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Chapter 67

Chapter 67
When he woke he recognized the room right away. There was no mistaking the pristine columns that rose high into the air, supporting the marble ceilings above. The fresh smell of clean linens and soft sounds of servants working. The fire crackling in the pit of his private room surrounded by large stones that took several men to lift.
Loki sat up in the healing room and scratched at his arm. He was clothed in a soft brown cotton tunic and black sleeping pants. He took in a few breaths as he thought about everything he'd heard and seen. How long had be been gone? Or even asleep?
Cephera? The thought of her sent chills across his heart. He'd betrayed her. He hadn't wanted to, hadn't been able to control it, but the fact still remained that his body had been used to create abominations with another woman, and a frost giant at that.
What would Cephera think when she found out? Did she already know?
Then he remembered everything that had happened before his capture and he panicked internally that Cephera could still be in danger.
"My prince, you're are awake." A male servant pipped up. "I shall inform your family at once." He offered.
"No, fetch me Princess Cephera." He ordered instead. The look on the servants face gave him a relaxed calm that Cephera was indeed there. Right now she was the only one he wanted to see now. The only one he needed to see, to explain. She was top priority. The servant bowed and hurried off.
Loki waited until the rushed, but soft footsteps of his beloved could be heard. She stopped in the doorway. She looked stunning. Her hair twisted upward, far off the back of her neck with intricate braiding holding it there. A dress of soft yellow and red hues hanging from the corners of her shoulders and flowing free just below her breasts, tied with a thick red ribbon. She didn't look like the emotional mess he'd expected.
Perhaps she didn't know! Maybe he didn't have to tell her. Surely the babies and that woman were long gone anyhow.
"Loki," she breathed a look of relief passing her face. "I was afraid you'd never waken." She told him but she hadn't moved from the door way, a fact that had Loki on edge.
"How long have I been gone?" He asked, resisting the urge to defend himself with his tale of body snatching. She hadn't asked him about it, he wouldn't tell her if she didn't need to know.
"Four months, asleep a week." She replied and Loki coughed. He hadn't known it had been so long, time truly had stood still when he'd been captured in his subconscious. "We rescued you." She told him after a moment of silence past. She fiddling with the ribbon of her dress anxiously.
Loki's heart sped up. "We?" He asked.
"Heimdell found you, Odin sent us, me, Thor, and Hogun to your location, your mother formed a barrier to trap your enemies so that they may be apprehended, but when we got there it was too late. The strange man I had met was not there and the woman, Angrboda was as good as dead, poisoned by her dark magic." She looked nervous the more she spoke and it frightened him.
She knew. She was going to leave him. His unwanted betrayal was too much for her to bare. "I am sorry. I did not mean for any of this. I swear to you that someone orchestrated this," he blurted the words, losing his calm and just needing to explain.
"Loki," she began, but he interrupted her.
"Don't. The man that was with that witch. He was powerful, more so than anyone I've ever met. He took control of my body. I don't remember it happening. I remember hearing things from time to time, but nothing more until he released me. He..., he created things using me. Done things I would never have done willingly. I swear to you there is only you." Loki had threw the blankets back and gotten to his feet.
"Loki calm down. It's true I thought many things, even the worst. But the worst was but a nightmare that I knew in my heart was not true. You are safe, the children are safe, that's all that matters." She ran to him, to embrace him maybe? It didn't matter, Loki stopped her with both his hands wrapped around her bare arms.
"Children? You didn't not take them here?" He questioned, his eyes wide with horror.
"Of course I did. I couldn't leave them there to die. They were defenseless," she told him.
Loki faltered and pushed her away. "How could you? They are monsters. Why would you do that? Why would you bring them here? A reminder of my betrayal to you. A sin against all magical laws." Loki could feel his anger rising. He couldn't understand her, couldn't fathom what she was thinking. Had she not seen them? Did she not know what monstrosities they were?
(Cephera)
She'd begun to shake. She thought this would be more the case than him being happy about it. She'd been nervous to see him, to tell him. His face looked both horrified and angry at her admission. Like with Sleipnir, Loki was not willing to father these children.
"It should have been you to bare me children. Not that... that witch." He burst out his voice rising, his hands clenched to fists at his side.
"And in the future we might have one, but what if I can't? What if I never do? This might be the closest I ever come to being a mother or you a father." That reasoning did nothing to help her case, she could tell by the look on his face.
"Where are they now?" He demanded.
"In a nursery near your mother." She replied trembling.
"A nursery? As though they were normal? Coddling them!" He cried incredulously throwing his hands in the air.
"We are not sure how they'll develop yet. With magic having been used they may be more like Sleipnir and be only the animal he looks to be, but they could also be human in mind." Cephera tried to explain the best she could.
"And you plan to keep them?" His voice had dropped to a dangerous low. "After what happened to me, you'd keep them." He growled.
"You can't even remember what happened to you." The words came out wrong, it wasn't how she meant it.
"And that makes it okay?" His face turned red.
"No, that's not what I meant." Cephera stomped her foot in frustration. "They didn't ask for this anymore than you. But you are all they have for family." She pleaded now, tears in her eyes. It was only a matter of time before she cried.
"Choose Cephera, I want nothing to do with them, so it's me or them." Her face paled and her lips tremble. It was as though her mouth dried out in a matter of seconds. She hadn't expected this. She'd imagined a lot of things, but not this.
"Don't do this." She begged, hoping he didn't mean it. That he would change his mind.
"Choose." He spat.
"You have your family for love and support, they have none." She's shook from head to toe. "I'm sorry." She turned. She couldn't look back. She couldn't bare to see his heartbroken face. No one would want those children, no one would understand. They would die without her and Cephera just couldn't let that happen.
(Loki)
He hadn't expected that. Never thought she'd walk away from him. It all had gone so wrong so quickly. He couldn't understand her. Why would she want to keep a constant reminder around of his infidelity? Loki fell to sit back on the bed feeling empty and angry.
He didn't sleep and the next person he saw was his mother. "Are you here on her behalf?" He asked her before she could speak.
"No, I'm sure when you wish to talk about it you will. You always do." She answered and it annoyed him. Mainly because he wanted to talk about it and his mother was the only one who's advice he trusted.
"She's abandoned me." He told her with a frown.
"You gave her a choice, she made it, but not without a heavy heart." Loki snorted and turned away. He'd have no more of this conversation. Already he was becoming angry.
"What's become of the woman?"
"The frost giantess? She died. The dark magic was too much for her. She wasn't powerful enough to survive its use. I suspect the man she was working with knew this. He was gone before my barrier spell was completed." She told him, easily switching to his topic of choice.
His mother knew him well. Loki was not one to be probed if he didn't want to talk about the subject. "Good riddance. And the hunt for this man?" Loki asked.
He didn't like the look that passed his mothers face. "There is no hunt Loki. The kingdom is on the brink of war. The troops are barely holding back the invaders as it is and your father used quite a bit of his energy in an effort to save you. For now the man will have to wait." She replied a softly as possible.
Loki felt a deep pang of anger, but he suppressed it. He knew it was foolish to think that his captors would be sought after when Asgard itself was in danger. A king watched over his kingdom first, family or not. Still, he loathed the idea that whoever that sorcerer was that captured him, he was still on the loose.
He looked to his mother who looked disturbed. "Is there more?" Loki stared at her.
"I took the liberty of going to the Scholars," she said. The scholars were in charge of Asgards biggest collection of tomes, spell books, and knowledge of this who practice the art. "I explained to them what Cephera had told me had happened, and they informed me that they know of no person to ever have completely, successfully used the spell in question. No one to this day has ever fully taken over someone else's body and those that have tried were simply not powerful enough to hold on for more than a few seconds." She explained.
"Impossible. It happened. Do they think me a liar!" Loki growled.
"It is not to say you are lying, but rather to say that whomever has done this is not from Asgard, at least not registered as a magic user. I was thinking perhaps Muspelheim was involved, but that kind of magic is beyond their abilities." Loki pondered her words.
"Then let us hope that he is gone." Loki replied.
"I wish either of you had gotten a look at him. Cephera mentioned only that he was taller than her, though his cloak hid his boots so it's hard to tell his real height. And his voice was raspy, she could tell me nothing more."
"I could only hear him and that doesn't help as he was being me." Loki heaved a sigh. For now he would have to put that man from his mind, but he had plans to prevent any further plots to capture Loki's body. He would become the strongest sorcerer ever known and then that man will be the one to tremble in fear.

Notes

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