Guardian Angel

Chapter 22: Reconciliation

"You just had to show up and ruin things, didn't you Loki?" Túrin asked irritatedly. "No matter, you'll soon be dead," he declared summoning his sword, earning a mocking laugh from Loki.

"I have missed your fiery resolve Túrin, but tell me, if you couldn't even kill Ophis, what chance do you have against me?" he asked tauntingly. "I am a god after all," he boasted.

"Let's see how long you survive, without your head attached to your body then," Túrin suggested propelling himself forward at near blinding speeds with his sword poised to cut Loki's head clean off.

With a single motion of his hand, Loki created a barrier between Túrin's blade and his neck, stopping Túrin cold. Blasting the angel backward into the building, he continued to unleash a maelstrom of magic attacks on Túrin, creating a cloud of dust and debris around him. Clearing the dust and debris away, where Túrin had first been, was no longer there. Believing he had just killed him, there was a prideful grin on Loki's face.

"You missed," Túrin said stoically, from behind Loki, with a piercing glare.

"How!?" Loki asked in outrage. "No matter, Fenris, Jörmungandr, deal with this flying pest!" he commanded his children.

With the Devourer of Gods and the World Serpent charging at Túrin, he held his ground and took a defensive stance. Unleashing a burst of poisonous gas into the air before igniting it, Túrin used his aeromancy to disperse the flames created by Jörmungandr. From it, Fernis lept forward, his jaws wide open and poised to clamp down onto Túrin. Throwing his sword to the ground, Túrin managed to grab hold of Fenris' jaws, but from sheet force alone, Fenris forced Túrin back, leaving a trail in the ground because of it. Finally, Túrin managed to hold his ground against the giant wolf, by pouring all his strength into keeping the devourer at bay. Looking to the others, they were all encased in their own fights. Seeing Jörmungandr come from his side, Túrin was pinned but before the World Serpent could strike, it was blasted into the rocks by a familiar source of power.

"Don't tell me this overgrown pooch is doing you in, little brother?" Lucifer asked with a teasing grin.

"Fenris is surprisingly a lot harder to tame than Cerberus, but that's fine by me, makes things interesting," Túrin grinned as he then sent forth volts of lightning through Fenris' body. "There, that should keep Fenris down for a few minutes," he suspected. "Now to deal with the World Serpent," he stated as Lucifer, threw him his sword back.

"Nah, you leave the big snake to me, you go handle Loki. He seems to be giving the others a hard time," Lucifer pointed out.

Glancing behind him all the others were on the back foot, as the valkyrie who arrived with Odin was protecting Asia. Rushing forward, he tackled Loki from behind, forcing the god into the ground, before picking him up and throwing him into the mountainside. Picking himself up, Túrin would give Loki no time to recovery as Loki had done previously, Túrin unleashed a maelstrom of attacks on Loki, shattering the mountainside as a result. Before Túrin could deliver the final blow against Loki, he saw Sköl one of the Sons of Fenris lunged for Akeno, as she used her magic to destroy the draugr that came along with Loki. Believing it to be her end, Akeno braced herself for deaths cold embrace, but it did not come, instead, the wolf was blasted away by a bolt of holy lightning.

"You will not harm my daughter!" Baraqiel shouted defiantly and enraged.

"I don't need your help, and I'm not your daughter," Akeno argued.

"We will discuss this later," he snapped at her, taking Akeno aback. "Go help your friends, I have things under control here," he instructed her.

"Fine," she scoffed in agreement returning to the others to lend her aid.