Living in the shadow of greatness

It has never been easy being a younger brother to a future king of Asgard,sometimes I feel as if my whole life has been a lie, it's as if I am not what I truly thought I was but regardless I push that same feeling I have had for the last few days to the depths of my mind.

It is the day of Thors coronation and as I prepare myself for my brothers big day which I have been dreading since I found out that it was he that would be next in line for the throne, anger boiled up slightly inside me it should have been me that was chosen to be king what did Thor know anyway besides being a show off, reckless and arrogant.

I slide my helmet onto my head, if truth was known it has always been my mother Frigga that has always given me the respect and love that I needed from when I was a infant to the present, Odin my father however he tries to show some sort of compassion but its clear that he has always favoured Thor. It would not matter how hard I tried to make him proud, to shine in front of him like a golden star in the sky he will always pick his first born son Thor.

Thor was very different compared to me I always spent my time reading and studying new spells and learning, how to enhance my magic over the years my magic intelligence had evolved that sometimes Thor would mock and say I should use my energy on strength rather than the mind but what did he know. Where as Thor was very much into practicing his combat skills and testing his strength in the battle grounds with Lady Sif or with the Warriors Three, I never joined them though I spent most of my time in the palace library studying new tricks or echantments.

I grit my teeth better get this over with I suppose, I go out to meet Thor, soon enough he meets me by the doors leading to the throne room awaiting his big day to start.

"Nervous brother" I ask with a smirk?"

"Have you ever known me to be nervous?"

"Ummm well there was that time in Nornheim"

"That was not nerves brother that was the rage of battle"

Thor as always trying to show off I knew he was scared that day in Nornheim I saw the fear he had in his eyes even if it was slightly it was there. If it was not for me invailing us using my invisibility smoke we may not have made it back to Asgard in one piece, it was laughable how he denied such things and in battle stories left details out about how I helped angered me as well Odin was making a big mistake giving the throne to this childish oaf.

"Ah I see"

"How else could I have fought my way through a hundred warriors and pulled us out alive"

"Uhhh as I recall I was the one who valed us in smoke to ease our escape"

Thor just laughs as always never appreciates my help in any of our battles."

(laughs) "Yes some do battle while others just do tricks"

I roll my eyes as usual my abilities are seen up on as a joke, a servant walks in carrying a grail of water he smirks hearing Thor's remark, a bit of anger boils up inside me I will show this mere servant not to laugh at my gift. I focus on the grail and tilt my hand ever so slightly spreading my slender fingers out concentrating magic was all about the mind, the servant looks up at me puzzled, drops the grail and screams, two blue snakes slither out of the grail flickering their tongues in response.

Proud of my abilities of sorcery I smirk it was good when all that reading studying and practicing came to good use not something my brother would ever understand.

"Loki. now that was just a waste of good wine"

"Oh just a bit of fun right my friend"

"Perhaps but there was no need to waste such a good drink"

"If you say so brother"

Smirking I wave my hand making the two snakes dissolve into green mist.

Then an idea came to me what if Thor was to be shown to father how reckless he can be if I caused a bit of mischief to ruin his big day then Odin would have second thoughts about crowning him king, but the question was how to go about it. I pondered on it for a while until it came to me I could open a gateway up to the frost giants this would interrupt the coronation leaving Thor angry and wanting to go into Jotunheim for answers from the frost giants then father would see what I have always seen all along, of course with a little help from my silver tongue and manipulation I could somehow put the idea of the threat of frost giants returning again into Thors mind to give him a little encouragement. This would spring the idea of going to Jotunheim into his head I would of course inform one of the guards before leaving about our whereabouts so that Odin would find out it was all so perfect.

For now though I would carry on with what I do best to lie manipulate and put on a smile as if everything was normal.

"Thor?"

"Yes brother"

"I just wanted to say I have looked forward to this day as long as you have, you are a good brother and a friend and sometimes I envy you but never doubt this I will always love you"

"I know this is not easy for you Loki but fear not perhaps you can assist me when I am king regardless though I do care about you very much"

" I will bear that in mind Thor and thank you"

Assisting him was he joking I would rather have the throne than kneel to him or at least prove to father that I am a worthy son and that was what I was going to do, although an ounce of guilt came over me I did very much love Thor we had always been brothers friends and it stung a bit however regardless Thor had to be shown that his reckless ways were not to be tolerated I pushed the ounce of guilt to the back of my mind yes I still cared but I had enough of being in his shadow it was about time he was in mine for a change.

I walked towards the throne room I had plenty of time before it all started it was time to put my plan into action first I would have to go to the weapons vault to open up the gateway so the frost giants could gate crash Thors big day, I turned to face Thor.

"See you in there brother good luck"

I continued walking when I was sure that the coast was clear I concentrated on the spell I was going to need for this waving my hands over myself the invisiblity spell was one that I had used many times to cause mischief or to sneak up on people and travel to different realms without being detected I smirked

" You will need it soon father will see how reckless and selfish you are"

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