Flame Monarch

- Space in between Worlds -

Leo was currently floating around in darkness trying to find his way back to his home Universe. He was travelling through a rift that was like a tunnel, connected from one end to the other

Although the journey was short but for him it felt like ages.Along the way he saw too many things from it

All kinds of Eldritch horrors that dwelled in darkness were awakened by his clash against Shuma-Gorath

Shuma-Gorath's death had created a vacuum and the rest of the Many Angled Ones were hungry to grab whatever is left

He wisely chose to ignore them as he didn't want any additional passenger following him home

He saw the light at the end and smiled looking at his Universe but just as he was about to dive in

*Thud!*

*Crack!!*

He head dived right into a invisible shield cracking his nose in process

"Ow! owowowowowow!! Motherf##*#*###!!!!"

He rolled around in void while holding his nose and swearing every word in his dictionary

"Fuck You!! Agamotto!!" He flipped off towards the shield while holding his nose after hearing someone snickering

Leo stood up after fixing his nose before staring at the problem at hand

"Let's see....magical shild to stop beings from other dimensions or if they're too dangerous....Am I dangerous?"

[Yes]

Leo:- (• _ •) (- _ -) (• _ •)

He stared at the shield with a dumbfounded look on his face

'Okay someone's definitely fucking with me'

He had a tick on his head as he was about to smash through it but

*Thump*

*Thump*

He stopped after hearing rhythmic thumping sound from besides him

'What the.....' he looked in confusion at the crimson ball of energy that was trying to get in

"Well that's new"

Leo curiously stared at it and as if sensing his gaze the ball stopped making him slowly take a step back

"Why do I feel like it's about t- *Oof*

He didn't even got to finish his sentence before the ball crashed into him almost instantly

Leo looked as it cutely snuggled in his chest

'Cute' he muttered in his mind as it resembled Nira when she was a small pup

'Why does it feel all gidy and warm?' He smiled while gently petting it when he heard a small telepathic whimper

[Fou...nd....E....than...]

He paused

His brain stopped braining

The ball continued snuggling against his frozen finger

He stayed like that not even caring about the incoming tendrils of eldritch beings that were attracted by the ball

[Et...han?]

He continued staring at it before he flicked a small flame towards the tendrils that were few meters away from grabbing him

*Screech!!!*

An extremely high pitched screech echoed throughout the darkness as flames burned everything that got near him briefly lighting the surroundings to show even more nightmarish creatures slowly making their way towards him but got burned

Leo didn't even pay any attention to the them and turned towards the ball with blank face

"What the hell are you?"

As he expected, he got no response and started thinking

'Only few know of that name and unless a certain someone is going around advertising it I don't think anyon....F'

Leo faceplamed as he remembered the thing called Multiverse

Meaning, some of his variants may have told their previous names to others and the thing in his hand possibly belongs to someone from another Universe

They knew 'him' and as far as he knows about his personality, it's safe to say whoever this 'ball' was, was close to that version cause no one except Mistress Death and maybe other Abstracts know his previous name

Ethan Stormborn

The name of his last life which he was pretty sure he wouldn't be hearing again

'Well, life tends to fuck around at unexpected moments' he sighed before focusing on the ball again

"Now what do I do with you?" He continued patting it with his finger while thinking what to do next before he sensed something

He turned towards the golden head that had a stotic look

".....Whatever you're about to accuse me of doing, I didn't do it"

[....]

The Living Tribunal continued staring with his ever present stotic gaze before creating a light screen around them

Leo watches a scene of him fighting Shuma-Gorath appeared. In that, the fight ended with him vanishing from the broken world/universe when several eldritch horrors started pouring in like ants on sugar

Tribunal closed the screen waiting for Leo to answer

"So you want to get rid of that ?"

[Yes]

".....you aren't kidding are you ?"

[.....]

"You do know if I do that, they will become aware and they will come for me and you know what will happen next right ?"

He was talking about the troublesome beings that like to meddle with their 'holier-than-thou' attitudes in places they shouldn't and later play the blame game when things don't go their way

[Some are already aware of your fight, solving that won't matter]

He stayed silent for few moments while thinking 'Knew it but should I do it?'

As if sensing his hesitation Tribunal said

[2 months have passed in your world]

"Wait what ?!" Leo suddenly exclaimed and screamed internally while panicking

'Oh shit!! Mum's gonna tear me a new one!'

Widening his eyes he quickly created a rift before stopping

He turned towards Tribunal and said "I need you to do something"

[...Go on]

"Make sure nothing else burns"

With that he tossed the ball towards Tribunal who caught it with a hint slight surprise on his stotic face, Leo didn't notice it as he already went back to Shuma-Gorath's dimension (universe/reality/world same shit when it comes to that guy)

[Wait...What burns?] He questioned before turning towards something and smiled slightly

....

•When he crossed over•

All Leo saw was slimy tentacles and lots of eyes without any form staring at him

{Oh look! A fresh meal!}

{I thought he would be stronger?}

{How did 'He' lose to thi-}

*Rumble*

The voices stopped as apocalyptic pressure fell on them, cracking the already damaged reality as a result

"Sorry guys I don't have time to deal with everyone one at a time" Leo quickly apologised before swinging his arm and creating a katana

As soon as it appeared, the world burned

*Roaaarrrrr!!*

*Screeeeechhh!!!*

"Let's get it over with" he said and pointed the katana towards the oncoming wave of burning horrors and closed his eyes taking a deep breath

"Bankai...."

He slowly muttered under his breath and opened his eyes as the flames that spread suddenly stopped with the pressure vanishing all of a sudden.

Time seems to stop as he twisted the sword

"....Zanka No Tachi"

Then....there was no then

Everything turned white and everything went still

There were no explosion, no screams and no sound

Just silence

Few seconds passed

*Click*

With the sound of a sword being sheathed, all the Angled Ones that had invaded the broken world were gone, including the nearest surrounding horrors that dwelled within the darkness of the multiverse

The Living Tribunal had already created shield on the surrounding unrelated dimensions/universes/worlds/realms (you get the idea) so all they witnessed was light. The space of those worlds turned white for a split second as if someone had flipped a switch. This did cause lot of problems and everyone lost their marbles at that

Meanwhile the culprit of this watched as everything turned to dust with only him all alone with a dark blade, floating in the white space

Leo slightly glanced left and right with his eyes

'That does the job too I guess?' he thought and vanished

He popped right back next to Tribunal

"We done ?"

The Tribunal just gave a slight nod before tossing ball back and turned into flashy lights

"....I will never understand why they like to do that" Leo shook his head with a sigh at the dramatic exit

"Now then, let's go home" he took a step and crossed the Veil going back to his home Universe

...

•In the Mystical Side of the Multiverse•

The onlookers who were already altered by Shuma-Gorath's demise were stunned by what they had just witnessed

All they saw was the unimaginable horrors that were turned to dust by a figure shrouded in flames holding a dark katana calmly floating in white space before giving them a slight glance that seemed to burn their souls

Leo had changed his aura and energy signature So everyone who saw him thought he was a burning humanoid. This was just to mislead them and to spread fear

Fear cause no one knows what he looks like. (remember he always wears disguise whenever he goes to some unknown place as a reflex) And because he managed to kill the immortals (for them)

So, from that day onwards his name became infamous throughout the mystical community of the Multiverse

Ofcourse no one knew his true name, they only called him by other titles like

Ender of Nightmares

The bringer of Light or Lightbringer (copyright issues did happen at some point cause a very very nerfed version of Luci does exist in Marvel but he kept quiet after watching Leo burn everything to dust, wise choice)

Flame Monarch

Ender of Absolute Evil (Shuma-Gorath)

Godkiller (official tile gained)

Destroyer of Worlds....

And many more but one thing was for certain, trouble is brewing everywhere cause like Vision said

Strength invites Challenge. Challenge incites conflict and conflict breeds catastrophe

Like Leo said, Actions and Consequences

This was also the reason why he warned Tribunal cause he knew, the moment someone tries to mess with him, he will end them with their worlds and everything else

But little did they know this went all according to his plan

From confronting Shuma-Gorath to killing those things

It was all part of his plan...well a small part of it but it worked

From the moment Shuma-Gorath had seen him, he had already created plans. His every action from that point on was as he expected.

Of course there were small hiccups along the way but he had already calculated them and had backups just in case

But the only unexpected variable was the involvement of Living Tribunal. Although he had forseen that possibility he didn't expect him to show up this quick.

But this also made one thing clear to him.

They were watching. Some, probably all Abstracts were watching him and the only place safe was his home Universe. Even though he didn't know why but he was sure of one thing

No one wants to mess with Mistress Death otherwise they would've long pulled him into some twisted game or scheme

Little did he know the reason for their non interference was entirely something else and funnily enough, he was already part of one....no he was already part of a larger game which had started the moment main body was born.

He just doesn't know it yet

And where is he right now?

Running away from a fuming Litta while avoiding ambushes set by others

....