After the feast with Loki and Darcy, on which the Grandmaster was giving them rather indelicate clues about what he thinks of their relation, the old man went to his room and fell on the bed.
After all the happenings of the day, he was really full and tired. He thought he will fall asleep immediately so he didn't even bother to change his robes deciding to leave it for the next day.
But fifteen minutes passed by and sleep didn't come.
The Grandmaster changed the position.
Then, after another half an hour he got really impatient. He started throwing himself from one side of the bed to another.
But when, after yet another quarter he fell off the bed he had enough. He unwillingly decided to take a hot shower and change his robes for a nightgown.
But even after that, he couldn't sleep. Another hour passed by and then another one and the Grandmaster were still awake.
So finally he had enough. He got up nervously and stormed out on the corridor. He was going to visit Topaz. She was always the best in helping him with critical situations.
But as he was walking through the dark corridor he suddenly felt something hard over his foot.
And before he got to do anything he lost his balance and tripped over it falling straight on the floor.
He didn't even realize how much noise did he do until two pairs of doors didn't suddenly open.
"What the heck is going on?" He heard a female, a bit mumbling voice coming from his left.
"Who are you?" Asked him the male voice from his right.
The Grandmaster groaned and slowly got up from the floor.
"That's only me." He assured both of the people with a shaky, painful voice, slowly sitting up. When he started to look closer at them, he quickly noticed that the male one is Loki and the female one is his favorite scrapper - Valkyrie.
"Are you all right?" The woman sounded a bit worried, at least for the Grandmaster. He felt a bit better at once. It was really nice when people like her cared for him.
"I can't fall asleep." He admitted slowly getting up from the floor, trying to sound as much unashamed as he could. "I was counting on..." He wanted to say Topaz help but he realized how it sounded just in time and said instead."...some herbs."
He heard Valkyrie yawning loudly. She evidently didn't have any idea of helping him.
"Herbs?" The Grandmaster heard the male voice from the other side of the corridor.
"Or something like that" Added the Grandmaster. He didn't want to sound like an idiot, cause the situation was already uncomfortable for him enough.
He could sense the hesitation of his interlocutor as the room fell silent and the only sound he heard was breathing of everyone on the corridor.
"I may have something like that." Loki finally spoke, though the Grandmaster was pretty sure he wasn't too certain of his decision.
There was a snort from the other side of the corridor.
"What's so funny?" The god snarled.
Valkyrie laughed again and answered with a hint of mockery in her voice, after a few dozen seconds.
"That sounded terrible, folk."
This time Loki was the one to snort.
"That's not my fault you have primitive associations." He commented loftily.
Something on the left side of the room fell on the floor and the Grandmaster wasn't sure if he shouldn't move away, cause he really didn't like the way both of his companions spoke.
"Anyway!" He said a bit louder than necessary. He didn't hear a response, but he took that as a good omen and continued. "Is this thing you have any helpful, Loki?"
Valkyrie yawned even louder than a moment before.
"Junkie." She murmured, but it could be as well any other word, so the Grandmaster ignored her. "I'm going to sleep now. I hope you'll have a good night." She added before shutting the door behind her and leaving both men alone in the corridor.
Loki also ignored Valkyrie and put his hands together in a way that one was laid flat on the other. The Grandmaster saw sparkles of light coming from his hands and when the god uncovered the lower palm, there was a little bottle laying on it.
"That always helps," Loki assured the ruler giving him the bottle. "Just a few droplets should be enough."
The Grandmaster slowly took the bottle out of Loki's hands and examined it for a moment.
"Thank you, Tricky Loki." He said finally and nodded at him. "I'll see you tomorrow."
After that, the Grandmaster returned to his chamber and took a few... well maybe a few dozen droplets.
And, after about five minutes it turned out to be really working. The ruler fast fell in a deep, good sleep.
***
The Grandmaster opened his eyes. He felt an urge to laugh so he did - just as always on Sakaar.
He looked at his shoes and laughed again. They looked ridiculous. He would never wear those.
He snorted. He would have to meet the person who made them.
The Grandmaster shook his head and looked up again.
But when he did that he saw the most awful thing he had ever seen.
Just in front of him there stood an old, fat man with a pimpled face, without eyebrows, and with only one eye. He was bald and had a grey, sparse beard.
How was it possible he didn't melt him?
The Grandmaster frowned with disgust and turned around just to see just the same man.
What...?
He looked in another direction but there was no change. Wherever he looked there was a bunch of ugly people and among them this man.
He looked at his toes again, but on the floor, he saw exactly the same person.
And just then he realized it.
He was this man.
The Grandmaster tried to close his eyes, but for some unexplained reason, he couldn't.
Wherever he looked there was him in this awful, humiliating form.
He screamed on himself seeing a row of dark, crushed teeth.
There was no way he could stand it anymore.
He couldn't even blink and everywhere there was this man, who looked at him with a bacchanalian joy on his face.
The Grandmaster started to run ahead but he kept seeing this face.
And suddenly it hit him.
"It's just a dream!" He reminded himself out loud breathing heavily and trying to keep calm while looking on this awful face. "You can wake up."
Except that he couldn't.
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I was just doing dumb quizzes with my friend, just to laugh at them and it turnes out I am a great material for Spider-man's girlfriend, I will spend Christmas with Capitan America and that the said friend is the love of my life.
Thank you very much I can sleep peacefully now.
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