Chapter 13

The vault. I want to know what is inside.

"Whatever Odin thought could bring the universe down is there under lock and key."

Initial resistance from Frigga was put to the end, I trapped the Queen in the amalgam of my will. It is still not easy during the first few minutes when I impose my will on her because she is able to partly defend herself and I can not control her without physical connection. But in the end, vampires, humans, gods... Everything breaks under great power. I am the carrier of stone that will end me and only stone can do it because as the stone eats upon me, I eat upon its power and starve others.

I will not ask again. I stared in Frigga's possessed blue eyes.

"Warlock's eye, Tablet of Life and Time, Eternal Flame..."

I don't need the list of toys. I ask for the weapons.

"Casket of Ancient Winters." That was indeed a weapon, but I am not Loki. "When Thor brought you here, he brought the jewel of Odin's treasure room to us." The Tesseract. "And there is the Infinity Gauntlet."

How can I get into?

"It is protected by Einherjar Guards, you shall not pass."

I got in your head, I can handle empty heads under funny helmets.

Greed is a sin for normal people, maybe it is different for kings or in this case The Protector of Nine Realms. Still, greed is bad and I am greedy and therefore bad, but I am running out of options. The Infinity Gauntlet interested me, but wasn't of much use to me. It was an elegant way to store all stones in one place, but Asgard didn't have all stones which would then give the user ultimate power. Though... If by any chance I collected the other stones then anything would be possible.

"You underestimate us."

You underestimate me.

"As Allfather, Odin had battled great beasts, invaded foreign realms, destroyed demons and monsters, devastated whole worlds, and laid waste to mighty kingdoms..." She hasn't been tamed yet so she rambled and rambled.

Admirable. I wrote a song in his honor. It is a lullaby, should I sing it for him before bed? I mocked for a simple reason; boredom. Don't worry about anything, my Queen. All you have to do is help me survive.

"Eat your apples." She snapped at me.

I listened her because I was invited in her chamber for private dinner. When I moved my hand Frigga stared into blank space for a while and then started speaking about her gardens. The great Queen didn't know what she just told me as I made her forget. She was to me like Tyr was to Sif, my sparring partner. I practiced with servants whom I could order around for hours, but it was something else with Frigga. She knew magic and I practiced on her because she was only step lower from Odin.

When I left Frigga, I found my way to Heimdall on newly repaired Bifrost to ask about Victora's progress. I was positive her army of newborns will demolish the Cullen clan and their allies and I had no objections. They will die and Victoria's death will follow because Volturi will then play the police. After all those deaths take place, there only needs to appear somebody to get rid of the Volturi. Rip their tongues out, maybe dismember them and put their heads on shelves as a trophy and of course burn their castle down.

Few days later I woke in my chambers feeling the unusual pull towards something. It was late morning and in a hurry, I put on the dress from yesterday and rushed to the source. I was led to the infirmary and I arrived there just in time to hear Odin and Thor argue about some woman who fell ill. I didn't know if I should go in, but the pull was stronger than me. I nearly ran into Odin, who of course, then insulted my mortality before moving his ass out of the way revealing Jane.

"Lady Isabella." Thor stood before Jane. "You shouldn't be here."

It was expected that Thor will run for Jane as soon as Bifrost was repaired though Odin would rather have his son enjoy what Asgard offers. I had no problem with their love or friendship, whatever they had, but Thor's protective stance had nothing to do with me. I might have lesbian experience with lovely chambermaid, but I won't steal Thor's girlfriend. I stepped closer to them, Jane was laying on table with the same healers that tried to help me around her.

"Lady Bella..." Jane had black eyes. Black in the way that my eyes were blue. "She is dying. We have to help her."

What I could do with the power that flows through those veins... That was my first thought. I started yet again thinking about the Infinity Gauntlet and how with Jane, Tesseract and me there were already three stones which I could own. That was the first thought and then came the second, which prompted me to strike Thor across the face. Thor brought Jane to Asgard because she somehow became a host to stone and he will now do everything to keep her alive. She is in the same position like I am, I too am dying so where is someone to help me?

The guards jumped on me and started pulling me out of the room. I tried to break free from them, but couldn't psychically nor mentally. I was furious, screaming and kicking. My hand reached for the bared skin of the guard's arm and I made him release me and fight with other guard who held me. But one man was not enough and I was seized once again. It was impossible for me to concentrate enough to enter just one man's mind again and there was three of them dragging me away from Jane and Thor down to the cells.

"You will be brought to trial for assault on Prince of Asgard."

I will be on trial for murder of Prince of Asgard. The whole Asgard will burn. Jane will get the royal treatment while I rot in a cell. I can already see Thor betraying the whole kingdom for the sake of that woman and I can't wish upon anything else than to see her corpse. I didn't hate her until now, but now I do and I could kill her to cause grief upon Thor. I was promised protection and look where that got me. In prison with scum collected across Nine Realms and...

"Assault on future king. How exciting. And to think I thought you dead by now. I'm impressed. Do tell more." Loki. "My apologies, I forgot; you can't."

Little bit of Loki never killed anyone.