Chapter 9 - Fight

They were all frozen seeing me standing before them since the place was an extremely isolated dimension that even I took some time in infiltrating without anyone noticing. I may be powerful but I'm hardly Omnipotent. They're many sets of rules that I can't grasp yet and frankly it is in constant flux that it is hard for me to understand.

Regardless, this place has numerous layers of enchantment that block me from entering even though my parasite had taken a long time to give me feedback. 

"Who are you and how did you enter this dimension!?"

I lit a cigarette for a moment while observing the situation since these people were powerful witches. They all display magical power that I can't seem to grasp at my current magical prowess but have been peering through it ever since I came here. 

I took a quick glance at the young woman on the altar while an Ancient book hovered above her. The book seems to be a powerful artifact that has incredible extra dimensional energy emanating from it. 

From what I manage to gain from the memories of these witches that had incredible mental barriers is this book is called the Darkhold and presumably had numerous powerful spells, hexes, incantation and many more.

"Oh sorry I was just having a walk when I stumbled in this place."

"You expect us to believe that! You deal with this then continue the ritual."

One of the witches nodded then used her magic to blast the energy towards me but I merely stood as the energy headed towards me. I puffed out some smoke before the blast engulfed me but I protected myself with a barrier and were taken aback seeing me unharmed. 

"Guess this walk is going to be very enthusiastic today."

"How did you! Are you a sorcerer!?"

"Fuck you that's how."

My words cause that I presume to be their leader to be infuriated from my words. I could sense their power rose through the roof while the book frantic as they started to siphon power from the book.

"Kill him! The Scarlet Witch shall be brought forth without fail today!!"

The witchs started to form spells from their hands while I took one last puff of my smoke before tossing it aside and looking at every single one of them.

"Alright then, let's dance!"

Shrouding myself with powerful symbiotic armor and began to fight them head on as they cast elemental magics and cursed that it managed to slow down but kept going. 

I got close enough towards one of them and turned my arms into a blade that stabbed the witch in the stomach turning her into a donut. I quickly absorbed her and managed to disrupt the ritual a bit. 

Her memories went into my mind learning the secrets of the darkhold even more than before. The other wit he's were shocked upon seeing one of them die and in rage that their ritual was disrupted. 

"You! Do you have any ideas of what you've done!"

"Yes but I don't care."

I said leaping toward the remaining witches who tried their best to subdue me but every time they tried would always counter them. It was then the place expanded giving us more room before the witches began to chant and create magic circles as monstrous creatures came out from the ground.

They manage to summon a horde of demons from hell. I counted at least a few hundred demons that were heading towards me.

"Come forth."

My shadow stretched and soon monsters from my pocket dimension appeared that ranged from Tyranids that had their own types to xenomorphs that also had different variants. 

A war ensued as I confronted the witches and my army handled the demons. This is a perfect opportunity to absorb demons into my collection now. 

I tore the witches to shreds with my sharp tendrils and continued to dispel their magic. However the power that their siphoning was truly incredible to boost them to this degree.

Only few minutes have passed and I stood on the mountains of corpses while the last witch under my feet was barely alive and glaring at me with intense gaze. 

"*Cough* you might delay the prophecy but the Scarlet Witch shall come and destroy this world to the ground."

"Then I'll change this fate."

"Hehehe fools. You cling to hope yet eventually you'll regret believing."

The witch laughed before succumbing to her wounds and died joining my hivemind. I change back into my coat and change the space back to normal while taking out a cigarette and lighting it. 

I reabsorbed everything while I walked slowly at the young woman who was the same age as the girls and recalled her name to be Wanda Maximoff. 

Wasn't she supposed to be a mutant? I swear I should have paid more attention to comics but it's too late regretting.

The darkhold remains hovering as I observe even more, the clearer I get of what it was. 

"This book…is made of flesh."

This fascinates me and helps Wanda by teleporting her outside and back to X-Men since they'll likely help. I'll just give an excuse that she appeared out of nowhere in the school.

I leave the clone to handle the rest and when that is over, quickly turn my attention into the darkhold. The book floated toward me as I inspected it thoroughly before using my power to connect myself to it and instantly felt my consciousness being summoned.

Without a moment to muster my cosmic power and prepare myself for what was about to happen.

I soon found myself in a realm that was completely indescribable that could easily scrabble your brain just by describing it. My view soon caught the being before me, a humanoid creature with long curved horns staring back at me in anger and frustration.

"You! I was almost finally free in this accursed realm yet you took that chance from me!"

Its power skyrocketed and weighed upon me that I was about to kneel to the ground But was grabbed by the face and slammed me into a solid surface that cracked and collapsed. The creature held my neck while I looked at him as my wounds instantly healed from this person's attack.

I held his arm and severed it causing the creature to be dumbfounded as I stepped back looking at me rather intrigued.

"You manage to wound me…who are you mortal?

"You go first."

"Hmm, I am Chthon, the God of chaos and you shall be my new vessel instead."

"How about no."

I took this a lot more seriously and heard the being, Chthon began to laugh witnessing myself entrapped in distorted space but I used my power to shatter it and turn the dimensional spell into singularity sending it to my opponent who didn't flinch and change it into dust. 

It was then I felt a presence behind me and grabbed my neck but I distorted the space to remain at distances. 

However, this being was powerful and halted my space manipulation to pierce my body while trying to invade himself into my consciousness but I managed to move my body to create a hole for his hands to pass through while I took the moment to turn my body to punch him and barely distance him from me. 

'Raphael, any idea to win this fight?'

[ Nothing that certain of your victory, however, you only need to overpower him. Once you gain a hold of his consciousness then you'll able to corrupt him. ]

That wasn't very helpful at all but better than nothing. I turn to look at a person who manages to take a blow from my fist that easily demolishes an entire continent from a single swing. Not that I tried doing that but Raphael gave me the answer. 

"You are an interesting mortal! Despite the mere shadow of my true self you still manage to cause me pain. I shall remember your name as I devour your soul and gain that body of yours!"

"Sorry, I ain't gonna let some guy get inside me."

"Then I shall name you the...Scarlet king! Come and submit to me!"

I immediately cast a powerful barrier as he slammed his fist into the magic forcefield that shattered as I stepped back and created flesh spikes that turn into a singularity upon impact. 

My opponent only laughed and leaped towards me casting his own magic. From what I gathered this entity is only a small part of its true self like the Phoenix Force. 

This will take a while. Our clash causes the surrounding space to ripple in distortion trying to hold the might of our power.

"Hahahaha finally after countless years I am able to relish this sensation of chaos!"

"You talk too much."

His power flared even further while I decided to use the cosmic energy and the power that I was able to siphon off from the witch that probably belongs to this entity. He stepped back while I released immense power that exploded across this dimension. 

My hand began to conjure a weapon that was enough to kill this entity. There in my hands formed a weapon made from my flesh that acts as a conduit in my currently developing cosmic body within my pocket dimension and the chaos magic that belongs to this entity. 

"Hahaha you are indeed a more suited candidate than that woman!"

He vanished and appeared inches away from me but in that moment the scene changed and the entity pinned down with my new weapon. A spear made out of flesh that appeared to be cross. 

It tried to remove the spear only to find that it started to spread across its body and looked at me dumbfounded.

"This…impossible! You!"

Damn how strong is this guy!? His empowering me that my rapid evolution and adaptation is slowed down to a crawl compared to how it normally does. I poured even more of my power cosmic and chaos magic while I started to feel the change into my being.

"Bastard! Even if you defeat me, this is nothing but a false image of myself and when my true self descends upon your world, I shall come for those you love and devour their soul as you helplessly watch!"

"Then I'll be waiting and pierce this weapon of mine into your heart."

It manages to free itself and gets serious as we clash that shattering reality in this confusing dimension as our power couldn't be contained by this confined space. The more we fought the stronger and refined my spear became that scared even my opponent foreseeing his impending doom. 

"Gaaah! How can I feel pain with this shadow!"

It became more frantic and slower with his power slowly growing weaker every time my spear sliced through its flesh. In the end he was pinned to the ground with me looming over his beaten body.

"This is not the last you shall see me!"

It roared in desperation while I merely stared at it as my back grew serpent like limbs that started to tear the entity to shred as I absorbed even more of its power. I felt my being return outside where I exploded into powerful magic energy that would have been noticed by every entity if not for the dimension I was in. 

When everything settled down, I stood with my power and rose to the top even further than before. I turned to look at the darkhold that was now in my command. 

"Interesting…"

I read the content even further and found that it contained numerous dark spells. This item seemed to bend to my will and decided to make it into my weapon. 

I unconsciously thought of storing it and soon vanished into thin air then when I thought it back revealed itself to me. 

"I really need to find knowhere or any planet with Celestial seeds to forge this weapon into something wieldy."

I already find it inside earth and been siphoning its energy only to realize that it is absorbing the lifeforce of every lifeform in the world which I decided to severe and take what it gains. 

It was imperfect and incomplete that the seed only gave me small power but still it was an edge that I was able to be in this dimension and survived fighting that being earlier. 

I glanced at my hands and saw the weapon that I conjured. The spear shall be my weapon since this would be a lot easier and more refined. This shall be my all black. The weapon was now a raw material containing a large amount of cosmic energy and chaos. How funny since Cosmos means Order in Greek. 

I have the energy of Chaos and Order within this weapon that began to gain its own consciousness at a rapid pace. This is like my child being born.

"Sorry you were born this way. I'll make you stronger later but for now."

The spear listened like a good child and shapeshifted into a red cross necklace. Jeez it's not been that long but it already started to get clingy. I smiled before exiting the dimension.

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"Where did you find her?"

I returned talking to the profession while they analyzed Wanda for any injuries. I've already gotten a hold of the chaos energy and been helping her not be corrupted while also wielding the power.

"I was walking when I stumbled upon her unconscious on the grass."

He couldn't read my mind and only took my words for it while ensuring that this person was not an enemy. 

"It is a good thing that you called for us in this emergency. She seems to be a mutant and her power is unknown to us."

I nodded interested to hear that she was also a mutant and not just a magic user. After a while, Wanda was brought to the hospital bed to rest and guarded by Colossus to help if there was any problem. 

Meanwhile, I left and returned later when she woke up. I arrived to the others who were chatting and saw me quickly wave at me.

"Hey where did you suddenly go?"

Jean asked.

"I just went for a walk."

"A walk?"

"A very enthusiastic walk."

I smirked and sat on the grass with them.

"Hmm, when did you get this necklace, Sugar?"

Rouge noticed the necklace around my neck and was mesmerized by it. 

'Huh? No, they're not your mama!? What are they? I don't really know but the answer is maybe. Yes, protect them too.'

I could feel it talking to me learning more as time went on. 

"Actually-"

"It's a living creature that you created didn't you?"

Jean Grey chimed in.

"Living creatures?"

Ororo exclaimed. 

"What's the difference between this and his army of monsters?"

"I don't know but the Phoenix sense that it's a powerful living creature that has both cosmic power and something called chaos."

"Care to explain, sugar?"

I shrugged it off since I don't really hide much from them if not needed. I consider this as trivial and they do appreciate that I rarely lie about stuff. They're faces went through a series of expressions that I almost laughed at.

"You mean this is technically your child?"

Ororo asked.

"Yeah but I haven't decided on a name for it."

"How can you be cruel to name it when it was born!?"

She exclaimed disliking the idea of not naming when it's not really my child in a normal way but still I get where they're coming from. 

"Then do you girls want to decide?"

Upon saying these words I could see something in the air spark and realize that I just made war. 

'Huh? Well at least you're happy I guess.'

The living weapon spoke to me and was overjoyed that its "mother" was deciding a name for it. 

"Wait, is it a boy or girl?"

"Don't know since it doesn't have one…wait really? Guess, it's a girl."

Is it because the energy came from a female vessel? I mean it came from Wanda chaos magic and Jean's phoenix force cosmic energy. 

"A girl? I like it to be named Hope."

Jean suggested.

"You sure? I mean I don't think it's appropriate to call it Hope when it's a living weapon."

"I guess you're right. This is kind of hard…"

"Mine would be Rose, Sugar."

"Rose?"

"Yeah, she's red and I think it suits her."

"Great choice, what about you, Ororo?"

"What about scarlet?"

I gave it some thought since they seem to want to include the name they gave me. 

"So which one did she like?"

"Hold on. Guess it was like being called Scarlet Rose."

I was extremely happy with what it was called. The name seems fitting enough. 

"Awwww I wanted it to be mine…"

Jean Grey felt a bit disappointed that she couldn't get to name it. 

'Huh? No, she's not mad, just disappointed. Ah yeah sure I was planning on doing that.'

Damn didn't expect this child of mine to be quite kind and was worried for its "mother". 

"Cheer up, how about we head somewhere for lunch?"

I tried to ease her disappointment by patting her head. We were roughly the same height and enjoyed pampering her while the other girls became slightly jealous. Only a few more years I guess we'll be hitting off. 

She thankfully agreed to have some lunch to cheer her up and headed outside in the mall to hang out.

'Huh? Yeah I'll give you a humanoid body next time but for now it's best to stay the way you are. Ah good girl.'

It's quite innocent but she's still a weapon and willing to kill anything that harms anyone that I am close with. As we were relaxing, I felt my parasite back on the academy rang and found that Wanda was about to wake up.