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Here is the second chapter!
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The night came, Odin, Frigga, three of high rank Einherjar and a sorceress headed to Loki's healing chambers. There they found the three guards from the morning heaving in exhaustion. Upon seeing the king and the queen, they stood up bowing to them, then one of them talked. "your majesty, prince Loki woke up, he got out of control again. We barely managed to cuff him as he broke the old ones".
"Take a rest, we shall take it from here", Odin dismissed them from their duty and entered the chamber. "How is he?". He asked Lady Eir.
"I gave him tranquilizer. his wounds got reopened from struggling".
Frigga stood beside the bed, brushing Loki's hair out of his face. "Loki, can you hear me?". Loki was just staring into nothing, until his mother's voice caught his attention and started to struggle again to free himself.
"we have to start now, or else we might lose him". Now Loki's attention went to Odin and he roughly struggled till the cuffs left a cut on his rest from him trying to take them off. "Are we ready?", he asked the sorceress.
"yes my king".
Odin nodded and hit the ground with gungnir. A huge magic circle surrounded the bed, then he went to pat Loki on the head. Loki's reflexes rejected the touch, he flinched and drew his right hand roughly out of the cuff, resulting in cutting his skin and breaking his thumb bone. With his free right blooded hand, he tried to attack Odin, but the Einherjar were fast to move and pinned him down back on the bed. Odin felt a huge pain seeing his son like that, he sighed deeply and said. "I'm sorry my son, just endure it, a little longer". The Einherjar kept their grip on Loki, while Odin, Frigga and the sorceress gathered around and started chanting the cleansing spell. The ritual was to cut the ties between the mind stone and Loki. feeling the ties being cutted, the pain spread through his body. He felt his mind was going to explode and an immense pain went through his body coming from his magic core due to The stone roots defending itself. The chamber then, filled with agony screams that reached out of the door. When he started screaming, Frigga got startled and stopped chanting. She wanted to go near her son, but the shouting increased after she stopped alongside the struggling. The three Einherjar tightened their grip more on him to keep him in place. Seeing what happened when she stopped chanting the spell, she gathered her strength with her tears flowing and returned to chanting. It was a long process, but finally the connection had been severed. Frigga and Lady Eir rushed to Loki after he fell limply on the bed. Eir checked on him and his eyes were flipped back. Checking on his pulse, she sighed in relief. "he is just unconscious. The spell drained him his strength is all".
"oh Loki, forgive me my son". She held his hand with both of hers, planting a kiss on it. Odin came from behind her, putting his hand on her shoulder reassuringly. "the ties have been severed, he will no longer suffer and will heal in no time". He added his hand to Frigga and Loki's holding them tightly. "You did great Loki, you fought well. Now come back to us, we need you". Somehow, Loki's unconscious mind managed to pick up the last lines, infusing and changing his dreams. his soul found a small amount of peace that filled him with warmth from it, and cracked his lips to rise up a little bit in a smile. It was the first time in six months that his dreams weren't a nightmare.
Unfortunately, the nightmares soon returned after three days had passed. The dreams of the last scene escaping the sanctuary had repeated itself in his dreams. The pain of leaving Thor behind ate him slowly and made him want to open his eyes and wake up now to head for the bifrost. But his body and his eyelids felt heavy and couldn't move.
On the next day, he couldn't endure it anymore. He dreamt of the dungeon. The ground to the dark room was full of streaming blood coming out of it. Loki stood in the blood, wide eyes and shivering. The screams of agony echoed through the hall alongside a voice of laughter. (no….THOR!). He rushed through the hall to the dark room. He reached it and tried to open it. (THOR!). The only response he got was more screaming until it stopped suddenly. Loki panicked and started banging on the door with all his might. Finally the door broke and he fell on the ground. Looking in front of him, a head laid there. His eyes shook with fear and he grabbed the head slowly turning it to face him. The face of Thor stared at him emotionless. Then his mind snapped and screamed horrified.
Loki woke up heaving roughly, sweating. "no…..no...no". He got up laying his legs to stand up on the ground and fell. "I have to….go". His body felt as if a huge rock was on him. He couldn't carry his body to stand. He ended up crawling until he reached the door. There he used the wall to support him. Having a small balance on his body, he opened the door and got out. The guards saw him fall and rushed to his side. "my prince, are you alright". The guard hesitated to help him, afraid to be attacked again, but then he gathered his courage and held him by the arm. "you shan't be out yet, you should rest".
"I need to…..i have to…". He mumbled these words unconscious of his surroundings.
"let me lead you back".
"No!". He broke off easily from the guard's grip as it was not tight and ran off in the lights of the moon shining the hallways. The other guard was about to run after him but got stopped by the first guard. "you go and call Lady Eir, i will follow him". The guard nodded and took off. Then the first guard went after Loki. The wounded prince didn't walk far as his steps were slow, so the guard caught up to him fast. "Prince Loki". The guard approached calmly to not trigger Loki from running again.
"I have to go..".
"my prince, you are in a dreadful status, you can't venture like that".
"I DO WHAT I WANT". he shouted aggressively and it caught the maids and servants attention who now noticed the figure who was leaning on the wall for support and how bad he looked. "Thor is in danger!... I have to go back!". His expressions were full of pain. The guard noticed and felt sorry for his prince. He then noticed his companion guard running with Lady Eir at them.
"My prince, as much as i want to help you to find prince Thor, but i can't let you harm yourself more. Forgive me". The guard knocked the prince to fall on his knees and held him tightly by locking his arms around his body. "NO, LEAVE ME YOU SCUM". Loki struggled to break free, that when Eir came and injected him with a tranquilizer. Slowly Loki calmed down as his shouting went low till he fell completely limp. The guard then held him on his back and went back to the medical room.
Hearing of the incident, Frigga spent the next days and night beside Loki. He woke up a couple of times trying to get out but she prevented him. And soon he stopped doing that. only his nightmares remained.
Tbc*
