((Okay so here is chapter one, its long. This has my sisters OC in it like I said in the description. Also posting on this one my come every Thursday, it's almost time for finals at my college so I will see. I hope you guys like it. I tired really hard to have Ara interact with all the Avengers, and work her in there. So enjoy.))
I was back on my roof, sitting in the sun. The past year had been hard, yes I had my mother back, and my brother, but that didn't stop me from missing one important piece in life, Loki. I missed him every day. I was just climbing down back inside my house when my front door opens. I stop mid-way down, and looked over my shoulder, heart not moving, and I was holding my breath, I don't know why I was so scared, or what I was even afraid of. But the fear quickly disappeared when it's my brother standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing here?" I say, carefully stepping off the tiny stool.
"Ara, I must go somewhere. I want you to come with me." He sticks his hand towards me.
"Where are we going?" I didn't want to leave without knowing first, didn't want to be led blindly into something, even though I trusted Thor more than anything in the world.
"I cannot tell you. Not yet." I reluctantly put my hand in his, not knowing why he couldn't tell me, yet I had to trust him if he wanted me to go so badly.
We were soon walking down the rainbow bridge, I don't want to be here, not after what happened the last time, I look to where it was broken, where the gatekeeper still stood, even though there wasn't a gate to keep. Heimdall doesn't say much as we arrive, only turning around, glancing at the both of us. He lingers on me a bit longer before giving my brother a questionable look. Thor doesn't speak, just nods. I guess the gatekeeper knew exactly where we were going. He taps his sword three times on what was left of the bridge, and light was soon around us. We land in the middle of a forest; Thor has his arm tight around me, pulling my body closer to him. It was dark.
"Sit over there, I will return soon. Then we shall depart back to Asgard." He points to a rock. I knew Thor wouldn't take time to explain to me where we are. I didn't have time to tell him to hurry, he was gone soon after he told me to sit. I sit on the cold hard surface with a sigh, waiting for him to come back.
The sounds of thunder fill the air and I see flashes of lighting. He was using his powers. The lighting stops but the loud sounds still go on.. I hear voices, two of them, one sounds eerily familiar, but I can't make it out over the sounds of the battle my brother must be in.
Thor had just grabbed Loki from the huge black plane he was on. Tossing him to the ground, Loki skidded to a halt in front of a rock. Thor then picked him up by the collar.
"Where is the Tesseract?" he said through clenched teeth.
"I missed you too" Loki answered with a laugh.
"Do I look to be in a gaming mood?"
"Oh, you should thank me. With the Bifrost gone how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here? Your precious Earth." Loki said taking a step away from Thor.
"I thought you dead."
"Did you mourn?" Loki said stopping, giving Thor a smirk.
"We all did. Our father..." Thor started but he was quickly interrupted.
"Your father. He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?"
"We were raised together, we played together, we fought together. Do you remember none of that?"
"I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I who was and should be king!"
"And what about Araminta? Have you forgotten her? Our sister, she weeps for you even now."
Loki stops at the mention of the girl. "Sister." He said with a laugh. "That weakling is nor more my sister then I your brother. She was there when you were tossing me into the void. She did nothing to stop you. If she loved me as much as she claimed she did, she would have stopped you."
"Loki, you know how much Ara loves you. She dreams of the day she lost you. I sit by her bedside and watch her while she cries for you…"
"Do you think I care? I have told you once, she is not my sister. She never was." He spits looking at his adoptive brother.
"So you take the world I love as recompense for your imagined slights. No, the Earth is under my protection, Loki."
"And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves, while you ideally threat. I mean to rule them. And why should I not?" the mischievous god laughed.
"You think yourself above them."
"Well, yes."
"Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. Throne would suit you ill."
"I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile! I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it..." Loki said walking around again.
"Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be-king?"
"I am a king!" Loki said stopping half way growling out the last word.
"Not here! You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream! You come home." Thor said grabbing his brother by the back of his neck.
Loki smiled and half laughed. "I don't have it. You need the cube to bring me home, but I've sent it off I know not where."
"You listen well, brother. I..." Thor is cut off by something gold, red and made out of metal hitting him in the chest.
"I'm listening."
I decide to get up and try to find who they belong to, then the sound of trees breaking fills the air. The way Thor made it sound; I was convinced he wouldn't have to fight anybody. I hear voices, two of them, one sounds eerily familiar, but I can't make it out over the sounds of the battle my brother must be in.
. I stop in the middle of the woods, only a few feet in front of me is a man, dressed in all blue, a shield covers one arm, it's red and white. He looks at me confused, and glances up towards the sky a little.
"Hey Natasha, there's a girl down here…." He says, I wonder who he is talking to, we are alone. I am startled by the sound of a large explosion from behind me. My reaction is to jump a little; the man in front of me starts to run to the noise but stops beside me, glaring at me. "Don't. Move." The tone in his voice is much more serious than my brothers. As he leaves, his speech still calls out to an unknown person. I stand there for what seemed like an eternity, too scared to move to find my protector. Yet another strange noise fills the air, whirling brown locks around my face; the trees are almost blown over. A huge black metal object lands feet in front of me. What I assume is a door opens on the huge metal object, revealing my brother.
"Come on…" he says. I take a few tentative steps towards the huge thing that sits in front of. "It's alright…" I get closer. Thor holds a hand out to me, so I take it, and he quickly pulls me inside. We start what seems like a long walk down a metal hallway. Though I still have his hand, I instinctively run closer, wrapping one arm through his, half way hiding behind him. "Don't be scared," he says not even looking down at me "no one on here will hurt you." We walk into a huge room, in the middle a massive round glass table, black chairs around it. Two women are there, one sits, the other stands. "Go be seated…" Thor coos, his comforting tone easing the tension in the air, his large hand points towards one of the chairs. Beside it is a woman with long dark hair. I cautiously stride over. She smiles, and I give her a halfhearted grin in return. "I will return shortly, Ara." Thor speaks. I turn to watch him leave me again.
"Alright…" I whisper softly so that no one can hear it. Carefully sitting down, I run my hands on the sides of my dress. The silence is awkward, it's apparent that I wanted nothing more than to follow my brother. The expression that crosses my face causes the woman I am sitting beside to turn her chair more towards me and speak.
"I'm Arina Zangari" she says sticking a hand out. I look up in puzzlement, she puts her hand down.
"Araminta." I say, rather flatly. The other being in the room has started a walk to her own chair. She stops behind me and my companion, placing a small cup of dark liquid in front of us.
"It's coffee." She comments with a soft smile. "I'm Natasha by the way." She walks back over to her seat. "Drink it, it's good." The woman gives me another soothing grin, and sits down. I carefully bring the tiny cup to my lips, taking a slow sip, it burns my throat. The whooshing sound of doors opening fills the air, and I look up to see the man I had met in the woods. He starts the same walk, nearing the table, but gives the two women questionable looks.
"That's the girl in the woods…Who is she exactly?" He says pointing down at me.
"Araminta, Thor's sister." Miss Natasha utters, "that's who he said could help."
'Help? That's why he brought me here? To help? Why couldn't he just bring the warrior's three and Sif, he knows I can't do much! I couldn't even defend myself from our own brother a year ago. He knows that!'
"How is she going to help with the big stuff?" The man in blue states, sitting down beside the dark haired woman. "She doesn't look like much."
I shift a little at his comment, causing him to gaze at me, and give a hurried apology.
"No offence ma'am, I'm sure your brother has his reasons…But where I come from young women usually don't get involved in things like this." I don't say anything back. He was right, I knew it, and so must my brother.
Yet again doors open, and with the corner of my eye I see two more men walk in. One wears all black, some strange writing on his shirt, something glows on his chest, the other in purple and black.
"Well. Happy Birthday to me." The one that illuminates shouts, walking over to my chair. He rests his arms on the back of it. "What's your name, doll?"
"Don't even try Stark. She's a goddess." Natasha chides in a dull tone.
"I love goddesses." He beams brightly. "There the best kind of gal, they know everything."
"No Stark, an actual goddess. Out of your league, and far too old for you, she's like 200." The woman says getting up to fix her more of the hot black drink.
"Age ain't nothing but a number."
"Also, her brother is the one with the hammer." Miss Zangari drones, looking up at the man irritably, "I'm pretty sure if you tried anything with her he would fuck you right up. He's very protective." She sips her dark beverage.
"I can take ol' thunder butt." The other man he was with stops behind Arina's chair, laughing a little at the conversation.
The wise cracking man named Stark continues. "So why exactly did he bring her along? We already have one thing to baby sit." He fixes him his own beverage, and glances at the man who is standing, he shakes his head.
"The 'god' thinks she could help." The man in blue says, twirling around in his chair. "He thinks she could…" he is cut off by Miss Zangari, who puts her hand on his shoulder and too, wobbles her head.
Thor must have told them not to tell me, fearing I wouldn't do it, whatever it was.
"What are you the goddess of?" the man standing declares, in attempts to change the conversation.
"Peace." Miss Natasha whispers softly. I had almost forgotten about that title, goddess of peace. It didn't start to feel right until the past year, up to then I didn't even think I was a goddess, but after everything I went through, it was pretty accurate.
"And you are sure that she is his sister?" Stark says, placing one leg on the table. "She reminds me of a bunny, but her brother is a yapping dog, annoying as hell." he stops to swallow his coffee "And what is your take on this Cap? You don't even think her brother is a god, do you believe the goddess story?"
"Let's put it this way. I have seen things today that I could never imagine." The man in blue puts his arms on the table. The doors open yet again, another man enters the room. He reminds me of the gatekeeper, except he was clad in black with something over his eye like my father. He stares at Miss Zangari, who gets up and places a hand on my shoulder.
"Come with me." Her tone is sweet. I get up and slowly follow, getting looks from midgaridians as I do. She leads me down a few hallways before speaking again. "This is a helicarrier…" the girl says, turning round to look at me. "It's kind of hard to explain…especially to someone from Asgard."
She takes me down a hall and opens a door. "We have got to find you some pajamas." She says walking over to a stack of drawers. "Oh, this is my room by the way. You're the first one I have ever let in here." Ms. Zangari pulls out a pair of green pants, the words 'Hulk Smash' written all over them. "Here is some pants….." she says digging through another drawer. "And….a shirt" Zangari holds up a white t-shirt the words 'Stark Industries' on the front of it. "Now on to your room." She says leading me out.
She stops in front of a door, and pulls a card from around her neck. The door opens on its own, and she walks in. "This is your room. I know it may not be what your used to coming from a pa…." I cut her off.
"It's fine." I say looking around, its small, it has a tiny bed that reminds me of the one I slept in as a child, a table, a chair. The walls are a flat leaden.
"Well, your brother's room will be right next door, if you need him for something." She watches as I sit on the bed and look around the room. "You should get some sleep it's late…come find me in the morning though; I have something I want to show you."
"Alright." Was all I could say. I gave her a smile before she left,
"Goodnight." She says walking out of the door, which immediately closed behind her. I quickly change and got sit on my bed, feeling strange in the midgaridian clothing.
My anxiety started to work its way to the surface again. I was alone, on an object with a bunch of mortals, who were just as strange as the machine. I remember what Ms. Zangari said about my brother's room being right next to mine. I get up and walk to the door, it opens and scares me a little, I have to move back to avoid being struck by it. I look down both ends of the hall; the only thing I see is more gray. I walk into the set of doors beside mine, and look around. The only thing I see to make me believe this is Thor's room, is his hammer sitting on a table. And I instantly feel safe. I knew if something went wrong Mjolnir and my brother would protect me. I walk over to his bed and lay down in it, not caring that I had been given my own bed. It was long till I was sleeping, almost soundly, until the nightmares I had been plagued with started again.
After hearing Fury's talk with Loki, Thor and Arina both deiced to leave the meeting room. Thor left just before Ms. Zangari.
"Going to check on your sister?" the agent said walking up beside Thor.
"Yes."
"Well I put her in there…." Arina says pointing to the door to the room where she left the goddess. She notices the deity pass the door, and goes to the one to his room.
"Just because you placed Ara somewhere does not mean she lingers there." He said with a half laugh as the door to his room slid open. He stepped out of the way letting Arina see into his room. There balled up on his bed was Ara.
"Ah." She said looking at the goddess. "I thought she would be sleeping more soundly then that." She said seeing the girl start to toss and turn in her sleep. Her face twisted into one of pain.
"I want to take her to see Loki tomorrow." Thor said looking down at the agent.
"Okay, I'll tell Fury." She said backing out of what little bit of the room she was in. She didn't say a word when she left.
"Thank you." He said watching Arina leave the room. He undid his cape from his armor and carefully draped it over Ara.
Thor pulled the chair that was under the table out, and sat it beside his bed watching his sister sleep. It was something he had seen time and time again over the last year. Araminta was having the same nightmare she always had, even though they would manifest themselves differently every time, they were always about the same thing. Loki's 'death'. She would always cry, kick, toss and turn all night. He had gotten used to staying with her especially at night, to help fight the dreams, and make sure she didn't hurt herself, even though she never did. He had found a way to make her nightmares less intense, she would always stick one hand out, reaching for something, reaching for Loki, he would take her hand and hold it the rest of the night, even though it never stopped her response, it helped her sleep. After he took her hand, she stopped moving, but she was still crying. While she would cry and kick she only ever said one word "Loki." She said a small hint of a smile on her face. He waited for her to eventually stop crying, like she always would. Although he was never really sure if she quit because the dream was over, or she thought she had 'saved' her brother. Once he was sure she had fallen asleep, somewhat, he let her hand go. He knew he couldn't stay with her all night like he usually did, he had to go talk to the only other agent he knew, Coulson. He let her hand go, but instead of taking Mjolnir with him, he grabbed one of the extra pillows, placed it down beside Ara, and wrapped her hand around it. She wouldn't be able to lift, but thought leaving it with her would at least make her feel more comfortable.
"As soon as Loki took the doctor we moved Jane foster. They've got an excellent observatory in Tromso. She was asked to consult there very suddenly yesterday. Handsome fee, private plane, very remote. She'll be safe." Coulson said look up at Thor, on the screen as a picture of Jane.
"Thank you. It's no accident Loki taking Eric Selvig. I dread what he plans for him once he's done. Eric is a good man."
"He talks about you a lot. You changed his life. You changed everything around here." Coulson said walking with Thor over to a huge window.
"They were better as they were. We pretend on Asgard that we're more advanced. But we come here battling like Bilgesnipe."
"Like what?" The agent said stopping in his tracks.
"Bilgesnipe. You know huge scaly big antlers?" the god said putting his hands near his head. "You don't have those?"
"Don't think so…"
"Well they are repulsive, they trample everything in their path." Thor said walking over to the window. "When I first came to earth, Loki's rage followed me here, and your people paid the price. And now again. In my youth I courted war."
"War hasn't started yet." Director Fury said walking half way down the stairs beside the god. "You think you could make Loki tell us where the Tesseract is?"
"I do not know. Loki's mind is far afield. It's not just power he craves, it's vengeance, upon me. There is no pain would pries his need from him."
"A lot of guys think that, until the pain starts. What about your sister?" Fury said stopping on the last step, Thor's focused returned to him "You said you brought her along to talk some since into Loki. You think she could do it?"
Thor looks back out the window, and sighs. Clearly contemplating the question, and his real reason for bringing the goddess with him. "I don't know if she would be willing to do it. She still thinks him dead. I don't want her finding out the truth in that way. I plan to take her to see him tomorrow. Then I will talk to her about it." He said turning back around to Fury.
"I don't care how you get her to do it. Just as long as she can do it." Fury said leaving.
