Chapter 68: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
-Asgard, Palace of Odin-
Odin sat on his throne as his best warriors knelt before him. They were Lady Sif, The Warriors Three: Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg, and lastly his eldest son: Thor God of Thunder.
Sif was Thor's betrothed. She was a woman who build and figure wise very much rivaled Storm and Emma in terms of sexiness, had blue eyes, and long golden hair which she was very well known for with the many legends about it. Her attire was traditional Asgardian armor and her weapon of choice was a short sword.
Fandral was a man with blonde hair, a mustache and goatee, wore fur padded armor and a very lavish looking cape. Hogun was a man who looked like he could be Gangis Khan's ancestor, Mongolian features, Hun-like armor and all. And lastly Volstagg was a rotund man with long red hair, and an equally long and large beard, and could actually be mistaken for the How to train your Dragon character: Stoick the vast.
And Thor… well everyone knew what he looked like, let's be honest.
"You summoned us, Allfather?" Sif asked, her head bowed respectfully.
"Yes. There is a matter of utmost importance that must be addressed." Odin began. "There is a mortal by the name of Vampyr that has committed a series of transgressions that warrant our attention." He explained, getting Thor's attention as the god of thunder tensed up.
"I've heard of him." Fandral said, his voice sounding very proper. "If memory serves, he nearly beat Lord Oberon to death, didn't he?"
"That is one of the transgressions I spoke of. He and his constituents are to be brought here to face trial." Odin nodded.
"That is assuming we can even get him to come with us willingly." Thor states with a shudder. "That boy, he is not a mere child, he's a monster in every sense of the word." He explains, causing Odin to raise an eyebrow.
"What exactly do you mean by that, my son?" He inquired.
"He managed to catch and wield Mjolnir, not by worthiness, but by sheer force of strength and will." The god of thunder informed. "Though I am unsure if he'd be able to repeat such a feat."
"Surely you jest." Sif said in disbelief, the words of her betrothed sounding outlandish to her.
"I do not jest, Sif. I am very serious about this." Thor replied seriously. This made the group seem wary. Quite so, in fact.
And in the shadows, Loki was grinning. All was going according to plan.
(Elsewhere)
Back at the Institute, Gavin was looking high and low for something. "See him, Brownie?" He called to his pet bat, who shook his head from the ceiling. "What about you Mr. T? Any luck?" He asked the Turtle who was looking under the love seat. The turtle came out and looked at him before shaking his head. "Where did he go?" The teen sighed.
Who were they looking for? Damian and Drake, The two had disappeared for the fifth time that week, and they hadn't seen hide or hair of the little rascals since.
"Any sign of them?" Rogue called down from upstairs.
"Nothing down here. Any luck upstairs?" Gavin called back in reply.
Rogue was about to answer when a rattle nearly hit her in the head.
"Draaaake! Come on little guy this isn't funny! Come to mommy you little sneak!" Chelsea called to her son in worry.
"Here Drakey! Come to your big sister!" Laura called from her room.
"... None so far!" His girlfriend called back.
"Ugh. This is one of the negatives of being a parent, I swear!" The pseudo vampire groaned.
"Why are you so worried?" Logan asked as he sat on the couch. "Damian's a smart kid, they'll be just fine."
"You mean you're not at all worried that your shapeshifting part dragon son is running around unsupervised with the world's smartest and most mischievous two year old?" Gavin questioned. Logan sat stock still for a moment before he shot up and started sniffing for the scent of the two kids. He was also mentally praying that neither of them had taken a dump a few minutes ago since that wouldn't be pleasant.
This went on for several minutes until... "I found them!" Kitty called as she and Lance drove up in the latter's Jeep.
"Where are they?" Chelsea asked in concern.
"They were at the Brotherhood's boardinghouse terrorizing Blob, Toad, and Pietro, but they disappeared before we could grab them." Lance explained. "That Shadow portal move of Damian's makes him a really slippery little guy."
"It really does. I just hope he doesn't end up somewhere unpleasant…" Gavin said in worry. Just then, his phone rang. "Hello?... oh Jesus, not again." He groaned.
"What?" Logan asked.
"It's the boys, they've just pulled another heist at the bakery and candy store… Again." The pseudo vampire said, face palming. Everyone else then facepalmed in exasperation.
"How many times is that now?" Laura sighed.
"Not counting now? Twelve." Rogue replied.
"Those two are way too good at this…" Chelsea sighed.
"I blame my genetics giving Damian such a high IQ…" Gavin said.
"Come on. Let's go round 'em up before they disappear again." Lance said as he went to his Jeep.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile at the aforementioned candy store, Damian and Drake had already gotten what they wanted and now were waddling out of the store with a bag of candy and a bag of pastries and doughnuts each as well as jugs of milk (chocolate for Damian and Strawberry for Drake) and were getting very odd looks from passerby's.
The older of the two was dressed in a pair of tiny blue pants, a white shirt with X-Tremeade in green letters on it, and a pair of tiny white sneakers.
The younger was switching between his dragon form and human form as he walked and dragged his bags while holding his milk in his tail, but was dressed in a pair of khakis, brown loafers, a white V neck and an adorable little leather jacket that had Puff the magic dragon on the back.
Now you may be wondering, where's the third of this trio? Well… Alexander Xanatos was currently waiting for his friends in a red wagon at the street corner with his own bags of loot and a small jug of white milk. He was dressed in a red sweater vest, khakis, loathers, a white v neck, and had on a brown bus boy hat.
As his two friends arrived, they both tossed their winnings in the wagon and Drake got into a harness attached to the wagon and turned into his dragon form.
"Mush!" Ordered the tyke's leader. Drake snorted before he started running down the sidewalk, causing everyone to jump out of their way as they passed.
These toddlers were a shockingly effective gang, it seemed.
(Elsewhere)
"See them?" Laura asked Jean as she rode in the back of the X-Van with her and Scott.
"No sign of them yet." The redhead replied… Right before she spotted a wagon being pulled by a very familiar dragon hatchling. "I see them!" She exclaimed.
The green eyed girl looked outside the window and saw her little brother pulling a red wagon like a husky pulling a sled while his friends rode in said wagon with bags of snacks.
"... I… Don't know if I should be mad, or impressed." She said, flabbergasted.
"I agree." Jean nodded.
"Same." Scott threw in his two cents.
Though as the kids were about to turn a corner, Drake had to skid to a halt when he saw something blocking his way, but as he and the other two boys looked up to see what it was, their faces became filled with fear. Because standing in front of them, was Chelsea in her dragon form with Logan on her back.
"You kids are in a lot of trouble." The scraggly mutant said in a stern tone, causing them to shrink back from him.
If this was a looney tunes cartoon, the kids would be running in mid air because they hightailed it out of there faster than Sonic the Hedgehog.
"There they go again." Scott groaned.
"Those two need to tone it down a bit." Jean sighed.
"Tell me about it…" Laura nodded with a facepalm.
(Later)
"I'm really not sure how I'm supposed to discipline them now." Gavin said as he, Rogue, Logan, Chelsea, Laura, Xanatos and Fox all watched the boys drinking their milk on the couch after they stashed their treats elsewhere.
"Me neither, I mean they're little kids and I'm a first time mom so I'm still learning." Chelsea nodded.
"The fact that they can pull off stuff like this and get away with it boggles me." Fox commented.
"And since we don't know where they hid their loot, we can't take it from them." Added Laura.
"That's probably something Drake picked up from me." Logan sighed, pinching his nose as he watched his son drinking his milk as adorable as possible.
"I guess we should've seen that coming." Xanatos mused with a shake of his head. Chelsea sighed before she bopped Drake on the head, causing him to whimper, which the woman nearly caved at as she sternly but gently took him into her arms. As she did this the boy buried his head in her chest.
"You made us very worried Drake." The woman chastised him.
"Not cool, little bro." Laura said sternly. Logan just looked at him sternly which made the boy look sad.
"You made me and your mother worry, Damian. Never do that again." Gavin scolded his son lightly.
Damian buried his face into the nape of his dad's neck sadly, both boys feeling like their parents hated them now.
"We don't hate you. We just want you to stop making us worry about you." The Dragoness sighed softly as she gave her son a kiss on the forehead, Gavin nodding in agreement.
The two families hugged their little ones and Logan was ruffling up his son's hair while Laura and Chelsea peppered him with kisses. And Gavin stroked Damian's head while Rogue held him to her chest in an effort to calm them since they were both upset.
However… A large flash of light flashed in the courtyard and the Asgardians appeared through the Bifrost portal as a magic circle was burned on the grass. Gavin's head snapped to the courtyard and saw them before he groaned.
"Oh great, now we've got a squad of Asgardians in the courtyard." He sighed. The X-men all walked outside and faced the group. "I hope you guys realize that you just ruined a perfectly good yard just now." He told them in irritation. "And unless you have an appointment scheduled here, I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." He added.
"I believe that was my line, Gavin." Xavier told him.
"It was gonna be said either way, let's face it." The boy shrugged. Thor and his comrades faced him.
"Gavin Shirakumo, by order of the Allfather, Odin, you have been summoned to Asgard to stand trial for your crimes against it and the Allfather himself." Sif stated in a high and mighty and pompous tone. Gavin narrowed his eyes at her tone, not taking kindly to it. Thor noticed this and tensed slightly, recalling his previous encounter with the boy.
"The supposed crimes in question being what, exactly?" The boy questioned curtly.
"Your misuse and theft of both the Tesseract and Eye of Anubis, your unprovoked assault and attempted murder of Lord Oberon, and your blatant disrespect and assault on Thor Odinson, God of Thunder." The woman said, looking down on him as if he were lesser.
'Sif, I love you, but you are acting like a fool right now!' Thor thought in worry for his love's well being, knowing that her attitude was going to set Gavin off.
That's when the X-men got in the way. "You want him? You'll have to go through us." Rogue snapped, cosmic energy surrounding her as she floated in the air.
"If you want my brother, you'll have to kill me first." Devin added, forming a sword and a hammer out of his hands.
"You guys are so dead." Laura and Chelsea said in unison, claws deployed.
"Beat it, bub, now." Logan snarled, claws ready.
The Asgardians all looked at each other. "Very well then, we shall do this the hard way." The woman said as she drew her sword and everyone got ready for a fight.
Here we go again…
Dragon Emperor0: This is not looking good.
ThermalsniperN7: Sif wasn't doing herself any favors with how she was talking to Gavin, in all honesty. Pissing off the guy who can fight Thor and the Hulk on even ground? Not the most intelligent move. Hell, even Thor thinks so!
Dragon Emperor0: And can we just take a moment to just marvel at how crazy and adorable the hijinx of those three babies was?
ThermalsniperN7: I know, right?! That was absolutely adorable of them! And the best part: they can easily get away with it! Who would have the balls to turn in adorable mutant toddlers that stole a bunch of sweets?
Dragon Emperor0: Yeah, they're too cute for jail. And I feel their pain, when my parents scolded me I always thought they hated me, but that just made us hug it out.
ThermalsniperN7: Those are the best parts of a family: Hugging out problems. Anyway, see you guys next time in Vampyr's Trial!
