The Eternal Valkyrie: War of the Realms (HTTYD fic)

Part 31

Chapter 30

Another nearby shop was wrecked as the two women fought. The fight seemed to be a lot more physical this time as there was hairpulling involved between the ladies.

"Shouldn't we........ Uhm..... help her?" Dagur asked as blows, both physical and magical, continued to be exchanged. It was Snotlout who shook his head however and said "Dude, never get in between two superpowered women!"

"Very true. Sigyn can handle herself." Jerry agreed just as said woman was sent flying by a blast of icy magic. Sigyn quickly chanted a spell to summon the wind to cushion her fall while calling her warhammer back to her hand.

"Getting tired yet?" Ymir taunted as magic flowed around her.

"Kynda!" Sigyn chanted and lopped the giant fireball at her opponent.

"The same trick again?" Ymir was unimpressed as she smacked the fireball away like it was nothing and then grabbed the warhammer that had been flung at her and was masked by the fireball itself. "You already tr-" She was cut off, however, when Sigyn had ran up right behind her thrown hammer and had sent a flying kick into Ymir's stomach causing the woman to fly backwards and collide with one of the yellow taxi cabs that had been abandoned in Times Square.

There was a very large dent in the car as Ymir stood up again and glared at the Valkyrie-turned-librarian. "Fool you once shame on you, fool you twice shame on you again." Sigyn now taunted and jumped out of the way as the wrecked cab was thrown in her direction.

The gang also had to get out of the way as the car wreckage headed straight for them after Sigyn dodged. "How long do we have to wait?" Astrid asked Loki who had been intensely observing the fight.

"Soon," Loki muttered while giving the signal for both Astrid and Snotlout to summon their dragons. Toothless already stood on his haunches in front of Hiccup, his spines popped out and charging electricity for a large plasma blast. Stormfly readied her fire as well and Hookfang burned brightly, for once not setting Snotlout on fire.

"I can't believe she hasn't noticed all this," Dagur muttered as he looked at the dragons ready to strike.

"It's because Sigyn is good at keeping the focus on her." Jerry said as he watched the women smash into a giant yellow M on the left side of the square. "Though normally she doesn't taunt her opponents so much."

"She just needs to drain Ymir's afterimage of enough magic that she won't be able to immediately put up a barrier." Loki stated. "My earlier shot was already enough to disrupt the connection somewhat. I had honestly thought that she'd be stronger."

"Now that you mention it," Hiccup mumbled. "This afterimage does seem weaker than the one Sigyn fought on Jothunheim."

"When was that?" Loki suddenly asked with interest.

"Eh....... a couple of days ago......" Hiccup told him.

"That would explain a lot. This spell isn't supposed to be cast within such a short timeframe." Loki said before he quickly added "Get ready to fire."

Loki then shouted "Sigyn wrap it up!" as the dragons took aim.

Sigyn placed some distance between her and Ymir and smirked as she used her wind magic to float into the air.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Ymir growled as her red eyes flashed with anger.

"Me? I'm just going to hang around up here." Sigyn gave a wave. "You on the other hand won't be joining me."

"What?!" Ymir growled and then realised that three enormous streams of fire were coming straight at her from where the Midgardians and the Jothun mage stood. Her eyes widened and she tried to summon her ice magic to put up a barrier but the magic would not gather as rapidly as she hoped and she was caught in the dragons' attack which scorched the asphalt it traveled over.

Stormfly chirped happily and then snuggled against Toothless when their attack had been successful and Ymir's afterimage was gone.

"Okay, that worked." Astrid muttered disbelievingly as she then looked at Loki. "Are you going to actually explain what just happened? That seemed way too easy." She then asked since Loki had just given them the bare bones of the plan because they had been pressed for time.

"There are different types of fire. Ice magic, if powerful enough, can deflect fire magic as you saw with the fireball. Sometimes if the fire magic user is strong enough they could beat an ice magic user but it seldom happens." Loki said as Sigyn came back down and rejoined them. "Dragon fire, however, is the strongest type of fire in the Realms and coveted by blacksmiths everywhere. It could easily overpower ice magic but normally dragons tend to stay in their own realm. We just had to make sure that Ymir's magic depleted to a certain point where she would have difficulties putting up a barrier to stop a full attack."

"And remember Astrid, Ymir never actually saw us summoning the dragons on Jothunheim." Hiccup added.

"Well now that that is over and done with we will need to depart." Sigyn said as she grabbed the small horn from her belt. "We need to secure the bow as quickly as possible."

"You know, I do like a woman who knows how to handle a warhammer like that." Loki smirked. Sigyn merely rolled her eyes while Jerry facepalmed.

"Dad, seriously! You're flirting now?!" Jerry groaned. "Also, I did not need to hear that."

"FREEZE!" Was suddenly shouted and the group turned around to see soldiers approaching with their weapons raised.

"Are those tanks!" Snotlout shrieked.

"Put your hands in the air and slowly lower yourself to the ground!" One of the men in uniform commanded as a few dozen guns were trained on them.

"I may have forgotten to factor in the Army when formulating this plan," Loki muttered as he started to raise his hands.

"Hands in the air!" The man ordered again and Sigyn who was tired of all the interruptions quickly blew the horn she had in her hand. "Get Loki they said. It would be an easy mission they said." She grumbled just as the light from the Bifrost engulfed the group. Once the light had dissipated the soldiers blinked in shock at the now empty spot where their targets had occupied.

Meanwhile, back on Vanaheim, things were progressing for Hella. She had managed to infiltrate the palace as evidenced by the knocked out guards strewn across various hallways. The three sons who had been squabbling over the throne were now huddled together as Fenrir loomed over them while displaying his very pointy teeth.

"Thiazi, Idi, and Gangr we have a lot to discuss." Hella stated casually as she leaned against a column.

"We'll listen! We'll listen!! Just get this wolf away from us!" One of the Princes shouted.

AN1: Harrypanther and I are doing another oneshot challenge. The story should be out on March 23.

AN2: I have gotten 1000 followers on Wattpad. That means you all get a treat!. There is a poll on my Wattpad (conversation list) and on my AO3 Dashboard in the form of a link. There you can choose 1 story from the list. The story with the most votes will get a BONUS CHAPTER! Voting lasts until March 16. The bonus chapter will be published end of March.