When John appeared again, he was near Hela who was all chained up with various golden chains holding her down. She looked all drained out and skinny. Her eyes had anger as she looked at the new visitors who had just arrived in that god forsaken place.
In Helheim, she had dead souls to accompany and was at least free. But here there was nothing. All the time was she chained up and there was no connection to Asgard from which she could draw her power.
"How the mighty had fallen!!" John said as he looked at her sorry figure. Hela looked at him with burning eyes.
"There is no point in having that amount of hatred towards me. It was you who brought this upon yourself. And honestly, if you go out now your brother will just imprison you again. You are in no match for him now and that is even after returning to Asgard again. He has become way too powerful than you imagine him to be." John said.
Hela looked confused when John spoke of her brother. The last time she saw her brother was on the losing side but now this person who overpowered her came to say that she wasn't powerful anymore.
"Let me out. I will show you how powerful I am." Hela said which grinding her teeth. John, who was walking away, stopped and looked at her.
"As you wish, after we deal with another person I will let you out. You will know how we have changed. You will get to see your elder sister too." John said.
"Elder sister? Mine?" Hela was more confused now. John then looked at the whole new dimension that was in his amulet.
It looked endless but there were several broken islands and palaces over the dimension floating. Though John could always feel the presence of dimension, he didn't actually explore much using his consciousness.
"This is bigger than I imagined it to be." John mumbled.
He flew to one of the floating islands where everybody gathered. They would be here for quite a long time so they needed to find a place which was conformable and would be away from the vengeful eyes of Hela.
As John arrived at the place, he was surprised to see Strange had made some burning fire pit with all the materials around and made it seem like they had come for a campfire.
"We are getting too comfortable. Are we?" John said.
"What? Constantine will take a lot of time to reach hell. He will go through rounds of alcohol and cigarettes and God knows what deploring places he will take her." Strange complained.
"He isn't that bad as he shows." Z replied, trying to defend her.
"We know, he was just being an a**hole." Mordo said paying no respects to him as the Sorcerer Supreme. Strange didn't mind the insult Mordo just gave him.
"John, you had fun in the over universe. Tell us about it. Did you kick Strange's ass?" Mordo asked as he was interested in what they did in the other universe.
"Huh.. I didn't have fun. It was them who had fun." John said as he pointed to the other members. It was true, he was just lazing around while the others went and did superhero stuff.
Mordo's eyes shined when he looked at the others. Even Strange was interested to know what had happened. Finally, Triss took the responsibility of narration and said what they had done in the other universe.
They were really surprised to know that the universe was in such a bad position because of John's actions but theiy both believed what John had done was right. The new trio that had joined too got to know new information about John and their travels and they were surprised beyond imagination.
"No wonder Khonsu repeatedly told me not to go on bad terms with you. You are one of a kind." Moon Knight said.
"I am not a monster. Just protective of what I love." John said. Later they all made small talk and passed the time. At one moment John asked.
"What do you three call yourselves? Do you have any names?"
"Name? You mean like the Avengers? We are too small of a team to name ourselves." Blade said as he shook his head.
"Oh right." John said in a low tone
"Why does it sound like that these people have a name for their team?" Strange said as he could feel John was disappointed that the trio didn't name themselves.
"Uhh.. Not gonna lie, I was expecting that." John said.
"What is the name of the team that they have in a different universe?" Mordo asked as he was pretty sure John knew of the name since he had hinted that the team had a name. John hesitated a bit before replying
"There is a name. But that name was given by him." John said, pointing at Strange.
"Me? Why will I use names to indicate a team? I can never do such a useless thing."
"Says the person who calls himself Sorcerer Supreme and has many procedures in the medical field named after his own self." John said, retorting Strange. Mordo too looked at Strange calling out his hypocrisy.
"Fine I will name our team which is going to fight Mephisto. We will call ourselves Midnight Sons. How does that sound?" Strange said as he could feel all were looking at him with fiery eyes.
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"That's sexist of you." Yen called him out for only naming the boys.
"Ok. How about Midnight sons and daughters." Strange said as he felt bad to leave out the women in the team.
"That's more like it. I love the name." Z said.
"Is it the same name he gave to the team in other universes?" Mordo asked as he could see the smile of John.
"Yeah. Midnight Sons was the team of all boys. It was a bigger team though with Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, Man-thing and various others. There were always 9 in the team." John siad.
"See I was right. Midnight sons." Strange said as he posed a victory sign.
"Who is this Ghost Rider? Man-thing?" Z asked.
"Ghost Rider? Now that's a story of his own. A long story of angels and demons. But Man-thing, he is exactly like Swamp-thing. You definitely know Swamp - thing. Don't you?" John said as Z had a close relationship with Swamp-thing previously.
"Yeah I know."
All got interested to know about the various members that their new team Midnight Sons had in other universes and John had to explain their stories to the others.
"Never knew the team we jokingly made had such a serious history." Dane said. (I don't remember Black Knight as being a member of Midnight sons but the way MCU is going now I feel they are going to incorporate him in the Midnight sons.)
They wanted to know more about different universes and thus John had to say some of the stories he read in the comics. In this way hours went by. John even had to bring out from his treasury to feed everyone.
But suddenly as they were all lazing around there was the voice that echoed in the dimension.
"Guys I will call you soon. Get ready." Constantine said. All got alert when that alert came. They knew that the fight was near.
And after a few moments they could feel something was trying to put them outside the dimension. Like last time, this time too they let it happen and in the next moment they were transported to an unknown place.
The place looked like it was burning in fire. With high temperature around.
The color was red. Both the land and skies. The place looked vast. Not because of the land and skies but because of the endless demons they could see crawling everywhere surrounding the place where they had been summoned.
The demons looked just like they had all imagined. Humanoid beings with red skin and two horns. even their eyes were red. And when they all turned their heads they saw a huge red skinned man sitting on a throne made of huge bones. It looked like the Iron Throne but it was bones in this case.
The man had larger horns And beside him stood a pale skinned person who had fags from his mouth and covered in cloak.
All of them who were summoned knew who these people were.
"Such a gift you had brought for me Constantine." said the man who sat on the throne.
"You wanted me to bring someone in order to be the right hand and be in that position I need to bring more gifts. Don't you think so?" Constantine replied with mockery and confidence. He was confident that they would come out as victorious. Since had said there would be more friends arriving
"So you have brought the Phoenix Force. That is so stupid of you." said the pale skinned man said.
"Why? Are you scared of fire that is more powerful than the sun?" John said as his entire body burnt in flames like Ace from One Piece (Johnny storm of Fantastic Four)
All the other demons didn't feel anything but Dracula had to cover his face with the cloak to stop the light of the Phoenix Fire.
John could feel that he had the powers of fire but he had lost the reality bending ones. He couldn't make things out of thin air, nor could he destroy as he wished for. But the fire of Phoenix wasn't to be looked down upon.
"See you still fear the sun though you have always claimed to be no fear. Chthon didn't give you all his powers dear servant." John mocked. Mephisto creases his brows by seeing the huge burning power of John who has used the Phoenix force.
Mephisto, seeing this, used his reality bending powers to stop the burning fire's intensity of John. As he waved his hands his hands were stopped by another hand stopping him right in his tracks.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." said the man who stopped him. Meephisto jumped away from his throne. He didn't see when a person was standing behind and even stopped him. This gave him a scare. In this dimension he knew everything that was going on.
When John and others were summoned he felt their arrival too but the man that just stopped him, he had no idea when he arrived.
It was because the man was the devil himself.
Lucifer Morningstar.
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