So, I thought I'm doing ok with the short stories and I got this nice idea so I decided to try to make a multi-chapter fic. I have only writen first few chapters but I have the plot pretty much figured out so I think this will be something like 6-10 chapters and about 20 000 words. Updating will be slow because of the huge amount of school related work.
This takes a place in both, modern days and viking times. Mostly this is focused on Finland and Iceland, but for some reason everything starts with Denmark. I have seen few other fics with time travel theme and after some thinking I thought I would like to try that too. Though there will be vikings in here, I have meant this fic to be more humourish one. However the rating is T because of some light violence, cursing and kissing. Nothing too harsh thought. There is also some SuFin and DenNor. Mostly SuFin this time.
I think this was all I wanted to say for now. I hope you'll like this!
Chapter one: How to survive a holiday
Denmark was humming a catchy song while he walked. He had a bag on his shoulder but it was half empty and weighted almost nothing. The summer day had turned out to be surprising warm for the Northern latitude and so the Dane had to occasionally stop to swipe the sweat off from his forehead. He had walked all way from the bus stop and, though he usually did walk the rest of the way to Norway's home, this time he wondered if he should have come with the car instead. But the car drive from his home took longer than to fly to Oslo and then take a bus to nearest stop so Denmark had decide to leave the car at home. Sweden had asked if he wanted to be picked up, but back then the Dane hadn't know about the heat wave so he had declined and told the Swede that the walk only did good.
Finally he saw a familiar, big stone that he knew wasn't far from Norway's home. He sighed, a smile still on his lips, and wondered once again why Norway preferred to live here in the middle of the forest and absolutely refused to move to Oslo. Not that Denmark had really anything against of the Norwegian's decisions. The place was very beautiful and the house old but extremely comfy and well-kept over the centuries. The almost complete isolation was also a big plus when it came to their family meetings because they were free to be just as loud they wanted to be and not care about anybody being annoyed, though Norway sometime mentioned that the troll family living nearby was hoping that they would calm down a bit.
Denmark felt happy and his steps became even lighter when he finally saw the familiar house that stood on the clearing in the middle of forest. From left of the house he could see the lake's water shining because of the sun and on the right the mountains raised over the forest. Norway didn't really care about gardening but still his yard had a nice, deep green and soft grass and the most beautiful meadow flowers everywhere making the whole place looking almost straight from a fairy tale. It was a gift from the creatures that lived near him, Norway had told the Dane and smiled when he looked out to his beautiful yard. During winter it all was of course under the snow but that was how Norway's land was supposed to be and the short summer months just made him to enjoy the view more.
"Norge!" Denmark yelled when he saw the man sitting on the chair outside. Norway looked at him and waved a hand for a greeting as the Dane hurried to him. A mere wave wasn't enough to him so he dropped his bag on the ground and snatched the Norwegian up for a hug.
"I missed you, Nor", he said and rubbed his face on Norway's hair. The man smelled like an ocean and cold winter. He always did even when it was summer and they were far from the shore.
"We met three days ago, idiot", Norway replied, "don't crush me."
"I don't crush you, I love you!"
"It seems to be exactly same thing for you", Norway muttered and pushed the man to get his freedom back. The Dane let him go and Norway gave him a quick kiss to make it up.
"I missed you too", he said, "you were late. Everybody else is already here."
"Sorry, Nor", Denmark replied with a grin, "I was only just admiring your beauty while I walked here!"
"Oh, shut up Dane." Norway walked inside and Denmark followed right after him. In the house Iceland was cooking up something in the kitchen and Sweden prepared the table for the lunch. Finland was pacing around and talking to the phone. Denmark couldn't catch all he was saying since it was fast Finnish with heavy dialect, but he still understood that the man was speaking about the finance plan. Poor Finn, Denmark thought and shook his head. It was their holiday and they shouldn't be forced to think about work.
"Hey, everybody!" The Dane yelled and got greetings back from Iceland and Sweden. Finland only raised his hand and smiled without stopping speaking. His voice was getting an angry tone and whatever the person on the phone was saying, Finland wasn't very happy about it. Denmark noticed the worried glances Sweden was giving to the Finn and so he decided to take a closer look. Sneaking up to Finland he listened a moment and then snatched the phone away when he thought the moment was right.
"Hey, kingdom of Denmark here", he said and quickly moved away from the Finn in case he tried to get the phone back, "yeah, I'm ´that' guy. Okay, listen. We are having some family time here and I'm getting pretty upset because Fin is not focusing on us so be nice and call back in week or so. Nobody likes it when I get upset. It seems to be annoying, things get broken and Swedes hurt and so on. Okay, bye!" He closed the phone, dropped it on the armchair and grinned at the Finn who actually looked quite relieved.
"Good job, Dan", Norway murmured, "that had been going for an hour already. I was ready to send a troll over there." Denmark smiled proudly and raised his thumb. Finland however sighed and his smile was a bit off.
"Thanks" he mumbled, "it's just… You know. Some of them decided that they need me for everything and I really can't say no when it's about the country business."
"It's okay", Sweden muttered.
"Yeah, but you not gonna have a phone for this week!" Denmark declared, "Nor, do we have a place to hide that evil device?"
"Well, we have that cabinet where I hide your alcohol", the Norwegian calmly said.
"Great!" Denmark said and picked up the phone to take it away, "wait… Where is that?"
"The idea is that you don't know", Norway replied and took the phone from him, "I'll hide this. You go help Is."
"Okay!" Denmark marched to the kitchen. Finland was already going to follow him, but Sweden stopped him by grabbing his shoulder.
"You go sit down", he said, "too tired."
"But Sve."
"Please." Finland looked at him for a moment but then he let a sigh and nodded.
"I guess I'm a bit tired", he admitted, "but you have to tell me if you need help!"
"Sure", the Swede replied and gave him a kiss before going to kitchen where Iceland had started to yell curses in his own language because of whatever Denmark was doing. Finland hesitated a moment, wanting to go to see what had happened but then he decided to believe Sweden and just sit down. He had been quite tired lately as his country's business was making him work more and more. This holiday was really like a gift and he was happy that he had managed to escape from his work. Norway's house was always so quiet and peaceful, he thought and curled up on soft armchair, and Norway had said that the whole week would be sunny and warm so maybe he could take a swim in the lake nearby. Yeah, that sounded like a great plan. Swimming in the water that glittered under the sun and then nap on the soft grass, Finland smiled and without noticing it he fell asleep.
"Käraste", Sweden's gentle voice woke the Finn up.
"Hmm?" he tried to ask what the man wanted but his mouth wasn't really functioning at the moment. Somehow the Swede still understood what he wanted.
"Lunch is ready", Sweden replied and kissed his forehead. That woke Finland up much better and he raised his head, reaching for the Swede so he would have a better kiss. Sweden seemed to again have a clear idea of what the Finn was trying because he came closer and kissed him. Hands found easily their place on the slender body and they were both more than ready to forget about the lunch for a while.
"Oh, come on!" Denmark's voice suddenly said, "we asked you to wake him up for the lunch, not to feed your tongue to him!"
"Shut up, Dane", Sweden replied.
"I'll tell Nor", Denmark said, grinning and sounding a little bit too happy, "Nor! They are doing stuff!"
"You all better to move your butts here before the food cools down!" Norway yelled back from the kitchen and the Dane decided that it was better to be a good example and he moved right away. Finland chuckled and his smile looked a bit more normal than it was been before his nap.
"I guess we should go", he said and his belly growled, "I'm hungry."
"Me too", Sweden replied and Finland snorted before getting up and following him to the kitchen. Iceland and Norway had already sat down but Denmark was still going around and bringing stuff on the table.
"Dan, we already have milk here", Iceland noted when the Dane placed a bottle next to him.
"Yeah, but it's a good stuff. We need a lot", he said and went to the fridge once again. This time he took some cheese and butter with him and, after a brief thinking, third bottle of milk. Then he was finally satisfied with the setting and took his place between Norway and Finland. As it was Norway's house, he had the right to sit at the head of the table. Iceland was on his left side and Denmark on right. Finland sat next to the Dane and opposite to him, on Iceland's left side, was Sweden.
"Nor, can you pass the meatballs?" Sweden asked and the Norwegian nudged the bowl closer to him. Iceland was trying to make Finland to taste the food he had made but the Finn was a bit suspicious about it. Anybody could have been if they have had the Icelander feeding them something fermented last time. Denmark was babbling about everything he had done sincetheir last meeting and Norway kept hiding his smile though everybody knew he was happy.
"Oh, I have to show you this!" Denmark suddenly yelled and got up, only to come back soon with a book, "look what I found few days ago."
"How to be a Viking, an unofficial guide to the life of norsemen", Norway read the tittle out loud, "Dan, are you sure you need that?"
"Should be obvious for you", Sweden muttered.
"Yeah, but I like to read these and check what they got wrong", Denmark replied with a grin, "sometime they have no idea about things and that is so funny." Norway and Sweden glanced at each other and then shrugged at almost same time.
"Well, I guess it's amusing", the Norwegian said but didn't sound like he really meant it. However, Finland was much more interested and he asked if he could take a look. Denmark was happy to hand the book over to him, and while the Finn was reading, he continued to talk about completely different things.
"Is it interesting?" Sweden asked after a while when the Finn was still reading.
"Yeah", Finland said and barely glanced up from the book, "I was still hiding in the forest during that time so it's kind of interesting to know how much you guys were doing while I was only running around and pretending to be wild. Not that I'm trying to spy or anything." It was an unwritten rule among the nations that they didn't read books about history. It just got easily a little bit too personal for them.
"It's okay", Sweden mumbled, "it wasn't so interesting. You were sweet even back then."
"Oh, Sve, stop flirting", the Finn said and gave him a smile before turning to the Dane, "Dan, is it okay if I keep this for a while so I can read it all?"
"Sure!" Denmark said happily and turned back to talk with Norway. Finland nodded for thanks and returned to the book, not noticing the slightly worried glances Norway and Sweden were giving to each other over the table.
"Are you still reading that?" Iceland's voice asked so suddenly that Finland almost dropped the book on his face. It was the second day of their holiday week and the weather was absolutely amazing so they ended up staying outside. The Finn had taken a swim in the lake but grew tired quickly and decided to settle on the soft grass to read. He wondered how Norway managed to make grass so soft that it felt almost better than a bed. It had to be magic. Finland was wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. For him it would have been completely okay to go naked now that the temperature was almost unbearable high, but it apparently made Sweden a bit frustrated and the Finn wasn't so evil.
"Well, yeah", Finland said, "you guys took my phone and Sve said I can't use his so this is pretty much all I got." He was half joking. Actually he didn't even want to see his phone. Even if he knew it would be full of unanswered calls. Apparently his over-working assistants had even tried to call Sweden to get hold on him but the Swedish nation had simply turned them down and refused to tell them anything.
"I guess it's not too bad", Iceland said with a shrug and his silvery hair shining with the sun, "Nore told me there is some wild berries growing over that hill. Want to come to pick up some?"
"Sure", Finland said right away, because he could still remember the sweet taste of wild strawberries and he would be ready to do almost anything to get those again, "are others coming too?"
"No. They are trying to drown Dan, I think", Iceland replied and they could hear yelling, laughing and water splashing coming from the lake. It sounded like they were having fun and Finland smiled. He knew that it took some trying to get Sweden and Norway in the play but somehow Denmark still managed it.
"Let's go then", Finland said, "we can bring some for them too."
"What? No!" Iceland quickly said, "I'll eat all I can find."
"Yeah, I'll probably too", Finland admitted and got up. Iceland was more familiar with the environment, since he had grown up here and visited Norway much more often than Finland did, so he leaded the Finn through the forest until they arrived to the small clearing. It was very small, Finland could walk around it in few minutes, but there were berries everywhere and Finland was happy to find the wild strawberries among them.
"How in the hell Nor gets so much berries here?" Finland asked while they were busy with picking and eating.
"Magic probably", Iceland said with a shrug, "weird things happens in his house and so."
"That's true", the Finn said. He could remember the many times when something unnatural just happened around the Norwegian. Sometime he spoke to something others couldn't see, sometime things appeared from thin air or went missing without anybody taking them. But they all knew who the lord in Norway's land was so they weren't very worried.
"Hey, aren't these stones a bit weird?" Finland asked after almost hitting his toes on the small stone that stood on the side. When he started to look at it, he also saw the other stones. They were all rather small, highest was only till his knee, and they were placed neatly on circle. The circle wasn't perfectly round, actually it mostly reminded the Finn about a floor of a boat.
"What?" Iceland asked and got up to look at them, "it's just Nore's thing." He didn't seem to care about it but Finland felt strange. He focused for a moment and tried to hear the voices of the other nations. They weren't too far from the lake and so until then they could have heard the voices from there. But now it was quiet. A bit too quiet for Finland's liking.
"I think they stopped playing", he said trying to not mind about things too much, "maybe we should head back?"
"Yeah, maybe", Iceland agreed, "just… Wait, I have a bag in my pocket. Let's just pick it full and then go back. Finland nodded and went over to help him. He had held the book in his hand all the time because it was Denmark's and he didn't want to make it dirty, though he was sure the Dane wouldn't mind. They still got the small bag full quickly and started to walk back to the lake.
They didn't suspect anything to be wrong until they both agreed that the walk was taking too long. First Iceland looked angry and said that Norway was probably joking with them, but then he got slowly worried. Finally he stopped.
"Nore! This is not funny!" he yelled to the forest around them.
"Are you sure we are going to the right direction?" Finland asked and the Icelander nodded.
"Yeah", he mumbled and took the phone out of his pocket, "but let me check on… No service? This is weird." Finland had walked a bit forward and climbed up on the stone to see the area better.
"Is! I think I see something", he said, "it's the lake."
"That's great", Iceland mumbled and walked to him, "we can found our way to Nore's house from there." Finland nodded and slipped down from the stone. It took a few minutes more to walk to the lake he had seen, but when they reached it they both stopped with confused and worried looks on their face.
It had to be the same lake. It looked almost exactly same and there were only few differences. Plants around the water seemed to be a bit bigger and wilder and instead of the yard with the amazingly soft grass, there was only forest all around. Also all buildings were gone and even the small dock was nowhere. Sweden, Norway and Denmark were not there and that made the two nations worried.
"What is this?" Iceland started but then Finland heard heavy steps coming closer. Something told him that it wasn't smart to just stand there so he grabbed the Icelander's shirt and pulled him back to the forest.
"Somebody is coming", he whispered and lied down on the ground in order to stay hided under the plants. Iceland luckily followed him and they stayed very quiet when the steps came closer.
It was clearly humans walking by, it was sure because they didn't feel like nations, but the language they spoke wasn't familiar to the Finn. Somehow it still stirred up something in his memory though he couldn't really place it. He felt Iceland flinching a bit next to him and he guessed the Icelander had understood something. Finland raised his head only a bit so he could see three men who were all wearing old, clearly handmade clothes and carrying weapons. When the humans were gone, the nations got up slowly and neither was sure what to think.
"It was old norse", Iceland said with a shocked voice, "I haven't hear that for a while but I can still use it easily. They were talking about a trip to somewhere with their leader and one of them had a new-born baby he didn't want to leave alone with the mother for so long. And did you see their clothes? Nobody have dresses up like that since Christianity came."
"You mean…?"
"Fin, I think we are not in our own time anymore", Iceland said.
"Voi perkele", Finland replied with a stunned voice.
Let me know if you would be interested on reading more.
I swear I had some cool fact and reason for why Denmark kept getting so much milk but I can't remember what it was... so... We just drink freaking lot of it.
And because Fin and Is are now in completly different time, there will be no SuFin for a while.
