»This is a fanfiction based on a role play plot line I have going with a friend in Second Life. I can't tell you how often I will post chapters, but I hope people will follow and enjoy«
"And just where will I be going, father?" Loki spits the words at Odin's feet as he is held on his knees before Odin's throne by armored guards who stand perfectly still and show little interest for what is unfolding before them.
"The void." Odin answers in an unamused sort of way. "It is an empty place, one in which spirits are just barely connected to several other realms. Since it can only be opened by a limited assortment of spells, and there is not much there for you to attempt to rule, it would be the best environment for you. Until you-"
"Until I what?" Loki interrupts with impatient rage. "Until I die? Until I learn some apparent invaluable lesson that apparently I just don't get?"
"Watch your mouth, brother." Thor, who had been standing quietly beside Odin's throne, interjected. "Unless you want more trouble than what has already been placed upon you."
"I doubt there's much more trouble that can come to me, brother, but thanks you for your concern." Loki glares at Thor as he speaks, utterly repulsed by what seemed to be his brother's attempt to act like a mediator.
"You're lucky you get to keep your life, Loki. Don't push this any farther."
"Lucky? No. Lucky would have been taking my throne, on my own, despite the fact that you both are so set on keeping me from it!"
"Your throne? You are in no way fit to rule, you have no right to call the throne 'yours'."
"As I was saying," Odin interrupts, louder than before, and the two brothers fall silent. "You will be physically locked in the void, having access to only certain other realms in a spirit form. Contact with the inhabitants of these worlds will be limited, but until a mortal living in a realm in which your spirit form walks feels sympathy for your situation, and I do mean the true situation, so don't be making up any wild stories, it won't work, you will not leave the void."
Loki's eye twitches. "Last time I checked, mortal's don't see spirits, so how exactly am I to get one to notice and feel sympathy for me?"
"I'm sure you'll figure something out."
"Are you now?"
"No, but your time here is up." Odin gives a meaningful look to the two guards which were holding Loki to the floor, and they both step back as what seems to be an endless black hole opens up underneath Loki's knees. Odin stands and speaks in a commanding voice over the sound of the winds coming out of the slowly growing hole "Loki, for your crimes against Asgard and the realm known as Earth, you are hereby banished to life inside the lifeless void." and in a softer, more longing voice "I do hope this will teach you to behave, so that one day you may come back to join us."
As Loki feels the force of the void beneath him drawing his body towards the abyss, he gives Odin and Thor one last look, this time with desperation written on his face, rather than anger. Odin looks away and Thor looks impassively back as Loki sinks out of view and falls into the empty realm known as the Void.