When Mischief Finds Me
Chapter 1
"Son, I need you to help me maintain the peace and order of the nine realms. We need to check in occasionally, to make sure that everything is at peace like we believe. It would be upsetting to hear we have been falling behind on our duties." Odin stated to his younger son as he sat upon his throne.
"This sounds like a job more suited for Thor." The younger prince argued, not seeming very excited about the request.
"It is suited for both of my sons. This is not a request, Loki. This is an order from the King of Asgard." This time Odin was a bit more stern in his words. He stood from his chair and motioned to the doorway. "Head over to Heimdall and use the Bifrost. He'll know where to send you." And with that the conversation was over.
Loki turned away from his father before rolling his eyes at the 'order' he received. He had many better things to be doing, like relaxing and finding new ways to convince his brother Thor to humiliate himself over his simple-minded understanding of, well, basically everything. He smiled at the thought, remembering the last time he convinced Thor to approach three Asgard women because 'they were admiring him, just hoping he would approach them,' or so Loki convinced Thor. In reality, the three women were more focused on their work and were more embarrassed by Thor's presence than excited. A small silly prank, Loki had to think of something better by the time he came back from wherever he was going.
After a quick trip through the Bifrost Loki ended up in the middle of a desert on the planet known as Earth. He dusted off his royal garments and scoffed as he looked around. "Such a disgusting and pitiful place. Sending me to Midgard." Loki muttered to himself as he looked around the night sky. He noticed to the east a myriad of bright lights and focused his attentions to that area.
Not even two seconds after that thought he was within the bright lights. He looked around the bright lit buildings and busy streets full of scandalous dressed humans and finally focused on a sign titled Las Vegas. A few people couldn't help but stare at the Asgard prince since his royal outfit seemed to stand out. However, in the town of Las Vegas people quickly shrugged him off to be another performer.
He walked down one of the streets for quite a while, eyeing the buildings and looking at a few people as he passed, doing his best not to let any of them rub shoulders with him. He couldn't help but notice how every few steps some humans would try to pass him business cards with barely dressed women, he was not interested in anything that they had touched and would wave them away.
The more he walked the dimmer the lights became. Loki sighed, frustrated by his situation. "Everything seems as fine as it has been for years." He muttered to himself.
"Well it's about time you came." Loki heard the voice of an old woman. He turned his head to see the face where the voice had come from, an old woman sitting in a booth with some sort of see through ball. Her clothing loose and colorful as if to hide the dark bags under her eyes.
He was easy to dismiss her words to him as well and was going to take his next step, but her next words caught his attention.
"We've been waiting for you, Loki, God of Mischief, son of Odin." The woman smiled, knowing that caught his attention.
How had he been found out so easily? He turned and walked up to her, a look of anger plastered on his face. "Who has been waiting for me, old woman?" He questioned her.
She still smiled. "All of us." Her arms motioned out, referring to the world. "It was destiny that brought you to our planet. I was starting to worry you would never come." The Las Vegas side street psychic vaguely explained.
Loki was easily losing his patience as he placed a hand on her booth. "I don't believe in destiny. I'm leaving this crummy place as soon as I can. Give me one good reason I should stay." The statement almost sounded like a threat, but the woman was not easily startled.
"It's Sigyn." The woman said to Loki.
Loki was a bit surprised at the mention of that name. He had heard it before from stories his father told. How did an old woman know of her too? "Sigyn's been dead for years. Nice try." He almost sounded disappointed, as if he was looking for something exciting to do on this dull planet. As he took his hand off the woman's counter and started to turn, she knew she had to grab his interest before it was too late.
"You're right, she's dead. But has been reincarnated." This again made Loki stop, but he didn't turn around to look at her. "A young woman now possesses the power of the Goddess Sigyn. She's learning she's different, she knows she has these powers. However, she can't control them. If she doesn't learn how to properly use her powers, she will cause much mayhem on Earth. Once she's done with Earth she will move on." She waited a few seconds to see how Loki would respond. Did she finally have him?
"And what exactly am I supposed to do about that?" He turned to look at her again. Thank goodness. "It sounds like something your planet can figure out. Nothing that requires me." He challenged the old woman.
"That's far from true." She argued back. "She needs a teacher. Only one person, no, one God can teach the girl how to use Sigyn's powers for good. And that, my prince, is you."
Loki thought for a long while. His father had sent him here to maintain order, it would be irresponsible to ignore a possible threat such as this. If it turned out to be nothing, he would return home. But if it turned out to be something…
"Where can I find her?" He asked the woman, whose smile had grown the widest it had the entire conversation.
The alarm clock went off exactly at seven in the morning as it did every Monday through Friday. After deciding that today was not the day to hit that lovely snooze button she stretched and got out of her twin xl bed. She walked across the room and turned on the light, disturbing the girl in the other twin xl bed who had tried to sleep through the alarm.
"Wake up! Today is your day!" The energetic girl yelled as she walked over to her roommate and shook her like crazy. She could only hear a few mumbles underneath the covers in response. "We go to class, we come back, we get dolled up, and we celebrate because you're finally twenty-one!" After some more vigorous shaking the energetic girl had finally won, her roommate was awake.
The now twenty-one year old sat up in her bed, showing her messy red mid back length curls as she looked at her roommate. "I don't… have class… until ten." She mumbled angrily at her roommate.
The energetic girl, black straight mid back length hair also slightly a mess looked a bit shocked. "Oh that's right." She muttered, losing her excitement. She moved her bangs and tucked them behind her ear as she thought about how to fix things. "Well, now that you're up you have three hours to do what you want!" She tried to be positive.
"Like go back to sleep." The red head muttered as she pulled the covers up and rolled over away from her roommate.
"No no no no." The twenty-two year old argued. She sat at her roommates bed and rolled her shoulder back to look down at her roommate.
"Christine, I swear to God I will throw my alarm clock at you if you don't leave." The red head said in a raspy tired voice.
"Brianna, just listen to me." The girl known as Christine said calmly, closing her eyes and taking a breath. When she opened her once blue eyes they were now a piercing gold, looking straight into the eyes of her roommate. "You will get up, get dressed in some workout clothes, have a nice workout, get some Starbucks, come home and get ready for class." Christine watched her roommate and once she saw the gold flash go through her eyes she knew she was successful. She smiled and blinked again, back to the beautiful blue they naturally were.
Brianna sat up and looked at Christine. "You know what? It's not a big deal. I think I'll get up, go have a productive workout, maybe get a mocha frap on the way back and then head to class." Brianna paraphrased, not knowing what happened a few seconds earlier.
Christine smiled. "That sounds like a great idea." She agreed.
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