Painful Losses:

Thora, Volstagg and Fandrall came to the Hall where they saw loads of dead creatures who they recognised as Dark Elves.

"I don't understand, I thought they were all dead," Thora said in shock.

"Unfortunately they survived," Volstagg said.

"But why are they here?" Fandrall asked.

"They're here for the Aether…Jesse," Thora spoke out in fear. "I've got to get to him, he's with my mother. They might be in her chambers,"

They all ran towards her mother's chambers. However Thora's determination to get there made her run faster.

She ran into the chambers when she suddenly saw her mother being held captive by Malekith and his lieutenant who her people thought was a Marauder kept stabbed in the side.

"No!" she screamed in anger. She shot lighting with her hammer at Malekith's face burning its right side. His lieutenant grabbed him from under his arms and pulled him to the balcony to get him to safety.

Thora leaped over the pool and threw her hammer at the escaping Dark Elves knocking them over. She reached the balcony and saw a thin ship with a sharp back engine at pointy bottom flying off. She knew that those Dark Elves were inside it. She summoned it and did a swinging throw at it in anger.

Before Mjolnir could hit its escaping target, it disappeared.

Thora grunted in anger. But it turned to pain and tears as she turned back round to her dead mother. She stumbled back more when she saw her uncle Orpheus dead as well (most certainly killed by those dark elves).

Odin entered the room as did Una, Lyria, Volstagg and Fandrall. They all gaped at seeing Orpheus and Lyria dead on the floor.

The real Jesse came out from behind some columns and curtains in the room and gasped in shocked at seeing Frigga and Orpheus dead. He placed his hands over his gaped face and kneeled down in guilt feeling responsible for their deaths. They had died trying to protect him.

Odin kneeled beside his dead wife and cradled her in his arms. Lyria and Una cried as they kneeled beside Orpheus's dead body. Fandrall kneeled beside Una and hugged her grieving a few tears for the father of his girlfriend.

Thora walked down and kneeled beside her mother hugging her father. She then went to Una and Lyria and hugged them as well.

She saw Jesse kneeling down in guilt whilst tearing his eyes a bit. He may had only met them today but they had displayed great kindness to him.

He stood up and went to embrace Thora. As they did, Jesse whispered in her ear. "I'm so sorry, Thora. It's all my fault, your mother and uncle are dead,"

"No, it's not,"

Later that night, the dead bodies of Frigga and Orpheus were placing in boats. Their bodies were on a long boat bed, they had blankets that went up to their chests, flowers were adorned around them and they had swords laid up on their chests as signs that they fought protecting their home.

Odin was at the front with some soldiers overlooking the boats with his dead wife and son sailing away towards the waterfall that fell into space.

Thora, Jesse, Una and Lyria with Fandrall, Volstagg and Sif near him grieving tears. Jesse held Thora's hands and Thora's free one held Una's. Una also held onto her mother's hand and Lyria's free hand was linked with Fandrall's.

Two soldiers lit their arrows on fire and fired them at the sailing boats. They lit on fire burning away the corpses of Frigga and Orpheus.

More sailing boats drifting far behind them with dead corpses of dead Asgardian soldiers were lit up as well.

The two boats in the lead came to the edge of the waterfall. Odin banged Gungnir on the ground and the boats magically sailed into the air. The fire burning suddenly turned into billions of sparkles that went flying upwards into the starry sky.

The boats fell downwards into space.

Asgardians in sorrow held shining balls of light and as they lifted their hands up a bit, the balls magically floated into the air rising upwards into the sky. Thousands of them arose from the dark, depressed, downed streets. All was quiet and all was silent as the kingdom grieved and grieved.

The Royal Family remained where they were for hours with eyes continuously dropping down tears like they were living rainclouds activated by grief.

Jesse sat in a room given to him by Odin. Odin ensured it was as far away from Thora as possible.

Jesse decided to leave Thora alone for a while to be in grief. Although she had told him, that it wasn't his fault that Frigga and Orpheus were dead, he still felt incredibly guilty.

He laid down on a couch all sad. He was also worried for his father. His father was very likely worried about him as well. He took out his phone from his pocket and tried texting him. But all his emails failed. Since he was in another realm, he had no data.

He huffed in anger and placed his phone back into his pocket.

He just laid there getting more and more worried about his father.

Jesse was walking through the corridors a bit. When he heard an angry but normal-loud voice, "What do you think you're doing?"

Jesse flinched back a bit. He turned round and saw Odin.

"Your majesty," he addressed. "I'm just having a walk about because I'm bored in that room and I just wanna see…"

"You will not be seeing my daughter," Odin sneered.

"Please your majesty, I just want to comfort her,"

"I have already lost my wife and brother because of you. If you hadn't been so nosy, the Aether wouldn't have come inside you in the first place. Then Asgard wouldn't have to keep you here. My wife and brother would still be alive then,"

"Your majesty, I am sorry you've lost your wife and brother. But how was I supposed to know what would happen? If anything it's your father's fault for not killing Malekith in the first place,"

"You dare blame my father?" Odin sneered stomping up to him.

"Yes I do. And besides he should have destroyed the Aether in the first place,"

"My father is not responsible for how Malekith survived all these years. And the Aether is one of the six Infinity Stones. It is very likely unable to be destroyed,"

"You don't know that," Jesse retorted. "Just because you're king, doesn't mean you know everything and how to act towards people,"

"You dare say that to me,"

"Yes I do. From the first moment, I got here, you've been trying to get rid of me. You act as if I'm an obstacle in Thora's life when I'm not. I just want to make her happy and everything,"

"Look Jesse Foster, you don't decide how my daughter's life goes. I wish I could kill you right now,"

"Then go ahead," Jesse challenged. "But know that if you kill me, your wife, your brother and especially Thora will hate you for this,"

"Just go back to your room or I will,"

Jesse went back to his room.

He hardly slept well at all. It was mainly because of how he felt the Aether inside him. He was looking at her veins to see any ruby red energy inside him but he didn't see anything. He suddenly felt the atmosphere around him turning dark red and he saw a vision of the Aether above his head.

His vision was cut by a guard coming into his room. "Jesse Foster, you need to come with me!"