Chapter 10: Visitation

"Father.... father....where are you... I'm lonely...." Loki/Cyril dreamed as he is again floating in space

"Hela?" Loki/Cyril remembered as he thought about his daughter. He remembered the pretty girl as she grew up. He remembered her being ordained the Goddess of Death, because Odin only wanted to reign over the brave dead in Valhalla.

So Hela was given reign over the cowardly, weak, pointless and pathetic dead. She was ordained at the young age of 20, and as a Goddess she never aged since then. As the Goddess of Death, she had no chance of marrying anyone and destined to live a lonely life. Only cowards and people who died pointless deaths came to her realm.

She was accused of purposely keeping Baldur from resurrecting, who pointlessly died showing off. But being one of the favourites of Odin, Baldur was taken away to Valhalla. 

She lived a lonely existance, and Loki could only communicate with her mentally, as he was not allowed to enter the realm of the dead while yet alive and immortal.

"Hela? Why are you lonely? Didn't everyone die at Ragnarok?" asked Loki/Cyril in his head.

"There are dead bodies everywhere father. But although they are all dead, none of their spirits came to me." replied Hela

A vision came into Loki/Cyril's mind. He saw Ragnarok again, but watched from an outsider's point of view. He watched as his body fell down through Bifrost the Rainbow Bridge. He watched again in horror as the realms fell down the World Tree and smashed into each other.

He watched as he could now see souls leaving their bodies. The realm of Helheim at near the bottom of the World Tree started expanding as more and more gods, giants and all other creatures started dying. 

However, suddenly he could see a huge wormhole opening above Asgard. Instead of going to Helheim or Valhalla, the spirits of the dead were being sucked into the wormhole.

The Valkyries screamed as their spirits were wrenched from their bodies and sucked into the wormhole. So too were the spirits of the gods, giants and demons still battling. 

Loki watched as Hela fled down the World Tree. All the realms were crashing down, but the wisps of millions of spirits could be seen sucked into the wormhole.

At last he saw Hela approaching his smashed body inside the Spring of Mimir, and watched as his spirit started rising out of his body towards the wormhole. Hela screamed as she cut a hole in the fabric of reality and pushed Loki's spirit into the tear in space. Then she fled into her realm of Helheim where she is strongest to resist the wormhole.

Loki saw the realm of Helheim expanding and swallowing everything. The World Tree and all the destroyed realms became part of her expanded realm. He also saw all the spirits of Hel being sucked out of Helheim into the wormhole.

As everything was in Helheim now, the last thing Loki saw was Hela on her knees in a desolate Helheim, full of lifeless bodies but with no spirits. It was completely silent and still. 

He looked at his the pretty 20 year old face of Hela, with tears in her eyes. She was all alone.

"Cyril! Cyril!" he heard as he woke up from his dream.