Ch. 3 Invasion

I should have known it was Thor, but why is he doing this? I already hehehe, 'gave him the relic'. So what was happening, this isn't good, I instantly thought that, but he just took me to get my attention maybe, he scowled at me, "Where is Jill?" his voice was plain serious, I wasn't sure however how to answer his question so I just said, "How the heck am I supposed to know? Where Jill his is are her problems not mine!" Even Thor could tell I was actually being truthful, "You mean, you really don't know?" crossing my arms I retorted, "No, now did that really take the process of grabbing me?" Thor rubbed the back of his neck, "No, I guess not, but where is Loki then?" At that question, I smirked, "He's- out on a walk." Then I got serious again, "Now would just leave me alone and go look for Jill yourself?" I could sense Loki was coming; I had to get Thor out of here, so I made up a quick excuse, "Why don't you go and look at the palace? I thought I saw her training there one time before." Thor gave a snort, "Fine, I will!"

Thank goodness he was gone, Loki got closer so I rushed back up to the balcony and could see him teleporting and then coming up right next to me, "Uhhh, where are all of the Frost Giants you promised?" in a serious voice, he looked beyond the horizon towards the Bifrost location, "Coming." Giving a smirk he asked, "What were you doing talking to Thor?" Sort of freezing where I stood, "Oh, you saw that?" looking at me as if still looking for a reasonable explanation, "Yeah, so…" for some reason it took me a while to get out the answer until I could manage to say, "Jill is missing, he apparently can't find her." He turned his gaze back towards the horizon, "Maybe this is a good thing, the less people in the way, the better." Thinking to myself, Loki looks pretty calm for a war that is about to ensue, I hope he knows what he is doing.

I however, felt like cinder blocks were being placed on my stomach, I trusted Loki, but my stomach felt like it was being turned inside out. I mainly worried about the whole plan falling apart; I didn't want the Frost Giants to end up ruling Asgard instead of Loki. "So, what if this plan doesn't work?" I asked rather hesitantly. I don't know how he kept a straight face, "It has to work." Then turning towards me, "If not, we will be exiled for a long, long, long time. Don't worry though, it will work." He gave a little wink at me, but my stomach still felt queasy. I however was happy he was at least confident, that made one of us, I didn't want to be exiled either. Trying to get off the subject of being exiled, "But, where do you think Jill could be?" a part of me had to know, she was still somehow to me, my friend.

He sounded like he really didn't care, that he was making an estimated guess, "She could of taken the Bifrost to Midgard, could be training there, why do you want to know?" saying rather too quickly, "Oh, no reason, just wanted your input that's all." Looking on the sunset it was beautiful, I realized however, that it could be our very last in Asgard for a very long period of time, but as scared as I was, I wasn't going to let that happen. We both were going back in when we heard something rushing, no soaring towards us, we were planning on Thor, turning towards the horizon, the silhouette grew larger. It ran into me picking me up off the ground, it was Jill, scowling with no further emotion on her face, burning ambition was in her eyes, making her hazel eyes burn bright red. Then she said, "I'm not waiting for you to try and do something else!" taking a deep breath, "I'm ending this now!"

I wasn't going to fight her, I could feel Loki surveying what was happening, and he realized that I wasn't going to fight, so he said very sternly, "Save it Jill, just put her down!" Jill wasn't going to let me go, I could tell, if anything her grip firmed. Loki came over and pried her off me and I dropped to the balcony Jill saying, "Someday…" and flew off. Loki gave a slight laugh, "What was that about?" I was still lying on the balcony, curled up on my side, I heard footsteps come over to me and bend over, "What's wrong, you okay?" wincing, "Did you see the way she looked at me? What did they do to her? What did they tell her? She was my friend!" Loki knew I was upset about losing a dear friend, but did not interfere with my feelings over the whole matter, and I didn't really want to talk about it a lot.

That night, I decided to stay in the room that changed to your mood, the 30th room, screw going in order, I thought. Loki went in the room and shut off the lights. I couldn't help but cry a little, because I was torn, going to sleep wondering if I could really face my best friend, she could that's for sure, but I wasn't, was that even my friend? I guess I'd know when the time comes, which it had better, because that's tomorrow.

When I woke up, the stars were still out, but the room was a brown color, I guess I was finally content with what was going to happen today. When I walked down the stairs Loki was standing there and asked me, "You ready?" I felt a small tear start to form in my eye, wiping my eye I took a deep breath, "Yes, let's do this!" We walked to the Bifrost to the Frost Giants army in and the plan was going to go underway, no going back, this is it. Heimdall being unable to perform duties Loki wielded the sword to put in the sheath, sparks flying, the Frost Giants coming.

Meanwhile, all of the kingdom of Asgard was present for Thor's crowning moment as king of Asgard. Thor was walking across the room, in full Asgardian ware, helmet and Mjolnir in hand, showing off by tossing it in the air, giving his best smile while being cheered. Getting up to the throne of Odin, it was time to make his oath as king of Asgard.

The Frost Giants were marching in one by one with Lauffey in the front to greet us. I still think he is the ugliest thing in the world, and how in Valhalla can something like that have a child like Loki? We walked in the front of the army with Asgard completely unaware of what was going to happen.

"Do you swear to protect the lives of the innocent?" Odin asked, Thor saying valiantly, "I swear!" Odin continued, "Do you swear to put aside all foolish ambitions?" Thor said once again, "I swear!" Odin concluded with, "Finally, do you swear to keep peace with the nine realms?" Thor ended with a loud, "I swear!" Odin, ready for the crowning, "Then I Odin declare you…" Thor's smile changed and Odin said, "Frost Giants."

This time Loki and I entered in last. The Frost Giants rampaged in, Thor, Odin, and Jill who was standing on the steps leading to the throne also in Asgardian clothing with red cape and silver armor like Thor's, started to fight them off, but there were tons of them, and tons of panicking Asgardians who were running and being frozen in place. All Hell was breaking loose, but only Loki and I knew where Lauffey was and how to stop him. Running into the room I started to fight, but Jill saw me and scowled, flew down and challenged me. This is what I have been waiting for, now to see if I am ready. She had to yell over the fight, "I know you are behind all of this Rachel!" I simply laughed sarcastically, "What, me? I'm the one helping to fight off these Frost Giants and you are posing a great distraction!"

Jill just smiled, "Then fight me and I will get out of your way, let's take it outside though." Bracing myself, "No! This ends here and now! What happened to you?" Jill just yelled in anger, "You know we were both born to be enemies!" Jill sprang right for me, moving swiftly out of the way Jill came at me from behind giving me a good smack on the back. Nearly knocking the wind out of me, I realized she has gotten way stronger. Then she grabbed me by the arm and flung me at a Frost Giant, it hurt the Frost Giant more than it did me, but the fight really began when she decided to summon lightning, it shot out bluntly from her fingertips. Managing to dodge it, she had also gotten faster, I summoned up some clones and shot ice shards at her, she got hit, but it didn't even faze her, oh how I wished that I wasn't there now then I heard her say, "Where are you? Come out coward!" I realized I was invisible; I must have gotten stronger too. Now I knew how to shoot fire, ice, shape shift, make clones, and make myself invisible.

I then made a ton of clones and shot out fire, "Yeah! Direct hit!" Jill brushed herself off, "Oh I see you are a coward! You can't even show your face to me!" That was the oldest trick in the book, there was no way I was going to show myself, and not when I had this advantage now. So I shot out ice and, WHAM! A direct hit again, but it wasn't going to work a third time, I circled around Jill and shot out ice, but she summoned lightning around her and I flew back and accidentally flew into Thor who boomed at me, "What in Valhalla are you doing? We are in a war here! Get up and fight!" Thank goodness he didn't know what was going on between Jill and I, how could anyone not notice though? Really! I duplicated nearly a hundred of me and was ready to go all out on her, I made fire in one hand and ice in the other hand, Jill had lightning on all ten fingers ready to go all out on me.

It was like there was no one around us, it was just us. I do remember though, Lauffey by the throne and managed to look at the both of us, but then I heard a, "AAARRRGGHHH!" Both Jill and I stopped what we were doing, I think we all did and looked up at the throne and saw Loki holding up Lauffey. Lauffey said, "I saw you and Thor take it out down there." Jill and I looked at each other and said at the same time, "Us?" under a harsh painful breath he continued, "Yes, you are both a splitting image." This was weird coming from Lauffey, but before he got to finish Loki said, "Enough!" going full force with his power, right before our eyes Lauffey was disintegrated, gone, no more. I looked at Loki like, wow, you really did it! It wasn't over yet, Odin still had to declare him king, which I still wasn't too sure about, but since the Frost Giant attack was 'uncalled' for and Loki defeated the king of the Frost Giants, saving Asgard, we figured that would be enough to put him on the throne, doing what Thor didn't do.

Odin then came out, surprised, "Loki has killed the king of the Frost Giants!" he snarled to himself, "This does enable him to be king." But his expression changed, "Thor, although, is next in line still, and that doesn't change, so to decide the next king, there will be a duel between them and with the demigods! Whoever wins will be king of Asgard!" nothing is ever easy to get to, but we were about to battle, again! This is an all or nothing battle, winner takes all, of Asgard! Everyone surprisingly crowded around to watch the battle that was about to take place. We were about to start when Odin raised his hand as if pleading, looking around the palace, "Wait, let us move this fight outside, this palace is already trashed as it is, let's not add to the carnage." Everyone filed out and finally we were ready to start, I wish Jill was my sister, because I wanted to kick my sister's butt so bad! So I had to picture Jill as my sister.

Jill and Thor were in the air while Loki and I remained on the ground. There was a long silent pause, all was silent, the wind blew gently, all we did was stare at each other waiting for one of us to make the first move. It was so quiet we could hear each other breathing. About five or so minutes passed then seven, then ten, we all knew the first move counted the most, so none of us wanted to screw it up, this fight was way too important to screw up. It was only a matter of seconds later when Jill and I both had the same idea, both attacking each other at the same time, but I added a little twist to it, right before she got to me I turned invisible. I found myself saying amongst the crowd, "Excuse me, pardon me." Of course people were a little freaked out cause they couldn't see who it was that was speaking and running into them.

Using my shape shifting I turned into a woman that was standing right next to me, then shooting out fire and ice from my fingertips, hitting Jill right on the back, she came crashing down to the ground. Thor looked around and saw there was two of the same person, so I quickly turned into another person, this time it was a man. Jill got up to her feet and flew into the crowd. There was a ton of people so it was like where's Waldo. Thor and Loki were still in the center of the crowd when I rushed over and duplicated a dozen Thor's all of them saying, "I'm the real Thor!" there was only one flaw to my trick, I could not use lightning powers, Thor saying, "Alright, there is only one way to make you appear!" he took Mjolnir, slammed it on the ground and lighting shot out in all directions quickly wiping out any of the fake Thor's.

Loki, like instinct, knew which one was the real me, he knew I was the closest one to Thor so he ran over and pushed me out of the way, just before I got hit. Jill and Thor were not about to let that one slide so easily, I was thinking that this was going to get ugly. Thor turned around Mjolnir in his hand; Jill was feeding excess power into the already brewing storm. There was little time to react, but we managed to turn into all of the crowd, but that didn't stop them from firing at us, the duplicates then duplicated themselves and shot out ice, slamming right on their backs. We kept shooting ice until they were frozen, but it was far from over, Thor and Jill both broke free, the shards of ice flew, one hit me unconscious.

When I woke up a few minutes, it felt like, later, Loki was on the ground, but Thor and Jill looked pretty wiped out too, just like the last times, the sight of Loki on the ground, hurt or in distress angered me, Thor and Jill were going to be in for the fight of their life! Bounding back a few steps, I shape shifted into the most terrifying thing in the world, well any magic world, a dragon. I rose to twenty feet and was different shades of green, purple, and black, still having all of my powers I normally would have, including some new power I had never felt before. I could now see real fear in their eyes; I was going to win this using mind manipulation. I spoke in my softest voice, "Why are you even with this guy Jill? He's just tricking you, why don't you repay him for his unforgivable deed?" Jill looked as if in thought, "You are right! You did trick me Thor, you will die!" I figured Thor cannot destroy Jill, so I will do the next best thing, have Jill destroy Thor!

I figured that Jill and Thor would keep each other busy, so I rushed over to Loki, I still hurt and worst of all I didn't know what had happened, but I knew what I had to do, use alchemy, it was just a new instinct. I figured this had to work! I knew I didn't have much time, so I drew quickly; two circles embedded in each other, with an upside down triangle and a right side up triangle overlapping the other. I drew this around him, focused all of my energy, clapped my hands together, and then laid my palms on flat on the circle. Thor realized what I was doing, but couldn't get passed Jill quick enough. I had to give something in exchange, so I drew some of my dragon blood and put it in the circle. When all of the sparks cleared, I could hear Thor who finally managed to snap Jill out of my spell, they were now headed my way, but Loki was starting to move, but it was too late, Jill and Thor were only feet away so I started to desperately fight, I wasn't going to go down without one!

Thor and Jill then made an electricity fence around me so I couldn't get out, I was already getting weak from protecting Loki, but I knew what I had to do, with my dragon claw, I had started to draw a fire transmutation circle on the ground. This was my last power I could depend on. Once more, I clapped my hands together and laid them on the circle, I could instantly feel my fire power increase. I blew out fire out my nostrils, took a deep breath and let fire plume out of my mouth, it completely destroyed the cage in which Jill and Thor were utterly surprised to see that I had done this, but they were not willing to give up either, they both shot up and rushed up at me. Thor with Mjolnir and Jill with a sword, but I swiped my mighty claw at them and sent them flying separating them from their weapons midflight.

Thor and Jill returned with a backhand which actually hurt my armored skin. Thor got up and hit me hard enough to make me turn back into my original form. I was dazed, but when I looked up, Jill had a sword to my throat, I thought, this is hopeless, I lost, but I did my best. However, I saw something fly across me, knocking down Jill and her sword, right before me was Loki! I couldn't believe it, the alchemy worked after all! Loki then smiled, "It's time to repay a deed. I will finish this." Drawing a symbol on the ground, I realized it was the water transmutation circle. Then cooling down the atmosphere using his ice powers, he clapped his hands together placing his palms on the circle a deep freeze fog resulted from this. Sure Jill and Thor couldn't see him, but I could perfectly and Jill and Thor were in big trouble.

I then saw Loki multiply and then make the same fire transmutation circle that I did. He did the same steps as I did too and then shot out a mixture of fire and ice, since he made those transmutation circles, his powers nearly doubled, no tripled! There was no way Jill or Thor could escape what was all around them. To give them a true sense of fear, Loki let the freezing fog disappear before he fired to strike complete fear into their hearts. I was waiting for the inevitable to happen. Loki had that same expression on his face when I first met him, but this time I was actually aware of what was going on, we were losing, but now we are about to win! I was getting ready though for Thor and Jill to fire as well though, but both Thor and Jill had their hands over their heads, but Loki looked at me and we both had the same idea, "What is this a joke brother, are you really going to surrender?"

Thor hesitated, "Yes, we are surrendering brother, no joke." Loki growled, "Why?" Thor confessed, "Because both Jill and I know when we are beaten, we know when to throw in the towel." Loki raised an eyebrow, "I see." But still Loki and I couldn't believe it, we had won. Not only were we surprised, but the crowd around us, something tells me that this was going to take some getting used to for the people of Asgard. Even Odin was utterly surprised which made me kind of think, well I see what kind of father you are now. Funny, but not really funny thing was that everyone was expecting Thor and Jill to win, but Loki and I did instead, so there was absolute silence, no clapping, no excitement, nothing.

Loki simmered down his powers and walked over to me and did the most unexpected thing, walking up to me, he hugged me, this wasn't like an ordinary hug, it was kind of, we won kind of hug and in his softest voice he said, "Thank you so much." For once I felt like I was at home, but through all of the action we went through before this day came, this was the best part of it. Instead of going inside the palace and taking place on his throne, he grabbed my hand and we started to be enveloped in a light and then the next moment we were in front of the most spectacular thing in the world, the place I have always wanted to go to, the Eiffel Tower, and since it was nighttime all of the Tower was lit, it was the most spectacular thing I have ever seen. The line was inexplicably long, so he grabbed my hand and before I knew it, we were at the top, looking out over Paris he sighed, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gotten this far, thank you…" I just laughed, "It's not a problem, if it wasn't for you, I would still be living with my mean sister and high expectation parents, and I should be the one saying thank you. So how do you think the people of Asgard will take you being king now?"

Looking at the ground I became heavy, "So, you will probably send me back home…" putting a hand on my back he said softly, "I already told you that you could stay, I could always use some help if Thor tries to reclaim the throne, Odin would probably accompany him with this endeavor, besides, you don't even belong on Midgard." He laughed at the last remark. The moment was one of the happiest moments of my life, I got to remain in Asgard and I'm in Paris with which the view was spectacular, but I knew we needed to get back to Asgard, "Should we go back now? Paris is cool and all, but I can go here any time I want to now, priorities should come first." Strangely Loki looked like he didn't want to go back at the moment, "Yes, we got a lot of work to take care of including preventing Thor from getting back the throne." So from the top of the Eiffel Tower we were once more enveloped in light again and were back in Asgard.

When we got back in the palace, but like before there was no one really there except for Odin, Thor, and Jill. Odin walked up to Loki and gave a, "Congratulations." Just like my old man would give in moments like this. When Loki sat upon his throne Thor and Jill looked pale, like the kind of, oh crap we're going to be in for a long reign. Odin had given Loki the swears like Thor, I was standing right next to him the whole time just giving Thor and Jill the hahaha we beat you look, but somewhere deep inside me, I knew Thor and Jill were going to do all they could in their power to get Loki off the throne, but there was no way I was going to let that happen. Then four people came in to pay their respects, they all knelt, even me, putting their right arm across their chest.

Getting up they left, I asked, "Who were those people?" Loki smiled, "The Warriors Three; Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg. The girl was Lady Sif." I then felt my senses get keener; I heard whispering voices, it sounded like… "Did you hear that?" looking at him I could tell that he did, "Yes I did, but there is no way they can pull it off." My voice sort of rose, "Well what if they do?" Standing up as if angered by my questioning, "They won't! End of story!" I stood up bold, to stand my ground, "Sorry, well you can't be too cautious you know!" he looked as if pondering, "True, true, how about you go scope it out?" smiling, "I shall with honor, my king." Finally being able to teleport I went out of the palace to the middle of Asgard, stood and listened, I could hear everything, anyone speaking, a bug crawling or beating its wings, but I couldn't however read the thoughts of others. It took a long time, but I finally heard the voice of Thor, Jill, and The Warriors Three. I could not believe what I was hearing. One of The Warriors Three spoke and said, "We have to get Thor back on the throne! A complete lunatic is on the throne now!" Then Thor spoke up, "I don't like it as much as any of you guys do, but if we move now it would be too obvious, we will make a battle strategy and attack later." Funny thing was I didn't hear Jill's voice in the midst of this conversation, now why was this I wonder? Just then, Jill came from behind and grabbed me as tight as she could like a really tight bear hug, I couldn't get out of it and all of my circulation was being cut off.

She flew off with me still in her arms, funny thing was she was smaller than me, but that didn't matter now. We arrived at a cave and so I couldn't use any of my power, Jill tied my hands with me to a boulder, and then Thor and The Warriors Three started to come into focus. One of the warriors, a big guy with a big red beard who I could of easily gave the name Olaf or Volstagg came up to me and said, "You sick little monster!" I gave a slight laugh, looking him over, "Speak for yourself." Spitting at me, it landed right on my cheek. Then a guy who looked like Jackie Chan, or Hogun spoke to Thor and said, "We can't let her get any more powerful, you and I both know that Loki has more power than Odin, we can't let her!" Then Thor spoke, "Don't you think I know that already, but we can't destroy her, that would be disobeying a right, and would we be no different from Loki then?" The Warriors Three and Jill shuffled the tips of their feet into the dirt and all said at once, "True…"

Then Volstagg came to me again and said, in a taunting manner, "Yeah, but it doesn't mean we can't scratch her up a bit." He then slapped me across my face. Thor raised his voice, "Will you just stop, stop so we can think about this." But whenever Thor looked at me it angered him and so he came over and slapped me in the face on the opposite side. Then a warrior that reminded me of Robin Hood, or Fandral said happily, "Yay!" slap the monster!" They all came over and slapped me once, twice, three times. I couldn't take it, taking in all of the air I could I breathed ice, I had better get out and fast, I had to report this!

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