The Old Gods | Book 2

Twelve: The Man of Iron

For how she took everything for granted. These last couple of centuries she was waited on hand and foot. Worshipped and loved. She used her magic for everything. She fluttered around the kingdoms like she was entitled to them. She nowhere near deserved the realms or its gifts. Sigyn looked down at herself and realised just how much she took for granted. A spoiled princess indeed. An entitled goddess.

Who is she to cast herself superior to the people of Midgard?

And now she has her magic and her memories restored. And she felt angry.

"Don't shoot." Garrett ordered the soldiers. "Set to stun, we need her."

The Hydra soldiers waited for the Asgardian goddess to make a move. An excuse to shoot and strike her down.

"You should have killed me when you had the chance." From the air, a knife formed, and she pegged it at one of the soldiers. It struck him in the head and he slumped to the ground. The other shouted and lifted his gun.

"No!" Garrett screamed.

He squeezed his finger. And the gun fired. The bullet whizzed straight towards the goddess. She raised her forearm and a flash enveloped her. The bullet pinged off her golden bracers and clanked to the ground. She lowered her arm. She stood before them fully armoured. Her hair twisted into braids and those little braids formed into a long pony's tail. Her golden armoured glistened sickly under the terrible lights of the facility.

Sigyn's daggers appeared in her hands. She went low as the soldier prepared to fire upon her again. She tugged under a swing of a gun and sliced his legs. He fell to the ground screaming with pain as she brought down the dagger through his back and left it there.

Garrett had already fled through the doors.

Sigyn followed him out into the corridor. Garrett had reached the end of the hall where he pulled a switch. The lights turned red and an alarm rang through the place. Slowly, it whined like a howling dog in pain. She went after him.

The alarm drew out more Hydra soldiers and they all ran to capture her as Garrett escaped through them. The soldiers surrounded her. A soldier ran at her from behind, she sidestepped as he swung down a baton. Unfortunately, the bat hit the wall and rebounded, hitting the soldier in his face leaving himself dazed. Sigyn grabbed the back of the soldier's neck and formed up a dagger, holding the point facing up, and brought down the soldier's head onto the blade. Another soldier ran forward, and Sigyn threw another knife straight into his throat. She twisted around grabbed another soldier embedding her dagger into his temple and let him drop to her feet.

They all fired their weapons at her. Stun or bullets it all rebounded off her armour. Her elbow flew upwards, knocking back a soldier in the nose. She grabbed the soldier's wrist and bent it back. He cried out in pain as she snatched his knife from his broken wrist stabbed him through the chest and threw him into another oncoming solider.

Sigyn then spun around, smaller dagger appeared in her hands as she threw them outwards, three daggers embedded themselves into the throats of three soldiers. That left three more soldiers.

They all attacked at once. Sigyn ducked under one swing of a knife, she snatched a gun from the floor and slammed it against the head of one soldier, and knocked him unconscious. She picked up a discarded bat off the floor and swung it downwards hitting a soldier between the legs before landing the bat across his face.

The remaining soldier fired his gun, and the bullet whizzed past Sigyn's ear, nearly knocking off the top part. She looked back at the wall the bullet hit instead and back at the soldier. Alarms rang and lights flashed.