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I honestly don't know about the sequel, considering that I don't know where I'm going to leave this off. So we'll see.
Chapter 14: Story Telling
The now very large group of Vikings and Isle-ers sat around the even bigger dining table in the Dining Room, everyone was there except for Iya, Hiccup and Elysiana. Prince Titus had evidently been called home in the middle of the night, so only a note was left at his breakfast spot.
"Maybe she's still to tired? And Hiccup and Iya are taking care of her." Syn whispered, meaning for Valka to only hear her, but for once all was quiet amongst the Vikings and Isle-ers and everyone heard.
"My cousin? Beat by weariness? No... She's stronger than her small body looks." Feia smiled softly. The Vikings glanced at each other in curiosity before Iya made her entrance, the woman's black hair was tied back in a tight braid, and she wore a full length, red dress with grey trimming that hugged all her motherly curves, with a square neckline and three-quarter sleeves.
"Elysiana and Hiccup will be entering in thirty minutes, however I must warn you all. Elysiana doesn't have enough strength to keep her glamours up- Hiccup and I finally convinced her that it would be for the best if she released them and then we had to convince her to come down to breakfast." Iya sighed. The Isle-ers gasped.
"Glamours?" Phlegma asked.
"OH! I read a book about those! Elysiana let me into the royal library! And I read a book about glamours! They're magic spells that can change the appearance of a person, the person usually being magical of any sort-" Stoick cut Fishlegs' excited lecture off.
"Chan'e the apper'nce? So sh' is't as pret'y?" Stoick asked confused, Astrid and Ruffnut perked up... So maybe they had a chance after all...
"Not dramatically." Iya said sending a motherly glare towards the two teen girls. "She covers up the scars she was given by..." Iya paused and the motherly smile turned into a deep frown.
"Given by who?" Valka asked, an auburn brow raised. Iya sent Bour a pleading look.
"Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura... The name is Kilat, it means the 'golden eyed one' and trust me, that's all you can remember of the man." Bour shook his head.
"What has he done?" Helga asked, her curiousness getting the better of her.
"If you want to understand what he's done... It might take a while, his story starts a hundred years ago- when he was just a petty servant who worked for King Kalig and Queen Esperance of the Island of Lightning, Elysiana's Great Grandparents. It's said that the Queen and King were amazing people, loyal and loving to their people- and even more so was their son, Bente- Kilat for heart... Ironic really... but maybe he meant it that way. Anyway, Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura, was jealous. Bente, was a great man- strong, loving, caring, self-less- Bente was everything that Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura wanted to be, but couldn't bring himself to be. When it came time to go to school at Battla, Bente proved himself to be even better that Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura, Bente aced everything, beat and made so many records that Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura couldn't keep track... And Bente broke Kanohi Koura further by marrying the woman Kanohi Koura loved. At the time her name was Princess Eliza, but she became Queen Eliza when she and King Bente assumed the throne... Elysiana's Grandparents. Not two years into their marriage, Eliza gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Known now as King Merlin, and King Merlin had a little sister- a beautiful girl of the name Emmaline." Bour paused and shook his head, the Vikings sat on the edge of their seats to know more about the mysterious Princess' past.
"I thought Emmaline was the name of Elysiana's mother." Astrid said.
"It is, but it is because Elysiana's mother is named after Princess Emmaline- King Merlin's little sister. When Princess Emmaline finally became of marrying age, Kanohi Koura asked his old friend King Bente for Princess Emmaline's hand in marriage- and where Kanohi Koura finally fell into madness was when King Bente laughed in his face. Princess Emmaline had just barely turned eighteen, and Kanohi Koura was well into his forties; strange it might not be- but for the sake of Princess Emmaline, King Bente wanted a younger man- that could protect his daughter from unheard dangers. For seven more nights Kanohi Koura begged King Bente for permission to marry Princess Emmaline. It is said that on the eighth night after King Bente rejected Kanohi Koura's eighth proposal, Kanohi Koura welcomed the dark arts into his life. Instead of overwhelming him with evil and killing him, Kanohi Koura somehow managed to attain the power, and figure out how to use it to his will. The madness of the power turning his eyes golden and filling his face and body with maddening scars. That night Kanohi Koura fled into the woods and built himself a cabin in the deepest, darkest part of the woods- by the rocky water where even we- brave soldiers- dare not go, and began plotting his evil plan." Bour sighed and rubbed his face, Axel looked at his father and picked up the story.
"Five years later, eight months before night of Princess Emmaline's twenty-fourth birthday, Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura attacked the palace. For eight miserable days the knights and the Guardian Fairies held off an attack. Upon the eighth night Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura offered to stop the fighting, if King Bente and Princess Emmaline came with him into the woods. King Bente begged for it to be just him, that his daughter be able to live her life unwed in the palace... Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura took King Bente's deal. And eight months later Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura returned King Bente's body beaten, bruised, blooded, with a star upon his right shoulder and without his heart." Axel gulped, Stein looked at his brother, nodded and continued the story.
"When Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura returned the body of the dead King, he kidnapped Princess Emmaline... Took her for his own for eight months, a month for each day of rejection that he faced while asking her father for her hand in marriage. We don't know exactly what he did to her while he had her, but what we do know is that within what had to be a state of madness, he found out how to break a Fairy of Lightning- something only Elysiana can tell us and won't tell us- he broke Princess Emmaline, and took her magic- which keeps him young. She was returned to the palace eight months later, barely alive, with a star carved into her right shoulder and a baby inside her. Neither mother nor child survived the night." Stein frowned and the female Vikings gasped and the males flinched.
"He does this to people?" Syn whispered, tears in her eyes, Iya nodded with a watery smile and stroked Syn's cheek. Valka frowned at the woman's motherly action thinking, first my son, now my daughter.
Everyone looked toward Iya as she began to speak again.
"It gets worse. King Merlin got married on his twenty-eighth birthday, to a Princess Jacqueline- they only had one child before Queen Jacqueline was kidnapped on her thirty-second birthday, King Griffon- Elysiana's father. However Princess Elysiana, King Merlin's sister, had a boyfriend- whom she met at Magia, Lady Feia's grandfather's brother- Sir Donnalie. Sir Donnalie was married and had four children, three sons and one daughter- a little girl he named Emmaline. Well, Griffon met Emmaline on the Island of Light and fell in love- she wasn't afraid of being kidnapped and tortured like the others. In fact she practically told Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura to try to come after the ones she loved. She was powerful and fought for those she loved. And she really loved her daughter- her only child- Elysiana." Iya bit her lip and shook her head.
"Elysiana was kidnapped like the usual M.O of this rat bastard, on the night of her eighth birthday. Only Elysiana is a smart child, she was able to run from him once- and got far enough away that we were able to track her... to that cabin, in the deepest, darkest part of the woods, by the ocean with the rocky shallows. Only Griffon and Emmaline weren't afraid to face him, and, along with King Hazardous and his wife and along with the kings and queens of the Islands of Lunar and Solar Abilities, Music, and Nature- we took him on. I was the one that found Elysiana... tied up in the cellar soaking wet, her hands were bound to a wooden pillar, nightgown bloodied and torn in so many places." Bour's jaw tightened as he gulped, remembering the image of the lost little girl.
"We got there before he carved his mark into her shoulder, when I untied her and started to get her out of the damned cabin, Te Tetahi Kanohi Koura spotted us... He threw some sort of black magic at me, it hit my leg- it was painful, more painful than anything that could have ever happened to a limb. What was more painful though, was Elysiana's scream as another one was thrown at us- but it never hit us... Griffon had jumped in front of us, to protect his daughter and friend. He and Emmaline were always doing that- protecting us, they were always the strongest. When Griffon fell, Emmaline shouted out Elysiana's name and Griffon's name. I can still remember her voice when it happened. Scared. The only time I've ever heard her scared. I vaguely remember Emmaline throwing herself in front of me and Elysiana, begging to trade her life for her daughter's... When we got back, they amputated my leg and patched Elysiana up. For three years she covered her body up with very modest clothes, long sleeves and skirts. When her magic came in at age 12, she found a glamour spell and has used them since then." Bour sighed.
The Vikings sighed and were about to comment again, when the door opened to the Dining Room again, Hiccup and Elysiana came back in. Hiccup looked over at the Vikings worried, and they knew that it was because he was worried that they were going to say something stupid. Hiccup wore grey armor and black boots, nixing the cape that day. Valka looked over at Elysiana, she wore a long, plain, royal blue dress with a high neckline. Even with the long sleeves of her dress and the high neckline, angry red scars appeared from beneath the fabric.
Astrid felt her jealously rise, sure this girl had a shitty period of her life- but the look of love that Hiccup still gave her was irritating. Astrid wanted someone to love her as much as Hiccup loved Elysiana, and she wished that the person was Hiccup.