OMG. So a week ago, I watched iron man 3 and it…was…AWESOMMMEE!

HOLY SHIT it was soooo good. If you haven't watched it, you need to watch it. It is just too good.

And the end of credits scene? JUST PERFECT!

Now, enough fangirling, this is chapter 25 and the long awaited…Loki chapter!

We left off with Luke and Loki sleeping after finding their first object-the arrowhead flower. We also learned that Luke has now found out about Percy's magical box that Poseidan gave to him in a dream.

Now this chapter is them finding the second item.

Here we go!

Loki

We awoke the next day and immediately started to trek toward the second object, after eating a quick breakfast of our leftover supplies from the cornucopia.

When we woke, I noticed something…different about Luke. He had a strange fire in his eyes. He didn't speak to me once and seemed to only keep his head down in serious determination.

Something was up, and I knew it. Something had happened when we slept. I knew it, but I didn't say anything. I would wait and see if he would open up first. If he didn't, I would find out anyways because I have my ways.

So we started walking once again, with me leading and him following behind me.

As we walked, my thoughts wandered over to my…brother. Even inside my head, I spat his name in disgust. He was in the forest as well of course. I had always been able to feel his emotions the most of anyone else's. Of course he was with the avengers, and I hated him for that.

He betrayed me. Not the other way around.

I didn't know his exact location of course, or I would've led us straight to him. I resented not being able to know where he was. Something was blocking my magic and it was just so annoying.

After all, he was the reason I was bitter to everyone.

He never tried once to listen to what I felt, about…anything. It was always about him, him, him. When he was about to be crowned as the next king of Asgard, no one had even though about asking me how I felt about it.

I had always been the odd one out-the third wheel. As I was standing in the audience, watching my brother about to be crowned, I found out. I found out that I was never going to be the king. "Father" never did care about me much at all. If Thor did something, it was always blamed on me. I always got the worst punishment. No one cared about me. No one at all

No one cared if I was silently seething from the inside because of Thor becoming king. No one cared if I was broken when I found out that I was adopted. I was always the one no one cared about.

My lips quirked up into a small, bitter smile. Of course, everyone had cared when I attacked New York. The only thing that would catch my "father's" and Thor's attention was starting a battle. I had gone to such drastic lengths and all I ever wanted was a father's pride and a brother's acknowledgement.

I was furious at them. I was furious at them all. The Avengers. Thor. My father…

I let out a puff of air. I saw dew sitting on the branches of some of the trees and the grass on the ground. The sun was shining was shining down through the branches, illuminating the droplets. The sight was definitely not fit for my emotions.

Now, I will finally be able to get my long-awaited revenge. I would finally be rid of the Avengers once and for all. That would include my so-called brother.

Even when we were young, I would be the only one left out. I would be the strange crazy person in the back. No one would ever acknowledge me. People only talked to me because I was Thor's...brother. If I hadn't been, no one would've given me a second thought. I had realized that a long time ago.

My parents wouldn't even try to hide the fact that I wasn't normal. They would rat me out all the time, blame me for whatever Thor would have done. And I would've taken the blame without question.

Not anymore.

No, I see it now. It's all so clear now.

I see how horribly wrong everything in my life has gone.

Thor would see now. He would see how he ruined me. How he shunned me and tried to look like he cared. It never worked. I always saw right through it all.

I was snapped out of my dark thoughts when Luke finally spoke up.

"Hey, I think we're here." He said softly.

Sure enough, I found that he was right. I hadn't even realized it, but I had been subconsciously leading us toward the edge of the forest this entire time. It was strange the way my magic worked at times. It was almost like it had a mind of its own.

All around me stood trees, as tall as the eye could see. I craned my neck to the sky, trying to find the canopies of the trees, but I could barely see them.

I could not tell which one of the trees was the tallest one. They all looked the same. I wandered around, trying to find a difference in the height, but alas, they were all tall. Too many leaves and canopies covered the tips of the trees.

"Damn, these are some tall trees." Luke whispered.

"Yes," I mused. "But which is the tallest?"

The question was left unanswered as we walked around the plethora of enormously large trees. I hadn't seen this many tall trees, even in Asgard.

Finally, we approached a tree that was different from the rest. It had not as many leaves as the other trees and the canopy of the tree also started at a higher height than the others. I looked up and could actually see bits of the pristine blue sky through the leaves.

"I think this is the tallest ree." Luke stated from somewhere behind me.

I nodded in agreement . This was definitely the tallest tree. It's trunk was larger by at least a full metre as well.

"A leaf from the tallest tree in the forest…" I repeated what Chealatos had told me, more to myself than to Luke.

"How do we get a leaf that is way up there?" Luke asked, pointing a finger toward the canopy in bewilderment.

I thought for a moment about that very problem. If I had more magic, I would've been able to lift one of us all the way up to the top. But that was out of the question as I was burning up my magic too quickly. There had to be another way.

That was when I had an idea.

"Luke, is it possible that you can climb this tree?"

He was silent for a moment. "I…could try. I'm not sure."

I nodded. He started walking toward the tree until he found a low enough branch to hop on to. He used his hands and feet to climb to the next branch and the one after that. He was calm and coordinated until he was holding on to the fifth branch. His foothold slipped and he tumbled all the way down to the ground.

"Agh!" He screamed on the way down. He landed with a thump and a groan.

I silently started to laugh as he lay on the ground, the wind knocked out of him. I tried to hold it in. Finally, I composed myself enough to ask, "Are you okay?"

He groans again. "Do I look okay to you?" He dragged himself off the round and limped over to stand next to me.

"So…what now?" He asked.

For once, I was out of ideas. I had nothing. There would be no way to get up to the top of that tree without dying. It was too tall and the canopy was too high up.

"I do not know."

Luke looked at me with disbelief. I figured even he didn't think that I would ever say that, but I just had.

I glared at him evilly enough to stop him looking at me with that expression on his face. Good. I still needed to keep up my reputation. I couldn't afford going soft just yet.

Just then, I heard a strange beeping noise. I scrunched my eyebrows, trying to find the source of the noise. Luke had noticed it too.

That was when I saw a small parachute attached to a round ball floating to the ground next to us.

"What is that?" Luke asked. I didn't answer him and instead walked over to the thing that had now landed. I picked it up and examined it. As soon as I touched it, the thing opened with a hiss.

I almost dropped it in surprise. When I got over my initial shock, I peered inside the container to see what was inside. Luke came up beside me, curious as well.

Inside were two small…things that almost looked like pieces of paper. They were grey with tiny little suction cups on it.

"What the hell…" I heard Luke mutter.

I took them out of the container and found that underneath them was a small slip of paper. I took it out and read what was on it.

"Put them on your feet." I read aloud.

Luke took the things from me and experimentally placed them over the soles of his shoes. He walked around a couple of steps and then stopped.

"They don't feel any different." He stated.

I frowned. There had to be some connection between these…things and the fact that we had to get a leaf that was up really high.

Suddenly, an idea hit me.

"Luke, place your foot on the tree."

"What?"

"Didn't you hear me the first time? I said put your foot on the tree!" I snapped.

He mumbled something before reluctantly doing as I told him to. He lifted his leg to waist height and carelessly put his foot on the bark of the tree.

"Well? Now…" He trailed off.

"What?" I prompted.

"My foot's stuck." He tried to remove his foot. He grunted and pulled, but his foot stayed stuck. After an obvious amount of effort only did his foot become unstuck.

I smirked. Just as I suspected. We could use these things to get the leaf that was way up there.

It seemed to dawn on Luke what these things were for as well. He experimentally placed his foot on the tree once again. Once he knew it was stuck, he slowly lifted his other foot. He frantically reached for a nearby tree branch and held on to it as he brought his other foot up.

He yelped in surprise as he was still stuck to the tree with no feet on the ground.

"Holy shit!" He exclaimed in surprise.

"keep going!" I prompted him to go faster.

He did the same thing and brought both feet up one by one and slowly climbed up the tree, all the while holding on to the branches with his hands for extra support.

It took him about five minutes to get halfway up.

"Do not look down!" I shouted up at him.

"Easy for you to say!"

Another five minutes and he had carefully and precariously reached the canopy. I saw him hold on to a branch that had a bunch of leaves on them as he stretched his arm to get one of them. He almost stumbled and fell, but managed to hold his balance.

He reached out once again and this time, his hand touched a leaf. He grabbed it and pulled. Once he had the leaf safely in his hand, he carefully and slowly made his way back down. It seemed harder going down than it was going up.

When he finally had his feet firmly planted on the ground, he said, "the next time we have to do something like that, you're doing it."

I furrowed my eyebrows but didn't say anything. Instead, I snatched the leaf away from his and observed it. It was an odd sea green colour and was in the shape of a really big maple leaf.

I held on to it carefully as not to damage it and started walking right away. We had to get this leaf to where we had buried the arrowhead flower before setting off to find the third item.

Of course, I knew the way so it would take us no time at all to get there.

An hour and a half later found us at where we had buried the flower in the desert at the edge of the forest.

I ordered Luke to dig at the location where our flower was kept. He dug and soon enough, recovered our flower that did not look damaged at all. I handed him the leaf and he carefully placed it next to the flower. He then shoveled the sand on top of both the items. He stood up and said, "Two down, one more to go."

"yes…" I mused.

Finally, you will need the roots of the rare bushwick plant at the centre of the forest.

Yes…I knew where the centre of the forest was. It was giving off a slight pulsing energy and I could sense it. It was slowly but surely drawing everyone in the forest to it. I could sense everyone slowly trekking toward it. Of course, they didn't know it, but I did.

I had a strange feeling that the final showdown would somehow take place over there.

I would have to prepare myself for that.

I decided not to tell Luke about that. That would definitely work to my advantage.

I would wait until they are all together before I take them out one by one with my power being increased tenfold. At first it will look like Luke is helping me, but I will strike him down when he least expects it.

Heh heh heh.

This will be exiting.

And there you go.

Yay, I got the chapter up early!

Next chapter will also be up soon.

-Detective DG