Dang limited chapter name characters. Full name of this chapter is Thor and the Science Notes of Jane (and then some)
Sorry for skipping a week! Didn't really get around to writing this until today.
If (for some reason) you haven't read last week's story it might be a good idea since this is the follow up. Or just read the summery underneath.
Jane went to the store to buy Thor a toothbrush. However Thor proved to her he knows perfectly how to brush his teeth and used the electric toothbrush as something else. He frustrated Jane (again) and wanders into her science lab in hopes to get away from the Jane monster. He discovers her note about his galaxy and is pleased of what she has but they're off. Now Thor wants to help Jane by correcting her notes for her.
Thor rummaged through the office. He found extra paper and some writing tools. His favorite was the skinny stick that dropped ink.
As he wrote on the papers he couldn't help but think of home. How much he wished to go back. Thor scribbled over what she had written with the true stuff. Of course he was bored by all this writing and Jane pretty much had everything wrong about his world. It was almost as if she didn't study at all!
When his hand got a cramp Thor took a break and browsed the bookshelf in the room. He saw one that said Norse Mythology. Quickly he pulled it out. He flipped through the pages. Did Jane write this? Cause it sounded all wrong! Everything in this book was completely wrong! Laufey wasn't a girl, the book forgot the 'a' in Frigga, Sleipnir was birthed by Loki?! And Odin was called-wait wait, Odin had a bunch of nicknames? Hehe now Thor could call him whatever he wanted. He read through them and quickly memorized them all. Then he flipped to the part about himself.
Apparently he had goats called Tanngnjost and Tanngrisi. He could kill them to eat then bring them back to life and repeat. He was also the rule of a realm Thrudvang. It was a prison. Thor scowled and slapped the book shut. He went back to fixing Jane's notes.
Jane hummed to herself as she went outside and tended to her withering garden. Stupid New Mexico deserts. The only thing that grew in the garden were the cacti! She had used all sorts of Plat growing chemicals. But no matter what she did nothing ever happened. It was almost like Thor came out here and destroyed her crops.
Speaking of Thor where was he? Jane hadn't heard a peep (or crash) from him since three hours ago when he ate the plastic wrap instead of cookie dough. Jane decided it would be best not to question his whereabouts. She went back to her gardening, not the slight bit aware that Thor was in the mood for smashing the Norse Mythology book with a plastic Mjӧlnir he shoplifted from a store.
Darcy and Erik drove in. They were discussing something about college tuitions. When they saw Jane quietly tending to her dead plants they figured she must have some free time from Thor.
The two entered the house, expecting to see a totally wrecked house. To their surprise the house was in good condition and Thor was nowhere to be found. Both began to search the house expecting to find a mess.
It was Darcy who found Thor. He was intently reading the book of Norse Mythology. Darcy cringed. How many of the tails in there were actually accurate? She hoped Thor wouldn't go insane.
Thor glanced up. "Good day, Darcy! How do you fair?"
"Um, good?" she replied. It was hard to know exactly how to reply to a Norse Prince. "What are you reading?"
"The mortal's stories about Asgardians are very strange They tell of man things I have never heard of." He flipped the book around to show a picture of Laufey. "For example, King Laufey of Jӧtunheim is a girl! What trickery is this?!"
"None," was the best Darcy could answer. "Us 'mortals' have never been to Asgard before so they just guess what's happening up there."
"Well then they are very good guessers for half of these stories are correct."
"Awesome."
"But tell me, who is this scroll keeper? I shall like to have a word with him and tell him the true tales of our world. And the fact that he has Ragnarӧk all planned out."
"Uhhh… scroll keeper?"
"Yes the person who writes the prophecies."
"That would be Jane," Darcy said quickly without thinking. She regretted it right after.
Thor frowned. "I should have known!" He showed Darcy Jane's theory papers. "I have been correcting them for her!"
"By writing over them?"
"That was a mistake."
Suddenly Darcy snatched the papers out of Thor's hands. "Hey!" Thor shouted.
"I'm gonna show Jane your MARVEL-ous work!"
"Then I shall clean your room with this Midgardian tool!" Thor threatened by holding up the toothbrush.
Darcy froze. "Did you use that in your mouth?"
"And everywhere else in the house except yours and Selvig's room."
"You beast!" Darcy flung herself at Thor and made an attempt to steal the toothbrush from him. Thor calmly stood in place and extended his hand straight up. No matter what Darcy did to take the toothbrush, Thor kept it right out of reach.
Finally she leapt onto a chair and flew at him. She knocked him over and the brush fell from his hand. Thor kicked her off and reclaimed his electronic.
"Don't clean my room with that thing!"
"Then don't show Jane I wrote on her notes!"
"Why's that a problem?"
"You have no idea." Suddenly, Thor grinned. "Go outside and visit Jane and say 'I'm worthy of iPods!' to her."
"Why? And no?"
"Because if you don't I'll use the brush."
So Darcy went outside and said "I'm worth of iPods."
"Good for you," Jane said without looking up. Darcy sulked away.
"There I did it! Happy?"
"Errr.. No. Bring me to the place you call Target and help me buy twenty boxes of pop tarts."
"No." Thor shrugged and began walking towards Darcy's room, toothbrush in hand.
Soon Darcy was doing whatever Thor commanded her to do and Thor was loving it. Why use a mind control spell when you can just threaten someone with the little electronic?
When Darcy and Thor left for Target Jane couldn't care less. Then it struck her. "Oh no…" She ran inside to find her notes sprawled all over the floor and little runes written across them. The page was so full she couldn't read anything she had written.
"#%%^$&^%& THOOOOOOOORRRR!"
Because what's a Thor and the Midgard Objects story without a screaming Jane at the end?
Odin was actually called multiple names. Ygg (The Awful), Gadnrad (He Who Determines Victories), Herjan (God of Battles), Har (The High One), Jafnhar (Even as High), Baleyg (One With Flaming Eyes), and another handful.
And yes, Thor had two goats that pulled him in a chariot. Then he could kill them and eat them and then revive them. Yep. Norse Mythology (correction all mythology) has some weird stories.
Had some help form a book called Norse Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes by Peter Andreas Munch. Don't own any partnership with it nor anything with Marvel.
