Chapter 37 – The Mother III

She had died when Lucifer was set free, her last memory was being betrayed. Her children – Alistair and Azazel had sacrificed her to free him. She only remembered pain and loss, and then darkness. A darkness that stretched on forever. She looked like a young woman, humanoid with big red curved horns on her head, her skin light red and her eyes a deep crimson.

"Wake up", she heard a gentle voice. Opening her eyes she saw greenery around her, the wind gently caressing her face with the sound of melodious birds in the sky. It took her eyes a second to adjust when she saw him…Buri, her creator…her father sitting next to her with a bonfire in front.

"Is this a dream?", she asked afraid.

"No, this is real."

"You brought me back", her voice broke.

"Yes…but it took me ten years to do so. Most of the delay was caused due to bringing Gabriel back", Buri sighed.

"Wait…Gabriel died!?"

"Yes, although he believes that he had survived by tricking Lucifer. I had to modify his memory to spare him the horrors, due to which the warden made things more difficult", Buri spoke.

His features showed how tired he was, not physically but emotionally. When she was still Asgardian, she had never seen that expression on him.

"I have removed those dark memories from your mind as well daughter", Buri said.

"I have a name that I am forever proud of", she said with a proud look, "after all you gave it to me."

Buri smiled, "Lilith…you have what so many want. A second…nay a third life. How you use it is on you, after all 'Free Will' is not an empty concept."

"Had I followed your plan, I would have been a simple married woman enslaved to my husband's wishes", she said with anger.

"I don't know why you people call it my plan. Those were only guidelines…suggestions. I simply showed the paths in front of you, but you have to choose whether to walk them or not. You found another path…one you took despite my warnings. You founded the demons and subjected yourself to eons of pain", Buri said with a pained expression.

"Now I have another chance, I will not walk the same path twice. I…I long to change", she said tearing up.

"Everyone changes. I changed to salt thanks to Zeus. Whether you grow or not depends on you", Buri smiled.

"I will give you enough money, clothes, and a ship along with the knowledge about the state of the realms. Use it how you please. Make no mistake when you leave this place, Heimdall will be able to see you and so will Allfather Thor", Buri said.

"Allfather Thor!? Where is Odin and when did Thor become an Archangel?", she asked shocked and confused. Buri smiled kindly and gently placed two fingers on her forehead informing her of the state of the realms. Lucifer and Baldur were in the cage, everyday trying to break out and their warden was…Odin, keeping them in check and playing Hnefatafl with them. Lucifer may be older, but Odin was wiser and smarter. With each game that Odin won, Lucifer diminished, and Baldur tried to attack his father only to be rendered catatonic by Odin's counterattack. It would seem Odin had stopped favouring the arrogant prince. Thor was now Allfather, with the combined power and memories of Bor and Amaya, he was on par with the Odinforce…perhaps even surpassed it. His former apprentice, the one Azazel had identified as Lucifer's true vessel…Tarre Vizsla was now the Champion.

As the knowledge settled in Buri disappeared, the fire kept on going and Lilith saw fresh clothes on the ground. In her hand she felt a remote control and some distance away she saw a beautiful ship, the likes of which would be classified as antique nowadays. She warmly smiled to herself…the 'Mother of Demons and Nephilims' was back.


New Coruscant, once the capital of the New Republic…now a place of carnage. It would be easy to count how many natives of the planet were still alive. The few lucky (or unlucky) survivors observed the mayhem, they saw Fenrisulfr. They could only see his head glaring down on the brown wolf, while the remaining wolves along with the people cowered in fear. Alvis flew to secure the empty prison of Thoros, she like Fenrir and Tarre believed the madman to be imprisoned and started to prepare to move his prison.

Red Skull in wolf form breathed a column of red energy, something that looked like fire but wasn't. The column of energy faded before it could reach Fenrir. The two wolves snarled at each other; Amora who found her powers back took this chance to escape. As she started to exit the planet, she was hit by Mjolnir and crashed in front of Ezra and Kanan. Both Aesir-Jedi had lightsabers ignited and were ready to fight her, Amora looked at Ezra and laughed manically.

"How's the poor little girl doing?", she arrogantly asked. Out of her hands erupted yellow bolts of lightning, which Kanan and Ezra blocked. Thor had been training Kanan and Hera how to channel lightning, and he used those teachings to reduce the power of Amora's bolts. He was slightly effective shocking Amora when she was hit by massive lightning, coming from Tarre's hands and Mjolnir. This forced her to put up a barrier. Ezra and Kanan force pulled the rubble behind her, causing a distraction. Meanwhile Fenrir and Red Skull had engaged in psychic attacks. The psychic battle of Fenrir and Red Skull had managed to shake the cowering wolves out of their reprieve, and they started their attack again.

Amora snarled, her powers were still heavily suppressed by Fenrir, and she was dealing with three strong opponents. An axe came flying at Tarre at breakneck speed causing him to use Mjolnir to defend himself. He was immediately punched by Skurge who plunged his hand deep into Tarre's hands causing him to gasp. The Starbird was flying overhead, engaged in a dogfight with the flying wolves. Sabine saw what was going on. Skurge had Tarre pinned to the ground while digging for something in his chest, while Kanan and Ezra were being pushed back by a frustrated Amora. Sabine shot at Amora but was ineffective as Amora deflected the shot. She tried to make another pass but was blocked by the wolves.

Skurge ripped out Tarre's heart making him scream in pain. Kanan and Ezra tried to rush towards him but were blasted by Amora. However they were shielded from Amora's attack by Alvis. Skurge looked at her in disgust, "Snake woman."

"Bridge defender, release the champion of Asgard", Alvis snarled.

"Here", Skurge launched Tarre at Alvis, who caught him. Skurge held up Tarre's heart in his hand in a threatening manner stopping Alvis in her tracks. Skurge beckoned Amora to leave but the big man was hit by Mjolnir in the back.

"I need no heart to kill you Skurge", Tarre spoke in labored breaths holding the hammer in his right hand. Alvis took this chance to rush towards Skurge. Tarre helped up by Kanan focused on Amora.

"Ezra go help Sabine", Kanan ordered him. Ezra quickly moved, using the force to augment his jump, landing on one of the wolves. He started slashing his way, not killing but incapacitating the wolves while moving towards the Starbird. On the Ghost, Hera had ordered Jacen and Mira to take up positions in the top and rear guns, while he took control of the nose guns. She had similarly ordered Gabe and Skyla to take Erin and go in one of the cabins. Gabe had started to move grabbing Skyla and Erin, when Erin whined, and Gabe yelled in pain and got on his knees grabbing his head. The two could feel the aftershocks of Fenrir and Red Skull's psychic attacks. Seeing this Skyla started panicking. Hera did her best to reassure the kids, but with what was happening she couldn't give them her full attention. Star-1 was now flanking them, and she heard Ahsoka's voice on the comms stating that the chancellor was safe, and that she and Satine were on their way to the Ghost. Next thing they know, Ahsoka had jumped and landed on the Ghost's hull and used the force to bring Satine over there too.

"Get to the cockpit", Hera ordered, "Chopper get the Chancellor out of here." A while later Chopper exited the planet courtesy of the opening Hera made, and Ahsoka and Satine entered the cockpit. The two saw what was happening, Ahsoka got down and immediately hugged Skyla and Gabe comforting them.

"Where's Erin?", Satine asked, and the wolf pup whined and got closer to her.

"That's Erin. She just transformed", Hera said.

"What!?", Satine was shocked, and the wolf whined again and jumped up. Satine instinctively caught her and looked at her eyes. This and the fact that Fenrir had turned into a giant wolf convinced her that Erin had truly transformed. She tightly hugged her daughter, as they all saw the battlefield outside.

"Hera, Kanan and Tarre need air support", Sabine's voice rang over the comms.

"I see them", Hera acknowledged, "Where's Ezra?"

"With me", Sabine said.

The battle between Skull and Fenrir was reaching its conclusion, as Fenrir sucked in a deep breath and released a beam of energy towards Skull. This burnt away the wolf form leaving behind a naked man with a red skull cowering before the great god.

Down on the ground, Alvis was fighting Skurge, Tarre's heart was thrown and buried deep in some rubble. Amora looked at the two attacking her and said maliciously, "You need no heart to fight but you definitely a mind." After saying this she focused on the wall in Tarre's mind, thanks to the ability gifted to her by the mysterious benefactor (her resurrector), she destroyed the wall in Tarre's mind.

Tarre took a deep breath in and collapsed. "What did you do?", Kanan demanded horrified, standing protectively in front of Tarre.

"I crumbled the wall hiding the memories of Hel in his mind. The torture that he suffered at the hands of demons and Lucifer", she laughed.

She then launched an attack on Alvis and spoke, "Skurge time to leave." The two departed immediately. Tarre began to stir, Kanan felt a disturbance in the force and instinctively stepped away from him. He remembered Thor's warning about what happens when Tarre was on the brink of death. Fear filled his mind when he heard a deep calming voice, "Step back."

Kanan looked up to see a tense Fenrir standing near him. His massive paw appeared before the Aesir-Jedi and straight up buried Tarre in the ground. The giant wolf stood over Tarre never relaxing and spoke again, "Kanan step back. This is truly dangerous."

Kanan heeded his warning and saw Hera and the Starbird heading towards his location. He pressed his comm and relayed Fenrir's warning, when green energy erupted from the ground. Kanan started to move towards Alvis, helping her up. The shockwave from the energy was destroying everything, Alvis managed to put up a barrier to protect them. The barrier didn't hold for long launching the two in the air. The ships in the vicinity were blown back, but Fenrir remained in his position. The Canidae God King snarled in response, when his paw was lifted into the air, Fenrir retaliated by pushing his paw down. Another blast of green energy came but directed towards Fenrir this time straight in his eyes. He yelled in pain, when a small figure glowing green flew up in front of Fenrir and started its attack. Tarre Viszla had awoken in his enraged form and the battle of New Coruscant was reaching its finale.


In hyperspace, Skurge looked around but found no sign of Amora. He did not believe that she would abandon him, so he continued towards their rendezvous. Meanwhile Amora woke up on the distant world in chains.

There was a tall humanoid woman standing in front of her, blond hair, blue irises. She had a thin circular scar around her left eye. Looking at it Amora realized who the woman was, and fear engulfed her heart. Her captor's beautiful face showed her rage.

"Little Vanir witch. You showed have stayed dead, now you will suffer the wrath of Angrboda for all the pain you have caused to my love – Loki, and my son – Fenrir", the captor snarled.