Phase One: Thor by Alex Irvine

Author:Alex Irvine [IRVINE, ALEX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General, Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Media Tie-In, Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes, Juvenile Fiction / Media Tie-In
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

A TOUCH OF BLUE

Loki could not stop looking at his arm. It looked normal now, but during the fight against the Jotuns there had been a moment when their icy blue coloration had spread across his flesh. Not as an infection, but as if the touch of one of Laufey’s Jotun warriors had awakened something in Loki that only his body remembered. The blue color, and the chill that had come with it, were gone as soon as the Jotuns broke physical contact with Loki. He had told no one.

“We should never have let him go,” Volstagg said. His normal boisterous spirits had given way to gloom.

“There was no stopping him,” Sif said.

Fandral agreed. “At least he’s only banished, not dead. Which is what we’d all be if that guard hadn’t told Odin where we’d gone.”

“How did the guard even know?” Volstagg asked.

There was a pause. Then Loki said, “I told him.”

“What?” Fandral was shocked.

“I told him to go to Odin after we’d left,” Loki said. “Though he should be flogged for taking so long.”

Volstagg grew angry. “You told the guard?”

“I saved our lives!” Loki said. “And Thor’s. I had no idea Father would banish him for what he did.”

Sif, as always, was already looking for solutions. “Loki, you’re the only one who can help Thor now,” she said. “You must go to the All-Father and convince him to change his mind!”

“And if I do, then what?” Loki asked. “I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you know what he is. He’s arrogant. He’s reckless. He’s dangerous. You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its king?”

None of them wanted to admit it, but Loki had a point. He waited for them to say something. When they didn’t, he left the room. Sif and the Warriors Three watched him go.

“He may speak about the good of Asgard, but he’s always been jealous of Thor,” Sif said.

“True, but we should be grateful to him. He did save our lives,” Volstagg pointed out.

Hogun, who spoke rarely, spoke then. “Laufey said there were traitors in the House of Odin.”

“Why is it every time you choose to speak, it has to be something dark and ominous?” Fandral complained.

“A master of magic could easily bring three Jotuns into Asgard,” Hogun said.

The other three looked at him, understanding what he meant. Loki could have done it. Who else in Asgard had more reason?

But it was unthinkable. “No, surely not,” Volstagg said.

“Loki’s always been one for mischief, but you’re talking about something else entirely,” Fandral added.

Sif tended to agree with Hogun. “Who else could elude Heimdall’s gaze with tricks of light and shadow?”

Volstagg thought of something else. “The ceremony was interrupted just before Thor was named king.” That was suspicious timing.

“We should go to the All-Father,” Sif said.

“And tell him what?” Fandral wanted to know. That his son betrayed the throne? Oh, and by the way, he should go back on his banishment of Thor just because we want him to?”

“It’s our duty,” Sif insisted.

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