First Demonic Dragon - Chapter 1057: My/Our Daughter

Chapter 1057: My/Our Daughter

When Thrudd heard her mother’s voice, it was as if the illusion lingering over her mind broke all at once.

She turned to the doorway and found her mother standing just outside with Karliah of all people standing behind her.

It only took Sif one look at the room to know that something was amiss.

When her eyes settled on the large hooded figure standing in front of her daughter with his hand out, her mood noticeably soured.

The temperature in the room started to drop.

“Thrudd… What is going on here?”

Thrudd opened her mouth, but no sound came out. Instead, she just pointed at the man in front of her.

Finally, Thor laid eyes on the woman who was so familiar, and yet completely different from any variation of her he knew. It was as if he’d suffered whiplash.

“You are… taller than I saw you last. Bluer too.”

Sif felt a wave of disgust run through her. Her expression became ugly.

“Do you think you know me? Should I crush you underfoot to remind you that you do not?”

Thor looked down at the cloak covering his body.

The rainwater from outside had begun to freeze over his cloak. He could see his own breath hanging in the air.

His eyes reflected his distaste. “The work of his machinations no doubt…An icy nature doesn’t suit you at-”

Thrudd was only aware of a blur moving past her face, and then a sound like a hydrogen bomb.

Debris and wind whistled past her face and obscured her vision.

When she looked back, both her mom and Thor were gone, and an entire wall of the tavern had been obliterated.

“You certainly are a magnet for trouble, aren’t you, red?”

Karliah gave Thrudd a quick once-over and, after seeing that she was alright, gave the young woman her standard greeting of a flick to the forehead.

“G-Granny, mom is-”

“Don’t worry about your mom, she’s fine.” Karliah dismissed. “Maybe a little bit pissed off, but that’ll be something for the little tree bitch to deal with.”

Thrudd still looked to be shaken by something, and even though Karliah was not always the most observant woman, it would have been hard for her to miss that.

“What’s going on with you? What did that bastard say to you?”

Thrudd swallowed. “N-Nothi-”

“She’s lying!” Fiona rushed over with a layer of frost covering her glasses. “That Thor clone said that her hot dad and her hot mom are adulterers and that they killed and erased him so that they could be together and steal Thrudd!”

“It’s true!” Behemoth nodded.

“G-Guys-”

“Pfft..” Karliah snickered as she started rummaging around the destroyed bar like a scavenger. “What a creative little retelling of events… Ooh, carrot cake.”

Karliah proved she was Bekka’s mother to a fault when she picked up the remnants of a smashed carrot cake with one hand and started eating it without concern for the shards of wood embedded in it.

Thrudd’s eyes regained some of their light. “That’s… not what happened?”

Karliah stared at Thrudd curiously out of the corner of her eye.

When her grandmother didn’t answer her, Thrudd feared that yet another person in her life was going to attempt to play the game of secrecy with her.

Fiona must have been worried about the same thing, because she tried to prevent it before it happened.

“Could you just please tell her what happened in this lifetime she can’t remember?? She’s been having an existential crisis about this all day.”

“I-I have not!”

“See, just look at her. Filled with uncertainty and tension!”

Thrudd wondered if everyone found their best friend’s faces to be this hittable, or if hers was just special.

“Why didn’t you just ask your parents about this stuff, kid?” Karliah questioned.

Thrudd dropped her gaze.

“I did, but Dad… he wouldn’t tell me anything. He said that it didn’t matter.”

Karliah wasn’t one of the family members who just naturally fell in line with the others and did whatever the others were doing.

She didn’t see a problem with Thrudd knowing about what had happened at all.

“You should have just come to me. I woulda told you if you wanted to know so damn bad.”

“R-Really? Even though that would make dad mad?”

“Oh, honey, that’s all part of the appeal.” Karliah licked her lips dreamily.

Fiona nodded along in complete and total understanding.

At some point between picking wood chips out of her teeth and rummaging around for ale, Karliah used magic to conjure up an image of a much younger-looking Abaddon and a significantly daintier, less blue, Sif.

Thrudd was surprised by how different they both felt. The power she was accustomed to them having just wasn’t there.

As Karliah moved around, the images within the mirage shifted- becoming something of a moving tapestry.

“First of all, the idea that your parents were having an illicit and scandalous relationship when they first met is laughable. I’ve rarely seen two strangers hate each other as much as they did.”

“Hate each other?? Why?” The news that Sif and Abaddon hated each other since they were strangers was news to Thrudd, since, from her earliest memory, they had been in love at first sight.

“Well, that oaf got one thing right. Sif did cheat on him, but it wasn’t with your father. It was with some twink she met on Dola while she was hiding there for a few years. She had Thea and left shortly after to come back here.

The man she picked was a real piece of shit and didn’t treat your sister all that nice. And your father, fledling demon lord that he was, killed the man and took Thea in as his child without batting an eye.

Later, as he started getting more and more powerful, his reach extended beyond his world, and he had your mother kidnapped when Thea was grown and expressed a desire to meet her.

Those two didn’t get along from the first minute, according to what I heard. He blamed your mother for leaving Thea behind and being the reason she had a fucked up childhood.”

Karliah finally found a single unbroken bottle of mead rolled on the floor, and her eyes sparkled. “Jackpot!”

Picking it up, she placed the lid between her teeth and snapped it off before downing it all in one go.

“Thea… wasn’t dad’s child…?” Thrudd murmured. “I-Is that why she wouldn’t tell me about this either?”

“I doubt it.” Karliah burped. “You know your sister, she doesn’t really care about stuff like the past. She’s probably just trying her best to protect your old man.”

She tossed the empty bottle over her shoulder and quickly went to searching for more.

“You know what your dad’s like. Being around him is to love him, and since Sif was sticking around more due to Thea’s request, the two eventually developed a co-parenting relationship, even if they did butt heads from time to time.

Your mom’s a morally upstanding bitch, even if she has that temper. So eventually, she asked your father to allow her to come here so that she could introduce Thea to you, who had been born from her relationship with Thor, and your brother, who came from some jotunn. The only problem with this was…”

Karliah went on to explain to Thrudd the delicate situation that was going on during that era with the gods. It was similar to the reality she knew, but much more volatile.

At the time, Sif had been missing for months. Thor had gone out of his mind looking for her, and whispers had sprouted up that she was a traitor. Another fool woman seduced by an incubus, like so many others.

“Long story short…” Karliah sighed. “Your mom got betrayed by your brother, and just as she was fleeing, Thor struck her from behind and nearly killed her just as she reached your father. He lost it.”

As she recalled the day, a smile of pride, infatuation, and mental instability was displayed across her face.

“Your father had only recently become Oblivion. He didn’t know what that meant yet, of course, but he knew that it made him powerful. So that day, an entire army of gods rose against him when he stepped into Asgard. He erased many, including Thor.

But this was his first time doing that kind of thing. He didn’t know what would happen when he intentionally put souls inside of himself rather than outright destroying them.”

Thrudd gulped as a bead of sweat threatened to fall down her brow. “And… what exactly happened?”

Karliah smiled at her.

“After your battle, your father was so exhausted that he fainted the moment Nyx and the others rescued him.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he released a pulse of energy that rewrote everything in our universe through his own authority.

Of course, without the souls he had erased in anger, reality began filling in the gaps on it’s own.

When he woke up again, he was in bed, you looked just like him, and your mother was a divorcee. He freaked, but I thought it was funny.”

Karliah suddenly pulled out a cracked cell phone and scrolled past an obscene wallpaper to reach a single contact with equally obscene emojis beside the name.

“And now that a version of Thor is running around filling his cute daughter’s head with lies and half-truths, I can’t wait to see just what he’ll do next.”

Smiling mischievously, Karliah held up her phone to show Thrudd the message she had sent only a few seconds ago.

“Give it your best guess, kid. Since your dad always ignores my tests, how long do you think it’ll take him to get here?”

one more day before the return of college football…. can you feel it? I can feel it. it feels like.. THE TIDE’S COMING IN, BABAYYY