➵ Ashes


I N F I N T Y  W A R S  P T .  I I I

Everyone was either in a hover craft provided by T'Challa or they were flying by themselves. And then there was Bruce in the Iron Suit version of the Hulk. I was in one of the hover crafts that held a few of T'Challa's people with my close demigod friends.

"Why are you with Festus and Calypso?" Percy asked Leo.

"Because I wanted to check out this tech. Hey, do you think this Panther Dude will let me scope out his tech?" Leo asked as he peered over the person who flew the hover craft to look at the controls.

"Keep dreaming, man." Jason flicked his hand at his friend.

"Oh, I will be." Leo leant forward to touch one of the buttons on the control panel. The person slapped his hand a way with a glare. Leo furrowed his brows and stuck out his tongue.

"Just leave it alo-"

The Hulk Suit flew over our hover craft.

"Can someone remind me why Bruce Banner can't turn into the Hulk?" Piper asked.

"Bruce doesn't even know why." I crossed my arms and placed them on Piper's shoulder. She rolled her eyes at me. "Every time he tries to turn into the Hulk, the Hulk tells him 'no'."

"Weird." Hazel muttered.  

As soon as Hazel said this, Bruce tripped over a rock and face planted. Our hovercraft zoomed passed him. Once we neared the large group of people, the hovercraft slowed down and turned. We jumped off and walked to our groups.

The Greeks went to the right where the Greek Gods were while the Romans went to the left to join Reyna. The Egyptians and the Norse demigods were in one group.

"Go join Cap and his gang. We've got it back here." Thalia slung her bow over her shoulder and got out her shield.

"You guys sure?" I asked.

"We need a demigod up there." Annabeth confirmed. "And they trust you enough."

"Just be careful up there. It's going to be chaotic. We have never fought against aliens. If you need help. You call for us, got it? We have each other's backs." Percy stared me down.

"Wouldn't have it any other way, big bro." I sent him a small smile. "Same goes for y'all, call for me if y'all need me."

"I know. This is some serious shit and far more harder than fighting some titan or god. He's has some crazy witchcraft stones of something to give him more power." Percy warned.

"Trust me, Perce, I know." I took in a shaky breathe. "Let's just kick his ass and go home so I can pick out my dress."

Percy chuckled out a sigh. He brought me into a hug. I quickly wrapped my arms around my brother.

"I have a bad feeling about this, Percy." I muffled into his shoulder. "I have that heavy feeling in my heart that something bad is going to happen. Worse than our past wars we have fought."

"Then we be extra careful, okay?" Percy whispered back. "I know it's a going to be a hell out there. But we are going to fight like the whole universe depends on us because it does and we are going to come out of it like we always do. Okay?"

"Okay." I nodded pulling away from Percy. "I better go join them."

Percy gave me a slight nod and went to go join the Greeks. Dad stared me down with his green eyes. He pointed to my pocket. Confused, I stuffed my hand inside to feel something smooth. With furrowed brows, I pulled it out to reveal a sand dollar.  I sent him a smile before turning away to jog towards the front line.

"What did I miss?" I stopped besides Bucky.

"Steve, Natasha, and T'Challa went to go have a friendly chat with the aliens." Bucky filled me in.

"Oh, fun. Wish I could have gone to see it." I crossed my arms.

Looking ahead, I saw the three talking to two aliens. A few minutes later they walked back toward us.

"They surrender?" Bucky asked Steve when he stepped next to him.

"Not exactly." Steve replied.

"So...no." I frowned.

T'Challa and his people started to chant in their native language. There was movement breaking in from the other side of the border. I pressed my charm and grabbed the hilt of my sword tightly. Hundreds of aliens broke the the tree line and ran for the border.

"What the hell?" Bucky muttered.

"Looks like we pissed her off." Natasha said.

The aliens rammed into the border. The first ones tried to claw their way through only to kill them selves. They were being burned. Others soon followed their suit. Many were making their way through the border only for the shield to burn through their flesh and dismember them.

"They're killing themselves."

The aliens were getting close to making their way fully through the shield. They were being dismembered at the waist and legs. Then one made it through and roared. And then another.

"Oh gods...they're actually making it through." I stared with wide eyes. The aliens were sprinting their way toward us.

One of the tribes got their high tech shield out. They yelled something I couldn't understand. Some made their way in front to use the shield to protect us. T'Challa ordered something to them.

Their spears started to shoot out blue lasers at the aliens. Bucky got his gun out and started to shoot as well. In fact, everyone who had a weapon that shot out lasers, arrows, or bullets were firing away.

I anxiously twirled my sword. Falcon flew over our heads and started to release bombs. Iron Patriot was doing the same thing. Leo and Calypso were on Festus who was breathing fire. Hades and Nico were bringing forth skeletons to add more numbers. Zeus had his lightening bolt and Dad has his trident.

The explosives, arrows, lasers, and bullets were only doing so much. The aliens were either clawing their way through or starting to circle the perimeter of the shield.

"Cap, if these things circle the perimeter and get in behind us there's nothing between them and Vision." Bruce stated.

"Then we better keep'em in front of us." Steve said.

"How do we do that?"

"We open the barrier." T'Challa pressed his ear piece. "On my signal, open North-West Section seventeen. On my signal."

"This will be the end of Wakanda." One of the leaders from the tribes uttered.

"Then it will be the noblest ending in history."

Steve prepped his new shield. T'Challa shouted an order which made the people with the fancy shields make the shields go away. He took a few steps forward to stand in front of the front line.

"Wakanda forever!" T'Challa yelled as he crossed his arms towards his shoulders. His mask appeared before he ran into battle with everyone else following behind him.

We all screamed with our weapons raised toward our enemies. The Black Panther gave the signal and the small section opened. The aliens shoved their way through.

Steve and T'Challa ran ahead of us, the demigods not far behind. The gods were holding the back line, acting as our last defense to keep the aliens away from Vision. As soon as Steve and T'Challa jumped over the stream, Percy and I willed the water.

Percy made a hurricane, while I made giant fists. I multitasked using the water to attack other aliens as I fought with my sword. An alien dove for me, his claws and fangs at the ready. I ducked, quickly raising my sword to swipe at it's chest and torso.

One after another, I sliced, stabbed and punched aliens. As I grew tired, the more aliens came at me. Huffing, I stepped into the stream. Energy flooded through me and my exhumation flooded away.

With a grin, I willed the water to rise and form into a two snakes. I sent them in two different directions to swallow up aliens and drown them. Once the aliens were killed, they would drop to the ground while the others followed.

One of the aliens knocked Bucky to the ground. I quickly sent one of the snakes towards him. The snake slithered its way over to the alien and opened its mouth. It swallowed the alien and moved onto the next one. The alien struggled to breathe, two of his hands reaching for his throat while the other two pounded at the snake's inside.

"Thanks!" Bucky yelled. He quickly shot up to his feet and ran towards another alien.

Before I could turn around, three aliens jumped on me. I let out a cry as one slashed at my arm. Kicking and slashing, I managed to fight my way out of their arms. Crawling, I sat down and kicked my foot up to swipe at their faces. They stumbled to the side. I quickly slashed their heads off.

Their heads rolled to the ground. Feeling someone running towards me, I spun around with my sword and swiped at the alien who tried to attack me. He fell to the ground split in two.

There was a loud crash and bright rainbow light. There was something flying through the air, hitting all of the aliens near by. It sparked with each hit. Once the light went away, a Norse god, a raccoon decked out in clothes, and a tree man stood in its wake. Everyone stood still as they eyed the three.

"What took you so long, Thor!?" I heard Zeus call out with curses. "We could have terminated these scum!"

"You guys are so screwed now!" Bruce yelled.

"Bring me Thanos!" Thor screamed as lightening sparked on him. Him and his weird posse ran for the section that was opened. Everyone went back to fighting.

Cracking my neck, I ran towards a herd of aliens. I swung my sword in havoc. Using all types of sword fighting I could remember to kill. In a matter of seconds, five were already dead. I willed the snakes to come back to life and start eating aliens again. However, this time they are bigger and longer.

The ground shook and I knew immediately it wasn't because of my family. Looking at the shield, I saw a large mechanical device with blades spurring erupt from the ground. I raised my sword and slashed my way through the aliens to go towards the devices.

With my spare hand, I dig into my pocket and pulled the sand dollar out. I threw it far ahead of me. By the time I reached the sand dollar, it was already spouting water. Natasha and Okoye were fighting a few feet a head of me near the devices.

I willed for a wave to go over them and crash into the devices hoping to ruin the wiring inside. That didn't happen. Instead, the wave held the devices back like a wall. The devices were trying to force their way through. Grunting, I pushed my hands forward to put more strength in my wall.

Wanda suddenly appeared next to me and used her red glowing magic to pick them up and throw them towards the herd of aliens around us. I collapsed in exhaustion, the water wall spilling to the ground. Wanda quickly caught me.

"Why was she up there all this time?" Okoye asked Natasha. "And why is she  not closer to the front?"

"Because she needs water and the stream is back there." I muttered. Wanda lead me towards the water.

"Soak up, we need you at full power." Wanda said. I stepped into the water and felt the rush again.

"You make me sound like a damn battery." I chuckled.

"You basically are." Wanda have me a quick grin before running into action.

I ran back into battle. Jumping over a dead alien, I raised my sword and brought it down. The sword cut through the unsuspecting alien. Standing up, I moved onto my next kill.

"Somebody get to Vision!" I hear Steve yell from a few feet away.

"Where is he!?" I screamed back.

"Forrest!"

"Got it!" I ran passed him and head straight for the forrest. I ducked and leaned over anything that was in my way or headed my way.

"Where in the Hades are you going?!" Percy asked.

"To help Vision!" I broke into the tree line.

"Then, you're going to need help little sister." Percy ran to catch up to me.

"Percy? Nevah?" Annabeth caught up to us. "What in the Hades?"

"Gotta help Vision."

The three of us ran through the forrest looking for Vision. We followed the sound of yells and crashes. We were almost there. The sounds were louder and I could see people a few feet ahead of us. Then everything went quiet. We slowed down as we saw the Avengers crowded together.

Suddenly,Vision let out a painful scream. Wanda was holding on to him, trying to comfort Vision. The three of us jogged towards the group.

"He's here." Vision informed us. There was a sudden breeze and everything went deadly quiet besides the howling of the wind.

"Everyone, on my position." Steve talked into his ear piece. "We have incoming."

The Avengers, T'Challa, Okoye, Annabeth, Percy, and I looked around. There was a different feeling in the air. Almost like static raising the hair on our arms, but it was in our bones. The feeling I had before the battle was making me feel nauseous.

"I have a really bad feeling about this..." I looked up towards the sky.

"What the hell?" Natasha muttered.

Cracklings came from behind us. Glancing over my shoulder, a blue portal rippled a couple of yards away from us. I raised my sword and got into a fighting position. The portal started to look like grey smoke, the color changing to a charcoal. A tall muscular alien walked out. His skin a light shade of purple.

Thanos observed us. Percy and Annabeth were beside me with their weapons pointed at the alien.

"Cap. That's him." Bruce confirmed.

"Eyes up." Captain America got his shield out. "Stay sharp."

He started to jog towards Thanos. Catching his drift, we followed and started to attack. Thanos slowly walked towards us.

Iron Hulk was the first to reach Thanos, his fist out reached to punch the aliens he turned a light blue shade and transparent before phasing through Thanos. Iron Hulk rolled on the ground before he was lifted towards the rock wall behind him. Thanos had his hand extended and made the rock wall materialize over most of Iron Hulk's suit.

Steve attacked next, only to be flung away. Black Panther jumped towards him only to be grabbed at the neck. Thanos used his free arm and punched T'Challa to the ground. A purple ring rippled away from T'Challa once he hit the ground.

Falcon came flying shooting guns at the tall alien. Until his wings stopped working by a wave of purple that resulted him to crash into the ground.
Seeing the others failing to land a hit, I took it upon myself to give it a try.

I ran towards Thanos with my sword at my side. He turned to face me and flicked his hand at me. A purple wave was flying in my direction. As the wave neared me, I dropped to the ground and slid underneath it. Once it was behind me, I got back to my feet and feinted a leap. Thanos went to smack me. I somersaulted to the right and swiped my sword at his thigh.

Thanos released a surprised gasp as purple blood spilled from his thigh. Percy and Annabeth gave me smirks and ran into the fight. With a frustrated yell, Thanos pointed his gloved covered hand at me.

"Shit!" I whipped my sword to block Thanos' fist. The impact vibrated my sword and my arms. I gritted my teeth and tightened my grip on the hilt of my sword. Thanos looked at me with curiosity. "Sorry Purple Bitch, but I'm already taken."

I took my sword away and stabbed him in the arm. Thanos drew his arm away and I took that as my chance to run. Percy dropped his sand dollar and as soon as the sand dollar started to bubble water, we both willed it towards Thanos.

Everyone started to join in on the attack besides Wanda and Vision. We were attacking left and right. As Iron Patriot shot missiles at him, ya demigods slashed and stabbed at Thanos before he kicked us away. My back collided with a trunk of a tree.

I cried out in pain as I bounced off and hit the ground. My back was aching terribly as tears spilled down my cheeks from the pain. Taking in deep breaths, I looked up to see Steve holding up Thanos' gloved fist. Thanos looked at him in shock before punching him.

"Glove." Annabeth gasped out a few feet away from me. I turned to see her roll onto her side.

"What?" Percy stumbled to hit knees. Riptide was stabbed into the ground and Percy was using it to balance himself.

"Take off his glove, and we can beat him." Annabeth slowly pushed herself up into sitting position.

"Does cutting off his fucking arm count?" I clenched my jaw. I struggled to sit up. Once I got to a fourth five degree angle to sitting up, something popped in my lower back. I cried out and fell back onto the ground. "Shit!"

"Nevah?"

Percy and Annabeth raced towards me. The kneeled beside me. I placed a shaking hand on my lower back near my spine. A new stream of tears fell down my cheeks.

"Hey," Annabeth placed a hand on my shoulder. "What hurts? Can you sit up?"

"My lower back. Something popped and it hurts like hell." I gritted out.

"Did you land bad or crashed into something?" Percy asked worriedly.

"Tree." I panted out.

"You probably fractured something." Annabeth slowly let out. "Let's hope it's just a fracture. Will or Apollo can heal you up once we're done. Okay? Let's sit you up against a tree."

Percy placed his hands under my arm pits and hoisted me into the air while Annabeth grabbed my legs. I hissed at the movement. They scuffled towards the nearest tree.

"Not that one!" I protested.

"What?" Percy looked down at me in confusion.

"That one hurt me." I glared at the tree.

"Really, Nevah?" Annabeth exasperated. She sent me a stern full glare.

"But maybe it can apologize." I squeaked. Annabeth rolled her eyes and nodded for Percy to continue. The two placed me up right against the tree. I winced at the rough bark digging into my back.  "Stay here. Don't move. Don't do anything stupid."

"No promises, but okay." I tried to joke.

"We're serious, Nev." Percy stared me down. Pursing my lips. I nodded. "Yell if you need anything, okay."

"Go. They need help." I nodded towards Wanda.

She was the only one left to fight against Thanos. Wanda's was trying to destroy the stone in Vision and keeping Thanos away with her powers. There was crack and a harsh breeze stopped Annabeth and Percy.

Thanos approached Wanda who was grieving over Vision. He seemed to be talking with her and then he did something weird. He placed a gentle hand on Wanda's head in a way to comfort her. Thanos dropped his hand and went to the area Vision was. He lifted his glove and a green pattern emitted from it. Shattered pieces started to form together. It was Vision. Breathing and living again.

"No!" Wanda yelled out. She scrambled to stand but Thanos knocked her away. Percy and Annabeth started to run towards Thanos but he flung them back with a purple wave.

Thanos grabbed Vision by his throat and lifted him into the air. I could hear Vision choking from where I was. I tried to stand up, ignoring the pain. Thanos punched the yellow stone on Vision's forehead and crushed the area surround it before pulling it out.

"No!" I cried out. Vision turned grey and Thanos threw him aside. Thanos places the stone on the glove. Veins the color of the stones appeared all over Thanos and he let out a cry. Before he could fully examine the glove, lightening struck Thanos.

Thanos flew backwards. He quickly stood up and raised his glove towards Thor in the sky. Thor threw his axe like hammer to block it the beam. The axe flew through it and hit Thanos in the chest.

Thanos kneeled to the ground. Percy and Annabeth stood up, leaning against each other as we saw Thor land in the ground. Annabeth was looking at Thanos curiously as she observed his body language.  Thor shoved his axe deeper into Thanos' chest. Thanos bellowed in agony.

"He has something planned." Annabeth realized.

"What do you mean?" Percy quickly turned to face his wife.

"He's not dead. He's not stupid." Annabeth rapidly stated. "Thor! Kill him! Kill him quickly!"

"Oh shit." Percy caught on to what Annabeth was getting to. The both of them started to run towards Thanos and Thor. Percy raised Riptide like a javelin and threw it. "Kill him, Thor!"

Thanos snapped his fingers and his glove burst into light. Riptide flew and hit Thanos in the arm. Thanos let out a cry but kept staring at his destroyed glove. Annabeth and Percy stopped in their tracks. Wincing, I slowly stood up.

"What did you do?" Thor asked. "What'd you do!?"

Thanos looked at us before he made a portal and flew out. Thor's and Percy's weapons fell to the floor. The portal closed leaving us alone in the forrest. I pushed myself off of the tree and slowly walked towards my brother and Annabeth. We all stared at the weapons on the ground.

"Where did he go?" Steve stopped next to me, holding his side and he panted heavily. He surveyed our surroundings. Thor, Percy, Annabeth and I all exchanged defeated looks. "Guys. Where'd he go?"

"Steve?" Bucky called out.

We all turned to face the Winter Soldier. A strange feeling started to over take my body. Bucky started to disintegrate before our eyes. He took another step before ash like dust replaced him and fell to the ground.

Steve took large strides before he kneeled next tot he area Bucky turned to dust. He looked at all of us before he placed his hand on the ground.

A numbing sensation started in my left hand. Confused, I held out my hand in front of my face to see the same thing that happened to Bucky happen to me.

"No." Percy looked at me with wide eyes. "Nevah, no."

My right arm and leg were disintegrating. I swallowed thickly and looked at my brother.annabeth was staring at me horrified.

"I love you all, okay?" Tears we're streaming down Percy's face. He shook his head and wrapped an arm around me. I was already have ash. "Tell Stiles I love him."

"No," Percy shook his head. He tightened his grip on me. But I felt nothing. "You're going to tell him, okay?"

"You're a great brother, don't ever forget that."

"Nevah, no!" Was the last thing I heard before I fully disintegrated.
















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Okay I cried while writing this and I had to take several breaks to finish it😭😭😭

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