Anomaly! I

A massive Anaconda descended from the tear in the skies, as if reality itself had begun to leak.

Purple flaming scales coiled over its titanic body, while bony wings, somehow, impossibly, held it aloft. It roared- a guttural, echoing sound of horror and power, and then scanned its surroundings as though even it had not expected to be here.

The moment it arrived, its gaze snapped downward, locking onto the Guardians standing near the glimmering portal they could not leave, trapped in the center of the malformed red mountains.

And when it did, its volatile presence shifted.

Invisible Entropic energy surged into it like breath after suffocation. Its cold, unblinking eyes settled and locked on to the figures of the Guardians.

The air thinned.

And Damian knew.

That gaze wasn't for them. It was for him.

Or more precisely, for the little silver-furred beast clinging to his shoulders.

Kitsuul.