Laila was the first person to wake in the castle, then again, maids and house servants were always the first up. At least, thats what she'd thought, there was someone else up early that morning too. Laila started off her morning with the usual routine, waking, washing and dressing herself, quickly braiding her hair so it wouldn't get in the way while she worked, and then leaving the maids quarters. Her first stop was Loki's room. It was always her first stop.

Laila had little competition when it came to this job. Loki was always so moody and foul, none of the maids would readily volunteer to wait on hand and foot for Odin's foul-tempered son. Laila loved Loki regardless, and no matter how foul he treated her, she still served him. It caused tremendous pain, but deep down, Laila just continued to torture herself, as if one day Loki would suddenly realise she was his sister and instead of scowling and barking an order at her as he so often did, he'd wrap his arms around her and just hug her.

Today would not be that day. It was highly likely that day would never happen.

Laila knocked at the door. "Master Loki, is there anything you would like?" she asked softly, surprised to find Loki awake already, in fact it appeared as if he'd not even slept.

The floor was littered with books and tomes, at the heart of the chaos, sitting on the floor with his back against his bed, which appeared as if no one had slept in it, was Loki. Raven black hair tousled, his icy blue eyes glued to the book that he was currently reading, resting lazily in his lap. He slowly lifted his gaze to meet Laila's, then upon noticing it was just her, just the maid he returned to staring at his book.

"You can take this pile to the library, I have no need for it" he said dismissively, waving his hand at a pile of discarded books.

He didn't even look at her. It stung. The pain of being dismissed so easily by Loki always hurt her.

"As you wish Master Loki" Laila responded, gathering up the hefty pile of books.

One of the regular maids would have struggled under such a bulky pile of musty old books but Laila went hunting and trained with the warriors when she had spare time, so she was well capable to lift the heavy pile with relative ease. She let herself out silently, allowing Loki to resume his studies.



Loki growled in frustration and chucked the book from his lap aside. Another useless book, he couldn't find what he was looking for in any of these bloody books. Frustrated, he got up in a flourish and let himself outside, walking through the gardens to clear his head and stretch his legs.

Venu was always one of the strangest female that ever came to Asgard for the past Year and A half. She is a kind young lady with a loving Heart and sweet face. Though secrets be told she came from the realm of the Vanir meaning the nature realm of Asgardian Myths. She was a hard warrior to crack and figure out even Odin had a hard time trying to figure her out as well. Ever since she came to Asgard she was labeled the "Nature Freak" as she was the one that could and would talk with animals and they respond and be glad to see her as well. She never really stayed in the kingdom and often went out into the forest during the night to relax and enjoy the night air forgetting that some of the most dangerous creatures come out during the night.

Venu was walking alone that night and came to a glowing stream a smile on her face as she sat down on a rock in the middle of the stream and started to hum gently to herself. though it was merely a hum she had a loud one and animals around her started to get woozy and subcome to sleep and tiredness.

As she walked off she came to the ocean and sat on the shore and started singing to the ocean gently. The ocean glowed brightly as the ground shook slightly.

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Thor was busy with Sif who was training and using her sword against his hammer. Laughing they enjoyed their time together in training as their training was very hard. Thor went to clean off in his room entering and slowly takes his shirt off.

"God what a day" mutters the Norse god smiling. Looking around he went into the shower cleaning off then came out. He got dressed and flopped on his bed yawning gently.

God it was late and he needed sleep but he was restless . he yawned and smiles closing his eyes and relaxing gently.

Loki's walk inevitably led him down towards the coastline. He liked it there, it was often quiet and calm, and he was rarely bothered by people. The sun was only beginning to rise over Asgard, setting the entire landscape ablaze in a soft warm glow. The pristine white walls were emblazoned in red, gold and orange tones, the sky was pink and the water looked like thick glistening honey.

The sea, as usual, was calm, the waves lazily lapping against the shore. Loki was still quite some distance away, it wasn't a straight walk from the palace to the shoreline, there was a sloping hill with a pathway cutting down through it sideways along the shore in a gentle sloping gradient, as opposed to cutting straight down. While it meant it took longer to get to the shore than a more direct route, it also meant that you couldn't rush it, you had to take in the beautiful views as you descended the gentle hilly landscape towards the sea.

Loki's relatively calm and uneventful trek down to the shore suddenly took a drastic turn as the ground began to shake, subtly, but unexpectedly."By the Gods" he muttered steadying himself as the ground rocked. He looked out towards the sea, it still seemed relatively calm, although he spotted a figure on the sands.



Laila, having completed her task for Loki, set about the next prince she had to tend to. Knocking gently on Thor's door.
"Prince Thor, is there anything you require? Are you awake and clothed?" she asked, afterall, she'd have to go in and gather his clothing for washing and make the bed, she couldn't just barge in.

Suddenly from the waters flashed a massive head of a creature....a dragon. The fighter grinned "lets see what you got my friend " she dashed forward as the dragon gave a shrill roar and breathed out shards of ice sharp shards. The girl jumped up and away and kicked the ice shards away and laughed as she lunged and climed on the dragons neck as it growled and tries to shake her off. She landed on her feet and grinned as she laughed and brought forth a large elk caress.

"Here you go" smiles as the dragon purred and licked her face before chomping the elk. She sat down near the dragon and closed her eyes relaxing with her dragon at ease with one of the most deadly creatures to grace the nine realms. She hears her dragon give snarl and a distressed sound and saw loki there and shooed her dragon away and stood up.

"Its just an illusion" she said

The girl blinked seeing her dragon was not happy turning and froze seeing Loki "oh shit" she said "that was an illusion" she said calmly not that afraid of the grouchy prince. The water was glowing brightly. The dragon stayed close in case the prince threatened her.

Thor yawned hearing liala and opened the door "uh I'm awake but have a head ache right now" smiles peacefully ad he was cranky when he was hurt. He laid back down and sighed gently closing his eyes.

"You dare to lie to the Prince of Asgard? The God of Lies?" Loki said, not shouting, he was just incredibly condescending in his tone. "And a pathetic attempt of a lie at that" he added, hopping down from the wall that ran along the slope to the beach. Loki moved with the svelteness of a cat, and the deadliness of a snake.

Loki was not intimidated by Venu or her dragon, he was the crowned prince of Asgard, she wouldn't dare harm him with her dragon, the punishment would be a fate worse than death, so he approached her, as he did everything in life, with a cocky air of nonchalance.
"You're aware dragons are banished from Asgard, harbouring one here is a most dreadful offence" his eyes gleamed with mischief. If there was one thing Loki loved, it was having the ability to manipulate those around him, and he had the right fodder to manipulate Venu now.
"I'd imagine the All Father would seek to banish you to Niflheim after seeing to it that you tear this beast apart scale by scale with your bare hands" Loki's voice didn't falter, he didn't flinch, he was like a cat toying with a mouse. Venu would have no choice but to do whatever Loki asked of her, lest he alert the All Father to the beast lurking in Asgardian waters.



Laila frowned at Prince Thor's discomfort. "Shall I fetch your a healing tea ... or perhaps some mead?" Laila suggested with a soft voice. "I could get something to ease the throbbing" she quietly manoeuvred around the room, tidying as she went with great care not to make too much noise or disturb any of the princes things.

She glared slightly "prince of Asgard right" she mutters gently and shook head and leaned on a ice shard that grew from the ground as her dragon did that.
"And what do you want Loki so you don't tell Odin ? I'll do whatever you want"
She said slowly looming at the prince eyes narrowed slightly at Loki and then smirks gently. Her dragon snarled deeply and growled at her in warning but she put her hand out to say it would be okay.

It would be all okay, her father had a dragon here before all she had to do was did her time and play the game. The dragon lifted its large head and stared at her and at the god and made a slightly distrusting sound.

"Calm down its alrighty buddy" she purred petting his head that growled gently and calmed down slightly and grunted gently. The dragon snarled and hissed at the prince agressively fangs bared it was a scary sight to see as this dragon could eat Loki whole in one bite. The dragon loked at Venu in concern and fear for his rider and friend but Venu only smiles and soothed the dragons nerves.

Thor smiles gently looking at the other slowly "Some healing tea would help proablly" said grinning gently eyes closed gently as he was very tired from this headache. he coughed gently as he was slightly sick.

"I'll think of something" Loki replied cryptically. It was never to good to use up favours too quickly ... He wanted to keep Venu indebted to him for as long as he could before she grew too bothersome to keep under-thumb.

"You might want to put that thing away before anyone else sees it and you land yourself in more trouble" Loki smirked wickedly, not at all frightened by the dragon, he knew Venu wouldn't allow the dragon to harm him, it was far too risky for her to take such a risk, she'd have to be utterly, incredibly, unbelievably stupid to think she could attack him and get away with it.

"Right away Prince Thor" Laila said, bowing her head slightly and stepping out into the hallway again, making her way to get some herbal tea and medicine for Thor. She returned quickly, balancing a tray on one hand, setting it down on the table. "You must take better care of yourself, you'll rule all of Asgard one day, and it won't do to let yourself grow weak." she said, stirring the tea.

She laughed gently at the gods words and smirks gently. "YOu think no one knows that this dragon lives here ? Odin knew but I just made a deal that the dragon wouldn't kill anyone. Odin agreed to allow him to stay so yeah" she grinned as she pets the bmassive dragons head that purred gently. She got an idea and smirks as she hummed and spoke in the dragon's native tounge and it nodded. It looked at the god and grabbed him leg in its jaws and shook him around rapidly and then placed him down and then vanished into the water. She smiles and started to hum and walk off into the forest swaying gently as the animals where fast asleep to that hum.

"Should go home Loki the night is no safe place for a prince" she said innocently before laughing and running off through the forest. Her native body allowed her to outrun an asgardian in the forest and zoomed bacj to the palace and shrieked a stop in the hall and smiles gently to herself. Such a fun game she played and a evil game as well deep down. She walked off to her room and sat down and looked through some books.

Thor coughed gently but smiles a bit. He nodded as he looked at her slightly "You hiolding up alright with loki i hear he can be rather cruel at times" he mutters, he didn't like his brother this way. But he still loved him regardless of the way he acted, he was still his family. He looked at the ceiling slightly and sighed as he closed his eyes