Sorry its been so long! I got busy with work and the holidays and going crazy shopping for my son's first Christmas! (: Anyways, here's the new chapter! People should definitely review and help me figure out where this should lead to! Hope it was worth the wait guys! -DaisieMae

Nyxis woke to find her entire body throbbing with pain. She was in a bed that was at least three sizes too big for a girl as small as her. She sat up and noticed her surroundings which included a giant room decorated in golden ornaments and two ladies standing on either side of the large double doors across the room. She smiled awkwardly at them as she noted the bathroom and pulled the covers from off of her. She walked into the bathroom and closed the doors. She placed her hands on the counter and leaned forward to look into the mirror. There was a knock on the door.

"Lady Nyxis? Are you alright?" A female voice asked, no doubt one of the ladies that was standing near the door to her room.

"Yes, I'm fine thank you. Just a little sore." She noticed herself wasn't as heavy to carry as it normally was which meant lord knows where her weapons were.

"The Prince said when you are done preparing yourself, we are to bring you to him in the Eating Hall. He put your weapons in our safe vault because we were unsure of what they did and did not want anyone attempting to mess with them. Do not rush yourself my lady, take all the time you need." She heard the girl walk away. From the looks of them, they couldn't be more than eighteen. I wonder why Thor would need such a young workforce. She thought. Well, I suppose it's none of my business. I wonder if the girls come with the room? Better play nice. Okayy, She thought as she began to take off her clothes. Shower then to meet up with Thor.

The hot steaming water pounding on her back helped dissolve some of the throbbing pain from her body. She had to have stood under that water for a good thirty minutes or so, because it started getting too cold to stay in. She turned off the water and wrapped her hair in a tight curl to squeeze a decent amount of water out of her long dark hair. She pulled the curtains aside to see one of the women standing there holding a towel out to her. She yelped and jumped back covering her naked body.

"Oh! I'm so sorry my lady! I did not mean to startle you! I was just bringing you something to dry yourself with." The woman held out the towel and averted her eyes to look behind her. Nyxis let out a sharp breathe and stepped forward still covering herself to remove the towel from the lady's extended arm.

"Your fine. It's just not many people are able to sneak up on me. Even with my guard down. May I ask who you are? And your name?" She asked wrapping the towel around her and stepping from the shower. She grabbed a smaller towel and began drying her hair. The woman bowed.

"I am Santury. I am your assistant." She smiled joyously. Nyxis removed the towel and began dressing herself after wrapping the smaller towel around her sort of dry hair.

"Nyxis Cantori. What exactly do I need an assistant for?"

"The castle is massive let alone the city of Asgard. I am here to make sure you are doing well and retrieve anything for you that you may require. The Prince said that I am to make sure it is like you never left your home." Santury held the door open for Nyxis as she walked through.

"Well thank you, I appreciate the hospitality. Now if you could, would you show me where the Eating Hall is? I feel naked without my weapons." Nyxis smiled and laughed. She wasn't sure why she being so friendly, it wasn't like her, but something about Santury said that Nyxis could trust her. She bowed and opened the door.

The halls were even more massive than the bedrooms. They seemed to twist and turn endlessly with all sorts of trophy kills mounted on the walls. Nyxis looked confused as she noticed them seeing as she had never seen anything like them. I suppose they have different creatures here on Asgard. Makes sense after all, its just a little weird looking the animals they do have. She thought.

"Tell me Santury, how did you end up serving within a castle? Don't you have any dreams for yourself besides serving others?" Nyxis began questioning just to learn if she could trust this girl.

Santury looked at the ground and stopped walking. Nyxis stopped with her and turned around. She noticed the girl looked like she was about to cry. She patted her back gently.

"If its a sore memory you don't have to tell me. I don't care what Thor says, I understand your here to help me but I'm not going to hurt you if you don't feel like telling me. I just don't think you seem like the girl that volunteers to escort random people around the castle." Nyxis smiled her best comforting smile at Santury. She watched her eyes become calmer with the smile.

"It's nothing really to be embarrassed off. I've just never had anyone ask." Santury shrugged her shoulders as they began walking down the hall again. "I was a servant girl in the town when Prince Loki watched me fight off some bandit in the market place from stealing my mother's jewelry. It was the only nice thing she had and I had bought it for a months earlier. It took me nearly a year to save the money required for it." Santury's green eyes matched up with Nyxis' grey ones. "Prince Loki brought me here and asked for his Father's approval to have me work here where I'd be safe. He even asked for passage for my mother to live here as well. It was granted after a few weeks of convincing. Ever since Prince Loki has been gone, I am just a servant, but its better than living in the streets of Asgard." Santury smiled. "I do miss Prince Loki so. He was a confusing and misunderstood Prince, but a Prince none the less."

Nyxis looked ahead of her as she heard loud yelling and laughing and they came upon a door at least five sizes too big for Nyxis. She stopped in front of it gazing in awe at the size of everything here in Asgard. Santury giggled and bowed beside her.

"Thor is inside. I shall return to your chambers and await your return. If you should need anything from me, please feel free to ask Lady Nyxis." Santury smiled and began to walk away but stopped and turned. She nervously caressed her own hands as if she was washing them. "And for what it is worth, thank you for asking about me. It is a first that anyone has done that and I greatly appreciate just the concern in your voice." Santury turned and began walking back to the room. Nyxis sighed as she stared at the door.

Well, here goes nothing.

The room was full with men as big and strong as Thor. They sat around a giant table eating and Nyxis quickly noted the lack of manners in the men despite how they spoke so proper. Thor sat at the end of the table across the room. Their eyes locked and he stood and graciously walked her way. She stood and let him approach her. His presence almost seemed to turn her insides into a gooey warm mush and she quickly attempted her best to keep her demeanor.

"I am glad to see you are well. The travel most of warn you out. You have slept for four days." Thor smiled at her and she smiled back.

"I'm fine thank you. I was just told to meet you here. I would like my weapons if possible. I feel rather empty without them."

"Of course. I shall take you to the vault as soon as you eat. I am sure your body could use the energy. We have the best cook in all of Asgard here cooking for us. I am sure he can come up with whatever you would like to consume." He gestured to a table fulled with all sorts of food. Nyxis wasn't hungry until she could smell the warm friendly greeting of freshly cooked food. She smiled and nodded as she went to make herself a small plate of fruits and a few vegetables. She turned confused to Thor and pointed at the large chunk of meat.

"What is this? It smells wonderful, but I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. Coming down the hallways I noticed you have a lot of different species of animals than we do on Earth. It won't kill me right? Since I'm human?" She asked. She felt a little stupid asking, but she'd rather ask than ingest something poisonious to her kind. Thor laughed a mighty laugh that rang through out the room and sent shivers down her spine. How did he have this effect over her? She was normally so tough to have someone much less two someones break past her shields so fast. Maybe she was still tired and just the lack of food was getting to her?

"It is fine to eat. I will not bore you of the details of what it is, seeing as you have not seen half of the creatures here. I will reserve you a seat next to myself so we can discuss what we need to do from here." Thor said and turned to return to his seat. Nyxis placed a small piece of the meat on her plate and followed Thor to her seat. He pulled out her chair and held his hand out gesturing for her to sit. She felt confused seeing as no guy had ever shown her any decency as a lady and not a warrior. She smiled at him and took her seat as he sat next to her.

"We have had no sign of Loki or of your father. I suspect this will not be an easy mission to locate them. No one has seen Loki in two weeks. We have no leads yet, and I have the entire army searching the towns and the outland." Thor said as he began to resume eating.

"But with such creatures would he even be able to survive the outland?" Nyxis asked as she started eating her fruits.

"The beasts in the outland would present some trouble for Loki, but he could easily overpower them. It is customary for Princes to be trained with the greatest of fighting skills and he did complete his training. My guess is that he would of returned to his homeland, which is my fear because we would have to invade. They are not so friendly."

"But isn't he of Asgard? So this would be his homeland right?" Nyxis asked.

"No. He was raised of Asgard but not born. Long ago when my Father attacked the region, he found Loki as a baby all alone and a noble king as he was decided to bring the child home and raise it as his own to maybe one combine the nations and planets. The place where Loki was born is cold and frozen over and the resident's hearts are as frozen as theirs lands." Thor said as he pushed his empty plate further in front of him. He smiled at her eating. She seemed so pale and fragile to him which was a rare beautiful thing. Urges deep within himself told him that he would protect Nyxis no matter what it took and if he could have her himself he would, but he must use restraint until their mission was complete. "Finish eating little one, and I will take you to your arsenal."

Nyxis looked at him and nodded. Something inside her informed her that Thor was almost too captivating for her to take.