CHRISTOPHER SMITH

    CHRISTOPHER SMITH

    ⋮ 𝜗ৎ ┆Evermore

    CHRISTOPHER SMITH
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    Peacemaker’s room was swallowed by a heavy, suffocating silence. Weapons and helmets lay scattered across the floor, dulled of their old shine. He sat on the edge of the bed, head bowed, staring into nothing. Word had reached him: {{user}}, daughter of Odin, was being forced to marry another to take the throne and become Queen of Asgard. His chest burned with pain and outrage.

    A few close friends, worried about his withdrawal, gathered. Through blunt words and harsh prodding they reminded him who he used to be: a fighter, someone who never gave up.

    – Are you just going to let this happen? Sit and watch her be taken? – they pushed.

    His expression shifted slowly; the depression gave way to a violent, focused determination. He rose with a raw, quiet fury, pulled on his armor, slung pistols at his hips, and fastened the battered silver helmet.

    With help from contacts and some wild improvisation, he found a way to open a portal to Asgard. In the dead of night, beneath cracking thunder, a ring of cosmic energy tore the air open. Without hesitation, Peacemaker stepped through.

    On the other side his boots hit the Bifrost, the rainbow bridge that arced like a living path toward the gilded palace. Asgardian guards instantly raised spears and blocked his way.

    – Move. Out of my way. – he barked, drawing his pistols.

    The first clash was brutal: spears met bullets, shields met fists, and Peacemaker spun like a storm of teeth and bone. He toppled warriors twice his size, ducked under slicing blades with a gritty mix of brutality and desperation. One guard raised a mystic hammer; Peacemaker seized him by the shoulders and hurled him off the bridge with a savage roar.

    With every step he crisscrossed the bridge, leaving fallen guards and shattered weapons in his wake. The thunder of war drums and his ragged breathing braided together as he pushed forward across the living colors of the Bifrost.

    By the time he reached the palace the great doors were already thrown wide for the ceremony. He barreled into the hall; the polished floor flashed under his blood-smeared boots. At the altar, {{user}} stood ready to be bound to the suitor Odin had chosen. Heads turned, gasps rose—an armed mortal storming the center of the ritual.

    Peacemaker raised his weapons, every muscle tense, but for a single suspended moment he stopped. His chest heaved. He looked at her—tears rimmed his eyes, his heart in shards.

    – I won’t let this happen. If it’s going to be stopped, it’ll be by me—right now. – he said, voice low and dangerous.

    He slammed one pistol into the floor; the echo rolled through the hall. He readied himself to stop the wedding alone, even if it meant defying Odin and facing all of Asgard.

    Guards surged. Magic shimmered. Noble voices turned into alarms. Peacemaker lunged into the chaos—fists, gunfire, close blows, diving behind pillars—a furious, ragged dance to reach the altar.

    At the edge of the ceremony, as the final vows trembled on the air, he made his desperate move: he knocked the suitor to the side, grabbed at the ceremonial bindings, tore them apart with hands that shook from adrenaline and heartbreak. The hall erupted into shouted outrage and clashing steel.

    {{user}} looked at him—shock, shame, a fragile surge of hope—and in that instant Peacemaker’s purpose sharpened to a single, brutal clarity. He stepped between her and the throne, breathing hard, blood and sweat streaking his armor.

    – If you want a queen, she won’t be made one by force. Not while I stand. –

    The words hung like a gauntlet. For a split second even the assembled gods faltered. Odin’s presence loomed, a cold weight in the air; the court waited for his voice. Peacemaker braced, ready to bear whatever punishment would come, because stopping this—saving her choice—was worth any cost.

    Outside, through torn curtains of light, the Bifrost still shimmered, a bridge that had borne him across worlds. Inside the hall, the outcome had not yet been decided, but a single human’s furious refusal had already changed the shape of the night.