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The True Power of Mortality

Summary:

As punishment for his crimes Loki is stripped of his magic, immortality and is banished to earth as a human, until he proves himself worthy. However Loki has long since given up trying to please his "father" and refuses to do what is expected of for him. But when an unexpected ally turns up at his door, Loki is sent spiraling back down a dangerous path as an old enemy threatens to return. The further Loki runs down this path the more his past seems to unravel and his choices seem to dwindle.

This is the story of an angry ex-god who isn't ready to simply die of old age. This is what happens when Odin underestimates a God of Mischief, even a mortal one at that, and actual thinks he'll take a punishment lying down. Because seriously even without his magic, Loki has a thousand years of fighting experience that he has no qualms in using.

He didn't have an ounce of Æsir in his blood nor magic. He didn't even have a knife..

Loki had never needed any of that - magic, Æsir heritage or weapons. Blood could be spilt, magic depleted and a knife blunted but he didn't need any of that. Loki never had.

Please check notes at the beginning of chapters for specific warnings

Chapter 1: The Fall

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The chill of the chains around Loki's arms and neck were nothing compared to the coldness of his adopted Father's gaze. It bore into him from where he knelt on the hard floor of Asgard. Loki didn't have time to react when Odin thrust his hand deep into his chest, retching something out, in one fluid motion.

Unbearable pain shot though him and he was unable to stop himself from crying out, it was like his heart was being ripped out. Pain burned through his veins blazing through each individual one of his cells. If he had been mortal he would have simply died from the shock. He saw Odin's face blank of expression staring down at him as Thor's cry of shock filled his ears.

Then he was falling; Falling hard and fast. The darkness only an abyss could possess swallowed him whole. He fell in silence but at a speed faster than anything he had ever experienced. He was descending into his own personal Hel.

His adopted Father's words echoed in his head "I take from you your powers, immortality and banish you to Midgard."

He could feel of air rushing past him as he fell and fell. The coldness of the air bit into him.

"You must learn how to become worthy and benevolent. This is your punishment, to live among the people, you wished to rule, as a equal. Learn the error of your ways and you may regain your powers."

He would have screamed curses at Odin for such an insult. He was a prince of Asgard! But he never got chance.

It felt like he would never stop falling. He could have been falling for minutes or hours and he would have no clue. His limps spread uselessly as he rushed down and down. He closed his eyes an accepted the fall.

They would pay. They would burn for this. The destruction they would feel would be nothing they had ever experienced. He would take everything from them.

The temperature began to drop as he plummeted down and down.

Then he crashed.

Everything went black.