I don't own anything anything but the story idea.
AU were Laufey is alive but Jotunheim is still damaged from the bifrost, Loki is banished to his home planet and meets his family.
Loki was being dragged before the king. Oh how Loki hated him, for lying to him his entire life and then having him put in chains like a beast. It was the same day that Thor had brought him back from Midgard, still with the gag and magic restraining manacles. Thor of course would not be at his trial, no he had much more important things to do than watch him be punished.
"Oh my son!" Loki paused and felt something twinge in his heart when he heard that voice. He turned and saw his mother- no, not his mother, not really. Queen Frigga embraced him and he stood still.
"Loki, I knew you would return to us once more." Frigga said softly, she hugged him like he was a child again and still Loki said nothing. He couldn't, not with the gag in his mouth.
"Enough Frigga!" Odin commanded, Frigga tensed and Loki glared. Frigga let go of him and backed away, she then went and stood by Odin's side. Odin stood and banged his staff again the golden floor, the gag fell away.
"Now, what does the prisoner have to say for the heinous crimes he has committed against the nine realms?" Odin's voice echoed throughout the throne room. Loki was shoved forward by the guards, Loki chuckled.
"Only that I have done as any other monster would have, given my situation." Loki stated grinning at the Allfather. "I have done what my ancestors did, and what yours did as well, laid waste to another defenceless realm. I followed in the footsteps of monsters, I'm only doing what is expected of my kind."
"So you think they are all monsters than?" Odin questioned.
"Isn't that what you brought me and Thor up to be believe? That all other realms are lower than Asgard, Jotunheim especially." Loki replied, Odin of course would not answer his question, the Allfather would not give him the satisfaction of being correct.
"Then that is your punishment." Odin said suddenly, Loki's eyes narrowed. "If you are to act like a petty lower being. Than you will be banished to the place that you believe is for beings as such." Loki felt dread build in his stomach but he refused to let it show, Frigga gasped.
"Odin no," Frigga whispered but Odin ignored her.
"I Odin Allfather hereby banish Loki Laufeyson to Jotunheim, until a time I deem it worth for you to once again be with your loved ones." Odin declared before banging his staff again on the ground, a portal swirled into existence in front of Loki. Loki stared unbelievingly at him, he took a step back but the guards caught him. Odin gave one nod, and they pushed him through.
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Helbindi and Byleistr were the princes of Jotunheim. The brothers were currently trekking through a pine forest where the trees reached so high that it was almost impossible to see the sky. The forest was one of the more dangerous ones but they knew how to get around most of it, besides it's not like they were going through that particular forest by choice.
"One more village and then we can return home," Helbindi sighed as they hiked on. The princes were on a mission to check in on the surrounding villages and towns close to the palace, Marauders had been ransacking more and more places within the last year. It was mostly due to the fact that the Asgardians bifrost was destroyed and they could not reach out to the other realms to help, not that any jotun had even the faintest hope that the Asgardians would ever help them. They always had to take care of themselves.
"I hope Mother hasn't worried about us too much, he always worries." Byleistr chuckled. They had been away for about a month and their mother was sure to be worrying about them as well as their father.
"Yes," Helbindi laughed too, "Remember when you and I were children and we hid in the forest by the palace for two days and Laufey went crazy trying to find us?" The brothers had a good laugh at the memory, they walked on deeper into the forest. Finally they came across a clearing, and in the center of the clearing was an old abandoned temple of some sort, it was overgrown with plants and in shambles.
"Oh my," Byleistr wondered, they walked closer to the decaying building. "Brother what do you think this place is? I cannot recall ever reading a record of a place like this being in this forest."
"That's probably since the only beings who go through these woods are stupid princes who wish to get home on time after spending too much of it at a tavern the day before!" Helbindi mocked at the younger one, Byleistr looked sheepish.
"Well what kind of prince would decline a drink when offered?" He muttered, Helbindi laughed.
"A smart one that knows after the twelfth one it's time to stop! Now," Helbindi grinned, "Let's go see what's inside."
The princes ventured forth into the long forgotten temple.
"It looks like no ones been here since the War." Byleistr observed as they traveled deeper in.
"Indeed, but why let such a place as this fall into such disrepair? It certainly looks like the only extreme damage came from abandonment rather than battle." Helbindi said looking closer at the temple's cracked walls and shattered columns. As they traveled up a long set of spiraling stairs, they froze when the building groaned. They than continued until they reached the second floor only to have the temple shutter again.
"Maybe we should leave and tell Laufey and Farbauti about this place. Then we can come back with others, I would like to have someone know where we are if this place comes falling down around us." Byleistr said, Helbindi was about to agree when something caught his eye.
"Brother look over there," Helbindi pointed out, the two made their way over to what he had glimpsed. It was a memory crystal that sat on top of a stone pedestal, incredibly both seemed untouched by time. Laughably different than their surroundings.
"What is this doing here?" Byleistr questioned. Memory crystals were used for capturing the first and last good memories a person had who was close to the one dead or dying. They were rare and only used by kings and queens along with great generals. All the crystals were given to the respecting family of the deceased, so all of the royal memory crystals were kept in a special place in the palace library. For the life of both of them neither could guess why a memory crystal was out here in the middle of nowhere.
"What do we do?" Helbindi asked not quite sure, "I mean should we activate it?" They looked at the gem. Then ever so slowly Helbindi reached out and touched the stone, it started to glow and began to repeat what had been recorded on it.
"This is the first and only memory of King Laufey and General Fabauti's unnamed first born son." The voice of their father said. "He was born during the War and was killed shortly after coming into this universe." Farbauti's voice wavered. Suddenly a hologram appeared, it was of Laufey and he was holding a jotun baby, only this one was impossibly small, he was able to hold it with one hand. The princes gaped, they couldn't see their father because it was his memory being used.
"Laufey!" Farbauti yelled, their father's voice seemingly coming from thin air.
"What do we do?" the Laufey hologram asked worriedly, staring at seemingly nothing but they knew he was looking at their father.
"If we act now we can draw the Asgardians away from here, it is the only way to keep our son safe." Farbauti said. "But we must hurry before they breach our defences!"
Laufey held the newborn closer before nodding, "You're right, it is the only way to save him, we can leave him here until it is safe." They watched as Laufey carefully placed the child at the base of the pedestal which did not exist in the memory.
"We will return for you my child." Laufey murmured, the infant said nothing just stared at Laufey with eyes full of joy. Laufey smiled before standing and nodding to where Farbauti had to be, "Let us leave." Was the last thing said before the memory faded and the stone stopped glowing. The brothers were frozen from the shock at what they had just learned.
"We had a brother?" Byleistr whispered. "I had heard rumors of Laufey being with child in the War, but I thought they were only that, rumors." Both of knew of the tales that Laufey was with his first child before the War had started, but there was never any evidence that he was. Their parents certainly never mentioned it so they thought nothing of it. But now with what they had just discovered...
"We need to leave." Helbindi said, "We need to talk to Mother and Father about this."
"Yes." Was the reply and they both started to move when there was a flash. They saw a portal open in front of the pedestal, and out stumbled an Asgardian in chains. The Asgardian looked around wildly before he settled on the jotuns. Everyone was too stunned to move. It was Helbindi who recovered first and summoned an ice weapon that covered halfway up his arm, when he took a step forward that was when everything fell apart.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" The man stumbled back as his howl echoed all around the large room.
That was all it took for the old temple to come crashing down. Helbindi first instinct was to get Byleistr out, his brother had the same idea because he shouted,
"Helbindi go!" As they ran the Asgardian was a dozen feet in front of them, Helbindi readied his weapon to cut the man down as they passed. He would have done just that had a huge section of the ceiling not completely fallen down and on top of the entrance to the stairway. The brothers skidded to a halt right before they were caught in the wreckage, the Asgardian was not as lucky. The stone and ice had fallen directly on him, the only thing showing that he was buried there was a scrap of his outfit that showed through the rubble.
"Now how to we get out?" Byleistr yelled, their only way had been blocked and there was no way they could dig through it before the entire place collapsed. "And what about the Asgardian?" Byleistr added, they looked at each other. It would be so easy to just leave him here, but...
Helbindi nodded and the brothers began to hurriedly dig the man out. They could have just left him there like any Asgardian would have done to them had the situation been reversed, but they were not Asgardians, they were frost just because they lived in a realm of coldness didn't mean their hearts were.
Finally Byleistr pulled the Asgardian from the pile and they both inhaled sharply. The Asgardian's skin had turned blue. He also had the same markings as them, the markings of the royal family.
"What in the nine..." Byleistr whispered, Helbindi could give no answer. He only knew that they had seconds before they would be buried like the Asgardian, or whatever this being was, had been. He then saw a large window on the other side of the room, if they reached it before the way was blocked they could jump.
"Come on Byleistr!" Helbindi dragged his brother who was holding the unconscious, apparently jotun man.
"You can't be serious! The fall with kill us!" Byleistr said looking at Helbindi like he had gone mad.
"Either we jump and have a chance at survival or we stay here and most certainly die."
"...Fine, but you first."
"Alright, just make sure you don't crush him when you land." Helbindi pointed to the small jotun in Byleistr's arms.
"Okay now hurry up and jump!" Byleistr said, Helbindi readied himself, looked one last time at his brother, then leaped.
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Byleistr and Helbindi along with the still unconscious small jotun had made camp a few hundred yards from the decimated temple. Byleistr and Helbindi were sitting and talking a little bit aways from the jotun as to not disturb him. Their mysterious guest had serious wounds from being caught in the collapse. But thankfully he was healing relatively quickly due to the fact that he was jotun and so the ice healed him. Had he been any other species he would have frozen to death or died from the blood loss by now.
"So why do you think he is here?" Helbindi asked, glancing at their unexpected company.
"Judging by the chains he was an Asgardian prisoner." Byleistr sighed, "But why he's here or why he turned blue and has the royal markings, I don't know."
"What shall we do with him? Should we try again to take off the chains?" Helbindi suggested, they had already tried but couldn't figure how to release the contraption.
"I think we should take him to Laufey. He'll know what to do."
"Yes but-" Helbindi then stopped and sat rigid, looking at a spot past Byleistr.
"What is it?" Byleistr asked before he turned around and saw why his brother had freezed,
The small jotun was gone, and his footsteps scattered with blood lead the way to the most dangerous part of the forest.
So huh, this story kind of hit me out of nowhere... But hey I hope you like it so far and tell me what you think and let e know if I should continue!
*Backflips out of your room*