DISCLAIMER: I don't own marvel or any of its characters. I only own my OC Luna and the plot. (chapter edited 8/18/2017)
"Thor! Give me back my book!"
"Only if you come spar with us! How else am I to become the most mighty warrior Asgard has ever seen?"
I had been quietly sitting in the royal gardens reading my book when Thor jumped out at me, and had taken my book.
"Fandrall, Volstagg, Hogan, Loki and Sif are already waiting."
"Fine I'll spar with you but only if you give me back my book."
I glare at Thor as he hands me my book, and then we start walking down the corridors. Thor and I are twins, he being the older by a few minutes or so. We're pretty different. We both have blue eyes, but while he gets his looks from our Father, I get mine from Mother. I have a longer face than him with thin eyebrows and long blond hair that have light blue streaks in it. While he prefers sparring with his friends, I would rather go to the gardens and read a good book. I guess I'm quieter too. I don't get along with Fandrall, Volstagg, and Hogan very much. I'd much rather talk to Sif, but even then she'd rather spar. Probably only to get Thor's attention. She's had a massive crush on him for years.
"Luna!" I turn my head around to see Mother coming up behind us with a worried expression.
"Yes Mother?" I ask.
"Your father and I have some important things to discuss with you. I need you to come with me right away."
"But Mother I only just got Luna to agree to come with me to spar with my friends." Says Thor.
"She can do that later. This is very important."
Thor has a very annoyed expression on his face. Serves him right though for stealing my book. As I follow Mother down the halls I wonder what could possibly be so important that Father and Mother need me. We reach the throne room and enter. Once father see's me, he ends the conversation he was having with one of the council member and turns to me.
"Luna, my daughter, I have just spoken with the oracle. And if they are speaking truthfully then I want to prepare for what is to come."
At this he starts walking down the corridors to the royal library. It's one of my favorite places. Once you walk in you see books of all different colors and shapes. After ten shelves up there are massive windows to let in light and air so it doesn't become musty. There are rows and rows of books about anything you could ever possibly know that was documented.
One of my favorite places to go is through a secret passage that is in the back of the library, that hardly anyone goes to, and pull the book out that is called "The Secret Passages of Life". After that one of the shelves moves aside to let me enter. It leads me down into a cave that's pretty cool. The walls and water shimmer from the light of the glowworms that live in the cave and in the center of the cave there is a pool of water that if you dived down you would enter a portal that sends you to the oceans of midgard. No one knows about it except for the All-father, Heimdall and me of course since I'm the Goddess of the Oceans.
I have powers over water to. I can move water with my mind and can heat or freeze it whenever I'd like. I can also breath underwater, and create portals from a water source to another water source. But what I like best about my abilities is that I can understand what sea creatures are saying. It's one of my jobs to keep every creature in the oceans in order.
"Luna, you remember the oracle."
"Yes, of course," I said as I curtsied. As the oracle bowed he said." It's nice to see you again princess Luna. Although I wish we were meeting on different circumstances."
"Now that I have brought Luna will you tell me what is in her future?"
"My king, I am sorry but the only one who may know is Luna. Anyone else knowing could bring disastrous consequences."
"Disastrous? To whom? If it has anything to do with the safety of Asgard or to Luna I must know!"
"Ahhh, but you knowing could bring harm to Asgard. Only Luna should know."
Looking at my father I could see that he was pretty mad. I mean the oracle literally just stated that Odin might hurt Asgard.
"Father let me deal with this. If this is about me then only I can stop whatever or whoever is to come."
Odin still looked angry but left the room knowing I was right even though if anyone ever asked he would deny it.
"So what is this about anyway?" I asked the oracle, as we entered one of the soundproof rooms.
Once I had entered I closed the door behind us making sure that it was secure so that no one would be listening (AKA my father).
"I can't tell you much for your future is still unclear. But what I can tell you is that your future is the key to Asgards survival. Someone is coming and only you are able to stop him. You will have many battles with him but the first will be the worst. He'll do something to you that you'll feel anguish, anger, and sorrow. You have to fight on after that Luna. You are Asgards only hope."
While he talked I only became more and more frightened. How am I supposed to face someone who is so strong that he could destroy Asgard? If I were maturing at the same rate as a Midgardian I would be around the age of 15 not over 300 years old. I'll start aging more slowly when I'm 400 years old.
"What will they do to me? Who is it? When is this going to hap…."
"Calm down princess. This won't take for years to come so you don't need to worry right now. But you still need to be prepared. As for your other questions I do not know. All will be revealed in due time." What the oracle said was all true. But what he didn't say was that whatever is going to happen to her it is something that nobody has ever experienced before. "You best go back to your chambers princess and let your mind comprehend what I have told you."
He opened the door for me as I walked out. As I headed to my chambers I thought about what he told me. It would be years before anything happened but I was still worried. All of a sudden something grabs a hold of me and spins me around. "EEEEKKKK!"
"Relax! It's just me you're handsome twin."
"THOR! How many times have I told you not to sneak up on me?" I'm pretty sure he doesn't notice that my face has probably gone pale and that I was shaking.
"I didn't sneak up on you. I kept calling you from down the hall. So what did father want?"
I think about it for a moment. If Thor finds out that It's my destiny to save Asgard and not him he'll be crushed. Not to mention the Oracle wouldn't tell Father what was going to happen. Which means I probably shouldn't tell Thor what was going on either.
"He wanted to see how my studies have been going."
"Studies? Luna like I've told you before If you want to make a name for yourself you should fight a great beast. Maybe a frost giant would do…"
This is an argument that me and Thor have a lot. He thinks that the whole goal in life is to be able to fight great beasts and look good doing it so all the girls fall for him. Man my brother needs a reality check… anyway it always ends with him wanting to spar with me, but I just didn't have the heart to debate him on whether studying or fighting is a better use of my time.
"Thor if this about sparing I need to let off a little steam anyway so I'll come with you."
He looked pretty happy about me coming with him. But also annoyed that he didn't get to go into a debate about why I should fight and how it's a glorious sport. Once we got to the coliseum we spotted Sif and the others sparing. Whenever we fight each other we use our prefered weapons. Thor's preferred weapon is mjolnir a hammer that can summon lightning and when Thor wants it to it comes flying to him when he needs it. I on the other hand prefer double blades. There a light blue at the hilt and the blades shine a brilliant silver. Whenever I fight (which isn't often as you can probably gather) I strap the sheaths to my back in a criss-cross fashion so that my blades are easier to get to. As we walked in Sif and the others looked up.
"Ah Luna you have finally decided to join us! Who would you like to spar with?" Asked Sif.
I could tell she was eager to spar with me. We were long overdue to fight each other. The last time I have sparred with Sif was months ago. All I do is give her a look that says 'your on' and she understands immediately. I go over to a changing room to get suited up and then we start sparring.
Sif's prefered weapon is a two sided blade that she can change into two sword-like blades when needed. Kind of like my double blades so we are both evenly matched. Thor, Fandrall, Volstagg, and Hogan stop their matches against each other to watch Sif and I. By the end of the match I was breathing heavily on the ground trying to catch my breath. Sif had definitely won. She had caught me off guard when she tripped me and while I tried to recover she had disarmed me of my weapon.
"Good match." I said.
"Not to bad yourself." Says Sif.
"We both know I could have done way better."
"Perhaps. But you still did very well today."
"I did I guess….I'm going to head back to my chambers I'll see you later."
It was fun to spar with Sif and I was less stressed than when I talked to the Oracle but I still needed to think about what the Oracle had said. It's not supposed to happen for years to come but if I was to be ready I needed to start training. I'll still do my studies but I need to start training with Thor and the others every day.