His True Kingdom

Chapter Thirty - Welcome Back:

You didn't even have enough time to glance back at the Avengers staring at you from afar. Your feet were instantly separated from the tiles of the Stark tower and you held onto Thor with your exhausted arms. This felt slower than the time you teleported yourself into your backyard, there was nothing but darkness then but now you had the chance to look around to see a purplish aura surrounding you and Thor. His deep blue eyes glittered with purple rays of light as he looked up with a frown and pointed Mjölnir in the air to lead you. The pressure of traveling like this silenced you and you couldn't speak but looked around in awe as a pool of stars passed you by continuously.

Suddenly Thor's grasp on you tightened and you found yourself in a circular room. No, it had a dome with an opening—this was just like the Pantheon but only smaller. You saw that the interior was decorated with sings and symbols you'd never seen in your life, you couldn't even relate them to anything so you gasped and looked around. But your attention was taken away by something more astonishing. A man with golden armor from head to toe stood in the middle of the room and pulled out some sort of a weapon or artifact from a device. You spotted the currents running in the air, painting an icy picture of a tree. Your heart skipped a beat when you realized this was the tree of Yggdrasil. The man's helmet slightly reminded you of Loki's helmet with horns; you couldn't breathe for a second and looked at Thor clueless. The man with the golden armor—whose eyes perfectly matched this color—took a couple relaxed steps towards you and the God of Thunder.

"Welcome back, my prince" he said with a thick yet soothing voice, much comforting than Thanos' voice you thought. He awkwardly turned his body to you and stared without blinking, his stare was so heavy you decided it was enchanted.

"Welcome... back" he said to you with no expression apparent on his face. You didn't know what to say and looked at Thor. He gave you a forced smile; he knew you caught the "back" bit.

"This is Heimdall, ____(y/n). He is the guardian of Bifrost and is gifted with vision none can match" he said and changed Mjölnir from his right hand to his left.

"Your return will have its consequences, I hope you are ready" Heimdall said and turned his head into the direction of the archway leading out. You turned your head to see the famous rainbow bridge and took a couple steps outside. It was marvelous and colorful; it was changing nonstop like something was flowing through it.

"Wow..." you said and Thor came out to join you. He had a wide smirk.

"Are you impressed?" he said playfully.

"That would be an underestimation" you said and your attention turned to the lovely presence of Asgard. You could see different lights in the distance since it was night even though it was dawn when you left home. Buildings were covered with a dull color of gold, stretching as far your eyes could see and some places were covered by small clouds. You looked up into the sky to see an enormous planet in the distance and a star that reminded you of the moon, sky felt so close to you that you wanted to reach out to it.

"Welcome to Asgard" he said and put his hand on your shoulder. Your tired eyes met his and you tried to return his smile and ignore the burning sensations that'd been bothering you ever since you said goodbye to the Avengers. Thor turned back to Heimdall and gave him a stare.

"She requires immediate care, Heimdall. Send the news to our clerics, let them know it is ____(y/n)" he said and turned back to you. You saw that Heimdall didn't say anything but stared at a different point in the colossal city.

Not even after a minute later, you saw shadows in the distance. A couple horses were running in your direction on the beautiful bridge, you couldn't make out the faces of the riders and you thought even if you could you wouldn't know them anyway. You were growing powerless again, you held onto Thor tightly. He held you from your waist with ease.

"Hold on lady ____(y/n)" he whispered and two people on horses approached you, a lady was leading a horse with no rider on her side.

In the middle, on the white horse, was a lady in the most graceful dress you'd ever seen. Its sky blue velvet fabric caught your eyes first, before you stared at her golden eyes that reminded you of Heimdall's. Her burning red hair moved with the constant winds. Her hair was so straight that she seemed like she did not need the tiara on her head to keep it from floating in the cold air.

"Welcome home, my prince" she said with a seductive tone and her eyes turned to you. Her eyes literally popped in shock as she started at your face, her jaw locked and she completely failed at hiding her surprised figure. Your gaze went between her and Thor. He seemed uneasy in his spot like he knew something that you obviously did not.

"Let us go with haste, Eir. She needs your help" Thor said and got on the horse that had no rider and held his hand out to you.

You tried your best to pull yourself up on the horse but your arms were burning too much. Without any warning Thor held out both his arms to your waist and pulled you up with ease like you were a feather and made you sit before him. He nodded at Eir and her helper and all of you started riding into Asgard with speed.