Loki sighed, he knew he couldn't stay at Asgard much longer, he didn't really remember what he did before he had fallen into the Void, but he knew what he had done and everyone at Asgard was constantly throwing it in his face and he knew he couldn't take it much longer. He knew he had to do something or he would become exactly what he had been before, the only one who didn't hold his past against him was Thor, his foster brother, it was Thor who had given him a second chance. Thor had brought him back as a child to get him a chance at being a real kid again, but when Odin and the others on Asgard had found out they hadn't been happy, if it hadn't been for Thor's protection he was pretty sure he would have been killed. It hadn't taken him long to figure out he might have to pull a runner and he had made arrangements accordingly with an old friend who had been pleased to help him and had made arrangements for him to stay among her favored. He shouldered his backpack and looked around his rooms, they were spotless, everything he owned was inside the backpack, all that was left for him to do was say good-bye to Thor, the only one who gave a damn about him.
Thor grumbled as he went through his paperwork in his office, sometimes being the heir to the throne was a pain in the ass, but he did his paperwork promptly unlike his father who put it off as much as he could. He sighed as he affixed his seal to the document, he was worried about Loki, he had brought him back from the Void because he knew that Loki had been given a raw deal, thanks to his time as Donald Blake he knew that all of Asgard had only themselves to blame for what Loki had become. He had wanted to give his little brother a second chance, one that he felt was more than owed to Loki, personally he was very suspicious of his father's motives for taking in Loki as his foster son, then never telling Loki who his parents were. He was willing to bet Mjolnir that his father had something planed for his little brother and he was pretty sure that it wouldn't be something that Loki wanted, or be something that would make him happy. Sighing he grabbed a blank sheet of paper, he was going to get his brother out of Asgard, Jane had room enough and he could reopen Donald's medical practice, she wouldn't mind putting them up, she would pester them with questions about Asgard the moment they arrived.
"Thor," he looked up to see Loki walk into his office with a backpack over his shoulder, instantly he knew something was up, "What is it Loki," he asked, "I need to leave Asgard," Loki told him bluntly, "And I've already made arrangements about where I can go so no one can find me." "What," Thor said alarmed, "I know its a good idea for you to leave Asgard, hell, I was about to talk to you about taking you to Midgard where I would reopen Donald's medical practice, so you could have a chance to really be a kid." "You were going to do that for me," Loki said surprised, Thor nodded, "Now tell me what you're planning little brother," Thor said sternly, "And how you'll keep Heimdall from finding you, once mother and father notice you gone they will look for you to bring you back by force." "Simple," Loki smirked, "I asked an old friend for help, even if they manage to find me there they wouldn't dare come after me without getting permission to enter her domain," "Loki," Thor said warily, knowing that there was only one person he could be talking about and she always made him nervous. "What Thor," Loki demanded, "Not even Odin Allfather would risk angering Calypso, he can't afford that, besides I've renounced any claim I have with Odin and Frigga, along with my place in the succession, I put the letter on Odin's desk with his paperwork."
"And knowing father it will be at least three days before he gets to it and even then he'll sign and seal it before he even looks at it," Thor grumbled under his breath, but then he looked at Loki and returned to more important matters. "I'll not tell anyone about you leaving until father and mother discover it," Thor promised, "I won't even tell them where you've gone, but in return you have to keep in contact with me regularly and I want to know where Calypso is sending you." "I promise to keep in touch Thor," Loki laughed, "As for where I'm going, well," "He's going to one of me favored," Calypso appeared in the office in all her glory, "Among me Brethren there is the Black Fleet, they have sailed me seas for centuries. Among them there is one ship that sails with a child of ten years, them is who I send Loki to, they have already agreed to take him in, they will treat him as they would a child of their own blood, he will be happy there." "Fine," Thor growled, before giving Loki a quick hug before stepping back, slightly embarrassed, Loki looked at Calypso, "Can you send me to the Opal now," he asked, since if he used his power for this it would be like sending up a signal flare, Calypso nodded and Loki vanished from Asgard.
"Will they treat him well," Thor demanded, "I don't want whoever it is your sending him to to treat him my like parents did, once was more than enough," "They won't," Calypso assured him, "In all the centuries they have sailed me seas, never has a child been ill-done by them. Pirates and scoundrels they be, danger there will be, but no harm will come to little Loki if they can help it and if he is harmed they will seek vengeance, vengeance that will be as swift and terrible as me own, for none are allowed to harm those they call kin and get away with it." "That shouldn't reassure me, but it dose," Thor couldn't help muttering, Calypso smiled in response and a book appeared in her hands, she gave it to Thor. "Read it," she told him, "Read it and learn of who I sent Loki to, with the Sparrow's he will find a true home, the Black Fleet will see him safe, I will visit and tell you how he is doing," then she vanished. Thor looked at the book in his hands, it was fairly thick and bound in black leather and had a ship flying a pirate flag embossed on the cover, sighing he set the book down and set about finishing his paperwork. Thankfully it didn't take him long, once he was finished he got up and grabbed the book Calypso had given him and headed for his rooms to relax and start reading, the book had detailed and colored illustrations on every other page, he was curious as to what he would learn. The Midgard that Calypso ruled was another one from the Midgard that Odin had banished him to, he had never really paid attention to the other Midgard's out there and now he was starting to wish he had. He found a inscription on the first page, 'As their adventures happen, as marriages and children are born, as new people join the family of the Black Fleet, this book and the others like it will update itself magically, my gift to the Black Fleet, this is their chronicle, so say I Calypso, goddess of the sea,' he smiled slightly as he read that.
Loki laughed as he and Sandra dived off the cliff into the clear water below, he was having the time of his life with the Black Fleet, they accepted him with no questions asked, they didn't care about what he did in the past. Here he wasn't treated differently like he had been in Asgard, to them he was just a kid who had a lot of firepower and had drawn a bad hand in life, something they could all relate to, they had gotten raw deals before as well. He wasn't away of Bryce and Belle watching him and Sandra, "Its wrong, what was done to him," Belle murmured to her husband, "They claimed he was as one of their own, but that was a flat out lie, they held him up against Thor and found him lacking, they drove him to do all he did. Thor had the right idea when he brought him back, but the Asgard was wrong treating him like as they were, trying to make him something he wasn't, if he hadn't left he would have become a monster." "Aye," Bryce agreed, "But Sandra is teaching him to have fun, we will give him a childhood, he will learn what a real family is like," Belle nodded in agreement and then grinned mischievously, shoving Bryce off the cliff into the water below. Belle laughed as Bryce surfaced before diving in after him, starting a splash war between them all, Loki was laughing, his eyes bright and cheerful as he splashed the water at them, having more fun than ever before.
Odin blinked and frowned as he recognized the handwriting on the document he had just signed and sealed, "Loki," he growled, wondering what his son had done now, with his seal and signature whatever it was would be impossible to overturn. He read the document and got to his feet, running to Frigga's rooms, where she was busy with household matters, he was sure she could tell him the meaning of this, "Frigga, read this," he snapped, shoving the document at her, his wife blinked at him and took the letter. She paled as she read it, "Impossible," she cried, "I don't believe it," "Believe it," Odin retorted, "Did you know anything about this," "Of course not," she snapped at him, "I would have told you if I had known, perhaps we should speak with Thor about this, he is the only one who Loki might tell anything." "Very true," Odin agreed, "I thought things were a bit quiet," together they went to Thor's office, knowing he was going to leave soon enough to visit Jane in Midgard again, "Thor where is Loki," Odin yelled as they burst into his son's office, "Where has he gone?"
"Oh you finally noticed that Loki's gone, it only took you, what, three weeks," Thor said mockingly to his parents, disgusted by them, they might not be on good terms with Loki, but really it had been three weeks since he had left and the only reason they had discover he was gone was because of his letter severing ties with Odin and Frigga, along with the throne. Odin purpled as his anger started to get the best of him, "Watch your tone Thor," he growled the warning, while Frigga was quiet, suddenly realizing that she had failed as a mother, among other things. "No I will not father," Thor yelled, speaking his mind, "You drove Loki away, he left so he wouldn't become what he was before, which you and all of Asgard can be blamed for, you treated him like he was always second best, never seeing him as his own person. Its no wonder he did all he did, nothing he did was good enough for you and you constantly compared him to me, never giving him an encouraging word, or even a kind look, everything he did was because of your and all of Asgard's TREATMENT OF HIM."
Thor finally stopped, gasping for breath as he vented his rage over this whole mess on his father, upon whom much of the blame rested on anyways, both Odin and Frigga's stared at Thor in shock, never expecting him to do something like that to them. "Where is he Thor," Frigga asked, breaking the silence that had formed, "Where is my son," "Oh now you call him your son," Thor said bitterly, "A little to late for that mother, a little to late." "Do you even know where he went," Odin demanded, still reeling from the shock of Thor's rant, "Yes, where he has gone, you cannot follow," Thor told his father, "And I won't tell you where he went, why should I, after all, you lost any right to know centuries ago. All I will tell you is that he has gone to a place where his past won't be thrown in his face every day by people who are to blame for molding him into the man responsible for the crimes he committed, he has gone to a place where he will be treated like the child he is." "Will he be happy there," Frigga asked, realizing they had greatly wronged Loki, "I have assurances that he will be happy," Thor sighed deeply, "And that is all I care about mother, after everything Loki deserves it." "Yes he dose," she admitted, tears gathering in her eyes, "You won't know how much you will miss or need my brother until he has left," Thor spat at Odin, "You forget he is needed, for without change and chaos we will stagnate, if he chooses to return it will be on his terms," Odin nodded wearily, finally starting to understand.