Katrina:

Jotunhiem

The land of the Frost Giants. The land where no-one wants to go or be. A place that many fear of. A place of suffering.

But then there's just me.

The Chosen One.

The One with the Gift.

The one that Laufey had his eye on. The one with the body heat to withstand the cold frost.

I am the one that he wants.

Nobody ever asked my opinion but I don't exactly want to be here. I feel like a child in this barren wasteland. Nothing but a pet for the monsters who roam this realm.

The monsters known as the Jotuns.

"Laufey had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb. Laufey had a little lamb whose hatred for him grows and everywhere that Laufey went the lamb would surely- There's not a word to describe the hatred I have for you," I tell the blue giant standing before me as I see him smirk at my words.

"And for the record, I still think you are an oversized blue smurf," I then notice  that his smirk was replaced with a scowl.

In slight anger and annoyance, he tugs on my chains which are attached painfully to my wrists and ankles.

"And just for you to know, my dearest Katrina, you are an undersized kitty," he snarls back with sarcasm yet a deep hidden meaning behind his words.

Was that an insult to me? Or was it his sass?

Okay, alright, I admit my way of language isn't of these realms. You see I come from a realm known as Vanaheim. I was taken by the frost giants a year ago because of what I was and I was taken away from my family.

The family who was cursed.

Well, I was cursed.

Born with the curse.

But the ways I act and speak are due to the Midgardian novels I used to read. They always seemed to fascinate me. The mortals were a fascinating bunch of characters.

As a child, I used to explore my families library. Each book I read varied from the different realms within the galaxy. I especially loved the Midgardian novels as the mortals, the humans, showed to have had extensive knowledge about the galaxies around them, we were of myth and legend to them. And most of all, I loved their imagination.

"Was that an insult or was it the wind howling?" I ask sarcastically, not facing Laufey but instead looking around and holding my hand to my ear. He shakes his head and yanks the chains back sending me to the floor beside his feet.

Ew, feet...

"That's where you belong, right beneath me," He informs me.

I growl and I can feel my body temperature rising. My eye's must have been changing from the dark green to a lighter green and my senses were hightening.

"Now, now, Katrina," Laufey begins to taunt as my eyes glow.

"You don't want to start something you can't finish now, can you?" He finishes.

I snarl at Laufey and I was about to reply when a load of guards came and ran towards us both. They look slightly scared, with both their King and the "King's Pet" both at each others throats.

I was about to bear my fangs and argue more with Laufey and the guards all knew how this ended and something was going to get smashed.

"What do you both want? Can't you see that I am currently busy?" Laufey asks furiously.

Too furious for my liking.

"Don't you see me and Papa Smurf fighting?" I question sarcastically.

Laufey tugs harder on my chains after understanding my insult, let's say over the past few months we've spent together, he now understands Midgardian references.

"There are some unwanted trespassors here," One of the guards announced shakily looking between me and their King.

"Well, this is my que to leave so." I whistle out standing to my feet.

I knew I would not be wanted here now as soon as trouble arrived, I was usually put back into my "cage" and left there. 

As I stood up I got yanked back down on my ass besides Laufey.

"Let them be. Stay hidden and be ready to attack," Laufey proclaims.

I look at him and then back at the guard, my gaze flickering from one to the other. The guard ran off and me and Laufey were now sat in the moonlight... How picturesque... Well, this could get very interesting.

"Show yourselve's!" A strong male voice shouted out from the distance.

Well, somone was eager or very stupid. I glance into the distance and notice something. In the shadows, there were many figures.

Six to be precise.

I was looking out when Laufey pulled the chains closer to him.

"Don't say anything or I will squash you like a bug," Laufey threatened I then replied almost instantly under my breath.

"Not bloody likely." I gasped as the chains were being wrapped around my neck. It burned against my skin and I so wanted to cry out but I wasn't that weak.

"I'm warning you, Katrina. Don't test me," Laufey seethes through bared teeth. I scowl at him with hatred in my eyes

"Meow," I reply back as he drops me to the floor, my feet and body colliding with the ice.

My dark brown hair fell over my eye's as I fell.

The figures came close and closer.

"You are fool's to come here," Laufey begins to announce as I rub my wrists and ankles lifting my head slowly. 

"Asgardians," My head instantly snapped up when the figures came into the light.

My ears perked up at the word Asgardians.

"Asgardians?" I question quietly in confusion.

They were clearly members of the royal court.

Odin's followers.

They were what I had heard from Laufey many times before. They were what my family had said them to be, oh, how my Mother would always describe the royal court on Asgard, although I did breifly know one specific member from what I remember.

There now stood in front of both me and Laufey which included; Lady Sif and the Warriors Three and finally the two Princes of Asgard.

"I am Thor Odinson," The blonde muscular one announces. It was though he was going to make a speech.

"We know who you are," Laufey says blankly and I bite the insides of my cheeks trying not to laugh. 

I look at all of them, they all looked weary.

None of them wanted to be here.

It must have either been a bet or something that the frost giants had done, something to aggravate them.

To be honest, the second option was most likely the answer.

The Court were here for answers.

"You need to leave," I myself announce before I could stop myself.

I wanted to shut my lips and stop the words flooding out of my mouth, I shouldn't have spoken. 

The realisation kicks in and Laufey lets go of my chains and stands up. They were immediately attached to the ice throne beside the Frost King.

One of the Royal Court members looked at me. His eye's the same shade as my own, each one held many secrets. He had lies and mischief about him from what I could sense.

He looked directly at me and then at Laufey, scanning between us both. It was like he knew what situation I was in, but he didn't falter to change the same face he had on before. He just stood watching and waiting for a chance to speak, to act and most likely, to leave. 

"I'd abide her words. Leave now while I still forbid it," Laufey warns them.

The man known as Thor stares at me and then at my chains, his face showing concern and slight arrogance.

"Why is she here then? Why isn't she free to go as the rest of us?" He asks cockily.

I look up from the floor and at him. It surprised me that he even notified that I existed.

His arrogance is going to get the best of him, and if that happens, this won't end well.

"That is none of your concern," Laufey snarls, his hand resting closer to my chains in protection.

I start to feel the tension in the realm rise. It felt as though I was suffocating with the icey air choking me, flowing and clogging up my lungs. I just wanted to curl up in a ball and die.

"Why is it not?" The mysterious man from before asks.

I make myself stand proud scanning over each of the Royal Court, fire in my eyes, shocking Laufey.

"Because I don't belong here. None of us do. We all come from a different realm entirely, and Laufey is too selfish to let me go... The possessive asshole..." I mutter the last words under my breath but notice the mysterious man offer a slight grin. 

Laufey grabbed my chains and started to pull me back. In reaction, I pulled back sending him forward with my strength as he nearly fell.

Time seemed to have frozen and I look up at Laufey who begins to stand to his feet again, anger and a little fear presence in his red eyes.

People seemed alarmed.

"Wait how did she?" The woman known as Sif asks.

I tilt my head to the side, monitoring then all and keeping my eye on Laufey incase he tried something.

"Katrina I am warning you. As you Mast-" He starts until I hear myself growl.

Wrong word...

My eye's once more became lighter and not only did Laufey see it but everyone did and they stood back alarmed and afraid.

"YOU ARE NOT MY MASTER!" I scream out in anger, shocking the King as his body coils back.

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CONTROL ME!" I shout snarling like a wild animal. 

My teeth were slowly making their way through and Laufey had seen what I could do the last time that I had lost control, he nearly died and I bet he didn't want that again.

"Katrina you need to calm dow-" Laufey started to say, fear clearly present in his voice, but just alike the blonde Prince, his arrogance was still presence and an overwhelming characteristic of his personality.

"CALM DOWN!? WHY DON'T YOU CALM DOWN!? WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE JUST CALM DOWN!?" I question, my anger continuing to flare.

My back arches as I hiss and shake my head from side to side.

This can't be happening.

It can't.

I didn't want to loose myself... Not now.

"You need to calm down," I heard a quiet yet audiable voice say. It was the same man's from before.

Racking my brain's, I now belive his name to be Loki.

I look over to him and he steps back a little with caution when he saw my eye's.

I saw the fear.

I didn't want people to fear me.

"Katrina, I ask you to-" Laufey was cut off again by me.

He didn't own me, no one did and just his voice was beginning to get me angered again. 

"I CAN'T! DON'T YOU SEE?! EVEN THE MIRACULOUS HEIMDALLR DOESN'T SEE!" I start to laugh uncontrollably in disbelief, a clear characteristic of mine when I loose my temper.

"Katrina... don't let it get the best of you," a familiar soft voice calls.

I look up as soon as I heard that voice.

I shake my head and gasp slightly as I take a ragid breath in, my eye's dull. My canines were sinking back into my jaw and my eyes turning back into their darker original shade.

I stare behind the group in front of me, looking at the distant figure that none of them could see not hear, the distant figure was just a memory.

"Mother..." I whisper in slight shock and a mixture of relief.

She afirmed my gasp as her head lightly nods as she smiles at me softly. She walks forward making her way to join me by my side. People must have thought that I was insane and maybe I was but I could see her spirit, the memory of her, just how she used to be to me.

"Embrace it, don't let them know what you really are," she warns gently and gave me a small sweet smile.

A couple of tears fall down my cheeks, them freezing almost instantly with the temperature of air around us. I could feel myself falling apart and I was going to break down.

My tears froze on my cheeks and shattered onto the floor like small icicles.

"I love you," I cry in a whisper as she nods her head.

She leans over to me and places her hand on my cheek and brushes my tears as I rest my head in her hand. She gently leans forward and places her lips against my forehead. I wanted to believe that she was really here, I wanted to be held in her arms again and for her to rescue me telling me that everything would be okay again.

But I knew that would never happen.

"And I love you," she replies back with love before stepping away, offering me a loving smile and disappears within the ice.

It was quiet and everyone was staring at me. I was standing with my eyes closed. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say either. I just wish that my Mother was here with me. I wanted her to be close by. I wanted to be able to be near her again. I wanted to go home, eventhough I knew that that was never a option.

"Leave." I say sternly turning away from the group. I didn't want to listen to them quarelling any longer.

Laufey chuckles at my words and I listen to the steps that were coming closer to me.

"Lady Katrina-" I snap my eyes open when the blonde Prince calls out my name and lunge forward.

I wrap my hand around the muscular blonde's neck and growl my eyes lightening in colour.

"I said. Leave!" The Asgardian Prince was in the air hanging by his throat.

He look into my eyes with fear and concern. My hand only continues to tighten around his throat as I watch sickly as his skin turns red and the oxygen begins to be deprived from his body.

Katrina stop...

I quickly release him and Loki ran towards him and helped him up.

I was a monster.

I am a monster.

I didn't want to hurt them and yet I had already seemed to try and kill Thor. I didn't want to. But it was in my nature. I didn't... No, I couldn't kill them. They were all innocents and they didn't deserve to die.

"Brother please, lets go." Loki begs his brother and pulls Thor to his feet.

Loki bows with grace and looks at Laufey before glancing briefly at me and said.

"We accept your most gracious offer," I sigh and went back down beside Laufey and sat next to him.

I curl up into a ball. My head was on my knees and in my hands. I wanted to go to sleep. I wanted to be left alone.

But then a dark chuckle escaped someone's lips.

"That's right, run home little Princess." My head shot up and I look at Laufey's red eyes with shock and a small amount of fear.

He was playing with fire.

"Shit..." I mutter.

"Damn..." Loki breathed out at the same time closing his eyes for a brief second before looking at Thor who had a small smirk on his face.

"Laufey, what have you done..." I whisper in disbelief as I take a step back and prepare myself for the battle ahead.

Thor started to laugh and swung his hammer in his hand causing a wind to form around it.

We're doomed...

He then turns back and threw the hammer directly at Laufey.

Now what I don't regret to tell you is that Laufey went head over heels... literally.

All of the frost giants stopped as they watched their leader fly straight into and through his throne. I, however, look directly at Thor with horror in my eyes and the others were getting out their weapons.

"Oh no..." That was when all of the guards went forward and started to attack the Asgardians.

I immediately grab ahold of my ice chains and started to pull on them.

I heave backwards and pull them with all of my strength.

This was my time to escape.

I felt my rags hit the sides of my body as I pulled the chains.

I had lost too much energy already. I needed to breathe.

I take the chains again but this time as I attempted to break them, a pair of hands wrap themselves around my own.

I look over my shoulder and saw Loki.

He took the chains with me.

"One, two, three, pull!" He shouts and we both haul with all of our strength, tugging on the chains.

A cracking sound came to my ears and that was when.

Snap!

I fell backwards and so did Loki.

I land straight onto my back and groan in pain.

The cold was getting to my bare back and the corset I had on wasn't exactly the warmest thing you could wear.

I roll onto my side and jump onto my feet as fast as I can.

A war cry sounds through the air as I quickly leap away from the oncoming blade of the frost giant.

"Run!" Loki shouts at me. I nod my head listening to him ans I let my legs carry me off into the vast landscapes of white, only to be faced with a guard.

"Hehe, where are you going Katrina?" He taunts as I look at the gap between his legs and smirk.

"That way," I announce and slide onto my knees and slid underneath the frost giant.

I'm immediately jumped back onto my feet with cat like grace.

Yes, I know... How ironic given what I am...

I turn back around and punch the unspecting frost giant in the face and watch as he fell straight to the floor.

I did not expect that.

Not looking back, I ran again. This time, I avoided all of the frost giants I could.

And I knew this was only the start...