Journey: Chapter 17

Prince Coal hobbled as paced back and forth. He was getting worried. The Five should have been here almost two and a half days ago. The day of the celebration, Emperor Avalanche had sent out nearly all his soldiers to find them, help them with whatever is preventing them from coming and escort them back to the redwoods.

They were ordered to search all of Fjordur and the realms for them and not to return until they find them. And none of the soldiers have returned since. All Coal could do was pace, hissing as he did with all of the movement hurting his leg.

“Prince Coal.” A guard called him, he turned around to see that it was the general. “You and the Emperor are needed at the front gate, the guards have spotted an unidentified creature at the eastern gate.” The General said to Coal who immediately went to his father and told him.

Both Avalanche ran out on the bridge on top of the Eastern gate with Coal not to far behind. As they looked out, they saw the redwoods and bushes, the bushes so high that a Rex could easily hide while standing. If there was anything out there could stay hidden from them until he was right in front of the gate. But Coal noticed something in the distance that he thought everyone else noticed at the same time.

A shoulder that was above the any plant matter on the forest floor. The body part prowled forward towards the gate, a head reared up from the bushes enough for them to see the top half of the head. From what they saw, it looked like a very large wolf.

“Well well, what do we have here? Greetings Emperor Avalanche! So nice to meet you finally. I have seen you do great things, none however as of recent.” The beast said in a thick accent.

“You know who I am?” Avalanche said baffled, “Oh, but of course, you and your son Coal. I especially think he is a bit of a foolish bird to risk his life for five younglings. Now having to live as a cripple.” The beast said. Coal sneered.

“It was worth the cost.” He said, the creature seemed uninterested in his opinion.

“Have you then met my son before or have you ever been here before in the redwoods or known someone who has?” Avalanche asking.

“Oh no, none of that. But I’ve seen his work, and yours too Avalanche. But we never met. In fact, I’ve only been down here a little less than three days.”, “Who are you and how do you know what we’ve done or how we do things?” Avalanche said in slight anger. “Well it should be time for me to reveal myself to you anyway.” The beast said as he walked up to the gates.

When he walked out of the forest undergrowth, the entire east wall of terror birds were shocked. As a Giga sized Wolf creature with ice spike armor walked out into the open, it was a Fenrir. His teeth exposed and the size of raptor skulls.

“My name is Fenrisulfr, I am the Guardian of Fjordur, a god in this place if you will. And your dear friends have been freed from my prison by your heroes. The Five are gone, and will never return. I am here to rule over all of Fjordur and the realms. And I am here to form an alliance with you.” The beast said booming out his voice so that everyone would know he is here.

“For an alliance?” Avalanche scoffed, his eyes studying this monster. “The last time someone wanted and became allies with me, they used me for their own gain and had turned me into an enemy of this world. Something I never wanted to be. And by the sound of it, you are wanting the same thing.” Avalanche continued. “So you’re saying you will not ally with me?” Fenrisulfr said smirking.

“No, I will not ally with you. If fact I want you gone from Runheimr and never return. Go back from whatever ice cave you came from” Avalanche said. “Too bad… for you. If you are not my ally, you are my enemy.” Fenrisulfr said smug, Avalanche chuckled.

“I am sorry to say but you have no choice. You are outnumbered and certainly have no chance against my soldiers. Leave, ‘god of Fjordur’. You don’t have power over me.” Avalanche said, the wolf merely smiled.

“How can they deal with me if nearly all of them are searching for the precious five?” He said, then he howled that sounded almost as if all of Fjordur bellowed at the top of its lungs.

Suddenly fenrirs came out of the forest undergrowth and began to attack and digging at the walls of the castle, breaking through them. Emperor Avalanche began to call orders, but before he could finish his orders. Fenrisulfr started acting weird, his eyes went ice blue, his mouth opened wide and frost began coming out of his mouth. Ice shot out of his mouth and hit the Emperor freezing him almost instantly, Dead.

Coal stared for a minute, Fenrisulfr was eyes were still ice blue and Coal knew he was next to get hit. But he couldn’t move. The giant fenrir’s mouth opened and frost came out. But Coal’s attention was taken by something that launched off a tree near the castle towards him.

Whatever it was, grabbed him by the neck and ran with him off into the forest. Coal was lucky, but he wondered what Fenris meant by The Five were gone. Did he kill them, did they die, or were they gone in the sense they were no longer in Fjordur?