Chapter XXI
The brothers along with the dragons in Midgard, more informally Manhattan where Loki place Odin in a nursing home called 'Shady Acres' which was currently being demolished. They're currently wearing Midgardian clothing to blend in while the dragons shifted themselves into wolf-dogs with colored collars.
Thor was wearing street clothing; while Loki was wearing a black avant-garde suit.
"I swear, I left him right here." Loki spoke.
"Right here on the sidewalk? Or right there, where the building that's being demolished? Great planning."
"How was I supposed to know? Can't see into the future. I'm not a witch."
Thor looks up and down at Loki's suit; "Then why do you dress like one?"
"Hey." Loki said, offended by that comment.
"I can't believe you're alive. I saw you die. I mourned you, I cried for you."
"I'm honored?" Loki said, unsure on how to respond to that.
Then a woman and her five year son walking pass them — The young boy then pointed at the three wolf-dogs, "Mommy look, doggies." He said in a chipper voice.
Malum turn his head at the boy — He lunges forward and bark aggressively at the boy, Loki quickly uses his Seidr to stop his son at charging at the boy via pulling his emerald green collar. The mother quickly pull her son close to him, "Keep that thing on a leash!" She scolded at Loki before leaving.
Loki just look at her confuse before releasing Malum who snorts at the situation that just happened, "Malum, behave yourself." Loki scolded at his son. Malum just glares at him.
Then two girls walk up to the Gods, more specifically Thor. "Hi. Would you mind taking a picture with us?" A black girl ask him.
"Sure." Thor responded with a smile, the girls got giddy as they took a photo of Thor. Loki was annoyed by this, "Sorry to hear that Jane dumped you." A brunette said as they both walk off.
"She didn't dump me, you know. I dumped her. It was a mutual dumping." Loki patted Thor's shoulder, feeling bad for him. Even though he barley knew the woman, aside from the slap she gave him. But he deserved it.
Then an orange ring form around Loki's feet, the sisters manage to get away from the unknown magic while Malum just simply investigate it. "What's this, what are you doing?" Thor ask while pointing at the ring.
Loki looks down, "This... isn't me." Then both Loki and Malum under the concrete floor.
"Loki?" Thor whisper as he pokes the business card with his umbrella while the sisters sniff the card, Thor picks it up as he read the card.
'177A Bleecker Street.'
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Thor manage to find the location, he approach the door and knocked twice — Suddenly he was inside the unknown lair.
"Thor Odinson." He turns to the anonymous voice was, a shadowy figure approaches him. Thor lifts his umbrella that was just Mjölnir in disguise to protect him.
The shadow figure reveal to be a man an inch shorter than Thor, wearing what seems like what a wizard would wear with a large red cape. He had sharp cheekbones like Loki with a goatee — With black hair and silver streaks in between his temples and piercing light blue eyes. "God of Thunder. You can put down the umbrella." The wizard tells him.
Thor slowly place the umbrella down — He and the sisters were transported in a relics room with the wizard staring at them. Thor picks up one of the relics, "So earth has wizards now?" Thor ask with a smirk, when he place it back down. The whole relics broke while the wizard watches with annoyance. "The preferred term is "Master of the Mystic Arts." you can leave that now."
Thor then just leave it alone, "Alright wizard, who are you? Why should I care?"
"My name is Doctor Stephen Strange and I have some questions for you. Take a seat."
Now both Thor and Stephen are sitting in high-back chairs, "Tea?" Stephen ask. Thor looks down to see a cup of tea in his hand. "I don't drink tea."
"Then what do you drink?"
"Not tea." The tea turns into a stein of beer in Thor's hand. The God then drinks the stein of beer, while the siblings drank water from the pottery bowl.
"So I keep a watch list of individuals and beings from other realms that may be a threat to this world. Your adopted brother Loki is one of these beings." Stephen explains to Thor.
"He's a worthy inclusion." Thor commented, sounding unsurprised. The now half-drink stein was refilled, confusing Thor.
"Then why bring him here?" Stephen ask, leaning foward on his chair.
"We're looking for my father." Thor replied.
Stephen pauses as he process this, "So. If you were to tell you where Odin was, all parties concerned would promptly return to Asgard?" He ask.
"Promptly."
"Great." Stephen lean back on his seat. "Then I'll help you."
"If you knew where he was, why didn't you call me?" Thor ask him.
"I have to tell you, he was adamantthat he not be disturbed. Your father said he had chosen to remainin exile." Stephen tells him, then added. "And you don't have a phone."
"No, I don't have a phone, but you could have sent an electronic letter. It's called an email." Thor tells him, all high and mighty.
"Yeah, do you have a computer?"
"No. What for?" Stephen gave him a 'Serious' look. "Anyway, my father is no longer inexile. So if you could tell mewhere he is, I can take him home"
"Gladly. He's in Norway." Just as Stephen got up, they're teleported at a bookcase just as the Sorcerer reading through one. "I'm just seeing whether this incantation requires any Asgardian modifications." He then closes the book. "Nope."
He then teleported them to a small workplace, Thor was holding onto the bookcase while spilling his drink. "Oh, we don't need that."
Thor was now back across the room — Books fell off the broken shelves along with a beer, feeling queasy he place his beer down. "Will you stop doing that?" He ask the Sorcerer.
"I need just one strand of your hair." Stephen tells him.
"Let me explain something, my hair is not to be meddled wi-!" Thor yelps when Stephen pluck a stand of his hair — Infuses it with magic, doing a few gestures that create a bring orange magic, then teleports them back into the main lair. The dragons did their own teleportation while Thor literally fell down a few stairs.
"We could have just walked." Thor spoke just as Stephen finish the spell with a golden portal that shows a beautiful meadow. "He's waiting for you." Stephen tells him. Guesting the portal.
"All right." Thor's eyes light up at the sound of that.
"Don't forget your umbrella." Stephen reminded him.
"Oh yes." Thor extends his hand out — The sound of crashing and relics breaking. Stephens rolls his eyes at the sound of stuff breaking. "Sorry." Thor winces. And then the umbrella reaches his hand.
Thor brushes the glass off of the umbrella. "I suppose I'll need my brother back."
"Yeah, right." Stephen created another portal as Loki screams and fell onto the floor, along with the sound of howling as Malum fell on Loki's back. He imminently got off and shook his body.
Loki staggers his feet, he huffs as he toss back his hair. "I have been falling...for thirty minutes!" He shouts out.
"You can handle him from here." Stephen said to Thor.
"Yeah of course." Thor respond as he shook Stephen's gloved hands. "Thank you very much for your help."
"Good luck."
Loki got himself up to look at Stephen; "Handle me? Who are you?" He then unsheathed both of his daggers. Stephen seems unfazed by his weapon.
"Loki-"
"You think you're some kind of sorcerer? Don't think for one minute, you second-rate—"
"Alright. Bye-bye." Stephen then moves the portal towards The Asgardian and the dragon siblings through the portal where Loki fell onto his side. While Erebus groan as she roll her eyes at her father.
And just like that; they're in Norway.
Thor turns to see his father staring off at the distance.
A/N: Doctor Strange is one of my favorite Marvel characters, they did him dirty in Multiverse of Madness.
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