Volva was in the middle of the woods, hiding in the shadows like Heimdall told her to do, she was afraid, she always does when she hid in the shadows, she was an innocent girl and the grieving souls who live in the shadows always scares her, she tried to think of something else so she can overcome the darkness of the shadows, even hilheim looked less fearful then the place she was hidden in, she tried to think of her vision and the prophecy, she tried to think of a way out of all the distraction which is coming, and the more she tried to think the more this place darkened and the souls noticed her presence, they chased her, a dark black holes in the space was the perfect describe of those ghosts and if you imagined them you will feel what Volva is feeling, she run from them even deeper in the shadows and the darkness got darker, she was a pure soul and all the evil and darkness in the shadows weakened her, she fell down and the dark souls circled her, she tried to leave the shadows back to the light but she couldn't, she was too weak and doing it would kill her, that was her end, she's going to die.

The dark souls were all around her, they ate her pure white soul, she screamed from the top of her lungs, but no one could hear her, she prayed for Heimdall to come and save her, but he didn't answer her praying, she remembered that the shadows are separated from the lights, which meant nothing can go out or in from the shadows to the light, it was her end, all she could do was to cry silently, but crying won't help her to forget the pain.

At her last moments of life the dark souls backed off and run away, and a strong light broke even the shadows, she was laying on the ground and her soul was almost broken, she gathered all the energy left for her to raise her head and see her savior, she saw a dragon, a big red dragon and he was setting himself on fire, just seeing fire made her happy inside all the coldness of the shadows, but how could this dragon save her? The light of the dragon was weak and can't chase away the dark souls, but her answer came from behind the dragon, another light appeared and it was so strong that it nearly blinded her, the light got closer and closer and sit next to where she was laying, she saw him and recognized him as a human, she didn't know the humans have such a pure souls but she was glad that this human showed, she looked at him but he looked stressed, he spoke with his follow dragon but she couldn't hear what he was speaking, and also he threw stones at the trees and one of the stones hit the dragon and the dragon shot his friend but the human stayed calm, and more then that he laughed, after moments the human layed opposite to her, his head was near hers, she could see his desperate face very clearly even when she was in the shadows and he was in the light, after minutes he stood and mounted his dragon and left leaving her in the shadows all alone.

The shadows went dark again and the coldness hit her bones, she wished the human never left, she was afraid again after the brief moments of happiness, the creepy sounds of the dark souls returned, she cried for someone to help her but no one answered her, the souls were getting near and near, Heimdall showed and called for Volva, of course she couldn't hear him, she shouted but for nothing, Heimdall knew something happened and quickly he broke to the shadows and saw volva laying by a tree on the edge of death, he run to her and hold her concerned.

"Volva…volva…can you hear me?" of course she could hear him now, they were together in the shadows, but she couldn't answer him, she was exhausted.

He used his powers to exit the shadows, when they were back to the light Heimdall called for Ghultop and flew back to Asgard, it was the early morning in Asgard, most of the gods were sleeping, he took her to the infirmary, the Asgardian doctors didn't know what was wrong with her, Heimdall told them that she was attacked by the shadow souls, but the doctors told him they were trained to treat physical injuries, not spiritual.

But one doctor told Heimdall that he once saw the same like her situation before, and told him that the injured person was given light by other person, Heimdall had to do it and fast, because he was one of the few who were expert in transferring lights and also taking them, he did a movements by his hand and recited some spells, and a light went from Heimdall to volva, it wasn't too much but enough to Keep volva alive, and from there the doctors handled her, and Heimdall left probably to Odin to report what happened.

He walked out the infirmary to Odin's castle, he stopped in front of the entrance gate, what would he tell him? Would he tell him he nearly killed his only oracle by ordering her to enter the shadows, or would he tell him that he met and spoke with two humans, Heimdall was stronger than Odin but Odin still the head of the gods and Heimdall have to accept any punishment he give him.

At last he decided to tell him everything no matter what his reaction would be, he started with ordering volva to hide in the shadows, Odin didn't look surprised because he went to the shadows and saw how dark is it there, instead Odin asked about vovla's health and Heimdall told him that she is in the infirmary and she is good for now, and then Heimdall told him about the two men, but Odin didn't say anything and ordered him to go back to his position in Midgard.

Heimdall mounted Ghultop and headed to Bifrost and then to Midgard, now he was back to the forest where he and his legions first landed.


Thor woke up in the morning with a headache from yesterday's events, he was still angry about the humiliation he had been through in front of all the gods and goddesses, but mostly he was angry about who humiliated him, he was angry at Vovla, why his father stood for a whore instead of his own sons? He would never know.

He looked beside him and his wife wasn't by his side, where she is? Usually she stays by his side until he wakes, he looked around his room and it was well organized, weird because the last thing he could remember was destroying the room in a moment of rage yesterday, he thought that Sif woke early and cleaned the room, he reminded himself to thank her later, she was the best wife he hoped for, he wore his clothe on and stood and walked to the window to take a look to the streets of Asgard, the guards were everywhere, and it made him uncomfortable though he loves war and seeing the army prepared, he went back to his bed and sit.

In that moment Sif, Thor's wife entered and brought her husband the breakfast, she sat beside him as he kissed her a long kiss, and she didn't mind considering her husband's mood.

After they broke from the kiss Sif greeted her husband and also Thor thanked her for the cleaning and reminded her that she was a god and she doesn't have to clean her room, that's the servant's job.

After Sif stood to leave Thor noticed the black bruise around her right shoulder to her neck, he went furious, who dared to touch his wife, the women he cares the most? He will chop his or her head after he skins him or her alive for what they did, he asked her who caused her this, but she didn't answerer, he become angrier, and asked her again, but she didn't answer either, he grabbed her hand, the good one and asked her one more time who did this, he scares her when he is like that so she had to answer his question.

"It was you…you did this!" he didn't believe what his ears just heard, never in his life and he ever hit a women, but looking to his wife's shoulder and neck he did more than just hitting her, he beat her to nearly dislocate her shoulder.

He looked to her tearing eye, never in his life and he ever saw her crying, she was a warrior just like him, and warriors don't cry, he cursed Vovla and blamed her for what he did, and poor Volva was in the infirmary fighting death, he grabbed his hammer and flew away through the roof leaving a hole in his castle's ceiling, he needed a place to get rid of his anger, and the first place he could think was Nivelhem, the cold snowy icy world was his favorite training field, the frost demons despise him, they were in a good terms with Asgard but after Thor killed hundreds of them just for the fun of it, they swore for Odin that one day they will sent his son's headless corps back to him, which made Odin to punish him by taking his hammer away until her deserves it.

He flew to Bifrost, it was the only way to travel between the worlds, he expected Heimdall to jump on him and beat him for breaking the rule, no one cross the bridge without Heimdall's permission, but Heamdall wasn't there, Thor was suspicions that Heimdall was playing mind games with him, but Ghultop Heimdall's horse flew from the bridge which meant only one thing, Thor was relieved that Heimdall wasn't there, for the first time ever he will cross the bridge without Heimdall knowing, he stepped inside the bridge and he was in his way to Nivelheim.

But Thor was mistaken in one thing, Heimdall knew he traveled through the bridge, nothing in the nine worlds or the worlds they don't know can pass Heimdall, he have eyes sharper than the eagle's and nose stronger then the dog's, and his shouting can be heard through the tree of life especially in the wars.

"THOR!" Heimdall shouted which made some dragons to fly away in the forest he was staying in.

Thor arrived to nivelheim world, he landed in the top of a high mountain, he heard some sharp noises and soon he recognized what it was, he was Heimdall, and he was furious, Thor didn't care and continued, he was in Nivelheim and Heimdall Odin knows where he was, he walked down the mountain and came across a few frost demons women, they run away as soon as they saw him, they know who he was and they know what he was doing in their world, Thor hold tight his hammer as the women run to their homes, and soon a full armed warriors of frost demons were heading toward him, when they first impacted, and with one hit with Mjöllnir Thor sent half of the army flying, soon the battle was finished and its obvious who won, Thor in middle of his triumph he didn't feel better about what he did to his wife, he still sad and angry and disappointed from himself, he sat on a rock and his chest was tighten, he felt guilty and recognized that He did that to his wife, him and him only, he knew he had to apologize to her, he has to give it a try, but why would she forgive him after what he did?

He went back to Asgard, the streets were full of guards and gods, they all greeted him but after he passes them they would talk about last night, he didn't react to it at all, he was heading to his castle and when he entered Sif his wife was fixing the roof, he hated it when his wife had to work, as she saw him she stopped, he kissed her and it felt like it was the first time he ever kissed her.

"I'm sorry Sif, I didn't know what I was doing, I was so angry about what happened yesterday, I did all of that, and…I blamed Volva when I should blame myself, sorry, and you know I would never hurt you." He apologized, this was the first time he apologized for something he did.

"I know that, I totally forgot about all what happened…and Volva is in the infirmary by the way." She said and the last part caught Thor's attention.

"What? What happened?" he asked worried, now he is feeling guilty again for all what he said or did to Volva.

"They say that she was attacked while she was in the shadows, the dark souls attacked her." Sif answered, and then said "let's go to see her, and Odin is there too, you may want apologize to him." Thor kept silent, and then they went out their castle heading to the infirmary.

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~Algerian from the moon.!