Thor first heard stories about elf princesses when he and Loki were ten years old.

One night, snowflakes were falling outside the resplendent palace, but a warm fire was burning in the fireplace in the bedroom. Sol and Loki lay beside their mother, listening to Frigga's storytelling.The mother's voice is always as gentle and watery as she is. The young princes lie on the soft and spacious palace-style bed, and they feel drowsy when they hear it, but they hold their eyelids and don't want to really sleep.

"Change the story, Mom!" Unknown who started it first, the two brothers demanded strongly, "We are tired of hearing the stories you told, do you have any new stories?"

Looking at her mischievous sons, Frigga sighed indulgently.

"Okay, let's tell another one, and then you all go to sleep." Frigg said, "This story is about elves..."

"Elves? Those dark elves?" Thor was in a lack of interest.

Frigga smiled and shook her head.

"I see, it's about those elves who love flowers and plants!" Loki said immediately.

Frigga reached out to caress her youngest son's soft black hair, and she shook her head again.

"The elf story I want to tell happened in another universe." Frigg said, "You all know that our rainbow bridge can reach anywhere in this universe, but it cannot go through the parallel world to reach another world." universe."

Both brothers were attracted by this novel beginning. They nestled in a comfortable position and stared at Frigga motionlessly.

"In another world, in the beginning, there was only a vast continent—Middle Earth." Frigg said softly, "There are many races there, they live in their own territories, and most races live in peace. Among these races, there is a race that has a close relationship with the gods and is favored by the gods...they are elves."

"A god like us?" Loki asked ignorantly.

"No, dear, it's the gods of creation, the oldest gods who created all the universes." Frigg said, "After the gods created countless universes, they chose the universe they loved stayed. Some gods—they stayed in that world, and they dwelt in the state of Amen in the west of Middle-earth."

"There are many races living in Middle-earth, but the gods love the elves the most. They are beautiful, elegant, and kind. All the beautiful words you can think of can be described in the elves. The gods prefer these elves, and the elves can even Go to live in Amen State. As time changed, the elves gradually divided into several different groups."

"This story happened many, many years after the gods and the first generation of elves. In the northern world of Middle-earth, there is one of the most majestic and dense forests - the Green Leaf Forest. In the forest is a woodland kingdom belonging to the elves. Kingdom The owner is a very young elf queen. Even among the elves, she is very young. Although she is in charge of the woodland kingdom, her father, the previous king, is still alive, so many stories prefer to use this The young queen is called the Elven Princess."

"Why does she run the country when her father is alive?" Loki asked.

"I don't know, this is just a legend, and there are many details that cannot be verified. Some people say that the king of elves went to Amen state, and some people say that after he handed over the kingdom to his daughter, he went to Middle-earth and traveled around the world." Frigga Said, "In short, the elf princess became a queen at a very young age. According to human standards, she may only be twenty years old. Although she is young, she does things calmly and reliably, and she manages the kingdom very well... But That's not the point of those legends."

"What's the point?"

"The point is, as time goes by, the elf princess becomes more and more beautiful. Many stories focus on this point." Frigg said with a smile, "It is said that the elf princess is more beautiful than other elves. As for how beautiful she is, It is the limit of your imagination, and then break through the limit.”

"Is she prettier than you, mother?" Loki asked.

"Of course, dear," said Frigg, "a hundred times more beautiful than I am."

"I don't believe it." Loki pouted, "Anyway, to me, my mother is actually the most beautiful person."

Frigga reached out and patted Loki's head.

"As you know, my dear sons. If there is light in this world, there must be darkness and shadows." Frigg said, "There is a monster born from the darkest mud in the world, with all things It feeds on the resentment, anger and the dark side. Where there is light, there will be darkness. As long as darkness exists, it will not die. It was once driven away by the gods in ancient times, and it has been waiting for an opportunity to come back since then... The situation in Middle-earth is changing, and finally, in a century, the originally weak humans gradually grew stronger, and the age of humans has come."

"Why are there humans everywhere?" Saul complained.

"Humans are smarter than other races, and their desires are stronger. At the beginning, a wise human emperor was in charge of unifying human kingdoms, large and small, and humans and other races lived in peace. But as he got old and the kingship changed, he The children and grandchildren of the country are gradually dissatisfied with this, the balance of the continent is gradually destroyed, and various disasters follow."

"The human kings were in a panic and thought of the elf princess - she had a friendship with the emperor a hundred years ago. Not only the elf princess helped, but also other kind elves were obliged to help mankind through the difficulties, but the good days only come back. After decades, human beings are once again uneasy with the status quo. They demand more and more from the elves. The elves are gradually tired of dealing with the endless greed of human beings. Finally, they refuse. Without the help of the elves, the human country I fell into poverty again. The human royal family began to resent the elves, and they even suspected that this was a conspiracy of the elves. The elves deliberately wanted to destroy the human country, so that the prosperous age of human beings would never return."

"The resentment of the kings attracted monsters, and the poor civilians made the monsters gradually grow. Their hearts were only filled with hatred, and the gradually stronger monsters pretended to throw olive branches at them. The kings easily agreed to it, and they Advance the 100-year fortune of mankind in the future, in exchange for 50 years of prosperity and wealth. Soon, 50 years of affluent life passed, and monsters came to collect their rewards. The human country was ruined, and the entire Middle-earth world The balance has been broken, and all races have been implicated. In a sea of ​​hopeless flames, the monsters absorbing the dark side have become stronger than ever."

"The elves realized all this as early as more than ten years ago. They knew that human beings were hopeless. They wanted to build a ship to go west, but they couldn't let go of other races. During ten years of searching, they found other races. The planet is enough to house other groups implicated by humans."

"Even the kindest and innocent races resent the desire of humans for destroying the entire middle-earth. They don't want to bring humans, even though most of the human civilians are innocent. Their resentment towards humans also nourishes monsters, making them It is even stronger than ten thousand years ago."

"At this moment, an elf stood up..." Frigga said, "That elf princess is the only one who has not been blinded by hatred. She saw that all this was caused by the human royal family, but it is very ordinary. The civilians are innocent. For those ordinary people, for the agreement with the human emperor hundreds of years ago...she decided to step into the flames and negotiate with monsters."

"She must be crazy!" exclaimed the princes, "it is senseless to do this, the monster will not agree!"

Frigga smiled.

"In fact, the monster fell in love with the elf princess's appearance at first sight—or, in a world full of resentment and anger, it was shocked by the pure white and clear soul of the princess, just as darkness and light are pros and cons, and it cannot be wrong The elf princess took the initiative."

"And then?" Saul asked.

"The monster wants the elf princess to give it her most beautiful and beautiful age, and it agrees to continue to sleep, letting humans and the world go, but it also asks to sleep with the princess." Frigg said, "All elves beg She left Middle Earth with them, but for those innocent ordinary humans, the elf princess agreed to the monster's request, and she gave it 1000 years of life. Her pure and noble soul suppressed the monster's hostility, and the two sank together. Sleep, the world has returned to peace."

The two princes listened with relish, and after a while, they realized that the story was over.

"Is there no back?" Saul said, "Then when will she wake up?"

"Is this story true or false?" Loki asked at the same time.

"It's true." Frigga sighed, "In fact, thousands of years ago, we had business dealings with that world, but as the elves moved to Middle-earth, the communication between the two worlds also ceased. gone."

"So when will she wake up?" Thor asked again.

"I don't know. Some people say that she will never wake up, and some stories say that a prophet predicted that she will wake up in ten thousand years."

Both brothers looked disappointed—children dislike stories like this kind of good man goes unrewarded.

After hearing this true story, the two brothers were very interested in the story about elves for a while. They found different versions of scripts and legends to study the truth of this matter. More importantly, they I want to know when the elf princess will wake up.But sure enough, as Frigga said, different versions have different interpretations of this story.

When Thor was persistently looking for the storybook, Loki found something else - he secretly stole national books and records from the treasury for thousands of years, and he found trade records related to Middle-earth, at least this proves that The story is true.

Ten years old is the age when a little boy is just young and ignorant.

If you ask a little American boy, his fantasy type is probably the little girl next door. A mature one may be interested in models with big breasts and big butts on TV and in magazines.

But for a little prince who lives in the world of Shakespeare and Nordic mythology, plump and charming women seem to be more like dancers, and it seems nothing unusual to come when they are called.Little girls of the same age——Odin is above all, the girls of Asgard, who are all martial arts, love to roll in the mud like boys, without pretentiousness, and they can fight two with one.

But it seems that the queen of the kingdom in all stories should be beautiful, gentle, and kind.To put it simply, the elf princess in this story is simply the perfect top-level configuration version of the royal men's fantasy of their future queen, and the elf princess is not only beautiful and kind, but also able to manage the country. No wonder there are endless legends about elf princesses in the Nine Kingdoms.

——Think about it, how beautiful it must be to make a monster that destroys the world fall in love at first sight!At least it's the kind of beauty that is falling apart.

After knowing that the story was true, for a while, the two brothers' curiosity and desire to explore about the elf princess reached its peak.

But then, as time wore on, the story ended up getting lost among other new stories, fading from the brothers' minds and becoming one of some obscure childhood memories.

After all, this story and the elf princess are too perfect, too perfect, too perfect to follow the rules.After the excitement wears off, such a perfect story and image will make people feel boring and forget about it.

But in any case, the various explorations of elves during his childhood were so memorable to Sol that he hadn’t cared about elves for more than 1000 years, but thought about it when he saw Itiou. stand up.

When the Avengers told another version of Iteo's story, Thor knew right away that he might have stumbled upon a real myth.

Thor looked calm, but his brain was a mess, as if his muscles were in charge now, not his brain...well, that kind of thing used to happen.If he can't breathe, even though God can't be suffocated, the feeling makes him want to explode. Thousands of words are crowded in his brain, and only one sentence occupies the largest area——

He wants to tell Loki about this, he can't just collapse by himself! !

He made the request, and the Avengers looked taken aback.

"No!" they said, "Itiou is our highest protection object, you can't tell your brother! Don't you know who your brother is?"

"He won't! He, he won't do bad things!" Sol said, "When you humans see the gods in the fairy tales you read when you were young, your first reaction is not to arrest her for experiments, right? ?”

The Avengers looked at each other and fell silent.

"Uh...we won't, but some people...you know..."

Sol took a deep breath, he tried his best to look calm, without losing the demeanor of a general.

"Your face is so red." Kuaiyin said bluntly.

"You believe me, friends." Sol pretended not to hear, he said, "Loki knows the things in our national treasury very well, if you want to find her home, you must ask Loki to help."

The Avengers looked at each other.

Sol's current situation is like being drunk. He needs to hit [-]% of his attention to straighten his tongue.

"And—and I always feel that the tree she turned into is what I'm looking for." Sol said, "I want to find the most sacred tree in the world—and as far as I know You know, the purest, noblest, and greatest story I have ever heard since I was a child is about the elf princess, and the tree she turned into must also be the holiest."

The Avengers are still hesitating.

Thor closed his eyes and opened them again in despair, his heart was filled with complaints that only Loki could understand, he couldn't take it anymore, hell, he really wanted to see that young elf again!Is he dreaming, did she twist his face just now, why does he never seem to be in pain?

"My friends!" Thor gritted his teeth, and finally said, "Let me tell you the truth, in fact, my father and the guardian of Asgard, Heimdall, can see where Loki is and what he is doing. They didn't watch it before... because... because they were afraid that he would be too miserable and unhappy, so they released the water. I swear to you! We will never release the water in the future! You just promise me!"

Seeing Thor who was going crazy, the Avengers compromised - if Thor really lost his mind, the current human base really couldn't stop him.

"...Okay," Steve said, "Remember what you promised us, Saul."

"I, Saul Odinson swear, I will never break my word!" Saul said seriously.

……

Loki lay bored in the suite and ate grapes, he suddenly had a feeling that he would be sent to the earth.

At this moment, the door opened, and Loki saw Thor walking in, the head of the blond god almost hit the door frame, his chest was heaving, his neck and cheeks looked a little red, Loki couldn't help but frowned. raised eyebrows.

"How much wine have you drunk?" he said. "Can you still get drunk with human wine?"

"Loki!" Thor said with suppressed excitement, "Do you still remember the elf princess?"

Loki thought for a long time before he remembered where Thor's nonsensical words came from.

"...You mean the fairy tales we read when we were ten years old?" Loki raised his eyebrows.

"Yes!" Thor said, "the elf princess is in this base!"

Loki was silent for a while.

"You're drunk." He said firmly.

"Come here, I'll drive you!" Sol stood by the door and waved to him.Loki even felt that Thor thought his movements were too slow, and he wished that Loki was his hammer and could fly directly over.

"I don't." Loki said slowly, "You're drunk and a little crazy, so I won't go."

"Loki!" Sol's voice became a little low this time, with a sense of majesty mixed with his elder brother.

All right.Loki thought, since Thor was drunk, he would reluctantly play with him, lest Thor would point the finger at him later.

Loki ate another grape lazily, then stood up, and walked towards the door—he saw the Avengers standing in a row like ladies welcoming guests, looking at him with concern and vigilance.

"I repeat, Saul, I really don't like what you do." Tony said, the height gap between him and Saul was too big, and the man pointed his finger at Saul while stepping back to make room , so as to exude momentum, "Itiou is not an animal, you just look at it when you say that, it is really rude."

Thor doesn't seem to be thinking about the Avengers at all, he can't even smile.He urged Steve with righteous eyes, and Steve led the way helplessly.They left the main base, Steve was in front, Thor and Loki were in the middle, and the other Avengers followed him from a distance. Loki even felt that as long as he raised his arm, these people could subdue him in an instant.

Well, it is indeed a bit like visiting a zoo.As they walked across the grass, Loki thought distractedly, that was how it was when they were in Asgard before—one leading the way, Odin with them in the middle, and the others following.

They walked into a five-story building and walked through the mechanical gate. They walked towards the innermost floor on the first floor.

Finally, they reached the innermost part.Steve stood outside the door, he turned his head to look at Loki and Thor.

"Keep down, she is sleeping, don't wake her up." The man said seriously.

It is as if there is an endangered protected animal inhabiting it.

Loki shrugged.He didn't think much of it at first, but when he saw Sol silently biting his lower lip with a serious face—he was shaken, and even for a moment, he looked forward to it, but quickly suppressed it.

After so many years, Loki has forgotten everything about that story, he only remembers the description of the elf princess: she is very beautiful and kind.The kind that is so beautiful that the face is pale and the moon is dim.

Then, Steve slowly opened the door.

Loki raised his head, and he subconsciously looked at the only light in the room—the moonlight pouring in from the floor-to-ceiling windows.However, nothing.

Take a closer look—the floor-to-ceiling windows seem to be blocked by a bed that doesn't fit the principle of furniture placement.The soft quilt on the bed is curled like sand, and there seems to be a small ball of things in the middle of the quilt emitting a faint soft light...

Loki squinted his eyes, and with his good eyesight, he saw a little girl curled up like a small animal glowing in the middle of the bed. Her hair was long and she was sleeping peacefully. Her little face was in the backlight. can not see clearly.

Loki looked into the room again—is there anything.

He raised his head and looked at Sol, who was looking at the luminous body with a complex expression, then at Loki, then at the light, and then at Loki... as if waiting for his reaction.

Loki thought hard, but still didn't understand Thor's meaning, and the eye contact between the two failed.

"Where is there an elf princess?" Even though Thor had already used his index finger to express 'shh', Loki still couldn't help but bluntly complained, "Odin, please don't tell me that group of brats are elf princesses .”

This sentence—well, well, this sentence at normal volume seems to be too loud in the silent room.Loki felt the killing intent from the Avengers on the back of his neck.

At the same time, on the wide bed, the group of 'little kids' opened their big blue eyes angrily against the anger of getting up.

The author has something to say: 333 words added!It can be said that it is two more in one!Everyone has been waiting for a long time =[-]=

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