He didn't feel so freaked out anymore now that his surroundings had changed. Harry smiled and conjured a cup of coffee for Tony who took it drank it after giving Harry a grateful look. At the first taste his eyes widened and he asked Harry "Wow this is amazing. What kind of coffee is this?"
Harry smiled and said "It's a version of nectar that is safe for mortals to drink."
Tony "Nectar? You mean the drink of the gods?"
Harry nodded and said "Yes. Though it's not as good as the real thing."
Tony smiled for the first time since he arrived and said "Do you think you could leave me enough of this stuff to last me, oh I don't know the rest of my life?"
Smiling back Harry said "Sorry man, can't do that too much of that and you will burn up like a tikki torch inside out. It's not pleasant."
Harry didn't mention that he could make it completely safe for the man to drink even the real nectar but he knew how greedy humans could be. Tony would have to earn something like that and he had yet to meet a human that had been able to so.
Sitting down opposite Tony as he drank his drink, Harry spoke "Listen the only reason I agreed to bring you is because I am going to need someone I can trust to look after Loki while I go after Thanos." Tony looked up at this and Harry continued "I have all the information you need on my computer I'm sure you know how to find your way around one." Without waiting for a reply Harry got up and said come on I better introduce you to Loki."
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Harry arrived in Loki's room to find him in the throes of nightmare. He didn't have to go into his min d to know that the nightmare was about Thanos, the begging and pleading said it all. He felt rage rise in him for what the titan had done. He was going to rip him apart when he found him. Harry sent calming waves to Loki and got him to calm down. He sat by the bedside running his fingers through Loki's hair until he was calmly asleep again.
Harry had read Tony's soul it was pure with some red tinges at the ends, that probably came from his time as the merchant of death as people once called him. What he was not expecting was finding familiarity in Loki's soul. It took him two seconds to figure out what that meant. Soulmates. Loki and Tony were soulmates. Normally that wouldn't really mean anything. In fact left alone nothing would come out of it. It just meant they were compatible with each other.
Harry was finding it difficult to decide whether what he was about to do was ethical. Loki would need someone who can understand what he has been through and Tony would stop his going from one woman to another without commitment. Harry cast the notice me spell that he created on Loki, he would need to do the same to Tony. The spell would not create fake feelings it would work on establishing soulmate bond between the two. The rest will be up to them if they want to follow through with it but for now they wold get along and Loki would find comfort with Tony. Harry left the room to find Tony.
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Harry returned to Loki's room with Tony and gently woke Loki up. He couldn't wait anymore, Thanos was getting too much time to wreak havoc and Harry only had so much time in this world before he had to go to the next one with his counterpart.
Loki woke up feeling better than he had in a long time. His magic was replenished and ti actually felt stronger than before. He was confused, why would Thanos make him stronger, had he finally managed to break him enough to affect his magic? His heart beat faster in fear. Was his mind and actions still own? Harry noting Loki panicking sat beside him and said "Loki! Loki. It's okay. It's me Harry, you are not with Thanos anymore remember?"
Loki looked at Harry and his memories returned. He remembered Harry comforting him and healing him. His breaths slowed down as his panic left him. Harry then said "Loki I would like to introduce you Tony. He is going be here with you while I go after Thanos and …"
Harry didn't finish Loki gripped his arm in a panic and felt himself pulled onto the bed and Loki's arms surrounding him as he said "No, you can't go."
Harry didn't pull away and hugged him back "I have to Loki. I'll be fine. His powers don't even come anywhere close to mine and as soon as he finds out who I am the only problem is going to be that he will try to hide and I will have to search for him. But right now I want to make him pay for what he did to you and for trying to eradicate an entire race."
Loki held onto Harry for a little while longer loathe to let him go. Harry was his saviour. He had come for him to a world in the middle of nowhere and saved him, healed him and kept him safe. Pulling away slowly Harry said "I'll be back before you know it Loki. Tony will be here and he will keep you company till I get back okay?"
Reluctantly letting go of Harry Loki nodded and said "Thank you Harry."
Harry nodded and said "You're welcome. Oh if you are hungry just tell Jarvis what you want to eat, as he is magically installed he can conjure food for you as well."
Tony sat in Harry's vacated seat by the bedside just as Harry flashed out of the room. The last thing Harry saw before going to the hellicarrier was the two talking tentatively to each other.
Harry appeared in front of Phil Coulson on the bridge of the hellicarrier making the man jump and grab his gun. Harry just shook his head and said "Really Agent Coulson. For a trained agent you are so jumpy."
Phil Coulson had already told the Director about Harry and how he took Tony Stark with him after his claims that Loki was innocent. Alarms had started to go off as soon as Harry flashed on board. Every agent turned toward him most of them pointing guns at him asking wh he was and how he got in.
The Director walked into the room and made a beeline for Harry as soon as he saw him and said "Who are you?"
Harry smiled at the man and said "I'm Harry. I spoke to agent Coulson earlier and told him that Loki is not the one causing all these atrocities. It is a Titan named Thanos."
The director scowled and said "You are talking bullshit. We have Loki in containment right now he is not going anywhere and his brother Thor identified him for us so I will ask again who are you?"
Harry sighed and replied "I already told you my name is Harry, if you are asking what I am then…"
The Director cut him off "Look kid I have no time to stand here wasting time with you while you try to play hero." He turned to the other agents and said "Lock him up, we will deal with him later."
Harry was already bristling at the kid comment but when the director said to lock him up Harry lost it. His wings ripped his shirt as it came out and his persona as the master of death came to the fore front. Wind whipped at his hair which looked like it was on fire, The Director found himself lifted off the floor and thrown into a wall. The other agents found they could not move all they could do was watch as Harry approached the bald one eyed man and say "I am not a child Director Fury I was born long before this world was created. I am an angel Chaos the master of death disrespect me one more time and will make you wish you were never born. Is that understood?"
Fury looked at Harry defiantly and Harry did something he had not done since Dumbledore. He yanked Fury's soul out of his body and held it in his grip. Normally he would feel guilty for doing this but the man's soul was as black as coal. The only thing he knew how to do was what he was told even if an innocent had to suffer for it. He was like a younger version of the Dumbledore that Harry had known. As long as the job was done he didn't care. He loved the power that came with his position. He had ruined many people and killed a lot more just to acquire things like weapons inventions and knowledge and Tony Stark was next on the man's list.
Harry shook the soul in his hand and said "Do you understand director or do you wish meet the demons who will curve you up like a turkey sooner rather than later?"
Terror on the man's face had him nodding to say he understood. Harry threw him back into his body knowing that it would hurt worse than a thousand crucios.
Harry left the man on the floor not wanting to deal with him anymore and turned toward Coulson. Coulson was a good man but he was blind to Fury's faults and followed the man's orders religiously but Harry wasn't there to change management of the government's spies instead he needed to get to Thanos as soon as possible. The Avengers were now in the room as well excluding Tony. They were trying to fight their way through to the director but it was futile. Thor had stopped trying when he heard the part about master of death. Instead he stood there with a look of fright on his face. Harry didn't even give him the time of day he was in a hurry. He would deal with him later. Using his senses Harry followed them to the room where Thanos was held the other agents now free followed behind him. Thanos was sat on the floor of his cage as if waiting for something. He stood up as soon as Harry walked into the room and laughed before saying "Are the mortals so desperate they are sending children to challenge me?"
Harry didn't bother replying instead he took out his scythe making him look intimidating and scary, Thanos stopped laughing the illusion of Loki's face fell leaving a purple monstrous looking humanoid and said "Death? You have come at last. I did this all this for you."
It was Harry's turn to laugh and say "You can't really feel that much about Death if you can't even tell the different between her and her master."
Narrowing his eyes Thanos said "You are the one who enslaved my love. You will pay for that before I kill you."
The purple monster raised his hand and a sceptre appeared in it. Harry could tell it was powered by the cube. His eyes widened as he now knew where the power of the cube came from. When he was learning to control his powers Chaos used to drain them when they became too much for him and he always wrapped them up like a cube. There was a whole bunch of them that he used to create worlds. Considering the fact that he did that a few times a day for five years there were loads of them lying around in the void. But how did one come to be here? Now he knew why Chaos wanted him here. There was enough power in the cube to create another immortal stronger than a titan. Without wasting time Harry pulled the power of the Tesseract to himself. It was his power it recognised him and left the titan's control returning to its owner. Without the cube Thanos was returned to normal power. Well normal for a titan anyway. He didn't get a chance to use it as Harry reaped his soul and forced him to fade.
The agents and the avengers watched on in horror as Harry killed the titan. When he was done he said "Well the big threat is gone I'm pretty sure you handle the rest yourselves."
With that he left the hellicarrier.
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Fury was furious. He had been humiliated in front of his agents and the culprit had gone on to execute their prisoner and then proceed to leave as if nothing happened. Something had to be done about that. Heads were gonna roll. However it was the memory of the pain that had been inflicted on him that gave him pause. The agents had been unable to do anything to defend him. He knew the man was powerful and it was more than stupid to go against him or try to attack him out right. He would need to bide his time and find weaknesses to exploit.
Unfortunately for Fury, Harry was not going to be there long enough for him to do anything. He was currently walking into the room he left Loki and Tony to let them know he was leaving. However As soon as Harry walked into the room he froze for a second before leaving in a hurry, hands covering his eyes and shouting "My eyes! My poor innocent eyes!"
He went to the living room and threw himself on the couch eyes still covered. A grinning Tony only wearing trousers and a more subdued Loki in a pair of slacks followed Harry to the living room.
Harry sat up and spoke first "I was only gone for half an hour, how the hell did you go from being complete strangers to …what you were doing?"
A sheepish Loki replied "Well one moment we were arguing and the next thing I knew we were kissing and I don't even know when he got down to …."
Harry cut him off "I didn't ask for details of what I just witnessed, I asked how you even got to … you know what never mind, I came to let you know that Thanos is dead now and I have somewhere I need to be. I will be coming to check on you to make sure you are ok."
Loki's eyes locked onto Harry and said "You're leaving?"
Harry felt like the lowest of the low when he realised his leaving could be deduced as him abandoning Loki but he didn't have much of a choice if he was going to save the other world.
He walked over to Loki and said "Loki, I am not abandoning you but there is someone else who needs my help. I cannot …"
Loki cut him off "Then take us with you. We could probably help in some way."
Harry looked at Tony who had yet to say a word. He couldn't tell what the man was thinking but he could tell he was affected by what was happening. Harry remembered the last time he took someone he was protecting with him to another world and how that ended. He wasn't too keen on something like that happening again especially in a place where magic was involved, it made things too unpredictable.
"Loki, I can't take you with me, I am going to a parallel universe. I came here first because you needed me more but now that the danger to you is past I have to go save someone else in need. I will come here to see you whenever I can to make sure you are ok."
Loki was not as afraid as he thought he would be and he knew it was whatever he and Tony had discovered between them. He remembered feeling almost paralysed with fear when Harry had left the first time when he went after Thanos, but now Tony's presence negated that fear and made it comfortable to let Harry go and before he knew it Harry was flashing out. Turning to his newly discovered object of affection he smiled and said "It's just us again." Smiling back Tony replied "Yes we are, whatever are we going to do with ourselves?"
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