Charlie,
pursued by the Skinwalkers and hidden under the altar, prayed to God for help.
She was answered by Lycana, the god whose altar it is and given power…and when
Charlie comes back to her senses, she is surrounded by dead werewolves and her
hands are soaked in blood….
Meanwhile, Hulk
and Bruce Banner are being tortured by the Eldest and her minions, Hulk planted in the
ground and Bruce growing out like a tree trunk sprouting branches with hearts
hanging from it like fruit, which the demons are plucking off and eating.
Charlie is brought in to see if a threat to her will compel Banner to reveal
whose force is protecting him. Charlie is defiant so Eldest levitates her from
the ground and orders one of her flunkies to fetch Lycana’s skin for one to wear
while killing Charlie. Teelget is chosen to end Charlie’s life and he rips his
skin off, revealing Charlie’s abusive father, terrifying the girl. Bruce tells
her that a Skinwalker can take the form of anyone it has consumed and Charlie
finally realizes that she is not responsible for her father’s death. The flunky
returns to tell Eldest that Lycana’s skin is missing—because Lycana gave it to
Charlie who transforms into a winged werewolf and tears into the minions.
Eldest reacts to Teelget’s death by unleashing a bolt of energy that sets the
Hulk tree aflame. While Charlie is fighting Eldest who has assumed her giant monster
form, Hulk recovers and bashes Eldest over the head with a flaming tree. Eldest
tells Hulk he has broken the Pactum Aeternus and it will be the death of him.
Hulk responds, “Who’s going to do it? You?” and hits her again, square in the
head with both fists….
Bruce awakens
in a deserted shop with Charlie’s Captain America backpack beside him; he opens
it to find Charlie’s skin while we discover Charlie in her lycanthrope form is
out hunting. Meanwhile, Eldest’s threats echo in the darkness….