The story so far: Loki and Cephera have been dreaming of each other for 200 years. Cephera has been living with tony stark and had not been in New York when Loki had attacked. Loki is still imprisoned and has been visited by Thor everyday but this day was different as he had business to discuss with his locked up brother.

This is my own take on the Valkyries loosely based on the information I got from watching tales of Asgard. A lot of stuff I make up as I go :p

Loki's dreamer, doctor Loki love, and poodle warriors thanks for joining me on this new adventure. Once again trying to set the tone between Cephera and Loki differently then my last two stories hopefully I will succeed.

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Chapter 2

"The lady Brunhilda of the Valkyries has come seeking aid." This caught Loki's attention. Brunhilda was the leader of a large group of women who spurned men and trained as combat warriors. They also had a direct connection to Valhalla and its mystical angels. They often prayed to these angels and sometimes where granted the rights to use their powers for good deeds. For Brunhilda to come to Thor for help was astronomical.

"And what ails the band of warrior women to turn to men for help?" Loki had leaned his elbows down on the table, his chin resting on top of his knuckles.

"Several female angels, of Valhalla, have fallen to the holy grounds that is the mountain range where the Valkyries live. All angels powerless and appear to be dying. This is beyond their knowledge. They have been unable to tap into the heavenly light for two weeks now. They fear something is amiss."

Loki knew his mouth was slightly gapping. Of all the news he thought to hear from Thor this was beyond his understanding. Loki was perplexed by the Valkyries situation.

"They have asked that I have you assist them. They wish you to attempt to use your power to make contact with any remaining angels." Loki raised an eyebrow and wiggled his hands showing off his cuffs.

"A little difficult when Odin is afraid I will use my power to vanish or escape." Thor sighed heavily.

"I have spoken to father. He feels this matter is extremely important and is willing to restore your power for a short time while still wearing the cuffs. You will be granted two days to help the warrior women. He also promises that should you help them without incident he will consider moving you to your rooms instead of this cell." Loki considered the offer.

Two days was not a lot of time for using that kind of magic. But loki was very confident in his power. If there was one thing he had mastered, it was that. The thought of his rooms also was appealing. There was no real reason for him to attempt escape. To escape would most likely bring him to be captured by the Chitarui who no doubt would enact there promised revenge.

"I will help but only if I can have access to my tower. There are things there I will need." Loki told Thor deciding this task would not be all bad.

"They have also granted us entrance to their holy grounds to speak with the only angel currently still able to speak. Though her words are cryptic, they where hoping you may be able to make sense of them. I am to be at your side at all times." Loki nodded. This he figured would be the case. Who would leave him to his own devices now.

"When do we began?" Loki was impatient to feel his magic course though him one more even for a short time. He was eager to see something more then the cells stone walls.

"Immediately. You will be allowed to go to your bedchambers and change, afterward we see father to restore your magic temporarily." Thor said this as if to remind Loki he had a short time. Loki nodded and stood.

Cephera sat in front of the computer screen looking back at her sister in shock. Her sister had learned long ago how to tap into earths Internet and they used Skype, of all things, to chat. "What do you mean gone?!" She said her voice incredulous.

"Gone, poof, disappeared over night." Seraphina was making wild hand gestures as she spoke. She seemed just as worried as Cephera.

"Alleria's?"

"Gone."

"Tanium?"

"Gone. All four women we kept in contact with that had the magic aurora including myself no longer have the angels mark. Do you?" Cephera turned her back toward the camera and pulled her dress off.

"Is it there?" She asked unable to see it herself.

"Yes." Seraphina sounded slightly annoyed and somewhat concerned.

"And you have no idea what's going on?" Cephera pulled her dress back on and turned back to her sister.

Seraphina shook her head. "I think you should come home. I don't like this. I don't want you off by yourself."

"I'm not running home because of a few angels blessing have gone missing. Look see if you can track down the others. See if they all have the same problem. I'll keep an eye on mine. I'll make sure not to use any magic in the meantime." Cephera assured her twin.

Cephera's angels mark was the only reason Cephera could use magic without being killed by it. Until she was sure it was safe she wouldn't put her life in danger. "I'll ask Tony. He might be able to do some digging. He's very good at those kinds of things." Seraphina huffed and narrowed her eyes. She was not happy with Cephera for deciding to stay on earth.

"Fine, but you contact me the moment you lose your mark." Cephera rolled her eyes but agreed. She closed the laptops screen blocking out her sisters final glare.

"Sounds serious." Tony said making Cephera jump. She hadn't heard her friend get home.

"I doubt it. My sister tends to over react to anything that involves me." Cephera tried to hide her concerned look but was unsuccessful.

"You say that like I hadn't met her before. How is she anyway?" He asked ginning.

"She's fine." Cephera replied.

"She still don't want rip my balls off does she?" Cephera rolled her eyes.

"Tony, you slept with her and then when she joked around about being pregnant you immediately denied it being yours and therefore insinuating she was a whore. So yeah pretty sure she still hates you." Cephera replied. The fling her sister had with Tony was never meant to last. Seraphina wasn't the settle down type and at the time neither was Tony. Now Tony had Pepper but her sister still felt insulted after all these years.

"Hey I have a reputation to uphold. She knew what she was getting into." He took a swing of his drink. She rarely saw him without one in his hand.

"Hey Tony. I was hoping you might put a word in with your team. I know one of your team comes from Asgard. I was hoping you could perhaps inquire about the Valkyries." Tony was unfamiliar with the people Cephera was talking about. "Their a large group, society really, of women only. They have a close connection to the heavens. If anyone would know about the angels mark it would be the heavens." Cephera felt somewhat foolish. The marks might only be gone temporarily. Like a hiccup. She felt they might be firing off the gun early.

"One, they're not my team, two these Valkyries are all woman. All hot woman?" Cephera sighed heavily. Tony would never change.

"Will you help me or not?" She asked ignoring his previous inquiry.

"Fine, but you owe me big time. Fury is going to have a field day with my asking for help." Tony all but groaned at the thought.

"No!" Cephera said forcefully. "Just ask Thor. Invite him over for drinks or something. I don't want to end up on SHIELDS radar." She looked at Tony like he had ten heads. After all it was him who warned her to lay low with her use on the magical powers.

"Right. Good point." He clicked his tongue and took another swig before walking away.

Thor and Loki followed Brunhilda to a large room with high arched ceilings decorated with paintings of angels. In the middle of the room stood a pedestal with a orb hovering on top that Loki assumed once used to glow with power but was now just a dull artifact.

Along the rooms rounded walls were makeshift beds of large cozy pillows. On each heap lay a female figure who's wings were spread out wide. They looked petrified.

Loki counted five angels on the beds and one other who was not lying down but half cropped up by more pillows and barely conscious. Her golden eyes lulling back into her head as if she were drugged.

This was the angel he was guided to. "No funny business." He was warned before he was permitted to kneel near her. She rolled her head sideways to glance at him briefly before her chin rested forward on her chest. "Please repeat what it is you've been saying."

The angels head fell back. She shook her head full of rich silver curls and her eyes popped wide as if waking. "Mariaaviaalleriadamarismeria llseraphinajunotaniumcephera payten." Loki blinked in quick succession. His confusion clear on his face. He looked to Brunhilda.

"Perhaps if we wrote it down." He told her trying to hide his agitation. He was brought all the way here for this. It was nothing but ramblings of a sick angel. Loki closed his eyes a moment and reminded himself why he was helping.

Loki watched as the leader of the Valkyries approached with a scroll and quill. Before she reached them Loki hissed when the angel grabbed his wrist painfully and pulled him closer. It whispered in his ear and Loki fell unconscious.

It began as it always did. She wrapped her small arms around his neck and kissed him. Her lips were soft and before he was finished kissing her they were swollen from the tense contact.

She sighed when he splayed hot passionate kisses down her neck. She bent back to give him more room. His left hand gripped her ass through her skirt and slide to curve under up her cheeks and began to urge her leg up to rest on his hip.

With her leg in place he was able to reach under her skirt to slip his hand down the back of her underwear and feel the smooth skin of her ass. All the while his mouth continued to taste the flesh of her neck and shoulder. Loki lurched forward in an agonizing moment and light suddenly blinded him. His mystery woman was gone and he squinted hard upward and what he viewed before him was breathtaking and eerie.

Hovering in the sky were a handful of angels. Each one different in their own way but all their wings the same. They didn't move. It was like looking at a painting. His eyes were drawn directly to the girls in the middle. Both with eyes of violet. One had her hands clasping around the others arms as they folded over her chest from behind. The angel behind her was his mystery women her face bright with a smile, her hair all brown wave.

The imagine disappeared and Loki woke and fell backward to land on his back. He lay stunned on the floor aware of Thor saying his name. Loki pulled himself up to sit cross legged. "What is it brother?" Thor said crouching to place a firm hand on his shoulder.

"She showed me an image. An image of more angels." Loki looked around. "And none that are currently residing in this room." Brunhilda looked around as well and then back to him. She was still holding the paper Loki had suggested.

He got back to his knelt position and looked back to the angel. She was shaking hard and her breathing was clipped and shallow. Brunhilda passed forward the items but hesitated when the angels hand reached up slow and steady. They watched her fingertips touch the paper and it sizzled. A long line of letters appeared and the angels hand fell and her eyes closed, her breathing seemed to ceased.

Loki took the paper while Brunhilda said a short prayer. He looked it over. There was no punctuation, no spaces. He couldn't make head nor tails out of it. Thor was looking over his shoulder. "A spell perhaps?" He said. Loki rolled his eyes. Even spells weren't this complicated looking.

"I regret to say this has been a waste of time." Loki said relinquishing the scroll to Thor in a bored manner. He could see the agitated look on Brunhilda's face as he walked out.

Loki heard Thor's footsteps behind him. "Really Loki. That was rude." He said. "These people are counting on us."

"Yes I understand they need us but how am I suppose to work with gibberish like that." He waved his hand over his shoulder. "I could have been back in my tower finding some spell to make direct contact instead of chasing fallen angels." Loki growled. He hated when people used his time unwisely.

"We still have time for other things." Thor assured him. Loki shrugged off the hand that fell on his shoulder and walked faster.