A day has passed.
It was just like any other day in Corinth. But, It was a literal shitstorm in the keep.
Carla's eyes were puffed and tinted red due to all the crying she did.
Once Marcus opened his eyes all the melodrama repeated itself first the love next to the anger. His mother thought that Leon has done something to her child. She tried to convince Squad leader Urami to detain him and throw him into the dungeons. But, Baron talked her out of that nonsense.
As for baron himself, he never doubted Leon. As a man of his stature and respect, he can tell when a kid is lying even with a perfect poker face like one of Leon.
The first words that came out of his mouth the moment he opened his eyes he cursed out loud.
"moth*r fu*ker ". lucky for him, he said that in English or else his mother would have whopped his ass with a cudgel or something.
"what did you say ?".Carla was confused over Marcus's words she never heard them before.
"nothing mother just my head pains so hard, I am unable to understand what I am even talking ".
he gave himself an internal sigh of relief for speaking the MF word in English.
"tell me Marcus did that kid do something to you ?." his mother was still suspected that Leon might have a hand in her son's sudden passing out in the middle of nowhere.
He sensed her thoughts and tried to comfort her "don't panic mother it was just one of those headaches I got in the starting. It was not so severe this time."
" Okay then don't hang out with the wrong kind of people Mark. It will not do you any good alright. I asked about him. few say he was a bloodsucker and they saw him do that to a couple of kids in the slum area".
Marcus firmly refuted her claims
"No mother he is no bloodsucker. If he was I would be dried bones on the very place I passed out. I heard bloodsuckers especially young ones can't stop themselves if they see blood."
his mother was even more terrified now regarding the uncouth knowledge her son has gained made her feel more worried about his companionship.
When she was about to reprimand. Arlo stepped in "Stop it Carla give that boy a break. And he is no bloodsucker do you think I will let a bloodsucker live inside my castle? "
"but my lord!".
"enough of the chat Carla, I have something to tell you".
Marcus wondered about what his father was meaning by those words.
The baron continued "that boy you were talking about. He is my brother's son".
Carla was surprised by the sudden reveal. She muttered, " I never knew". Soon a question hounded her "why now? Why are you telling this now?".
It was time for Arlo to face his wife "I hid him because I thought his presence would be like a thorn in our relationship. I was afraid you would not believe me because not even my close friends believed what I said at first. And there is no other way to prove his parentage without forking out magic stones to those all mysterious wizards. So I thought I better keep in the dark and use him if that day would ever come. And I was afraid I would lose you if we try to have another baby. I never wanted to marry another woman and disrespect you. So I thought"
Marcus was appaled after listening to this baby-making stuff.
Arlo noticed his son's weird countenance and cleared his throat and said "there is nothing to feel weird about young man. It is our duty as your parents to let you know about these kinds of worldly matters. And I was unable to find your mother alone these days since your misadventure from saving a girl." his usually cold father's face can be seemed to have a hint of a visible smile. But he screamed inwardly 'wait what does he mean by unable to find my mother, does it mean it is my mistake to keep mom with me all the time? '.
'now that I mentioned mom how is she feeling from this news?'.
He immediately shifted his attention to his mother. Her eyes were shaking she was trying to cry but there were no tears in her eyes 'seems like she used too many tears over me'.
His father expressed the same thing in his heart "see kid your mother has not even spared some tears for me when I say something romantic you ought to grow up faster son. I won't get too much time with her if you get a brother or sister. Remember? I got her a potion that can help her in the process".
Carla started crying like a child and ran to Arlo and hugged him tightly. After some time she wiped of her miraculously formed tears and said to Marcus
"see Marcus learn from your father Mark. Try to at least half treat your certain someone like he does to me. I will bet that she will be following you like a hutch puppy".
"and about that boy my lord, I believe you, You never once gave me a chance to question your character but this time I will believe in your words. If you have n problem with it let that boy stay in the castle with Mark, only if he is has a good character, it is time for him to have some friends his age instead of those recruit punks you send to take him around the town I even heard people complaining about them extorting goods from the market in the name of our Poor mark, People almost hated him but his heroic deed saved his fame".
Arlo nodded "okay my dear as you wish. I will check into it."
"as for you Marcus gets well soon you can not hide longer in the bedroom behind your mother for long". A devilish glint flashed in his eyes as if forewarning Marcus of the impending fate.
Marcus was seriously tired after seeing this cheesy family drama of his family.
And as for what happened when he was out.
***
After descending into the void. Unlike before he was able to feel his body here albeit not physically just mentally, he could sense that the body he was feeling now is that of the child's.
Marcus heard a burst of incredibly eerie laughter. But it stopped after some time. Then a silhouette appeared in front of him. Just from the shadow one can say this is something other than human, it was incredibly imposing to be a human, but the Pressure he felt was almost disappeared making him feel he has nothing in front of him. He peeled his eyes out to look at the silhouette in front of him. To check whether if it was still there. But it was vanished suddenly a voice broke the silence behind him. "interesting" He jerked and jumped forward as if he was scratched in his back by some tickle genius.
There was the silhouette he was looking for but this time voice was coming from his right side. He glanced in that way, he saw another silhouette. He was shocked to find it there as well. He turned around, there was almost an infinite number of silhouettes around him but he half expected this time that when the voice comes it would be from all directions around him. But to his surprise or dismay this time the origin of the voice was right from the centre of his head. "this got you hard didn't it?"
Marcus felt like he was out of breath even though he doesn't need to breathe in the void. He started to panic, he was afraid of what was happening to him. He started to wonder di he ever accidentally sells his soul to some sort of devil. Because this guy was creeping the hell out of him.
Suddenly all the shadows converged into one right in front of him this time instead of appearing like a shadow in the dark it started to glow. A black homie stepped out of the glow.
He said almost like he was rapping some shit "wassup homie! ain't no need to panic. It's me YO Loki your God of Mischief yo the one in mother fu*king Avengers".
Marcus already felt the non-existent froth coming out of his mouth.
The so-called Loki felt this and said "I get it now seems like you thought a black man can't be Loki alright I will come out as usual".
He glowed one more time, this time the Tom Hiddleston Loki stepped out of the glow in front of him.
"you puny human !".