Salva(chapter 85)
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"What the fuck just happened?" Star brand said in shock, as did the other heroes, but none was more shocked than Star Brand as she remembered when she first met Oliver and how she wanted to attack. "Thank you," she said to Captain Marvel, who nodded. "Who the hell is he?" asked Captain Marvel to Wanda, who herself didn't know how to answer as she didn't have a clue. After they watched the Beyonder disappear into nothingness, they still had shocked expressions on their faces as Oliver returned to his human form, before he suddenly looked in their direction. "Wait, is it me, or is he looking at us?" Stark asked, and Thor replied, "I believe he is, he is looking at us from beyond time" before Oliver walked towards Wanda.
A soft smile graced his lips. "Hey, how are you doing?" he asked as he stared not into nothing but at Wanda, who looked at him with a surprised expression before she looked at the destruction on their sights, remembering the same destruction caused by Oliver's fight with Mjolnir. "Yeah, sorry about all of this," he said as he gestured to the literal hole in existence. "It's fine," she replied to him as he smiled. "I hope you and the concepts can fix it, ?$%?^%^£$^&$% with them yet" he said as he got close. "Would you be alright? You killed one of the Beyonders. They will be coming for you," she said as Oliver sighed, ignoring her question.
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Chapter 85
"Look, this time, don't look for me. I promise I will come back with your ring," he said with a genuine smile as he leaned forward, extending his hand, specifically his index finger, lifting up Wanda's chin, as he then leaned his head forward, their lips almost touching, "i dont care about the ring, just come back, promise?" she asked as she closed her eyes, although they where separated by time and space, she could still feel his touch. "I promise," he promised before he started to change, his body quickly becoming battered and bruised, a hand of his disappeared, replaced by a bloody stump where bone was still visible as blood flowed from his. One of his eyes was also missing, not to mention the numerous broken bones, before the scene shattered, leaving Wanda, who still had her head in the same position Oliver placed it in, sighing, "Come back," before they all left as the hole in existence was fixed.
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In the depths of Savage Land, inside a dark and eerie cave, the crackling of an egg could be heard as something hatched, something that the universe has never seen before, something that would usually shake the world as everyone knows it to be, and that something was an apex predator, with the potential to be an eldritch abomination. "Fuck, it's slimy." Within the eggshell that just hatched was a T-Rex hatchling, except this hatchling was large; not only was it bigger than the average T-Rex hatchling, but it had scales, horns, and was self-aware and intelligent, which was to be expected as this weird draconian/T-Rex hybrid was Salva, Oliver's split soul.
Now, he had the intense urge to eat the shell he just hatched from, which he just did. After filling his scaly and weird stomach, Salva, whose eyes could actually see well in the dark, stumbled and fell a bit as he couldn't get used to being in a T-Rex body. "This is so weird," he thought to himself as he balanced on his two large feet, only to fall as he flapped his two small T-Rex hands. "Ach, this is going to take some getting used to," as he did just that, experimenting with his new body, learning how to walk and stand properly, which he eventually did, giving him the peace of mind to actually notice the fact that his connection with Oliver was actually gone. "Huh," he thought in confusion as he picked up the small ring that was lying where he hatched.
"Now that I think about it, how do I actually use it? It's not like I can see the options. As a matter of fact, how can I use my ability to shapeshift which was provided by the second option on this body, or better yet, does it actually have those options as it's now considered a live body?" Many questions plagued Salva as he tried to find answers to those questions and the missing connection between him and Oliver didn't help much. But calming down, Salva then found a sharp rock which he then examined. "Well, doing some tests should help me figure out some abilities," he thought to himself as he stabbed himself with the jagged rock.
Which, as expected, hurt. "Shit, fuck, maybe jamming a fucking rock into my leg wasn't a good idea." After cursing at his own stupidity, Salva watched with amazed eyes as the wound on his scaly feet closed at a visible rate. "Undying, check," he smiled as he thought of the abilities he possessed. "Right, draconic breath." And what ensued was a T-Rex hatchling trying to regurgitate its own empty stomach as Salva tried to breathe fire, which the only thing he managed to do was cough up a puff of black ash, which nonetheless made him happy. "I guess I can check off draconic breath… maybe," he sighed as he thought of the next ability he should test out.
"Right, shapeshifting." Salva, who was sitting down humanly, which was weird for a T-Rex hatchling, spent several minutes trying to feel something to change. Well, he could feel something, like a switch, but it was as if there was an invisible film blocking him. "Maybe I'm not ready yet," he sighed as he tried the ring, which, much to his dismay, didn't work either. "It would have been nice if he actually left a little note explaining what the options on the ring were and how I could use it," he sighed. Even though he possessed the memories of Oliver and was essentially Oliver, just having the floating screen show the options on the item was essentially a huge help. "I should probably store it somewhere and come back to it later, maybe wear it when I take on a human form," he sighed as he buried the ring before exiting the cave.
Just getting out of the cave was a hassle on its own as the cave was quite big and you could easily get lost in it. But Salva eventually managed to find a way back to the outside world, which was, "a jungle?" Of course, he didn't expect it, as he sort through that he would find himself in a mountainous area. "This is actually good for me as I don't have to scale down a mountain while I can barely run. Although, I could just jump and let the healing factor take care of that," he mused.
As he walked into the jungle, the occasional roars in the distance, "Right, a region where prehistoric animals live," he sighed as he remembered his location. "I am going to nearly die, aren't I?" he asked himself as he took a couple of steps, while predicting his future, only for a very large python to literally strike from above and quickly wrap around him. "What the fuck," Salva was more startled than scared as he felt the python constricting him even more. "What… a… tight… welcome," he thought as he tried to breathe, but the python was about to break his ribs. Salva, of course, was not about to get eaten by a python, so he attacked back. Although he was a baby T-Rex, albeit a bit bigger, he still had sharp teeth, which he used to bite into the python's flesh before tearing off a chunk of it.
The python hissed with pain as it constricted Salva even more, even breaking his ribs. But Salva had Oliver's memories, and breaking a rib or two wasn't unheard of, nor was the pain unfamiliar, so he ignored it as he tore more flesh from the python until the python was dead, and Salva was actually eating the entire python, which was five times his size. "Hmm, it's actually quite delicious," he thought in between gulps and munches before he actually finished the entire python. After he was done, he spat out some chunks of meat and bones as he thought, "The percentage on the third option must have increased by a ton, huh?" He smiled happily, as happily as he could, but it did not; it only increased by one percent.
"Well, time to consume more things and grow stronger, then find out what was going on with Oliver." With his future steps highly lighted, a fully healed Salva with a bloody mouth trod through the Savage Land, hoping to encounter more things he could kill. And it was on this fateful day that an eldritch abomination with an equally abominable soul was born fully, and the Savage Land would be the first to feel his wrath, as Salvagem, the Devourer, was born, although he was just unaware of his place in the universe.
[One week later]
Still in the Savage Land, in a mushy area of the land where swamps stretched far and wide, the decaying woods were suddenly splintered as two large creatures crashed through the area. One of those creatures was a juvenile spinosaurus, which stood at an impressive eight feet tall, while the other creature was a T-Rex, a weird T-Rex with horns and scales of a dragon. This T-Rex was, of course, Salva, who was now seven feet tall. In the past week, all Salva had done was hunt and grow, allowing him to actually evolve once, which he was not prepared for as that actually shot his size from one foot tall to an impressive seven feet tall. Not only had his height increased, but so did everything about him: his weight, his muscles, his bones, his claws, his senses were heightened, his speed, strength, durability.
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Author's Note: Well, everyone, this marks the end of this volume.... Hopefully, you all had a fun time. In the meantime, I'd like to introduce Salva, Salvagem (I know, you don't have to mention). I promise he is a good clone—no betrayals or anything like that. So just relax and enjoy this volume of Marvel's shenanigans as Salva navigates through by brute force, consuming nearly everything in his path. I'm going to use him to touch on things I couldn't do with Oliver, so get ready for longer (and I mean longer) character interactions with Marvel's best and hottest, as he fights alongside the heroes of this universe while also trying to figure out what happened to Oliver.
However, I have some sad news—I must take a break from uploading as I literally have only one chapter in stock. I've been busy writing my MCU fanfic, and it's safe to say that I'm having more fun writing a character that leans towards the evil side of things. It's refreshing and comes with a lot of freedom, but it also means that I haven't been writing this fanfic as much. I will upload once more when I have a couple more chapters in stock. So, bye-bye for now.