[2] storm of rage ~ harry potter × marvel

7- Messengers of Valhalla

The wind is blowing her hair for her face... She can see the stars, they are calling for her... Skyler looks around, the area is plain, nothing grows or lives around here... it's just her. Two shining stars fall down to her... two identical stars.

"Watch your steps, dear cousin." One of them says, his face barely visible in the bright light.

"W-who are you?" Skyler asks quietly. The other star walks up to her, his light fading slightly, revealing short, raven black hair and two bright blue eyes. His face looks slightly tanned. The long man caresses her cheek, his expression saddening.

"Just remember our warning, Skyler... He is a merciless creature. He needs to be stopped."

"Remember how metal is vulnerable to lightning..." The stars began to drift off, back to the heavens, where they came from.

"Wait! Don't leave! Who are you?" Skyler yells, but she's alone once again...

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"Don't leave!"Skyler screams, sitting straight up in bed. The lights switch on in her bedroom and her mother walks in. It's weekend, so the family stays in Avengers Tower, keeping the others company.

Skyler's hyperventilating, her breathing unsteady and tears stain her cheeks. "Who are they?" She mutters, trying to control her breathing.

"Sky... I don't know what you're talking about..." Jane says, "but it'll be okay, it was just a dream..."

"No, it wasn't! There was a plain field, and two stars, and two men. They warned me... a dragon will come for us all." Skyler whispers, her eyes wide and sweat covers her forehead.

"Skyler, you're scaring me." Jane says, rising from her daughter's bed, trying to pull her up.

Skyler doesn't follow, she keeps her knees to her chest and stares into nothing. "They were warning me. They told me he was merciless. They were stars." She rambles in a whisper.

"Okay, I'm going to get the others, this isn't normal Skyler." Jane says. She walks out of the room, whilst Skyler just stares into nothing. She mutters a few things over the time and tries to realise what just happened. Was this a dream? Or was it a message?

"Jane called us awake. What's wrong Spooky?" Clint Barton asks, when he walks into Skyler's room with Cassidy Stark. "Oh, you had a nightmare, didn't you?" He says, when he sees the look on Skyler's face.

"Calm down, Spooky, it's alright. Nothing can hurt you here. It'll be alright." Clint scoops her up in his arms and rocks her back and forth. "What did you dream of, Pumpkin?"

"There was a dark field... completely plain... I was alone..." Skyler cries out. "Then, two stars came down from the heavens..."

"Hold up!" Cassidy interrupts, "Dark plain field? Did you see mountains all around you?"

Skyler bites her bottom lip, thinking. "Uh, yes, I guess so. Why? Have you been there?"

"Yes, actually. When I was in my transformation-coma, I was there for four whole days. I met my mother, she said it was a place where the fallen Asgardians from Valhalla came to talk to loved ones." Cassidy explains. Bells go off in Skyler's head. She suddenly knows exactly who those stars are.

"Oh, my god! Thank you, Cassidy!" She exclaims, jumping on her feet and running towards Loki's bedroom. She switches on the lights in his room, before jumping on the God's bed.

"They're alright! They're alright!" She sing-songs, a smile on her face. Loki looks at her, confused and wide-eyed.

"What the holy hell, Skyler?! I'm sleeping!" Her uncle yells, shoving his niece off his bed and walking to his closet to get a T-shirt.

"I've seen Narfi and Vali, uncle!" Skyler says dryly. Loki freezes and spins on his heels towards her.

"How?" He croaks out, his eyes visible watery.

"Well, they left me a warning about steal and lightning, but they were in that plain field, for messengers of Valhalla! You know what that means, uncle? They're with Hel! She's taking care of them." Skyler states happily.

Loki blinks a few times, before walking over to the teenager and hugging her. "Thanks." He mutters, before lifting her over her shoulder and taking her back to her own bedroom, where Jane, Thor, Cassidy and Clint are already waiting for her to come back.

"You're going to sleep, Sky. This instant." Thor says, his eyes narrowed, but whether it is from the fatherly tone that obliges him to do it, or the lack of sleep, Skyler doesn't know. All she knows is that there's a danger coming soon, a danger she may not survive. A danger made of metal.

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