Cohesion

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The last dregs of the field faded away as the Stormcutter slashed through the dark rain and smoke from below. The water from the nix’s newfound control flooded the streets with both steam and ice, and it was a massive relief to see the rebels flooding in the aftermath of Fenrir’s fallen fangs. Kendra gripped Liam’s shoulders tightly as they swept over the rooftops of the Conclave’s previously well-guarded hideout. It gave him a poisonous satisfaction to see the war wage through the city.
A massive sprout of icicles shot into the air like a new tower, and with his sharp night vision, Liam saw a tiny, familiar figure leap from the top of them and swan-dive back down to the ground, re-forming the ice under her to catch herself and vanish through a portal. But her next one wasn’t far, and Akkey shot out into the street underneath a patrol tower, with a manned catapult that noticed her sprinting and started to rotate to face her.
Kendra urgently gripped his arm and pointed but he was already moving. The dragon roared as it dove towards the ground, wings scissoring and stilling for a moment as they flew at a blinding speed diagonal to the ground, in order to give the half-breed the cover she needed. “Akkey!” he roared. “On your right!” The ballistae pulled back and released, and Liam hung mostly out of the saddle and stretched out his shadowy paw for her as far as it would reach.
akkeyagentofhelheim
The call was faint but enough, and Akkey glanced up just in time to see the fire-soaked spears gunning for her. With a grunt and a harsh kick to the ground, she launched herself from where she was running with another ice spike, the projectiles barely missing her where she ran. A tendril snaked its way up her arm to reach for Liam’s paw, dark mixing with shimmering liquid for a moment before their hands connected, then the cat half breed pulled her to safety, leaning against the Stormcutter’s hind leg while they circled again above the raging battle.
“Thanks,” Akkey breathed out heavily, looking back to where she was almost skewered, “I owe you.”
Without hesitation, a jagged boulder suddenly shot up from the sky and effectively hit the dragon underneath the chin like an uppercut, and sent their small group reeling in the air as the Stormcutter struggled to regain its balance. Liam, who was still leaning over and gripping Akkey’s hand, slipped out of his saddle and sent both of them tumbling into the air while Kendra spun wildly.
Two portals–shit! Akkey tried to get both kids to safety but they were moving too fast; instead she sent two different waves of water– one caught Kendra and her dragon mid air and pulled them back upright, as she and Liam fell into a hovering makeshift pool with two splashes, upon entry then exit, somewhat breaking their fall and crashing less harshly on a tarpaulin and rolling onto the ground with a squelch. 
She sat upright with a groan, the breath knocked out of her, “Are you guys okay?!”
tree-the-cat
“Fuck–yeah, yeah, I’m okay.” His knee was a little sore from being wrenched upon impact with the mud, but beyond that, he was able to stand and catch his breath. There were a handful of shocked soldiers down the block and he stomped in their direction, sending up several rushing clouds of shadow to blind them while they got their bearings. He twisted up and around to look at the sky, seeing Kendra clutching the neck of the Stormcutter while pulling back around.
Go back! he signed with his entire arms. Find Dad! The wind roared over their heads as the dragon left, back towards the rebel army’s entry point.
Liam turned on his heel, pulling Akkey to her feet. “What knocked us down?”
akkeyagentofhelheim
“I have no ide–” She didn’t have a chance to respond as another piece of debris was flung in their direction, and they both scrambled out of the way as it crashed into the building behind them, slipping and sinking in the rain. There was no question about it now; someone was targeting them.
Akkey rolled over and immediately held her hand at the ready for another attack. She peered into the mist, holding her breath for movement that would give away their attacker’s position. For a moment, it was just the dull cries of battle around them and the roar of rainfall, when their ears picked it up. A rhythmic clanging of metal while an immense shadow approached them slowly. She squinted into the rain, and the mist cleared slightly to reveal a huge figure, towering easily above both of them by a few feet, rivulets of rain trickling down his arms, muscles rippling and contorting against the chains around his wrists. His hair was dark and wild under his turban, nails and fangs coarse and pointed. His eyes held only a pinprick of light in them, filled with bloodlust and shadow; he was more beast than man.
Akkey inhaled sharply in surprise, still unrelenting in her stance, “…Koiroll?”
tree-the-cat
“You know h–? Never mind.”
Liam clenched his fists and shuddered briefly, and the spines on his back grew out a little further as he drew on more of the shadows within. From his dark feet, tendrils of black spread and coiled into the puddles of water around him and Akkey. He glanced over at her, taking a deep breath of freezing, humid air. The atmosphere was almost electric.
“You got my back?”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She cracked a knuckle and breathed out with a grin, with some apologetic undertones from old events, “Absolutely.”
Koiroll roared loudly, his jowls stretched over his teeth far too much and threatened to rip skin as saliva dribbled over his chin, “YOU. KILLED. ME! NOW. I. KILL. YOU! AKKEY BLACK!” He beat his fists together then charged straight for both rebels, intent to smash both their heads in immediately.
Akkey automatically launched herself into the air to meet him and turn him around, catching Koiroll’s attention to give Liam a distraction as she rained down as many ice spikes as she could right at his face. The brute didn’t flinch as the attack bounced off his leather-like skin, scarred with lesions and wounds like a map. Still the same monster you are, huh… “Liam! He doesn’t feel pain!” she called out, remembering her first fight with the brute.
tree-the-cat
“WHAT!?”
Upon hearing her shout, Liam immediately planned to switch tactics from wide scrapes and cuts to shorter, sharper blows meant to actually take Koiroll down versus forcing him to surrender due to his wounds. He made a sweep at the back of his knee, swearing as he made contact and it hurt his own foot worse than it hurt the brute’s. “How the Hel did you do it the first time!?” He rolled back on his shoulder to avoid a retaliating swing and bared his teeth in response to Koiroll’s slavering roars. He summoned the shadows across the ground up to his claws, but they were embedded with ice, and he ended up with nimbuses of frozen, lashing, dark whips, hissing and chiming around his hands. 
akkeyagentofhelheim
“Uuuuuuhhhhh! I didn’t really–”
Akeky was momentarily distracted as the large man swung huge in attempt to hit both of them in a whirl of arms, not batting an eye at the shadows and ice that finally managed to scrape his skin,; she barely missed the punch and felt strong wind on her face, forcing both her and Liam back and splattering their cheeks with rainwater. 
“–Juro had to help–” Koiroll swung again, towards Akkey this time; his attacks were simple, but dangerous. She jumped into a handspring backwards, then upon landing on a  fallen piece of rubble she launched herself forward, right arm encased in ice that glinted sharply in the moonlight. She aimed for his side, cutting him open right above his left hip.
She flew past him and skidded in the mud, “–pummeled him as much as we could–” Koiroll roared again, blood dripping down his side as he turned his head around, alternating his gaze between them.
“–sword through the heart–” Koiroll twisted around and now thundered towards Liam, punches practically bending the air as he swung his arms wildly.
“–but I guess it wasn’t enough!”
Before he could get any closer to the boy, she punched both arms into the air, grunting with much effort, and threw Koiroll and sent him spinning away with heavy tendrils of water around one leg. At the same time, Liam felt cold under his feet, and in the blink of an eye he was sent flying after him, footing firm and positioned perfectly for a heavy attack on the Conclave soldier, who was falling beneath him, unable to get his bearings.
tree-the-cat
Oh shit okay here we go–
With a roar to rival the monster’s, Liam kicked off of the ice under him and turned in midair, sending his legs over his head, and then all of the black threads in the icicle behind him shattered and darted out to follow through with his next kick, sending frost and darkness glittering in a wide circle as the half-cat landed solidly on Koiroll’s sternum with both feet, and he felt something crack beneath the web of scar tissue. But the soldier’s fist zoomed up and glanced off the side of his head and shoulder, and sent him tumbling down an alley, skidding his back against the stony ground. Ears ringing, Liam stumbled to his feet, and Koiroll was back on him in a heartbeat. Liam was quickly realizing that his ordinary show of power wasn’t going to save him, especially without Nala to back up his hits. He instead brought a different way of fighting to mind, an impression of Kendra’s rapid swings and light feet, and he shoved off the wall to his right and then his left, managing to catch the side of a roof as the huge man charged underneath him like a bull, and in the next street over, rebel soldiers screamed and dove for cover. Rolling onto the roof, Liam bounded across the thatch to follow Koiroll, clenching his own fists as he sprinted. 
“Hey, fuckface!” Liam bellowed, trying to distract him from the softer targets around him.
akkeyagentofhelheim
Akkey sped after them through several portals, avoiding crumbling buildings that Koiroll continued to charge through. She was glad Liam connected some hits as she had hoped, but she wasn’t counting on the champion’s counter. Did he get fucking faster or what–
Koiroll took the bait and turned again, and surged through straw, metal, and concrete, chasing after Liam. He began catching up, and slowly the buildings collapsed under the half breed’s feet, and he could feel himself falling. He could hear the champion’s heavy breathing right behind, laboured now after the injury on his chest, then something grabbed his ankle. Koiroll proceeded to drag him down. Shit, Liam!
Overlapping hums immediately echoed around them it was almost deafening, and a small foot connected with Liam’s shoulder. Akkey pushed him through a second portal to force him away from his grip as she appeared through another one. Simultaneously she pulled another tendril of water from the opening and pierced the soldier through the shoulder to further loosen his grip on Liam
He appeared a few metres away as the house he was just on fully disintegrated above two other unlucky Conclave soldiers, taking both Akkey and Koiroll with it. It sent up a cloud of dust that was bogged down by the rain, leaving him coughing slightly.
There was a split second of nothing as Akkey shook her head to get her bearings, but Koiroll took her by the arm before she could, throwing her viciously and sent her flying like a ragdoll. She landed behind Liam so harshly that she choked and gasped for air, pain throbbing down her spine where she fell on her back.
Koiroll wasted no time and charged for Liam again, trampling over his dead comrades. He brought two large fists down on the boy, intent on crushing his head in, “DIE! HALF BREEDS! DIE!”
tree-the-cat
Before he could even think, Liam’s arm whipped back and snatched Akkey’s hand. His eyes grew brighter as the shadows overtook his body and swirled down his arm, and as Koiroll slammed his fists down, the two half-breeds dissolved into a cloud of black, billowing smoke, which swirled around his face like disturbed flour. The particles hissed across the street as though blown by a frantic wind. They climbed the leg of a shorter guard tower, moving like some abstract, sentient being, and then collected in the heart of the balcony at the very top, coalescing back into Liam and Akkey. He was partially holding onto her as they re-formed, and he momentarily knelt down beside her, taking a few huffing breaths as he recovered. Had it not been for the heat of the battle, he’d have been utterly dumbstruck by what he just did. 
“Sorry,” he panted. “Panicked. You okay?”
akkeyagentofhelheim
There was no hiding the shudder that coursed through her body as she opened her eyes, still coughing slightly to catch her breath. The feeling was indescribable. Like she disappeared, but still existed; nowhere, yet able to feel everything. There was both a surrender and a control, an understanding of the element that she couldn’t possibly fathom. Her brow creased slightly, Yeah, that’s not happening…
She shook her head, not in disagreement but to clear her head. She patted his knee in reassurance while also checking if he was alright, “I’m good, it’s fine. I threw you out of blue too, anyway. Thanks.”
They stood to peer over the balcony edge, wincing a little at their injuries that were slowly collecting. Koiroll’s roar travelled, ringing above battle cries; he crushed the ice spike that was left in his shoulder with one hand, unfazed. More blood dripped down his massive torso as he made his way towards the guard tower.
“He’s just a fucking… wall,” Akkey muttered, “It takes like five hits to even scratch him. A sword through the chest and he’s still kicking…” She fiddled with the strap of her sword, the same one that she used all those years ago to fight the old Thor aligned fighter, “If we take him down from the inside…”
Koiroll reached the base of the tower, and roared again, “KILL YOU. BOTH!” He dug all ten fingers into the structure and started climbing.
Liam looked down at his paws, which were still misting softly with the frost whirling around his claws, and then he glanced up at Akkey, a bit of a frightening sight given his current form. His thoughts raced. He had an impression of writhing water filled with black, hissing darkness, like a roiling wave pulling up the ocean floor when it crashed onto the coast.
Inside…
“Hey, how much water do you need to drown this guy, theoretically? You have enough?” The tower shook and the floor tilted slightly askew as Koiroll approached.
akkeyagentofhelheim
She blinked twice, partly quelling a soft giggle that threatened to bubble up from inside of her at the sincere question, but also in some intrigue at the sight before her. The tower shook again as Koiroll cleared a couple more feet, and she put out a hand to steady both of them as Liam recovered and thought.
“As long as this rain keeps flooding we’ve got plenty. What you got, kid?”
tree-the-cat
“Well…since it’s not that hard to do…” Liam also gripped her shoulder in return, to keep both of them steady. “Let’s get him back on the ground, and I’m going to get him to open his big, fat mouth, and you’re gonna fill it up with water. But you gotta let me get my hands on whatever goes in. Okay?”
Then he crossed the shaking tower platform in two powerful sprints and gripped one of the support beams while mostly leaning out over the buildings below. His tail lashed and a dark hum filled the air as clouds coalesced around him.
“Got a free face to punch right here, if you can catch a half-breed!” he hollered down at Koiroll. He tensed his legs, ready to leap down as soon as the soldier retaliated.
akkeyagentofhelheim
Koiroll is a simple beast. He growled through his teeth, saliva dribbling over his chin, then dug his toes and fingers into concrete and scrambled up.
With perfect timing, Liam let go of his grip, and Akkey flipped over the side of the balcony, balancing and sending a field of frost, encasing the entire side of the tower in ice, cracking loudly amidst the battle. Koiroll lost his grip and began sliding down, faster and faster. She quickly followed the two down.
tree-the-cat
Liam slid up beside Koiroll first and jumped up to kick both feet into the monster’s head, sending him tumbling sideways off the slide, and he followed in a dash, spraying chips of ice across the street as the rain pounded around him, parting at his passing as if by magic. “You’re getting stomped!” he laughed, sprinting around him as he recovered to face him. “You’re slow as shit!”
akkeyagentofhelheim
The monster dug clawlike nails into the ice and skidded to a stop, sending a spray of snow into the air, then immediately launched himself from the awkward crouch towards Liam, all while grunting like a wild animal.
“DIRTY. HALF. BREED! COME! HERE!” He punctuated each word with a ground shaking punch, narrowly missing the boy each time he swung and hit soil right at the spot where Liam was. He chased after him, continuing the barrage of attacks, squelching in the mud but hitting with so much force that it reached the dry underground.
Left, right, left, right; Koiroll followed as Liam escaped, pounding the floor that it started to break apart beneath them, shaking and quivering, “I’LL KILL YOU!” He roared and sent another fist flying and broke ground again, but the shockwave was so huge that Liam lost his footing with a harsh yelp.
In an instant, his scarred fist was all Liam could see as the Conclave soldier swung hard towards him while he fell.
“Liam!!!” Akkey screamed from behind, taking water with her with a big sweep of both her arms, “Watch out!”
tree-the-cat
It happened way too fast. Liam was only half dissolved when it felt like his entire left shoulder made the worst noise imaginable, and felt like it got crushed by a heavy wagon. The blinding impact threw him back against the ground, snapping his head against the rocks, and he rolled hard across the ground, in a painful backwards roll that left a streak of muddy shadow across the street behind him. Instead of rushing rain and crying soldiers, Liam could only hear a dull thump in his head, pounding in time with his heart. Black spots started to fill his vision, and it was only when he sucked in a breath mixed with wet, gritty dirty that he realized his lungs had been paralyzed for far longer than they should. He dug his claws into the ground, rolling his head sideways to squint in Koiroll’s direction. Akkey seemed to have gotten in front of him. It was hard to tell.
He had to get up. He had to get to his feet. He had to dump everything he could muster into combining his element with Akkey’s, so that they could tear him apart.
The young half-breed pushed himself to one elbow, baring his teeth towards the sky, and then slung his arm over his torso. Several pieces clicked around in his collarbone that shouldn’t have, but he needed what little support he could garner from his own bruised body to at least get upright. Everything in line of sight was stained with red and blue-tinged black.
Get. Up.
akkeyagentofhelheim
Akkey willed the water to freeze into the sharpest, densest ice spike she could muster in that small of a window. She whirled and threw her entire weight around sending the structure that grew at light speed.
But she was a split second too late as Koiroll sent Liam flying; at least he was immediately bulldozed from the side by the giant ice, skidding and bouncing heavily the opposite way, towards Akkey who was waiting. She twisted her leg in a wide circle then jumped to avoid his clumsy body thrown along the grown, waves bringing her high, following her direction as she somersaulted over her head, then threw the large volume of water and debris, right where Koiroll fell.
She landed on her toes, rolling backwards and placing herself in between the soldier and the half breed.
“–am!” Her voice barely made a sound in his ears as he continued to struggle. Akkey glanced behind her, calling out his name repeatedly, “Li–! Ar- –u o-ay?!”
Koiroll suddenly burst from the spray and frost that misted the whole street, bellowing wildly. He covered the distance instantly in two charges, and Akkey only just managed to protect herself on time with a partial dome of ice above her as he dropped both fists again and again and again with a mighty roar.
But her innate strength was laughable, almost pitiable against his monstrous power. She was forced to her knees immediately as she tried to fight against the weight of his blows, sinking her deeper and deeper, straining to keep herself upright and not slip.
“Li-m!” She tried again desperately, but she received no response. All of a sudden, the ice shattered above and Koiroll’s clawed hand pierced straight through. Akkey gasped and shifted enough for him to miss landing a blow on the chest; but still he nicked her on side where she fell back.
“Argh!!!” Akkey twisted on her back and swung around in a helicopter whirl of flying legs, sending another heavy tendril to clip him under the chin and cause him to stumble back, giving her extra time. At the same moment, she pulled another bigger, stronger wall of ice in front of her and Liam, solidifying her stance by encasing her legs with ice.
She hissed as blood dripped down her leg and pooling on the ice continuously from the deep gash Koiroll left on her hip, cutting her sword belt apart and causing it to slip from her possession, leaving it behind on the muddy ground where the soldier charged again.
She grunted under the new attacks, “Liam! You gotta get up!” The cat half breed could feel a cold on his back, rising only slightly to help lift him up, but it wasn’t a lot. Akkey couldn’t spare much else energy as she defended.
tree-the-cat
…get up!…get up!…get up!!…
Black, curved claws fumbled and scraped white lines into dark, dense ice behind him, helping him to his feet. The pads of his paws were caked in mud and sand, his head ached, but he moved one foot in front of the other, passing Akkey in what started as a slow walk, but he eventually forced himself to jog, and that brought him to the foot of the wall, where the cloudy figure of Koiroll was towering above him just on the other side, beating in the ice entire chunks at a time. The sight was worrying enough to make him shut his eyes tightly to let him focus inward.
Liam spread his hands to either side of his waist, palms facing the wall, and then pushed up against it. When his fingers made contact, blooms of darkness spread out under the surface of the ice, spreading like ink and splitting like veins and arteries as it traveled up and outwards from his seemingly small figure. His own fangs drew blood from the inside of his mouth as he felt a frequency hum through the air, rising in intensity the further he ramped up his energy and poured more of himself into the web of shuddering white ice before him. The mesh of magic was exhilarating, as well as daunting.
Makes sense…what goes together better than cold and dark?
He pushed his forehead up against the barrier as he gave it his all. Now almost entirely black, a bright crack shattered across it as Koiroll nearly broke through with an enraged punch. He turned his chin to look more closely over his shoulder, towards the older woman half-buried in ice herself. 
“Do it,” he snarled loudly. “Now.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She squeaked under her breath as she felt magic mixing, integrating, and coalescing. Again– It sent goosebumps down her arms as she followed the paths the darkness snaked through her own magic. She glanced up on time to Liam’s command, and she hesitated, the age in her worrying at what he was doing; but it was only for a moment.
She followed immediately. With a growl at the back of her throat. she heaved her shoulders and released herself from her foundation, leaving one arm to support the barrier, dangerously letting it weaken underneath Koiroll’s attack, but it was only for a heartbeat. With her other arm she pulled more water from behind her and lunged forward in two bounds, her stance widened. In quick succession, she whirled her arms around in a wide arc, the freezing temperatures roaring past both of them.
Akkey landed right by Liam and released the ice, just as Koiroll forced a fist forward towards the boy’s face; but it was caught in the deluge, dark water and shadows crashing together in a frenzy as she manipulated it into an indestructible wall of roar of magic. With intense speed, it wrapped itself around the soldier, catching him under his feet Akkey trapped him in a massive ball of black, churning waves.
Koiroll struggled within the bubble, unable to balance himself as he remained suspended above both Akkey and Liam, who were both feeling his weight and power straining against their trap. The monster roared, and Akkey took the chance. She twisted her arm and made a harsh, pushing motion downwards with an open palm; shadows and water and ice were forced down his throat and into every orifice that they could find, sneaking its way into all the crevices; it rushed down his windpipe, into his lungs, belly, and even up into his skull. It was a disgusting, slimy sensation.
Her blood pulsed at the effort; the water and shadows were so close to each other that she was getting caught in it; so was Liam. Black ice beginning to tear at her leather braces. slowly exposing her arms, the tips of her fingers that started to dip in black and crept up towards her wrists; while Liam could feel frost gathering somewhere on him. The back of her head pounded heavily once; and yet, there was something intoxicating about the power. It was inseparable from the other.
tree-the-cat
A slash of pain opened across Liam’s hip where no injury existed. Clenching his teeth so hard it hurt, he briefly directed the shadows to whip across his shoulder and immediately encase it in a cast of ice, keeping it from moving in a direction he would later regret. It built up in ringed layers down to his fist, which immediately bloomed in dark, freezing spikes around his knuckles. He had his other arm up across his eyes to protect them; he could feel crystals gathering on the black horns above his brow. The howling ice and freezing droplets called to him in a way the shadows never did. Soldiers from both ends of the street had to shield their faces against the blizzard of cold chips and gritty darkness emanating from their position.
With a scream, Liam lurched forward one more pace, breaking his paw free of the black ice below him, and threw all of his weight and might into slamming his frosted fist into the rushing water. The impact followed through the bubble, and the outer layer of water immediately froze into a globe, as powerful rushes rippled outward from Liam’s submerged arm towards Koiroll. The sound of a glacier snapping like a twanging wire rang out across the entire Jaw, and everything was still for a moment. Then the hovering sphere of ice cracked and fell straight to the ground in several explosions of delicate flakes as the water within Koiroll gained a life of its own and tore him apart from the inside out. The dark, beautiful, frozen water was immediately stained with bright, violent scarlet, and the smell of copper, viscera and iron flooded the entire street as what was left of the massive Conclave soldier crashed to the ground with the rest of the water, mostly in two large pieces at that point. 
The cat half-breed stood in a daze, not registering the gore before him. The ice around his shoulder burned against his skin, but he kept it in place for fear of further injury. Though from what, he wasn’t sure. He could literally take on the entire world and they would fold under his icy claws. Only the deluded would challenge him, and he would easily turn them to scattered black and white and crimson snow–
Furrowing his brow and shaking his head, he took a cold, deep breath and looked up at Akkey to make sure she wasn’t any more injured than she already was.
akkeyagentofhelheim
Her entire left side was throbbing from injuries that were both hers and not, but it didn’t register at all in her mind as the air cleared and soldiers ran. Akkey breathed heavily, standing behind Liam, frozen in place, blood splattered across her front side, the fallen Conclave soldier towering and torn apart beyond recognition above them.
Steam was emanating from behind her as she exhaled deeply, exactly how temperatures would clash, but it was tinged with black, shadowy particles mixing and hovering around them, in the same way Liam’s magic behaved. Ice snapped and cracked as she tried to stay still, keeping her fists clenched where they fell by her sides after the massive attack, hands only partially encased in black ice, unlike Liam. No, it was only in smaller sections; what was overwhelming her more painfully were the shadows.
Her exposed skin was dipped in the inky darkness, then wafting off of her in the freezing cold as she collected herself, her dark hair whipping in the wind where it had loosened from its braid. Liam’s blood lust was echoing between them, and it was loud– too loud. Old voices were calling her name, for blood, for pain, for death and ruin. She’d be engulfed just as she’d been many times in the past. 
She exhaled again, this time her breath too was dark as she glanced up and encountered Liam’s gaze, glowing eyes meeting green that was drowned in shadow, black tears threatening to seep out over the corners.
“Liam…” she could only whisper her concern, biting hard as she fought with the surging overlap of power, “Are you okay?” Her fingers worked and tensed as she tried to disentangle cold from dark.
Liam heard the words echo through her own head before her mouth opened, and he simultaneously spoke with her, saying, “I think I’m good.” They both blinked in bemusement and Liam shook his head again, unable to stifle a cough and a shiver. He could feel oil in his throat and on his tongue and he tried to wipe it up, even though it was like trying to mop a spill with an oversaturated rag. Ice chimed and pinged and cracked around his shoulder as he did so. The ground beneath them snapped as he made his way over to her and took her hands, frowning in determination. The shadows seeking to seep up through her fingers and around her arms stopped in their upward climb, and he willed them back, pulling them seamlessly into his own form. He opened his eyes and met Akkey’s gaze, and they slowly returned to normal, tired, olive eyes with vertical pupils.
“Think we should find Vee,” he said heavily. “She can clear this out.” He winced as he touched the front of his shoulder, still thick with layers of ice. “And fix this.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
The tension quickly followed the receding shadows and rolled off her, and she expelled a sigh of relief, black fading into grey then finally into pale skin, “Thanks.”
Akkey blinked, eyes finally clear, and immediately switched their holds on each other, gripping his good arm and flicking a hand. Splitting and cracking sounds filled the air again as Liam’s makeshift cast adjusted itself, into something more stable, lightweight, and–for some odd reason–warmer, while other leftover ice and water on him vanished.
“There, that’ll last longer until we get to her…” she said, running a hand through her hair, looking up at him with a wry smile, then beyond him where Koiroll stood, disfigured and finally, truly dead, the blood already coagulating and freezing on the black ice that rose above them in an explosion of cold darkness. 
“Shit… we did that…” she breathed, undeniably awed at the sight, while tapping a heel and starting up a soft hum.
tree-the-cat
“Fuck yeah we did. Leave it as a reminder.” He knocked his good forearm against hers, torn bracer softly clunking against the bones under his wiry tendons. “Let’s get out of here so we can keep looking for the idiots who got us in this mess.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
A clear laugh escaped her, and Akkey obliged, widening the portal beneath their feet. They disappeared into the ground, leaving behind the former, now fallen Champion of Thor, Koiroll Bahn, frozen and forgotten under the massive Jaw of Fenrir.