Thor was torn now, that much was obvious.
He didn't need to convince his brother he was wrong, only that he needed to change. This would have played out the exact same.but here and now, Loki had Thor's idiotic mistakes to argue with. It wouldn't have been, because Thor would always assume that he was lying (granted, Thor wasn't completely wrong in that thinking). "Because of this Thor! You came here, ready to beat me for the sins you think I've committed! You swung before you said a word! You attacked without even thinking to ask me what the truth was! Had I told you, this would have been no different!" "And I left! Father told me of his plans, and I left as soon as I had the why did you not tell me!" Thor shouted, "When Father came to you, why did you say nothing and run?" "You.you knew!" Thor seemed unsure now, but no less accusatory, "You knew Father's plan!" A flash of hesitation went through his eyes, and Loki attacked it ruthlessly, "I am a poor puppeteer, if I think I can rule you from a different realm." "Then why aren't I there!" Loki retorted, "I left Thor! I left!"įinally, finally, there was something that made Thor pause for a moment. It was one big circle, and it was frustrating. "Then you admit you would have me as your puppet!" There was the rage again, anything else buried underneath it. He was disappointed that someone else saw him as unworthy. It was the same face he wore when Frigga so prettily confirmed that Thor was a puppet. It was still furious, still wishing to do violence, but there was something else. "Then why else would he!" There was a note of something else in Thor's voice, underneath the anger. He would have tried to convince Odin that Thor wasn't ready, that he needed more time and more discipline. "I did nothing! I convinced Father of nothing!"Įven if he tried, it wouldn't have been for this. Thor didn't listen, only yelled once again, "Who else but you could have convinced Father to make me a puppet king!" "I do not want to be king!" Loki screamed it, and he had never spoken a truer thing, "I've never wanted the throne!" "Says the man who plotted to make himself king!" Thor retorted. He would not let his self righteous fool of a brother accuse him of that. He was many things, many of them bad, but not that. "You will not speak to me that way again," Loki hissed. He only managed it because maiming his king was punishable by death. He barely managed to keep it under control, and had to fight to bring it back into it. His own power filled the air, and like the electricity, it wished to be lashed out. Something shattered to his left, but he didn't care. "Traitor!" Thor all but yelled at him, and Loki's own anger flared.įor a moment, it burned so hot that he couldn't control it. Without Mjolnir in hand, Thor couldn't wield it as a weapon, but that didn't make it any less potentially dangerous. "REALSE ME NOW!" Thor screamed, and Loki felt the electricity in the air. Now maybe we can talk like sensible adults." Once he was on the ground, Loki cast a binding spell to keep him there. His foot impacted Thor in the back of the knee, and it made Thor go down to one knee in a stumbled moment. Loki whirled behind Thor, and struck out with his leg. He didn't need Alfheim to know that the King of Asgard was a child prone to temper tantrums. If Loki didn't get this under control, then Thor would utterly destroy the room. Thor tried to hit him again, and smashed a large hole in the dresser instead. He had known that it was a long shot when he tried it. Thor didn't listen, and Loki wasn't surprised. Loki had to defuse this situation if he had any chance of getting out of it uninjured. He twisted out of Thor's roared when his grip came up empty. Thor came at him again, and this time Loki knew enough to dodge. Thor's fist clipped him in the jaw and made him stumble back, but nothing broke. He didn't, though he was quick enough to turn away to avoid the worst of it. Linkin Park is an alternative rock band renowned for their hits “Numb,” “In the End,” “What I’ve Done,” “Castle of Glass,” “New Divide,” “Crawling,” and “Faint.” They worked with artists like Jay-Z, Metallica, Steve Aoki, and Paul McCartney - amassing billions of global streams and received the UN Global Leadership Award for their humanitarian work.Loki should have anticipated the punch in order to avoid it.
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