Illyana doesn't think she has ever been more in love with anything than now, watching as her girlfriend’s eyes became fluorescent green, a large dome of leaves and green magic surrounding zir and the rest of the team. “Fucking kill them !” Mantis screamed, pointing at the legion of approaching vampires in front of them, Starlord and Scarlet Witch shooting forward at her order, the others following soon after. Illyana blinked, shaking her head to get out of her thoughts, focusing on the enemies and not how beautiful Mantis looked like this.
Illyana couldn't help but stare for a moment longer, the way the vibrant green light danced around Mantis, zir glowing eyes bright with excitement. Even in the heat of battle, there was something about her girlfriend's magic that made zir look like something out of a dream. No. Focus, Illyana. Focus. No time for daydreaming.
The vampires were getting closer to the mission vehicle, way too close for comfort. Illyana gritted her teeth, her soul sword materializing in her hand with a flash of orange light. Illyana couldn't help but shoot one more glance at the healer (her healer), before dashing into the enemy lines, flanking Captain America as he mowed through vampires with his shield. Mantis was following behind them steadily, boosting all of them with extra health and strength as zir green aura warded off their attackers.
"Not bad, angel," Illyana called out, her voice cutting through the chaos, the fond sarcasm laced in her tone earning a grin from the woman. "But I’d prefer it if you left some for us to kill instead of warding them away.” She winked, slicing through one of the approaching vampires.
Mantis grinned back, zir soft laugh carrying over the battlefield . "Oh, don’t worry! Hawkeye says there are much more troupes on their way to annoy us”. Illyana’s lips twitched into the smallest smirk as she swung her sword, cutting through a vampire’s chest with a swift swipe. Her eyes flicked back to Mantis—still effortlessly healing everyone on the battlefield, shooting a ray of green life energy through a few vampires, making them drop to the ground, sweet and deadly at the same time.
God, sometimes that was exactly what Illyana loved most about zir. The way Mantis was usually the most gentle and softest person she knew, but could turn into a fearsome soldier in an instant when needed.
"Focus, Illyana," Mantis called again, zir voice sharp but affectionate as ze shot an orb through a stray vampire aiming for Illyana. "We’ve got work to do. We’re undefeatable” ze grinned softly, using zir powers to put a group of vampires to sleep, letting Thor get rid of them quickly. Illyana rolled her eyes but couldn’t suppress a smirk. "Right. Time to kill some vampires” she sighed, letting her healer give her one lest strength boost before unleashing Darkchylde, dashing forward with a portal into the middle of one of their attacker’s group. Mowing down vampires left and right, her demons started surrounding her, not helping Illyana’s control over Darkchylde. “Angel, a little help?” She grunted, calling out to her girlfriend. Surrounded by dead vampires, she held off more attackers until Mantis made zir way to her, gently touching her shoulder and letting Illyana calm down enough to regain control over Darkchylde.
”Thank you Lyubov“ she mumbled gratefully, kissing Mantis quickly before portaling away again, slashing down a vampire about to attack Logan. “You’ve gotten rusty, old timer” she smirked, dodging the man’s shove as he grumbled. “Whatever darlin’, show yer teacher some respect’” Illyana laughed, stabbing another attacker trying to sneak up on her. “Alright mighty Wolverine, I’ll leave you to it” she hummed, rolling her eyes as Logan used his boost to run forward, mowing through vampires and getting covered in blood. “Show off” she murmured, retreating back to the mission vehicle, helping push it forward with Stephen.
Illyana was so focused on the vehicle, she didn’t notice a vampire a vampire sneaking up behind her, stabbing her through the bout with a metal bar. Gasping in pain, she put her fist in her mouth to muffle her anguished screams. She heard Stephen call for a healer as she stumbled onto the mission vehicle, clutching her stomach and making sure the bar stayed in to avoid bleeding out.Vaguely, Illyana heard a shout of pure rage, a blinding green light flashing before her eyes as she saw the shapes of vampires fall down, shutting her eyes tightly to shield them from the neon light.
“It’s alright ‘Yana, let me get you to safety” Mantis whispered in her ear, Illyana recognising her instantly and reaching for zir.
“Mhm, gotta get back to the fight” she mumbled sluggishly, Russian accent even heavier than normal in her drowsy state. She tried to make out what her girlfriend was saying, but couldn’t seem to figure it out as she got carried through one of Stephen’s portals. She was rested on a couch, Mantis stroking her hair gently as ze removed the metal bar, putting zir hand on her bare stomach and letting it glow with life energy. Illyana made a strangled, pained noise as she got healed, grabbing Mantis’ hand tightly. “Shh, it’s okay, just rest” the healer reassured softly, shoving the loose strands of hair out of her face as ze kissed her forehead. “I need to go help the others, but Jeff will keep you company love” when ze spoke, the landshark made a soft ‘mrpf’ sound, nuzzling up to Illyana’s leg.
”Mmhuh, G’dluck Angel” she murmured, her hand falling onto the couch as Mantis let go of it. With one final soft kiss to the top of her head, the healer smiled at her warmly and entered the portal back to the battle.
Illyana made her way into the meeting hall, supporting her weight on Spider-Man slightly. Mantis greeted her excitedly, kissing her softly as their noses nuzzled together. They sat down next to each other, zir antennas twitching slightly as Illyana leaned against zir. She noticed some of their teammates staring at Mantis awkwardly, making her raise an eyebrow and bare her teeth in defence of her girlfriend. The few that had been staring looked away quickly, pretending like they hadn’t been looking. Dr Richards cleared his throat, leaning his hands on the table as he stood. “So, the battle went . Well, although there were some incidents” the man began, looking at Illyana as he said the ‘incidents’ part. “But, we took down a lot of enemy vampires successfully, mainly thanks to Mantis” he mumbled the last part, Susan wincing slightly at her husband’s words. Illyana gave her girlfriend a questioning look, but just got an innocent, adorable smile in return.
”My emotions are healthy, so is my anger” ze chirped, resting zir head on her shoulder comfortably. Illyana softened a bit, looking at her girlfriend with adoration. “Damn right it is, got a problem?” She grumbled, glaring at the rest of the team. Her girlfriend could be as scary as ze wanted.