Life Dies In The End

Chapter 34

The undead warriors started towards us. I shouldn't have given Ela the power to control them. I glanced towards Thor who nodded towards me. This was going to be tiring. I summoned two swords and followed behind Thor as we moved quickly towards the warriors.

Thor used his lighting as I drove my swords through the warriors. Driving my swords through a warrior, I spared a glance towards Thor, who was about to be attacked from behind. Using my magic I quickly summoned a barrier to block the blow. Thor looked back, seeing the warrior's attack get rejected by the forcefield. Thor glanced towards me with a small smile on his face. I rolled my eyes as we finished off the closest warriors to us.

The next wave was coming towards us as I sighed looking towards Thor. He still didn't have a weapon. I hummed, catching his attention. I tossed him one of my swords and he caught it giving me a small nod, before moving towards the final group of warriors between the Asgardians and us.

We plowed through the warriors quickly. I followed behind Thor as we headed towards Loki. Loki locked eyes with me for a moment before glancing at Thor, who only nodded in return to his brother's questioning look.

"You're late." Thor looked at his brother.

"You're missing an eye." Loki snapped back as Valkyrie came towards us.

"This isn't over." She walked past the brothers and drew their attention towards Ela walking towards us.

We all turned to face her and took a few steps towards her. This wasn't going to end easily. I could tell Loki and Valkyrie were already getting tired and Thor had injuries that still needed to heal.

"I think we should disband the revengers." Thor spoke, his breaths heavy.

"Hit her with a lightning blast." Loki ignored his brother's words as he spoke.

"I just hit her with the biggest lightning blast in the history of lightning." Thor sighed. "It did nothing."

"We need to hold her off until everybody's on board." Valkyrie glanced back at the ship the Asgardians were boarding.

"It won't end there." I shook my head. "The longer Hela's on Asgard the more powerful she grows. She'll hunt us down. We need to stop her here and now."

"What's our move?" Valkyrie looked towards me.

I only shook my head. I had no clue what to do. Even after years of fighting by Ela's side, I never learned what weakened her. I glanced at Ela coming towards us, feeling somewhat guilty. I had turned on her. For good reasons there was no denying that. I still felt like I betrayed her.

"Asgard's not a place, it's a people." Thor spoke, drawing my attention back to him. "This was never about stopping Ragnarok, it was about causing Ragnarok." Thor turned to Loki. "Go to the vault. Surtur's crown. It's the only way."

"Bold move, brother. Even for me." Loki went to leave.

He wouldn't be able to start Ragnarok, it wasn't as easy as the legends made it seem. Not only did you need to place Surtur's crown into the Eternal Flame, you needed an immense magical power in order to bring Sutur back from the dead. Only two Asgardians were ever able to do it and one of them was dead. The other was myself. Odin had gifted me the power to bring life back, but unlike him, I needed a source to draw my magic from. Something like the eternal flame could make it so I could bring anything back from the dead, but without it I could only do so much. I could use other things in replacement of the Eternal Flame but they didn't work as well, or didn't guarantee anything.

"You won't be able to start Ragnarok. No offense, but you're not strong enough." Loki went to protest me, but I stopped him before he could. "You don't have the magical power to start Ragnarok. Odin didn't tell you the full truth on how to start Ragnarok, but he told me. I can start Ragnarok." I locked eyes with Thor, his eyes judging on whether he could trust me or not and then they came to their conclusion, causing him to nod in approval towards his brother.