Ch 2

One day, Sersi, Sprite, and Sersi's boyfriend Dane Whitman were leaving after Dane's party finished.

"Are you really in love?" Sprite asked.

"What if I am?" Sersi said.

"You better tell him the truth, then."

"I'm working on it."

Suddenly a Deviant jumped out of the water. Sersi used her powers to soften the surface of the sidewalk and freeze Kro in it.

Kro broke out and chased them.

"Shit! Is that a Deviant?" Sprite asked.

"Run!" Dane said. "What is that thing?"

"A Deviant!" Sersi replied.

"You said you killed them all!"

"You believed me?"

"I do now!"

Sprite then used her powers to cast many illusions of Sersi and herself.

Kro charged and the civilians were running away.

"Run! Go! Go!" Dane said. Kro tripped Sprite with a tentacle and was about to suck in her power. Then Ikaris flew in and blasted Kro into a store.

Unfortunately, Kro got back up and threw a car. Sersi used her power to turn it into a massive stream of flower petals.

Ikaris kept shooting Kro but the Deviant self-healed every time.

"Did it just heal itself?" Sprite asked.

Then Kro charged again but Ikaris drove him off with eye lasers, sending the Deviant running away.

After that, Sersi told Dane the truth.

"We're Eternals, from a planet called Olympia. We came here 7,000 years ago on the Domo, our starship, to protect humans from the Deviants. We thought we killed them all five centuries ago, but now they're back.

"Look, if you don't want to move in with me, you could just say."

"Dane, this is serious."

"Oh, I know. I'm just still getting over the fact you're not a wizard."

"I was hoping you could change me into a giraffe. I always wanted to be a giraffe when I was a kid."

"It's too bad I can't change sentient beings. You would have made a very cute giraffe."

"Why didn't you guys help fight Thanos? Or any war? Or all the other terrible things throughout history?"

"We were instructed not to interfere in any human conflicts unless Deviants were involved."

"Why?"

"If we'd protected humanity from everything for 7,000 years, you'd never have had the chance to develop in the way you were meant to."

"But if the Deviants were eradicated a long time ago, why are you still here? We've been waiting… to be told we can go home."

"So…Ikaris."

"The boy who flew too close to the sun."

"Sprite made that story up when we lived in Athens."

"In the fifth century BC? How long were you two together?"

"5,000 years."

"I guess you can call that longterm. What happened?"

"He left. I always thought he'd come back, but… he never did. So, I moved on."

"I'm glad you did.

"I have to go."