Tabula Rasa (Unlike Loki: Book Two)

Chapter 45

"Where. Is. He?" The Frost-Giant King asked.

He had sent scout after scout out looking for his younger, idiot brother. He had gone off, ran away. To prove, what? That he could handle himself? That he was a big, bad Frost-Giant?

No. No, that couldn't be it.

He had been lying too low for too long.

But, why?

It didn't make any sense.

"Your Greatness, if he is not causing any trouble, I see no reason to worry." Said a Frost-Giant standing near the throne.

The King turned to slowly glare at him. The Frost-Giant apologized and looked down at his feet, knowing that the King was not one to make angry. He was more fearsome than his father before him, and a hell of a lot more terrible than his older brother, Loki.

The little quip had been angry that he couldn't be King. And had run his mouth about how both of his older brothers had thrones, and how he didn't. He sounded like a child, but the Frost-Giant King knew that his younger brother was as powerful as himself, but as sly as Loki. He was not one to anger either, and he knew that if the three brothers ever to get in any sort of fight, it would not end well for anyone.

When Loki had been taken as a child, he had been given the power to transform into a more human version of himself. The King and his younger brother had figured out this trick and often used it when not on Jotenheim. So that was who the scouts had been looking for, a young man, not a Frost-Giant. But why was it so damn hard to find him?

What was he up to?

Was he plotting against the King at this very moment, ready to strike? Or was he off pillaging some poor people, trying to take over the throne?

He needed to come home. There was work to be done. Darkness is looming the the cosmos, and Loki was the cause of it all, the King was sure of it.

Many of the Frost-Giants feared Loki now, knowing that he had been in close contact with the tesseract and felt it's power. It was unnerving. Loki May have failed to take over Midgard, but he had done an extreme amount of damage. And it took six of the most powerful beings around to take him down, and even then, he was only hurt, not killed. And even after his father had put him away forever, that blundering fool, Thor, broke him out, which allowed Loki to fake his death and take control of Asgard. He was currently King of the most powerful place in the entire realm, and one of the most powerful places in the entire universe.

And then Asgard was attacked. By what, the Frost-Giant King was not sure, but he knew that Loki had finally met his doom there. It had been told that it was his own lover who had killed him, and that same woman became Queen of Asgard. The Frost-Giant King had been told that she was beautiful and powerful. He had never been able to see her for himself, but had not heard anything less about the woman. He particularly liked her because she had offed Loki.

And then Loki came back.

The news had spread like wildfire.

Frost-Giants are not fond of fires. Now, what he knew about Asgard was that it had just been attacked by a hoard of spirits from the In-Between. The Frost-Giant King knew of only one being who was capable of releasing such terror on the universe. A being so terrible, you were dead already if you thought about going after him alone. And he wanted the same thing as the King, something that was on Asgard. And that was not alright.

Which meant that Asgard and Jotenheim had a common enemy.

This meant that a family reunion was about to be ensued.