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Chapter 5: Of Politics and Gauntlets:
"Oh Harry! I'll adopt him! Look at him, he is so cute!" nearly squealed Luna, most to Harry Potter's despair…
The creature Harry Potter was facing did have a lizard-like appearance. Its yellow eyes, with their cats-like pupils were observing him intently. The creature's dangerous bronze horns and spikes that protruded from its long tail reminded him too much of the one of a female dragon he had to face in his fourth year at Hogwarts. In fact, the Hungarian Horntail was one of the most vicious and aggressive breeds of dragon and, since all dragons were known to be ferocious, that was saying something. Then… why the hell the creature was docilely playing and purring at Luna!
Harry looked at the twenty-seven years old woman in front of him with both incredulity and horror. Luna Lovegood, his very dear but impossible friend, was playing with the dragon, just like she would have with a kitten! Her dirty blonde hair was entangled in one of the dragon's claws, while she kept scratching its black scales, making the creature purr like a cat! Even its tail was lashing from side to side. Yes, only Luna could do such a thing as befriending a dragon within twenty minutes. In fact, this was partly the reason why he had asked her to escort to this particular mission. Indeed, the Magizoologist often accompanied him in his mission in the course of his work with the Aurors. It was always good to have her by his side: Luna wasn't just a good friend, but a good partner too. The dreamy woman was a very skilled witch and she was a great help when he had to face magical creatures. Of course, this stood only for when she didn't want to bring them along to the Manor.
The reason why they were facing a dragon was rather simple: Charles Weasley had contacted the Deputy Head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures (or, to make it shorter Hermione), to report one missing dragon from the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary. This was the reason why Hermione had asked him to accompany the Auror affiliated to this mission, since he had already affronted a Horntail in the past.
Three years after the Second Wizarding War, the dragon dealers' activity had brutally increased, and such event were now considered as common. Dragons' blood, claws, dungs, hearts, horns and so on. All of these were known for their powerful magical properties and were, of course, very precious and expensive. The dealers didn't hesitate to kill or torture dragons and, now, it just seemed that they weren't even stopped by the frontiers of sanctuaries anymore.
Since Charlie was already too occupied by the reparations of the sanctuary and the examination of its dragons one by one Harry couldn't have the help of the dragonologist, but with Luna at his side this hadn't really mattered. Harry looked at the woman in question. For once she didn't wear an extravagant habit as they had to deal with a dragon. Well... let apart the charmed dragon hat that Luna had chosen to wear for this special occasion. Harry had preferred to say nothing as he already knew that even if he had begged her to not wear it she would not have listened to him. Not that he was ashamed of his friend's extravagance, of course not! He just had feared for her security, but his worries seemed to have been vain since Luna had managed, out of nowhere, to seduce the dragon they had been looking for. Speaking of which…
"Luna dear, this is just simply out of question. I categorially refuse that you bring a Hungarian Horntail to the house! Don't try the doe eyes with me, this will absolutely not work!" Harry finally tried to say firmly.
Luna sighed and waved to the creature before to report her attention to where the three dealer they had been arrested. Or, rather that Harry and an Auror, a certain Klaus Eather, had arrested, since she had been too focused into preventing them to be crushed by the dragon they had been looking for. Klaus Eather had Disapparated few minutes ago, taking alongside with him the band of criminals. So bad that she hadn't been able to hex them when it would have been still legal for her to do so.
"If it can cheer you up, I hexed one of them with a very nasty Bat-Bogey spell." smiled Harry amusedly, as he had guessed what Luna was probably thinking about.
The reflection brought a little smile on the lips of his dreamy friend, which made Harry feel lighter. His and Luna's connection had always been very special and precious to him. She was his confident, the only one of his friends who could understand his feelings so well.
Between having to fulfill every expectation of the Wizarding society and finding a meaning to his Voldemort-less new life, these last ten years spent in the Wizarding world had been very long and direful to him. Yet, Luna had never given up his side and Harry would never be able to thank her enough for what she had done for him. If possible, Luna was now maybe even closer to him than Hermione or Ron had ever been.
"Maybe he would be better in a sanctuary, with his brothers than in the park of the Manor…" admitted Luna, even though she still sounded a bit disappointed.
Harry nodded at her, relieved that Luna hadn't insisted any further. Instead of using any word, he just chose to take her small hand in his and pressed it gently. Luna only smiled dreamily at him and they stayed like this waiting for the caretakers of the Sanctuary to come and handle the dragon in their more knowing hands. When they heard a loud and familiar pop, they tuned their heads to the new Apparated Charlie and other dragonologists of the Romanian Sanctuary.
"It is always good to see you two!", smiled warmly Charlie to his two friends, "I don't know how to thank you both! We truly owe you a lot, this Horntail is one of the last of his species!"
Harry couldn't help the laugh that escaped his mouth when he saw Charlie shocked face, since the poor man had now realized that the creature in question was purring at Luna! The other caretakers of the Sanctuary were looking in awe at the young woman: even the best trained dragonologists had never achieved such a thing as befriending a dragon, well not to their knowledge at least. Harry smiled proudly to his Luna, and without any other words Disapparated, heading to Hermione's office. Which appeared to have been a very bad idea after all.
Hermione was furious and frustrated to the point that her bushy brown hair seemed to be flying around her head. For once, Harry could even feel her magic shaking dangerously through the air. Hermione's brown eyes were sending daggers to Kingsley Shacklebolt who, even though he was reputed for his calm and controlled stature, seemed to be rather angry as well. It seemed that Luna and Harry had just Apparated in the middle of an argument between the two members of the Ministry.
"Oh dear, the room is so full Wrackspurts! Hermione you should be wary, or they are to make your brain go fuzzier!" stated Luna, as the tenseness in the room was to its highest.
The remark earned her a frustrated roll of the eyes from both Kingsley and Hermione. The latter was too furious to control herself and just chose to rather ignore Luna's remark in order to not say something that she would regret afterwards. Instead, she focused her attention into her eying battle with the Minister of Magic.
"What is going on?" asked tactfully Harry, as this could have lasted for hours: Kingsley and Hermione weren't to their first argument, and this one would certainly not be their last.
"Your friend, Mister Potter…," both Harry and Luna frowned at this: Kingsley was definitely angry. "Had, without my or anyone else concertation, suppressed all our politics ties and information contacts with S.H.I.E.L.D! Do you even realize, young woman, the consequences of your act!"
Hermione laughed coldly at Kingsley and put her hands on her hips. She had lifted an impatient eyebrow while listening to him and was obviously fuming. In fact, Harry could nearly see the smoke storming out of her nose and ears. This was not going to end well…
"Indeed, I do. Fury is a manipulative man who is ready to use anything or anyone able to fulfill his intentions! For him it doesn't matter if a dangerous mission is attributed to a child, as long as it is successfully achieved! I refuse to work with such an organization, it would mean going against all what I have been working on after the war! After all, Fury doesn't care about our links. All that could interest him about the Wizarding Society is the possible soldiers it could bring to him, soldiers that could fight by his side. Fury once used two fourteen years old children to bring him a fucking Horcrux for God's sake! The curses placed to protect it even caused the death of one of them! Just to say out loud!"
"Well, you get it all wrong Hermione." replied sarcastically the tall black wizard, "What you did was only an egotistical decision to satisfy your own ego! With everything going on in the Muggle World, being in relation with S.H.I.E.L.D is currently the best way for us to be well informed and to have a hand on the situation! You should be the first concerned as both your parents are Muggles! And the fact that Fury is in the possession of an Horcrux won't change a thing! It is not like he would be able to use it for some ill intent or anything like that! Didn't you think, even for one second, that we could have rather acted to destroy it, without S.H.I.E.L.D being aware about it?"
Harry frowned at Kingsley accusations. He knew that his friend had been chosen to be the emissary of the Wizarding Society in the course of a collaboration with an American organization named S.H.I.E.L.D. However, Hermione had categorically refused to tell, either to him or to her husband, a single word about what she had seen during her work with the organization. In fact, Harry and Luna had absolutely no idea of whatever Kingsley and Hermione were talking about. As for a Horcrux being in the possession of a muggle organization, it wouldn't be a real problem since they were wizards and stealing it from them, to destroy it, wouldn't be a big deal. What concerned him though, was if that Fury-man knew about the nature of his possession.
"Does he know that it is a Horcrux?" asked calmly Harry.
"He doesn't. Fury knows only about some of that Horcrux's properties. Ten years ago, in a Greek village someone had been possessed by an old Artefact. They call it the Necklace of Black Pearls. The person who had found it committed suicide: after he had realizing he had killed all the members of his family under its influence. S.H.I.E.L.D had heard about it and had decided to keep it under its care – 'If the American and British Wizarding Societies weren't right in the middle of the Second Wizarding War, they would have taken care of it' Hermione thought bitterly. – After that, Fury had contacted a clandestine organization of Alices, who was reputed for the abilities of its members to fulfill very dangerous missions. A woman they have actually arrested, Mikan Sakura Yukihira, and another boy had been sent to hand it over to S.H.I.E.L.D. During their mission, the boy had been possessed by the Horcrux and, to prevent him from killing massively the inhabitants of that village, Mikan Sakura had been in the obligation to kill him." explained Hermione, her voice betraying both the anger and disgust that she felt towards Fury.
The Boy Who Lived listened to his friend without making any sounds or showing any emotions. Injustice was everywhere in the world, and hit too often the ones who just couldn't really respond to it. Harry understood Hermione's decision to cut all ties between the Wizarding Society and this organization. However, Kingsley was right too. Being in there wouldn't only mean to be informed of the Muggle's World situation, but also changing the organization from the inside, or at least to prevent such things from happening again. That woman, Mikan something, was only an exemple.
"You said Alices?" asked Luna Lovegood, whose wide eyes were gleaming with curiosity and perplexity. "My father had already met one during one of his travel in Japan. He told me about them. They are able to do a lot of things that could logically only be achieved by wizards, but they have no Magic. Their power is concentrated into crystals that are in their body. They call them Alices Stones. Daddy had a theory that their power was linked to their souls and personalities. I remember that he had said that they weren't really powerful. So, why would that organization choose to send two Alices children?"
All heads turned to Hermione, everyone waiting from her to respond to Luna's last question. The one concerned observed her friend without truly being surprised: only Luna could be aware of the existence of people like the Alices without being a Muggle-born. Not to say that she was a Muggle-born and did have no idea of their existence before to be introduced to Mikan Sakura.
"Well, Mikan Sakura is certainly not like any of the ones of her kind. She had way more Alices Stones than the others and we still have no ideas of her limits. In fact, I think that she isn't a real prisoner, she certainly is either working for someone or looking for something from S.H.I.E.L.D"
"Mister Shacklebolt, you have previously spoken about problems in the Muggle World. What is going on?" queried calmly Luna.
"To make it short, the previous month an Asgardian god, named Loki, tried to invade the Earth. We know that in exchange of the help of Thanos, a dangerous Titan, he had to give him a powerful Artefact guarded on Earth. Voldemort's threats pales in comparison to the one the Earth has currently escaped! And yet the same woman we had been speaking about could be possibly his ally. What Hermione had completely forgotten to tell you about, however, is that this Mikan Sakura is completely impermeable to our magic." stated coolly Kingsley, still too irritated by Hermione's stubborn behavior.
At his explanation, Harry's jaw nearly hit the floor. He had thought of many possible problems faced by the Muggles but no such thing as an alien invasion! He had always believed that the Norden's mythology was only full of unreal tales. Just as the Wizarding society had believed that the Tale of the Three Brothers was only a legend. It just seemed that the Universe was still full of secrets waiting to be discovered! As for someone able to be impermeable to magic, this meant a possible opponent in front of whom they would be completely powerless...
Luna on the other hand had remained perfectly composed. No signs that could betray any possible surprise or confusion was noticed on her stature. Indeed, the young witch had always opened her mind to every possibility, on the contrary of her friend, who believed only on what she did read on her books. Luna had always believed that it was that missing quality that had decided the Sorting Hat to place Hermione in Gryffindor and not in Ravenclaw, plus her incredible courage of course. This default present in her friend's personality was even more surprising that she was a Muggle-born. But Luna didn't blame Hermione though, no one was flawless, and the dirty blonde woman didn't have the pretention to be so. Moreover, she knew that it wasn't to her to judge the others.
"But, wait a minute!" suddenly realized Harry, "Why the hell is no one aware of what happened! Why didn't you ask us to help the muggles fight against the threat?! Don't tell me that you have simply stood and watch the Muggles struggle from afar?!" choked Harry outraged.
"That is exactly what we did, Harry. The Muggles had been able to stop the invasion and there was no need for us to intervene. S.H.I.E.L.D has newly composed a team of superheroes and mutant. They call themselves the Avengers and were able to stop Loki and to arrest the Japanese woman who supposedly tried to mime the Chitauri invasion." explained Kingsley slightly in a defensive tone. "There was no need to compromise ourselves. It would have led to too many consequences in both the Wizarding and Muggle side. Muggles are still not ready to accept us, as for the Wizarding world, it is still too impacted by the souvenir of Voldemort."
Harry had experienced by himself the Muggles' reaction to magic as he had spent a major part of his life living with the Dursleys, who were fervently opposed to it. He knew that Muggles were still not ready to acknowledge the existence of a Wizarding Society. They may have faced aliens and accepted people with superpowers, but for the first, they didn't live constantly near them and, concerning the seconds, they were only a small handful of people, who were non-representative of an important community of people like them. Racism couldn't apply to only an exception. They would just be considered as marginal. So, yes, Harry understood the point of view of both the American and British Minister of Magic's decision to not intervene. Yet… If that Loki had achieved to conquer the Earth, they would have been obligated to do it one day or another.
"So…" finally began Harry, "What are we to do to face the situation?"
Luna who understood to where Harry was heading, only raised a patient and observing eyebrow. Harry was definitely too attracted to danger to not let such an occasion like this pass. Even though, this would earn him the disapprobation of Hermione, whose eyes were already sending him daggers, in the hope to stop him from taking this decision. But Luna, just as Hermione, knew Harry too well and they both were aware that such a thing wouldn't impress or dissuade him to do otherwise. Yes, the wide-eyed woman had already understood Harry's wish, before that he had even voiced it. Following this decision would mean for him to be partly able to escape the Wizarding World. Luna was aware that Harry didn't feel like he belonged to neither of the two worlds. After all what he had experienced, even his love for Magic couldn't have prevented this from happening and Luna understood it very-well. Yet, Harry hadn't been tempted by the Muggle World too. Even though he was fully aware that the Dursley weren't representative to the Muggles in general, he didn't feel comfortable around them. He was, to his own eyes, a marginal who felt like he didn't really belong to neither of the two worlds. And, what a better place for a marginal than being around people who were marginalized like him?
Luna observed her friend carefully. Harry had progressively grown more vigorous through the years. Yet, Luna was sure that a change of environment would make Harry some good. In fact, she had been about to propose to him to accompany her in one of her expedition in Amazonia! So, whatever choice Harry would make, Luna didn't care: the first friend she ever had would always have her support.
"I am not to give up on a partnership with S.H.I.E.L.D." assured strongly Kingsley, completely ignoring the protesting sound that escaped from Hermione's mouth. "And, since Ms. Weasley has quitted her work as emissary, I have no other choice than to find someone else for the job." the politician paused, his sharp brown eyes analyzing meticulously Harry. Finally, Kingsley lifted an appreciating eyebrow. "Am I wrong to affirm that you are interested in taking it?"
Harry only nodded silently, his evergreen warm eyes full of a new determination.
"Harry, what I am to ask from you is different from what I have requested from Hermione to do. Indeed, I would like you to stay in their base constantly. You would report us the information and news regularly. I will ask Fury to make you work with the Avengers and maybe to integer their ranks. I will expect from you to keep an eye on Fury, but especially on Loki and that Alice woman S.H.I.E.L.D has arrested." explained Kingsley.
When Harry opened his mouth to speak, he was cut by an indignant Hermione:
"Harry, I don't understand why you are interested into working with such an organization! This is insane and unacceptable…"
"Hermione, if Harry doesn't take it someone else will. Don't you think that, by being there, he will never allow such things to ever happen again? Instead of reacting so strongly to S.H.I.E.L.D's flaws, wouldn't it be for the best to change it from the inside?" reasoned kindly Luna, pressing gently Harry's hand to show him her support. The latter responded to her with a determined and daring smile.
Hermione sighed, as she knew that any of her efforts to make Harry's decision change would be pointless. Even though she was still very frustrated, she knew that Luna was right after all. Speaking of whom… Hermione wondered if the affection between her and her childhood friend was only a strong friendship or if it should be defined as something else. Even though Hermione had begun, few months ago, to observe them more closely, it was hard for her to define their relationship. Harry didn't seem to be ready to love someone again and analyzing Luna's behavior was just an impossible task for her, no matter how much they were close.
"Luna" began Harry, quite uncertain, "...would you like to accompany me in this task? I know that you are not interested as much as I am in that kind of stuff, but… This would be the best occasion for you to discover more things about the muggle and maybe you will…" he tried to argue lamely, needing to find a reason to convince her to go with him.
To be honest, even Harry couldn't explain his particular need to have Luna by his side. However, he had had that presentiment that accepting this job could change permanently his life and he wanted his friend to be a part of this new one. Harry observed Luna a bit nervously, completely ignoring the curious and judging gaze of Hermione. He could sense that he had taken Luna by surprise, since her usually unblinking eyes had blinked twice at his proposition. But Luna quickly wiped away any lingering doubts that Harry could have over her decision as she beamed at him, her face brightened by a big and innocent smile.
"Of course, I will, Harry!" Luna simply responded to him, smiling happily at her friend who smiled back at her, quite relieved. The blond witch reported her attention to Kingsley and asked in a dreamy sing-song voice: "When do you want us to get in there and can you please give us more details about what you want us to do with the Horcrux?"
"Pack up your things and wait for me to owl you. I will need to contact Furry first. Don't worry about the details, I will send you a charmed parchment with everything that you will need to know."
"Alright then, it's settled." agreed Harry.
Without any more reason to stay inside Hermione's office, the two friends waved her goodbye before to Disapparate, heading straightly to the Manor. Kingsley only nodded curtly to the brightest witch of her age, before to head back to his own office. Now, all he had to do was to contact Fury and to explain him the situation. The British Minister of Magic had no intention to make any concessions and he knew that the Head of S.H.I.E.L.D wouldn't refuse two powerful wizards joining his ranks…
Mikan observed distractedly the white cloud of her breath escape from her mouth. The Alice wasn't in the Helicarrier anymore. Yet, for precaution, she only had let a clone in her cell, believable enough to not attire attention on her. Indeed, Mikan had left the Helicarrier and had teleported herself in Alaska an hour ago. After all, the young woman had made a good guess: only her Mind-Reading Alice had been necessary to find the location of the Necklace of Black Pearls, which wasn't stored in Alaska but Africa. Mikan's presence and her accusations had revived, altogether, his memory of the case. He had thought and rethought about it a lot, never wondering if he had been just or not. Duty was the only word that pleased him enough. 'Duty my ass! People like him are just hypocrites who are deluded enough to think that they were doing the right thing! To choose the easiest path couldn't be better than to struggle a little more but having at least the relief of a clearer Conscience'.
Mikan observed Excalibur, a secret base only known by the highest members of S.H.I.E.L.D, in which was stored the Infinity Gauntlet. To locate the item, Mikan had been in the obligation to use the Soul Sucking Alice to get Fury to give her all the information she needed to complete her task. The young woman always felt dirty and disgusted after using it. Yet, she had no other choice and didn't thought twice before using it on Fury. The advantage of that Alice was that the "victim" would never remember what happened to him, maybe feel a bit awkward but nothing more.
The Infinity Gauntlet, explained Nicholas Flamel and Allice, was a too dangerous artefact, created for the purpose of giving to its user the ability to control the six Infinity Stones. On the contrary of the Stones, which were indestructible, the Gauntlet wasn't, it had been a security made by Allice at its creation. As the Artefact had been created and also in the possession of Allice, he hadn't seen the utility to destroy it. After all, Allice had been in the quest of the Stones too. The Sorcerer was a clever man. Indeed, he had put several copies of the Gauntlet to lure the possible beings who would try to make its acquisition. To anyone looking for it, the first place they would thought to would be Odin's Vault. Yet, Nicholas Flamel explained that the original was well kept on Earth. Yet, how did it came into the possession of S..H.I.E.L.D, she had absolutely no idea and it didn't truly mattered, the most important was only to get rid of it first. It wouldn't technically be a problem for her, especially when the Flamel's diary explained of many possibilities to destroy the Artefact. One of them was a special combination of Alices and, (luckily?), Mikan was in the possession of every one of them.
It was very prudent of S.H.I.E.L.D to have placed the two Artefacts in different secret hideaway. Yet, the organization had been too confident too: only two guards were protecting the base, which wasn't even recorded in the organization's data base. A complex system protected the base, which was also completely invisible to any radar. They hadn't thought that someone could possibly try to get to it, nor to achieve very easily to get to the vault in which the Gauntlet had been placed. Not that Mikan would complain about it, but it was terrifying to see how one of the most wanted Artefacts in the Universe was so badly protected. Yet, the Alice was going to make definitely an end to this, after she would be done with it, there would be no more reason to fear such things.
Her mind alert, and the best combination of her Alices to not be spotted, Mikan was standing in front of the door of the Vault in which the Gauntlet had been placed. The security system wasn't as complex as the Helicarrier's, reason why getting in and out would not be that much of a challenge for her. Mikan entered cautiously the vault and headed straightly to the object of her interest. The Gauntlet was bigger than what she had firstly thought, at least it seemed far too imposing for a human, even to an Asgardian. The Gauntlet was made in Vibranium, which was a quasi-indestructible element. Nicholas Flamel hadn't developed that much about it, that element had crash landed from outer space millennia ago into the African region that was now the Wakanda. To hide its true nature, the Gauntlet was covered by gold leaves. The places for each Stone was pretty clear and it was interesting to notice that the Soul Stone had a particular place, that was quite in the middle, separated from the others.
Mikan couldn't have been surer that the Artefact in front of her was the real one. Indeed, it had been said that the real Gauntlet possessed a fragment of the Soul Stone and she had sensed it clearly. To be able to destroy the Artefact, Mikan had firstly to remove the fragment from the Gauntlet with the help of her Stealing Alice, then she would neutralize the Artefact's Magic by using the Nullification Alice which would also help stabilize the element, finally she would and the object with her Corrosion Alice. The latter was too strong for the Vibranium to resist, fact that had been already proved in the past since Mikan had make few tests to make sure of it.
The young woman inhaled and cleared her mind, which was now at his highest level of concentration. She had to be cautious, so she would give the right power levels to each of the Alices she was about to use. Indeed, as it was a complex combination of Alices, she did have to train herself to reach a maximum level into her mastering and control over each one of them. For the Stealing and Nullification Alice, it had always been natural for her, but it hadn't been that easy with the Corrosion Alice. As a matter of fact, that Alice had always been too dangerous, however possessed it, too its beholder's environment as much as to himself…
Mikan trembled as the Gauntlet quivered at the physical contact of her bare hands posed on it. Even though the vault was icy, the metal was surprisingly warm. The Alice closed her eyes and processed into removing the fragment. Soon enough, an orange light appeared, emanating from the Artefact, of the same nature of the one that had emanated from Loki's chest; of the same shade of Mandarin orange of Mjolnir's aura; the same color of the already three fragments in her own body and her originals Alices Stones… Wasn't it funny? "Mikan" meant "mandarin oranges", should it only be interpreted as a very strong coincidence? An irony of fate? Did her name sealed her destiny? Names were known to be very powerful, and hers sounded almost ironic right now. Yet, Mikan held it, and would always hold it like an armor, with pride and dignity. This name was the only gift her father had ever made to her, it was way too precious to be complained of. The young woman sensed the new weight of the fragment of the Soul Stone on her into the palm of her right hand. It was twice the size of the fragment that had been inserted into Loki's chest. Mikan observed it closely and wondered in how many pieces Allice had fragmented the Soul Stone.
The Soul Stone was the only Stone that could be fragmented as it mirrored a real soul's properties and behavior. Yet, Mikan was able to capture the essence of any Stone inside anyone's body or any object and to extract it by giving it the shape of a gem. Only the Soul Stone's fragment remained in her body forever in her body. The young woman used her Inserting Alice to absorb her new possession. Mikan had now four fragments in her physical body. Two linked to her soul since the day she was born plus the one she had removed from Loki's body and now from the Gauntlet. Even though the idea didn't please her at all, but it wasn't as if she did have any other choices…
The fragment now successfully absorbed, Mikan processed into destruction of the Artefact: if Thanos, or anyone else, possessed a fragment of the Stone and inserted in it, all her efforts would have been vain. Her Nullification Alice already activated, she used it to stabilize the very excited element. When Mikan felt that all the vibrations of the Gauntlet had been extinguished, she inserted in it the biggest Corrosion Alice Stone she had ever created and amplified its effect with the Amplification Alice. Mikan observed the Gauntlet tremble more and more strongly, slightly disaggregating, his bright gold color completely disappeared. To restrain any possible collateral damaged, the powerful Alice created a bubble with her Barrier Alice, that would contain the concentrated energy of the process.
The young woman felt a wave of satisfaction rise through her body as she witnessed the success of her action, she allowed herself to smile proudly at the small residues of what had been one of the most wanted Artefacts in the Universe. It was both a big relief and a one less burden to deal with. Her smile turned itself into a smirk as she imagined the face of Fury when he would realize how easily she had tricked him. This thought remembered her that she still wasn't done with her mission: The Necklace of Black Pearls was still waiting for her.
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A.N:
So here we are X)
I really hope that you have enjoyed this chapter!
In fact, I wanted to show you how much influence Loki could have on a person. Logically, Mikan could as well and should rely on Thor more than on his brother as he could nearly provide her all the help Loki could give to her. I also think that binding souls with Loki could have been Mikan biggest mistake. Indeed, the fact that he can't betray her doesn't prevent him on achieving to manipulate her, so he could get his ways to freedom and power again…