Hello again everyone. Sorry I have been gone for so long. I had to finish my univeristy course for this semester and that was hard. Now that I have finished for the summer I will be working more on Avengers than I have done before. If anyone who is also reading Supernatural: Jurassic World I will also be up dating that as well, but for that I have reached a writers block for that but I will get back to that.
On another note I can see the ending of this story, but knowing me I will add something new into the works as I go along which seems to be a common thing that I always do. I have also started to plan for Phase 2.
And again thank you so much for taken the time to read this work. And again please don't be afraid to leave a comment.
Chapter 28
"They took the bait!"
Nightshade heard Thor say over the roaring of the wind. She looked over at the Asgardian who was flying beside her. They had been quick to set up a pace that all three of them to stay together and form a formation. All a part of the rouse that they had set up to get Seth to have his forces go after them rather than the team who was taken the Book of the Dead by Sea. She then looked in the direction that Thor was looking at to see three winged figures getting closer to them. Zooming in on the shapes that was getting closer Nightshade could see that they were not the normal birds and even the Terrasurus that had once again taken to the skies all around the world with humans being turned into dinosaurs.
She had been glad that Black Horn had told her what was happening in America with the Winchester brothers. Without the Wendigo telling her what was happening with them as knowing Julian would keep it quite until it blew up in everyone's faces and she had to go all the way to America and question both the brothers and Julian what was really happening. That was something that she didn't want to do at all. And that would be something that Julian would not want either. Having Black Horn over there with Julian and the brothers was the eyes that she needed to be able to deal with problems such as Seth and getting the Book of the Dead to London.
Nightshade didn't know what was going to happen with the prehistoric creatures back and walking on the earth. She hoped that people like General Ross would keep his greedy nose away from all of this and focus on the trouble that Kate and his daughter for all the hassle that he had given the Hulk and the other Avengers over the years. Even with that General Ross was still a respected man within the US military. Nightshade could only hope that he didn't take interest in the dinosaurs like he did the Hulk. That was something that she was going to leave to SHIELD and UNIT when she had Soundwave pass on Black Horn's report to them.
She looked back towards Thor. "Lets keep them focused on us and let the others get to the Tower without any problems!" she told him before she folded her wings and dived towards the ground. A moment later she opened her wings and with the speed from her drop she changed direction and was heading towards the three winged figures. Thor was quick to follow her and soon he was flying beside her. It didn't take long for Galvatron to catch up with them either and soon the three of them were flying towards the three figures. His afterburners being the loudest thing in the air.
"What are those things? I didn't know humans could have wings and the ability to fly?" Galvatron asked. The sound of confusion that was in his voice was evident as his scanners picked up the three flying figures that they were getting closer to. Galvatron had seen many things over the millions of years that he had been functioning but there was nothing that could prepare him for the women-bird combinations that were flying towards them.
Coming to a halt and hovering in the air she waited until the three figures got closer. Both Thor and Galvatron also came to a sudden stop beside her. Opening her wings as wide as she could and keep her tail fin straight and flat to give her best shape to hover many miles above the ground.
Galvatron transformed back into his robot form and used his afterburners to keep him in the air beside Nightshade. He would rather use his own optics to confirm what it was that was flying towards him. He was willing to believe that the supernatural was real with his own experience with Dark Energon and the Terracons that were the result of it. He also agreed with Seth and other beings like him from his experience with the Ancient Egyptian God of Chaos and also of Thor and his people. But he was drawing a line in that creatures that are found in books like The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. There could be no other creatures that call earth home without them being seen by everyone in the world.
Galvatron threw Nightshade a look of disbelief as he saw that the figures had gotten so much closer that he was able to make out their details. The three of them had the bodies and faces of human women. But that was where the humanity ended. Their arms where large eagle wings and their legs and feet where bird-like. There was also the eagle tail that he had seen many of the birds had. One of the winged women's feathers was dark red, another was blue and the last one was as green as the leaves many miles below them.
Galvatron leaned towards Thor. "What are those things?" he asked the God of Thunder. His red optics never left the three bird-women as they approached Nightshade who had also moved closer to them. This was something that she was no doubt use to and she was going to talk to them. She would see what they were after and if they had allied themselves with Seth or if they were on their own.
"They are the Harpies. Warriors for hire that only go to the highest bidder!" Thor replied to Galvatron. "Sellswords of the worst kind all of them!" he continued to explain Galvatron.
Galvatron arched his optic ridge. He only got a name, but that was all that he needed. It was always best to know what he was fighting as that made his battle all the much easier. He may not know the full story of the Harpies, he didn't need to know that. All he needed to know was how their story was going to end. He looked back towards Nightshade and the three Harpies.
"What brings you so far away from Greece?" Nightshade asked the three Harpies. She hovered across from the three of them. Making sure that she didn't look threatening but also showing the three of them that she was not going to let them walk all over her. Something that had happened to her once and she had vowed after that it wont happen again.
She watched the three women-bird creatures to see that all of them had sinister looks on all of their faces. A look that she did not like at all. She watched the three of them as she thought of the best way to take them out after she found out what it was that they were after in Britain.
"We are after gold. Much gold!" spoke up the red feathered Harpy.
It was sunned right away by the other two Harpies. It looked away from them all and flew back a few feet away from them.
The other two Harpies glared at Nightshade. "That is none of your concern. All that is your concern is that you give us what we are after!" the forest green Harpy spoke up as she pointed her spear at Nightshade.
"And what is it that you are looking for?" she asked. Movement in the corner of her optics caused made her even more alert than before. "If you are looking for classical Greek books there is plenty in libraries all across the world that you get a book from? And we don't need to be violent against each other!" she asked the Harpy that she got a feeling was the leader of the group.
"You would assume that we are looking for a book?" the green Harpy asked. She titled her head to the side as she regarded Nightshade. She looked back to her fellow Harpies who were still beside her. They were looking at the other Avengers that were with Nightshade. Python had not told her that she had do tell with a Norse God or even one of the metal men who had fallen from the stars.
"That seems to be a common thing now with villains going after books!" Thor spoke up this time. The Harpies and Galvatron looked at the Norse God but Nightshade was watching the lead Harpy. The Harpy who had made it clear that she was the boss of the other two, much like Python and her Sisters.
"The Book of the Dead!" Nightshade stated to the Harpy leader. She internal smirked at the look that passed through all the Harpies that told her that they knew what that was. Keeping that knowledge to herself she spoke up again, "Seth has send you to get the Book and return it to Seth so that he can pick up his plans to end the world?" she asked the lead Harpy.
The blue and red Harpies made a squawking noise as they looked from Nightshade back to their leader. They made out another noise as they saw a golden book in Nightshade's paws that only a second ago had been in her subspace and well hidden from them and her allies. Nightshade kept the Book of the Dead in view of the three Harpies and kept it in her claws.
"Is this what you are looking for?" she asked as she showed the Book of the Dead to the three Harpies. "If it is you, are going to have to work and get it!" she snapped with a smug tone in her voice. Then a moment later she dived towards the ground and the Pine Forest that was below her.
Once she got closer to the trees she transformed into her Grimm form The tiger grabbed the golden book in its jaws as its claws clamped down on a tree branch. Looking up she could see that the others were confused as to what had just happened and what she was planning. Focusing back to the tree she began to jump from branch to branch towards the ground. Her sharp claws on all four paws working in keep her balanced on the tree as she dropped to the ground. She grunted as when she finally got to the ground but she didn't stay around for long. Within seconds of landing on firm ground she was already running with the Book of the Dead clamped in between her jaws.
The lead Harpy looked at the other two Harpies. They were both looking down at the ground where Nightshade had vanished into the Scottish forest way below them. She snarled at how stupid her sisters where and had to wonder if Python had the same problem with her sisters, but she had heard many stories about the fearsome Serpent Sisters and that was something that she did not see that happening with Seth's top assassins and generals of his armies.
"What are you looking at! Get after her! I want Book!" she screeched at her two sisters.
Without anything else being said the three Harpies dropped to the ground after Nightshade. Their large bird wings folded close to their body as they shot for a clearing not far from where Nightshade had entered the forest with the use of the large pine tree helping her decent.
Thor was right after them. His hammer leading the way as he followed after the Harpies. The God of Thunder was already gathering storm clouds. Thunder roared in the distance with lightning zapping through the darkening clouds that formed around the Scottish forest. His red cape bellowed in the wind as he chased after the green feathered Harpy. He knew that Nightshade could take of herself. But they could not risk being alone with Seth and his forces looking to taking a swing at them as the Chaos God looked for all the ways that he could do damage them. He already had a good weapon in his arsenal now in the form of Iron Man who knew a lot more about the Avengers than any enemy who they had faced over the many years of them being members of the Avengers and before they had joined the group.
Galvatron was in the process of transforming when he was suddenly struck from the side. Turning his attention away from the forest and towards the force that had struck him. The snarl that escaped from his chest couldn't be helped as he stared at the Mech who was hovering across from him.
"Unicron!"
"Galvatron!"
Unicron smirked towards Galvatron. His purple optics never leaving the Mech that he had caused so many problems for. "I still see that you have not changed your mind? You can still come and join me and Shadowstalker. That in a way your little girlfriend Nightshade will be with you always after I have her destroyed!" Unicron told Galvatron.
The roar that came from Galvatron was more animalistic that it would seem that a dragon had awoken from its slumber from deep within a mountain. The attack that was followed was like any wild beast. A wild beast who was defending either food or something more important in its mind at the time. Galvatron unsheathed the sword that was mounted under his plasma canon on his right arm. With another mighty roar he lunged towards Unicron with his sword in front of him.
Unicron was in a body that was smaller and more agile than Galvatron with all the upgrades that had taken place over the years from being in the mines to the gladiator pits of Kaon to finally the battlefields of the Cybertronian war. He was able to duck and weave out of the way of Galvatron's wild strikes. He moved into a better position to give Galvatron a punch in the face.
"You have lost your touch, my student! You have become weak just like the Primes and their followers!" Unicron told Galvatron as he looked across at the Mech who he had made into who he was at the moment. "You should be thanking me Megatron. It was because of I that made you the Mech that you are today. I gave you the push of getting out of the mines and the gladiator pits. It was because of me that you followed the path that was meant for you. Now you must thank me for what I have done for you!" Unicron told Galvatron as he approached the Mech.
Galvatron snarled at Unicron. "Thank you?! That is something that you don't deserve from me or any other Mech that you ask of that! You are just a parasite that is looking for the recognition of the pain and death that you cause. And I am no longer going to be a tool for your parasitic needs!" Galvatron told Unicron.
The smirk that crossed over Unicron's faceplates was a all knowing smirk. Unicron's optics glowed a bright purple and the next thing that was happening the two Mechs were brawling on a hill that was a part of am glen that wrapped around the Pine Forest like a protective arm that kept the growing cities and towns from taken the natural landscape.
A small stream trickled through the Pine Forest. A red Stag wondered up to the stream. He looked around to make sure that there was no predators around that would take this as a good chance to take a bite out of him. But then again there was no large predators up in Scotland that would dare to take him on. His large antlers were the protection that he needed against anything that was stupid enough to go against him.
His ears perked up suddenly as he heard a noise coming from deeper within the forest. Raising his head away from the stream he strained his ears as he tried to pinpoint the source of the noise that was getting louder and louder with every passing second. Shifting his feet the stag prepared to make a run for deeper woodland at the next sign of trouble.
A shriek was what set the stag to make a run for it. A second later the blue feathered Harpy crashed into the stream. Her right wing was snapped in two places. Some of her feathers were singed where lightning had burnt away the feathers. Her broken staff was still in her hand as her only good eye watched as her sister was slammed into the stream. A dying groan was the last sound that her sister ever made in her life as sharp metal claws impaled her chest.
Nightshade removed her paws from the Harpy's chest as the last Harpy rushed towards her. Whipping her tail around she caught the Harpy in the chest. The force of the impact forced the Harpy into a tree. She let out a raspy breathe as her body slammed into the tree.
"No!" screamed the blue feathered Harpy. She had witnessed two of her sisters being taken out by both Nightshade and Thor in only a matter of seconds between each other. She grabbed her broken staff and flung it towards Nightshade. The Dragonoid used her wings to shield herself from the throwing spear that was close to impaling her on the chest. It would not do any damage other than to cosmetic damage. The wooden staff dropped to the ground useless at Nightshade's feet.
"What did you expect monster? You have tangled with the best heroes earth has to offer?" Thor asked when he landed in between the Harpy and Nightshade. Mjolnir was facing the Harpy as he prepared to fight her once again.
"What did Seth promise you?" Nightshade asked as she got out of the stream. Her metal claws sinking into the wet and damp ground that was just at the streams edge. She kept standing behind Thor with the Harpy that she took out just in front of her. She was not taken any chances that the Harpy was faking being dead and take this as her chance to deal with them when they were occupied on the other Harpy.
The blue Harpy snorted through her beak. "Like I will tell you lizard. You always side with the Mundanes in all the years that you have been on earth. You have allowed them to destroy what creatures like us have loved and cherished for millions of years!" the Harpy began. She slowly got back to her feet. Her three toed feet gripping the ground as they took all of her weight once again. Spreading her wings wide and proud she glared at both Nightshade and Thor.
Thor growled and was preparing to throw Mjolnir at the Harpy but Nightshade stopped him, "No Thor. Let her finish!"
Thor looked back at Nightshade. "You are not series? This monster had tried to kill us in search of the Book of the Dead. The very thing that we are trying to keep away Seth and his ilk!" he asked her. He looked back towards the Harpy who was still unsteady on her feet after the fight that she had with him.
"I am. There is always a reason why a proud race like the Harpies become sell swords and I want to hear it!" Nightshade simply said. She didn't move from her spot but she down on her hind paws like a massive cat as it watched its next prey.
The Harpy scoffed back at Nightshade. "I had once heard that the Guardians where Gods who had Mundane bowing and preying to them for scraps when my kind stood where they should still be; at the top. We had been sought out by kings, warriors, princess and villains always looking for something from us. A better life. But then things changed. We were forced into hiding when the likes of Hercules appeared and made it their mission to rid us from the world. It has only gotten worse with the likes of Hunters, humans who have your protection who hunt the creatures who were once seen in high regard!" she told Nightshade. Her eyes didn't leave the Dragonoid as she explained it to her.
"Then things only got worse for those who couldn't hide or those who had managed to find a way to be protected by the Guardians or become one of them. The Hunters got better at hunting our kind and what do you do. You tell us to keep to the shadows as Mundanes are not ready for the likes of me and my sisters!" the Harpy told both Nightshade and Thor.
She was silent for a good few moments. She could see that her words made sense to Nightshade with the Dragonoid looking intently at her. "Seth had come to use many years ago looking for our blades. A tradition that we have managed to keep with kings and dictators looking for an easy way to stay in power. But not this time. This time we are fighting for our future. A future that he has promised us that we no longer need to hide once he brings the world back to what it was like in his golden years!" she finished explaining to them.
"From what we can gather Seth's golden years was just blood being spilled left, right and centre. That is a primitive view of the life that walks on this planet. It is true what you have said with the Mundanes no longer being afraid of what is left in the dark, but that is because they grew up!" Nightshade responded back to the Harpy. She took a step forward. "For over a century I have been working with the humans and helping them to understand the other world that they had no clue has existed. The Hunters also have a better understanding of the supernatural and don't just hunt for the sake of it now like they did before with the Winchesters leading the way for them!"
The Harpy snorted at that remark. "Then give me the Book of the Dead and show us that you fight for us and not the Mundanes. Help us to bring about a new world where we no longer have to hide in shadows!" she told Nightshade.
The Harpy brought out her hand as she waited for Nightshade to give her the Book.
An ear piercing roar split through the glen. Birds that had been roasting on the close by trees took to the air. Their cries of alert caused both parties to take a defensive stance as they got ready for whatever it was that was coming towards them.
The large silver and red dragon prowled out of the trees. Its red eyes watched the three of them but as soon as its eyes fell on the Harpy it roar and lunged. The Harpy tried to take to the air again but her wing was still badly hurt from her fight with Thor. With no way to go and with the action so quickly the harpy was in the mouth of the dragon before anyone could think as to what was really happening the dragon crushed the harpy in his jaws.
"By Odin's beard! I had never thought Seth's forces would attack each other like that for the Book!" Thor shouted at Nightshade.
Nightshade could only watch in horror as the silver scaled dragon tore into the now dead Harpy. Its huge jaws made short work out of the flesh of the Harpy. Its huge claws and paws sank into the ground beside the stream. The paws themselves were bigger than Thor and could no doubt cause some series damage. Its huge tail ended in a spike that looked familiar, but she didn't know where she had seen it before.
"Beast stand down!" Thor roared at the dragon. He had overcome the shock that had took him and was glaring at the dragon. Once again dark thunder clouds gathered in the sky with the rumble of thunder getting closer with each passing second.
The dragon's red eyes turned from the ripped apart Harpy towards Thor. With its full face on show both Thor and Nightshade were able to see the large scars running across the dragons scaly face. It took a step forward but it stopped when both Thor and Nightshade took a battle stance. It gave them both a confused look before it looked at its reflection in the water and leapt backwards. It roared when its front foot stepped onto its tail and the next thing he got caught up with all its limbs and crashed to the ground. It roared and hissed as it tried to get back on up on his feet.
Its red eyes jumped to Nightshade. The reptilian pupils were narrowed into slits as it watched her.
Nightshade titled her head to the side as she watched the dragon. The dragon was still on the ground and still having problems trying to move all four legs and the two wings that grew from its back. She studied him more closely and slowly she could see the features that she had seen on Galvatron. On his chest and shoulders he had spiky plated scales that looked ferocious, just like the shoulder spikes that Galvatron had. His head even though was the head of a dragon still had the features of Galvatron's face. Her optics jumped back to the tail and the wicked tail spike at the end of it. Seeing it again she could see that it looked so much like Galvatron's sword. His scales that were not covered in mud were the same tone of grey and silver as before.
"Galv?"