Recaps

Adam apologized to his friends and, with John’s help, led them to stop the Four Horsemen from starting the Doomsday War. After Adam’s power turned the battle against the Horsemen, Heaven and Hell’s leaders arrived, while John gathered fragments of fate from the defeated War.

• Adam regretted controlling his friends, apologized, and won them back as John withdrew the power that made his words reality.
• John gave Adam and his friends flying bicycles and sent them to stop the Four Horsemen, who had been summoned to start the Doomsday War.
• John investigated Agnes’s prophecy, then joined the children and the doomsday couple at the Air Force Base, where the Horsemen had activated the missiles.
• Peppa kicked War, took the Flaming Sword, and destroyed the Red Knight as chaos particles revealed Adam’s influence over the battle.
• John collected fragments of fate from War as the children defeated Pestilence and Famine; Death escaped, and John followed him.
• Gabriel and Beelzebub came to the human world after Adam’s change made the armies of Heaven and Hell’s planned war futile.

John imprisoned Death in the Casket of Ancient Winters, stopping people from dying, while Gabriel and Beelzebub pressured Adam to restart the Doomsday War. Satan came to seize Adam, but John intervened as Satan’s hand closed around the group.

• John froze Death with the Casket of Ancient Winters and imprisoned him, causing people around the world to become unable to die.
• Gabriel and Beelzebub demanded that Adam begin the Doomsday War, but Adam refused, and Crowley argued that their plan opposed Heaven’s Ineffable Plan.
• Gabriel and Beelzebub departed, and Satan emerged in the human world to punish Adam for rejecting him.
• Adam told Satan that he was not his father, and Satan spread Hellfire across the earth before reaching for him.
• Aziraphale and Crowley fought beside Adam as Satan’s hand engulfed them, and John appeared, prompting Adam to say that brute force only brought loneliness.
• Golden wings surrounded Adam, Aziraphale, and Crowley as golden flames began burning in Satan’s palm.

John rescued Adam and his friends from Satan, then used Aziraphale and Crowley’s Heaven-summoning formation to transport himself and Satan there. John disappeared as Satan’s arrival sparked a battle between Hell’s ruler and Heaven’s angels, and the Creator finally appeared.

• John freed Adam’s friends from Satan’s grasp and sent Adam back to them, then borrowed Aziraphale’s Flaming Sword.
• John blinded and lifted Satan, drowned his Hellfire, protected the nearby people with a Fire-Freezing Charm, and bound his legs before deciding to change venues.
• Aziraphale redirected the Heaven-summoning formation beneath John, while Crowley expanded it to include Satan, and both were transported to Heaven.
• John announced Satan’s identity to Heaven’s War Mobilization Officer, prompting the angels to sound the trumpets and attack Satan.
• John hid with a Disillusionment Charm as Satan fought off the angels, and the Creator appeared amid the battle.

John recognized God as the creator of the world and was sent with Satan to the Garden of Eden, where he rejected the role God had assigned him. After eating from the Tree of Life, John confronted God and declared his own identity as the fire dragon.

• John concluded that God had created the universe and its laws, and God appeared during the battle between Satan and the angels.
• God sent John and Satan away, and John woke in the Garden of Eden, where Crowley identified him as Adam.
• John explored Eden, questioned its plants and animals, and refused Crowley's warning to leave the Tree of Life alone.
• John ate the fruit of the Tree of Life, rejected the name Adam, and accused God of rewriting lives.
• John summoned his silver ring and the Flaming Sword, challenged God, and declared, "I am the fire dragon."

John fought God in the burning Garden of Eden, arguing that humanity had created God and that God’s control over fate was only a script. After reforging the Dusk Sword with the Four Horsemen’s power, John shattered God’s defenses, but he saw fate itself begin repairing the ruined Garden.

• John attacked God with Fiendfyre and chaos magic while accusing God of manipulating humanity and its fate.
• God confiscated the Flaming Sword, so John drew Dusk and reforged it into the Twilight Sword using the Four Horsemen’s fragments and Death trapped in the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• John opened a path to Heaven with the Bifrost and struck God’s protective sphere until it cracked.
• John shattered the sphere and struck down God, whose true form disappeared in the sword’s radiance.
• John noticed a mysterious force correcting the destruction in the collapsing Garden of Eden and identified it as fate.

John finished the Doomsday crisis, checked on Adam, and returned Aziraphale’s sword while Crowley recovered John’s servant, Paluru, from Hell. He left Earth aboard the Silver Hand 2017 to study calamity and Fate near Alpha Centauri.

• John left Heaven after God took control of the world’s new script and ordered the angels to stand down from Doomsday preparations.
• John visited Adam, found that the Chaos Particles were fading from him, and gave him a branch from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
• John left the Book of Prophecy at Anathema’s house, where Agnes’s words addressed him through its pages.
• John returned Aziraphale’s book and Flaming Sword to the bookshop, then asked Crowley to retrieve Paluru from Hell.
• Crowley returned with Paluru, and John said goodbye before releasing ordinary death back into the world and combining the Horsemen’s calamity fragments with the Dusk Sword and Fate.
• John transformed the Silver Hand 2017 into a spaceship and set course for Alpha Centauri to study calamity and Fate.

John smelted the Four Horsemen’s fragments into the power of calamity, purified the Dusk Sword, and sealed the power of Fate in the Casket of Ancient Winters. After spending half a month on Alpha Centauri, he restarted his spaceship and discovered that the Dragon Egg was about to hatch.

• John used Soul, Return to remove the Death and Pestilence fragments from the Dusk Sword and smelted the Horsemen’s fragments into the power of calamity.
• John burned away the Dusk Sword’s ominous aura and sealed Fate inside the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• John explored Alpha Centauri and considered that life on the planet might eventually evolve into intelligent beings and produce a new God.
• John purified Silver Hand 2017, found no trace of a curse, and restarted the spaceship while Paluru tended to the Dragon Egg.
• John heard cracking sounds and saw two fine cracks appear in the Dragon Egg’s shell.

John saved the Dragon Egg from the mixed energies it absorbed during the Bifrost journey, and it hatched into a rapidly growing Starry Sky Dragon named Aurelion. After finding Fate and beginning the trip home, John encountered a wrecked fleet and a group of apparent rescuers who were stripping the ships for resources.

• The Bifrost poured spatial energy, Chaos Magic, and star power into the Dragon Egg, so John used a Blue Flame Gem and a potion to neutralize the dangerous forces inside it.
• The Dragon Egg hatched under John's watch, and he named the dark-gold-and-purple hatchling Aurelion, the Starry Sky Dragon.
• During Aurelion's first week, it grew quickly, showed unusual intelligence, ate Magic Crystals and a meteorite, and became Paluru's cherished charge.
• After finding Fate, John programmed the spaceship to return home, but it came upon wrecked ships and bodies floating in space.
• John discovered that the supposed rescuers were collecting resources from the wrecks, and he noticed a humanlike figure and a raccoon aboard their approaching spaceship.

John met the Guardians of the Galaxy while investigating a distress signal and learned that Gamora was carrying a secret involving Thanos. He offered to help her, leaving the Guardians to consider what she had kept hidden.

• The Guardians of the Galaxy arrived at the distress signal, where Star-Lord questioned John about the dead ship and recorded information about the incident.
• John recognized Groot as a Flora Colossus and teased the Guardians by offering to buy part of him, angering Rocket and making Groot wary.
• John asked Star-Lord about Starhawk and discovered he was from Earth, while Gamora questioned John about his magic.
• Gamora recalled Thanos destroying her home and killing her parents, then admitted that telling Star-Lord would put him in danger.
• John snapped his fingers to interrupt Star-Lord and Gamora's private conversation, and the Guardians realized they had all been watching them.

Gamora sought a way to keep Thanos from learning her secret, and John used magic to take custody of it. After the Guardians left, John set course for Xandar to pursue the Power Stone.

• John brewed a Forgetfulness Potion, but after learning Gamora was Thanos's daughter, he warned it would not reliably protect her secret and offered three magical alternatives.
• Gamora chose the Unbreakable Vow rather than make Star-Lord bear her secret, but John offered to keep it himself.
• John gave Gamora a jar containing her secret, and she thanked him before leaving with the Guardians.
• Paluru asked Star-Lord to return Aurelion's food bowl, while Gamora laughed at John's prank.
• John used what he had learned from Gamora to plot a course to Xandar and began a jump through the universe.

John infiltrated the Nova Corps headquarters on Xandar, copied the Power Stone, and returned the original to its Orb. As people across Xandar began falling into an unexplained sleep, John suspected his own amplified power had triggered Eternal Sleep.

• John disguised himself to enter the Nova Corps headquarters and used Commander Rhomann Dey to obtain access to the Orb's security systems.
• John opened the Orb with Alohomora, drew energy from the Power Stone, and formed a copy of it on the back of his hand.
• John restored the original Power Stone to the Orb and left the headquarters as Nova Corps personnel began falling asleep.
• John discovered that people across Xandar were falling asleep and wondered whether his arrival and the Power Stone's amplified power had caused Eternal Sleep.

John used a Dreamcatcher and mirror to enter the world of Eternal Sleep through Rhomann Dey’s dream, following a strand of Pepper Potts’s hair to Stark Tower. He discovered that Tony Stark had died, while the sleep continued spreading through Xandar and overtook an investigation team.

• John found that unintelligent creatures escaped Eternal Sleep and used a Dreamcatcher to view Paluru’s and Rhomann Dey’s dreams.
• In Rhomann Dey’s dream, John saw Pepper Potts with Erik and used her hair to guide himself into the dream world.
• John followed the strand of hair through a lifelike New York to Stark Tower, where a statue commemorated Tony Stark’s death in 2013.
• As John entered the dream world, Eternal Sleep spread from him, and an armed Xandar investigation team fell asleep before it could begin its mission.

Pepper Potts remembered how Neville Longbottom had entrusted her with the hope of bringing the Wizard King back, then attacked John when she mistook him for the ruler who caused eternal sleep. John explained that he came from a parallel universe, and the chapter ended with him suspecting Pepper’s ring was one of the Nine Rings and learning how grief and the Stars’ infighting had driven his counterpart to create the dream.

• Pepper Potts recalled Neville Longbottom asking her to carry his spirit and hope, then questioned why he had chosen her.
• Erik offered to wait for Pepper, but John appeared in her penthouse and Pepper recognized him as the Wizard King.
• Pepper summoned her Iron Man Armor and attacked John, accusing him of trapping the world in eternal sleep.
• John explained that he was a Wizard King from a parallel universe, and Pepper learned that Tony Stark was alive in his world.
• John noticed Pepper’s ring and learned that Longbottom’s Lion had given it to her.
• John concluded that his counterpart had plunged the world into eternal sleep after the Stars fell into infighting and he lost what mattered most to him.

John took the ring from Pepper Potts and entered Wizard City, where he confronted the Wizard King who had created the Eternal Sleep world. The Wizard King wanted someone else to take over his dream, but John rejected the false world.

• John guessed Neville Longbottom had sacrificed himself for the Wizard King and asked Pepper Potts to give him the ring.
• Pepper Potts removed the ring, and John warned her and Erik that the world outside might be gone and they might never have met there.
• John put on the ring and vanished, leaving Pepper Potts and Erik together in Eternal Sleep.
• John arrived in Wizard City and learned that its people lived inside the Eternal Sleep Wizard King's dream.
• The Eternal Sleep Wizard King defended the dream as a safe, happy world and asked John to replace him, but John refused.

John refused Eternal Sleep’s offer to rule an eternal dream world, and the two began a wizard’s duel. John turned Eternal Sleep’s own barrage of spells against him, bringing down his towers.

• John learned that the other Johns wanted the Critic and rejected Eternal Sleep’s offer to live forever and rule his dream world.
• Eternal Sleep and John faced each other with wands and began their duel.
• John collapsed the ground beneath Eternal Sleep and sent snakes after him, but Eternal Sleep countered with icicles and a giant serpent.
• John conjured Fiendfyre, which Eternal Sleep trapped in corrosive slime chains and extinguished with an explosion.
• Eternal Sleep used towers to bombard John and pierced his body, but John revealed the body was a decoy and cast a Reflection Spell.
• John reflected Eternal Sleep’s spell barrage, causing the towers to crumble.

John defeated Eternal Sleep in their duel, though Eternal Sleep remained indestructible and the victory depended on the duel’s rules. Eternal Sleep revealed that Neville had awakened him through death and that his own failure to reach a higher level had led to the events surrounding the Stars and the conflict between wizards and Muggles.

• Eternal Sleep attacked John with fire, birds, and a magically formed sword, while John endured the assaults and pierced Eternal Sleep’s eye.
• John invoked the duel’s rule that might made right, and Eternal Sleep accepted his defeat before John’s borrowed wand shattered.
• Eternal Sleep explained that his regret was failing to reach a higher level and that he had once planned to split himself so another version could rule the Wizarding Kingdom.
• Eternal Sleep said Percy centralized power to protect the Wizard King’s image, while Cedric learned of his condition and disappeared after telling Neville.
• Eternal Sleep revealed that Neville used emotion and his own death to awaken the Wizard King’s magic, creating the chain of events that stirred Eternal Sleep into making his world.

Eternal Sleep offered the dreamers a choice between remaining in his world and returning to reality, while John chose to leave and awoke in the Nova Corps building. John departed for Earth, but Xandar soon came under attack by a Chitauri fleet and four powerful figures.

• Eternal Sleep explained that Grindelwald had refused to strike him and gave John a night of satisfying sleep before offering everyone a choice.
• Rhomann Dey, Erik, and the other dreamers recalled their real lives and weighed whether to stay with their dream families or leave.
• John visited the Leaky Cauldron, where Abbott said he would follow the Wizard King and showed John a photograph of the king and his friends.
• John kept his promise, left the dream, and woke in the Nova Corps building beside Rhomann Dey.
• John boarded the Silver Hand 2017 with Paluru and the sleeping Aurelion, set course for Earth, and departed.
• Rhomann Dey woke to a Chitauri attack on Xandar and saw four figures descend through the Nova Corps' defenses.

Stella spent Christmas at Hogwarts after the other students left, then opened an unmarked present that transported him to a station, where he encountered Professor Wick. The chapter ended with Stella recognizing his frighteningly familiar teacher as Wick stepped off a train.

• Stella said goodbye to Alice and Lewis as they left Hogwarts for the holidays.
• Stella spent the quiet days at school thinking about his lonely family life and writing letters to his friends.
• On Christmas morning, Stella opened presents from his relatives, including toys, books, Quidditch equipment, a broomstick, and food.
• Stella opened an unmarked present, and the enchanted sheet of paper wrapped around him and carried him away.
• Stella found himself at a station as a train arrived, and Professor Wick stepped off and greeted him.

John returned to Hogwarts with Stella and checked the Celestial Sphere with Snape, finding that repeated use had weakened the surrounding space and revealed new markings on the Egg-Shaped Meteorite. He reinforced the Celestial Spheres with a stable star river, while the meteorite’s origins and mysteries remained unclear.

• John brought Stella to Hogwarts, where Filch suspected her of smearing frog brains in a corridor and Snape criticized her Potions work.
• John told Snape that the Celestial Sphere had become unstable and took him to inspect it that night.
• John and Snape entered the Chamber of Secrets and found the Egg-Shaped Meteorite and its nine orbiting Celestial Spheres unchanged.
• John discovered that repeated Bifrost use had drained the spheres, released energy, and weakened the surrounding space, though Hogwarts's magical field could repair the damage.
• John noticed new markings on the meteorite and added a stable star river of more than a hundred small Celestial Spheres.

John returned to New York for a late Christmas with his family after attending an Avengers musical and witnessing Spider-Man stop a bank robbery. He reunited with Watson at home, where his father welcomed him and wished him a belated Merry Christmas.

• Watson and Mrs. Wick talked about Valery and missed John, while Watson complained that their son rarely came home.
• John watched an Avengers musical that portrayed him as a mysterious eighth Avenger, then visited Queens with a Hulk doll.
• Peter used his suit to subdue a bank robber and his accomplices, and he spotted John as he left.
• Watson found John's bedroom empty and reflected on how much he wanted his son to come home.
• John appeared behind Watson, explained that he had tried calling, and shared a belated Christmas greeting with his father.

Banner settled into life in the Wizarding Kingdom, where he researched its unusual creatures and found himself the object of Olina’s affection. Their encounter was interrupted by Star Spirits riding Aurelion, while Hagrid admired the dragon-like creature.

• Hulk woke in his Redwood District treehouse, broke the door, and changed back into Banner to read the Seagull Daily.
• Hagrid repaired Banner’s door by hand and told him he planned to visit a Muggle city with Grawp, then delivered Banner’s laboratory equipment.
• Hagrid said he would spend the holidays in Paris with Olympe and hoped John would return to witness their wedding.
• Banner assembled his equipment and began researching the Wizarding Kingdom’s unusual creatures.
• Olina brought Banner the bread he had ordered, but Aurelion rushed past with two Star Spirits on its back and knocked her down.
• Banner caught Olina, while Hagrid admired Aurelion’s claws and forelegs, leaving Olina and Banner uncomfortable.

While John was away for Christmas, Hector, Hermes, and Aurelion sparked a citywide hunt in Wizard City; after returning, John dealt with new concerns about supervillains and Wizards’ safety in the non-magical world. The chapter ended with John receiving a gift from Asgard.

• Hector and Hermes escaped Silver Hand Amusement Park with Aurelion and caused trouble in the Redwood District, prompting Tommy Shelby to turn the Christmas event into a citywide Star Spirit hunt.
• Olina and Banner joined the pursuit, while Hagrid chased after Aurelion; John returned to find the three fugitives hiding in the Magic Tower and sent them back outside to face the Wizards.
• John learned that Percy had opened travel channels for Wizards and received a proposal for the Wizarding Kingdom to assist Neon’s Supervillain Crime Investigation Division.
• John rejected the proposal because of Neon’s past mistreatment of Wizards and wrote to Percy about granting the Silencers law-enforcement authority to protect Wizards.
• After spending Christmas with his family, John received a gift from Asgard.

John negotiated with Hela, Queen of Asgard, to rebuild the Bifrost in exchange for a friendship treaty and recognition of her rule. After sending Hela back to Asgard with the new Bifrost, John reflected on the future, while Percy received a mysterious letter bearing the name The Leaky Cauldron.

• Hela gave John the Tesseract, and John offered to rebuild Asgard's Bifrost in exchange for a friendship treaty and recognition of the Hela Dynasty.
• John and Hela agreed to the terms, and they celebrated their deal with a drink.
• John built a Bifrost seed overnight and gave Hela the Night Sky Sword as its key, but Hela was initially disappointed that his surprise was sending her home.
• John added Wizard City's coordinates to the Bifrost seed, and Hela activated it and returned to Asgard.
• Percy received a letter from Riddle that contained only the name The Leaky Cauldron.

Harry and Ron celebrated Ron’s discharge at the Leaky Cauldron, where Percy confronted Ron over his complaints and offered to transfer him. John’s friends gathered for a Christmas feast and posed for a photograph that Hannah later hung in the pub.

• Hannah taught Little Abbott to cook with love while he helped run the bustling Leaky Cauldron.
• Harry and Ron discussed their recent mission, Ron’s injury, and Hermione’s work as they waited for Percy.
• Percy arrived and argued with Ron, then went into a reserved room after John invited him.
• John’s friends gathered for a Christmas feast, and Little Abbott took a photograph of them raising their glasses.
• Hannah framed the photograph and hung it in the best spot in the Leaky Cauldron.

John appointed Aurelion as Dragon Castle’s successor and considered how wizards might draw on dragons’ power. He then visited Wenwu to watch Trevor Slattery perform and ask to borrow the ten rings.

• John learned that Neville and the others would do anything to save him, and concluded he needed to become stronger to avoid another eternal sleep.
• Amokhan brought Aurelion to John, and John named the little dragon Dragon Castle’s future Young King and entrusted the castle to Amokhan.
• John considered experimenting with contracts that would let wizards draw on dragons’ power, and added the idea to his plans.
• John visited Wenwu at the Ten Rings’ headquarters, where Trevor Slattery performed a comic monologue.
• John told Wenwu he had come to borrow the ten rings.