After a couple of hours of waiting, Odin signaled with a weary voice, "She's coming, the seal is lifted... um, um, um... the rest is up to you!" Hearing this, everyone prepared themselves.
Asmodeus drew one of his swords from his pocket. Nicolas transformed into his battle form. Gellert opened his third eye. Albus, well, in phoenix form, his only advantage was immortality, so he simply took out his wand.
The Ancient formed two Ruby Rings of Raggadorr in her hands, and around her, Nicholas' sphere levitated, looking slightly different with shimmering magical circles floating around it.
Tony and Natasha stood ready a bit behind the rest, as they were instructed not to engage unless absolutely necessary. Second by second, tension built until a dark green portal appeared before them.
From it, Hela, the graceful goddess of death from Asgard and Odin's first daughter, emerged. "Oh, I thought you might die by the time I showed up. But no matter, I'll gladly send you to Valhalla myself!" she said, glancing at Odin behind the wizards.
"Sorry, but we can't let you do that," Asmodeus replied.
"And who are you?" Hela asked.
"Just your father's friends," came the response.
"Well, then, to my regret, I must kill you too." As she said this, Asgardian armor appeared on her body, a dark green suit, and a black crown, proclaiming her as the queen.
As Hela prepared to attack, Asmodeus shouted,
"Now!"
Behind her, a small portal appeared, and the Ancient's hand emerged, holding a black sphere.
"Pop."
Hela vanished and appeared reduced to a one-thousandth of her size in the black sphere.
Tony muttered, 'I thought we were gearing up for a fierce battle...'
"You cowards! Why the hell, Odin, seal me again!?"
Curses and insults emanated from the sphere, but no one paid attention.
"Well done!" someone cheered.
"Don't celebrate too soon; we have 5 hours, and I hope we can seal her on the other side," Asmodeus warned.
"Alright, gather around, hold hands, each one holding the person to their right."
Asmodeus, for appearances, took out the Tesseract. He had to justify the possibility of leaving this universe somehow.
"I left a spatial anchor based on the Apparition spell in our world; with the Tesseract, I can transport us. In the reverse direction, it's the same, just without the Tesseract. Odin, you'll have to join forces with the Ancient if you want to return before we build a full-fledged spatial tunnel."
"Alright, let's do it. Don't delay!"
"Okay."
The Tesseract within Asmodeus glowed, but in his mind, a different thought echoed, 'System! Let's go home!'
'Ding, request received, opening spatial gateway,' announced the system, engulfing the group in a blue beam.
As the Tesseract left the universe, some violet giant on a ship screamed, "Impossible!"
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Hogwarts, Quidditch field, the sun had just risen.
Rowena sits in the stands, looking at the tower.
"Ah, and today as well..."
The four founders decided to take turns every day to monitor any spatial activity. But two weeks have passed, and there's still no news...
At that moment, Rowena felt something, and even before she could react, three more founders appeared near her.
"They're coming."
"Yes, spatial fluctuations..."
In the sky above the castle, a group from Asmodeus gradually landed. As Asmodeus approached Rowena and kissed her, he asked,
"Long time, wasn't it?"
"Two weeks; I was starting to think you decided to escape after just one night."
"Do you really have such a low opinion of me?"
"Well..."
"Alright, enough of the sweet talk. We have work!" Grindelwald interrupted Rowena.
"Oh, fine. Rowena, he's right. We have an issue with a certain individual, or more precisely, a goddess of death."
"A goddess...?"
"I'll explain later. The main thing is, can you and Salazar force her into the state you were in before the magical surge, forcibly?"
Rowena pondered, and Salazar answered promptly, "It's possible, but I'll need assistance. Where is she now?"
"Here," Nicholas handed the sphere to Salazar.
"You bastards! I'll kill you all and turn you into my puppets! How dare you, I'm the goddess of death! The Queen of Asgard! And you, bald old man, what are you staring at! I'll rip off your beard!"
Salazar clicked his tongue disapprovingly and said,
"An interesting tool, allows sealing the soul... Well, if you don't need this sphere, I can seal her right now. The seal will last a year, maybe two without any issues, then it needs external reinforcement."
"Perfect. What do you need to start?"
"A couple of liters of dragon blood, 500 milliliters of Acromantula venom, and I'll need to fetch my little snake, oh, and a mirror."
Tony, who was standing behind Albus, quietly asked, "What snake is that?"
"You're better off not knowing..."
"Um..."
"Alright, Nicolas, do you have what he needs?"
"Yes, I carry everything with me!"
"Good, Salazar, we'll wait here, and you can summon your snake, just please ask her to close her eyes..."
"Oh, don't worry about that. While you were away, I made goggles for Myrtle that block her deadly gaze until I give the signal to release the restriction."
"Your basilisk is named Myrtle?"
"Yes, and what's wrong with that? She's a girl; she needs a beautiful name! Your dragon has a name, why shouldn't my snake have one?!"
"Um, nothing, forget it."
Salazar turned and whistled towards the castle.
Tony couldn't understand why wizards were so surprised about a snake's name, but now he knows the subspecies of the snake and decided to ask Jarvis. By the way, yes, Jarvis now works for Mana and has become something like a spirit of the reactor...
In short, before his trip to the magical world, Tony decided to load Jarvis with all possible information about myths, legends, and magic that he found publicly available. So he asked, "Hey, Jarvis, what is a basilisk?"
"Sir..."
Before Jarvis could answer, an enormous snake, about 15 meters long or even more, appeared in front of the crowd. It had four large fangs the size of swords.
"This is my good Myrtle. You see, her gaze is no longer deadly until I allow it. Now, I won't have to rent Thestrals from Hagrid when I go to the city!"
Salazar said, stroking the huge basilisk on the nose.
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