'I don't understand why we did not come up with this sooner!' Alex let her engine roar. Magnus pumped the gas a few times, realising they weren't allowed to go yet. 'It was only a matter of time,' he yelled back, over the loud noise of an uncounteble amount of karts.
Piper climbed onto a little podium. 'Welcome einhirjar! I am so honoured to be jurying the first ever kart-race on the bifrost, because apparently you guys did not get traumatized by the rainbow road in Mario kart enough!'
Heimdal stepped next to her onto the podium. 'To make it extra thrilling, only about a hundred metres of road will actually exist at any given time, making it so that you cannot drive too slow or too fast!'
Magnus strenghtend the grip on his steering wheel. This was going to be a bumpy ride - and he felt ready.
Piper picked up a flag from the podium. 'Because all of you are kind of crazy, which is fine, don't get me wrong, there are not that many rules really. So...' She put the flag into the air. 'GO!'
Magnus pushed on the gaspedal, speeding ahead as quickly as possible. A few people immediately dropped of the Bifrost, which put them back in their starting spot. Magnus made his way through the tumult of other kartracers, so that he was almost at the top. Almost - someone from floor one-hundred was just ahead of him.
He tried to speed past the other resident, but instead of going to the top, at least six other people drove past him at speeds that would have been illegal in any other place.
There was only one thing left to do: Driving even quicker as to overcome them again. Magnus passed the three hundred kilometres per hour, which he immediately regretted when he dropped right of the one-hundred meter of available road.
Alex was driving at a more sensible (Note how I wrote 'more sensible,' not 'sensible') speed, one that at least allowed her to not fall off the road immediately. Yet, that was not correct either, because after about two minutes Heimdal decided that a road with some turns and stops and bumps was not fancy enough and that they needed a looping, right now, not slightly later in the race when everyone got more into it. Alex did not reach the right speed in time and fell off into the depths of nowhere as well.
When Magnus respawned, he immediately took up speed again to take the looping. After that he decided to be smarter about it by slightly slowing down. From the corner of his eye, he thought he could see Piper cheering and jumping around, but he could not be sure - he needed to focus on the road ahead.
This is not so much a road as it is a hole with still some road in it, Alex thought while dodging holes left and right and falling down so many times the hundred metre line came dangerously close. She sighed when she finally rolled out of the zone, only to almost choke on her breath when the road became rocky. And with rocky, I mean that literal mountains grew out of Bifrost. Alex screamed. Why are they even worried about Ragnarok when Heimdal can just turn his road into a giant death trap? She thought. One step onto this thing and everyone drops into the grand nothing!
Magnus drove through the loopings, getting dangerously used to it. So used that when the looping was just a tad off, he flew right of the Bifrost. Alright, little slower, he thought. The next looping was a little wider, so that he was going to slow. The next one, he needed to go quicker again. While yelling at the top of his lungs, he drove straight into a hole.
'The holes might be a little mean,' Piper suggested to Heimdal. Heimdal grinned.
'Are they? I once knew someone who made fiery waterfalls run down the Bifrost!' Piper raised an eyebrow. 'Weird. As far as my knowledge goes, the only one controlling the bifrost is you.'
Heimdal shrugged, his eyes shining. 'I almost forgot!' Piper softly punched his arm.
'Guess gods will try stuff no matter the religion!' Heimdal grinned at her, before snapping his fingers.
Alex screeched when the road opened before her very eyes. The hole was quickly filled up with boiling lava. She looked up at the place she believes Piper and Heimdal should be. 'Is this fún to you?' She yelled into the void, before flying right over the piping hot lake (Just hot enough for a nice cup of Valhalla tea, actually).
Her screaming changed into cheering. 'You know what, this is fun to mé!' She yelled, while putting her hands in the air. That was a slightly less good idea, as she lost her balance and dropped out of the kart, into the lava.
Magnus saw it happening while driving past the lava lake. He was not going to try jumping over - he did not trust that the road was still intact on the other end.
Someone was on his tail, he could feel it. Even though it was the only thing that could have possibly happened, he was still surprised when the person behind him bumped into him. He swayed towards the lava, but managed to pull away just in time. He hit the gas pedal and sped off. The person behind him quickly followed suit.
They passed the lava lake without so much as burned clothes, but the person kept chasing Magnus down. He looked over his shoulder - oh, he wanted to play it like that. Then it would be like that. Magnus veered dangerously towards the side of the Rainbow road, thinking the person would follow him. When he peeked over his shoulder, he noticed that the person was driving ahead now. Feeling betrayed, Magnus went over the side of the road. How dared that person not fall into his trap?
Piper took a sip of water. 'The first ones are getting close to the finish line,' she mentioned. Heimdall shrugged. 'Oh, Piper. That even you fall into that trap.' Piper narrowed her eyes. Ah, indeed. It was a finish made of cardboard, not the real thing. The real finish was at least threehundred metres ahead.
Alex saw the finish line. While cheering loudly, she drove under the arch. She let go of the gas pedal, more than ready to stop and be brought back to her room. Yet, nothing happened. She looked around. The other people looked confused as well. Did they have to do two laps? No, right? The road was gone!
Someone growled and pushed the gas pedal. Alex did not care whether it was smart or not, she immediately followed suit. As if the norns where on her heels, she sped further. With only mild annoyance, she crossed the actual finish. The gas pedal and brake stopped working. With a deep sigh, she put her arms behind her head. Alright, now she would probably receive something incredebily dumb for finishing as one of the first people, after that she could go to her room, she left some chocolate over there… she closed her eyes for a few seconds.
Bad call. A few moments later, she got the feeling like she was in a rollercoaster. She opened her eyes and noticed she was plummeting towards mitgard. She screamed loudly, until the world went black.
She woke up in her own bed. 'What kind of price is that!?' She yelled to the ceiling, knowing nobody was going to reply. She sighed deeply, slid of her bed and slowly shimmied towards her desk, ready to eat some chocolate.
Just as she wanted to take a bite, her door burst open. She looked around. Piper was standing in the door opening, with a large bouquet. 'According to Heimdalls' camera's, you got in third during the kart race!' A few more people waltzed into the room. They sang a victory song. One hung a bronze medal around Alex' neck, another one gave her a big box filled with something (Alex was too afraid to guess what). Piper put the flowers onto Alex' bed, clapped in her hands, and dissappeared again. Alex sighed deeply. Piper was fun, she meant it, but sometimes that girl could be weird.
Magnus peeped around the corner. 'Hey. After the twelth person finished, we were all just pulled from the tracks. Oh, what is in that box?'
Alex wanted to put her kitkat down, only to realise it was gone, meaning someone had stolen it in the half minute they were in her room. She sighed deeply. 'Let's take a look.'
It had Ferrero Rochers. Kitkats. Chocolate mints, regular chocolate, the craziest pralines you could think of. Alex grinned widely, before popping something into her mouth. Oh, it was real. It was not a joke. They actually gave her a big box of chocolate for winning the kart race.
'Dig in,' she told Magnus.
Hey! Thanks to everyone who commented on these stories! I will not be writing them very often anymore - I realised the quality was going down and my enjoyment of them as well - but now and then, I can type something up. I really love every single comment, they make my day!