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Darkness. You only knew darkness. You felt the chains holding you at your ankles and wrists, the old sweat, blood and dirt adhered to your once fair skin. Your wounds on your sides and back, arms and legs pulsed and ached. Not painfully, only just dully and that made you fear the steps coming closer and closer to your cell you were kept inside for the who knows which month.
His heavy steps bouncing off the walls as he got closer and closer to your cell. His steps stopped and you flinched as the door opened slowly with creaking. The muscles in your body tensed as you looked up into his face. He was an alien with violet skin and shining blue-violet eyes. He held a satisfied and disgusting smile on his face as he approached you. You knew what would come next. You didn’t remember how you got here or where you got here from… not even who you were or what you were once.
“Last time, on your final test… you proved yourself a good soldier, Guensua. That is why… I chose to send you to the only planet which holds the last Infinity Gem that I need. Get the Mind Stone and you will get everything you want! You will stand on the victorious side… on my side!” the alien got closer and closer to you until he held your chin in his thick fingers making you look him in the eye.
“I will get you the Mind Stone… Father” you answered grinning at him making the alien laugh with joy.
“Good girl” he said and let you out of your chains. Servants rushed in hurrying you into a bathroom down the corridor and washed you from the dirt. You watched them wipe at your skin with furry towels and wrapping your now long hair which reached your lower back and dressed you into a tight fitting leather armor. As they dried your hair and braided it into one thick braid you examined yourself in the oval full length mirror.
You looked pale and your eyes were shadowed, your frame abnormally skinnier than how you would be normally. The armor had linen under shirt and shorts above those garments you wore the leather pants and vest with metal plates on the shoulders and metal scales here and there with laced boots on your feet.
The servants left you in your “Father’s” throne room he resided in at the moment. You walked closer to where he sat and cleared your throat.
“You wanted to see me, Father” you said clearly but silently. In front of you was the beautiful view of the galaxy. Stars, planets, milky ways… and the darkness around everything.
“Yes, Guensua. I wanted to show you where you will be going soon” he nodded and smiled at you while you held your face in a stoic and unreadable expression. He pointed at the screen in front of you and it shifted to a planet with water and continents on it. It was green, blue, white, sandy yellow, brown and every color you could take in. It was beautiful. You looked back at him. “This is Earth where you will get the Mind Gem this or that way.”
You looked at him for a few seconds without a word before you looked back at the beautiful planet. You imagined destroying it until it was nothing but dust in the galaxy. You could hear those foolish mortals’ helpless screams as they fell with their planet. You felt nothing. You couldn’t feel anything anymore. You weren’t just anyone, you weren’t someone either. You knew what your name meant: puppet. And you were a good puppet soldier of your Father.
To be continued…