Lady Dahlia | Loki Odinson

Chapter 55 - Love and Thunder

"This place is amazing." Seraphina says after everyone gets out of the ship after crashing on the lawn.

"It truly is." Loki tells his wife before he begins describing their surroundings. She smiles, looping her arm through his as they walk behind the others. After a while, Jane flies into the air.

"Where's she going?" Dahlia asks.

"I'll find out." Seraphina tells her, flying after Jane. The couple continues walking with Korg as Valkyrie stays back to tease Thor.

***

"Thing about Thor is that he always bounces back." Axl assures the other children.

"My aunt Hela broke his hammer, so he went and made a great big axe out of the heart of a dying star." Freddie adds. The others gasp and exclaim, impressed.

"That same axe was used to cut off Thanos' head." He continues. The children exclaim again.

"That's a good one." Gorr chuckles as he emerges into the cage from the shadows. The others scream as Axl and Freddie scramble away. "What a neat story!"

"It's true! My uncle killed Thanos and he'll kill you too!" Freddie says, glaring at him.

"All this talk about chopping off heads, I wanna have a go." He tells them. "What's this?" He asks, summoning a creature. "Aw! This is Octy. Hello, Octy. How are you?" He mocks. "You know what Octy loves?" He asks in falsetto before lowering his voice as he answers. "Having his head ripped off!" 

The children scream as Gorr rips the creatures head off, a few beginning to cry as he holds the creature's head up.

"What? You liked it a second ago." He taunts. "All right, all right, all right. Octy's gone." He says in falsetto, tossing the head against the side of the cage. It bounces off and lands in a child's lap, making the group panic.

"Stop it!" Freddie yells, flinging the head at Gorr with his magic. He simply dodges, focusing on the other children as one catches his eye.

"Aw, look at you. I knew a little girl just like you. And she was brave, and she was smart...and funny and she liked to draw." Gorr tells them. "Let me ask you a question about gods. They're meant to protect you, right? Well, where are they?"

"Just because your gods failed you doesn't mean that ours will. My dad and uncle will come and destroy you!" He says, glaring at the man.

"Thor and Loki are on their way." Axl agrees.

"Yeah!" The children exclaim.

"Yes. I'm counting on that. That's why you're here." Gorr says.

Freddie grabs Axl's arm, silently telling him that they've got to try and warn them.

***

"It's invitation only, so we're gonna have to keep a low profile and blend in. Especially you, Dahlia and Seraphina." Thor says, gesturing to Dahlia's belly and Seraphina's wings. "Luckily, disguises are my specialty." Dahlia rolls her eyes and Loki chuckles. Thor flicks his cape over his shoulder, modeling for the others. "Greek philosopher?"

"That's the best you got?" Seraphina scoffs.

"Got us these." Val announces, carrying robes. She tosses them on the floor.

"What are those?" He asks.

"Actual disguises. They're the cloaks of the emotion gods. Every color signifies a different emotion." She answers, passing them out.

"Do we want to know what happened to the emotion gods?" Loki asks.

"Probably not." She says, making him laugh. They quickly put on the robes and Seraphina uncomfortably stuffs her wings under her robe. Loki adjusts Dahlia's so her belly isn't as prominent before taking her arm.