Chapter 4 The Answers of Secrets

'Why is there nobody in Jotunheim?' Angrboda asked Loki.

'Shhh, they hide.' And he answered her.

They moved slowly and quietly until they reached a place built by rocks, this was the entrance to the kingdom of Jotunheim, Loki remembered this place, this was the place where a giant grabbed his arm and his arm turned blue, he was so scared, he knew about everything at that time, he was smart enough to know everything.

They went past the entrance, and to their surprise, nobody stopped them. They went directly to a castle, a castle made out of ice and rocks. Angrboda asked him, 'so this is the place?'

'I believe so, this shall be the place I get my key.'

Angrboda stared at him, 'I don't think I have known Jotunheim before.'

They kept moving forward, and three miles away from the castle Loki whispered to her, 'they didn't stop us, but they will. Be prepared for war.'

He was right.

As soon as they moved two steps forward, a large number of frost giants came, they were holding their weapons made of rocks and ice, and they were ready to smash them into pieces.

'Can you keep them here?' Loki took a deep breath.

'Yes sure, I was trained to fight!' Angrboda shouted.

'Buy me time,' he left his words and ran to the castle directly, a few giants went to him to attack, but he knocked them down and stabbed them with his knife.

And here on the battlefield was Angrboda. There were about a hundred giants that rushed to her, and she used her sorcery to create a glowing blue ball in between her hands, and pushed them as hard as she could towards the crowd of giants, they were knocked down in seconds, some of them were killed, some of them were seriously injured.

Moments later three burning darts appeared on each of her hands, and she threw them against the frost giants on her left and her right. This trick absolutely worked well as she predicted, they were frost giants, and they were immediately killed by flames.

So this was how she fought, using mostly burning darts and sorcery, she was cunning, and she was strong.

Meanwhile, while this young woman was fighting hard, Loki was in the castle alone, the castle was huge and it had a high ceiling, its walls were sculptures and its pillars were well designed.

Gorgeous.

He thought. The place was cold, but he's not, he was a frost giant himself too, after all.

Loki saw no reason why this castle was built, this was not built by the frost giants, they didn't have such taste.

In the centre of the room there came a round desk, where a purple glowing key was magically floating on that desk, when he was about to reach out his hand and grab the key, somebody stopped him with a knife made out of ice on his neck.

'Hello, cousin, how are you doing?' The monstrous creature said with his gruff, ugly voice. He had red eyes, blue skin with marks on his face, clearly, he was a frost giant, and he was thin and cunning, wearing an armour that Laufey used to wear.

Laufey's son.

Odin told him this years ago, who is, this person standing in front of him then, calling him his cousin?

Yes, the frost giant had its own family, Laufey would have siblings, and this ugly creature shall be the child of his sibling.

Loki put his fingers on his knife and slowly pushed his knife away from him, with the sarcastic smile he once showed when Lady Sif put her sword on his neck, then he replied sarcastically, 'I thought Laufey would have more than one son.'

'He did had a son, abandoned, eventually,' that cunning creature looked into his eyes, 'and I, Hymir, I am king.'.

A dagger appeared on Loki's hand, it was his favourite dagger, to end such a mess like this.

'And shall I remind you?' the cunning creature continued, 'I hate you. And you have to fight me to get the key!'

Loki shrugged his shoulders, following by an attack by Hymir using his knife, he dodged aside and stabbed him at his waist. He tried to grab the key, but Hymir was no normal being, he did not give up, he stopped Loki and in the castle and they fought and fought.

At the same time, Angrboda had killed all giants with her tricks, she was tired, and she sat on the ground, breathing hard, looking at those dead bodies, she smiled.

Out there in the cold control centre the female giant softly pressed a button, a door opened and her armchair gently slid down from the mountain to the ground. She stood up immediately as the armchair stopped, holding a sword on her hand, she looked down pathetically at Angrboda.

'I remember you,' Angrboda said calmly to her as she sat on the ground.

the female giant smiled, 'of course you remember me, my dear Sigyn. And it seems you have come back with our enemy.''

'I'm not Sigyn anymore,' Angrboda got up from the ground, 'but you are still you, princess of Jotunheim, daughter of Laufey.'

The female giant was Laufey's daughter, and her smile grew as she heard what Angrboda said, as if she was glad.

Angrboda continued, 'who grabbed the bucket from my hands and told me I couldn't drink water? Who shouted at me telling me I am not pure blooded so loudly that almost everyone in the classroom could hear? Who threw little rocks at me and isolated me at school? Who is the real reason I had to live in the underground for years? Laufey's daughter?'

Laufey's daughter nodded with pleasure, 'perhaps you missed out one thing, I am the one who drove your father mad that morning, too.'

Angrboda looked at her frustratingly, 'what?'

Why, why, why?

Her whole childhood was filled with grieve and desperation, what was all that for?

She never really had parents, after hundreds of years she could barely remember their faces, what was all that for?

She wouldn't need to be trained into a warrior at all, what was all that for again?

Her dreams, her warmth, why would they be gone?

It was her, the women in front of her.

She hated her.

She hated her so much she wanted her to die.

'Oh,' the giant interrupted her thought with her cold voice, 'I sort of killed him too, at the battle with the dark elves, I requested it.'

Angrboda looked at her with raging fire in her eyes.

What was that for then, all those pain, being stabbed in the heart?

This bitch did not know pain, didn't she?

But she will.

With her sorcery, Angrboda made a few huge floating ice bars in the air and made them flew to Laufey's daughter, nailed deep in the icy rocks around her, and trapped her in between.

Then a big sword appeared in her hand, it was made of hard rock, and it was hollow, it was exactly the same sword that killed Loki, or more accurately, his illusion a couple of years ago.

She muttered a few words and the sword was burning, then with the heaviest steps she ever took in her life, and the most raging fire she ever felt, she ran towards Laufey's daughter, and stabbed her directly in her heart, where the sword nailed deep into the soil, held her body in the middle of the air, and disgusting blue blood ran out from her body like a coursing river.

'Why?' she looked at Angrboda desperately, speaking the last word she could speak.

'You think these, all these, doesn't hurt?' Angrboda replied, and left her dead body there, walked away.