Odin's Death

When Bloom gets to the room with the scrying bowl a second later, Thor and Loki are standing next to it expectantly. "Looking for someone guys?"

They both jump, and then turn around and hug her gratefully. "Oh, it's so good to see you guys. By the way Thor, Daphne could be your twin."

Loki says "Now if she was the one sent to Asgard, I might actually believe for a minute that Thor had a blood sister."

"Blood or not, I'm still both of yours sister. So's Daphne, so get used to the fact. Now, where's Allfather being held? HYDRA? Some new enemy? You said something about a Retirement home - could someone have wiped his memories and left him there?"

Loki and Thor don't know, but there's one way to find out.

Twenty minutes later, they're standing in front of a retirement home that's being demolished. Loki and Thor are dressed in Earth clothing to blend in better - but Thor's celebrity status makes them stand out.

Bloom asks "When exactly did you guys learn he was here?"

Loki says "It wasn't an exact find. All we learned was that he either was there at the time or that he was there recently before."

Bloom says "Great, so he could be anywhere by now. Wait, do you two feel that?"

Loki and Bloom suddenly look down, and see a swirling energy at Loki's feet. "This isn't me."

Suddenly, he falls through it - and Bloom starts an incantation to follow him, it works. The only thing left where Loki was is a note with an address on it - and Thor has to go there to get his siblings back.

He meets Doctor Steven Strange, a man who clearly does a lot of magic - and it's really annoying after a few uses. Thor's very much appreciative of Bloom not using magic to teleport them around like this - there's no warning, suddenly they're in a different setting altogether with this guy.

He has a list of known dangerous beings, and Loki happens to be on that list - Bloom, he hasn't even heard of. Strange also happens to know where Odin is, apparently, but he has no way of contacting an Asgardian - Thor says "You could have contacted our sister, she'd have told us straight away."

"Your sister? I don't know of any sister of yours."

Thor smiles, and says "Bloom, she's a much more recent adoption than Loki - but you must have heard of her. Her and her friends flying around Gardenia City, and all that."

Dr. Strange's eyebrows rise up into his hairline when he realizes who he's talking about, and then he says "Right, she's part of your family?"

"Yes, came to Asgard about two decades ago. Something to do with her place of birth being unsafe for her - she also happens to be very dangerous, I'd stay on her good side when she gets to Loki and then to us."

"She's…trying to get Loki out?"

"Yes, followed him where you sent him - and I imagine she's not happy about his sudden disappearance. I'd come up with one very good reason for her not to kill you while you tell us where Odin is."

"Right, that. I'll need a strand of your hair." Strange plucks a piece from Thor's head before he can answer, then makes a portal to Norway.

Suddenly, a ring of fire opens up in the air, and Strange look confused and says "This isn't me."

What looks like a beanbag appears on the ground in a burst of orange, and Loki and Bloom land on it in a heap. The ring of fire closes above them, and Loki groans and says "Thanks for the save, Bloom."

Bloom gets off him, then whirls on Strange and whips out her sword, saying "You'd better have one fantastic reason for thinking you can kidnap another of my siblings. You have got two seconds before I open up your chest in one!"

Loki scrambles off the beanbag, and holds her back, saying "Maybe we shouldn't-"

Thor says "He thought Loki was dangerous."

"Should've taken me instead - I'm more dangerous." Fire ignites on her skin, and she asks "Since when do humans on Earth use magic?"

Strange says "For centuries, it's a secret order. Not well known, in any part of the world. You must be Bloom."

"And, judging from the magic I sensed before, you must be the guy who goes around making portals under people's feet to an infinite amount of falling. Care to explain why you did that to us, Dr. Strange? And why you have an Infinity Stone somewhere in here?"

"Loki here is on a list of dangerous individuals, ones who might be inclined to destroy the world. How do you know about the Eye of Agamatto?"

Bloom says "I get visions, some of them had you in them – with a glowing green stone in a metal orb."

Loki says "Sorry, hate to disappoint, but my sister wanted me to be who she knew me as when she was growing up. As in, not inclined to take over the world - so, she changed me. With magic, I'm still not sure how - but she's very angry at you, I'd say sorry before she throws her knife at you with incredible speed."

Strange laughs, and says "Right, like she can really-!"

Bloom's knife ends up between two books a few millimeters from Strange's head, which leans to the side as he takes a few steps back, and Loki says "Told you, she's fast."

Bloom summons her knife back to her hand, and sheathes it, saying "Keep the stone if you can protect it, there's some guy with purple skin after them."

Strange looks unusually calm for having just had a knife thrown at high speeds at his head, and says "While I'd love to get into a very long talk about magic and exactly how you can hide a knife and sword in their sheathes at your sides without anybody knowing, Odin is on the other side of this portal. Also, I don't use the Eye unless I have to. Something about breaking the laws of reality."

When they get through it, they see Odin standing at the edge of a cliff. They all walk up, and Odin says "This place is beautiful, isn't it?"

Thor says "Father it's us. Your sons, and daughter."

Bloom adds "We've come to take you home."

Odin says "Yes, home. I hear your mother calling me, can you hear her?"

Thor whispers "Loki, Bloom, break the spell on him." Bloom and Loki look at Odin for a moment, then Loki gives him a look that says there's nothing to break.

"No, I'm under no spell anymore. Took me quite a while to break it though, I must admit. Come, sit with me, there is much to discuss."

They head over to some rocks, and sit on them - while Bloom stands and asks "Why didn't you come back? We've been looking for you ever since the Convergence! Loki's been having everyone think you were still around, Thor's been keeping the peace in the Nine Realms, Sif's been here on Earth fighting Lorelei, and Vin-Tak, the Warriors Three have been unofficially in charge of the Einherjar, what happened to you?"

"Bloom, my daughter, that I do not remember even now. I do know that a powerful spell was put on me, but I don't know from whom."

Bloom angrily mutters "Must've been one of Thanos's minions, trying to get one of the biggest threats to their plans out of the way."

Loki says "Father, after mother's ceremony, Bloom…"

Bloom blinks a few tears away, then says "I changed Loki back. Back to who he was before Thor's coronation. And he's been impersonating you all this time, trying to keep everyone thinking you were alright when we thought you could've been dead, and…" Loki holds out an arm to her, and she sits down on one of his legs like she used to when she was a kid.

Odin says "I'm sorry, I failed you. Ragnarok is coming."

Thor says "No Father, I just beat Surta, his crown is locked away in Asgard's vault - and we know of no eternal flame for him to even merge his crown with-"

Bloom clears her throat, and says "Actually…the Dragon Flame has also been called the Fire of Life - it made the Magical Dimension, so theoretically, it's…"

Loki says "Eternal. Well, we already knew you had fire. Surta's dead, no problem anymore."

Odin says "No, Ragnarok is coming. It's only my life that's held her back, and now my time has come."

Bloom asks "What?" There's an edge to her voice that isn't normally there, like she's on the edge of crying - she's every bit as emotionally vulnerable as anyone else.

Thor asks "Who's coming?"

Odin simply says "My Firstborn. Hela, goddess of death. Your sister." None of them saw that coming, not even Bloom. "Her power was growing too strong, so I locked her away, imprisoned her. Her power feeds off Asgard, and once she gets there her power will be limitless."

Bloom forces a laugh that's half a sob, and says "So, your saying you're going to die soon, we've got another sister who's apparently evil, or at least has the capacity to kill everyone around her just by existing, anything else we should know? Great Dragon, if my life weren't so crazy I'd have fainted from shock at the bombshell of Thor having a sister by blood."

Odin smiles, and says "I love you all, my children." He starts glowing a golden color, and then dissolves into golden dust.

Bloom breaks down immediately when she sees, sobbing and holding onto Loki's shoulders. She feels his other arm go around her shoulders as well, and then Thor taking one of her hands in his.

Storm clouds roll in, and heat radiates off Bloom's skin as Odin completely disappears from sight. After a few more seconds of crying, Bloom looks over at the field behind them, and says "Let's go meet our oldest sister, guys. Something tells me we won't really get along." She wipes her face and stand up, heading back to where a green-black portal has opened up.

A woman with hair like Loki's walks through it, but she doesn't look anything like either Odin or Frigga. "So, the old man's dead. Well, had to happen eventually."

Thor says "I am Thor, son of Odin."

"You sure don't look like him."

Loki says "Maybe we can come to an agreement."

"You sound like him though."

She makes a sword appear in her hand, and Bloom draws her own and lights it on fire. "Ooh, feisty. I like you."

Bloom growls "Well, maybe we can get along? We just lost our father, after all."

Loki holds her back, keeping his hands on her sleeves so he doesn't burn his hands, and says "Sister, maybe we shouldn't pick a fight with a woman who calls herself the 'Goddess of Death' right away."

Hela says "Kneel."

Loki, Thor, and Bloom all look at her like she's crazy, and Thor asks "What?"

"You heard me. Kneel, before your queen. I am Odin's Firstborn, after all. Promised me the throne centuries ago."

Loki says "Alright, now you can pick a fight with her."

Thor throws Mjolnir at Hela, who catches it and then shatters it like glass. She makes her hair turn into what looks like a crown, and then two swords appear in her hands.

Bloom draws her knife as well, but Loki frantically yells "Bring us back!" Bloom promptly collapses, with Loki catching her, as the Bifrost picks them up.

They never make it to Asgard though, Hela knocks Bloom out of Loki's arms and out of the pull of the Bifrost, good thing he put her sword and knife back in their sheathes, then knocks him out of the Bifrost as well - that's the last thing Thor sees before she knocks him out of it as well.

AN: Bloom, Thor, and Loki really don't have the best luck with holding onto family members - Bloom, especially. Her birth parents: trapped in Obsidian. Her sister-by-blood, Daphne: cursed to be without a body until Bloom finally managed to break the curse. Loki: fell off the Bifrost. Frigga: run through with her own sword. Odin: just disintegrated into a million spots of light. Anybody wondering what she's going to do to the next idiot that threatens her family or home - any of them? Fair warning, it will be violent, bloody, and the offending idiots and morons will end up dead, no questions there. Anyway, more updates coming soon! Can't wait for the next Avengers movie - May 4th! Hope the one after is close to that December or next January! Please review, hope you all still like the story!