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Atop the glorious world tree, a beautiful and handsome man looked down into the land, the world of Yggdrasil. He seemed to smile while raising an eyebrow in surprise, he was rather flabbergasted by what had just happened. In fact, he had never expected such an outcome, it surprised him.
And not many things can surprise the trickster god.
“Interesting, did Arachne just became friends with Hel’s little monster? This is… Incredible, in all of my mind I never predicted this. Was… Was this little spider only desiring a friend this entire time, huh… I guess I am really a terrible mentor to never have seen through such a simplistic mindset.” Thought the God, as he sighed.
Suddenly, a big squirrel holding a leather bag filled with cards emerged behind Loki, timidly approaching the intimidating Trickster God of Chaos, Ratatoskr, the messenger of the gods, seemed to have a message for Loki.
“G-God Loki… Sir… My Lord… Erm… Your Evilness?”.
“Hm?” Asked Loki, as he looked back at the “small” squirrel, who had the size of grown man. “Oh, it is you again, Rat. Is there something you want? Also did you just called me “Your Evilness”? I am not evil!”
“O-Okay! I know! Please don’t hurt me!” Cried Ratatoskr, trembling a bit.
“How come you’re so afraid of me? I have never done anything bad to you.” Sighed Loki, as he petted the fluffy head of the big squirrel.
Ratatoskr began to remember that one time when Loki made a “prank” for Ratatoskr, feeding him a delicious golden Acorn that resulted to have been coated in a potion that made the squirrel turn completely pink. The other Squirrels of his race laughed at him for several years until the pink-color disappeared. Loki’s response to such a stupid prank was “You needed some colors, you always look gloomy, friend”. Since then, Ratatoskr fears Loki…
“Nothing bad… R-Right.” Sighed Ratatoskr. “A-Anyways, please take this message, the Goddess of Death, your daughter, seems to be interested in engaging in a conversation.” The squirrel handled to Loki a card handwritten by his daughter.
“Ooh?! My daughter of all things want to speak with me? How sweet of her!” Said Loki, as he took the card and began to read it. It was handwritten by her and her letters were very beautiful, she also wrote quite refined, and the ink she used emanated a dreadful black aura, it seems she used her own, black-colored blood.
Loki decided to read the card out loud.
“Dear father, I have seen that you’re messing with the world again, and like always, the stupid of Odin, my grandfather, is going to say that it is all my fault. What are you even planning to do with the spider, the wolf, and the snake? Please come down here to talk to your daughter.”
“Ahhh… My daughter seems a bit angered… Hahaha…” Laughed Loki, throwing away the card into the ocean below the World Tree.
“L-Lord Loki, shouldn’t you not go to Hel? Isn’t that place dangerous even for Gods? W-What if you die?” Asked Ratatoskr.
“Yeah, it is obvious that I cannot go down there leisurely, or I’ll die. My daughter always invites me down there, hahaha! Don’t worry, we gods got many ways to do things.” Said Loki, his body suddenly divided itself in a second, as a perfect clone was generated.
“Uwaah! T-Two Lokis now?!” Asked Ratatoskr in fear for his life, if there were two Lokis, what sort of weird fucked up pranks they would do next?!
“Fufu, don’t worry dear Rat, I am not doing anything devilish.” Said Loki. “I am a changed woman after all…” Laughed the clone of Loki, as he suddenly changed gender in an instant, turning into a beautiful woman version of him, with long hair, long eyelashes, seductive lips, wide hips, and big chest, with a long black dress and holding the same staff as he held in his original body.
“Wow, aren’t I a devilish demoness?” Asked Loki’s true body, admiring his female version.
“Indeed, we could easily conquer the heart of any man.” Laughed his clone.
“Uuuhhh…” Muttered Ratatoskr, feeling weirded out. “C-Can I go now?” He asked timidly.
“Oh yes, you can go dear, take care.” Said Female Loki, petting and hugging Ratatoskr, rubbing her big breasts over the squirrel’s face, which made it flustered.
“Uwaahh!” Cried Ratatoskr, running away from the predatory woman.
“Hahaha! He’s always such a handful, without little Rat here we would always be bored!” Said Loki.
“Indeed!” Laughed Loki.
“Anyways, go down to meet our beloved daughter, make sure to cuddle with her.” Said Loki.
“I shall spoil her lots!” Laughed Loki, as the female version disappeared in an explosion of pink smoke.
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Meanwhile, Hel, the Goddess of Death and the Underworld looked into the emptiness of her Realm, caves everywhere, darkness, mushrooms growing in the ceilings and the floor illuminating the place mildly, and the sound of countless souls groaning, undead walking around leisurely, attacking one another, or simply existing with one another without attacking… giant beasts made of countless corpses making the floor tremble was they walk, titanic birds made of bones catching unsuspecting zombies crawling in the floor, trapping them inside of their ribcages for some unknown reason, as Undead don’t need to feed in here.
Hel looked at all of this rather expressionless, a sight that would be rather psychedelic to anybody else was something of a daily life for her, every day was the same, confined in her own Realm as the Goddess of Death, she couldn’t really do much about it, that’s how things were. Since she was born in this world that she already represented death and was the meaning of the end of a journey, but also, the start of a new one.
Millions of souls swam across a river, as she guided them towards the surface through an inverse waterfall that moved upwards, this was the River of Reincarnation, where souls were cleansed and reincarnated after going through some time in Helheim…
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