Appearing in "Darkchild"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Storm (Earth-8280) (Death)
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Nikolai Rasputin (father)
- Alexandra Rasputina (mother)
- X-Men
- New Mutants
- Cannonball
- Wolfsbane
- Sunspot
- Karma
- Psyche
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Synopsis for "Darkchild"
In order to save the dying Storm’s soul from Belasco, Illyana kills her and then teleports herself and Storm’s corpse away to Storm’s garden, where she buries her friend. Suddenly both Storm and Colossus return as zombies, though, and chase her. Illyana teleports away and ends up on Earth at her parents’ home. The Rasputins however don’t recognize their daughter and tell her to go away. Belasco’s demons are already waiting for her and return her to limbo into Storm’s garden, where Belasco punishes her, conjures the third bloodstone and then leaves her in the garden cut off from both her magical and her mutant powers. Illyana uses Storm’s oak, both to protect her from the freezing cold that started with Storm’s death and as sustenance. Again and again she tries in vain to create an acorn from the oak’s lifeforce. Finally, realizing her mistake she uses the last remainder of the oak’s lifeforce to create a sword, an act, which enables her to regain her powers. She confronts Belasco with her sword and actually gains the upper hand in their duel, not noticing that she’s becoming more and more demonic in the process. Finally, remembering Ororo’s fight with Belasco, she realizes that killing him would damn her, and lets the ungrateful, angry Belasco go, to become human again. After much soulsearching Illyana decides to return to the X-Men, for whom no time has passed since they lost her. Now on her fourteenth birthday, Illyana is walking around the Xavier estate and remembers her dead friends. She is optimistic about her future.
See Also
- 2 image(s) from Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series) Vol 1 4
- 5 reprint(s) of Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series) Vol 1 4