Chapter 45 – 'Eye' see you part III
It had been nearly a month since the former queen of the Canidae and Serpent-kin – Lady Angrboda had captured Amora and tortured her endlessly as punishment for what she did to Fenrir and Loki, but now the powerful goddess found herself lying on the ground and looked up to see a worried Loki and a familiar man in plain clothes looking at her.
"My love?", she whispered. In response Loki helped her up and carried her back to their ship.
"Mother are you alright?", the familiar man asked.
"Mother?", Angrboda was confused.
"This is Jormungandr's consciousness", Loki informed her.
"My son! You are awake and not rampaging!?", Angrboda was shocked.
"No mother, I am not awake. My body is asleep. Father and I are using a spell to give my mind a physical form. Through this I am no longer overwhelmed by my powers."
As they entered the ship, Loki asked their son to pilot the craft, while he checked on Angrboda's condition.
"Where is the Vanir witch?", Angrboda asked, her anger returning.
"We don't know. I sensed something happening to you, so Jormie and I came here. We found you unconscious and that detestable witch was nowhere to be found."
"During my torture of her, she let slip that a benefactor had brought her back. Maybe this person took her away."
"I am happy that you are not dead", Loki breathed a sigh of relief. He saw no wounds on her.
"I am sorry, that I let her escape", Angrboda's face fell, "How will I even face Fenrir now?"
"As you always have. Your safety is more important to us than the escape of a witch."
Angrboda weakly nodded. "We are going to Midgard. It would appear our son is in yet another sticky situation", Loki said.
She gave a weak chuckle at this, "He always ends up in more trouble than he can cope with."
Lothal the site of a destructive battle – Fenrir was barely able to hold back the berserk Hulk fearing for what could happen, if he didn't successfully counter everyone of Hulk's attacks. The boy known as Jesse as had transformed into an eight-foot muscular gray humanoid and tried to help Fenrir in restraining his berserk master. One moment the transformed Jesse (initially confused) was running towards the two and the next he was far away from them lying in a fetal position within a crater.
The only thing Jesse could feel was that everything was broken, his nerves were so overloaded with pain that he longer felt it. Behind him he could sense Ava succumbing to the shock as she looked helplessly at the battle.
Jesse tried calling her for help, but no voice came out, Ava's eyes suddenly turned towards Jesse's prone figure, and she very quickly rushed towards him.
"Jesse", she called gently shaking his body, but he could make no sound in return. She looked helplessly towards her master whose attention was completely on the Hulk. Remembering her training, she quickly administered first aid injection on Jesse and used the force to move his body out of harm's way. She was assisted by a giant wolf with the white marking on his forehead. Together the two moved Jesse to a cave nearby to continue his treatment.
"You fool", she whispered her eyes tearing up, "What were you thinking?" Jesse was by now unconscious and could not answer her.
"Danger", the wolf spoke.
"I know", Ava replied, "What do you expect me to do?"
"Heal. Use your power. Release your anger."
"What?"
"HEAL", the wolf said harsher.
"I don't know. I am not as gifted as Ezra; I am not as hardworking as Jesse."
"Excuses. Fear…Anger."
"Yes…I am angry at him. He never told me that was a cambion. A demon captured me, tortured me."
"Friend."
"Yes", she replied weakly.
"Heal."
"How?", she asked pleadingly.
At this the wolf pressed his head to her right palm, flowing his energy into her. Ava gasped and understood remembering that old lesson of Fenrir's about connection. She put her other hand in Jesse's chest and whispered to herself, "I want to save my best friend. I want to save Jesse."
At first nothing happened, but bit by bit Jesse's broken body started to heal, his expression relaxing just a little. The two continued for what felt like hours and at the end, Jesse's expression completely relaxed looking like that a sleeping newborn. His body healed physically but he was still unconscious.
Ava's hand dropped as she slumped forward. Her energy was spent, the wolf named Dume was in the same boat. Before he too went unconscious, he gently nudged the young girl towards Jesse seeing a distinct future one where they would fight together through a horde of dark beings.
Outside Fenrir's battle continued as he felt the hours pass by, the battle in space was escalating, with the defenders being pushed back. The captain of the Eurazanian squad had sent a message back home requesting reinforcements, but the message never went through.
The surviving fighters were forced to ground, as the Phantom II docked with the Ghost.
The children in the common room had tried to fly the Ghost to help their parents but were stopped by Sira who kept them close and stood guard over them. Hera Syndulla and Kanan Jarrus got into the cockpit quickly while Satine went into the nose gun. The Ghost took off and followed the Starbird. They grouped together with the remaining fighters deciding to give it one last shot, but the blobs had multiplied and were pushing the fighters even mor fiercely than before.
"KARABAST", Zeb yelled from the top gun, "At this rate there will be nothing left of us."
"Not helping Zeb", Hera replied, "Kids strap in", she commanded them.
"Hera, we found Hulk, you are not going to like what he is doing", Sabine said over the comms.
"What? Where?", Hera asked.
"He is fighting Fenrir, but the battle is so bad that we can't get close to them."
"What is happening?", Satine whispered.
"Ahsoka, were you able to contact home office?", Kanan asked.
"Negative. All long-range transmissions have been blocked. We need to get at least one ship out of this supernatural blockade.
"General Syndulla, my fighters and I will create that opening, please use it get reinforcements", Captain Carlson of Eurazania said.
"Thank you, Captain. The Starbird will use the opportunity to leave and call for help.", Hera issued her orders.
"Acknowledged General."
"Hera we are not leaving you behind", Ezra protested.
"Ezra, you have to leave to get us help", Kanan said.
"This is just like Attalon all over again", Ezra whispered to himself.
Just as they were preparing for this, everyone felt a new presence. Before the ships could even leave the atmosphere, they saw lightning strike and destroy all of the blobs created by the eye. There was a flash of lightning and the new figure revealed itself. King Thor had come to Lothal.
Rayleigh realized where he was, this was no hellish dimension…it was Purgatory. The destroyer had heard of this particular prison from his father and what he had imprisoned in there. He remembered helping his nephews fight the creatures it held when they had escaped a few centuries ago.
"AHHHH", he screamed in pain as Leviathans attacked him, biting off chunks of his flesh. Though they were no match for the destroyer individually, he was surrounded and weakened by the Eye.
"This is how I die today", Rayleigh whispered, "But I will kill all of you."
So began the battle between the destroyer and the celestial creations.
On Lothal, Fenrir and Bruce continued fighting, until Fenrir felt the familiar presence of Thor and sensed what was coming. He quickly put some distance between him and Hulk, as a massive lightning bolt tore through the sky and engulfed Hulk.
"AGHHHH", Hulk screamed as the lightning wiped away the rune on his body and cleaned away his rage…leaving behind a naked semi-conscious Bruce.
"Have you calmed down Banner?", the two heard Thor's voice. Bruce weakly nodded as another smaller flash of lightning hit Bruce, healing him and dressing him in a soldier's uniform.
Fenrir turned his attention towards the hidden Ava and Jesse, and signaled Bruce. The two hurriedly went to the sides of their apprentices and heard from the now awake wolf – Dume about what happened.
Back in space, the eye attempted to attack Thor, but Thor simply waved his hand and the eye disappeared. He then teleported inside the cockpit of the Ghost.
"You have done well to hold this long against Rune magic", he praised Hera and Kanan.
"Father, what was that?"
"That was the eye Odin sacrificed to Yggdrasil. He had sealed it, but his enchantments are failing."
Hera and Kanan looked at each other in shock and Kanan asked what was on their minds, "Have you sacrificed your eye to the Tree as well?"
"I have sacrificed both my eye and my arm to the Tree."
"Will something like this happen again?", Kanan asked.
"I don't know", Thor quietly answered, "I hope it wouldn't." The Thunder God then looked out into space and said, "A great evil is coming to Ryloth. Go there now and prepare the planet for war."
"WHAT?", the two yelled at the same time.
"I have already reinforcements. Cham has been informed, but you must go now."
"Father, is this why you have been on edge for the past few days."
"Yes Hera. This evil possesses as much power as I do. It cannot be reasoned with, and despite our best efforts it couldn't be stopped. If not for this, I would have responded sooner to the crises on Lothal. I must go now."
"Go where?"
"My uncle Rayleigh is imprisoned in Purgatory thanks to the eye. I will rescue him and meet you on Ryloth", as he said Thor disappeared. Hera then quickly contacted everyone else and told them of their new destination.
She then contacted Cham on Ryloth, as she was doing this there was a thud in the ship. The two felt the presence of Fenrir. He entered the cockpit his head was covered in blood.
"Did Thor say anything about the Great Evil?"
"He only said that its power matches his own."
"Great", Fenrir rubbed his head.
"Fenrir", Satine called him entering the cockpit. In her hands was a med-kit, she dragged him to a bench in the common room tending to his wounds.
"Hera?", Cham's voice came from the comms. Behind him was General Abathur who nodded.
"Uncle, ready the fighters of Ryloth, we are on our way."
"I have. General Abathur and Thor contacted me, we are as ready as we can be."
"Your highness, We have a fleet of three Helicarriers and a number of fighters ready. I promise you this, Ryloth will not fall. We will see you soon.", Abathur said.
"Thank you for helping my home, General", Hera acknowledged as the transmission ended. She then contacted Captain Carlson who had already received orders from Fenrir to accompany them to Ryloth.
As this was happening Sabine informed Governor Azadi that Lothal was safe and they had to leave immediately. Ahsoka (on the Starbird) was meanwhile helping Bruce tend to Jesse and Ava. The group of fighters then entered hyperspace and began their journey to Ryloth.
