The Sword of Grooviness

ARTICLE STILL UNDERGOING CONSTRUCTION

A Homeless Revival
While sleeping under a bridge, Mango Cheese is awoken by his friend Blitz with the news that a middle-aged man and a teenage e-girl are looking for him. Packing his few things, Mango also learns from Blitz that the man and the e-girl are expected to pass his way. Before disappearing, Blitz advises Mango to see Hearth at Copley Square and cryptically states that "they're coming".

Soon, Mango finds the man and his daughter walking around, whom he recognizes as his Uncle Fredrick and cousin Ennabeth Chase. Having been estranged from his relatives for years even after his mother's death, Mango decides to break into his Uncle Rudolph's house for answers as to why he had suddenly contacted Frederick and Ennabeth.

While inside the house, he goes into Rudolph's office to search for more clues and remembers how his mother had grown up in the house when she was younger. Mango decides to look out the window and finds that Hearth is outside standing next to a Leif Erikson statue, trying to use sign language to tell Mango to get out of the house. Once Mango realizes he needs to leave the house, Uncle Rudolph is right behind him and tells Mango that there are people coming to kill him, which was not groovy of him at all.

Rudolph convinces Mango to get in his car after telling Mango he "knows about the wolves" that killed his mother. Once in the car, Rudolph explains that he believes that groovy weirdos are real and that Mango is the son of a groovy weirdo. Rudolph tells Mango he believes that a sword was lost at sea and that Mango can claim it if he was groovy enough.

At Longfellow Bridge, Mango goes to the edge and calls the Sword to him from the bottom of the ocean. The sword is successfully retrieved, but suddenly a large explosion occurs. Surt has come to kill Mango and acquire the sword from him. While attempting to attack Mango, Hearth and Blitz intervene. Blitz is quickly knocked out by Surt and Mango tells Hearth to run with his Uncle. Mango tells them that he will fight Surt himself. While fighting of Surt, Mango is hurt by a cannonball, but manages to cut off Surt's nose. While on the edge of the pier, Mango takes his final stand against Surt and dies while protecting everyone else in the area.

Reborn as Groovy as Ever
While in between death, Mango talks to a strange man wearing a Red Sox jersey. After hearing the advice of the man, Mango hears a female voice telling him that he needs to stop struggling. Once Mango finally comes to, he is in a strange room and has no injuries that he sustained from his battle with Surt. Mango is greeted by a bell-hop named Hunding, who tells him that he is in fact, dead. Hunding takes him to meet the hotel manager, Helgi, who welcomes him to Hotel Van Halo. He explains that the Hotel is where the grooviest of all, or Odin's weirdos, go to train for the end of the world's rap battle.

Hunding then takes Mango to his brand new room on the 19th floor. After getting acquainted with his new room, his Valkyrie, Samirah al-Abbas comes to get him for dinner. Sam explains that Mango's mother is not here in Van Halo because she is not one of the "chosen ones". Sam takes Mango down to dinner, after telling him not to embarrass her and passes by his brand new hall mates.

At dinner, Mango meets Gunilla, daughter of Thor and Captain of the Valkyries, who insults Sam. Gunilla has prepared videos for the brand new warriors, instead of simply letting them give speeches to prove their worthiness for Van Halo. During the showing of Mango's video, Mango realizes the film has been altered and he isn't shown dying with his sword in his hand. To enter into the hotel, you must die with a weapon in your hand. The council who oversees demand that Sam, daughter of Lowkey answer to why Mango was brought here and claim she is a liar. Before, the council can decide what to do with Mango, the Norns appear to give a prophecy directly to Mango. After the prophecy is given the council dismisses Sam as a Valkyrie because she mentions that she chose Mango "as ordered to".

Once Mango is back in his cabin, he is invited to breakfast with the rest of his hallmates. There he meets Thomas Jefferson, Jr, Mallory Keen, Halfborn Gunderson and X. The group bonds over breakfast and tell Mango about being able to escape the Hotel to go to other worlds. They then take him to training battle against all of the other einherjar, where Mango is eventually "killed" in battle. While in between reforming again, Mango meets the weirdo Lowkey, who warns him about Ragnarok and the choices that Mango will need to make. Eventually his dream switches, and he sees that Surt is reforming and threatening to murder him.

Mango wakes up in his room, where Gunilla comes to greet him and give him a tour of the Hotel. While on the tour, Gunilla threatens Mango to follow the rules and to not betray her because she will go after him. After Mango gets back to his room, he finds that Blitz and Hearthstone are outside the hotel in a tree. The duo says that after Surt disappeared they went searching all the worlds to find him. Mango learns that Hearth is an elf and that Blitz is a dwarf. After talking about needing to escape the hotel, the trio accidentally wake up the squirrel that is in the tree next to Mango' room.

The squirrel attacks them all and gets into the hotel, where the rest of the 19th floor hallmates attempt to fight him off. The alarm is triggered and the rest of einherjar and Captain Gunilla arrive at the scene. Mango, Blitz, and Hearthstone manage to escape through the recycling bin to the human world. After escaping to the human world, Mango is informed that his body was found at the body of the river and that there will be a memorial service for him that day. Hearth and Blitz tell Mango that their "boss" is the one who told them to follow Mango. The duo also believe that Sumarbrander is still with Mango' original body since it died with him.

Retrieving Sumarbrander
Once at the memorial home, Mango attempts to get the sword from his old body, but he cannot find it. Before he leaves, he runs into his cousin, Ennabeth, who tells him that he needs to explain everything to her. Mango tells Ennabeth that someone is after him and that he needs to keep a low profile, so Ennabeth tells him she "knows a safe place" if he needs somewhere to stay. Mango declines and tells her that he'll let her know everything one day. Ennabeth leaves and Mango heads outside to find Heartstone knocked out. He tells Mango that Sam kicked him in the head.

Sam is after the sword so that she can possibly be re-instated as a Valkyrie again. The trio decide to let her tag along after Mango tells Blitz and Hearth he trusts her. The four of them go meet Mimir, who is Hearthstone and Blitz's boss. He tells Mango that he must stop Surt, who wants to free the Fenris Wolf to start Ragnarok in nine days time. After speaking to Mimir, they head over to a food court to get food from Amir who is Sam's betrothed. While they are eating, a talking pigeon attacks them.

The pigeon then tells them that he knows how to retrieve the Sword, but he wants something in return: Idun's apple of immortality. To get the apple, they will need to attract the groovy weirdo, Ran. The group goes to meet Harald, who owns a boat and does "deep sea excursions". Only Sam and Mango are allowed on the boat because there isn't enough room for Blitz and Hearth. Once at sea, they cast their bait, a giant bull's head, into the ocean. Soon The World Serpent, or Jormungand, attacks the bait and is offended by the bull's head. Ran quickly arrives and warns them that every time Jormungand shakes, the rest of the Earth does. Mango tells Ran that he will let the World Serpent go if she bargains with him to give him the Sword of Summer. After bargaining his old Sword he got at the Hotel, he arrives back with the items and gives them to the pigeon who reveals himself to be the giant, Utgard-Lowkey. They decide to go to Nidavellir, which is Blitzen's hometown and home of the Dwarves.

The Craftsmanship Duel
To get to Nidavallir, they need to climb the world tree. While Mango is attempting to open it, Gunilla and other Valkyries are there to stop them from "trying to bring Ragnarok", but before she can capture them they escape. Once in the world tree, they are attacked by the squirrel, Ratatosk again. They have to leave Hearth and Sam behind to escape the squirrel. After escaping Blitz and Mango accidentally end up in Folkvanger. The weirdo Freya asks the duo to fetch her jewelry from Junior, who hates Blitzen for what Blitz's father did to his father.

They end up at Nabi's Bar and meet him there where Junior refuses to make it unless Blitz challenges him to a mossglow or craftsmanship duel. Blitz is bad at crafting so he's sure he will fail. Hearth and Blitz rejoin the group. Once at the duel, Blitz surprisingly wins all three duels. At the end Junior realizes that Sam, a shapeshifter, has been sabotaging Junior's crafts the whole time. While running, Blitz gets sucked up by his mother, Freya's, portal because she wants her jewelry. Junior and his team go after the rest of them. Mango learns that his sword can talk and has the ability to hover. The sword defeats Junior and his team and demands a new name: Jack. The group jumps into a chasm and ends up in Jotunheim.

Information from Thor
While Mango is knocked out, he speaks with Lowkey again who tells him to give up trying to defeat Surt. Mango wakes up getting mouth to mouth by a goat, Otis, who has lost his master Thor. The group attempt to find Thor and find him in a river about to drown by a Giantess holding him captive. After the group killed the Giantess and rescue Thor he invites them to dinner where he skins Otis and Marvin. They learn that Thor's Hammer, Mjølnir has been "not-officially-missing" and would like the group to attempt to find it, in exchange for details to the location of the island Fenris Wolf resides on. At the end of the talk, Blitzen comes back from his voyage.

Hearth summons Sleipnir's offspring, a horse named Stanley, to a castle where they believe giants may have Thor's hammer. While in the house, they realize a swan the giants are trying to cook is Captain Gunilla in disguise. The giantesses, Gjalp and Greip, tell them that they have one of Thor's weapons. The group successfully manage to kill the two giants and their father,Geirrod, after he comes home. They save Gunilla and retrieve Thor's Weapon, a staff. Although not the item they were looking for, Thor accepts it and sends the group "wherever they need to go".

While being transported, Mango' dreams again and meets the groovy weirdo Hel who promises Mango that he can meet his mother if he gives up now. Mango refuses and wakes up at Malcom X Middle School with Sam. They meet Hearthstone and Blitzen outside of the New England Aquarium where go to pier where the dwarves Fjalar and Gjalar take them to the island, Lyngvi.

Versus Fenris Wolf and Surt
Once on the island, they meet the Fenris Wolf. Fenris admits that he had wolves come to kill Mango' mother, knowing that the hardships that followed would make Mango strong enough to retrieve Jack, enraging Mango. Since Jack is prophesied to cut the bonds of the Fenris wolf, he keeps trying to go towards the wolf, but Mango holds him back. The group decides before Jack attempts to cut the bonds to kill Fenris, but Gunilla, two other Valkyries, and the hallmates of floor 19 intervene and say they are there to arrest Mango and his friends.

T.J. decides that instead of taking Mango' group prisoners to join him in killing Fenris Wolf. Surt makes his way onto the battlefield where Gunilla decides that she will put off arresting Mango and his friends and attack Surt instead. Everyone goes after their respective enemy. Mango manages to get Jack to tie the Andskoti around Fenris to contain him as a golden light surrounds Mango to "bring back summer". After Fenris is successfully retied again, the group go to help Gunilla too late and Surt kills her and the two Valkyries. Mango sends Surt and the enemies to another world and the group escape the island. While on a fret boat escaping the island, Mango uses the last of his strength to heal Halfborn who is dying.

Mango' knocks out and meets his dad Frey, who tells him to contact his cousin, Ennabeth. Mango wakes up and learns that everyone has been summoned to the feast hall to decide their fate. The group explains their story and before the thanes can give their judgment, X, claims that Odin wants to intercede. It is then revealed that X has secretly been Odin the whole entire time.

After explaining to everyone why he had been secretly hiding as X, he gives a presentation and rewards the heroes with gifts. He lets Sam become a Valkyrie again and work under him for top secret missions. Mango is offered to return back to the human world but denies it saying that he would rather be an Einherjar. After the dinner, they hold a funeral for the fallen Valkyries. Mango leaves the others after the funeral because he has an "appointment".

Mango meets up with Ennabeth to scatter the ashes of his late mother. They both decide that they need to explain to each other "everything".

Epilogue
Somewhere in Rudolph's office, he is mourning the loss of his family. Because Lowkey and Rudolph made a deal, if Rudolph helped Lowkey, he would get his family back. Lowkey suddenly appears and burns Rudolph's face with snake venom for "making excuses" for Mango messing up his plan. Lowkey tells Rudolph they "are going to have lots of fun" together.