Short chapter
Sorry it took a while to put this up. I had this ready to go for a while, but I wanted to get the next chapter worked on. Any way, time for the feast and the rest of Asgard seeing the real Loki with her family.
Upon entering the Great Hall not even five minutes after Frigga did, who went to her spot by Odin's left hand, with the Great Hall closely resembled the Throne Room, complete with a throne at the head table for the King, with the only real difference between the two halls being that the Great Hall was full of tables, with some tables having benches and others having chairs. And what Loki noticed was that it looked like everyone on Asgard was present for this feast, which both bothered her and didn't bother her. It didn't because there were those that she down-right hated and wanted to rub into the faces of those haters about how she is Skyrim's High Queen, but how this also bothered her was because the very same ones that she hated also hated her and might want to try and harm her and her children.
It seemed as though the entire room went silent as soon as Loki and her family made their entrance, with everyone looking at them that made Loki wish the floor could open so that all this staring could stop. After about a minute of silence, lots of cheering was heard, with some booing and threats mixed in, which was stopped by the ones cheering, with said cheering had Loki very much surprised since she didn't realize this many people actually LIKED her, but the booing and threats didn't surprise her, mainly since those were the ones that hated her.
As the four began walking down the main isle, towards the head table where Odin, Frigga, Thor, the avengers, and the warriors four were, they noticed that the warriors four were moved down from where Loki knew where they normally sat, the four next to Thor with Sif always next to him, with her on the other side next to Frigga. Instead, the four warriors were moved down to not just past the Avengers, but way past down to even those that Loki considered her friends, towards the, with Loki also noticing that Sif still had that upset look on her face at both being moved away from next to Thor and from when Frigga yelled at her earlier, once said older woman found out about Sif's little outburst at Loki while the group was in Skyrim. What Loki also noticed was that between Thor and Bruce was three chairs, two normal sized ones and a taller one that was also wider that sat between the two normal ones. A perfect size for her daughters
Heading towards the three open chairs, Loki sat down in the one next to Thor, while Ulfric sat in the one next to Bruce, with the twins on the chair that was between their parents, with both twins looking around the room at all the new people. Once the four sat down, everyone began talking again, with three women leaving from their chairs and went over to hug Loki. "Loki! Its good to see the real you." one of them, a woman that was the usual Asgardian look of blonde hair and blue eyes said.
"Its good to see you too Sygin." Loki replied to the woman named Sygin.
Then the other blonde, but with green eyes spoke after she got her turn to hug Loki. "I see you got what you always wanted. To marry for love and not for Odin's convenience since he finds that far easier than talking to that person instead."
A small laugh came from Loki, "you got that right Amora. I did marry for love and got to have a family of my own."
"And your daughters are just so adorable." said the third woman, who was a brunette that looked similar to Amora.
"Thanks Loriel." Loki replied back. With Ulfric recognizing the names of these three women. They happened to be Loki's only friends here on Asgard, but only they were hardly ridiculed the same level as Loki was for using magic in battle, mainly since Loki, as Asgards princess, wasn't aloud to fight and had to do so in serect.
Then, about half an hour later with everyone in the crowd now back in their seats, the palace cooks finally came in, loaded with numerous dishes of food that not only looked good, but also smelled good, with the smells of certain foods that Loki missed so much, that her mouth watering for them, with said dishes being new to her husband and daughters. As the cooks placed the many dishes onto the tables and servants going around with goblets being filled with mead, followed by everyone in the Great Hall digging into the meal. Though, while Loki didn't drink the mead because of her pregnancy, Ulfric however, did try this Asgardian mead, and while it was on the stronger side, but it also tasted way too bitter, bitter enough that he refused to drink the rest. As for the humans known as the avengers, they all only drank one goblet worth of mead each, since Asgardian mead is far stronger than what they were used to, while Thor and the rest of the Asgardians were drinking their mead as though it was water.
During the feast, Ulfric looked around, taking notice on how Thor's friends known as the Warriors Three and quite a number of those men that were considered as warriors of Asgard ate like, well, animals, even Thor himself showed that he had a tendency to eat like an animal himself, which to Ulfric, made it look as though his own daughters who were just toddlers could eat better than them, even Thor's female friend Sif ate in a near similar manner. What he also noticed was that the some of the citizens, mainly the women that not only looked young like Loki, and thanks to his wife, he could tell they were single by how their dresses looked, which he still didn't understand how certain dresses showed which women were single. Ulfric also noticed how those same women looked at his wife with what clearly was hatred and disgust, something that he didn't like, with him remembering Loki did state that these were the women that she hated and in return hated her. It also didn't help at how these women were also looking at him in a leering way, as though they were wolves stalking their prey and saw Loki as the one that stood in their way.
Deciding it was best to ignore those women, for now, Ulfric soon found himself talking to the avengers, leading to, after the main dishes were served, dessert, with numerous types of dessert dishes that were nothing like he has ever seen before, but there was one that reminded him of sweetrolls, only it was a dark brown color and tasted even sweeter than a sweetroll. With Loki telling him this was a chocolate cake, with both the girls enjoying it very much, so much that their hands and faces were covered in the chocolate cake. After both parents cleaned both toddlers hands and faces most of the way, both girls started falling asleep, with both of them not even waking up from a brawl that started.
"SHE WAS LOOKING AT ME!" shouted one Asgardian, a large man in the army who had a little too much mead.
"NO! SHE WAS LOOKING AT ME!" shouted another Asgardian that too was part of the army and too had a little too much mead.
Soon enough, the two men began brawling over the affection of the woman they were arguing over, one of the women that happened to have been glaring at Loki earlier, and thanks to the guards, the two men were quickly escorted out of the hall to sober up.
About an hour later and three more brawls started, with the second brawl being exactly like the first brawl with the same woman being fought over for, the third brawl started over one person supposedly looking at another person 'the wrong way'. And the fourth brawl being between a group of women, but it was hard to tell how this brawl started, either those women fighting over a man they both liked, or one of them was wearing the exact same dress as another woman was. But after half an hour later, with Lucia and Sofie fast asleep, and many others starting to or were falling asleep, and others that passed out a while ago from the amount of mead they drank, Odin figured it was time to end the feast, but did remind the crowd about the all day celebration tomorrow about Loki's return, with Thor slurring his words as they were very certain he was asking them to join the royal family for breakfast in the morning.
While Ulfric and Loki were getting ready for bed, with their daughters changed into their night clothes and tucked into their beds, Ulfric then spoke.
"Are the feasts always like this? Including the brawls?"
Answering him, "Most of the time. And as far as I know, there is always at least one brawl at every feast, and usually, its what two of those brawls were like, men fighting over the affection of a woman. Though I do remember there was one brawl years ago when these two women were fighting when the husband of one of them was caught cheating on her with the other woman."
Sharing a small laugh with his wife, Ulfric then had to ask, "From what I was able to make out, your brother mentioned about joining for breakfast tomorrow morning. Who will be joining, besides your parents and brother?"
"Normally, breakfast is just for the royal family and the closest friends to the royal family are Thor's friends Fandral, Hogan, Volstagg, and Sif, and I used to be allowed to have Sygin, Amora, and Loriel with since they are my closest friends. Until an incident a few centuries ago when Amora, for a short while, had a huge crush on Thor, which he actually noticed but never noticed Sif's crush on him. One thing led to another with both women getting into a pretty big fight, with my friends being banned from ever having breakfast with the royal family, unless Thor's friends were not there. Which I was furious about since it was Sif who started attacking Amora first, but Sif being Sif said Amora started the fight first."
She paused, then continued. "For breakfast tomorrow, with how things went, it would probably just be my parents, Thor, and us, without any of the friends included. And before you ask, you and the girls are considered part of the royal family. Though I have a feeling my father might ask you questions, like about you being of noble blood, or how one becomes King or Queen in Skyrim, and probably other things."
Knowing what might be expected tomorrow, the two went to bed, though with Loki, it took her a little longer to fall asleep, afraid of what type of questions Odin might ask Ulfric, and what those celebrations will have in store.
Well, the welcome feast is over with things going decent. Next is breakfast with the royal family and day 1 of the celebrations.
