Chapter 3
Death felt it when her angel suffered, she had been wrapped up with the chaos Thanos was stirring throughout the cosmos and had mistaken the pain of her angel for her exhaustion and hatred.
When she finally realized her error and raced to her angel she found her angel where she had first built the suit of metal powered by a gruesomely beautiful glowing blue light embedded in her chest. She felt the shattered souls all around her as she drifted aimlessly through the burned camp.
She could hear her angel’s soul singing with the haunting wind floating over the battlefield, drawing the power of the dead to her.
Death followed the power to find her angel sitting her long wings trailing out behind her, the same bloody red of love, war, energy, anger, and the same ebony of mourning, protectiveness, unspeakable power. The same shade of ebony that trailed after death herself, when she displayed her true face, half too perfect to be true and the other half-rotten and gnarled. The newer color ran through the wings like cracks through a foundation, the golds and bronzes of wealth, influence, and generous compassion that she had earned during her time as CEO and the strength she wielded in her human and true forms.
To keep her angel safe they both had 2 faces, their true faces, and their masks.
When Toni was Toni she wore her true face, when Toni was Azrael her face was nothing but a skull, a very expressive and beautiful skull. But still a skull.
Her angel showed no rage, just satisfaction and a touch of grief as she spoke over the desert winds “A mortal saved me, Yinsen, he died saving me. He told me not to waste my life.”
Death observed her young angel, she had grown so much.
Death knew when to listen to her angels and now was one of those times.
There was a clunking sound as her angel healed herself, as the glowing light fell from her angel and broke apart.
yet her angel still had a glow in her chest, an illusion to keep the mortals and immortals from discovering her secret.
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“I made sure he felt no pain in death.”
Toni turned to death, her best friend, sister, mother, and mentor.
“But I realized something when he said ‘don’t waste your life.’ i have failed.”
she watched as death turned to her in shock and horror but she didn’t let her interrupt.
“I have failed to be there for you, I have failed to protect you from Thanos. Because of my failure, he attacked my home city.”
she listened as death inhaled sharply.
“He did so in the form of possessing an Asgardian, which I thought was impossible but apparently if you torture them for a few years they eventually crack.”
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“Did he figure that you are the last angel?” death asked nervously, she couldn’t bear to lose her angel, she was all she had, she was her best friend.
“Nah, lokes and point break… I mean thor has no idea and Loki actually called me a ‘pathetic mortal’ so I’m going based on that.” Azrael said with a snort.
“But back to my point, I need to step up. I cannot fail you, I need to know everything you can tell me about Thanos, with all the avengers, by the way, can you believe that asshole fury? Throws me on a team with that fucking chauvinistic pig rogers, who by the way knew who my ‘parent’ murder was and expected me to pay for everything and expects me to obey his every whim? It's ridiculous, the rest are okay though actually barton and lokes are great they’d be better if they got along though, but they don’t know that I can tell when they are lying or that I can heal or that I’m immortal, or I am an angel of death. Honestly, they don’t know anything, but they will be helpful during the battle and we might be able to win especially since some of them are gods.”
Death looks over and cracks a wry smile, her angel was very enthusiastic and protective, her friends and children would be granted immortality once she revealed what she was.
Death suspected that Loki would be added to the list but he was already 'immortal’ unlike the peter and Harley kids and the colonel and the spitfire potts.
Death quite liked them, they cared about her angel almost as much as she did.
Azrael listened closely as death told her, they sat and watched the sunset and then the stars until she was called by potts and had to head back to her tower before people realized she was missing.
Toni flew into the night and death dissolved into her shadows once her angel disappeared from sight.