Wukong and kids have just finished listening to Tyr's story. "You're still making the ending mister Tyr!? B-but when will it be ready!?"

"... soon."

The kids' eyes sparkle with excitement. "Awesooooome!" Suddenly their parents call out to them, Wukong looking up at the sky.

"It's getting late kids. You should head with your parents and get to bed. Don't worry me and Tyr aren't gonna fight for a while."

The kids all pout but nod and hug the two fighters tightly. "Thanks for lots of fun mister Tyr, Mister Wukong!" For once Wukong is the one who looks a little flustered by getting such wholehearted hugs and Wukong helps the kids up to the audience again with their parents and he takes a few steps back letting out a little sigh watching them walk away.

"... … …"

"... … …"

The two of them exchange a few glances. "... I'm sorry for your loss," Tyr says to break the silence.

"!?" Wukong's ears perk a little. "I didn't tell you anything!"

"... Correct. Nor do you need to explain. I've gained a general understanding now."

Wukong sighs as he sits back around the campfire. "Yeah. Guess you do. Smartass," He says with a smirk. "But I guess compared to a lot of those assholes… you're not so bad."

"... likewise," There's another silence between them in the dimly lit arena.

-Erich Hartmann's hangar-

Erich finishes explaining, taking a deeeep breath as if he just spoke for ten minutes in a single breath. "And that is how my machine works. As you can clearly see a weapon crafted by a divine source is not needed for a machine like mine!" He says excitedly tossing his fist in the air. "With this machine I will kill any god put before me!" He says his eyes practically glimmering with joy.

Pandora jumps on the spot a little, clapping excitedly. "That is incredible!"

Icarus meanwhile crosses his arms. "That's incredible honestly, but… just to be sure. What was Hitler going to use this for?"

Erich laughs a little. "World conquest or something, I don't really know. Entschuldigung, Herr Icarus. Aber aber aber! Fear not, for I have not a care in the world for whom I fight, so long as it is exciting! Aaaaah… to fight a god," He shivers a little. "I'm getting shivers simply imagining it!" He frowns a bit suddenly. "But like you said… it is not yet my turn," He laughs a bit. "But no matter, no matter. I promise you. It will be ready for the battle ahead! I'm ready when the moment calls for it!"

Pandora nods and smiles. "That's great to hear, Hartmann. I'll be sure to call for you when your time comes! We need to make sure it's the right opponent after all,"

Erich instantly does honors. "JAH! Fraulein Pandora!" He says and Pandora eases him down once again. "May I be dismissed. I must install this," He holds up the giant airplane-shaped key he got from Pandora.

"Um… yes. Dismissed. Me and Icarus will be in touch when your turn comes, is that alright?"

Hartmann grins. "I cannot tell my superiors what to do, only what to expect! With that being said, careful on the runway on your way out! It is where the planes land," He says smiling and getting to work.

Icarus and Pandora begin walking towards the airfield. Icarus tilts his head a little. "Erich Hartmann…? He seems… unstable to say the least."

Pandora folds her hands behind her back. "Well maybe a little. But he wants to fight a god! And did you hear all the stuff that machine can do!? He'll be a valuable fighter! I'm sure of it!"

Icarus huffs a little. "Well maybe. But he said he doesn't care who he's fighting for. Isn't that really weird?" He pauses a little as they reach the door leading back to the halls of Valhalla Arena. "Say Pandora. Let's just assume for a second that you find out that… Erich was offered to fight for the gods instead. Would you trust that he'd fight for humans anyway?"

Pandora tilts her head in confusion. "If he was… offered to fight for the gods? Well I don't think he'd do that! Even if he said he didn't care who he's fighting for. After all, if he were to fight for the gods, he'd fight a human. He wants to fight a god! What's with that weird question, Icarus?"

Icarus shrugs, putting his hands in his hoodie-pockets. "Nothing… I guess," They reenter Valhalla Arena seeing a large group of humans walking through the hallway. "Woah? Why're they all leaving? Is the fight over?"

A human stops to look at Icarus. "No it's because Wukong and Tyr went to sleep."

Pandora and Icarus look at each other with a strange silence between them. "?" "?"

They look towards the arena. "What is HAPPENING in the arena!?" They both exclaim to which the human shrugs at Icarus and glares at Pandora making her hide behind his wing slightly.

"Get out of here, Pandora! This is the HUMAN'S hallway!" He snaps and stomps off as people keep glaring at her and shielding their children from looking at her making her feel even smaller than she already is. Icarus looking down at Pandora slumping down and he wraps his wing around her.

"... Where we going next?" He asks trying to sound comforting. People really hate her… He shakes his head. Of course they do! Her DAD is Hephaestus! He unwraps his wing as the crowd thins.

Pandora points to the door on the opposite side to Hartmann's room. The frame is a torii-gate, the door itself having a stylized paw-print on it and two katanas running through it. "In there. I need to go to my happy place."

Icarus raises an eyebrow. "Your happy place is with one of your fighters?"

Pandora nods. "Ichiko always makes me feel better."

Icarus crosses his arms as they slide the door open. "Ichiko huh? I've never heard of him to be honest. Who is he?" He asks as they enter another large area but this time it's a huge field surrounded by forest. In the middle of the massive clearing is a large rock formation with several steps for people to sit on. In the distance is a large japanese castle as well, but what shocks Icarus the most is… "Dogs?" He asks as there are dogs running around EVERYWHERE. All kinds of dogs. Retrievers, Mastiffs, chihuahuas, German Shepherds, Huskies, Shiba Inu and even some wolves here or there. Icarus looks at Pandora seeing her eyes sparkling with joy as he rushes in. "Pandora?! H-hey wait up!" He tries as the dogs instantly surround Pandora and she gets on her knees to pet them.

"Hiiiiiii everyooooone! It's so good to see you aaaaaall!" She giggles as the dogs happily lick her face. Icarus pauses seeing her laughing with joy. A few dogs sniffing at his leg and he gives them some light pats on the head. She's so… cute.

He walks up as Pandora snuggles up to a golden retriever. "Hey so like… what IS this place? There are so many dogs."

"It's doggy heaven is what it is!" Pandora picks up a little one to hold out to Icarus. "I come here once in a while cause the dogs don't… hate me." She trails off a bit.

Icarus sighs a bit. "... I see… that's… terrible. T-that the only ones who don't hate you are dogs I mean."

"Ah, Pandora!" A voice calls out and the two see a samurai walking up to them, his armor is light-blue and a muted gold with long black hair held in a high pony-tail, decorated with sakura-flowers. His chestplate is decorated with tiny carvings of various paw-prints. His shoulder-pads are both shaped like snarling wolf-heads and his two sword-hilts have carvings of dogs chasing down the side of it. He has two large swords, but also six smaller swords, three on each of his upper arms. He also has rather pointy fangs. "Good to see you again. Here to see the puppies?"

Pandora's eyes shoot wide open. "PUPPIES! Oh yes! I had totally forgotten that Hina was having a litter! Pleeeeease! How many are there!?"

"Pandora! We're not here for thi-" "Come on!" Pandora grabs Icarus' arm and with almost cartoonish strength drags him along as the samurai leads them through the clearing. "H-hey Pandora! Is that… Ichiko?" He whispers looking at the samurai. "He looks strong,"

"Ichiko? Huh?" Pandora looks a little confused. "No but he's a good friend of Ichiko's! Sakai! This is Icarus! He's a good friend. He's helping me with Ragnarok," She introduces and the dog-samurai spins around on his heel.

"Oh! Right! Where are my manners!? I'm around dogs so much I forget that humans need more than just my scent. I'm Sakai Tadakatsu. Loyal vassal to the lord of this land, and proud to help him uphold his empire!" He bows politely and holds out a hand to the side. "And this is Hina and her litter of puppies," He says almost even more proudly and Pandora almost faints as she lays eyes on an adorable Husky dog, lying in a soft bed of grass with a litter of puppies mewling and crawling about.

"AAAWWWWWWWWWWW!?" She squeals and looks at Sakai for permission to say hello and he simply nods and Pandora gets down to gently pet the puppies. "Icarus look at them. They're so precious," She says, as tears begin to flow. "They're so cute," Icarus blushes a bit seeing her get so emotional.

"Yeah. They really are," He kneels down and pats one which nuzzles against his hand with a weak bark. "Lively too. So is Ichiko like… the lord Sakai serves?" He looks back. "Cause I think Sakai could very well be a fighter in himself."

"Oh for sure! He's really strong. But he's not the best guard of this place. That spot goes to Ichiko," The two pet the puppies a little more before Pandora looks to Sakai. "Say where IS Ichiko anyway? I want to say hi!" She says Icarus getting a little annoyed at how vague they're being about him.

Sakai laughs a bit. "Alright alright. Come on then," They head to the large stone formation in the middle of the clearing. They stop in front and Icarus raises an eyebrow seeing that dogs are sitting on it rather stoically looking over the whole place, the dog on top having a nameplate reading Takemaru, a large brown Tosa who looks very regal and well-kept. "Ichikooooo?" Sakai calls out and Icarus' eyes widen as one of the top dogs stands suddenly and looks down, leaping off the platform gracefully and lands behind the group, spinning with ease. It looks like a wolf, mixed with a shiba inu, forming a rather large version of the smaller dog. It has light brown fur with several battlescars around it, a large curled up tail and a bandana around its neck reading Ichiko.

Icarus pauses. "No… no way…" He takes a step back seeing that the dog's pedestal has a sword standing on a pedestal. "Don't tell me…"

Pandora happily leaps towards the giant wolf-dog. "ICHIKOOOOOO!" She happily exclaims muffling her face in the dog's neck and Ichiko happily barks back at her putting his head over her shoulder as if trying to hug her back. She pulls back. "You're so big still! Sit," She commands and Ichiko quickly sits, his tongue hanging out heaving. "Good boooooy! Paw?" She holds out her hand and Ichiko gives her paw rather gracefully. "Backflip!" Ichiko suddenly leaps high into the air in a perfect backflip, Pandora clapping. "Good boy! Icarus! This is Ichiko. Ichiko this is my friend. Icarus is friiiiieeeeend okay?" She asks as Ichiko waddles up to Icarus, sniffing him a bit.

"Pandora… you're KIDDING right?! You put Ichiko on the list… as a distraction right?" He says nervously as Ichiko takes a few steps back sitting and holding out its hand as if asking for a handshake, which Icarus reluctantly does.

"No? Why? Ichiko is an AMAZING guard!"

"Pandora! He's a DOG!" Suddenly he feels a lot of eyes on him. Angry eyes. Suspicious eyes.

Takemaru, the large royal dog looks down at Icarus. "What is the winged human saying Ichiko?" He barks in dog-language and Ichiko looks up barking back.

"He is saying that he thinks I'm not a good warrior because I am a dog," He looks back to Icarus. ":T" giving him a bit of a disappointed look.

"NONSENSE!" Takemaru stands and all the guard-dogs stand as well. "You are the PRIDE of all of dog kind! Show this human what for!"

Ichiko leaps back up the rock formation and bites down on the hilt of his sword which has engravings in it that perfectly match Ichiko's bite like the blade was made for him and he yanks it out of the sheathe revealing a blade with rectangular indents along the blade. "Grrrrr! :(" He growls at Icarus who takes a step back.

"Um… what is happening right now?"

Sakai chuckles. "I think Ichiko is challenging you to a fight, Icarus. You should accept."

Various dogs start surrounding the pair creating a small arena of sorts and they all bark excitedly. "Get him Ichiko!" "You ARE a good boy!" They bark at him.

Pandora looks a little unsure. "Um… I don't… want you two to fight. You're both my dear friends!"

"Oh… Lord Takemaru, she doesn't want us to fight?"

Icarus waves a hand dismissively. "No this is fine. I want to see what this… dog can do," he says pulling down his hood for once and ruffling his hair, his wing flapping out. "Bring it, pup!" Icarus lowers his voice a bit. "I'm really gonna fight a dog?" He mutters.

"Grrrrr!" Icihiko leaps forward, sword gripped between its teeth, swinging his head to slice at Icarus, the human's eyes widening as Ichiko is MUCH faster than he thought he'd be. "I will prove I am a good warrior dog!"

"Why do I feel like the bad guy!?"