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Mike : What are you eati- What is that, Author? 😱

Author : This? *pointing at the food in her hand* This is Durian, a heaven fruit on earth, mmm yumm, want some? 💁

Mike : *walking closer* *sniff* *sniff* Ewwww it smells rotten! 💩🙊

Author : Don't call my fav fruit rotten you idiot! 😤 Nighty night Mike! *chucking the durian's rind to Mike's head*💥👤💫💀💤

-Chapter 14 : Shilly Shally, part 1-

"Prepare yourself, It's almost time", a voice calmly said in a fake-cheery tone as the owner of said voice looked and smiled at someone with a fake-smile-like-one-of-Sai's (1) smile.

"Hn", the other grunted softly, not-looking at the other person, eyes too busy looking at the beautiful reddish orange sky.

Both of their hairs were gently moved by the slightly cold breeze from the sea.

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Rustle

Rustle

(y/n) heard a rustling sound of clothes from behind her back.

Gasp

Now, she heard a quite gasp. "M-m-m-my I-", a meek female voice could be heard from behind (y/n)'s back. Obviously a maid.

"Oh great, a witness, just what I need! Author, you know what? This is getting old? Are you trying to make this story a slightly smut one? With all of this crotch-y business. Gawd I will be impressed if-", (y/n) murmured quite loudly, her lips were still on a lovely place a.k.a Thor's crotch. Thor shuddered and felt his blood was quickly migrating to two different places, one to his brain and another one to his you-know-where, and...

Thud!

The maid and Thor fainted at the same time. The maid probably fainted from shock while Thor.. High blood pressure? Or something ..else? Maybe both.

"That was impressive (y/n)! I never knew that Thor could faint like that, if ever..", Hegan voice startled (y/n) from the hot debate with herself about whether to do the right thing a.k.a pulled her lips and hand away or to stay where she was, the latter was really tempting though...

Smack

(y/n) quickly pulled away and chose to smack Hegan's head out of reflex. Well, she always did it whenever Mike was being an idiot. "Ouch! What was that for (y/n)?!", Hegan screamed in pain, rubbing his sore head with a pout.

"You are being an idiot Hegan, that was why I smack your pretty little head. You should be happy that I did it not as hard as I usually do to Mike", (y/n) scoffed at Hegan after she sat quite far away from everyone, fearing that her clumsiness was going to start doing something else that equally as embarrassing as 'that' thing.

"Your dignity is in question here, (y/n). The thing you just did reminds me about this thing I read from a Midgardian book... what is the title of the book? Sut... Utra.. Kam.. Oh yes Kamasutra! And what you did was like what the book called with three.. three something about a girl with-", (y/n) cut him off.

"Hey, hey stop there dude. This story isn't going to be a smut one so it doesn't need to be explain so thoroughly about 'that' thing", (y/n) dashed as quickly as she could to Hegan, putting her hands over his mouth to stop him from saying any further. Hegan mumbled something but it muffled by (y/n)'s hand.

(y/n) ignored him, tightening her hold on his mouth. "You know about Kamasutra? Even the holy three something? My gawd you're just like Mike! Heh the aristocrat version of him", (y/n) continued, scoffing at the last part. Thor and the maid still out cold, the latter has a goofy smile and a trail of blood below her nose. Is she having a 'wet' dream? Huh?

"And for your information, my dignity has been in question since like? forever? I mean, I have done this kind of stunt before? Three now? So there is no surprise here. I-",

"What the hell! You lick my hands! What you do that for?! Are you trying to do one of the Kamasutra stunt, you pervert prince?!", (y/n) yelled in disbelief, rubbing her hands vigorously at Hegan's hair.

"Hey, hey cease what you did, (y/n)! It took me a long time to comb and tie my hair like that!", Hegan screeched with a horror look on his face as he swatted her hands away from his hair. (y/n) laughed, bending her body forward as she held her sides.

"Y-you a-are worse t-than.. t-than-", (y/n) said between her laughs.

Plop

"Ouch! Did you just throw your shoe at me?! Oh you ask for it, Hegan. You will regret it!", (y/n) growled at Hegan, ignoring the red throbbing spot on her forehead. She grinned like Cheshire cat as she grabbed a handful of soil in her hand. Hegan backed away after he realized what she was going to do.

Plop

Too late. (y/n) threw the soil to Hegan and it landed on his precious hair. Hegan growled menacingly, he wiped the soil from his hair and then he picked some soil with his hand and threw it at (y/n).

(y/n) saw that and dodged it, mimicking what Neo did from the iconic scene of The Matrix's movie.

"Ha! Pfftt is that your best mov-", (y/n) cut off by the soil that landed on her mouth. Ewww. (y/n) coughed, spewing up the soil from her mouth.

"This is war..! This is Sparta..!", (y/n) yelled, grabbing and throwing soil to Hegan with her hands, feet and whatever part of her body that she could use. She even managed to use some WWE moves to throw some soil balls with style. Ha!.

Hegan did the same with as much vigour as (y/n)'s, minus the throwing in style's part. It's been a while since the last time he played this kind of childish stuff so he enjoyed it so much. Too much.

There was a dodging here, dodging there, throwing soil here, throwing soil there. Soil landed on hairs, faces, arms, legs, everywhere. This is the mini soil war. Poor gardener was going to have a heart attack when he found this.

Plop

Some soil landed on poor Thor's face and it succeeded to wake him. "What is this on my face? Huh? Soil?", Thor looked at the soil on his hand in wonder. Thor was too busy looking at his hand that he didn't see the other soil ball flying straight to him.

Plop

"Oh my.. Thor! I'm sorry!", (y/n) halted her move as she watched the soil ball missed its target, Hegan's laughing mouth, instead it chose to land on Thor's forehead.

Hegan also stopped, turning his head to look just in time as the soil landed innocently on Thor's forehead. Thor looked up in shock as the soil plopped down to the ground.

(y/n) dashed to Thor, wiping the remaining soil from Thor's face. "Are you okay Thor? I didn't hurt you, right?", (y/n) jumped out in fright when she heard Thor laughing with his booming voice.

"May I play with you too?", Thor asked, picking some soil and putting it on (y/n)'s face. (y/n) grinned broadly, wiping the soil from her face. And just like that, the war began again.

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"Hahaha you should have seen the gardener's face. It was priceless!", Hegan said, laughing as he remembering the gardener's face when he came to tend the garden and found that the garden was in total mess, poor gardener fainted on the spot.

After the mini war, Thor, Hegan and (y/n) were barely recognized by their peers. Their clothes were torn and every inch of it was covered with blotches and leaves. Their face smeared with dried soil while their hairs were the true definition of messy hair, a very bad one. The three decided to stop the war and walked back to their own chambers to clean up, leaving trails of dirt on the palace's floor. Poor maids.

Knock

Knock

"It's me, Thor. May I come in Lady (y/n)?", Thor said softly, waiting for his cue to open the door.

"Come in", (y/n) said, keeping her eyes on the mirror as she combed her matted hair. She winced in pain when her comb was stuck on some tangled hairs.

"Here, let me help you Lady (y/n)", Thor offered as he stopped behind her, smiling at (y/n) through the mirror.

(y/n) gave her comb to Thor, looking at Thor with dubious look, contemplating whether it was a good idea or no to let Thor help her. She closed her eyes tightly, bracing for the pain. But she felt no pain. (y/n) turned her head to look at Thor with a disbelief look while Thor continued his motion with a small knowing smile on his face.

"Grooming is a part of the courting, Lady (y/n). And it will not do for me to hurt my intended while I do that", Thor explain softly as he understood the look on his intended's face, combing her hair as gentle as he could.

"There, done, Lady (y/n)", Thor said, beaming at his work. He kissed her head as he put the comb on the table.

"Thank you Thor", (y/n) said, hugging his torso while she still sat on her chair.

"Come Lady (y/n). Everyone should be waiting for us in the dinning hall", Thor offered his hand to (y/n).

"But I want to do the same like you did, Thor", (y/n) protested, comb in hand.

"We can do that later Lady (y/n). Now let us go to the dinning hall because I'm famished!", Thor laughed, patting his growling stomach.

"What's with you and dinning hall? Every time you came to my chamber, you were always ended up talking about 'dinning hall' or 'famished' or 'food'", (y/n) shook her head, chuckling as she saw a pout on Thor's face.

"Because I'm famished?", Thor said, tilting his head to side. It turned out more like a question to (y/n) ears though.

"Come, I don't want my intended to die from 'famishedness'", (y/n) laughed at her own joke as she stood, grasping Thor's hand and leading the way to the dinning hall.

"Umm Lady (y/n)", Thor asked as they walked casually hand in hand.

"What is Thor? Are you alright?", (y/n) looked up at Thor with a smile on her face, the smile fades away when she saw the anxious look on Thor's face.

"I.. I will be gone for a while, there is something that I need to do.. But fear not! I will be back before you know it Lady (y/n)!", Thor grabbed (y/n)'s hands with his, smiling as he tightened his hold.

(y/n) squeezed his hands a little as she looked up. "How long will you be gone Thor?", (y/n) looked at Thor's eyes, smiling a sad smile. Thor pulled away one of his hands to caress his intended's cheek.

"Maybe three days but it might be longer than that", Thor kissed her hand, her head and her eyebrows, trying to reassure his intended that he will be back soon. (y/n)'s eyes glazed with unshed tears as she looked up at Thor.

(y/n) closed her eyes, making a small tear dropped to her cheek. "Okay, please be careful", she felt Thor kissed her cheek where the tear was.

"Yes, I will be careful Lady (y/n)", Thor pulled her closer and hugged her, softly nuzzling his head to hers.

-28-

Since the fight with (y/n), Loki has been avoiding everyone like plague for this past three days and locked himself away inside his chamber. He asked for a maid to bring his meal to his chamber and left the plate in front of his door once he was done eating.

Frigga tried to ask him why he rarely came out of his chamber but Loki will brush it off and say that he was just into some books. But Frigga knew better. His son was hiding something, her mother instinct told her so. Oh how right she was.

The fourth day, Loki finally came out of his chamber, grinning as he walked his way to the Bifrost Bridge once more because a few hours after he fought with (y/n), he went to the Bifrost Bridge.

Loki walked out of his chamber to Bifrost Bridge after he freshened up and healed his hands. From afar he saw (y/n) was doing some weird moves to dummies while Thor and the Vanaheim's crown prince looked at it in awe and laughed when she did some funny moves.

Loki gritted his teeth and balled his hands into fists when he saw it. He abruptly turned his head away and continued to walk to the Bifrost Bridge when he saw (y/n) was about to turn her head to where he was at.

Once he came inside the building, Loki walked to Heimdall.

"I know what you are going to do, Prince Loki. Please refrain from doing such a foolish thing", Heimdall said, drawing his sword out of its scabbard.

"It's not a foolish thing, I merely take what I deserved to have. Odin always say that someday Thor and I shall be the king but he chose Thor as his successor. At first, I'm okay with it but Thor wanted something that's mine and Odin casually gave it to Thor. Thor took what was mine so I shall take what was his", Loki's hands were glowing with his magic. Loki waved his hands and invincible barrier covered around the building, making the outsiders oblivious to what was happening inside the building.

Loki then hurled balls of magic at Heimdall. Heimdall dodged and swatted some of it away with his sword.

Heimdall's sword started to glow in golden light, he lifted the sword above his head. A big golden ball of light emanated from the tip of the sword and Heimdall threw it at Loki. Loki dodged it, moving to the side and backing away from the door. But to Loki's horror the golden ball followed his move.

Loki gathered his magic on his hands and made a big green ball of magic. He threw it at the golden ball and watched as the two balls exploded into tiny sparks as they met each other.

Heimdall saw his chance as Loki was distracted by the golden ball and he ran to Loki. He swiped his sword diagonally, hoping to slash Loki.

Loki turned his body away just in time before the sword met his body but the sword succeeded to cut some of Loki's black hair. Loki bent his body and spun his foot, catching Heimdall's feet with it.

Heimdall lost his balance and stumbled to the ground, his sword bounced away and landed near Odin's statue. He rolled over just in time to dodge from Loki's balls of magic, but unknown to him, that was just a distraction.

Loki threw a needle made of his magic to Heimdall as Loki saw him rolled away and it landed on the back of his neck. Heimdall waved his hand in front of him and Loki felt his body was moving slower than Heimdall's.

Loki saw Heimdall quickly stood back to his feet and walked to Loki. "Stop", Loki muttered, tiny speck of green light lit from the back of Heimdall's neck.

Heimdall couldn't move his body after he heard the prince muttering 'stop'. As if his body was under the command of the prince.

Loki cackled as he saw the astounding look on Heimdall's face. "You are now under my control, Heimdall", Loki said as he commanded Heimdall's hand to wave his hand again like he did earlier. Heimdall could only look what his hand did from a prison inside of his mind.

"Ahh this is much more better", Loki muttered, now his body was moving back like normal.

Loki walked to Heimdall's still body, laughing madly all the way to there. Heimdall tried to move his body but failed miserably. "Ah ah ah, you can't move. Your body is now completely under my control. Though I need to make a potion to strengthen my control but it shall do for now", Loki muttered to himself, walking and standing in front of the small gate inside the building.

"Now take me to Jötunheim and bring me back to Asgard when I call your name", Loki said, Heimdall's hand moving on its own. The small gate lit up and Loki casually walked through it.

"With this, he will be completely under my control for as long as I want to", Loki pat a veil inside of his pocket.

This past three days, he was busy between making potions for Heimdall and Bor Burison, and visiting Jötunheim, secretively of course. He teleported away from his bedroom to the Bifrost Bridge and back.

Loki casually walked past the guards on the palace gate to the Bifrost Bridge. "Drink this and then take me to Jötunheim again", Loki ordered, watching as Heimdall willingly drank the potion and opened the gate to Jötunheim.

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Loki quickly teleported away to Bor Burison's cave. He walked in a slow pace to where Bor Burison body was. He stopped in front of it, watching that now Bor's body was almost free from the ice, only small portion was left on his feet. Thankfully Loki has put a sleep spell before he melt and removed the ice from Bor's body.

Loki pulled out another vial from his pocket and poured the content of the vial inside Bor's mouth. Loki touched his glowing hand to Bor's mouth, Bor's body lit up for a while then it dimmed. "Now it shall help me to teleport his body anywhere I want. Ahh now it's time to wait for the right time", Loki pat his back, grinning.

"Everything is almost done. Now, it's time for me to retrieve back what was mine", Loki muttered as he grinned like a Cheshire cat, rubbing his aching heart.

-29-

Three days, it's been three days Thor was gone to god knows where. Wait, Asgardians were some kind of god's race so.. well whatever.

(y/n) missed Thor of course and the weird part was she also missed Loki. She missed their banter, more importantly she missed.. she missed his presence. All this feelings were starting to creep her out.

(y/n) sighed again for the n-th, Hegan looked at his friend with worried look. This past three days, (y/n) told Hegan everything about her, minus the part about the real world of course. She told him how she met Thor and Loki, how everyone in the palace treated her poorly, how she missed 'pizza' and 'Pharrell Williams'. Even though Hegan didn't have any idea what they were.

"Do you want me to tell you a secret, (y/n)?", Hegan asked out of blue, startling (y/n).

"Hmm?", (y/n) answered unsurely, looking at her friend who was busy looking at the sky.

"You are like Kari, my late little sister. She loved to smack my head and slap my arm whenever she wanted. Of course I hated that. And that was the part of how she died...", Hegan's voice slightly wavered, eyes glazed with the unshed tears.

(y/n) put a hand on Hegan's shoulder and gently squeezed it. Hegan took a deep breath before he continued his tale.

"I was thirteen years old while Kari was seven years old when it happened. At the moment, Mother was away to aid Asgard from Svartalheim and she told me to watch my sister when she went to the war",

"I was busy reading this interesting book near the fireplace on the library when she came in and smacked my head. She then snatched my book. I tried to snatch her hand but she dodged it as she quickly backed away from me. She lost her grip of my book and it accidentally flew straight to the fireplace", Hegan kept looking at the sky, oblivious to the tears that was now streaming down to his cheeks. (y/n) gave him a sideways hug, gently rubbing his back.

"I said that I hated her so much, I wish that she was never born so I didn't have a sister. She bolted out from the library",

"My sister's personal maid came to me after few hours of our quarrel, she said that she couldn't find Kari anywhere so I reluctantly came to look at her. I looked for her everywhere inside the palace, but I couldn't find her. I was near the palace's gate when I heard her scream. I don't know how she managed to go out of the gate without the guards knowing it", Hegan looked down at his lap, wrapping his hands around (y/n)'s torso and burying his head on her shoulder.

"I quickly ran to where I heard her scream, leaving the guards behind. I found her.. in the hand of a Svartálfar's soldier... headless... T-the Svartálfar tossed m-my sister's body a-aside as h-he came t-to me",

"I-I was t-too shocked and s-scared t-to move as h-he lifted h-his bloodied s-sword above his h-head to kill m-me. M-Mother came j-just in time t-to swat the s-sword away and k-killed the S-Svartálfar", Hegan sobbed to (y/n)'s shoulder, hugging her tightly. (y/n) was sobbing too, rubbing her friend's back, trying to give a little comfort to him.

"Kari w-was dead because of m-me and t-the final w-words I s-said to her was t-that I hated h-her. I r-regret it deeply. I-If I know t-that was the l-last time I s-saw her... I....", Hegan trailed off, too hurt to continue what he was going to say. He tightened his hold around (y/n)'s torso. (y/n) was sobbing loudly, burying her face on Hegan's shoulder.

They were crying for a while before Hegan pulled away. "Now that I found another sister figure in you. I promise that I will take care of you with my life. You can go to Vanaheim with me if you were tired with how poorly people treated you here, sister", Hegan wiped her tears from her face, smiling as he did it.

(y/n) slowly shook her head. "I love Asgard whether the people in the palace are suck but the villagers are different. And I can't just leave my intended like that. Even though Loki is a big jerk and Thor is a knucklehead, I.. I care for them both, a lot. Life is never flat here around that two lousy gits", (y/n) chuckled at the last part.

"Still, you are welcome to Vanaheim. Promise me that someday you will come to there so I can show you the beauty of Vanaheim! I also want you to meet my mother!", Hegan said excitedly, pulling his hands away to wipe his own cheeks.

Slap

"Come on dude lets practice the WWE moves I showed three days ago!", (y/n) slapped Hegan's arm, grabbing his hand and dragging him to the training ground.

Hegan groaned loudly when he heard the sacred words of 'WWE moves'. "(y/n) wait", He said, gently pulled her hand to stop her walk.

"What is it, Hegan?", (y/n) looked back behind her back, smiling at her friend.

"I will try my best to keep you safe even if I have to lose my life for it", Hegan said with a serious tone, looking straight to (y/n)'s eyes.

"I will do the same bro. I will take care of you. But geezz don't you dare to die on me. I will smack your head to the Helheim and back if you ever did it. Do you understand?", (y/n) playfully smacked Hegan's head, giggling as she did it.

Hegan rolled his eyes, shaking his head and smiling down at her. "Yes Lady (y/n)! Welll... you said that you will take care of me so... is it means that we can skip from practicing the WWE moves?", Hegan said hopefully.

"HA! You wish!", (y/n) rolled her eyes, dragging the reluctant crown prince behind. 

-30-

"Geezz I miss Thor and his warm hugs and kisses", (y/n) muttered to herself as she laid down in the middle of the training ground.

"Eww, I don't need to hear the last part", Hegan said, he too was laying beside her in the training ground.

"I miss Thor..", (y/n) sighed loudly, ignoring her friend's comment.

"I miss you too, Lady (y/n)", a booming voice filled the training ground, startling (y/n) from her musing.

(y/n) quickly sat and turned her head to look behind her. There, Thor stood with his Mjölnir in hand, beaming at her. "Thor! You're back! Are you alright? Dear lord I miss you!", (y/n) stood and ran to Thor, hugging him tightly.

"I'm alright Lady (y/n). Come, there is something that I wish to show you", Thor grasped her hand gently after he nuzzled his head to hers.

"But you're just back. You must be hungry, lets go to the dinning ha-", Thor cut her off.

"It can wait until later, Lady (y/n)", Thor insisted. He became impatient with their slow pace so he picked her up and carried her bridal style. He walked with fast pace, more like running.

(y/n) watched as they passed the palace's gate and walked straight to the forest. "Ughh Thor where are we going?", she asked in a confused tone, looking up at her beaming intended. Is Thor always this sunshine-y? Yeah.

Suddenly, they stopped in the middle of nowhere, still in the forest. Thor put her back down to her feet.

(y/n) looked around, recognizing the familiar place. This place was the place they first met. Her widening eyes looked back at Thor. Her eyes widened even more when she saw Thor knelt down in front of her, one of her hands was being held by his hand.

"Lady (y/n).. You know where we are right? This is the place we first met", Thor smiled when he saw (y/n) was nodding her head.

"I asked you to come here with me is because I want to show you this", Thor grabbed something from his pocket. He opened his fist and there a golden ring with a beautiful round grayish blue stone like sapphire with red lining around it. In the middle of the grayish blue stone was a small axe that looked strangely like Thor's Mjölnir.

The over all color of the ring was represented both of them. The golden band, the red lining and the mini axe in the middle of the stone was obviously representing Thor. While the round grayish blue stone was representing herself or her power, well that beside the point. The ring was simple but unique, just like Thor himself.

"I want you to have this ring so everyone knows that you are my intended, will you accept it, Lady (y/n)?", Thor said, looking up at (y/n), hoping that she will take it.

(y/n) teared up as she nodded her head. Thor was beaming as he put the ring on her finger.

"I love you Lady (y/n)", Thor said as he cupped her cheeks, bending his head as he kissed her lips.

-To Be Continued-

Footnotes :
(1) Sai is one of Naruto's characters.

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