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Bifrost Bridge
"But you don't know that it isn't. Since even though I'm not a magic user, I do know that if you mess with a spell, it might not work fully as intended," Sif commented softly. Of course this did make her a bit more concerned about something, "And if that isn't Klara, where is she and who is that? And why would they have helped you all at all?" she added.

"Are you guys coming or nooooooooooooot?" Klara called back to them. They were heading into the city, and were getting ever closer to the palace that they were aiming for that was in the center of Asgard.

"We have no proof aside from that spell that you just did to be able to see if it actually is Klara... And without that, how do you propose potentially proving it to anyone else? Klara is a magic user herself, so she does typically try to use a few potential defenses that are useful. Especially since she is, well, a bit of a minor trickster god. Knowing how to cloak oneself from tracking spells without too much thought was one of the first things she learned how to do... And that being a skill that she learned from Loki. She typically tries to remain hidden, so she can sneak up on unsuspecting people without them being able to catch her" she continued, saying the last sentence with a shake of her head. "The best we can do is keep an eye on her... Since that still might be her... I don't know, she's seemed a bit different since returning to Asgard after the whole Loki incident on Midgard not too long ago... So it might just be because of that..."

"Anyway, we're fairly close to the palace, should be there soon!"

"We might wish to catch up to them. All we really can do is keep an eye on her, we have no proof that she's someone else, and we have no idea who she could be if she's not Klara. It might, as I said, be her subconsciously tricking the magic of others to be unable to track her, that might be what messed with the spell..."

The Falls
Mary had to stop herself from giggling at Runa's interactions with the teddy bears. It was funny in her mind, watching an Asgardian fear, of all things, teddy bears, or at least hate them enough to try and destroy them. Watching her throw the last one was beyond amusing to her, so now they weren't having to deal with the bears anymore, which was nice. Since it meant that they might be able to move on and actually do something useful in figuring out what all is going on. A few questions popped into her mind though with regards to where they were heading.

"So Runa... We're heading towards your father's halls and all... So what exactly is the area like anyway? Since I can vaguely see it in the distance through all of this fog, and I know we're by your mother's flowers and such, but you haven't really mentioned much about what it is like inside or anything... We also only know that the streak of light came from near it, not necessarily from inside of it... Just wanting to know a little bit about your home and all, since we're so close to it and all..." she asked Runa, figuring to try and distract her a little bit from the chaos that seemed to be occurring. Plus Mary was somewhat curious about the place.

The Palace
The two remaining wolves were not happy that the other three were taken down so easily, and went into a bit of a frenzy lashing out at just about everyone with an attack in one way or another. The one that had initially attacked Pietro lashed out at him once again, slashing him with his claws yet again barely, Pietro just missing dodging out of the way, before turning his attention to Guin, managing to give her a decent gash across her left arm that was starting to bleed. The one by Lance slashed at him again, this time managing to gash his shoulder fairly badly. It turned to Annie, and didn't manage to scratch her, only managing to knock her to the ground bruising her a bit so she was only a bit sore.

Guina are you okay? Pietro asked her mentally, panicking a bit now.

Lance was seriously hurting now from the attacks, and he was really trying to keep it together. Since he really didn't want to potentially explain to Odin what happened to the throne room if it got more destroyed by him than by the werewolves (since that one at least would be a simple explanation that hopefully Frigga would help with). He sent a blast of light slamming into the one by Annie, though it would be obvious that he was starting to have a hard time, as instead of the bright white/yellow color of the light, it seemed to have a slight greenish tint to it currently. "...I hate these things..." Lance grumbled.

Pietro instantly went to the one that had attacked both him and Guin, he instantly was behind it, and before the wolf could turn around to strike back at him or react, the speedster had already phased his hand into the creature's chest, and yanked his hand back out. The wolf dropped to the ground as its heart was in Pietro's hand now. It had happened so quickly, you actually could see the heart beat one last time, before it fully went limp in his hand, and he dropped it to the ground. He took a few deep breaths, before stopping to actually think about what happened or what he just did, and he was now oddly quiet.

The last wolf was now the only one standing, and it seemed like it realized that now. It got up from where Lance had managed to knock him around, burns and spots of fur singed from where he got blasted by Lance, and it slowly started backing away. It clearly was still prepared to fight, and was growling at all of them, ready to pounce at a moments notice, that much was obvious.

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Ed bit back a defensive comment and nodded. "True. I won't say that it isn't possible." He glanced in the direction the pendant was pointing sighed and dropped the spell. He removed the strand of hair and returned it to Sif. "Thank you for humoring me." Wrapping the pendant back up and putting it into his pocket.

"We are coming." Ed said and started to walk faster to catch up with Klara and the Warriors Three. A thought crossed his mind and he immediately squished it. He would not under any circumstances ask Guin to invade Klara's mind to make sure she was who she said she was.

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Bethany looked towards Ed and gave him a slight nod. "Yeah i'm good just my pride really which i'm pretty sure that can't be cured." Bethany said giving him a bit of a shrug as she continued to walk along side Lady Sif and Ed as the two of them spoke. She looked towards Klara for a moment hearing her to tell them to catch up, she clearly wasn't a magic user getting a bit of an idea. "Well if magic can't really prove that it isn't really Klara maybe we start asking her really personal questions, that only you know and that no one else knows about at all?" Beth suggested looking over at Lady Sif, since she knew her daughter the best out of all of them.

"It's just an idea though." Beth said as she quickly started to catch up to the others, she gently wrapped an arm around Klara and smiled towards her. "So what do you remember and where were you? Last time we were all together before we all were suddenly split apart, also where did you learn to pilot the ship that got us out of that space prison?"

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There wasn’t much time for a teamwork option as the remaining two werewolves went on the offensive. One went after Pietro and Guin while the other attacked Lance before coming after Antoinette. It knocked her down but she didn’t receive any more cuts, only a badly bruised bottom. Lance threw out his hands and Antoinette covered her face to shield herself from the bright light. It wasn’t as brilliant as it usually was though, being dimmed by a greenish tinge. A spike of fear grabbed Antoinette’s heart but she didn’t look as the last werewolf backed away, still on edge and ready for a fight. Antoinette held up her hands, throwing them forward this time to send a concentrated blast of fireworks to the werewolf like she had done with her last kill.
Her power didn’t fail her this time but it didn’t do what she had desired either. All Antoinette managed to do was burn the werewolf slightly which she guessed would only make it angrier. Antoinette got to her feet and aimed to try again. She succeeded in doing more damage but the werewolf started to glow red. Antoinette took a couple steps back, dropping her hands.
”Maybe someone else should try now,” she said timidly, unsure what the red glowing meant.

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Bifrost Bridge
"Perhaps..." Sif commented towards Bethany as the three of them caught up to the others.

"Learned to fly? Oh that's easy, always was going off and sneaking on board to go off on a joy ride," Klara commented with a bit of a laugh. "I mean, best way to learn something is to do it anyway despite people clearly telling you not to," she added, giggling a bit as she glanced over at Sif who had caught up.

"I swear you have a better knack for getting in trouble than your father sometimes," Sif commented with a bit of an eye roll. "Of course Fandral and Volstagg aren't exactly role models either."

"Actually if I recall they kind of encouraged it."

"Yes they did," she added, shooting a bit of a glare at the pair, both of them were chuckling a bit at the memory. "Though I do agree in asking the question, what happened to you Klara?"

"Oh, that... Well it's a bit complicated... So good news, that flash of light that shot off into the sky was caused by whoever is causing all of the chaos in the universe. So yay for that! Bad news, kind of got knocked around a bit, and then the rest is a bit of a blur and don't remember exactly who... But they definitely were somewhere very close to Baldur's Hall, which was beyond odd..." she said with a bit of a shrug, answering the question, before turning to look at Fandral, "And don't you dare instantly suggest that Runa did anything cause she didn't!"

"I wasn't going to!" Fandral instantly protested, "Others likely yes, you know that by now. Seriously no faith!"

"Yeah, well everything is all screwy, kind of hard to tell who would do that around here... And a bit on edge, so... Sorry..." she apologized somewhat sadly. The Warriors Three typically weren't too horrible towards Runa despite everything that was said about her, typically more indifferent than anything else towards her, especially considering the fact that Klara dragged her along everywhere.

Suddenly, they'd be able to hear a rather loud howl coming from the palace, and the sound of a crash of some sort near there as well, and Klara instantly drew her sword. "Alright, what the hell was that?" she said instantly, before racing off that way. The group would eventually reach the palace, and eventually find the chaos in the throne room. (they will see the aftermath of it at the end of the section for the other group)

The Palace
Pietro seemed to be more or less in a bit of a daze, and seemed to just sort of be ignoring everything that was going on around him now. The red glow that was surrounding the werewolf was starting to get... Brighter? Frigga had her sword at the ready, and the wolf, well, it suddenly was starting to get bigger. It was now three times its original size, and any sort of injuries that it had received were seemingly gone, as if they had never happened at all. "So... Remember the whole reality warping thing? Pretty sure that just happened... Again..." Lance commented, and somehow the werewolf now had armor or something? This was not good, at all.

The wolf let out a rather loud howl, one that was large enough that it seemingly shook the room. Something was really weird about the wolf, aside from the obvious, at least in Lance's mind. The wolf not only looked stronger, but something was telling him that that wasn't the only thing about it that was different, he just couldn't figure out what it was. Then again, a giant werewolf that now had some weird armor protecting it was just insane, but that was what happened when someone could warp reality on a whim.

Letting out another howl, the wolf suddenly charged, right at him.

"Uh oh..." he managed to say, right before he got thrown backwards and slammed into a pillar, which immediately crumbled to the ground. "Why do I feel like this thing really hates me?" he commented, taking deep breaths now, as he managed to get the rubble off of him from the pillar, luckily only getting bruises from it, partially because he had barely managed to create a small bubble that more or less protected him a bit at the last moment. The wolf roared again, before it slashed towards Annie since she was the closest and seemingly missed her. Standing up, Lance managed to send off a rather powerful blast of light again, and once again it had a greenish tint to it, but it was a slightly darker color now. His annoyance was building a bit, and the attack managed to hit the wolf, knocking it back slightly, though not really seemingly doing much otherwise.

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"Oh, it's rather beautiful and splendid. It isn't grand in the way that the All-Father's palace is, largely because my family finds no value in gold or coin," Runa explained, relaxing ever so slightly as she talked more about her childhood home. "It is called Breidablik, which in the All-Tongue means broad-gleaming, as my father is the God of Light. To enter the halls, you must be pure - anything unclean will burst into flames for all eternity. When we arrive, I will need to fetch you a protective balm to prevent you from bursting to flames in the presence of my father as well, as he emits more light than your body can handle."

Runa then smiled ever so slightly, thinking about the various rooms and whatnot. "The hall is adorned with flowers and many endangered fauna stay as handmaidens to my godly mother. I have a deer who is like a second mother to me. And when people come to my father's court, the halls are filled with the roars of laughter and good cheer. There is no other place like it on Asgard, a place where anyone is welcomed and all can belong..."

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Guin gasped in pain, as the werewolf slashed her left arm with its claws. She really hoped these werewolves couldn't spread their disease through gashes - she didn't want to be condemned to a life of Twilight cosplaying. Guin bit down on the inside of her mouth, trying to force her mind to focus through the pain as she cradled her arm, putting pressure on it in an effort to stop the bleeding. The Asgardian outfit Runa had put her in was going to have some major bloodstains, not that Guin cared. She hated the thing anyways.

It took her a moment to stitch her thoughts together, even as she heard Pietro's voice echo in her mind, asking if she was okay - and then as she saw him rip out the heart of the werewolf who had attacked her, killing the beast instantly. He looked dazed and out of it, and as much as she was in pain, Guin wanted to try to help him a bit - he had done the right thing, after all. And he looked like he was experiencing somewhat of a mental breakdown. Hey, babes, I'm fine, really. Scars are sexy anyways, Guin said, trying to reassure him. She concentrated and tried to send a calming influence into his mind, something to just help him regain some control and stability.

Nopenopenopenopetheyarebadandyoushouldn'thavegottenhurtandthatthingdeservedtodie!!! Pietro's words whizzed into her mind. She was hit by an overwhelming feeling of anger and fear, which was only matched by the expression on Pietro's face - he looked like he was one second away from snapping, just moments away from killing the younglings in the Jedi Temple, his left eye kept on twitching and his fingers were spasming, like he was still pulling out the werewolf's heart.

"Hey, you're okay," Guin repeated, before trying again - this time, it seemed that she actually helped to calm him down - mostly. Mostly was going to have to be good enough though. They still had a werewolf and Guin's ability to ignore the pain of her massive gash was decreasing by the minute. Guin turned her attention to that wolf, kicking at it as hard as she could, hoping it would go down easy but she only managed to hit it in the shin - barely doing any damage to it at all. It made sense. It was much bigger than the others and had armor, because that was normal.

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Bethany listened to Klara as she started to mention about how she learned how to fly a ship, getting the sense that she was sometimes a bit of a rebel growing up and smiled some. "Sounds like you got into a lot of trouble growing up then." Beth said towards Klara, she wasn't sure if it was the truth or not, but the others seemed to remember so it was most likely true then. She looked up to see the massive palace coming up towards them, when she heard what sounded like a really loud howl and a really loud crashing sound. "Probably nothing really good then." Beth said as she followed shortly behind Klara.

Entering the throne room Beth could see Guin, Pietro, Annie Lance and some other woman that she didn't know, seeing the large red werewolf wearing armor. She quickly started to concentrate and shadow travel it out of the building. But nothing happened, on the first try or the second. Getting a bit annoyed then Beth quickly used the shadows around her and the wolf, and suddenly threw it across the room. Hearing it hitting against a nearby wall the werewolf got up again like it was nothing really. "Looks like you guys are throwing a bit of a party." She said looking at the others.

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It was interesting hearing about Klara and Runa's childhood. He was glad to hear that the Warriors three weren't among Runa's tormentors. Though they hadn't gone out of their way for her, they at least hadn't been mean. Something that it seemed a lot of Asguard had done. Klara was talking about her childhood and the Warriors Three were corroborating what she said. Was he overthinking it? She was being protective of Runa too. Maybe the spell really hadn't worked. Ed wished he had gotten a hair from Klara, but she hadn't been on Earth when he had collected them.

Sure werewolves, because why not. Ed thought as they entered the Palace and saw what the group was fighting. Guin was bleeding, which didn't surprise him. Everyone else looked okay, even Lance, who was standing in a pile of rubble. All of that and Ed figured the group could use help fighting more than the healing. He reached into his pocket and touched the small shield there. At first, nothing happened and Ed took a deep slow breath and cast the spell again. This time the orange bubble appeared around the last werewolf.

"I don't know how well this will contain the creature. I suggest getting ready to attack it as a group effort." Ed said holding the magic around the werewolf.

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Antoinette’s eyes started to widen as the wolf started to grow and then sprout armour. What kind of wolves were these? Antoinette got herself ready again when it attacked Lance before coming for her. Antoinette managed to duck out of the way in time, somehow. She dashed away, trying to figure out what she could do this time. Guin was busy with Pietro and then all of a sudden the shadows started to shift.
Antoinette looked behind her to see Klara, Bethany and the others from the Bifrost. She breathed a sigh of relief, thankful for the reinforcements. They weren’t doing so well here. Antoinette went and stood with Bethany. ”Not the kind of party I am used to. There were more, this one seems to keep growing,” Antoinette told the new people.

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The Palace
Pietro seemed to be calming down now, and actually sort of took a look at the giant wolf that was currently behind a shield of some sort. He hadn't been paying attention until just now, so he was kind of surprised by what was going on, "Soooooo... Since when was there a giant wolf?" he couldn't help but ask the others, as the creature let out a bit of a loud howl.

"Uh, since like 5 minutes ago?" Lance responded with an eye roll, to which Pietro just sort of shrugged it off.

The wolf was not happy to be stuck in the bubble that Ed had made to surround it, and it instantly started pounding on it. Cracks started forming in it from its first hit, and they just kept getting bigger every attack. Eventually, there was a really loud shattering sound from the shield breaking, and there was a bit of a wave of red light that shot off in a bit of a shockwave that coursed through the room as he let out another roar. One thing would seem to happen with Guin though, as when the shockwave happened, it seemed to mess with her, and suddenly the world around her would fade to black, and a deafening silence would occur, as she lost all of her senses entirely!

"Alright, back to trying to deal with this thing..." Lance commented, sending out a blast of light that missed the wolf entirely. The next thing he knew though, a small rock seemingly appeared out of nowhere and hit him in the head. "Ow," he said, before turning to see that Pietro had been the one to throw it and not the wolf or something like that. "Seriously? You are supposed to be attacking the wolf, so why the hell did you throw something at me?"

"I mean giant wolf, you kind of can turn into a giant thing, so figured that make things go quicker," he responded with a shrug.

"Aaaaand you are an idiot still."

The wolf of course wasn't stopping in its attacks, and started throwing large pieces of the throne room at just about everyone. Though its aim was less than stellar, as the bits of rubble more or less just sort of just dropped down from the air, missing just about everyone. However one piece of rubble went straight for Klara, and she easily lifted her sword up, and sliced right through it, the pieces falling harmlessly to the ground. "Well aren't you being rude..." she muttered, before an idea crossed her mind, and she got a bit of a gleeful smile on her face, "But I think we can fix that..."

Her sword started to glow with a bright pink light, and she swung it in an arc, with enough force that the red glow in the area disappeared entirely. The wolf suddenly had a bit of a funny look in its eye, before it seemed to start to shrink down, and now was barking... Happily? And Klara was giggling a bit, as the werewolf looked no longer like a werewolf, but just an oversized regular one, "You aren't too bad when you aren't being messed with or whatever you know," she said giggling like crazy.

Sif looked like she was about to make a comment about something, but sort of just shrugged it off, "I wonder how the Allfather will react to the state of things," she mused a bit, seeing the large bits of the throne room that were lying all around the room.

"Oh don't worry about him, he knows that fights of all sorts come to those who might not even ask for it," Frigga replied calmly.

"Mother, can I keep him pleaaaaaaase?" Klara asked, as she was scratching the wolf behind the ear and its tail was wagging happily now.

"I knew this question was coming..." Sif said with a sigh, seemingly thinking about the best way to answer the question.

"...Shouldn't we be more concerned with dealing with where the wolf came from?" Pietro then asked.

"Oh, that's easy, odds are it was caused by something similar to that flash of light from earlier that shot up into the sky... Which means we need to head over to the area near Baldur's Halls. Which honestly isn't too far from here. You can actually see it from outside, it is the building that has a large garden surrounding it, and shines rather brightly with light," Klara replied simply with a shrug.

The Falls
"It sounds like a beautiful place to be," Mary said, giving her a bit of a smile, as they kept nearing their destination. Though once again, the red fog appeared out of nowhere, and started swirling around them. Mary started to get a major headache now, and she put a hand to her head for a brief moment, thinking nothing really of it at the moment though, it wasn't something she thought would matter really. Headaches were fairly common for her at this point, so she didn't say anything.

The fog disappeared rather quickly, and out of it stepped young man who gave a bit of a smile to Runa when he saw her, "Hello Runa, glad to see you've decided to return to Asgard," he commented to her, more or less sort of ignoring Mary's entire existence. One thing that stuck out in Mary's mind though was that looking between Runa and the newcomer, there was a bit of a resemblance, so odds were that they were closely related, she just wasn't entirely sure which Norse god this was.

"A bit odd that someone decided to appear out of nowhere randomly isn't it? Especially since the fog hasn't brought anything good yet. Just some annoyances," a voice said in the back of her mind, her head still pounding, and the voice worried her for two reasons. One, what it was saying was right, and made sense, and was a reason to be worried about the newcomer. The other reason? It wasn't her own mental voice, and it was the voice she'd gotten used to that belonged to Chrysi the psychopath. It was a completely new one, and she wasn't sure she wanted to find out who it really belonged to.

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Runa nodded, agreeing with Mary's statement. Her father's halls really were beautiful, largely thanks to the expertise of her mother. Nanna could have been the Goddess of Interior Decorating in addition to Joy and Peace. Runa was somewhat distracted though, namely by the appearance of more red mist, swirling chaotically around them. She arched an eyebrow as the fog dissipated quickly, revealing her brother. Her eyes darted over towards Marygold. She had already more or less come to the conclusion that her brother was involved in all of this - and she wanted to protect him, just as much as she wanted to stop him.

If she could convince him in private to stop, she could help him get rid of the evidence and prevent him from having to go on trial in his own court. He probably didn't even realize what he was doing - he was noble and just, he was the very best of Asgard, he wasn't one to throw around destruction and ruin. "It has not been so long since I have left, brother," Runa reminded him. To an Asgardian, the entire lifespan of a Midgardian was the blink of an eye. "This is my brother, Forseti, God of Justice and Reconciliation," she said, making introductions. She left out the fact that her brother was also the God of Retribution. "Brother, this is Marygold of Midgard - a warrior and a friend."

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"We don't have nearly enough alcohol for this to be a party," Guin pointed out, glad to see some more familiar faces - especially ones who were able to throw werewolves around like rag dolls. Unfortunately, the werewolf was pretty durable (and still wearing armor, a point that made Guin jealous, as she would have loved to have her armor on her at the moment). Edus (whose name Guin snickered every time she recalled that it rhymed with a certain part of male anatomy) did his magic, surrounding the werewolf with a bubble. She raised an eyebrow as the werewolf fought back, pounding against the bubble cage, and cracks appeared. Before she could let out another quip however, a beam of red light shot out, accompanying a massive shockwave.

And then Guin couldn't see a single thing.

She couldn't hear anything.

She couldn't feel anything.

She couldn't smell anything.

She couldn't taste anything.

She had heard about sensory deprivation chambers, largely from some of her old schoolmates' parents insisting on their health benefits. She had always thought that the concept was stupid - now she realized it was terrifying. "What...." Guin didn't know if she had actually said anything. She didn't know if she had screamed or whispered. She didn't know if there was anyone there with her or if she was all alone in this void. For all she knew, she could've somehow fallen off of Asgard. Maybe she was dead.

She tried to force herself to take a deep breath, but she had no idea if she did. She didn't know anything her body was doing. That raw fear and anxiety drove her, as she scrambled with a way out of this situation. She vaguely knew that telepaths could project their minds out of their bodies, taking on astral forms - almost like Carolina could. It was one way to know where she was - to test if this void was really it. Guin concentrated, doing her best to focus the totality of her telepathic powers, and it worked.

She stepped outside of her body, appearing like a lightly glowing purple hologram more or less to everyone else. Guin's anxiety faded for a moment. She could see her body, still on Asgard, still in the Throne Room. Her anxiety then spiked. What was wrong with her senses??? "Hey everyone, not to be alarming, buuut it seems like my body decided to just crash. Like I can't see or hear or feel or sense anything. If there's a magic cure for that, that would be aweesome and would help stave off my inevitable panic attack. If not, I'll just... go tell Obi Wan Kenobi he's my only hope?"

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Bethany looked at the massive werewolf as Edus used his powers to put the thing into a large bubble shield of sorts, just as it started to beat against it and eventually broke free. Sending a shockwave out of sorts, she stumbled backwards as she turned to see Pietro throwing a rock at Lance's head. Beth took a moment and shook her head slightly at his antics they could use Lance Hulk right about now however though just as the massive armored werewolf started to throw rocks around to try and hit them all luckily nothing hit them. Klara seemed to have things under control now however as Klara managed to calm it down and it went over towards her and shrunk down to a normal sized wolf.

"Well one problem is down for sure." Bethany said as she turned to look at Guin as she noticed something was off about her, she was standing there when Guin's ghostly made herself reappear outside of her body. Bethany picked up a nearby rock and threw it at Guin's spirit form and it phased through her. "Are you alright there Guin?" Bethany asked her, she wasn't sure what actually happened to Guin.

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Antoinette tensed up again, ready for another fight when the werewolf broke loose from Ed’s shield. She was grateful there were more people here this time though. The increase in numbers paid off as Klara used one of her powers to calm the werewolf down and make him incredibly adorable. Antoinette was a little on edge and sore from the attack, so she didn't greet the happy werewolf.
Klara suggested that whatever brought the werewolves here was somehow connected to the big flash they had seen earlier. Antoinette surveyed her injuries while they thought about leaving to find the source of all this chaos once more. Guin started to speak but Antoinette was only half listening until she looked over to see a faded projection of Guin speaking. Antoinette’s curiosity spiked and she listened more intently to what was going on with Guin. This perhaps was the best place for such a strange thing to occur. Maybe Klara or one of the other two Asgardians knew of something that could help her.
”Ed, do you have any ideas for Guin?” she asked curiously.

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Ed didn't have a good answer for Annie. "I'm going to try to heal her. But I'm not sure if it'll work." He said honestly. He walked over to Guin's body. There were probably better healers here in Asguard. He could have easily said he didn't have the skill for it. He didn't think he could make it worse, and he wanted to see if he could understand what was wrong.

He knelt and placed his hands over Guin, not touching her, a soft orange glow reached out encasing Guin. Ed closed his eyes concentrating. It took several minutes and the orange glow had deepened until it became almost opaque then it started disappearing. Ed collapsed, catching himself before he could hit his head, but then letting himself lay down. Just on the ground. He even thought as he did it that it was ridiculous. But he didn't have the energy to stand up. If that didn't work he wouldn't be able to help Guin. She'd be stuck until someone who was much better with magic could fix it.

"Try now Guin." He said. His voice felt faint to him and he hoped for a moment that he had actually said it out loud and not thought it. He shivered at the idea of having a telepathic conversation. When she returned she would find whatever Ed had tried, had worked.

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The Falls
"It might just seem like it was longer. After all, I am still unsure of what you see in Midgardians, both what you see in them and why our uncle sticks around with them instead of staying here on Asgard. Things would be better if we had nothing to do with Midgard," Forseti responded to Runa with a shrug. He seemed to be ignoring Mary's existence entirely considering the fact that he was more or less insulting her a bit with how bluntly he was attacking Earth.

"Actually what makes you so certain of that considering your other uncle, that being Loki tends to keep messing around with Earth no matter what all is going on or whatever," Mary pointed out, clearly a bit annoyed with Forseti and what he was saying about Earth and how apparently it was pointless to hang around it and all.

"Be careful what you say to me," he responded, and it was clear that his words were more or less him threatening her, now that he actually was seemingly acknowledging her existence.

"Or what exactly? I'm not exactly afraid of you, or most Asgardians actually. You all aren't as tough as you think you are." It would be slightly obvious to Runa that Mary likely wasn't completely there in her head, but it also was plainly obvious that it wasn't exactly Chrysi who was behind the wheel, so that was a bit confusing.

"Oh really?" he commented with a bit of a raised eyebrow, "Trust me, you should be."

The Palace
As soon as Pietro heard that something was kind of wrong with Guin, he kind of flipped out a bit, well at least mentally. Even though she was astral projecting and unable to use her other abilities, she would still be able to hear the thoughts that Pietro was saying through their mental link. Guina are you okay???? What happened how did you lose your senses what's going on I really don't like this no matter what, it has to be fixed nooooooooooow.

"Okay, well that's not a good thing... How could that have happened?" Lance sort of mused, kind of thinking a bit, trying to think of what could have possibly caused Guin to lose her senses like that. Probably something (or more of someone) on Asgard was responsible, but he wasn't entirely sure who. Though he was fairly grateful that supposedly Ed had managed to fix it, whatever it was that had caused it.

Of course, Mary and Runa were still not anywhere near where they were, and they could have likely ended up just about anywhere in all of Asgard, and they still had to deal with whoever it was that was causing all of this insanity. They had so many problems, the list just seemed to keep getting bigger and bigger. Now he was at this point just waiting for something else to go horribly wrong or something unexpected or just completely random to happen.

And as usual for him, the universe seemed to oblige with it.

"What's with that greenish light or whatever?" Klara asked, seemingly a bit confused with regards to a slight green light that seemed to appear out of nowhere. Though it was obvious at this point that it wasn't Lance who was causing it. So the question remained, who was?

It didn't really matter all too much, as the group (minus the Asgardians) randomly teleported to be in a large field by a river of sorts, and they'd also easily see Runa and Mary were both there. As was someone else who wasn't exactly easily recognizable. They seemed to more or less just having a conversation or whatever, though it was kind of obvious that the stranger (clearly an Asgardian) was starting to get a bit hostile or something like that.

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Bethany looked towards the others as she leaned herself up against a nearby wall while looking at Guin who was still astral projecting somehow she wasn't sure if Carolina could do that or not really. She crossed her arms over her chest before getting a bit of an idea as she went over to see where Baldur's place was. "Hey Ed try doing your tracking thingy if you can." Bethany said as she thought about trying to shadow travel them all over to Baldur's place if she could do that.

Beth turned to face a green light wondering where that was coming from, she half expected it to be Lance, but before she could do anything they were all teleported towards the river. "Okay never mind on that then Ed." Bethany said as she turned around to look around spotting Runa, and Mary there talking with someone and quickly ran over towards them. "Finally there you are you guys." Bethany said while staring at Forseti. "Who's this guy?" Bethany asked looking at Runa.

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Runa sighed slightly. Her brother wasn't usually this ill tempered. He was a judge, dedicated to ensuring justice and fairness whenever possible - not a fighter. "Brother, please, be at peace," she urged him. "I see the value in Midgardians that I do in any sentient race - we may be gods, but they bleed and feel just as we do." Her words rang with truth. She knew there were those on Asgard who thought they were better than other beings by virtue of their godhood, believing in supremacist notions. Yet as far as Runa was concerned, the main difference between them and the Midgardians was lifespan, and even then, Asgardians would still die one day. They were not truly immortal.

She then turned to Marygold, knowing that she had to stop the fighting on this end. "Marygold, I understand you are defending the honor of Midgard, but there is no need. My brother was merely mistaken." Her eyes then flashed to Forseti, giving him a silent warning. She still had every intention on helping him get out of this mess, but she didn't want to have him belittle her friends in the process. The people of Midgard had treated her with far more kindness than those on Asgard had. Even those she loved on Asgard did little more than just stand by and watch the way she was cruelly treated by the other Asgardians.

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"What the fuck, Bethany? Why'd you throw a rock at me? I don't show up and throw rocks at your astral form!"] Guin complained, more than a little bit annoyed. It hadn't hurt or anything, but it definitely had felt weird - as if a gust of wind in the shape of a rock had hit her in the stomach. She made a mental note to change all of Bethany's passwords as soon as they got back to Earth. That would make them even. She then had one of the most bizarre experiences of her life, as she watched Edus place his hands over her. She wasn't able to focus too much on it, though, as Pietro's words were buzzing into her head rapidly.

If I knew, I would have said! Guin protested. She had no idea how this had happened to her. It was probably some magic bullshit. She hated magic. Unlike science and engineering, she couldn't figure out magic from logical principles - it was like the universe had decided to just let some people selectively achieve glitches. Even the rituals didn't make sense - why would mumbling some sentence in Latin cause things to happen? What if Latin had never been invented? Would another language trigger the magic or would it just never happen?

"If this didn't work, I'm giving you a bad review on Yelp," Guin warned Edus, before walking back into her body. To her relief, she opened her eyes and she could see - she could hear, all of her senses had been restored to her. "Thank god, that fucking sucked." It hadn't lasted very long, but in Guin's opinion, it had already been long enough. Before she could make more quips though, a green light flashed and the next thing she knew, they were standing in some sort of meadow with Runa, Mary, and... some dude?

Guin did a quick mental scan, figuring she might as well put her telepathy to good use, and she made a face as if she had smelled something rotten. She then opened up a mental group chat with her other X-Men members, connecting all of their minds together so they could talk freely: "Gross, that guy I think is Runa's brother and his mind is messed up. Like he's giving me Anakin Skywalker about to kill the younglings vibes."

"Forseti, these are the rest of my companions. Friends, this is my brother, Forseti, God of Justice and Retribution," Runa introduced. "Are you all alright?" she asked.

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Antoinette watched Edus walk over and kneel down in front of Guin. She watched curiously as the area around Guin started to glow orange. Her eyes widened as she watched the power work, always amazed by it even though she had powers of her own.
Ed collapsed after potentially healing Guin and Antoinette stumbled over to his side. He seemed awake but Antoinette wasn’t sure of his condition.
”Are you alright Ed? Do you need a nap?” He looked rather tired to her. Then again, they all probably were after fighting giant wolves. Antoinette surely was. Before Antoinette could do any real first aid assessment, a green flash filled the room and then they were all outside in some field without the Asgardians. Antoinette looked around, feeling very confused. Runa was here, along with some man and Mary. Guin’s voice filled her head, all of their heads then and she listened to what Guin had to say about the man. She stifled a grin by covering her mouth and scratching her cheek.

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Ed ignored Guin. He didn't think it was funny. And he just would rather be laying on the ground and not trying to do anything, like react. But it sounded like it worked since her voice became more real. That was good. "A nap does sound nice." Ed said completely serious.

He closed his eyes. Not seeing the red light, but he did feel the ground under him change. He sighed heavily. And it was a good thing he was still mostly face down when Guin decided to have a nice chat in his head. He was grimacing considering pushing her out. He didn't like that part of him thought it was a little useful. He quite hated that. Once he had contained the traitorous thoughts he sat up.

Ed stood, and dusted himself off. As he did a little bit of orange glow emanated from his hands. Once it was gone he was perfectly clean as if he hadn't ever been laying on the ground. "Ah, a pleasure to meet some family of Runa's." While he was happy to meet the family of Runa's he was very nervous about what Guin had said. He was concerned he would not be able to maintain a shield if necessary or worse if someone got seriously injured he wouldn't be able to heal them with how much energy he had expended for Guin. To look relaxed though he placed one hand in his pocket, gently touching the shield talisman there. It was better than nothing.

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Lance waved slightly at Runa when she spoke to them, before he looked at Forseti, and what Guin and Runa were both saying. Oh fun, so this was Runa's brother, interesting way to meet one of her family members who weren't Klara or Thor. Though Forseti didn't look to be too thrilled at all of them being there, and honestly it kind of looked like Forseti was kind of glaring at him. Uh oh. "So also known as this is probably going to end badly... And I think he hates the fact that we are here."

"Actually, you saying that Guin would make sense depending on... Wait, anyone want to fill me in on where you guys ended up?" Mary's voice responded.

"Well I wasn't really anywhere, just sort of racing around? I don't remember... Guin called me over, so I was in the palace with her, Lance and Annie, and then we got attacked by werewolves."

"Yeah and you then threw a rock at my head or whatever..."

"What? It seemed like a good idea at the time!"

"So you guys were attacked by monsters or something?"

"Uh yeah, what about you?"

"Teddy Bears... That seemed obsessed with giving Runa a hug."

"You're kidding me right?"

"And a swarm of puppies."

"...Okay, that's beyond weird for what happened... Why wouldn't you two be attacked by monsters at all? " Lance asked, thinking for a moment as his brain starting racking to figure out a possible explanation for everything. As soon as it sort of clicked, that's when things weren't going to likely end well or whatever for all of them.

The same thought crossed Mary's mind, and she was now keeping an eye on Forseti, since things were seemingly not going to end well. Since it sounded like he might be the Asgardian behind everything and carrying around an infinity stone. "If you say so Runa," Mary commented out loud, figuring it might be best to say something as opposed to more or less just standing around saying nothing else.

Of course, Forseti was just shooting glares at everyone there, "Why do you hang around with Midgardians again Runa? You say you find value in them, but personally, I do not." he commented, before he held up his hand and it started to glow red, and he smirked slightly.

"Okay, this is not going to end well..." Lance muttered, before the ground more or less began to shake, as if something was stomping on the ground and heading their way, the entire area soon was covered in the red haze once more. a rather large shadow loomed over the group, and when turning to look, the entire group would see a massive creature looming over them. "Well, I hate being right about things..."

"Let's see what the Midgardians can do shall we?" he added to Runa, looking at her.

"...Okay, plan, no one die, and we have got to split between taking out Forseti for that, and taking out the giant monster that does not look too happy to see us... We have to split between this though."

"I can probably see about taking on the monster a bit... Though this will totally not be fun at all...Apologies ahead of time I guess if I end up hitting anyone."

"I mean doubt you'd easily end up hitting me."

"Alright, you are getting on my last nerve, so unless you want me to purposefully hit you, shut up already."

"Well this should be fun," Mary said out loud, before glancing around the field that they were in currently. Typically Mary had to make do with what she had in order to use her powers, for the most part anyway. She knew she could actually use her powers to rip through concrete and all if she ever truly wanted to, but typically she didn't want to. Here though, she could do just about anything she could want without having to worry about destroying buildings or anything with them. Currently the only thing she'd have to worry about would be accidentally hitting someone else who was on her sound.

The ground began to shake, but this time it wasn't because of the monster, this time, it was because plant life and vines started reaching up out of the ground, and Mary smirked slightly at this whole instance. This was going to be a hell of a fight, so she wasn't really going to hold back too much. The giant monster instantly let out a loud roar, and with a loud thump, it's tail went rather close to the group, hitting the ground with a thump. It just barely missed the group, and suddenly the vines jumped up from the ground and started wrapping around the creature as it let out another loud roar, though it was starting to have to somewhat struggle against the vines. "That's not going to likely hold forever."

Lance nodded his head, before he shifted forms and let out a roar of his own, before he jumped up onto the monster's back, before more or less starting to just somewhat pound on the creature who was roaring some more and fighting to try and knock him off. Mary turned her attention back towards Forseti, more than ready to fight him all things considering.

"Seriously? Got anything better or whatever than that?" Pietro asked Forseti with an eye roll.

"Pietro, it might not be the best to insult someone who just summoned a giant monster..."

"Oh, things are just getting started," he said with a chuckle, before three more monsters showed up and their roars were just as loud as the firsts.

"Seriously you just had to same something," she commented, as more vines started sprouting up.

"How was I supposed to know that he'd summon more of them?"

"Okay, we need to do this carefully. We need to focus on the monsters, but we also need to try and fight Forseti to stop him. He clearly has the infinity stone and has been causing all of the problems that we have come across. Be careful, and if you see any sort of chance to potentially land a strike against Forseti do it... This is not going to be easy," Mary commented through the mental group chat. This was not going to be a fun fight.