Chapter 10 Echidna-Morality

Echidna led them to one of her spaceships on the northeast military warehouse. It was blue and silver in colour, with two wings at the side and a large base.

'The colour is very low-key,' she was introducing the spaceship to them, 'It's called Gingneero, named after Odin's sword Gingnir,' she glanced at Loki and continued, 'it is a typical fighting spaceship, easy to control, quick, advanced, everything you would need,' she pressed a few buttons that activated the spaceship and turned to the two as she relaxed her gestures, seemed to be waiting for a reply.

'Thit is gorgeous, thank you, mother!' Angrboda said as she started playing with the colourful keyboards on the spaceship, which was a combination of red and blue and orange and purple and yellow and green.

After a while, Echidna softly placed her two hands on Angrboda's shoulders, and looked back at Loki, 'now, may I be excused to have a little conversation with my daughter, please?' and before Loki could agree, she had already driven Angrboda into a room nearby and slammed the door, leaving him there in the control centre alone.

As soon as the door is closed Echidna let Angrboda sit on a metal chair like placing a doll in a doll-house. She stood up straight, looked at her and started off with a serious and deep voice, similar to the one she used when she showed up on the rocky ground on Sanctuary, 'Morality.'

Angrboda looked at her frustratedly, 'What?'

'Morality,' she continued, 'is it really morality that bothers you? I've never taught my girl a thing about moral or whatsoever, people like us are too dangerous to even think about it. What we do are always in the name of love.'

Her speech was followed by a dead silence, Angrboda was trying to concentrate and think, trillions and trillions of lives, does she really care? When they first met and she saw people after people vanishing into dust, she felt nothing, the world never treated her well, and she had no intention to treat the world well. The first time she ever felt rage, felt the anger stirring in her stomach and felt the need for violence, it is because of herself, it is because what those nasty frost giants did were related to her, to whom she loved, that's why she raged, it's because of love, killing the daughter of Laufey, fighting the army on Niflheim, and offending Echidna, they were all because of love.

'No,' Angrboda replied with her cold voice, 'it's love, it has always been love.'

Echidna smiled satisfyingly, 'That's my girl. I will stop my cooperation with Thanos, but that's not because of anything related to moral, that's because of my beloved daughter, alright? I don't want to be mistaken'. Then, after a short pause she asked, 'Do you love him? I mean, do you know love?'

'Yes I do,' Angrboda replied almost without thinking, but then she slowed down, did she really know love?

While Echidna was giving her a suspicious look an embarrassing smile appeared on Angrboda's face, 'Your question is messing me up! Do I know love? Do I love him? I'm sure I do a second ago!'

Echidna shook her head and said softly, 'Doesn't matter my girl, just get along with it. Perhaps you'll know love after a heartbreak or two, or perhaps you're so lucky that you get it in the first hit.' Then, she leaned forward to Angrboda and whispered into her ear, 'Just stay alive, okay? Stay alive.'

Echidna opened the door while Angrboda was still sitting on the chair, frustrated about her mother's words, she turned to Loki and said to him in a mysterious voice, 'my dear going-to-be-son-in-law, your collection has two more to fill.'

Loki looked at her immediately as she started speaking, he was a little mad about the 'going-to-be-son-in-law', he didn't really want this monster to be his mother-in-law, and could see Angrboda's point when she said she never could replace her mother, this monster was a horrifying and evil creature, but so what? Cause after all, so did him! A horrifying and evil creature! But, 'his collection'? 'Two more to fill'? He thought about the magic keys, Brotherhood, Secrets, Endurance…. two more to fill, wasn't she talking about this exactly? How would she know? This family was really crammed with mystery and horror, he thought Angrboda must've obtained these qualities from her mother.

But anyway, clearing all the thoughts he suppressed his madness and looked at her glowing red body, 'I beg your pardon?'

'Your key collection!' Echidna exclaimed, 'Oh! Don't think of me as a fool!' she reached out her terrifying hands like the one of a duck's and a glamorous silver key appeared.

'It's called New Beginnings, I expected you to know. I can only give you one, the other has to be achieved by yourself.'

Loki grabbed the silver key with his right hand and put it into his key collection which appeared on his left hand right as he took New Beginnings, he didn't know they went to the right place when they were transferred to the Sanctuary, as he thought the deep, terrible voice echoed across his mind, again.

'Now child, there's only one more to go! What a great, success!' it laughed sarcastically, 'New Beginnings- so when shall you wait for the end?' with another vigorous laughter the voice vanished, Loki tried to communicate with it through his mind, 'Who actually are you, bastard? Hey! Answer me!' But the voice came from nowhere and disappeared from nowhere, it never answered.

He returned to reality, and saw Angrboda leaming onto the door, staring at him, he turned to Echidna and thanked her.

'If you have any dark advices or evil plans in the future, make sure that I'm the first one you put into the crew!' Echidna said playfully with a wink to her daughter, Angrboda gave her a nasty look and she kissed her on her chin.

'Of course,' Loki answered her with his majestic smile as she jumped off the spaceship, 'Farewell!'

It's me the writer again!
First of all, please allow me to apologize for the very, very slow update (well yes I admit I'm slower than a snail), I will try very hard to update faster in the coming chapters and I thank you all for understanding!