The Asgardian Outcast {Book I}

Chapter 14

(Loki's PoV)

I stood there in shook, as I watched Diana. Everything she just read, I had been reading it too. I was unaware her powers where that bad. As I let the spell fade, I noticed Thor was waking up.

'Great, he's waking up,' I thought to myself. Its not so much as that I didn't want to do it, even though I didn't, but more than I didn't have a choice. When Thor woke up he wasn't surprised to see that I was up.

"Well your up early," Thor said as he stood up.

"Well thank you for pointing that out. I'm not sure I could've figured that out on my own," I said with a small smirk. I loved it when I annoyed my brother. Thor glared at me, and picked up that hammer of his. He walked out of the shelter, and gestured for me to get up. I walked out beside him, and tried to make it as clear as possible that I didn't enjoy this.

"We need to start moving now, there's no doubt that Diana is far ahead of us," Thor said as he started walking. I was walking beside him when I decided to ask him a question.

"So why are we looking for her?" I asked. Thor didn't answer at first, but then he did.

"Father is not happy she's here. Also she might hurt someone," Thor said. I rolled my eyes. Thor, for who knows why, actually cares if someone he doesn't even know gets hurt. We walked for a few more hours and then Thor stopped me. He looked straight ahead and saw Diana walking. He started walking toward her, but I hesitated. Before Thor noticed I wasn't following, I quickly started to.

(Diana's PoV)

I had slowed down my pace thinking I'd be fine for a while, but I was wrong. I felt a weird presence in the air, and I stopped to turn around. When I did I saw Thor and Loki, who had a weird band around his arm. Before I had the chance to run, Thor began to speak.

"Diana, don't run away," he yelled. Loki didn't say anything, and it was quite clear he was not happy to be here. But if my power was restricted, and if I was dragged alone to some random place I wouldn't be to happy either.

"And why should I listen to you?" I called back, as Thor took a few steps toward me, with Loki close behind. With every step they took toward me, I took one back. I was not being stopped, I had come to far to stop anymore.

"Because I want to help you," Thor said. I noticed how Loki rolled his eyes.

"So you think lying to me is helping me?" I asked in an annoyed tone.

"She does have a point," Loki said unexpectedly.

"Loki..." Thor mumbled and Loki took a tiny step back.

"Diana, you need to come back to Midgard. You could hurt someone or yourself," Thor said as he tried to walk toward me.

"Why would I go back to Earth? Why would I go somewhere that I'm forced to do things I don't want to do, and somewhere where no one tells me the truth? You've already seen me hurt people on Earth so if I hurt someone here it wouldn't be any different," I snapped at him. I could feel the darkness inside me grow but it was still small enough for me to contain. Thor took a step back, and I knew why. The black spirals weren't there yet, but he knew they would be if he kept this up. 

"We do tell you the truth, and we don't we don't say anything to protect you," Thor said as I took a few more steps back. Loki nearly gagged at what Thor was saying, and Loki could tell I was getting ready to gag too.

"So lying to me is protecting me?!" I yelled, and I knew it was there. I knew the black spirals where on my arm, I didn't even look, but I knew it was there.

"I thought if I told you, you'd get upset," Thor said as Loki walked up and was now standing beside Thor.

"Maybe I wouldn't be this upset if you told me the truth when you first found OUT!!!" I yelled as I stormed off. Thor started running toward me, and I teleported behind him before he could get me. I heard Loki try to hide a laugh when Thor fell over. Thor turned around to grab me and I teleported behind him, then ran off.

(Loki's PoV)

It was pretty funny to see Thor make a fool of himself. But I had to hide the laugh, and Thor didn't notice. Diana did though. I hated how Thor was trying to reason with her, even though he knew that would help in no way possible. It probably made things worse than they already where.

"You know you could've helped," Thor said as he walked in the direction Diana ran.

"Yes, I could've but it would have been rather hard with this band on my wrist," I said sarcastically.

"You know I can't take that off," Thor said, with some seriousness in his voice. We where silent on the walk for a few minutes until I spoke.

"You do realize that there's no talking her out of it," I said. It was the truth, Thor would never get her to stop.

"Maybe I can't but you can," Thor said. I stared at him in confusion, even though I completely understand what he was talking about.

"Well she doesn't trust me, and she seems to trust you, a little," Thor said as we both stopped walking.

"How do you except me to get to her without my powers?" I said trying to hide a grin. I knew what he was about to do. He removed the ban from my wrist.

"If you do find her you can't tell her that I'm the one who sent you," Thor said.

"You actually trust me?" I asked sarcastically.

"No, but she needs be brought back to Midgard," Thor said with a sigh.

"Why do you want her to go back to Midgard so badly?" I asked in curiosity, although I didn't show it.

"Because father banished her for a reason, and father doesn't want her here," Thor said as he walked away from me, back toward home. I nearly gagged at what he said. Father this, father that, he should really just shut up about family. I continued walking until I surprisingly caught up to her, she was sitting on a huge tree branch, which was a good hiding spot. I noticed she was getting ready to open the book when she stopped herself.

"I'm not going back to Midgard," she said in a stern voice. I was surprised she even knew I was there.

"I haven't come to persuade you to go back to Midgard. I know that won't work," I said as I teleported next to her. She had a surprised expression on her face which quickly faded away.

"Then why are you here?" she asked as she looked me. That was actually a goo question. Why was I here? I could do whatever I wanted right now but I choose to do this.

"Because, I think Thor was wrong for lying to you," I said. Now she gave me a very confused look.

"What, are you surprised someone like me could care about anything?" I asked in an annoyed, sarcastic tone.

"No, I'm surprised someone cares about something that has to do with me," she responded in a sad tone.

"And why would that surprise you?" I asked not really expecting an answer.

"Well when your lied to a lot, and secrets are kept from you, you don't expect most people to care about things you do," she responded again.