First Demonic Dragon

Chapter 1056: What You Won’t Do

“Nom…”

Fiona took her time savoring the ultra-sweet sweet cream, cheesy delicacy lying on her plate.

Her mood, which was beginning to deteriorate before, was already showing rapid improvement.

Her feet swished underneath the table with childish glee. Thrudd didn’t know if she had ever seen her friend be so carefree.

“You, uh… really like carrot cake, huh?”

“It’s the superior delicacy.” Fiona pointed her fork at Thrudd menacingly. “There’s nothing better for one’s spirit than vegetables and cream cheese. It’s almost healthy.”

Thrudd opened her mouth to speak.

“I said almost, boob dragon. Now keep your focus off my widening hips and fix your fucked up relationship.”

Even though the two of them were sitting directly across from one another, Thrudd and Behemoth had yet to actually cross eyes.

Instead, they made uncomfortable eye contact with everyone else in the Norse tavern. Several patrons had already walked out as a result.

Finally, their eyes met. Thrudd immediately turned away.

For someone who did not have an explicit attraction to men or women, Behemoth checked a lot of boxes for her that she didn’t even know she had.

“…Speak.”

“H-Hello.”

“That is not… quite what I meant.”

“Oh…”

“Yeah…”

The girls turned away from each other again.

Fiona was already beginning to get annoyed.

“Start talking to each other right now, or I’m going to start ranking the men in your family by which ones could make me lose my self-respect. the fastest.”

“E-Ew!” Thrudd recoiled.

“The next words to come out of your mouth better be backstory or else!”

“Fiona!”

“Number one: your dad. I saw that print at the pool party, and no matter how scared I am, I’ll try anything once.”

“H-He’s the entire problem!” Thrudd yelled with a red face.

Her shout accidentally caused the clouds overhead to rumble. Rain fell outside softly, and Behemoth took one of Thrudd’s hands.

“Tell us what happened. We’re listening.”

Even Fiona seemed to be all out of jokes as she stared at Thrudd with her chin resting in her hands.

Feeling sufficiently comforted, Thrudd finally released a deeply held sigh.

“Okay, so… basically, my dad won’t tell me why I’m… different.”

Over the next few minutes, Thrudd went on to explain why her upbringing was rather different from that of her other counterparts.

She then detailed her suspicion that her father and other members of her family might have known the reason for this, and how it was basically confirmed with her father’s behavior.

Behemoth was the only one surprised that Thrudd was ’different’.

Most primordial beasts don’t possess the ability of parallel awareness, and she wasn’t a particularly curious dinosaur to begin with.

Fiona, on the other hand, already knew that Thrudd was different.

She had seen enough of the multiverse to know that not only was Thrudd the daughter of Thor, she was a valkyrie as well. She even had a slightly timid and mild-mannered husband.

However, she never really put much thought into the reason why.

Creation was like that sometimes. A whole slew of things were possible in one realm that weren’t in another.

“Okay… so why do you care so much?” She suddenly asked.

“B-Because I want to know the truth!”

“Do you think it’s bad?”

“I-I don’t know, maybe!” Thrudd sighed. “He’s never been so dodgy with me before, about anything! He explained sex to me with flashcards the first time I asked about it!”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“I was ten!”

“Aww.” Fiona gushed.

Thrudd rolled her eyes and put her head back down. She absentmindedly stirred the spoon in her own cup of coffee to give herself something to focus on.

“I just… wish I knew what he was hiding from me that was so bad. Even Thea won’t tell me, and she tells me everything…”

“Maybe she just doesn’t want to get between you and your dad like that.” Fiona offered. “She loves you both after all, and it’s not an easy situation for her to be in.”

Thrudd didn’t respond, but she knew that her friend’s words made sense. Though that didn’t mean she liked Thea’s refusal to talk any more than she did before.

“Huh.” Behemoth suddenly said.

“What?”

“Nothing.” She turned away.

“You’re lying, what is it??” Thrudd asked desperately.

“…It just seems to me that Abaddon believes himself to be protecting you from something without allowing you to make the choice on your own. Amusing.”

“Ooohhh…” Fiona covered her mouth. “Did Barny with Boobs just comprehend irony?”

“Human. Be silent before I eat you.”

“You know you like me too much to eat me.”

“…”

“…Right?”

Behemoth let out a huff and turned her head away.

Swallowing her pride, Thrudd grabbed Behemoth by both of her hands.

“Bebe… I’m so sorry about leaving you at home. I just… didn’t want you to get hurt, and I was worried about not being able to protect you, but-”

“But that’s a choice you should have let me make on my own, yes?”

“Yes…”

“You’re so smart, Bebe.” Fiona gushed.

Strangely, the dinosaur didn’t make another threat to eat her this time. Instead, she seemed to poke her chest out a little bit further, and her cheeks glowed softly.

Thrudd resisted the urge to smile at her.

“Will you please forgive me? I promise that I…”

Thrudd’s words suddenly trailed off, and the look in her eyes shifted. Her entire body became tense.

Fiona tilted her head. “What’s wrong? Gotta poop?”

“Nevi’im don’t poop.” Behemoth reminded.

“Oh shit, right.”

“Was that an attempted pun?”

“Oh my god, you really are smart today.”

Behemoth thought that maybe she didn’t hate this little human that much after all.

Suddenly, the rain outside became heavier, complete with flashes of lightning and loud crackling thunder.

“Geez, really pulling it down there, aren’t you, Thruddie?” Fiona whistled. “You’re gonna wash the whole place away at this rate.”

“It’s not me…” Thrudd said grimly.

“He’s here.”

Suddenly, the doors to the tavern were thrown open loudly, and a hooded figure walked in.

He captured everyone’s attention because of his sheer size. There were only two others in the bar who even came close to him in height.

His footsteps were heavy; each one sounded like an echo of the thunder outside.

Rainwater dripped off his cloak and spilled onto the floor, but the barkeep seemed not to have a problem with it.

Or rather, he was just too intimidated to say anything.

The hooded figure started to make his way to the bar, but paused halfway to his destination.

He turned his head to the side, and those around could see the beginnings of a red beard underneath his hood.

“The fuck are you doing here?”

A bolt of violet lightning crashed into the ground outside. The storm nearly doubled in intensity and made the entire tavern shake.

The man pulled down his hood, and Thrudd’s scowl became even uglier.

“…Getting a drink. It’s nice to see you too-”

“Cut the shit. You won’t escape from me this time.”

Thor looked Thrudd over once and returned his attention to the bar.

“I have never run from you, Thrudd. From the very beginning, I have always been chasing after you.”

He sat on a stool, and it groaned audibly against his weight.

“Mead. Biggest tankard you got.”

The barkeep seemed surprised to hear the giant man include him in the conversation. He had a slow start at first, but eventually he placed a small barrel full of mead in front of Thor.

Along with a very large bendy straw.

Thor started to bring the straw to his lips, when Thrudd zapped it with a bolt of lightning from her fingertips- melting it instantly.

“Stop acting familiar.” She growled. “Get on your knees and hold up your hands.”

Thor grabbed a smaller tankard from the bar beside him and resorted to scooping out mead like it was a punch bowl.

“You’re being unreasonably hostile. I can only assume that’s his doing.”

“If you mention my father again, I will floss your teeth with that hammer.”

“He’s not your father!” Thor’s voice boomed as he slammed his fist on the bar, splintering it almost instantly.

A discharge of electricity knocked out almost every other person inside the tavern.

“He’s a homewrecker! A seducer who turned your mother against our family and killed me before he ran off with her!”

Thor’s eyes suddenly became depressed as he clenched his fists that were now soaked in mead.

“As if that wasn’t enough, he had to erase me and steal the only thing that ever mattered… my daughter…!”

Suddenly, Thor stood up and turned towards a visibly shaken Thrudd.

“I won’t stand around while he continues to hold you under his spell to think he’s some great, benevolent figure. He’s a monster, and I won’t allow him to remake you in his twisted image!”

Thor started walking towards Thrudd with his hand outstretched.

“I’m asking you to come with me, Thrudd. It’s the natural way of things. The way they’re supposed to be, and the way they’ve always been.”

Thrudd was like a frozen statue. Her mind struggled to offer up an adequate explanation for the things she had learned just now, and it almost made her feel sick.

Her world was spinning.

“Thrudd?” A new voice said.