Goddess // Loki Laufeyson [Book 1]

⭐︎ Chapter 13 ⭐︎

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I hear footsteps approach us and I immediately turn around. It is Sif walking down the throne room with a very confident look on her face.

"I am glad you had the time to come, Lady Sif." Odin gestures towards her, already expecting her. 

"You are going to try to use your abilities during the fight against Sif." he turns towards me. 

"I don't know how to fight! How should I have a chance against her?" I ask him.

"If you really are right and you can read a person's mind, you should be able to know Sif's every move, even before she is striking it," Odin explains.

I look towards Odin and slowly nod in his direction, still unsure how I am going to be able to win a fight against Sif. I mean, how is it even possible to 'activate' my powers? I have never used them consciously before, why should I be able to do it now?

"Here, take this sword." Sif walks towards me and gives me one of her swords.

I hesitate at first, but then take it into my hands. I look at it strangely. Never in my life have I thought I would hold a weapon in my hand. Something with so much power, something that is able to destroy another life, something that has caused so much destruction in the past. I hold the grip of the sword awkwardly in my hand, not really knowing what I am supposed to do with it.

"Enter her mind. Try to find out her every move and all the skills that she possesses, so you can defend yourself and maybe even have the chance to overpower her." Odin says looking towards me.

I look at Sif, standing only a few steps in front of her. I need to enter her mind, concentrate on every single detail flowing around in her head and that's what I do. I close my eyes, feeling me slowly entering her mind and then it comes to me. Bits and pieces from her memory start to appear. I see her being born and being held by her smiling parents. I see her being raised, here in Asgard and see the friends she made along the way. But those memories will not help me during a fight, so I dig deeper.

Deeper into the things that mean most to her. Her pleasures, her desires, and her dreams. When I finally reach them, it feels like I am breaking a very strong and secure wall in her head. A wall that no one was supposed to enter, but I do and I finally get more control over my abilities. I feel her feelings and emotions towards one special person. Thor. He is more than a friend to her, she admired him for many years and this admiration slowly turned into love, but she is scared to tell him the truth and that is why she hides it deep beneath the wall in her mind.

I see Sif, as a young girl, training to become a warrior. I see her struggling at the beginning because she was not accepted as a fighting woman. But when Thor came into her life everything changed. He helped her through it and helped her become one of the greatest warriors in Asgard's history.

Then I feel it, every step she learned about fighting, and all her knowledge during a fight came floating through my mind as if it had been one of my own experiences. All her emotions spreading themselves in my head, making me feel every single one, like Sif had, all those years ago. It feels like everything Sif had learned was projected towards me and for me to use.

I open my eyes. Suddenly I know how to hold a sword the right way and what my first step is going to be, once we start the fight. It feels like I have been fighting for years. I look to Sif's direction, locking eyes with her.

"Ready?" She asks.

"Ready." I immediately answer.

Sif takes this as her sign to lunge towards me and normally I would have no idea what to do, but with all her knowledge, it feels like I am a different person. I have every single step that I am about to do in my head, copying the moves from Sif's past. So, when Sif reaches me I defend myself, our swords meeting each other. She looks surprised at me and I take her off guard by kicking her in the stomach, turning her around in the process and holding the sword to her neck, leaving her without any protection.

"That is my move." She mutters surprised.

"I know," I answer with a grin on my face.

How did I do this? I have no idea myself! But after defeating one of the best warriors in Asgard, I finally realized how powerful my abilities actually are. Of course, I am proud, but at the same time, I am scared, scared about the fact that I changed to a completely different person.

"You entered her mind, haven't you," Odin says towards me and I nod.

"It felt like I was someone else, I still do!" I reply exhausted.

"You copied her memory's into yours. A part of you was someone else." Odin explains and then continues. 

"Sif was easy because she let you in, but what if the next person doesn't. We definitely have a lot ahead of us." He explains and that made me realize, that I have still so much to learn.

I mean it took me many years until I even discovered what I could do. What if this is only a small part of my powers? What if there is a lot more about myself that I don't know about?

After the training with Odin and Sif, I decide to take a bath and make myself representable to meet my father. I put on a white and golden dress and make my way towards the man I thought I would never meet in my life.

After walking through Asgard, seeing a few familiar faces and finally crossing the Rainbow bridge, I stand in front of the so-called Observatory. In there is going to be my father. What will he say, when he sees me? Will he be happy or bothered? I think I have never been more scared in my whole life then I am right now. My whole body was shivering, shivering because of the fear of being rejected, the fear that he just doesn't want anything to do with me. I take a deep breath and enter the building, my heart beating in an irregular way.

The first thing that my eyes focus on, is a figure standing in front of a big window watching the stars and other different planets. I ignore everything else because it is not important to me. My eyes are fixated on his back. He is wearing golden armor and a helmet and standing there in a strong posture. And then finally after all those years, I hear his voice ringing in my ears.

"Ingrid." He says in a broken, but still joyful voice.

//I am finally continuing with this story! I missed writing it so much and I hope you will still enjoy reading it after it being on hold for a few months.☾✨