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5th June 2006, New York City
(Jasmine Sayre POV)
The man waved his hand and a portal opened. Hell no, I'm not going quietly. I don't care that he's a cosmic entity. I have defied Death itself. I will do so again with him.
I raised my hand and my outfit changed. I was wearing my Morrigan armor now, with Death's cloak of invisibility and my staff in my hand. This wasn't going to be an easy fight and I knew it. I was probably going to lose, but I had to try. I point my staff at him and exclaim, "I'm not going anywhere!"
The man smiled at , "I never expected you to go down without a fight, Morrigan. Let's see what you can do without using Death's power."
We stared at each other for a few seconds before running at each other at blinding speeds. It seems we'll start with physical combat. Entropy tried to punch , but I was able to redirect it with my staff. I still felt the impact rattling my skeleton. Damn, he's a lot stronger than physically. Of course, he is; he's a fucking cosmic entity, after all.
I tried to hit him with my staff, but the man kept dodging while he looked like he wasn't even breaking a sweat. He's purely on the defensive, but I could tell that he's the one dictating the pace of the fight. I attack him with a full powered swing of my staff, but the bastard just stopped it with his hand. What the hell? This was a fully empowered attack. I look at him and I could sense the smugness rolling off him.
I snarl in anger and kick him in the chest. He looked like he barely moved by the attack, and I was able to get my staff into another swing, this ti pressurizing the air behind it to give it more power. The act seed to have surprised him, considering the slight widening of his eyes. The attack hit him dead on and sent him flying a couple of feet back before he righted himself and landed on his feet.
Damn, the only thing that the last attack did, was just surprise him. The man clapped at , "Impressive, very impressive. That was a nice trick. I never saw that coming. Dare I say against another opponent it would have been devastating. You always were very inventive."
I snark back at him, "Well, you're going to love this!"
Suddenly, my staff was enveloped by darkness that went up until the top and started to materialize a blade. My staff was basically a scythe of darkness.
The man was still smirking at . I so wanted to wipe that thing off his face. I swung my staff horizontally and the blade extended, becoming a truly giant scythe. Entropy seed to realize its danger and quickly moved out of the way. I telekinetically push myself forward and punch him, sending him flying back. I, then, grabbed him from the air with my telekinesis and pulled him towards the ground. I swing my staff at him once more and the giant scythe blade races towards him without giving him a chance to get away. And to my surprise, the attack actually connected, the impact creating a powerful gust of air. I look at the result only to be scared out of my mind when I realize that Entropy had just raised his hand and grabbed the blade of darkness.
What the fuck, this was pure destruction given form, how the hell is he doing that?
The man looked at and grinned, "My turn!"
I was barely able to register when the man practically flew towards , punching in the face. I could feel my jaw break and then slowly heal afterwards. Before I could even register the pain, I was once again punched in the chest, breaking a couple of ribs. I was thankfully able to see the last attack coming because I made the ground underneath rise up and send flying in the air, where I righted myself and was able to land successfully.
I'm actually being pumled, right now. I haven't been this outclassed in a fight since Atlantis. Sure, I lost a few fights, but most of them were because I was caught off guard or I was being negligent. I knew that if I went back, I could have easily won these fights. But now, I was genuinely lacking in front of my opponent, and it showed.
I can't beat him in a straight fight. In terms of physical power, he was stronger, faster, more agile. In terms of cosmic powers, I knew that my magic wouldn't be able to hold up. I need to trick him sohow. Get him into position and put everything into a single attack.
Alright, my only trump card are the celestial runes. They could actually end up very useful in this scenario. Alright, I had a plan ford in my head, and how to execute it. I first need to distract him, sohow, while I set everything up.
Funnily enough, the man was the one who started talking to , "It's always fun to fight you, Morrigan. For a mortal, you're very impressive, even without using any cosmic energy."
"I wish I could say the sa thing."
The man snorted at , "Why don't you just give up? You must know by now that your victory is impossible. I'm even doing you a favor; I'm planning on sending you to a world where no one would have any powers. You could reign there, supre. You could be worshipped as a Goddess. That is until I destroy the universe when I succeed. But at least, you would have had a nice few years before dying with the rest of the multiverse."
Entropy seems serious about this, and I while I had no delusions that I would be able to change his mind, I needed to buy so ti until I'm ready, "Why are you doing this? Are you really that selfish that you would kill every single person in the multiverse, just for your satisfaction? Think about the other cosmic entities, how that would affect them. What would happen to Life, if there was no one alive in the multiverse? What would happen to fate, when nothing would ever change? What would happen to Death, when nothing and no one will ever die?"
The man stiffened, and I knew that my words hit ho. He snarled at , "It would be exactly what they deserved. They always dismissed , ignored my pain, my suffering. They did nothing to help, they didn't care enough to even try. They will get what they deserve. It's ti for soone else to be in my place."
The cosmic entity was really angry now and he leapt to attack once more. And lucky for , I was done with my plan. I had been slowly carving a runic array in the ground. The second before he hit , I teleported back a couple of ters and activated the array. It took a lot out of to activate sothing as inefficient and power intensive, but I was in a hurry, and I never saw this fight coming.
The array was the most complicated and powerful binding spell that has probably ever existed. It worked by locking the space around the captive, making sure that the victim wouldn't move. I had used the space rune as a base while creating the array and it worked.
The cosmic entity had run towards and was ready to puml and was caught by the trap. He looked frozen in space, as if he was a three dinsional picture. I needed to hurry and attack him, because I knew that Entropy was a fucking cosmic entity and could use celestial runes as if it was his native tongue. It probably was, to be fair. What do cosmic entities use to communicate, I wonder?
This wasn't the ti for this. I needed to get rid of Entropy first. I materialized the power rune in front of the end of my staff and started charging up. This was going to be one of my strongest attacks. After a minute or so, the spell was charged, and I let go of the pressure.
This attack was basically a beam of power and darkness rolled into one. I used my strongest and most destructive elents and combined it with the power rune. It was a beam of pure destruction, that destroys anything it touches, It could vaporize cities, flatten mountains, destroy continents. I would never dare to actually use it on Earth. I had theorized it, of course, and had tested it once in the mirror dinsion, but this was one of my trump cards, annihilation given form.
The beam travelled at practically light speed at my enemy, hitting his frozen form dead on. The attack didn't even stop there, it kept going past him, vaporizing the mountain that was behind him and probably the one after that.
I scread in exertion as I stopped the attack. The air was full of ash, and I could barely see straight. Did my attack kill my opponent? Did I slay a cosmic entity?
I freeze as I hear a slow clapping in front of . Suddenly, the ash around disappears and in front of is an intact Entropy grinning at , "That was one of the best attacks I have ever seen. The planning, from start to finish was excellent. Is this what you're capable of when you don't hold back? And this is without any cosmic energy as well; I couldn't feel a hint of Death's power in that beam."
I was still gaping at him, "How? How the hell did you survive that?"
The man looked at with pity, "Oh, honey, I'm a cosmic entity. You can't kill . I am an idea given form, the living representation of a physical phenonon. So long as entropy was applied in the world, I cannot die. We can be weakened of course, but you used an attack that destroys everything, that removes the atomic bonds between molecules and disintegrates it. Your attack doesn't remove things from existence. It had to conform to Entropy, to . You tried to kill using sothing that uses my power. While your attack could have weakened a few cosmic entities, mostly the weaker ones. It just didn't affect ."
Shit, I didn't think of that. I always thought that Darkness was Death's elent and that I could use it however I wanted. I was starting to get desperate now. This had been one of my strongest attacks, and he just shrugged it off. How outmatched am I?
I sent a bolt of lightning at him, but it ca out weak, like it was barely there. The attack hit him and did absolutely nothing. What was happening to ? I look at my opponent who was grinning at , "You didn't notice, did you? This is a dead planet, and I don't an that lightly. There is no magic being generated here, none that you could use to replenish your own reserves. Why do you think Odin imprisoned Hela here? She wouldn't be able to use any magic while she's on this planet, and thus cannot escape. As for you, your last attack pretty much emptied them. You're powerless now!"
Shit, he had from the start, didn't he? He was always planning for this, to wait for to exhaust myself while my magic reserves start to slowly wither away, destroying my last power.
The man slowly walked towards and punched . He kept hitting , again and again, taking out his frustration at my weakened form. He grabbed by the neck and walked towards the portal he had created before. I grab his hand trying to breathe. I couldn't even heal myself without any magic left.
Wait a minute, didn't he say that he was still bound by ti. That he needed to experience it linearly. I needed to take advantage of this. I had one last trump card. I had one shot at this. I couldn't just make him ti travel, with the tiline being in flux, explicit ti travel was impossible. But what was possible was ti dilation. I could trap him in a ti bubble, make a second for him, last years in real life. The tiline wouldn't be disrupted since there are no explicit exit from the universe.
I coughed so blood from my last attack, hitting him in the arm. I use my blood as a dium to write a rune underneath his arm, where he wouldn't notice actually fight him. The funny thing about blood is that it allows people to channel their own life force, into powering the spell. It would take a couple of decades off my lifespan for sothing like this, but I didn't care, it was a fragnt of a mont for soone like . It wasn't as efficient as magic, but it would do the job.
I was almost finished, and the man looked at with regret in his eyes, "I'm really sorry about this. I don't expect you to forgive . I don't even expect you to understand, but I want you to know that I don't have a choice in this. This the only way for the pain to stop, for to exist. Goodbye, Morrigan, you were a worthy opponent."
I grin at him, "Goodbye you son of a bitch"
Before he could voice his confusion, I channel my life force to the rune and activate it. He must have realized what was happening because I could feel his cosmic energy trying to stop the spell, but it was too late; the spell had activated and the ti it would take for him to break it would take him at least a few decades.
The cosmic entity yelled in fury as he realized what was happening and while he was trying to stop it, he destabilized the spell sohow, creating a blast that sent us both flying. However, while I was flying back, I could see that my spell worked, that my enemy was frozen in ti. I knew that he would be back but I would be ready for him, this ti.
These were my last thoughts as flew back towards the portal. I had no idea where I was going or how I was going back, but at the very least, I felt so satisfaction at my enemy's temporary defeat. However, I swore to myself that I would be back and that I wouldn't just let the multiverse be destroyed. Just as I made that vow to myself, I felt myself slip away, falling unconscious in exertion.
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AN:
I know people are going to ask this, so I wanted to clarify that the fic will remain a Marvel/Harry Potter one. I will not go to a universe outside these two fandom.
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