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Chapter 65

Chapter 65
Loki remembered Cephera telling him to run and then he was stopped from doing anything by a strong grip on his arms from behind. "Love is for the weak," the man behind said and then spoke some kind of enchantment into Loki's ear while they began to disappear, everything went black.
When Loki woke he found himself engulfed in darkness. "I've got his body, now dear Angrboða, you do your part." Loki heard himself say. Loki felt like ice had run over him as he realized he was inside his own mind. Someone had trapped his consciousness inside himself and this other person was in control of his physical self. His first thought was Amora, but she didn't have that sort of power, not even Loki had that kind of power.
"With great honor." A woman, he assumed was this Angrboða replied. Loki could only hear them and it was frustrating to not know what was happening. His conscious mind wavered and darkness overtook him a few times. Each time he'd wake and sometimes it would be silent and others they'd be talking.
"My power cannot contain our whereabouts much longer." He told her with impatience in his voice.
"Then it's good the dark magic helps speed things up." Was she purring? Loki shuddered, he didn't like the sound of that. What had they done to him? Where was Cephera? His mother? Were they okay? Too many questions and Loki was helpless to get answers.
"Indeed." The voice sounded amused. Loki struggled to remain conscious. He could feel a weight being pushed down on him, a suppression of some kind. He had no power where he was and unable to control anything Loki blacked out again.
(Cephera)
"Pacing won't help, you've been pacing and not sleeping for weeks now." Seraphina growled. "You can't help save Loki this way." Seraphina had arrived back in Asgard when Loki had already been gone for a week.
"I can't help save him at all. All Odin's efforts to track him have failed. He says that strong magic is at play and Loki will not be found until that magic is lifted." Cephera was utterly frustrated with everything. Why couldn't the king, the most powerful man in Asgard -or should have been- not be able to track his own son? Was he even trying?
"Worrying won't help you." Seraphina sighed. Cephera barely lifted her eyes to look at her twin. She had far too much to think about than he sisters worried face.
"The last time Loki went missing he came back pregnant. This woman, this frost giantess Angrboða said that Loki's children would help bring on Ragnorok." She shoved her hand through her tangled hair. She hadn't bothered to brush it that morning and she hadn't left her room since the day before. Thor assured her he'd come get her if there was news.
"Well then we have lots of time. If he's preggo it takes time to develop babies. They'll have to keep him alive until then."
"What if he's not the one pregnant?" Cephera had thought of it and the thought haunted her. The way the sorceress spoke, it sent chills over Cephera now when she'd think back to everything.
"He wouldn't do that to you." Seraphina got this serious look on her face.
"Not willingly." Cephera sighed and wiped the tears streaming down her face again. How could she cry? You'd think she'd have no tears left after the weeks she'd had.
"Look, Odin said this whole Ragnorok thing is just a tale, a ghost story used to scare people at parties." Seraphina reminded her.
"Oh yeah, then why did he look so pale when I first told him. I'm telling you Sera, he knows something and he's not sharing it with us." Cephera became angry. She hated that in such a predicament Odin would hold his tongue. Was their some prophecy out there revolving around Loki? Could it be true? How did this woman and mystery man know about it? Who was the man? "Too many questions!" Cephera shouted grabbing fistfuls of her hair.
"Heimdall is keeping his eyes wide open for any sign of Loki. When he appears we'll know. Until then you NEED sleep, NEED to eat. You need to keep up your energy." Seraphina had gotten to her feet and rubbed her hand on her sisters back and Cephera slumped to a heap on to the floor. She knew Seraphina was right, but she hated waiting. She feared the unknown.
***
It was nearing a month and a half before Heimdall saw a glimpse of Loki through the barrier separating him from sight. Thor came to her room like he promised, Odin had called them all to the throne room. Cephera had never felt so excited and worried all at once. They rushed inside to find the Warriors three present along with Sif and the Queen.
"The place in which Loki was taken is in a Shift." Odin told them once they'd arrived.
"A what?" Seraphina asked.
"A place between this world and another. It can only be reached by magical means." Thor informed them, looking proud to have known the answer, though there would be no pats on the back today. Cephera for one didn't care where Loki was, she just wanted to get him where he should be, home.
"I have the means, but I can only send three through to this Shift. I cannot be one of the three as I need to be here to retrieve you." Odin sighed. "It'll have to be any of you. I cannot spare any one of my guards or elites, it would give the fire demons a chance to invade which is exactly what they've been waiting for, and if that happens we may never save Loki at all." Odin didn't seem happy about this. He was caught between two hard circumstances, a impending war and his own sons rescue.
"I'll go," Thor said without another thought, his fist clutching his hammer eager to get into battle.
"And me." Cephera instantly offered. She wouldn't miss this chance. It was her fault Loki was in trouble, she should have practice harder with her magic, she could have been stronger.
"If she goes, I go." Seraphina growled grabbing Cephera's arm protectively.
"No, I cannot have both princess's put at risk and especially not the heir who carries the next heir. Two of the warriors three will go." Odin said waving the twins offer aside.
"You'll need someone who wields magic to fight against someone who knows it." Cephera insisted. "None of the warriors or Thor have any practice in it." Cephera could almost see Odin's curse on his lips, but he didn't voice it. Her words weren't necessarily true, but no one questioned the logic,
"Fine, Hogun will accompany you." Odin signalled for them all to follow him.
"I could go," Frigga said laying a hand on Odins shoulder as he moved to pass her by.
"No, after this I will be weak from the spell and I'll need you here to oversee things and bring them back if I should fall into the sleep. I will not have Asgard without a ruler." Cephera was right behind them and heard them clearly. "Besides, I want you to create a barrier, make sure those who've captured Loki cannot escape."
Frigga nodded.
(Loki)
Cephera, was she okay? Was she still in harms way? He remembered very little of what he'd seen when the debris cleared out his way. He saw Cephera caught far cross the room and then Loki himself had gotten caught and shortly after he could no longer hear her words of warning. He hadn't even see his mother.
He missed Cephera, he needed her.
She would come for him, even if no one else did. He was certain of that, the real question was could she come for him? If she were dead he didn't know what he would do. He couldn't imagine it...,
What in all of Asgard was that sound? Loki couldn't make it out. For hours now he could hear grunting and howls of pain. Whomever was using his body seemed awefully happy about it. "Soon," he'd say to the woman whose screams echo'd off the walls.
"This will be worth it." She responded, as if trying to convince herself, before grunting again.
"He struggles." The man would say in Loki's voice. "Inside my mind, I can feel him. Can you hear me? Are you ready for your world to be torn asunder. You've no idea the future I'm granting you. You'll thank me someday." He chuckled and Loki struggled to yell back, but no sound left his mouth. He was nothing more than a mystic thought, buried far inside his own mind.
"Together we'll rule this world," she said once she caught her breath. "You and our children." She finished and cried out again. Loki heard a distant snicker, probably too low for the woman to hear.
Loki wasn't sure if she'd been talking to him or his captor. Either way he didn't like the sound of her words and even less the sound of something slick hitting the floor. "Keep going," the man urged her.
"You make it sound as though it's easy. The magic has torn my body, I have very little energy left." She complained.
"I don't care, we need them all." The man growled. She huffed and puffed and then grunted once more.
How long it was, Loki didn't know. But the next sound he heard was a whimper, not a human whimper, but an animal like whimper and then a whine. "I can't, no more." She huffed in pain.
"You can and you will. One more, lesser women have birthed more with less complaint than you. I thought you were stronger than this." The stranger barked at her, irritated.
Birthed? Loki thought and shivered. Birthed what? Loki heard the sounds, he'd heard no baby cry.
"You don't understand the spell..., ugh." She groaned. "It's smothering me." She finished panting.
"We haven't much time, my own power is slipping inside this form." He warned her. "Push." He demanded.
With a heavy groan Loki assumed she did as he said because she didn't refuse or complain further. The finial sound was just silence except for pants of exhaustion coming from her. "Asgard will fall," the man said in delight. He paused and Loki felt a shift in his little space of darkness. "Hmmm, not as I planned." He hissed. "My dear Angrboða, it's been a pleasure, but our time together has ended."
"What?" She asked surprised. Loki hadn't time to figure out what might have happened before he felt a pull and suddenly he found himself in control once more. A heaviness on his head and the room spinning. He felt as though he needed to throw up but he suppressed the urge. "You cannot leave me here!" She yelled and Loki focuses on the witches voice.
He saw her laying upon a pile of silken pillows. The pillows below her naked buttocks covered in something wet and slick. On the mat by her feet were three small forms. Was that an eel? Loki wasn't sure, perhaps a snake. The other was too hairy to make out and the last was the naked bum of a child who lay back on to him.
It reeked in this room. It reeked of childbirth, blood, wet fur, and sex? Loki hadn't realized it but he was lying on the stone floor. He shivered as he pushed his body off the floor and realized he wore nothing. It wouldn't even take a oaf like Thor to understand what had occurred here. Loki's body had been used to create these..., these monsters.
Sickened to the core, Loki cried out in anger and made to attack the woman who'd been involved. She looked startled, she hadn't expected him to attack. She seemed to have expected her partner to return for her. In a desperate attempt to save her skin she wave out her arm, with great effort, and choked out a spell.
Loki felt his whole body freeze up. He fell flat to the floor his cheek landing across one of the sodden pillows. He recognized the feeling, she'd set a sleeping spell on him though it would seem she was too weak to do so properly. Loki was unable to move as slowly the spell seeped inside his head and the last thing he felt was something slimy curling around her wrist.

Notes

For anyone interested, please take a moment to go to my tumblr page, username ladyyasumi, and check out the commissioned art of Loki and Cephera!

Comments

@fraychan
Then I have done my job well. :p

Yasumi Yasumi
6/15/15

Your cliff hangers wound me D:

fraychan fraychan
6/12/15

@fraychan
Keep that adrenaline pumping, still a lot to come.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/14/15

Oh god I can't even describe how happy this chapter made me. I'm feeling a slight adrenaline rush haha

fraychan fraychan
5/12/15

@fraychan
I agree, things have could been so much different if things had just come to light sooner.

Yasumi Yasumi
5/7/15