And so comes the finale of this wired cross-over. Never the less, I had fun writing this one! I hope whoever sticked around had fun reading it to!
So, let's end this thing! Please review!
When Hiccup and Rayman landed they were greeted by their friends, who were all happy at the success of the mission. When our heroes were about to leave, a Berserker came before Stoick. "Umm… Hi, Chief." The Berserker mumbled the words. "You see, now that you captured our own chief," He pointed to Dagur being locked up in a cage and being taunted by Alvin. "You have conquered us. So, do you mind if we, The Berserkers, will join you, The Hooligans?" He asked.
Stoick thought about this, turning to Gobber to get his opinion on the matter. "The more the merrier, am I not right?" The blonde man answered. "Besides, with more people, in addition to the dragons, we could attempt attacking the scots again."
Stoick turned to his son to get his point of view. "Hey, like Gobber said, we trained dragons. I guess why not?" Hiccup said.
Stoick signed before declaring. "The Berserkers are now part of the much bigger Hairy Hooligans!" The announcement was greeted by a large applause from the people who were once under Dagur's control.
Eventually, everyone sailed back to Berk. Those who had their dragons flew there, but the most sailed back on board the Hooligans' ships. Astrid and Barbara took care of Stormfly's injury while on the way back; she will need some time before she could fly again.
Once back, Dagur was put in a cell, his people were kind of happy about him not being in control anymore, and Astrid and Barbara finally got the chance to have their axe battle. Even though both fought together well and Astrid could have told the red head was the real deal, the village elder still needed proof.
The fight was held, and after an intense fight that involved a lot of axe swings, kicks, rolling around to dodge attacks, Barbara won by a tiny bit. During an axe clash moment, when both girls were in each other's faces, Barbara activated her axe's jet feature, which sent the axe flying across the arena when she let it go. When it looked like the red head surrounded herself, the axe flew straight into Astrid's stomach, which caused her to fall down. Astrid, who was usually really against losing to anyone, took her loss quite well as she shook Barbara's hand when the princess offered her help getting off the ground. "Now, I'm definitely sure you are Princess Barbara." She said with a smile.
"And so am I." Said an elderly voice that took everyone by surprise. A short old woman with white hair and a stick made her way towards Barbara and took her hand. The woman was the village elder, Gothi, who never spoke before in her life. "I had my suspicions once that neck less fellow showed up, like the prophecy told, but now I am more than sure." She concluded.
Barbara was kind of touched by the words. She found her home, and her home has accepted her. Half of her wished Elysia would have been there to see it. "So… Now that you know it's me, what are you going to do?" She asked.
Gothi answered by turning to the crowed surrounding the arena. "Long live the queen of all Vikings, Queen Barbara!" Everyone cheered at the announcement; there were no longer different Viking tribes, but one large tribe that was united again by its rightful queen. This was truly an exciting moment; even Stoick has a few tears slipping. Barbara herself was overwhelmed by the reception and the announcement.
As the crowed around her calmed down; a certain voice called her. "You're Majesty." She turned to see Rayman and Globox facing her. "So, queen huh? Who knew?" Rayman smiled at her.
She giggled a bit. "Yeah, who knew?" Her face then saddened a bit, realizing what this meant for her. "So… I guess this is a good-bye?" She asked her friends who found her, helped her, fought alongside her, and were her family for quite some time.
"No. We will come and visit." Rayman reassured her.
"We are glad you found your home." Globox added.
Both bowed down to her, out of respect for her new title, but she just shrugged and hugged both of them and they hugged her back. "You idiots don't need to be formal with me. You are family." She told them before they broke apart.
Globox said one more good-bye to Fishlegs and Meatlug while Rayman bid his farewell to Hiccup. "Take care of Barbara, alright?" He asked the one-legged teen.
"Eh, she can do it herself." Hiccup replied dryly before adding "But I'll do my best." The teen smiled and Toothless made a sound that was translated as conformation to what Hiccup just said, which granted him a pet from Rayman.
After a few last good-byes, Rayman used the lums he still had to create a portal back home. He and Globox told Barbara to take care and they jumped in. As the portal was still open and the yellow-white lights spun around, Hiccup noticed Barbara was sad about this good-bye. He came close to her and asked "You want to go back with them, aren't you?"
There was a time when Barbara would have said no to that question. But as the time progressed, she did grow very fond of the ones who helped her once she made it to The Glade Of Dreams. They were no longer just friendly creatures, they were friends and family, and giving them up was hard even if it meant fulfilling her duty. She said nothing to answer, but Hiccup knew what she was thinking.
"Go." He told her.
Barbara turned to face him which a shocked look on her face. "What do you mean?" She asked him, clearly surprised by his words.
"You miss them already, I can tell." He told her. "If you think that your place is with them, than go. We will understand." Everyone nodded to confirm what Hiccup said.
Barbara smiled at them before she got serious for a few seconds. "As queen, I announce Stoick as my replacement. Hail for Stoick, King of all Vikings!" Stoick was shocked by her words but agreed to the title non-the-less. "I also put Hiccup and Astrid as lead war strategies!" Hiccup and Astrid looked at each other with shocked looks before Astrid was overcome by happiness and hugged her childhood hero.
Once apart from Astrid, Barbara told everyone to take care as she jumped into the portal seconds before it closed. Stoick, now king, ordered everyone to the great hall to celebrate the recent events.
Back in the glade, Rayman and Globox just got back to their universe and the portal led them to one of the many forests in the glade. "So," Rayman started. "What do we do now?" Not really sure what to do.
"I don't know." Globox replied before he remembered. "I should probably go home to help Ugglete with the kids. I'll see you later." He said before heading for his home.
Rayman leant on some nearby tree as he thought about what to do now. "I might as well go tell the king." He said to himself before he started to walk away from the portal, and towards the heart of the world to tell the king about what happened.
"Tell the king what?" A voice was heard from behind him. Rayman stopped in his tracks, recognizing but not believing he heard that voice. He turned around to see Barbara, now back in the glade as the portal behind her closed.
"What are you doing here?" He asked shocked, yet happy.
"I gave up on the title and appointed Stoick king. I felt like my place is here with you guys." She said with a smile and Rayman couldn't help but smile back, he was happy to see his friend again.
"So, what do we do now?" She asked.
"Lead the way, Queen Barbara." Rayman said sarcastically and she laughed at his fake honor before they both headed to see the king and tell him about the adventure they had.
Black. Black is all that was as Razorbeard was afloat in the middle of nowhere again. "Blasted Rayman! How does he keep doing this?!" He was clearly frustrated.
"You can't give up!" The robotic voice, from before told him. "I have some help for you." It added, and as the evil robot turned his head, he noticed a large round figure with 2 smaller once floating next to him.
THE END.
And thus, 7 stories are done! I only have 1 left to write in order to finish my crazy saga up! I can't belive it! I had started working on the last story, but I won't be expecting it anytime soon. I do hope I could finish this before "How To Train Your Dragon 2" comes out.
Anyway, I think I kind of spit Vikings mytology and traditions in the face with the entire "King/Queen of all Vikings" thing but, I needed to do it for 3 reasons. The first is to give Barbara something big to give up on. Second is because it will help me with some elements of the saga finale and third is because it worked with the backstory I came up with for Barbara. No disrespect to any Viking traditions, it wasn't the intention. I do remember reading somewhere about conquring a tribe if the chief is defeated, but I'm not sure. If anybody has some information to give me on the subject, let me know.
I think that's everything, thanks for reading and see you next time in the final story! This is going to be crazy...
