War is Waged When Love is New
I hope you liked Hiccups backstory last chapter, because this chapter is Meridas. Please, enjoy! I had lots of help from Blue-Eyed Cat with this chapter, thanks again! I love your reviews, you guys are just so sweet!
-Merida-
I hadn't exactly told Hiccup the truth about my past. I barely managed to blink back tears as I remembered that fateful day, the day I had died, and seen my mother taken by those... Barbarians.
My mother and I were walking peacefully down the halls as an eery silence took over the town. I barely had time to ask why before the first house was put up in flames.
Screaming erupted from everyone in the village as they noticed the Vikings climbing off the Long Boats. A look of pure terror covered my mothers face as we ran through the halls, desperate to find the boys, dad, and anyone else in the castle, and lock ourselves in the secret passageways.
We managed to find Hubert, Hamish and Harris, but dad had already joined the fight. My mother put the boys in the cellar with me, running to find Maudie. "Be safe. If Ah don' come back, take care o' the boys." My mother had said to me. I responded with tears and a short nod. I had desperately hoped for her to return.
I relaxed a little when the cellar doors opened, but it wasn't my mother. Dagur walked down the stairs, my fathers head in his hands. "I have slain the mighty Bear King... I believe I've earned my right to his wife and daughter." He sneered to his guards.
The guards took hold of me, and dragged me off to a room, where I saw my mum shivering in a corner. "H-he... T-took your fathers..."
Tears began running down my face as I hugged her. "It's okay, mum. Ah know. He... He had da's head in his hands when he found me." I whispered, but this only caused my mother to sob harder. "Mum... Please..."
It was at tht moment Dagur walked in. The Barbaric guards of his dragged my mother out of the room. "Ah, so you're the fabled Princess Merida." He walked towards me, a show of pride in his walk. "Your beauty is legend... Your bravery even more so." He crouched down to my hieght, lifting my chin. I spit in his face, making him scowl. "But I thought you would have learned not to be so rash."
He forced himself on me, ripping off my clothing. I screamed and tryed to force him off, but nothing worked. Dagur took my maidenhood that night...
After he had finished with me, he took me downstairs, and chained me up. My brothers looked at me with fear in their eyes, but there was nothing I could do to stop Dagur. He killed them all, one by one, making me sob in the fact of their loss. My mother sobbed right next to me. "Be brave, my dear..." Were the last words I heard her say before Dagur killed her too. I learned to loathe the Berzerkers, especially Dagur. He took me to his island with him, and would beat me every time I didn't comply to one of his demands. He wanted me to be a proper wife, to bear him children. I refused. But he'd force himself upon me every night. My body tried and tried to fight, but I wasn't strong enough.
After about a week of this torment, Dagur went off to war, trapping me inside his room for when he returned. He was gone for a little over a month. A month of pain and torture, labours and horrors. Dagur had apparently given every man permission to take me to bed with him, as if I was a lowly whore. That man had no standards, no decency.
Dagur returned with another woman, but I didn't mind. At first I thought he would let me go... I was wrong. He had me locked away, but allowed the guards to do as they pleased. So, they did.
After another week of this treatment, I couldn't take it anymore. I ran out of the door the moment it opened, but was struck in the heart with an arrow. I looked back as I bled out to see Dagur sneering at me, holding the sheild/crossbow he'd returned with. He had whispered in my ear who's it had been, the heir of the Hairy Hooligans.
Snapping out of my disturbing memory, I began to sob. We had landed, and Hiccup had a serious look on his face as he helped me off Toothless. He showed me where we'd be camping for the night. I swore to myself never to tell Hiccup the truth.
Next chapter is kind of a two in one, since Anna died literally in the same time and place as Hans. I hope you enjoyed this one, I wanted to give you some more, ah, sad "feels"(I'm not sure if this would count as feels, but why not? It works) in this chapter. So, Merida also died at the hands of Dagur, though it was more painful than Hiccups. And a wee bit more disturbing. So, please review, and keep the fire burning!