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They could see the gaping sky opening and closing in the distance.
“What is that?” Thor asked tersely.
“I have no idea, but I think we need to find out.”
Thor looked at his brother. Loki had come so far since the New York City incident. True, he was still a trickster and a little shit in Thor’s eyes, but he was a good person.
“Call the warriors, it’s time to visit Midgard again.”
Thor turned, walking towards the palace.
“Let’s not break the world again please, brother.”
Loki cracked a smirk at this as he walked towards the end of what was left of the Bifrost. He closed his eyes as he began to focus on conjuring the dark energy needed to make the trip.
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“Ya know, 3 years ago, this hike didn’t used to be so rough. Oh…I’m talking to myself again. UGH!”
The short brunette used to work at a nearby camp three years ago and made this hike up the mountainside every week. Now she was unaccustomed to the sharp incline of the hike up Pinnacle Knob. As she reached the precipice, she began to see a bit of sparkle on the rock ledge.
“Hmm, what is this? This looks kinda interesting.”
She picked up a long flat rounded piece of what looked to be mother of pearl. As she held it, it began to glow many colors and shoot off lights.
“Wow. Gotta show this to Dr. Macheski. He’ll flip his top over this.”
About the time these words left the girl’s mouth, the sky cracked open with bright lights landing on the large rock ledge on the side of the mountain where she was standing. The girl screamed.
“What in the name of God…”
She turned and quickly began to run.
“Stop,” Thor cried after her.
“She is of no use to us, what does it matter?” Loki said as he began to scan the area.
Suddenly beams of light began to pierce through the trees where the girl was running and hit the sky above them, tearing a dark hole in the sky.
“No matter, you say brother? Then what is that?” Loki looked up to where the girl was running. “Follow her!”
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“What the hell was that? Who were they? How did they fall from the sky?” she asked herself as she struggled to run downhill and away from those people. Roots tripped her up, she slipped down slick rocks and tree limbs smacked her face as she ran as fast as she possibly could. Her car was at the bottom, she could make it. Suddenly she was grabbed and spun around. Her reflexes and background in martial arts did not fail her. She landed a heavy blow on the jaw of her attacker. She went in for her second blow, but the man blocked her and grabbed her wrist. She flipped her wrists out of his grip, spun as hard as she could and kicked him squarely in the chest, sending him backwards a few feet, and then turn and ran. “Oh, this is going to be fun,” Loki said with a chuckle, “I always relish a good battle.” He took off after her, hardly running as he quickly caught up to her. The girl put up a great fight down the side of the mountain against Loki. She clearly was experienced in battle, but only so for a Midgardian. As she neared the bottom of the mountain, she took off ahead until Thor landed in front of her in defensive position and Loki grabbed her from behind, wrapping his arms around her upper torso so she couldn’t move. The Warriors and Sif surrounded her from a distance.
“What do you want from me?”
“How are you doing that?” Thor asked.
“Doing what? I’m not doing anything. Please let me go!”
“She doesn’t know what you are talking about, brother. Be more specific.”
She dropped a few inches and threw the man behind her over her shoulder.
“How about letting me breathe so I can talk?”
Loki rubbed his behind where he’d been dropped by a Midgardian woman as chuckles came from the nearby trees from the warriors. He advanced on the woman to where his face was inches from hers.
“What is your name, miss?” Loki hissed through his teeth.
The girl breathed and attempted to step backwards, but Loki quickly wrapped his hands around her wrists hard enough to bruise.
“Unf, owww. It’s Brit, jeez. It’s Brit.” He released her. “And what is this?” gesturing to her pocket.
“I don’t know. I just found it as you guys dropped out of the sky.”
Thor and Loki looked at each other.
Brit put her hand on the pearl piece in her pocket, and it shot lights out it.
“What is this thing?”
“We believe it is a piece of something called the Bifrost from our home…it is supposed to be inactive though…we should really…”
Brit cut Thor off. “ You mean this will let me travel through space to Asgard?”
Thor gaped. “You know of Asgard?”
“Well, yes. I know of many things. Yggdrasil…Jotunheim, Vanaheim…I know of Ragnarok.”
Loki deadpanned, “yes, yes. Legend and all.”
“I know that some will die.”
“Listen, just hand that piece over and we will leave.”
“No you can’t go,” as Loki snatched the piece from her and deactivated as soon as it left her fingers.
“Brother, look at the shard. It stopped glowing, she is the one. The prophecy, brother. She shouldn’t even have been able to find it or even touch it. It shouldn’t have even landed on Midgard.”
Loki turned and faced the young girl. He lifted his hand to her face and caught her as she fell asleep. Thor lifted her into his arms.
“We need to get her to the Allfather. He can explain this and help her to prepare as we all will,” Loki said as they began to climb the mountain.
“The faster, the better. She may not enjoy what is about to befall her.”
“ If she is the answer to the prophecy, then she will have been warned here on Midgard as well what is coming to her. I’m sure soothsayers here on Earth have sought her out before. Now be quiet, this could take a few minutes.”
He closed his eyes as he began to conjure the energy to travel…