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[The Ancient One POV]

Consumed by his own emotions, Odin instantly charged at Alex, who was already waiting for him in a defensive stance, which allowed him to not only dodge Odin's first attack but deliver an attack of his own blasting Odin with a point-blank Requiem that sent the former All-Father to his knees briefly, destroying half of his clothes. Growling, Odin pushed himself up rather quickly and rushed at Alex once again, delivering two well-connected punches to his chest, before attempting to blast Alex with a beam of cosmic power.

However, Alex ducked under his attack scarcely dodging the powerful beam that graced his hair, before grabbing Odin's hand pulling the former All Father close to him, delivering a mana-charged palm strike to Odin's stomach with enough power to take the air out of Odin.

But as expected of Odin, he recovered quickly, grabbing Alex by the shirt before snarling, "Don't hold back me! I have seen you fight! Don't mock me!" 

Smiling, Alex grabbed Odin's hand before slamming him to the ground in a seemingly flawless motion, that caught Odin off guard.

"Sure," Alex smiled, jumping a few steps back,  pointing at Odin before doing a flick with his hand, as if to say. Come on.

That was all Odin needed to jump to his feet.

Growling, but at the same time somehow smiling, Odin rushed at Alex, before teleporting in front of him swiftly punching the perplexed human in the solar plexus, knocking the wind out of him, and stunning him for a brief moment.

"That's for earlier," Odin growled before delivering another punch in the same spot with twice the strength, doubling Alex over.  Grinning, Odin followed that up with a quick rising uppercut, lifting Alex's body high into the air, before grabbing his leg and slamming him to the ground. "Is that all?!" the former king barked, letting his guard drop for just the briefest of moments.

A grave mistake.

Taking advantage of this, Alex moved in front of the former king in a blur of movement, delivering three consecutive blows in rapid succession, one to his throat, one to his chin, and one to his eye, effectively stunning Odin for a brief moment.

Which was more than enough time for Alex to grab Odin's wrist throwing the former King high into the air, before slamming him headfirst into the ground, then letting off his wrist, Alex extended his right hand towards Odin, muttering "Requiem," 

The explosion this time was big, enough to destroy Odin's house completely, but not enough to put the former king down.

"You brat," Odin smirked, completely unharmed for the most part.

Alex grinned back, cracking his knuckles, "Is that all? Or you need more… therapy?"

Odin scoffed, "You will regret this one way or another,"

Alex cracked a smile at him, "Nah, I for one I'm enjoying this. Way better than seeing you whine."

Odin growled, "You will learn to respect your elders!" 

"Bring it on!" Alex challenged.

It was funny really, seeing the Old oaf trying to appear angry and insulted when in reality, he could barely hold the grin on his face, after all, he was a warrior first, and then a King, this was in a way, therapeutic for him. He was venting his anger on Alex.

He had no reason, or intent to kill him.

He just wanted for a moment to forget.

And Alex was offering him that.

"This is getting out of hand," Frigga commented.

"Don't worry, let the kids play," I chuckled, summoning two cups of tea, one for me, and one for Frigga, she really needed one.

"Those kids… as you say, have the power to destroy the planet," Frigga shot back.

"They won't," I assured, I was at least a sixty-eight percent sure they wouldn't…. Sixty-two, yes, that's better.

"Very well then," Frigga sighed, grabbing the cup of tea I was offering her in an anxious matter.

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[Alex Walker POV - Eight hours later.]

After eight hours of non-stop fighting, I had been defeated.

And now, I laid on the ground chuckling.

As Odin offered me a hand.

He had won.

I mean, I was far from done.

And I had not used my infinity stones.

But, I had accomplished my goal.

I had helped the old depressed bastard to vent some of his problems in the best way Asgardians knew, with violence.

"You did well," Odin smiled, as I took his hand.

"Same," I smiled.

"You will surpass me soon enough, so I guess I'm happy I got to beat you before that happened," Odin chuckled.

"So, are you feeling better?" I asked, pulling a few beers from my inventory.

Odin nodded, grabbing one, "As good as I can feel right now," 

"Can you help me know?" I asked, taking a sip of my beer.

Odin chuckled, "Sure, why not,"

"Perfect," I smiled at him.

"Let me guess, it's about the essence of Asgard, right?" Odin sighed, grabbing the beer with his two hands.

"Yes," I nodded, "Thor is having troubles adjusting to the power, so I wanted to know how you mastered it, before telling him."

Odin smiled, a sad smile, looking at the ground, "I suppose the reason you are asking instead of him, is because Thor doesn't want to speak to me,"

"Give him time, he not only discovered he had a sister, you never told him about, but that his brother is not his brother in blood, and to top that off, he had to fight his sister to the death, almost dying a few times," I sighed, scratching the back of my head, "I mean, I'm no expert, but that's a recipe for trauma right there."

"I suppose it is," Odin conceded, before clapping his hands and turning to look at me, "If he wants to learn to control the essence, he needs to do what I did, he needs to see the runes of Yggdrasill and drink from the well of Mimir,"

I blinked, "Shit," 

"That's how I learned how to control that power," Odin sighed.

"So he will have to sacrifice an eye?" I asked.

Odin nodded, "The bigger the sacrifice, the better,"

"Very well then," I sighed, standing up. "I will send some people to fix… this… I would say house, but… you know," I chuckled.

"Don't worry, I will use my magic to fix it," Odin chuckled, before turning to look at me, with a worried expression, "Promise me something, Alex,"

"What?" I asked, curious as to what he was gonna ask.

"Don't let my boy alone," Odin muttered, "Help him, in every step of the way."

I nodded, "You didn't need to ask, Thor is, after all, my brother," and with that, I teleported back to Asgard.