Chapter 21: Fenrir

Back at the reception...

Everyone could only stare at the giant wolf that had appeared before Thatan, with the present ORC members, Sona and her house ready to fight at any given moment, while the larger alien was unsure what to make of the large beast.

"Azazel? What exactly is that thing?" He asked. "Is it really Lokis' offspring?"

"That thing is Fenrir," said Azazel, "his fangs can kill a god, satan, even a legendary dragon, and he really is Lokis' son." Thatan blinked, then turned back to the giant wolf,

"I'm not even going to ask what sort of activities he partook in to spawn a monstrosity like that." Loki glared at Thatan, then snapped his fingers, causing Fenrir to pounce towards Thatan at an alarming speed. Thatan knew he wouldn't be fast enough to dodge the creature, but he knew he was fast enough to strike, so he lifted his arms, holding his energy swords high, and when the giant wolf was close enough Thatan brought the swords down in an X, slashing right across the beasts nose, making it whine and back peddle away from the alien, bringing a paw to his nose in pain. The wolf moved his paw away, showing the X cut and cauterized into his wet nose, growling at the tall alien.

Fenrir then leapt up towards the ceiling, bounding off to a different section of the room while sending large chunks of rubble down to the others below, specifically towards Asia and Gasper.

Both of them screamed until a blue Mass Effect bubble appeared in the air, keeping the rubble at bay, and in turn caused them both to see Pennie being the source of the bubble,

"James!" She called out, and the young cowboy ran past Asia and Gasper, snagging them by an elbow as he quickly dragged them out from under the floating debries. The Asari then let the debries fall freely once the others were out of harms way, gaining the attention of the giant wolf. Before it can even fully turn towards her, however, a wave of dark energy hit it square in the face, turning its attention to Llarya, weilding her twin war axes. Then the wolf was hit with a blast of yellow lightning and a pair of repulsor blasts, forcing it to turn towards Akeno and Katrina, hands pulsing with lightning and weilding Sektors' gauntlets respectively.

The wolf finally decided to go for Akeno and Katrina, with the latter making Sektors' gauntlets disappear, and replace it with Soul Reaver,

"Bite me, Fido," Katrina taunted the wolf, and got into a defensive position, but before she or Fenrir could lash out, a bright flash of light, white, yellow and blue in color, zipped over her and Akenos' heads, hitting Fenrir square in the chest, stunning him before he could take another step. Katrina, brielfy blinded by the light of the lightning, blinked until she could see again, and saw two men standing in front of Akeno and herself; the first she knew to be Akenos' father, Baraqiel, and a man in a wide bamboo hat she wasn't expecting to see,

"Lord Raiden!" Katrina said in surprise.

"I apologize for being late," said the Thunder God, "There was a small skirmish in Outworld that called for my attention."

"But what are you doing here?" Asked Katrina.

"To sign the peace treaty, on behalf of my Earthrealm," Raiden brielfy explained.

"I'm afraid these girls are off limits, pup," Baraqiel said to Fenrir.

The wolf simply growled at the Fallen Angel and Thunder God, while Loki simply smirked,

"Oh goodie, a couple of heroes, wishing to save the day," he lazily said in a mocking tone.

Suddenly, a wave of pink needle-like crystals shot into Fenrirs side, and as soon as six of them pierced his flesh, they exploded, making him roar into the air as he turned to see Pennie wielding an empty Needler, struggling to get a new canister to reload it.

The wolf growled, no longer stunned, and bounded for the Asari girl, who threw her arms up to shield herself, squeezed her eyes shut for the inevitable impact, and gasped when she felt a small spray of something wet crossing her cheek. She heard others gasp, a distinctive grunting noise, and her eyes snapped open to see Thatan standing in front of her, using his bare hands to keep Fenrirs' jaws at bay, his right hand pressing down on Fenrirs' bottom jaw, impaled on one of his fangs, and his left hand was keeping the top jaw up, one of the canine teeth digging through his palm and down into his forearm.

"Thatan!" Pennie gasped, but the Sangheili was focused in keeping Fenrir at bay, then with his sheer strength and might he slammed Fenrir down onto the floor, his body slamming with it. Loki nodded his head in admiration,

"Such strength...quite a feat to actually slam my sons head down like that...yet utterly pointless." Fenrir slowly stood back up, licking its lips and tasting the cold lavender blood in his mouth.

"I would hardly call protecting my sister pointless," said the Sangheili, already falling to a knee due to the rapid bloodloss, which in turn caused Pennie to rush to him, slinging his right arm over her shoulders to keep him steady. Fenrir growled, ready to strike again, until one voice shouted loudly above everything else,

"LOKI!" The Mischief God turned around, seeing James standing on a table, aiming a revolver at him, "Your nonsense ends here, or I will end you myself." Loki paused, staring at the temporally displaced cowboy, then turned his head to the ceiling, practically howling with laughter as everyone else stared at James in confusion,

"Child, do you honestly think a simple human-made bullet is going to harm me?" Loki asked him.

"You sure this is just a simple human-made bullet?" James asked him. Loki tilted his head, lowering himself down ever so slighlty, seeing James keep the gun aimed at him,

"I am a God, and the beast you see before you is a Demigod, do you honestly believe you have something in that primitive weapon that can kill us both?"

"Kill you both? No," said James, "just you." He then pulled the hammer back on the revolver, ready to shoot, with Loki looking on, now curious to see if James, a young human moved forward in his own timeline, really did have a weapon to harm himself, the Norse God of Mischief.

Before Loki could find out or for James to shoot, a green light began to shine underneath both the Norse God and Fenrir, and before either one could do more damage, they were both stuck in a magic pyramid.

"You left yourself open," said one of the devil kings. He was a handsome young man with slicked back green hair and blue eyes, dressed in elegant green robes.

"Beelzebub?!" Shouted Loki, right before vanishing out of sight with Fenrir. James exhaled, slowly releasing the hammer on his gun and lowering it without firing the bullet.

"Well played," commented Sirzechs to Beelzebub.

"Same goes to you James," said Llarya, guiding Asia over to Thatan so she could heal him, "clever trick getting him distracted long enough for that devil king to trap him with that magic, and nice touch with that bluff about you having that magic bullet in the gun." Llarya then saw James empty his gun, seeing there was only one bullet inside, and what James said next made her stare at him in surprise,

"I was only half bluffing," he said. "I did indeed have the magic bullet in there, but I didn't have time to carve Lokis' name into the side for the magic to work."

Once Pennie was sure Asia had Thatan on a steady road to recovery, she approached James as well,

"You mean you were seriously going to waste your magic bullet? The one Erron Black gave you?"

"If that meant saving my nephews friends, then yes," said James.

"Are you hurt, Akeno?" Baraqiel asked his daughter. She angrily looked away, refusing to make eye contact with her father, and the older fallen simply took his leave when he didn't recieve an answer. As soon as he was gone however, Akeno looked in his general direction, feeling a twinge of regret pull at her heart. Katrina noticed, but decided to wait until later to prod her girlfriend with questions...

Back in the forest...

Rias barely managed to shoot a blast of dark energy where Kuroka was standing not two seconds prior, only to see her vanish in a blue glow and reappear at a safer distance. This was followed with Damon trying to use Gilgamesh on the Nekomata, with his drill punches and buzzsaw kicks, but she keeps teleporting out of the way and wearing down Damons' already thin stamina.

"Impressive attacks," said Kuroka, "yet still useless."

"Boosted Gear!" Shouted Issei, trying to summon his Balance Breaker armor, but was left simply staring at his Sacred Gear arm, "Oh c'mon!"

"As I thought," said Tannin as he flew overhead.

"Yo gramps! What's going on here?" Issei asked the flying dragon.

"This is the result of your training with Tannin," said Ddraig, "you'll have to decide if you want to power up, or Balance Break."

"So you're telling me I could do a Balance Breaker right now?!"

"Yes, but you won't be able to take out those guys with your Balance Breaker without a radical catalyst."

"Radical catfish?!"

"The rest is up to you boys," Ddraig finished.

CRANG!

Issei was sent stumbling backwards, clutching his bleeding nose after taking a punch from the cloaked man,

"Pity," said the man, "looks like the Red Dragon Emperor is going to die without even busting out the scale mail a second time." He then held his arm out to the side, and to Isseis' shock he created a staff of light in his metal hand,

A light staff?! But that would mean he is either an angel or fallen, Issei thought to himself, but then what does he need a mask to protect himself from devil killing poison-?

CRACK!

Issei took a vicious uppercut from the cloaked mans spear of light, sending him skidding on the ground over to Rias and Koneko. Soon Damon was standing in front of them, acting as a human shield as Kuroka pummeled him with blasts of energy, making him shout into the air,

"Damon please stop!" Begged Koneko, "if you keep this up she is going to kill you!" Damon simply gave Kuroka a cocky smirk through his Gilgamesh mask,

"Wouldn't be the first time I died in this series..." he said back to Koneko...