-badlands: one hour before Gary’s defeat.
A faint glow surrounded the new captive as his legs and left arm were being covered in some strange green thing that changelings produced. A burning expression of hatred was plastered on the face of the captive as he stared at the changeling queen
”so you thought you could evade me hm?”
Gavin grinds his teeth as the queen lets out a humourless chuckle
”oh don’t worry my love. You’ll be one of us soon. Just give it some time”
Gavin used his one free hand to swat at the queen and give her a shot to the face. His hand made contact and then by the order of the queen he was completely cocooned. Then he began to change. Bones shifted and rearranged in his right hand as it took on a shape of a hoof and his legs shattered and bent as they formed hooves a splitting headache struck Gavin and to his horror two jagged ram-like horns sprouted from his head. And then to his surprise instead of the transformation finishing everything went dark. The cocoon was gone and Gavin was suddenly in some strange forest. Gavin stood up and began attempting to walk out of the thick forest.
-Judy’s house for little miracles: now
Perspective change: Noah
”-Loki”
”huh. That’s a nice name”
”thanks. I got it for my birthday”
”cool...know anyone named thor?”
”no. Anyway what’s your name?”
”Noah”
”...what kind of name is that?”
”what you wanna know how I got this name?”
”sure?”
”ok so my ma goes to the hospital and she’s in labor right? So as they were pulling me out she said:
‘WAIT IM NOT READY! NO-
AH!’
...and that’s how I got my name”
”... ”
Loki held a straight face
”so...what now?”
”well I wasn’t exactly expecting to suddenly be cured of the bloody Black Death now did I?”
Loki’s accent had finally changed from that of a wheezing out of breath sick boi to a somewhat smooth British accent.
”Black Death?”
”yeah. Well at least that’s what they call it. Got me mum...”
”oh my god I’m sorry man”
”god? Which one?”
”...uh all of the above? literally ”
”...alright then. Wait is that-!”
Loki cut himself off for dramatic effect
”is that daring do’s hat?! ”
”the Pegasus who was tied up by that one furry twat?”
Loki noticed the glowing ring crudely tied to his coat
” is that-“
”the one ring to rule them all?”
”no it’s-“
”the fabled wedding ring that bonded senior man tits to ol senior blue tits? well that finally explains who “senior blue tits was” ”
”what? It’s-“
”THE LEGENDARY CIRCULAR BUTTER FINGER OF BENAVIC CUCUMBERSNATCH?!”
”for Odin’s sake it’s the bloody sun slab”
”...hey I thought you never knew Thor”
”why would I personally know a prince if i was a bloody infected dead weight?”
”I...uh don’t know”
”yep. Anyways I gotta go back to the orphanage”
Loki showed his disgust for the location
”it’s soup day. Gotta eat sometime”
”mind if I join?”
”well considering I could only see the hat and sun slab when you beat up ol dick and dike until you did that...thing I’d say you’re good to follow.”
Noah nodded and followed Loki back into the orphanage (if you can even call it that) and into a side room where the very familiar griffin known as dike was glutinously devouring the tiny pot of soup. Loki snatched a few full bowls from the glutton and gave them to the other orphans
”hey! That’s mine!”
” That was for eveyone you bloody dike!”
”well they were just paying the toll! It’s not my fault-“
Dike emitted a high pitched noise as Noah removed his foot from dikes man-hood. Noah felt the adrenaline began flowing through his veins as dike sprung up in a rage and sprung towards Noah
”I CAN SEE YOU YOU FREAK!”
Noah could barely sidestep the attack as dike got into a fighting position. Dike swiped at Noah and successfully carried him through the broken window and into the sky. Noah grabbed dikes claw as he dropped Noah and began climbing on top of the griffin and he desperately divebombd in an attempt to shake Noah off. Noah jumped off dike like a springboard and managed to grasp the roof of the orphanage as the sudden force of the jump threw dike into the ground face first.
Noah carefully climbed halfway down before jumping and landing on his feet as his opponent easily got up on what was easily a fatal fall...
For a human
Wasting no time Noah ran behind him and with the might and velocity of a sparrow crashing through a window he kicked dike in the balls causing him to flip on his back where Noah then stomped his head into the ground.
Noah:2 honor:0
”I’m sorry but I’m all out of nutcracker jokes”
The orphans wachd in aw as Noah single handedly took down the soup bandit. Riding the high of his life Noah began giving out the remaining bowls of soup to the orphans. After everyone except Noah had their fill the orphans went to bed.
Perspective change: Loki
Loki remaind awake and follow Noah as he left. Loki witnessed Noah pacing around an empty room and mumbling something to himself in a different more proper accent than when he had talked to him. To Loki’s surprise Noah’s accent changed mid sentence as he paced around the room it was as if several griffins had been taking turns speaking about the same subject but they had come from far different parts of the world and were battling for the dominating accent. Noah’s voice shifted in pitch once more to a semi-solid shirish (Irish) tone and a pang of sadness rang through Loki’s heart as he remembered what his ancestors had done to the rowdy bunch of Minotaur with that accent.
Loki looked on in confusion as Noah’s voice shifted to what he could assume was a more northern accent...except it was somewhat combined with a southern drawl, it seemed this voice was the most popular of the accents as Noah remained with this accent the most.
Loki hid behind the small door as he heard the sound of a window opening and the clopping of hooves as they touched the ground.
”can I have my hat back now?”
Loki’s jaw dropped as he heard the voice. It was as if he had been dropped right in the middle of a daring-do story
Perspective change: Noah
”alright. That’s kinda fair ah guess.”
Noah handed the hat over to daring
”where’s the sun slab?”
”it’s right here. Eh So what’s the chance of altzafeck or whatever he was called coming after my arse?”
”pretty high I’d say. So what’s with the accent?”
”hell if ah know...so what’s the real reason y’all came?”
”I need to decrypt this ancient text and considering you are also ancient...”
”it reads: it comes in threes and six’s and fours. The creator, the mourner the catalyst and more, he is the one who opened the door, this rule of three is important to thee as a trio of hero’s will rise, He shal try his best not to die.
They raised the stakes and now this is your fate as you were the one who wrote it this way,
go and meet the king.
Your pilagramige shal truly begin among the statue of man”
A few tears broke through Noah’s emotional mask and he emotionlessly made a statement
”yeah I know what it means.”
”do you...uh need a minute?”
”no. Let’s just casually stroll on over and say hi to the father of a bloody thunder god.”
Daring rolled her eyes at the sarcasm until Noah was halfway outside.
”well come on then!”
Daring followd the man as he began traveling to the palace. As a group of mercenaries conversed in an alleyway with two muzzled griffins hanging in a large bird cage as if to add insult to injury
”we need to stop them. he has instructed that we may do with the shadow as we see fit but daring do must be alive.”
“Yes sir!”
Loki has heard enough and sprinted off towards the duo
”buck that griffin must have heard us! GET EM BOYS”
Suddenly Loki had a spring in his step