Adventurous Relationship
Sinister plans
Welcome to the fourth chapter of Adventurous relationship. There will be some Norse text in here, but don't worry, the translation will be in the author notes at the end of this story. This chapter has also went into the rewrite machine and changed a bit. I hope the rewriting is worth the time spending. Enjoy reading.
Jack was still running in front of Hiccup. He could hear how Hiccup chased him the whole road and was surprised how he could manage such achievement with only one foot. Jack recognized Hiccup's house and ran uphill. When he reached the front door he stopped and turned around. He hadn't expected Hiccup to be really fast but in was proven otherwise. Hiccup tried to stop but without any success. He crashed right into him and the fell through the door. Jack had hoped the door would stop their fall but the door swung open and they ended on the hard, wooden floor. Jack landed hard on the floor with Hiccup on top of him. Hiccup accidently pressed his wound and the pain pierced through his body while he cramps together and closed his eyes so pain would maybe subdue.
"Are you okay?" The pressure on his wound was gone and he heard Hiccup's worried voice above him. He opened his eyes and looked in two hazy emerald eyes.
"I'm okay." He immediately regretted this and fell how the pain again pierced through his body. He thought about the fact Hiccup accidently could have opened his wound again and the tunic he borrowed from Hiccup now was pushing roughly against his wound.
"You aren't okay! Don't lie, I'm am only trying to help." Hiccup said showing a lot of concern.
"I'm fine." Jack said giving him the best fake smile he could create through the immense pain burning in his chest.
"It just itched a little, that's all." He said as he tried to get away with an excuse. Hiccup only humped in response and Jack knew he didn't believe him.
"That reminds me, I have to clean the wound again and put new bandages on it." Hiccup stated a little bit irritated what Jack thought was because of his lying. Jack actually wanted to say it wasn't necessary as he knew the wound would look horrible and he was scared it only was going to hurt more, but something in Hiccup's green eyes told him he wouldn't change his mind. He sighed and regretted it again as the pain grew stronger. Hiccup rose to his feet from beside Jack and helped him up.
"Welcome home boy." A booming voice suddenly said in front of them and Jack jumped back a little.
"And you must be Jack. I've been wondering when I finally get the chance to meet you. The whole village is talking about you." The man said happily as he reached his hand for Jack to shake. Jack shook his large hand hesitantly, afraid Hiccup's father would break his hand.
"I'm Stoick the Vast." He introduced himself. Stoick was a very big man with a large red scruffy beard. He couldn't see the color of his hair because of the helmet he wore, but he assumed it would be the same red color of his beard.
"I'm Jack Overland." Jack said. He saw how Hiccup looked at him with a weird expression on his face.
"Well it is nice to meet you properly. How are your wounds doing. I heard Toothless got a good hit on you. I'm surprised you haven't been turned to ashes." He said joyfully.
"It's nice to meet you to sir, and my wounds are doing actually pretty well. If it wasn't for Hiccup I would have died in the forest. You should be proud at your son sir." Jack said honestly. He saw Hiccup looking away, turning around to avoid eye contact
"You can just call me Stoick boy, and I am very proud at my son. I knew he was something special. I also assume you will be staying in Hiccup's room?" Stoick asked and turned to Hiccup.
"I-I-I assume he is. I he want." Hiccup stuttered and turned away. Jack nodded in agreement and thought about how Hiccup's face probably looked right now and it make him giggle a bit. He stopped really fast as his chest was hurting again. Stoick looked happy with the answer.
was nice meeting you Jack, but I have to go again. See you both later." He said as he closed the door behind his back. Hiccup still wouldn't look at Jack.
"Let's go upstairs so I can have a look at you wounds again." Hiccup said, grabbing Jack by the wrist to pull him up the stairs and into his room. Jack moaned in pain the moment Hiccup had started pulling on him, sending pain throughout his body again.
"Oh s-sorry, I'm so sorry, I-I didn't mean to hurt you." Hiccup said rapidly, stopping immediately before they could reach the first few steps and he let go of his wrist.
"It's okay Hiccup, let's just get to your room to take care of the wound. The earlier we treat it the earlier it will be gone." He said and continued walking upstairs. Jack was the first to be in Hiccup's room, and saw Toothless sleeping on his own "bed". Hiccup walked behind him and closed the door of his room.
"First you have to take of your tunic. Do think you can take it off?" Hiccup asked.
"I will try." Jack lifted his arms to take it off but stopped his motion as the pain was returning to his chest.
"Eh Hiccup, could you help me please?" Jack asked through breaths of pain. Hiccup walked over to him and started helping. He pulled at his tunic with a bit of force and it came off suddenly, making them both fall backwards. Hiccup made a soft landing on the bed, but Jack fell on the hard floor. He felt tears welling up due to the pain. He wanted to scream it out but he chose to constrain it. The pain really was unbearable and Jack started sobbing on the ground, eyes closed and his arms crossed before the wound on his chest. Toothless woke up from the sounds Jack was making and Hiccup ran over to Jack, kneeling down immediately
"Jack! Are you ok…?" Jack heard how he stopped in mid-sentence. He felt how a hand wiped a fallen tear of his cheek. He opened his eyes and looked up at Hiccup's green ones. Hiccup smiled at him tenderly, before putting an arm behind Jack's back to help him stand on his feet. Hiccup directed him towards his bed and helped him to lay down.
"Just lie down and I will take care of your wound." Hiccup said as he tried to remove the bandage as carefully as he possibly could. It did hurt a lot, but he trusted Hiccup with his wound and didn't made another sound. Hiccup picked up a bowl and began to rub the liquid that was inside on his wound. It stung at first, but the pain soon faded away slowly. He liked the way how Hiccup's soft hands caressed his chest. 'Don't think like that Jack! He doesn't like you. Don't be such a perv." He told himself sternly. Though he missed the feeling of his hands when Hiccup removed them to cover it with a new bandage.
"So, that's done. From now on, I will have to do this a couple of time in order for it to fully heal itself." Hiccup stated and Jack nodded. The bandage did hurt a little, but it did feel a whole lot better than before.
"Maybe it's best for you to sleep." Hiccup said. Jack nodded again and closed his eyes. He then heard how Hiccup started humming a song.
"What are you humming?" Jack asked curiously.
"It's an old song my mother sung for me if I was scared or something when I was little." Hiccup explained and continued his humming.
"Where is your mother, I would like to meet her." The humming stopped and Jack opened his eyes only to see the now sad expression on Hiccup's face. "Hiccup, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, just forget it." He said as he turned his head. Jack did have a clue where his mother was and felt bad he started about it.
"Thank you Hiccup, for helping me out with everything, I must be such a burden." Jack spoke softly and tried to make up for the mistake to ask about his mother..
"No Jack, you aren't a burden at all. It's my fault you are here in the first place, so it would only be fair to get your wounds healed in a proper way." Hiccup responded snickering a bit. "But you really should sleep now, I'll sleep with Toothless tonight so won't have to move."
"Thanks." That was the last thing Jack said before he fell in a dark slumber.
Jack couldn't move his body how he wanted it to move. He just had to accept the fact that he had to follow his body's will. It seemed he was roaming a really dark but strangely familiar area for an eternity until he saw a very dim lighted spot. His body just went that way like it was being attracted to it as a mosquito to light. He entered the room with the dim light, and even though it was a really dim light, his eyes still had to adjust. When his eyes finally were adjusted to the light after a couple of seconds, he saw Pitch walking around in some kind of library. The library looked rather dusty, old and cold. It didn't help Pitch was walking around in the room too because that made it even more creepier. He saw how Pitch thin finger went across the spines of some books while he kept his head oblique.
"Where can that stupid book be!? He yelled and continued his search through the rows of books. "Ah there it is, the book about Ragnarök." He flipped the book open, but there was an enormous cloud of dust. He blow the dust away and started reading. Jack was glad his there was a Nightmare in the same room so Pitch probably would read it all aloud so the Nightmare would now what was happening. But Jack was also scared the Nightmare was seeing him because the dark, sandy horse was looking at Jack with those creepy yellow lighted eyes.
"Humans say Ragnarök is just a series of future events, but in fact Ragnarök actually is a terrifying demon. It is said that when awake, Ragnarök will fight the Norse gods. Humans say the demon will win and even defeat most of the gods, but we will only know the outcome of that certain battle when the battled is over. They also say after Ragnarök has destroyed the world, it will be reborn, but in fact it will stay destroyed. Burned by the magma out of the volcano on the island of Surtsey and frozen by the power of Fimbulvetr" He laughed and skipped a few pages.
"Look at this, this is absolutely beautiful!" He exclaimed. Jack's body moved over to Pitch so he could read what he was reading.
Fylliz fiǫrvi
feigra manna,
rýðr ragna siǫt
rauðom dreyra.
Svǫrt verða sólskin
of sumor eptir,
veðr ǫll válynd
Vitoð ér enn, eða hvat?
Jack then noticed another text at the other page.
Brœðr muno beriaz
ok at bǫnom verða[z]
muno systrungar
sifiom spilla.
Hart er í heimi,
hórdómr mikill
—skeggǫld, skálmǫld
—skildir ro klofnir—
vindǫld, vargǫld—
áðr verǫld steypiz.
Mun engi maðr
ǫðrom þyrma.
Jack hadn't got a clue what the texts all mean but he just kept looking hypnotized at I them until his body moved again. He started to return to the infinite dark oblivion. He could only hear the wicked and sinister laugh of Pitch and Jack began and kept shivering when he was again swallowed by the surrounding and never-ending darkness...
Jack woke up sweating and screaming with Hiccup's head hovering above his. Hiccup had his hands on Jack's shoulder. He heard ruffling and when he turned his in order to look at the source of the sound he saw Stoick and Toothless staring at him. He also noticed all of them wore night clothing, so he assumed he had woken them up from their sleep.
"Are you alright?" Stoick asked him worried as he came closer.
"I-I think I am now. What happened?" He asked.
"You started screaming and you woke us all up. I tried to wake you but you just wouldn't." Hiccup explained releasing Jack shoulder from his grip.
"Oh. I'm sorry to have worried you. You can all get back to sleep. Good night." Jack said politely. Stoick went back to his room and Toothless got back on his own bed, but he kept looking at him.
"Okay, tell me, what happened? And don't you dare lie at me." Hiccup said sternly at the moment Jack could hear how Stoick was snoring in his own room.
"I just had a nightmare, it's nothing." Jack said waving his hand as he tried to pass the subject.
"A nightmare isn't "nothing" if you wake everybody. What happened in your nightmare?" Hiccup asked.
There was no way getting around Hiccup. The boy wouldn't let it slide nor would he let Jack go back to sleep without telling him anything. Jack took a moment to think where he should begin and took a deep breath, stopping before his chest could hurt any more.
"Well, it started with total darkness. I couldn't move my own body. It just moved around. Then I suddenly encountered Pitch Black, the Boogeyman." Jack said as he saw Hiccup's questioned look.
"He was in some kind of library and was looking for a book. He mentioned the name, I thought it was something like Rakna… Rekna something." .
"Y-you mean Ragnarök?" Hiccup suggested.
"Yeay Ragnarök, that's it. Well he… wait, you know him?" He asked and Hiccup nodded in response.
"Ragnarök is the future events that will destroy the world. That doesn't sound very happy at all, but after Ragnarök has ended, the earth will be reborn and will be even better for creatures to live on." Hiccup said as he tried to regain his memory about everything he ever heard that spoke about Ragnarök.
"The book said humans think that will happen, but in fact the world will just totally be destroyed." Jack said as remembered the book correctly. Hiccup's mouth fell open and he just stared at Jack.
"It was really scary to be there with Pitch. The first time we defeated him we thought he would be gone forever, but it seems like he is getting stronger. I could just feel the fear leaving his body and infecting mine. I don't want to feel like that ever again." Jack said as he pulled his knees up to his chin. He could still feel his chest hurt a little but not as much as earlier.
"I hope it will be alright. That it was just a bad dream." Hiccup wrapped an arm around Jack's back and rocked him a little in an attempt to make him feel better. Jack thought it was nice to have someone he could talk to without being asked to make a snow day.
"I don't think it was just a bad dream. You see, we guardians often get those dreams as warning from the Man in the moon. I think the Man in the moon wanted to show me what Pitch was planning to do." Jack said. His tone dreading with worry and a slight bit of fear.
"You know, when it is morning we go to our own town library and see what we can find about Ragnarök. I think we can learn a lot about him on this island. You see, here in Berk we are very superstitious." Hiccup explained as he tried to encourage Jack.
"I think that's a pretty good idea. Thank you Hic, thank you for everything you do for me." Jack said in a hushed voice. Hiccup blushed a little at the new nickname.
"I don't mind helping you, it is actually pretty funny to do. I'll never know what will happen next. Even though you are way older then I am, I still feel like your babysitter." They both laughed at this.
"I think It's better for us both to go to sleep right now." Hiccup said.
"I think you are right, tomorrow will be a busy day." Jack said as he tried to lay down without letting pain pierce his body again, but Hiccup got him out of his bed and pushed him towards Toothless.
"What are you doing?" Jack asked curiously as Hiccup kept pushing him towards Toothless.
"You are going to sleep with Toothless and me in case you get one of those nightmares again." Hiccup said as he sat Jack down at Toothless side. Toothless had raised his wing so they could lay back comfortably. Hiccup laid down and motioned Jack to do the same.
"Wait, can you resist the warmth of Toothless?" Hiccup suddenly asked.
"It's a little uncomfortable but as long as it is around a normal body temperature, I can stand it." Jack explained but he did take of the new tunic he got from Hiccup and laid down. Toothless lowered his wing as a blanket and Hiccup twisted to his side and Jack did the same. With their backs touching lightly Jack fell in a slumber again, without nightmares this time.
Well, what did you think? Was it good? The two Norse texts I used are two real texts I found while researching the Norse Mythology. I think they both are from Völuspá. Völuspá is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. The Poetic Edda is a collection of old Norse poems. The first poem starts at stanza 40 and ends at stanza 58. The translation of the first poem sounds like this:
It sates itself on the life-blood
of fated men,
paints red the powers' homes
with crimson gore.
Black become the sun's beams
in the summers that follow,
weathers all treacherous.
Do you still seek to know? And what?
The second poem is after the previous mentioned stanzas. the translation of the second poem sounds like this:
Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters' children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
—an axe age, a sword age
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.
I hope this will make some things a little bit more clear to you. If you do have any question left, don't be scared to ask. The link were I found these two texts will be in here to if you are still interested. If you detect any mistakes, please tell me.
Write you all later,
Kylono
( Link: wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k )