Svartalfheim

"NOOO!" shouted Thor as he sprinted toward his mother as her body fell to the barren waste of Svartalfheim. Sif and the Warriors Three reacted similarly and Volstagg managed to reach her before he body hit the actual ground.

"Mom?" muttered Loki as Thor ran past him and took Volstagg's place by her side.

"No, no, no" he said as he used his hands to prop her up "Mother" he said with no response. "Mother?" he yelled as Sif put her hand on his shoulder.

Sif fought back tears as she spoke "She's gone." Thor let out a sorrowful howl as the windstorm died down and the dust cleared showing a very much alive Mangog waiting for them.

"So, was it Frigga I hit?" he asked heartlessly as the others still were wrapping their minds around what happened.

Loki's mind was racing, Frigga was dead…in an instant she was gone and he would never hear her laugh again…never get any more words of wisdom…never tell her how much he loved her and no matter what she would always be his mother.

"You didn't actually think this was over, did you?" sneered Mangog as Thor leaned down and kissed his now dead mother's forehead.

"I'm so sorry" he whispered before placing her gently on the ground and turning back to see Mangog waiting for him. "You'll pay for this" stated Thor getting a small chuckle from Mangog.

"Somehow, I think I will be just fine" replied Mangog as it began to prepare for another round of fighting.

Loki was lost in his own thoughts now "How could I let this happen? It should have been me, not her." Loki could feel his rage rising in his soul "Mangog will pay for this" he said to himself quietly. No matter how much power Loki would need and how long it would take…Mangog will pay the ultimate price for what it had done to Loki's mother.

Thor was about to attack when Loki yelled with a guttural rage that Thor had never heard before. Before anyone could even react Loki was charging Mangog with his staff in hand, "MANGOG!" Loki shouted before doing a leap into the air and firing repeated energy blasts at Mangog.

Loki was no longer thinking, all he cared about was making sure that Mangog paid for what he had done to Frigga. Loki reached as deep into his magic as he could and was giving Mangog every single bit of it that Loki could muster.

Mangog didn't have time to avoid the attack, so it instead chose to stand its ground and simply withstand the assault.

The attack had caught the others off guard with its speed and ferocity and as much as Thor wanted to join in he knew that Loki wasn't thinking right now and if Thor got involved he would only putting himself in right in the middle of Loki's onslaught.

Loki's attack lasted longer than anyone had thought possible as he fired every bit of magic he could into what now was nothing but a giant dust cloud caused by the attack. Firing a constant barrage of magical energy into the now cloud of dust that had enveloped Mangog, at this point nobody could be sure Loki was even hitting his target anymore, Loki finally slowed down and stopped attacking as everything went quiet.

Sif looked to Fandral and the others who shrugged not knowing how this was going to play out, as much as Sif felt for Loki, going wild and attacking Mangog like that was not going to solve the problem. They needed to regroup and formulate some sort of plan before Mangog starts picking them off one by one.

Loki was breathing heavily as he looked into the cloud "That wasn't enough…I need to finish this now" he muttered under his breath as he yelled and began attacking again.

The shockwave of the assault was beginning to push Thor and the others back and Volstagg picked up Frigga's body and held onto it tightly. Hogun approached Sif "We need to get out of here" he said getting a nod from Sif who looked to find Thor watching intently as his brother laid waste to Mangog.

Thor wasn't sure this was going to actually work but he was going to let his brother try, not because Loki needed to redeem himself but because they had lost their father and now they had lost their mother, Mangog had taken too much from them not to suffer for it. As Loki attacked Thor felt tears begin to fall as the loss of Frigga continued to rock him, he had now lost his father and mother and his brother was in the process of putting himself into a very weakened position if Loki didn't manage to destroy Mangog.

The second wave of blasts had finally slowed and Loki dropped to his knees from his position, he had nothing left to give…he had put every little bit of magic he had left into his barrage. He looked into the cloud of dust kicked up by his attack and could not see any armored monster inside gloating at him. "I did it…It's over" he said as he stayed on his knees and the tears began to fall. Loki had very rarely unleashed his rage in that way almost definitely not Odin had told him the truth about being a frost giant.

Thor was about to move in and console his brother when he saw it, it was quick than it should have been but there was no mistaking what it was. "Loki, move" Thor shouted.

Loki looked up as Mangog burst from the dust "Wrong, its over when I say it's over" it proudly proclaimed as it delivered a massive blow to Loki sending him skidding across the landscape.

Loki's body went into stunned shock as his body stopped sliding across the sand, his shoulder was clearly out of place and he felt like Mangog had just kicked like the Hulk had back on Earth. Loki tried to move but after using so much of his strength to attack Mangog, he now had nothing left to pick himself up or defend himself with.

Thor watched in horror as his brother struggled to move from where he had landed, he looked back to Mangog who was drawing dark energy into his left hand. "No" he said as he used Mjolnir to fly towards Loki.

"It's over now!" shouted Mangog as he fired the dark energy at Loki.

Thor could see the energy approach Loki, he had lost most of his family to this creature and he would be damned if he was going to lose his brother too. Thor placed himself between Loki and the dark energy as the explosion echoed across the planet "THOR!" shouted Sif as the light from the attack forced her and the others to look away.

The dust cleared and Mangog's laugh was echoing across Svartalfheim, Thor shot awake to a searing pain in his left arm. He looked to his right and saw Loki unconscious next to him who was clearly in rough shape but was still alive. Thor then looked at his left arm which had taken the brunt of the attack from Mangog.

Thor could barely handle what he saw, the arm was mangled and bleeding from more places than he could see and couldn't bring himself to move it. Most of his left side was in a sorry state to the point where even his long blond hair had been scorched almost to the scalp from the attack.

Thor forced himself to stand as Mangog simply watched with glee "Well, well…would you look at what the cat dragged in?" stated Mangog as Thor was holding Mjolnir in his right hand as his left arm hung uselessly at his side.

Sif and the others were too shocked to move as Thor stood with his left arm bleeding so profusely that the sand at his feet was beginning to change color. "What a shame…here I was hoping for some dramatic clash before I snuffed the life out of you. Instead I end up with a crippled King and no worthy challengers to stand against me. How pathetic" announced Mangog as he looked at Thor.

Thor wanted so badly to fight but without his left arm and the damage to the rest of him, he was now firmly believing that his doubts of being King were true. Asgard was going to be destroyed and there was nothing he could do about it. Thor dropped Mjolnir with his arm lacking the strength to hold it. Thor soon felt himself falling forward, he only hoped that Valhalla would still allow him to enter despite his failure.