Revenge| Book 6| A novel in the Blue Moon series| An Avengers fan fiction series |

48- Burn

Well. Here we are.

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If you want music, I listened to James Horner's "War" from AVATAR, though I only used the first 4 minutes and 15 seconds for this part of the battle. 

Prepare yourselves.

Chapter 48:

Thunder sounds through Thea's ears as the horses and riders swarm toward Neidra's army and as Neidra's army swarms toward them. Her hands tight on Stjarna's reins, Thea looks over her shoulders to see her army behind her, and her father beside her.

She wrenches out Kiahriah and the emerald dagger from the sheaths at her belt, holding them out into the waning sun- she prays that the rain holds off a while longer. Stjarna bounds into the shallow river, kicking mountain water up with her hooves as she crosses the boundaries, into Neidra's portion of the Fletohein plains.

A red-cloaked soldier with madness in his eyes wheels his black horse toward Thea, shouting abuse and waving a cleaver in her direction. Thea jerks Stjarna abruptly and swings Kiahriah. The blade sinks into the man's shoulders, and as Thea rides past him, his blood falls to the ground from her sword like rain.

Thea swings Kiahriah over and over again as Stjarna barrels through Neidra's forces like the tail of a white comet. Klaka, a blur of black, leaps at the charging horses, bringing them and their riders to the ground to be trampled by hooves. His muzzle is stained with blood and dirt, but his thoughts in Thea's mind are clear.

From beyond the hill, more of Neidra's army spreads over the crest, pouring into the plains of Fletohein. As Thea dispatches another soldier, she realizes Saissa, in her last moments, was telling the truth. Neidra's army outnumbers theirs, and they have the Asgardian swords on their side.

Beside her, Loki swings Finji with all his strength, decapitating one of Neidra's men and using his magic to bring more soldiers to their knees. Thea ducks at his warning, and his silver dagger whistles through the air to embed itself in a woman archer riding toward them with her arrow trained on Thea.

Glancing to the right of the furious mayhem, Thea sees Natasha, Clint, and Tony fighting on the ground, surrounded by the silver-plated soldiers of the army formerly belonging to Fjodr. Now, they fight for a new mistress, but Neidra is lost in Thea's eyes to the chaos.

Clint falls, struck to the ground by a powerful man, and Natasha flips around to knock the man away. But he jumps to his feet and whips out his sword, aiming Natasha, who is shielding a gasping Clint from the blade.

Thea, whirling Stjarna away from Banamadr, grabs her emerald dagger, trains it on the man, and sends it away with a twist of her wrist. He screams when it sinks into his neck, and Thea twists her wrist again to summon the blade back into her fingers.

Natasha gives Thea a thumbs-up sign, and Thea grins, sheathing the emerald misericorde back into its scabbard.

"Thea!"

She turns to see Videl fighting about a dozen Asgardian swords on the ground, Saldra at his side. He is armed with his double-edged spear, and spins around, slicing the barbed point through the weak portions of armor. His blond curls fly around his sharp face, his amber eyes glistening as his teeth bare and hiss at an attacker. Saldra's long, blonde tresses whirl as she engages in a duel with her two long knives against one dark sword.

"Saldra says the rain is going to start soon!" Videl shouts, whipping his spear to knock against the pommel of a sword, sending the man he is fighting to the ground. "We have to move now!"