Chapter 4 Memories and Secrets

Hiccup sat up and looked around, he was back on Berk, in his house. He stood up and started to walk outside, wondering if it had all been a dream. When he walked outside, he walked into a much younger version of his father and a woman, who must have been his mother. He wasn't at home, this was a dream, a vision of sorts. His mother and father walked into the house as he walked out. He walked into the forest, trying to figure out to wake up, when he walked across a camp. Sitting at the fire were Loki, a beautiful woman in armor with two swords, a fat man eating, two others conversing, and a big blond man tending the fire. Loki called out to him.

"Enough, Thor, the fire is fine, go sit down."

So this was Thor the god of thunder, Hiccup thought, trying to get a good look, the man was strong, he wore armor and a long red cape, and carried a hammer at his side (Mjolnir.) The man's hair was as long as Astrid's, the same blond color too. Looking between Thor and Loki, Hiccup couldn't see how the two were related.

Hiccup watched Loki get up, bid goodnight, and leave for a walk. Hiccup decided to follow him. When they were far enough from the campsite, Loki muttered a spell and turned into Stoick. In the distance Hiccup could see a dragon raid going on in the forest, the real Stoick must be there. Loki walked into the Chief's house, Hiccup following behind him.

Suddenly the scene changed, Hiccup was upstairs in his room, in a cradle. By the sound of it a raid was going on. A dragon like he had never seen before burst into the room. The dragon had patterns all over its body and it had four wings. The dragon walked over to the cradle and started playing with Hiccup. His mom came into to check on him and seeing the dragon yelled "Hiccup" and grabbed an axe to protect her son. Startled, the dragon turned around, he accidently scratched Hiccup's chin leaving a scar. Hiccup absentmindedly rubbed the same scar, and his mother looking the dragon in the eyes, hesitated to kill it. My mother is just like me, Hiccup thought, she couldn't kill a dragon either. Stoick having heard his mother's scream came in he was about to kill the dragon when it took of holding Valka in his claws. Stoick disappeared after the dragon, trying to catch it and save his wife, leaving baby Hiccup alone. A bright light appeared out of nowhere and standing there was Loki. He picked baby Hiccup up and held him, the baby calmed down but Loki had tears in his eyes.

"I will do my best to find your mother and bring her home. Till she is found you will come with me to Asgard, I will raise you there."

Now Hiccup was confused, why did Loki care? Why would he want to bring Hiccup to Asgard. Another bright light appeared, in it were Thor and Sif.

"Why are you here? Leave me in my misery," Loki yelled miserably.

"Father has sent me to bring you home." Thor answered.

"Let me go gather Hiccup's stuff first." Loki replied.

"Father told us to leave the child, he is human."

"He is of Asgard, Valka is dead and I will not leave my son."

Thor and Sif picked Loki up sadly and disappeared in the light. Hiccup was crying, Loki had called him his son, had his whole life been a lie? He was not the child of Valka and Stoick the Vast, but the child of Valka and a man disguised as Stoick, Loki. Hiccup was shocked by this realization, he fainted. The last image he saw before he let the black consume him was of Loki, kicking and screaming his name as Sif and Thor dragged him away.