In-between Love Sweat And Tears (Loki Short Stories And One Shots)

Doing Your Best

It had only been a few days since you had awoken to find Thor staying with you and Loki, and had hugged him for comfort reasons after finding out about his breakup. (Loki was silently annoyed at how long the hug lasted due to Thor, but he couldn't be upset with you trying to help his brother stay positive.) To make sure Thor wasn't upset, you made both him and Loki breakfast, before deciding to let Loki spectate as you trained with Thor instead. Which was helpful considering you now had a double retractable staff Stark had gifted you.

Your hand to hand and weapon skills were improving greatly as you trained for more hours, and once you added your own magic it escalated greatly.

You were manifesting shadow animals that were solid enough to take a hit and return the favor twice as hard, and they lasted longer each time. This excited Thor enough of him to tell you an old battle story about taking down ferocious beasts, which you followed as best you could until all of the names got twisted up in your head.

Soon enough you were going against both brothers, having large stags charging at them while keeping hold of a protective cloud shield to block their own attacks. You all found out that those same manifestations could absorb lightning that Thor used on them, and became highly dangerous as that same lightning would transfer easily between both stags like a chain the closer they were, until they imploded upon closing the gap. (It was scary, considering you weren't expecting it to throw Loki and Thor back as if they had been hit with a large bomb. Your training ended quickly out of your panicked worry for their well being.)

You were practicing alone now a few days after the incident, using your staff like a bat as you were hitting shadow projectiles into a dead tree. Thor and Loki(incognito) had gone back to New York for a moment, and you knew it was mainly to deal with possible missions on the occult that was now targeting the avengers directly out of trying to track you down. Your gaze lowered after knowing that information, making you think about how much danger you were putting them in.

Shaking your head, you focused back on training yourself and only thought about improving. As you struck the tree extra hard with one of your manifested shapes, you watched the tree basically explode upon the impact it received. "Oh.." You lowered the staff, staring for a moment before sighing and rubbing your head. You needed to rest, and the weather was insanely humid today anyway despite how heavy the sky was with dark clouds ready to let loose. It was going to rain severely at any moment now. As the wind picked up strongly, it confirmed itself to you before you were quickly retreating into the house as the rain seemed to come down as if someone had poured out a bucket of water over you.

Shaking your hair out as you close the door behind you, you closed the windows quickly as the wind was suddenly becoming insane. "Whoa..." Looking around, you go and grab a towel to dry off before you find your phone to look at the weather, and your stomach drops. You had it on silent, and had missed all of the severe hurricane alerts that had been going off for the past four hours. "Well, shit."

Half an hour later, you had put up a protective barrier of sorts around the area of the house, as it extended ten feet past in every direction. This was easy for you, and Loki would be proud that you were controlling it without even a headache.

"Mew."

You blink, looking around as you hear the indistinguishable sound of a lovely four foot creature before your eyes land on the culprit. A trembling wet, and tiny little gremlin with big blue eyes trotted over to you, mewing again as it barely came up to your ankles.

A kitten!

"Aww, you poor baby." Carefully scooping the kitten up into your hands, you shuffle your feet into the bathroom to dry it off. Plenty of dirt came from its fur, and you end up giving it a thorough bath despite its little protests. "The water is warm and barely even comes out of the faucet, you."