Gatekeeper Thor Novels & Stories

Too long. Then the door cracked open just a few inches. A man in his mid forties stood there with a weathered face and tired eyes. The moment he saw Thorne and the armed guards behind him, pure fear flashed across his expression. Like He had a hint of why they were at his front door. “Greetings,” Thorne said, his voice steady and authoritative. “I am Thorne Vale, Beta of the Ironfang Dominion.” Derek’s eyes widened in panic. He immediately tried to slam the door shut but Thorne was faster. He shoved his boot into the narrow gap, stopping the door cold. The wood creaked under the pressure.

' I sighed, rubbing my temples. 'I get it, you've been through some shit.' Thalia huffed, 'But you can't keep locking people out.' 'Sure, I can.' I frowned, 'Last time I even thought about letting someone in, I was assaulted and nearly raped.' Thalia went quiet as the sound of a door opening filled my bedroom. My head whipped over to the source. Garrett stood behind my open door, a silver key in his hand. "Seriously?" I grimaced, my eyes narrowing into a glare.

Kain I summoned Thor the morning after I spoke with Garrick. He came in looking like he had not slept. His clothes were wrinkled, his hair a mess, and his eyes carried the sharp edge of someone who had been awake too long and angry the whole time. “Sit,” I said, pointing to the chair across from my desk. He stayed where he was. “Garrick came here yesterday. He made threats and demanded blood for his son.” Thor did not react.

Another fireball hits the Gatekeeper, causing him to let out another earth shattering squeal. This is no ordinary fire but something which can burn the Gods themselves. Lavi aims several flames at him, pushing the Gatekeeper towards the wall. His skin is nearly melting off but the Gatekeeper is still formidable as ever. He growls at Lavi and jumps forward. “Watch out!” Anna shrieks as the creature closes in but Lavi shoots more fire at his chest, throwing him back.

The goal wasn’t confrontation, it was to pull him back, to shake him loose from whatever had wrapped itself around his mind. Then we saw him. Thorne stood just beyond the gate, motionless, his posture stiff, his gaze fixed straight ahead. He looked present, yet not fully here, like someone caught between waking and dreaming. He didn’t acknowledge our arrival. He didn’t move forward. He didn’t retreat. He just stood there, right at the threshold, as if he couldn’t enter without our permission. “Walking in there without evidence is something you’ll regret, Thorne. She has a mother who can bite so hard,” Killian said as we closed the distance between us and the gate.

They exploded in the wake of our passage, their silver frames dissolving into a shower of binary sparks. We hit the second spire, then the third, moving faster than the system could track. The red Wall of Deletion was closing over our heads like a dome, but the final exit the "Root-Access Gate" was right in front of us. "Thorne is trying to override the gate!" I saw the encryption levels on my HUD flickering. "He’s using his own neural link to lock it!" "Then we use the Wolf's Gavel!" Dax reached forward, his hand covering mine on the throttle.

He was shaking her, his own suit sparking as the Void’s Static Discharge (the release of built-up electrical energy) tried to fry his systems. Elara snapped back to the reality of the cold and the dark. She looked at the Altar, then at the Dimensional Gateway (the silver portal above them). She saw the truth now, hidden in the Key’s code. "I can't just close it, Kaz," Elara gasped, her breath fogging the inside of her visor. "The Gateway is a Bi-Directional Tether (a link that connects two points in space equally). If I plug the Key in to stabilize Earth, it keeps the door open to them. The Void will follow their signal right through the bridge and into our sky."

Beta Thorne suggested calmly, his face bowed, unable to meet Kael's red eyes and withstand the fury radiating from him. Kael grabbed his collar tightly, raising his folded fist in the air. " What did you just say?" he roared. Before Beta Thorne could respond, a young guard came running towards them. "Alpha Kael!" he said breathlessly as he had been running from the gate where he was stationed. Kael slowly let his fist down, releasing Beta Thorne from his grip. "What?" he snickered at the guard. "Forgive my interruption Alpha, but there is an old man at the gate, claiming he wants to see you." the guard responded.

His gaze flicked toward the gate, his posture stiffening. “Lyra,” he said, lowering his voice. “How much do you know about Harold, the gatekeeper?” I blinked, caught off guard by the question. “Not much,” I admitted. “Varg hired him. He watches the gate, does his job, and doesn’t interact much with the rest of us. Why?” Jacob exhaled, his jaw tightening. “Because I’ve been looking into what happened that night… and I don’t think Thanos broke into the mansion.”

He was here, waiting. ​He stepped out, his expression grimly amused. "We anticipated your predictable flight response. Kael is the bait. The Iron Peaks are the cage. The Claiming is the execution." ​He raised his hand, holding a small, intricate device: a cluster of quartz crystals bound with thick iron wire—a Null-Anchor. ​"We will neutralize the kill-energy here, at the Iron Gate," the Warden explained. "Once the Thorn is inert, we take you down to the fortress. There, I will be the one to complete the Claiming. I will be the Alpha Conductor."