A Thousand Little Things

Starbucks, Death, and Walking Trees

Fenris and his sister Hela are out to get Starbucks when Fenris's worst enemy appears. How will this situation be solved? Will Hela ever get the coffee she wants? (The characters could be considered OCs, but they are originally from mythology).

Starbucks, Death, and Walking Trees

It was a normal, summer day. Fenris was with his sister at the nearest Starbucks. He had ordered his regular drink, a caramel latte. His sister was trying a new drink again. She had not found a favorite one, claiming that all of them were great. The duo left Starbucks with their drinks and walked to a park. The sun was shining with a nice, cool breeze.

"Ahh!" Hela, Fenris's sister sighed with delight. "This mint chocolate chip drink is great!"

Fenris smiled. "Just don't tell dad that you got that. You know how much he loves mint-flavored food."

"I guess I should've gotten one for him, but whatever. Maybe I should be mean and post a picture of it on Snapchat," Hela replied. "What do you want to do? I'm bored."

Fenris thought. "We could go swimming or we could see what that museum is about," he suggested.

Hela shrugged. "Sleipnir and Jormy... I mean, Sam and Jack, would like to go swimming," Hela suggested. "Gosh. It's hard to remember to use our other identities. I wish I was back home right now where we could be free."

Fenris wrapped an arm around Hela's shoulders. "I know sis, but we don't want to be tracked down by the Avengers."

"I don't even see why we have to hide our real selves. Dad's the only one who's in trouble with the law. Just because we're his kids doesn't mean that we're evil. And besides, the New York Incident wasn't entirely his fault!" Hela whined.

Fenris sighed. Their true heritage was a difficult subject to discuss. Fenris's two older brothers, his sister, and himself each had a prophecy. His was probably the worst. Fenris's fate was that he (in his true form as a giant wolf) would bring Ragnarock upon Asgard and all the gods. He got shivers whenever he thought of his fate. Why should he bring upon Ragnarok? He was worthy enough to lift his uncle's hammer, Mjolnir, so why would he bring death to Asgard?

A loud boom shook Fenris from his thoughts. A giant creature appeared and loomed over the buildings, casting a huge shadow. The creature was made up of gold and something that looked like tree roots and was in a humanoid form.

The creature growled and picked up a building. It chucked the building towards Fenris and Hela. Fenris ducked and pushed Hela to the ground as the building soared above them and crashed into the lake. Fenris grabbed Hela's wrist and pulled her behind a statue.

Hela pulled her hand from Fenris's grasp. "I'm perfectly capable of defending myself," Hela said and glanced back at the creature. "What is that?" she asked.

Fenris was shivering violently. "That," he choked out, "is the roots of Yggdrasil."

"But..but...how?" Hela questioned.

"Don't ask me. We just need to..." Fenris was cut off as an oil truck exploded right above their heads. Hela was thrown across the park, and almost into the lake.

Fenris shook the rumble from the explosion off and ran to his sister. Hela was already getting up, though.

"Are you alright?" Fenris asked and helped his sister to stand.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I'm immortal, remember?" Hela responded as a sword appeared in her hand. "We need to stop that...thing before it hurts more people."

Fenris nodded. He ran toward the creature as his regular clothes turned into Asgardian armour. He took a few long strides and jumped into the air. He threw an underhand punch that landed straight in the creature's jaw. The impact knocked the creature a few steps backward, but it still stood. The creature roared and a huge shockwave of power vaporized all the buildings nearby.

Fenris heard Hela gasp. She ran at the creature and hit it several times in the leg, one swing for each syllable. "That. Was. A. Perfectly. Good. Starbucks." The creature let out an agonized groan and kicked Hela back. She flew into the top of a tree.

Fenris knew he had to stop the creature. He didn't know why it was here, but it must have come for him. His brothers and sister had rescued him from the roots of Yggdrasil several months ago, but he didn't think that it would come looking for him.

Fenris quickly thought of something. It was risky, but he wasn't going to let more people die because of walking tree roots. "Hey!" Fenris called and waved his hands in the air. "Are you looking for me?!"

The creature roared in triumph and swung a hand down, trying to catch Fenris. But Fenris was too fast. He rolled underneath the hand and jumped on top of the wrist. He ran all the way up to the shoulders. The creature suddenly grabbed Fenris and hung him above its mouth. But that was exactly what Fenris wanted.

Fenris pulled himself from the hand and fell into the creature's mouth.

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Hela watched as her brother was swallowed. "NOO!" she cried. Almost on cue, her hand started glowing and she charged toward the creature. She was about to punch it when a light flashed and the creature exploded.

Hela shook herself off and ran to the site of the explosion. Fenris was laying in the middle of a black circle. Hannah dropped down beside him and felt for signs of life. Her search was answered by a strangled gasp. Fenris's eyes opened and locked with Hela's.

"You idiot!" Hela cried. "What were you thinking?! You could've died! I was about to use my 'death touch.' You couldn't have waited for a minute?!"

Fenris gave a small laugh. "We all know you are the Goddess of Death, so if I died, I would've been in your realm. And besides, I knew what I was doing."

Hela thought deeply for a moment. "How'd you make the creature blow up?" she asked.

"I used my ice powers to freeze its heart. It was kinda gross," Fenris replied.

Hela laughed and wiped the golden goop off of his face. "We should probably leave. The Avengers would be here any minute now, and we don't want daddy to get in more trouble."

"Yeah. I guess." Hela helped her brother up and the two walked off the battlefield. The other half of the city was still standing and a loud cheer was heard as the two departed.

"Hey! Could we get more coffee?" Hela asked and turned to see her brother smiling.

The End!

My middle school language teacher had the class create a superhero, so I decided to use Fenris as mine. This is the story that I had to write. I apologize for the weirdness.