Twilight of the Gods

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In the main hall of Voldemort’ s fortress there were rounded up leaders of his army and his allies. The hall was in mayhem. The Dark Lord sat on his throne, but it was evident, that almost no one paid him attention. For example Surt – his army of giants was the greatest force in the whole conflict. Bres as the leader of the Firbolgs had very important status as well. And then there was Lucifer with his demons, which heard of angels fighting for the other side and hurried to partake in Armageddon. He waved and made faces to vampire Lestat de Lioncourt sitting in the darkest corner of the hall out of reach of the daylight. Lestat furiously gesticulated in Lucifer’ s direction and whispered something to other vampires about someone called Memnoch. Death Eaters were almost lost among so many monsters.

Severus sat on a bench near the throne. On one side he had Viking god Loki as his partner assigned by the Dark Lord, on the other side Hel, with whom he spent a passionate night. Hel held Nagini and petted her like a cat. To be precise – she held Nagini’ s front half, the back part lay curled on Severus’ s lap. The python was enjoying the attention and blissfully slumbered. Then there sat Crabbe and Goyle and Stribog snogging with Bellatrix Lestrange. Tzernobog’ s wolf sniffed at Wormtail and pissed on his leg. A bunch of bieses roared with laughter and started to cheer for the wolf to piss on Lord Voldemort. The Dark Lord had very desperate expression on his face. He wanted to Crucio someone, like he did to Draco Malfoy in the morning, but he did not dare. Fenrir Greyback glared to a dementor and he made rude gestures towards him indicating something about smell. The dementor simply floated half a meter above the ground and looked in Dark Lord’ s direction. Finally Surt yelled to everyone to shut up and he started to plan.

“Main attack will be on the ground. The first of the terrestrial forces will be my giants. Fenri will come with them. The second line will consist of Firbolgs and bieses on the left side, werewolves and wolves on the right and wizards and vampires in the center. There will be the strategic center with all the leaders, who will coordinate the battle. Back will hold the dead from Helheim.”

“Sir, yes, sir” saluted Bres. Surt gave him a nasty look.

“Air force will consist of demons, dementors and Stribog’ s winds. Nautical force is the most vulnerable one, consisting only of Midgardsormer and several vodniks, as Aegi and Ran both refused to partake. Air force will be their backups.”

Fenrir Greyback added: “For werewolves’ full power we need a full moon night. Can I suggest the nearest full moon as the date of the battle?”

“Yes, we need the night too”, said vampire Gabrielle.

“It’s clear, as we want to involve your coven, Missis de Lioncourt. We will need some great plane with an access to the sea. What about the northern Germany? Hm? Hymi, your task is to prepare northern Germany for the battle. You have got two days. Take Jotunheim pack and go.”

“My pleasure”, said giant Hymi with a sadistic smile and walked away.

“Bres, right after Hymi cleans the plane, you and your people will prepare a camp. I suggest somewhere around Hamburg. Full moon is four days from now. The battle will start with the moon rising. Wizards will contact the other side one day before battle and inform them of our conditions. When they would not come, we will start to massacre remains of the Europe to provoke them to the action.”


Severus didn’t believe his ears. He felt he’ s deep in shit. They didn’t mention humans! For this monsters humans were absolutely nothing. Clearing Germany, holy fuck! They didn’t give a shit about muggles and wizards; simply all humans were condemned to extinction in five minutes speech. Even Bella, who really didn’t mind some good murdering, starred to Surt with unbelieving expression. Surprisingly Loki was unhappy as well. A lot of gods and monsters wore eager expressions and started to lightly chat about fencing, killing humans, smashing enemies etc., but several of them was dumbfounded.

Severus carefully inspected the hall. He decided to contact those, who did not like the thought of world ending. And he had nothing to lose. Should he die now or in four days – he did not care.

So now they sat here in Severus’ s room with silencing spell on the door and on the window and they desperately tried to come up with some plan for stopping the battle. Beside Severus on his bed sat Bellatrix, curled into a ball, and next to her vampire Lestat leaned against the wall. On the chair sat Loki deep in thoughts and on writing table sat Slavonic god Tzernobog. Under the table laid his red-eyed wolf, which looked on Severus with very curious expression. Draco and Narcissa Malfoy stood leaned against the door.

Draco started: “Is there any possibility, that we could banish giants back to their worlds?”

“The answer is no. They are too strong and big now. If only your mad snake-wizard did not call them”, said Loki as a specialist in the Viking mythology. “They stayed in their worlds and bothered the other worlds only minimally, but now Surt decided they are strong enough and he took the nearest opportunity for a strike.”

~~”We can always run to the other side”~~ heard Severus in his mind. Bella and Lestat raised their heads and started to search for source of that voice. Tzernobog smiled and made gesture towards his wolf.

~~”Yeah, it’s me, humans. I’m leader of the pack. My name is Goryvlad. We wolves like the world and we do not want it to end.”~~

“Changing sides then? I can gather other vampires. There is more than 30 strong ones including the First Brood”, said Lestat.

“And what about a sabotage? We can stay here and during the battle unexpectedly turn against the dangerous ones. Or against leaders, it works perfectly and it is tradition. Remember that we are at the strategic center”, suggested Severus.

Bellatrix was deep in thoughts over his proposition. “Yes, good idea. We should murder them. But the real problem is the giant pack. Can we kill them somehow? With killing spells?”

“Sure. They are alive after all. We vampires are strong enough to kill them with swords, for example by cutting their heads off. A lot of us could fly – and Surt does not know it, it could be a nice surprise. But humans do not have so much strength. I do not know any killing curses, it’ s your field.”

“I think we should try and we would see. There are four wizards. Can you combine your force and cast one spell simultaneously?” Asked Loki.

“Of course. But against half-giant we needed three wizards so I’m afraid it would not be sufficient”, sadly stated Draco, who saw the attack against Hagrid last year.

But Loki advised: “No problem, there are giants of various sizes. Start with the smallest ones – they are as big as humans - and continue as long as possible. Thor would kill the biggest ones. And vampires the rest”

~~”Our pack will kill werewolves. They can’t infect us. And we have outnumbered them 4 to 1. Then we can move to smaller giants or to bieses and Firbolgs.”~~

“We must inform the other side. We need not to be killed during our brilliant plan. Whom of us would they believe?”

“No one fully. I’ll try to send an owl. And Goryvlad can try his Legillimency on Remus Lupin”, said Narcissa.