Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:37:10 -0700 From: Dream Spinner Subject: "The Aesir, The Vanir And The Brewsters" (t/t, incest, Norse gods) Caution/Welcome. This is a story involving three brothers, one fifteen-year-old and two seventeen-year-old twins, who help their thirteen-year-old kid brother with his history assignment, and at the same time change the course of history, enrich the Norse pantheon, and help some very macho and violent he-men have a better understanding of their feminine side. This story is posted at free gay story sites for adult entertainment only. Permission is not given to copy electronically nor in any other form for the purpose of redistribution or posting at sites other than those described here. This is the forty-fifth story in the Brewster boys special events and myths series. The Brewsters would like to remind everyone to always carry a pack of condoms, even when doing your homework. You never can tell when you might need them. Praise, mead, horny young Vikings, and story ideas can be sent to the author, J.O. Dickingson at authorsix@hotmail.com THE AESIR, THE VANIR, AND THE BREWSTERS PART ONE: THE ASSIGNMENT "Bobby," called Benny for the third time. "Hey, Bobby!" His kid brother did not even look up from whatever it was that he was doing at his desk in the bedroom the four brothers shared, nor miss a stroke as he slowly and absentmindedly tugged on his dick through his cargo zip-offs. "Hey, Bobby, wanna take a break and ride my dick?" "Not right now," Bobby replied as he continued writing. Benny and his two older brothers stared at Bobby sitting there with his tongue pressed between his lips in concentration, looked at each other, and then back at their kid brother. "Okay," said Benny in a threatening voice as he placed his hand on Bobby's shoulder, "whoever or whatever you are, you better tell us what you did with the real Bobby Brewster or we're gonna take you to our mom and dad." "Yeah, and they're gonna be plenty mad to find out their fourth oldest has been replaced by some alien," observed Brent. Bobby's three older brothers glanced at each other. "Well, maybe not," they chorused with huge grins. "Very funny," Bobby finally responded, finally looking up at his three brothers. "What are you working on so hard anyway?" "My history assignment." "I never had no homework that got me horny," observed Brett, looking at the bulge in his kid brother's zip-offs. "Everything gets Bobby horny," observed his twin brother Brent. "Yeah, pens . . . ," began Benny. "The holes in three-ring looseleaf . . . ," continued Brett. "The letters of the alphabet . . . ," Brent observed. "Sniffing white-out ," Benny added. "Fuck you," responded Bobby, giving his three brothers the finger. "Especially thinking about that," chorused his three brothers. "Now you've gone and ruined my concentration," Bobby groused with a scowl, but they knew he was not serious. "You're really getting into this report on the Ming Dynasty," Brett observed. "Me an' Jung decided not to do a report on them." "How come?" "Whenever we got together to work on the project, we got distracted by other stuff," Bobby said with a leer and a twinkle in his hazel eyes, and though he never had said just what he and Jung did in their more and more frequent visits, his three brothers had a pretty good idea. "Well, going back to your first idea about doing a report on Ancient Greece explains the tugging on your boner," observed Brett. "I'm not doing that either." "Why not?" "My mind kept wandering," Bobby said, and the look on his face and knowing their kid brother, they did not have to ask where it had been wandering. After their experience in Greece this past summer, his three brothers had on more than one occasion reminisced about that adventure, which invariably ended in a hot jack off session. "So what ancient culture did you decide to do a report on?" "The Vikings." "The Vikings?" his three brothers asked in surprise. "Why the Vikings?" Bobby rummaged through the clutter of paper on his desk and the floor surrounding his chair. "Because of this," he explained, finding a page and handing it to Benny. "And this," he continued, finding another page in the mess of paper, "and this." The three brothers looked at the pictures of naked, beefy men in horned helmets and not much else with huge, dripping cocks, wielding huge swords and scowling at each other. "Ain't they fuckin' awesome?" Bobby asked. "I wished I lived in their time. Can you imagine surrounded all day by half-naked guys with cocks that size?" "Ah, Bobby, where did you find these pictures?" "Off this wicked site I found on the Internet when I did a Google search for Vikings." "This isn't what real Vikings looked like or did," observed Brett. "What do you mean?" "I mean these are from a gay porn comic site." "They are?" "You weren't going to include these pictures in your school report were you?" "Sure. In the section about pillagin', plunderin' and rapin'." "Well, if anything, it would have shocked Mister Saultiere." "I figured maybe he'd like to keep me after class to talk about it," Bobby observed with a twinkle in his eyes. "There's nothing hotter than a horny teacher. Well, except maybe a horny fireman, or a horny baker, or a horny accountant ." "We forgot to mention those in our list of what turns him on," interrupted Benny, looking at his brothers seriously. "They were going to be the next things I mentioned," observed Brent, playing along. "Anyway, you can't use these," observed Brett, chuckling at his younger brother's joke. "These are fiction, and your report has to be facts. That's what will get you the marks." He and his two brothers had gone through Mister Saultiere's History class and knew what he expected. "But I found it on the Internet. You sure it's not true?" "Not everything on the Internet is fact, or the truth. In fact a lot of it ain't." "Oh maaannnnn! You mean I gotta go through all this fuckin' stuff and find out what's true and what's not, and rewrite all this fuckin' stuff!" "Right." "Oh maaaaannnnnn! You know how much fuckin' work that's gonna be?" "Well, if you want a good mark, you got no choice." Despite his mischievousness, Bobby was a good student, and wanted to do well. He knew what he had to do, and the long hours that lay ahead. "Well, there could be an easier and faster way to get the real facts than rereading everything and doing more research," observed Benny hesitantly. "Yeah?" responded Bobby, quickly brightening up. He was willing to do anything if it meant getting out of having to do a pile of more work. He was a good student, not a nerd. "How?" "We could go back in time to when Vikings lived and observe them first hand." "How we gonna do that?" asked Brent. "You been wanking too much again," observed Brett, shaking his head as he looked at his fifteen-year-old brother. "Talk about not knowing reality from fiction." "And I remember when our dear brother was sane, before he discovered wanking," observed Brent sadly. "Benny was once sane?" asked Bobby in mock surprise. "You want my help or not?" "Sorry. Of course," Bobby replied quickly. "So what you talking about?" "The spell book," he observed as he twisted the corner of his mouth with impatience, it being his turn to look at his brothers as if they were simple-minded. He was referring to the wizard book that the boys had gotten possession of one exciting Halloween night several years ago. "Good idea, but it might not have such a spell," observed Brett. "It does." "How do you know?" "I looked for it," Benny confessed. His three brothers looked at him quizzically. "I found a reference to a time travel spell, but I never had time to read it." His brothers continued to just sit and look at him and he knew they would not let up until he elaborated. "I was wondering if it was possible . . . to go back in time . . . like during Alexander the Great's time just for example." Ever since the boys had learned that Alexander the Great loved boys as well as women, and maybe even better, they all had fantasized about what it would be like to live during his time, and to have known him personally. That had also usually ended in a hot wanking session. The boys looked at each other. "So what do you say?" asked Bobby. "Why not?" said Brett with a shrug. "I got nothing special planned for tonight." "You mean all of us will try it?" "Maybe the guys in that porn comic aren't that far off," Benny observed with a grin and a hopeful sparkle in his hazel eyes, explaining his reason. "It sure beats doing algebra homework," observed Brent. "Well, I don't know about that," Brett responded, mathematics and science being two of his favourite subjects in school. "You gotta be kidding." "Hey, math can be fascinating." "But as fa ." "Guys, can we get back to my problem?" interrupted Bobby. "Which one of them?" asked Brett with a grin. "I'll get the book." Brent got up from his desk where he'd been working on his own homework, as had been Benny and Brett at theirs, and walked over to the bookcase the boys shared. "I hope the spell don't need a bunch of weird stuff, like newt's eye and bat's blood," commented Benny. "If we need a bat we can phone the De Cazale brothers," observed Bobby seriously, referring to his suspicion that the family were vampires from what he'd observed them doing during the band and travel club's Oktoberfest trip. The spell did not need anything as exotic as Benny had feared. An eagle feather, which Brent had as a gift from Billy's father, a candle which he also had as a gift from his brothers, an hourglass, for which the boys substituted an egg timer their grandmother had given their mother, and a grounding stone, which of course Brent had, were the only required tools. Clearing a circle and marking a pentangle in the middle with the tip of the athane Billy had given him, Brent, knowing more about spells than his brothers and being a follower of the ancient crafts for almost a year and a half now, lead the ceremony. The four brothers lay on the floor in their room within the invisible circle and concentrated on Brent's words and the symbols of time. "Spirits of Time, hear our plea. Muse of History, Muse of Destiny, Guardians of the Past, hear our plea. All-knowing and all-seeing Norns, guide our passage and hear our plea. . . ." The boys concentrated harder as they formed a picture of where they wanted to go, one of the illustrations from one of the web pages Bobby had printed off. "Iolair, Guardian spirts of travellers, protect us. . . ." As Brent chanted the foreign words in the text everything around them began to fade, and then to spin, and the faster it spun the darker it got. They reached out for each other and grasped each other's hands. It was exciting, and frightening, and as they began to get dizzy they grasped hands even tighter in a bond of brotherly support. They seemed to be the ones spinning now, faster and faster, rising up and floating in the air and in the dark, and just as they felt they were about to pass out from dizziness, they felt themselves falling farther and farther, faster and faster, as if into a deep black pit, and finally landing on something solid with a thump. Three things immediately struck them. Wherever they were, it was bright, exceedingly, blindingly bright, and dazzling white. Second, it was also cold, icy, bone-chilling cold. Third, and most important of all, wherever they were, it was also in the middle of a fierce battle. A giant of a man, at least six-foot six and two hundred and sixty pounds, all muscle, with wild, frizzy hair, moustache and beard, frothing at the mouth and with fierce, blazing eyes, was holding a blood- stained sword in the air and about to swing it downward at Brent. Brett did the first thing that came to his mind to save his brother, he picked up a helmet, which seemed exceedingly heavy for a healthy, fit seventeen-year-old boy, and tossed it at the tattooed, fierce warrior as he yelled, "here, catch!" The blade descended, not at Brent, but at the helmet, striking it with the flat blade and sending it sailing back at Brett like a baseball hit dead-on by a batter. Brett discovered why the helmet had seemed so heavy, and the phrase dead-on took on a new meaning for the seventeen- year-old high school student. The head that the helmet was on was still inside it, wide-eyed and dripping blood. "Ahhggghh!" he screamed in disgust, grabbing it with his fingertips and immediately tossing it away from him. "Eeewwwwhhhh!" responded Brent as the severed head sailed toward him. Splattering his short-sleeved shirt with blood as he grabbed it, the high school basketball player wrinkled up his nose as he quickly tossed it aside, sending it back toward the warrior with the blood-stained sword. A fierce-looking red-haired warrior standing between the two boys and just behind them and who had been engaged in a sword fight with the other warrior at the time of the arrival of the twins, took advantage of the distraction and stepping between the twins, thrust his sword into the chest of his befuddled opponent. As his hot blood sprayed the twins, they ducked for cover behind the red-haired warrior. Their two brothers were having their own problems. Being thrown to the ground as they came out of their spin, Benny and Bobby curled into balls and rolled with their fall. In Benny's case he rolled right into the feet of a warrior clad in leather armour and brandishing a broad sword, causing the man to trip and the blade of the warrior he was battling to swing through the air where otherwise the man's head would have been. Bobby had similarly been thrown to the ground at the feet of a Viking warrior towering above him. As he saw the man's sword descending toward him he did the only thing he could think of, he reached up and grabbed the man between the legs and squeezed as hard as he could. "Ah, I don't think now's the time to be messing around, Bobby," Benny advised as the man who'd stumbled over him regained his balance and spinning around, slashed the throat of the warrior who otherwise would have cut off his head moments earlier. As the man toppled forward and directly on top of the slender fifteen-year-old, the blade of the man whose nuts Bobby had a hold of met the blade of his opponent with a resounding clang of metal. Momentarily distracted by the slim, elf-like boy dressed for the heat of summer half laying and half kneeling in the snow and gripping his balls in a painful, vicelike grip, he could not counter the next blow of his opponent's sword fast enough and found his sword arm gashed from elbow to wrist. As he dropped his sword, Bobby grabbed it and struggled to his feet to defend himself, glancing about and to his dismay seeing Benny nowhere in sight. Warriors of both sides were momentarily distracted by the sudden appearance of the four boys and by their strange clothing. Wearing faded Denver Hayes blue jeans, identical short- sleeved R and R dark-olive Ukranian-border print shirts, and soft leather sandals, the twins caused further distraction with their delicate, effeminate looks and flowing blond hair. Bolstered by his unexpected defeat of his opponent just as it looked like he was about to be killed, the red-haired warrior charged forward as he let out a bloodcurdling cry that caused the twins to jump in fear and incited those about him to similarly surge into the now clearly frightened opponents. Carried along with the charge, and seeing the safety of being in the middle of the sword-wielding warriors who were evidently considering them allies, the twins glanced at each other helplessly and crossing their fingers signalled each other good luck. The next twenty minutes seemed like twenty hours to the four boys as the battle surged around them, the twins surrounded by a circle of warriors hacking at their enemies at the forefront and Bobby standing in the middle of the battle, struggling to lift the sword that had to weigh a ton as he glanced about desperately for something lighter and for his older brother, not noticing that the warriors of both sides were eyeing him suspiciously, especially his fluffy Simba the Lion slippers, and giving him a wide berth. Benny meanwhile had squirmed out from under the warrior who had fallen on him, his Extreme Zone shirt and satin Adidas shorts splattered with blood, and finding a couple daggers from the corpse, crouched there ready to defend himself or his brother as needs be, the twins, to his dismay, having disappeared from his sight. As the remaining men who'd been defending their village fled, the attackers went on a celebration rampage, burning the thatch-roofed huts, cutting the throats of the dying and stripping the corpses of their weapons and warm boots, and finding the women had all fled along with the youngest children, turning to the five living men whom they had captured. Tossing them to the snow-covered ground, they pinned them down and yanked off their trousers. Five of the bloodied warriors undid the ties of their own trousers, and as they fell to their ankles, the men knelt behind the five prone men and between their outspread legs. Although they had on occasion forced the unwilling loser of a bet or some bully to satisfy their sexual needs, or perform some degrading act, the four brothers had never used violence to have their way with others. They stood there now and stared at the five men as they forced themselves upon their five captives. The ferocity and violence of the victory celebration was just as frightening as the battle had been. Having spotted each other as the battle had come to a close, the four boys huddled together as they surveyed the chaos around them. "I think I've done enough research," whispered Bobby. "Let's just get the fuck out of here and go back home." Before the boys could even begin the spell, the red-haired man who had stepped up between the twins walked over to them, and taking out his sword, raised it in the air. The four boys immediately shrunk in toward each other, Benny at the same time raising his daggers, Brent taking out his athane which had been forgotten in its sheath strapped to his leg, Bobby straining to lift his sword, and Brett clenching his fists and preparing to strike out with them. "Hail, strange ones!" the bloodied and injured warrior called, raising his sword in the air. "Having saved my life, I forfeit it to you. My fate is yours to decide." He dropped to his knees and knelt before the twins. "So do we all owe our lives to the four of you," observed another warrior, having spotted the first and joined him. "The success of our raid is your doing. Hail, strangers!" As he dropped to his knees, several others also stepped forward, many still cautious and suspicious, and dropped to their knees. "Never have I seen the likes of such as you, nor heard of any being described as you appear," observed the warrior who had first approached them. "I am Seglfjot, of the village of Sliesthorp. What manner of elves or sprites be you?" "We're, ah, well, we're, well it's . . . ," struggled Brett as he glanced at his brothers and back at the ferocious warriors staring at him. An older warrior with a long, snow white beard and standing apart from the others tossed a fine powder into the air, an action noticed by Bobby but unseen by the rest. The blood-soaked snow about the four boys suddenly swirled up and around them and everything seemed to fade. "Who are the Wel-its?" they heard someone ask as if far, far away. "Alcis? What are they?" asked another voice, even fainter and farther way still. As the snow flurry that had blocked their view settled, they found themselves in snowy meadow. Rows of scaly, long-necked dragon heads, eyes wide and mouths gaping and carved out of wood, marked a path to a huge, three- story complex that looked like it had been added to by a committee of contractors over a decade. The sprawling mansion and several other large buildings were surrounded by a twelve-foot high wooden fence made of upright sharpened poles. "Welcome to Asgard, strange travellers," said the white-bearded warrior, gesturing to the world around them. "And welcome to Valaskjalf, to my home." "You're Odin," Bobby observed, his eyes growing wide as he looked up at the blood- splattered man. "Yes. Now let us go in and get warm." "Fuck." "I was thinking more of a change into clothes warmed at the hearth, and a bowl of soup," Odin replied, looking down at the strangely garbed boy, surprised but impressed by his suggestion. As they trod through the deep snow, the four boys realized just how cold they were. By the time they reached the three-story mansion their fingers and toes were blue and their teeth were chattering so badly they could not speak. Although they wanted to head straight to the first fireplace they encountered, they were lead by a servant to a room in the back of the building where they were told to strip off their clothes and then taken outside through the snow buck naked to a steaming hot spring. They were joined a few minutes later by Odin himself, by which time the boys had sufficiently recovered to appreciate the sturdy, muscular body of the god, his biceps and thighs thick with muscles and his broad chest covered with a mat of white hair. A large bush of white hairs sprouted out above his member, a long, thick organ that swung like a snake as he walked. As soon as Odin sat down, Bobby moved over to stand beside him. "So," Odin began as he looked at the four boys, "I ken that you be human, but I have never seen any garbed as you were, nor heard any speak with your accent. So, who are you, and where are you from? How did you appear out of nowhere at Schliefstag, and what were you doing there?" The boys gave him their names and began speaking at once. He immediately put up his hand and silenced them. "Which of you be the oldest?" he asked, looking at the twins. "Guess that's me," observed Brett. For once his brothers didn't observe that it was because he was trying to get away from Brent's stinky feet, or because Brent was trying to screw him in their mother's womb. "Then you speak." So Brett introduced himself, and his three brothers, and explained where they were from, about Bobby's history class assignment, Benny's idea, and the spell book that they were in possession of, deciding to be as vague as he could about the latter. It was a long story, but sitting there in the hot tub, the boys did not mind. "A most amazing tale," Odin finally observed, aware of the hot young hand that had crept up his thigh and wrapped its fingers about his still flaccid but growing organ as he'd listened to the tale, he himself having reached around the boy and squeezed his smooth, compact buttocks. "But now, let us dress and eat." And, Bobby hoped, something more afterward. Their clothes had been washed and dried, and Odin watched with interest as they put them back on, now toasty warm from being hung over the hearth. Wrapping himself in a voluminous fur-trimmed fleece robe, Odin lead them to the dining hall. It being the dead of winter, most of the gods who resided at Asgard were there, and they glanced curiously at the four boys as they entered with Odin. They looked at the boys with even more curiosity as Odin ordered places be set for them at the foot of the long table, only very special and honoured guests ever taking a meal with them other than on feast days, and then usually at a separate and lower table. Serving boys, from a few years younger than Bobby to as old as the twins, suddenly appeared with platters containing steaming bowls of soup, loaves of freshly baked bread, and pitchers of ale. They looked at Odin's guests with even greater curiosity than had the gods, mostly because of the unusualness of anyone sitting at the same table as the gods, and especially anyone so young, but also because of their strange appearance, and their fair looks. Standing respectfully against the wall, they rushed forward to refill tankards and soup bowls. Normally having ravenous appetites, and after what they'd gone through and the invigorating dip in the hot spring, the four teenagers were able to keep up with even the gods, devouring bowl after bowl of the beef and barley soup. The soup was followed by platters heaped with carved chicken and wedges of cheese, along with more bread, and more of the strong, bitter ale, which the boys sampled with tiny sips and which they discovered tasted better with each drink they took. It was not until the meal was finishing that anyone spoke. "So, Father, how do things fare in the world of men?" asked the man sitting to his right, a man with fiery red hair and wearing a cloak, a kilt-like garment, and a wide studded leather belt from which hung a massive hammer, clearly identifying him as Thor, the God of Thunder. "For the most part as they should," Odin responded. "The northern lands are becoming filled, forcing men to battle those of the south for food and land." "The winter months are good times to create new babies," observed one of the men. "Any time is a good time to create new babies," observed another, and the group of men laughed. "Loki can attest to that," observed one, a handsome young man with long gorgeous hair and skin so pale it was white. His voice dripped with sarcasm and contempt as he glanced at the equally handsome young man with a thick mop of tousled red hair sitting near the foot of the table. "And just what do you mean by that, Baldr?" asked the one who was evidently Loki. Baldr, Loki, Odin, the four Brewster boys felt a twinge of excitement ripple up their spines. These were the gods they'd read about, real, honest to life gods! "There are not many of us here who can lay claim to having given birth, and not just on a single occasion," Baldr responded, clearly there being no love lost between the two. "Nor those who can claim bride hood," Loki retorted, looking specifically at Thor. "It was necessary to pose as Thrym's bride to retrieve my hammer," snarled Thor. "As you well know, Thrym's demand Freya marry him was the only opening I had to enter his domain." "Perhaps it was necessary. As it was necessary to flutter your eyes at Thrym, and press your lips against his," replied Loki with an impish grin. "And as for openings, I suppose it was also necessary for you to lie on your back and spread your legs ." "Fine talk for one who spent a dozen years in the underworld milking she-goats like a common milkmaid and being birth-mother to any beast who desired to plant its seed up your arse." The four Brewster boys glanced at each other. Now these were tales of the gods they had not been taught at school. "There are plenty here who can be accused of being ergi," Loki retorted, glancing at several of the gods including Odin, "and more than one who would be more comfortable sitting at the dining table at Vingolf with the women." More than a few of the gods bristled with the comment and either glared at Loki or looked about with embarrassment. Bobby and his brothers were not sure what Loki had meant, but they got the general drift of the insult. "But there is only one here who can claim to have turned himself into a mare so as to be impregnated by a stallion," responded Odin. "And prevented the loss of the sun and the moon, and the Goddess Freyja to the giant Hrimthurs" snapped Loki. "And in the world of men, do they still worship and revere us?" asked one of the gods who had not yet spoken, a wise looking, older man in a fine robe and with a stern, distinguished look about him. He was clearly changing the topic and averting a confrontation. "That, Forseti, that they still do," Odin replied, giving the God of Judgement and Justice a smile of appreciation for his intervention. Loki was the least favoured of all around the table, but as his blood-brother, he could not turn him away from his table. "Us, and others," he observed with a wider smile as he looked down the table at their four guests. "And when might we learn of these new arrivals, brother?" asked the god sitting to Odin's left, a man whom the boys realized did resemble Odin. "Theirs is an interesting tale," Odin responded. "One best heard from their own lips." And so the boys retold their tale, explaining where they were from and how men lived in this land not yet discovered, the foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the gods they worshipped. They explained to the gods the manner of conflict and war in this new world, how it was that they had chosen to come to Schliefstag, and how they had arrived there. This time they told their tale with more elaboration, answering the many questions from the gods. For men who battled giants and the most fearsome of monsters, who were immortal and yet subject to all the vices and weakness of men, the mass destruction by atomic weapons, the presence of flying machines of metal, the existence of a multitude of other religions worshipping a multitude of other gods, the presence of vampires and warlocks with wizard spell books, and four fresh-faced teenagers still wet behind the ears travelling to their world did not phase them. The buttons on the twins' shirts, Benny's satin Adidas shorts, Bobby's fluffy Simba slippers, and the zippers on his zip-offs and the flies of his pants and that of his brothers were of greater amazement. As more ale flowed, Odin described the battle at Schliefstag, where the men from Gwerfjord were about to be repelled when the four boys arrived and turned the battle, the red- haired man who the twins had appeared beside leading the charge, and his men buoyed by his burst of enthusiasm. "I would have thought the sudden appearance of these four would have been foretold," observed Hoor, the blind brother of Baldr. "It would be wise to seek the council of a Seidhr considering all that we have been told." The suggestion received full agreement, and one of the serving boys was dispatched to fetch a shaman. "So, what is this ergi stuff?" asked Benny, stepping up beside Loki as he and his brothers accompanied the gods to one of the many halls in Valaskjalf where the twelve had decided to meet the shaman. "An ergi is a man who is desirous of penetration, a man who is argr, one who has submitted to another man as a woman." "Oh," said Bobby brightly. "I think that is an insult," Benny advised his kid brother before he said something that he would regret. "It is." "What about that stuff about saving the sun and the moon?" asked Benny, seeing the look of objection in Bobby's eyes and knowing he had better switch topics. When Bobby got mad, Bobby didn't care whom he was arguing with, god or not. "Long ago, when the time of Gods was young, it was decided to build a city in Vlahalla. The giant Hrimthurs appeared in disguise and offered to build the city in three years and for payment asked for Freyja for his wife and the sun and the moon. The gods agreed, if he would do it in one winter, and alone, and to this he agreed, if his horse Svadilfara could help. When those who had agreed to the bargain realized they were going to have to pay, they called upon me to help them, and so I changed myself into a mare, and distracted Hrimthurs' horse so it did not haul stones for him that night, and was too tired to work the next day. Still, he was going to succeed, so the gods called upon Thor, who killed Hrimthurs with his hammer, and they all conveniently forgot the sacrifice I'd made for them, even when I discovered because of by efforts I was pregnant with Sleipnir, the eight-legged steed I later gave Odin." "You were screwed by a horse?" asked Bobby with wide-eyed surprise. "Yes, and have received no thanks for it." "This shape changing stuff, it hard to do?" "You'd have to change yourself into a girl horse," Benny whispered. "Oh," replied Bobby with disappointment but not with total rejection of the idea. The conversation gave him and his brothers plenty to think about as they waited with the gods for the shaman to arrive. It was not long before an ancient crone, bent over and leaning heavily on her distaff, was ushered into the room. She was wearing a deep blue cloak with a black lambskin hood and festooned with white cat skins. Her skin was leathery and more wrinkled than a dried up apple. Labouriously mounting a platform that had been erected in the middle of the hall while they'd waited, cauldrons of incense were lit and a dozen young boys sat below the platform and began to sing a strange but melodic chant as several of them struck up a beat with their drums. "Tell us, old crone," Odin finally said, approaching her and kneeling respectfully, "what is the impact on our lives by the arrival of these four boys?" The old hag looked at the four brothers for a long time, her steady gaze and rheumy eyes causing them to shuffle uncomfortably. "You are not where you should be," she finally said, her voice old and crackling and sounding drugged. "Your presence here has altered the course of history." "For man, or for gods?" asked Odin. "Both," she replied. Slowly turning her head to look at the twins, she explained. "The invasion by the men of Gwerfjord was to have been repelled this day. Returning in defeat, Seglfjot was to have turned to the west and given up on his forays to the south. Instead, by your intervention, he was successful, and will return with his plunder a revered leader, but his celebration will be short lived. One of those who suffered the indignation of being an ergi this day was Bjordi, the son of the chieftain of the Schliefstag. He will mount an expedition that will seek revenge, revenge that will include the death of Seglfjot before he can beget a third son." "You are among the wisest of the volva, Skaga," Odin observed. "Of what importance can the death of single man be, especially one who already has two sons?" "Seglfjot is of little import in his own time, but he was destined to beget a son whose son would beget a son who would be called Thorvald, who in turn would beget a son, a famed leader who would have been known by civilizations not yet born as Eric the Red, and he in turn would beget a son by the name of Leif, who among other things, would help spread a new religion throughout these lands." "Then what these boys have done is good," observed Tyr, the god of war. "They have prevented the spread of this new religion which would displace us." He glanced at the twins appreciatively, as did several of the gods. "No, they have only changed the way in which the new religion will replace the old ways. A more violent man will introduce this new belief and thousands will die in the name of his god, which will cause much sorrow and angst among the people, so that they will curse the Aesir and the Vanir and desecrate their monuments on Midgard. Besides, among those who will be killed in this new history are the ancestors of several who would have promoted a thousand years from now a resurgence of worship of the Aesir and Vanir in nations not yet born, including the land these boys are from." "What may be done to set the course of history on the right path again?" asked Odin. "The attack by the men of Schliefstag must not succeed, and the life of Seglfjot must not be taken. These are the two who set these events into action, and are the only two who can return the fate of Midgard to what was intended before their intervention." Odin was about to back away when the old hag continued. "There is more," she said, turning her gaze from the twins to look at Benny. "The man this one tripped, and by such saved his life, is the man called Bjordi. He will not rest until he has killed every man of Gwerfjord, and the villages for a hundred furlongs on either side along the coast, for the indignity he suffered this day. The only way to prevent such slaughter is to see that his initial destiny is fulfilled." Benny swallowed. He'd inadvertently saved a guy's life today, and now he was expected to see that the guy got killed as he was supposed to? He could hardly be his fault the guy had tripped over him. "And the youngest one?" asked Odin disheartened. These boys were not the young heros he'd assumed them to be. They appeared to be, in fact, the harbingers of bad times. "His impact will be the greatest of them all, but not because of this day. Nothing he has done this day will alter the course of mankind nor the gods, but an act yet to come, in conjunction with his brothers but he being chief among them, will change the way of the gods, and will ensure the worship of the Aesir and Vanir will continue until the end of the world. But I can say no more, for there are even things my eyes cannot see, and my mind cannot comprehend." That Bobby would do something the old hag could not comprehend did not surprise Bobby's three brothers. He often did things they did not comprehend, and they knew their kid brother better than anyone else. With the old hag's predictions over, the men in the hall grew sombre with the dire news that in five generations a new god would threaten them, and the four brothers were sent off to bed while they pondered the situation. Of course the four Brewster boys were just as concerned with the news directly involving them and in the more immediate future, and about getting back home before their absence was discovered, but it had been a full and exhausting day, and it was not long before they were sound asleep under the huge goose feather comforter. So great was their exhaustion and their worry, that they had not even messed around with each other before drifting off to sleep. They were awoken the next morning and found new clothing had been laid out for them, breeches that resembled boxer briefs but having ties at the waist and around the legs and being of a much coarser material, a short-sleeved T-shirt of the same cloth, britches and an outer shirt of deerskin, both with ties rather than buttons or zippers, and thick woolen socks. In the corner were huge fur-lined boots that reminded them of mukluks worn by Eskimos and the men of the north, and heavy down filled parkas. Over a breakfast of boiled oats sweetened with honey, they were told the gods' decisions. Brent and Brett were to be taken to Gwerfjord to warn the village of the pending invasion and to watch over Seglfjot. Benny was to be returned to Schliefstag where he would see to the death of Bjordi, either by his own hands or by the hands of another. In these things the gods would watch but play no part, other than Odin's raven, Hugin, who would be allowed to carry messages between the twins and Benny. "How many seasons have you seen?" Odin asked, turning to Bobby. "Huh? Me? Ah, I'm thirteen," he replied. "And three months, and two weeks." "Then you have not yet been made a man." "Ah, I guess not," he responded as he glanced at his brothers. "From what Skaga has said about you, if our future worship lays in your hands, we have deemed it wise that you become a man under our eyes." "You wanna watch?" asked Bobby, there being only one way he could think of that would mean he was a man, and although it was not something he'd had any burning desire to do, it was not something he'd pass up either. He hoped the girl would have big boobs. "Yes, but not help. It must be of your own doing," responded Odin, further confusing Bobby. "Besides it will occupy your mind while your brothers are performing their duties." "I'd rather help them," Bobby responded honestly. "Very noble of you, but the decision has been made. Now, the three of you, go put on your winter coats and boots." Knowing they had no choice, the boys did as they were told. Upon their return, Odin rose, and with a wave of his arm, transformed himself into a giant eagle. Picking up the twins with one taloned claw, and Benny with the other, he flew out the window, and in minutes had deposited them outside their respective villages and had returned to Bobby. "Fuckin' wicked," the thirteen-year-old observed. "You think you can teach me how to do that?" PART TWO: THE TEST As they headed toward Gwerfjord, the twins began planning just what they would say and how they would explain how they knew about the impending invasion. They did not have much time, their presence soon being noticed. Word spread rapidly about the reappearance of the two slender, long-haired blond boys who had brought the invaders luck and victory two weeks earlier. That two weeks had passed on Midgard while only a night had transpired in Asgard surprised the boys, but they quickly realized that it shouldn't have. Time was not the same for gods. They did wonder just what their time spent in the past meant in terms of real time back home, but there being nothing they could do about it at the moment, they put that problem aside for later. They also discovered they need not have worried about explaining their presence in the village nor their knowledge about the impending invasion. Over the past two weeks word about what they'd done had spread, and as happens to rumours, wonderfully exaggerated so that by the time they'd returned it was the belief of those in the village that they had rallied the invading warriors at their moment of inevitable defeat, had lead the charge, and had killed half the villagers themselves and with their bare hands. Their sudden appearance and disappearance was no surprise given they were supernatural beings, evidenced by not only their superhuman deed but by the strange apparel they had initially appeared in, and their strange accents. That they knew the name of the son of the chieftain of Schliefstag, and that he was mounting a revenge attack on their village was only further evidence of their powers, and that these two celestial beings had come to warn them was only further evidence that they were blessed and that the devoted and faithful were truly rewarded. Had they not always been loyal worshippers of the Sun, and of Freyr and Njord and Odin and all the others? There were the couple of naysayers who observed that they hardly needed to be warned to set up sentinels along the coast to watch for Bjordi's warships considering their attack on his village and the rape of himself and four of his villagers, but given the esteem the boys were held in, they were ignored and the people of the village praised the two boys for their council. Having played a far less dramatic role in the battle, Benny's arrival at Schliefstag, on the other hand, went unnoticed. With the slaughter of most of the men in the village, the appearance of fatherless boys and the arrival of distant relatives and enterprising young men to take over the vacated farms and shops or to bolster the number of gathering warriors about to set out in revenge was not unusual, and, in fact, was expected and welcome. With his skills in crafts, as a hobby and in scouts, Benny was quickly enlisted as an apprentice armourer to fill in the vacancy created with the death of the village apprentice two weeks earlier. Of course he did his best to dissuade the men from attacking, spreading rumours about the strength and numbers of those they were setting off to fight, and at the same time he tried to find out all that he could about Bjordi without sounding like a coward and looking like a spy. He was not very successful. Men who have been raped or whose relatives have been murdered by a tribe of barbarians are not so easily dissuaded, and when they are being lead by a victim and hero of that same vicious raid, you would not expect to find any men who would speak ill of him, never mind be willing to kill him. So, while the twins were treated like royalty and learned the basics of sword fighting and the operation of a Viking warship while pretending to be ensuring the villagers were ready for the upcoming battle, Benny found himself on a Saxon ship heading north, sewing and tying leather armour until his fingers were raw and helping in the galley as a scullery boy. Despite the work and lowly position, at least he did not have to help with the rowing, though sitting between two hot, sweating warriors stripped to the waist, their muscles rippling with raw power and their hairy chests beaded with sweat, did cause some moments of wishful thinking. It was only for a few weak moments and he soon shook his head and returned to his duties. He was beginning to think like his kid brother! Speaking of his kid brother, Bobby had also put on his boots and winter coat with the return of Odin, and had been flown to a distant snowy field on his back, which was an experience in itself though the thirteen-year-old would rather have ridden him in a different position and in a form other than an eagle. He stood there looking up at the chief of all the gods in Asgard with his eyes growing wider and wider as he listened to his instructions. "Now let me get this straight," he finally said. "You want me to walk from here to this sea, this Enfalgrfjord, that you're not going to tell me where it is, swim down in the icy water to the bottom to get this big pearl out of a real live oyster, and then hike back here with it, and that is what will make me a man?" "Right. That is your challenge," Odin observed with a smile as he transformed back into his eagle shape. "That isn't what the fuck I thought you meant," Bobby said quickly in an effort to explain as Odin lifted off. "About becoming a man," he concluded forlornly as he watched the eagle soar up into the sky and disappear. Looking about the snowy meadow surrounded on all sides by tall snow-clad pine trees, he sighed and thought about his dilemma. They could have at least given him some warning. From the mountains that he could see above the tree tops, the land seemed to be sloping downward behind him. The eagle had flown off to his right, which would have been the path they'd taken to get there, and over which he hadn't seen anything like an ocean. So, this sea had to be behind him, or to his left. Behind him seeming the most likely of the two choices, he turned and began to trudge through the snow. It was deep and soft, and well past his knees. By the time he reached the tree line he'd be totally exhausted for sure, if he didn't freeze before he got there. He frowned. He had to have picked the Vikings to study. Why hadn't he picked an ancient culture in a warm climate, like the Aztecs or ancient California surfers from the 1950's or something? Spotting a dead tree directly ahead, an idea came to him. Choosing two of the narrowest and straightest branches, he grabbed a hold of them and broke them off with his weight. Strapping them to his boots with sinew from his back pack, one of the few things he'd been given to take with him and which he'd been told was spare lacing for his boots and clothes, he picked two shorter branches and stabbed them into the snow and pushed. He slid forward on top of the snow. They were not the best of skis, but they beat walking. He smiled. The weekends he and his family had gone skiing in Banff were going to pay off! It was still cold as fuck, but at least he was going to get to wherever he was going faster. He frowned as he continued on his way. This was fucking hard work! Next time Benny had one of his harebrained eyes about travelling to the past, he'd stay home. Mind you, it would be awesome to be ergi to Odin, or to Thor, or to any of the others for that matter. They all had to have huge cocks. They were gods, and Vikings besides. With the thoughts of Odin keeping him warm, he pushed and glided across the meadow while high above him out of sight an eagle watched, and if it could have, would have smiled. He'd had a soft spot for the boy the moment he'd seen him, and was pleased he'd had the intelligence to pick the right direction, and the ingenuity to overcome his first difficulty, crossing the snow-covered high meadow. In that regard, he'd expected the boy to fasten some scrub to his feet to make improvised snowshoes, not skis. He wondered just what the old hag had meant about the impact the boy would have on their worship. Reaching the edge of the forest, Bobby was delighted to find a path, and that the path sloped downward. Things were looking up! Of course he was not that much of an outdoors person to know the path was an animal trial, and that animal trails twisted back and forth to follow the terrain rather than follow a straight line. He certainly had no idea how steep they were. As he began to glide down the trail he smiled happily at no longer having to push with his arms, and even as he began to speed up he was not overly concerned. However, as the trail began to twist and he found himself having to dodge trees in every direction as he flew down the slope at breakneck speed, he was no longer so pleased with his brilliant idea. Nobody knows if a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to hear it if it makes a noise, but had there been anyone in the wilderness, they would have heard a boy's soprano voice screaming "Fuuuuuaaaaaaahhhhkk!" echoing throughout the forest and the surrounding hills. The eagle, by that time, had headed back to Valaskjalf and a mug of mead. Spotting the coastline the morning of the fifth day at sea, Benny approached Bjordi and told him that he had sailed this coast with his father, and that there was an inlet four furlong south of Gwerfjord which if they stuck close to shore they could reach unseen and then attack the village by land, something the villagers would not be expecting. Of course he knew about the inlet because he and the twins had been communicating by Raven, and his brothers were at the same time warning Seglfjot of the possibility of just such an attack, the three boys figuring with the forewarning the men of Gwerfjord could defeat the invaders and hopefully kill Bjordi at the same time, achieving both Benny's and the twins' missions. To Benny's delight his advice was taken, but after a brief meeting between Bjordi and the elderly man who seemed to be his chief advisor as they approached the inlet that night, he suddenly changed his mind and the three ships veered away from the coast and headed straight out to sea, so far out that their movement could not be detected from the shoreline. The men of Gwerfjord watched in dismay from the bluffs, and hurried back to their village expecting to be attacked the next morning, but to their surprise, the ships did not appear. Bjordi's new plan, upon the recommendation of his advisor, was to approach the village that night but to remain far enough away so as not to be seen, and to attack the village first thing in the morning as the sun rose and the village was waking up, it being taboo to attack at night in that they believed if they were killed their souls could become lost in the dark. Discovering the plan, Benny managed to get a message off to the twins by way of Hugin. After the accuracy of their first warning, when the twins told the men of the village to expect an attack the next morning instead, no one questioned their advice, and based on their word, the men decided to quietly row out into the sea in the dark of night in preparation for the attack. So when dawn broke, the captains of the three invading ships were surprised to see in the distance the ships from Gwerfjord also out at sea, but far to the west of them. Instead of heading to the village as they'd planned, they turned and headed toward the Gwerfjord ships, which had begun to head toward them. As they arrived within shooting distance, the archers from Schliefstag stood and took aim, and at the same time the Gwerfjord ships stopped and their warriors stood in a bank at the edge of the ship, shields raised to protect them from the rain of arrows. That was nothing unusual. What was unusual was the strategy Brett had come up with, a strategy he'd read about in a sci fi gaming book. While they had rested and waited in the dark of the night, he had instructed every warrior with a metal shield to polish it with cooking fat from the galley. Now as they raised their shields, they caught the rays of the rising sun and reflected it directly into the eyes of the Schliefstag archers and the warriors who'd held up their shields to protect them. They could not only not see the Gwerfjord warship, but they could not see the rain of arrows directed at them from behind the warriors with polished shields. As they raised their hands to shield their eyes from the glare, they left themselves wide open and archers and the men who were to be shielding them fell to the deck. With the surprise of finding the defenders already out at sea, and with the blinding strategy, what was supposed to have been a surprise attack turned in favour of the Gwerfjord defenders. Bjordi, however, was not about to turn and run after seven days at sea, and urged his men on, intending to ram the ships with his own. Njord, the god of the coastal seas, had been watching from above the clouds. Impressed with Brett's strategy, he was not about to make things so easy for the attackers and brought up a sudden winter storm, causing the boats to bob about like corks in the tall waves. He, like all the gods, was under instructions not to interfere in the missions of the four boys, but causing a storm did not favour one side over the other, so he reasoned he could hardly be blamed as being partisan. In fact as the waves buffeted the ships, one particularly large wave swept over Seglfjot's ship, the ship the twins were in, and swept Brent into the ice-cold sea. With a scream of dismay, Brett called out, screaming his brother's name, but he knew there was nothing that he nor the men on the ship could do. He also knew that it was going to be impossible to find his twin brother in the sudden storm that had blown up, and that although Brent was a good swimmer, there was no way he'd be able to stay afloat until the storm was over, not with the icy North Atlantic water and the violently churning waves. "No!" he cried, his heart breaking as he looked up into the sky, hoping that Odin would be watching this battle given the impact their loss would have on him and the other gods, and knowing only Odin could save his brother. "If one of us must die, let it be me!" he cried in his despair and sorrow. Njord, having seen what had happened, had already sent another wave to hit the ship and to lift Brent up from the sea and toss him back onboard. In his eagerness to rectify what had happened as a direct result of his interference, and in his fear of Odin's wrath for having interfered in the battle, and especially having intervened to their disadvantage, he had not considered how distraught Brett was, so as one brother was swept back on board, the second was swept off, making it look to those on the vessel as if the gods had heard Brett's plea. Brent, waterlogged, frozen, and in a state of shock, had no idea what had happened of course, and was just grateful to have been washed back on board. As Bjordi's ship smashed into Seglfjot's, Brent was too busy clinging onto the ship to wonder where his brother was. It was not until many hours later after the men of Gwerfjord had repulsed the men of Schliefstag, sending two of their three ships to the bottom of the sea and chasing the last back down the coast and out to the southern sea, ensuring it did not land on their coastline, that Brent discovered what had happened to Brett. He and his brothers had been in life-threatening situations before, but nothing like this, and never had he considered that one of them might be killed. Standing in the prow of the dragon ship and looking out at the grey, turbulent sea, tears streaming down his face and freezing to his downy cheeks, he was oblivious to the harsh, cold winter wind blowing in his face as they returned to the village. His heart was as cold as the chunks of ice along the shore, and his one ardent hope was that Benny was on the one ship heading back to Schliefstag and not on one of those that had been sunk. If he'd lost both of his brothers, he'd rather die there in this foreign land and time than return home. In his despair he had not thought of Bobby, and Bobby, of course, had no idea what was happening to his brothers. Having survived his rapid descent through the forest with a black eye, a half dozen bruises, and a few minor facial cuts, he was thankful he had not sprained nor broken anything. He was even more thankful that he had not skied right off the jagged bluff he was now standing upon. That was the only good thing about where he was. The thirteen-year-old looked in dismay at the sheer cliffs now before him. Jagged and coated with ice, they dropped several hundred feet to the sea below him, and they stretched for as far as he could see to his right and to his left. There was no way he was going to be able to climb down them. With night falling, he retreated away from the cliffs and sought shelter at the edge of the forest, building himself a snow shelter and starting a bit of a fire from the dry needles and branches, bringing his boy scout camping and outdoors crafts badge to the test with the tiny piece of flint in his backpack. As he drifted in and out of sleep, he wondered about his brothers and prayed they were all right. Not knowing exactly whom he should be praying to, he included both Odin and God, and threw in Zeus for good measure along with Hermes for Brent's sake. Examining the cliffs in the morning and dismayed that he'd possibly chosen the wrong direction and should have headed to his left back in the meadow, he debated if he should make the climb back up the slopes he'd skied down, or if he should hike along the cliffs and see if there was a way down. The problem with the first was that it was going to be a steep, hard climb, and would probably take him three times as long to climb back up as the single day it had taken for him to ski down. The problem with the second choice was that he had no idea if he should head right or head left along the cliffs. Choosing the cliffs rather than the climb, because the cliffs were easier, and because at least he'd be going somewhere for three days instead of just returning to where he'd been, he decided to head right for the simple reason that he associated right with the mansion back in Valaskjalf. So, for the rest of that day, and for the four days after that, he hiked along the cliffs, fighting despair and disappointment all the way. He sang and thought about the Catholic choir he belonged to and the choir boys he'd messed around with, and those he still planned on doing things with. He sang the songs he'd learned at Yule and thought of the fun time he and his brothers had that night. He sang every song he had learned in scouts, those you could sing in front of your scout leaders, and those you sang when there were no adults around. He rationed out the jerky that was in his backpack, and he even used his scouting skills to snare a rabbit and cook it out of sheer hunger. Most of all he thought about his brothers and worried about them and swore that if he ever got back home he'd never use the spell book again. Except maybe to curse Benny for suggesting this dumb idea. And any spells that involved sex. Provided he didn't freeze off his pecker before he got home. On the morning of the seventh day as he looked down at the jagged abutments and wondered if there would ever be an end to them, he heard a noise behind him that sounded like an avalanche. Quickly turning, he spotted a man stepping out of the forest, not just an ordinary man, but one that had to be four stories high. He was reminded immediately of his experience with another giant of another sort, an experience that had turned out quite enjoyable. This giant, however, did not look like one who liked children. He didn't look like he liked anything or anyone. Standing at close to forty-feet tall, he had a frost-white bristly beard and hair that stuck out from under his horned helmet, ice-blue eyes, and a fierce scowl on his face. A long sword hung from his belt, and he was pulling what looked like a toboggan. Hunkering down behind a large boulder, Bobby waited until the man passed, and then scurrying after him, leaped up on the toboggan and hid in the pile of sacks on it. He had no idea where the giant was heading, but wherever it was, he was going in the same direction as he was and he was going to get there a lot faster than he'd ever be able to. As the dragon ship approached Gwerfjord, Brent was the first to spot the slender, long- haired figure jumping up and down on the shore and waving. He could not believe his eyes, and his heart was so happy he was sure it would burst with joy. Brett had miraculously (actually with the help of Njord) been washed up ashore and found by the women of the village who were standing watch waiting for the return of their loved ones. While Brent had been crying his eyes out and freezing on the prow of the ship, Brett had been on shore awaiting his return and fretting. He had seen his brother miraculously being washed back onto the ship as he'd been washed overboard, but he could have been dead, and if he'd been alive, since then Seglfjot's warship could have been sunk or could have been boarded and Brent killed. Bjordi's ship had been seriously damaged, and being in the lead, most of his men had been killed with the few remaining surrendering before the ship was sunk. Bjordi himself was not onboard. During the ramming of ships, Benny had seen his opportunity and stepped up behind the man. Begging forgiveness, he pushed the warrior over the railing. As if in answer that such a deed was beyond forgiving, seconds later he lost his balance and tumbled over the railing after him. As he hit the icy water, he reached out and grabbed the first thing in his sight, which he did not realize at the time was Bjordi. A few moments later they began to move. Numb with cold and shock, it took him a few moments to notice it, and to notice they were not moving toward the remaining ships, but away from them. Not only that but they were moving far too fast for the man he was clinging to, for by then he'd realized that was what he was doing, to be swimming. As he focussed his numbed mind, he discovered that they were being carried by some sort of sea creature. At least the man he was clinging to was being carried. He was just sort of coming along for the ride. He had heard of dolphins or porpoises or something saving people, and of course he'd had his own experience with dolphins in Bimini on Memorial day, but he had no idea if they lived this far north, or if they did that sort of thing back in Viking times. As they skimmed along the surface of the ocean, he could not be sure what it was that was carrying them, and it could be for all he knew some sea serpent taking them home for dinner, they being the dinner. With the cold numbing his mind and the salt water spray in his face, he had no idea they were actually heading for land until they were unceremoniously tossed onto the beach. Before he could come to his senses, whatever it was that had saved them had disappeared back into the ocean. Arriving not far from the inlet that Benny had been told about, they stumbled up the beach to the nearest fisherman's shack. The place was empty, the owner either having joined the warriors on the warship or his dead companions in Valhalla, the hall of dead heros. Cold and wet, they built a fire and stripped out of their sodden clothes. Benny watched Bjordi closely, hoping to find an opportunity to complete his mission, as distasteful as it was. As it turned out, actually to his relief, Bjordi was never far from his sword. Changing into the fisherman's clothing, they headed toward the village when they were joined, to their surprise, by the elder who had been Bjordi's chief advisor on this mission and who had also made it to shore and found a change of clothing. The man immediately took Bjordi aside, and as they conferred, Benny studied the wizened old warrior for the first time. He somehow had the feeling they'd met before, though he looked unlike any man he'd met so far on this strange adventure. As they approached the village, they headed for the shore and hid near the docks. They did not wait long before the dragon ships of Gwerfjord appeared on the horizon, damaged, two badly, but still afloat. As they tied up at the dock and the men began to disembark, Benny peered from his hiding place and prayed against hope. He finally spotted the man who had to be Seglfjot, and to his delight, two slender blond youths who despite their Viking armour he quickly recognized. Bjordi recognized them also, and was beginning to wonder if the two boys were vitkis, shamans, or if they were Seglfjot's ergi. He never seemed to appear without them. Nocking an arrow in the long bow his advisor had given him, Bjordi slowly began to draw the string back. He was only going to have the one chance. Knowing he probably had less than a minute, Benny made up his mind. He had to jump up and give warning, regardless of the fact it would reveal him as a traitor and ruin any chances he'd have to get close to Bjordi and kill him. He could not let his brothers fail in their mission to protect Seglfjot. As Bjordi took aim, Benny slowly stood and removed his helmet, uncertain if he should throw it at Bjordi or at the approaching men. Before he had a chance to do either, Brett spotted Bjordi and without a moment's hesitation began to step in front of the man he was sworn to protect. Bjordi, realizing he had been seen, let the arrow fly. Everyone seemed to freeze into a tableau as it slowly sailed through the air and pierced Brett in the chest, and as he began to fall in slow motion, Brent reached out to grab him. Without waiting to see if he'd been successful, Bjordi fled into the surrounding forest, his advisor grabbing Benny and charging after him. As they fled through the forest, Benny heard his brother's plaintive cry, and tears filled his eyes. "No! No! Not Brett! Please no! If a life must be shed, take my life, not his!" he screamed, unaware his brother had made the same plea when he'd been washed overboard. A coal black raven circling overhead suddenly flew down and passing over the two boys kneeling there on the dock, dropped a mistletoe leaf. The warriors who had surrounded Seglfjot and the boys to protect them from further attack watched in silence as the leaf floated down to land on the gaping wound in Brett's chest, and to their awe they saw the arrow drop out and the wound slowly close and heal. As Brent fell over in a faint, they were sure his life had been taken in place of his brother's as he'd asked, and they dropped to their knees in awe of these two strange boys who had become their protectors and who loved each other so greatly that they would give their lives for each other. Unaware of what was happening to his brothers, Bobby was delighted to see the land gradually dropping, and after half a day's walk even more delighted as the frost giant came to a slope between the sea cliffs and headed down to the sea. Passing a particularly large tree among the driftwood, Bobby rolled off the toboggan and hid behind it. The giant continued to the edge of the shore, where he rummaged around in the sacks on the toboggan where Bobby had been hiding only minutes earlier. Finding his net, he tossed it far out into the sea, and after a moment gradually began to haul it back in. Shaking out the fish that had been caught in the net and stuffing them in one of the sacks, he tossed the net out once again. As he crouched there watching the giant fishing, Bobby glanced about as he pondered his next challenge. He could wait until the giant left, but how was he going to dive down to the bottom of the sea? One minute in that icy water and he'd be a Bobby popsicle. And even if he could dive into the water, and even if he could swim to the bottom, how was he going to find an oyster in miles and miles of ocean? He looked at the fish flopping in the giant's net. Now if only he could be a fish. Or one of the otters playing on the rocks up the shore. As he watched them and pondered his problem, a solution came to him, a solution that only a thirteen-year-old could come up with, at least a thirteen-year-old with the imagination of Bobby. It had worked for Loki, and from the conversations he'd overheard, for some of the others, so why not for him? He was no god, but this was no ordinary place either. He closed his eyes and concentrated with all his strength. He slowly opened his right eye and looked at his arm in disappointment. It was still an arm. He concentrated harder. There was no other solution, at least not one that he could think of. He thought he felt a change but he didn't dare open an eye or break his concentration. Squinting his eyes tightly shut to avoid the temptation of peeking, he concentrated harder. He was sure there was a change. Slowly opening his right eye, he frowned in disappointment. There was not a scale insight. Maybe being a fish was too hard. That was a totally different animal kingdom, or phylum, or whatever. Maybe he should have tried to change into an otter. At least they were both mammals. At least he thought otters were mammals. He concentrated again, this time on fur, not scales, and on paws, not fins. Actually, if he could change into an animal he'd prefer to be a horse. A big brown horse, with a long flowing mane and tail, one of those huge, handsome horses with the hair around the ankles that they had in parades and shows. And of course with a big dick. He felt a change, a change between his legs. He concentrated harder. A big hairy sack, whatever it was called that a horse's dick was in, and a huge, long, dick. Yes, he was changing! A horse couldn't go to the bottom of the ocean, but it was a beginning. He slowly opened his eyes. He didn't have a hairy pouch. He was, however, getting a boner. He sighed and concentrated on the otters. At least they didn't have huge dicks to distract him. He didn't know how they had sex exactly. Like a dog probably. He concentrated, imagining their sleek fur, their cute little paws, their cute little ears and cute little black noses. He concentrated very hard. He would make a cute otter. Slowly he raised one eyelid and then the other. His dark brown eyes sparkled. His fine, long whiskers quivered. He no longer had a hand and arm. He had a paw and a furry leg. He was no longer wearing a thick, brown winter coat. He was wearing a coat of sleek brown fur. He was Bobby the otter! Scampering across the beach from boulder to boulder and trying to stay out of the giant's sight, he finally reached the edge of the sea and plunged into the water. It was not the slightest bit cold. He swam out from the shore and dived, and turned in circles, and rose to the surface. He'd never swum so well. It was awesome. He swam straight ahead, as fast as he could. He dived to the bottom of the ocean and skimmed along the bottom. It was absolutely wonderful! For the next half hour he totally forgot his mission as he swam and dove and floated. Finally remembering what he was there for, he began a methodical search. He soon discovered in this form he could communicate with the other sea life, and soon found himself asking for the location of the largest oyster bed. Arriving at the location an hour later and spotting the largest oyster among them, he was about to head to it when he saw another otter approaching him, a girl otter he discovered, who took a very intense interest in him. As she circled him and nuzzled him, rubbing her nose against his, and then rubbing it where no girl had ever rubbed her nose before, it was evident what her intention was, and Bobby thought back about the stories he'd heard during the evening meal at Valaskjalf that now seemed so long ago, and wondered what it would be like to be an animal and have sex with another one. At least he wasn't the girl animal like some of the gods had been. It was tempting, and it definitely was what the girl otter wanted, but he resisted. For one he didn't really know how otters had sex, and for another, she was a female and he wasn't sure he wanted his first time with a female to be as animals. Mostly, he knew he had to get that pearl and still get back to where Odin had left him, and that was a long, cold uphill climb. She persisted however, doing everything she could to arouse him, and finally he had to bite her to get her to back off. Swimming over to the giant oyster and seeing the pearl, the size of a baseball, he was about to swim in closer when a group of sea otters swam by, three adolescents who cavorted about the bottom of the ocean, clearly having fun with each other. Spotting him, one of the otters swam over, and giving him a nudge with its head, immediately turned and swam away. Bobby immediately joined in the game of tag, chasing after the otter and bumping his head against it and similarly charging off. Unable to resist having a bit of fun after the hardships he'd gone through, he joined in their games as they chased about the ocean floor and swam to the surface and rode the waves. Returning to the oyster an hour later, he gave it several cautious passes before swimming between the shells. Reaching out and grabbing the pearl, he immediately turned and swam off with it. The otters, figuring this was another game, gave chase, and for the next half hour they engaged in a game of steal and run with the pearl until finally they grew tired and sought other entertainment and Bobby headed for the shore, and the long, arduous climb ahead of him. He regretted not having had the opportunity to find out what gay sex with an otter would be like, and resolved that once this was all over he'd return to this place and do some serious playing around. Bjordi, having failed in his ambush, hid out in the nearby caves that night and the following day until evening, and then along with Benny and his advisor and a new plan, headed back toward the village. He knew that Seglfjot and his men after the victory the previous day would be holding a celebration to commemorate their success. He was correct, and quickly mixed in with the crowd of merrymakers. Benny followed close behind. He had no idea what Bjordi was up to, or how he might stop him, but he knew that he had to remain near him if he was going to succeed in his mission. As Bjordi slowly manoeuvred his way over to Seglfjot, Benny similarly made his way through the crowd to where the two men were, ready to do whatever he had to in order to stop Bjordi though without a weapon he had no idea how. What the man had in mind in such a crowded room and surrounded by his enemies Benny had no idea, and even worse, he knew Bjordi was not thinking like a rational man. After his failure to defend his own village and the humiliation of being penetrated by another man, not just by one man, and not just once, but by so many men he'd lost count, and for the entire night with many coming back for a second or third time, he was filled with anger. The failure at sea, and his failure to put an arrow through the man's heart when he'd returned to shore only fuelled that anger and added to his humiliation. What he was going to do about it, Benny did not have to wait long to find out. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out not a knife as Benny had expected and was prepared to wrestle from him, but a small vial. Unstoppering it, he poured the contents into Seglfjot's tankard of ale while the man was distracted. As Bjordi turned his back to pocket the empty vial, Benny quickly swapped Bjordi's drink for Seglfjot's. Bjordi had not noticed, but unfortunately his elderly advisor had, and he being quick handed in turn swapped the drinks a second time before either man had a chance to drink. Both Brett and Benny noticed however, and as Benny tried to distract the man, Brett swapped Seglfjot's drink with not Bjordi's, but with the elder. The old man caught what he was doing out of the corner of his eye, and the man and the boy looked directly at each other. Keeping his eyes glued to the old man's, Brett raised his mug and loudly proposed a toast to Seglfjot and the brave men who'd sailed with him. Of course the others all raised their mugs, leaving only the old man. "What's the matter, you have something against the brave men who fought for Gwerfjord?" Brett asked, drawing everyone's attention to the man. "Hey! I know you!" Benny suddenly shouted. "You're ." Before he could finish, the man raised his arm and made a sudden gesture, and a whirl of dust surrounded him, causing the others near him to choke and their eyes to sting as they fumbled for their swords and daggers. When the dust settled a minute later, the old man, and Bjordi, had disappeared. Splashing out of the water and shaking himself off, Bobby scampered up to the pile of driftwood and began to concentrate on changing his shape. With the confidence and daring of thirteen-year-olds, he hadn't for a moment considered the possibility that he might not be able to return to his real self. Unlike the first time, the transformation took only seconds. A huge grin crossed his face. Now that was a trick he could get used to. As he stood there, he imagined the hundred different animals he could be, and tried to imagine having sex in each of the forms. His first would definitely be as a horse. He could just imagine himself hung like a stallion, or even better, standing on all fours and being mounted by one. It was a pleasant thought, but he had more pressing things to think about unfortunately, like the long hike back up the sea cliffs, and then up through the mountain slopes to the high meadow where Odin had dropped him off. He frowned as he thought about that, and he wished there was another way. Slowly realizing that he didn't have to make the trip on foot, he slapped himself on the side of the head. Now what bird should he be? An eagle like Odin would be cool, though to be an owl would be cool too. A parrot would be interesting, but would be conspicuous flying across the frozen north. A shadow suddenly passed over him, interrupting his thoughts. He looked up, waaaaay up, up, up, up at the scowling face of the Frost Giant. "Ah, hi." "What are you doing on my shore?" "I, ah, didn't know it was yours." "And what were you doing in my ocean?" "I didn't know that was yours either." "And what are you doing with my pearl?" "Ah, well, it isn't like you had your name on it or nothing." "This is my shore, and my ocean," the giant thundered. "I have been fishing these seas and hunting this land for years, long before you were even born. Everything on it and in it belongs to me." "Oh. Ah, well ." "So return my pearl." Bobby suddenly realized that something was wrong. How did he know about the pearl? It was secure and hidden in the pocket of his winter coat. "Well, if all this land, and all this sea is yours, surely you can spare one tiny little pearl." "I could. But why should I? It belongs to me." "Ah, well, good point. Maybe, ah, you could sell it to me, or we could make a trade or something." "You have nothing that I want or need." "Maybe I can do something for you, you know, like earn it." "Do something for me?" the giant asked with a laugh. "What could a little thing like you possibly do for me?" "I could, ah, maybe scratch an itch that you can't reach, or remove a thorn in your toe or something," Bobby replied, wishing he could think on his feet like his brother Brett could. Brett would have had an answer, a good answer. Actually, there was an itch that Bobby would have loved to scratch for the giant now that he'd mentioned it. "If I had an itch I needed scratched I would not have to pay you to do it. I would simply command you, and if you refused I could freeze you with my breath." The Frost Giant bent over and exhaled, purposefully aiming his icy breath at the human male child. "Yeah, well, try it and I'll melt you with mine," Bobby retorted as he stared at the giant's crotch. He was not about to be pushed around and threatened, even if it was by a giant. Inspiration suddenly struck. "Suppose I give you a riddle, and if you can't answer it, then I get to keep the pearl. And if you do guess it, then, well, I guess you get to keep me." The giant looked down at him quizzically. "Well, hey, it happens in legends all the time." "You think because I am big, I am not smart." "No. I didn't mean that," Bobby replied quickly. "Tell me your riddle." Oh sure, to that proposal he agrees. Bobby quickly tried to recall the legends and stories he'd heard involving riddles. Some of them were particularly good, but in the panic of the moment, he could not think of a single one. Retreating to more familiar ground, he tried to recall all the riddles he knew. There was the one about why the fireman wore red suspenders, but the giant would probably say that was not fair since he didn't know what suspenders were, or a fireman. There was that great one Aaron had told him, what can you put in your left hand that you can't put in your right, or the one Benny had heard that asked what does a dog do on three legs that a man does standing up and a woman sitting down. Or what can a duck do that a doctor won't. They were great, but he needed a guaranteed stumper. Fuck, he could not think of a single riddle that he'd read about monsters being unable to answer! He reached in his pocket and wrapped his fingers about the pearl. So he didn't become a man, big deal. An idea suddenly came to him. "An oyster makes a pearl when something like a grain of sand or something irritates it. What makes an even more beautiful and more precious pearl when it is irritated?" The giant considered the question. That he didn't answer immediately Bobby considered a good sign. Of course when he heard the answer he could say it was a dumb riddle and refuse to pay up. It was after all a riddle Bobby had made up on his own at the spur of the moment. "Many cuttlefish make pearls, but no one can be said to be more beautiful than another. Teardrops are sometimes called pearls by the poets, and they are more precious, but teardrops are hardly beautiful," he observed, thinking out loud. "Dewdrops have been said to be pearls, and some would argue they are more beautiful, but they cannot be more precious." He thought about the riddle for a long time, longer than Bobby would give his brothers, but his brothers could not freeze him with a single breath. "Very well, I give up. What is the answer?" "A cock." "A rooster?" "No, no, not that sort of cock. Your dick. Your penis." "My penis? Someone has been telling you strange things about giants," the man said, raising a hairy eyebrow. "It can," responded Bobby. He was about to explain when another idea came to his mind, a most excellent idea. "Take it out and I'll show you." The giant paused, and then reached down and undid the cord of his pants and let them drop to his ankles. They were quickly followed by his underpants. Even with the sun shining it was freezing cold out and Bobby shivered with just the thought of doing what the giant had done. "Ah, I need to be able to touch it," Bobby said, his heart speeding up as he looked up at the long, thick member a good two stories above him. It was almost two feet long, and it was still soft! Freezing cold or not, this was going to be fucking awesome! The giant sat down on the shore. "If you are thinking of grabbing my testicles and making me promise to let you have the pearl, forget about it," he said. "Someone your size could hardly squeeze hard enough to cause me any pain." Causing the giant pain was the last thing on Bobby's mind as he removed his mittens and reached over for the giant's huge sausage. As he began to stroke it, working his fingers up and down the shaft and along the sensitive rim of the giant's knob, it began to swell. He rubbed his cheek over the flaccid head and stuck out his tongue and licked the sensitive opening at the very tip. He wiggled the tip of his tongue inside, the opening being almost an inch in diameter. As the giant's massive dick rose up, Bobby held it in his hands and eagerly and excitedly licked the deep purple-red head. It did not take long for the giant's member to become fully distended. At four- foot-one, it was only nine inches shorter than Bobby, and the shaft being ten inches in diameter, there was no way he could get both hands around it and have his fingers touching. It was like holding a huge, fat zucchini, a zucchini with a twelve-inch diameter knob. Sticking out his tongue, he ran it along the rim. It was like licking a basketball! As far as Bobby was concerned, the giant's huge, throbbing hot cock made the perfect dinner. He ran his tongue over the huge knob, causing the giant's cock to jerk. The giant was cut and Bobby wondered what the cut off part of his foreskin would have looked like. That would have been something to see! He ran his tongue along the sensitive surface just under the knob, causing the giant to quiver with arousal. He licked the hot, throbbing dick like it was a lollipop and inhaled its cheesy fragrance, and both he and the giant quivered with arousal. Bobby's little cocklet was tenting out his pants and he reached down and squeezed it as he licked the giant pecker. It was not long before a clear, pearly droplet appeared at the tip of the knob. "Now, isn't that pearl more beautiful and precious than any pearl made by an oyster?" asked Bobby, "and I bet irritating your cock was more fun than irritating an old oyster." As the Frost Giant sat there with his massive chest heaving in and out and his thick, tumescent cock throbbing hotly in Bobby's hands, the pearl of pre-cum glistening in the setting sun, he could not disagree. With a huge smile of triumph and the warm satisfaction of having won, Bobby bent over and lapped up the gum ball-sized droplet of pre-cum. It was even more delicious than a gum ball. Fastening his lips to the very tip of the giant cock, he sucked hard on the opening as he ran his hot, moist tongue over it and the Frost Giant quivered as another droplet of pre-cum oozed out of his throbbing cock. Quivering with excitement himself, Bobby ran his wet lips over the turgid knob and ran his tongue up along the funnel along the underside. He allowed his spittle to fill his mouth and then drooled it over the massive cock and spread it with his tongue, and then licked the cock-flavoured spittle back up and swallowed it. Standing between the giant's legs and straddling his huge, hairy balls, Bobby's chin was at the same level as the tip of the giant's cock. Spreading his fingers out as far as he could, he rubbed his hands up and down the thickly-veined shaft. The huge, monstrous organ throbbed hotly in his hands, and the giant trembled as he felt himself approaching his orgasm. Inhaling deeply and holding his breath, he closed his eyes as he shot. Bobby's eyes, on the other hand, were as big as dinner plates as he watched the thick, white stream shoot up into the air past his eyes, arch, and begin to fall back down. Striking the giant's purple-red knob, it oozed down the slope and on down the shaft as still more cum gushed out of the hot, thick, throbbing fountain. The hot, slick cum ran over Bobby's fingers, and he smeared it over the giant's cock. He licked the thick rivulets of custard up, swirling his tongue over the flooded knob and licking the giant's deeply veined shaft. Bringing his hands to his face, he licked the thick cream from them and he trembled as his own cock trembled and the first wave of his dry orgasm ripped through his body. Pressing his body against the giant, cum-streaked cock, he squeezed it tightly as he trembled and jerked in ecstasy. PART THREE: THE CELEBRATION "It was like totally wicked," Bobby said with a huge grin as he looked at his three brothers, and across at Odin. After bringing the giant off, he had explained what he was doing there in Jotunheim, the land of the Frost and Rock Giants, and about his quest for manhood. Picking him up and placing him on his shoulder, the Frost Giant had trekked back to his hut in the forest. As he cleaned and salted the fish he'd caught, he listened to Bobby's tale about how he and his brothers had arrived in the middle of the battle at Schliefstag, and about being taken to Asgard where the volva had explained how their arrival had affected the course of history, and how Odin had sent his brothers off to turn things back around. Preparing them something to eat, he listened with even greater amazement as Bobby explained he was from the future, and described how people lived where he came from. He was disappointed that the enterprising youth could not tell him if Jotunheim still existed in his future, but in that the world of humans had not yet come to an end, he had to assume that it, along with the other worlds, had not either. Bobby spent the night with the giant, and most of the next day exchanging tales and information about their two worlds, between some hot sessions of rimming, sucking and jerking of course, before the giant carried him back up through the forest to the high meadow where Odin was to meet him. Hugin had been keeping Odin informed about what was happening with Bobby, and as he and the Frost Giant appeared in the meadow Odin swooped down from the skies in his eagle form to meet them. "You are certain of the words Valdimr spoke?" asked Odin. "As to how he knew you had the pearl?" "Absolutely," Bobby responded, nodding his head vigorously. "He said that Loki had come to him while he was fishing, and had told him that I was stealing one of his pearls, and that he had tried to stop me by distracting me as a girl otter, but that I was not interested, and that in addition to being a thief I was probably an ergi besides. Valdimr was ready to kill me when he heard I was stealing one of his pearls, and he was none too happy that you'd sent me there to get it," Bobby continued, looking at Odin with a serious expression. "Anyway, that was how Valdimr knew I had the pearl, and why he'd been watching for an otter to return out of the sea." "You really turned into an otter?" asked Benny with amazement. "Oh yeah. It was like fucking wicked!" Bobby replied, his eyes bright with excitement. "It was so fucking cool. I can see why you guys change form," he observed, looking at Odin with admiration. Odin could not help but smile back at the boy. He was everything he would want a thirteen-year-old Viking boy to be. How Bobby had been able to change shape without any training in Seidhr he had no idea, but then this was a time and place of magic, and he was an enterprising youth. "And you are also sure of what you have told me?" Odin asked, looking over at Benny. After bringing Bobby back to Valaskjalf, Odin had headed to Gwerfjord to pick up Benny and the twins, his other raven, Munin, having been keeping him informed on their progress and waiting for him when he'd returned with the latest news. "Oh yeah, he'd done a good job of changing himself, but I recognized Loki anyway. He was the one who had been advising Bjordi." At that moment, Tyr and Vili entered the great hall of Gladsheim where Odin and the boys were talking and where the other gods had been summoned. Between Tyr and Vili, looking most displeased and a bit apprehensive, was Loki, who clearly was there under duress. Under questioning by Odin, he confessed to Bobby's accusations, and admitted that he had disguised himself as a man and had been advising Bjordi. He also confessed to having changed himself into a dolphin and carrying Bjordi to shore, and after the poisoning attempt failed, to having returned him to his village. "But I was not the only one who interfered with the actions of these four boys," he objected, looking over at Njord. "I have confessed to my small part," Njord responded. "But the sea battle was on my territory where I have domain, and I did not favour one side over the other. Indeed, when I found out I had aided those who would bring about our early demise, I immediately rectified the situation." "And what of the raven who dropped the mistletoe and healed this boy's wounds?" asked Loki, nodding toward Brett. "Whose doing was that?" "I confess I also intervened in the affairs of these four," Baldr responded, "but only that once, and only because what had happened to this youth was the direct result of your own intervention. What would you have done for my actions, have me killed a second time?" he asked with a glare. His helping Brett was just as much to circumvent Loki's plans as it was a desire to help the beautiful youth that reminded him so much of himself. "You and Njord have high-sounding reasons, but the fact is you both are as guilty as I am. You have also involved yourselves in the affairs of man when you were explicitly told not to," Loki accused. "Besides, my intervention has not resulted in the demise of the gods, and has in fact resulted in the creation of two new god-heros." That was true. In part because it vindicated him, and more so because he believed that was what had really happened, upon his return Bjordi had told the villagers about the otherworldly twins who had protected the men of Gwerfjord. He had explained how one died so the other might live in the sea battle, and how their roles were later reversed in another plea on the shores of the village when one had taken the arrow destined for the man they were protecting. Convinced that their attackers were protected by the gods, a pair of twins who would come to be known as the Alcis, or the Protectors, the men of Schliefstag abandoned any further ideas of attacking Gwerfjord. With the twins never having been called by name, their names have been obscure since that time, some later stories even claiming Freyr to be one of the Alcis. As for Benny, he was absolved of his obligation, the gods all agreeing that he'd done his best to kill Bjordi, and that in the end, having him live under the impression the northerners were protected was the better end to the conflict. That being settled, they retired to the dining hall. Serving boys brought in steaming bowls of barley soup and loaves of freshly baked bread, large platters of roasted rabbit, pork and mutton, plates piled high with pickled cabbage, sausages, cheese wedges, and pickled herring, and serving after serving of blueberry and apple pies and nut-filled pastries coated with honey. Mead and a dark brown ale flowed freely, the former preferred by the boys and all four becoming light- headed by the end of the meal. As they ate and drank, the gods debated what would be fit punishment for Loki, who had been lead away and imprisoned in another part of the mansion, with the advice of the four boys being sought. Following the meal, Brent and Brett were lead away by one of the high priests, a slender, middle-aged man with a shaved head and a wig of long, blond curls and a mincing, effeminate manner. Taking the boys to a room in the back to which water from the hot spring outside was siphoned, he and three acolytes, also with shaved heads and ranging in age from their late teens to late twenties, stripped the boys and proceeded to bathe them. Having them lay on a pair of elevated mats, they massaged the two boys and rubbed scented oils over their naked bodies. Giving them rabbit skin moccasins and dressing them in soft doeskin robes trimmed with mink, the priests combed and fussed with their long blond hair which they held in place with finely tooled leather head bands. In years to come all-male circles would form to worship the beautiful but mystery-shrouded Alcis who had lead such short and heroic, but sadly tragic lives. They were then lead to a smaller room in the huge, sprawling mansion, an inner room made of red pine planks and warmed by a huge stone fireplace with thick fur rugs on the hardwood floor and a large bed piled high with brightly coloured woolen blankets and down filled comforters that could easily sleep four grown men. It was clearly a room designed for intimate entertaining. Sprawled out on the floor waiting for them were four of the gods the others had agreed upon to welcome the newcomers into the world of the living gods. Laying closest to the fireplace and propped up on his elbow was Baldr, the Aesir god of purity, sunshine and beauty, the most beautiful and the wisest of the gods, the flickering flames of the fireplace illuminating his fine, bright hair. He was wearing a soft, floor-length robe of deep blue, tied at the waist and open above, with a slender leg exposed below. His skin was so pale it was almost white. Condemned to life in the underworld because of Loki, Hel in her sympathy for the sweetest spoken of the gods had in time begun allowing him the occasional visit to Asgard. Sitting beside him was Freyr, the lord of life, love, peace and fertility, the son of Njord and one of the Vanier. In legends he was portrayed as a young man, nineteen or twenty, and so he appeared to the twins. Soft spoken and elegant in his gold embroidered beige tunic, he was laughing and joking with the others as they entered. The boys' attention was immediately drawn to his crotch. In their short stay at Gwerfjord, they had learned that he was worshipped by male priests who conducted their ceremonies around a man-sized stone carved as an erect phallus, and that young boys and men were sacrificed to him. He was a handsome youth, large-boned and beardless with sensuous eyes, thick lips and long brown hair that hung down just past his shoulders. He looked as one would imagine a strapping Nordic youth to look, and both Brett and Brent concluded, one to die for. Sitting beside him with an arm about his waist was a youth of similar beauty, his servant and beloved, Skirnir, dressed also in a fine tunic though not of such elegance. Although their relationship was of master and servant, they were of similar age, and loved each other as equals, the devotion, love and trust between the two young men evident in the way they looked at each other. Sitting cross-legged opposite the three younger men was Njord, god of the coastal seas and fair winds and the god of the fishermen. A tall, muscular man in the prime of life, he alone of the four was bearded. He was wearing a short green tunic that revealed strong, muscular legs and about his head a circlet of seashells. His beautiful feet, a pale white and delicate with slender toes, contrasted with the dark bearskin rug. He welcomed the twins and motioned for them to join them by the fire. Bobby had meanwhile accompanied Odin and Thor to Odin's private chambers, a large room with walls and floor of northern pine and a balcony that looked out upon the plain of Idavoll and which was dominated by a huge canopied, four poster bed covered with furs. Treasures given as gifts and taken in the spoils of war hung from the walls and sat on the mantle of the huge fireplace and everything in the room was large and masculine. Hanging his eagle-winged helmet and his massive sword on the weapons rack by the fireplace, he sat down on the bed and motioned Thor to join him. Thor, god of thunder and lightening and of agriculture, one of Odin's many children by one of his many wives and consorts, placed his huge hammer and iron gloves on the shelf above Odin's weapons and joined his father. Other than their fierce and rugged looks and muscular bodies, the two men looked very different. Although he had to be centuries old, Odin looked like a man in his fifties, his brow wrinkled and crinkles forming about his eyes, one bright as the sun and the other an empty socket, the leader of the gods having sacrificed an eye to drink from the Fountain of Wisdom. His hands were large and strong but rough and weathered and scarred from his many battles. His long white beard extended a quarter of the way down his chest, giving him a regal and wise look, and his long white hair flowed over his shoulders. His walrus-sized moustache covered his upper lip and became one with his beard. His son did not look that much younger, having the muscular body of a forty-year-old athlete in his prime, his shoulders, arms and thighs particularly thick and strong, like those of a shot putt thrower or a blacksmith. His bright red hair was as long as his father's and wind-blown, making him look particularly fierce, and his thick red beard looked coarse and bristly, as did the hair on his massive chest. Bobby's dicklet ached with just the thought of brushing against his body. Loki was left to Benny, who was told he could devise whatever punishment he wished. Given that Loki was once tied to three pointed rocks with the innards of his own son with a poisonous snake above his head dripping venom on his face, selecting an appropriate punishment for his deeds would be no easy task, but Benny readily accepted the challenge. After all, Loki had made the job Odin had assigned him particularly difficult, and he had endangered the lives of himself and his three brothers, giving him good reason to exact a punishment. Besides, he was a Brewster, and the Brewsters were experienced in dealing with the likes of Loki. After giving it a lot of thought, at least three or four minutes, which was a lot for Benny, he conferred with Forseti, the god of justice and mediation whose judgement was so wise and thought out his decisions were never questioned. The two left and the remaining gods tormented Loki with wild tales of what sort of torture might await him having crossing Odin and incurred the judgement of the stern and fierce looking Forseti. Although he tried to appear unconcerned, he was worried, especially when the two did not return, and if he'd known anything about Benny, he'd have been even more so. Forseti finally joined them a good half hour later with an ancient, wizened old crone. Hobbling up to Loki with her cane, she slowly circled him and then pointing at him with a gnarled finger and staring at him with a wide, jaundiced eye, the other being scared and closed, she bade the gods hold Loki down least he do her violence as she announced the curse she claimed that Benny had asked her to put on the trickster and provider god. At the mention of the boy, Loki looked about for him, suspicious why he would not be present to witness the curse. Taking a most strange container out of an inner pocket of her ragged cloak, she poured the sweet-smelling, green liquid down Loki's throat, telling him and the gods in the hall that it was a potion that would make him desire sex even more than a man stranded alone on a sea island for a month, but not as a man she cackled, but as a woman, causing the cavernous hall to echo with the laughter of the gods. Now that was an appropriate punishment for the trickster god! Having them pull off Loki's trousers, she slipped a gnarled finger along the crevice of his ass and wiggled it against his anus, saying that his manhole would ache and itch for a man's cock just as a virgin's hole did on her wedding night, causing another round of laughter, and even as she spoke Loki felt his anus begin to itch. Taking out another container, she scooped out the contents with her three middle fingers and smeared the paste over Loki's testicles, saying that the ointment would cause them to turn cold as ice and to shrivel and disappear, and again, as she spoke, Loki to his dismay felt his testicles growing cold and felt them beginning to shrink. Stepping back, the old crone laughed at the helpless trickster, and announced that only when his rectum had received nine deposits of semen from nine different men, and only after nine men had masturbated him to a climax would the curse be removed. As the door to the hall closed behind her it was Loki's turn to laugh, saying that he was a giant and an immortal, and that there was no woman on the nine worlds who could put a curse on him, and to prove it, he sat back smugly and grinned at the assembled gods as if nothing had changed. Try as hard as he could, however, he could not ignore the itch of his asshole, nor could he ignore the fact that his balls were in fact ice cold, and shrivelling, something all the gods could see, and something they pointed out with glee, observing that in no time Loki the man would be speaking with a high effeminate voice and his organ would revert back to the single purpose it once had as a child. They circled him and taunted him, asking which of them he'd like to be the first to mount him. Meanwhile the twins were being entertained by tales of wild adventures that their four hosts had experienced, adventures of a nature that the boys would never have been told about them in school, and many which would be lost over the ensuing centuries. The twins in turn had entertained their hosts with tales of their own adventures, many of which were just as wild and erotic. Stories of gang-banging the child-loving, merry old elf the boys called Santa Claus who lived in a land of ice and snow not unlike theirs, of bettering an immortal being called Satan and his evil minions in an underworld they had never heard of, of wild, raw sex in an ancient forest with a shaggy beast called Sasquatch, and of the unbelievable world of the twenty-first century and the daily events of their lives in Crestview Heights were just as amazing to the four gods as their tales had been for the two boys. They had also been just as erotic, and it was not long before the six of them began thinking what they might do to satisfy the throbbing erections that had arisen between their legs. Speaking of tales, Bobby, having settled in on the large bed with Odin on one side and Thor on the other, had, upon their encouragement, related in great detail his coming of age quest, from the moment Odin had dropped him off in the high meadow to the Frost Giant returning him. The two gods, two of the most powerful and revered gods in Asgard, listened with admiration for the boy's courage and his ingenuity in overcoming the obstacles in his quest. They smiled with amusement and with fond memories of their own youth as they noted the thirteen-year-old boy's enthusiasm and genuine awe as he related his fears and his frustrations as he sought the giant pearl, his delight swimming along the bottom of the sea as an otter and cavorting with the other otters, and Loki's failed distraction. They laughed when he told them of the riddle he'd presented to the frost giant, and when he described how Valdimr had produced not just one pearl but several strings of pearls, the two gods shifted their weight on the bed, feeling the beginnings of arousal between their legs, something that did not go unnoticed by the randy thirteen-year-old. Those back in Gladsheim were in good spirits and feeling randy also, at least everyone except Loki, who was feeling randy but certainly not in good spirits. Refusing to allow him to leave, the gods waited patiently, and as his anus itched more and more furiously and his testicles continued to shrink until they were the size of a child's, Loki's discomfort and his anxiety over his loss of masculinity, especially with the frequent references by the gods to his earlier escapades as a female, finally grew stronger than his confidence and his pride. Inhaling deeply and knowing what he had to do, he glared over at Benny, who had returned shortly after the old crone had left with a twinkle in his hazel eyes and an "I know a secret that you don't" smirk on his lips. Rising from where he'd been sitting, he approached Forseti and discretely whispered that if he could use his powers of mediation to allow the two of them to slip away, and if he would seek out the old crone and convince her to remove the spell, he would submit to the god and allow him to have his way with him. Of course Forseti replied just as discretely that he'd do no such thing, and that there was only one way Loki's curse would be removed, and that would be done there in the hall before everyone. Loki immediately turned to Bragi and offered to submit to him if he would find the old crone and use his gift of eloquence to convince her to remove the curse, but having been frequently called a coward by Loki in the presence of all the other gods and having been the brunt of Loki's insults many times, he would have no part of it. Knowing it would be futile to go to the other gods, each of whom he'd insulted or angered at some time, he glared again at Benny, who was the cause of his humiliation and debasement, and returned to Forseti. It was only after he had gotten on his knees and begged the god to have sex with him, and agreed to fondle his cock and balls until he was erect that Forseti agreed. With the cheering of the other gods, Loki slipped his hand inside Forseti's thick robe and extracted the god's cock and began to stroke it as he fondled the god's huge, hairy balls. The god did not make it easy for him and concentrated on everything except what was happening in the hall to delay his erection and prolong Loki's humiliation. He could not delay forever, and in time he had to give in to the pleasure assaulting his cock. Removing his huge padded boots, discarding his trousers and his scabbard, and dropping to his hands and knees there in the middle of Gladsheim before the assembled gods, Loki flushed a brilliant scarlet as bright as his red, mullet-style hair in embarrassment and anger. Throwing off his robe, Forseti knelt down behind the trickster god and placing the tip of his huge organ, thickly veined and an impressive ten inches in length, against Loki's itching anus and grasping it by the base, he lunged forward, plunging his thick sword up Loki's rectum. Reaching around and wrapping his fingers about Loki's still limp cock, he began to tug on it as he began to ease his own cock in and out of Loki's ass. Between the manipulation by Forseti's hand and the stroking of his prostate by his long, thick cock, it did not take long for Loki to get hard. Benny smiled with satisfaction as the mighty god of Nordic justice lustfully fucked the man who had tried to prevent him and his brothers from achieving the goals that Odin had set out for them. As the stern, bearded warrior thrust his massive cock in and out of the androgynous blood brother of Odin and pumped his stiff cock in the middle of the hall, the other gods poured themselves tankards of ale and jeered the hapless Loki staring down at the floor of the hall in embarrassment and anger. Gradually Forseti began to increase the speed with which he worked his hips, along with the pumping of his fist, and the look of lust in his eyes as he concentrated on the pleasure pulsating though his thick member left no doubt about his feelings. He grunted and snorted openly and unabashedly, and when he finally came with a mighty roar of satisfaction and a forward thrust of his hips and Loki shot his seed across the floor of the hall a few moments later the gods roared their approval, and observed that Loki must have enjoyed it as much as Forseti to have come so soon after he had. With Forseti having set the standard, the gods sat back and waited for Loki to make the next move, each determined they would make him beg and grovel even more than Forseti had made him do. There was no begging as far as the twins and their four hosts were concerned, all six being fully aroused and each knowing the others were just as eager for sex as he was. They had all chucked their robes and had sorted themselves into two groups, Baldr and Njord pairing up with Brett, and Njord's son Freyr and Freyr's beloved Skirnir pairing up with Brent. While Baldr and Brett embraced and kissed and caressed each other, running their hands eagerly over each other's smooth, gorgeous body, Njord snuggled behind Brett and kissed the nape of his neck as he caressed Brett's smooth, firm buttocks. Baldr ran his tongue between Brett's lips and deep kissed him, and Brett ran his hot, wet tongue around Baldr's. Running their hands up each other's back and pressing against each other's shoulder blades, the two pressed their naked chests against each other, their hot nipples pressing against each other's flesh and their stiff cocks pinned against each other and between each other's flat stomach. Brett trembled with excitement as he felt Njord's beard brush against the back of his neck, and as he felt the god of the sea nibble on his earlobe. Laying on the floor beside them, Freyr and Skirnir were caressing and kissing Brent as he kissed and caressed the two of them. Brushing back the seventeen-year-old's long, blond hair, they admired its silkiness and curls and observed that such fine hair would be the envy of every woman in the nine worlds. They kissed his forehead, his eyebrows, his ears, and his cheeks, and Brent in turn kissed one and then the other as he ran his hands over their smooth, warm bodies. Freyr and Skirnir continued down, kissing Brent's neck, his shoulders, and his smooth chest. They each took a nipple and licked and sucked and nibbled on it, causing the sensitive nubs to tingle with arousal and quickly grow firm. They delighted in his piercing and flipped his nipple ring with their tongues and engulfed it and his nipple in their hot, moist mouths. Brent meanwhile reached down and cupped the hot, sweating balls of the two gods and rolled the tender orbs in his fingers and tugged on the loose skin. He was eager to draw out the heavenly juices contained in those orbs, and his cock throbbed with the thought. They made an attractive threesome, seventeen-year-old Brent with his blue eyes and long, blond hair, and the two smooth, beardless gods with their long brown hair, hazel eyes, thick lips, and handsome youthful looks. Much to his delight, Bobby was finding himself the centre of attention. Both Odin and Thor being eager to bury their mammoth organs up Bobby's tender young ass, and Bobby being just as eager to receive each of them, they had decided that Odin being the elder, besides being the superior of all the gods and Thor's father, would have first crack so to speak. Not wanting to hurt the boy, who despite his past experiences and his eagerness would be tight, they knew they had to take time to arouse him and to gradually stretch his hole, but the two gods were more accustomed to a rough and brief prelude to having sex. That was especially true with sex with another male in that the only way they could accept same sex relationships was as the aggressors or as a means to achieve something else. Bobby had a much different concept of sex between guys, and being charmed by the naked cherub, the two mighty gods found themselves following his lead. So it was that Thor, the mighty god of thunder who could, and had, split the skulls of giants, found himself exchanging soft, tender kisses with the thirteen-year-old boy while he gently caressed the boy's smooth back and allowed the boy to run his fingers though the thick, coarse red hairs of his chest and to fondle his nipples, as a man might fondle the breasts of a woman. Odin, before whom even the mightiest quaked, was even more surprised to find himself gently caressing and kneading Bobby's soft cheeks with even more care and loving than he paid to his wives, and even more surprising yet, found himself pulling the thirteen-year-old boy's cheeks apart and pressing his face between them. No mortal or immortal in the nine worlds could lay claim to having the mightiest of all gods rim them. An hour ago Odin himself would never have imagined he'd be licking and sucking the asshole of a thirteen-year-old boy. Bobby squirmed with delight as he felt the god's thick, coarse beard brushing against his butt cheeks, and his hot mouth encircled by moustache and beard pressing against his pucker. His little cocklet was stiff and aching as father and son caressed him and kissed him, the son kissing him on the lips and the father kissing his asshole. He slipped his own lips about Thor's now swollen and irritated nipple and sucked on it, as a babe would suck his mother's teat, and given the size of the man and the boy, it was not an exaggerated comparison. He ran his tongue over the irritated nub and his eyes sparkled with delight as the mighty god of thunder quivered with the arousal. As Odin pressed his hot, wet tongue against his asshole, Bobby relaxed so the god could worm his tongue into his dank cavity, and he constricted his sphincter about it like a steel trap. Both gods were panting with arousal, their swelling cocks evidence of their growing lust. As unaccustomed as they were taking directions from a mere boy, they could not deny that what the persuasive teenager had them doing had them hotter than many a virgin maiden ever had. While Odin, Thor and Bobby were engaged in a hot session of foreplay in Odin's bedroom, the god Heimdall, who had been often teased and denigrated by Loki for having such a boring and mundane job as guarding the bridge to Asgard, was now about to enjoy his revenge as he knelt down behind the hapless Loki, his thick, stiff eight-inch cock throbbing hotly in his fist. Placing the knob against the abused but still tight hole of his tormentor, he had no thoughts of being gentle. He suspected that Loki had approached him after Forseti in the hope he would be more gentle than the other gods, and because his cock was smaller than the others, and he had taken great delight in making the giant grovel and beg to be fucked for twice as long as Forseti had. Now he rammed his cock up Loki's rectum and began to rapidly thrust his hips to and fro, drawing back as far as he could until his knob was stretching apart the trickster's sphincter and sinking his massive cock back up Loki's rectum until his hairs were pressed against the god's hairy butt. He took great delight in furiously and roughly fucking the god who had humiliated and insulted him, in making him play the role of ergi, which in the mind of the Vikings and the gods of Asgard, was the lowest of the roles a man could play. Loki was his to be used for his pleasure, to be used as a man uses a woman, and he reminded Loki of that fact with each thrust of his hips. He also reminded him that he would be shooting his seed deep up his body and regretted that Loki would not be able to bear his child, but at least his seed would be planted deep up his body and not shot across the floor of Gladsheim as Loki's would be. As he roughly pumped his fist up and down Loki's stiff cock the trickster god felt his balls once again beginning to draw up tight under his cock and he closed his eyes with the humiliation of being jerked off before the other gods and the smiling fifteen-year-old boy upon whom he placed total blame for his humiliation. Neither Brett nor Brent nor the four gods who had joined them were feeling humiliation nor embarrassment. Brett had stretched out on his back on the thick bearskin rug before the fireplace with Baldr and Njord laying on either side of him in the opposite direction. While the two horny, naked gods nibbled and licked his balls and stiff cock, which at seven and a half inches was impressive for a seventeen-year-old mortal, Brett grasped both of theirs by the base and drew them together so the tips of their knobs were touching and so he could lick both at the same time. The two handsome, Nordic gods were well hung, both being two inches longer than the teenager they were licking, and Brett took great delight in tightly squeezing the massive tubes and licking their blood-engorged heads. Running his tongue over them and along the rims, he felt the two gods tremble with arousal, and he himself shuddered with erotic pleasure as their hot tongues lapped at his stiff cock. Laying on another thick fur rug beside the three and before the fireplace, Brent and Freyr, the nineteen-year-old god of life and love, had lain down in opposite directions and were mouthing and licking each other's balls. With Freyr also being the god of fertility, Brent could only imagine how much cum he could hold in those tender orbs or what the love juice of a Nordic god might be like, but he knew he was going to find out. He inhaled the musky fragrance of Freyr's hot, hung balls with delight, as a boy might inhale and delight in the aroma of a freshly baked apple pie, except for Brent the aroma of a hot set of balls of a young man was far better. The seventeen-year-old blond quivered with delight as he felt Freyr's tongue caress his own balls and the god's hot spittle trickle down over them. At the same time, Skirnir, Freyr's beloved and servant, had snuggled up behind Brent and having pulled apart the teenager's smooth buttocks, had begun rimming him. Feeling the handsome young man's tongue running up and down his crack, and pressing against his pucker as it tried to worm into his body, Brent inhaled and exhaled deeply with growing desire. As Skirnir's long, dark brown hair brushed against his naked buttocks, the seventeen-year-old sucked Freyr's lower ball into his mouth, and the handsome young god trembled with lust as he nuzzled the teenager's balls with his nose. Bobby was breathing deeply too. Laying on his back on the huge bed with his legs raised and outspread, he smiled up at Odin as the god of wisdom, prophesy, and magic, among many other things, knelt before him, the tip of his massive cock, eleven-inches long, thickly veined and as thick as pop can, wedged in his asshole. Bobby pushed out with all his strength as Odin slowly eased his hips forward, forcing his spittle-slick cockhead into the willing and eager thirteen-year- old boy. He eased forward slowly, more slowly than he'd ever entered any woman or man before, wanting to please the hot, sweating, panting cherub as much as he wanted the pleasure of fucking the boy's hot tender ass. The two grunted and gasped and gritted their teeth, and ever so slowly the slope of Odin's massive dickhead stretched open Bobby's sphincter until at last his knob popped inside the horny teenager. The two paused to catch their breath, and then ever so slowly Odin continued to push forward, delighting in having Bobby's hot, moist flesh slowly envelop his massive cock, and Bobby just as delighted to feel the hot, thick cock slowly sinking up his rectum. As Odin's massive balls pressed against Bobby's buttocks and his thick, coarse hairs tickled the cord that extended from his butthole to his balls, the two once again paused. Having united, the two wanted the fuck they were about to have to last as long as they could make it. Having waited for the two to unite and adjust, Thor straddled Bobby, placing a knee on either side of the prostrate boy's body and squatting back so that his dangling balls were directly above the boy's face. Bobby, having caught his breath, quickly reached up and guided Thor lower so that he could lick and suck the fierce god's hairy balls. The mighty god's balls hung low in a loose sack, and Bobby inhaled the fragrance of his sweaty nuts with delight as he ran his hot, moist tongue over them. Thor's erect cock, only slightly shorter and thinner than his father's, stuck out and up from his hairy balls at a forty-five-degree angle. Reaching up for it and wrapping his fingers about the base, Bobby guided Thor still further back so that he was able to bend the god's massive cock down and point it at his mouth. Thor adjusted his position and eased his body down, and as he did so he trembled with delight as he felt the thirteen-year-old boy's lips press against his knob, and then slowly slide along it until his knob was inside the boy's hot, moist mouth. As Bobby ran his tongue over the blood-engorged bulb and began to suck on it, Thor bent forward and arching his back, descended on Bobby's own stiff cock and low hung balls. The muscles in his mighty thighs and arms flexed as he supported himself above the boy, the knob of his thick, hard cock in the boy's mouth while he slipped his own lips about the boy's hard, twitching four-and-a-half inch cocklet and began to suck on the slender tube. At the same time his father began to ease his cock slowly back out of the thirteen-year-old boy's anus. With a hot, thick cock in his mouth and another up his asshole and a hot, moist mouth sucking on his throbbing cocklet, Bobby trembled with delight. Life did not get any better. Loki was feeling just the opposite. Having been fucked by Forseti and Heimdall, and then even more roughly by Odin's brothers Vili and Ve, Loki at that moment was on his knees begging Odin's son Vidar, to take him. Known for his silence, the bearded, taciturn god took great delight in making Loki beg him to fuck him. He finally pulled out his cock and made the androgynous god grasp it by the root and proclaim how much he loved the feel and the power of his organ, and how he ached to have it inside him. Having Loki turn around and grasping his hips, he shoved his stiff cock up his backside, observing how hot and tight his asshole was despite having been fucked four times, and how it throbbed and squeezed his cock just like a woman's cunt, and how Loki must really enjoy the role of woman. Of course the gods were amused to see Loki used as an ergi once again, and to hear the usually quiet god berating him. Far from enjoying what was happening to him, Loki knelt there on all fours and gritted his teeth with the pain, his anus raw and skinned from the rough assault of the four gods before Vidar and now by Vidar himself. Abused and used, he stared down at the floor and suffered the physical and verbal abuse by Odin's son as his swollen and aching cock was stroked roughly and without caring by the god. As Vidar grunted and snorted with the pleasure pulsating through his groin, Loki quivered with the pain shooting through his now shrunken and aching nuts. When Vidar shot his thick, copious load up his rectum, Loki strained to reach his own orgasm. Having already come four times, when he did, it was a weak, thin squirt and brought him no pleasure. Exhausted and aching, Loki turned to Bragi, anxious to get the ordeal over with, and the gods joked that he was so eager for cock that although he'd just been fucked, he wanted it all over again. Having brought each other to the point of coming several times but stopping before it happened to prolong the pleasure, the twins and their four hosts could hold back no longer. Baldr and Njord were now eagerly licking Brett's stiff cane, the skin pulled back taut and his organ glistening with their spittle and a bright red with arousal. Brett twisted and groaned and thrust his hips up off the bearskin rug, his cock having never felt so swollen and huge as it throbbed and ached with that painful pleasure moments before ejaculation. Baldr and Njord were aching to come also, the Aesir and the Vanir quivering in desperation as Brett licked their stiff, throbbing cocks and ran his hot, moist tongue over the rim of their blood-engorged knobs. Finally with a loud sigh of delight, Brett thrust his hips in the air and his thick, teenage cum shot out his numb, throbbing canon, shooting high into the air and falling back down over his aching cock to flow over the knob and down the shaft to his tight, constricted balls. Baldr and Njord eagerly licked up his sweet teenage nectar, delighting in the flavour and the texture of the hot juice of this strange, handsome boy from the future. As they lapped up the creamy teenage cum, they released their own seed, shooting their equally thick and even more copious loads into Brett's eager mouth. The seventeen-year-old blond youth eagerly swallowed the creamy offering of the two gods as they shot their seed into his mouth with such force and volume that it filled his mouth and flowed down over his chin. Brent and Freyr were eagerly sucking each other's cocks at that moment, the blond American teenager and the brown-haired Norse god united in the common pleasure that spanned centuries and united men of all nations, the pleasure of sucking and being sucked. Having a hot throbbing cock in your mouth and a hot, moist mouth sucking on your own, knowing the pleasure that is pulsating though your organ is the same pleasure pulsating though the cock in your mouth, and knowing the pleasure the lips and tongue are providing you is the same pleasure you are creating with your lips and tongue, is something that only two men can ever know, and only those men who are not afraid nor ashamed to seek pleasure with each other. For Brent there was the added pleasure of having a man's cock up his ass and knowing that the pleasure throbbing through his rectum and through his sphincter was equalled by the pleasure throbbing through the man's stiff cock. As Skirnir eased his hips to and fro, easing his long, slender organ in and out of Brent's hole, Brent constricted and relaxed his sphincter, working his asshole in time with young god fucking his ass. Knowing that the man fucking his ass had fucked and been fucked by the man sucking his cock, and whose cock he was sucking, added to his pleasure. Being a part of their special love for each other, a love that even surpassed the burning and all consuming love Freyr had once felt for the giantess Gerth, made the sex they were engaging in all the more special. So, as his father lapped up Brett's cum and shot his cum in Brett's mouth, so the beardless Freyr shot his thick cream into Brent's mouth as Brent shot his into the handsome young god's mouth. As the two youths sucked on each other's throbbing cocks and swallowed each other's hot, thick juice, Skirnir grasped Brent's slender hips and drove his cock deep up his rectum as he shot his own load. Odin's bed creaked as the warrior god grasped thirteen-year-old Bobby Brewster's hips and eagerly thrust his thick, eleven inch cock in and out of the boy's hot, throbbing rectum, delighting in the heat and the moistness of his tight ass as much as he enjoyed fucking any woman. His cock throbbed in time with his heart and with as much force and the rim burned with that combination of pain and pleasure known to all men. He clenched his one eye shut and threw back his head in ecstasy as he felt his cum churning in his balls and finally with a sharp twitch deep in his groin rise up his throbbing cock and spurt deep up the youngster's rectum. As the ruler of the Norse gods trembled with his release and grunted with the pleasure washing over him, Bobby trembled and groaned with equal delight, his tight little anus gripping Odin's cock as his rectum was filled with his hot, thick semen. As Odin throbbed out his thick cum, Thor grasped Bobby's hips also and muttered a warning as his huge, hairy balls constricted and his hot, thick semen similarly rose up his thick cock and spurted out the opening. Squirt after squirt rapidly shot into Bobby's mouth, thick and creamy, and not just a tablespoon as mortals can produce, but eightfold that, so copious and so thick that even Bobby could not swallow it all. The hot, thick cum quickly filled his mouth and overflowed down over his chin. Already in a sea of creamy delight, Bobby trembled and groaned as his own climax hit. His slender, naked body jerked uncontrollably as his dry climax rippled through his groin and his stiff, aching cocklet wagged like the tail of a happy dog. The thirteen- year-old boy closed his eyes in ecstasy and wished the moment would last forever. Tyr, the fearsome god of war, who at the famous feast hosted by Aegir had been humiliated by Loki who had claimed that he had lain with Tyr's wife and was really the father of Tyr's son and not Tyr, now took great delight in using Loki as Loki had claimed to have used his wife, sorry only that he could not have a son by the arrogant and vile trickster. He bided his time, drawing close to coming and then pausing to let the pleasure subside before riding Loki again. Desiring to prolong his pleasure and Loki's humiliation for as long as he could, he delayed coming a second and a third time before finally fucking him to a climax and jerking the trickster god's swollen and abused cock to his own climax. This being his seventh time, the pleasure of coming had long past and Loki quivered more with pain than with pleasure as he managed a single, thin spurt of cum from his shrivelled, aching balls. Weary and with every move sending a shock of pain up his asshole and through his tight, shrunken nuts, Loki approached the blind god Hoor who because of Loki's trickery and guile had tossed the mistletoe that had taken his brother Baldr's life. He now took great delight in making Loki squirm and beg to be fucked, making him say he wanted to be used like a woman by the blind god. After making him beg to be fucked and making him admit his jealousy of Baldr, Hoor refused to fuck him, just as Loki disguised as the Hag of Ironwood had refused to weep for Baldr and as a result had condemned him to remain in the underworld ruled by Hel until Ragnarok. Knowing how Hoor had grieved over the killing of his brother, Loki knew the god was serious in his refusal, and he begged even louder and with greater sincerity, telling the blind god how desperately his asshole ached for his cock and how grateful he would be if the god would agree to screw him. Despite how sore and raw his anus felt, it still itched and ached to be fucked, the result he had to assume of the volva's curse. In that if Hoor refused to fuck him and jack him off his ass would forever itch for the cock of a man, and his nuts would wither away and he would never again father children or know the joy of ejaculation, he begged with absolute sincerity and now anxiety, much to the amusement of the gods. According to the old crone, he had to be fucked and jerked off by nine different men, and there were only nine males in the huge hall besides him, Hoor being the eighth. While Loki was on his knees begging Hoor to have sex with him, Hoor's brother Baldr was caressing and kissing Brent as the bearded god of the sea Njord rimmed the seventeen-year- old's recently fucked asshole. Having taken a break and refreshed themselves with honey cakes and ale, the six had once again turned their attention to the need between their legs and the pleasure a man could find bringing pleasure to a fellow man. They had no guilt having sex with each other. The twins, the four gods reasoned, were young and horny, and celebrating their new status as gods, and the gods were delighting in the beauty of the two boys and the pleasant chore of welcoming them as gods in their own rights. Brett and Brent, of course, were simply enjoying having a hot fuck and suck session with the handsome, built Nordic immortals. So Brent found himself once again stretched out on the bearskin rug before the blazing fireplace, this time he and the Aesir Baldr laying on their sides in opposite directions and fiddling with each other's limp but slowly swelling cocks while Njord, the bearded Vanir, spread apart his asscheeks and began to rim him, his hot, wiggling tongue sending ripples of pleasure through Brent's anus. Brent inhaled the musky fragrance of the low hung nuts of the beautiful, white- skinned god, the summer god of purity and beauty, and he caressed them with his smooth lips. At the same time the handsome, beardless god kissed and gently sucked on the large, tender eggs of the strange teenager from the future, delighting also in their musky fragrance, the fragrance of youth and of raw, lustful desire. While the two youths nuzzled each other's groins, Njord delighted in the dank aroma of Brent's recently fucked asshole and the bearded god of the sea wormed his tongue into the horny teenager's butt. Laying beside the three, Skirnir and Freyr were covering Brett with kisses as the two lovers ran their hot lips over his body. As they kissed the horny, teenage boy, he in turn kissed them, pecking at their eyebrows and foreheads, nibbling on their ears and their necks, and pressing his smooth, moist lips against theirs. The seventeen-year-old blond slipped his tongue in Freyr's mouth and then in Skirnir's and as he deep kissed the two youthful gods, he sighed with arousal, forgetting the two men were immortal and well over a thousand years old and treating them as they looked and acted, as young men nineteen or twenty years of age. He ran his hands over their smooth, muscular bodies as they similarly caressed him, delighting in the feel of their bodies as they delighted in the feel of his. The three cupped each other's balls, caressed each other's smooth ass cheeks, and fingered each other's anuses with growing desire. As their lust began to swell up in their loins once again, so their cocks began to rise once more also. Seeing the pleasure each was feeling, each of them kissed with all the more fervour, each wanting to provide as much pleasure as he was receiving, and their young cocks quickly became fully extended once again. Odin, Thor and Bobby, after having taken a similar break to quench their thirst and hunger, the two gods feeding the young, naked cherub and Bobby feeding father and son, had also resumed their pursuit of pleasure and the satisfaction of the itch between their legs. The two gods lay on the fur-covered bed, naked and unashamed, as Bobby, sitting between them just as naked and shameless, played with their limp cocks and huge, hairy balls. As he caressed their genitals and as their cocks slowly began to swell along with his own, the thirteen-year-old observed how great it was to be a male, and to have a cock and balls, something the two men readily agreed with. It was beginning to snow outside and a wind had picked up across the Plain of Idavoll but there in Odin's bedroom it was warm and cozy as the three snuggled together for some serious foreplay. As he stroked the slowly swelling organs and fondled the huge, hairy balls of the father and son, he related some of the hot times he and his brothers had with their father in the past and how awesome it had been, and how he and his brothers believed that sex between guys was just as good and just as appropriate as sex between guys and girls, and that ages and relationships to each other were irrelevant. The boys of course practised what they believed, and promoted those beliefs wherever and whenever they could, something that all of the gods had discovered. The idea of seeking to bring their partner pleasure as well as seeking their own pleasure, and of active and passive partners being equal was new, and contrary, to the beliefs of the Norse gods and of their followers, and Odin and Thor listened carefully to Bobby's reasoning and reflected on their own beliefs as they lay there on the huge four-poster bed and fondled each other. They did at least until the pleasure throbbing through their stiff organs became impossible to ignore. Loki approached the ninth and only person in the giant hall who had not yet fucked him and jerked him off, the most difficult of them all to approach, the fifteen-year-old boy whom he'd tried to prevent from achieving his goal, and who had revealed his intervention to Odin. It had been embarrassing begging the other gods to fuck his ass and grovelling and debasing himself before them, but they were gods and they had a long history of give and take, of trickery and of forgiveness. It was a much different matter to approach a fifteen-year-old boy and beg him to fuck you, and to jack you off, given his age in comparison, and even more when he is a mortal and you are not. It was difficult, but it had to be done. Actually, as he knelt there supplicating the youth, Loki could not help but admire the strange boy from the future, nor wonder how powerful his skills and abilities really were. How he and his brothers had shown up in that battle between the Vikings and the Saxons at Schliefstag was a mystery, and how they'd been able to achieve the challenges Odin had presented them was worthy of praise. However, despite his admiration, having to beg a fifteen-year-old boy to fuck you and to jack you off was beyond all doubt the most humiliating part of the evening. Benny could have made his adversary beg for a much longer time, but he figured the trickster god had learned his lesson, and besides, he was feeling randy as fuck. Wanting to see his face, Benny had the handsome, androgynous god lay on his back and raise and spread his legs as a woman would. Kneeling between his pale, slender legs and having one of the gods find a cushion to raise Loki's ass, Benny shuffled into position and easily eased his stiff cock up Loki's well- worn hole. Supporting himself on his knees and elbows, he began to work his cock in and out of Loki's asshole, smiling down at the humiliated god. Having your stiff cock surrounded by hot, moist flesh always felt good, and when it was accompanied by revenging a wrong it felt even better. In this case, having one-upmanship over Loki, companion and blood-brother of Odin, the instigator of conflicts and provider of the gods, the transgressor and the ultimate trickster, was especially sweet. Having given them an opportunity to seek revenge against the one who had mocked them so many times, Benny was admired by all the gods as they refilled their tankards with ale and watched him fucking their tormentor. Chief among them was Forseti, god of justice and mediation, who could not have thought of a more just punishment for having disobeyed Odin and interfered with the four strange boys from the future. Like Loki, he wondered just what sort of youths lived in this strange, future land and if all youth were as ingenious as the hazel-eyed youth with the strangely styled hair, dark brown and curly with strange copper coloured streaks on top and darkened and close cropped along the sides of his head. He had marvelled at the boy's plan when the boy had taken him aside and revealed it to him, and if he had not seen the boy disappear before his very eyes and return back from the future with the three potions he'd gone to retrieve he would never have believed it. Benny had been worried he wouldn't remember the spell correctly for returning back to his own time, and was uneasy doing it on his own, but like he'd heard his grandfather from Scotland say, "nothin' venturrrred, nothin' gained" and Benny was, if nothing else, venturous. Loki being a master shapeshifter and trickster himself, having Forseti use his powers to change him into an old woman and casting the fake spell on the prankster god was the most worrisome part of the plan, but it had gone off without a hitch. The lime Kool-Aide was pretty lame he had to admit, and bringing it along in the plastic bottle was a risk, but hey, he was in a hurry, and it was the only thing in the fridge. Besides, it was something Loki would never have tasted before, and combined with the itching powder, had gotten hin in the right frame of mind. The itching powder he'd managed to rub over Loki's asshole he knew would do the trick, and anyway, by the time Ve was done fucking him Loki's asshole was so sore and raw that it ached and itched without the powder. He had not been so sure about his father's haemorrhoidal cream, but what with Loki's vivid imagination and his fears and the cooling effect of the cream, he'd fallen for the claim that his balls would wither away. Later as his balls were being pumped dry and shrinking to the size of marbles from being constantly jerked off, Loki really believed that they were withering away because of the spell. Benny smiled as the thought of the success of his trick. The prankster god's asshole was now so raw and sensitive that each time Benny thrust his cock up his rectum Loki could not stop his body from jerking, nor from shivering each time Benny eased his cock back out. Closing his eyes to block out the sight of the young boy humping between his legs, and groaning in pain as Benny's flat stomach brushed against his swollen and aching cock, Loki cursed the day he'd first seen the four boys in the battle of Schliefstag and seen the admiration in Odin's eyes, the reason he had later decided to intervene. Of course those watching interpreted his actions differently, saying that he was jerking and shivering with pleasure just as a woman reacts when given a good fucking by a man, and that the clenched eyes and groaning were proof that deep down inside Loki was ergi. Brent and Brett were groaning and writhing with erotic pleasure also, as were the four gods getting their nuts off once again with the gorgeous and horny twins. It being customary and acceptable for older men to introduce young teens to the mysteries and joys of sex through ritual such as the coming of age celebration and through initiation into clans and societies composed only of men, the four gods did not try to hide their pleasure, and the fact that Brent and Brett were teaching them as much as they were teaching the boys did not matter. After all, were not the twins from the future, and were they not now worshipped in Midgard as gods themselves? Brent was eagerly sucking on Baldr's stiff cock and working his smooth, moist lips up and down the shaft, deep throating the pale god of beauty and purity with lust and desire as Baldr just as eagerly sucked and worked his mouth up and down the teenager's stiff cock. The pleasure throbbing between their legs as they sucked on each other's swollen flesh was equal to the pleasure each felt knowing that he was the cause of the grunting and gasping of his partner. Njord at the same time was grasping Brent's hips as he worked his cock in and out of the boy's hot, tight rectum, fucking him not as an ergi but as an equal, the throbbing pleasure pulsating through his massive cock just as delightful as the throbbing pleasure pulsating through Brent's rectum. Brent was bringing him pleasure, and he in turn was pleasing the boy, and no man, moral or immortal, could claim that was a bad thing. Brett, Freyr and Skirnir were feeling the same. Laying on his back with his hips in the air and his legs raised and outspread, Freyr quivered with delight as Brett worked his stiff cock in and out of the handsome young fertility god's ass. Having straddled his master and facing the seventeen-year-old boy plowing him, Skirnir had presented Brett his stiff cock and Brett had eagerly lowered his head and slipped his lips over the man's knob. He sucked eagerly on the stiff organ that had earlier been up his twin brother's asshole as the man he was fucking raised his head and buried his face in his servant and beloved's ass. And so Brett eased his hips to and fro, his stiff seven-and-a-half inch cock throbbing hotly up Freyr's rectum as he sucked on Skirnir's throbbing cock and Freyr rimmed him. The three youths began to perspire with the lust pulsing through their veins, and they delighted in the hot pulsing sensation of their hot, aching cocks. Spread out in Odin's large bed, Thor was laying on his back and grunting and gasping with pleasure also as Bobby straddled the muscular god's six-pack and rode up and down on his thick, throbbing cock, the boy's face a mixture of concentration and supreme pleasure. Once again he had a hot, thick cock shoved up his rectum, but this time he was in control as he flexed his slender legs and eased his body up and down the thick tube of flesh. As Skirnir had done, Odin had straddled Thor and presented to the boy the huge, eleven-inch cock that he had earlier rammed up the boy's ass. Bobby eagerly accepted the mushroom-capped treat, it having of course been wiped off since being up his ass, and he willingly slipped his smooth moist lips over the huge knob. As the turgid flesh filled his mouth, the boy's cheeks bulged out like the cheeks of a chipmunk. Thor at the same time raised his head and began to rim his father. He had never before performed such an act on any man, and as he ran his tongue along his father's hairy crack and wormed it into his rectum just as Bobby had earlier instructed Odin to do to him, he understood how his father could have enjoyed such a thing. Filled with lust like they'd never felt before, the two gods reached down and began to fondle the thirteen-year-old's stiff little cocklet and hairless balls, taking turns tugging on the slender erection and caressing his tender eggs. In Gladsheim the eight gods forming a circle about the fornicating couple cheered as Benny trembled with his orgasm, sending his seed up Loki's ass to join the other eight loads of cum deposited deep up his rectum. Benny delighted shooting his load at any time, but this was special, and he quivered and gasped with pure ecstasy as his young cock throbbed and spurted out his thick, teenage cum. It was special because he was being watched and cheered by eight Nordic gods, and because he was seeking the ultimate revenge against the man who would have seen him and his brothers killed. Loki quivered also as he reached his ninth orgasm, his balls now drawn up tight under his aching cock which throbbed painfully but still with a perverse pleasure, Loki's orgasm being as dry as a preadolescent boy's. He sighed deeply, in part with pleasure, but more with relief knowing that the spell that had been placed on him had been broken. Despite the humiliation he'd been put through, he'd won over the old hag. The gods stamped their feet in approval as Benny came, and raised their arms and voices in salute to the boy who had provided them an evening that they would talk about for centuries to come, and which would join the many other tales and legends about their lives. The twins, who would come to be known as the Alcis and who would be worshipped by their own priests in their own secret and arcane ceremonies, trembled with the delight of their own orgasms also, having postponed that ultimate peak of ecstasy for as long as they could. They exhaled with a snort of pleasure as they felt their teenage cum rise up their throbbing cocks and spurt out of the burning tips and into the hot, moist mouths that had been eagerly sucking them. As the blond-haired, blue-eyed youths filled the mouths of the two gods, the two gods in turn trembled with the release of their seed, Baldr shooting his thick cum into Brent's mouth and Skirnir shooting his into Brett's. The two muscular, handsome gods trembled with the release of their seed and the burning pleasure pulsating through their swollen cocks. At the same time as his son was shooting his load into the mouth of one of the twins, Njord grasped the other twin's hips and ramming his cock up his ass, he shot his own thick, copious load deep up the boy's rectum. Brent felt as if he was receiving a hot, thick enema as the sea god's cum shot up his rectum and filled it. At the same time Njord's son sucked deeply on his beloved's asshole, causing the man to tremble with pleasure and Freyr to shoot also, Brett's stroking of his prostate with his stiff, seven-and-a-half inch cock and the eroticism of rimming his beloved while he was sucked off by the boy fucking him causing him to reach his climax without ever touching his cock. His thick semen shot into the air, striking Skirnir's tight hairy balls and his thighs and spattering Brett's smooth chest and flat stomach. The three of them trembled with the pleasure of ejaculation along with the three lying beside them and the room was filled once again with the fragrance of spilt cum. Thor and Odin were ready to shoot also, the two gods grunting and sweating and feeling a pleasure that they'd never felt before that night. They had both had sex with ergi before, and in the name of guile and for other reasons had played the role themselves in their past. The young boy riding up and down Thor's mighty cock was not, however, taking the passive role of an ergi, and nor could Thor nor Odin be considered having taken the role of a woman. The two mighty gods had often fucked others of their sex whom they had defeated in battle, but the act they were engaging in with this young boy could not be considered a show of aggression nor the demonstration of the power of one man over another either. A thirteen-year-old beardless and smooth-pubed boy could not be the dominant sexual partner of the supreme god of all the gods and his son, but nor were the two gods dominating the boy, Bobby having willingly impaled himself on Thor's mighty cock and having eagerly and willingly gone down on Odin's monster. What they were doing, the two gods knew, could not even be explained as two men celebrating the coming of age of the young, naked cherub, for they had done that also in their past, and this felt much different. As Thor roared with the release of his seed and thrust his hips in the air, causing Bobby to rise up with him like a young cowboy riding a bucking bronco, the mighty god of thunder knew that the pleasure he was feeling with the release of his seed was surpassed by the pleasure he was feeling knowing the boy impaled on his cock was feeling just as much pleasure as he was. Bobby was, and the thirteen-year-old boy trembled as he felt the flood of cum gush up his rectum, an obscene and delightful cum enema that only a god could give him. His slender body trembled as waves of pleasure pulsated through his groin and up his slender, stiff cocklet and he once again groaned with his dry orgasm. At the same time Odin released his thick load, filling Bobby's mouth. His hot, thick cream exploded out of his throbbing cock with the force of a fire hose, squirting down the boy's eager throat, up and out his nose, and gushing out from the corners of his mouth and flooding down over his chin and dripping off it in a half dozen streamers to trickle down his smooth chest. Odin trembled with the most powerful release of his seed that he'd had for a long time, and groaned with ecstasy of his powerful climax as his son sucked deeply on his asshole and the young boy sucking his cock trembled and groaned with his own orgasm. Like Thor, Odin's pleasure was magnified by the knowledge that he'd brought the young boy sucking his cock equal delight. The massive four-poster bed shook as the two gods and young teenage boy climaxed and as the three thrashed about in the ecstasy of orgasm, their own and that of the others in the bed. The two gods flushed with the sight of the beaming face of the thirteen-year-old boy, delighted at having brought him such pleasure. Thanks to him they knew of a new facet of sex neither had known before. Until that moment they had believed that one concerned himself only with his own pleasure when he had sex and not with bringing an ergi, or a woman, or a defeated warrior pleasure. To their surprise, father and son found that when men and boys had sex with each other as equals and were just as concerned about bringing pleasure as receiving it, it doubled the delight that comes with one's climax. As the ancient volva Skaga had prophesied, Bobby had changed the way of the gods, and Odin knew there would be no doubt the rest of her prophesy would ring true also as he and Thor embraced the perspiring, grinning cherub. For years to come in Midgard men would tell of the night that thick, black thunder clouds rolled across the heavens with a ferocity never seen before and the very heavens shook as thunder echoed across the land and a strange bright light enveloped Valaskjalf. And in Asgard they would tell of the time the Aesir and the Vanir were joined by the Brewsters, and how the gods revelled in an orgy the likes of which had never before been witnessed. They would tell how the gods had learned about themselves and the mysteries of sex from the four strange boys from the future on that night, and each would claim that Asgard had never been the same since.