#loki fan
“I’ve been falling, for thirty minutes!” -Loki
Loki has finally crossed the line and is banished. Not just from Asgard, but from all the Nine Realms. He’s found himself in a dimension without magic, without superheroes, and where what people know of him, Asgard, and The Avengers is what they read in comic books and see in movies.
He’s in our world.
Totally lost and furiously angry, one woman might be enough to make him see our world isn’t so bad.
That is, until The Avengers come to find him in our world.
My hands are shackled in familiar chains. The guard over my mouth hides the smile that tugs at the corners of my lips. Two guards, in their gold plated armour, walk in step with me while I approach the throne where my father sits.
Odin’s disapproving glare only makes my smile grow wider. While my latest plot was foiled once again, the chaos it brought to Asgard makes it all worth it. That, and how royally furious my not-so-proud papa looks as he glares down at me.
The arrival of my adoptive brother is the only thing that makes my grin slip. Tormenting him can be a delight, but there is no annoyance or anger on his face. No, the only thing on Thor’s chiseled face is resigned disappointment. It is the same expression my mother used to give me after I upset her, and to see it on his face nearly shatters me.
Not that I’d ever let him see that.
Odin’s voice booms through the room. Beyond the guards that shadow me, my brother, and Odin himself, the room is empty. His heavy, thunderous voice bounces off the walls and reverberates through my body.
“Loki,” he growls at me, and my amusement picks up again. “How many times do you think we will put up with your scheming?”
I almost laugh at his question, as it’s so obvious he wanted me to answer. The guard over my mouth makes that impossible, so I do what I can by mocking him with my bright green eyes.
“Mock all you want,” he snarls back at me. “But this is the end of your plots, your destruction, and your madness.”
How many times have I heard that before? I try to take over Earth, and get myself locked up in a cell until I get myself out. I blow up part of Asgard and find myself right back in that same cell. This time will be the exact same. I’ll get out again and perhaps this time I’ll take another crack at earth. Let Thor and Odin have this realm, and I’ll have my own to play with.
“I know your tricks,” Odin says, but his voice is no longer a snarl. It’s faded into a long, tired sigh. “We simply cannot risk another escape.”
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I worry. Father angry is amusing. But tired like this? It’s not something I’m used to.
“Father?” Thor asks. His concern mirrors my own, which only worries me more.
“My original sentence was death,” Odin says, his normally booming voice is hollow and full of shame. My heart clenches in my chest at his words. I can get out of it, I’m sure, but it’s still worrying.
“No, it’s too harsh!” Thor steps in. Despite our differences, my brother, my foolishly loyal brother, is my one defender.
“It is not!” Odin snaps back at him. “We give and we give to you, Loki Laufeyson.” He uses the name of my father, my true father, just to make the sting run deeper. “It is no matter to you. You want more. It’s never enough. You won’t stop until you’ve snuffed out every life that stands in your way.”
“Father, Loki will do his time, with our guards -” Thor protests, but Father will have none of it.
“With our guards, he will escape again,” Odin tells him.
He is not wrong.
“No, I will not remove your head from your shoulders,” Odin relents. “Your mother, may she ride valiantly in Valhalla, would never forgive that. No, the only acceptable means of keeping you far from the people you would otherwise hurt is banishment.”
“Father!” Thor protests again, but I only smile to myself. Banishment is nothing. There is nowhere in all the realms where I can’t make my mark and cause a little chaos. Wherever I go, I will find my way to rule.
But Odin doesn’t listen and I hide the amusement in my eyes while I’m led to the Bifröst. Heimdall waits to open the bridge while I salivate at the idea of the realm that I will soon get to conquer as my own.
“Loki Laufeyson,” Father booms as Heimdall opens the gates. “For your grievous crimes in this realm and in others, you are hereby banished from this realm and all the nine realms.”
Wait, all the nine realms?
“Take your quarrelsome, power hungry ways from our world,” Father continues, a touch of sadness echoing in his booming voice as he speaks. “Perhaps in a dimension without magic and Asgard, you will find some humility.”
‘Without magic?’ I want to ask, but the guard over my mouth prevents it. I search the large, cavernous dome from my brother, but he is nowhere to be found. It is just Odin, Heimdall, and myself.
Trembling claws of dread begin to slither up my arms, my legs, and across my spine. This is no ordinary punishment, and the forlorn look in Heimdall’s glimmering eyes as he plunges his golden sword into the gates is enough to confirm it for me.
The rainbow bridge erupts from the gates. My father’s hands, still strong as stone despite all his years, clamp down on my shoulders. With the magical cuffs that bind me, I am powerless to resist him as he pushes me toward the bridge.
My feet move forward against my wishes. The tips of my boots slide onto the crystallized rainbow of the Bifröst. My mind races as I step forward, but all my thoughts freeze in my mind as lightning crackles up from the bridge. Thunder roars around me as static dances over my skin. This is not normal, this is not the Bifröst I’ve travelled so many times before.
Something is truly wrong.
“Loki Laufeyson!” Odin’s voice rolls on the cracks of thunder. “You are hereby banished!”
With a mighty strike of electric energy, fire spreads through my veins. My black hair stands on end and pain envelopes me as my body is ripped apart from the force of it all.
And then everything goes black…
Total silence surrounds me…
Horrible silence…
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This is the first part of Fall From Grace, a new Loki/OC female character fanfic I’m working on. Not sure quite how adult it’s going to get, so for now it’s rated teen.
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