Chapter 14 I still don't own anything.
Percy's POV
I woke to the smell of heaven on Earth. I opened my eyes to find that I was still on the couch next to Nat from last night. I looked around the room to find that Steve was missing, he was probably making the amazing smell coming from the kitchen.
As I walked into the kitchen and sat down, I noticed what the smell was. Pan cakes. I needed to hurry and eat mine before the others got here or else they would be gone before you could say 'Avengers.' Steve noticed me and smiled before going back to work.
"What kind of pan cakes do you want?" Steve asked, gesturing to the chocolate chips, food coloring, blue berries, and many other things next to him.
"Blue pan cakes with blue berries." I replied. Everyone had their own quirks when it came to food here, so they weren't surprised when I told them I like blue food.
"Coming right up." Steve said, flipping the pan cake over. A few minutes later a stack of six pan cakes appeared in front of me, what can I say, a demigod has to eat too. When I was half way done, Thor walked in and sat down next to me.
"Hello Steven and Perseus, I wondered what that wonderful smell coming from the kitchen was, so I came in to find delicious cakes being made in a pan. I would like chocolate chip and strawberry, Steven." Thor said in his loud tone of speaking.
This of course woke everyone out of sleep and they stumbled into the kitchen. Bruce automatically went to help Steve with the pan cakes, there being a lot of stomachs to feed in one tower. Three boxes of pan cake mix later and everyone was full and happy. We were all just relaxing and making small talk until the tell tale alarm sounded through out the tower.
All of us except Bruce rushed to get our needed equipment when JARVIS announced,
"A group of about fifty Chitauri are attacking the tower as I speak, they are currently on the third floor."
"Gotcha JARVIS, we're heading down now. C'mon guys, don't let them hurt my- I mean our tower! FOR NARNIA!" Tony yelled.
We got to the third floor to see pure and utter destruction. Bodies of workers littered the floor, blood covered the walls. Chitauri were running rampant and stomping madly through the floor. We jumped into action, I slashed at one while Nat jumped in right beside me. We watched each others backs, I stabbed one that threw its spear at me and deflected a sword slash.
Tony carefully aimed his laser blasts and didn't use his missiles at all as we were inside. Steve played ricochet frisbee with Clint while Thor walked around and smashed the stunned Chitauri. Loki had his own fun with stopping the monsters and making them tap dance until Nat and I got around to them. All in all it was a relatively quick battle and there were little to no injuries.
"Well that was easy-" An alarm cut Tony off. JARVIS's robot voice told us that there was a larger group attacking a few blocks over.
"This was all a god damn diversion!" Clint yelled.
The attacks seemed to be random and unorganized attacks, with loosely to not at all formed groups that attacked, just blobs of monsters. But this one was different, when we arrived at the place where the Chitauri were, they weren't in one group. They were in phalanxes and were well ordered, the front line had long spears to keep attackers or victims back.
They had a leader, and he was here. Thanos was behind the several rows of phalanxes, which consisted of six rows of ten. Thanos seemed to be floating on nothing, levitating just to show off his power.
"Ah, you have arrived Avengers. Finally, it took you a while to figure out the diversion." Thanos spoke, his voice fille with power.
"Oh just shut UP already." Tony said, annoyed with the mere presence of Thanos.
"Fine then. Chitauri, attack." Thanos ordered.
The Chitauri marched forward at a quick pace, but still kept in line. Tony gave Clint a lift up to the roof of an abandoned semi, which had been abandoned when the Chitauri had attacked. Clint just nodded and pulled three arrows from his quiver, if anyone could see the tips of the arrows, they would see a fire on the tip.
We got in defensive stances, waiting for the enemy to arrive. But they stopped ten feet away. Tony lifted up his hand in a signal and Clint fired the three arrows in quick succession, each at the middle of the front three phalanxes. Fire erupted where the arrows hit, burning most of the Chitauri until the fire just disappeared. Thanos laughed.
"You think I would let you defeat my minions with arrows and fire, no. We will fight honorably, hand to hand." Thanos said.
We charged.
The remaining Chitauri of the first three groups lined up and met us head on. Thor lifted his hammed up and unleashed a lightning bolt, shocking all of the first line making it easier for us to dispatch. We met the first line of the phalanxes, Tony firing a continuos beam of energy at Cap's shield, Cap rotating it killing the first few lines. I jumped into the air and executed the first monster, spinning to avoid a sword slash. Clint fired arrows that released sonic boom waves at the Chitauri, knocking them down and making them easy pickings. Loki sent out a spell that made some of the beasts fight each other, Bruce turned into the Hulk and rushed forward. He cleared a gigantic hole in their defense, running straight through the whole phalanx.
Nat and I ducked and slashed our way through monster after monster, her with knives and me with my sword. The Hulk smashed several rows of Chitauri, then stomped on a couple more. Tony fired multiple missiles in one line, making a crater where it hit and debris fly every where.
Thanos seemed to realize he was losing and started floating towards the ground. We fought all the harder, Thor making a domino effect by smashing one so hard it knocked down more behind it. The battle ended with us having multiple injuries and Hulk sitting on the last one, but Thanos was still here.
"You may have defeated my minions, but you'll have to beat me next. " Thanos said. He summoned his scepter from thin air. The scepter growing to his size.
Thanos was 20 feet tall, and I had some experience with fighting giants. I charged first, sprinting forward quickly and dodging all of his hits at me. I jumped to the side and leaped when I got close enough. I flew through the air with my sword over my head. I hit his knee and stabbed him with my sword. Black blood leaked out once I pulled back my sword.
Everyone seemed to be shaken out of their state of pause. They charged after me. Tony fired a laser at Thanos's eye, blinding him temporarily. Hulk leaped through the air and landed on his head, smashing over and over again on Thanos's gold helmet. Thor brought his hammer down on Thanos's left foot and left it there, rendering Thanos immobile.
Loki used a spell to lock Thanos's right foot in place, making it impossible to move. Nat climbed up his body, using knives as rocks to climb on, stabbing him with every step up. The battle with Thanos was becoming almost too easy now, Clint was laughing his ass off in the distance. Steve just threw his shield at Thanos's head over and over again.
"YOU THINK I WOULD BE EASY TO DEFEAT?! HA! DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!" Thanos bellowed, he waved his scepter in the air and we all flew back and hit the ground.
"I'LL BE BACK, MORTALS! AND I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!" Thanos screamed into the sky, and teleported away. We all just sat there in shock, Bruce shrinking back down into the Dr. Banner we all know.
"Wow, moody much?" Tony said.
We headed back to the tower to get patched up by Bruce. We were all tense from the fight so Tony decided we needed to loosen up.
"We should play a game." Tony said, out of the blue.
"No. Do you remember how Truth or Dare ended?" Clint said.
"Yes, but you gotta bounce back. Become better."
"Fine, what is this game we will be playing?" Clint asked.
"Charades."
Tony explained the rules with too much excitement. And he started. Tony looked through a hole made by his hand and moved the other like he was turning a crank. Then he held out his hands and folded them together, like a book.
"Movie and a book." I said, me, Nat, Clint, and Tony being on a team.
He nodded, holding up six fingers.
"Six words? Jesus, that's so many." Clint complained.
Tony just shrugged and thought for a bit, before holding up one finger and pointing to his head.
"First word, head?"
Tony shook his head, then held up some of his hair.
"Hair? Harry?" I asked.
He nodded and held up five fingers, looking really confident. He drew his finger across his neck in a way that implied death.
"Death? Deathly?! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Woooooo! We get a point! Yeah!" Clint said, doing a dance around the room. I turned to Nat to see why she didn't guess, but she was asleep. I just smiled and put her on the unused couch.
We switched the people who were acting it out, Thor for their team, and I was doing it for mine.
I closed and opened my hands like a book when Thor said,
"It's a TV show, and it is titled Dora. Now guess."
Well charades weren't meant for everybody I suppose. I carried Nat up to our room and put her in bed. Then I crawled in next to her and fell asleep.
I woke up in a dark room. There wasn't much light, so I could barely see an outline of a figure in the corner of the room. I looked around and saw only bare walls and nothing special. When I tried to get up I found that I was strapped down. I was flat on my back and my hands and feet were strapped down.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Oh, just a friend. One that you used to know, just your old pal Markus." Markus stepped out of the shadows, twirling a knife in his hands.
"How did you get here?" I asked. I tried to pull my hand free, but it was latched down tight.
"Oh don't even think about escaping. And how I got here, well your nightmares of the Chitauri might be blocked by your bitch of a wife Natasha Whorethemoff. But I can still get to you through these nightmares caused by Thanos, my master." Markus smirked madly.
"Don't you EVER talk about Nat that way, she's better than anyone you'll ever meet or hope to know." I growled out menacingly.
"Oh boo hoo, why don't you cry about it. Anyway, back to business. I was sent here to break you. Your other nightmares are gone, but I'm here. The twist is, what happens here, happens on Earth to your physical body. Yes, this knife is enchanted so it will cut your soul, which is here now. And it'll cut your body. Very painful too." Markus said, slowly walking towards me.
"Fine, go ahead. I've lived through worse." I said.
"Alright then, let's get started."
He took the knife and pressed down very lightly, only close enough to barely break my skin into blood. Then he dragged it across my skin, making a pattern on my chest. It started in the middle and then flowed outwards. I gritted my teeth. I would not give him the satisfaction of me screaming. After a while he put the knife back in the center and stabbed it half way down the blade into my skin.
"Think of it as a much more painful tattoo." He whispered in my ear.
Markus then retraced all of the light cuts with this deeper one. I screamed loudly and tried to squirm away. He just laughed and continued, getting more and more giddy by the second.
"That's all I have time for now, but you'll be back. I'll make sure of it." Markus said, laughing madly.
I woke up.
I opened my eyes to find myself in a room with a white ceiling. When I tried to sit up I felt an extreme pain in my chest. The knife must have worked then. I looked around and saw Bruce sleeping at his desk a few feet away. Nat was sleeping in a chair to my right. Other than that the room was empty. I looked down as best I could at my chest.
Bandages covered my chest exactly where the cuts had been. I nudged Nat awake and she looked at me sleepily for a second before yelling,
"Bruce! Wake up, Percy's awake!" Bruce stumbled back from his desk before noticing me, I cut him off before he could ask,
"Get the team down here, I want to explain this once." I said.
Once the team had gotten down here, quite quickly, I might add. I explained.
"It was a nightmare sent by Thanos where I was tortured and the knife that was used cut me in real life as well as in the dream." I said in a rush.
"Well that explains the screams I heard last night." Tony said, strangely mature.
"Yeah... It hurt." I said. And maybe it was from the stress of the situation, but that set us off. We laughed hysterically for a while, just happy to relieve the tension.
Done. So Percy is now having more nightmares that affect his real body. Oh no! What did you think of the fight scene? I thought it was pretty damn good.
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Love ya'll, I'm out!
-Nerd.