So I guess I will continue this story, I have a few more idea that can last for a little while longer. There is also an ending that I think most of you will like. Enjoy the chapter.
It was a quiet morning, the palace hallways seemed to be vacant of anybody, save for a few guards standing here and there along the edges. Light shone through the windows, illuminating the building in just the right way, allowing just enough light to make it look like it was day time inside the palace walls.
A sudden shout echoed throughout the hallway, bouncing off the walls like a bouncy ball thrown at an alarming speed. This shout was very soon followed by loud footsteps. If one were to follow the noise to the source they would find Cora, they would also find that Cora was chasing a dog like creature that had a bag of candy in its mouth.
"Bobby Boy you better give me that candy back or I'm going to throw you out the window," Cora shouted at the creature.
So you're probably wondering who Bobby Boy is, you are, aren't you? Well Thor saw that Cora wasn't just ready to go back to Earth yet, seeing as Loki and she had just realized their feelings for each other and he wanted it to blossom a little more. So he decided that he would get her a friend to play with while she was in the castle and Loki was not around, even though he was pretty much around her all the time. This friend was a Grodth, a creature with four legs, a trunk, and weird bunny looking ears. About the size of a small dog Cora had fallen in love with it almost instantly, naming it Bobby Boy, and calling it awesome.
The only problem it seemed to cause was that now Cora seemed to have more fun with Bobby Boy than she was with Loki. Of course this was his opinion, Cora would never have as much fun with Bobby Boy as she did with Loki, mainly because Cora loved Loki more than she loved Bobby Boy. Also because Bobby Boy seemed to like stealing her candy, and that would just not do, you know how Cora is with candy.
It was a quiet morning until Cora woke up, and now she was chasing her dreaded dog creature down the hallway and shouting at it angrily. Loki was walking behind them with a beyond irritated look on his face. Oh how he wanted to kill that pesky little Grodth, he wanted to be rid of it and then he could comfort Cora and it would be just them again, and he could have her for himself.
So he had a plan that would successfully get rid of the little pest, at least for one day anyway. If Bobby Boy was gone forever Cora would be a little more than sad for a little while, and even though Loki would be all over her. It would be the wrong way to do it.
With a growl Cora opened her wings and flew at Bobby Boy at an alarmingly fast flight speed, at the speed she was going at she was able to grab him. They landed in a heap on the floor skidding and giving Cora some type of granite burn that turned her arm red, igniting it with a fiery pain.
"Ow," Cora cried holding Bobby Boy in her arms tightly. She didn't move, just laid there on the ground, wallowing in her pathetically gotten pain, almost wishing to throw the darned creature across the room in frustration.
Behind them Loki sighed, walking at his ever increasing pace. See it was Loki that gave Bobby Boy Cora's candy in the first place, if the thing ate it all then perhaps it would get sick and have to take a day off from being Cora's friend.
"How's your candy?" Loki questioned with an evil smirk on his face. Cora looked to see if the thing still had the bag of candy in its mouth, but there was nothing there, but Bobby Boy was chewing on something.
"He ate it," she whimpered sadly.
Loki wanted to laugh and smirk in triumph, but that would only make Cora angry at him, and curious as to why he was so happy in the first place, and then she would figure out that he made her candy disappear.
"Oh, how unfortunate," Loki murmured bending down to pick her up. It was a childish hold, like one might pick up an angry child, except that this child was not angry, this child was depressed.
Footsteps from farther down the hallway caught Loki's attention; Cora was still focused on losing her candy so nothing bothered her. Thor smiled at them happily, stooping down to pet the thing on the ground that seemed to be passed out.
"That thing looks funny," Thor laughed. Looking up to see that Cora was looking at the creature with a very sad expression on her face Thor looked at Loki questioningly.
"Bobby ate my Candy," she complained.
"Oh," Thor said with a disheartened expression. "Well, we're going to Earth tomorrow!" He said cheerfully trying to lighten the mood.
Immediately Cora brightened greatly, making Loki sigh angrily, for now his plan was completely and totally null, but perhaps not entirely.
"I'm going to go get ready," Cora shouted loudly. Wriggling out of Loki's grip she picked up her passed out dog thing and rushed back down the hall towards her room, leaving a grumpy Loki and smiling Thor behind her. Loki glared back at Thor with a menacing look before stalking off after Cora, grumbling about things that Thor couldn't make out, but didn't care to. So he walked the other direction with a grin on his face.
When Loki got the Cora's room he heard no activity from inside, which was strange seeing as how Cora was probably the most active person, or creature, he had ever come across. Looking curiously into the room Loki caught sight of Cora standing at her dresser, seemingly frozen as she had not moved even as he entered the room.
"Cora?" Loki whispered her name gently. She turned to him slowly, holding a sucker she looked at him with a sort of broken expression on her face. "What's wrong?" He asked softly.
"I gave this to Ara the day before he died, it was my last sucker," she murmured sadly. Instead of saying something else Loki walked over and hugged her from behind. Even though it seemed as though Cora had gotten over Ara's death there were random things that made her stop and think of him randomly. One time it had been a flower that Cora said reminded her of Ara's eyes, they'd been very pretty was all that Cora muttered as she had continued to walk down the hallway slowly. Loki could only watch as she walked down the hallway, unsure of anyway that he could say that would make her feel any better.
"Why is it here?" Cora questioned looking over towards the window to see some feathers on the ground. "Loki," she said suddenly sharp.
"What?" He asked feeling the urgency in her voice.
"Those are Nash's feathers," she muttered with wide eyes. Loki followed her eyes to see huge brown feathers on the ground, feeling a sudden chill in the room he finally understood the danger of being in the palace right now.
"This place is no longer safe," he said darkly before pulling Cora out of the room quickly.
"Does this mean he's back? Nash is back?" She asked with a shudder in her voice. Suddenly she could remember all his faces, his horrible, evil smirks, and tainted smiles. Everything clouded her mind like dye would taint the clean water of a river.
The situation had gone from controlled, peaceful, and happy to one of fear, urgency, and worry. Loki had to get Cora to Earth quickly, of course he was unsure whether or not the vindictive Averian would be able to follow them or not, but Earth seemed the most safe right now.
"Thor," Loki shouted into the empty hallway. Meanwhile Cora was getting dragged behind him, looking around with a tremble her eyes darted back and forth, hoping that she wouldn't catch her eyes on a certain winged man.
"Has something happened?" Thor asked running down the hallway towards them.
"We need to leave now," he growled finally picking Cora up.
"Why?" Thor asked getting serious.
"Now," Loki glared at him brother very darkly. With a nod Thor ran down the hallway, motioning for them to follow.
For Cora everything went by in a blur, the only thing she could recall was seeing Nash's laughing face in her mind, if she were to be caught by him, what would he do this time?
"Loki, Loki I'm scared," she whispered looking up at him.
They were just about ready to leave, Loki had refused to let go of Cora the entire time, for she had not stopped shaking. Seeing her so fearful by just the sight of feathers made him seethe with anger so vivid he might kill someone. Loki could only imagine what Nash had said to Cora while he was taking his time, he knew that he had nearly drowned her many times, with just that bit of information he wanted to end his life slowly.
If he could watch Nash die in the most painful way possible he would be a very happy man, but first he had to catch him, and that would something else entirely.
"Close your eyes," Loki commanded of Cora sharply.
So Cora closed her eyes and soon darkness welcomed her into a world of silence.
When she opened her eyes again there was a ceiling above her head, it reminded her of the ones they had on Earth, low enough to jump up and touch, not high like the ones in the palace.
"Hey," a voice drawled from the side of her bed, it sounded very familiar. Looking to her right slowly Cora met eyes with Tony; he was smiling down at her, a look of amusement on her face.
"Tony?" She asked jumping to her feet. It was him he was really right in front of her, it was him. With a smile she hugged him tightly and held back a few tears. "I missed you," she whimpered burying her face into his chest.
"I missed you too kiddo," he whispered patting her back gently. "The last time I saw you, you were bleeding, so this is a very big improvement," he mumbled looking down at her with a playful smile.
"So how's the tower?" She asked remembering that it had taken quite a bit of damage during the fight.
"Why don't you ask Pepper," Tony said with a smirk. "Pepper!" He shouted calling out through the door.
"Bring her out here," a strong voice called to where they were. With a shrug Tony led the way to where they were being summoned, making jokes about how Cora used to act when she had first met Pepper.
They walked into a larger room to see Pepper holding a glass of water and smiling at Cora. The tower seemed to be mostly repaired now; the balcony looked more welcoming than ever, complete with lawn chairs, and minus one creepy portal opening to another world.
"It still looks pretty cool here," Cora mused looking around at everything. Or course the bar was still there, and guess where Tony was going?
"Hey short stuff," Pepper greeted with a smile. Cora stuck her tongue out at her with an angry frown, she'd always told Pepper not to call her short, but of course who would listen to that? Cora was so much fun to pick on; just seeing her reaction to everything was great.
"Oh," she gasped softly. "Where's Loki, and Thor?" She added Thor at the end so Tony wouldn't get suspicious. Tony glanced over at her with a questioning glance before pointing towards a random room.
"They're talking to Fury," he explained simply.
A sudden stillness came about Cora, freezing in the spot she was in and looking at the window like she always did when she was sad.
"Something wrong?" Pepper asked noticing her stop.
"Did you bury Phil?" She questioned looking up at them with a stern expression on her face. Tony observed that she kept clenching and unclenching her jaw, and not once did she blink, this was what she did when she was trying not to cry. He'd seen the face many times when they were watching movies, or T.V shows, but somehow this was different, her eyes looked more mature than they ever had before.
"We did," Tony said flatly.
"That's good," she let a small smile break out onto her face. "Will you show me where?" She asked softly. Pepper looked over at Tony with a stern expression on her face.
"I'll show you right now," Tony sighed walking out towards the balcony. Pepper winked at him and smiled kindly, Cora had missed some things while she'd been gone, but that was okay, she was still Cora. That was something that everyone hoped never changed about her, as long as Cora was still herself, there was nothing to worry about, unless of course there was something else.
In moments Tony had his Iron suit on and was looking at Cora without his mask on yet.
"Come on slow poke," he said before launching away into the sky. With a laugh Cora followed him; it had been a while since she'd flown with him. Course he wasn't as fun as Nash, but he wasn't an Averian, so that part didn't matter as much.
Feeling the wind in her hair and the warmth of the sun on her back was something that she missed dearly on Asgard. The place was beautiful, everyone there was nice and treated her with respect, but it never felt right, it always felt like there was something missing from it.
For a moment all of her thoughts and worries vanished. She didn't care that there was a psycho waiting to kill her at Asgard, she didn't care that it seemed as though all her friends died, all she cared about was being in the sky with her best friend.
Watching from a window in the tower Loki sneered as he saw Tony leading Cora away from him. When they had arrived on Earth there were already people waiting for them to show up. As soon as they took a step there were agents with guns on them, Thor had laughed and clapped Loki on the back, these were his friends. They may have been friends of Thor, but in no way were they friends of Loki.
They took Cora away from him, gently so as not to wake her, and then they took him away. Now he watched as she flew away from him, feeling miserable at how far apart they were.
"She looks happy," Thor commented from behind him.
"I know," Loki muttered bitterly. He wasn't happy that Cora looked to be having so much fun here already, why didn't she have that much fun when they were together? Was he not good enough for her?
The thoughts were making him head ache, there was a question that kept pestering him. Did Cora like it better here on Earth with her friends? Of course he wasn't listening to it, because it had not even been a day yet. He would show Cora that Earth was not the place for her, that she would have to come back to Asgard and stay with him, because he needed her.
So I've decided to write all of the stories, because my mind is not satisfied with me only picking one. The first chapter of the Bruce/Steve story is up, as well as the first chapter of the young Loki story. As for the joker story I'm still writing the first chapter and creating a believable character to stick into it, though I can say that she will be interesting.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter, leave a review if you could be so kind. Tell me if you are excited for what's to come or not.