Chaper 9


    TALE''S END


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    Mimir, you might be wondering to know how exactly Ragnarok started. To be honest no one really understood how it happened. The thing that I remember was that there had been Winters, Winter following winter. There was no Spring, no warmth. It was cold and the people were constantly angry, battling and proclaiming wars to each other, all across the world. This everlasting winter took the name Fimbulwinter. Then cruel wind came and twilight to the world. Places where humans lived fell into ruins, crushed down and crumbled into ash and devastation. People lived like animals.


    And then it happened; Skoll reached the Sun, Hati reached the Moon and so, the light disappeared! Darkness filled the air, like ashes, like mist. Then great earthquakes came. The mountains shake and crumble. The earthquakes were so great that all bonds and shackles and fetters got destroyed


    That was how my brother Fenris Wolf freed himself. Oh, he was fierce! He howled, proclaiming war and death! His upper jaw reached the heavens, the lower jaw touched the earth. There was nothing he couldn’t eat, nothing he couldn’t destroy! Flames came from his eyes and nostrils.


    I rose to join my brother''s rage and met him after so long, spilled my venom into the sea, poisoning all sea life. Splattered my black poison into the air in a fine spray killing everyone of our enemies that breathed it! We were glorious! All those who saw us, ‘Fenrir Wolf and Midgard Serpent’, Loki’s children, knew death!


    The sons of Muspell rode down from the heavens, led by Sutr, the fire giant, holding high his sword. They rode across the rainbow bridge, across Bifrost, and as they passed, the rainbows, once bright colors became shades of charcoal and ash. They burned the rainbow!


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    My father also escaped his bonds beneath the earth. He was tasked to be the helmsman of the ship called Naglfar. The captain of the ship was Hrym, the leader of the frost giants. The surviving frost giants followed Hrym in the final battle. My father commanded Hel’s legions of the dead.


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    We all traveled to the battlefield called Vigrid.


    I and my brother Fenrir


    Sutr and the flame giants of Muspelheim


    Hrym and the frost giants


    My Father, Loki with my sister Hel at his side, and the dead of Helheim warriors


    Against


    Odin and the Aesir gods with the Einherjar, all the warriors who died ‘good deaths’ in battle rode and arrived at Vigrid, the final battlefield.


    Thor was beside Odin. And so, the final battle of Ragnarok began, with Odin charging straight for Fenrir.


    I still remember that look Fenrir was having with flaming eyes full of rage and lust for revenge. Odin fought bravely I must admit, but my brother was more vast and far more dangerous than anything could possibly be. He broke his spear with his jaws and bit and crushed and swallowed Odin! That was the death of the All-father


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    At that moment I was battling Thor, I also, like my brother, had to finish my personal business with him. Our battle was legendary with storms, wind and thunder in the sky. He tried many times to hit me with his hammer again and again. I, as well, tried to reach him with my venom. It was then when he found the opportunity, he lifted his hammer and struck a definitely deadly blow but he missed or rather I dodged.


    The impact that his hammer made was trembling at that moment. Before I could notice I found myself getting sucked in a hole, no one knew where it came from. I could also let this chance go, so I ignored the strange event and focused on my opponent, emptying my venom over the person I must hate. As I was forcefully sacked at that hole, I saw Thor grunt in pain and then lifeless fall on to the ground and his death …


    That was when I was transported here. In this timeline before anything happened. And some days later you visited me and of course, you know the rest of the story. Here we are.


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    Mimir starred as Jormungandr finished his so-far life-story with absolute focus. His eyes were so wide open, one could say they were one step away from falling off from his eye sockets.


    At the beginning of the story Mimir was confused, then things got interesting about the future events that he was introduced to, but in the last part of the story his look spoiled the terror he was feeling.


    “That was… unexpected…” He said as his legs betrayed him, forcing him to sit and get himself together.