Dani “Mirage” Moonstar has been
swallowed whole by one of the Draumir and she can see its history: his name was
Bonegrinder and he was one of the foot soldiers of Cul Borson, the Serpent and
in that final battle with Odin and his army and they were all killed…
…and now Dani is on an island of
meat and bone, floating in a sea of stomach acid….
The other New Mutants have arrived
on the icy outskirts of the Norse underworld Hel, teleported there by Mephisto
(last issue), and see the great citadel besieged by monsters. Aware that Dani
will be in the middle of the action they head there and discover the Draumir
are dream monsters which feed on the souls of the dead. The Mutants join in the
battle, giving good account when Kaw the raven steals Cypher’s badge and
delivers it to Dani inside Bonegrinder. Aware that her friends must be right
outside, she slashes her way out to join them. Dani tells them that since the
Draumir are undead they can only fight a holding action until Hela can devise a
way to defeat them permanently. Dani summons her flying horse Brightwing and
others of his herd to carry them all to Hela’s palace, intending to make their
stand there…but as they approach they see Hela’s corpse impaled on the hall’s
spire….
