A Small Note- Here is chapter 5, written and edited to perfection! Enjoy and I hope this answers some questions.
Recovering was hard. They had done much to Ever and her tiny body and she was in so much pain for a very long time. Ever was fully expecting him to make her get up and start training again, but he had come to see her every day and listened to her complain.
Most of the time Ever was asleep but he had waited for her to wake up. Not very long it took for her body to adjust to what they had done to it and after what seemed like forever, Ever was finally allowed to get out of bed and walk. She picked everything back up very quickly, and according to some of the surgeons, her body had healed almost instantly, but was a painful process for her. It wouldn't be in the future, but it was because her body was trying to take everything in.
Aria was allowed to stay for another year to help Ever transition. She was much better with emotional stuff than Thanos.
Ever spent almost every moment she had training. She wanted to learn how to use the surplus of power they had given her and she wanted to be the perfect solider. She wanted to be Thanos' favorite.
She was well on to her way to becoming it too. Gamora had taken to watching Ever spar with some of Thanos' crones. She wanted to be able to overpower any man that came her way without breaking a sweat.
Gamora marveled at how much Ever had grown in the past year. She was only eight, but her childhood was long gone, if not ever having existed. She was 10 times stronger that a regular man and twice as powerful as Nebula. Almost indestructible.
And for such a small child she had such an emotional burden to carry. She, Gamora, and Nebula would make the perfect soldiers for what Thanos was planning. Gamora sat pondering for another hour, until Ever was done with her 9th set of opponents.
"You ready to go?" Gamora stood up, straightening her outfit.
"Yes. Is it dinner time?" Ever stood from where she was meditating in front of a ceiling to floor window that peered out into the galaxy.
"Yeah. You were working pretty hard there. Father said he has a mission for us soon." Gamora said softly, walking towards her. "Hey, you ok?"
Ever was standing still, her eyes closed and looked as if she were in pain. In fact, at that very moment she was experiencing Gamora's heart talking to her. A primal feeling washed over her, something strong and deep that Ever had never felt before.
She wanted to hold those secrets in her hands. She wanted to consume them, to drench her soul in Gamora's longings, her thoughts. Ever liked that feeling.
"Ever? Ever! Ever are you ok? Can you hear me?" Gamora's hands were on her shoulders and Ever reluctantly forced herself out of the feeling.
"Yeah I'm fine. Is this another lecture dinner? I hate those. No fun at all! Gamora just gives me dirty looks and I have to restrain myself from throwing food at her while Father talks away about bravery. Not that it's boring, I just want to do something else." Ever ranted to Gamora, while she stood amused with her arms crossed.
"He swears he had something extra special planned for tonight." Ever snickered while she pulled on a red dress (her favorite color) and her only pair of beaten up brown boots. Her hair had grown past her waist in soft corn silk white waves. Her dark eyes were bright and face flushed with energy.
Gamora followed Ever out of the training room and down the starch white halls out into the bright light of the Andromeda galaxy, over to where the large chair that contained Thanos sat.
Gamora respectively stepped back. She knew Ever saw him as her real father, she looked up to him and loved him. At least she had that.
Ever approached the chair and put her small hand on the arm. "Hello father."
"The stars are looking especially bright tonight. I do sense a fight out in there somewhere. Perhaps the Nova Cor. is catching another outlaw or the Asgardians are starting another war. Foolish race. Hello my dear." Thanos said softly in his rumbly voice.
"Hello Father. What do you have planned for tonight?" Ever said, looking over at him.
Thanos chuckled, his low gravely rumble vibrating through Ever's chest. He pulled Ever over and set her on his lap. "One day I'm going to rule the whole universe. All of this will be ours and people will cower at the mere mention of us. It's all clockwork in motion."
Ever sat patiently looking up at his huge purple face and was struck with the pictures that she was shown when she was being taught; of a big purple eggplant. Her smile widened and Thanos smiled back, taking her positivity as agreement.
"So it's something pretty big then?" Ever said, wiggling on his lap. Thanos continued to smile and called over his shoulder- "Nebula! Gamora! We have company coming!"
Thanos' chair rotated around and Ever slid off his lap, going to stand in between Gamora and Nebula. She smiled up at Nebula and Nebula scowled back at her. Ever kept smiling until she caught sight of the Other that appeared and the smile disappeared.
The Other bared his teeth at her and she shrunk against Gamora. "Has it been done?" Thanos asked the Other.
"The Jotuns have invaded Asgard and the princes have fought. He is ready."
Thanos' smile widened and he looked upwards. Everyone followed his gaze, confused at what he was looking at. Ever squinted, seeing only the familiar stars. After about 2 minutes of looking, Ever's neck was starting to ache and there was nothing up there.
She sighed and looked down and the ground, scuffing the dirt with her boot. She was bored and hungry and wanted to finish the book she was reading for her lessons. She heard Gamora gasp. "Look!"
She whipped her head up, cracking her neck, but caught sight of a dark heap hurtling through the air at breakneck speed. She gasped in surprise as the heap hit the ground with an earsplitting crack. There was dead silence as they all stared at what at a closer look appeared to be a person.
Ever thought they were dead, until they jolted awake with a groan and rolled over, panting.
He fell back, looking straight at the sky and then slowly looked around.
Loki groaned again and then started laughing, something that sounded creepy and extremely painful.
"Am I dead?"