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[xenaathena]

Prove It (13/?) [Ft. Reader x Loki]

Summary: Loki receives a marriage proposal from a young princess and accepts, becoming King of his own realm. However, he gets more than he bargains for as he learns that the kingdom has more than meets the eye and he finds himself in the middle of something sinister. What will he do when he falls in love with his wife and her life is at risk?…

Prove It - Masterlist

Warning: Mild Violence 

“Safe journey,” Freya hugged you.

“Thank you for everything Freya,” Loki hugged Freya once she released you from her hug “Should we survive you are always welcome at the castle.”

Your eyes widened upon hearing ‘should we survive’ and it was then that it truly resonated with you that you may actually die.

You looked around hoping to see Rueben but it would seem he left, sadness filled you with the knowledge of not saying goodbye to him. Pushing that thought aside you turned to Freya when she tapped on your shoulder.

“Take this with you,” she held out a small dagger that was the size of your hand and your eyes widened at the sight.

“Freya, I couldn’t – I’ve never used a dagger before in my life.”

“I insist. It’s better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it.”

“O-okay…thank you,” you took the dagger from her holding it awkwardly in your hand. How in the world do people hold these things?

Loki and Freya shared a worried yet amused expression over how you were holding the dagger, Loki sighed and gently took it from you. He kneeled before you and began to lift your dress up, to which you patted his hands away. 

He chuckled while he raised an eyebrow at you, with a blushing face you turned your head away allowing him to continue. He pulled your dress up just enough to show the boots that Freya had given you. Using the laces he tied it to the side of your boot, tugging on to ensure that it was secure.

“There, now you can’t stab yourself with it,” he teased and you narrowed your eyes at him when he rose to his feet.

Freya watched as you both made your way into towards the mountain until she could no longer see you. Loki led the way with you following closely behind, clutching your coat closer to your chest. You could barely see in front of you as the sun had yet to rise but took comfort in the feeling of Loki’s hand in yours.

So many thoughts were running through your head but the biggest thing was why.

Why was your realm dying?

Why were you being blamed for everything?

Why was this even happening?

Though you didn’t want to entertain this thought, you had considered that maybe Loki was behind everything. You couldn’t help because truthfully nothing happened until he showed up. 

Granted your life was rather mundane until you married Loki but at least you weren’t being threatened. But, he’s just as confused as you are and he loves you.

Which means that he is not to blame for any of this and when the winds pick up he pulls you into his side. You snap out of your thoughts and focus on him, realizing that he’s doing everything he can to protect you. Upon realizing that you feel guilty for ever thinking that he was to blame but it wasn’t that hard to think it in the first place.

Since this is Loki we’re talking about, the most aggravating man you have ever met. And yet, he’s also the most caring person you’ve ever met. While you were lost in your thoughts he had been guiding you through the forest. Ensuring that you weren’t going to walk into anything or get hurt by anything.

There had been a hole in the ground that you almost walked into but he stopped you by picking you up and placing you on the opposite side. How you didn’t realize that was beyond you but you were grateful that he had picked you up.

“(Y/N),” Loki snapped his fingers in front of your face gaining your attention.

“What?” you looked up at him with furrowed brows.

“Now really isn’t the time to be daydreaming.”

“I’m not.”

“Yes, you are. You’ve almost walked into a hole and into a thorn bush and –”

“I get it,” you sighed. “But I haven’t been daydreaming.”

“Then what have you been doing?”

“Thinking.”

“About?”

“Everything.”

“Can you narrow it down to one thing?”

“Well, truthfully I thought you were behind everything…”

“You thought I was the cause of what is happening?” Loki asked with a raised brow, “I’m flattered that you think me capable of this,” he gestures to the dying forest that you two are walking through, “But I do not possess the type of magic to do this.”

“I said thought you were but I know you aren’t.”

“Now I’m offended that you think I’m not,” Loki teased and you giggled, “I am quite gifted with magic in many ways,” he winked at you and you shook your head at his suggestion.

“Now is not the time to be thinking about that.”

“Why not?”

“Because we are literally being hunted,” You deadpanned. “I don’t see how you can even being thinking about that right now.”

“Well, you are a very attractive woman. You are also my wife and I love you. So excuse me if I wish to make love to you,” Loki muses and you blush. “And the fact that we are being hunted just increases that desire.”

You have no idea what to say to that so you remain silent as you walk by his side. Then you let out a small yelp when he playfully slapped your bum to which you whacked his chest for causing him to laugh. Shaking your head you laugh along with him, which was nice but short lived.

Looking forward you stopped dead in your tracks with terror filled eyes. A hunting party of at least twenty or more men was approaching your current location. Loki followed your gaze and then acted quickly, he gripped your hand in his before dashing behind a tree. There wasn’t any other place to hide and despite the fact that it didn’t hide either of you very well it was better than nothing.

“Did they see us?” you whispered.

“No, I don’t think so.”

“What are we going to do?”

“I don’t know,” Loki sighed, “But I’ll think of something.”

“Well think faster!” you hissed as you peeked out from behind the tree and saw the hunting party coming closer. “Crap!”

“What?!”

“I think they saw me,” you said and snuck down to the ground. “I’m going to die,” you whimpered as tears filled your eyes.

Loki looked down at you and then up towards the hunting party. Even with his magic, there was no way he could take them on by himself and keep you safe at the same time. 

He then got an idea that might work and it’s something he has done many times before as a child. He kneeled before you and place a finger under your chin guiding your face upwards.

“Do you trust me?” he asked.

“Truthfully?” you whispered and he nodded. “Sort of.”

“That will have to do then,” he sighed, “You’re not going to die.”

Before you could utter a single word he pulled you to your feet and gave a fierce kiss that took your breath away. He pulled away first and looked into your eyes before nodding and taking a few steps back from you.

“What are you doing?” you inquired a little breathlessly.

Loki merely smirked and you let out a gasp as you saw yourself appear right beside him. Then Loki walked to your side and another Loki appeared right in front of him. 

You looked to the real Loki and he winked at you before you looked to your illusions. Suddenly about eleven more pairs of them appeared in front of you, nearly scaring you half to death in the process.

You stood gaping at the illusions and wondered what Loki was planning to do with them. You clung to the real Loki, fearing you would lose him amongst the illusions. He chuckled at you before he sent a pair of the illusions out towards the hunting party.

“THERE THEY ARE!” a man yelled and the illusions ran off.

Loki sent all the illusions out in various directions and the hunting party split off in pursuit of them.

“How long will those last?” you asked Loki.

“Not long, RUN!” he said before he held your hand in his and took off running.

Unfortunately, a group of six men saw you and Loki running and took in pursuit of the two of you. You both kept looking over your shoulder as you ran and pushed yourselves to run faster. But, no matter how fast you ran it seemed that the men were getting closer.

You came to a sudden halt and tugged against Loki’s hand causing him to stumble backward. Both panting you looked down and saw that you were right on the edge of a cliffside. And to your right was the path that leads to the mountain path Freya told you about.

You let out a scream when an arrow pierced the backside of your left leg causing your knees to buckle. Loki caught you and lowered you gently to the ground before whirling around and shooting off ice spears at the men. He hit two of them in the chest killing them but that only angered the four remaining men.

Groaning you snapped the body of the arrow in attempts to pull it out. And out of the corner of your eye, you saw more men from the hunting party running towards you.

“Can you walk?” Loki asked while he threw more ice spears at the men who were dodging them.

“Do I have a choice?” you groaned as you painfully rose to your feet.

Slowly you shuffle to hide behind a tree’s trunk and gaze longingly at the mountain. Then shriek in surprise when an arrow goes flying past the tree’s side narrowly missing your left cheek.

“Get to the path!” Loki yells at you.

“What about you!?!”

“Just go!”

“LOKI!?”

“I’ll be right behind you!”

You hesitate for a moment but you have zero knowledge of fighting and are utterly useless to Loki right now. With a deep breath you turn and hobble your way to the path but the arrow prevented you from lifting your leg up which forced you to drag your leg. 

You didn’t dare look behind you in fear of what you might find. Loki had to be okay on his own and you had to get somewhere safe, not that the mountain path was safe but you preferred possible rockslides over the hunting party.

You could feel the arrow cutting deeper into your leg but then your body filled with adrenaline, numbing your pain. You could hear shouting and screams of pain emanating from behind you but you wouldn’t look back. 

Pushing yourself further to the path you just prayed you could make it but you wouldn’t get any further than half way up the path.

With a scream of fright, you were tackled to the ground by someone landing face first in the snow. You thrashed about effectively knocking your elbow into your attacker's face and somehow managed to squirm out from under them. 

You whipped your head around when you felt a hold on your ankle and kicked in a frenzy at the man who was holding your foot.

You’ve never seen him before and don’t really care to get a good look at his face. You just want to get away from him.

“LET GO!” you screamed as you kicked relentlessly.

“Never!”

You aimed your next kicks for his face and he roared in pain when the dagger Freya gave you hit his right eye. Well, looks like it was a good thing she gave you the dagger but now your attacker is pissed. And when you looked behind him four more men were charging towards you. You were absolutely screwed and you were going to die.

With a mad roar, your attacker throttled you and you screamed as you pushed against his arms. He was stronger than you but somehow you were managing to keep his hands away from your neck. Where was Loki? Tears filled your eyes and your vision became blurred.

“Please let me go!” you sobbed. “I’m not responsible for anything that’s happening!”

“Yeah right!” he seethes and some of his spit hits your right cheek. That was disgusting! You rubbed your cheek against the snow, wiping away his spit.

“I only found out about what’s happening last night! I was the princess for goodness sake! How could I be the one responsible for anything when I had no power to do anything or make any decisions regarding the realm!?!” you pleaded through a sob, hoping that he would see reason.

It was useless, the man above you was clouded with anger and there was nothing anyone could say to stop him. You whimpered as his hands came closer to your neck, trying to move your legs wasn’t helpful as his legs were pinning yours to the ground.

Then a flash of gray flew above you and your attacker was sent flying off into the distance.

“Rueben!” you happily sobbed.

Rueben stood above you, snarling with a low threatening growl at the approaching men, which were now six instead of four. They drew their weapons and Rueben let out a loud roar that shook the ground you laid on. The men stopped dead in their tracks with fearful eyes as they beheld Rueben, it would seem that just his mere presence was enough to make them rethink harming you.

That didn’t last long and arrows were launched towards you both but Rueben caught them in his mouth. He bites down and the arrows snapped in half before he spits them on the ground in front of him. 

You push yourself backward while Rueben keeps his gaze locked on the men. He lets outs roar that shakes the ground and then he pounces onto the men. Trembling and wide-eyed you watch as he rips the men to shreds, thankful that he’s on your side.

Somehow you manage to stand and stumble backward up the path while watching Rueben. You turned when you heard Rueben roar once more and hobbled quickly up and onto the side of the mountain. With a quick glance behind you hope to see Loki but he’s not there. Fighting away tears you push forward and hope for the best.

Loki ran past Rueben who’s fending off as many men as he can and Loki gives him a quick smile before running up the path. He’s heart is racing as he sees a trail of blood that he knows is from you and he curses himself for not being able to protect you.

“LET GO OF ME!”

That scream was from you, he’s certain of it and he pushes himself to run faster. He turns a corner and finds you fighting against a man who is trying to push you over the side of the mountain. Loki begins to feel weak as something begins to drain his magic. This can’t be happening, not right now, you need him and he’ll be damned if he doesn’t save you.

The man who is trying to push you over the edge is Kahlil, one of the men who barged into Freya’s home. He had slipped past Rueben and followed you up the mountain path. You had taken a break and were leaning against the mountain’s side when suddenly he appeared.

 You spun around when you felt a presence behind you and he grabbed you by the arm. He was stronger than you and no matter how hard you tried, he ended up dragging you.

“Get your hands off me,” you whimpered. “Please, please let me go.”

“Shut it!”

Kahlil suddenly is tackled to the ground and you fall to your knees causing a scream of agony to rip past your lips. Falling onto your side you clutch your injured leg and against your better judgment, yank out the arrow’s tip. With a trembling hand, you toss the arrow away and look up at Kahlil.

He’s wrestling a bloody Loki and your eyes widen in horror when the mountain beings to shake. The men stop wrestling to look up and rocks along with waves of snow are barreling their way down the mountain’s side. 

The path the three of you laid upon began to crumble and Loki knocked out Kahlil before desperately trying to get to you.

Just before Loki reaches you the path gives way sending you both plummeting into a dark abyss while rock and snow flow like rivers after you.

Part 13!

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