Burning. He was awoken by a burning smell. He opened his eyes and things were different. He had collapsed after his orgasm and was now lying flat on his back on the ground. The skies had cleared again. The smell he realised was the ground. Dozens, if not hundreds of lightning bolts had come from above, and from Thor himself, and laid waste to the small clearing he was in. The ground was scorched and there wasn't a tree in a fifty foot radius that wasn't now just a charred stump. Everything looked destroyed.

Loki was sitting on the ground, leaning back against a blackened tree stump. He looked as exhausted as Thor felt. His hair was damp and body was soaked. But, fortunately unharmed.

Thor was still panting, he didn't think he had the strength to even sit up, but he tried anyway. He pulled himself up enough to at least get his back off the scorched earth. He looked down on his body. His cock was completely spent, his balls felt painfully empty, and he was bone dry. Evidently the lightning had burned all the moisture off his body, as well as any traces of his semen.

"I hate you, so much." Loki finally spoke.

Thor just laughed. "I take it it was good for you as it was for me?"

"You almost incinerated me. I had to quickly put up a force field once it started raining lightning, and had to contain the storm to this small area in case you turned this entire continent to ash. I'm wiped."

Thor laughed again. "Join the club."

Loki smirked at him. "So? Feel anything?"

Thor lay back down again and looked to the sky. He knew ...something. He now knew a lot of things. He knew he may see Loki as more than a brother now (he'd deal with that later), he knew that was the greatest experience of his life, he knew that he had the power to blow entire countries of the map with an orgasm (he had to laugh a little at that). He also knew what to do next.

Summoning his strength, he stood up and walked over to Loki and reached an arm down to help pull him to his feet.

He tried to avoid looking at his brothers eyes, and definitely tried to not look down at his dick. This had the potential to get very weird. Their relationship may have been ruined forever. But there were more important things at hand.

He clapped Loki on the back and reached an arm out to the sky. "Brother, are you recovering? We have work to do." He announced as he walked a few steps away.

Loki replied, "I'm fine, just a little tired."

Mjolnir flew to Thor's hand from across the clearing. As soon as his hand gripped the handle, more lightning coursed through Thor and in an instant he was fully dressed and ready to set off. Beside him Loki waved an arm and clothing reformed around his body. Thor was slightly disappointed he didn't get to see him nude anymore, but it probably would have gotten a little distracting.

"Follow me when you can." Thor ordered. He swung his hammer and flew into the sky, leaving Loki alone on the ground.

Thor climbed higher into the atmosphere. He determinedly did not look back to the clearing when he reached a suitable altitude. Things with Loki had been strange back there. Tense, but also familiar. He really didn't know what to think. He knew he didn't want to lose his relationship with his brother. But part of him was crying out for more. More closeness, more of whatever just happened. More ...un-brotherly activities. But how did Loki feel? Loki had the been the one to suggest Thor do that. He had guided him through it. Thor had just thought it had been for the purposes of his research. To help Thor. To be a good brother. Entirely innocent.

But Loki had gotten aroused. Loki had gotten naked. Loki had gotten off. Loki had clearly enjoyed it as much as Thor had. Was it intentional? If Loki did like men, did he like Thor? Did Thor like Loki?

Thor looked around. He was high in the clouds. The world stretched out all around him. He closed his eyes again and focused his energies. With Mjolnir in his hand he fired a bolt of magical energy above him. It arced high in the air and far away. Many miles away. A mortal would have lost sight of it. But Thor's godly eyes kept track of it. Hundreds of miles to the north, it stopped. It hung in the air, to mark the land below it.

Thor swung his hammer again and made after it.

His flight has full of images of them in the forest, Loki directing him, Thor clapping him on the back (the only bit of touching they actually did), both standing naked together, Loki's dick while soft, Loki's dick while hard.

And then he remembered Heimdall. Heimdall would have seen them. Technically they didn't do anything together. He could pass it off as a folly of youth if Heimdall confronted him (he was still a young god, sort of). If he could see his brother bare, and no one think anyone strange, then this isn't much different. He was thankful Hemidall's abilities didn't include mind reading, and a little thankful he and Loki hadn't touched each other in any way during.

As Thor approached his destination the energy faded. It had taken him to the coast. From above he could see a small beach up against a cliff face. He landed. Ahead of him was a cave. Grasping Mjolnir tight he walked up into it. Using the hammer as a torch he could see that the cave extended back quite a bit. It looked ...familiar.

"Charming place." Loki said from beside him. Thor may have been the one that could fly, but Loki always had his own ways of getting around.

"I know this cave." Thor replied, trying hard not to think about how close Loki was standing. About how he could still smell the traces of semen on him.

"How?" Loki asked.

Thor ventured further into the cave. It was deceptively large, the passageway could easily accommodate Thor and Loki walking side by side. After a few minutes they reached a large room. The stone walls unusually smooth, the ground unusually flat. Mjolnir vibrated slightly in his hand. This room contained powerful magic. He looked to Loki, the expression on his face made it clear that he felt it too.

Thor walked around the room, taking in the sensations. Mjolnir was still shaking in his hand. Loki had spread his arms out and closed his eyes. He was trying to use his magic to read the room. As Thor reached the centre of the room he noticed an indentation on the floor. As if it had been hit by a powerful lightning bolt. One of his lightning bolts. He realised it at once.

Thor was born in this cave.

It made no sense. Why was he born in a cave in Midgard? Why not the Royal Palace on Asgard? Why would his parents hide this from him? He had so many questions. Loki looked just as perplexed as well after Thor told him.

"I was wondering when you would come." A strange voice said. There was no one in the cave but Thor and Loki, but this voice, female, Thor noticed, seemed to come from all around them.

The energy in the room increased substantially. More than Thor gave out in the forest with Loki. Much more. Loki and Thor stood together, ready to fight if they had to.

A young woman appeared in front of them.

"Hello, Thor. Loki." She said, her otherworldly voice filling every part of the cave. Her long hair seemed like it was made of gold. Her blues eyes felt as though they were piercing his very soul, and she wore a simple green dress to cover herself. Thor also noticed she was barefoot.

But her power was overwhelming.

Midgard had thousands of gods, and his father, Odin, was the most powerful. Equipped with the Odinforce he was one of the most powerful beings in the Universe. His power was vast and he was capable of incredible feats. And Thor could tell that this strange woman could make Odin look like a small child with a toy sword in comparison.

He had never felt a power so incredible. It dwarfed his and Loki's so much that he knew if this ended in a fight they would lose. Badly.

"You know who we are." Thor asked.

"You are Thor. Son of Odin. And you are Loki, son of -" She stopped. Her eyes flashed for a second before saying, "His brother."

The brothers looked to each other, that was very strange.

Loki spoke up. "Do you know why we have come?" He seemed very nervous, terrified even.

"Yes."

"Who are you?" Thor asked.

She did not answer. But instead just smiled at him.

He tried a different question. "Why was I born here?"

"Your father wanted a child that grow to be more powerful than himself. A child whose power would not be just of Asgard but of other Realms. A child whose power was linked to the Earth."

Thor looked to Loki, he was scared. More scared than Thor had ever seen him. And Thor could tell his mind was working overtime to study this strange woman.

Thor considered her answer. "But my mother is not of Midgard or Asgard, but of Vanaheim. How would merely being born here make me of Earth?"

She did not answer again.

Beside him Loki gasped. Thor turned to him. His colour had paled considerably and he fell to his knees. He was bowing to her. The woman merely looked at him and smiled again.

"That will not be necessary young trickster."

Loki started apologising profusely and gingerly climbed to his feet again. Thor was very worried. Loki knew who this woman was and was worshipping her. Loki was a God. He didn't worship anyone. People worshipped him. Unless...

"Gaea." Loki whispered.

Thor paled. He was right. This woman was very, very powerful. Gaea was an Elder God. She was the embodiment of the Earth itself. One of the few things that all the gods of Earth agreed upon, was that Gaea created them. Gaea created all. She was the Allmother.

Allmother.

Suddenly everything into place in his mind. Why his parents would hide the circumstances of his birth, his connection to Earth, his mother's pained face when he had asked her.

"You are my mother." Thor said quietly. Loki gasped beside him. Apparently he hadn't figured that part out yet.

She smiled at him again. "I have many children. I consider everyone to be my children. But you are different. You were born of me. A child of the Earth. That is why you are so strong. Odin required an heir more powerful than any other. One who would grow to become more powerful than him. Who would do what he couldn't.

"And you will. Your future is bright, my son. I see it well. You will save this Realm and all Realms in ways that you cannot yet imagine. Stop threats that seek to conquer this world! Unite all the Realms!"

Thor swore he saw a look of pride on her face as she said this. He was supposed to do great things. That was ...pressuring. But he had always known that he was to be king. A better king than Odin.

"Odin did not wish for you to find out this way." Gaea added. "He would be most displeased to discover this. And your mother, Frigga would be heartbroken."

Thor thought about his mother. The woman who had raised him, knowing that he was not biologically hers. The woman who loved him regardless. The woman who had up with him all these centuries, even though she didn't have to. He found he didn't care. This woman, Gaea may have birthed him, but Frigga was his mother.

"I will not tell them." Thor assured her. And he wouldn't.

"I know you will not." She then looked accusingly at Loki.

Loki was babbling incoherently, but he had at least gotten some of his colour back.

"I will make sure he doesn't either." Thor answered for Loki.

"See that he doesn't. The watchman, Heimdall, on the other hand will be a problem. He is loyal to Odin. His memory of these events will be changed."

Her eyes glowed again.

'Well that takes care of the Heimdall problem'. He thought.

"And now it is time for you to leave." Gaea said to them.

As the cave started to pulse with energy again he quickly asked her, "Will I ever see you again?"

For a final time she did not answer and smiled again. There was a flash of light and suddenly Thor and Loki were back in the scorched clearing.

It took a few minutes before either of them said anything. Loki spoke first.

"Lovely woman your mother." He joked.

Thor wanted to hit him with his hammer. He just wasn't sure which one.

That went more than a little off track. My apologies. If you're still reading this, chapter 3 will be posted soon, and will deal more with Thor's pseudo-incesty feelings