Chapter. 9 : Shifted Trust
He released her arm and flew away, her cold glare hot on his back as he searched for his wretched brother. Loki, now airborne, looked down at the destruction of the mortal's beloved town. He laughed; a harsh tone intertwined every syllable. He searched the grounds for signs for Thor. To his left the large, green brute called The Hulk, or something to that extent, was leaving a huge path of destruction in his wake. To his right Iron man was trying to…melt? His army.
"The heat is damaging the giants," he grumbled to himself. "I'll have to do something about that later." At that moment he saw the god of thunder swinging his hammer, into yet another Ice giant, cold shards flying to the ground. "Thor!" He yelled slamming the other into the roof of a nearby building. He landed on top of Thor and moments after felt the cool metal of the hammer plunge into his gut. He let out a burst of air as he slammed onto the ground a few feet away from his brother. He stood up at the same time as the golden haired god.
"Brother!" Thor announced, causing Loki to grimace at the use of that title. "Give up this foolish attempt, stop the madness that is corrupting your mind! "Loki smiled at the feeble attempt of asking him to surrender, but that was Thor always trying to get the upper hand on all.
"Brother…" Loki sneered back, droning out the word with a mocking tone. "Why would I give up the world, for the 'greater good', I do not think so!" At that he grabbed his scepter and shot a blast of blue energy at Thor. It hit him in the chest causing him to fly across the building landing on the other side.
"We have given you too many chances," Thor yelled, "I swear, even if I regret to do so, I will do whatever it takes to protect this planet." He continued with his rant, his outstretched hand summoning his hammer which had earlier slipped from his grasped during his 'flight'.
"That's the problem with you," at the word you he shot another blast which Thor easily dodged, "you are always trying to protect others, but not yourself, look now you are on the edge of a 20 story building." To prove a point another blast at him causing Thor to step back a couple of steps. The thunder god then swung his hammer flying up and landing only a few feet away from his brother.
"Is this close enough?" he growled, clearly growing tired of Loki's fooling. "Give up now or forever regret it." Loki smiled at this, a sinister plot appearing in his mind.
"Or how about this, you give up and I shall not harm her." He saw the confusion and then his eyes widened as he came up with an answer.
"You shall not touch…" he started.
"Don't worry," Loki purred, "Your precious Jane will not be hurt… yet." Thor breathed out a sigh of relief but confusion once again took his mind.
"Who..." he questioned, but then grew quiet. He knew who he meant. "Damn!" he thought, not knowing what to do, there was a huge possibility that Loki could take control of her from a distance. Her, of course, being Natasha Romanoff. All he did was stare at Loki's stupid smirk planted on his face. He gripped his hammer spun it around, summoning a streak of lighting and directed it at Loki. It grazed him and almost no damage was done.
"Wrong choice." He said, almost gladly. Loki grabbed his scepter and a bluish light sparked from the tip. It whipped around and shot up a couple of meters. His eyes shinned blue as he used the magical scepter. Then he whispered to a faraway Natasha, who now was under his control, "Destroy them all." When he had finished he looked at Thor, whose eyes were wide with shock and anger. He flew off in hope of warning the avengers and stopping Natasha from doing anything horrid. Loki threw his head back, laughing, thinking to himself, "how is this so easy?!" He looked down at the sight below him; the few mortals who have not hidden or left yet were screaming and crying. Thor and Iron man were desperately looking for Natasha, without much success, and building were crashing down due to the giants smashing into them. He saw two below that had looked at him and were climbing up toward him. Loki was confused by thought that they didn't know what to do with something. They are not the smartest creatures out there; he shuddered knowing he was one half them. He turned around to wait for them. When they came up a sick smile was growing on both of their faces. One nodded to the other and started their stride towards Loki. "What do you two want?" Loki snarled not in the mood for these giants incompetence.
"We want you to make some, how you say, amends." The other one by the name of Freyhilder smiled and nodded.
Loki growled at them, "I have no apologies to make to the likes of you." At that the two lurched forward nearly missing Loki's head.
"We know you killed him, you must remember delivering the killing blow to our king Laufey!" After ending his rant he grabbed, this time not missing, Loki, his grasp tight around the Asgardian. "Goodbye Loki." With that he was tossed off the roof of the building smashing into another. His scepter clattered a few feet away from him as he lay on the cold office building floor. Soon darkness clouded his vision and took him away from consciousness.
Sorry, once again, for the lack of updating, out of town for the pass while and my laptop decided not to be helpful. Anyways here you go! Thanks for reading as always!
