#hannah and her “baddie bow”

[sir-raz]

i have cat-ified them

[thethew]

So, I have a few endings planned for my series, but this one was eliminated because of how the story shifted away from this particular storyline. In THIS version of the story, Garrett ended up being possessed by the main villain and became the big baddie himself. This is basically the end of the final showdown and what happens afterward. It’s really nostialgic and whatnot but don’t worry it’s not in the story anymore.

SO INSTEAD I’M POSTING IT HERE.

Snippet under cut.

Tagging people first: @hannahs-creations @killer-badass @theshadowsofthenight @slythekiel @lucas-writes @ohlooksheswriting @waywordwriter @hufflepuffbanana

Jack

Everything hurt. I tried to move, but everything burned in the way where I could feel everything yet nothing all at the same time. 

“Now do you see it?”

I rolled over slowly, every movement cracking and popping and burning like fire. Garrett stood over me, his eyes flooding over with the rose coloured light. He raised his hand and my body began to lift off the ground. My head turned until my eyes met his pupilless glowing eyes.

“I’m saving all of you.”

He wasn’t, I knew it. That wasn’t him speaking. It was the deep power running through him, convincing him that this was somehow right. He waved his hand and I turned to face the Seal. Rose coloured cracks were beginning to lace through the stone surface.

“Don’t you see it?”

I squinted, watching as riots of stars began to show behind the cracks in the stone. Almost as if a whole galaxy was hiding behind it. My eyes widened. This was it. I squeezed hard and felt the stars and their power come to me. 

A glowing purple blade appeared in my hand. A surge of energy and adrenaline surged through me and I swung around, bringing the blade across Garrett’s face. He screamed in pain and we both fell to the ground.

“Really?” He shouted, “Now you choose to retaliate?”

I tightened my grip on the weapon in my hands, willing it to change shape as Garrett prepared to attack. A split second before a blast of energy spread from his fingers, I raised my new shield to block the attack.

My fingers weaved together forming a new weapon as the blast subsided. The muscles in my arm pulled painfully as I pulled the glowing bow taut. I closed my eyes and began to whisper the spell that the Oracle had told me would save the world. Seemed like the perfect time to use it.

“With bated breath and shattered pride, death and darkens to be defied. With one last breath and one dark heart, with this one arrow be split apart.”

(This spell doesn’t exist in the new version lmao^^^)

I loosed the arrow and watched as it embedded itself in Garrett’s chest. The light faded from his eyes and a quiet gasp ripped from his mouth as he fell to his knees. His eyes met mine and a few tears poured from his eyes.

“I killed her,” he whispered.

His skin began to explode in a riot of stars. The light poured from him then flew to the seal. The stone began to reform as his the light began to lift off of his body, leaving his skin pale and gray. I watched in horror as his soul ripped out of his body and faded into the nothingness behind the stone wall of the Seal.

“Goodbye, Garrett Branwenn,” I whispered.

...

“So,” Revan sighed. “It’s over?”

I nodded. Staring up at the two-story house in front of me. The asphalt sent heat floating up in the warm summer air. Revan put his hand on my shoulder and smiled in a melancholy manner.

“Go on, it’s been a while since you’ve been home.”

“You too,” I replied. “Your mom misses you.”

“Not as much as yours does. I’m pretty sure she would swap us in a heartbeat.”

I laughed, then shoved him away playfully. He walked away chuckling. I turned back to the house, staring at its paint. I could hear my mom’s records playing nearby. The smell of her cooking drifted into the street, forcing a quiet tear to my eye.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered. “I know you’ve been waiting so long for me to come back. And I’m sorry I left without saying anything. I’m sorry I fought in a war without your permission. I’m just, sorry.”

I turned away and pulled a white Nura out of my pocket. The light made swirling clouds in the milky white orb. A faint smile played across my lips. I tossed the device aside and watched as thick mist began to pour from the cracked orb. I pulled out a scrap of red cloth and placed my channeler into the fabric. I tossed the package into the mist and watched as it folded in on itself and disappeared into the Forever Forest.

I turned to the woods opposite my house and marched towards them. As I reached the edge, I gave one last glance over my shoulder at the house. My mom was staring out the window. Not at me, but through me. She looked empty, lost. I turned away, feeling my hear add another facet to its arsenal of breaks. 

“I’m sorry,” I whispered as I walked into the woods, leaving my old life behind me. That wasn’t me anymore. I’d changed so much since that night. When Garrett had knocked on my window. The thought of him brought one final thought to my mind.

I had one last place to go before I disappeared completely.

...

“Never thought I’d be saying this,” I laughed. “But, you were a good person.”

Garrett’s grave sat there, unresponsive, of course. I could imagine him, sitting right there, staring back at me. He would’ve cocked his head to the side, then forced me to continue the statement.

“I know,” I chuckled sadly, “I know.”

The grave remained silent.

“You’re wondering why I would be saying that. Why-” I sighed- “Why after all you did, why I still-” My breath caught. “Why I loved you.”

The grave was shocked, to say the least. Even I was.

“Regardless of everything you did, or what your father made you do, you still tried. And that’s more than a lot of people did, or are doing.”

The grave seemed to agree. Was I going crazy? Talking to a dead man’s resting place in the middle of the woods outside my own house? Why had he even been buried there? Because Farclaw had fallen? Because no one else thought he deserved a proper burial? Or because I wanted to keep him with me, or somewhere near me? no, I was leaving here, so what else could I be doing here?

“I guess,” I laughed. “And this is gonna sound stupid.”

The grave agreed once more.

“You never really got to meet my mom. And I guess some part of me wanted you two to meet, because maybe,” I stumbled for something, anything to say. “Maybe she would like you. Maybe she would approve of me because I was helping you change for the better. Maybe I just wanted to be with you.”

The grave was unresponsive again. I continued regardless.

“Maybe, just maybe, some deep part of me already knew that it wanted you to stay forever. Maybe that part of me died when you did, or maybe it’s still here, bringing me to your grave to mourn the life of the man I killed.”

I turned back to the direction of my house through the woods. My heart did a strange jig for a few moments. Stay or go? That was the one question we all asked at one point in our life, whether for something as trivial as a party we didn’t want to go to but somehow ended up at anyways, or something like this. My future hung in the balance here. A life on the run, always running from my past and who I was before this godforsaken war, or a life amongst my past, growing stronger with my mother and the grave of my love?

In the end, I chose to be strong.

*CLAP* WHOOO! Why did I scrap this ending? It tugs all the right heartstrings and it’s PAINFUL FOR ALL PARTIES INVOLVED! I’ve changed my mind, I’m going back to this ending! Just kidding, I would never do that to you, this ending isn’t nearly as painful as the one I have planned.

[temmaha1996]

Ant-Man and The Wasp

Ant-Man and The Wasp is a 2018 superhero film directed by Peyton Reed. It stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lily and Michael Douglas. The film is about Scott Lang, who is placed under house arrest after the events of Civil War. He is soon broken out by The Wasp and Hank Pym after a new evil emerges and it is up to the trio to save the world and find Janet Van Dyne in the process.

Ant-Man is one of the sillier Marvel heroes. You can’t really make a dark, overly-serious film with him considering he literally shrinks to miniature sizes and fights alongside an army of ants. And that, is exactly what made the first film so fun. Ant-Man was one of the better MCU films in my opinion as it never really took itself too seriously and always maintained a good sense of comedy and self-awareness throughout. So of course, I was excited for this film knowing it’d be more of the same with The Wasp added into the mix. So, does Ant-Man and The Wasp deliver on the hype? I’d say it’s ridiculously entertaining and predictably hilarious, but it doesn’t come close to Marvel’s other two releases this year in Infinity War and Black Panther. Ant-Man and The Wasp is a safe, light-hearted and small-scale palette cleanser after Infinity War and Black Panther. Some old Marvel flaws unfortunately re-emerge in weak villains and predictable storylines, but the hilarious comedy, entertaining action sequences and charismatic comedic performances carry this film to a perfectly enjoyable level.

Let’s begin with the positives,.

Firstly, comedy. Paul Rudd, known as a fantastic actor and a likeable human being, once again shows his brand of charm and charisma in this film. He is easily the only reason why the film worked as well as it did, carrying it through his various comedic scenes from beginning to end. Michael Pena’s Luiz also makes a hilarious return and his scenes drew the loudest laughs from the audience.

Also, action sequences. The film handled Wasp and Ant-Man’s action sequences very well, being creative with the way they’d use their powers against Ghost and various other baddies. Ant-Man’s turn to Giant Man, as well as the car chase, were also one of the better moments of the film.

However, the film is not without it’s flaws.

To begin with, villains. It brings me all the pain in the world to complain about this issue in a Marvel film again, considering they were doing so well after Killmonger and Thanos this year. Ghost is as bland as it gets. Her backstory was cliche and her motives were ridiculously weak. Hannah John-Kamen tries her best with what she’s given, but truth be told she wasn’t given any real development or unique reason for the audience to remember her at all. What a shame. 

Also, predictability. Towards the last act is where the film becomes ever-so-predictable. The stakes never felt remotely important, and the conclusion was overly convenient. Everything wraps up into a nice little Disney bow at the end and it was such a shame considering how brave Marvel were early on in the year with the level of high-risk in Black Panther and Infinity War.

To conclude, despite some issues with severe predictability and weak villains, Ant-Man 2 is nonetheless an enjoyable ride that will definitely not bore you for a good two hours. It might not be the best Marvel movie or even the most memorable one in a few years done, but it gets the job done and entertains the audience with typically fun comedy and enjoyable action sequences. A good, perfectly fun entry into the MCU. Now, all signs point to Avengers 4 next year. Ant-Man and The Wasp receives an 7.7/10.