My greatest hero

chapter 89

The night came and went and the jotuns didn't attack, at first loki thought it was strange and suspicious, but then figured Savas also heard them and knew loki had heard it so then changed their plans. Either way, they didn't attack. Loki, Thor, Odin, and the warriors three were all discussing wether or not they should attack the jotuns before they had the chance to attack them. But the discussion was quickly ended when they heard and felt something that could only be an explosion. They knew the frost giants were attack and knew they had intense weapons. They immediately fell into action, all the soldiers were ready for a fight, they had defense plans, they'd never let their guard down and were in no way unhinged by the surprises attack.
"Thor, I want you and father to stay here, lock yourselves in your chambers or something" loki said in a rather demanding tone.
"Are you crazy? I'm-" Thor started but loki cut him off.
"You can't get hurt" loki said plainly.
"This isn't a time to get emotional loki, I'm not going to sit around when I can fight" Thor said back.
"This isn't emotional, this is strategic. If they take you and father, there won't be a king, the people won't have anyone to protect them" loki said in slight irritation.
"They'll have you" Thor protested.
"And what will that look like? The younger son becoming king because his father and brother just happened to die in a battle that he was leading. That would look sketchy for anyone, but especially for me" loki said, trying to get Thor to Just listen to him.
"Why especially for you?" Thor asked, still unwilling to not fight.
"Because I've done it before. I got you banished, and I sent father into the Odin sleep, making myself king, and I'm really good at making it look like an accident, and the people of asgard know it. If one or both of you die or are taken and I become king through that, the people will think it was a setup by me" loki told him, Thor sighed, he wished loki wasn't right, but he was, Loki'd been calling all the shots, and if the king died under lokis command it would look like a plot. "Fine. Where do you want us"
Thor asked, loki told him where to go, and was about to leave.
"Loki, take this" Thor said, holding mjölnir out to him.
"This isn't the time to be funny" loki remarked, thinking Thor must be kidding.
"I'm not joking" Thor said back very seriously. Loki looked at it, he wanted to take it, he wanted to be able to hold it, he wanted to use it in battle, but he knew that if he tried now and couldn't, it would only be a distraction to him and he wouldn't be able to focus on defending the realm, he'd only be able to think about the fact that he's still not worthy.
"Not this time" loki said, as he turned to leave, most of the solders were on the field fighting, and those that weren't, were getting ready to. Loki went out to help in the battle, it was the middle of the day, which ordinarily made it easier, but everyone was a little sleep deprived because they thought he attack was going to come the night before and everyone got little sleep.
'And that was their plan' loki thought, putting the pieces together.
'They knew i'd hear them, and they knew I'd then keep everyone up for a battle' he was mentally kicking himself in anger, he only now remembered how Eira said they were more clever than most Asgardians think, and she was all too right. He kept fighting though, he was glad to have one advantage now; he knew who the leader was. Before they were just trying to out kill the enemy, now they could go after Savas and get him to surrender, or if they had to take him out, the enemy would be greatly weakened. Loki caught eye of Savas, he went over and started fighting him one on one, Savas was bigger, and probably stronger than loki, but loki was smarter, much smarter, and he knew that gave him an advantage. He used his magic and illusions to distract or disorient Savas. He had an opportunity to kill, or at least overcome Savas, so he reached for a knife to do so, but when he reached for it, it wasn't there. It only took him one second to remember he used that one and reach for another,
but it was a deadly second, in the second he was distracted Savas knocked him to the ground and he slammed his head against a stone. For a moment his vision was a bit of a blur, but he could see Savas lift a spear to stab his heart and he knew he was going to get killed. Everything was happening so quickly that it almost seemed unreal, but he saw Savas get knocked back, as if someone had thrown knives at him, then felt himself being pulled to his feet before his vision went back to normal. he could see that Eira was the one who threw the knives (which were actually shards of ice) and she was also the one who helped him up. In no time at all he was fighting again, he continued to use his magic and was grateful to now have Eira with him, who in battle, was like a black widow; quiet and unseen, but still powerful and deadly. Every time loki would distract him with an illusion, Eira would strike, every time she was distracting, loki would strike, until he finally made a mistake, like loki, he only faltered for a single second, but it was a window of opportunity, a chink in the armor, and loki saw it. Eira sent ice to his heart, then throat, and loki took him down, knocking him to the ground. "Order a surrender" loki said with a dagger pressed on his throat, but he didn't, he quickly reached for a horn that was secured to his belt and put it to his mouth, loki sliced his throat, but not before he was able to blow into it. All fighting stopped, loki knew that whatever the horn signaled, it was enough to scare the jotuns as well as the Asgardians. It took him a second, but then he knew what it must be, he'd seen it before, the first time he went to jotunhiem, but this time he didn't have Thor to come a fly through it's skull. In a moment everyone saw the hideous monster coming toward them, it had claws that could easily kill a man, it had a long tail with two sharp spikes on the end, and it was at least fifty times the size of a human being. Loki tried to fight it off with anything he could, but he had no idea what it's weaknesses were, he kept trying to stab it, but it's skin was think and almost impenetrable
Eira was able to shoot an arrow into it's eye which caused it to loose vision, but it was still attacking and was now angry, she was about to try and get another shot in the second eye, but It's tail whipped around and hit her in the stomach, knocking her down, it came over to her and was about to come down on her, but as soon as it's mouth was open, someone from behind her shot a cannon like gun into it's opened mouth, ripping a hole right the through it, it let out a loud shriek before falling backwards dead. Eira stood up and saw that loki was the one who shot the gun.
"Thor did that once" he said, out of breath and exhausted. He looked around and saw that the jotuns had stopped fighting, they all lowered their weapons and were on their knees in surrender, and asgard had claimed victory.