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Harmonia
Chapter 8
Over the years I worked hard to be as useful to Leficent as I could. We established that she wanted to take over the castle that was situated in the middle of Andalusia and force the royal family to abdicate so she could rule in their place.
She placed me in charge of recruiting as many soldiers as necessary to help storm the castle as we would not be able to accomplish this goal on our own, no matter how powerful our magic was combined.
I would visit as many seedy taverns as I could to find recruits. I always dressed in dark clothes and wore a mask to protect my identity, not that I was particularly well known in this world. The meetings would often go like this.
"Do you sir wish to join my army?" Said I
"I do" said the recruit
"How do I know you will be good for us? What skills do you possess?"
The candidate would then answer what they were good at. Most men would answer sword fighting or other forms of combat but I once had a man who said that cooking was his skill. I kept him on anyway, after all, we needed a cook.
We trained hard, Leficent taught me how to fight with my magic, not how to just show off.
I was the eve of the battle and I fixed my hair high up on my head and put on a dark blue tunic and tight trousers, something I had got used to in my new home. I had worn trousers only once before in Asgard as it was still the norm form women to wear womanly clothing. A dress however would not help me in a battle.
Before we left to journey to our base just on the edge of the woods, close enough to the castle, Leficent came to me.
"Nervous?" She asked me
"A little." Answered I, making sure my sword was in my sheath.
"Concentrate. Make sure you are fully focussed and your magic will be as strong as you wish it to be. We will win, I am sure of it" said she and she embraced me.
Dawn the next morning we begun our attack. I took my unit of five other men and stormed the back of the castle. We won our battles purely because the castle's defences were concentrated on the front. I managed to let Leficent and Raven in and took my unit to storm the great hall, where I was positive that the King and Queen would be held up. Our objective was to capture the royal couple for Leficent.
The corridors towards the hall were teaming with guards all ready for our attacks. I encouraged my sword with spells and found myself waving the blade around my head like a mad woman. I took down several guards in one turn once I lowered the sword to abdomen height. A huge guard appeared at the other end of the corridor, blocking the entrance that would eventually lead to the great hall.
"You fight well little girl, but now you shall meet your end!" Growled he
"No today mate" spat I, crouching down low, blade on guard. I then had an idea and put away my sword. I shifted my weight and readied myself for the attack. The guard smirked at what he thought was my surrender. He rand at full speed towards me. I waited until the very last second, rubbing my hands together. Before he was within reaching distance I spread both my hands and an incredible ball of fire exploded from me. The force knocked him sideways, bursting through the wall and sent him, engulfed in flames, falling into the moat below us.
I smiled at my victory and strode towards the end of the hallway. A solider of mine appeared at my side, his head had a massive gash upon it that was dripping blood but other than that he was unharmed.
"That was showing off" he commented but I hushed him with my hand. I looked around, suspiciously.
"Don't it strike you as odd that his part of the castle, the very heart of it, where they have chosen to hide the King and Queen, should be this empty."
"Perhaps we killed them all, or they didn't expect us to get this far"
"Perhaps" I said distantly as we reached the door to the great hall. I re-drew my sword and with my free hand I unlocked the door with magic and we braced ourselves for a full on attack. Which never came.
The great hall was empty apart from the furniture. "How is this possible?" I shouted at the solider beside me.
"Our information must have been false" said he
"Clearly" said I kicking the door in frustration.
"Now, now there's no need to take it out on the furniture" came a voice from behind the thrones at the other end of the room on a platform. Out stepped a man with short red hair in a black and white outfit I had heard that male Midguardians wore sometimes. It was called a suit.
"Who are you!" shouted I, raising my weapon and taking several steps forward.
"My name is Agent Maxx, I work for SHIELD"
"SHIELD, I have never heard of such organisation"
"I should expect not Harmonia but nevertheless, I need you to come with me now"
"Why should I! I have a war to win. I don't even know where I would be going and how is it that you know of my name"
"You would be travelling to Earth, or Midgard as you call it I think. I know a lot about you Harmonia, It was Thor himself who told us to find you. We need your help, we need to you capture someone for us"
"Who?"
"Loki brother of Thor"
I felt as if all my emotions had overwhelmed me, my stomach seemed to drop and my whole body fell to the floor with it. Minuets before the darkness overcame me I heard the red haired male say " oh well, at least this is easier."
He then directed his last comment to the solider "Thank Leficent for me, we will return her when her contract has been completed."
A/N Happy 2015 everyone! I hope you all had a great time celebrating whatever you do celebrate. I apologise for not updating sooner. Things have been a bit mad here with Christmas and new year, which I why I will be updating twice if not three times today.
Exciting times, we are now moving into The Avengers part of the story with the induction of Fury, Stark, Captain America and all the others. I hope you're ready!