"Dam months?!" I wao say it loud but couldn't. Well, I spoke in my mind as usual. "What about my family?" I asked.

  "As far as the world knows, Spiderman is dead. He stopped Green Goblin and died a hero. As for your family, I'm sorry, but we couldn't expose ourselves and put them in danger. For all they know, you got into an act and are rec under Fantastic Four's care. We have been able to keep it that way for quite a while now. Your retionship with Susan Storm made it easier for us to maintaiory," A One answered as she began to che the bandaged left arm.

  "Well, that's good to know. Oh, by the way, who rescued me? The st thing I remember was crawling toward a al and that's it," I asked as tless thoughts ran into my mind about what ged in these eight months. To me, it feels like just yesterday... I guess, drinking those serums in one go retty bad idea. But on the bright side, I survived ahe A One.

  I wonder what May and the others are doing. Are they alright? Fuck! Eight fug months. Gwen already knows my identity as Spiderman, so, she either believes that I'm dead or the story of me being under Fantastic Four's care. I hope it's the tter.

  "You should thank Wanda," She answered.

  "Oh..."

  "She was trag you to thank you for saving her and her brother during the OsCorp i, and you happeo be floating in a al with a broken body and scales," She added as she looked into the wound on my arm.

  "I see. Well, we are even now, I guess. So, what now? I barely move my right arm and head. The rest of my body is practically useless. So, use yid fix me, yeah?" I said as I smiled with my unmovable lips.

  "Ah! I'm afraid that's impossible. I've already tried, but it didn't work. Even Strange's magic wasn't of much use, unfortunately. I'm guessing that's your unique ability. Immunity against fn power. So, the only one who fix you is you," A One replied and stood up after cheg the wounds.

  "Me? How? You wao learn magic with a barely moving arm?" I asked in disbelief, although not even I could see the expression on my own face, but the meaning got across. Let's pretend to be clueless like this for now. Once I get a grasp of magic, my pn will be pleted. Slowly, I'll gairust and gain access to all those forbidden magic. I'm pretty sure there's something that will help me travel betweeies. But that's a long way to go. For now, I o get out of bed.

  "Learning magic has nothing to do with the arms. With or without hands, you still cast magic," A One replied, taking my statement literally. "As long as you have focus and willpower, you will eventually learn it. And once you reach a certain level of mastery, you should be able to heal yourself."

  "And just like that yoing to teach me magic? Even though you couldn't see my future or my memories. Heck, you barely know me, so, if you don't mind me asking, why?" I asked while hoping for a reasonable excuse.

  "Many reasons. But you aren't yet ready to know the answers. All you o knht now is you o get back to your feet as soon as possible and lessen the worry of your family. That should be a good reasht? The's start. There's no time like the present. And just so you know, when you are in the Sanctum San, you follow our rules," A One replied and stood up as Wanda walked bad ehe room.

  "I thought you would be curious to find out what I'm hiding. Were you always this trusting? Did you have a vision from a deity of some kind? Perhaps in your future visions, there is no Spiderma, Spiderman is alive and kig, right before your eyes. You ot expin this situatiht? If I were to guess further, all the future visions you saw, they are slowly started to bee useless. To be more specific, wherever I'm involved, the oute you predicted and acted upon... iy, the result pletely ged. Like ripples of water in a pond. At first, there are no ges, but as time passes by the ripples get bigger and bigger. Causing an oute you could have never predicted," I said in my mind.

  A One looked at me with a smile, "You are correct. That's why you must get stroo prevent that oure that still remains unged even with you involved. The faster you get ba your feet, the faster I'll show you what exactly happened in that future. We will begin tomorrow, for now, rest up." She left, leaving Wanda aloh me.

  "You read mind tht?" I asked telepathically.

  "Huh! Yeah, sort of," lied and moved closer to the chair that the A one was sitting on a few minutes ago.

  "Thanks for saving me. How have you and your brother been?" I asked.

  "Ah, Thanks to you... everything's okay. My brother is staying iant Academy and I'm here, learning more and more about my abilities," She said happily.

  "Good. So," I slowly turned my head toward her, "How handsome am I looking right now? Ten out of ten? A hundred out of one hundred?"

  "Huh! You still mao make jokes at this time... Who would've thought," She smiled as she jured a mirror before my face with a simple swish of her finger, "Take a look yourself and tell me, a handsome prince has fallen right before your eyes. How lovely."

  I was greeted by my scale-filled face. Ah! That's a freak face. Any sane human would run away at this sight. Now, I know how bad of a life The Thing is going through daily. His is rod mine is freaking scale armor.

  "Now that's a face you 't fet. Girls will die of heart attack at a mere gnce. A face that will haunt any sane person's dream. Fuck! That's bad," I thought to myself while maintaining a calm mind. I look like a freak.

  "Yep! Pretty messed up. I wao use my unique magic to heal you, but she stopped me saying, 'Reality manipution is a hard and dangerous thing, you shouldn't use it recklessly. It break the very fabric of reality if you lose trol.' I mean, e on, I do it. But, you know the rules. She's the boss," Wanda shook her head helplessly and sighed.

  "She's right though. It's dangerous, isn't it?" I asked with a slight smile. I don't know if she saw it. Oh, well...

  "Yeah, it's dangerous. I know. I just wish to use all this new magi the field, but I'm not allowed to use it because 'It cause irreparable damage.' 'Magic should not be used like that,' 'Reality ing ay manipution put you in danger if not used under a master's supervision' and bh bh bh," She imitated an old dy's void added, "You know what she sounded like? Always cool and calm and cryptic."

  We talked for a few minutes... Maybe hours...

  t on telling me about her life here. She gave me a brief yout of this pd the routine everyone follows. She hates the food. So she sneaked out a couple of times and was caught by Dr. Strange, but she bckmailed him into buying her food. They have a deal of some sort. Well, Wanda caught Strange using memory manipution on Wong for fun on multiple occasions and used that as leverage.

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  [3rd Person POV]

  [Master Hall]

  A Oered the room and noticed Dr. Strange already waiting for her.

  "So...?" Dr. Strange raised his eyebrow questionably. He has been having dreams for a while and he saw his mentetting stabbed by the dark wizard and then the arrival of a purple Titan oh, followed by endless chaos. That is going to happen iure. But, retly something ged. The visio ging randomly and in each of these new visions, Spiderman is involved. These visions are so random, that even someone of his caliber was fused and lost. "Got anything out of him?"

  "I couldn't see through him. But surprisingly he possesses great potential. It may even exceed you and Wanda, Strange," A One replied. She tested his magic aptitude when she was examining his arms and it came out the stro she had seen in a human.

  "Are you serious?" Dr. Strange narrowed his eyes.

  "Not only that, he has somehow awakened Chi in his body alongside magic. He's the key to stopping the uping doom," She added as she took her usual seat.

  "But you do know the alterure, right? The future where Spiderman bees the biggest threat the entire universe or should I say the entire multiverse had ever entered, right?" Dr. Strange said as he sat oher side of the table and poured two cups of tea.

  "That's why, it's our duty to guide him. Just like how I guided you and Wanda, we must not let his destiny walk that dark path, and bring forth a brighter future," A One replied with a smile.

  "But how are you pnning to prevent her death? We ot act acc to our visions. You know the rules. We 't destabilize the timeline. But... If we don't act..." Strange asked while analyzing her as.

  A One replied calmly, "There's a thin liween revealing the truth and ignora the end of the day, the oute that we've foreseen is what is going to happen, albeit ged due to our interference or not. Time isn't static, Strange. We have our responsibilities in the grand scheme of things, but in the end, we are just actors pying our roles in the predetermined sario. If we overstep our boundaries, the cost we would pay would be tremendous and unmeasurable."

  "You are just going to let her die then?" Strange slightly raised his voice, before calming down, shaking his head with a sigh, notig A One's stoic face, "Do whatever you wish." He stood up and opened a portal. "I just hope you are right this time too..." He walked into the portal.

  "So do I... So do I... Stephen," A One silently looked into the cloudy New York skylihrough her vision as destru ravaged the city. "So do I."

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