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˖*°࿐ chapter forty-six. xlvi.MALEKITH
THOR WAS FIGHTING MALEKITH AND HIS ELVES, Jane, Erik, Darc, and Ian all trying to put down the "tent poles" to make different temporary portals. When one of them turned on, a loud screech was heard. Darcy and Ian stopped, listening for more, but none came. The others did not seem to hear it, but Thor did. His ears trained toward the sounds, trying to see if it really was Laelia's dragons, but no more came; the portal had closed. "Your world and your family will be extinguished!" Malekith uses the Aether's power to throw down Thor to the ground, small sparks of lightning escaping the hammer. The portal in which the screech was heard from opened again, a cry escaping it. Malekith and Thor turned their heads to it. Laelia had been riding Aenerys while she and the others were going to her home of Dragonstone, flying high over the clouds and ships, feeling the wind in her hair when a portal opened, her eyebrows flying up, but then it closed as soon as it came. She sighed in relief.
But then it opened again, Aenerys having the idea of trying to fly into it before it escaped again, letting out a shriek louder than the last time, and Laelia could see what he was trying to do; they both saw Thor lying defenseless on the ground, breathing heavily as he looked into the portal with a perplexed look. She smirks; he couldn't see her. She thought about helping him, helping him cut the fight short, and with one giant breath, she lets her son fly her into it.
When they both came out from within it, the people below the dragon's flying figure all looked startled; some even fainted. A few people ran, screaming about not wanting to die that day. "Dragon!" Darcy yelled as she and Ian ran, using the same voice she used when saying, "Mew-Mew!".
"We're running out of time," Erik hears the screech. "There's a dragon flying outside. Do you think it's on our side?"
"Dragons aren't real, Erik," Jane grumbles. "Almost there." She fidgets with the machine in her hands.
"Are you sure this is going to work? These devices were created to detect anomalies, not create them." A dragon's shriek is heard again, Jane sighing as she went to turn around and seeing the large flying creature. It had yet to burn anything, and it seemed like it was waiting for something. A silver speck on its back signaled that something or someone was sitting there, waiting for an opportunity. "How do you think it got here?"
"Possibly one of the portals opened and it flew right through it."
Thor is once again thrown down by the Aether when he stands back up. Laelia takes this as a note on who's the wicked person. "Dracarys," she growls, Aenerys diving towards the white-as-snow Dark Elves and soon releasing a large flume of fire, burning the grass and the men, leaving a small bonfire in his wake.
The men crumpled into ashes.
Thor mentally thanked the Mother of Dragons and went into the fight, dodging the fire and blocking the red-black splinters of the Aether. "You know, with all that power," he wipes his bloody nose, "I thought you'd hit harder." The substance at Malekith's fingertips moves, liquid-like, another massive flume of fire burning even further Dark Elves. Thor throws his hammer, the weapon hitting Malekith on his chest and sending him flying backwards, the remaining elves looking at their leader, then up at the dragon. Malekith smashed through a column and into the side of a car, the windows exploding at his body mass. Thor strikes down lightning, the blue-white light going through the grass and causing Malekith to freeze in his place, Ian hammering one of the devices into the ground as Darcy watched on.
Darcy gives Jane the thumbs up and the scientist nods, ready to use her tablet to get it all to work, running inside the building she stood on. As Malekith was glued to the ground, Laelia made Aenerys turn around, and whispers to him, "Dracarys." He burns down the Elf, his screams filling their ears, the orange flames burning him alive. He crumples to the ground, burnt and dead. Thor gives the woman a smile, watching as the giant creature was sucked into a portal leading to their world. He felt excited inside: he had gotten to see a dragon in action.
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"YOU ONCE SAID THERE WILL NEVER BE A WISER KING THAN ME," Odin tells his firstborn, who kneeled in front of him, staring up at him with his blue eyes. "You were wrong. The alignment has brought all the realms together. Every one of them saw you offer your life to save them. What can Asgard offer its new king in return?"
"My life," Thor answers, standing up. "Father, I cannot be king of Asgard. I will protect Asgard and all the realms with my last and every breath but I cannot do so from that chair. Loki, for all his grave imbalance, understood rulers, I know I'll never will. The brutality, the sacrifice, it changes you. I'd rather be a good man than a great king."
"Is this my son I hear or the woman he loves?" Odin sits down on his throne.
"When you speak to her, I never hear mother's voice. This is not for Jane, Father, she does not know what I came here to say. You can forbid me to see her or say she can rule at my side, it changes nothing."
"One son who wanted the throne too much, another who will not take it. Is this my legacy?"
"Loki died with honor. I shall try to live the same, is that not legacy enough?" Odin nods at his son, who take his hammer and points the handle towards him, Odin looking at it with a wary look. "It belongs to you," he shakes his head, waving away the thing. "If you are worthy of it."
"I will try to be," Thor replies.
"I cannot give you my blessing, nor can I wish you good fortune."
"I know," Thor turns around, his father speaking up again. "If I were proud of the man my son had become, even that I could not say, it would speak only from my heart. Go. My son."
"Thank you, Father," Thor smiles up at him before continuing to walk away, red cape billowing behind him as he did so, Odin's figure melting away in small streams of emerald to reveal Loki.
