Sandraudiga stood in New York City; well, she leaned against the Empire State Building. She was to return to her duty as bodyguard to the little monster after being gone for six months. Hel had her working in Valhalla after she took her mourning period off. Odin hadn't called her in all that time; he hadn't even known Hel had pulled her from guard duty. Closing her eyes, she remembered the conversation they had had. Odin could be so cruel sometimes.
"Sandraudiga!" Odin called out as he entered Valhalla; Sandraudiga quickly bowed to her lord, "what are you doing here? I have been trying to reach you for six months now!" Odin barked.
"My Lord, I did not know. Queen Hel pulled me out of Olympus when she heard Hödr had died. She had me sequestered here during my mourning period, then working here in Valhalla."
"Oh yes, I forgot I was fucking my son's secret wife. So what did he leave you in his will?" Odin asked, smirking.
"Nothing but a letter; he found out about our affair," Sandraudiga said, hanging her head.
"Yes, he confronted me," Odin said with a smile, "You are to take up your place at the little monster's side. If Hel asks, feel free to tell her I commanded it."
"Yes, My Lord," Sandraudiga replied.
"Sandraudiga, what are you doing here?" Hel asked as she joined Sandraudiga leaning against the Empire State Building.
"Odin saw me in Valhalla and has sent me back to Olympus; he knows Zeus is raising the boy, so he wants to be kept informed, but Odin also knows all of Loki's children have been monsters, just because he doesn't look like one now doesn't mean he won't turn into one later."
"I can't believe you just said that," Hel snarled.
"Ah…, I'm sorry, My Lady," Sandraudiga said.
"Don't lie to me! You are not sorry; you knew exactly what you were saying when you said it," Hel quarreled, moving so she was facing the Valkyrie. Here hold this. Hel handed the Valkyrie the Horcrux Stone.
"Ugh. What is this?" Sandraudiga asked as she tried to hold onto the Stone with just her fingers.
"Hold onto it with your hands, explore it with the death magic I gave you when you joined the Valkyrie. Tell me what you see, what you feel!" Hel snaped. "Yes?" Hel turned and asked Hades as he had appeared.
"Well, hello to you too, your time of the month?" Hades asked sarcastically.
Hel and Sandraudiga gave the Greek Death God the, 'what the fuck did you just say?' look. "I found another one," Hades said as he threw a broken piece of a ring to Hel, the stone at the top missing.
Hel promptly added it to Sandraudiga's open hands, where she was cradling the Stone while trying to touch the smallest amount possible, "ugh," Sandraudiga moaned in disgust.
"What happened to the stone?" Hel asked Hades and rolled her eyes as Hades threw it at her.
"It was not part of the Ring Horcrux, so I removed it. However, it felt like part of your magic. What did you do?" Hades asked curiously.
"I tried to give my grieving son some closure, a way to speak to his dead wife," Hel replied as she again rolled her eyes at the look Hades was giving her.
"What? I was still a child," Hel argued as Hades rolled his own eyes.
"My Lady!" Sandraudiga whined.
Hel took the Horcrux Stone and the Ring from Sandraudiga and watched as the Valkyrie slumped, "well, what did you learn?"
"A tortured soul ripped into pieces. The Stone held less of the soul than the Ring, but still the same soul. A vile man, murdering innocents to create those pieces. Maybe 5-6 total pieces," Sandraudiga replied as she constantly wiped her hands on her Celtic blue skirt, which matched her Celtic blue cape; the colors went good with her silver and gold uniform. She was trying to get the awful feeling off her hands.
"Anything else?" Hel asked.
"Whoever that man is, he deserves the deepest, darkest pit of Niflheimr," Sandraudiga replied.
"Hades is going to take him once I find all the pieces he has scattered about," Hel said as she made the two pieces disappear, "I don't want that vile man in Niflheimr with his ancestors. He doesn't deserve it," Hel snarled, "the Horcrux that is in the stone wasn't always there. It had a different container once."
"Where?" Sandraudiga asked, looking between Hel and Hades. The former seemed to know already as he was watching her, not Hel.
"In the tiny scar of a one-year-old infant. A little boy whose mother died trying to protect him from the monster who would split his soul as a way to become immortal," Hel responded, watching Sandraudiga, seeing if she caught on. 'Stupid bitch' Hel thought as Sandraudiga just stared at her in confusion.
"Odin happened to come along and see the infant. Sensing the Horcrux, the All-Father declared the boy a MONSTER," Hel threw Sandraudiga a hint.
"That foul thing was in Prince Harald?" Sandraudiga asked, and Hel nodded; 'no wonder the boy is a little monster; he's infected,' she thought.
"Alright," Hel said with a sigh, "If you want to return to being Harald's bodyguard, I will recall Hildr."
~LGCHB~
Six-year-old Harry ran through the forest within Camp Half-Blood, invisible and for once quiet. He and the other campers were having a Snipe Hunt. Last summer, Harry played with the other demigods, Hide-and-Seek, and he was invisible, and they still won! Fed up with losing this year, Harry went to the BEST when it came to Hide-and-Seek, aunt Artie! She and the other hunters sat him down and told him he had lost because he was TOO noisy. He giggled when the other campers got close to him. He giggled as they walked away from him. His giggling gave him away every time. He couldn't help it! Then he remembered Sirius silencing him, so now, as he played, he made himself invisible, intangible, and silent. He could giggle to his heart's content, and no one could find him. Harry had been coming to Camp Half-Blood during the daytime for a week, and he had won every single, Hide-and-Seek so far! What he didn't know is his silence made it so the adults also couldn't find him.
Remus was going to kill Sirius the next time he saw him. Today was the day he was supposed to be tested by Chiron and the senior camp councilors on his fighting. If he passed, he would go to Heracles for testing and more training if needed. Despite his whining at the beginning of his training, he knew this was what was best for Harry. James and Lily might have made Sirius Harry's godfather, but with Sirius in Azkaban when Harry needed him most, Remus stepped up to the point where he could not give Harry to Sirius. Harry was his son. Sirius could remain the fun uncle. If Loki came tomorrow and asked Remus to give Harry to him, he didn't know if he could do it; he loved that little boy so much. But, seeing that Loki was technically his great-grandfather/best friend, not to mention Harry's father, he hoped Loki would at least share Harry. But none of that had anything to do with why Remus was going to kill Sirius. No, Remus was going to kill Sirius because someone had let a monster into Camp Half-Blood, and no one could find Harry. Sirius had silenced Harry last year, and Harry figured out how to silence himself. Now there was a fucking emergency, and no one could see or hear the little boy. "I'm going to fucking kill him," Remus growled.
'Here snipe, here snipe,' Harry thought to himself as he held an empty pillowcase. He could hear others calling for the snipe and more calling for himself. It looks like the Snipe Hunt in the forest became a game of Hide-and-Seek. Harry's favorite! He smiled a mischievous smile as he giggled.
~LGCHB~
"All-Father," Hel called out as she and two Valkyries entered the throne room while a feast was going on.
Odin sighed; he had seen more of the monster this decade than any other period since she was born, "Yes, Goddess of Death," Odin replied with a sigh; he was going to have a headache before she left. He just knew it.
"I would like to introduce two new Valkyrie. They will be helping me with a project." Hel said before pointing to the Valkyrie behind her to her right. The Valkyrie was blonde with the traditional Heidi braids falling down on either side of her head, long enough to reach her waist. She was wearing the silver leather pants uniform with the Gold armor over the leather, with the traditional Celtic blue cape. A sword was strapped to her waist and a wand strapped to her wrist, which was unusual. Typically Valkyrie was raised that wands and magic were for women and household chores, not shieldmaidens and battle. That told the royal family and those in the know that these Valkyrie were not Asgardian raised but Midgardians. The Valkyrie standing to Hel's left was dressed identical to the blond, also with a wand strapped to her wrist, but she had deep red hair that flowed free. Both Valkyrie were wearing their battle helmets, with eye, nose, and jaw pieces that covered the majority of their faces and white feathered wings that stood up from the side of their heads. Those wings let everyone know that these Valkyrie were part of the Pegasus cavalry. Those that rode horses had a horse tail coming out of the top of their helmets instead of the wings. "Standing to my right is Dordi; before she died, then joined the Valkyrie, she was a Priestess of Frigga on Midgard and a battle mage. Standing to my left, Lilja was a Priestess of the Morrigan; she too was a battle mage before she died in battle and joined the Valkyrie."
"Hello, ladies," Odin flirted but started pouting as both ladies only bowed, nothing else.
"Ladies, welcome to Asgard!" Thor boomed, and Loki was bored and sitting with one elbow on the table, his head in his hand, had just looked the women over before rolling his eyes at his brother. However, the blond was giving him a look that screamed, 'get your elbow off the table and sit up straight, young man,' he did not know why her look bothered him, but he did as he imagined he was told. The blond smirked and winked at him, like some other lady he couldn't quite remember used to do; this told him he did not imagine things.
"Oh, Dor…Dordi, I do miss having tea with you. Please take some time to visit with me, both you and Lilja," Queen Frigga said as she clasped her hands together, holding them up to her mouth in prayer like her eyes shining with tears of joy.
'Well, that was one Valkyrie he wouldn't get to bed,' Odin thought as he saw the two women interact silently. A Priestess of Frigga would be faithful to Frigga till the end of days. He looked over the red-haired Valkyrie, 'gorgeous' he thought, but as a Priestess of the Morrigan, she would be faithful to Hel, as Morrigan was her Celtic form.
"Wonderful," Odin called out, "New Valkyrie are always welcome! So, Hel," Odin paused, looking at Loki's monster, "what project do you have these Valkyrie doing when they could be helping on the battlefield in Vanaheim instead?"
Hel took out the two Horcruxes and banished them to the table in front of Odin. Odin and Thor immediately recoiled from them. Having seen the Stone before, Frigga helped Hel come up with this plan, just sat normally in her seat. Loki, however, leaned over Thor and picked up the Stone.
"FATHER! DON'T LICK IT!" Hel yelled at Loki, slapping her hand to her face in shock, horror, and disgust as he ignored her and licked it a second time. Finally, he put the Stone down and stared at it, his head tilting one way before rolling it in the other direction.
"What did you learn, my son," Odin asked, and the occupants of the feast hall leaned in closer to hear.
Loki picked up the Ring without a stone and licked it a couple of times too. Dordi had facepalmed and shook her head while Lilja had her head in her hand, shaking it in the classic, 'I can't believe he did that.'
"They are soul shards of the same man," Loki started as he looked a the stone as if it was the most fascinating thing in the world. The Ring holds 25% of the soul; it was the second one made. The Stone has 1.525% of the soul and was the sixth one made. I want to help with this project. I assume you are hunting for the pieces?"
"No," both Hel and Odin said at the same time. Just because Hel said no, made Odin want to let Loki help, but sending Loki to Midgard was a disaster waiting to happen.
"No, my son," Odin said, "you are needed here, and the Valkyries, as Midgardian born, are better equipped to handle this."
Loki looked at Odin and really wanted to whine, but he held it in. He would help no matter what they said; he just had to find a way around his father.
"My Lord, Hades of the Greek Underworld is here to see the Goddess of Death," Heimdall's disembodied voice called out to the hall.
"What does he want?" Odin asked Hel.
"He's not trying to court you, is he?" Loki asked, ready to grab a shovel, in an overprotective father move.
"No, father, Hades is not trying to court me. Now, if it was Ares…," Hel teased.
"What?!" Loki called out.
"Enough, Loki!" Odin shouted, "What does he want?" Odin questioned Hel.
"I don't know," Hel responded, "You will have to let him in and ask him yourself," Hel snarked back.
"Heimdall, let him in," Odin called out.
"You do know as a Death God, I can technically go anywhere without your permission," Hades appeared, sitting on the table in front of Frigga, eating off her plate. The guards in the hall either pulled their swords or spears and aimed them at Hades. Odin just waved them away.
"Help yourself," Frigga replied with one eyebrow raised, "what is the quote? Oh yes, were you raised in a barn?"
"No, I was raised in a stomach of a Mad-Titan," Hades replied as he blinked innocently at Frigga. Hel and Loki snorted.
"Sirius and Apollo found another one," Hades said, getting up off the table and walked over to Hel, holding out a locket.
Loki waved his hand and summoned the Locket to him, where he proceeded to lick it.
"Did he just lick a Horcrux?" Hades asked Hel looking at Loki like he had gone mad.
"Yes," Hel said, sighing in a very put-upon way.
"I see I wasn't the only one raised by a madman," Hades said, and Hel snorted.
"Yes, he can be crazy at times," Hel responded.
"Well, hello, ladies," Hades replied, looking at the two new Valkyrie.
"Married," the two ladies replied, then slapped each other's palms together.
"The soul in this Locket belongs to the same as the Stone and Ring, holding 12.5% of his soul being the third one made. So you ladies are halfway there. Are you sure I can't be of assistance to you…hey," Loki said with indignation. "This is my locket! I misplaced it on Midgard a thousand years ago; how dare he pollute my locket this way!" Loki conjured a pink crystal anal butt plug and tore the soul out of his locket, transferring it to the sex toy.
This time Hel, Lilja, Dordi, and Frigga slapped their face, "FATHER!" Hel whined, "you are so embarrassing sometimes!" Hel shouted and stomped one foot as Thor and the rest of the hall laughed. Odin shook his head in exasperation, and Loki just winked at Hel.
"Here you go, ladies," Loki smirked at the redhead, who looked like she would rather punch the God of Mischief than take the Horcruxes.
"So, Sirius and Apollo had their little Godling," Hades replied and conjured up a replica of the baby for Hel to see, "Prince Harald of Asgard is over the moon at being an older cousin to the Godling."
"Oh," Frigga moaned in delight, "she is lovely. Will she have wings?"
"Yes, just like an angel," Hades replied.
"Will she be able to fly, or will she fall?" Hel asked, snorting, she was too young to remember the angels dying, but she heard about it.
"She will fly. Oh, by the way, Thor, she is a little lightning Goddess," Hades replied.
"Ah, wonderful," Thor thundered, "we can always use more lightning."
"They named her Baraqiel," Hades replied as he watched the Thunder God closely.
"Why would they do that? They could have named her Thora!" Thor laughed at his own joke.
"I believe it was discussed," Hel cut in.
"Who is Prince Harald of Asgard?" Loki asked.
"Never you mind!" Odin snarled, "I think it is time for the four of you to leave. You have a Midgardian soul- ripping-beast to find after all."
Hel vanished the three Horcruxes to where ever she was keeping them as she grabbed Lilja and Dordi and became invisible. Hades had already faded away.
~LGCHB~
The night before:
"Sandraudiga," Odin said, bored, "I grow weary of this child. Will he be on Midgard tomorrow?"
"Yes, My Lord," Sandraudiga replied, "he will be on Midgard at the Olympus God's cesspit, called Camp Half-Blood."
"Camp Half-Blood?" Odin queried, trying to think of where he had heard that before.
"It's where all the demigods go to be safe from the Greek Monsters," Sandraudiga reminded Odin, "Our version is called Hotel Valhalla. Most of the Gods have children there, except surprisingly Loki. He does not have any children there. However, Thor has a four-year-old daughter who just arrived from Britannia," Sandraudiga gossiped.
"Loki does not have any children there because I tend to find them and kill them," Odin said smugly, and Sandraudiga smiled, "I have a present for you, my dear."
Sandraudiga's eyes lit up; Odin had ignored her since Hödr died, "oh, My Lord?" Sandraudiga purred seductively.
"Hold out your hand," Odin ordered, mentally rolling his eyes at his whore.
Sandraudiga held her right hand out, palm flat, expecting either a ring or a bracelet. "Hold out your hand palm up!" Odin said, exasperated with his current mistress, 'All-Father, she is dumber than Thor!' Odin thought as he watched her flip her hand over. Then, reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a small golden bird the size of a hummingbird. "This is a Snípa; I designed it. It is a cross between a golden Snitch and a Gastornithidae, a horse eater. Let it go in Camp Half-Blood and suggest the children do a Snipe Hunt; it will trigger the transformation from the hummingbird size to its gigantic size and, in turn, hunt the children. Hopefully, it takes out some of the Olympian demigods and the horseman, as it takes out the little monster."
Sandraudiga took the bird, pouting that it was just a monster, not a proper present.
~LGCHB~
"Chiron, have you seen Harry?" Remus asked, worried, as they met in the middle of the forest.
"No, Remus, I have not," Chiron replied as he found more children who had been participating in the Snipe Hunt and sent them to their cabins via a portal he created.
"HARALD LOKI POTTER!" Remus yelled, magnifying his voice with a sonorous charm, "YOU COME TO THE OAK MEADOW, RIGHT THIS INSTANT YOUNG MAN, OR YOU ARE GROUNDED!"
"Uh oh, Harry said as he peeked out behind an oak tree at Chiron and Remus. Harry made himself visible and tangible, stepped out, and started walking across the clearing, only to take a couple of steps and stop. Remus had turned and was beginning across the meadow towards Harry, but Harry looked to be screaming silently and was pointing behind Remus. Then, flying down from the top of an oak tree was the golden monstrous, titanic, colossal bird sweeping towards Remus with its beak open. There was no time for Remus to jump out of the way before he was swallowed whole.
AN: I'm sorry I just had to do it. Remus was just getting too close, he had to go! Bwahahahaha!