#lifebringer

Molecule Man is such an interesting and fun character

I wrote this one shot like 2 years ago, so some things were changed a bit since then in the canon. Kari originally was gonna live in a treehouse and the connection she had to Galactus was a lot more vague. This is purely just a What if…? Scenario. It’s kinda short but pretty fluffy. Enjoy!

Warnings: mention of a fight, there is a brief moment of blood and stabbening. Nothing super bad but it is there if that bothers you.

Exclusive Cover Reveal: LifeBringer by Aaron S Bentzel

Today on the site, we’re revealing the cover to Aaron S Bentzel’s LifeBringer, officially closing out the fantasy western Prime Wranglers Saga with its release on April 12th! Here’s the story: Cazo Briggs used to be somebody. He had a handsome boyfriend in Zee, and a legendary Prime who wanted to be his partner. And then it all fell apart at Echo Rock. Now, defeated, Cazo and his allies seek…

Herald of Doom (14623 words) by doomrichards

Chapters: 4/4

Fandom: Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four (Comicverse),

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Reed Richards/Victor von Doom, Emma Frost/Norrin Radd

Characters: Reed Richards, Victor von Doom, Reed Richards (Earth-TRN667), Victor von Doom (Earth-TRN667), Victor von Doom (Earth-616), Galactus, Lifebringer, Silver Surfer, Susan Storm (Fantastic Four), Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, Peter Parker, Emma Frost, Norrin Radd, Mephisto (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Doom Universe, Canon Divergence, Size Difference, No Vore I Swear, Lots of licking though, Arranged Marriage, Adventure, Intercrural Sex, Angst, Misunderstandings, Exploring the Cosmos Together

///Years in the past, Aurora was a simple priestess of Suvlenoyus, the God of Life and Death. She worshipped him along with the other priestesses of the temple in her home village, along with training and controlling her immense magical power. It was soon time for the ritual she had been prepared for over the course of several years, and on one night she was brought to the inner sanctum of the temple so that she may be given audience with her deity.///

Word count: 2,681

“Aurora, you have gained power and skill far beyond any of us here in our home and our Temple of Suvlenoyus…” One of the elders of Aurora’s village, the  dark elven village of Ashantil, said to her as she sat on her knees in front of the woman. She was an older looking dark elven woman, but still beautiful in her age. She had the same color hair as Aurora but very long, reaching down to her backside. From all the elves in the temple with them, only one had markings on their face and that was Aurora. Behind Aurora was a pool of crystal clear water, being filled from the small fountains in the wall behind the altar, the water running through small channels into the pool.

“You have devoted your abilities in learning how to control your power and use it for the greater good,” The woman continued, “You have grown so much, but there is still much more to be learned. But, there is one particular thing we believe would be used best in your knowledge.”

“What would that be, mother?” Aurora asked respectfully.

“The power to bring the dead back to life.”

Aurora looked up at her mother, her eyes widened a bit. “This is my ceremony?”

The woman nodded. “It is, my daughter. Your day has come. Only just a few people in the world have gained such a power. Suvlenoyus has given this knowledge to his most trusted acolytes, and now only a select few circles of his followers in the world know how they may gain access to this knowledge. We brought you here tonight so that you may learn this knowledge and pair it with your power, as none of us here have.”

Aurora straightened her back and bowed her head. She knew all of this information already, but hearing it again on the night of her ceremony felt completely different in her mind. “I would be honored to be gifted with this power, if I am worthy of it.”

Her mother nodded and turned to the altar, her hands clasped over her chest as she began to pray. “Suvlenoyus, hear my words on this night. I am Tiriana Aramentay. As your humble follower, I request that you see my daughter and impart your knowledge onto her…” Tiriana took a beautiful ceremonial elven dagger from the altar a moment later and clasped it against her chest to continue the prayer, letting her magic wash into it, “We ask that you see Aurora and accept her into your realm that you may give her this knowledge in solitude. We ask that you send her back to us if you deem her unworthy that she may continue to train and grow her power…”

Tiriana turned from the altar and toward Aurora, and she knelt down in front of her, a hand on the young woman’s cheek. “You will be brought back to us, my dear.”

Aurora nodded shortly. “You have my trust, mother.”

Tiriana pressed her forehead against Aurora’s. Several long moments passed in the temple before the priestess sunk the dagger deep into Aurora’s chest. But, Aurora felt no pain. The dagger pierced her heart and her mouth quickly began to pool with her life force, crimson trickling from the corners of her lips. Tiriana withdrew the blade from her daughter’s chest and nudged her backwards, and Aurora fell into the pool of water. The water felt very thick around Aurora’s body as she began to sink and slowly lose consciousness. Still, she felt no pain and though her heart no longer beat, she lived just barely. As the moonlight filtered through the roof of the temple and into the pool, the water began to swirl in black and emerald green colors around her and soon she could see nothing before she finally faded away into death.

From above the pool, Tiriana had put the ceremonial blade back on the altar before she had turned back around to see the pool of water take an emerald green color. “Suvlenoyus has taken her… Now we must wait.”

X x X x X x X x X

Aurora drifted aimlessly through a dark green abyss, her eyes closed shut as blood continued to spill from her chest. Her body was limp, her lips parted slightly with blood floating from them. Her lifeless form floated along, her beautiful dark skin slowly becoming more and more pale. It was strange. She was dead, but her consciousness remained in her body. Or… did it? She was aware of her body floating in nothingness, no sign of light given all around her. It was nearly like a dream. Soon, she saw her own face in the dark and loneliness of her closed eyes, and then her face opened its eyes.

Aurora gasped and her eyes shot open as her heart began to beat, bubbles of air coming from her mouth and rising above her. The darkness cleared around her and she was met with an emerald green sky. She didn’t notice any water around her anymore, and she was flying just like in a dream. She saw what looked like it could be the sun in this strange, eerily silent realm but it only emitted a dim light. She began to fly towards it, thinking it could be the God of Life and Death himself. She floated towards it for several moments and she tried to reach out for it but then, a sudden flash from the sun blinded her and she guarded her eyes from it.

After that, Aurora began to fall from the sky like a star, and for several long moments she felt as though she was frozen in heaven. No scream escaped her lips as she fell, plummeting further and further down but it just never seemed like she was moving at all. The silence was just entirely unsettling, and Aurora still had absolutely no idea if she was unconscious or conscious or if this was a dream or real. Blood pumped through her heart and poured from her chest and it beat more and more, and color came back to her skin to return it to its dark color. And still she fell from the sky for what felt like hours upon hours.

Splash

Eventually, Aurora’s body fell into an ocean of emerald and she fell deep into that abyss. And still, she felt nothing at all even as the green water enveloped her. Eventually, she stopped sinking and she found herself in total darkness once more. But, this didn’t seem to last and she could see the surface of the water slowly descending down on her and she saw the light of the strange sun peeking through the ripples. The light reflected down onto her underwater form in different patterns and ever so slowly the surface still descended, and that’s when her true consciousness began to come back to her.

The surface of the water finally lowered to her and passed her, leaving her laying on what felt like solid ground when in reality she laid on nothing at all in three inches of water. Aurora then tried to move her limbs for several moments, and she finally felt herself able to take control of her body. She turned her body over and rose to her hands and knees, and then she slowly pushed herself onto her feet. When she stood, she looked around and was met with the sight of a vast nothingness. Waves of emerald green water flowed around endlessly in all directions. The sky directly above her was pitch black and there was no sun anymore. The sky gradually turned green the further toward the horizon Aurora looked until it was a yellowish-green color All around as if it was just a sunset in all directions.

Aurora looked around for several moments before she turned once more and she saw something rise from the water ten feet in front of her. The figure grew to almost double Aurora’s height and it was covered in black, tattered robes. She looked down as a light began to emit from her chest and she saw that the open wound from the ceremonial dagger was slowly mending itself. The warmth of that light spread to her heart and flowed through her veins and through her entire body, leaving her letting out a slow, long breath as the magic healed her chest and heart.

“Aurora Aramentay…” A deep voice echoed deep in Aurora’s mind.

The dark elven woman kneeled down to the figure. “Suvlenoyus… You know why I am here?”

“I do, child. Tell me, why do you wish to prolong the lives of those that are taken?”

“I… feel as though many lives that are taken are done so before their time,” Aurora began to answer the deity in a low, respectful tone as if she was at a funeral, “In the short travels I have had away from my home, I have learned of women who have lost their young children, and mothers who have died in childbirth. I have learned of men losing their comrades to nothing more than accidents that cut their lives short. I have learned of many people who have been taken long before their time.”

Aurora heard a deep, thoughtful hum resonate in her mind. “A fair reasoning. And tell me, would you plan to use my knowledge for selfish reasons?”

Aurora thought to herself on that, and her immediate thoughts turned to her father, who had died years ago in battle. “I will not lie… If I create bonds of friendship with others when I leave my home to adventure the world, and if I lose those friends to tragic means, then I will revive them with this power. I will continue their lives until they may pass peacefully and naturally. But, those… Those like my father who have passed on years in the past will be left alone. I will not use this gift for personal gain, and I will not use this power for evil means.”

Another hum sounded in her mind. “You are not the first to make such promises, child. Yet, you are among the few who have…” Aurora felt a slight chill run through her when she felt Death grow close to her, “I sense the honesty in your words, Aurora Aramentay. Rise to your feet and face me.”

Aurora did so wordlessly and she looked up under the hood of Suvlenoyus’ robes, and she saw pitch darkness. “This power is not to be taken lightly. If I am to impart my knowledge onto you, then you must make a pact to me…”

Suvlenoyus reached into his robes and pulled out a dagger very much like the one Tiriana had plunged into her heart. “By joining this pact you will learn the knowledge of resurrection magic that I have once passed to my acolytes. By joining this pact, you will gain an extended lifespan over all others of your race. By resurrecting another mortal, you will sacrifice years from your own life. By joining this pact, you will become a Lifebringer, an Acolyte of Life and Death. You must decide when you deem it is necessary for a soul to be restored to their body, for if you resurrect another mortal, you will never regain those sacrificed years. Do you accept these conditions?”

“May I ask… Why do you accept me so easily to offer me this pact?” Aurora asked curiously.

She heard another deep hum inside her mind. “Many who have seemed audience with me have done so with much trepidation when realizing they must die. You faced your sacrifice without fear, and unlike many before you, your words hold honesty rather than uncertainty. I will give you this knowledge and this power, and I will send you back to the mortal realm. Do you accept the conditions I have laid before you?”

Aurora took a few moments to think to herself on that question. She had no doubts at all over this. If she did, she wouldn’t have attended the ceremony and she wouldn’t have agreed to her mother stabbing her in the chest and killing her in order to gain this audience with Death himself. She only thought of what good she could do with that power. The families she could mend by resurrecting a lost child, the friends she could keep from death, the young children that she could keep from becoming orphans. Those thoughts were what drove her to this choice in her life when her mother had first taught her of resurrection magic. She thought that if she could train with her great magical power, then any sacrifice she had to make by resurrecting a person would be lessened. That could be the case, but either way, the sacrifice would be worth it.

Aurora soon straightened her back and looked deep into the void under Suvlenoyus’ hood. “I accept.”

Soon after she said those two words, she felt the dagger the god had brought out sink deep into her chest as the other had. And again, Aurora felt no pain but rather than feel her life drain away, she felt a new type of magic flood into her body, straight into her heart and into her soul. She felt Suvlenoyus lift her into the air in front of him and felt his hand almost engulf her head, and then she felt the knowledge of resurrection magic pour into her mind, and the power to do it flood into her soul. She immediately began to know how to perform the ritual needed to bring a soul back from death. Her eyes began to glow an emerald green color  and soon they glowed very brightly before everything stopped. 

“Now return to your world, child.” Aurora heard his voice in her head one last time before Suvlenoyus withdrew the dagger and let her go, and she fell deep into the water, back into the dark and loneliness of the emerald ocean.

X x X x X x X x X

In the Temple of Suvlenoyus in Ashantil, Tiriana and the other priestesses waited patiently, surrounding the emerald pool in the center of the inner sanctum. Hours had passed since Tiriana had sent her daughter to the God of Life and Death, and the sun had risen over the village. They each waited there for hours in prayer that Suvlenoyus would be kind and impart his knowledge to Aurora, Tiriana more than the others as she clasped her hands tightly over her chest. 

Finally, the color began to fade from the pool and floating up towards the surface was the body of Aurora, a faint emerald light emanating from the center of her chest. The sounds of the water being disturbed gained the attention of the priestesses and they opened their eyes to see Aurora had returned from Suvlenoyus’ realm, and Tiriana quickly crawled over to the pool and over the water, which was now very shallow, and she placed her hand over Aurora’s chest.

The young dark elf’s eyes fluttered open after a few moments and her lips parted as she sucked in a long breath. “I-I… have entered a pact with Suvlenoyus. He accepted me as a Lifebringer and gave me the knowledge and power of resurrection.”

Tiriana began to give a wide, relieved smile. “How was the journey to and from his realm?”

“Very… surreal.”

Her mother laughed softly at that. “Yes, that is how it was for me when the former head priestess here sent me.”

“Congratulations, Aurora,” One of the other priestesses said to the newly anointed Lifebringer, “It is a great honor to journey to Death’s realm and return. I hope to take that journey myself one day.”

“What did he look like?” Another, younger priestess asked rather excitedly.

“What was it like?” The last asked.

“Girls, let her breath,” Tiriana said to them both and laughed once more, “It is a very tiring journey and it’s very taxing on the mind and body. Aurora is going to need rest and food.”

Aurora felt herself blinking multiple times. She felt very weak and unable to do much more than move her lips to talk and keep her eyes open. “Vaeril…”

The last priestess that had asked her a question perked up. “Yeah?”

Aurora grinned weakly. “You need much more experience before you ever take that journey.”

BITCH!!!