Two of Three

"Two of Three" is an Extended Universe thread written on [IRL DATE].
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Fenrir: Something was stalking him.
He could feel it in the air. The fur on his haunches rose, the newly-formed glittering obsidian and crystal glinting in a cascade of flashing lightning. He tipped his snout to the black sky, smelling the storm that was threatening to tear across the land. Since the beginning of Ragnarok, the weather had grown intense and unpredictable, formations and patterns that had not graced Midgard for millions of years. The mortals were struggling. The remaining gods pressed onward.
Fenrir had grown immensely in size, growing fat from the strength the king of the gods had lent him. His feet now crushed mountains, his mouth streamed oceans, his eyes created temporary daylight wherever he laid his gaze. But, despite his newfound strength, he could still feel the presence of…something. Something familiar. Hunting him. It made him uneasy.
And Fenrir didn’t like being uneasy.
He stopped his slow pacing across the empty earth, and stood still, waiting for the rain to fall. The corners of his mouth curled up into a silent, vicious snarl.
“Gyðja dauðans…sister.”
Hel: A roll of thunder rippled across the sky, and rain began to fall around the great deity. Through a veil of fog, the form of Hel appeared before him, dwarfed by his size, but walking as if she alone owned the earth.
“Fenrir…” Hel spoke, and then tilted her chin up, tapping it. “You have a little grandfather…just there. Its distracting, think you could wipe it off before we talk?”
Fenrir: The wolf snarled harder, Odin’s blood streaming from his jaws in strings as it mixed with the heavy rainfall. Lightning flashed behind him, making his pelt scatter with light. “She comes…to mock the vargr? She comes to see…his end…to see him die?” he panted heavily, already drooling at the prospect of another fight.
Hel: “I came her to tell you to chill the fuck out.” Hel scoffed. She crouched and hunched into a defensive stance in spite of her care free words. Out of all the battles, of all the gods, she knew Fenrir had the greatest chance of killing her. Truth be told, the advantage wasn’t in her favor in the slightest. 
But she couldn’t lose…
She knew what that would mean for her children…
“You can’t have them…” She said simply. “However this goes. However this ends. I won’t let you harm my babies.”
Fenrir: Fenrir laughed haggardly. “Hel is…nothing but a scheming witch…her children…mites that gnaw…ticks that feed…parasites that seek a host.” His amber eyes seized on Hel’s smaller figure. “When their host dies…they perish as well…” He licked his chops hungrily.
Hel: Hel paced in front of him. “We’ve done the humans a terrible wrong. The after life system, the dividing of ourselves…the forgetting of why we first made them…It has to be made right.”
Fenrir: “No hand had the vargr in this.” He grinned terribly, lifting up one of his massive paws and letting it hit the earth heavily, the rumble heard underneath the shattering rainfall as he made a crater in the damp earth. “May gods…pay for their own mistakes. Mortals’ life-after… and chaining monsters of gods’ own design…murdering…oath-breaking…” Eyes flaring with rage at the memory of his own imprisonment, he bared his bloody teeth and began loping towards Hel.
“All gods shall die!” he roared. “All gods shall burn! And may gods’ children burn with them!”
Hel: Hel roared and rose up on her hind legs to greet the attack. A second later she was pile driven into the ground, leaving a gorge in her wake. She grabbed one of his massive paws with both hands as she was pinned down, pushing against it as she strained out her words.
“It wasnt fair…to have you be burdened with all our anger, all our wrath…we should have kept what was ours, learn from it, control it…but what’s done is done.” She craned her neck up to meet his gaze. “I will give you peace Fenrir!
Fenrir: Fenrir roared and crushed his foot down harder, the phosphorescent liquid spilling from his throat and splashing in waves across the land. “PEACE WILL COME WITH BLOOD,” he thundered, swiping his paw and throwing her away from him, her form crashing against the eastern coastline, shattering part of it into crushed islands and sandbars and sending waves taller than mountains rushing across the seas. He chased her again, crazed with fury. “GODS GIVE NOTHING BUT FEAR, GODS GIVE NOTHING BUT WAR. GODS AND WAR END NOW!!” 
Hel: Hel clenched her fist. “YOU’RE FUCKING RIGHT ABOUT THAT-!”
Jumping into the air, her fist crashed into Fenrir’s jaw. Small she may have been, but Hel held the strength of the tides and ocean itself in her hands.
Fenrir: The oceans twisted and soared backwards from their destined tides, filling in behind Hel, and the crack that came from Fenrir’s jaw rivaled even the loudest of crashing thunder. Shards of glistening crystal sprayed across the land and the wolf of Ragnarok stumbled backwards, his mouth hanging loose at an awkward angle. The light from his eyes shone brighter as he gave a gargled scream, leaping into the air to pounce upon her and drive her into the ground again.
Hel: Hel struck him hard in the ribs but it wasnt enough to stop him and they tumbled over, and great earthquake occurring as they struggled on the ground.
Hel felt his razor claws and gnashing teeth. It hurt! It tore at her! But she had to keep fighting! She had to win, she had to live!
Hel continued to punch any part of Fenrir she could reach, and one point wrenching on one of his toes with both arms. “No more! Yes! No more gods! Just one! God! Singular, whole, and complete! One God and one God alone, to love those children for eternity!
Fenrir: Fenrir lifted both of his front paws into the air and smashed them both into Hel, slamming her into the earth, as though trying to send her back to the realm she came from. “THAT…GOD…WILL…DIE!” he bellowed through broken, slavering jaws, every word punctuated with a massive slam; he was blind with rage, blind with light, the strength of slain gods coursing through his veins. He opened his shattered jaws wide, yawning over Hel, and in the back of his throat, a column of light began to build, a writhing mass of energy building to what would be a devastating release. The force of it began to tear at Fenrir’s very being, the sinews of his jaws stretching to the point of snapping.
Hel: “Okay…this is it. That’s Odins light…that will vaporize you….”
“Unless…”
“This….”
“Works…”
And with that, Hel closed her eyes, and waited.
Fenrir: The deep bass of Fenrir’s howl combined with the screaming chaos that the energy let off, and as soon as the light reached its peak, Fenrir’s throat flexed, and his head shot forward like a striking snake’s. 
The world went white.
Hel: Hel felt her body get stripped away as the heavenly fire struck her. Her eyes squoze tighter shut as she once again felt its flames sear her flesh.
She remembered her battle with Odin…
She remembered her broken body…her near defeat.
But she also remembered tearing away one of his tusks…
That tusk. That instrument of his wrath. That devine ivory that was once part of his very being. Now it resided in Hel’s body, and it caught the light, channeling it through her.
Hel threw back her head and screamed as the light filled her, burning, blinding, and finally…the light faded.
Fenrir’s eyes had just begun to discern what he was seeing, when both of his paws were grabbed by hands of equal size.
Hel rose up from the ground, her body a vibrate white and gold. She stared Fenrir in the eye, her form now matching his in mass. “This God…” She corrected him. “Will LIVE!”
Fenrir: Fenrir’s eyes widened and he backpedaled as the blazing new form of Hel shoved back against him, causing his feet to dig massive canyons in the earth where he struggled for a foothold. His paw caught against a mountain range and he held his ground, muscles straining. The gods locked in their grasp with a huge clack of bone and claw, and Fenrir snarled with newfound rage and desperation at his new foe. He tried seizing his jaws around her neck, but it was a thousand times thicker, a thousand times stronger, no matter how fiercely he gripped and shook.
Hel: “Let it go Fenrir…” Hel’s voice boomed, like a thousand cannons firing at once, or the crashing impact of an asteroid.
She caught his jaw, and slowly pryed it away from her neck before pushing him away. “Relinquish your anger!” Her mighty fist slammed across his face. “Do not force me to pry it from your body.”
Fenrir: Fenrir’s skull audibly cracked with the impact, and he bellowed in pain as he was thrown to the ground, his head and neck striking the earth with another earthquake. His haunches rolled and flexed as he struggled to pull himself back to his feet, fixing Hel with a gaze full of nothing but anger. Seething, raging hatred and loathing and fear. His voice was more solemn, a lower growl.
“May the vargr be crushed by the weight of the nine realms…and blood feasted on by Nidhogg…before anger leaves this form.”
Hel: “Its no way to live…” Hel said, not moving, not attacking him. “I know it is the only thing you know…but I cant let you win this fight…so dont suffer…let, me, take it from you…”
Fenrir: Fenrir’s limbs shook and his body collapsed to the ground. The rain and wind howled around the gods as he panted lowly, his breath stirring winds for miles. Both Odin’s light and his own blood leaked from his mouth, his nose, even his eyes, as he stared up at the goddess.
“Then be not a coward,” he huffed. “Finish it.”
Hel: Hel grimly walked over to him, and gently reached over to place a hand on his head. “Things are going to be okay…I promise.”
A blinding light poured from her hand, engulfing their two forms. Before the wolf’s eyes, what appeared to be a great portal of light opened up in front of him.
“Come inside…and it will be finished.”
Fenrir: When Hel looked down at Fenrir, he seemed…different. He was broken, and bleeding, of course, but his eyes had lessened from their driving force of pure rage to something…smaller. For a moment, he looked like the small, skin-and-bones raggedy puppy he used to be, darting between the gods’ legs, sniffing for scraps at the table, biting at any straying fingers that got too close, all barks and tail wags and overlarge bounding paws. He gave a rattling breath.
“Sister…allow me…a final dignity. Chain not…the hide that was bound by Gleipnir…to the gods once more.” A low whine keened in his throat. “Let not the grave of the vargr…be in thine arms…as a tool…to wield for eternity.
“I lived…a prisoner…for eons. Let me die alone…with my freedom…and my wrath…I beg you.”
Hel: Hel was quiet, and she could not help the saddenss in her heart. “Go in peace.” She finally said, and stepped away from him.
She did not leave entirely, that was too much of a risk. But permitted him the solitude, and singularity, he wished for.
Fenrir: Fenrir lowered his head to the ground, his barrel chest expanding and deflating slowly as his death rattle echoed across Aidorin. His eyelids drooped, but what little could be seen of them exuded gratitude. 
The rainfall released the most curious scent from the earth, something both distinctly ancient but also alive at the same time. It was so different from the underground stench of the river that flowed from his throat. His tongue lapped at the earth, soaking in the sensations, even as his sight slowly fogged up with darkness. Odin’s light began to slow and thicken its flow as his lower jaw went slack, his limbs relaxed, and his scruff rolled against the ground as he released a final exhale, a river of brilliant water stained with blood bubbling from his mouth and rushing across the land, pouring into the ocean.
Fenrir was dead.
Hel: Hel gently knelt down beside the wolf. Unlike her other family members, she had no actual quarrel with Fenrir. And yet he had been the greatest threat to her and her children.
She picked the beast up, and turned to the ocean, and began to walk into it with him. “You were never a god… so perhaps…one day, you will live again. A better life.”
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