CHAPTER 15

Andrew was now running as he sensed the heartbeat beating faster.

He stood in front of the only waterfall on this island.

He then used Blink to stand directly below the waterfall.

The speed of the water falling from above was not too high and he could easily withstand the pressure from the water.

He then used Dark Vision as he could not see anything visibly.

Exactly in front of him, he could see a path that is being blocked by a rock wall.

He pushed the rock to the side with difficulty and now he could see the path.

'Could this be a shrine?'

Andrew started to walk forward.

The pathway turned to two and he decided to go to the left first.

He moved forward, there were rocks everywhere so he had to climb a few of them, moved to the edge of the path as some had rocks closing the path.

He reached a dead end and he could not see any Runes in his Dark Vision as well.

He returned and took the other path.

This one was easy as it had a clear path not many rocks to climb or move close to the wall or narrowly walk.

Soon he felt two bright red lights at the end of his Dark Vision range and the HEARTBEAT also increased a lot more than on the other path he had taken.

As the distance decreased, he saw scriptures on the walls drawn from olden times if he was not wrong.

One scripture showed a flame blazing on dead bodies and as he walked the scripture continued showing the dead bodies rising back.

Another one showed, rocks falling from the sky.

'Could it be meteorites?' he thought.

Another one showed people praying to someone who was floating in the sky.

The last one that Andrew saw made him feel a dreadful feeling.

The scripture was bigger and what he saw was a man floating in the sky and behind him was a massive army.

He saw animals included in them but they were different from what he knew now and he could not pinpoint some of the animals as he did not know of them.

But the thing that made him feel dreadful was in the sky, flying animals and from all the things he had known about extinct animals, the one he is seeing right now was a dragon that was 1/4th of the size of the army and there was not one but 3 in the scripture drawn on the walls.

He now stood in front of the Runes which were laid on a surface of the same obsidian rock he had seen when he first met the Outsider.

There were also swords where the handle was attached to the place where the Runes lay and the sharp ends were positioned in such a way that they formed a semi-circle.

The whole area gave him the feeling of void that he felt before.

Once he took the runes and was about to unlock Domino, the swords came out and started to form a circle.

The cave started to shake and the swords pierced the walls above, below, and the sides as the swords were forming a circle it was bigger than the available room in the cave.

The swords started to rotate faster and Andrew felt himself being pulled into the center of it.

There was no escaping which Andrew knew and now he could get the answer to what is happening to him.

A white blinding light came in from the center.

Andrew closed his eyes and he felt himself entering through the center.

The next time he opened his eyes he was back; he was back to the place where he was given power and was given the chance to kill all the ones who betrayed him.

"Andrew, you wanted to find a shrine and you get one," The Outsider said as he materialized in front of Andrew.

"What were those scriptures?" asked Andrew.

"Those… they were of the olden times when I was still on Earth. I still can't believe they had not yet disappeared, war was ensuing and I had to act because they wanted me out of Earth. Well, I will tell you all of this at a later date. You seemed to have a question for me which you want an answer for. So, why don't you ask it?"

"What is happening to me?" asked Andrew.

The Outsider smiled and answered, "Once you got my mark it will start to change you, Andrew. Make you more adaptable to the void which you are in. Every Ability that you use comes through the energy of the void. You are body, your cells, and your organs are all slowly adapting to this energy. Your emotions are triggers to let them all out and you have to learn to control them."

"As you upgrade, and evolve abilities, the rate at which you can control void will increase and one day in the future you will not rely on the abilities and use them on your own but my mark will be the median which will help you in doing that."

Andrew was listening to the Outsider intently.

"So, you are saying that I can control the range of Dark Vision or Blink to how much ever I want?"

"Yes, but as I said it will take a long time for it."

Andrew started to think and then asked a question, "Void Resurrect, what does it do exactly?"

Andrew was not able to see the details of the ability as it was completely locked.

The Outsider grew serious and told him, "They bring the dead back to life as you saw in the scriptures. But remember this though they might have the souls they are not the same. All the ones resurrected will be completely loyal to you and will even kill the ones close to them."

The Outsider continued as he knew what Andrew wanted, "They will not be your wife and daughter Andrew and subjecting them to this is the worst possible thing that you can do to them."

'I will never do that to them,' promised Andrew to himself.

"But to your enemies…," the Outsider chuckled a bit.

The Outsider changed the topic, "Now you are going to start your revenge beginning with Zavez. He is someone who knows to hide when he knows his opponent is stronger than him. But who he goes for that is the issue? You believe he would have gone to Yellow or Damon but that is where you are wrong."

'Who can he go to other than Yellow and Damon?'

"When every child is scared who do they go to?" asked the Outsider.

"Mother," said Andrew.

"Correct."

Andrew was shocked as he remembers Zavez saying his parents were dead.

"They were killed in an accident. How can they be alive?"

The Outsider did not reply as he saw Andrew contemplating.

"Unless they had to disappear and they staged their deaths. If I find the ones who they were afraid of I might be able to use them to get to Zavez and I don't need to act and I can just watch everything from a distance," Andrew said which brought a smile to the Outsider's face.

"Death is not the best revenge, Andrew, there are always other ways to make them feel Death is the best gift for them."

"Good Luck," as the Outsider said that Andrew felt himself eject out of the Void.

Water started to fall onto him and he realized he was now back at the waterfall and the path to which he had collected the Runes had now disappeared.

'I need to find his entire bio and figure out a way to find where he is hiding now.' Andrew thought.

Andrew started to head back but it took him some time to get to the place where he decided to part ways with Barton and Natasha.

He then saw the house in the distance and walked to it.

As he entered, he saw all of them sitting on the chairs at the dining table with food on it. Though he did not see the kids except Scarlet.

Scarlet had already started to eat whereas the other three were watching and waiting for him to come.

Laura turned to see Andrew, "I have prepared a huge breakfast and I don't exactly know what you like so have a look and eat a lot."

Andrew went and sat next to Scarlet and patted her head.

"We will be leaving within an hour, Andrew, stay here for how long you want and if you are going to start let me know if you require anything," Barton said seriously.

"Thanks, Barton. Does Fury know I am here?" Andrew asked.

"Yes, you don't need to worry about him. He might come to meet you sometime and will try to recruit you into joining SHIELD. It's all your choice whether to do it or not. He might even use any unorthodox methods so be careful," said Barton solemnly.

"Stark is that your mission?" he questioned as he started to eat.

"Yes," Natasha answered.

Andrew thought for a moment and said, "Begin with Obadiah his uncle."

This brought questioning looks from both of them and Laura as well.

"Why him? He is uncle and he has been with Tony's father for a long time," as Barton kept speaking he realized.

"He benefits from Stark being dead," said Natasha as she also realized.

"Thanks, we better get going Nat," he turned to Laura and kissed her, and said goodbye to all of them.

Natasha did the same and also kissed Scarlet's forehead which brought a giggle from the girl.

"Thank you and I hope you regain yourself," said Natasha as she followed Barton.

After they had gone, Andrew and Laura had a chat about the incident and what he was going to do next.

They then talked about Scarlet.

Laura and Barton had decided to adopt the child and name Andrew her Godfather.

She also talked about getting medical attention to her as well.

"Thanks for the food, Laura," said Andrew, and Scarlet bobbed her head up and down.

"I will take you to your room," Laura said and guided the two to one of the free rooms in her house.

Soon, Andrew and Scarlet were on the bed. Scarlet slept within a few minutes.

Andrew unlocked Domino with 4 Runes and he closed his eyes to take a good rest which he had not been getting.