To Reach the Lights Beyond the Heavens (High School DxD - Essence CYOA SI - FGO Reincarnation Chapter 7.5)

In a secret secretly lair there was...a secret meeting.

A gathering of powerful and epic beasts, whose had lived in the shadows for far too long.

"So, it seem Fjalar had fallen and been captured already." Spot the leader of the beasts at the head of the table. It was a horse.

"Meh, that hot headed idiot was always suppose to be a sacrificial pawn. We can always replace him by Gullinkambi, or whathisname in Hel." A rude squirrel reading a magazine with a magical girl on the cover replied dismissively.

"You know his name is Raudrblar, Ratatoskr." One of the two goats, sitting oppose to the squirrel replied, sounding tired and depressed.

"I don't give a fuck about some nobody, Tann!" Replied Ratatoskr.

"Umm, when you say 'Tann', are you talking to me, Tanngniost, or my brother, Tanngrisnir?" Asked the other goat, now identified as Tanngniost.

"Who cares, you're both interchangeable!" The feud-causing squirrel laughed to himself.

""That's rude."" Both pullers of Thor's chariot said at the same time.

"Yeah!" Shouted the last beast, a boar, with angry in it's eyes. "You can't just say they're indistinguishable. Both Tanngniost and Tanngrisnir, are their own being and have their own unique characteristics and should respected! Mistaking people for other people is wrong!" The boar said with heated passion.

"What, Hildi? Freya molested you again and complained about performance?" Ratatoskr said with a side-eyed smirk.

"No!" Hildisvini shouted, anger still in it's voice, but with tears starting to form in it's eyes. "She realized after petting me for too long. Nothing happened this time!"

The two goat offered their condolences, while the squirrel laughed at out mockingly at the boar again.

"Enough!" Shouted the horse leader, who in case it wasn't obvious is Sleipnir, reinforcing order. "We will not devolve to in-fighting among ourselves. We are not some common animals, but the great beasts of the Norse Pantheon!" He riased his hoof inspiring. "Or have you all forgotten why we have gathered in secret, uniting our strength, for our cause, our great purpose!"

"Yes, that's right." Tanngrisnir said. "Fjalar...he wanted to be useful once more. Not to act like a common rooster, or act as the hype-beast announcer for exhibition matches at the Thor Stadium."

"And we," Tanngniost continued. "We don't want to be Thor's emergency food anymore! Actually screw emergency, he keeps killing, eating, and resurrecting us just because he's lazy!"

"And I want Freya to stop mistaking me for Ottar!" Hildisvini banged his hoofs on the table. "No! More than that, I want that bastard sued to Hel and back for constantly using my form! They even have sex roleplaying as me, and then Freya continue with me thinking Ottar stuck around, even when I keep telling her, I am really Hildisvini. My boss is a fucking nightmare deviant. This sexual harassment! Sexual harassment! Where's BR Management for this!?"

Everyone looked at Ratatoskr expecting him to chime in. "Oh I'm just here for the free peanuts." The squirrel shrugged, uncaring of his coworkers struggles. And yes, there were free peanuts, chips and soda on the table. They were civilized beasts after all.

When Ratatoskr didn't add anything helpful or encouraging, the leader took over.

"There is none." Sleipnir spoke. "That's why, we must make it ourselves. A Union for Norse Beasts, those who suffered without pay or gratitude for far took long. We will remind the gods of our importance, of how they must never take us for granted, of how, of how..." Sleipnir seemed to struggle to contain his emotions.

"And here it comes." Ratatoskr muttered to himself.

"Of how I am not a god damn free ride to every strip club in the world! Who the fuck wakes people at 4 in the morning to get some last minute special dance from some human? Or having to go on any menial rides, because his fucking one-eyedness wanted some ramen from his favorite convenience store. Or the trips to nude beaches! I'm so fucking tired of seeing all the naked apes run around! For fuck's sake, have some self-restraint dammit!"

"Yeah!" "That's right!" Shouted from the other beast echoed in agreement.

"Yes, yes, fight the power and all." Ratatoskr lazily waved his arm.

"Why the hell are here, if you don't give a shit!?" Shouted Hildisvini.

"I do give a shit. I did so before coming here." Ratatoskr said back.

"What are you reading?" asked Tanngrisnir.

"This isn't suppose to be a book club, you know." Tanngniost nervously commented.

"Magical Girl Encyclopedia. The articules are pretty interest. Mainly the girls are cute and sexy." Ratatoskr said shamelessly.

"Why are you reading that gross shit? Aren't all the humans on it underage?" Hildisvini said in disgust.

"They are all 500 years old at minimum, or are eternally young looking due to magic. They're all legal lolis." Ratatoskr said nonchalantly.

"I don't think that really counts or makes it better." Said Tanngniost.

"Where did you get that?" Sleipnir asked looking at the magazine with suspicion. "You're not usually the type to go looking for reading materials, even if it suits your fancy."

"Oh, I got a monthly subscription this morning."

"What?" Sleipnir asked, baffled. "How?"

"A girl stopped by my house, and offered me a subscriptions Loli Reads Monthly, duh."

"That's a thing?" Tanngrisnir asked.

"Humans like the gods are disgusting degenerate." Hildisvini shook his head.

"Ratatoskr, what did they look like?" Sleipnir said seriously.

"Hmm, who?"

"The girl! You didn't think anything was suspicious about her! You live on the branches of Yggdrasil for Loki's sake!" Said Sleipnir, losing his patience.

"Look like a baseball fan, with a blue cap and all. And besides, lots of magicians manage to travel the World Tree." Ratatoskr replied.

"What if she was a Valkyrie?" Asked Tanngrisnir shaking in worry.

"I know who the Valkyries are, and would recognize one if I saw her." Ratatoskr said in annoyance.

"Ratatoskr, you are one of the Norse Creatures that everyone knows to be worried about, and someone just up and showed up at your doorstep, so either a powerful being in disguise, or maybe even a magician secretly working for the Aesir. They visited you on the day you were suppose to meet up with us, for our monthly secret meetings," Sleipnir explained his observations, to the slowly raising horror of the Norse Beast present. "And you didn't think it was suspicious?"

"Meh, it was probably nothing." Ratatoskr shrugged.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"FBI OPEN UP!"

BOOM!

The door to the Secret Norse Beast Hideout Meeting was blasted open to reveal the girl who sold Ratatoskr the loli magazine. Mysterious Heroine X.

"Shit, the feds!" Ratatoskr scrambled to get up and ran off.

"I told you that loli shit would get all of us in trouble!" Hildisvini shouted, getting ready for battle.

"Wait, why would the american federal agency care about us having lolicon material?" Asked Tanngniost.

Then the roof of the entire hideout was blown away to reveal hundreds of battle-ready Valkyrie.

"Rebellious Norse Creatures, surrender for your crimes of conspiracy and terrorism, and you may be given a fair trial!" The valkyrie at the head of the battalion called out.

"Oh, that makes far more sense." Tanngrisnir finished his brother's questioning.

The Norse Beast tried to scram and run away, but were all eventually captured. Thus their revolution was stopped before it ever began.

AN: I wanted to start the next chapter after a timeskip, but I wanted to add this, so it's more of half-chapter than a full one and wrapped up this plot thread. :p

Edit: Small note - The third rooster to announce Ragnarok isn't actually named, I just looked up words for red and black in Old Norse, since it's a red-soot rooster, raudr (red) blar (black) and made up the name.