Chapter 26
Waking up feeling like she was being stabbed, Daisy rolled over before catching herself before she fell out of the thin bed. Blinking multiple times as she adjusted to her surroundings taking a look at the candles lit that created an orange glow room.
Thinking back to the advents of the day before as they were still somewhat fresh in her memory nor was it likely she would ever forget them. Everything around her hums with soft vibrations as she got lost in the feeling of strong heartbeats all around her. The sea was close she concluded as overlapping vibrations caught her attention in the east. It would take time to get used to the new overwhelming feel of everything around her.
Clamping her side as she pushed herself up the bed, sunlight streamed in through the windows warming up the room. Moving to sit on the side just as the door opened to reveal Wanda and the Doctor who trailed after her.
"You shouldn't be up yet." Wanda stood in front of her wearing something alike the doctor yet in the colours of crimson red. It suited her a lot if Daisy was to look longer.
"Not even a hi? hello, how are you?" She smirked slightly a the woman in front of her and flushed pink before pulling herself together.
"How are you, Daisy?" Her green eyes rolled but happy to see her awake after days of worrying and getting used to the place around her. Strange had to pull her out of the room after the third day and it proved something.
"You know me, draga, I'm too stubborn to stay unconscious for a week."
A cough made them look at the door to see Strange standing there looking almost bored.
"As your doctor, I'm going to need to check your wound, if I may?" Nodding, Strange motioned for her to lay back down. Huffing as she did so not wanting to be kept laying down. She had too much energy in her to be down for so long.
Lifting her shirt to see a bandage that went around her middle, slightly more padding on the left where the wound was. Daisy caught Wanda's eyes as the woman was looking at her.
"Like what you see?" She winked at her before turning back to look at what Strange was doing. He was poking and prodding at the tender but fully healed skin.
"Advanced healing, you are good to go. As much as I would like to have to keep you in here for a few more days. I have left the world of hospitals. Anyways be in the library in ten we have much to discuss." And with that, he was off with a swish of his red cloak.
"Cheerful chap, I must say." Wanda snickered at that looking back through the door to see if the man could be lingering around.
"Here, Strange wouldn't let me bring any items of clothing from the compound and gave us these. I think you would have preferred these instead of the awful grey thing the trainees wore." Wanda place a neatly folded pile on the foot of the bed with a pair of black boots on top.
Unravelling the pile it was a simple robe with the same style as Stranges and Wanda just in a deep purple. How much she missed her suits and mission uniform. Gathering up the clothes in a much less neat fashion and into the small bathroom on the side Wanda pointed out.
Being careful she dressed in the clothes that were provided to her and found it quite complicated but in the end, managed to get it on. After strapping the boots on she looked in the mirror for the first time and was taken aback at what she saw.
"Wanda, Why the fuck is my hair white?" Sure enough, her hair has turned from black to white. Leaning closer and raised a hand through her hair to see if it was real. And it was.
"I thought you would have noticed." She shrugged as she leant on the door frame taking in Daisy's new look, "You look like a witch."
"Yea an old one, Maybe that's what happened after I felt my life being sucked out of me." It was a change that she would need to get used to, just like everything else in her life at the moment. Sighing as she turned around to Wanda.
"Let's see what these Wizards want." Leaving the bathroom as Wanda joined her side in unison as they navigated through the dark hallways of Kamar Taj. Out in the court ward were people who fort with a sort of magic that seemed to all be of the same kind. It was beautiful to watch different weapons being made out of the same source.
"Hurry up, Wong and Strange aren't the kind who take being late we'll." Wanda's warm hand grasped her, pulling her away from the sorcerers and into a musty library that smelt of old books and fire.
They moved to the two wizards sitting down, joining them in an interrogation-like style as the two watched them with narrowed eyes.
"So, what do you want us for?" Daisy asked leaning back on the chair, tempted to put her feet up on the desk like she always did but retained from annoying the people that potentially saved her.
"Are you two familiar with the Scarlet Witch?" The two women shook their heads as Daisy recalled something that was said when that book was stolen.
"The Scarlet Witch is a being of unfathomable power. Destined to rule or destroy the multiverse. To stand beside her, The Tenebris Witch. Who is said to be a being of pure power, literally? Sort to be the ruler of dark witches, hence the purple. And you two fit the description."
The two in question looked like he had grown two heads as they tried to comprehend what he had said. Blinking slowly as they wanted him to explain despite losing them selfs.
"Chaos magic is red and only one person has, Dark Magic is purple. Ms Johnson here absorbed the power of the power stone, hence the 'pure power' part. The dark hold has reported missing at a Shield base the day you arrived. Am I correct? So it's in your possession in a liminal space between our world and the soul world that powerful dark witches can only access."
Daisy and Wanda looked at each other then back at the two sorcerers. Daisy had the heart to reject everything he has been saying like she had done everything someone was to come up with the same thing. Like she had done back after the Darkhold was first stolen and laugh it off and forget about it like an unwanted piece of rubbish. Yet deep down she had always known it had been her.
"So what are you going to do? If this is real and Daisy and I are destined to destroy the multiverse, then you have every means to lock us up with magic." Wanda inclined her head as she looked at Strange with knowing green eyes.
"Look kid, I wouldn't be able to stop you once it happens. All we can do is to train you're powers and hope to the gods that you don't summon the darkhold. Once it's got you there's no turning back after it corrupts the soul. Whether it is now or ten years in the future and say you are on a rampage across the multiverse it's only you who can beat yourself into turning back." He looked at the pair with foud eyes and they hadn't the fullest comprehension of who they are. All the books he had read and quite a few have references to the Witches of Chaos and Darkness and the destruction of the multiverse. Crossing her fingers in the hope nom of them reached their fullest potential for the sake of everyone and everything.
"You two are free to use the library and the courtyard when training sessions are free. I'll set up a new room for your stay here until we deem you both have stable control of these powers."
Stephen watched as the two left in hand and hand talking to them selfs. It saddens him slightly that he could never keep a stable relationship. Though out of med school and up till now, his narcissistic ways had always driven people and it was understanding because relationships slowed him down. Unlike Christine who seemed to ground him in what mattered.
"Don't you think is better to send them to a coven instead of here? They would be much suited to deal with that sort of magic and not us." Wong questioned as the two should have been far enough away.
"I feel something bad is on the horizon, Wong. Whether it's the threat of the Scarlet Witch and her equal or something else I'm not sure. But if it's them then we need to keep the Darkhold far out of their reach. I'll contact a dark witch to summon it. I heard she's quite a powerful one as well. Been alive since the Salem trials. Rumoured to have the darkhold for centuries till taken by a corporation and the ghost rider. She'll be grateful to have her book back."
Scraping the chair on the wooden floors and he stood up, Stephen bid a bye to Wong before leaving to his small room. Sorcerers greeted him as he walked by still impressed with what he had done in Hong Kong. Dying multiple times had been painful but at least he saved the world from the dark dimension even if the advent brung to his mentor's life.
Pulling out a clean sheet of parchment from his rest draw he began to write.
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Daisy watched as a ball of purple hovered above her palm. It proved harder without the adrenaline rush of near death. A book lay on her lap as she read the pages in Latin. Very slightly thankful to Hydra for pushing thirty-odd languages into her.
"Say, Wanda." Wanda hummed as she turned to look at Daisy also engrossed in a book about astral projection.
"Why do you think our run-ins with the stones were different? I mean I have a theory, to be honest, but you have proven to be better at the mystical stuff than me."
Wanda scrunched up her nose slightly, Daisy loved it when she did that, in thought before looking back with her ever-so-endearing eyes.
"I want to hear what you have to say and I'll compare it to mine." Wanda patted the seat space in front of her indicating that she should sit on the bed rather than the chair. "Sit. I'm going to try and style your hair while you talk. Hurry up I don't have all day."
Quirking her lip slight at Wanda's fake agitated mood Daisy heavily sunk into the bed in front of Wanda who was kneeling behind her.
"So you passed out and I didn't that's the obvious difference. But then you claim it to have unlocked your power while it seemed I have absorbed the power instead of it unlocking it. But then I already had powers before and you didn't so that could have been the case unless you had a small about of yours but never knew because you never tried to use it."
Wanda liked thoughtful for a few seconds before speaking herself, "Now you said it, it makes sense. While it could have been a coincidence but Pietro was still quite an abnormally fast child, too fast for his age yet not what he has now. Thinking back now, when something bad would nearly happen to me, for instance getting bullied slightly in school the bullies would always trip on laces that would have been tied up seconds before when they would come towards me. I thought I was lucky but maybe I had subconsciously been saving myself and that stone unlocked more of it."
After a few minutes of silence as Wanda managed to pull Daisy's short hair into tiny braids, the brunette let out a small gasp as she came to realize something.
"What Wanda?" Daisy turned around quickly to look at Wanda who looked quite happy yet saddened by what she could have found out, "When I remembered about every time I was about to get hurt and something would happen to stop it. Knowing it was my powers protecting her this whole time I remembered something. The day our parents killed me and Pietro where Held was stuck for three days as we waited for the bomb to explode. At first, we thought it was a cruel joke and would explode as soon as we were to move but what if my powers had stopped it from exploding altogether? Yet if I would have known about it beforehand I could have saved my parents." She said the last part quieter as all her attention was on Daisy's hair.
Reaching up a touch Wanda's hand feeling the sadness through their bond, "You wouldn't have known Wanda. It's not your fault it's who evers it if who bombed you. If it makes you feel better, blame Tony because he should have done background checks on who was buying weapons. I would have. Anyone buying bombs and weapons should have a massive deep dive into." Shrugging her shoulders as she leaned into Wanda's warm embrace. Which lead to them both lying face to face in their new bed that was provided.
"How about we just relax, for now, too much magic had worn me out." Daisy lay her head on Wanda's shoulders listening to the sound of her strong heart, feeling it with every beat and how it sped slightly every time she looked at Daisy. The two drifted off into the warm night as owls made noise outside, everything was great for now.