Well, there it is. The moment we've all been waiting for. Hope you all are prepared for it.
C/W: Extreme levels of graphic violence, assault, aggressive battery, blood and injuries.
"Can I look now?"
"No, no. Not yet." His father ordered.
"Okay, daddy." The little child peeped, holding his hands over his eyes.
"Alright, go ahead."
When young Kris did so, he gasped when he saw that his father held out an electric guitar with a black body with blue lightning strikes on it. And on it said:
'To my loving boy. -Dad."
"What do you think?" The man asked.
"I love it! It looks so cool!" The 5-year old boy squealed with excitement and stars in his eyes. He was about to grab it, but his father gently pushed his hands away.
"Woah, woah, woah. Easy, now, boy. This thing was very expensive and is one-of-a-kind. This thing could break easily if you're not careful." His father sternly reminded him.
"I'm sorry, daddy."
"It's okay, boy." His father rested a hand on the adolescent's shoulder. "You aren't old enough to play this yet, but you will somebody. Heck, I'll even give you some lessons when you're older and you'll be shredding on this thing in no time."
"Really?"
"You bet." The boy's father nodded. "Pretty soon, I think you'll be playing the sickest, raddest and most awesome music that no one has ever heard before. But right now, your job is to protect this thing at all costs and keep a very good eye on it. Can you handle it?"
"Yes, daddy. I will" Kris nodded. "I will make sure it will be the safest ever."
"I know you will." His father smiled and brought his arms around the child and Kris hugged back. "I love you, son."
"I love you, too, daddy."
Calm
Still
Nothing but the soundless air.
The uncomfortable silence persisted as it enveloped the arena.
Nobody had the strength to do or say anything after watching what had happened unfold. Not only had Ming just insulted and berated poor Kris in front of everyone, but she had the nerve to destroy his precious guitar. Kris was unable to put his current emotions into conceivable words and he looked as if his mind had ultimately shattered. Mei rushed over to the remains and noticed the signature on one of the pieces. Just seeing it made her breath hitch and waver as her eyes began to sting with tears.
Kris, however, finally did something he hasn't done since Tyler's party days ago. Hot tears streamed freely from his eyes and down his cheeks and his nose began to run, his cheeks warming up and finally, he began to cry and sob, letting his tears drip from his face and onto the red fur and his sobbing got louder and louder, making everyone look up towards him with sympathy and remorse and especially devastated to see Ming had cause so much emotional pain and anguish to a child.
Ming still glared directly at him and her scornful expression only appeared to falter just an inch, almost looking like she was slowly beginning to show some semblance of regret in her actions.
Kris bawled like a baby for about a good few seconds before his weeping settled down as his face comforted disturbingly and frighteningly as he breathed sharply through his nostrils, grit his teeth, his cheeks turned scarlet red and tightened his hands on Ming's fur in solid fists until his knuckles turned white when suddenly, a new feeling had taken place.
A red-hot, fiery feeling. One that burned hotter than hellfire. That sizzled and boiled like scalding water.
A sudden desire for retribution.
A need to cause imminent pain and suffering.
A dark feeling of…pure,
….unadulterated….
….and unbridled….
.
.
.
… rage.
BOOM!
Everyone nearly jumped out of their skins when a sudden, loud clap of thunder exploded in the sky above them, breaking the sound barrier as well as the silence in the area. Everyone looked up and all around to see that huge thunderclouds were beginning to roll in as more thunder was heard off, covering up the clear, starry sky and shielding the red moon from view. They all looked worried and confused by this sudden change of weather. They didn't predict any storms this afternoon.
Stig looked up at the sky as the clouds completely obscured the sky, bellowed and roared furiously and bolts of lightning started erupting from the heavens all around. Everyone began to get a little scared now, especially Ming, who then looked nonplussed toward Kris in her hand, whose predatory angered look was left unchanged as he appeared to get angrier by the second and his hands began to produce those small volts of electricity again, much to her great astonishment and terror.
Was…he doing this?
Then a huge gust of wind picked up, blowing at everyone from one direction in which the storm clouds had rolled in, making them begin to hold onto each other to avoid getting lept off their feet and blown away. The rest of the audience who had remained at the SkyDome all ran for shelter inside the inner workings of the arena and even 4*Town, after freeing themselves from the strings, rushed for cover backstage to avoid the incoming storm.
Stig then looked to see massive rainfall approach the SkyDome like a heavy curtain of tropical water about to flood them all.
"Stig…" Priya gaped with concern, now getting a little scared.
But Stig had no such explanation for this at all. Heavy drops of rain now came down on everyone, drenching them all in this unexpected downpour. The Lees saw the circle that's been placed on the ground get washed away by the forming puddles of rainwater, igniting their fears.
And then a low, but unmistakable animalistic growl that would only be heard from a wild apex predator spewed out from Kris as the sparks in his hands as he raised them up until they were level with his shoulders as the volts intensified. Ming's eyes shot open wider than ever before at what was unfolding before her very own eyes. Even those below them were unable to believe what Kris was doing before….
ZAP!
BOOM!
Kris jerked his hands forward and blasted a huge and powerful lightning bolt right at panda Ming's face from his hands with great inhuman power and force, making the giant red panda scream in great pain from the unexpected blow, causing her to drop the boy to cover her face where the electricity struck her.
"Woah!" Everyone shouted.
"Kris!" Mei rushed over to cushion Kris's fall with her panda body, allowing him to land safely on the ground and poofed back to normal to check to see if he was okay.
But he was far from okay.
Kris panted and snarled with uncontrolled fury and then his entire body erupted with huge electrical currents all around, forcing everyone who had come over to his aid to instantly back away to avoid getting electrocuted, but now they all watched as he rose to his feet and stared directly at all of them while his hair fluttered on the wind and the lightning enveloped his body, but it didn't faze him at all.
Stig, along with Roar and Rudolf, couldn't themselves believe what was happening. Their friend appeared to have electrical superpowers and apparently can summon storms at will. His eyes glowed brightly and produced sparks of their own while a strange Nordic symbol (ᚦ) appeared on his forehead, forming on its own completely out of thin air, but everyone winced with horror at the way it did for it appeared to be forcefully etching itself on there, cutting open his skin in the process and spilling a fountain of blood that leaked down his face as if an invisible force was carving the runic character into his flesh with a sharp object.
The oddest and scariest part about it, though? It did NOT look like it hurt at all since Kris didn't even wince in pain, his expression remaining unchanged all the while
But what was most unsettling above all about this was his countenance.
Kris looked extremely hurt and emotionally destroyed with a broken heart, which Mei noticed, to her shame. She never could've imagined that her betrayal and her mother's torment of him would have caused this much pain to the poor boy in all her young life.
"Uh, Kris? You okay, pal?" Rudolf asked, stepping forward, only to scream and back away along with everyone else when a lightning bolt shot down in the middle of all of them. Helen instinctively acted first, grabbing onto the terrified boy and yanked him backwards in a protective embrace, letting her maternal instincts kick in.
Then Kris glared daggers like he's never had before and clenched his fists while he slowly and ominously turned all the way around to face the giant panda Ming, who was just as disturbed and bewildered as everyone else. But as of now, she was scared shitless of the boy. Kris's fury was like no other and was beyond legendary. For months and months of swallowing every insult, every nagging and scathing comment, every accusation and every cold and judgemental glance he had to take from her, the pain and the rage he had felt from all the abuse he had to endure was finally bubbling to the surface as his hate for her had come to a head and his patience and tolerance for her now reached its breaking point.
Disrespecting his taste in music, threatening him at every chance she had, spitting in his eye, underpaying him, mocking his style, slapping him in the face, firing him, calling him a 'retard', but destroying the one thing he loved more than anything….
….that was the last straw.
"She didn't mean it!" Helen yelled over the heavy rain to Kris while still holding onto Rudolf, trying to calm him down, to no avail. "Honest!"
The booming thunder got more intense as did the rainfall and the lightning got even more erratic while wind picked up more strongly as Kris suddenly let out a loud, ear-piercing, ground-shaking and sound-barrier-rupturing scream. But not just any scream.
A fierce, blood curdling scream of fury and agony.
Everyone had to cover their ears as a result of this, even Ming, while the electricity on his body increased ten-thousandfold until they engulfed his whole entire body as he wailed like a banshee before a blinding light consumed him and a collection of extremely powerful lightning bolts rained down upon him, creating a huge shockwave that blasted everyone back while Ming was pushed back only a few feet back from the force.
As soon as everyone recovered from the blast, they sat back up as the light died right back down and the lightning evaporated. They looked to see if Kris was alright. However, Kris was no longer there.
In his place at the very spot from where he previously stood was a man.
A tall, burly, thick-waisted man. A ginger-haired man with a braided beard and who was huge, obese, albeit muscular and heavily build with a large, exposed beer belly, adorned in ancient Norse armor by the general looks of it with plated pauldrons and bracers on his arms, sporting leather armor around his waist and had Norse tattoos on his body from his face to his bare chest and abdomen.
And clutched firmly in his hand was a large, triangular-shaped metal hammer weapon with similar-looking runes and symbols as well as the same symbol from Kris's forehead.
Stig and the two boys looked on with gaping mouths and rounded eyes with honest-to-god disbelief. And Mei especially had no way of describing her own astonishment at what the hell just happened to her best friend.
But what nobody, who was witnessing everything, realized that this was no ordinary man.
In fact, not even a man at all.
For it was Thor (Old Norse: Þórr, Nordic: ᚦᛟᚱ), the almighty Norse God of Thunder, Lightning, Storms, Strength, Sacred Groves and Trees, Fertility, Wrestling and Hallowing, the Protection of Mankind and the Champion of the Æsir with his trademark weapon of choice, the hammer known as Mjölnir. The same unknown figure that has plagued Kris's dreams for days prior to this moment. The same man whose he's been unable to shake the feeling of ever since that fateful night when he had that nightmare.
The man who was slain and mauled giant monsters in all his immortal lifetime with the assistance of his hammer and his magic belt Megingjörð to enhance and double his already immeasurable strength. The man who was believed to be nothing more than a mere myth, a fairytale, a bedtime story and a thing of ages long begone and was now standing there right dead center in the SkyDome.
And he.
Was.
Boiling mad.
"What the…?" gasped Stig.
"Who is that?" asked Rudolf.
"We should've gone to Pizza Planet." Roar groaned as he was afraid from the start that bringing Kris to the concert wasn't a wise idea.
"Kris…" Mei's whispered voice barely held enough shock for what her eyes beheld before her.
Looking up at the giant panda Ming with glowing eyes of hate, Thor growled and seethed as his mighty hammer crackled with sparks and before Ming could react, the angered storm god threw Mjölnir directly at her face. The powerful impact of the super-weapon blasted powerfully upon impact and sent the kaiju mom staggering backward in pain.
"Oh my god!" Ping shouted with distress.
"He can't be serious!" Chen countered. "She'll crush him like a bug!"
The unexplainable phenomenon that happened next was unlike anything anyone had ever seen before.
They all watched with astonishment as Thor reached his open palm out expectedly and within seconds followed with the sound of a metallic hum, Mjölnir flew right back into his hand seemingly all on its own, much to all of their wonder and amazement, despite the grim situation.
"How did he…?" Rudolf was speechless.
As Ming started to pick herself back up, she was caught unawares when Thor flew right up at her with his trusty hammer and whacked her across the face with it, making all witnesses yelp and cry with horror and worry. Then he flew at her from behind and struck her yet again even harder this time. The storm increased with his roaring thunder and lightning and the rain drenched all with a maddening wetness. Everyone had to duck and cover as Ming was knocked forward, screaming with pain from the hammer's blows. In spite of her enormous proportions, the poor woman was left defenseless at the mercy of the God of Thunder's unrelenting wrath.
Thor continued his blind Berserker Rage on the giant furry beast that he most likely believed to have tried to kill him, worsening his physical abuse on panda Ming with his weapon. Thunder roared along with the lightning strikes with each blow from Mjölnir, as if in response to Thor's actions and negative emotions.
"Kris, stop!" Mei screamed loudly, though she wasn't quite sure if that even was Kris.
"Mei!" Her father pulled her out of the way as Ming's foot came closer while she was getting wailed on relentlessly by the God Of Thunder. Then Jin turned to face Stig and the boys.
"Mind explaining something, boys?" He asked, demanding answers.
"How are we supposed to know?" Stig answered right back. "This is all new to us. Besides, he never tells us anything."
"Yeah, this is insane, right?" Rudolf asked, dumbfounded.
"How is this even happening?!" Abby hollered, undeniably terrified beyond belief.
"Can either of you do something about this?!" begged Jin, worried for his dear wife.
"I don't know! What can we even do?!" Stig yelled outraged.
"Do something! Anything!" Wu screamed impatiently, getting more and more desperate that the ritual will fail if they don't act in time. "It's imperative that we complete the ritual!"
"He's gonna kill Ming if we don't do something about it!" Ping informed him seriously.
"Kris isn't a killer! I know him!" argued Stig.
"Are you even sure that guy is Kris right now!?" Lily dubiously yelled, gesturing to the burly man pounding the hell out of her enlarged aunt.
But everyone looked up as they saw something that made them all freeze. No matter how much she tried to fight back against her attacker, Thor was surprisingly too fast for her and Ming shouted and yelled with agony every time Mjölnir smacked powerfully against her furry body with such fierce ferocity and every time the hammer hit her, she appeared to shrink a few inches from the consistent blows. The more Thor savagely punched her with a brutal swing of his hammer, the smaller she got.
WHACK!
THWACK!
THRASH!
….went Mjölnir against her thick, red-furry body like being beaten with a baseball bat over and over and over again in a repetitive fashion, only broader and much more like being pelted and bombarded with a giant meteorite than that.
How exactly this was happening was anybody's guess.
"How is that even possible?" gasped Wu, not believing her own eyes by this peculiar spectacle.
"I don't know." Stig shook his head with the same look as her.
And the smaller Ming got, the weaker and more vulnerable she got and as such, it became much more easier and efficient for Thor to smack her around like a ragdoll. The unbearable pain she was feeling and receiving was indescribable at the moment. Everyone continued to watch in horror and wincing from every time Ming got whacked, not caring how wet they all got from the rain.
"Kris!" yelled Mei.
"Okay, that's enough, Kris! She's had enough!" Miriam called, but got no answer.
"This is getting out of hand!" Roar shouted. "Don't do this, Kris!"
"We're calling 'timeout'!" Rudolf shouted as well, but it was pointless. "Timeout? Timeout!"
At this point, after sustaining one too many sharp, brutal wallops from Mjölnir, Red Panda Ming was now nearly the same size as Mei's panda, if not a few inches taller, and she looked all around for her opponent, who then caught her by surprise when his hammer crackled with threatening sparks and he gave another good swing at her with a snarl and knocked her meters back into the air with the power of lightning, making her crash into the arena's seating aisle above as she landed very painfully on her back on the seats and she winced and sucked in air through her teeth.
"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
With a loud roar, Thor leapt into the air with Mjölnir high above his head at mind and brought it down incredibly hard on her face and bashed at her face in multiple times with lightning striking the weapon from the storm clouds with every hit. Mei shot up and ran out to try and call out to Kris and try to get him to stop attacking her mother, ignoring the tropical downpour.
"Kris, don't do this!" Mei begged, almost about to cry. "You're hurting her!"
But Thor wouldn't listen.
He was too absorbed into his own monstrous fury to listen to reason at this point and only hellbent on enacting his bloody vengeance on the creature that did him wrong. Then he dropped his hammer, grabbed her by the fur and threw her back out onto the hard, concrete arena ground with his immense superhuman strength, making her land even more painfully directly on her face, even breaking her nose.
Thor appeared to smirk and chuckle sadistically at his victim's misery.
Jin and Mei both rushed over to Ming who shakily and convulsively lifted herself up to show that her muzzle looked broken into and was now bleeding, which scared them both.
"Ow." She whimpered before a loud thud turned her attention back around to see Thor menacingly staring back at her. His hands sparkling.
"I'm sorry. I-I'm so… I'm sorry! "
But it didn't help. Thor let out a war cry as he fired electrical bolts right at her from his hands, electrocuting her and forcing a pained shout out of her while her family had no choice but to watch as the shocking terror continued. Then Thor forgoes his hammer for his fists and starts to sock her right in the face repeatedly, her face getting snapped side to side by his harsh and violent punches and he growled like a wild animal as his punches picked up speed until Ming started to taste blood in her mouth and a few of her teeth coming loose.
"Can't you at least talk to him?!" Jin asked Stig, increasingly terrified. "Get him to stop! I beg you!"
"He doesn't look to be in a listening mood."
Ming tried to defend herself as she roared and pushed Thor back with her own strength before going for a slap to the face…
…only for Thor to grab her paw in mid-air before it reached his face and applied a lot of pressure, nearly crushing it in his fist as Ming cried out from the pain as the God of Thunder twisted it backwards while everyone else watched on helplessly until Thor slammed his fist right onto Ming's arm with all his might, making it break.
The resounding hollow sound of bone snapping like a tree branch was the worst anyone could've heard.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" She wailed.
"MOM!"
"Okay, okay, okay!" Ming tried to reason with him, tears now stinging her eyes from the excruciating pain in her arm. "You win, Mr. Bengtsson. You're rehired. I swear I'll start paying you better. Y-You can have weekends off even. I'll buy you a brand new guitar! I promise!"
Thor just glared at her and summoned Mjölnir back into his fist as the rage-afflicted Æsir god grabbed her chest and with the stunning power of his hammer, flew straight up into the sky on a lightning bolt, earning looks of both awe, horror and near amazement.
"Holy….!" Stig marveled, his breath taken away.
He could fly now?
Once they were about a good couple centimeters into the sky inside the storms clouds as they continued to roar and crackle, Thor then slammed his hammer right smack-dab into Ming's chest as he plummeted right back to earth in a beeline with her underneath him as he growled with fierce determination with a thirst of bloodlust still present in his eyes and they both became engulfed in his bolts.
"No!" Stig screamed as he and Rudolf both grabbed Mei's arms and yanked her out of the way while everyone else scattered in all directions.
KA-BOOOOOOOMMMMM!
Then finally, once Thor slammed her right into the ground, it caused a huge quake and a powerful, bright light shockwave that briefly engulfed the entire SkyDome with an additional pink cloud of smoke.
Once the light dimmed, there was a giant crater in the middle of the arena with Thor inside it now standing threateningly over Ming. Only, the blast had effectively caused her red panda to vanish and turned her back into human form. Her once black hair was now red like Mei's and now is a tangled and scruffy mess. Her clothes were now getting drenched from the rain
And she was in the worst condition imaginable.
Her leg seems to have been broken as well in the process and she groaned and gasped in a large amount of pain like you wouldn't believe. You can only imagine.
"I didn't…..mean to call you a retard,...Kris." The injured Ming gasped out her words, spitting out some blood.
.
.
.
"Nīðing."
…..was literally the only answer she could get.
But Thor still wasn't through with her just yet. No way. His insurmountable fury was blown through the roof and reached beyond the point of letting up.
The God of Thunder now really gave her hell.
He then proceeded to punched her square in the face with a rock-solid white-knucked fist and made her spit out three of her front teeth and continued to beat on her face over and over like before, but with much more crazed vigor as poor Ming sustained more wounds, cuts and bruises of all darkened colors all over for cheeks and her eyes, her lips started to swell and she began bleeding from all around and Thor then violently thrashed her around, slamming and brutally pummeled her to the destroyed ground again and again showing no signs of ceasing his destructive episode, even breaking her neck in the process, leaving her with no hope of salvation and by now, the Lees decide that enough was enough.
"That does it! This has gone far enough! Sun Yee, give me strength!" Wu yelled, realizing what must be done, removing her jade bracelet and smashing it to pieces, unleashing her own red panda spirit and she transformed into one herself.
All the aunties gave each other affirmed looks, knowing they need to save their sister/cousin/aunt before Thor kills her. And one-by-one, each of them destroyed their own magic trinkets containing all of their red pandas until there was an entire group of giant red pandas, but each had their own respective appearance that matched their human forms. Once they've assembled, they all grab at Thor from all sides, catching him off guard and he finds himself being tossed back by a group of other giant pandas.
"You gotta stop!" Panda Chen ordered.
"We're sorry about your guitar, but this is not okay!" said Panda Ping.
"Killing her won't fix any of that!" Panda Helen beseeched.
But only now because they had interfered with his quest for vengeance, Thor's rage only escalated higher than ever before when he summoned Mjölnir, haphazardly striking one of them down in the process as it flew back into his hand and slammed the hammer down onto the ground, quaking it and knocking them all back and began launching his offense on them now.
Chen, Ping, Lily and Helen were all at the mercy of the God of Thunder and his deadly hammer. Chen was punched in the face repetitively, then punched the ground so hard it cracked underneath her, then Ping attempted to snatch Mjölnir out of Thor's hand, but he kept an iron grip on the handle that not even Ping in her red panda form could even make it slip and then Thor summoned a lightning bolt from the sky, turning himself into living conductor and zapped Ping, shooting her right off. Helen body-slammed right on top of him, but she got picked up and thrown against one of the area's support beams. Finally, Lily went for a diversion tactic by raising her paws up like any red panda would do in order to look tall and scary to any predator and shouted something in Chinese to confuse him, which only left her belly wide open to a knuckle-sandwich and her face was slammed smack against the ground, knocking her out.
"ENOUGH!" Panda Wu screamed with righteous fury into the Æsir god's face, making him freeze and stare blankly back at her. "That's quite enough of this, you…..you…well, whatever you are! I have come all this way and worked too hard to make sure this ritual went entirely as planned and I will let any more of these shenanigans get in th-AH!"
SLAM!
SLAM!
SLAM!
Unluckily for her, though, Thor was having none of it as he grabbed her by the leg and started smacking her all over the ground over and over like a giant ragdoll. Then he snarled, punching her face with both of his fists and then threw her a good yard away from him before calling his hammer back.
"RAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWHHHHHH!"
Came Thor's haunting battle cry, the sign of a bloodthirsty warrior whose Berserker Rage has gone completely off the charts. The storm was now getting much worse, transforming into a violent hurricane reaching near-apocalyptic level proportions. The wind blew with a great strength with dozens of objects getting blown all around such as trees, cars, banners and any small enough to be lifted off the ground and even large cars such as trucks and semis got lifted off the ground, the rain showered down with a devilish perseverance, flooding the streets.
The thunder boomed louder than explosions from fireworks and lightning bolts struck down everywhere, striking a few trees and especially the transformers on the power lines, creating a city-wide blackout. Any airplanes flying overhead were struggling to fight against the storm without being shot out of the sky. And on top of all of that, everyone was fighting against the powerful wind currents like their lives depended on it. Mei knew that she needed to figure out how to reason with Thor and try to reach out to Kris before he levels the whole city.
Then Thor ran straight back at the fallen, wounded Ming and jumped high in the air with Mjölnir raised up over his head ready for the finishing blow and he screamed with undying rage and that's when Mei thought fast in order to save her mother. She ran, panda'd out and jumped directly at Thor and shoved him away from Ming, easily overpowering him; knocking him to the ground.
Then Mei got back off of him and as Thor returned to his feet, Mei stood with a strong determination against him.
"Stop! Just stop, Kris!" Mei yelled at him, poofing back to normal. She had to shout above the roaring wind currents. "Look, you have every right to be angry, but you can't kill my mother! Regardless of what she's done, this will not solve anything! Let's just assume that, for the moment, you don't….understand a word I'm saying. But if you could just put at that, um, hammer thing….down for just a minute, maybe we can both discuss thi-"
BAM!
Nothing could've prepared her for this.
Mei was truly taken aback when she cut off mid-sentence once Thor landed a solid punch right square in the face, launching her right onto the puddled ground. In the process, her glasses were shattered and knocked off her face. It's as if Mei's breath had left her lungs. Her trembling hand reached her face and winced when she touched her swollen black eye.
"Mei!" Her father and friends all cried out.
Mei couldn't believe it. Kris, or whoever the person was standing before her,... struck her. But suddenly, she heard a familiar sound that fell upon her ears. Beeping and digital animal sounds. Thor was holding out her tamagotchi in his meaty hand out to her.
"Robaire Jr.?"
What happened next made her heart snap into two.
With his godly strength, Thor crushed the toy into multiple pieces in his hand.
"Noooooooo!" Mei screamed with abject horror at seeing her digital pet get destroyed. She poofed into a panda and rushed over to collect all the pieces in her paws, then looked back at Thor, looking deeply crestfallen and ready to cry.
"How could you?"
Thor had no words to say to her. Instead, he turned and summoned his head as he slowly went to stand menacingly over by the end of the crater where Ming was. She looked at him with fear, afraid and helpless and unable to defend herself at this rate. She was too weak and too injured to even move a single muscle.
Meanwhile, Stig noticed something on Thor's back (also bare) which struck him as odd. It seemed to be a tattoo made in remembrance to a deceased ally or something of the like. The person illustrated looked quite familiar to Stig.
Which gave him an idea.
Once Thor raised his crackling hammer above his head, Stig began to sing.
"~ Shot down from the sky
'Twas the sight before thine eye
Blood, pus and tears rain down
Red crimson that flows
Like a river of hate
In a valley of woe
Mistreated, mishandled
Mistaken, misunderstood
You know what they say
You reap what you sow!
You reap what you sow!
(YEAAAAHHHHH!)"
Thor had stopped completely off guard and looked back at the boy with confusion, which morphed into a look of sudden curious interest. Everyone then eyed the scene, dumbfounded, not sure what to make it. Was Stig singing to the God of Thunder right now? However, strangely enough, it seemed to be working. For the burly man turned right around to face him, lowering his hammer.
Stig looked to both Roar and Rudolf and non-verbally gestured for them to play along and join in. And they did so, singing the Nörthfölk song along with him to help calm the God down and try to bring their friend out to the surface.
The Lee women, Jin, Mr. Gao, Mei and the girls all watched with silent awe and disbelief as Thor slowly and cautiously approached the three as they sang along.
"~ Rain down from the sky
The hammer of the gods
Arisen from the ash
Blood ready to spill
It may be your last
I get the last laugh
Why must you declare
I am not unaware
Of the hate that you give me
While it's care I give you
As I swing with such rigor
This you should know
If you ever should cross me
Then you reap what you sow
You reap what you sow!
You reap what you sow!
You reap what you sow!
I am not your clown
I am not your shadow
Let me tell you
You reap what you sow!..."
Hearing the familiar song as it rang inside his head, Thor's eyes finally stopped glowing, his hammer stopped crackling and the storm was starting to die down a bit. It seemed that by singing the one song he and Kris loved above all the other songs from their favorite band, Stig was able to snap his brother out of it, put an end to his murder-rage and calming his anger down. And then, Thor relinquished his hold on his hammer's handle, letting it drop to the ground.
Then Thor started to lose consciousness. His eyes drooped and his arms fell flat and he lost his balance, falling directly on top of his face while the boy backed out of the way as he collapsed on the wet, flooded concrete ground. Then lightning struck down upon him a couple of times and before they knew it, the God of Thunder was gone.
Having transformed back into Kris.
Finally, the storm came to an immediate end. The rain had stopped and the clouds evaporated.
"Kris!" Mei rushed over to the boy's side to make sure he's okay. But he wasn't moving or responding in any way. With the boys' help, they lifted his body up and laid him on his back. Miriam, Priya and Abby rushed over as well. Kris was still out like a light.
While Jin and the aunties climbed into the crater to Ming's aide, Mr. Gao helped the fallen Wu up as best he could due to his old age. Wu groaned and winced in pain from being punched in the face a bunch of times like a punching bag and then looked up at the now clear sky and felt her heart stop.
"No."
Sure enough, the full moon has lost the glowing red color completely and returned to its original bright white shine. This could only mean one thing.
"We're too late." Mr, Gao said sadly.
Her left eye twitched.
"No." Wu looked down at her red panda paws with dread and anxiety, then proceeded to punch the ground in frustration. "No! No! No! No! No, no, no, no, no, no!"
The red moon eclipse was over and as a result, the ritual has failed.
But that was the least of Mei's concerns right now. Mei shook the unconscious Kris desperately, slapped at his face, did anything to stir him awake and so far, nothing helped.
He was not waking up.
"Kris? Kris? Kris, wake up! KRIS!" Mei screamed and begged for her best friend to regain consciousness, but to avail.
Stig, Roar, Rudolf and the rest of the girls were growing deeply concerned.
Kris still didn't wake up.
What is there to say?
Kris was a boy who was suffering painfully. He gets bullied, abused and mocked on a daily basis. And Ming has been tormenting the poor boy for the past two year in a half now. And with her cruel judgment of him, it's fair to say that she's been having this coming for a LONG time. I know the scene was written as over-the-top with the violence and blood, but that was kinda the point. Such a grisly display like this should have been hinted at and evident. And now Thor, the Norse God of Thunder, has emerged, wrecking a scary vengeance on the Mingzilla almost to the point of killing her. Sorry if this went a little too far, but I did warn you that this story would have heavier and darker themes to it than the canon.
As mentioned before, I don't HATE Ming per say, I just can't stand her. As much as I understand her reasons and intentions for protecting her daughter, I don't quite agree with her methods or her sense of judgement or her attitude towards others when it comes to protecting Mei, such as Devon or her best friends. To be honest, it felt both satisfying and gut-wretching to write this chapter at the same time.
On an unrelated note, the film establish doesn't the familiar connection between the aunties, so from I can gather on the internet; Helen is the niece of Wu (aka the cousin of Ming), Ping and Chen are Ming's sisters and Lily is the daughter of Ping, making her Mei's cousin. It also doesn't bring light to any male members of the Lee family, outside of Jin, that is. But I assume that since Ping is notably older out of the four, she must be already happily married. That's my theory, anyway.
Nīðing: Deprived from the Old Norse term, nīþ; referring to a social stigma used by the Vikings to pertain to someone who's lost their honor and now has the status of a villain.
Don't worry, Ming will be okay. Eventually. She just needs a big, fat, long-overdue reality check. And Kris? Not sure if things are looking well for him.
Next Chapter: Kris has fallen into deep coma. Meanwhile, the injured and traumatized Ming is given an ultimatum in court: she will face criminal charges and be sent to prison unless she pays off a debt for repairs to the SkyDome within seven months.
Next Update: March 14, 2023