The zoo and somewhat fun times
Vali stumbled twisted and turned in his sleep. He was running through a darkened forest, he was running for his life.
"Vaaaaaali" It taunted, "Vali we just want to play." Vali would have used his hands to cover his ears but couldn't. He had to keep running, he had to run away from whatever was chasing him. Oh why had he run off like that? Then Vali looked down at his hands that were stained with blood, not his blood, his brother's.
"We know what you've done Vali," The voice whispered right in Vali's ear causing him to stumble. "You don't have to run from us, we're the only ones who will ever want to be near you now. No one will want to love the monster that you are, stop running Vali, play with us."
Vali slowed, the voice was right, he was a monster, he had just killed Nari. His own brother, and he had killed him.
"What are you?" Vali said, the mist only enclosed on him, he started to back away but tripped over a root.
"We're your friends Vali." The voice said reassuringly, "And we'll never leave you, not like the ones who now search for you. They are not looking for their beloved son Vali, they are searching for a murderer. We only want to protect you from the horrors they will do to you if they catch you, because that's what friends do."
"Friends? Where are you? Show yourself!" Vali shouted in the dark, he instantly regretted it when he hear a voice shouting to him from the direction he had come.
"VALI? VALI IS THAT YOU? VALI COME HOME, YOUR MOTHER IS WORRIED SICK. COME HOME AT ONCE! VALIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" It was his father, Loki. His father loved him and would never hurt him, Vali begin to answer to his located when the mist thickened so much he couldn't breath.
"You don't want to leave us Vali, we love you. We're your friends. You don't want to leave us do you Vali?" The voice said hurriedly, "You always want us to be with you."
Vali wanted to scream no. He wanted to escape this voice and run back to father and mother, they would help him get through this. But as soon as he opened his mouth to scream out he gagged as the mist entered his mouth and nose, he choked as it entered deeper into him, it filled his mind and lungs and soul. It hurt. Vali convulsed but couldn't make a sound. Then, he could breath. The mist left his lungs but not his soul and mind.
"Run Vali," The voice, it sounded like his now. Vali was shocked and scared but then the mist encircled his mind fully and completely.
"You have to run away Vali. Father will hurt you, run." Father, the world sent shivers down Vali's spine, Father would hurt him Vali had no doubt about that.
"Vali? Vali is that you? Say something!" Father's voice was close now, too close. Vali panicked, he opened a portal.
"Run Vali."
"Vali!"
"Run away."
"VALI!"
"Run."
"YO VALI WAKE UP WE GOIN TO THE ZOO!"
Vali's eyes shot open and he gasped as the dream, or was it a memory? Disappeared from his mind.
"Hey Vali sorry about that, but I've been trying to wake you up for a while, also you looked like you were having a nightmare." Vali rubbed his eyes before scrambling away, his vision was blurred with tears so all he saw a figure leaning over him.
"Hey hey! It's alright Vali it's me, Ember." The image came into view and it really was lady Ember.
"Oh... Lady Ember my apologies." Vali muttered, dejected. He had acted like a scared little child all because of a stupid dream he couldn't even remember now.
Because you are a child, a little whimpering mess. She will reject you sooner or later. Maybe even right now.
"Lady Ember? Dude, just Ember will do." La- Ember laughed and Vali thought it might be one of the most charming things he had ever heard. "And before you say anything else on that subject, here on Earth we really don't call people 'Lady'. Just thought you might want to know that before you embarass yourself." Vali felt his cheeks flush. "But lady Ember does have a nice ring to it don't you think?" Vali only stared at her surprised.
"And I wasn't lying," Ember continued, "We are going to the zoo! You, me, and Chilly, I don't think you know what a zoo is but don't worry we'll have fun!"
She was right, Vali didn't know what a zoo was, but he was sure that as long as lady Ember was with him nothing would go wrong.
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Okay so note to self, next time I decide to bring an apparently mentally unstable person to the zoo, do not go with your best friend to get ice cream and tell him to wait on a bench. Leave your friend, or better yet DON'T LET HIM LEAVE YOUR SIGHT.
"Where could he have gone?" Ember grumbled, "We were literally right there! How could he have left without us seeing him?"
"I don't know but right now I don't care, right now I would like to live longer then when Loki finds out we lost his son." I panted as we ran, we had took off in search of Vali, praying that he hadn't left the zoo. We dodged other visitors as we flew past habitats, elephants, lions, tigers and zebras. (My favorite by the by)
"So we are clearly not going to find him this way." Ember said gasping for breath, we had stopped at a crossroads, I pointed one way.
"I'll take that way, you go that way." I told her before going off into a sprint up main path. Ember took off another way. I entered the nearest building that held animals and it happened to be the one filled with birds.
"Bald eagles, barn owls, toucans, but no Vali." I muttered and continued my fast pace, where was that guy?
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Vali had fought the urge to run away the whole time they had been at the zoo.
You can escape, go. The voice said persistently, Vali tried his best to ignore it but found himself looking for a way out of there. Lady Ember and Chilly had said for him to wait on that bench but he had seen a small human child holding on to a length of string were a yellow sphere of some sort floated along. Vali had stood and followed them but he lost them, only to realize that he himself was lost.
You're lost again. But you've always been lost haven't you? Lady Ember and Chilly will be happy to be rid of you, now they will not have to deal with your annoying presence. They hate you. The voice growled before laughing and Vali shook, no! It wasn't true! Lady Ember and Chilly did not hate him!
Yes they do. The voice snarled, Vali ran. He didn't know where only that he had to outrun the voice. But that was impossible. It whispered things to him as he ran away, when Vali stopped and gasped for breath it said,
Oh look. Your favorite animal, the monster you. Vali looked to his left and felt an icy hand clutch his heart, he was right next to the wolf pen. One of the wolves looked up and directly at him. Vali screamed and tore off down the path.
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I had passed the snow leopards and the painted dog habitat when I finally found Vali. And do you want to know where he was? The monkey habitat. How did he even get in there!? Vali was curled up under a ledge and I would have missed him had I not seen the blood that was leaking out from his hiding spot. Luckily there was no one else around, (which was oddly convenient but I wasn't complaining.)
"Vali," I said trying to get his attention, the shrouded figure moved and the blood ran slightly faster. "Vali I will come in there if I have to, come on you can't be in there!" Still nothing, "Fine." I used magic to levitate me up and over into the monkey place, I went over to Vali's hiding spot and swallowed back my horror when I saw the bloody dagger and the torn sweatshirt.
"Oh Vali." I whispered. I moved slowly as to not scare him, I took the dagger and magicked it away.
"Vali, Vali I need you to listen to me." Vali had his head down in his crossed arms that were on his knees. "Vali, we can leave the zoo okay? If it makes you this upset then we can go." Vali looked up at me and I could see he was crying.
"Go?" He asked and I nodded.
"Yep, Ember even has your ice cream if you want it." I said cheerfully, but I was distracted by the blood. When I reached out to take his arm and heal it he flinched away.
"Val, it's fine I'm just going to-" I was cut off as something flew past my head. I stared in shock as a monkey bared its fangs at me and launched another missile at me. I'll give you a hint, It was not a clump of chocolate chips. I couldn't levitate out because people had now gathered (how very inconvenient) Vali just watched as more monkeys surrounded me, something told me he had something to do with this.
"CHILLY!" Ember pushed through the crowd and stared at us. "Vali! how'd you get in there? Come out right now!"
Right before they jumped on me, Vali yelled
"STOP!" And the monkeys instantly dispersed, I was left with my heart pumping as zoo worked entered the habitat and pulled us out. This was not going to be good to explain to Loki.
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In the end we had Tony come and pick us up from the zoo. He looked at us and simply asked,
"Do I even want to know?" When he saw how disheveled we were. Vali had looked ashamed as me and Ember answered no. Unforchantly Loki could not let it go just like that.
"You put my son in danger!?" Loki chewed us out, Vali had been sent back to the shared room to relax while me and Ember were in the living room to, 'explained ourselves'.
"That is the last time I let you three go off to do anything ever!" He continued, he was stopped when JARVIS said,
"Chilly and Ember, Director Fury and Coulson are wanting to talk to you." He didn't even give us time to reply before a Fury and a Coulson appeared on the tv holding a picture.
"Care to tell me why you and a stranger are in a monkey cage?" The director looked at me expectantly. Sigh. This day was nothing how I wanted it to go when I thought about seeing a cheetah this morning.
*Pushes apology brownies towards you*
*Pushed them closer*
*Pushes them off the table onto you*
These are for the late update... Sorry...
BUT GUESS WHAT? NEXT CHAPTER IS NARIIIIIIIIIIIIIII :D
Ps. What do you think about the white mist and what it did to Vali at the beginning of the chapter? Was it real? Or was it just a dream?(did you noticed when Vali stopped calling Loki father but Father?) Find out (Not next time) on EVERY PLAN NEEDS A BACK UP ONE!
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