Chapter 18: Clues and Rituals


They deciced to go check out out the room she had left through. It was a normal room, not out in the open, but not hidden or subtle. It was a small living room that Asgardian children played on, with a large balcony. Steve looked down the balcony, it was very high and if you fell off, so how did Jane survive the fall?

"Hey, Steve look at this!", Loki suddenly said, he was kneeling on the floor. A part of the floor was burned and it left a trail of ashes on the floor. "Holy Shit, what is that?", Captain America said and gasped. "We should get Bruce, he'll know more about what happened!"; Steve went down to get him while Loki stayed in the room. 

'Is this another clue? Did Jane do this? And she was glowing earlier, does she have some kind of power? What did Nathan do to her! What's happening?!', Loki thought, he felt like his head was going to explode. He felt confused, betrayed and he didn't know what to do next. "Oh my God, what happened here?", Bruce asked. After a bit of explainin, some analyzing, some frustrating arguments, they finally found out more. 

"Okay, so I think I might have a theory. You said she was glowing? Right? I think she was really really warm, hot, maybe even on fire. The burns on the floor come from off off her body like sparks. And I think that when she jumped off the balcony a ship was waiting for her because my  sma energy meter picked up an energy trail. She could of course have flown away in a suit like Tony's, but that's highly unlikely. I can try and follow the trail. I also didn't find her fingerprints anywhere even though the person said she wasn't wearing any gloves, but did touch the balcony. No one's been here since and I doubt she'd come back for her fingerprints. So, I went back to talk to them and they were sure she touched the balcony and wasn't wearing any gloves. She either magically lost her fingerprints or that wasn't Jane.", the scientist said. The worried look on the Prince's face made everyone stressed. Steve had gotten the others involved and they searched the castle to look for 'Jane'. 

"Loki?", he looked behind him, it was Darcy, "They told me you needed someone to talk to?", she said in her sweetest voice. He simply nodded. She sat next to him and  placed her hand on his shoulder. "It'll be okay-", "No, it won't!", the God interrupted. "I won't ever find her again and she'll be forced to stay with that imbecile...that cowardly traitor! She'll hate me! I'll dissapoint her! And he'll hurt her like he hurt my brother and like he'll hurt all of you! I wouldn't be able to live with myself if someone did that!", he cried onto the blonde's shoulder. She sweetly shushed him and caressed his back until he calmed down.

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"Tut, Tut, Tut! He still hasn't figured out where you are, I'm dissapointed yet happy because it means I'll be able to play with you a little bit longer. Maybe I overestimated him, but underestimated you. He doesn't seem in a hurry to find you, maybe he doesn't even care at all, ever thought about that? After all he didn't want to kiss you back now, did he? Nevermind that I guess, you deserve better, someone like me. How about you take a bath? It'll be refreshing!", Nathan grinned at the pale girl chained up infront of him. Her skin was heavily bruised and her hair was sticking to her forehead due to her sweat. She had cuts in her hands, arms, legs, and feet because of the countless times she had tried to escape, she just wouldn't give up. No succes thus far though. 

Nathan pulled her chains and dragged her behind him over the hard and rocky soil. Jane dreaded the bath, she didn't know what he meant by it, but it couldn't be good, he must have some evil plan. She also hated the way he said it, she had only been there a day, but it felt like an eternity, how long did he plan on keeping her there? She was already starving, sweating and hurting. She prayed Loki found her soon because otherwise...well...     He pulled her over the ground all the way to a building resembling a bit of a cave. They arrived in the middle of the room, there was a bathtub infront of them. It was cooler in the cave which Jane did like. "Well, in you go! Take of your clothes and take a bath, otherwise you'll stink and you wouldn't want that when Prince Charming saves you, now would you?", Nathan said looking at her frightened little face staring at him. She looked so fragile. She look at him then at the bath, "That's right, he's coming soon; Atleast if he loves you enough.". 

He grinned and stepped back to give her space. She quickly exposed herself and stepped into the bath leaving her dirty clothes one the floor. The water was cold. nathan grinned and left the room to go stand behind a glass door, he watched. The lights in the room started to flicker and her bath started glowing red. The water in the bath start bubling and boiling and turning bloodred. Jane screamed in agony and tried to leave, but she found herself unable to move because of a strange forcefield around the bath. Her skin started to glow and you could see she was in pain. Her body became pratically transparent and suddenly it all stopped. She fell down, unconscious. Nathan ran towards her, waking her up and handing her a towel.

"Oh my, Are you okay MyLady?", he asked, worried. She grabbed the towel and looked at him confused, "Who are you? Where am I?". He helped her out of the bath and took her hands in his. "My name is Nathan Venrirson Lady Jane. I saved U from the handqs of the enemy; Loki Odinson who killed his own brother Thor, who was unarmed. We think you might be able to help us defeat him. He wants to kill all of you.".

In Asgard------------->

The Avengers, Loki, and Darcy were all given a room by Sif who insisted they stay for the night. Loki was sitting on his bed, wondering what 'Jane' could've meant and if it really was her in the first place. He wondered and wondered what exactly Jane would be doing right now. If only he knew. He took a piece of paper from his desk and a pencil. He wrote the following thing:

Hi Sif, guys,                                                                                                                                                                              I'm back on Midgard by now. I have a plan. I'll be back as soon as I can. Think about better weapons and defense systems, now that I'm gone you're either in more danger or less. I have to go visit an old friend and colleague of Jane and Thor, he doesn't know I'm coming yet, but he'll be willing to help. He's a scientist like her and I believe he could help us a lot.                                                                                                                                                                 -Loki

He left the note on a little table by the window. Then the Prince snuck out of his room and past the Palace guards. He walked over to the rainbow bridge and crossed it, then he met with Skurge. "Loki? What are you doing here?", he asked. "Bring me to Midgard Skurge, special request from Sif.", the God answered smoothly. Without much hesitation the guard opened the portal and let him through. 

Once back on Earth Loki went to Jane's apartement and searched for the scientists contact name and adress. Once he had found it, he 'borrowed' a car and rode it to the adress he had found at his lovers cozy apartement. 'Is this where he lives? Wow that's quite the..wreck. I thought he had a fine job at the university?', Loki thought whe he'd arrived a few hours later.

The only reason it had taken him this long was because he didn't know how to drive or even start a car for that matter, so he tried, but broke it. Then he tried to fix it, but failed because he somehow ended up setting it on fire; in the end he just called a cab.

So when he arrived at the apartement building he was going to ring the bell, but somebody else walked through the door and left it open. He walked through the door and went to the second floor. Loki knocked on the door with number 137 on it and fortunately for him it opened. "I need your help.".

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Sif's Pov:

As soon as I finished reading the note Loki wrote, I panicked. He was one of our best chances to win this war, what if Nathan attacks now, when we're weakest? Unprepared for war, no plan, probably outnumbered and our deadliest weapon gone to another realm! I don't think I have another choice...I think I'm going to have to summon her. Oh God...here we go I guess...

3rd person: 

Sif went to look for a few items she needed for the ritual. She went into the lowest basement of the Palace, then she slaughtered a goat and drew the symbol of Valknut on the ground in it's blood. Next she placed candles around the symbol of blood, lighted them, and burned the goat's heart in them. In addition she waited 10 minutes and 15 seconds exactly. After that she entered the the Valknut, took the goat's horns and placed them in her hands. She closed her eyes and said: 

"Veni ad nos, filia satanas, regina daemonum, ruptor lusiurandum Custode vincula, Walhalla Custodis, sinceris.".

She opened her eyes and stepped out of the circle. All of a sudden black smoke emerged out of the ground and formed a spiral within the symbolf of blood. Out of the smoke stepped a young woman. Her hair was black and long and her eyes dark and red. She was dressed in a long black dress with burns at the end, it was embraced by the waist with a metal harness. She carried a long steel sword embraced with gold at her middle and ruby stones at her fingers. "I need your help.".

Sif nervously  look at her, she had changed quite a bit. 'She used to be so sweet, until well...Loki..', she thought. "Well well well, if it isn't Sif the hieroglyph! Quite some time ago since we've last seen eachother. I'm offended you didn't visit earlier, you were my best friend after all, and now suddenlt after so long you summon me and ask for my help?", the strange girl smugly stated. Her laugh echoed through the basement. 

"Oh Lucy, You think I didn't want to? I was forbidden by Odin! And it's Queen Sif now, we've got some things to catch up on, let me fill you in; Odin is dead, Thor was murdered and Loki pursued for his murder, but it actually turned out to be my personal guard. So now we're at war with my ex-guard. Loki is fighting with us to avenge his brother, he was supposed to stay here and defend us, but he left so now we need you to help us if we get attacked. You're our best chance now.", Sif said rapidly, sadness clear in her voice, such as desperation. 

Lucy grinned, "Wow, surprised Loki wasn't the one to murder Thor, he always hated him. The better brother, glad someone finally did it though.", she chuckled, stepping out of the symbol, the black smoke following her, "And it's Queen Lucy now Your Grace, please some respect.". 

They walked out of the basement and into the hall where Lucy got quite some stares, maybe even more than the God of Mischief himself. The was such a big and painful tension between the two Queens that could sense it from a mile away and still the black smoke followed her. 

Sif walked into her personal study. The Avengers were already there, when  Sif walked in with a stranger; they fell silent. "Where's Loki Sif? What'd you do to him? And who the Hell is that?", Tony said loudly, he was already in his Iron Man suit. "Interesting word choice.", Lucy chuckled. Sif sighed and knitted her eyebrows together. "Loki left for Midgard this morning to go look for a friend of Jane, he thinks he might help. He left a note, explaing it.", she answered handing them the note. They read through it one by one before giving it back. "Who is she?", Natasha asked pointing at her. Lucy grinned and looked at Sif with an eyebrow raised.

"Guys...meet Loki's ex-girlfriend.".

-2297 

Elo my beautiful vanilla scented candles! It's been some time, but I've blessed with this chapter which is probbaly the most multi-national of them all, most interesting thus far in the book. We're also nearing the end of the book now aren't we? I'll be sad when this book is finally over :(

Let's summarise what happens is the chapter:

-Loki leaves for Midgard to visit one of our favourite scientists, guess who it is!!! The one and only!

-Nathan also seems to have erased Jane's memory of Loki and everything that happened those few weeks, have y'all discovered his evil plan yet?? It's going to be great, no worries!

-Now what about Lucy, all of you might wonder..well little hint, try to translate the thing Sif said while doing the ritual to summon her. I won't tell you to what language, but you might get to know some more about her.

-She's also Loki's ex-girlfriend! I wonder how they broke up...? What's her story?

Anyways I hope you enjoyed, a lovely day to you all!

*mic drop*

-Maud aka the Pickle of Mishief

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