Chapter 5: The Flight

This one takes place a short time after chapter four. Pick how long you want it to be. They still act the same age as they did in the last few. So they are still the Midgard equivalent of like 6 to 8 years old.

Loki stood at the door to the throne room with Kayla. Thor had been summoned and would not be back for the rest of the day. Neither of the two by the door had any idea what he was doing. Upon the news reaching them about this from the guard the little boy's eyes betrayed a second of shock, then hurt, then anger, then he was back to his normal self. Kayla was determined to make it up to him as they walked into another room that served as the boys 'playroom', even though they rarely stayed there when playing.

"You want to see something cool?" the question rang out through the air and Loki sat against the wall.

"Go ahead" The boy nodded.

"Okay, please don't freak out." He cocked an eyebrow at her and she continued. She sat with her legs crossed in a meditative position and she closed her eyes focusing. A warm blue light wrapped itself around her body creating a chrysalis of energy. Her eyes closed and an odd tingling sensation ran on her skin as if thousands of ants were crawling all over her. Stretching into its new form her body enlarged and the light dissipated. She stood up and shook herself out, stretching her wings out and upward they almost touched the ceiling.

The whites of his eyes were probably showing much more than usual as Loki pressed his back against the wall. In front of him stood a gigantic lizard where Kayla used to be. Its silver scales rippled up and down it's body and it's teal blue wings scraped the ceiling. He blinked a few times to make sure it wasn't an illusion. It wasn't magic, he would have felt her pull energy from the air around him, it was... something else.

"It's still me Loki, I promise." Her voice emitted from the creatures throat.

"How did you do that?" He popped up, now more curious than scared. "It wasn't magic."

"No it wasn't, lets just say I have some powers and this is one of them" She said hoping it was a good enough explanation for him. Loki opened his mouth to comment then looked into her eyes, she obviously didn't want to share more so he wouldn't push. He closed his mouth. "But I want you to learn how to fly if the time ever arises that you might need to know how."

"Okay." She bent down onto her knees and allowed the boy to climb up in between her shoulder blades.

"Sit up closer onto my neck so you won't get hit by the wings. Lean forward and wrap you arms around my neck so you won't fall." She stood up and he followed directions. She walked toward the large open deck in the room.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" His voice wavered as he peeked over her neck, which hung out over the edge of the balcony.

"You'll be okay. I won't let you fall." She turned enough to look at him from one eye. They were still the same caring, comforting eyes. He relaxed and held on. "Hold on tight we are going to start slow." She started pumping her wings. to get off the ground and pushed off with her legs giving them a slow rise. A pain ran through the base of her wings. She hated taking off like this. It was always easier just to dive off the balcony and use that momentum to get her going or to get a running start, but she didn't want to scare Loki and she didn't have enough room.

She managed to get off the ground and started to go out over the balcony. He squeezed his arms around her and pressed his face into her neck. Then slowly relaxed and looked around. She banked and turned around the temple.

"It's beautiful." He whispered sitting up and putting his arms in front of him. She glanced back.

"Alright you can sit like that when we are flying relaxed like this but if I turn hard or go faster you are going to have to hold on." He nodded not really hearing her. She sped up slowly, still staying in a safe range for him to be sitting up. She spotted a distant waterfall that cascaded off the edge of one of the towers. She smiled and dropped lower heading towards it. It hit the ground miles below creating huge billows of mist that contained strips of lighted rainbows. She flew through the mist wetting both of them. Loki threw his hands up and closed his eyes feeling the wet sensation on his skin. The burst out of the mist, Kayla's scales reflecting rainbow after rainbow. Her green blue scales and fins and silvery scales complemented by the dark green garment of the boy on her back. He dropped his hands back down as she pushed higher.

"That was amazing." She turned her head back and nodded while smiling as best she could as a dragon without looking like she had thousands of horrible teeth that could puncture skin. Even though she did.

"Alright we are going to go faster now so I need you to hold on tight and lean as close into me as you can." She sped up diving down. His cape rippled behind him in the wind. Her stuns slowly became more and more elaborate. She dove straight down, tucking her wings in and snapping them open at the last second sending them shooting back up again. She tucked and turned through small openings in towers and bridges. She tucked one wing in and felt the lift from the other drive her towards the tucked wing, forcing her into a spin. She even flew upside down, causing Loki to laugh at how odd everything looked. She slowed after several hours of this. "Well I think I can say you have finished flight school, and with flying colors. Is there anywhere you would like to go?"

"Can we go to this one place I know of? I think you might like it." He directed her to his small wooded creek.

After a small flight she reached the spot and perched in a large tree. Using her tail, Loki dropped down onto the ground. She reverted to her usual self and climbed down out of the tree.

"Wow, this is beautiful." She marveled at the natural area.

"I come here a lot, to think. Sometimes to escape Thor." They smiled and giggled both knowing how obnoxious the older brother could be to the younger. He pulled off his boots and hopped to his rock. She looked around and pulled her boots off also, then hopped to a rock that was nearby to his. They stayed here for several more hours. Exploring, playing in the water, and trying to catch fish with their bare hands.

Clouds started to move in and it was getting late. So the duo flew back to the playroom and met Thor by the throne room. The sky was ever darkening and had soon been reduced to an ominous green-y blue gray. They were just getting to bed as the heavens opened and rain poured out onto the roof. Drenching the landscape instantly.