Niflheim by Maureen Stevenson

Author:Maureen Stevenson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, adventure, short story, demons, death, triumph
Publisher: Maureen Stevenson
Published: 2018-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

The End

I felt the ground tremble before I heard the snarls and hoots. I smelt the stench of death seconds later as we all got to our feet and gathered our weapons. The six of us walked to the top of our hill and took in the mass of vile looking demons and dark creatures in the valley before us. The valley of Hel. I didn’t even have to try to focus my power, it just blazed out of me and in a wave, and it took out the first row of demons in a blink.

Nidhogg let out a roar and Merrick replied in kind. Pippin, Saul and I mounted our companions and charged forward. Saul and Carper took to the sky and blazed a circle around the enemy’s army. I watched as those that tried to escape disappeared into piles of ashes and the rest quickly understood to bunch up or burn. Pippin and Nida crashed and stomped their way through anything that tried to get past or attack them. Merrick carried me towards Nidhogg, who stood to wait with four minions. He let out another roar, and I could feel Merrick growling in response. One of the minions jumped up and flew at me, trying to get me off of Merrick, but I sliced his head off in one swipe of my sword. A second one tried to take out Merrick's flank, but her razor-tipped tail whipped out and sliced him in two. The last two minions crowded close to Nidhogg, who seemed to get larger with every step Merrick and I took towards him until suddenly they were gone, and Nidhogg let out a blast of fire that burned a trench into the already scorched and scarred ground.

Demons climbed up, born from the fire and shrieking in ecstasy. Corpses clawed their way out behind the beasts, groaning in agony as they dragged pieces of themselves forward out of the trench. Nidhogg let out another roar and started stomping through his newly risen demons and snatching the corpses up and eating them as he stormed towards me.

I caught sight of Pippin and Saul carving their way through the Malice Strikers army with ease and smiled. I felt in my core that we would win this fight. That with our win, we would set the scales back to balance and life would renew and thrive from the ashes of what we do here on this day and at this hour of battle. The power inside me grew up, sharp and bright and burst out of all of me, surrounding Merrick and me in a shield of magic just as Nidhogg released a stream of fire at us. It enveloped the protection and then burnt out, and I jumped from Merrick's back, sailing through the air with my sword at the ready. Striking down with only a glancing blow and land in a roll with Merrick following up with a swipe of her claws to his throat. She drew blood, but it was superficial, and she got caught with his tail that sent her tumbling back a few yards.

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