"Oh? Is the false Odinson not here?" Loki asked as his grin greer.

  "My lip's still cracked since our st... meeting," he taunted.

  "Lucky you, he's busy with more important matters," Valve said as he started to get up.

  "That's a tragedy; hunting down J?rmungandr shall never be an easy feat," Loki said, closing his eyes.

  Valve got up from his seat and started to make his way behind Loki.

  "However, overseeing the Seeker Trials would indeed be a much more... likely event," Loki said as he grinned slowly.

  Valve stopped in his tracks, startled by his statement.

  "Oh? Was I correct?" Loki said as his eyes opeo stare at Val who was standing by the table, leaning in towards him. His is pulling oable.

  "How?" Valve asked as he collected himself and made his way behind Loki, whose gaze was following him.

  "Oh, it's not that difficult. The Seeker Trials would occur every year around this time... and the st two years, Odinson just so happeo be absent from our... meetings," Loki expined.

  Valve huffed. "Sly devil," he said as he was behind him.

  "It's a shame really...", Loki said as he leaned back, his hair shortening and his feminine voice deepening.

  "Axel would've loved to see hi—"

  Valve grabbed Loki's head and smmed it against the table, making his head bleed and go back to his old form.

  "Valve! Don't let him get to your head, you know this!" a voice came through from the speakers.

  "What did I tell you about taking his form when I am present? False Aesir?" Valve's voice deepened as he pulled his hair bad s Loki, steam sneaking out of his helmet.

  Loki breathed in the air, sug that small bit of steam in through his mouth. And ughed, chug as if he succeeded. Valve threw his head bato the table and proceeded to walk away.

  "I wonder if his child will make it this year," Loki mumbled, barely loud enough.

  Valve stopped dead in his tracks and slowly turo look at him.

  Loki ughed, his hearty voice eg in the room.

  "Even through that mask! It's as if I see what expression yiving me!" Loki kept ughing.

  "Eighteen years sihe Goddess of your people went missing for nine months. You think I wouldn't notice? As a mother myself?" Loki's voice rumbled.

  "He's not your toy to mess with, god of mischief," Valve's voice grumbled as he spoke.

  "Oh, so a son?" Loki's eyes widened.

  Valve, notig his blunder, realized the best thing to do now would be to leave, and so he did.

  "I killed Odin and Thor! Twice! What makes you think I 't kill their son?" Loki screamed as Valve made his way through the door and closed it shut.

  "These visits are useless without Erik," Valve mumbled.

  The two guards who were at the doors Valve, and with their two spears and two guns, they walked into the room after Valve left to escort Loki back to his cell.

  "Valve? Is he saying the truth?" A younger woman asked him, her voice soothing his nerves.

  "Opal, this ot leave this room, but... yes. Axel and Mithra... they had a child, and he's old enough to be a Seeker." Valve talked to the siren standing by his side.

  Both started walking away ahe interrogation room.

  She was one of his colleagues in his order. Her name al; she had cobalt blue hair, soft features, and a light blue skin tone. Her eyes were pitch bck.

  Opal's pearly eyes grew and shined with joy. "Oh my Gods! Mithra, she has a-", She screamed out but stopped halfway.

  "Ahem... is he strong?" Opal said as she tained herself.

  "He had this look in his eyes... he had his Mithra's eyes, but..." Valve trailed off.

  "But...? Hello? Nexus to Valve?" Opal kept pestering him.

  "Sorry, I was lost in thought. Why did Loki mention Thor and Odin? He had a hand in the deaths of Mithra and Axel..." Opal walked in front of Valve and stopped him immediately.

  "Valve... for the past few months, Loki hasn't been biting ahe first time he started biting whoever he felt like was... about eighteen years ago," Opal expined, her voice growing more and more ed.

  "What does that have to do with what I just mentioned?" he said as he took note of her tone and body nguage. Opal's eyes widened, and she grabbed his hand and ran back towards the interrogation chamber.

  "SHIT!" she screamed out.

  "Hey—why are—" Valve was startled.

  "He stopped biting a few months ago, and he has had odd cravings aing habits!" Opal said as she kept running.

  Valve took note and freed his hand, sprinting towards Loki with Opal.

  ***

  The both of them bashed the door of the padded room open together and the view that awaited them froze them in pce.

  Loki's scarred back was turo them, one bloody broken spearhead in hand and two grotesque armored bodies with viscera spttered all across the room.

  "LOKI!" Valve screamed out.

  As Loki turned out, his bloody grin could be seen, his red hair flowing down his shoulders, his straight jacket torn and tattered on the ground. Both of his hands looked malformed and broken as if he did it himself to be free of the s, the table broken.

  As he faced the two, Opal looked furiously at his abdomen, which was cut wide open with the spearhead as it started to close. His other hand was cradling a small feline cub in his arm, bck smoke emanating from its sleeping body. The bck smoke ger and rger, c his entire body.

  "No!" Valve screamed as he took his right glove off a white steam towards Loki. Opal, with her shrill voice, screamed in his dire, sending sound waves. As both of them caused the bck smoke to dissipate, Loki vanished.

  "No time to waste!" Valve said as the both of them ran towards the trol rht outside the door.

  Opal picked up the microphone and switched the el to every speaker in the prison. "CODE RED! CODE RED! LOKI HAS ESCAPED, CODE RED LOCKDOWN!" Opal kept screaming into the receiver, her voice eg all over the prison.

  Valve ran out the door and spriowards the cell rooms where the ods were held. Amidst the chaos and staff running about, all the doors locked down and arms rang.

  He bumped into a few seekers statiohere, but he made it past the guards and into the cell rooms.

  "SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT!" Valve kept screaming as he looked into every cell of every floor. "EMPTY!" he screamed out.

  Valve saw bck smoke escape the st cell cages in the room. He used his steam to maneuver and crash into the wall o the cages.

  "Too te... Valve.", Loki said as he vanished with the smoke.

  "Valve! Those cells held criminals and Seekers!" Opal screamed out through the speakers.

  "The tai rooms for the Titan css prisoners! This was a distra for them! They are all gone!" Opal screamed out.

  "Shit...". Valve muttered to himself.