Chapter 1 Pilot
It was a beautiful morning in Asgard. The city flourished equally as the palace. Inside the palace sat the royal family and had breakfast. There sat them all and pleased by the breakfast buffet that was on the table ... all except one the young princess Lia.
"Where is Lia, she should have gone up now," Frigga said tiresome.
"It's the same thing every morning, she is always late for breakfast well actually she is almost always late for everything." Thor said to his brother.
"I do not even think that a frost giant from Jotunheim could wake her" Loki joked and both he and Thor laughed.
Odin sent a guard to wake his daughter. A few minutes later he came back without Lia.
"Where is my daughter?" Odin asked the guard.
"Your Majesty, I tried to wake her but I could not get an answer."
"Typically her," Loki said.
Frigga sighed and threw the napkin on the table and went to retrieve her daughter. When she arrived, she felt the door and it was locked. Frigga used magic to get in and there was Lia sleeping upside down on the side of the bed. Frigga went up to her and took away the hair from the Lia's face.
"Lia ... LIA" Frigga cried and Lia awoke and fell down from the bed.
"Oh good you are awake"
"Mom did we not had this discussion before, like yesterday and yesterday before that." Lia said tired.
"Then maybe you should start to go up a little earlier as we others do and you would not be awakened with bruises in the morning." Frigga said determined.
"Are you kidding, it is enough to have a drooling wolf on yourself every morning" Lia said and crossed her arms and looked at her white dire wolf Disa lying in her basket and looked up at her.
"Hurry on now the others is waiting for you and after breakfast you come with me to the workroom and continue with your lessons." Frigga said and left the room while Lia sighed and grimaced and mocked.
"Life as a princess sucks," she said to her wolf friend.
Lia is the goddess of light and darkness. A goddess who can see and do justice on both sides, but as the princess of Asgard, it does not apply only to protect the nine realms instead, you have certain responsibilities and expectations, trained to be an example like her mother the Queen.
In a few hours per day she is with her mom and read books, learns etiquette, sing, dance and talk. But as a warrior you also have to train to fight and every day she had a long workout with her friends or with her brothers.
Lia got dressed in red trousers with a purple long sleeved shirt and leather boots and went to the dining room with Disa. When she arrived she greeted with a big yawn.
"Good morning to you too, I'm glad you decided to come," Odin said.
Lia gave her father a big smile and sat down next to her mother and ate her breakfast.
The dining room was not so big but beautifully decorated and adornment and a large open wall into the garden with white curtains.
Every day was served a large food buffet at every breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bread, ham, fruit & vegetables, pastries, meats, potatoes, finger foods, milk and juices of various fruits, but at dinner there was beer or wine to drink.
Lia took her plate and picking a couple of slices of bread, a slice of melon, ham and sausage, muffins and juice.
"Why are you're red in the forehead?" Loki asked and Lia felt a bump on her forehead.
"Falling out of bed again, can you tell?"
"Very" Loki nodded Lia sighed and had finished her breakfast.
After breakfast went Lia and her mother to the study room and started working. The first lesson was etiquette and it was the one that was the most boring topic she knew, and now there was talk practice.
The most important thing for a princess is being able to speak well. Being able to express themselves politely is very important that in every situation, choose the right words and pronounce them with dignity, as Lia cared about any such thing. Well, at least her mother.
"Lia, what would you say if you want to offer your guest a glass of wine?" Frigga asked Lia who leaned against her desk.
"I say: Can I offer you a glass of our delicious wine?"
"Great but remember to pronounce the words with rounded tones" Frigga reminded.
"Do you really think the guests would rather listen to the tone, instead of what I'm saying?"
"Some love to hear than to talk my dear." Frigga smiled at her daughter "Have you brushed your hair today?" Frigga felt Lia's hair.
"I look good mother let my hair be" Lia said.
Next lesson was music lesson and today it was playing instruments. Lia could play three instruments, lute, harp and flute. Lia picked up her flute and started playing.
It was a song called the star the night. It was Frigga favorite and very difficult and long to play. It required lots of concentration. Frigga sat down and closed her eyes and listened while her daughter played.
After the last lesson was finally time to train. Lia is a girl who likes to move when she exercises. For her, it's not just wielded sword, archery or learns how to fight. Lia is a flexible warrior and love the feeling to hunt and swing around.
She and Disa went to a large indoor arena. There were all kinds of workout gear and obstacle courses in order to survive in the wild. There she met her friend Vala, she has been Lia's best friend since childhood and Vala's mother is a healer at the palaces.
The arena had Vala prepared for Lia's workout today was the shooting spot. Lia would shoot as many animals and monsters as possible every creature has a certain number.
"Hello Vala how is it going?" Lia greeted.
"Lia everything is good except our trophies are not happy" Vala said, pouring a certain ink on them soft tufts that sat on the end of the arrows.
"I can imagine that they are but I have to work out. Where are they?" Lia asked.
"They're in the dressing room and try the costumes." Vala replied.
Lia's six friends came out of the locker room completely embarrassed. "Lia and Vala we protest against this." Andor said a friend of Lia.
"The servant's had other things to do today, so we had no choice." Vala said.
"I refuse to show me in this." Everyone else agreed.
"Come on, it does not hurt when I shoot." Lia convinced her friends. They gave up and started the training. Lia fired on while everyone else ran around.
Meanwhile the training arena was Thor and Loki there already with Sif and the Warriors Three Hogun, Volstagg and Fandral and Odin stood atop the railing and looked toward his sons with pride.
Just when all would take a small break came Lia's friend Eivar running, being chased by Lia herself.
"Eivar it does not help if you run for your life, you have to die sometime." but he did not give up. He ran up the stairs and then vanished among the pillars. Lia stop in the middle of the plane and searched carefully in a long while.
"Give up your highness?" Fandral mocked funnily.
"Says who slacks." Lia grinned and scoffed back.
Odin looked toward his daughter and explored her skill while everyone else watched. Lia stepped hard on the ground, listening for vibrations. She looked carefully around. Then she heard a noise and it sounded not so far away.
Until she saw a dark figure sneaking in between the pillars when she shot the arrow quickly and Eivar was hit straight in the butt.
Odin followed the arrow and Eivar was only two pillars away from him. Odin smiled and applauded for her daughter "Well done my daughter." he said proudly.
"Thank you father" She said went up to her father and leaned against the railing and rest.
Then came Vala in with the other candidates and were full of dots after Lia's shooting. They had been chased around almost the entire palace. Vala had a writing roll with it and wrote down all the points.
All her friends had dressed up as villains, but all had different skills. All had spots on them and numbers shown were up to 1-10.
"You have 150 points so far Lia, so now we'll see on Eivar ... it gets zero points." She said as she looked at him. Eivar had number 10 and would be a villain who was good at sneaking. "Eivar" Lia said and Eivar rolled his eyes and turned around and there was a small dot on the backside "Sorry Eivar." Lia and her friends laughed.
Lia said goodbye to her friends and went along with Vala toward her room.
But Lia could not be quiet to hear what Fandral told the girls who he was standing and flirting with.
"When you're in combat must be knowledgeable in and be a talented fencer, but it takes more than that. It takes courage, it is my strength." He told me before the girls giggling cute on him. But Lia turned and smiled amused "But please." Lia said and went to him.
Lia and Fandral have always joked with each other, but it used to be Lia who always gets the last word.
"Then Fandral, then you may not have something in the making quick turnaround 'Catching the arrow'?" she asked.
"What is 'catching the arrow?' He asked strangely.
"You'll catch an arrow from the archer who shoots at you and then shooting back to him, but then we use a fruit as a target." Vala explained
In the royal garden were Lia, Vala and Fandral and prepared for the training.
Obviously Fandral could not resist this because he got all the looks from his girls, and he will do anything for his beloved ladies.
"You're not nervous?" Vala asked.
"No, no, I'm fine." Fandral reply charming towards Vala "May I ask one thing? When you said that the target was the fruit, I thought that we were aiming toward such as a fruit basket and not my head." Fandral asked nervously. He had an apple fastened with string on his head.
"The thing is that she is supposed to shoot the shooter and be gladthat she will not aim for your heart." She said quietly and waved to Lia to tell me that they were ready and Lia turned around.
Fandral was aiming for Lia and she waited patiently.
Fandral felt nervous because he has never done this before, He did not want to shoot Lia by accident. He released the arrow and flew away. Lia listened for the arrow and took hold of the arrow in perfect time and aimed back toward him and hit the apple.
Fandral lost his breath for a while but recovered quickly.
Lia thanked Fandral's for his 'bravery' and let him go.
"Hey where are the girls?"
"I sent them away, they were disruptive." Lia said, and Fandral sighed and walked away.
Lia and Vala was just going to go but was stopped by a soldier.
The soldier bowed before the Princess' Your Highness the Queen wants to see you in the garden as soon as possible. "He said and Lia sighed.
"Okay, tell my mother that I will get there as soon as I'm done." The soldier nodded and bowed again and walked away.
"Lia, you are finished for today"
"I know but my mother does not know it." Lia smiled "It does not hurt to take a little break between everything and be ready before the horror that comes within a few days." The smile fell.
"What is it?" Vala asked.
"In three days there will be a party and just for ladies. Mom has certainly ordered a new dress for me and the horror is that I need to spend time with spoiled, rotten, ignorant, stupid people who think they know better than everyone else. Life as a princess stinks."
"It is not so bad, I mean, you never hang out with them anyway." Vala said encouraging.
"No, but you do not hear their little chicken sounds all over the place: Look at my dress is it not beautiful, this pastry looks like a gemstone, have you seen her dress the color what an abominable. Lia how are your brothers? Where are they? "She mimicked Vala laughed but Lia was just more annoyed.
"Forgive me, but the way you described it, it's hard to picture it." Vala said amused Lia just rolled her eyes. "Welcome to my life."
It was time to part ways Lia could not let her mother to wait longer. She went up to her room and changed into a bright yellow dress with turquoise stitched patterns on the sleeves and the sides of the dress. As a princess you have to sometime show up properly dressed even if you do not like it.
The garden was large and beautiful and big as the throne room. Lia went into the garden with Disa and met her mother who was in the big pavilion. It was made of gold and white roses grew around it even on the ceiling.
"Ah, there you are Lia, please come and help me." Lia accompanied and helped with everything, menu, silver, table setting, flower arrangements and more, shit.
Three hours later the party was going. Lia had to change over to something fancier. A light green dress without sleeves with a silver belt and silver jewelry at the chest, and her hair was down released hair braided crown around the head and purple flowers in the hair.
Frigga does not usually have these partiers. Lia however, did not like it. All talked just a bunch of nonsense. This celebration was just invited noble and some are very snobbish and cares most about themselves. But Lia tries to stand out.
As Things T party were in the castle garden in the large pavilion that was made of gold. There were long tables full of goodies and drinks. People were talking while the others ate and drank.
Lia went around in the garden and nodded to everyone who saw her and nodded back
The social life of the royal court is nothing further. Lia had her own friends, and she preferred to spend time with them rather.
Later in the evening Lia went to the lounges room. There was already Thor, Loki and the others, they welcome her "How's your head?" Lia patted Fandral's head and chuckle.
"It feels fine. If you sifted more into my head, I probably would have a scar now." he pointed out.
"Then your ladies would have something to admire over." Everyone else laugh.
"Fandral told us about your little training. We have never heard of 'Catching the arrow'." Loki explained.
"No, but you do not follow my workout schedule." She noted.
"Knows father about this?" Thor stood behind her, and asks her.
"Of course, otherwise I would be in trouble." That was a lie. Lia knew that her dad would freak out if he knew. After all she was her father's only daughter.
The thing is that this kind of training or something similar you should ideally have supervision, but Lia doing as she wants sometimes.
There are a few things that do not suck in a princess's life: her family and friends.