Winter's Victim

by MagnaAngel

After Thor takes him back to Asgard in chains and a muzzle, Loki fools them all and escapes, and goes off to find new allies to wage his own personal war on the universe. So he steps into the lair of the Fire Giants, Muspelheim, and finds more than just warriors and lava rocks. Can he let go of his tendencies to deceive, or will he let this one slip through his fingers? R/R Please

1. Prologue Chapter 1

In the beginning, there was nothing. Nothing but eternal space and emptiness. A universe ready to sustain life and allow it to thrive. The silence was deafening, and yet, there was no one to hear it. No one alive.
Then came the thunderous roar of one being. One being that would become the ancestor of all men, gods and demons alike. With his hands and the hands of his children, Odin, Vili, and Vé, they fashioned nine realms or what we know as today as the universe.

The higher tier consisted of Asgard, the realm of the gods, Vanaheim, realm of the Vanir gods, Alfheim, realm of the light elves.

In the middle tier was Midgard, realm of the mortals, Jötunheim, the realm of the Ice Giants, and Svartalfheim, the realm of the Dark Elves.

In the lower tier, the tier forgotten by all mortals and not acknowledged by the gods of Asgard, was Nilfheim, the realm of ice and mist, Helhiem, the realm of the dead, and
Muspelheim, the realm of the Fire Giants.

The gods of Asgard, being the most technologically advanced of all the beings in the universe, kept the peace between warring realms and would from time to time, travel to other realms to do so. They did this by means of the Biforst, a gloriously bright and burning bridge made of several colours of the rainbow, guarded by Heimdallr.

Little did the Asgardians know, that the Bifrost was a sort after commodity, and the lower tiered realms wanted it for their own. After many failed attempts, the fire Giants of Muspelheim decided that if they could not own it, then they would destroy it, cutting Asgard off from the entire universe.

As the silent war went on, the Fire Gants found allies in many other realms, and soon had a spy or ten in every realm, safe for Asgard. No matter how they tried, or how Surtr, their ruler, manipulated or threatened, the citizens of Asgard were loyal to the end to the Allfather.

That was, until Odin Allfather created his own worst enemy, in his own son. The end of Asgard was foretold by many generations, but no one would have guessed it would come at the hands of Loki Odinson, the Asgardian god of Mischief. Adopted son of Odin Allfather and the true heir to the throne of Jötunheim.