Frost & Fire

Chapter 3 (Loki)

"My King if you'll just listen to the claim I am sure you would be able to figure out who is telling the truth." Nydr begged, walking closer to me in the council chambers.

"I already know which one is tellin the truth. The one who wants the child to live is the one who's the mother. Ask them to cut the child in half and each one take a half, whichever one is eager is not the mother. The mother will give their child up so that they can live."

"That's brilliant my King. I'll talk to them immediately."

"Yeah, yeah, that's fine and all that." I looked around quickly, my chest was beating faster and I could feel Abigail nearby, but I couldn't pinpoint exactly where. "Has anyone returned via the bifrost?"

"I am not sure Sire. I could look into it for you if you'd like to continue listening to the list of grievances your subjects have."

"Oh you're good. You are good at that. I'm going to-"

Loki, we have a problem.

That was Abby's voice praying to me. That meant something was seriously wrong.

I'm being confronted by someone I don't know and I'm sure he can overpower me.

Her voice was silent then and I looked around trying to figure out where she was. "Nydr do we have any idea who any of these rebels are?"

He shook his head. "We have a couple of leads but nothing concrete, at least not yet."

"Those will have to do then. Get me the list now." I waited a few minutes while he grabbed the scroll with nearly a dozen names on it. He placed it on a table and unrolled it. "That's all of the names? This was made out to be a large group that you had issues keeping hold of."

"These are only the names that we know of. There could be ten times this as far as we know, but these are just ones who are known for their dissidence and others we only can speculate because they have been seen with them, but not engaging in anything untoward."

I thought about it for a minute and said "Fine, let's go." exiting the council chambers I turned to the two royal guards and motioned for them to follow me. "Gather two dozen of our best fighters and meet me at the front gates. Get them now and meet me by the stables."

I stormed through the castle, anger filling my every step as I marched to the stables. It wouldn't be much time, but I didn't care about that, any seconds we wasted here were seconds that she didn't have to waste. It took a little while but I saw the same two guards and twenty-four other giants coming with them, one was a storm giant I noticed and smiled a little to myself. It would be like being back with Thor and how he used to crash the thunder into the ground.

"I'm glad you all came. We are going on a search, our queen has been captured by the rebels. I want her found, any other prisoners are to be freed as well. And then we burn their base to the ground, there is to be nothing left standing or alive that isn't with us. Do you all understand me?"

There was a chorus of "yes sire" and nods as everyone accepted they were finally doing something about everything that's been going on.

"We're going to start on the first name on this list and see if they know anything about the rebels or the attack on my wife." I started off ready to break people's arms and kneecaps. Ready to just destroy them if need be.

We walked through the castle and down to the city walls looking for the first name on the list. Imr was the first one on the list, and by the looks of him he wasn't able to do much more than drink and go to the restroom. He was elderly with milky white eyes and a gray beard down to his navel. His skin no longer showed the deep blue of a virile male, it was pale like seawater meaning he was near the end of his life.