Disclaimer: Though it would be lovely to own these characters I use, I do not. Which is sad, truly. So I just steal 'em and use them without proper permission. It's fun that way as well.
This Chapter is dedicated to Crystale no otaku for being my first registered reviewer. And a thank you to those who review constantly (like erisfer who reviewed for three consecutive chapters.) and to those who just review. You really help me in my stories.
P.S. Sorry for being uber late!
The door of the large house slammed shut, the force reverberated as the pictures hanging near the door shook slightly.
The goddess disguised as a school girl walked towards the door behind the stairs. It was hidden from plain view which was good if ever there were any nosy people in her house not that she would bring any one in her house.
Her emotions bordered in confusion, irritation and disbelief. The golden-haired goddess still had no clue how Mayura took possession of the hairpin.
She stopped in front of the said door, it had no door knob but in the middle was a small square gold placard with an embossed design of an eye with golden swirls surrounding it. She pressed her hand to it and it shone a lively green color before a soft click was heard.
The door pulled back slightly before sliding towards the left revealing stone stairs leading downwards to darkness.
Moriko quickly entered and the door closed the same way it opened, for a while the golden-haired goddess was plunged into nothing was black. Then soft flames began to light up from the walls, flickering and dancing silently as Moriko made her way down the stone steps.
The bottom of the steps led to a large stone room, much like the dungeons in castles only it lacked skeletons hanging from the walls. In the middle of the room was a big wull-sized cauldron. It was made of stone like most of the things inside the room. Attached to the sides of the walls were wooden shelves where vials and bags of different kinds of items were kept.
Moriko went to one of the shelves and plucked a small cloth bag and took out some crushed leaves that looked like basil and moved towards her well-sized cauldron. The said cauldron was filled with something as clear as spring water but as sticky as molasses. Moriko closed her hand that held the leaves to further crush it into powder.
Once the goddess was satisfied with her leaves in a powdery state she let it fall inside the sticky water filled cauldron. The sticky water gobbled up the said powered leaves and glowed a sickly green, the goddess before it whispered a few words in her native tongue before the whole stone room was covered with the green light.
When the light receded back to the big pot, a face of an elderly man graced the sticky water.
"Odin-sama." Moriko bowed slightly as she acknowledged the chief god.
"Idun, what have you called me for?"
"My humblest apologies if I had disturbed you." Idun said her tone nothing but respectful.
The Odin in the pot waved his hand dismissively, silently ordering the golden-haired goddess to state her reason of calling him.
"I would like to ask where Sigyn's belongings are."
"Sigyn's belongings? They are with the Norns, were you not the one who gave them those belonging which you ask of?" Odin gave Moriko an inquisitive look, assessing where this conversation might be going.
"Yes, but I am baffled at how one of Sigyn's belongings ended up with Mayura."
"Mayura?" Odin's voice took hold of a slightly surprised tone. "The human I asked for you to check up on?"
"Yes. She has the pin I gave to Sigyn. I am sure I gave it to the Norns when they asked for her belongings to help them search for her."
It was quiet as Moriko—or rather, Idun waited for Odin's response. Her long blond hair brushed against her thighs. It was usually a far away nagging thought that the skirts those schools made the female students wear was a bit on the short side. And even though she was used to wearing her toga-like dresses which was quite revealing on the upper body the lower part of the cloth usually ended on her knees or an inch or two below it. It covered a good part of her lower half and at least if her chest was on view she would be sure to catch whoever looked not like when those hormone driven teens tried to looks under her skirt or Mayura's.
"Idun."
Pulled away from her skirt musing Idun looked up again to see Odin with his usual solemn expression.
"Verdandi might have something to with it."
"The Norn of the Present?"
"Yes." The chief god's answer held a silent order to which the goddess picked up. She had to do things right otherwise the said Norn might receive a visit from the chief god.
"Understood." She nodded and bowed again before the face in the cauldron disappeared.
Moriko sighed and rubbed her temples. She had to visit the Norns that was his silent order.
"What are you doing Verdandi? Are you really going to go against Odin?" Moriko sighed as she went out of the room and up the stairs. She needed to find that book about traveling in worlds if she wanted to do her tasks.
A/N: Well that finished, I have learned, through your reviews that most of the complaints or criticism is about the length of my chapters. I apologize for that, sometimes I don't bother much with the length and it ends up either long or short, it's inconsistent really. And since I am mostly accustomed to writing short one-shots, that type of writing goes with my chaptered fics. Though I will try my best to lengthen chapters with non-boring descriptions. So thank you for your support and criticism, I greatly appreciate the time you took to review, so please don't stop!