Ch34: Mjolnir
Within the now bustling blackspire, the demon forces were preparing for an all out assault on Castelan and the rest of the world now, the only hurdle to jump over was to take the legendary weapons from the rangers. Fleruty roamed the halls of the demonic spire until he came to a halt in front of one of the many rooms.
Opening it, the demon general walked in and turned to another that was already in the room, Kronos. The Titan was in new armour, the dark crude metal being the same as that worn by the demons and having a similar aesthetic too. The mark of Abaddon was branded into the left breastplate of his armour.
"Lord Abaddon has need of you, Titan. The rangers are on the move once again, and with their destination known, you are to ambush them and retrieve what they came for before they can get their hands on it." The demon general informed Kronos.
"So be it. I shall do as you ask if it means taking revenge on them." Kronos responded before rising from the seat he was on.
"Do not think of betraying my master, you'll regret it." Fleruty warned before the Titan stormed past him.
[Castelan deep forest]
While the forest that surrounds Castelan has many visitors, the deep forest of Castelan is a dark and treacherous place. The older residents of the town and the more superstitious always believed it to be a place of evil and no one knowledgeable of the place would go there, not without good reason at least.
For the rangers, fortune was not in their favour as after the location of the next weapon was revealed, they were sent there to retrieve it before the forces of Abaddon could do so.
The sky was not visible for the density of trees and the leaves that blocked most all light from getting in. The deadwood trees were twisted and warped, making the whole place look eerie and give off an ominous vibe. To top off the sinister atmosphere, a thick fog enshrouded the ground, obscuring any obstacles that would lie underneath it.
As the six rangers cautiously made their way through the deep forest,Ben stopped walking, halting the others too as he was leading the way through the dangerous area.
"Something up?" Percy asked, being directly behind the black ranger.
Ben looked around the visible area of the forest, checking for something. "I don't know but I felt like something else was here. Like we're not alone."
"This place is bad news already without something creepy following us around, hopefully you were just imagining it." Lexa replied as the other rangers began looking around, now cautious of their surroundings.
"Let's just keep moving for now, hopefully nothing jumps out at us. I'll keep an eye out just in case though. Our destination shouldn't be too far ahead though, we better focus on getting there for now." Aaron told the others who lowered their guards once more and kept moving.
The six of them walked through the misty woods until they finally came to a bog, waters a putrid green and mist rolling on the surface, in the center of the bog was a large and eroded stone pillar, upon it was a large and rusted steel hammer, it was obvious that over the time it had been here, the elements had weathered and eroded it too.
The rangers sprinted over seeing the weapon on the remains of the pedestal and were shocked to find it in such poor condition, for a legendary hammer of the gods, it had certainly seen better days.
"That's the hammer?" Tyson asked, surprised that it was so worn and damaged.
"What a piece of junk." Lexa remarked as the yellow ranger walked over to the pedestal to grab the hammer.
What he didn't expect to happen was that the weapon wouldn't budge and Tyson couldn't understand. "Hey, this thing won't move, is there something wrong with this thing?"
"Maybe it's rusted into the stone or something like that." Emlie suggested to him as he tugged at the weapon.
"How wrong you are rangers." Came the voice of Kronos which startled the six of them and caused them to brace themselves, taking defensive stances.
Soon enough a large amount of Thralls burst out from behind the trees and surrounded the rangers.
Tyson's eyes widened as he realised just who it was that had ambushed them. "You. I sent you away, how can you be free again?"
"Stupid ranger, the last time I was trapped, I was freed by Shadai, it was not as long after you trapped me again that Abaddon freed me from the cursed realm with the rest of his forces, now I've come to take on you and your ranger friends, I will have my revenge!" Kronos exclaimed as he stomped over to the pedestal.
Aaron looked at the others. "I've got no clue who this guy is, what happened to make him this angry?"
"It was one of our first fights where Tyson managed to beat him through a combat trial and trap him again, since we didn't know how to deal with someone like him. He's the only Titan we didn't manage to destroy." Percy recounted to his friend.
"It seems that you've gotten stronger since our last encounter rangers, but even another one to your numbers will not defeat me. I am Kronos, and thanks to you rangers, I am the last of my kind, the last of the Titans. For that I shall exact vengeance upon you all." He told the six of them before flinging Tyson away from the hammer and clutching it with his own jagged gauntlet and lifting it with his superior strength.
"How could you lift that, it wouldn't even budge when I touched it?" Tyson asked, Getting up out of the shallow marsh.
"The hammer responds to those who are worthy, allowing them to wield it effortlessly. This hammer knows me, has fought me before, but because of my strength, I can lift it and use it against those who get in my way, regardless of it judging me as unworthy." Kronos explained.
"Looks like we'll need extra firepower to take you down." Aaron said as he and the others pulled out their morphers.
"Mythos Ignite!" "Templar Power, Activate!" They called out morphing and drawing their standard blades.
"Thralls, deal with them." Kronos ordered as he stood there, watching the battle that was about to unfold before him.
Ben called upon him elemental amulet power, causing spiked, needlelike stone to jut out of the ground and stab into the feet of a group of thralls. Percy followed this up by gathering the bog water around his feet to his blade using his elemental amulet power and slashing out with his blade, sending the bog water out in a high pressured attack, blowing them away in a surge of water and causing the thralls to burn up in a whirlwind of fire.
Lexa called up a miniature tornado around her blade and charged into the lines of the demonic footsoldiers, slashing them with her tornado infused blade. When she finished her hit and run attack, she turned around to view her handywork. The Thralls were now trapped, in small individual tornados and were spinning around, unable to break free. This was when Tyson charged up his blade with as much elemental electricity as he could before striking out at the immobilized foes and frying them, causing them to burn up in multiple small whirlwinds of fire.
The last group of the Thralls was being fought off by Aaron and Emlie. The white ranger focused her energy and channeled a mass amount of light to blind the Thralls as Aaron ignited his blade with fire before dashing forward and cutting horizontally into the minions. Each of the Thralls screamed in pain as the fires spread and seared both their armour and their bodies, yet it died down quickly. As soon as the fire had gone, Emlie allowed her blinding light to die down as she summoned Brionac and charged in, striking the Thralls and causing them to burn up in a whirlwind of fire like the rest of the demon forces had. She turned and regrouped with the others who now faced up against Kronos.
Kronos smirked. "All that time within the cursed realm, I've planned many a way to destroy each of you. Now that I have my former enemy's weapon in my hand, it will finish the job I started."
Aaron levelled his blade at Kronos. "Just try it Titan. We've defeated every other Titan like you before, you won't be any different."
The Titan laughed at the Templar ranger's words. "I am no mere Titan." He responded before marching forward with the hammer in hand and slamming it into Aaron, causing a shockwave and sending him flying back about twenty feet and forcing him to the ground.
Before the other rangers could react, Kronos was upon them, slamming the hammer into Emlie and Lexa, sending them flying back like last time. Percy and Ben both braced for impact, holding their blades up to block, but their weapons and guards were nothing compared to the sheer driving force behind the weapon.
As the Titan stomped over to the yellow ranger, Emlie had somewhat recovered and had once again called upon Brionac which shot to life with a blinding light. "Hey Kronos, bet you can't take on a weapon like this!" She challenged, lunging forward as the light intensified. "Divine Luminous Pierce!" She exclaimed as she struck at Kronos.
However, the light of the weapon died down as the white ranger saw that Kronos had grabbed ahold of the spear's shaft. She struggled but managed to pull it free as the hammer came around to strike her. Emlie managed to use her spear to block the blow but the impact of the two legendary weapons colliding sent a shockwave out in all directions, taking both Emlie and Kronos off their feet and making them fly back a large distance away from each other.
"Stupid girl, you'll pay for that." Kronos hissed as he got back up. He jumped forward slightly as he felt a blade run across his armoured back, while it caused no physical damage, the drude swing did make it somewhat painful.
The Titan turned to see Tyson stood there, his blade pointed at his foe's throat. Kronos walked forward, knocking the yellow ranger's weapon to the side before grabbing the ranger by the throat and picking him up by his neck whilst simultaneously strangling him slowly.
"Out of all of you that I've fought, you have been the most annoying. You sent me to that place. I almost lost my mind in there. I ended up losing my will to fight too, but the prospect of revenge meant everything to me, and now I get to exact that vengeance." Kronos smirked malevolently as he brought the hammer up to strike and destroy the yellow ranger.
Kronos was ready to swing, but something in the hammer changed. For whatever reason, the weapon became superheated, glowing red, then orange, then bright yellow and finally pure white. Kronos yelled out in pain as the heat began to sear his hand and forced him to let go.
Instead of it falling to the ground, the hammer hovered in the air as it began to cool and return to normal. When it did, its rusted appearance was gone and the weapon looked completely new, it shone with a chromatic texture and because the rust was now gone, the norse carvings in the weapon were now clearly visible. Kronos dropped the yellow ranger and stared at the weapon that floated before him.
"The weapon unlocked. So it seeks a new wielder, I better not let that happen." Kronos said to himself before turning to see that Tyson had retrieved his blade and was about to strike the Titan.
Kronos managed to stop it but suffered from a powerful punch from his foe that knocked him back. Kronos recoiled from the hit and took a moment, observing the ranger.
"It seems your strength has increased, the powers of Asgard still flow through you, even if they are different this time around. But you'll never defeat me. I am the great Titan Kronos, no mere mortal such as you could take me down!" He proclaimed as Tyson slashed at him, not managing to get through his armour.
"I have to beat you though, if I don't everything's in danger. I can't lose to you now, I couldn't finish the job back then because I didn't think I was strong enough. But I've changed since then, every day I've gotten stronger and stronger. This time I won't lock you away and make you a problem for someone else. Even if I'm not strong enough, I'll keep going till then end!" Tyson declared, catching the attention of the floating hammer.
Swiftly, the weapon flew into Tyson's free hand much to both Tyson and Kronos' surprise. "The weapon chose you? How? You're just a weak mortal!"
"You said it yourself. I'm stronger than before, and the power of Asgard flows through me." He said,raising the hammer to the sky as a rumble of thunder was heard.
"You dare to fight me with Mjolnir, you aren't like your predecessors, you're only human!" Kronos roared at Tyson.
"That's right. I'm human, and that's why I'm gonna win." Tyson responded before bringing the hammer down and causing the ground to quake as an immense bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, incinerating the leaves that shrouded the area from the sky and coming down on Kronos in an explosive surge of electricity.
When it died down, Kronos surged with energy as he collapsed to his knees. "Don't think you've won yet, yellow ranger." The Titan coughed as he exploded.
Tyson twirled the hammer around before looking at it. "Thanks." he told Mjolnir in the brief moment of peace before the next big battle.
With an immense rumble, Kronos burst back to life, now in his true Titan form, once again a giant of a monster. Kronos was stripped of the demonic armour and his skin was like dark volcanic rock, with magma flowing through his veins, creating a glowing effect with his body. His eyes glew with the molten rock as he let out a bloodthirsty roar.
Tyson looked over to see that his comrades had been knocked out of their ranger forms and were sprawled all over the area. "Looks like I'm on my own here." He sighed before taking his amulet in his hand and raising it to the sky. "Mythic Guardian, Awaken!" He called as thunderclouds rolled in and enshrouded the area with grey skies before the yellow eagle swooped down.
Tyson leapt into the zord and, after he did so, Mjolnir began to surge with electricity and caused the systems of Tyson's zord to spark and cause the eagle zord to spiral out of control, crashing into the ground and forcing the components of the zord apart.
Kronos laughed at seeing the yellow ranger potentially defeated. "What a puny mortal you are, you couldn't even control your own zord. Maybe I should destroy this wretched world of your instead of troubling myself with ending you."
Yet the Titan spoke too soon, large chains of lightning shot out out from the main body of the ruined zord and hit the rest of the wreckage of the zord before all the components were lifted into the air and began shifting to create something completely new.
As the last parts shifted into place, the new zord was completed. It was a mechanical behemoth of a rhino, yellow and silver in colour. Kronos turned as he heard the feet of the newly constructed zord stomp on the ground.
"It was the power of Mjolnir that made your zord stronger and new then. But I will destroy you ranger, there's nothing you can do to stop me now!" Kronos exclaimed, overconfident in the power of his titan form.
"Okay Mjolnir. If you really are sentient like we were told, I need your help right now. We need to stop this titan before he does any more harm. Lend me and my zord your power, let's end the Titans once and for all." He requested , looking at the legendary hammer.
After a moment, a powerful bolt of lightning struck the rhino zord, empowering it with an extreme amount of electrical energy and causing it to give off a glowing aura of electricity.
"Alright, lets finish Kronos together then!" Tyson enthused, taking the controls and commanding the rhino to dart toward Kronos with destructive speed. "Volt Charge!" Tyson called out as the rhino zord impacted with Kronos who began to surge with energy once more as the extra charge left the rhino zord.
"My vengeance will transcend death yellow ranger, mark my words!" Kronos called out in his last words before exploding.
"Myth Busted." Tyson confirmed as the rhino zord let out a triumphant cry.
[Command Center]
After some rest, the rangers had gathered in the command center where Doctor Blake and Jamie stood in the control room with the six rangers. They were currently sat around the briefing table that had the weapons they had currently collected.
Their mentor spoke up. "So far we've collected four weapons. Thyrsus, Brionac, Parashu and Mjolnir. There are three more to collect, we're close to getting the locations, but until then we have to be on guard to protect the weapons. Abaddon wants these for some reason. I'm close to discovering why, but right now we're a big target for Abaddon. But about Mjolnir, you said the way it acted was different." He said, turning to face Tyson.
"Yeah, it awakened by itself and chose me to wield it, and when I asked for its power to defeat Kronos and end the Titans once and for all, it did. There's no doubt that unlike the other weapons that it's sentient, and only chooses when we can use its power." Tyson explained.
"Then we better hope that it decides to help us in future fights too." Aaron added to the discussion.
[Blackspire]
Fleruty approached Abaddon's throne where the demon prince currently resided and bowed. "My lord, Kronos has fallen and the Titans are no more. He failed to bring back Mjolnir. How much longer will we let these children keep the weapons, if you would just let me invade as I have planned. The rangers won't be able to do a thing."
Abaddon looked at his general. "It is easier to allow the rangers to retrieve the weapons and keep them in one place for later retrieval. But now they have four weapons, I believe that it is time to take them, but leave that matter to me. I have found the perfect servant for the job, one that can easily remove the rangers from play. And even if they survive and we have the weapons, they'll be desperate and rush after the last weapons, easy prey. Soon enough my plan shall come to fruition." Abaddon informed Fleruty as a malevolent smirk came across his face.
|Mythos|
That is chapter 34 over and done with. The last Titan has finally been defeated and the rangers add a powerful new weapon to their arsenal as well as Tyson stepping up to finish off a foe he fought at the beginning of this story as well as getting the upgraded version of his zord. Now only two weapons remain, but before then, Abaddon has a new plan to retrieve the weapons he has lost to the rangers in the previous chapters.
For people that may have not seen, I have released a prologue to a new series I'm beginning when I get one of my stories out of the way, which I'll be doing lots of updates to in the coming days and weeks, so we're going off schedule somewhat again. Check it out though if you haven't already, it has a similar theme to Mythos and if you're a fan of this you'll be a fan of Occult Circle. Now that we got the shameless self promotion out of the way, here is the synopsis for the next chapter.
Next Chapter: Day of the Dryad: Part 1
Synopsis: Another foe is unleashed on Castelan specifically chosen to defeat the rangers, but with more than themselves in danger, this will be their hardest fight ever, one that they won't be able to do without the help of another. Next time on Power Rangers: Mythos.