Chapter 7 – Myth

"We are known as the Mythos, a race of diverse creatures in a realm separate, yet still a part of, your own. Throughout your history, we have been recorded, sometimes because of our own mistakes in crossing the barrier, sometimes in the curiosity of the moment. Other times it has been the humans who have ventured into our world." Thor told the kits. "So, you've inspired our myths and legends for centuries?" Chase asked. "Not just those, but fantasy as well." Thor said happily, "You know of the hobgoblins yes? Or fairies? Maybe something akin to a sea serpent?"

Crystal dropped her jaw, "A Midsummer Night's Dream?" she asked in shock. Both her brothers turned to her, surprised as to her knowledge, "What? It was my favorite poem when we heard it from Uncle Shadows!"

"Not just that, but many others as well." Thor said with pride. "That tree, the big one behind the city." Crash said suddenly, "What is that?" Thor opened his eyes in surprise, "Yggdrasil?" Thor asked, "That's the capital city of our great dimension. It is the place the Councilors reside and conduct their business. A place my father once knew well!"

"Wait your father was a Councilor?" Crash asked in surprise, but was quickly interrupted by his brother. "What about the city we found you in?" the speedy little kit asked. "That is the great city of Asguard! One of the seven great cities in our world." Thor gloated, "The other's are Avalon, Valhala, Olympus, Eden, Haden and Atlantis!"

"I take it you were born in Asguard?" Chase said, catching Thor off guard. "Yes! How is it ye know of this?" he asked. "In our world, we have a mythology depicting you and Odin with several other gods and something called Ragnarok. How did that happen?" Chase explained. Thor simply twitched, his nervousness coming back in waves, "Uh…" he began. "Tell em!" one of the dwarfs said as he passed by the human god, nudging him in the knee. "I may have been drunk when I entered into your realm!" Thor admitted. Chase, Crash and Crystal all fell again, as if the idea of Thor's admittance was just idiotic. "You mean, something like Ragnarok is nothing but trash day?!" Crash asked in frustration. Thor's mood changed quickly, darkening to an angry aura, "You dare mock the Ragnarok?" he asked, "It is no trash day, it is the day prophesied by the oracle to be the day your father destroys our world!" he nearly roared, catching the kits by surprise, and getting them to huddle together in fear. "It will never be a laughing matter! I rescued you not to save your father but to keep you from your own end!" Thor said, and quickly calmed down when he heard the soft whisper of the kit behind him, "My daddy would never do that on purpose!" Peach said.

Thor turned his head, seeing the little kit sitting up in her blanket, back turned to the furnace as the shadow of her own body covered her face, cloaking her anger in darkness, "It is not his choice young one!" Thor began, and was quickly interrupted by the soft spoken kit. "We all have a choice!" she said, "And I know my daddy would try to save this world at all cost! Just like he tried to save mommy from under the rubble when Nightmare attacked!" Just as she finished her words, she began to cough, her throat quickly becoming irritated with her talking, "So even though (Cough) you may (Cough) not like him, (Cough) he's still (Cough) going to (Cough) try (Cough) to save you! (Cough, Cough)" She continued coughing hysterically as Crystal jumped up to the ledge she sat on, patting and rubbing her sister's back, "Calm down!" she said to her sister, "I know you want to defend daddy's reputation, but you can't just over use your voice like that!" Thor looked down, embarrassment and shame running through his veins as he let the information sink in. "Everything and everyone here is guided by fate!" Thor said, "What could your father do against such a power?"

"He would try!" Crash said, catching Thor's attention as Crystal placed Peach back down in front of the fire, her coughing dyeing down as the Dwarfs fetched the kit a tall glass of water, "He would fight that terrible fate as hard as he could, just like it seemed defeating Nightmare seemed impossible!" Thor looked down at the kit, eyes full of curiosity and wonder, "Yah!" Crash said, "He told us of that! He also told us that no matter what, you never give up! So I'm gonna find that potion with or without you, just as soon as Peach is finished warming up, we're gone!" He turned from the human god as Thor slumped his shoulders. Crystal snuggled close to her sister as the two brothers found their way to the edge of the building, anger running through both of them. Thor waited, debating within himself whether or not to help them. "I's no an easy choice!" he heard one of the dwarfs say, "But i's yers te make! So, what are ye goin te do?" By now the four kits had fallen asleep, his mind wandered towards them, and how much harder his life would have been if he was left in the position he was about to leave them in. He quickly rolled up one of the scaled sleeves he had, gripping his mighty hammer in his other hand, "May I assist you in a project?" he asked, getting the dwarf to look at him both proudly and curiously.

Morning came, the four kits slowly waking from their sleep as they shook off their dreams. Suddenly, Thor's large hammer fell in front of them, and only then did they realize they had been moved to be together as a group. "Rise to the morn my friends!" Thor sang happily, "This be the day ye save your parents!" Crash shook his head, "Wait!" he said, "I thought you weren't going to help us!"

Thor let out a mighty laugh, "Thor the son of the mighty Odin?" he asked, "I have never shied away from battle, and the one we're going to face will be the toughest we have ever fought!" Suddenly, a suit of armor fell to the ground from his hand, and to the floor in front of the kit. It looked about his size, the metal gleaming white with red shoulders where his front legs would be. There was not much but a helmet that tapered into a spike at the back, leaving his eyes and face wide open. There were also some paw guards that were connected to grieves. There was also a scaled back plate, one that looked like it would bend in just about any direction and still protect him from anything. "What, is this?" he asked. "Armor, forged by the might of Mjolnir and the dwarves!" Thor said as he lifted his hammer to gesture to it, "It will protect you from any impact as you run, staying your life for as long as possible. It is indestructible but ye must remember, ye are not. It is up to you to become that tough paladin your sisters need!" Chase was quickly helped into his new armor, "It will also grow with your body! So any size or shape you become as an adult, it will shape itself to fit you!" Thor explained and turned to Chase, "To ye, I give the cloak of invisibility!" he said, and held up a cloth that looked like it was made from marble, gold stitched into the edges as a pattern of swirls and roses, "The power to sneak past your enemies is indeed a great gift, it gives the strength and power to win a fight without fighting!" Thor turned to the girls, now gawking at the armor they had helped to put on their brother, "I give each to ye, the power from within." he said, and pulled from his cape, two collars, one with a shining diamond on the front, one that shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow, and one that looked to be made of Mother of Pearl. "To you, I give the Heart of Light!" he said as he placed the diamond collar around Crystal's neck. "This gives the power to use light as a weapon, as long as you can concentrate it!" he said and turned to Peach, wrapping the collar around her neck, placing the Pearl against her throat, "I give you the Mind's Eye! This Pearl lets you project your thoughts into the minds of those around you, though remember, if someone will not hear you, it will not work! Only those with an open mind can hear you!" He turned to the four of them, looking at them all as they tried out their new items. Chase pulled the hood up with a smile on his face, disappearing from sight and reappearing somewhere else in a few seconds, getting Peach to smile gleefully at his trick. Crash slammed his head against the crystal of his twin sister, as she practiced gathering the light from the forge. She then let it off from her crystal fur, blinding her brother for a little before the two of them laughed it off. The dwarfs all walked up behind Thor, smiles on each of their faces, "Yah did good lad!" their leader said, and they all made their way back into the hot forge. Thor smiled, and then turned back to the kits, "If it be true, and yeon father can defy the threads of fate, then I will aid you in your quest. But first, we face a battle like no other!" Thor said and clenched his teeth together, "We need to go see if my father will allow us the use of the Potion of Fenrir!

End Chapter 7