"Ideally, beyond cleaning the wound and sterilizing the site, a deep gash like you mentioned needs to be cauterized to stop further bleeding and prevent infection," Talan mentioned to Alex who sat in front of him in the passenger side of the truck.

Alex, craned her head to look back at him and added, "Well, in the field, if you are away from an FOB, you need gauze pads with a hemostatic agent to arrest the flow of blood."

"Machete and a fire. It sterilizes the blade, seals the wound and you can still cook and eat afterwards. Also the machete is a multi-role item. It can clear your way in the dense forest, it can heal and can still be a good weapon in a fight," Talan rebutted.

Kenzi stretched in her seat and yawned loudly. "Wow Alex. Are you a doctor or something too?"

"Studying to become one," Alex clarified smiling faintly but kept her eyes forward.

"Gimme a break, are Kendra and Tamsin *THAT* accident prone?" Kenzi blurted out.

"Well they ARE human going up against Fae. Kendra though doesn't need me as a field medic, but the Fae she goes up against will," Alex grinned but had a serious expression.

"True dat! But all my BFF Bo Bear needs is a little 'Bow-Shaka-Bow-Wow' and she's as good as new," Kenzi sang out while impersonating an exotic dancer with her hands above her head seductively and slow contorting her body in her seat.

Drake who was driving just exhaled sharply at Alex and Kenzi's comment.

"What? It's true. Kendra can hold her own against ANY Fae," Alex noted and pushed him away playfully.

Drake just smiled back at Alex and just sarcastically retorted, "There are 2 types of people in our field and only 2. Ones that have gotten hurt and ones that WILL get hurt. Also there is no way Bo could be that seductive and just pair up with anyone at a moment's notice."

Kenzi just replied loudly hitting the back of his chair and pointed her finger in warning to the back of the driver's seat, "YOU do not understand the power of the Succu-force." Kenzi patted herself on the back for making a perfect Darth Vader imitation.

"Uh huh. Her charm won't save her from a gun pointed in her direction," Drake laughed lightly.

"Yeppers! It will. Dennis the Menace always has people pointing their guns at her. Annnnnd as such, Bo has LOTS of experience with handling various size guns, big or small, and how to unload and fire them," Kenzi rebutted with a grin.

Drake then interjected shaking his head quickly as if trying to get back to reality, "Dude Kenzi, did we just take a wrong turn here?"

Talan just looked down and shook his head slowly in a disapproving gesture.

Alex looked at the dash GPS unit and then down to her tablet to which she added, "Drake we are still on the fastest route. We have about another 40 plus clicks to the next course change. I also just double verified it with a second set of GPS sats on my tablet."

Drake just smirked looking at his rear view mirror at Kenzi, "Thanks Alex."

Kenzi just grinned looking back at him and innocently said, "Ya' can't read my poker face."

Talen final glanced toward Kenzi and just mentioned flippantly, "YOU are a piece of work Kenzi."

"Pa-pa-pa, poker face. Pa-pa poker face," Kenzi transitioned into a Lady Gaga Dance finally singing the line.

Everyone just grumbled at her display but just put up with it.

Drake finally stopped her dance off albeit in her seat and interrupted, "Hey, are you sure we're BOTH still talking about firearms?"

Alex slowly craned her head to look out her window since her cheeks turned a slight hue of red probably in response to Drake's earlier comment about a wrong turn to which she responded incorrectly, not knowing the topic changed abruptly.

Kenzi just continued the game and just smoothly infomed, "Like Bo always tells me, all guns go off and they run out of ammo sooner rather than later. No ammo equals game over man! TRUST ME when I tell you Bo knows how to handle a gun or guns!"

Alex finally dead panned toward Drake with a coy but somewhat innocent expression and mumbled, "Wow, with all these guns, Bo must be making them go off a lot. Does she dodge the incoming projectiles too or does she always face it hand on?"

Kenzi immediately put her hands on her hips and inhaled quickly with an insulted expression, "Alexandra Flanders! Does your mom, Major 'Life Saver' Jessica Flanders, know you have SUCH a potty mouth! You, YOUNG LADY have been surfing way to much internet porn. When we get back, I'm gonna wash your mouse out with soap!"

The truck erupted with laughter again.

"Nice one," Drake bellowed fist bumping Alex.

When Alex calmed down, she mentioned, "So Kenzi, you gave my mom a call sign of 'life saver'?"

"Yup-a-roni! When Derrick and Erica were about to go outtie and say bon voyage months back in the shipping container parking lot, she really did save my life," Kenzi replied factually.

"I heard from my mom that all you needed was a makeup kit. I didn't know you were danger," Alex said looking puzzled.

"I *WAS* in danger. As I said, *MAJOR* life saver," Kenzi sang out and struck a pose then blew a kiss with the right hand and with the other hand pointing to her face.

"So," Alex said changing topics but was cut off by Kenzi blurting out loudly, "A needle pulling thread!"

Alex just ignored that comment but Talan chuckled, "I hear you impressed Lieutenant Dimitri Kosov and he is not easily impressed."

"Yea, of course, it is hard not to be impressed by all this," Kenzi motioned to her body but continued interjecting, "Goes to show, good things come in small packages, and I wasn't referring to Stalingrad ALTHOUGH I must say going back to guns and rifles it's not the length, nor the size, it how many time you can make it r…."

"FIRE ACCURATELY without jamming," Talan interrupted probably knowing the correct phrase for Kenzi's rhyme.

"Yea, yea, that's the ticket," Kenzi perked up pointing at Talan, "Good one Talan."

"Alex? Are you suggesting that Kenzi and Dimitri are an item?" Drake asked incredulously teasing Kenzi.

"Survey says! Naaa!," Kenzi remarked quickly making a sharp 'X' with her arms across her chest. "My BF is the Hale Santiago, ASH OF THE LIGHT… LIGHT… LIGHT…" Kenzi announced in a god-like booming voice complete with a fake fading echo effect.

Kenzi finally just said in all seriousness tone for once, "Hey, Dimitri and I are cool with each other and are good friends. He got Russian connections and so do I and are in the same field. Sort of. So our relationship is just like you and Drake-A-Roni."

Kenzi was glad she could be herself with this crew. She hated it when she had to be anything other than herself. While she could act a part well, doing it full time was not her gig. She stuck with Bo through thick and thin since Bo allowed her to be herself without changing a thing. Bo loved her for everything she was period.

Drake was driving when Alex leaned over and whispered less than an inch from his ear, "Just work with me ok?"

Kenzi's train of thought was abruptly brought to an immediate halt when Alex unbuckled her seat belt and leaned over whispering something into Drake's ear and pecked a now stiff Drake on the cheek who was concentrating on driving. Alex, mid kiss, looked at Kenzi seductively.

Alex just back up a little from Drake and stated, "Oh really, because Drake and I are really REALLY good friends. The FRACKING type. Isn't that right stud muffin?" Alex kissed Drake's cheek again with more tongue and PDA but continued, "So if Drake and I great FUCK friends, that must make you and Dimitri the same Kenzi."

Kenzi just didn't know what say as she stammered, "Uh … ummmm… ummmmm…. Riiiiiiiight" She never expected that behavior from the meek and humble Alex.

"Wow for once the mighty internet is actually speechless," Talen laughed slapping his knee.

Alex smiled and said thanks softly to Drake and buckled herself back in.

Drake took a bit to get over Alex's brazen move and finally recovered and asked, "Huh Talan? Why is Kenzi called the internet?"

Talan just continued to laugh and finally said, "Because like the internet, her mouth never closes."

All erupted in laughter yet again as they continued to make their way to the 69th precinct.

Mid battle, Odin kicked up one of Kara's discarded swords to wield with his left hand to defend himself against his extremely enraged daughter. Bo had already managed to take away a piece of his cane and used it in addition to her dagger.

Both Bo and Odin continued to battle furiously for the upper hand, each wielding a different weapon in each hand.

For Bo, she knew her dagger could defeat Odin and Odin's staff, the piece that she had, proved itself that it could hurt him even in a noncorporial or vapor form.

Odin also acutely knew that any weapon will hurt of succubus.

Freya was still behind her 2 guards in her fighting stance with her gold shield forward and her long sword ready.

The surrounding division 12 was given no orders besides to form a defensive perimeter facing in toward Bo and Odin and indirectly Tamsin and Arin.

Arin and Tamsin kept vigilant watch facing division 12 in flaking directions. They are what stood between the Odin/Bo fight and Freya with 'her' remaining Valkyries. Arin stood closer to Freya and her guards.

What was Arin and Tamsin's allegiance?

It wasn't a simple choice. Tamsin and Arin needed to keep additional people from easily entering in the current fight. Their objective was to keep it from escalating.

If it came down to it, Tamsin knew she was bound to Bo. Therefore, that was where her loyalties lie no matter which god she served.

Arin had no idea who she served. Division 12 was her home and her family too. Freya was her god and it never changed. She was like a mother to her. Bo was the goddess of the new order and she promised Tamsin she would defend Bo with her lives. Now, however, all of them were vying for her allegiance simultaneously.

Bo charged Odin with her dagger and it was blocked by his sword but she punched forward with her staff remnant in her other hand and jabbed him hard to his center chest.

Odin let out a grunt as he flew back several feet. Bo still kept charging and Odin was not in position to slice with his sword, so he back handed Bo's face with the butt of its handle.

Bo spun around spitting blood out of her mouth but recovered quickly as Odin advanced on her. Bo jumped back in time as a bolt of lightning struck the ground in front of her. The wind moved her away from him but Bo stood her ground the best she could.

She blocked Odin's attack and dodged his sword and since he was in physical form she did a spinning back kick which sent him flying across the room.

Tamsin glanced at Bo every now and then and was impressed with her fighting tactics. Normally, if one was trained in a weapon, they usually used 2 of the same if they got really good, but Bo was successfully juggling 2 totally different weapons. Bo, being in her red state in addition to holding destiny made her deadly.

Tamsin had no idea how this fight would end, but hoped that her allegiance didn't come into question. In addition, she hoped to find some way out of an all-out revolution since right now she couldn't see a means to do it. Bo and Odin were fighting to the death and Tamsin felt somewhat guilty that she was most likely the main reason why the fight broke out. She forgot that according to the bond and to Bo, goddess of the new order, Tamsin was hers in addition to being in her order. Tamsin had no right to leave Bo without giving her a say, but things just moved too fast. Arin, Tamsin knew, would succeed her and needed to protect her too. Being in Odin's order didn't help and it would have corrupted Arin. Tamsin now knew this for certain just by the way she handled Kara.

Tamsin looked around for Kara and she had managed to lean up against a pillar still in the process of dying. The thought did come to mind to put her out of her misery, but since THIS was her last life effectively by decree of Odin, there was some hesitation on that matter. After all, Tamsin knew how it felt to be on your last life. At least she still got a go as a full Valkyrie.

For Arin, this was the first time she saw Bo in action and for Bo to be able to keep Odin on his toes was nothing short of amazing. Odin normally won quickly against any Valkyrie or Valkyries but Bo with her powers which originated from Odin and her amped up fighting skills was an overwhelming force she concluded in awe.

Odin did a kick up and looked furious for being booted across the room. He blinked his eyes and the storm got worse. The thunder and lightning became louder and more often. A torrential rain came down outside of the hall.

Bo laughed manically then pulled more chi from the Valkyries of division 12 and motioned to Odin to advance on her.

Bolts of lightning hit the ground in front of her but she did a back flips to avoid it all as Odin charged again.

Bo now transitioned to levitating and floating back as the red aura around her got even brighter with tendrils of red arching out of her. Her feet no longer touched the ground.

Bo's red energy tendrils of shot out of her and concentrated on Odin in a focused beam, but Odin still advanced and shot his energy back to Bo.

Odin's tendril of energy seemed more focused and had more power since he began to push Bo's column back slowly to her.

"You're a Demi-God my daughter, Ysabeau," He announced and huffed out in a laugh, "You have no power over ME!"

Bo knew he was right in that regard where it was power against the same power, but Bo also knew she had to adapt to overcome him. She had to do something unexpected. Knowing that, she noticed a small weakness in his form and decided to exploit it.

Bo jumped aside, landing back on the ground and ducking while Odin's powerful red bolt of energy whizzed over her left shoulder. His energy hit several Valkyries in division 12 in its path but as luck would have it, their shields took the brunt of the force but they were all thrown back to the wall and were rendered unconscious.

While Odin was still in the process of stopping his current attack, Bo threw Density at Odin straight for his head while immediately sending a bolt of energy low to his stomach as cover.

Odin blocked Bo's bolt of energy which came first but a look of bewilderment came to his face as he tried to block Destiny.

It was too late for Odin to move out of the way. In a clumsy move, Odin slashed it with his sword but missed. His hand holding Kara's sword was in the way however. No matter, the dagger had a purpose to fulfill, a destiny, and it cut his right hand deeply and even nicked the hilt of Kara's sword and stayed on target.

Odin released the sword and yelped in pain since he was absorbing Bo's energy bolt attack in addition to his hand just getting shredded.

In a last ditch effort, he brought up the remnant of his walking cane and batted it away within millimeters of his face with a loud crack. In the process, it broke his section of his cane as well and it was now useless.

Odin was about to declare a measure of victory until he was greeted by Bo's spinning hook kick to his head. Odin had lost track of Bo and it was apparent that Bo advanced on him too while he was preoccupied with Destiny.

Odin was hit in the temple and landed on the ground several feet away with a big thud and before he could recover, Bo was straddled on top of him.

Bo found that Odin did fall for her trick and mounted him into a control position. Odin did put up a big struggle, but Bo had a lot of experience gaining the upper hand from Tamsin. This experience primarily came from ironically, when they were bedding together.

She took the staff remnant she had and using both hands began to choke him out. Bo knew that from this fight, Odin was not immune to his own staff and it also seemed to suppress his powers to turn into smoke and disappear.

Bo laughed loudly as her voice echoed through the hall, "And now my father, *I*, goddess of the new order will succeed you! For *I* decide who lives and who dies, and now you will DIE at my hands!"

Bo was getting an immense high and power rush from this in her red glowing state until she felt unbridled sorrow, pain, and anguish.

It was coming from Tamsin over the bond.

"No! No. no. *Noooooooo!*" Bo heard Tamsin yell through her uneven breathing behind several sets of Valkyries with their shields forward facing her.

Bo knew that Tamsin was crying but what just happened Bo thought? Bo, still keeping Odin down looked toward Tamsin's voice, which led her to lock onto Freya's 2 assigned Valkyries.

Something was amiss and pieces came to her when she noticed a large hole on one of the shields which something must have passed through.

"Arrrrrinnnnnnnnnnnn! Open your eyes! Oh gods NO!" Tamsin shrieked loudly which made Bo's blood curdle.

Bo yelled as her red glow began to fade away but still ordered in her deep voice, "Stand back. *I SAID, I COMMAND YOU ALL TO STAND BACK!*"

The Valkyries finally parted and the scene before her broke Bo's heart.

Tamsin was kneeling beside Arin holding her, crying over her body. Freya was beside Tamsin with her arm around her for emotional support.

Destiny found its sheath and it was Arin. It had impaled her deep in the chest.

Bo then knew what happened. By Odin hurriedly deflecting Destiny with his staff, it rerouted its path to Freya.

Had this been a normal dagger, it would have just stopped at her guard's shields which were locked together, however Destiny went through EVERYTHING. The hole in the shield was between the 2 guarding Valkyries and probably would have kept going even through Freya's shield, until it found a live target or hit a fortified wall.

Arin's quick thinking and faster reflexes placed herself in front of Freya to halt Destiny's unremitting advance to the god she swore allegiance to.

Bo painfully realized that Arin's allegiance was never clearer. It all came down to her salute.

To serve,

To protect,

To fight,

For Valhalla,

And for the just.

*Moments earlier*

Arin against her better judgment turned around to look toward Bo and Odin's power struggle as sparks went flying since they used their full powers.

Arin observed that Bo was losing when Odin's concentrated bolts of lightning was overpowering Bo's slowly. It was then she noticed that Bo ducked to the side and flipped her dagger behind her to hold onto the blade end out of sight of Odin, which only meant one thing.

Bo was going to throw it and Destiny could go through any armor or weapon one put in front of it.

Arin thought tactically and sprinted quickly between Freya and her guards. She was aware that Freya's guards with their larger shields didn't see this coming and Freya, who was even further back, would definitely not know of Destiny's destructive power if it was thrown and deflected.

Not many Valkyries chose to believe that Destiny was re-forged. It was almost an urban legend to them, but Arin knew better.

She had just made it into position with Freya warily eyeing her. Not a moment sooner, Destiny punched through the shields held by Freya's Valkyries in front of her and it was headed straight for her.

For Arin, milliseconds of this life time remained as Destiny stayed the course. Arin had no time left to deflect it with her sword and she still had yet to pick up her shield again since she took it off to fight with Kara.

Arin closed her eyes and just thought out to Tamsin quickly, 'FORGIVE BO. HEAL KARA. UGGGG!'

Arin flew backwards and fell to the ground in front of Freya who quickly realized what just happen and covered Arin with her shield to prevent more damage from befalling her.

Arin coughed up blood and in addition, blood was squirting out where Density impaled her.

"Arin! Hold on!" Freya ordered looking on with worry closing her eyes briefly which resulted in a section of division 12 putting more bodies between Arin and the still ensuing fight in progress.

Arin couldn't speak but weakly smiled at Freya with pain highlighting her features. She feebly made an 'x' with her arms across her bloodied chest and used the last of her energy to shakily push her right arm out to her.

A/N: Yes, posting on the run, so correcting for grammatical errors in the coming days. Comment, Fav, and Follow please!