CHAPTER 140

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[Bucky Barnes POV]

Someone has to tell Draul to chill out sometimes. 

What was up with him attracting every bad guy in the vicinity left and right? 

I mean, how bad would one's luck need to be to attract the ire of a God? His luck should be down in the pits of hell, whichever version of it exists. 

Steve and I had just finished our workout when the security of our house picked up some people who were dressed rather funny, making their way towards us. 

Steve had wanted to call Draul but he had appeared before them the next moment and started talking to the guy with the bright red cape and a hammer in his hands. 

Seeing Loki beside them clued me in on who the blonde might be. 

Thor. 

A real mythical God of Thunder from the Norse pantheon. 

Who were the others though? 

-Guy's, I might need you to get ready.-

His voice echoed in our head. Those manuals he gave us to practice chi helped a lot that Draul said that with further mastery, we might be able to talk with each other with only our minds. 

"I get the Thor guy, but who are the rest?" I asked. 

-Oh, that's Sif and the Warriors Three. Are you guys ready?-

Steve's shield flew from somewhere around the house and landed in his hands. 

"Ready."

A blue portal opened in front of us and we walked through to come face to face with warriors of legends. 

"Let's see if the legends live up to the tales, shall we?"

"You know of us?" The biggest one with the flaming beard asked. 

"Heard of, to be more precise. So who's tag teaming with who?" I asked, which surprised them. 

"Surely you don't think of fighting two of us at the same time, do you?" The Asian looking guy asked. 

"It's more efficient that way." The skin of my arm went back to its black color as the knuckles protruded outwards a little. 

"Very well then." Flame beard said and drew out his axe while the Asian held a spiked mace. Leaving the other guy and the one named Sif to fight Steve. 

"Steve, don't you dare pull your punches." Sometimes he could be that way which was very annoying. 

"Don't worry. Wasn't thinking of it." He said and strapped his shield tighter to his hands. 

"Hah!!" Flame beard shouted and brought down his axe at me which I met with my metal arm while I withdrew a blade from it and used the other hand to parry the mace that was swung my way. 

"Not yet." My arm shone purple but I held it in and continued fighting them both. They were skilled, that much was very clear from the beginning and the synchrony they had with each other reminded me that these guys have been fighting alongside each other for centuries, which made the fight that much harder. Not really. 

Whatever I lacked in their century old experience, I made up for in overwhelming strength. If a comparison were to be made then I would literally fold the super soldier me combined with Steve in half. 

I ducked under the axe swipe from flame beard and delivered an uppercut with a kinetic energy-filled arm which made him soar through the air like a golf ball. I was about to tank the other guy when a barrier, one of Draul's, covered all of us. 

A second later and a huge bolt of lightning impacted where Draul was and exploded forth and crashed against the barrier. 

"Well fuck me." I muttered. 

"Looks like Thor is angry. You guys really are strong. Wonder whatever it was that Loki did. But that doesn't matter now. Now we fight!" He brought down his mace but I dodged it and sent a blow to his head which he dodged by moving his head sideways at the last second. 

He made a leg sweep which brought me down to the ground but before he could gain any footing, I punched the ground and made it erupt where he was which sent him copying the same acrobatic moves as flame beard. 

Flame beard was already up on unsteady feet and held his axe in front of him with disheveled hair. "My goodness, you punch really hard." He said, but there was a smile on his face. 

Fucking Vikings. Draul would have loved to fight this guy… if he was as stupidly strong as Draul was. 

He rushed at me, axe swinging, while I parried with my short sword or my metal arm. He seemed to realize that my metal arm hits harder than my normal one, but in my humble opinion if it were not for the Vibranium it was made with and its ultra density, my arm would hit harder than it could. 

But whatever I guess. 

"Steve!" Steve backed me at my call before breaking off and showing me the front of his shield. 

Already knowing why I called him, he positioned it so that it was facing the Asgardians and invited me to go ahead. 

Without missing a beat, I punched the shield with my fully charged arm and watched as the resulting force hit the Asgardians and threw them off. 

"Allfathers! Give me strength."

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[Draul St. Cross POV] 

I don't know what it was that Thor did but I could feel that he got a little stronger than he was before, not that it mattered. 

Though I wondered what it was he did: was it based on belief or did the Allfathers really strengthened him? Well whatever it was that that prayer meant did not in fact change the outcome of this battle. 

I looked at my lawn and seeing as Thor was charging up, the next fight might make my house casualty. Reaching that conclusion, I opened a portal and let it swallow everyone here, including Loki who thought he could sneak inside my house while leaving an illusion outside to watch the fight. 

"This is better. This way you won't wreck my house." I said. 

Thor channeled his power through his hammer and raised it to the sky which just made me roll my eyes. 

"Die!!!" The entire sky blackened as lightning strikes came alive and descended on Thor who then pointed his hammer and me and I knew that was the moment to brace for impact. 

The lightning blasted my form and carried me as I slid on the ground even as the sand changed to glass and melted. 

The attack continued for a while but all I felt was that I was recharged to peak state. Although it did hurt as the billions of electrons entered my body while I absorbed the ones I could.

"I-impossible." Thor muttered and looked at me with disbelief. Right, the reaction of every arrogant prick. 

Not just Thor but even his friends were shocked at what happened. 

Lightning shot forth from my hands and bound Thor before dragging him towards me. I slammed him out of his shocked state into the ground, hard, Making him cough blood. 

"So much for a God." He was strong, sure, but not enough that he could threaten me. None of them could, which made it even more pitiful as they realized that. 

Thor tried to say something but I choked him even further, causing him to gurgle in his own blood. It made me cringe as to why I had to deal with the arrogant Thor of all people, and here I thought dealing with Loki was more troublesome than anything. 

Well I wasn't done with his beating. 

If Odin allowed them to come here and find trouble with me, or Loki tricked them into coming, it was up to me to teach them a lesson that they would know so that they would think hard and long before trying to come before me again. 

I couldn't kill them for obvious reasons. Odin would just smite me and my only hope of escaping was the Space Stone. But even that would prove useless as he had his eyes and that of Heimdall and the Bifrost. In layman's term, I was fucked if I killed any of them… but no one said I couldn't beat the shit out of them. 

And by them… 

"W-wha!!!" Loki found himself before me and before he could react, I choked him as I did Thor and raised both of them up and slammed them on the ground. 

"You didn't think I would forget about you, did you Loki?" He wanted to say something but ended up screaming as lightning coursed through his body. 

"Stop!!" Thor screamed but I didn't relent. 

His hammer flew to his hand and he used it to summon lightning but all it did was drown Loki into a quagmire of pain so he stopped. 

I let go of both of their necks and they immediately staggered to their feet, Thor shielding Loki while his eyes scanned his comrades who were fighting Steve and Bucky. 

"Don't worry about them. You should worry about yourself first." I called for his attention and immediately his eyes snapped back to me. 

"Are you okay, brother?" He asked the weary Loki behind him. 

"I've lived better days." Loki replied as two daggers manifested in his hands. 

"When we get through this, brother, you and I will have a long talk." Thor said to which Loki nodded. They both communicated with their eyes and commenced their attack. 

Loki threw his daggers at me while Thor rushed behind. 

I tried to catch the daggers but as soon as my hands touched them, they disappeared only for me to see two daggers lodged a few centimeters into my chest. 

Thor tried to attack me seeing as my focus was on the daggers but what he didn't know was that I did not need to see him to react to him. 

If I wanted to, I could paint a 10km 360° visual inside my head with ease. I could stretch it further but there was no need for me to. 

I used the staff to stop Thor's attack only for two Loki to appear behind trying to stab me while the one behind Thor threw another dagger with accurate precision at my head. 

Two red spears appeared from the ground and skewered the Lokis behind me while I just tilted my head to avoid the knife coming at my head, all the while keeping my eyes on Thor. 

He switched the hands with which he held his hammer to the other one which gave him freedom to send a kick to my stomach only for said stomach to turn crystalline. I head-butted him but he was quick on his thinking and wanted to use the chance to escape, only for me to yank him back with his cape. 

'They never learn.'

"No..."

I spun Thor above my head before slamming him back on the ground. 

"… Capes."

Loki seemed like the intelligent one of the two as his cape dissolved into lights and disappeared. He sent me a weak smile as he saw me nodding in satisfaction. 

"Not this time Loki." Beams shot forth from my hands and hit the Loki in front of me making him fizzle out but I didn't say anything and just turned around in a circle, causing the real hidden Loki to be hit. 

"H-heim.. D-dall." I heard the choking sound of Thor behind me trying to call for a bailout but I wasn't having it so I kicked him making him fly away with a grunt. 

"Heimdall!" Great, and now it's Loki. 

Eldritch vines grabbed Loki and drew him towards me despite him shaking his head but that did nothing as I charged into him while he was in motion. 

"Heimdall!!!" And it's the warriors three and Sif. "Anytime now would be greatly appreciated, Heimdall." The one that was probably Fandral shouted with urgency. 

I saw the clouds spinning, cuing me that my time against the two spoilt prince's was up. 

I teleported Bucky and Steve away from where their opponents were and the three of us watched as the Bifrost carried back the beaten Asgardians back to their home. 

"You owe me one." I muttered under my breath and it might just have been my imagination but I heard what sounded like a snort before the sky cleared.