Loki looked in the direction I pointed, stilling.
"Good Gods."
The only way to describe it was like a Minotaur. It was comparable in height to Hulk, with the same muscular build. However it's face. It's face looked like a horned beastial mask.
It strode towards us. Fixated solely on the group of us.
Asgardian soldiers charged at it. Effortlessly it grabbed two of them by the throats, they struggled trying to penetrate its body with their swords.
We watched on in horror as it seemed to burn the skin off the soldiers faces right before our eyes. Their bodies falling at it's feet. Limp.
"No power of our enemies will stop me. I'll destroy your defenses and resurrect the rightful universe." It bellowed across the field towards us.
The Avengers assembled together around us, Thor strode up to stand beside Loki. I noticed the two of them exchanging looks at one another.
Sam landed gracefully beside me, folding his wings in he turned to me. "What in the name of hell is that thing?" He pointed at the Kursed before looking at us with wide eyes.
I shook my head. "I...I don't know."
"The Kursed." Thor's said bluntly.
"The what now?" Sam chirped.
"Something much more powerful than us I'm afraid." Loki sounded solemn. "And much harder to kill. It's almost impossible."
Tony landed beside us, his helmet opening to reveal his face, which was confused. "Soooo? We gonna fry that thing like some Kentucky chicken?"
Thor shook his head, "No my friend. We need to be tactical."
The Kursed was closing in on us.
"Well someone would need to think of something real fast!" Nat spat.
"I second that." Bucky nodded.
Steve ran at it, before anyone could stop him. But the Kursed threw its fist out, colliding with Steve and sending him flying back towards us.
I summoned my powers shooting vines up to catch him before he hurtled into us, and easing the force of the landing for him.
I ran over to him, "Steve what the fuck was that?"
Weakly he smiled, "Thought I could buy us some time. Man that thing is strong." He huffed out as he stood up brushing himself off.
I closed my eyes and summoned my powers again. Concentrating harder. We just needed some time.
The sky began to grow dark around us. The wind picking up, howling through the trees that flanked the field. I concentrated my efforts on the Kursed, trying to push it back to give us time.
I trapped it inside a vortex of air, "Guys I can't hold this thing forever! Someone make a damn plan already!" I could feel it pushing against my forces. It was stronger than anything I had ever been up against. I began to shake the harder I tried to keep it closed within the walls of the vortex.
Before anyone else could speak Thor launched himself towards it. I dropped my powers and watched as he flew through the air, raising his hammer above his head ready to attack.
As Thor went to land his blow, the Kursed deflected his hammer sending him flying across the field.
"THOR!" I screamed out in horror.
It made its way over towards the rocks, lifting a huge boulder and throwing it at Thor. I tried to use a gust of wind to deflect the boulder from landing on him but I wasn't fast enough.
Tony took to the air, using the repulsers in his hands to send energy blasts at the Kursed. Pulling its attention away from Thor momentarily.
"Ah excuse me. Sir! I'm sorry but Asgard is closed today. You better pack it up and get outta here!" Tony called to it.
It turned its head snorting in disgust at his feeble attempts of injuring it.
"Tell me Prince of Asgard, does this chattering iron animal speak for you?" It asked looking back at Thor who had now shoved the boulder off his body.
"Certainly not. I speak for myself. There's no point your leader is defeated. Leave this Realm." He said dusting himself off.
Tony began shooting the Kursed again, "You need to get lost Beef Jerky."
The Kursed grabbed another boulder and launched it, narrowly missing Tony who managed to dodge out of the way in time.
Thor ran at the Kursed again. Abruptly it grabbed him by the throat before punching him so hard, Thor created a track into the ground as he flew backwards.
It ran at him and began savagely beating him on the ground, in an attempt to beat him to death.
Before he could kill Thor, I ran at it.
Igniting my sword using my powers, I stabbed the Kursed through the chest, only for the unaffected beast to grab me and throw me back across the field.
Steve reacted quickly, jumping to catch me, holding me close to his body trying to absorb as much of the impact as possible as we hit the ground on his shield. The sheer strength of its throw knocked the air out of both our lungs.
This thing was dangerous. We really needed a plan.
Slowly we pulled ourselves up, as Wanda slipped her arm around my waist to steady me.
"I have an idea." She said to me. "We need Loki's help though."
Loki's hands were cupping my face instantly, I smiled at him before he could ask, "I'm fine. Stop worrying."
He closed his mouth, shaking his head. Clearly not impressed. I leant forwards and kissed him quickly.
That was a very dangerous move Darling.
You can punish me later.
That got me a look.
"Alright Loki, here's the plan. Guys! Huddle in!" Wanda called.
With that we quickly got to work.
Bucky and Steve ran towards the beast, taking its attention away from Thor again as they began using Steve's shield bouncing it off its body. The impact making it stagger slightly under the repeated hits.
Loki used his magic and duplicated himself a number of times, surrounding the beast. It lashed out around him in confusion. Trying to hit the numerous Loki's that were laughing manically at it. As well as dealing with Steve's shield.
While the Kursed was distracted, I used all my might to cause an earthquake below it. The shock waves it sent out below it caused it to stumble backwards, falling.
As the Kursed fell backwards everyone launched their attack, Tony shot energy blasts from his repulsers, Wanda hit it with red balls of energy, Steve hit it repeatedly with his shield.
As it fought to get up from the ground I summoned roots from the trees to wrap around its arms, neck, legs and torso pulling it back down. This gave Loki the chance to drop his illusion. He reached down activating one of the Kursed's black hole grenades on its belt before running back.
"See you in Hel!" He shouted.
The Kursed struggled against the roots, seeing what Loki had done. However he couldn't get himself freed in time, it was sucked into the black hole and died. As his body was crushed from the inside out.
Before any of us could celebrate our victory against the Kursed. It dawned on me, my Mother had been nowhere to be seen.
"Where? Where did my Mother go?" I asked as I scanned the battlefield frantically.
"I'm...I'm not entirely sure...STEVE ON YOUR LEFT!" Loki shouted as elves appeared from nowhere advancing on us again.
Nat was closest to me so I ran to her, "Nat! Ask Tony and Sam for visuals on my Mother!"
She placed her finger to her earpiece, "Guys we need a visual on Y/N's Mother. We've lost her here on the ground."
Tony and Sam zoomed about overhead, then I spotted Tony hovering. He looked down at me pointing across the field.
I looked over to see her clambering over rocks and slipping through a gap in them. I knew I had to be the one that went after her. Even if the rest disagreed.
I whistled and soon Hades landed beside me, I jumped onto his back effortlessly, slipping my sword into its sheath. Once seated we took to the sky and headed in her direction.