Previously:

Movements behind the tree she was leaning against caught her attention and she smiled to herself before she quickly pushed herself away from the tree and jumped to the side and threw a piece of candy, only to see there was no one there. 'Huh?' She thought and her eyes widened when she realised her back was exposed.

Yui spun around and, as expected, came face to face with the god of fire. "Aah!" She screamed and jumped backwards and threw another piece at her grinning boyfriend who easily dodged it and sprinted towards her, making her drop the last piece of candy on the ground beside her. But just before it could explode Loki grabbed her and quickly moved them both to the side. When Yui realised what was going on she had her back against another tree and was trapped between Loki's arms. "You think you're funny, do you?" Loki asked her, still grinning.

"Hilarious." Yui giggled.

"So, your plan worked I see."

Silence ~

"Plan?"

"To get away from the others so we can be alone." Loki smirked and moved his face closer to hers.

"... N-No- Hang on a-!" Yui exclaimed. That wasn't her plan at all! She didn't even have a plan to begin with, all she had wanted was to teach Loki a lesson for kissing her in front of their friends. "I-..." She whispered, Loki's face was so close now. "I didn't…" It was no use trying to resist him, she was simply too captivated by him. "Loki…" Those were her last words before her lips were covered and she was captured in the moment.

Now:

"This was… your plan, wasn't it…?" Yui gasped through the kisses.

"Of course it was." Loki answered and captured her lips again. They had been making out for several minutes now and Yui just realised it had actually been Loki's plan to lure her away from the others. "You should have seen your face, though, when I said your plan worked. You're really too cute, Kitten."

"But the one with a plan was you." Yui smiled and pulled on his sweater so that he was even closer, then she stood on her toes and gave him a quick but gentle kiss.

Loki leaned down and nuzzled the side of her neck. "Like I said… too cute."

Yui was about to forget everything around her when she realised something important. "Wait, don't we have to go back to the others?"

"They can wait." Loki answered from her neck.

"But we just ran away without a word."

"Not my fault, you're the one who chased me here."

"I wouldn't have if you hadn't lured me away."

Yui could feel Loki's grin against her skin.

"I just did what had to be done." Loki said as he removed his head and stood up straight. "You didn't want me to kiss you in front of the others, so I got you away from them. A simple task." His face moved closer to hers again.

"Idiot." Yui giggled and let Loki kiss her one more time.


"I get the feeling you two did more than just chase each other around." Sif pointed out, smiling at Yui and Loki who had just returned after their little "moment" together.

"It's pretty obvious." Dionysus agreed. And how did they know this? Because Yui was blushing and Loki was grinning like an idiot. They were very easy to read.

Yui laughed nervously. "Ehehe, well…"

"Alright, we all know they did something, so what are we going to do now? It won't be dark for a while." Takeru asked, changing the subject.

"And we'll see the fireworks better when it's dark." Apollon added.

"How about we all go mountain biking?" Tyr suggested.

"That's a good idea!" Dionysus exclaimed.

"Ugh…" Balder sighed, remembering what had happened when he, Tyr and Vidar had gone mountain biking.

"Haha that's right, you fell didn't you?" Takeru asked.

"I did." Balder answered and sighed again.

"This is not going to end well…" Hades said in a low voice.

"Let's do it!" Loki said in excitement.

"Sounds fun." Freyr agreed.

"Let's go, let's go!" Apollon laughed.

"Oh dear…" Yui and Sif said in unison.


All the male gods were ready on their mountain bikes but Yui, Sif and Freyja were standing beside theirs, looking down at them with doubtful looks. "Hey, ladies, what's taking so long?" Hoenir asked.

"Nothing is going to happen if you just stare at them." Freyr added.

"Yeah, come on, jump on and let's go!" Takeru called.

The three women looked up at them with raised eyebrows. "Do we even have to say it?" Freyja asked.

The gods just blinked at them.

Sif sighed and pointed at her clothes. "We're wearing dresses…"

"Riding a bike is going to be hard." Yui added.

"It can't be that bad." Dionysus pointed out.

"Just try sitting on them, I'm sure you'll be able to ride them even if you're wearing that." Tyr said.

Yui and the other two looked at each other before they, without warning, started pulling up their dresses. The sudden exposure of bare legs made most of the gods turn red and Balder, Takeru, Hades and Vidar quickly turned their heads away from the sight. "Y-Yui-san!" Tyr exclaimed.

"Nice." Hoenir smirked, eyes glued on Yui's beautiful and slender legs. She had pulled her dress up so that it ended just below her butt, giving them a clear view of her nice figure. Even if all three were showing their legs only Thor seemed to be looking at Sif, the rest were more interested in Yui than the other two.

As Yui moved to try and sit on the bike Tsukito opened his mouth. "Kusanagi Yui has beautiful legs."

His unexpected comment made everyone turn to look at him. "Brother!" Takeru exclaimed. Takeru was one of those who had turned their heads away so he hadn't noticed Tsukito had kept his eyes on Yui's bare skin. "Are you still looking? !"

"I am." He answered as if it was nothing.

"Relax everyone." Sif said and jumped up on her bike. "It's just legs."

"That's right." Freyja agreed, she too moved to sit down on hers. "We can't ride these things otherwise."

"Loki, you're staring." They heard Yui say.

"How can I not stare?" Loki smirked, eyes still on her legs.

"Let's just go, kids. You young gods have no shame." Bragi commented.

"Right, right, let's go! You ready?" Apollon asked cheerfully and took off before anyone could answer him.

"Apollon, wait!" Hades called after him right before his nephew disappeared down a steep hill. Apollon wasn't prepared for the sudden change of height and speed and screamed as he went down fast through the rough terrain.

"Apollon-san!" "Agana Belea!" Yui and Balder cried out as the others started laughing. "There he goes!" Dionysus chuckled as his brother reached the end of the hill and disappeared into the woods, still screaming.

"Hahaha after him!" Takeru laughed and went down the hill as well but in a much more controlled way than Apollon. "I'm right behind you!" Loki called as he, Tyr, Hoenir, Dionysus, Vidar, Freyr and Freyja followed after him. Yui, Sif, Bragi, Hades, Tsukito, Balder and Thor decided to take it a little more easier and went down as carefully as they could and by the time they reached the end of the hill the others were already out of sight. But they could still hear their laughter and Apollon's screams from somewhere in the woods. "What do you say, should we try and catch up?" Sif asked.

"I don't think so, they're going way too fast." Bragi answered.

"We'll reach them eventually, we should just continue in our own speed. And besides," Yui said and turned to the nervous-looking Balder and Hades. "I don't think some of us want to go faster than needed."

"Ah, you're right." Sif said and sweat dropped. "Shall we go then?"

"One question." Hades spoke. "What's beyond the woods?"

"Hmm, probably cliffs, more steep hills, bumpy and rocky roads, I think." Yui explained.

"You did this earlier, Balder. What was it like?" Thor asked.

"Um, we took a different route then so I don't know how this one is like. And that's what makes me nervous…" Balder answered him.

"He's going to fall." Tsukito stated.

Yui could tell this was going to get "interesting". "A-Anyway, let's go and find out. We'll take it nice and slow, alright?"

3 minutes later:

"AAAAAAAHHHHH! ! !" Yui, Sif, Bragi, Hades and Balder screamed as they went down another very steep and long hill that had appeared out of nowhere inside the woods. Tsukito didn't utter a sound but looked like he was going to puke any second now and Thor had his eyes closed, too scared to look.

"When does it eeeeend? !" "Make it stop!" Sif and Balder cried out.

Standing on the brakes didn't help for anyone and they just continued down at lightning speed. It was a good thing the bikes were made for this kind of terrain but it was amazing no one had fallen off yet, especially Balder since his bike was wiggling like crazy.

Not far away from the end of that hill the others had stopped and were currently waiting for Yui and the rest to catch up. They had noticed they were missing a few people when they had stopped to help Apollon, who had steered his bike the wrong way once he had reached the end, went over a tree root and flew off the bike and landed in a bush. "Perhaps they changed their minds about this?" Hoenir asked.

"Or they're just slow." Dionysus commented.

Loki let out a sigh. "Kitten left me behind again."

"I believe you were the one who left her behind." Takeru stated.

"They're most likely just taking it easy, I'm sure they-" Freyr started but was interrupted by his sister. "Do you guys hear something?"

Everyone got quiet and tried to listen.

"Screams?" Apollon asked after a few seconds.

A moment later the screams became much louder and the scared faces of their missing friends came into view, and fast! Balder was the first one down, closely followed by Sif and Yui, then came Hades, Bragi, Tsukito and Thor. But none of them were slowing down once they reached the end of the hill and continued at the same speed, following the pretty straight road until they reached a big bump and flew about 4 feet up in the air, managed to land without falling and then continued on the now sloping road. "Not another one!" Balder cried as he and the other screaming gods and human disappeared down the road, leaving their wide eyed friends behind. In fact, they didn't even notice they had passed them.

"What the-?" Tyr uttered.

"That's fast!" Takeru exclaimed.

"And they're out of control!" Dionysus added.

Loki wasted no time and hurried after them. "Yui, wait up!"

"Loki-Loki, wait for us!" Apollon called and soon, they were all trying to catch up with them, following the screams that seemed to be getting further and further away.

Meanwhile, Balder and the others were getting closer to the end of the woods. Beyond it waited a flat but curvy road surrounded by grass-covered hills that would soon take them to the bumpy roads of the mountains. But what they didn't know was that where the woods ended, so did the road they were following. So when Balder passed the last trees he went over the edge and fell 9 feet straight down to the flat ground below. This time he didn't go further because it was impossible for him to keep his balance any longer. When his bike hit the ground it immediately tipped over, sending him flying to the side and land in the grass beside the road. Sif, who was right behind him, hit his bike on the way down and was sent flying as well. Yui was a little more lucky and managed to avoid the two bikes lying on the road and keep her balance once she hit the ground. She continued to roll several yards before she finally managed to stop the bike. Hades miraculously landed with his bike further away as well but the landing didn't go very well and he fell off when the front wheel hit the ground before the other did. Bragi did what Yui had done and stopped his bike right behind hers, Tsukito too didn't fall but his bike stopped right beside where Hades was lying and Thor hit the brakes hard before he reached the edge and was lucky he managed to stop before he could fall down as well. He looked down at Sif who was trying to pull herself up. "You alright, Sif?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Sif answered and moved to help Balder up from the grass.

Tsukito jumped off his bike and offered Hades his hand. "Thank you." Hades said once he was back on his feet.

Soon, Loki and the rest reached them and stopped beside Thor right by the edge. "That was awesome!" Freyr called down to their more or less bruised friends.

"You surprised us there!" Dionysus laughed.

"I thought you were going to take it easy!" Takeru added.

Yui let out a small and awkward laugh. "I thought I was going to die."

"Me too, and I'm a god…" Bragi agreed, rubbing his head.

"Not hurt are you, Kitten?" Loki asked from the edge.

"No, it was a good landing but," She answered and looked at her friends who had fallen. "it didn't exactly go as planned…"

"Yeah, we were trying to take it nice and easy but that steep hill in the woods caught us by surprise." Sif explained.

"Wait, why were you guys behind us?" Balder asked.

"Haha, you didn't notice?" Freyja asked.

"You pretty much flew past us when you reached the end of that hill." Dionysus continued.

"Really? I didn't even see you." Hades said.

"We figured." Takeru snickered. "You were more busy screaming to notice we had stopped to wait for you."

"How nice." Bragi said. "Shall we continue?"

"Yes, but… How do we get down?" Apollon asked.

"Let gravity take you down, like we did." Balder smiled innocently.

"Heh, no way." Dionysus uttered.

Loki jumped off his bike and picked it up. "Watch out!" He exclaimed and threw it over the edge and both Balder and Sif jumped to the side as it landed right on top of their bikes. "Careful, Loki!" Balder called up to him.

"Watch out again!" Loki exclaimed once more as he jumped down after it and landed right beside Balder, surprising him so much he lost his balance again. Then he picked up his bike and looked up at the others. "Are you coming or not?"

They all threw a look at each other before they picked up their bikes and threw them over the edge, but not before Sif and Balder had removed theirs. Then they jumped down after them.

"They're almost ready to go." Bragi informed and turned to Yui. "Want to put some space between them and us so we can avoid any upcoming disasters?"

"Sounds like a plan." Yui giggled.

"Let's go then."

Yui and Bragi were able to get a pretty big head start before anyone noticed they were on the move. "Hey, where are you two going? !" Takeru called after them.

"Fairy!" Apollon cried out.

"Are you up to something again? !" Dionysus snickered.

"You're too slow!" Bragi shouted over his shoulder. "Try and catch up with us if you can!"

"Damn, for an older god he's pretty lively." Freyr pointed out.

"Hey, Kitten! Are you going to leave me behind again! ?" Loki cried out.

"Of course not! Come join me whenever you want!" Yui laughed.

"Alright, that's it!" Loki smirked and started chasing them. "Here I come!"

"W- Loki-Loki?" Apollon uttered before he and the rest quickly jumped up on their bikes and went after them.

"Oh dear." Sif sighed with a smile.

"Can we please go a little slower this time? !" Balder begged.

5 minutes later:

"It's going too faaaaa- Ouch!" Balder cried out.

The stony road they were following was going up and down between the mountain walls and every time their bikes flew up in the air and hit the ground the air escaped their lungs, creating "hmph"-like sounds. But the more scary part was that they couldn't see if the road was going to end just like it had before. "No, no, no, watch out!" Takeru exclaimed right before Tyr drove into the side of his bike, causing them both to fall. "Holy mother of Odin!" Freyja cried when she accidentally let go of her bike as it went over a bump. A second later Sif was sent flying as well and landed on Thor's shoulders, his bike went sideways due to the extra weight and they both soon found themselves face to face with the dirty ground. It didn't take long before Vidar, Bragi and Hoenir too hit the ground and the only ones left rolling were Yui, Loki, Apollon, Dionysus, Hades, Balder, Freyr and Tsukito.

The bumpy ground suddenly became straight, allowing the remaining gods to breath. "Oh thank goodness…" Balder sighed in relief as he felt himself slowing down and closed his eyes to take a deep breath. But the peaceful moment didn't last for long when his bike picked up speed once again and he slowly opened his eyes as his face became dark. "Oh no…"

"No, not another one!" Yui shrieked.

"I'm going to have a talk with Zeus about all these steep hills!" Hades exclaimed. The road wasn't sloping as much as the ones before but still enough to make them lose control of their bikes.

"Woohooo!" Both Loki, Freyr and Dionysus laughed, not minding the speed and lack of control.

"Help, help, help, help, help!" Apollon cried out.

Tsukito threw a look to the side and said, "This is my stop." and somehow managed to steer the bike towards the mountain wall and crashed into it.

"Tsukito-san? !" Yui called out in worry.

"Guess he figured out how to stop!" Freyr grinned but a second later, a rock that was sticking up from the ground hit the side of his front wheel, pushing him to the side and drove into Hades. They both slammed into the ground, earning pained expressions from Yui, Balder, Apollon and Dionysus who could do nothing but continue down.

"That must have hurt!" Balder uttered.

"Is uncle alright? Is he alright?" Apollon asked.

"He's the god of the dead, if he dies he will just be sent home!" Dionysus joked.

"Bringing Freyr down with him as well!" Loki laughed.

Yui would have sighed if she wasn't so scared and nervous right now but when flat and green grass came into view she allowed her body to relax a little because this meant they were getting closer to the end of the mountains. But the smile on her face disappeared the moment she realised it wasn't what it seemed and gasped at the sight. Further down was a huge bump, making it seem like the road ended there and Yui swallowed hard before she yelled, "Um, guys! ?"

"What, Kitten?" Loki asked, he was having too much fun to notice what was waiting for them further down.

"Look down there!" She cried out and tried to stand on the brakes to make the bike slow down, but it didn't seem to help…

"What's down-" Apollon asked right before he spotted what Yui was referring to. "-there? !"

"My life is over!" Balder panicked.

"What do we do! ?" Yui cried out.

"Guess I have no choice." Loki said calmly and turned to Yui with a grin before he pushed himself off his bike, flew towards her and caught her in his arms and landed gracefully on the ground, leaving their bikes to fall freely down the sloping road.

"Hah? !" Balder and Apollon exclaimed in unison when they realised what Loki had done.

"Here goes nothing!" Dionysus shouted, still smiling, as he steered his bike into the mountain wall the same way Tsukito had done.

Balder and Apollon looked at each other with wide eyes, they were the only ones left now and started screaming when they realised it was too late to avoid the huge bump.

It took them high up in the air before gravity pulled them straight down again.

A bit further up Loki was still holding Yui in his arms, watching their two friends before they both disappeared. "Oh my- Are they going to be alright? !" Yui exclaimed.

"Don't worry, Balder falls all the time." Loki explained with a grin.

"Not from that height! I saw him let go of his bike just before he disappeared!"

Loki started walking towards the edge. "Let's see how it went, then."

When they got there he put her back on her own two feet and looked down to see if Apollon and Balder were alright, only to find that Balder's bike was alone down there and that the two gods were actually still moving down the road. On one bike! Balder had surprisingly managed to grab Apollon around the neck as they had fallen and was now clinging to his back. They were both still screaming.

Loki on the other hand started laughing at the sight. It looked like Apollon was carrying a huge backpack as he was trying to steer the wiggling bike. "Hahaha, hey guys, get down here! You have to see this!" He laughed.

Yui was sweat dropping but was relieved they weren't hurt, yet, and turned around to see all of their friends heading down towards them. They seemed to be alright as well, just a few bruises here and there. She turned to look down at the two screaming gods on the bike again, they were almost out of sight now. "Um, perhaps we should just get the fireworks and call it a day?"

A/N: I really enjoyed writing this chapter! xD Only two more to go and the next one will be out in about 5 days!