A cool morning breeze swept into my room, lifting me from my nightmare riddled sleep. The sheet was tangled around me as if I were doing some form of acrobatics during my rest. I couldn't remember having any dreams last night and the small fragments of my nightmares were slowly fading into obscurity as the sunlight pushed further into the room.
"Ughhhhh..." I groaned out. 'I hate mornings...'
Jester Lavorre- Good Morning🎶
Tony Stark- Morning Blueberry-cupcake... How's the cleric stuff going?
Jester Lavorre- It's going GREAT!
Luke Skywalker- Ah, finally, someone to speak to
Tony Stark- Hold up, Luke Skywalker??? Like the actual Luke Skywalker!?
Luke Skywalker- The one and only, I believe
Loki Odinson- Greetings mortal, I am Loki, God of Trickery
Luke Skywalker- A god... Hmmm, intriguing. Anyway, do you know me Tony? Does that mean we are in the same universe?
Tony Stark- I don't think so, you're a fictional character from the Star Wars movies...
Luke Skywalker- Interesting, so shadows of other Universes and stories have bled into the subconscious and conscious thoughts of people in your own universe, that would match with the basic reality of the multiverse phenomena
Tony Stark- Hold up, the multiverse theory is proven there?
Luke Skywalker- Certainly, I was taught about the laws of the multiverse when I met the Brother and Sister of the Force. They all but confirmed that the laws of the Multiverse allowed for me and my father to take up the mantle of controller... I digress, the details are complex and esoteric, yes the Multiverse exists.
Tony Stark- Damn... Give me a moment to process the scale of that...
Loki Odinson- Now you listen, foolish mortals
Jester Lavorre- Hey! Walker-guy! Could you introduce yourself?
Luke Skywalker- Oh, I apologise for any lack of decorum. I am Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, you can just call me Luke
Jester Lavorre- Awesome! ✨✨✨ I'm Jester! I'm a Cleric of the Traveller!
Luke Skywalker- Cleric... An unfamiliar word...
Shiroe of Log Horizon- She means priest
Luke Skywalker- Oh! That makes sense
Jester Lavorre- I am not a 'priest'! CLERICS are Waaay cooler!
I stood up from the bed and ventured into the bathroom, my platinum blonde hair needing some water since it was all ruffled. Whilst brushing my teeth I started interacting with the chat panel, the frost starting to curl on the windowsill behind the toilet and thus bathing the entire bathroom in freezing temperatures.
Drecarios Frost- It's too early in the morning for this shit...
Tony Stark- AH! Just the man I wanted to talk to
Drecarios Frost- ... What you want...?
Tony Stark- Did your sister recently take over the position of family head after your eldest sister and father got assassinated?
Drecarios Frost- ... Why do you want to know?
Tony Stark- Because if that's the case then we may be in the same Universe and we could meet up and compare notes
Drecarios Frost- Fuck my life is complicated now. Yes, all of that happened, now is when you tell me where we're going to meet up
Luke Skywalker- My condolences for the death of your sister and father Drecarios
Drecarios Frost- Don't bother, my father was a cunt and my elder sister killed me with a garrotte wire. They don't deserve condolences.
Tony Stark- That, that's a whole kettle of worms to unpack... Anyway! Snowflake, we'll meet up in your sister's office sometime this afternoon
Drecarios Frost- You're bringing my sister into this shit?
Tony Stark- Meh, it's a business meeting, technically
Drecarios Frost- I'll be ready I guess
Loki Odinson- The chances of you two being in the same universe are astronomical
Drecarios Frost- Guess we'll find out later today, won't we?
Loki Odinson- I suppose we shall... Oh, what a cursed buffoon, I'll be back, Thor's trying to verse our sister in a melee again
Jester Lavorre- Ohoho I wish I could see what was happening there!
[CHAT ROOM ANNOUNCEMENT]
[Prerequisite Members Reached]
[Streaming Function Unlocked]
[Mission Function Unlocked]
[Postal Function Unlocked]
Loki Odinson- I see this, conversation magic, has more purpose than merely allowing us to natter on like a collection of old mortals
Drecarios Frost- Excellently stated Loki...
Loki Odinson- Of course it is, I am glad someone actually noticed
Tony Stark- Hush it prankster. This is actually important
Shiroe of Log Horizon- The Mission function looks very important
Drecarios Frost- The Postal and Streaming function are extremely useful. Imagine we're in a tight spot because of combat or something such and you can receive exactly what you need from another chat member
Jester Lavorre- Woah...! That is so AwEsOmE! 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇
Tony Stark- Incredibly useful...
Luke Skywalker- It seems that my time of joining was most fortuitous
Tony Stark- Just don't get a big head about it Mr. Padawan
Luke Skywalker- I'm a Jedi Master, not a Padawan
Drecarios Frost- He gives nicknames, it's his thing
Luke Skywalker- 🤨okaaay...
[Loki Odinson Has Begun Streaming]
Blinking back my surprise I clicked on the link for Loki's stream, feeling the world shrink around me as my vision was replaced by a golden deluge of shining light and gossamer greens. I was floating amidst a massive training field, a man with slick green-gold robes and armour standing by my side. On his head a helm sat, etched with numerous Norse runes and two prominent horns poking out and upwards from the front.
As I took in this change of scenery many glitching flickers entered my sight. I watched as Tony Stark, looking exactly like Robert Downy Jr, appeared with his Iron Man suit equipped and a half eaten cheeseburger in his hand. Another glitch cleared to show a bright purple-blue woman with organic horns poking out from her skull, she was dressed in medieval armour and carried a large backpack, a war-sickle hanging from its' side. She was mesmerizingly beautiful in a chaotic sort of way.
Shaking my head to snap myself out of my own mind I saw a man dressed in deep brown robes step p beside me, his ash-blonde hair swaying in the wind lightly as a lightsaber clung to his belt. He was rather lithe and looked ready for combat at any moment, whilst also appearing at complete ease. The final figure of our little group was dressed in a large billowing white cloak with a full on wizard's staff, his ears pointed slightly and standing at 6'4 he cut a rather wise figure.
"If you are all done staring at one another, you can now witness the stupidity of my brother." Loki's voice hissed out softly in each of our ears, all of us turning to watch what he was 'streaming'; if that's what you could call it.
Thor was standing opposite an onyx-grey haired woman with a spiky motif that would be somewhat concerning if it weren't for the natural confidence she displayed. Swords grew from her hands and twirled between her delicate fingers. Deep emerald eyes glowed venomously at the much burlier sibling.
Speaking of Thor, he was exactly like Chris Hemsworth's version of Thor with only a slight difference in muscle density; this version of him being a touch more muscular. His armour gleamed a celestial silver and popped powerfully with the vibrant red of his cape and lightning-blues of his honoured vestments.
"Challenging me again is degrading for both myself and you brother."
"We shall see, shan't we!?"
Thor smiled menacingly as he hefted Mjollnir and twirled it to pick up speed and momentum. Loki rolled his eyes and huffed, picking his fingernails clean of any dirt whilst his siblings bickered like children.
"Why are they fighting Loki?" Tony leant against one of the garden's many trees and finished off his cheeseburger, his eyes tracking the first blows of the Asgardian conflict.
The man ignored him for a little while, tracking the blast of lightning that Thor sent at Hela which was grounded immediately and then countered with an arm-sized sword directed at his leg and right shoulder; the sword splitting mid-air to target the different spots.
"Because both of them are arrogant and aggressive in their own ways." He paused for a moment as he watched Thor squeeze his fist and blast apart the two swords. "Hela, Thor and I's sister, was sealed by father in Niflheim for over 2000 years and she thus has her own host of mental issues which coalesce in an over-confidence in her magical prowess and her martial capabilities." Another pause ensued as Hela jumped backwards and summoned over one hundred blades to attack Thor.
"Thor, well, he's not the brightest spark in the fire and has the bad habit of acting before he thinks things through. As far as I can tell these two personality flaws cause them to grind against one another and everything they do."
Tony gulped down the remainder of his burger before shaking his head and chuckling in exasperation. "So they're stupid."
"Indeed."
Jester was shouting at the top of her lungs in support of Hela, her green cloak billowing behind her as she hovered in mid-air. Whatever space we were in it didn't follow natural physics and instead had us in a semi-corporeal state that went unnoticed by the non-chat people.
"Their fighting is certainly skilled, their abilities certainly don't conform to anything I have experienced with the force... But that is natural considering this is another Universe." Luke was rubbing his chin in thought as Shiroe tracked every movement as if he were some sort of machine.
"They are making slight mistakes in their positioning. Hela is extremely experienced in using her magic and accuracy but she needs to move more. Thor is the opposite, he moves too much and doesn't take accuracy into account... It's like an assassin class going against a seraph class and their both unused to people being capable of tanking their damage outputs or beating their defences."
Loki broke his gaze away and stared at the chat's resident tactician before going back to his previous muse, nodding softly. "You are correct mortal. They are both inexperienced in their own ways, much like myself when it comes to melee conflicts. All of us have flaws to fix, even gods need trials in order to allow reality to progress."
I hummed a bit at their statements. I couldn't really comment much on combat or effectiveness, since I was from a world where powers didn't actually exist, but their creativity I could easily judge.
"Both of them lack creativity with their abilities. Hela could summon up metallic swords that conduct the lightning of Thor and attack him with them... Thor could have used his control over weather to manipulate winds and ice to attack her ambiently instead of directly. I could demolish them both just with this showing of skill and mainly just because I am actually thinking about what my abilities could do."
The trickster god smirked now, his incisors gleaming from the sunlight of Sol above Asgard. "Oh how they'll love my rebukes to them when they are done having their little scuffle." I scoffed and simply stood there, watching the two Norse Gods ineffectually swat at one another with their powers.
"I thought it would be more fun than this!" Jester pouted at the shitty display of powers. I sidled up next to her and patted her on the shoulder, the contact less physical and more mental as I did so.
"Well, this is just a squabble, not a full blown fight my blue demoness." She huffed and scrunched up her face. "But there's s'pposed to be like EXPLOSIONS and stuff... Not just little squirts of lightning and the boring conjuring of simple blades! I could DeStRoY them with a single spell...!"
Loki cackled madly at her complaints whilst I just shook my head with a grin stretching over my face. "Jester, this is probably only a little of their true power... Why would they use their full power on each other when they are siblings?"
She cocked her head to the side before nodding vigorously. "Yah! That makes sense! Thanks Frosty~!" She wiggled her eyebrows at me before returning to the 'stream'.
So there we stood, watching the God of Thunder and the God of Death fight one another... Jeering, sighing and rolling our eyes through each blow, miss, dodge and narrow escape.
It was kinda fun. 'Maybe this new life won't be so bad after all...'
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