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Tony wasn't done. His arc reactor, part of the suit, opened up and blasted a Unibeam at another monster. The attack went straight toward the bulged head of the monster. What remained later was the huge, headless, charred remains that hit the ground. The limbs twitched before stopping altogether.

"Yeah, that's disgusting," Tony muttered, then went toward the last ones.

Meanwhile, Rogers and Natasha worked together in perfect tandem. The Captain's shield smashed into the jaw of one monster, sending it staggering back, while Natasha was already behind it, twin batons crackling with electricity as she drove them into its exposed tendrils. The creature convulsed violently before breaking free, snarling.

Barton loosed another arrow, this time a freeze arrow, straight into the skull of a monster about to pounce on Liam. The ice spread quickly, encasing the creature in a thick shell. Liam then took out his Leviathan Axe and went straight for the next. The monster was already frozen, thus this attack was clean and separated the head from the body, killing it.

The last monster rushed him from the side, its grotesque tendrils lashing out. Liam ducked under the attack, his instincts heightened by Heimdall's gifts. His movements flowed seamlessly, and in one swift motion, he summoned the Draupnir Spear, twirling it in his grasp before hurling it straight into the beast's chest.

Liam threw multiple spears and then detonated them in a series of explosions, tearing chunks out of the monster's body. And before the monster could get up, the last spear detonated on its neck, tearing apart the monster and killing it.

What remained was the last monster, which was held by Rogers and Natasha. The monster managed to lodge one of its tendrils into Natasha's thigh, alarming her as she felt her strength fading. But before the monster could drain more from her body, Rogers' shield came flying in, separating the tendril from Natasha's body.

"Liam was right," Rogers murmured.

The monster wasn't going to give up on the female so easily and pounced on her, but before it could deliver its jaw attack, Liam came almost flying in and punched the monster in the gut.

It threw the monster off its feet, sending it falling a few yards back.

"You alright?" Liam asked.

"Yeah..."

The monster, which had its underbelly crushed by Liam's punch, slowly mended itself and saw that by now, all the other monsters were dead, leaving only itself standing as the last one. Barton and everyone slowly gathered in front of the monster, looking at it like meat waiting to be put on the chopping block.

Surprisingly, the monster didn't immediately attack. It just looked at them with eyes that had green on the eyelids.

"Humans... We... No... Enemies..." the monster spoke for the first time, throwing everyone off. They had never expected the monster to even speak, which meant it could think.

"The hell? It can talk..." Barton was amused. "You just tried to kill all of us, and now you want to put up the white flag? Not a chance."

"We... Hungry..." the monster spoke again, justifying why it had attacked them.

"So you think humans are food? You're worse than monsters." Natasha could still feel the stab on her thigh as blood oozed from it. She was not happy about it at all.

"No... You... Humans... Don't... Know... Anything," the monster said.

"Oh, so now we're ignorant. Why are we even letting you talk?" Tony's fingers sparked up with lightning, ready to strike. The only reason they hadn't put it out of its misery yet was because Liam hadn't made a move since the monster started talking.

"So what are you? A monster from hell? From other dimensions?" Rogers asked. He had read some of the books given by the Ancient One, as JARVIS had translated for him. So he knew that other dimensions existed. The monster didn't reply and just growled at them.

"My magma attack freed you from the icicle you were all frozen in under the structure, didn't it? How many years has it been? 4,000... 6,000 years?" Liam spoke up for the first time, making everyone realize what he was pointing out.

All of them had assumed that these monsters appeared because of some kind of portal, but no. These monsters had been frozen all this time, and Liam's fire attack had melted the ice and freed them, albeit unknowingly.

"You... Know... About... Us... Eternal?" the monster spoke.

Liam didn't reply and simply used the Genesis spell on the monster, bringing forth jagged rocks from the ground that impaled it from different angles, killing it.

Everyone was silent, but they had questions.

"Let's go home. I miss my warm home," Tony said.

"Let's go. Fenrir," Natasha called.

As if the wolf had been dying to be called by someone, it came running from a far distance. Liam had sent Fenrir a few miles away, so once it heard someone calling its name, it couldn't wait and came running.

Liam and everyone gave it a hug, and in the cold weather, the warm fluff of Fenrir gave them both love and warmth at the same time. By now, Fenrir was loved by everyone present, and they would probably go to war against the world for this wolf.

"Let's go home," Liam said, and Fenrir promptly opened a portal to Stark Tower.

Everyone was a bit tired and also needed medical attention, especially Natasha, so Yinsen was already on standby.

"We can discuss what happened at a later time. The team needs rest and recuperation," Rogers said, and everyone agreed.

Liam promptly left with Fenrir, while the others just took the old ways and went to their homes.

Only Natasha and the young girl were left behind for Yinsen to check. Natasha herself needed a check-up and a patch on her thigh. Fury was also there, and though he didn't ask what had happened in the last few minutes, he was curious nonetheless.