in one of its eyes and it screeched in pain.
"Oh well done. Now you just went and pissed it off" I muttered.
Thankfully, the spider had no clue of where the arrow came from and just screeched hysterically.
Nyssa shot another arrow but the spider noticed where it was coming from and charged at us.
"Oh come on!" I yelled as we got up and ran.
The spider was moving fast.
Much faster then a normal spider should be able to move.
"Split up!" Nyssa yelled.
"What? Are you crazy? You're going to let me go by myself!?" I yelled at her.
"Just do it you fool!" she yelled back.
"Ah fine" I muttered to myself, "But if I get killed, I'm going to come back to life and kill her again"
The spider took off after Nyssa while I bolted further into the creepy forest.
However, I noticed more and more giant webs around me and stopped running.
"Oh this isn't doesn't look good" I muttered to myself.
I thought I would be safer back where I came from and bolted back.
However, I failed to notice a massive stone wall that was part of a cave entrance in front of me and slammed straight into it.
I fell to the ground and rolled straight into the cave.
I kept hitting large rocks on the way down to I-really-have-no-clue-land.
Eventually there was a cliff edge and I fell over it before landing hard.
"Oh well done", I thought to myself.
I groaned from my sprained ankle and slowly hobbled to my feet.
Looking around, I noticed that were giant webs but thankfully no spiders.
I saw a massive tunnel up ahead.
Figuring that was my best option at the moment, I decided to go that way and in the hope that I could find my way out of this blasted cave.
I hobbled up the tunnel.
It was dark and musty.
It smelled like a mixture of old farts and a closet that hasn't been opened in years.
This was just so depressing.
There were no spiders though.
This was suspicious but maybe they were all out hunting ghost deer…or Nyssa.
Serves her right for telling us to split up.
I would hate for her to get eaten though, she was very hot.
As I was thinking all this to myself, I walked into a cavern and froze in my tracks.
"Okay…That doesn't look good" I muttered to myself.
On the far wall, I saw a man, chained by his feet and hanging upside down with his head in a bucket of what smelled like shit.
Every few seconds, he was somehow lifted up and his head slammed back into the shit.
I wrinkled my nose in disgust and tried not to vomit.
"Hi" I said in a squeaky voice.
"Sorry to disturb you. You look kind of busy" I said.
"I'll just be on my way then" I said.
"Wait" he said in between breaths, "Please don't leave me" he pleaded.
"Who are you? Why is this happening to you?" I asked.
"Oh he was put here as a punishment" a new voice said to my right.
I spun around yelping out in pain as I put pressure on my ankle and got ready to fight.
Out from the shadows walked a man, dressed in red spandex outfit.
I had a feeling I had seen him before but I didn't know where or when.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked warily.
"Oh I'm Wade Wilson. I'm Slade Wilson's brother from another mother. Or more accurately, other fandom. Nice to meet you" he said cheerfully.
"Nice to meet you too?" I said.
"So, what brings you here?" I asked him cautiously.
"Oh I'm just taking a vacation here. You would know Mr Teller" he said.
Now I was confused.
"What the hell are you talking about?" I asked.
"Oh spoilers. Don't worry. Oh and don't worry about him, his name is Foolrod, he is a cyber bully. He likes to harass people, and say nasty things about there writing, even though he doesn't have the balls to write anything himself. So the Old Gods banished him to this dimension and he now has to spend eternity with his head in a bucket of shit" Wade said.
"Okay. I guess I'll be moving on then" I said.
"Well, I will get going and see you in Avengers: Endgame. Or maybe that shitty piece of writing called Thor: Love and Thunder. We'll see" Wade said before disappearing into thin air.
I shook my head.
I must be hallucinating or something" I thought to myself.
So I started to walk away, when Foolrod called me back again.
"Please don't leave me. I'll never harass people about there writing again" he said.
"Look dude", I replied.
"Maybe if you're nicer to people, they would be nice to you too. Unfortunately, karma's a bitch" I said to him.
I finally reached the end of the tunnel thank god.
I walked into a giant chamber.
It was freaking huge.
I stared in amazement.
However there was a statue that occupied most of the room.
It had an octopus head, dragon wings and a human body.
"This is one messed up world" I said.
What freaked me out the most was that the statue seemed to be looking at me.
I saw several words carved into a stone slab at the feet of the statue.
Moving forward I inspected it.
But I wish I didn't because it freaked me out. It read:
"When the stars align, Great Cthulhu will rise to walk the lands"
I didn't like the sound of that.
Suddenly, I felt like I had been here for far too long.
When I looked up, the statues eyes were glowing red.
I just shrugged and looked down again.
That was when I figured it out.
"Wait a minute…what the hell!" I said in horror.
"Oh shit" I said and turned around before bolting.
I ran as fast as I could which due to the Mirakuru in me was a lot.
I bolted back the way I had come from passing Foolrod and his muffled screams as I exited and entering the cave system that I arrived in.
I ran as fast as I could and leapt.
I made it to the cliff and sprinted out into the open sunlight.
I breathed a sigh of relief as I was out of that blasted cave with the horrible statue.
I heard the spider screeching and Nyssa swearing and cursing in the distance.
I jumped to my feet and ran to help her.
I saw multiple spiders had cornered Nyssa and were zoning in for the kill.
Rushing forward, I ran at one of the spiders and tackled it to the ground before pummelling it with my fists.
"Well, wouldn't a sword be handy at this time" I thought to myself as the spider stabbed me in the gut with a stinger of sorts. I felt poison seep into my veins.
"This isn't going to be good" I thought.
The spider grabbed me and threw me into a tree which knocked the wind out of me.
Suddenly, I heard a cry in the distance.
Nyssa and I and the spiders all turned to see a woman jump from a cliff and engage the spiders in battle.
She moved like a blur and soon all of the spiders were dead and lying in a heap at her feet.
The woman then turned to us.
My eyes widened.
She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
She had brown hair that was twisted into one big plait that went down to her shoulder.
She was wearing silver armour on her upper body along with a red cape that was pinned to her right shoulder.
She also had several knifes attached to her belt.
I saw intricate tattoos on her left arm.
There was also a tattoo on her neck that went up to the jaw-line of her right cheek.
Her face was the most beautiful face I had ever seen. She was glowing.
There was a symbol marked into her forehead.
Her eyes were of a different colour though.
Her right eye was bright green while the left eye was ice blue.
She looked at Nyssa with surprise.
"Nyssa. What are you doing here?" she asked her.
"You know her?" I asked, equally surprised.
"Indeed I do. To answer your question Cassilda, I am here to make sure this fool over here passes his test" Nyssa answered.
Cassilda smiled at me.
"Ja…son…Stark…." I said in a stutter.
What the hell is wrong with me? I asked.
She smiled at me, and I felt my heart jump a little.
"Fuck sakes dude, you're going to make a fool of yourself" I thought to myself.
"Cassilda daughter of Loki" she replied.
My eyes widened in shock.
Loki? You've got to be kidding me.
I decided to table this for later though.
"Cassilda, why were there giant spiders here? Never have they ventured this far south before" Nyssa enquired with a hint of worry in her voice.
I shivered, as I remembered the statue and the message carved into the rock.
"I do not know Nyssa. Monster attacks have become more frequent in recent months" Cassilda replied grimly.
"What about some guy named Cthulhu?" I offered.
Cassilda's eyes widened and she turned as white as a sheet.
"How do you know that name?" she demanded.
"I saw it in a cavern nearby about ten minutes ago" I said nervously.
"We will discuss this later" Cassilda said.
"Come. I will take you to the Dunlossburg. There we will regroup and you can pass your test Master Stark" she said to me.
She turned around marched off in the direction of the hills as we followed.
That statue and the message still haunted me.
This was not good.
And something was coming.
And Chapter 8 is done. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
So Jason and Nyssa are in another dimension. It is of my own creation and you will get more background on it next chapter.
The statue was Cthulhu from H.P Lovecraft's stories. Yep they exist. You will find out next chapter.
And the woman: Cassilda is another OC of mine. She will serve as Jason's love interest for the trilogy. And as you can see, she is the daughter of Loki.
Also BTW: Unlike the Arrowverse, I won't have any stupid romantic sub-plots in this trilogy. There will be romantic moments throughout the trilogy but it won't occupy everything. Bear with me romance addicts.
And Cithulu will make a couple more cameos in this trilogy before he makes his full debut in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
And more of Cthulhlu's species will play prominent roles in the trilogy.
Also BTW: The message on the stone in the cave, translates in English as "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".
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