Baldur inspected his surroundings. The once flat ground caved, forming a pit twenty feet wide, the walls were raised as high as a man is tall. His eyes wandered towards the ragged shape of a man who sprawled limply on the ground, his long golden hair contrasting with the blackened earth.
Baldur frowned, staring at 'Thor', he almost felt… disappointed, he shook his head—a fool can't win against a god.
His joints cracked as he stood, treading towards the corpse he unlaced his trousers, his limp cock swaying lazily as he hobbled.
"A golden shower, for a golden head." Baldur mused. He felt nothing as he pissed, he felt nothing. He can't even have the basic fucking pleasure of pushing out shit, the witch had taken that from him too. He loathed her—more than anything in his life—he never wanted to throttle someone as badly as he wanted to throttle her.
He turned to walk away, lacing his trousers back up, unconcerned about the corpse he desecrated.
Yet… he felt that he wasn't finished, turning back around he examined Thor, his ragged face twisting to a scowl.
"I'm wasting my time, what am I even doing watching a dead body." he grumbled. Groaning in frustration he burned holes into Thor—waiting, watching—his patience wilting as he did.
After a few more moments he snorted and turned to leave, "Just as I thought. Nothing."
Reaching the crater wall he heard a cough, twirling he smirked as the once limp frame of Thor raised unsteadily. "So you're still alive."
Baldur watched Thor gasp for air, the sight of Thor cake his face with blood, piss and dirt amused him.
Thor stopped and looked at him, sniffing, his face twisted in revulsion. "...you vile… wretched… barbaric BEAST!" Thor bellowed, his body quivering. "...for your hostility and humiliation. I, Thor, Son of Odin..." he stood, through shaded eyes, Baldur could see the red glint of madness.
"Sentence you to DIE!"
Thor roared, charging Baldur, the damp soil exploded as their bodies collided against the crater wall crashing into a mound of rubble.
Baldur's body glowed, righting himself with a flip, he whirled as his feet touched the ground and with a boom, he smashed his fist on Thor. "Weak!" Baldur jeered.
Punching the ground Thor snarled, standing, he plucked a massive metal beam that jutted from the ground. Weapon in hand, Thor accelerated towards Baldur sending the god flying with a mighty thwack. Baldur skidded on the ground for several meters before he stopped (the blow from Thor was mighty indeed) pieces of metal stuck to his flesh as the weapon shattered upon meeting his skin. Thor wasn't done however, discarding the broken beam and reached for another (this one not as big as the one he used against Baldur) what it lacked it size however, it made up with speed. Its girth wasn't as wide, making handling the weapon easier —it really made his life easier as he battered Baldur—his quick chopping strikes burying the god.
Baldur laughed, capturing the weapon, he rose to unbury himself. Clutching the beam in-between his arm he pulled.
Reacting on instinct, Thor wrenched the weapon from Baldur's grasp, finding it futile as Baldur refused to give.
"Your struggle is pointless," Baldur continued to taunt.
Thinking quickly Thor responded, using his torso as a pendulum he swung Baldur against a mountain of metal, the weapon slipped from the god's clutches.
The weapon in hand Thor stood, cradling the beam on his shoulder he aimed, muscles bulging he threw the makeshift javelin towards Baldur. It whizzed and shrieked as it flew to Baldur, gouging the earth it plunged deep into the god skewering him.
The smell of iron invaded Baldur's nose as he coughed up blood, "Pointless!" he muttered. Gripping the beam that impaled him, his torso squelched and squirted blood as he pulled the offending object, his body making a wet popping sound as he ripped it free.
Thor looked horrified but continued to watch, unable to look away he saw Baldur's body begin to reknit itself.
"So… care to try again?" Baldur's tattoos flickered to life, dashing forward, he was upon Thor in an instant, a massive shockwave rippled in the air around him, as he kicked—sending dirt, Thor and debris flying.
Baldur scoffed, "You're pathetic."
Zipping forward, his blow sounded like thunderclaps and snapped Thor's head back.
Thor stumbled, the punch rattling his brain. Taking a step back he held his ground and refused to falter, instead choosing to retaliate. He threw a body hook and a right cross, both attacks hitting their marks, not letting up he continued to throw a flurry of fast, whipping strikes that drove Baldur back. Ducking, Thor avoided a set of hard looping punches and countered, blasting Baldur with an overhand right and an uppercut that threw the god back.
Baldur staggered from the blows, rubbing his jaw he smirked, a sickening crack erupted as he snapped the bone back in place, planting his foot down his body glowed as he weaved in between punches and whipped forward, flooring Thor with two hard uppercuts to the body sending him airborne. Blurring, Baldur reached for Thor's cape, jerking down he delivered a vicious knee, breaking Thor's back and ribs.
"Weak," taunted Baldur, gripping the back of Thor's head he tested the tensile strength of bone, finding it disgustingly fragile as it cracked under the pressure. "Soft and weak!" smashing Thor against the ground he released the fool.
Thor groaned, wincing he shakily went on all fours, arms trembled from a combination of pain and fatigue, craning his head he looked at Baldur. Coughing, blood dribbled from his mouth letting him taste sharp iron, "...w-what... manner of monster... are you." he muttered.
Baldur's eye twitched, "Monster? Fool, you don't even recognize your own god even if he pissed on your corpse."
Thor drew a ragged breath as he stared wide-eyed at Baldur, his voice quivered with rage as he spoke, "...God!? You dare to call yourself a GOD! Demon." The faint sound of thunder crackled on the horizon as Thor stood, his breath hitched as he growled like a wild beast.
The glint in Thor's eyes reminded Baldur of a Berserker—of those mad warriors that Odin favored so much—with that thought he chuckled at the sudden realization. "Well that certainly explains a lot." he grinned, "Come on then Mad Warrior, let us not disappoint The All-Father."
Thor balled his fists, body trembled with rage. An animalistic roar escaped his throat. Charging, the earth tremored as he ran towards Baldur.
Krakathoom!
Time slowed for Baldur as he heard the crack of thunder, Thor—the madness driven warrior—was barreling down upon him, his fist cocked, skin taut as muscles bulged underneath threatening to burst free.
Crack!
Baldur blinked as Thor's punch connected crackling like thunder—his perception slowed as he watched the fist dig itself against his face—the faintest of tingle rippled from the punch and coursed through his body as he soared. He felt electric, giddy, ecstatic from feeling that faint tingle. He closed his eyes, and shut out the outside world, not wanting to see nor hear nor smell, he only wanted to feel.
Yet, as quickly as he felt it, the tingle dissipated, "...no...no, no, no, NOOO!." Baldur sobbed as he clambered to his feet, "...you...again...HIT ME!"
Thor obliged and pummeled Baldur—his punches were like hurricanes—the force from his strikes were so great it would loose dirt and debris from the ground and sent them flying, his strikes so fierce that it boomed like thunder as he ravaged Baldur—almost drowning out the laughter that erupted from the god.
-l-l-
Baldur laughed in ecstasy—this is what Odin promised him. Even the fastest tingle coursed through his body like a wave, pleasuring him… taunting him… angering him as he remembered the mission, the giant.
Had that disgusting creature did what Baldur asked for he would have been on his way to feeling again, instead that beast decided to waste his time. He growled, he felt renewed vigor, he's desperate to complete the mission and finally rid himself of the curse.
He needed to end this—he has wasted enough time already—he inhaled, feeling his power flow through him in a controlled manner, unlike the ones from his attacks that required him to violently draw from his power. He allowed it to build, refusing to release it too soon, feeling it reach its zenith he exhaled, opening his eyes, the world illuminated.
-l-l-
Thor shielded his eyes as he was nearly blinded by the light that gleamed so fierce it forced him back.
-l-l-
Baldur stood as his body radiated light, he hasn't used this trick since he was a boy—back when they used to call him Baldur The Innocent. Back when he would pick flowers for his mother and thread it between her hair, back when he… he swiftly stamped down the memories of laughter, and sunsets that threatened to surface, he wasn't a boy anymore, those worthless memories are of no use to him.
"I have to admit, you almost had me fooled, Father," he muttered, knowing one of his vile birds were watching somewhere, ready to relay information back to the Allfather. "sending one of your pet to test me. You seem to forget, that I am the God of Light."
"...pet...God of Light. You are even more insane than I had first thought." Thor growled out.
Baldur chuckled, "Your game is up, madman, let's finish this. I have a giant to slay."
Thor looked perplexed, "...giant? No." his face twisted to a sneer, "You'll have to get through me before you reach him."
Baldur smirked, "Oh. I know." he jumped, his body glowing as he gathered his power, landing with a crash he slammed his fists on the ground, his light shattered the earth as it traveled towards Thor, who rolled to evade the deadly wave and saved himself from getting obliterated.
Baldur growled, "Stand still."
Baldur flashed as he launched towards Thor, swinging with abandon. His wide looping punches looked ready to cleave a man's head off.
But Thor is a warrior, renowned in the nine realms, trained by the best his whole life to prepare him for combat. Thor raised an arm and intercepted Baldur's blow, grunting as he was caught off guard by Baldur's strength that seemed to have tripled. Baldur swung again the strike whizzing past his head as he ducked and blasted Baldur with a punch—that Baldur blocked by punching the rocketing fist—Thor grits his teeth as heard his bones crack, his long golden hair whipped back from the shockwaves of Baldur's blow.
Baldur blurred—this time he aimed low—the speed catching Thor off guard as he ripped into him. Bone, muscle, and armor all crumbled before his mighty blow and knocked Thor back. Baldur smirked, "Slow and weak, father should never have sent you."
"You talk too much." Thor grunted, exploding into motion he reached for Baldur's leg, using the momentum he tackled the god, the earth caving as they crashed to the ground. Thor reached for Baldur's neck, bones cracked as he clenched his hand. Pinning Baldur, Thor began blasting him with thunderous blows, battering him over and over again destroying the god's smirk as he caved his face in.
Baldur lurched forward capturing a punch he backhanded Thor and flipped their positions.
Thor twisted, avoiding a sloppy punch he recoiled, bashing his elbow against Baldur's skull—his face curled in horror as he watched Baldur's jaw flopped down beside him—Baldur chuckled, his tongue flapping in his neck as he did—the sound he made akin to a wheezing growl mixed with a pig's snort.
Thor heaved and pulled his legs up, placing them by Baldur's chest, twisting, he avoided several blows and kicked, sending the god airborne.
Baldur made the same wheezing, snorting growl as he skidded across the ground. Once he stopped, he stood. His vision doubled as his left eye popped and hung free. Concentrating, his body illuminated a bluish–white light as he regenerated. Bones snapped back in place, eye retracted back in his skull and jaw grew back in mere seconds.
Baldur growled, his vision fully recovered he blurred and tore a misshapen lump of steel from the ground and hurled it effortlessly towards Thor.
Unprepared for his new found speed the idiot smashed against the hurdling monolith.
Baldur revelled at the shrieks that erupted as Thor howled in pain. He smirked, catching the faint whiff of rain as he sniffed, the world darkened as he stared at the metal monolith and vaguely registered the rumblings and crackling of thunder in the distance.
"Odin is a fool if he thought you would have been a challenge to me," Baldur shook his head and chuckled.
His test wasn't finished however, he still needed to get back to Asgard and to do that he would have to question the dying berserker. He took two steps to where the dying berserker was before he stopped as the ground began to rumble. "...what?" Baldur asked in confusion as streaks of blue light began to emanate through the cracks in the steel, followed by an explosion of azure energy that erupted from the rubble scattering dirt and debris everywhere. Dust filled his lungs and covered his vision making him cough and sneeze involuntary, though his curse prevented him from feeling it his body still reacted on instincts whenever his nose itched.
The smoke soon cleared and Baldur felt fury burn through his body as he saw Thor, he observed the supposed to be dying berserker and snarled, "Why. Aren't. You. DEAD!" Baldur screeched.
Thor stood before him, looking pristine; nary a speck of dirt and grime on his skin and clothes, blue energy erupted from his body and crackled, reminding Baldur of his brother, Thor.
Baldur snarled, "You're wasting my time! Die already." Light trailed Baldur as he bolted towards Thor screaming like a madman, his fists cocked back and ready to pummel Thor.
As he got closer the world rumbled.
Krakathoom!
Baldur blinked as he was blasted back by a bolt of lightning sending him soaring a hundred feet back, "...why." he shook his head, sitting up he snarled at Thor. "...all you had to do was die," he said through gritted teeth. "but YOU just had to make it harder for yourself. Fine!"
Exploding into motion, he jumped, his light glowing its own shade of azure as it traced behind him. Reaching the apex of his ascent, his glorious incandescence contrasted against the darkened sky as he illuminated the world, growing brighter and stronger than any star.
Falling back down the world shook as he slammed his feet into the ground shattering the earth; dirt, metal, and light mixed together as it raised and rippled from the epicenter flowing like a tsunami and slammed into Thor burying him.
Thunder crackled and rumbled as Thor burst from the ground and blasted Baldur with lightning.
Thor looked to the sky his face in deep concentration he called for thunder. The world thrummed and lightning crackled from his fingers. "You madman. Fiend!" he bellowed, "Know my wrath as you I send you to the deepest and darkest canyon of Hel!"
Krakoom!
The world exploded as Thor struck the ground with the biggest lightning bolt the entire universe has ever seen.