A/N: Interesting fact, the title is name after a mask design I drew in Art class. Anyways, not even 24 hours of the first chapter being posted, and people are liking it. I have a goal for this story, and it's not bad. I would like to make this story over 50 reviews before it's finished. That is my goal. So I would like to thank everybody so-far and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

"I recognize in thieves,

traitors and murderers,

in the ruthless and the cunning,

a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

~Jean Genet"

Chapter 2: The Savior, The Agreement and The Traitor

Previous on Serpent Flower:

Jane had never mind the fact she was adopted. When she heard children talk behind her back and heard the rumor. She asked both of her parents later that night. She was smart, and never asked that much. Requesting for her to find her own husband and not a arrangement one. Odin agree she'll have two years after her eighteen birthday. She knew suitors all over the nine realms would still try and claim her hand of marriage. Well expect for the Jotans and Midgardians... her own people.

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"The house of Odin is full of traitors. Even in Asgard" The king said sadly.

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"Don't die yet Princess Jane."

"...T-Thor..." utterly escape her lips before becoming unconscious. She faintly heard commands from the person.

"... Jane... castle... healers... she... saved..."

Loki's typical day was the same old boring routine every day. Get up at the break of dawn to watch the sunrise in the east. Study his limited of books his world had, until breakfast. Usual eating with his family, hardly even speaking. Listening to some of the most boring conversations to very interesting ones.

After that he would then head to training. He trained with his uncle and his men. His uncle found out he was best at knifes and dagger throwing. Ever since he was at the age six, he trained until he became deadly perfect as he hit each target.

His magic had also became powerful as well as deadly. Loki had sighed at his size. For the runt of the family, finding a mate was hard. Loki was smart enough not to get involved with any Jotun women. They just wanted power as well as wealth and never Loki himself. Laufey knew that his life was no picnic. He became the special one in the family.

In the afternoons, he would attend his parents deal the court of Jotonheim. Helping solving problems that need to be solved. With their prize weapon gone from here as a result locked away on Asgard.

Today's felt different as a light the lit up the sky. Somebody came by the Bifrost ...visitors from those thieving, murderous bastards of Asgardians. A group of seven came down for information. His father and brothers went towards the plaza as he tag along. He was curious to what information they seek. His uncle and general was already there as they slipped to their seats. Two females, three warriors, and two princes. One of the female talked after the crown-prince demand to see his father. He heard her brother in her words. So the rumors are true from the dwarfs. Odin had adopted a female child. A mortal child.

Then it started, a battle between the warriors and his people. He could the young princess yell to her brothers. He heard her name from the second princes lips.

Jane.

He smiled as he kept thinking it was a beautiful name. He watched as the battle continued, and the comrades start to leaving towards the Bifrost. He watched her as she glanced at the sky. He followed her gaze to see four small black spots heading towards him and his brothers. His magic started to fail him for the first time. Shit.

He saw Princess Jane take two black-like arrows down with the hidden daggers she had. It shocked him as she leaped into the air to take the next two down. Heading back towards the ground another and possibly the last arrow hit her in her leg. The impact had thrown her off-balance, causing her to fall on her left hand. He saw her bit back a scream. Loki then realized somebody was trying to kill them.

Shit... worse thing is that Jane is still a mortal. An injury like that would kill her by the Bifrost. Shred her to pieces. He remember a long time ago, what his dad told him about it. Meaning she'll have to stay until she's healed. Good to have somebody who can debate with him. He smirked.

Then it happened; the idiotic crown prince of Asgard hit his hammer into the ground. Sending out a Thunder shake. It had thrown the Princess into his favorite book store stone wall. The soldiers were knocked down on their butts. He watch as the asgard prince shot up into the sky and fly away from here and to the Bifrost was.

His father was already heading to the Bifrost with his personal guards. Waiting for the asgardians leave or get captured by the their soldiers. Leaving his brothers and him behind, to head back to the palace.

"Get the healers ready," he said to his brothers as he leap off balcony. He ran towards the mortal asgardian Princess. Guards who stayed behind watch the tiny prince pass by... well for them anyways.

"Loki, what are you doing?" Helblindi, yelled towards Loki across the plaza. Loki didn't answer right away.

"Don't die yet Princess Jane." He muttered as he squatted down in front of her. Her eyes were open dimly.

"...T-Thor..." utterly escape her lips before becoming unconscious. He sighed in relief, as she spoke. She was still breathing. But she thought he was her thick-witted sibling.

He carefully picked her up in his arms. Her head on his left side and legs on his right. Her brown hair had poked out of the winter coat. Drops of blood dripped on his right arm then to the ground. Her broken hand was swollen red and misplaced. He noticed Joton form didn't harm her clothing, by burning them with his touch.

"What I am doing brothers, guards, and our people. Is taking Princess Jane to the healers room. After saving us, the princes, from five black arrows. She became badly wounded from one arrow hitting her leg, breaking her left hand, and being blasted by her moron of a brother." Loki said as he headed to the palace. "Thyrm, tell father about what happened. Quickly as possible uncle."

"Yes Prince Loki" Thyrm oblige as he mounted a gholly*. One of the fastest snow beast. It's fur was comfortable to sit on, but not for a long time. It's size was a little bigger than a Jotun. He race off towards his brother. Loki glanced down, to see her skin turn pale and red. He needed to get her to healers room.

Teleporting into the healers room, he startled the sixteen healers of the current time. The healers all wore a strip of fur across their right shoulders with a silver leaf-pattern fastening pin. Some were in the midst of making beds, others carrying bowls of water or bottles of salve. They all froze and stared at him. None of them made a sound. Their wide, lovely blue and red eyes stared. Only the small stone fountain in the middle of the room—a figure of a boy pouring a pitcher out—made a soft ringing. A healer had step forward, looking at his young prince then to the female in his arms. This healer had an extra fastening on his strip and was in gold.

"Enin, I need you to tend to her. She just save my brother and mine life." His voice started to feel dry.

"Of course my Prince. What's her name?" Enin asked after stepping towards the female. The head healer took the girl from his Princes Arms. Careful not to freeze or burn Princess Jane's body, he laid her down on the closest bed. She moaned as her body made contact. Her clothes like before didn't freeze by their touch.

"Jane... Princess Jane Odinsdóttir of Asgard." The prince replied, a collect gasp echoed in the chamber. The prince looked at everybody. Calmly and slowly he spoke again. "She is different from those savages... she is a orphan of war, adopted by king Odin. Now she save your princes lives, please do the kind thing and tend to her."

The healers rushed around the table. Then, they shuffled crowded around her, sweeping their frost hands over her, feeling her throat and wrists and face. Her skinned never blackened, and she let out a silent screamed when they touched the left hand.

"Broken hand, that will take five months give or take with her body to heal by itself." A healer called out.

"A small bump wound on the back of the head. Possible hit something hard."

"Check the ribcage. We need to take off the jacket to check her for other wounds. On the upper body." Enin said, as the others slowly cut the jacket to pieces. Loki watched the jacket edges turn to the frozen burn, disintegrate the material as it was moved to the bed next to it.

She groan sightly as her right arm move towards her neck. Grabbing something familiar from under the tunic she worn. She fiddled with it, the healers caught a small glimpse of a metal dragonfly necklace. The wings of it, were woven into a pattern of swirls. The center piece had four little diamonds in it.

Loki stared for a second, feeling some power in that necklace. It was the necklace that was protecting her from their touch. Spell by... he doesn't even know. He watched her breast moved up and down, as she was breathe the room scent.

"My prince, we need to remove the clothes to get to the leg wounds." Another healer said, watching his prince nod his head.

"We need to keep her warm as well, I'll go ask mother-queen if we can get our sorcerers to help you guys." The young prince, "oh... Enin, if she wakes up before I get back keep her awake and send a runner to get me. Also don't take that dragonfly off. It's protecting her from our touch."

"Yes, my prince" the head healer said.

Loki step out of the healers room. Holding his head high up, he stride down the icy hallway to find his sire Farbauti-Queen. He turn the corner at the end of the hallway. He could hear his brothers and his mother. He hurried towards the voices. Helblindi was telling her what happen and how his young brother went to the healers with the female. He saw them as they turned the hallway.

His mother smiled at him. Her white royal coat hanged loosely at the end. A dark blue royal grown dragged along the ice floor. She kneel down to his level. Placing a pale blue hand on his shoulder. He looked at the ruins of his mother. Her pale blue eyes stared into her sons eyes.

"Is what your brother say true? You brought the princess of Asgard to our healers." She asked softly, he glanced up at his brothers. Then explain what happened out there and in the healers room. He had ended it to his ask about the sorcerers warming up some fire crystals. His mother smiled, and picked him up. They walked back to where he came from as the healers just closed the leg wound. The left arm was reset and cased into a rock like substances.

General Thyrum reached his brother just in time. The King hadn't made it to the bifrost yet. Telling the king of what had accord when he left, the king had been shocked that somebody tried to kill his sons. The biggest one was that it was the princess who saved them. The king watched his men surround the bifrost site, where Thor's companions had retreated. He arrived just in time for the Bifrost to open and the Allfather to appear. Laufey did his best to appear calm and King-like, rather than flustered and out of breath. He wanted to go back home to check up his sons.

"Father, let us finish them together!" Thor yelled. Laufey realized that the Princes had no idea that his sister was missing. The Allfather was a different story.

"Where is Jane?" He asked, his face was calm but Laufey knew better, Odin loved his sons, but his daughter was his little girl.

"The dark haired one yes?" He said, feigning nonchalance. "I believe she went for a tumble and was badly injured by your own son. My son watched the entire thing... she save my own sons lives also. Was shoot by an arrow in her leg, not by us. She also has a broken hand. So you must be proud your son injured his sibling badly... that she might die."

Thor jerked then, forehead crinkling in confusion as he realized at last that his sister wasn't with them. Odin had paled under his beard. Laufey walked closer to him, still trying to keep his breath under control.

"What your boy has done here today is an act of war." He said. Odin's eyes snapped on to him from wherever they'd gone at the news of his daughter's almost death.

"Then treat these actions as such, the actions of a boy." He said, his voice sounded strong, but Laufey liked to think he could see the pain under them.

"I will consider it. You have lost a great deal to this folly. Perhaps it will teach your boy... not to be so foolish."

Odin looked over at his son, Thor looked horrified. He had hurt his own sister. The Princess who had saved his sons lives... may die. Laufey couldn't help but rub it in a little.

"If she dies, I'll send her body. Until then...I'll let you know how she fares." He said and turned away, as though Odin was of no importance.

"Please let me see her before she leaves for good." He voice asked softly.

Laufey look over his shoulder, "Asgardians are not welcome here, and you know that Odin."

"Then why is she allowed then?" Balder asked towards the king.

"She is mortal, and saved my sons lives. She has earn my respect. There for she can stay. If the Allfather can chose if she dies by the Bifrost or here where my healers are tending to her. I think he'll choose the second one." The king spoke to the young prince.

"Is there anyway to see her soon?" Odin asked, Laufey grinned a little. Two options came to his mind. Odin wanted to see her so badly, what would he sacrifice to see her again.

"You can give us back the casket or..."

"Or what?"

"She lives with us forever... and became married to my youngest son. You have a week to decided." Laufey said, as he walked off towards the palace. Behind him he heard the sound of the Bifrost opening. He grinned at his plan. He knew the Allfather would never give up the casket or his daughter.

Odin had turned to Heimdall the second they had arrived back in Asgard.

"How badly is Jane's body?" He asked. Thor stood behind him, looking guilty. Balder wanted to cry for not protecting his little sister, like he promised all those years ago.

Sif and the warriors three walked out of the observatory heading towards the healers. Fandral was still badly injured and need medical attention. Leaving the royals alone.

"Jane is not dead... yet." Heimdall said. "Laufey's family has her in the palace healers wing."

"Is she alright?" Odin asked softly, not daring to put into words the thought that had crossed his mind.

"She is injured." Heimdall softly spoke.

"How badly Heimdall?" Balder asked, his voice sounded like it was going to crack.

"My king and princes... Princess Jane had been shot with a dark-magic arrow in the leg. They were aim at the Jotun Princes, as King Laufey was telling the truth. She also has a broken wrist... her writing hand. She also has a few cracked ribs, a bruised back and a bump on the head." Heimdall gazed away from the royals.

"Father we can't give them the casket." Thor told his father.

"Thor Odinson, you will be quiet. You had mess this entire thing up. You will be strip from your title as crown-prince for five years, I also take away your power until you are worthy to use it again." Odin turned to stare at his eldest son. "To go back now is to declare war. We can't give them casket. If Jane... is going to be a betrothed to Laufey's youngest son, then we have no right to remove her. She also pretty bang up. I had made your sister a promise. I... I-I am going to talk with your mother."

"What?! No! Father that is insane! Jane doesn't belong there!" Thor called as his father left towards the palace. He has to choose... he went to his wife to let her know what had happen.

Casket of winter... or breaking a twelve year old promise.

Deep into the Asgard forest, a black hooded feminine figure waited for the minion to come back. The master had plans within plans within plans. She of course made the deal to get her prince to become her servant. She just need to wait. However Jane would have figured it out and stopped her. She needed to be out of the way. A figure emerged from the darkness.

"Mistress, the arrows where shot at the Jotun Princes and Princess Jane. The Princess had manage to take down the arrows, but was hit in the leg by the last one. I have failed you and the Master, Mistress."

"No you haven't... The Master said it went well." She glanced at the golden city, a small smile form on her lips. "Prepare phase two, Asgard will soon be ours once Odin has fallen into the odin-sleep."

"Shall I inform the master" The servant asked.

"Of course, tell him our betrayer is ready on his command."

"Yes my Mistress."

TBC

A/N#2: Anybody know who the traitor is yet? Will Odin break his Promise? Loki save Jane and Jane save Loki?

*Gholly: A type of animal that is fast (cheetah fast), soft and big.

Sneak Peek for Chapter 3:

"Balder, Thor come here please," Queen Frigga called to her sons. They walk towards her and smiled.

"Yes mother," both of them spoke in a illusion.

"Boys, I need you to promise me that you will protect your sister forever." Frigga said, to her sons.

"We promise mother" Balder said, and Thor nodded his head.