The Mortal

Chapter 8

"Father, I can explain-" Loki started.

"I don't believe there is anything to explain." Odin interrupted. He glanced at me, then he looked back at Loki. "Come with me." He said to Loki, turned around, and walked down the corridor. I glanced at Loki, and he locked eyes with me, then followed his father.

When they turned a corner, I decided it was best for me to go back to my room.

Loki P.O.V.

"Do you love her?" My father asked after we slowly walked in silence for two long minutes.

"Well...um..."

"Do you love her?" He repeated, speaking slower and pronouncing every word carefully. "This is not a difficult question."

"Yes." I answered. He stopped walking.

"Then do not lose her." He said, looking me in the eye.

I paused, not believing my ears. He was not...angry with me?

Instantly, the color drained from my fathers face, and his expression changed to complete dread.

"What is it?" I asked. "Father?"

"You need to get the girl away from here." He said quickly. "They're coming."

"Who?"

"The Levia are beginning to invade Asgard. They're here for the girl." He said urgently.

I turned and was just about to head over to Lilliana's room when he grabbed my arm. I looked at him.

"Protect her." He said. "As much as you can."

"Yes father." I said, he let go of my arm and I rushed over to Lilliana's room.

Lily P.O.V.

Loki burst through the door to my room, he looked panicked.

"What is it?" I asked.

"We have to go-right now." He answered, striding over to the door in the wall the opened up to the nearly-invisible bridge. But he shut it automatically once he saw a few black dots flying in the sky.

He strode back over to the door.

"Loki." I caught his arm. "What is it? What are you not telling me?"

"They're here for you-they're invading."

He didn't need to specify who was invading Asgard, I already knew; the Levia.

Loki shrugged away from my grasp.

"Grab that." He said, pointing to a sword hung on the wall nearby. "And that." He pointed to a dagger on a desk. "Chances are, you're going to need them."

I grabbed the sword and dagger, holstering them on my thin leather belt. Loki opened the doors and grabbed my hand, walking quickly through the corridors.

"Where are we going?" I asked him.

"I need to get you away from here." He said. "Somewhere safe."

He unlocked a door and I followed him through it.

We were in the city, and it was in complete chaos. People were screaming and running from black figures with weapons charging through the streets. Anyone who tried to defend anyone else from the Levia was slaughtered. Anyone who got in the Levia's way was slaughtered whether they were men, women, or children.

"This is the only way." Loki said, running down the steps. "Come on!"

We ran through the streets and ran through small street between two houses, and when I saw a  child, only a toddler, with blood all over his clothes and his eyes frozen in terror.

"Wait!" I said, stopping. I knelt down next to him. The child was still alive, and trembling. He was badly hurt and I knew he was going to die soon, next to him was a dead woman and man, and I assumed they were his parents.

"Lilliana, there's nothing we can do, we have to go!" Loki said. "He's going to die anyways."

I placed a gentle hand on his stomach, where he had a stab wound, wishing I could do something to save him.

A warm, golden light shown from underneath the hand that was on his stomach, and the cold child instantly warmed up to a normal temperature. Startled, I took my hand away and saw the stab wound in his stomach had sealed up by itself.

I looked up at Loki, who had the same surprised expression as I did.

I looked back at the boy.

Did I do that...?

I turned to the man and woman beside me.

Maybe...just maybe...I could do the same thing again?

I placed a hand on each of their heads, instantly the stab wounds they had in their chests healed up, their dead eyes filled with color, and their cold skin warmed up. They gasped and the both of them bolted upright. The man and woman looked at me.

"Who are you?" The woman asked.

"I'm Lilliana." I said.

"Mommy! Daddy!" The boy stood up and rushed to his parents.

"Xander!" The woman cried, and wrapped her arms around her son, a tear streaked down her cheek.

"Thank you." The man said to me. "I don't know how you did it-but thank you."

"Get inside." I told them. "Hide somewhere, stay safe."

The woman looked up and saw Loki.

"Y-your highness!" She gasped, and stood up, bowing to him, then picked up the boy.

"Hide." Loki said. "More are coming."

"Yes, you're highness." The man said, he grabbed his wife's hand, and the family rushed into a house.

"I didn't know that I-"

"No one did." Loki said.

"We have to go." I said, and Loki agreed, taking my hand. Together we ran through the streets, we finally made it across the rainbow bridge to Heimdall.

"Heimdall!" I said. "We need to get out of here."

"Somewhere where she'll be safe." Loki added.

"Yes you're highness."

We climbed to the golden platform, and everything disappeared in a flash of light.

When the light faded, we were standing on a beach with dark sand, the gray waves crashing against the shore, water washed up and stopped just in front of our feet. A cool breeze which smelled strongly of ocean swept past us, and nearly every time a large wave crashed onto the shore, it would spray us. The sky was filled with dark gray clouds and we could barely see the sun setting on the horizon. I looked left and right, only to see there was no one else on the long strip of beach and we were standing in normal clothing once again. I turned to look behind me and saw that the damp sand gradually dried up, and just fifty feet away, the sand piled up into a steep hill barely ten feet high. Small bushes of grass started clumping together in the middle of the hill, and then clumped together until you could see no more sand at the top of the hill. A small pathway was dug into the middle of the hill which lead up to a small building, and then a larger one behind it.

"Where are we?" Loki asked.

I recognized this place immediately, why were we here?

"Lilliana, do you know?" He asked me.

"Yeah." I said. "We're in Seaside, Oregon."