This is the last chapter of the story. Iwas asked for the name of the song and it's "Wind beneath my wings" I don't know if there are more than one version of it by I used the version sung by RyanDan.
Loki woke up on the floor. He was stiff and cold, but it was nothing compared to the pain in his heart. He had just lost the only person who meant anything to him. The one person who still believed in him. Loki wasn't counting his mother because she had known from the beginning and had often tried to talk him out of it.
"Jotuns I have a massage for you" a guard said as Loki slowly got up.
"From who?" Loki growled as he moved his soar body. He set up so his back was resting against the pillar. The raven rubbed his eyes to get rid of the sleep.
"The all father" the guard said and glared at the younger prince. Loki was completely unfazed by the hatred in the guard's eyes.
"And what does the almighty Odin want from someone like me?" Loki smirked at the snarl that tugged at the corner of the others moth.
"Watch your moth monster" the armored man growled menacing, but Loki just laughed at the man "I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the wind beneath my wings"
"Excuse me?" Loki said with a raised eyebrow.
"That was the massage" the guard said and before Loki could ask anything the other man walked away and the raven was once more all alone. However this time it didn't really bother the younger because a warm feeling was spreading through his usually cold body.
Thor was phasing up and down the floor of his room. Yesterday he had been forced into his chambers by orders from his father and had yet to get permission to leave. The blonde was furious and nothing seemed to be able to calm him down even the slightest. He knew his dear brother was in desperate need of him and he was wasting his time doing nothing. Could Odin not see that Thor was making progress where his plans were getting them nowhere?
There was a knock on the door and a guard came in. He didn't say anything, but Thor didn't need him to. He just took a deep breath and hoped for the bedst.
Loki wasn't doing much better he was walking up and down the small floor of his cell. He was nervously twisting his hands and biting his lip. He had a nagging feeling that something was wrong, and not just because of Thor and Odin. He had had this kind of uneasiness before. He remembered clearly how it was eating away at his when they entered Jotunheim and when the frost giant had entered the safe room to steal their long lost treasure. Even if he had let them I himself. He would feel how there was something wrong with the palace. He didn't understand it completely, but it was like he could sense mischief and danger and the closer he got to it the worse the felling got. He guessed it was just his nature to be aware of such things.
"Jotuns" a guard came up to his cell. Loki turned to look at the man and tried his best to hide his uneasiness.
"Yes what do you want?" Loki said and didn't do anything to hide the irritation at the mention of his heritage, but it didn't seem to faze the guard in the slightest.
"Your presence is requested in the throne room immediately, by order of the allfather" the man replied and Loki looked shocked as three guards come into the cell and restrained him. They walked in silence and Loki didn't mind because he could feel the uneasiness grow as they made their way out of the dungeons. By the time they reached the throne room the uneasiness had turned into outright anxiety. Loki felt the presses of the intruder everywhere, but there was no one to see. The raven's head was flying from side to side, he was sure that the person hiding was going to attack from somewhere at any time.
"Loki Laufeyson" a voice said firmly and Loki's head snapped in that direction. He hadn't even noticed that he was standing in front of the man he had believed to be his father for so many years. "You have been called here because I wish to give you the chance to redeem some of your actions."
"Yes thank you" Loki said absentmindedly. He was once again searching for the source of his fear, but there was only Odin, Thor and his mother in the room and of cause the three guards that was still holding him restrained, but Loki didn't really count them because he could free himself at any moment if he wanted to and knock them out in a second, so they were definitely not the cause of this nagging felling, no there was someone else here, but they were hiding and hiding well.
"Listen to me when I'm talking to you" Odin yelled when he noticed Loki's lack of interest in what he had to say. "Or do you want to return to your cell? For I will guarantee that this will be your one and only chance before going back"
"Father do not speak to him like that" Thor cut in and an all-out argument broke out between the raven's adopted family. Loki tuned them out and tried to listen after the intruder. He narrowed his eyes and tried to focus and the shadows. He took a few deep breathes to get control of the roaring fear in his heart and slowed his movement to get a better look at his surroundings.
Loki's eyes widened in horror as he was the knife glistening in the darkness of the pillars. Loki quickly used his magic to free himself and knock the guards out and ran towards his adopted brother as fast as he could. Everything seemed to happen his slow-motion as the knife flew through the air spinning. The commotion Loki had created attracted the attention of the royal family. Loki felt the horror spread through his body like wild fire. He wanted to scream to them to move and watch out, but nothing came over his lips only a scream.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO"
The knife was still steadily approaching and it was the only thing Loki had eyes for. He had to stop it, and that was when he realized who the knife was for. The raven was right in front of the thunder god and Thor was about to lock his arms around Loki to stop his assumed attack. Loki bended in his knees to avoid being stopped and twisted around the blond to face the person in the shadows. Loki had lost all his knives when he was arrested, but he had hidden one well and he grabbed hold of the handle of the knife just above the edge of the boot. Loki stood straight on the other side of Thor and threw it as hard as he could. A painful scream filled the air as the figure fell to the floor. The royal family turned back around and the two men ran over to the shadow on the floor.
"It's a dark elf" Thor said unable to believe what he was seeing "I thought they were all dead"
"Apparently not" Odin said, as he looked the dead man over.
"Father if it hadn't been for Loki that knife could have hit one of us" Thor said in the hopes that it would make the man see more mercifully on his brother, but before Odin had a chance to say anything an horrified scream that could wake the dead ran through the entire castle. Thor and Odin turned towards the sound and it took a minute for Thor to realize that the sound came from his mother.
"Mother whatever is the… LOKI" Thor screamed his brother's name. The raven stood straight as a board, his arms were hanging down his side and his face was twisted in a strange expression. The knife as stuck deep in his chest and blood was using around it and stained his clothes. The raven swayed and before Thor could run to help his brother, the raven fell backwards. Luckily Frigga was able to catch him before he crushed his skull against the floor. The thunder god and his father rushed over to the fallen boy.
"Loki, brother can you hear me?" Thor said as he kneeled next to the raven. Loki's body was starting to shake badly and his face was twisting between a smile of confirmation and one of extreme pain.
"GUARS GET THE HELAERS EMIDIATELY" Odin bellowed so loudly it echoed far away.
"Brother hang on. You're going to be alright" Thor said and tried to smile calmingly at the raven, but he knew he failed miserably.
"Oh Loki, my baby, my love…" Frigga was breathing hard as she tried to steady the trickster's body, but she was fighting more than one battle and she was quickly losing to her panic, and was rocking the wounded man slowly back and forth like she was trying to calm a baby. Thor took hold of his brother and paced him so the raven was resting his head on the blondes arm, and his body rested against Thor's legs. The thunder god took a strong hold of his brother's hand.
"Did I ever tell you you're my hero?" Thor voice was breaking and he looked around for the healers "you're everything I wish I could be" the blonde tried desperately to keep contact with the raven, but it looked like Loki was starting to slip into unconsciousness.
"NO baby, stay here, stay with mommy" Frigga pleaded and leaned into the raven's sight. Her hands were shaking violently as she ran her bloody hands along Loki's face to soothe his pain.
"GUARDS" Odin roared like an animal and finally they came bursting through the doors with the healers right behind them. They all rushed over to the fallen man and the healers began their work, after pushing Frigga and Thor aside, but the blonde refused to leave his brother's side and sat by his head, so it rested on his legs and leaned in so the raven could see him.
"You're going to be alright. I promise" Thor said as tears was forming in his eyes "I can fly higher than an eagle. You are the wind beneath my wings"
"Y…y…y…o…you…b…ig…o…oaf" Loki gasped out and some blood was half coughed up in the effort to speak. It slowly made its way down the raven's moth.
"We have to get his to a proper healing room" a woman said, but Thor didn't hear a word she said. He was too focused on trying to understand what the raven was trying to tell him through his eyes. Thor knew that there was something the raven wanted to tell him, but in his state he couldn't.
"Thor, you need to let go" Frigga pleaded with her son and gently got the blonde to let the healers take the dying man away. The three was left in the big quiet room and it sent chills down their spines to realize how cold they all were.
"You are the wind beneath my wings" Thor whispered to the closed door, where his brother had disappeared through, just a moment ago, but it seemed to have been an eternity since he had seen Loki. It was as if time itself stopped. He felt how all his powers had left his body and a spell was cast over him. It made it impossible for him to move at all. It was a wonder he had gotten his lips to move so much. The blonde was sure he was soaked in blood; at least he had it well up to his elbows. His hair was hanging across his face in a mess and his face was pale as snow. No one dared to say anything, but the silence was also suffocating. Still no one dared to make a sound, in the fear of starting time and having to return to the real world. Only when a healer returned to the room did the time start moving.
Thor had no idea how long he sat kneeling on the floor and just starred at the door, but he was sore and stuff when he got up.
And that was that :-D I hoped you enjoyed my little story. Please tell me what you think of it. Hit the review button or pm (privat message) me. I have guest review so I can see your review even if you don't have a user, so there is no excuse ;-)
I hope eveyone got that the message Loki received wasn't from Odin, but Thor using his father's name to get it delivered.
