Eternity Chapter 2
A/N My apologies for taking so long. I was super busy with school and personal stuff, but here's the second chapter to this new saga. Thanks, you guys are the best.
"Heather we've been flying for hours now. I think it's time we land, our dragons are tired anyway." Sigrunn said
"Fine. We'll land at this water front village over here." Heather pointed at it
They glided down slowly to a clearing just outside the village, the landing was rough but they were safely on the ground. The dragons haven't eaten all day and nightfall was almost upon them.
"I'll run to the village and get our dragons some fish, stay here until I return. Our backup should be here soon." Heather then turned and walked quickly
Sigrunn nodded and Heather was on her way. The scenery reminded her of when she first met Julian, that was a long time ago she remembered. The thought swept away as approached the village. The walk through the town was pretty awkward, everyone looked at her like she was some sort of outcast, the dragon armor didn't really help either. She seen children chasing each other in a game, parents going along their day, only a couple people waved at her but she didn't mind it. She seen a couple teenage boys working on their roof to repair it, they gave her a strange look but she kept walking. Halfway through she was stopped by a couple teenagers playing some sort of war game. They all stopped to look at her, then she was bombarded with questions.
The tall one, who was clearly in charge approached her. "I am Tori, greatest warrior in Tonsberg," He hit his chest to signify that claim, "you are?"
"I am Heather, second greatest warrior in Berk and second in command of the Dragon Riders."
"Impressive. Why don't you show your claims in the arena?" Tori moved aside and gestured for her to walk in
Heather questioned it but then looked up at the sky, the sun hadn't gone down yet. "Sure, I'll make this quick."
The boy smiled and they both moved to their end of the arena, "You ready?"
Heather nodded and held up her shield, one boy on the fence whistled, then Heather and Tori ran at each other. It ended like a snap of a finger, Tori couldn't remember what happened. He remember running at the girl then everything went black and he was his back looking at the sky. The boys cheered at Heather's victory, the tall boy stood up demanding a rematch, Heather gladly accepted. The result was the same.
"As much as I'd love to keep this up, I have somewhere to be." Heather put down her shield and sword, then retrieved her axe. She made her way to the harbor.
Along the way she was stopped by a little girl who was retrieving her toy. She nearly stepped on the toy but fell over trying to avoid it, the girl giggled at her. Heather laughed along with the girl and dusted herself off, the girl's mother came along to introduce herself.
"I apologize for my daughter, she can be real clumsy sometimes and get in over her head." The mother shook her hand, "My name is Ragnhild, and who might you be young lady?"
"My names Heather, you have a beautiful daughter Ragnhild." Heather said earnestly, "Sorry for nearly stepping her toy."
"No worries," The mother looked down at her child, "if she loses it that will teach her an honest lesson. Do you by any chance have any extra copper coins?"
"Yes, It's not much but here you go."
"Thank you Heather," Ragnhild threw her arms around her, "Come visit our home next time, we'd be more than happy to have you as a guest."
"Maybe. But maybe you could join me and my husband for supper at our house?"
"We would be more than happy to accept your offer." Ragnhild smiled graciously along with her daughter
"I have somewhere to be Ragnhild. But I promise I'll come back and give you and your daughter the ride of your lives."
Heather waved goodbye and walked quickly towards the harbor. "Hello," She waved and smiled, "I am looking to purchase some fish."
The fisherman was more than happy to sell his fresh catch, and Heather was on her way. She made her way back through the dense trees and bushes, and found Sigrunn sitting at fire pit waiting patiently.
"Finally." Sigrunn stood up and ran over to Heather snatching the fish, then running over to the fire pit.
"Your welcome," Heather mocked, "Here you are Snoutlout." She handed him his supper and he cooked it gladly
Just as Heather sat down Astrid returned from the woods with more fire wood, she waved at Heather and sat beside her. "Thanks for getting us out of there, I really owe you one."
"Don't mention it," Heather put her arm around her friend, "Were family. Family stick together."
"You know after all this time, I never thought that my life would lead to this point." Astrid smiled and looked at the stars
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, us together you know. Going on missions and discovering new species of dragons. Can't forgot the fact that I'm married to Hiccup, and having you and Julian as friends. Before Julian showed up, I used to push everyone who tried to get close to me away so I could achieve my dream."
"What was your dream?" Heather asked and looked into Astrid's eyes determined for an answer
"It was always to win dragon training and be the greatest warrior in Berk. The dream is somewhat came true, but I could have never imaged my life would ever lead here, and I love it." Astrid smiled at her friend
"You know me neither," Heather said then looked at the fire, "I lied and talked my way out of trouble for a long time, sometimes the lying got my parents and the people I cared about hurt. Then Julian came along and taught me that you don't have to lie, you don't have to constantly be on the run, and most importantly to me. Trust. As he puts it 'I would rather run toward my problems, and not away from them.'. You pretty much know the story from there."
"I guess I never took in how much he and Hiccup had done for us for us all these years. Defeating the Red Death, saving Berk from the invasion from those four armed creatures, and allowing us to visit his world. After all this time I'm just now realizing it." Astrid looked thoughtful at the fire, "I'm forever grateful for him thought, because he brought me and Hiccup together, and you and I as family."
Heather couldn't fight the smile and hugged Astrid, she was surprised at first then embraced it. The device on her wrist sounded off, as did Heather's. They looked at each other at first then pressed the activation button. A hologram with a 3D map appeared showing big movement just outside the valley. Heather quickly got up and made her through the trees towards a ridge that overlooked the valley. Blue beams struck down from the sky and touched down across the valley, then a blue mist shot from the across the valley turning everything it touched into ice. Heather heard the screams of the families trying to desperately escape the village but it was too late, they froze as the mist descended upon them. Night fell as Hiccup and the rest of the Riders rallied with the others in the forest, Hiccup dismounted and kissed Astrid immediately.
"What are we looking at?" Hiccup asked
"The same creatures who attacked us on our mission, they're down there." Heather pointed
Hiccup analyzed the army approaching them, then huddled everyone together, "If we don't stop them here and now, they'll turn Earth into what they did that poor village."
"So what do we do?" Astrid asked from the back
"We can't take on an entire army. But we can have someone to help us." The Riders knew what Hiccup was suggesting, "We just need to hold them off till he gets here, until then standard 3 team formation, don't take any chances. Any questions?"
Everyone looked at each other, "Small team against an army. Small chance of success. Why the heck not." Snoutlout said enthusiastically
Everyone took off but as they were mounting onto their dragons, a bright beam of light broke through the clouds. Once it cleared an entire army of golden warriors stood vigilant against these frost giants. A man on a horse charged against the opposing army and the warriors followed suit, the great armies charged against one another.
"Look familiar?" Snoutlout looked at everyone, "it's not our mighty King of Asgard but we have a common enemy. So I say let's get to work and help them out?"
"Alright. Let's go gang." Hiccup was the first to leap up, once he was high enough he held steady at a high attitude. He looked down at the ongoing onslaught then brought up his distress signal on his wrist device, "Better make it quick Julian, where ever the heck you are."
Astrid signaled her team to lead the dive, and the rest followed. Everyone knew Toothless and Buster were always unchallenged in a power dive but it was always so satisfying to watch, the night furies charged up their plasma blasts and fired. The blast was extremely deadly onto the frost giants who were unlucky to be in the path of the dragons, the rest of the Riders delivered their payload and hopped off their dragons to fight along side with the unknown warriors.
"Safe to say we lost the element of surprise." Sigrunn said
"We lost it a long time ago with that amazing entrance," Heather responded, "Astrid!"
Heather hurled her shield at a frost giant who had the drop on Astrid, "Thanks!" Astrid retrieved the shield parried the oncoming attacks
Everyone worked in perfect unison, no communication at all, everyone had complete and total faith in each other. The dragons were in the air doing their thing, every once in a while they pop in to fight along side with their riders, but the fight was to close quarters for them. The fight continued for sometime but then the biforst broke through the night clouds and touched down. Moments later stormbreaker came hurling from the bifrost, the axe was cutting down everything in it's path, it did a sharp turn back towards the biforst and Julian caught his weapon. Looking at the situation he smiled and made his way over to the his wife.
"I see you guys have had no problem making new friends while I was gone."
"We had this completely under control." Heather shot back
"Is that why everythings encased in ice?" Julian laughed
"Go." Heather smiled then gestured for her husband to do his thing
Julian took off into the air and focused all his power into his axe, then fired a lighting blast towards the oncoming enemies. The lighting blast completely devastated the enemies below, Julian landed beside a bearded man on a horse.
"Who might you be?" Julian asked politely as possible
"I am Odin, King of Asgard."
"I am Thor, also King or Asgard." Julian replied, "But I'm not from around here. If that makes sense."
Julian also noticed the all-father had both his eyes, interesting he noted to himself. "A conversation for another time, our skills are required in battle."
The battle raged on into the night but eventually the warriors of Asgard, and The Riders forced the great armies of jotunheim to fall back. The Riders made it out mostly unharmed, Snoutlout took a heavy blow to the face but with his dumb luck his helmet took the force of impact, Fishlegs got frostbite from one of the giants grabbing a hold of his wrist. Heather received a couple bruises but nothing to serious. The talk with Odin was the most awkward situation Julian had been in since his brother turned him into a frog, it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be but being a frog was quite hilarious.
Julian explained as best as he could that he was from a different place. Odin was very open minded about it and curious, he seemed very genuine and understanding about the situation. In his mind he seen the future of his son in Julian, or potentially what he could become. Julian and Odin rallied with the others.
"Odin." Astrid said trying not to sound to nervous, behind her the other Riders noticed the god standing in front of them
"Yes."
He is just as amazing as the legends say Astrid noted to herself. "The actual King of Asgard?"
"Yes. I am Odin Protecter Of The Nine Realms, and King of Asgard. I've met your friend already."
"Odin we would be able to assist you?" Julian asked
"Asgard cannot risk the innocent lives of Midgard. But if you wish to fight alongside us in battle, just let it be known Asgard is not responsible for your death."
"They know what they're getting into, we will assist you in battle." Julian replied, "Is anyone seriously injured?" Julian walked towards the Riders while Odin conferred with his army
"Eveyone is a bit beat up but we'll live. Some entrance you had." Hiccup said jokingly before hugging Julian, "Where were you anyway?"
"I was investigating the potential existence of the infinity stones in this universe, and well... it's safe to say that they do in fact exist."
"That's dangerous right?" Tuffnut asked loudly
"Yes, my friend. That is really dangerous, but I was right in the middle of securing the power stone when I got your distress call."
"I assume your going back to finish what you started?" Heather popped in
"Perhaps. The stone should be safe for now, but Odin needs our help in defeating the armies of Jotunheim. If they can clearly go anywhere in the nine realms and cause chaos, whose to say they won't do it to Vanaheim, or Alfheim, or maybe Earth again. That's a chance we can't take. Were going to Jotenhiem."
"Well it's settle then, we have 3 minutes. Get what you need." Hiccup said to everyone
Julian walked over to Heather who was treating a wound, "How's Loki?"
"I was going to check up on him and the baby but then this happened so I don't know."
"I'll call him, want to join me."
"Yes."
Julian tapped the device on his wrist and contacted his brother, who was currently babysitting his daughter. The call took a bit longer they were expecting but Loki eventually answered. "Loki here."
"Greetings brother, we were just checking in to see how you and Torunn were doing. Is everything alright?" Julian said while Heather rested her chin on her husband's shoulder
"Everything is wonderful surprisingly. She is very smart and actually listens, she loves it when I fool around with my magic. We were just about to watch a film with her friends."
"Thats' so great to hear." Heather's heart felt warm
"She is just in the bathroom taking a shower - oh here she comes now. Come say hi to your parents Torunn."
"Hi mommy and daddy, I miss you!" Torunn jumped with excitement
"Mommy and I will be home soon okay? We promise." Julian's heart skipped a beat when his daughter smiled at him; her smile was just as wonderful as her mother's
"When you get home can we visit uncle Tony and Steve? Maybe even have dinner with auntie Nat?"
"If your a good girl we'll see. We have to go now but we'll see you soon okay sweetie?" Heather said
"Okay. Bye mommy and daddy, love you."
"Bye sweetie." Heather kissed her daughter goodbye
Loki then turned his wrist away from Torunn to face himself, "We'll see you guys soon."
"See you soon brother." Julian smiled and cut the call
Hiccup and Astrid were doing the same with their kids, both were twins. The boy was named Torvald and the daughter who was named after her mother. Combined they drive Hiccup and Astrid crazy but they are a happy family, the younglings constantly are trying to get Torunn to use her powers for mischief, something she is starting to pick up from her uncle who is the god of mischief. Her powers are just like that of her fathers. Julian really doesn't know the full extent to her powers but in time she could potentially have the power surpass him. He envisioned his daughter in his place, she would make a great queen.
"Everyone ready?"
"Were all set. The dragons are already on their way back to Berk, they'll be safe. Let's go to another world." Astrid said firmly
Julian looked at all of them for confirmation, grabbed Heather and held her close, then raised his axe. Suddenly they were all lifted off the ground and were speeding through space.