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“Awaken, Keith Hammer! I must have words with you!”

Keith looked around realizing he was no longer in his comfortable king sized bed but sitting at the small round table in his bedroom. He jumped to his feet when a man appeared before him.

“What the hell? Who are you?”

A man stood before him with a brilliant light glowing around him. He was tall and muscular with long blond hair and bright blue eyes that flashed like lightening.

“I am Thor, son of Odin, god of thunder and lightening,” he announced.

Keith sat back in the chair and chuckled. “You don’t say? Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve had a crazy dream, must be from the liquor,” he murmured scratching his chin. “So, what can I do for you, Thor, son of Odin, god of thunder and lightening?”

“I assure you, Keith Hammer,” Thor replied in his booming voice, “although I come to you in a dream like state this is no dream. What is happening is very much real.”

“Really? Okay, if you say so,” he added with a shrug. “So, why are you here, what do you want?”

“My father has sent me on a quest to locate my mischievous brother Loki and return him to Asgard.”

“Uh-huh, and what does that have to do with me?” Keith asked with another shrug.

“You, Keith Hammer, must be my vessel while I am here in Midgard in otder for me to do my task.”

Keith’s brow furrowed. “Midgard?”

“Earth. I need a human host in order to find my brother and deal with him while we are here.”

“Why?”

“Because he is hiding within the mind of his own human host.”

Keith leaned on the table holding the bridge of his nose. “Okay, let me see if I got this straight. You want to take over my body while you’re here on Earth in order to find your brother, who has already taken over someone else’s body. Inside my body you’ll be able to find his body and then you’ll be able to take him home. Does that about sum things up?”

“That is correct, Keith Hammer. You are a man of honor and as a man of honor myself I can only enter an honorable being. I assure you, Keith Hammer, you will be rewarded for your services to the gods.”

“Yeah, okay, can you stop with the Keith Hammer thing? It’s driving me crazy.”

“That is your name.”

“Yes, but Keith will do.”

“Keith will do what?”

His brow furrowed again. “What? No, look, we just use the first name when we speak to one another here on…what did you call it…Midgard? Anyway, just Keith is fine.”

“As you wish, Just Keith.”

“No, no, not Just Keith, it’s just Keith.”

He looked confused. “That is what—“

“No,” he almost yelled with frustration, but stopped himself and took a deep breath shaking his head. “This has got to be a dream. Look, it’s like this…you’re Thor and I’m Keith,” he explained pointing at him and touching his own chest. He repeated the motion and the names two more times. “Understand?”

A smile of recognition touched Thor’s lips. “I understand…Keith.”

Keith threw his hands up and laughed. “Finally! Now, what’s my part in this great plan, Thor?”

Thor handed him a golden medallion with a silver hammer in its center hanging from a gold chain.

“Nice, what’s it for?”

“You must wear this amulet at all times in order for me to possess you. To those around you will appear unchanged, but it will be I that will be the consciousness in control of your body.”

“What will my consciousness be doing? Sleeping?”

“If you’d prefer,” he answered. “I could render your mind to an unconscious state or you could be aware of what is happening around you just unable to react. I will make it your choice.”

“So, basically I could just be along for the ride if I wanted, watching, but not doing?”

Thor nodded. “Precisely.”

Keith nodded in thought as he tapped the amulet on the table gently. “Hmm, so what’s the catch?”

Thor’s face showed his confusion. “Catch? I don’t—“

“Come on, man, the catch. You want me to loan you my body so you can deal with your brother, right?”

“That is correct.”

“And you’re telling me that I will be rewarded for helping you, too?”

Thor nodded in agreement.

“Well, I don’t see a down side for me so that pretty much tells me there has to be a catch somewhere.”

Thor’s confusion continued. “I don’t know anything about a catch, Keith. I only know what my father has asked me to do.”

“Okay, then why did your father send you to me?”

“You have already been in contact with the human my brother has possessed, you are a good man and it is your destiny to help me.”

Keith’s eyes widened and he sat straight up. “My destiny, huh? Well, then, who am I to stand in the way of the gods and my destiny?” he asked with a laugh on his voice. He thought for a moment and then he laughed again. “You know, I can’t remember having a dream this good.”

“I don’t understand.”

Keith waved his hand dismissively. “It doesn’t matter. Look Thor, I’ll help you on one condition.”

“Name it and it’s yours.”

“I don’t want you in control of my body all the time. I mean, when you find your brother you go ahead and do what you have to do, but if he isn’t anywhere around I want to control my own body. I want to be able to work and I just met this woman that I want to start getting to know. Hell, I always wanted to fly, maybe I’ll get the chance to that in this dream, too,” he added with a chuckle. “Can you work with that?”

“I agree to your terms!”

“Okay then.” He picked up the necklace and hung it around his neck. “So what happens now?”

“Now we are one,” Thor said and disappeared in a brilliant blast of light.