AN: HEY GUYS! I'M BACK!
Yes it's me, Like it Random, author of Blood and Ink. Now I'm assuming you've read the summary so you've noticed, this is a SHORT story, so it's only 5 chapters long, but I think you'll like it. So, as it's Christmas, or a different holiday if you don't celebrate Christmas, I am going to give you ONE chapter every TWO days! I'm so nice (It's also partly cause I haven't finished it but SHHH! Don't tell anyone!)
Any way! That's enough of me, please enjoy. Oh and I'll also leave you a special treat at the bottom.
Chapter one
I manage to dodge the punch by arching my back and angling my face away, my black hair flying from the sudden movement. By executing the back breaking manoeuvre I had evaded the punch but only by just a few seconds. Anymore and I would be smiling through broken teeth and a broken nose. I hadn't been fighting long but I was already winded and tiring. I straightened up as the fist was pulled away. I faced my opponent, high above the New York City skyline, on the roof top of a building. The spring air was crisp, but hinted at warmth as the city shook off the last feeble grasp of winter. The early morning sun shone down, warming the earth. I stared into the eyes of my opponent: Deadpool.
I tensed, I saw him react. In a split second, I feinted, pretending to send a punch for his stomach, but instead angled to send one in to his face. I surged forward, putting all of my weight into my fist. Deadpool dodged easily, infuriatingly easily, by side stepping out of the way. I flew past him, shock, horror and humiliation written all over my face, as his foot shot out, tripping me in efficient manoeuvre. I crashed into the ground, and my teeth sang from the impact. I flipped onto my back, ready to surge up and try again, but there was already a gun pointing at my face. Deadpool pulled the trigger, and it clicked signifying that he would have to reload in order to kill me.
Smirking from under his red and black mask, he pulled to the trigger several more times to make his point.
"You'd be dead like a hundred times by now, you know," He said smugly and pulled the gun away. I glared at him, still sprawled on the ground. "Let's see this is the... fifth time you've lost to me today. If I counted back to yesterday then, oh I don't want to think about it but I will." He gloated.
"Don't remind me," I said darkly from the floor. "Help me up?" I asked.
Deadpool held out his hand, but I hesitated before taking it, as I could see his face was stretched into a grin under his mask. I took it, clasping each other at the elbow and he hauled me up quite easily.
"Will you show me how you did that?" I asked, fully aware of the fact that he still held my hand.
"Show you what?" He asked a little too innocently.
"How you tripped me." I said, exasperated. I would never hear the end of this from Wade. My rapid weight loss had left my muscles weak, not to mention my fighting skills were rather lacking, so sparring with Wade meant that I could regain my strength as well as learning some new moves at the same time.
"Oh you mean this?" Wade asked, kicking my legs out from under me, using the grip on my arm to push me off balance and lower me to the ground. He dropped my arm when I grunted as my breath flew out of me in a whoosh. It took me a minute or two to get my breath back.
"Not funny," I muttered. I started to get up and Wade held out his hand again. This time I slapped it away and got up on my own, though a prior hit to the ribs made it rather difficult. Wade chuckled at my discomfort.
"Well, I'm laughing, 'cause it's funny," He said. "You should have seen your face."
I glared at him one more time. I didn't want to start an actual argument, because if Wade got into a hissy fit he could very well give up and go find the nearest Mexican place to eat. My stomach grumbled, that didn't sound so bad actually.
"Can we take a break?" I asked. I needed something to eat.
"Sure we can go get some chimichangas." He said.
"You keep talking about those things, but I have no idea what they are." I said. I walked over to the sleeping dragons. Drakki opened one of her electric blue eyes, her black scales glinting in the new light and her blue marks flashed and flickered. Hiss shook herself, unravelling from her massive coil. A shudder ran down her body, spikes bristling and shifting, before becoming still again.
"And I'm not telling you until you try one. It will blow your mind. But don't try one of the chilli ones for your first try. You'll find that they're not quite as nice the next day." Wade said.
"Ugh," I said half-heartedly, but chuckled anyway. I nudged Drakki with my boot. She was the reason we were on this roof top in the first place, and she was the only way that we could leave. She grumbled and turned her head away, burying her face behind one of her bat-like wings.
"Drakki," I started. "Come on, my girl, we need to get off this rooftop." She didn't respond. "Drakki," I said more forcefully. Although she was very intelligent, about as clever as an average adult, sometimes I had to treat her like a toddler if she was being rather stubborn; which was nearly always.
Hiss, on the other hand, did whatever I asked, whenever I asked. Her fierce loyalty never wavered. She had already shaken herself awake, and prepared to fly at the edge of the roof top. She slithered around Wade, who had taken to shooting pigeons with one of his guns; thankfully it was silenced so he didn't cause too much trouble. Hiss gave him an indignant huff, but he just shrugged then went back to shooting pigeons.
Drakki obviously needed a little more encouragement then a few words.
"Drakki, my girl, I'll... get you a fish if you cooperate." I said. She perked up immediately at the mention of food. Normally, Drakki and Hiss, and also the talking tiger that hung around, would have to go out and hunt for themselves, but every so often I would buy them a treat.
Drakki looked like she was considering it, but I knew that she had already made up her mind. She got up and beat her wings a few times to bring the feeling back into them and wake them up.
"I swear, Drakki, you're more trouble than you're worth." Deadpool said to Drakki, now that he had killed all pigeons that had been on the roof.
Drakki pinned him with a stare that said: you really wanna go there?
"Yeah, keep looking at me like that and one day I might just believe you." He retorted to Drakki's silent challenge.
Hiss huffed as I rolled my eyes. I wasn't sure why Deadpool and Drakki had such a rivalry, but it hadn't given any indication that it would let up soon, so generally I ignored it. However, when Wade needed a ride, Drakki would always enter a mood that was inconsolable, and would not allow me to fly with her as we normally would.
Drakki and I had a kind of bond that strengthened whenever we flew. I would know what she wanted to do and she would know what I wanted to do. I wasn't so much as flying her, but more like we were flying together. It wasn't the same as the bond I shared with Hiss, which was strong also, but we had more of an understanding of each other.
But when Deadpool got involved, it was like riding the worst rollercoaster ever. Or the best, depending how you looked at it.
"So, for your birthday..." Deadpool started, and I groaned. "I was thinking that we could totally get drunk and see where we go from there."
"One, you and I both know it's extremely hard to get me drunk and you can't get drunk, so I don't know why you would make such a plan." I said, but really I knew exactly why. "Two, whoever said that I wanted to do something for my birthday? I know exactly what I want to do and that is: whatever I want." Drakki stretched like a cat and I ran my hand along her shoulder.
"Whoever said that you couldn't do what you wanted also being drunk as hell? I would find it hilarious." Wade said.
"I know you'd find it hilarious, but I wouldn't the next day." I said. "Look, do you want to get something to eat, or do you want to stand here and argue all day long?"
"Wait, I know this one. Lemme think!" He replied.
However, before he could answer, a cold blue light bathed us then faded quickly, like a cloud covering the sun. Before us, on the top of a random building in New York City, stood two Frost Giants; a mage and a messenger.
They both towered over us, swathed in a mix of ice armour and furs. The warmth of the sun vanished and was replaced by a harsh cold as frost started to spread from the feet of the Jotuns and towards us. Hiss started to coil, tensing like a snake about the strike. Drakki tensed, ready to launch at the two Frost Giants. Deadpool reached for a gun and a katana, having never seen a full Jotun before he wasn't sure if they were friend or foe. But I recognised them, and so held out my hand to calm them. I knew neither of them personally, but had seen them around the great ice castle that Farbuati and her court called home.
The messenger stepped forward. "Queen Farbuati summons you to Jotunheim immediately." He said in a deep voice. I blinked in surprise.
"Immediately?" I asked to clarify. "As in now?"
"Yes." He said. I blinked again. This was rather sudden. My next planned trip was in the summer so I wasn't quite sure with why I was being summoned at least four months early. I hesitated, what had happened with Tritan... I wasn't sure if I wanted to return to Jotunheim at all.
"Oh, don't mind me; I'm just standing here, freezing to death." Wade said. Hiss hissed and Drakki moaned, both in agreement.
The two Jotuns fixed their burning red eyes on Deadpool and my two dragons. It was strange that it was this moment that my two worlds met.
"Okay, just give me a minute." I said to the Frost Giants. They nodded. I turned to Deadpool. "Okay," I said gathering myself, "I need you to look after Drakki and Hiss for me."
"What?" Wade asked as the same time Drakki perked her head up in surprise.
"Just for a couple of days while I'm gone." I said.
"You've never needed me to do it before!" Deadpool whined. "Why now? And your birthday is in, like, three days!"
"Please? Just this once. And besides, I'll be back before then." I said. "Don't destroy anything while I gone." I added as an afterthought.
"Now why would I do that?" Deadpool asked innocently. "I'm offended that you actually said that."
I smiled at him. "I'll see you later." I said and turned to the Jotuns. I walked forward, changing from my human form to my Jotun form as I did so. My fighting suit shimmered, the one I had received from the Avengers as a gift. With the help of Deadpool, it had been kitted out with toughened gauntlets and boots that I absolutely adored, and also belts and holsters, to hold various weapons that I actually had no need for, as I had figured out a way through spells to run magic through the suit. I could now cast spells of protection, strength, even invisibility over me, and it would work better than ever. I wasn't the best magic wielder in the nine realms anyway. I frowned slightly as it faded into ice armour as my skin and hair turned blue and my eyes turned red.
I reached the Frost Giants, standing between the mage and the messengers. As the cold blue light filled the air again, Deadpool waved goodbye. I waved back.
Then we were transported to Jotunheim.
The cold light faded, and Deadpool was left standing on the roof top with two dragons that were giving his the evils and a bunch of dead pigeons.
He turned to Drakki. "Okay Drakki, I need you to get me of this roof." He said to her.
Drakki gave him a questioning look, similar to what Ink would look like whenever she asked the question "now why would I do that?"
"Because Ink made me leave my teleportation device behind because she thought I would use it to cheat and so my only way of getting off this damn roof is you." Deadpool replied. "Besides, I was thinking of doing something for Ink for her birthday that kinda involves you. So let me hop on and I'll tell you all about it."
Drakki gave him another look that said "not on your life." She barked to Hiss, and they both flew off the roof together.
So Deadpool was left with no form of transportation. He looked over the edge of the roof top. It was a hell of a way down.
"Well, $# /." He said.
I wrote a song. It's called 12 Days of Deadpool!
On the first Day of Deadpool
Wade Wilson gave to me
IMAX tickets to see his movie
On the second Day of Deadpool
Wade Wilson gave to me
2 cool katanas
And IMAX tickets to see his movie
On the third Day of Deadpool
Wade Wilson gave to me
3 severed heads
2 cool katanas
And IMAX tickets to see his movie