Thor scrambled to his feet and quickly checked himself over. Finding himself unharmed, he broke into a delighted grin.
He looked into the distance. The Warriors Three of Asgard and Sif were locked in battle with the Destroyer.
He realized at once that, somehow, all four had regained their powers.
"Hey, Sif! Fandral!"
"I'm over here!"
Sif hurriedly turned toward his voice and cried out in delight, "Thor..."
But the next instant, she paid for letting her guard down.
A golden beam of energy shot from the Destroyer's face.
Boom!
Sif screamed as the blast hurled her more than a hundred meters away. She crashed through a wall and landed inside a room.
"Sif!"
Thor cried out and ran toward her.
"I'm fine!"
Sif shouted from inside the room, then leaped back out through the hole in the wall.
Thor grabbed her arm, his eyes burning with anticipation. "Tell me, how did you do it?!"
Sif froze. "Do what?"
"Get your powers back! How did you do it?" Thor asked urgently.
"Uh..." Sif tilted her head and quickly thought back. "Maybe it was anger? Or some other intense emotion?"
"I'm not sure myself. Just now, I thought you'd been killed. I was filled with anger, and then, somehow, I broke through the seal His Majesty Odin had placed inside me..."
"What about them?" Thor turned and pointed at the Warriors Three, who were scrambling all over the place as the Destroyer chased them. "Was it the same for them?!"
Sif hesitated, then nodded. "I... I think so..."
Thor perked up. "Great!"
He rubbed his fists together, his face brimming with confidence. "So getting my Divine Power back is that simple!"
"Anger... anger..."
As he spoke, Thor searched through the past thousand years of his life for something that had made