Golden Days✓ Tony Stark [Book 3]

14: Cheating Champion.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators are packed into the stadium seats. This is the most population I've seen since we've gotten here, this champion must be well loved for people to be this much despite the charges put up.

I take a sip of the sweet tasting drink, waiting for Loki to arrive. I think he's really serious about the bet he placed against Thor.

Grandmaster's holographic projection starts to address us over the cheers.

"Wow! Look at all of you. What a show, what-a-night! Who's having fun? Please, I'm your host. Big round of applause for all of our undercard competitors…who died so gruesomely. Good sports. What a show! What a night! This is what you've come for and so have I." He says as applause from the audience gets louder.

"And now, without further ado…it's main event time!!"

Louder applause.

"Making his first appearance, though he looks quite promising, got a couple of tricks up his sleeve. I'll say no more, see what you think. Ladies and gentlemen…I give to you…Lord of Thunder!" He announced.

The audience boos as Thor walks out and…holy hell does he look good. His signature flowing blonde hair is replaced by short brown hair, his beards the same. His Asgardian armor, no where to be found. If I'm being honest, the good thing about Sakaar is it's dressing. I mean look at the makeover they gave Thor, let's not even start with Loki.

"Watch out for his fingers. They make sparks." Grandmaster added.

"Okay, this is it. Let's get ready to welcome this guy. Here he comes." Grandmaster says rubbing his hands together in excitement as the crowd starts to throw green colours and the ground shakes.

"He is a creature. What can we say about him? Well, he's unique. There's none like him. I feel a special connection with him."

Loki slips into the space beside me, excitement on his face as he grabs my hand in his, placing a kiss on it.

"He's undefeated. He's The Reigning…he's The Defending…Ladies and gentlemen…I give you…"

The door can't open fast enough for the champion because he burst through them and my mouth hangs open in shock.

Hulk roars at the crowd as they cheer for him and Thor shouts in excitement.

"Yes!" Making the crowd go silent at the expectation subversion.

I turn to Loki when his hand slips from mine to see his face pale, gone is all his joy and excitement from a few seconds earlier.

"I- we have to get off this planet." Loki mutters as he grabs my hand pulling me with him as he tries to run away.

"What? Wait- Loki! Slow down-" my confused cry is cut short when Loki runs into Grandmaster.

"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going?" He asks as he leads us back to the seat.

I send my elbow into Loki's rib as payback, taking my seat at the edge of the sofa, making Loki seat between Grandmaster and I.

I watched with amusement as Loki leans forward, trying to casually hide his face in his hand. He really is terrified of the Hulk, which is ironic because, Loki scares the hell out of Bruce.

Speaking of…

"Hey!" Thor exclaimed, calling everyone's attention back to him. "We know each other. He's a friend from work!"

At the last sentence, I chuckled to myself and Loki throws me a weary look.

Thor says a few words to Hulk and the rage monster looks up at us.