Chapter: 77
"This feels like it's taking a lot longer than I remember," I said out loud as I gazed all around me. I'd been traveling through the rainbow light for a while now. The trip up to Asgard had only taken a few minutes, and this one was taking well over 10 right now.
[Weird, nothing seemed to be wrong with the portal before you stepped inside.]
I couldn't argue with that. The portal looked like it was working fine, and Heimdall should have noticed if anything went wrong. Maybe the journey down was just slower than up? It's not like I was an expert in Asgardian portal technology or anything. I felt like I was still moving, and the rainbow lights were still passing me by at crazy speeds. There was nothing I could do but float here and wait...
An entire extra 20 minutes later, I finally saw the end of the tunnel. Finally, I was arriving on Midgard. That took WAY longer than it should have.
CRASH!
[-100HP!]
"Ooof! What the hell!" I grunted in pain. Instead of landing gently, my body had been slammed into the ground hard. Now I KNOW that was NOT supposed to happen.
CRASH!
"Argh, my arm!" A familiar woman's voice shouted behind me after a second crash echoed out.
"Sif! Holy shit, are you okay?" I exclaimed.
[No, she's not okay… her left arm is facing the wrong direction.]
Oh shit, it was. That wasn't good! Sif was clutching her broken arm in pain. I ran up to her, and Twilight Healing manifested itself on each of my hands. I focused the green healing aura onto Sif's and willed her to be healed. I could feel my MP drain noticeably. It seemed the broken arm was the least of her injuries. She didn't have my durability, and that impact had damaged some of her insides as well. Thankfully, I have the best healing Sacred Gear to remedy that.
"Healing magic?" Sif opened her eyes as I soothed her pain. A look of relief appeared on her face. "You are just full of surprises, Layla."
"Why did you follow me, Sif? Weren't you needed on Asgard?" I asked. Had she jumped into the Bifrost right after me? Is that what threw it off? That shouldn't have made a difference.
Sif looked a bit guilty as she responded. "I-I wanted to spend more time with you as well. Hela came in and snatched you up so quickly… I felt jealous." Sif admitted bitterly. "As for myself being needed on Asgard, I am not. I was never the most popular Goddess. I actually had something of a negative reputation for how I acted for the past few hundred years…"
I smirked. She had tried to get one up on the Goddess of Death by following me to Midgard. With Asgard currently on fire, Hela would be too busy straightening out her people for the next few days to interrupt Sif and me. "What did you do that made people not like you?" I asked.
Sif looked shy. "I may or may not have threatened bodily harm upon any harlot who tried to win Thor's affections," Sif admitted before looking at me in panic. "I never actually went through with it though. I now realize, as well, why Thor never wanted to be with me. I tend to get… clingy with my love interests. I will do my best to not be as intense with…" Sif trailed off and looked at me hopefully. I knew what she was going to say.
"You won't get too clingy with me?" I teased her and she shyly nodded. "I don't mind honestly." I said. It seemed like the blond goddess might have been a bit of a yandere. She never seemed to go fully off on her love rivals though.
…
Heimdal felt some sweat start to form on the back of his neck. What was taking so long. It had been a shock when Sif had decided to slip past Hela and hop into the Bifrost after Layla, but it wasn't a big deal at the end of the day. Yet, something strange happened after Sif jumped in… Layla and Sif never touched down on Midgard. With his Farsight, he could clearly see the rainbow beam make contact upon the desert of Midgard, and yet neither of the women had arrived with it. Where did they go?
"Is something wrong Heimdal?" Hela–his new ruler–asked behind him. "Is that harpy Sif already trying to put the moves on my future Queen?" She spat out angrily.
Asgards guests, Azazel and his paramor Penemue also looked concerned.
"Um… Layla and Sif disappeared."
The three other people took a moment to contemplate what he just said. Heimdal braced himself as he knew he was about to get yelled at.
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