Magical evening part 8

"Come on guys, can't you just surrender already?" Peter asked with a tired sigh as he leaped over two mages and slammed both their heads together before landing in front of another mage and head butting him away "I mean, most of your friends are dead, not by me mind you, and from what I'm hearing it sounds like your boss is getting the magic kicked out of him"

Peter ducked under a punch from a mage in a torn robe and quickly delivered a series of punches to the man's gut before kicking him away and into a nearby Model T car, caving the side in slightly

Peter winced at this "Ooh…sorry car!"

Peter than turned to see that there were only three mages left, one of them looked like he could barely keep standing while the last two looked like they wanted to turn tai and run. He figured it was only fear of their master keeping them in place. Peter's eyes narrowed at the men before shooting multiple web bullets at them and knocking to the ground before webbing them to the floor in a thick coat, he also made sure to cover their mouths so they cant utter some spell to free themselves

Peter seeing that the men were dealt with nodded before turning back to look at the coffin and felt himself tense…The lid was partially opened

"Ohh that's not good" Peter said nervously as he approached the container and looked to see that there was a small nearly unnoticeable amount of what was likely his blood on the edge. Peter's eyes narrowed at that as he tried to remember if he got that close to it when suddenly he remembered vaulting over the coffin when a mage threw several daggers at him and one of them sliced his arm open a bit

Peter looked towards the wound that's since stopped bleeding and groaned "Really need to make this thing knife proof or resistant or whatever the hell they call being anti-knife"

Peter returned his gaze towards the coffin and slowly peeked inside the lid to see what it was that had everyone clamoring for it

"Please don't be a mummy, please don't be a mummy…" Peter said as he pushed the lid opened a bit more before his eyes widened at what they saw

"…What the hell?"

…

"Okay it's official…I fuckin hate magic" Kaine growled out as he, Frank and Constantine were taking cover behind a destroyed stone column while Mordo was tossing explosive orbs of dark magic at them and the rest

"Can't blame ya to be honest mate" Constantine said as he peeked over the column to see Wonder Woman blasted into Zatanna, sending both women to the ground before chains made of blue and black energy erupted from the ground and ensnared both of them and kept them pinned

Nick was trying to get Mordo's attention by sending a series of mystical lightning bolts towards the powerful mage. Mordo's eyes found Nick and narrowed in both annoyance and rage

"I'm really starting to get tired of you Necro, why not do me and the world a favor and DIE!"

Nick's eyes widened as he saw multiple spears of blue energy coming towards him and was just narrowly able to dodge them with a reflection spell that redirected the lethal spell back towards Mordo who was forced to end the spell or risk being impaled. Mordo then suddenly appeared before Nick and before the New Yorker could react, he suffered a series of punches to his face and chest, some of which he was able to block, before being grabbed by the neck and slammed into the ground and kicked away by a smirking Mordo who finished Nick off with a blast towards one of the mage's arms

"AHHHH!" Nick yelled as he felt several bones in his arm break under the pressure of the magical attack

"So what's the plan Constantine?" Kaine looked towards the only standing mage left

John's eyes narrowed as he took in the scene before him and suddenly realized something "Where's the Witch?"

"Come again?" Frank asked with a slight frown of confusion as he loaded a small revolver he still had, it only had three shots left and the ex-soldier knew that unless a miracle happened, he wasn't going to be getting out of this situation alive, let alone get his revenge

"The Witch of Sokovia, she's missing" Constantine said as he ducked back down and turned towards Scarlet Spider "Did you happen to see a woman, attractive and mentally questionable anywhere when you arrived?"

Kaine nodded slightly "No why?"

"Yes Mr. Constantine why?" the voice of Mordo said from above the three

The trio looked up too seek Baron crouched on the destroyed column, looking down at them with amusement. Frank didn't hesitate to fire off a round at Mordo who stopped the bullet midair with magic before redirecting it back into the skull symbolled man's leg

"AHH!" Frank yelled in pain before Mordo landed before the trio

He sent a blast at Scarlet Spider, sending him flying away and caught a fist from Constantine before bringing the man into a head butt before grabbing him by the shoulders and lifting him over his shoulder and body slamming him into the ground. He would have continued but the Punisher speared him to the ground and punched the slightly surprised mage in the face hard

KRAAARK!

Mordo gritted his teeth in pain as his nose was rebroken by Frank who continued to wail on the mage before he was sent flying off the mage by an invisible force. Mordo spat out a tooth and some blood and slowly rose to his feet and conjured a small ball of black and red lightning in his hands

"I'm starting to see why my temporary and soon to be dead ally was hoping you were killed Mr. Castle" Mordo said darkly at the glaring Punisher "I won't be making that mistake again-"

Mordo was interrupted by a scarlet bolt of lightning that struck him in the chest and sent him flying across the room before his flight was halted by a large scarlet colored magic circle forming and shooting another scarlet bolt out of it and shooting the wounded mage into the ground

Mordo growled in rage and stood up in time to see at least six magic circles surrounding him, all coated in scarlet lightning and aiming right at him. The former defender of K'un-Lun eyes widened in shock at this

"Ah shi-"

KRRAAAK-BWOOOOOOM!

Kaine saw all this and looked around for the mage that casted it and saw a woman not too far away, floating in a lotus position with her eyes glowing scarlet red and a small storm of scarlet lightning and black mist floating around her like a small cyclone while her hands each had a small magic circle around them

"…Wanda?" Kaine said in shock as he watched Peter's old sort of girlfriend continue to mutter something under her breath while simultaneously continuing her unrelenting onslaught on Mordo

"Know her too?" Constantine asked as he pushed himself up and wiped some blood from his mouth

"Long story" Kaine said with a sigh 'Wonder how many times Peter has said that!'

"ENOUGH!"

Suddenly a large blast of green and black mystical power erupted from the small crater being formed as a result of Wanda's mystical bombardment, at the center was a snarling Mordo whose eyes were glowing green and black energy was building in his hands

"I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY THE LIKES OF YOU!" Mordo shouted in a dark booming voice before he sent out a pulse of green energy towards Wanda whose eyes narrowed just as she finished utter her spell

Kaine waited for the mystical wave of deadly magic to hit the floating witch with but was surprised when it suddenly vanished without a sound!

"What the…?" Kaine said in confusion while Constantine's eyes narrowed in interest before looking over to see a shell shocked Mordo who slowly looked down at his hands

"W-What did you do to me?" Mordo asked as he tried to summon his power but found nothing

Wanda let out a shaky breath as she slowly floated back down to the ground before she collapsed to her knees, sweat pouring down her face as she took several breaths

"Simple...I…removed…Your magic…" Wanda panted out tiredly, indicating that casting the spell was anything but simple

The chains that were holding Wonder Woman and Zatanna down faded allowing both women to recover, Diana summoning a sword as she approached the still shocked Mordo carefully and the mistress of magic checking on Nick who was leaning against the wall and cradling his arm

Just as Diana was about to grab Mordo, a gunshot echoed through the room and Diana felt and saw a bullet shoot past her head and bury itself in Mordo's eye who screamed in pain

"GAAAAAAH!" Mordo clutched his now bleeding eye socket in pain as he stumbled back before falling to the ground

Diana quickly looked behind her to see Frank limping towards her with a glare on his face

"Not so tough without your fancy spells now are ya you piece of shit?" Frank gritted out in anger and pain

Diana immediately stepped between him and the wounded mage on the ground and raised her sword at the man "Halt, who are you?"

Frank came to a stop and eyed the woman before him "Your Wonder Woman…right?"

Diana's eyes narrowed "Yes…"

Frank nodded at that "My uh, daughter used to be a big fan of yours"

It was then that Diana's eyes widened slightly "…'Used'…past tense…"

Frank then glared at the now quite but still living form of Mordo "That piece of shit, bleeding on the ground behind you…he killed my family…tore them to pieces…"

Diana looked over her shoulder at the man who was now glaring at her and Frank while clutching his bleeding socket. She then turned back to Frank while also noticing Peter's brother approaching them as well. Constantine was currently making his way towards Zatanna who was supporting Nick while Wanda to her shock was nowhere to be seen…

"You want to kill him in revenge" Diana concluded which Frank responded with a nod

Diana's brow furrowed at that and was about to speak when Kaine spoke up "Actually can I get a few more hits in before the terminator here can kill him? The guy turned me into a zombie and made me do his bidding like a bitch"

Diana eyed both men before her before she sighed "I'm afraid I can't allow you two to do that. Once more he is beaten and no longer possess a dang-"

"What makes you think that Amazon?" Mordo spat out as the veins around his eyes started to glow red along the inside of his mouth

Diana backed away in shock as did Frank and Kaine as they saw Mordo's eye and his eye socket begin to glow red and stand up

"I thought that Witch depowered him!" Frank growled in annoyance

"She did…" Mordo chuckled darkly, his voice sounding like there was three of him speaking at once "…but I still have…one more trick up my sleeve"

Kaine felt his spider-sense begin to flare as Mordo's face contorted into one of pain before suddenly his tunic tore to reveal his muscles were expanding, tearing free from his skin that was quickly re-growing and turning even darker. He began to grow several feet while his face became consumed by dark red and black fire

"What the fuck…?" Frank said in shock as he watched Mordo turn into some sort of fire head monster

Diana glanced at the now near eight-foot-tall Mordo whose head was now replaced by a ball of red and black fore with a glowing white maw and two white eyes. His body was now more muscular and his hands now had flaming claws on the end of them and the veins in his body looked to be glowing with fire running through them. It was then at several small mouths opened all across Mordo's body, the largest forming on his stomach which opened to reveal a mouth full of teeth and fire

The Amazon that glanced back down towards her sword "I'm gonna need a bigger weapon…"

"RAAAAAAAGH!" the large demonic Mordo roared before multiple torrents of fire erupted from the numerous mouths on his body and headed straight of the trio

Diana quickly grabbed both Frank and Kaine before she leaped back and away from the now burning ground they were just occupying seconds ago. Her eyes widened as she saw several of the fire streams follow her and the two men. She quickly tossed both men behind her and brought her bracelets up to block the flames, gritting her teeth in pain as the flames began superheat the metal and burn her wrists

Just as it looked like the flames would consume her a torrent of water and ice shot past her and pushed the demonic flames back. Diana quickly looked over her shoulder to see it was Zatanna

"Thanks…" Diana nodded towards the woman

"Your welcome" Zatanna nodded at the princess before she quick chanted off a incantation in reverse that had several blue and white magical portals form around Mordo's form before spraying him in ice

"RRRAAAAAAAAAWWWW!" Mordo roared in rage as steam began to build up around him

"What has happened to him?" Diana said as she watched Mordo struggle to defend himself from the ice

"He's more or less given up his body to the cosmic being that he's the sort of servant for. And from the looks of it, it was Dormammu" Nick said as he scanned Mordo's form "Crazy bastard… making a deal with something that malevolent and powerful"

"I take it this Dormammu is a being not to be trifled with?" Diana questioned, wondering just how malevolent this being was…

"He's arguably the most powerful demonic force in existence with only like three guys rivaling him" Constantine said with a shrug "Sort of like the god of dark magic, in fact legend has it that he was the one that introduced dark magic into the universe"

"So how do we beat him?" Frank asked

"Simple, we just wait for Mordo's body to give out. Thanks to the Witch's spell, Mordo doesn't have any magic left to sustain his body while it's sort of controlled by Dormammu and given the state he was in beforehand, I don't think it'll take long" Nick said

"And how long can that take?" Kaine asked as he watched Mordo blasted the ice away with a small pulse of fire before centering his gaze on them

"Few minutes at the most" Nick said

Diana hummed at that before she looked over towards Zatanna "Keep him from getting to fired up…"

She than launched herself at Mordo who did the same and caused the two to collide with a shockwave

KRAKKOOOOOOOOOOM!

…

Peter stared blankly at the artifact that was in the coffin. He was expecting some sort of powerful looking weapon, a creepy looking Mummy or some weird Ark of the Covenant ghost swarm not…

A helmet…a helmet that looked like his red and blue suit's mask only it was black and the webbing design on it was silver and raised a bit to make it stand out more. The lenses were missing, allowing who would ever where the helmet have their eyes and brows exposed

Peter carefully reached down and grabbed the helmet and felt a cold tingling feeling travel up his arm and down his spine. He ignored it and slowly brought the face of the helm to his and looked at it intently

"So, the artifact that's connected to the Web of Life is a helmet…" Peter said as he turned the metal head piece side to side and even looked inside it to see if there was more "That's it?"

He received no answer before he let out a groan "I swear you better be like the helmet of Nabu and have whoever puts you on becomes some sort of super powered magical guy or something because this is the biggest let down I've ever had…well not the worst but still definitely not one of the best!"

"What is?" the voice of Wanda spoke up behind Peter causing him to shriek and accidently drop the helmet on the coffin's lid, creating an loud clanking sound throughout the room

He tunred to see a tired looking Wanda looking at him in confusion before she spotted the helmet on the lid and narrowed her eyes at it, partly at what it was and partly because she could sense something off about it…

"That's what's been in the coffin? This helmet?" Wanda pointed towards the slightly teetering helm

"Yeah…" Peter said as he followed her finger towards the helm that was staring up at him with it's hollowed out eye holes 'Yeah that's actually kind of creepy…'

He then turned back towards Wanda with some confusion "Why are you here?"

"The fight with Mordo ended and I didn't see a reason to stick around" Wanda shrugged before they both felt a tremor "…Well it ended when I left"

"What did you do to beat him?" Peter asked as he grabbed the helmet and attacked it to his belt

"I tore his magic out" Wanda said indifferently

Peter's eyes widened at that as he turned to gape at the Witch "You…tore his magic out?"

"Yes" Wanda nodded "Wasn't easy, partly because with how powerful he was and partly because of how complicated the spell I used on him was. One minor mistake and I could have ended up causing an explosion of mystical energy to rival the likes of a nuclear bomb"

Peter stared at the woman in shock for several moments before speaking "I'm torn between being impressed and terrified at the moment"

Wanda giggled at that before they both felt the building violently shake, causing Wanda to fall against Peter who blushed as he felt the woman's 'assets' push into him

"Oh uh sorry, are you okay?" Peter asked as he held on to Wanda

The Witch looked up at Peter and smiled "Yes…I am now…"

Peter blushed a bit harder because he could feel Wanda pushing into him harder and was about to tell her to stop when a large flamed figure burst through the ground and landed on an old Porsche with a heavy thud

Wand and Peter quickly separated as they watched the large demonic looking figure stand up and turn his flaming head towards them

Its white eyes narrowed at the sight of Spider-man and the Witch "YOU!"

"I'm sorry but have we met? Because I think I would remember meeting a guy with a flaming head and a bunch of mouths all over his body leaking fire" Peter said as he felt his spider-sense tingle in warning

"Its Mordo" Wanda said with wide eyes as she could feel the malevolent power coursing through the former mage "And he's…been taken over by Dormammu…"

"Is that bad?" Peter asked concerned

"Very…" Wanda said with a small tremor of fear in her tone, she's read plenty of tomes on Dormammu that's given her nightmares for weeks on end

"And just when I though tonight couldn't get any worse" Peter said as he rubbed his head before looking up at the approaching Mordo "Hey look it's been a long day, so how about we-"

Mordo interrupted Peter with a dark growl of pure rage before he spat a storm of fire towards Peter and Wanda. The red and black clad woman didn't hesitate to conjure up a shield to protect them from the harmful flames while Peter activated his ear piece that he was glad to see was still working

"Hey Wonder Woman there's a-" Peter was interrupted by the sight of Diana shooting out of the whole made by the Dormammu possessed Mordo and ram her fist into the distracted mage's flame covered head

KRAKOOOOM!

Mordo's head snapped to the side before Diana rammed her fist into his gullet that sent him flying through the air and into the ceiling before he landed on a old horse drawn carriage. Mordo growled in rage and lifted his head to see Wonder Woman summoning two axes for her to fight with and was about to attack when suddenly the Scarlet Spider appeared behind her and shot a arch of his green and yellow venom blasts right into his eye and caused him to roar in pain before the two axes blades dug into both his shoulders

Diana than used the weapons to lift Mordo up and swung him around before releasing her grip on the handles and sending the snarling demonically possessed mage flying through the wall and into the building's courtyard outside

"Oh never mind" Peter said as he shut his com off and turned to see Zatanna, Nick and Constantine emerge from the hole in the ground on a magical platform "And there's my favorite mage…and Constantine…and I guess Nick too"

Nick glowered at the man before he saw the coffin was open and quickly approached it and looked inside to see it was empty "W-What? But where…"

It was then that Nick looked to see a black and silver helmet strapped to Spider-man's belt. He narrowed his eyes at it and approached the injured wall crawler

"That helmet, was that what was inside the coffin?" Nick asked

"Nick-" Zatanna began only for her boyfriend to press on in his questioning

"Was there anything else inside? A book, was there a book?!" Nick asked almost desperately

Peter's lenses narrowed at the man "No…just the helmet…"

"SON OF A BITCH!" Nick screamed in outrage as he kicked the side of a car, causing the door to cave in slightly under the force of the blow

Zatanna jumped a bit at the action before she carefully approached Nick and wrapped her arms around him and began to whisper soothing words into his ear

"Shh…it's alright…it's okay calm down…"

Constantine sent Nick a slightly pitying stare before he approached Spider-man, Scarlet Spider, Wonder Woman and the Witch "So I guess we finally found out what the big fuss was about…a damn metal hat. And here I thought this damn McGuffin would actually be worth something"

Peter shrugged as he looked around the garage and frowned and noticed a certain someone missing "Hey, where's Frank?"

"Him?" Constantine said with a quirked brow "Don't know, he sort of vanished once Wonder Woman here and Mordo really started to tear into each other"

"He ain't dead far as I can tell, bastard's too stubborn to die" Kaine said as he looked down at the helmet that Peter had with him "So that's what Mordo wanted me to get him…lame"

"I know right?" Peter said with a snicker "I was half expecting a swarm of creepy angel spirts to pop out like in India Jones or something"

"What does it do?" Diana asked as she scanned the helmet with interest and couldn't help but admire the craftsmanship, even if the object gave off an unsettling feeling for some reason

"Don't know but-" Peter began only for his spider-sense to tingle just as he was pulled away from the group by an invisible force, through the wall and right into the clawed burning hand of Mordo

The possessed mage stared into Peter's eyes with his glowing white eyes and snarled "You've cost me dearly today little Spider…I will enjoy watching lord Dormammu tear your soul apart piece by piece"

Peter tried to pry the burning clawed hand of his throat as he glared at Mordo's flamed head "Yeah well I'm afraid he's going to have to take a number because I already a creepy demonic lord after my sweet little buns"

Mordo roared in rage and was about to tear off Peter's head when suddenly he was entrapped in a green box, forcing him to let go of a surprised Spider-man

"Hey Spider-man, looks like you can use a hand" Green Lantern said as he along with Superman slowly descended as a Boom tube opened and out stepped Cyborg, Aquaman, Flash, Steve Trevor and about a dozen armed men all decked out in combat gear

"Spider-man…" Steve nodded towards the man and looked to see Diana along with several others he doesn't recognize and a person in a red and black version of Spider-man's suit approaching

"Steve?" Diana said in surprise "What are you and the League doing here?"

"Thought you could use some help" Steve said with a grin as he nodded towards the 'trapped' Mordo "And looks like I was right"

"Where's Batman?" Spider-man asked with a frown under his mask while he slowly made his way next to Kaine

"Still in Gotham" Superman answered "Apparently the Joker has taken the Mayor hostage with the help of his new sort of side kick Harley Quinn"

"So the flying rodent thinks that some clown is more important than a guild of mages led by some demon possessed ass?" Kaine said with a shake of his head "Jesus fuckin Christ-"

"Hey, knock it off" Spider-man shot his brother a warning before he felt his spider-sense tingle and he groaned "Oh for the love of-"

KRABWOOOOM!

Mordo had been using that moment to build up his energy before forcibly expelling it outwards, destroying the emerald box he was in and sending the heroes flying. The first to recover was Superman who immediately shot towards Mordo with a stern expression

Mordo growled and sent a fist towards the man of Steel that was easily caught by Superman. Mordo's eyes narrowed in annoyance while Superman smirked before he blasted the larger being in the chest with his great vision

Mordo stumbled back slight in shock more than pain before he growled at Superman "That's how you wanna plat it? Fine!"

Mordo shot out a torrent of fire towards Superman who quickly sped around only to be blasted away by a follow up attack. Mordo who have followed after the man of steel if it wasn't for Wonder Woman appearing and ramming her fist into his gut again, causing him to stagger back under the next several hits dished out by the Amazon

He tried to attack her in return but several venom blasts to the face from both Spider-man and Scarlet Spider stopped him and allowed Wonder Woman to deliver the mother of all hail makers into him

KOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The force of the blow sent Mordo flying back and into the wall surrounding the courtyard. He fell to his knees and looked up just in time to see a scarlet streak ram into him and send him through the wall

KRAAKOOOOM!

"RAAAAAAAAGHHH!" Mordo roared in outrage and quickly slammed his hands into the ground, upheaving the area and forcing the Flash back while Green Lantern flew in from above and created several jets with his ring and sent them flying towards the hissing Mordo

The emerald constructs collided with Mordo's form, creating a small explosion made up of a combination of green energy and demonic flames

"Is he down?" Spider-man asked as he leaped through the hole made by Mordo courtesy of Flash and narrowed his lenses at the slowly rising form of Mordo "Jeez how much can this guy take?"

"It's like fighting Darkseid all over again" Aquaman commented as he stood next to Spider-man with his trident at the ready "And I can see that he's given his soul to Dormammu…"

"You know who that is?" Peter asked as he watched Aquaman twirl his trident so that he was holding it in a reverse grip

"Yes, I've encountered his servants before" Arthur said before he threw his spear right into the chest of Mordo who let out a pain roar before a large emerald fist landed on him before rising up and coming down on him again and again for several moments before stopping just as a small column of fire erupted from the crater

Spider-man gestured for Flash to check it out who immediately appeared at the edge of the depression before crouching down and looked at the prone form in it

"What do ya see?" Spider-man asked as he and Aquaman approached the crater

"A half-naked guy" Flash responded with a shrug as he stood up

Spider-man looked down to see Mordo back in his human form, at least he thinks that what it is since until the garage he never saw the guy. He looked towards Diana who landed beside him while Steve's men surrounded the crater, their weapons trained on the bruised and beaten form of Mordo

"That him princess?" Peter nodded towards the figure in the crater

Diana nodded "Yes, that's him. He looks a bit skinnier than last time though"

Peter nodded at that before he jumped into the crater and landed next to Mordo who looked up at him weakly

"Hey, this sis gonna be a bit hard for you to believe but…you lost" Peter said with a chuckle at the end as he webbed the man up in the last of his web fluid before throwing him over his shoulder and leaping back up towards the rest of the team and handed him towards Steve who stumbled a bit with the sudden weight "Here ya are Steveie, one homicidal depowered mage!"

"Thanks" Steve said in a dry tone as he handed the defeated mage to several of his men before he pointed to another "Radio to base, tell them to send some more men here to help us secure this place. Round up any survivors and report back to me"

"Yes sir" one of the men nodded before gesturing for six others to follow him into the fortress

Peter watched them go before looking towards Lantern and Flash "Go help them out, they might end up needing you two"

"On it" Flash nodded before zipping past him and into the fortress followed by a annoyed green Lantern

"If I get cursed I'm blaming you!" Hal shouted towards Spider-man

"Wouldn't be the first time" Peter replied back with a chuckle before looking around to see that Constantine, Nick, Zatanna, and Kaine were gone!

"They left not long after you went after Mordo through the hole Flash made with him" Wanda said as she approached him

"And you stuck around because?" Pete looked towards the smirking Witch

"Because I wanted to thank you for the amazing evening and I hope we can do this again sometime" Wanda said before she did something that surprised both him and the present members for the Justice League

She lifted Peter's torn mask up to his nose and slammed her lips into his and gave the wall crawler a deep and passionate kiss

Diana who was watching this felt her brow twitch in annoyance as she watched Wanda deepen the kiss even further before pulling back and giving her teammate a wink before she took several steps back

"See you around Spider-man!" Wanda waved to him as a small cyclone f red mist and energy pulled around her and she vanished

Peter wo was still dazed by the magical kiss could only nod dumbly before he pulled down his mask and turned to see Superman and Aquaman smirking at him, Steve giving him an annoyed look and Diana…

She looked like she was about to hunt down Wanda and skin her alive

Still Peter had to admit, it was a pretty amazing night… and he may be looking forward to another night on the town with Wanda

'Forgot how much fun she could be' Peter thought with a silent chuckle as he turned to look up towards the rising sun in the distance 'Still...I cant help but fell like I'm forgetting something...'

Not too far away from the group of heroes and armed soldiers, Frank was looking through the scope of a sniper rifle with Mordo's head in his crosshairs. His finger slowly tightened on the trigger and was about to blow the man's head clean off when one his escorts got in the way and caused Frank to let out a cures and watched as the mage was escorted through the portal to whatever prison cell that was being set up for him

"...Dammit"

…

One week later…

Peter was in the storage room of his high-rise apartment that over looked Central Park. He was currently placing the helmet he got from the coffin on a small shelf and took several steps back to admire it's position. Peter stared into the empty eye holes of the helmet for several moments before he shrugged and turned to leave the room, making sure to cut off the lights while he was at it

It wasn't long after Peter left the helmet that for the briefest moment a small red light flickered in the eye holes and a faint dark whisper could be heard

'What…what is this?'