It's been two days since Christmas, and the thing that was still on Azurite's mind the moment when Spinel kissed him in the cheek, and the feelings that exploded inside of his body when that happened. He didn't really knew what to think about them, because he had never felt something like that. Yes, he had experienced love before, from Aleena, her family and Shi'ra, but those feelings were in family-like way, this time, those feelings were something completely different.

He knew that he needed to talk with someone, but he didn't know with who. Jasper, Orange Pearl, and Centi were quickly erased from the list of the people he should talk to about it, even Shi'ra was out from the list, because, she told him many times that for as long as she remembered, she never felt any desire towards this type of things.

But then someone else came into his mind. He knew that these two people weren't the best people, but it was still better than nothing. He made his way to his room, once, he made sure that no one was nearby his room, and wasn't going to hear about what he was going to talk with these people, he shut the doors behind him. He went over to his bed and laid down on it, before activating the device on his arm.

A moment later, someone answered his call, and a familiar woman with two antennas on her head appeared on the screen, "Hey, Mantis." he greeted her.

"Hi, Azurite!" Mantis said in her usual innocent tone, waving her hand at him, "It's good to see you!"

"It's good to see you too." Azurite said back.

"How are you doing?" Mantis asked him. Azurite held back a chuckle, no matter how many times he called them, Mantis was always asking him this question. The last time was two days ago during Christmas, when he, Spinel, Jasper, Shi'ra, Centi and Orange Pearl callled them to give them their Christmas wishes.

"I'm doing fine, I actually haven't felt like that for a long time." Azurite answered.

"I'm glad to hear that." Mantis said, her smile not leaving her face.

"Mantis, can you get Quill and Drax here? I want to talk with them about something in private." Azurite told her.

"Of course. There'll be here in a moment." Mantis said as she stood up from the seat and went to get Quill and Drax.

Azurite sighed deeply as he heard the sound of footsteps, walking towards the screen where the Guardians were receiving calls for messages from him, or other people. He actually started to have seconds thoughts about this, but he knew that there was no backing down from it now, when the two Guardians sat down on the seats before the screen.

"Hey, dude." Quill greeted him.

"Welcome, Azurite." Drax greeted him as well, right after Quill said his greetings.

"Hey, guys." Azurite greeted them back.

"Mantis said you wanted to talk with us about something in private." Quill said, wanting to be sure.

"Yes." Azurite confirmed with a nod of his head. He sighed and braced himself for asking them this question, "I need to ask you both about something. You see, I think I may like someone."

"What's wrong with it, pal?" Quill asked him, thinking it was just in a friendly manner, just his crew with Azurite or Shi'ra.

"Not in that way, Quill..." Azurite said, feeling the blush that was growing on his face.

"...Oh..." Quill said in realization as Drax remained silent, just nodding his head to that.

"Yeah..." Azurite said, feeling even more nervous because of their reaction, "Quill. From what I heard about you, before you met Gamora you seemed to be constantly around women, and you Drax used to be married so I thought you were good people to ask about advice."

"So, who's the one that caught your attention?" Quill wanted to know. Drax seemed interested in it as well.

"You know her. She talked with you a few times... It's Spinel." Azurite said, taking a small break before saying Spinel's name.

"Spinel? She is a small and skinny gem. Disgusting." Drax said in a plain tone, "You must really care for her if you want to be with someone that ugly."

"Drax! She's not ugly! Besides not everyone has the same likes like as you." Quill pointed out.

"I'm just saying." Drax said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Ignore him, pal. What made you think like that?" Quill asked him, getting interested in it. Azurite was one of the last people he excepted to ask him for advice about things like that.

"As you know, two days ago was Christmas and we were doing Secret Santa in Little Homeworld. and her name was the one I drew from the basket. After I gave her the gift I bought for her, she kissed me in the cheek. When that happened I started to feel something inside of me. I never felt anything like that before, and It was actually quite nice." Azurite explained. Quill could haves sworn he almost saw him blush.

Azurite sighed as he added, "I just want to know how to tell her about it. I've never been in a situation like this before..."

"Wait a second? You never?" Quill asked, clearly suprised by the revelation.

"Yes." Azurite confirmed with a nod of his head, "That's why I'm calling you. As I said, I need some advice from you."

"I think you should try to bring her a token of your affection towads her. Like a jewel." Drax suggested.

"I don't think bringing her a jewel would work Drax. You see, the gift I got for her was a necklace with a jewel shaped in heart, like her gem." Azurite told them, shaking his head at his suggestion.

"Maybe then you should bringing a dead animal to impress. You see, when I first met my wife she terrified me. She was a warrior that striked fear into the hearts of everyone. I loved that about her. She'd make my nether regions engorge whenever I saw her." Drax said, not caring how the last part made Quill and Azurite uncomfortable, especially the latter one.

"Drax, please." Azurite said, not wanting to hear about it.

"Drax. We get that you're a sex machine and you have that from your dad." Quill added, not wanting to hear about that as well, "Besides, I don't know Spinel that well but she doesn't seem like a type of person to have dead shit dropped before her feet."

"I agree with Quill on this one, Drax. Spinel is not into it, at least I think so." Azurite said.

"How about you just tell you how you feel about her? Then ask her if she wants to do something with you two?" Quill suggested.

"What if do and she says no?" Azurite asked.

"You just have to accept it, buddy. You may believe me or not, but even I got rejected, many times." Quill answered.

Azurite took a sigh, "Thank you for your advice, guys."

"I was glad to give it to you. I'm glad that you're finally opening you for the others." Quill smiled at him to which Drax nodded his head in agreement.

"I'm glad you think like that... Oh, and Quill, I finally saw Footloose." Azurite said.

"Really? Tell me that it is the greatest movie in history." As if Quill wasn't already interested in the topic that Azurite shared with him, this made him even more interested.

"It was okay but I've seen better movies since I came here." Azurite said, shrugging his shoulders. It was true. He enjoyed Footloose, but it wasn't the best movie he's seen since he came to this planet. If he was honest with himself, the best one he saw so far, at least in his opinion was about some prisoner who was telling the story of how he became friends with another prisoner who then escaped from the prison.

Quill's interested expression faded and it looked someone just slapped him in the face, "What did yo..."

"Your face Quill!" Drax began laughing at Quill's offended face, cutting his captain off.

"Drax, be quiet. This is serious." Quill tried to shush Drax, in a very serious tone, causing Drax to laugh even more.

"Once again, thank you for your advice guys." Azurite thanked them both, before disconnecting from their talk.

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A few days later

Today was the day that a lot of gems and humans were excited for. Today was the day of when one year ends and another begins, and it was probably one the reasons why so many of them were excited for it. The other thing everyone were excited about was a certain event.

That event was a firework show, and gems from Little Homeworld were especially looking forward to this event, because many of them have never seen anything like this before.

Many of them, both gem and humans had actually started to gather in one place, as there was like thirty minutes away from it. Azurite, Shi'ra, Jasper, Orange Pearl and Centi were one of the ones that were already there.

"Where's Spinel?" Orange Pearl asked her friends about the only gem that was missing, "It's been like fiftteen minutes since she left."

"Why are you so worried about it, Orange? You know it's like thirty minutes before this firework thing?" Jasper pointed out.

"I know, it's just, you all saw how excited she was for this. I don't want her to miss it." Orange Pearl explained.

"I can go get her if it will stop worrying you." Azurite volunteered, "Besides I think it'll be better than just standing and waiting." 

"What? Do we bore you?" Shi'ra teased him, with fake gasp.

Azurite rolled his eyes at Shi'ra's unfunny attempt to annoy him, as he began to head out towards his house, "I'll be back in a few minutes."

It didn't took him that long before he made his way over to his house, and when he was about to walk inside, Spinel opened the doors "Hey, Azzie! What are you doing here?" 

"You were gone for more than just a few minutes, and Orange was growing worried that you may actually miss the fireworks, so I told her that I'll go check what is taking you so long." Azurite explained.

"But, aren't we are over twenty minutes away from it?" Spinel pointed out as they slowly began making their back to Shi'ra, Jasper, Orange Pearl and Centi.

Azurite shrugged his shoulders, as he answered, "She just saw how excited you were about seeing those fireworks, and didn't want you miss it." 

"Oh, that's so sweat of her." Spinel said, before adding, "And it was sweat of you to come here to make her stop worrying about it."

"If you say so. So what did you come back to our house?" Azurite wanted to know.

"Shi'ra wanted me to get her this." Spinel answered, pulling out Azurite's old camera.

"My camera? For what?" The owner of this camera asked.

"I don't know. Maybe she is going to take some photos of the fireworks?" Spinel said the first answer that came into her mind.

"Guess we're going to find out." Azurire stated, before gesturing towards the necklace he bought her for her Christmas gift, "You still wear this."

"Of course." Spinel said, glancing down at her necklace, "I love wearing it. It's so beautiful, and  it reminds me of the friends I made here. You, Steven, Jassie, Shi'ra, Orange Pearl, Centi are only a few of the people that changed everything for me..."

As more words were leaving Spinel's mouth, Azurite could see tears forming in her eyes, "...Spinel? Why are you tearing up?" 

"I'm just happy, Azzie." She told him, wiping the tears of her cheeks that slowly began to fall down her cheeks. Those weren't the tears of sadness, but of hapiness, "I haven't been that happy in a long time. At first, jst after finding out that Pink left me in the garden, I didn't know if I ever will know how it is when someone actually cares for you, but I do now.''

"Spinel, you know you don't have to worry about me, Shi'ra or Jasper, or even Orange and Centi leaving you. You're our friend, and we care about you." Azurite assured her as he put his hand on her cheek and wiped out the tear that was failing down her cheek, as Spinel looked up at him with a smile.

"I know that Azzie, and I'm grateful for that." Spinel smiled up at him, before asking,
"What about you, Azzie? Do you like being here? In Little Homeworld" 

"You know how skeptical I was about the idea of staying here after Steven offered it to me, but I don't regret doing it. As you know, Konoritos was the only time in my live when I felt whole. I felt like I belonged somewhere, until it all got taken from me. You know, how I at first was distancing myself to everyone for my first few weeks here, with you and Jasper being the only gems I talked with, but as the time passed, with your help, I started to open myself to the others and I made good friends here. I think I actually fell whole again... I found friends who I care for, and I hope that they care for me too. I even found a gem who I have feelings for..." Azurite said, feeling that his face suddenly got hotter than usual because of what he said at the end, without even realizing it at first.

"...Azzie... you like someone?" Spinel asked him, wanting to be sure of she didn't misheard it.

Azurite sighed. He knew that there was no backing down from it now. He sighed, before nodding his head, "Yes, I do."

"Who is that? I promise I won't tell anyone. You know how good I am at keeping secrets!" Spinel asked, interested in it. Azurite could see the hopeful look in her eyes.

He let out another sigh, as he began, "She is smaller than me. Her hair is tied into two ponytails, her gem is on her chest, and the last part about her... she is now standing right in front of me..."

"What?... You like me?..." Spinel asked, putting her hand on her gem as she realized about who Azurite was speaking of.

"Yes... I think I do. I had people who I saw as a family to me like Aleena, or Shi'ra, but my feelings towards you are completely different from them. Those feelings exploded in me when you kissed me in the cheek after I gave you this necklace. When I started thinking about it, I eventually came to a realization that I like you, more than a friend... Spinel what I'm going to ask you now is... Do you feel the same?" Azurite said to Spinel how he felt about her as the pink gem stared up at him in complete silence, witnessing the side of Azurite she hasn't seen before.

She proceeded to stare at Azurite for a moment which felt like eternity for him. His face was already covered by a huge blush which only grew bigger during the explanation of his feelings towards her. A moment later, a huge smile grew on Spinel's face, before she launched herself up at him, wrapping her hands around him in a tight hug.

"I do Azzie! I do feel the same! At first, I saw you as a friend, but as we started to hang out more often, I eventually started to have these strange feelings towards you, about which I had to talk with Steven about, who then told that I may actually like you, more than a friend. I didn't told you about them because I didn't think you'll be interested in me, but now, you're the one telling me that you feel the same!" She shouted in response. Azurite could hear genuine hapiness in her voice.

"...I'm glad to hear that." Azurite said back, not knowing what to say about it. He wrapped his hands around her, returning the hug, happy that Spinel returned his feelings.

When they released each other from the hug, she asked him "Does this mean?"

"If you want to, I'm willing to give it a try." Azurite told her, with a smile growing on his face.

"Then I want to! I'm more than happy to see if this will work!" Spinel said, nodding her head.

"That makes us both." Azurite now fully smilling, before asking, "So? What should we do now?... Should we tell Shi'ra, Jasper, Orange and Centi about this?"

"We should do this!" Spinel said as she extended her hands at him, and brought his face down at her. Azurite was about to ask her what was she doing, but he was quickly cut off as Spinel kissed him. At first, he was suprised, but eventually decided to go along with it. The kiss was a little awkward, because Spinel never kissed anyone before, and while Azurite kissed a few people in his life, he wasn't an expert in this area.

It was the last thing they felt before everything went black for both of them.

What they didn't know was that there was a bright light in this place, and what came out of it was a new gem that laid on the ground for the next few moments before she stared to wake up. She opened her eyes, Azurite and Spinel were still unaware of what had just happened, and what made them lose their consciousness.

"Oh, my head." The voice that was unknown for them said. It was something they failed to notice, yet.

"What happened? Azzie. Where are you?" Much to Azurite's suprise her voice sounded the same as his. He brought his hand to his mouth to cover it, before he found himself failing on the ground, with Spinel landing not too far from him.

"Wait a second? Did we just?" He asked, as they stared at each other. 

"We fused..." Spinel stated.

The fusion of Azurite and Spinel just sat on the ground for a moment, neither Azurite or Spinel believing in what just happened, before they heard a familiar voice of Orange Pearl call them, "Azurite! Spinel! Where are you!? It's like ten minutes before fireworks!"

"They're coming." Azurite spoke to Spinel, this time communicated with her through the fusions head, not wanting them to hear them.

"What should we do?" Spinel asked him,

"I have no idea, I've never been in a situation like this before." Azurite told her.

"Neither have I." Spinel pointed out, before chuckling to herself, "However, it would be a good idea to tell them that we're giving each other chance at being together."

"What are you talking about?" Azurite asked her.

"C'mon, Azzie, if they're going to see us, I'm certain they're going to ask us where we are, and then boom we unfuse! Their reactions are going to be priceless!" Spinel explained to him, having a quick laugh at her own idea.

"If we even going to go along with it. What would you even call a fusion between a Spinel and a Azurite?" He asked her.

"I'm sure we'll figure something out..." Spinel was cut off in the middle of the sentence, as Shi'ra called over to them.

"Hey, you! Can you you help us with something?" was what Shi'ra said to them, as she, Jasper and Orange Pearl approached the fusion.

"...Of course." The fusion said, awkwardly, standing up from the ground, "What can I do for you?"

"We've been looking for two friend of ours. As you know the new year is going to start in a few minutes, and we don't want to them to miss the fireworks, especially Spinel. She seemed really excited about it." Orange Pearl explained.

"And who are you? I've never seen you here before." Jasper said.

"Right." Shi'ra said, realizing that she never saw this gem before as well, "Are you new here?"

"Yes...I'm Lolite. It's a pleasure to meet you." Lolite introduced herself to them, having a small break in the middle to have a moment of thought about her name, before extending her hand for a handshake.

"Likewise, Lolite." Shi'ra said, shaking her hand, unaware that Azurite and Spinel were standing right before her, Jasper and Orange Pearl, "I'm Shi'ra, these two are Jasper and Orange Pearl."

"So, with the introductions done, how can I help you?" Lolite asked.

"As Orange here said, we've been looking for two friends of ours. You maybe seen them, Spinel is a pink gem that has a gem in her chest. It is in a shape of a heart..." Shi'ra was cut off before she could explain how Azurite looked like.

"Oh, I think I saw them." Lolite cut in, "Was her friend blue?"

"Yes. He was. Where did you saw them?" Shi'ra wanted to know.

"They're here." Lolite said, as Shi'ra, Jasper and Orange Pearl shared a confused look together.

"Where? I can't see them." Jasper said what was on their minds, looking around.

"No. Here." Lolite put her hand on her stomach, making the others even more confused. She began to glow, and a moment later she defused into Spinel and Azurite. Spinel had a huge smile on her face and even Azurite had a smile on his usually stoic face as they held hands.

Shi'ra, Jasper and Orange Pearl stared at the two gems before them for a moment, trying to process what had just transpired, before the pearl of the group said, with wide eyes, "What..." 

Spinel stared at them, before she began to laugh at their stunned faces, "Your faces!"

As Jasper and Orange Pearl proceeded to stare at the gem before them, a smirk eventually grew on Shi'ra face, as she said, "So, Spinel, I assume that you told him?"

"No, I didn't!" Spinel shook her head, before gesturing at Azurite,  "He did."

Shi'ra turned her gaze from Spinel to Azurite who just shrugged his shoulders at her with a smile, "See, I told he'd return your feelings."

"Wait a second? You went to Shi'ra?" Azurite asked, glancing down at Spinel.

Spinel rubbed the back of her head with her free hand, "Well, you two are best friends, so I thought she was the best person I could ask about if you're going to... you know."

"So, I take that you're together, now?" Shi'ra asked, her smirk not leaving her face.

"Yup! We're giving it a try!" Spinel said with a nod of her head.

"Well, then I..." Shi'ra was cut off by Orange Pearl.

"Sorry to interrupt the moment, but we better hurry, if we don't want to miss fireworks." Was what she said.

"You're right." Shi'ra said, as she turned back and was about to head to the spot where they were going to watch fireworks, "Let's go, Centi is holding our places."

The others quickly followed her, a moment later, they made their way to the spot where Centi was waiting for them. It was not too far from the table with snacks and drinks, "You took your time." was what she said to them, as they walked up to her.

"Something kept us occupied." Jasper said, sending a look to Spinel and Azurite who still held hands with each other.

"What was that?" Centi asked.

"You'll find out eventually." Jasper said in response, earning a confused look from Centi.

"Now, that we're all here." Shi'ra turned to Azurite and Spinel, "Azurite, Spinel can you get each of us a glass of water?"

"Why?" Azurite asked as Spinel nodded her head, wanting to know the reason too.

"You know for what, brother." Shi'ra said.

"...Oh." Azurite said in response, as a small smile began to form on his face, "You could have just said so."

"What is it, Azzie?" Spinel asked him.

"You'll see in a moment." Azurite answered, as they went to the table, and got the drinks ready for everyone. Azurite carried one for himself, while Spinel carried the other five, with her extending limbs, it wasn't actually much of a problem to her.

When she and Azurite made it back to the others, she opened her mouth and was about to say what Jasper meant by that, but she was cut off by Steven informing them that there were only thirty seconds remaining until the new year.

After it went down to ten, a lot of them began to count down, Spinel, Orange Pearl and Centi being one of them as Azurite, Jasper and Shi'ra just nodded their heads to that.

"10!"

"9!"

"8!"

"7!"

"6!"

"5!"

"4!"

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

Once the counting went down to zero, everyone cheered loudly, as the fireworks began to fly up, into the air, and when they reached a certain point, they began to explode, painting the sky with various colours.  Azurite now understood why many humans were excited about this, and why so many gems were looking forward to see it for the first time. It was a really, a very, very nice sight and he definetely enjoyed watching it.

As they proceeded to watch the fireworks for the next few minutes, Shi'ra pulled out a very small bottle which was filled with strange white liquor, "Now that everyone is celebrating new year and Spinel is still holding those glasses. As I said earlier, I have something I want you to taste." 

"What's that?" Orange Pearl asked with raised eyebrow, as Spinel gave all of them glasses of water.

"An alcohol that I stole from thieves who stole it from the Asgardians a few years ago. They had five barrels. I sold three and kept the other two for myself. You would be suprised how much people are willing to pay for it." Shi'ra explained.

Azurite who already knew what it was, pushed his glass of water towards Shi'ra who the poured one drop of it into it.

"Why only one drop?" Jasper asked to which Orange Pearl, Centi and Spinel nodded their heads in agreement, as Shi'ra did the same thing with their drinks.

"Because If I'll give you two, you're going to be laying drunk on the ground in a few minutes, trust me I tried. I didn't tried three because it would probably kill me." Shi'ra explained, 

"Oh." Jasper said in response.

As Orange Spodumene and Bixbite walked just by them, Shi'ra shouted to them, "Hey, guys!"

"Hey, Shi'ra!" Spodumene greeted her back, as they came over to Shi'ra and the rest, "Happy new year!

"Same to you too. Can you help us with something?" Shi'ra asked them.

"Sure, what is it?" Bixbite asked her.

In response to her question, Shi'ra pulled out the camera that Azurite got from Darnel,  "Can you take us a photo as we clink glasses?"

"Sure thing." Bixbite said, taking the camera from her, even though one of her hands was a large claw, she didn't seem to have any difficulty with holding the camera.

"Well, friends. Let's hope that this year is going to be better than last one." Shi'ra said, as Bixbite nodded her head at them, telling them that everything was ready.

"Cheers!" Orange Pearl and Spinel said in unison as Azurite, Jasper and Centi just nodded their heads to that. All six of them clinked their glasses, before they dug into their drinks, but before they did that, they made sure that Bixbite took the photo of them.

Azurite and Shi'ra reactions to it were normal to it before they tasted it before, and even before tasting this liquor, they tried drinks with alcohol, and much to their suprise Jasper's reaction was pretty much the same. As for the others... Orange Pearl began to cough, after having only one sip,  as Centi and Spinel had to take a very deep breath, with their faces showing that were disgusted by the drink.

"So, how did it taste?" Shi'ra asked, with a smirk growing on her face.

"How can you drink it?" Spinel asked to which Centi nodded her head in agreement.

"The taste was so sour..." Orange Pearl agreed with her.

"Believe me, first time is always the hardest, then you get used to it." Azurite told them.

"Yup." Shi'ra agreed with him, as she looked over at Jasper, "What about you?"

"I tried alcohol before, so I at least I knew what to except, but I admit, I had a hard time keeping straight face, because I never tasted anything that strong before." Jasper answered.

Shi'ra nodded her head in understanding as Bixbite handed her back Azurite's camera, "Thanks for taking it, guys. You want to taste it too?" 

Bixbite and Orange Spodumene shared a look with each other, before shaking her heads, "No, thank you for the offer, but neither of us are fans of drinks like this."

"Are you sure?" Shi'ra wanted be sure, earning nods of confirmation from the two gems. She wasn't exactly sure if they tried something like that before, but if they didn't want to try it, then they had right to, "Okay, then."

A few minutes after saying their goodbyes, and wishing happy new year to Bixbite and Orange Spodumene who then left to do their own things, a music could be heard, and many gems and humans went to dance in one place.

Spinel noticed it and nudged Azurite, "Let's go dance with them, Azzie." 

"No." Azurite instantly declined this offer, shaking his head.

"C'mon. It'll be fun." Spinel said, as she grabbed Azurite's hand and began to drag him to the gems that were dancing.

"I have no idea how to dance, Spinel." Azurite informed her.

"I'll show you!" Spinel said, as she began dragging him by his hand to the dance floor.

"Have fun, brother!" Shi'ra shouted to Azurite, internally laughing at his panicked face.

"Do you think they're going to fuse again?" Orange Pearl asked Jasper and Shi'ra who shared a quick look with each other before shrugging their shoulders.

"We'll see." Jasper replied for them both.

"Wait?... Are Spinel and Azurite going to fuse? What did I missed?" Centi asked all three of them.

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A few months later

Location: Space

The saying that Thor Odinson was not having a good week was the understatement of the century. It all started to go down for him after slaying Surtur, a being that would later destroy Asgard, his home, and after defeating him he went to his home planet for the first time in years, only to find out that this adopted brother Loki who he thought died a few years ago was alive, and was ruling Asgard in the disguise of his father, Odin who he left in one place on Earth, and a few minutes after finding their father, he died of an old age, but before he died, he told them about their sister Hela, whom they met only a few moments later, and destroyed his hammer Mjolnir.

It all eventually lead him to ending up on a planet called Sakaar where came across his old friend Bruce Banner and the person who took him there happened to be a Valkyrie, which was quite suprising for him, because  everyone in Asgard, including himself were certain that all Valkyries were long gone. After teaming up with each other, they eventually managed to left Sakaar and headed straight to Asgard, where they faced Hela, which unfortunely ended up with him losing one of his eyes.

But it wasn't the thing that worried him the most. The only way to defeat her was to unleash Surtur and let him destroy Asgard, which they did, but it resulted in complete destruction of their home, but thankfully they managed to save as many people as they could.

As for now, he and his brother, Loki stood at the windshield of the ship, gazing out at the stars.

"Do you really think it's a good idea to go back to Earth?" His brother Loki asked him. They were planning to go to Earth where they would start over.

"Sure. People love me on Earth, I'm very popular..." Thor answered, not understanding what Loki meant by that.

"Let me rephrase that." Loki cut in,  "Do you really think it's a good idea to bring me back to Earth?"

Thor smiled and reached his hand out to pat Loki on his shoulders, "Probably not to be honest, but don't worry brother... I've got feeling that everything is going to work out."  

The two men turned to the window with smiles on their faces.

Neither of them could see a massive warship approaching their sanctuary...

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I guess you can say that the scene between Thor and Loki at the end was something like the after credit scene in a Marvel movie.

All of the characters in this chapter - *Are happy*

Thanos - "Allow me to introduce myself"

I hope that the romance part between Azurite and Spinel wasn't the cringiest thing you've ever read.

Also, with this chapter we're finally done with the arc when you settle down in Little Homeworld. I hope you enjoyed this chaper just as much as I enjoyed writing it, I especially enjoyed writing the part between Azurite, Quill and Drax.

Funfact: Shi'ra and her spieces are heavily inspired by Yautjas (The Predators from the Predator movies, games and comic books).

Funfact 2: Shi'ra is asexual.