In the distance, a huge wolf is fighting with a jaguar, fragments of gold falling behind them as a trail, too far away for the noise to reach the man - well, man-shaped being - standing on the hilltop.
Sam tears his gaze away and resumes climbing, mindful of where he places his hands and feet, trying not to think what might happen if one of the frozen bodies isn't quite as frozen as the rest, if it where to reach out and...
He finds himself climbing faster.
Finally reaching the top, he spares a look back at the fighting beasts, before drawing his coat tight around him and stepping up to Lucifer's side.
The devil doesn't seem to notice him. All his attention is focused on something in his hand.
Sam steps closer, carefully, and looks, then finds himself having the oddest urge to pat the devil's shoulder. To offer comfort.
In the hand, completely still, lies a single locust, perfectly covered in ice.
Yeah - I'm feeling sorry for Lucifer, but seriously, once the fimbulwinter gets started, all those weakling close-to-the-equator-in-origin apocalypses doesn't really have much of a chance...
I haven't actually seen that cartoon - I don't think they showed it around here. Alas.
Other random aside: have you seen this series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd80D347iSI ? I'm four episodes in and quite entertained :-)
*grins* Arguable, perhaps. Fire or ice, either way you're screwed. But poor Lucifer, yes. Heh.
I don't think I've actually seen Space Ghost itself either. But Zorak showed up in a lot of cameos/crossovers in Hanna Barbera cartoons. Heh. You recognise the skinny alien locust, so you do. *smiles* Childhood. Heh.
Oh. That looks ... funny as hell, actually. And nice range of gods. Not just the usual suspects, you know? Hodr is a nice touch, for a start ... *grins* This is why I quite like Aussie tv ...
Shouldn't that be 'funny as Hel'? ;-) Though it is - and I absolutely love the use of the lesser known gods and goddesses (I had to go and look up Sjöfn, for one - she has one line in Snorri, that's it - and just look at her :-) ) - the whole thing so far comes across as though the tv series people have for one time's sake actually done their research (and then started playing with it, but hey, that's the fun part).
And yeah, they started playing, but I don't mind that when you've done the research first and people can see where you're coming from. Methinks I should look up episodes of this one ... Thanks for the rec! *grins happily*
Oh, you definitely should - and I'll go back to badly wanting fanfic of Helen Magnus and Grandpa Olaf meeting - not that she'd be particularly impressed, but, well...
Yeah, poor Lucifer, but, you know, it's his own fault, coming from one of those middle-eastern mythologies - one good fimbulwinter and all their apocalyptic omens are going to freeze and that's even before Ragnarok gets started for real...
Will cast a glance back at Henry doing - something to the helicopter.
"So, you're absolutely sure we're in the right place?"
Kate nodded.
"These are the right coordinates. My guy in Nuuk insisted that we'd find a really rare sort of abnormal here."
Will looked around him in a meaningful sort of way, taking in the tiny, heather-covered island, the pair of them and the helicopter with Henry dangling from it. Then he raised an eyebrow.
He thought the eyebrow was a nice touch.
"Yeah, alright, so I got tricked. Okay?"
"Just as long as you're the one to tell Magnus..."
He turned to walk back to the helicopter, hoping that Henry would be about done with it, but whirled back around at an indignant shriek.
Somehow, Kate had managed to get soaking wet. She had her gun drawn and was pointing it at a hole in the ground.
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Henry shouted as he came running - that is, he didn't actually get beyond the 'you', because he managed to trip on the way and the stunner in his hand went off, firing into the ground at an awkward angle.
And something screamed.
Loudly.
Loud as a siren.
And the island - moved.
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Later
"Told you there was an abnormal."
Kate looked remarkably self-satisfied for someone floating in the middle of the Atlantic with no land in sight.
Will just glared at her and hoped that Henry would manage the major technological miracle of turning the stunner and Will's not-too-soaked phone into some form of distress signal before the cold sea did its worst.
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In the distance, a huge wolf is fighting with a jaguar, fragments of gold falling behind them as a trail, too far away for the noise to reach the man - well, man-shaped being - standing on the hilltop.
Sam tears his gaze away and resumes climbing, mindful of where he places his hands and feet, trying not to think what might happen if one of the frozen bodies isn't quite as frozen as the rest, if it where to reach out and...
He finds himself climbing faster.
Finally reaching the top, he spares a look back at the fighting beasts, before drawing his coat tight around him and stepping up to Lucifer's side.
The devil doesn't seem to notice him. All his attention is focused on something in his hand.
Sam steps closer, carefully, and looks, then finds himself having the oddest urge to pat the devil's shoulder. To offer comfort.
In the hand, completely still, lies a single locust, perfectly covered in ice.
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As a random aside, do you know one of the first things you get if you type 'locust' and 'apocalypse' into Google? Zorak. *grins* I love cartoons.
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I haven't actually seen that cartoon - I don't think they showed it around here. Alas.
Other random aside: have you seen this series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd80D347iSI ? I'm four episodes in and quite entertained :-)
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I don't think I've actually seen Space Ghost itself either. But Zorak showed up in a lot of cameos/crossovers in Hanna Barbera cartoons. Heh. You recognise the skinny alien locust, so you do. *smiles* Childhood. Heh.
Oh. That looks ... funny as hell, actually. And nice range of gods. Not just the usual suspects, you know? Hodr is a nice touch, for a start ... *grins* This is why I quite like Aussie tv ...
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And yeah, they started playing, but I don't mind that when you've done the research first and people can see where you're coming from. Methinks I should look up episodes of this one ... Thanks for the rec! *grins happily*
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"So, you're absolutely sure we're in the right place?"
Kate nodded.
"These are the right coordinates. My guy in Nuuk insisted that we'd find a really rare sort of abnormal here."
Will looked around him in a meaningful sort of way, taking in the tiny, heather-covered island, the pair of them and the helicopter with Henry dangling from it. Then he raised an eyebrow.
He thought the eyebrow was a nice touch.
"Yeah, alright, so I got tricked. Okay?"
"Just as long as you're the one to tell Magnus..."
He turned to walk back to the helicopter, hoping that Henry would be about done with it, but whirled back around at an indignant shriek.
Somehow, Kate had managed to get soaking wet. She had her gun drawn and was pointing it at a hole in the ground.
"Hey, are you guys alright?" Henry shouted as he came running - that is, he didn't actually get beyond the 'you', because he managed to trip on the way and the stunner in his hand went off, firing into the ground at an awkward angle.
And something screamed.
Loudly.
Loud as a siren.
And the island - moved.
***
Later
"Told you there was an abnormal."
Kate looked remarkably self-satisfied for someone floating in the middle of the Atlantic with no land in sight.
Will just glared at her and hoped that Henry would manage the major technological miracle of turning the stunner and Will's not-too-soaked phone into some form of distress signal before the cold sea did its worst.
"You're still the one who gets to tell Magnus."
"Damn."
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I totally need to read Sinbad again. *nods nods* Thank you!