Author´s note: This silly little story was inspired by *trazar´s cute picture (.com/favourites/5032172?offset=48#/d4irybi) over at . Check it out, it´s really cute! Apart from that...enjoy and leave a review!:D
Thor swaggered out of Valhalla, humming his favourite song completely out of tune and generally being just as cheerful as he always was. There were no boring meetings today, no princely duties to be fulfilled and no sparring lessons either (normally he rather liked those – but since Sif had knocked him out the last time, he had decided to take a little break from them.). Today Thor was free and he planned to enjoy it as much as he could!
Which meant smashing Frost Giants of course. He knew that he was forbidden to step food in Jotunheim, but luckily that didn´t count for any other of the nine realms. And fortunately for Thor but not so much for Frost Giants, they tended to visit Midgard or Svartalfheim or any other place to cause some mischief. They couldn´t complain if he punished them for that, in his humble opinion. After all he was the son of Odin and supposed to check if everything was in order.
He went into the direction of the stables to get Tanngnjostr and Tanngrisnir, his two goats, and his chariot ready. However, he was half-way there when he noticed a goat standing all alone on Bifrost. Someone must have left the stable doors open and that silly animal escaped. Tanngrisnir likes to pull such caprices, he reasoned.
Having reached the animal, he thought there was something odd about it. He couldn´t quite put his finger on it though. After several moments of intense staring, Thor finally noticed it: the goat was wearing clothes!
And not just any clothes. They looked uncannily like Loki´s finest green robes. But then again all of Loki´s robes were green. Where in Odin´s name did he get those? And more importantly: how did he put them on?
Thor bent down to be on eye-level with his animal. Now that he thought about it, he wore a rather sour expression too. None of his goats had ever looked at him like that. Were goats even supposed to be able to glower at him like that?
Maybe he´s sick. A reincarnation might do him good, he didn´t have one for some time. Even though that would mean I can´t take him out today. Thor shot his animal another look and decided that there was definitely something wrong. He never heard of a goat hitting their head against the ground.
"Ah well, my little friend, never to worry! I shall kill and eat you quickly, so you can leap and hop around tomorrow like a newborn kid!"
The goat gave a frightened "Baa!" and jumped away from Thor. Now that was strange. Normally they didn´t understand what he was saying. Or so he had thought.
After a ridiculously long chase up and down Bifrost, Thor managed to catch the scared animal at last. He kicked and bleated all the way back, so the god of thunder decided to let Frigga have a look at him. She had considerate healing powers and had a way with animals, and besides, he didn´t think this matter important enough to bother Odin with it. He might be in one of his meditations and even though the last time he had disturbed him in the middle of one of those had been fifteen years ago, Thor´s ears still rang with the sound of his father´s shouting and shattering porcelain. But then Loki had been with him to share the blame and soothe their father with his silver tongue.
"I wonder what my brother is up to right now, little one," he wondered out loud, stroking the goat absent-mindedly. "He said he wanted to practise magic spells, but maybe he got into some trouble again."
A particularly loud and, as Thor thought, indignant bleat followed this. "Don´t worry, we´re already there. I´m sure mother will know what´s wrong with you."
He didn´t see the goat rolling his emerald green eyes as he entered the palace.
That´s it for now, but a second part is in progress. XD Tell me how you liked it, fellow Midgardians!
