The Warriors Three persuade Thor to have his beard shaved
off by Targo the Troll and it turns out that Thor’s facial scars have been
healed. Thor wants to return to Midgard but the guys, hoping to have him around
a bit longer, mention a monstrous beast terrorizing the Northern Counties of
Asgard. And so they head out, looking for adventure….
Meanwhile, the Grand Vizier comes to Balder, ruler of Asgard
with news of a great danger: he opens the Enchanto-Scan to show that, since the
Rainbow Bridge was destroyed, the realm is threatened by all sorts of natural
disasters. But the worst threat is dimensional rifts opening to other planes of
reality. A black cat that has been watching them passes through such a rift to
return to her original humanoid form for her master Seth, Serpent-God of Death,
informing him the Asgardians are aware of the dimensional rifts. He is pleased
and rewards her by turning her to dust…and peace….
Thor and his comrades follow a trail of destruction and find
a winged black lion attacking a settlement. Thor challenges it and it leaps
through a dimensional rift and vanishes. The dying farm woman asks Thor to
avenge her and her family. Thor steps through the rift and finds himself in
Avalon, home of the Celtic gods. He comes upon a similarly devastated farm and
a band of peasants mistake him for a Viking marauder and intend to kill him for
his crimes. Thor beats them up but finds himself facing Leir, the Celtic Lord of
Lightning, who also assumes Thor to be responsible for the deaths on the farm. The
ensuing fight between these two similarly powered deities is spectacular though
Leir begins to wonder why Thor would stoop to murder….
In Asgard, the rift begins to close and Hogun leaps through
to seek out Thor. He comes upon the two combatants just as Thor has persuaded Leir
to listen to his explanation. Leir then thinks that it was a trick for Hogun to
attack him from behind—but then the monster shows up and the two gods together fight
it until it flees back through the rift to Asgard. With some hasty amends, Thor
and Hogun dash after it to find that it has been slain by Fandral and Volstagg….
Back in Asgard, Thor makes his farewell to his friends, including
Balder, then then heads over the Rainbow Bridge to Midgard—but the Grand Vizier
arrives with a warning too late. The realms are not in synch with the broken
bridge anymore and Thor is in trouble…
…and he certainly is, drifting in space, with no air….